Patents by Inventor David L. Bien

David L. Bien has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6009209
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for automatically editing a digital color image to remove discoloration of the image, known as a "red eye" effect, by parsing the discoloration into regions and re-coloring the area of the discoloration based on the attributes of the discoloration. The editing process according to the invention automatically creates a bitmap that is a correction image, which is composited with the source image or a copy of it and displayed as the source image with the red eye effect corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kristin Acker, David L. Bien, Daryl T. Lawton
  • Patent number: 5211462
    Abstract: A refrigerator having a freezer compartment with a freezer door separated by a divider wall from a refrigerator compartment having a refrigerator door, an ice service area in the refrigerator compartment, an automatic ice dispenser within the freezer compartment for dispensing ice pieces, a passage in the divider wall for receiving the ice pieces from the dispenser and a chute assembly mounted on the divider wall in the refrigerator compartment for connecting the passage to the ice service area whereby ice pieces passing through the opening are directed to the service area by the chute assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Sub-Zero Freezer Company, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Bien, John J. Jaschinski