Patents by Inventor Dirk Brinkman

Dirk Brinkman 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).

  • Projector as an input and output device
    Patent number: 6764185
    Abstract: An interactive display system includes a sensor for sensing a relationship between a mobile coordinate frame fixed to a moving projector, and a stable coordinate frame fixed to a stationary display surface in the real world. An output image to be projected on the display surface is partitioned into a black image portion having a fixed relationship to the mobile coordinate frame, a stable image portion within the block image portion having a fixed relationship to the stable coordinate frame, and a mobile image portion within the stable image portion having a fixed relationship to the mobile coordinate frame. The mobile portion can be used as a pointer within the stable portion in a mouse-cursor like manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Beardsley, Ramesh Raskar, Clifton L. Forlines, Dirk Brinkman