Patents by Inventor Frederick D. Taft

Frederick D. Taft 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).

  • Selectively masking image data
    Patent number: 8174627
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for selectively masking image data and inhibiting projection of light corresponding to the masked image data. Projection devices include a light engine to project light onto a surface within an available field of projection and a processing unit configured to selectively mask image data in response to user input defining a desired field of view. The masked image data is that image data corresponding to areas outside the desired field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Frederick D. Taft, Kenneth H. Bronstein, David H. Ochs, James R. Andreas
  • Media projector system for preventing the display of on-screen display information
    Patent number: 8046790
    Abstract: A system comprising a media player configured to play media content, a projector operatively coupled to the media player, and a control unit operatively coupled to the media player and the projector is provided. The control unit is configured to detect an on-screen display condition associated with the media player, and the control unit is configured to prevent first information associated with the on-screen display condition and provided by the media player from being displayed by the projector in response to detecting the on-screen display condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
    Inventors: Kenneth H. Bronstein, David H. Ochs, Bruce A. Stephens, Frederick D. Taft
  • Media projector system
    Patent number: 7546025
    Abstract: A system comprising a media player configured to play media content, a projector operatively coupled to the media player, and a control unit operatively coupled to the media player and the projector is provided. The control unit is configured to determine whether the projector is ready for operation, and the control unit is configured to prevent the media player from playing the media content until the projector is ready for operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Frederick D. Taft, Kenneth H. Bronstein, David H. Ochs, Bruce A. Stephens
  • Media projector system
    Patent number: 7393110
    Abstract: A system comprising a media player configured to play media content, a projector operatively coupled to the media player and comprising a lamp, and a control unit operatively coupled to the media player and the projector is provided. The control unit is configured to determine whether the media content comprises visual content, and the control unit is configured to prevent the lamp from being turned on in response to determining that the media content does not comprise visual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kenneth H. Bronstein, Frederick D. Taft, David H. Ochs, Bruce A. Stephens
  • Test system for testing dynamic information returned by a web server
    Patent number: 6665634
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, a computer-readable medium, a software system, a system, a testing system and an article of manufacture for tracking information received by a user from a network wherein the information includes at least some dynamic information. One embodiment of the method includes the steps of parsing the information received into static information, if present, and dynamic information and validating the static information, if present, and the dynamic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Frederick D. Taft, Debra L. Johnson
  • Test system for testing dynamic information returned by a web server
    Publication number: 20030120464
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, a computer-readable medium, a software system, a system, a testing system and an article of manufacture for tracking information received by a user from a network wherein the information includes at least some dynamic information. One embodiment of the method includes the steps of parsing the information received into static information, if present, and dynamic information and validating the static information, if present, and the dynamic information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Frederick D. Taft, Debra L. Johnson