Patents by Inventor Gary Bishop

Gary Bishop 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).

  • Publication number: 20060109127
    Abstract: An RFID circuit comprises an RF carrier signal source, a hybrid coupled to the RF carrier signal source operable to generate an in-phase and a quadrature phase component of the RF carrier signal, a switch coupled to the hybrid operable to pass one of the in-phase and quadrature phase components of the RF carrier signal to its output, and a mixer coupled to the output of the switch operable to multiply one of the in-phase and quadrature phase component of the carrier signal and a received modulated carrier signal and generate a baseband signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Bernard Barink, Gregory Havlicek, Gary Bishop, Loek d'Hont
  • Publication number: 20060074567
    Abstract: A remote emissions sensing system and method for sensing exhaust emissions from motor vehicles is provided where the system determines the opacity of an exhaust plume. The system comprises a radiation source that emits radiation which is passed through the exhaust plume of a motor vehicle to one or more detectors arranged to receive the radiation. Multiple wavelength opacity measuring embodiments and monochromatic wavelength opacity measuring embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: Environmental Systems Products Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Stedman, Gary Bishop, Gary Full
  • Patent number: 6671630
    Abstract: A system and method of detecting gases in the exhaust of a moving vehicle with a small engine, such as a motorcycle or moped. The system employs a gas analyzer with a beam which makes more than two passes through a detection space. Through multiple passes through the detection space, the gas analyzer generates a signal indicative of the concentrations of one or more components of interest in the exhaust plume. The system also includes a processor for obtaining information about one or more vehicle exhaust components from the generated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Environmental Systems Products Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Hugh Stedman, Gary Bishop
  • Patent number: 5870136
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer products are provided for tracking objects within a scene using imperceptible structured light. The imperceptible structured light may be used in environments where humans work and therefore avoids disorienting observers. The structured light patterns are generated dynamically, allowing tracking without physical landmarks. Moreover, the occlusion of the generated landmarks is overcome by determining the position of objects using a determined camera position. The imperceptible structured light may be used in systems without tracking. The tracking may be used without imperceptible structured light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Henry Fuchs, Mark Alan Livingston, Thomas Gary Bishop, Gregory Francis Welch
  • Patent number: 5607738
    Abstract: A mailer is comprised of multiple plies of carbonless paper secured one to the other along opposite edges by hot or cold adhesive. Pressure seal adhesive is applied along longitudinally and transversely extending tear strips of the intermediate assembly such that upon folding the plies about a medial scoreline, the pressure seal adhesives register with corresponding pressure seal adhesives on the opposite parts. SpeediSealer.RTM. equipment is used to apply pressure to the margins of the folded intermediate to adhere the parts to one another to form the mailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Moore Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Bishop
  • Patent number: 5498872
    Abstract: A gas analysis device for the remote detecting, measuring and recording of NO, CO, CO.sub.2, HC, and H.sub.2 O levels from the exhaust (30) of moving motor vehicles (28) utilizes a source (11) of collimated infrared and ultraviolet radiation (15) and includes a detector unit (16) positioned on the opposite side of the roadway for receiving and measuring the infrared and ultraviolet radiation from the source (11) tranmitted through the vehicle exhaust. The detector unit splits the combined infrared and ultraviolet radiation into separate infrared and ultraviolet beams (42) and (40). The ultraviolet beam is diffracted onto a photodiode array in a spectrometer that generates a signal indicative of NO in the vehicle exhaust. A rotating reflector (27) time-multiplexes the infrared beam to a plurality of infrared sensors that generate electrical signals indicative of, for example, CO, CO.sub.2, HC, and H.sub.2 O in the vehicle exhaust. A computer (17) then computes the relative concentrations of CO, CO.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignee: Colorado Seminary
    Inventors: Donald H. Stedman, Gary Bishop, Scott McLaren
  • Patent number: 5468963
    Abstract: A missile approach warning surveillance system adapted to operate in the ultra-violet ozone absorption waveband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: British Aerospace Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Gary Bishop
  • Patent number: 5401967
    Abstract: A gas analysis device for the remote detecting, measuring and recording of NO, CO, CO.sub.2, HC, and H.sub.2 O levels from the exhaust (30) of moving motor vehicles (28) utilizes a source (11) of collimated infrared and ultraviolet radiation (15) and includes a detector unit (16) positioned on the opposite side of the roadway for receiving and measuring the infrared and ultraviolet radiation from the source (11) tranmitted through the vehicle exhaust. The detector unit splits the combined infrared and ultraviolet radiation into separate infrared and ultraviolet beams (42) and (40). The ultraviolet beam is diffracted onto a photodiode array in a spectrometer that generates a signal indicative of NO in the vehicle exhaust. A rotating reflector (27) time-multiplexes the infrared beam to a plurality of infrared sensors that generate electrical signals indicative of, for example, CO, CO.sub.2, HC, and H.sub.2 O in the vehicle exhaust. A computer (17) then computes the relative concentrations of CO, CO.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Colorado Seminary dba University of Denver
    Inventors: Donald H. Stedman, Gary Bishop, Scott McLaren
  • Patent number: 5210702
    Abstract: A gas analysis device for the remote detecting, measuring and recording of NO.sub.x, CO, CO.sub.2, HC and H.sub.2 O levels from the exhaust of moving motor vehicles. It utilizes a source of collimated infrared and ultraviolet radiation and includes a mechanism for receiving and measuring the infrared and ultraviolet radiation from its source, and another mechanism for measuring background infrared and ultraviolet radiation levels in the ambient atmosphere. The receiving mechanism splits the combined infrared and ultraviolet radiation into separate infrared and ultraviolet beams. A mechanism receives the separate ultraviolet beam and generates a signal indicative of NO.sub.x. Another mechanism splits the infrared beam into two to four components, and devices are positioned for receiving each of the infrared components and generating two to four signals indicative of, for example, CO, CO.sub.2, HC and H.sub.2 O. Another associated mechanism then computes and produces signals indicative of the amount of CO, CO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: Colorado Seminary
    Inventors: Gary Bishop, Donald H. Stedman