Patents by Inventor Jack T. Van Oosterhout

Jack T. Van Oosterhout 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: 7369279
    Abstract: A document-security system, methodology, resulting secured documents, and related matters, regarding establishing flexible and versatile control over the acts of scanning, copying, faxing, e-mailing, or otherwise reproducing or converting into another data format, such as an electronic data-stream, and enabling the transmission of, printed-document information-content. The invention, in a manner of speaking, rests, at least in part, upon the concept of “regional” and “manner-specific” marking of print media, in generally a technically easy and conventional implementation fashion, employing standardly available office business supplies and equipment. The proposed document marking is readable by appropriately “trained” machines, such as a scanner, and permission control, as contemplated by practice of the invention, allows and confirms to differently authorized/authenticate persons the ability to “execute” the mentioned kinds of data-conversion and transmission activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Jack T. Van Oosterhout
  • Publication number: 20040179220
    Abstract: A document-security system, methodology, resulting secured documents, and related matters, regarding establishing flexible and versatile control over the acts of scanning, copying, faxing, e-mailing, or otherwise reproducing or converting into another data format, such as an electronic data-stream, and enabling the transmission of, printed-document information-content. The invention, in a manner of speaking, rests, at least in part, upon the concept of “regional” and “manner-specific” marking of print media, in generally a technically easy and conventional implementation fashion, employing standardly available office business supplies and equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Jack T. Van Oosterhout
  • Patent number: 4002823
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting defects in articles of manufacture such as glassware having lettering, mold marks and coloring is disclosed with the apparatus including a semi-diffused light source positioned adjacent one side of and optically spaced from the article being inspected for illuminating the article. A video camera is positioned on the opposite side of the article from the diffused light source and scans the illuminated article in order to produce a video signal indicative of the difference in the refraction characteristics of the article to thereby indicate the presence or absence of defects in the glassware sample. Circuitry is disclosed for discriminating between true defects and lettering, mold marks and coloring normally associated with the article. In the event there is a defect, an electrical processing circuit connected to the video camera and responsive to the video signal is provided for actuating a glassware rejection mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1977
    Assignee: Ball Corporation
    Inventor: Jack T. Van Oosterhout