Patents by Inventor Jon Alan Herlocker

Jon Alan Herlocker 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).

  • Process and method employing dynamic holographic display medium
    Patent number: 6178018
    Abstract: Conventional display technology can be used to display crude computer generated holograms (CGH), and can be extended to moving displays. However, the ones best suited from the standpoint of illumination flexibility, such as the common Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs), switch very slowly. Thus systems with far better dynamic—rapid response requires very complex drive electronics. A non-memory ceramic PLZT, dynamic holographic display medium, provides much faster response time relative to common LCD technology. This system, which is the major embodiment of the present invention, also exhibits good spatial display capability. The system of the present invention, can display Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) Computer Generated Holograms (CHHs); thus allowing the use of FFT based manipulation of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis Jason Kekas, Jon Alan Herlocker, Mitchell Levy Loeb