Patents by Inventor Joshua Randy Herman, deceased

Joshua Randy Herman, deceased 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).

  • Method and apparatus for mosaic image construction
    Patent number: 6075905
    Abstract: A method of constructing an image mosaic comprising the steps of selecting source images, aligning the source images, selecting source segments, enhancing the images, and merging the images to form the image mosaic is disclosed. An apparatus for constructing an image mosaic comprising means for selecting source images, means for aligning the source images, means for selecting source image segments, means for enhancing the images, and means for merging the images to form the image mosaic is also disclosed. The process may be performed automatically by the system or may be guided interactively by a human operator. Applications include the construction of photographic quality prints form video and digital camera images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Sarnoff Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Randy Herman, deceased, James Russell Bergen, Shmuel Peleg, Vincent Paragano, Douglas F. Dixon, Peter J. Burt, Harpreet Sawhney, Gary A. Gendel, Rakesh Kumar, Michael H. Brill