Patents by Inventor Keith Dillon

Keith Dillon 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: 8992013
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention pertain to a method for producing a spectacle lens with optimal correction across the entire lens taking into account the patient's complete measured wavefront. Specific embodiments can also take into account one or more additional factors such as vertex distance, segmental fitting height, pantoscopic tilt, and use conditions. The lens wavefront can be achieved by optimizing a corrected wavefront, where the corrected wavefront is the combined effect of the patient's measured wavefront and the lens wavefront. The optimization of the corrected wavefront can involve representing the measured wavefront and the lens wavefront on a grid. In an embodiment, the grid can lie in a plane. During the optimization, a subset of the grid can be used for the representation of the measured wavefront at a point on the grid so as to take into account the portions of the measured wavefront that contribute to the corrected wavefront at that point on the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)
    Inventors: Keith Dillon, Jeffrey S. Chomyn, Kris Kusumoto, Laurence Warden, Jagdish M. Jethmalani, Andreas W. Dreher
  • Publication number: 20110157547
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention pertain to a method for producing a spectacle lens with optimal correction across the entire lens taking into account the patient's complete measured wavefront. Specific embodiments can also take into account one or more additional factors such as vertex distance, segmental fitting height, pantoscopic tilt, and use conditions. The lens wavefront can be achieved by optimizing a corrected wavefront, where the corrected wavefront is the combined effect of the patient's measured wavefront and the lens wavefront. The optimization of the corrected wavefront can involve representing the measured wavefront and the lens wavefront on a grid. In an embodiment, the grid can lie in a plane. During the optimization, a subset of the grid can be used for the representation of the measured wavefront at a point on the grid so as to take into account the portions of the measured wavefront that contribute to the corrected wavefront at that point on the grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Keith Dillon, Jeffrey S. Chomyn, Kris Kusumoto, Laurence Warden, Jagdish M. Jethmalani, Andreas W. Dreher
  • Patent number: 6856953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an algorithm for ensuring compliancy of an algorithm module when integrated in a real time software system. The compliancy tests may include a memory test, interrupt test, latency test and other tests, as well as combinations thereof. An inventive aspect of the present invention relates to a unit test harness for verifying that a software algorithm module meets performance and functional requirements when integrated in a complete real-time software system. A software algorithm module eliminates or reduces unwanted behavior by the caller or other software on a real-time software system due to incorrect operations, which may involve interrupts, memory usage, register usage and/or other factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: GlobespanVirata, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Randmaa, Murali Anantha, David Lindsay, Keith Dillon
  • Patent number: 4290111
    Abstract: An addition circuit for adding two decibel measurements received at input terminals 12 and 14, first substracts the inputs in a subtractor circuit 16 to obtain a difference d. Then, based upon the magnitude of the difference d, the addition circuit determines the value of 10 log [1+10.sup.d/10 ] or 20 log [1+10.sup.d/20 ] in a read-only memory circuit 20. A selector circuit 24 determines which of the two input decibel measurements is the larger and controls the complementer circuit 18 so that the value of the difference d is always negative. The output of the read-only memory circuit 20 is added to the larger of the two input in an adder 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1981
    Assignee: The Singer Company
    Inventor: Keith Dillon