Patents by Inventor Larry D. Owens

Larry D. Owens 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: 7106190
    Abstract: A child position monitoring system for providing a warning to a user that a child being monitored has or is moving. The child position monitoring system includes a motion detection assembly detects when the child rolls over, the motion detection assembly includes a transmitter assembly for sending a signal associated with motion detected; a coupling assembly is used for coupling the motion detection assembly to the child; and a monitoring assembly operationally interacting with the motion detection assembly and providing an indication associated with motion detected by the motion detection assembly to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Inventor: Larry D. Owens
  • Patent number: 7035017
    Abstract: A projection lens system which includes a telecentric lens assembly. The lens may be used to form an image from a light source, including for example a resonant microcavity phosphororcathode ray tube, onto a screen or display, such as in a television or a projection device. In accordance with one embodiment, a planar cooling gap or cavity (which may or may not contain a cooling liquid) is included between the imaging surface and the matching planar surface of the field lens. The use of a planar gap alleviates any temperature differentials across the cooling liquid and the lens surfaces, as compared with alternate designs that may have a non-planar gap between the faceplate and the field lens, or that use liquid lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Quantum Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Biljana Tadic-Galeb, Robert E. Fischer, Larry D. Owen
  • Publication number: 20040233540
    Abstract: A projection lens system which includes a telecentric lens assembly. The lens may be used to form an image from a light source, including for example a resonant microcavity phosphororcathode ray tube, onto a screen or display, such as in a television or a projection device. In accordance with one embodiment, a planar cooling gap or cavity (which may or may not contain a cooling liquid) is included between the imaging surface and the matching planar surface of the field lens. The use of a planar gap alleviates any temperature differentials across the cooling liquid and the lens surfaces, as compared with alternate designs that may have a non-planar gap between the faceplate and the field lens, or that use liquid lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Applicant: QUANTUM VISION, INC.
    Inventors: Biljana Tadic-Galeb, Robert E. Fischer, Larry D. Owen
  • Patent number: 5648862
    Abstract: A night vision device includes an image intensifier tube for providing an intensified image of a dim or night-time scene. The night vision device also includes provision for full duplex transmission and receipt of voice audio between the user of the device and another person who is using a substantially identical device. Another provision of the device is for interrogating IFF (identify friend or foe) units worn by other personnel. The IFF units have provision for receiving a beamed interrogation signal and for transmitting a coded identification signal in response. Thus, a user of the night vision device can identify friendly personnel at a distance, as well as communicating by voice with others who are using similar night vision devices so equipped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Litton Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry D. Owen
  • Patent number: 5497266
    Abstract: A day/night sight includes a visible-light first optical path and an invisible-light second optical path which are everywhere optically coaxial. The invisible-light second optical path leads to a detector or to an image intensifier tube for providing either an electrical signal or a visible image, respectively, in response to the invisible-light image. A third optical path for the visible image from the image intensifier tube is also everywhere optically coaxial with the first and second optical paths. A visible image produced from the electrical signal is introduced into the first optical path to thereafter be coaxial therewith. Consequently, a uniquely compact arrangement of the elements for the day/night sight is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: Litton Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry D. Owen