Patents by Inventor Leon Calvin Williams

Leon Calvin Williams 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).

  • Publication number: 20240242049
    Abstract: A system uses GPU accessible, high-speed memory to store compressed or raw video printer data. The system transmits this video data over one or more frames of an HDMI interface and a circuit reconstructs the video data for a page from one or more HDMI frames for communication to a printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Leon Calvin Williams, Patrick H. Wood
  • Patent number: 11097534
    Abstract: When a job does not exactly match the purpose of a printing profile but would benefit from some of the characteristics of a different printing profile, dynamically making the tradeoffs between the printing profiles is desirable. For example, a high-ink, large gamut profile might not be needed for a particular job, but an ink-saving profile would be excessively grainy. An intermediate profile would be recommended. Alternatively, the ink-saving profile can be adequate for everything except the skin tones in the print. Presented here are systems and methods to create a blended representation that could adopt the high-ink rules for a portion of the image, but ink-saving rules elsewhere. For example, the high-ink rules can be applied to the skin colors, but ink-saving rules can be applied in other parts of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.
    Inventors: Leon Calvin Williams, Theodore A Olson
  • Publication number: 20200369024
    Abstract: When a job does not exactly match the purpose of a printing profile but would benefit from some of the characteristics of a different printing profile, dynamically making the tradeoffs between the printing profiles is desirable. For example, a high-ink, large gamut profile might not be needed for a particular job, but an ink-saving profile would be excessively grainy. An intermediate profile would be recommended. Alternatively, the ink-saving profile can be adequate for everything except the skin tones in the print. Presented here are systems and methods to create a blended representation that could adopt the high-ink rules for a portion of the image, but ink-saving rules elsewhere. For example, the high-ink rules can be applied to the skin colors, but ink-saving rules can be applied in other parts of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Leon Calvin WILLIAMS, Theodore A. OLSON
  • Patent number: 9971551
    Abstract: Large format print jobs are previsualized in context. A print job source image is received. At least one 3D environment is received, including one or more designated insertion sites to receive the print job source image. One or more images or videos are produced, visualizing the 3D environment with the print job source image integrated into one or more of the designated insertion sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.
    Inventor: Leon Calvin Williams
  • Publication number: 20120105431
    Abstract: Large format print jobs are previsualized in context. A print job source image is received. At least one 3D environment is received, including one or more designated insertion sites to receive the print job source image. One or more images or videos are produced, visualizing the 3D environment with the print job source image integrated into one or more of the designated insertion sites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventor: Leon Calvin Williams