Patents by Inventor Lewis William Catton

Lewis William Catton 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: 9932126
    Abstract: System and method of integrity checking digitally displayed data in a display system having a display comprising a pixel array with a viewable area, including rendering a known value into a QR code graphic, generating an image onto the display including drawing the QR code graphic in the viewable area of the pixel array, monitoring the generated image for the drawn QR code graphic and determining the integrity of the drawn graphical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventor: Lewis William Catton
  • Patent number: 9892551
    Abstract: The avionics display system is for displaying a scene in an aircraft cockpit. The avionics display system includes a central processing unit CPU, a graphics processing unit GPU operably coupled to the CPU, and a display. The GPU comprises at least one vertex shader, and the CPU is configured to provide vertex data representing at least one graphics primitive to the at least one vertex shader and to call the at least one vertex shader in order to render the at least one graphics primitive, representing at least a part of the scene, into a frame buffer. The display is operably coupled to the frame buffer and displays the scene. The system architecture of the avionics display system simplifies the coding process for the developer and also speeds up image processing in comparison to conventional systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventor: Lewis William Catton
  • Publication number: 20160292914
    Abstract: The avionics display system is for displaying a scene in an aircraft cockpit. The avionics display system includes a central processing unit CPU, a graphics processing unit GPU operably coupled to the CPU, and a display. The GPU comprises at least one vertex shader, and the CPU is configured to provide vertex data representing at least one graphics primitive to the at least one vertex shader and to call the at least one vertex shader in order to render the at least one graphics primitive, representing at least a part of the scene, into a frame buffer. The display is operably coupled to the frame buffer and displays the scene. The system architecture of the avionics display system simplifies the coding process for the developer and also speeds up image processing in comparison to conventional systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventor: Lewis William CATTON
  • Publication number: 20160185463
    Abstract: System and method of integrity checking digitally displayed data in a display system having a display comprising a pixel array with a viewable area, including rendering a known value into a QR code graphic, generating an image onto the display including drawing the QR code graphic in the viewable area of the pixel array, monitoring the generated image for the drawn QR code graphic and determining the integrity of the drawn graphical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventor: Lewis William CATTON
  • Publication number: 20140132528
    Abstract: An aircraft flight deck for controlling the flight operations of an aircraft, includes at least one touch screen having multiple user inputs and at least some of the multiple user inputs are haptic inputs, which provide a haptic response to a touch and methods of operating an aircraft having a flight deck with a haptic touch screen display having multiple haptic inputs, with each input providing a haptic response may include detecting a touch of one of the haptic inputs to define a selection and outputting a haptic response based on the selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: GE Aviation Systems Limited
    Inventor: Lewis William Catton