Patents by Inventor Michael Edward Smith

Michael Edward Smith 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: 20140223165
    Abstract: Techniques for data-capable band management in an integrated application and network communication data environment are described, including storing in memory a first operational mode and a second operational mode, the first operational mode being associated with a parameter and being configured to operate on an input received from one or more sensors coupled to a wearable computing device using a rule, setting the second operational mode, receiving data at the wearable computing device, the data comprising the input received from the one or more sensors while in the second operational mode, generating a signal indicating whether the data matches the parameter of the first operational mode substantially within a tolerance, classifying the input as received in the first operational mode if the signal indicates the data matches the parameter substantially within the tolerance, and performing an operation on the input using the rule of the first operational mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: AliphCom
    Inventors: Hosain Sadequr Rahman, Richard Lee Drysdale, Michael Edward Smith, Scott Fullam, Travis Austin Bogard, Jeremiah Robison, Max Everett Utter, II, Thomas Alan Donaldson, Louis Moore, Galen Myers, Raymond A. Martino
  • Patent number: 6471355
    Abstract: An image alignment system for rear projection in which a portion of the normally changing pixel pattern contains a pixel reference mark, which appears in each of the side-by-side pixel images projected onto a screen. A camera having a field of view large enough to encompass the pixel reference mark of each of the images on the screen captures the location of the pixel reference marks to enable a computer to determine the coordinates of the each of the pixel reference marks and generate a deviation signal represented of the visual misalignment of the side-by-side images. A drive member controllable by the deviation signal from the computer repositions one of the side-by-side images with respect to the other to thereby align the images to produce a single visually seamless image. The camera and computer can continually monitor both of the pixel reference marks to continually generate a deviation signal so that the side-by-side images can automatically be brought into a single visually seamless image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Robert James Monson, Michael Edward Smith
  • Publication number: 20020103044
    Abstract: A handle and shaft that contains a golf tee that can be adjustable to the users needs for easier installation of a golf tee into hard surfaces. Selecting different sizes of spacer also allow for different tee positioned height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: Michael Edward Smith, Todd Thomas Swirczek
  • Patent number: 6400506
    Abstract: A baffle and screen arrangement for use in a rear projection display system with multiple imagers with the baffle being positionable with respect to the display screen of the console unit so that the baffle can interfere with at least one of the images produced by the imagers to allow the images to visually merge into a single, contiguous image with no halo effect, overlap, or excessive brightness and gaps. In one embodiment the baffle has an irregular, non-reflective light-absorbing surface to further reduce excessive unwanted image light from hitting the display screen and causing unwanted distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Robert James Monson, Michael Edward Smith
  • Patent number: 6388810
    Abstract: A compact projector system utilizing a rear projection console with at least one projector and a set of mirrors with each mirror being positionally placed with respect to the rear of the display screen and operating together by bouncing an image carrying light beam which originates from a projector from one mirror to the next within the console and across itself before the image-carrying light impinges upon the rear of the display screen to produce a relatively large, contiguous image thereupon with the at least one projector and set of mirrors being confined in a relatively small console area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Robert James Monson, Michael Edward Smith
  • Patent number: 6347012
    Abstract: A rear projection system having a display screen and a Fresnel lens wherein each of the incident faces of the viewing segments old the Fresnel lens are angularly positioned so that incoming light rays, which enter each old the viewing segments at different angles, are reflected by each of the segments so that the light rays emerging from each of the viewing segments emerge in a direction parallel to a v viewing axis to thereby limit luminosity differences in images viewable on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Robert James Monson, Michael Edward Smith
  • Patent number: D725550
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Max Wolff, James Everett Grake, George Bucher, Soohyoung Kim, Michael Edward Smith