Patents by Inventor Michael John Merifield

Michael John Merifield 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).

  • METHOD OF DEPICTING AN IMAGE
    Publication number: 20150287349
    Abstract: A visual advertisement is disclosed which is carried by a substrate. The advertisement comprises a first inverse perspective transformation image and a contiguous second inverse perspective transformation image. The images are inverted with respect to one another. The first image, when the images are viewed in one direction, is the predominant image and the second image is a subsidiary image. When the images are viewed in the opposite direction the second image is the predominant image and the first image is the subsidiary image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Michael John MERIFIELD, Michel BROWN
  • Depiction of images using inverse perspective transformation to provide 3-D effect
    Patent number: 5933544
    Abstract: An image, eg of an advertising or promotional nature, is depicted in an inverse perspective form on a playing field (10) for a sporting event. The playing field is imaged by means of a video camera (12) whose line of sight (14) corresponds to the line of sight used in transforming the image to its inverse perspective form, and the output of the camera then broadcast or diffused in a television broadcasting or diffusion service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Inventors: Michael John Walter Brown, Michael John Merifield