Patents by Inventor Mitch Middler

Mitch Middler 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).

  • Domain of definition in warper/morpher
    Patent number: 7418156
    Abstract: An efficient way to perform rendering operations in an image processing environment includes a warping engine having a warping module and a domain of definition (DOD) module. When an object is warped, a new DOD for the image is determined by the warping engine by comparing the location of certain pixels in the warped image with their corresponding locations in the original image. By maintaining a DOD for the warped images, only that portion of the DOD that intersects with a region of interest is computed, thus resulting in optimized performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Candela, Mitch Middler, Ron Brinkmann, George Wolberg