Patents by Inventor Norman D. Culver

Norman D. Culver 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: 4498080
    Abstract: In a system for displaying multichannel EEG data, data values received from a matrix of EEG electrodes are stored in a random access memory. Digital values to be displayed are interpolated from the input values by addressing selected ones of the inputs from memory, multiplying those inputs by predetermined coefficients taken from a coefficient memory and summing the products. Each element of the display can be determined in that way within one frame time of the display apparatus. The data can be interpolated in real time for a flicker free display at a rate of over 25 frames per second. By displaying separate values associated with each display element as a distinct color, the dimensionality of the display can be increased. The numeric matrix which underlies the expanded topographic display can be stored digitally and further utilized in further operations and displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Assignee: Braintech, Inc.
    Inventor: Norman D. Culver
  • Patent number: 4417591
    Abstract: In a system for displaying multichannel EEG data, data values received from a matrix of EEG electrodes are stored in a random access memory. Digital values to be displayed are interpolated from the input values by addressing selected ones of the inputs from memory, multiplying those inputs by predetermined coefficients taken from a coefficient memory and summing the products. Each element of the display can be determined in that way within one frame time of the display apparatus. The data can be interpolated in real time for a flicker free display at a rate of over 25 frames per second. By displaying separate values associated with each display element as a distinct color, the dimensionality of the display can be increased. The numeric matrix which underlies the expanded topographic display can be stored digitally and further utilized in further operations and displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1983
    Assignee: Braintech, Inc.
    Inventor: Norman D. Culver
  • Patent number: 4408616
    Abstract: Topographic displays of brain electrical activity are produced from matrices of data derived from evoked potential (EP) and steady-state responses of skull transducers. In different aspects, EP responses are displayed at a variable frame rate, the rate of data sampling is sufficient to capture rapid transient events, difference matrices are derived as the difference between matrices corresponding to two different brain conditions, the baseline of the EP responses is zeroed based on the average prestimulus response, and the steady-state response is analyzed by Fourier transforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: The Children's Medical Center Corporation
    Inventors: Frank H. Duffy, Norman D. Culver
  • Patent number: 4407299
    Abstract: Information on brain electrical activity is derived from electrical-activity transducers spaced apart over the skull, the information is processed into a time sequence of matrices having elements representing the responses of the transducers, a succession of overlapping running-average matrices is generated each corresponding to an average of a plurality of the matrices in the time sequence, and the running-average matrices are displayed as a sequence of topographic maps. Expanded display matrices are generated from the data matrices by adding new matrix elements using three-point linear interpolation based on pre-stored coefficients corresponding to the location of each new matrix element with respect to the three closest transducer locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1983
    Assignee: The Children's Medical Center Corporation
    Inventor: Norman D. Culver
  • Patent number: RE34390
    Abstract: In a system for displaying multichannel EEG data, data values received from a matrix of EEG electrodes are stored in a random access memory. Digital values to be displayed are interpolated from the input values by addressing selected ones of the inputs from memory, multiplying those inputs by predetermined coefficients taken from a coefficient memory and summing the products. Each element of the display can be determined in that way within one frame time of the display apparatus. The data can be interpolated in real time for a flicker free display at a rate of over 25 frames per second. By displaying separate values associated with each display element as a distinct color, the dimensionality of the display can be increased. The numeric matrix which underlies the expanded topographic display can be stored digitally and further utilized in further operations and displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: Nicolet Instrument Corporation
    Inventor: Norman D. Culver