Patents by Inventor Oliver Kuan-Lan Wang

Oliver Kuan-Lan Wang 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).

  • Automated embroidery stitching
    Patent number: 6370442
    Abstract: A method for embroidering includes receiving a digitized representation of an image, determining grain structures for a plurality of locations in the digitized representation, the plurality of locations including a first location and a second location, embroidering a representation of the first location using cross stitch patterns, when a grain structure for the first location indicates a bi-directional grain structure, and embroidering a representation of the first location using uni-directional stitch patterns, when the grain structure for the first location indicates a uni-directional grain structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Softfoundry, Inc.
    Inventor: Oliver Kuan-Lan Wang