Patents by Inventor Patrick F. P. Meijers

Patrick F. P. Meijers 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: 6442303
    Abstract: For raising a frame rate, first a sequence of source frames is received at a source frame rate. For a pair of immediately adjacent source frames of this sequence, one or more intermediate frames are synthesized through a geometrical transform. In particular, each intermediate frame is based exclusively on an immediately preceding source frame. Display frames are selected from the sequence of the intermediate frames, and as the case may be, also from the source frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Patrick F. P. Meijers, Hendrik Dijkstra
  • Patent number: 5986664
    Abstract: A series of points on a surface is projected onto pixels of an image along a projection axis. Furthermore, texture coordinates are allocated to the points as follows. First a normalized coordinate which is a ratio of the texture coordinate to a depth of the point along the projection axis is determined by linear interpolation. Displacement of the pixel is determined relative to a line in the image onto which a part of the surface, which has a constant depth in the projection direction, is projected. Subsequently, an interpolation function is calculated which interpolates the depth as a function of the displacement. The texture coordinate is determined by multiplication of the normalized coordinate by the depth. The image contribution by the point to an image content of the pixel is determined on the basis of the texture coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Hendrik Dijkstra, Patrick F. P. Meijers
  • Patent number: 5929859
    Abstract: An output image is created through a parallactic transformation of an input image. Pixels of the input image are supplied as a color value and a depth value. A depth converter 520 converts the depth value into a depth-dependent pixel shift, which is stored in a memory 510 together with the color value. A processor 530 generates the output image from the stored input image for `on the fly` supply to a stereoscopic display system by shifting the input pixels. A 3D-rendering process may be used to generate one input image for a pair of stereoscopic output images, or occasionally for moving images, whereas the depth-dependent shifts are used to create the parallactic image effects. Artifacts such as undesired holes or overlaps resulting from the shifts are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Patrick F. P. Meijers