Patents by Inventor Paul D. Panabaker

Paul D. Panabaker 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: 7002619
    Abstract: Systems including projection mechanisms, screens, and eyeglasses are detailed. The systems significantly reduce perceptible ghosting even when high contrast images (such as dark figures against a white background) are projected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Imax Corporation
    Inventors: David M. M. Dean, Paul D. Panabaker, Anton L. Baljet
  • Patent number: 5402191
    Abstract: Stereoscopic images are presented by alternately displaying corresponding left eye and right eye images in succession, substantially extinguishing transmission of light from the left eye images to the right eye of a viewer and from the right eye images to the left eye of the viewer, for example by the use of polarizing filters, and alternately and in synchronism with the alternate display of images, scattering unextinguished light from the left eye images that leaks through to the viewer's right eye and from the right eye images that leaks through to the viewer's left eye. In a preferred embodiment, scattering is achieved by using a liquid crystal scattering shutter that is electrically triggered in synchronism with the display of images. The shutter disperses the unextinguished light that leaks through the system so that no image information is perceived and the light appears merely as a slight increase in background illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Imax Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Dean, Paul D. Panabaker, Anton L. Baljet, Sayyid K. U. Hassan