Patents by Inventor Peter W. Westcott

Peter W. Westcott 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).

  • Dividing high-resolution-camera video signal response into sub-image blocks individually raster scanned
    Patent number: 4660096
    Abstract: A system for recording a high resolution still video image consists of a memory for storing the image. The memory is addressed so that portions of the high resolution image may be read out to form video sub-images corresponding to a conventional video format, such as the NTSC standard. Each of these standard format sub-images is then stored on a video disk. Upon playback of the video disk to retrieve the images, each of the sub-images is stored in a memory in a fashion such that when all of the sub-images are so stored the entire memory may be read out to produce a reconstituted version of the high resolution video image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Lionel Arlan, Peter W. Westcott, Paul J. Mageau