Patents by Inventor Philip Samways

Philip Samways 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).

  • System for data capture from a rotor
    Patent number: 6671755
    Abstract: A data capture system (1) has modular amplifier circuits (10) connected to modular capture circuits (11) within a rotor 2. Each capture circuit (11) has an FPGA (26) operation according to low-frequency and high-frequency state machines (M1, M2) to control ADCs (25) and upload from memories (30) to a host (15) During sampling, each FPGA (26) runs through a ready mode, a sampling mode, and again a ready mode according to a host command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Forfàs
    Inventors: Martin J Leahy, Catherine Byrne, Stephen Clothier, Gerard O'Regan, Philip Samways, Jeffrey Punch, Mark Davies
  • Method and apparatus for constructing, storing and displaying characters
    Patent number: 4907282
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating and storing characters for display on a video screen. The shape of the graphic character is displayed at various degrees of resolution. The graphic character is stored as a bitmap or as coefficients of spline curves. These can be scaled up or down to give different character sizes. The coefficients can be converted to form pixelmaps which are rectangular arrays of pixels. The pixelmaps may have gray scale values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: nHance Development Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph P. Daly, Denis G. Hennessy, Philip Samways