Patents by Inventor Pieter Bijl

Pieter Bijl 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: 10769959
    Abstract: A night vision goggles aided flight simulator system (100) and method for simulating night flight operations. The system comprises a computer (5) programmed with flight simulator software to calculate a flight simulator image (A1,A2); a projection screen (1) configured to receive the flight simulator image (A1,A2); a light projector (2) configured to project the flight simulator image (A1,A2) onto the projection screen (1); and a view tracking device (3) configured to measure a viewing vector (V) of a night vision device (4). The system (100) is configured to mask the projected flight simulator image (A1,A2) as a function of the measured viewing vector (V).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Pieter Bijl, Frank Leonard Kooi
  • Publication number: 20180261121
    Abstract: A night vision goggles aided flight simulator system (100) and method for simulating night flight operations. The system comprises a computer (5) programmed with flight simulator software to calculate a flight simulator image (A1,A2); a projection screen (1) configured to receive the flight simulator image (A1,A2); a light projector (2) configured to project the flight simulator image (A1,A2) onto the projection screen (1); and a view tracking device (3) configured to measure a viewing vector (V) of a night vision device (4). The system (100) is configured to mask the projected flight simulator image (A1,A2) as a function of the measured viewing vector (V).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Pieter Bijl, Frank Leonard Kooi
  • Patent number: 5926279
    Abstract: Test system for viewing systems, such as CCD cameras, infrared viewers, or binoculars or telescopes, which test system is provided with a test object having various component test objects to be shown to the viewing system, which test object is to be placed at a distance from the viewing system and which is to be tendered displayable with the viewing system for an inspection unit (for example, a test operative), with which inspection unit the quality of the operation of the viewing system can be determined on the basis of said display, the test object comprising component test objects differing in appearance from one another and the test system being suitable for presenting said component test objects simultaneously or one after another to the inspection unit to determine a property of the displayed component test objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Pieter Bijl, Jean Mathieu Valeton