Patents by Inventor Robert Crenshaw

Robert Crenshaw 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: 9514664
    Abstract: A latency measurement system includes an event generation device that generates an initial event used to measure system latency. A component test system receives the event and in response outputs a test component output signal and a zero-latency indicator. An electronics system including a multifunction display unit receives the test component output signal and displays a visible element on the multifunction display unit. A camera generates a series of recorded images, where each recorded image contains an image of the zero-latency indicator and an image of the visible element. A processor then determines the system latency by determining a time difference in the series of recorded images between a representation of an occurrence of the event in the image of the zero-latency indicator and a representation of the occurrence of the event in the image of the visible element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: William Brendan Blanton, Robert Crenshaw Allen, Thomas Alfred DuBois
  • Patent number: 9188644
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system for, and method operating latency measurement including an event generation device that generates an initial event used to measure system latency. A component test system receives the event and in response outputs a test component output signal and a zero-latency indicator. An electronics system including a multifunction display unit receives the test component output signal and displays a visible element on the multifunction display unit. A camera generates a series of recorded images, where each recorded image contains an image of the zero-latency indicator and an image of the visible element. A processor then determines the system latency by determining a time difference in the series of recorded images between a representation of an occurrence of the event in the image of the zero-latency indicator and a representation of the occurrence of the event in the image of the visible element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: William Brendan Blanton, Robert Crenshaw Allen, Thomas Alfred DuBois
  • Publication number: 20140085459
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to a system for, and method operating a latency measurement system including an event generation device that generates an initial event used to measure system latency. A component test system receives the event and in response outputs a test component output signal and a zero-latency indicator. An electronics system including a multifunction display unit receives the test component output signal and displays a visible element on the multifunction display unit. A camera generates a series of recorded images, where each recorded image contains an image of the zero-latency indicator and an image of the visible element. A processor then determines the system latency by determining a time difference in the series of recorded images between a representation of an occurrence of the event in the image of the zero-latency indicator and a representation of the occurrence of the event in the image of the visible element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: William Brendan Blanton, Robert Crenshaw Allen, Thomas Alfred DuBois
  • Publication number: 20070135996
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling an automatic transmission is disclosed. The method and system include obtaining positioning data using a global positioning satellite (GPS) and monitoring the automatic transmission to obtain transmission data. The method and system also include learning whether performance of the automatic transmission can be improved utilizing the positioning data and the transmission data. Moreover, the method and system include adjusting a shift threshold for the positioning data for the automatic transmission if it is determined that the performance of the automatic transmission can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: CARY BATES, Robert Crenshaw, Paul Day, John Santosuosso
  • Publication number: 20050223076
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for cooperative spam control. A cooperative spam control method can include the step of accepting an electronic spam notification received from a peer e-mail recipient in a common computing group identifying a spam message received by the peer e-mail recipient. The method further can include the step of storing the notification. Finally, if an e-mail is subsequently received which corresponds to the identified spam message, the received e-mail can be processed as spam. In a preferred aspect of the invention, the method also can include the steps of determining that a received e-mail is spam; and, communicating an electronic spam notification identifying the received e-mail determined to be spam to other peer e-mail recipients in the common computing group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Barrus, Cary Bates, Robert Crenshaw, Paul Day