Patents by Inventor Robert L. Taber

Robert L. Taber 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: 6877863
    Abstract: A projector assembly and method for automatically correcting keystone distortion includes an image correction engine, a light engine, a projection lens having a projection axis, a processor, a directional sensor and an inclination sensor. The sensors determine the absolute vertical and horizontal direction of the projection axis. The inclination sensor determines the vertical zero reference. The direction sensor is used to determine the horizontal zero reference. The processor calculates vertical and horizontal difference angles between the absolute directions and zero reference values in the vertical and horizontal directions. Using difference angles, the processor calculates the keystone distortion and instructs the image correction engine to apply geometric and brightness correction to the image data proportional and inverse to the keystone distortion and lens parameters (field of view, focal length, imperfections, etc) such that the image projected onto a viewing screen, is free from keystone distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Silicon Optix Inc.
    Inventors: John S. Wood, Robert L. Taber, Gopal Ramachandran
  • Publication number: 20040049791
    Abstract: A method and system for switching signals over conductors is disclosed. The method and system comprises a plurality of encoders for receiving signals from a plurality of sources. The system further comprises a crosspoint switching matrix means for receiving encoded signals from the plurality of encoders and for providing decoded signals to a plurality of receivers. The crosspoint switching matrix means in a preferred embodiment includes a control system for controlling multiple remote receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Prasanna M. Shah, Robert L. Taber, Herbert J. Kniess
  • Publication number: 20040036844
    Abstract: A projector assembly and projection method for determining the amount of keystone distortion present in projection system and automatically correcting said distortion. The projection assembly includes an image correction engine, a light engine, projection lens having a projection axis, a processor, a directional sensor and an inclination sensor. The sensors determine the absolute vertical and horizontal direction of the projection axis and the processor calculates the vertical and horizontal difference angle by calculating the difference between the absolute vertical and horizontal directions and the vertical and horizontal zero references. The vertical zero reference is determined by the inclination sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: John S. Wood, Robert L. Taber, Gopal Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 6636931
    Abstract: A method and system for switching signals over conductors is disclosed. The method and system comprises a plurality of encoders for receiving signals from a plurality of sources. The system further comprises a crosspoint switching matrix means for receiving encoded signals from the plurality of encoders and for providing encoded signals to a plurality of receivers. The crosspoint switching matrix means in a preferred embodiment includes a control system which is controlled by multiple remote receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Pragmatic Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Prasanna M. Shah, Robert L. Taber, Herbert J. Kniess
  • Patent number: 6359610
    Abstract: A wireless interface system comprising a set of input ports for keyboard, pointing device, and joystick signals, a data encoding circuit, a transmission unit, a receiving unit, a data decoding circuit, a keyboard data multiplexer unit, a pointing device data multiplexer unit, a joystick signal multiplexer unit, and a set of output interfaces for connecting to the corresponding computer ports. This system allows for the user to have a keyboard, pointing device, and joystick remotely located from the computer, and each input device shares a single wireless communication link to send its data to the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Pragmatic Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Prasanna M. Shah, Robert L. Taber, Herbert J. Kniess
  • Publication number: 20020026552
    Abstract: A method and system for switching signals over conductors is disclosed. The method and system comprises a plurality of encoders for receiving signals from a plurality of sources. The system further comprises a crosspoint switching matrix means for receiving encoded signals from the plurality of encoders and for providing decoded signals to a plurality of receivers. The crosspoint switching matrix means in a preferred embodiment includes a control system for controlling multiple remote receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 1999
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: PRASANNA M. SHAH, ROBERT L. TABER, HERBERT J. KNIESS
  • Patent number: 4689295
    Abstract: Method of detecting the presence of Salmonella in a food sample including providing at least one DNA probe which is capable of selectively hybridizing to Salmonella DNA to form detectable complexes, contacting the DNA probes with the bacteria in the food sample under conditions which allow the probe to hybridize to Salmonella DNA present in the food sample to form hybrid DNA complexes, and detecting the hybrid DNA complexes as an indication of the presence of Salmonella in the food sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Assignee: Integrated Genetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. Taber, Renee A. Fitts