Patents by Inventor Robert O. Kretzschmar

Robert O. Kretzschmar 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: 4294523
    Abstract: This invention utilizes a series of two-dimensional photographs of successive cross-sections of an object. The photographs are arranged on a film strip in the order in which the successive sections appear in the object. The film strip is transparent and is intermittently illuminated as the successive frames of the film strip move across an optical path. A projection screen in the optical path is moved with respect to the optical path so that as each successive photograph is illuminated, that photograph is projected onto the screen at a successive position and so that each photograph as projected on the screen appears more remote from an observer than the preceding one. Thus there is formed on the screen a series of images which appear to an observer having persistence of vision to be a composite three-dimensional imgage. The illuminating means may omit the illumination of certain photographs of the series, so that only selected photographs are reproduced on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Assignee: The Zyntrax Corporation
    Inventors: Edward A. Woloshuk, Gregory J. Walz, Robert O. Kretzschmar