Patents by Inventor Roger A. Bischoff

Roger A. Bischoff 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: 8837859
    Abstract: A determination is made for each of multiple regions in multiple images of how good that region is perceived as being. A base image is identified, and a combined image is generated from the multiple images by automatically replacing each region of the base image with a corresponding region of another image if the corresponding region has been determined as being better than the region of the base image. The generating of the combined image can include automatically selecting from one of the multiple images a region in which an object that is present in one or more corresponding regions of other images is absent. Additionally, for a particular region of the base image, corresponding regions of the other images can be displayed, and the particular region replaced with a user-selected one of the corresponding regions of the other images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Richards, Roger A. Bischoff, Timothy R. O'Connor, Tomasz S. M. Kasperkiewicz
  • Publication number: 20130336599
    Abstract: A determination is made for each of multiple regions in multiple images of how good that region is perceived as being. A base image is identified, and a combined image is generated from the multiple images by automatically replacing each region of the base image with a corresponding region of another image if the corresponding region has been determined as being better than the region of the base image. The generating of the combined image can include automatically selecting from one of the multiple images a region in which an object that is present in one or more corresponding regions of other images is absent. Additionally, for a particular region of the base image, corresponding regions of the other images can be displayed, and the particular region replaced with a user-selected one of the corresponding regions of the other images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric J. Richards, Roger A. Bischoff, Timothy R. O'Conner, Tomasz S.M. Kasperkiewicz
  • Patent number: 8515137
    Abstract: A determination is made for each of multiple regions in multiple images of how good that region is perceived as being. A base image is identified, and a combined image is generated from the multiple images by automatically replacing each region of the base image with a corresponding region of another image if the corresponding region has been determined as being better than the region of the base image. The generating of the combined image can include automatically selecting from one of the multiple images a region in which an object that is present in one or more corresponding regions of other images is absent. Additionally, for a particular region of the base image, corresponding regions of the other images can be displayed, and the particular region replaced with a user-selected one of the corresponding regions of the other images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric J. Richards, Roger A. Bischoff, Timothy R. O'Connor, Tomasz S. M. Kasperkiewicz
  • Publication number: 20110268369
    Abstract: A determination is made for each of multiple regions in multiple images of how good that region is perceived as being. A base image is identified, and a combined image is generated from the multiple images by automatically replacing each region of the base image with a corresponding region of another image if the corresponding region has been determined as being better than the region of the base image. The generating of the combined image can include automatically selecting from one of the multiple images a region in which an object that is present in one or more corresponding regions of other images is absent. Additionally, for a particular region of the base image, corresponding regions of the other images can be displayed, and the particular region replaced with a user-selected one of the corresponding regions of the other images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric J. Richards, Roger A. Bischoff, Timothy R. O'Connor, Tomasz S.M. Kasperkiewicz
  • Patent number: 5001491
    Abstract: A diode phase-shifting device for an electronically scanning antenna includes a cut-off device designed to operate when the phase-shifting diodes are switched to their non-conducting state, with a view to increasing the switchover speed. This device comprises mainly a low-voltage generator, a circuit breaker or switch, and a high-voltage generator. A switching from the low-voltage generator to the high-voltage generator occurs when the voltage at the terminals of the phase-shifting diode considered exceeds a given threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Michel Chevalier, Roger Bischoff, Yves Loiseau