Patents by Inventor Ron Gershon

Ron Gershon 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: 7006086
    Abstract: A digital imaging system is described that facilitates the location of anchors or targets in images of a scene. In one aspect, the digital imaging system makes use of differences as between the properties of the surfaces of the targets and the properties of the surfaces of the objects that are to be mensurated, reconstructed, etc., to facilitate providing uniform illumination of the targets when recording a set of images of the scene, thereby reducing noise that may arise in connection with determining the locations of the targets if they were illuminated by structured illumination, while contemporaneously providing that the objects can be illuminated by structured illumination when the images are recorded. In this aspect, the digital imaging system can use the positions of the targets in the images to relate a local coordinate system associated with the image set to a global coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Cognitens Ltd.
    Inventors: Dan Albeck, Ron Gershon, Avner Segev
  • Publication number: 20020140670
    Abstract: A digital imaging system is described that facilitates the location of anchors or targets in images of a scene. In one aspect, the digital imaging system makes use of differences as between the properties of the surfaces of the targets and the properties of the surfaces of the objects that are to be mensurated, reconstructed, etc., to facilitate providing uniform illumination of the targets when recording a set of images of the scene, thereby reducing noise that may arise in connection with determining the locations of the targets if they were illuminated by structured illumination, while contemporaneously providing that the objects can be illuminated by structured illumination when the images are recorded. In this aspect, the digital imaging system can use the positions of the targets in the images to relate a local coordinate system associated with the image set to a global coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Dan Albeck, Ron Gershon, Avner Segev
  • Patent number: 6269184
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for mapping a first color space into a second color space which allows a user to specify or constrain the mapping for a subset of the points within the first color space and determine the remaining unconstrained points according to a preexisting or default mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Kevin Edward Spaulding, Ron Gershon, Richard N. Ellson, James R. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 5583666
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for transforming an input color space to an output color space where each of a plurality of specified colors and/or color regions are constrained to be transformed by any one of a plurality of explicitly specified color calibration or color enhancement strategies. The method involves a two step process: 1) constraints are applied to some subset of the points in the input color space explicitly specifying the transform into the output color space; 2) the reminder of the points are then transformed by a mapping strategy which preserves color continuity. The mapping strategy used in the preferred embodiment is based on a computer graphics geometric morphing technique. In the preferred embodiment, multi-dimensional look-up tables are used to implement the color transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard N. Ellson, Kevin E. Spaulding, Andrew H. Mutz, Ron Gershon
  • Patent number: 5539540
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for mapping an input color space to an output color space in such a way that the color reproduction characteristics of the saturated colors can be adjusted in a custom manner, while maintaining the desired tone reproduction on the neutral axis. This is accomplished by defining independently a tone transformation and a transformation for a plurality of highly saturated colors. A transformation is formed for the remaining color values having the specified transforms for the neutral and saturated colors as boundary values. In the preferred embodiment multi-dimensional look-up tables are used to implement the transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Kevin E. Spaulding, Ron Gershon, James R. Sullivan, Richard N. Ellson