Patents by Inventor Ronald L. Swanson

Ronald L. Swanson 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: 4496976
    Abstract: A system and technique is disclosed which enables a reduction in memory for the display of superimposed data (alpha-numerics, symbols and graphics) in an all-raster scanned display. A video signal containing information to be displayed on a video monitor by raster scanning techniques is multiplexed with the output of a storage device containing information representing data for controlling the intensity of specific points on the monitor during the raster scan. The intensity is controlled by the signals from memory to produce data on the video monitor as an overlay to the normal video display produced by the video signal. In one embodiment, the storage device is formed by two separate memory areas having a size substantially less than the total number of lines forming one raster field of the video display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald L. Swanson, Lyle R. Strathman
  • Patent number: 4415106
    Abstract: This invention relates to body supported printed surfaces in general, and more specifically to a thin, flexible ski area map holder which is easily attached to a skier's limb and provides a safe, convenient view of an appropriate map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Inventors: Michael J. Connell, Ronald L. Swanson
  • Patent number: 4023027
    Abstract: A system for generating respective X and Y beam deflection command signals as respective running binary counts in X and Y deflection counters utilizing digital computations based on the straight line expressions Y=X tan .alpha., where .alpha. is the line slope. Relative clock rates are defined by the tan .alpha. relationship therebetween, and, by defining a line as lying in one of eight 45.degree. octants, and a circle as successive points of tangency of a plurality of lines tangent to the circle comprising circumferential segments in eight contiguous ones of the octants, the system effects generation of respective X and Y counts to trace a line of selected length and slope as well as a circle of selected radius utilizing but a single table of tangents for angles between 0.degree. and 45.degree. as the required data storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1977
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventors: Lyle R. Strathman, Robert A. Bolin, Vincent B. Collins, Ronald L. Swanson
  • Patent number: 4001716
    Abstract: A digital oscillator with output frequency accurately changeable from one period to the next. A plurality of retriggerable monostable multivibrators having discretely different design pulse widths are OR'd to an output monostable multivibrator having the narrowest design pulse width. The plurality of monostable multivibrators are triggered in common by the OR'd outputs thereof such that the longest pulse width one thereof defines the period of the output monostable multivibrator. Logic enabling means permit selection of multivibrator outputs to be OR'd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1977
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald L. Swanson, Lyle R. Strathman