Patents by Inventor Thomas Costa

Thomas Costa 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).

  • Seamless display migration
    Patent number: 8687007
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and systems for seamlessly migrating a user visible display stream sent to a display device from one rendered display stream to another rendered display stream are described. For one embodiment, mirror video display streams are received from both a first graphics processing unit (GPU) and a second GPU, and the video display stream sent to a display device is switched from the video display stream from the first GPU to the video display stream from the second GPU, wherein the switching occurs during a blanking interval for the first GPU that overlaps with a blanking interval for the second GPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Nugent, Thomas Costa, Eve Brasfield, David Redman, Amanda Rainer, Tim Millet, Geoffrey Stahl, Adrian Sheppard, Ian Hendry, Ingrid Aligaen, Kenneth C. Dyke, Chris Niederauer, Michael Culbert
  • Seamless display migration
    Patent number: 8300056
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and systems for seamlessly migrating a user visible display stream sent to a display device from one rendered display stream to another rendered display stream are described. For one embodiment, mirror video display streams are received from both a first graphics processing unit (GPU) and a second GPU, and the video display stream sent to a display device is switched from the video display stream from the first GPU to the video display stream from the second GPU, wherein the switching occurs during a blanking interval for the first GPU that overlaps with a blanking interval for the second GPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Nugent, Thomas Costa, Eve Brasfield, David Redman, Amanda Rainer, Tim Millet, Geoff Stahl, Adrian Sheppard, Ian Hendry, Ingrid Aligaen, Kenneth C. Dyke, Chris Niederauer, Michael Culbert
  • SEAMLESS DISPLAY MIGRATION
    Publication number: 20100091025
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and systems for seamlessly migrating a user visible display stream sent to a display device from one rendered display stream to another rendered display stream are described. For one embodiment, mirror video display streams are received from both a first graphics processing unit (GPU) and a second GPU, and the video display stream sent to a display device is switched from the video display stream from the first GPU to the video display stream from the second GPU, wherein the switching occurs during a blanking interval for the first GPU that overlaps with a blanking interval for the second GPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Mike Nugent, Thomas Costa, Eve Brasfield, David Redman, Amanda Rainer, Tim Millet, Geoff Stahl, Adrian Sheppard, Ian Hendry, Ingrid Aligaen, Kenneth C. Dyke, Chris Niederauer, Michael Culbert
  • Dialogs for multiple operating systems and multiple languages
    Patent number: 6785866
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for a developer to create and display a “dialog definition”, i.e., a description of the dialog that has the position and size of its constituent elements expressed in relative layout rules. These layout rules include expressions of alignment and/or justification of the elements within a container, rather than expressions of the coordinate positions of the elements. In addition, a set of text strings is provided for each language in a separate language file. The user may identify an operating system and a language in which the dialog will be displayed, and the size of the elements in the identified operating system and language will be determined by the computer. The description is interpreted in the computer to lay out the dialog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Lance Lewis, David W. Clark, Thomas Costa, Mark Hamburg, Thomas W. McRae, Randolph A. Strauss