Patents by Inventor Thomas L. Burnett

Thomas L. Burnett 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).

  • Publication number: 20200209806
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of integrated active holographic elements (Hogels). Each hogel includes one or more light-emitting elements, a micro-lens array, and circuitry to drive the one or more light-emitting elements. The circuitry may be implemented as a quad flat no leads (QFN) package. In some implementations, a plurality of integrated active hogels may be coupled together to form a tile, which includes tile circuitry to drive the integrated circuits of each of the hogels. Multiple tiles may be coupled to one another to form a panel, which includes panel circuitry to drive each of the tiles. Multiple panels may be coupled to one another to form a display device, which may include a display circuit coupled to the panel circuitry of each of the panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: 3D Patents LLC
    Inventors: Thomas L. Burnett, III, Kendall Heath James, Nicholas Flynn Jameson, Ronald Craig Larcom
  • Publication number: 20160044303
    Abstract: Display devices can be used to provide display functionality in dynamic autostereoscopic displays. One or more display devices are coupled to one or more appropriate computing devices. These computing devices control delivery of autostereoscopic image data to the display devices. A lens array coupled to the display devices, e.g., directly or through some light delivery device, provides appropriate conditioning of the autostereoscopic image data so that users can view dynamic autostereoscopic images. Methods and systems for calibrating a hogel display are also described, including generating calibration hogel data corresponding to a calibration pattern; generating a hogel light field from the calibration hogel data; detecting the hogel light field; and determining calibration data by analyzing a set of hogel properties in response to detecting the hogel light field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Mark E. Lucente, Tizhi Huang, Thomas L. Burnett, III, Michael A. Klug, Anthony W. Heath, Mark E. Holzbach
  • Publication number: 20150296203
    Abstract: Display devices can be used to provide display functionality in dynamic autostereoscopic displays. One or more display devices are coupled to one or more appropriate computing devices. These computing devices control delivery of autostereoscopic image data to the display devices. A lens array coupled to the display devices, e.g., directly or through some light delivery device, provides appropriate conditioning of the autostereoscopic image data so that users can view dynamic autostereoscopic images. Methods and systems for calibrating a hogel display are also described, including generating calibration hogel data corresponding to a calibration pattern; generating a hogel light field from the calibration hogel data; detecting the hogel light field; and determining calibration data by analyzing a set of hogel properties in response to detecting the hogel light field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2014
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Mark E. Lucente, Tizhi Huang, Thomas L. Burnett, III, Michael A. Klug, Anthony W. Heath, Mark E. Holzbach
  • Patent number: 8736675
    Abstract: In one implementation, a system includes a multi-core processor and an optical display with a plurality of hogels. Each hogel is configured to radiate light in a plurality of directions, with controllable intensities in each of the plurality of directions. The multi-core processor is coupled to the optical display and configured to control the hogels. The multi-core processor includes at least two cores, an on-chip memory, and a master processor in a single integrated circuit package. The master processor may be a general-purpose on-chip processor, such as a core in the multi-core processor, that is used to coordinated operations of the other cores. Each of the cores is configured to receive hogel data and to generate signals for a corresponding subset of the plurality of hogels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Zebra Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Holzbach, Mark E. Lucente, Thomas L. Burnett, III
  • Publication number: 20080144174
    Abstract: It has been discovered that display devices can be used to provide display functionality in dynamic autostereoscopic displays. One or more display devices are coupled to one or more appropriate computing devices. These computing devices control delivery of autostereoscopic image data to the display devices. A lens array coupled to the display devices, e.g., directly or through some light delivery device, provides appropriate conditioning of the autostereoscopic image data so that users can view dynamic autostereoscopic images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Mark E. Lucente, Tizhi Huang, Thomas L. Burnett, Michael A. Klug, Anthony W. Heath, Mark E. Holzbach
  • Patent number: 6405909
    Abstract: A vehicle seat-mounted gun and rod holder. Preferred embodiments include a strap embodiment that is attached by way of a strap to the crown or headrest of a vehicle seat, a cap embodiment that is attached by way of a cap to the crown of a vehicle seat, a band model that is attached by way of a band to a bench vehicle seat and a casement model that is attached by any of the mentioned ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas L. Burnett, Jerold A. Evans