Patents by Inventor Thomas Lloyd

Thomas Lloyd 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: 7505053
    Abstract: High brightness displays comprising subpixel repeating groups having at least white with a number of colored subpixels are disclosed. Colored subpixels may comprise: red, blue, green, cyan or magenta in these various embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Thomas Lloyd Credelle
  • Patent number: 7492379
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a sub-pixel octal grouping are disclosed. The octal grouping may comprise three-color sub-pixels with one colored sub-pixel comprising twice the number of positions within the octal sub-pixel grouping as the other two colored sub-pixels. Various embodiments for performing sub-pixel rendering on the sub-pixel groupings are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Michael Francis Higgins
  • Publication number: 20090018282
    Abstract: A multi-level tubular reactor operable to facilitate a chemical reaction in a reaction medium flowing therethrough. The tubular reactor can include a plurality of horizontally elongated and vertically spaced reactor segments coupled to and extending outwardly from a common header. One or more of the reactor segments can contain a tray that divides the internal volume of the reactor segment into upper and lower chambers. The reaction medium can flow away from the header in the upper chambers and back to the header in the lower chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Yount, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Michael Paul Ekart, Larry Cates Windes, David Allen Sliger
  • Publication number: 20090018281
    Abstract: A multi-level tubular reactor operable to facilitate a chemical reaction in a reaction medium flowing therethrough. The tubular reactor can include a horizontally elongated reactor segment containing a tray that divides the internal volume of the reactor segment into upper and lower chambers. The reaction medium can flow through the upper and lower in generally opposite directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Michael Paul Ekart, Thomas Lloyd Yount, Larry Cates Windes, David Allen Sliger
  • Publication number: 20090018280
    Abstract: A horizontal trayed reactor operable to facilitate a chemical reaction in a reaction medium flowing therethrough. The reactor can include a plurality of vertically spaced trays disposed within the horizontally elongated vessel shell. The reaction medium can flow in generally opposite directions on vertically adjacent trays so that the reaction medium flows generally back-and-forth through the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Yount, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Larry Cates Windes, Roy Douglas Flores, Alan Wayne White
  • Publication number: 20090018283
    Abstract: A multi-level tubular reactor operable to facilitate a chemical reaction in a reaction medium flowing therethrough. The tubular reactor can include a plurality of horizontally elongated and vertically spaced tubular members coupled to and extending between a pair of horizontally spaced and vertically elongated headers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Yount, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Michael Paul Ekart, Larry Cates Windes, David Allen Sliger
  • Publication number: 20090018284
    Abstract: A reactor system operable to facilitate a chemical reaction in a reaction medium flowing therethrough. The reactor system includes a heat exchanger for heating the reaction medium and a disengagement vessel for disengaging vapor from the heated reaction medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Thomas Lloyd Yount, Larry Cates Windes, Wesley Thomas Moyer
  • Publication number: 20090016939
    Abstract: A multi-level tubular reactor operable to facilitate a chemical reaction in a reaction medium flowing therethrough. The tubular reactor can include a plurality of horizontally elongated and vertically spaced reactor segments coupled to and extending outwardly from a common header. One or more of the reactor segments can contain a tray that divides the internal volume of the reactor segment into upper and lower chambers. The reaction medium can flow away from the header in the upper chambers and back to the header in the lower chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Yount, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Michael Paul Ekart, Larry Cates Windes, David Allen Sliger
  • Publication number: 20080319158
    Abstract: The present invention provides an assembly for use in vertical, gravity flow driven polymerization reactors for combinations of high viscosity, high throughput, and shallow polymer depths. The baffle assembly module of the invention includes a support structure having a plurality of side openings. The side openings allow the escape of vapor liberated from the polymeric melt. The assembly further includes a feed splitter followed by two or more vertically arranged rows of baffle plates with the feed splitter and baffles sequentially positioned in the support structure. The plurality of parallel baffles in a row are angled such that when a polymeric melt contacts a given baffle the polymeric melt moves in a downward direction under the force of gravity. The arrangement of the rows is such that each row (except the lowest row) transfers the polymeric melt to a lower vertically adjacent row until reaching the last row of baffles in the module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Yount, Paul Keith Scherrer, Larry Cates Windes
  • Publication number: 20080297541
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a sub-pixel octal grouping are disclosed. The octal grouping may comprise three-color (red, green and blue) sub-pixels with blue colored subpixel comprising twice the number of positions within the octal sub-pixel grouping as the red and green colored sub-pixels. Various embodiments for performing sub-pixel rendering on the sub-pixel groupings are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Thomas Lloyd Credelle
  • Publication number: 20080258087
    Abstract: These and other objects of the present invention are achieved by an apparatus and process for evaluating an image-wise exposed storage film positioned about a cylindrically-shaped member and linearly passed by a slot for interrogation by a laser light beam wherein a processing assembly (laser beam and pentraprism) is co-axially disposed within a processing chamber formed by the cylindrically-shaped member effecting a size reduction of the unit and increased clarity of the resultant image, and wherein the processing assembly includes a plate member disposed for rotation in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the processing chamber and having a pentaprism and a luminescence light sensor positioned proximate a contact point of the interrogating light beam with the storage film and further including converter electronics wherein after interrogation, the image scanned is digitally archived in a central processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Edgar Alzner, Yehuda Rosenstock, Steven Zamprelli, Thomas Lloyd
  • Publication number: 20080252581
    Abstract: Liquid crystal display backplane layouts and addressing for non-standard subpixel arrangements are disclosed. A liquid crystal display comprises a panel and a plurality of transistors. The panel substantially comprises a subpixel repeating group having an even number of subpixels in a first direction. Each thin film transistor connects one subpixel to a row and a column line at an intersection in one of a group of quadrants. The group comprises a first quadrant, a second quadrant, a third quadrant and a fourth quadrant, wherein the thin film transistors are formed in a backplane structure adjacent to intersections of the row and column lines. The thin film transistors are also substantially formed in more than one quadrant in the backplane structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.,
    Inventors: Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Matthew Osborne Schlegel, Seok Jin Han
  • Patent number: 7435393
    Abstract: The present invention provides an assembly for use in vertical, gravity flow driven polymerization reactors for combinations of high viscosity, high throughput, and shallow polymer depths. The baffle assembly module of the invention includes a support structure having a plurality of side openings. The side openings allow the escape of vapor liberated from the polymeric melt. The assembly further includes a feed splitter followed by two or more vertically arranged rows of baffle plates with the feed splitter and baffles sequentially positioned in the support structure. The plurality of parallel baffles in a row are angled such that when a polymeric melt contacts a given baffle the polymeric melt moves in a downward direction under the force of gravity. The arrangement of the rows is such that each row (except the lowest row) transfers the polymeric melt to a lower vertically adjacent row until reaching the last row of baffles in the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Yount, Paul Keith Scherrer, Larry Cates Windes
  • Patent number: 7427989
    Abstract: An improved raster engine adapted to render video data from a frame buffer to one of a plurality of disparate displays is disclosed which comprises an integral bounded video signature analyzer, a hardware cursor apparatus supporting dual scanned displays, programmatic support for multiple disparate display types, multi-mode programmable hardware blinking, programmable multiple color depth digital display interface, and programmable matrix controlled grayscale generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Dan Dotson, Thomas Lloyd Heidebrecht
  • Publication number: 20080202626
    Abstract: Disclosed is a filling needle of a fluid-dispensing system, the filling needle including a needle portion that is a metallic material, a hub affixed to an end of the needle portion, wherein the hub is non-metallic and configured to securely associate with the fluid-dispensing system, and allow the fluid-dispensing system to be in fluid communication with the needle portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: John Arthur Morin, Thomas Lloyd Warren
  • Patent number: 7417648
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a sub-pixel octal grouping are disclosed. The octal grouping may comprise three-color (red, green and blue) sub-pixels with blue colored subpixel comprising twice the number of positions within the octal sub-pixel grouping as the red and green colored sub-pixels. Various embodiments for performing sub-pixel rendering on the sub-pixel groupings are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.,
    Inventor: Thomas Lloyd Credelle
  • Publication number: 20080170083
    Abstract: Embodiments of efficient memory implementations for novel display system are herein disclosed. One embodiment comprises a display system comprising a display, said display comprising a plurality of logical pixels wherein said logical pixels further comprise a first number of center-subpixels and a memory, said memory storing said image data to be rendered by said display; wherein said memory is mapped such that said center-subpixels are stored in addressable memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: CLAIRVOYANTE, INC
    Inventors: Seok Jin Han, Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Moonhwan Im
  • Patent number: 7397455
    Abstract: Liquid crystal display backplane layouts and addressing for non-standard subpixel arrangements are disclosed. A liquid crystal display comprises a panel and a plurality of transistors. The panel substantially comprises a subpixel repeating group having an even number of subpixels in a first direction. Each thin film transistor connects one subpixel to a row and a column line at an intersection in one of a group of quadrants. The group comprises a first quadrant, a second quadrant, a third quadrant and a fourth quadrant, wherein the thin film transistors are formed in a backplane structure adjacent to intersections of the row and column lines. The thin film transistors are also substantially formed in more than one quadrant in the backplane structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Matthew Osborne Schlegel, Seok Jin Han
  • Publication number: 20080049047
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel comprising high brightness subpixel repeating groups—for example, RGBW display panels. Displays comprise subpixel repeating groups that in some embodiments are part-striped colored subpixels and part-checkerboard pattern colored subpixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: CLAIRVOYANTE, INC
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Anthony Botzas
  • Publication number: 20080049048
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display panel comprising high brightness subpixel repeating groups—for example, RGBW display panels. Displays comprise subpixel repeating groups that include first and second primary color stripes and third and fourth primary color subpixels that are disposed on a checkerboard pattern. A subpixel rendering operation includes, or is followed by, a white subpixel adjustment operation that adjusts the brightness of the white subpixels in the areas of the displayed image that contain high spatial frequency features such as lines and text, in order to improve image quality such as image contrast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: CLAIRVOYANTE, INC
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Anthony Botzas