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).

  • Publication number: 20110260951
    Abstract: A subpixel arrangement structure for a display device, including a plurality of unit pixels each having a red subpixel, a green subpixel and a blue subpixel which form a delta arrangement structure, wherein openings of the red and green subpixels of each unit pixel are substantially aligned along a direction of a column axis, wherein an opening of the blue subpixel of each until pixel are substantially aligned along the direction of the column axis or a direction of a row axis that is perpendicular to the column axis, and wherein two of the plurality of unit pixels of each pixel group, that are positioned adjacent to each other in the direction of the column axis or the direction of the row axis, share one blue subpixel with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Soonjae HWANG, Jongsik Shim, Homin Lim, Minkyu Chang, Kyoungsik Choi, Thomas Lloyd Credelle
  • Patent number: 8035599
    Abstract: A display is disclosed having crossover connections effecting polarity inversion. The display includes a panel comprising a subpixel repeating group having an even number of repeating subpixels in a first direction. The display also includes a driver circuit coupled to the panel to provide image data signals effecting polarity inversion to the panel. The display also includes a plurality of crossover connections from the driver circuit to the columns of the panel such that polarities of same color subpixels in the first direction alternate at a spatial frequency sufficient to abate undesirable visual affects on the panel when an image is displayed thereon; each crossover connection applying the same polarity to each subpixel in the column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Matthew Osborne Schlegel
  • Patent number: 8018476
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Anthony Botzas
  • Patent number: 8013867
    Abstract: Techniques for modifying aspects of the gamut mapping function in a multi-primary display system influence the performance of the display or the perception of certain ones of the colors. One embodiment of the system comprises a method for selecting a metamer. Other embodiments provide methods for modifying the output color produced by the gamut mapping operation for input colors that are on the darker or brighter surfaces of the input color gamut, or for certain out-of-gamut colors such as yellow colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Francis Higgins, Thomas Lloyd Credelle
  • Patent number: 7969456
    Abstract: Processing data for a display including pixels, each pixel having color sub-pixels, comprises receiving pixel data, and converting the pixel data to sub-pixel rendered data. In one embodiment, the conversion generates the sub-pixel rendered data for a sub-pixel arrangement including alternating red and green sub-pixels on at least one of a horizontal and vertical axis. Processing the pixel data for the display also includes correcting the sub-pixel rendered data if a condition exists and outputting the sub-pixel rendered data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Paul Higgins
  • Publication number: 20110077353
    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: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Thomas Lloyd Yount, Larry Cates Windes, Wesley Thomas Moyer
  • Patent number: 7876341
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Anthony Botzas
  • Patent number: 7872089
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a reactor operable to facilitate a chemical reaction in a reaction medium flowing therethrough. The reactor can include a horizontally elongated reactor segment containing a horizontally elongated tubular member and a tray disposed within the tubular member. The reaction medium can flow through the reactor segment on the tray and on the bottom of the tubular member in generally opposite directions. The reactor also can include a header and multiple horizontally elongated reactor segments coupled to the header and spaced vertically apart from one another. The reactor can be used to produce polyesters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Michael Paul Ekart, Thomas Lloyd Yount, Larry Cates Windes, David Allen Sliger
  • Patent number: 7872090
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Thomas Lloyd Yount, Larry Cates Windes, Wesley Thomas Moyer
  • Patent number: 7868130
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Yount, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Michael Paul Ekart, Larry Cates Windes, David Allen Sliger
  • Patent number: 7864194
    Abstract: Methods and systems for motion adaptive filtering detect movement of text or areas of high spatial frequency in one frame to another frame of an image. When such movement is detected and meets a certain level or threshold, the subpixel rendering processing of such text or areas of high spatial frequency may be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Stuart Philip Kaler
  • Publication number: 20100325772
    Abstract: A wearable tubing safety vest configured to harness medical treatment delivery tubing and/or communication cables. The tubing safety vest comprises a vest component having a body-encompassing component cooperable with a plurality of releasably securable flaps, and an elongate tubing harness configured to releasably receive and retain therethrough at least one of medical treatment delivery tubing and communication cables. The tubing harness may be securely engaged with the vest component or alternatively, at least one hinge component can be interposed the vest component and the tubing harness. The vest component is configured for demountably encircling a mammalian body torso, e.g, a human infant torso, juvenile torso, or an adult torso. The tubing harness may be demountably engaged with the front or with the back of the vest component. The wearble tubing safety vest may be optionally configured for demountable engagement about an animal's torso.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Theresia Trevan Fladl, Thomas Lloyd Bellaire, Ernie Janzen
  • Patent number: 7858730
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Yount, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Michael Paul Ekart, Larry Cates Windes, David Allen Sliger
  • Patent number: 7847053
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Yount, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Michael Paul Ekart, Larry Cates Windes, David Allen Sliger
  • Patent number: 7829653
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Yount, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Larry Cates Windes, Roy Douglas Flores, Alan Wayne White, Steven Paul Bellner
  • Patent number: 7791679
    Abstract: Alternative thin film transistors for liquid crystal displays are disclosed. The alternative transistors can be used for panels of displays such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs), especially those having alternative pixel arrangements. These transistors can be oriented on a panel of an LCD using different, non-traditional configurations, while addressing misalignment and parasitic capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Matthew Osborne Schlegel
  • Patent number: 7755652
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a sub-pixel repeating group are disclosed. In one embodiment, an octal subpixel repeating group 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. In another embodiment, a subpixel repeating group comprises two rows of eight “split” subpixels comprising three primary colors and a non-saturated neutral, or white, subpixel functioning as a primary color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Candice Hellen Brown Elliott
  • Publication number: 20100164978
    Abstract: Novel three-color and four-color subpixel arrangements and architectures for display and the like are herein disclosed. Novel techniques for subpixel rendering on the above subpixel arrangements are also herein disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Candice Hellen BROWN ELLIOTT, Thomas Lloyd CREDELLE, Edward Eastle THOMPSON, Michael Francis HIGGINS
  • Publication number: 20100127267
    Abstract: Alternative thin film transistors for liquid crystal displays are disclosed. The alternative transistors can be used for panels of displays such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs), especially those having alternative pixel arrangements. These transistors can be oriented on a panel of an LCD using different, non-traditional configurations, while addressing misalignment and parasitic capacitance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Candice Hellen Brown Elliott, Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Matthew Osborne Schlegel
  • Patent number: 7718137
    Abstract: A system for processing large quantities of a reaction medium while maintaining the reaction medium in sheets. The system includes a reactor having a plurality of vertically-spaced downwardly-sloped trays over which the reaction medium flows while it is subjected to reaction conditions. The slope of the trays increases downwardly to accommodate for the increased viscosity of the reaction medium while the reaction medium flows downwardly through the reactor. An upper portion of the trays have a uni-directional configuration, while a lower portion of the trays have a bi-directional configuration. Further, the orientation of flow across the uni-directional trays is rotated by 90 degrees in at least one location as the reaction medium flows down the uni-directional trays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Yount, Larry Cates Windes, Bruce Roger DeBruin