Patents by Inventor Thomas R. Johansen

Thomas R. Johansen 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: 4229072
    Abstract: A display system using the dispersive Faraday coefficient of a magnetic screen to obtain a color display from white light is disclosed. A beam of energy is directed upon a magnetic screen while concurrently an intensity modulated magnetic field is directed normal to the surface of the magnetic screen. The combination of the heating effect of the energy beam and the magnetic orienting effect of the intensity modulated magnetic field established localized areas of differing magnetic characteristics over the planar surface of the magnetic screen. Subsequently, a polarized beam of white light that floods the magnetic screen is, for each of several wave lengths, differently rotated upon passing through each of the areas of differing magnetic characteristics in the magnetic screen. The beamlets that are formed by the so-differently rotated areas of the polarized white light beam are then passed through an uncrossed analyzer, which beamlets appear as a multicolored projection upon the magnetic screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1980
    Assignee: Sperry Rand Corporation
    Inventors: Ernest J. Torok, David L. Fleming, Thomas R. Johansen
  • Patent number: 4123142
    Abstract: A system for optically correlating two signals, e.g., radar, sonar, etc., incorporating both time shifts and doppler shifts is described. The correlation of the signals is produced as a two-dimensional distribution of light on a light detector/display plane wherein the amplitude of the light distribution is proportional to the correlation of the two signals as a function of relative time shifts, .DELTA.t (X direction), and relative doppler shifts, .alpha..omega. (Y direction), between the signals. Doppler shifts are introduced into the processor by the incorporation of a channelized cylindrical lens in one signal channel while using a cylindrical lens in the other signal channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1978
    Assignee: Sperry Rand Corporation
    Inventors: David L. Fleming, Thomas R. Johansen, Ernest J. Torok