Patents by Inventor Thomas R. Lanning

Thomas R. Lanning 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).

  • System and method for presenting and browsing images serially
    Patent number: 7139006
    Abstract: A method presents a set of input images on a display device. First, a set of display images is selected from the set of images. A 3D layout is assigned to each selected image, and a 3D trajectory is assigned to a virtual camera. A set of active images of the set of display images is rendered according to the layout and the trajectory. The set of active images includes a collector image. The collector images is rendered statically in a collector frame of an image plane of the display device, while remaining images in the set of active images are rendered dynamically on the image plane. Then, the layout and trajectory are animated according user input, and the rendering and animating is repeated until a termination condition is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc
    Inventors: Kent B. Wittenburg, Thomas R. Lanning, Clifton L. Forlines, Alan W. Esenther
  • System and method for presenting and browsing images serially
    Publication number: 20040150657
    Abstract: A method presents a set of input images on a display device. First, a set of display images is selected from the set of images. A 3D layout is assigned to each selected image, and a 3D trajectory is assigned to a virtual camera. A set of active images of the set of display images is rendered according to the layout and the trajectory. The set of active images includes a collector image. The collector images is rendered statically in a collector frame of an image plane of the display device, while remaining images in the set of active images are rendered dynamically on the image plane. Then, the layout and trajectory are animated according user input, and the rendering and animating is repeated until a termination condition is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Kent B. Wittenburg, Thomas R. Lanning, Clifton L. Forlines, Alan W. Esenther
  • Interexchange carrier automatic route selection system
    Patent number: 4866763
    Abstract: A system for selecting multiple interexchange carriers serving telephone switches interconnecting user telephone lines. Apparatus and a method interactive with telephone users creates data base records of user selected interchange carrier resources and encodes the user created data base records into telephone switch messages. The telephone switch messages are transmitted to telephone switches to enable the telephone switches to selectively interconnect user telephone lines with ones of the interchange carrier resources in accordance with user created data base records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: Bret A. Cooper, William H. Havanas, Thomas R. Lanning, Mark A. Martinka