Patents by Inventor Thomas W. Drueding

Thomas W. Drueding 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: 5278954
    Abstract: An automatic organization of images in computer memory is provided as a doubly-linked (or multiply-linked) list data structure which reflects in its interconnections to relationships between various stages in complex image processing tasks. Data structures, implemented in an appropriate high-level computer language such as C, contain pertinent information about the image as well as pointers (memory addresses) to other data structures and their associated images. These pointers allow the construction and maintenance of the linked list relationships between images. Since the relationships between images in the linked lists are equivalent to the relationships between stages of image processing tasks, the complex tasks of image processing are automatically documented in the linked list data structure without the necessity of maintaining an auxiliary written record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Analogic Corporation
    Inventors: Robert G. Hohlfeld, Jonathan B. Ellis, Anshu Aggarwal, Thomas W. Drueding