Patents by Inventor Timothy Lock

Timothy Lock 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: 20050277466
    Abstract: A method and system for creating event data including 3-D data representing at least one participant in an event and making the event data available to be served is provided. The system includes a communications network. A plurality of camera units are coupled to the communications network. The camera units are configured and installed at an event venue to generate a plurality of images from waves which propagate from objects in the event and includes the at least one participant in a plurality of non-parallel detector planes spaced about the event venue. The camera units include a plurality of detectors for measuring energy in the images in the detector planes to produce a plurality of signals obtained from different directions with respect to the at least one participant and a plurality of signal processors to process the plurality of signals from the plurality of detectors with at least one control algorithm to obtain image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: PlayData Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy Lock
  • Patent number: 6841990
    Abstract: A mechanical apparatus for testing a plethora of RF devices using test resources that are quickly and easily replaced is disclosed. The mechanical apparatus is located within an RF enclosure, and contains space for one or more test resources, or customizations, to be installed and applied to a device under test (DUT). The mechanical apparatus is coupled to the RF enclosure through a nest plate coupling to a drawer plate. This coupling is made into a tight seal through the use of o-ring elements that enables pneumatic pressure to be made available within the mechanical apparatus. The mechanical apparatus has a stationary base assembly, a lower nest assembly and an upper nest assembly. The DUT may be placed between the upper nest assembly and lower nest assembly, where the upper nest assembly and lower nest assembly may be coupled to test resources that may be applied to the DUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Helmuth O. Kroog, Timothy A. Lock, William R. Miner, Grant E. Cashen, Mark Stauder
  • Patent number: 6621001
    Abstract: A system and method for radio frequency (RF) sealing a door of an RF enclosure is disclosed. The door employs a two-axis gimbal system to provide two degrees of freedom as the drawer door makes contact with the RF enclosure. The two-axis gimbal system allows the forces applied to the sealing gasket to be uniform along the length of the seal. This enables uniform seal compression, and therefore, uniform RF isolation. The door is held rigid while the door gasket is not affecting a seal against the frame of the RF enclosure. As the door becomes engaged with the frame, multiple contact points of the drawer door are deactivated thereby allowing the drawer door to pivot near the seal centroid on a two-axis gimbal system. The two-axis gimbal system allows the RF seal to be applied uniformly across the length of the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Helmuth O. Kroog, Timothy A. Lock, William R. Miner, Grant E. Cashen
  • Publication number: 20030079892
    Abstract: A system and method for radio frequency (RF) sealing a door of an RF enclosure is disclosed. The door employs a two-axis gimbal system to provide two degrees of freedom as the drawer door makes contact with the RF enclosure. The two-axis gimbal system allows the forces applied to the sealing gasket to be uniform along the length of the seal. This enables uniform seal compression, and therefore, uniform RF isolation. The door is held rigid while the door gasket is not affecting a seal against the frame of the RF enclosure. As the door becomes engaged with the frame, multiple contact points of the drawer door are deactivated thereby allowing the drawer door to pivot near the seal centroid on a two-axis gimbal system. The two-axis gimbal system allows the RF seal to be applied uniformly across the length of the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Helmuth O. Kroog, Timothy A. Lock, William R. Miner, Grant E. Cashen
  • Publication number: 20030080726
    Abstract: A mechanical apparatus for testing a plethora of RF devices using test resources that are quickly and easily replaced is disclosed. The mechanical apparatus is located within an RF enclosure, and contains space for one or more test resources, or customizations, to be installed and applied to a device under test (DUT). The mechanical apparatus is coupled to the RF enclosure through a nest plate coupling to a drawer plate. This coupling is made into a tight seal through the use of o-ring elements that enables pneumatic pressure to be made available within the mechanical apparatus. The mechanical apparatus has a stationary base assembly, a lower nest assembly and an upper nest assembly. The DUT may be placed between the upper nest assembly and lower nest assembly, where the upper nest assembly and lower nest assembly may be coupled to test resources that may be applied to the DUT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Helmuth O. Kroog, Timothy A. Lock, William R. Miner, Grant E. Cashen, Mark Stauder
  • Patent number: 6011688
    Abstract: A compact apparatus for cooling circuit packs disposed in a supporting cage, while providing a substantially uniform flow of coolant at enhanced volume and static pressure, and while reducing ambient noise level. The invention includes a circuit pack cage having a plurality of parallel longitudinal slots for receiving the circuit packs and for arranging the circuit packs in parallel with one another. A plenum of the invention has a plurality of parallel longitudinal troughs, wherein each trough has a respective elongated opening extending along a longitudinal dimension of the trough. The elongated openings of the troughs are arranged for proximate fluid coupling along the longitudinal dimension of each of the circuit packs adjacent to the surfaces of the circuit packs, Each trough of the plenum has a respective extremity opening, which provides for coupling with an impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Co.
    Inventors: Richard K. Thornburg, Timothy A. Lock
  • Patent number: 5554841
    Abstract: A graphical symbol encoding a numerical value may be accurately read even when placed on a non-planar surface. The marker is imaged with an inventive apparatus and analyzed using an inventive method which translates the graphical image into a unique number for article identification purposes. The marker in its preferred embodiment includes an outer ring having a continuous perimeter in one or more concentric data tracks disposed within this outer ring. A timing track is used to determine angular relationships about the center of the marker. Distances between points associated with the outer ring in a particular data track are used in conjunction with these angular relationships to locate a digitally encoded visual pattern associated with a particular data track, this pattern being used to store at least a portion of a numerical code used to identify each marker-bearing article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Lynn Ltd.
    Inventors: Karen L. Kost, William J. Fry, Timothy Lock, Michael S. Davis