Patents by Inventor Verner Keith Devlin

Verner Keith Devlin 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: 20240095263
    Abstract: A map control module receives a stream of map data characterizing a geographic region proximal to a vehicle and outputs a moving map, and the moving map is divisible into a matrix of cells. A map item control receives a stream of point of interest (POI) data characterizing a plurality of POIs within the boundary and categorizes each of the plurality of POIs to define a set of categories. The map item control determines a display location of a map item within the matrix of cells for each of the plurality of POIs and determines an importance for each POI within a same category. The map item control forms a set of clusters of map items. Each map item in a given cluster of map items has a same cell and a same category. The map item control selects a top-item for each cluster of map items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: DOUGLAS M. DYER, VERNER KEITH DEVLIN, WILLIAM R. SMITH
  • Patent number: 11782152
    Abstract: One example includes a radar image interface system. The system includes an image processor configured to receive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image data associated with a region of interest and to generate a radar image of the region of interest based on the SAR image data. The image processor can be further configured to divide the radar image into a plurality of sequential units corresponding to respective zones of the region of interest. The system also includes a display system configured to display zoomed sequential units corresponding to respective zoomed versions of the sequential units of the radar image to a user. The system further includes an input interface configured to facilitate sequentially indexing through each of the zoomed versions of the sequential units on the display system in response to an indexing input provided by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Verner Keith Devlin, David A. Hobbs, Douglas M. Dyer
  • Patent number: 11392284
    Abstract: A system to implement a dynamically stylable open graphics library is disclosed. The system includes a memory configured to store machine readable instructions and data and a processing unit. The machine readable instructions and data include a view configuration file that defines view format areas of a graphical user interface where the elements of the graphical user interface are placeable, a layout configuration file that defines a layout of the elements within an area described by the view configuration file on a screen display, a style configuration file that defines a style of the elements, a graphical user interface engine configured to process the style configuration file, the layout configuration file, and the view configuration file and render the elements onto the screen display, and an interface that allows changes to be made to the configuration files by editing a language representative of the format of the configuration files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Conrad Clayton Bluhm, Sean Charles Rose, Verner Keith Devlin