Patents by Inventor William Goodchild

William Goodchild 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: 9775260
    Abstract: A pair of brackets to allow a component with a chassis of width W to be installed in one of three standardized racks, a wide gap rack, a narrow gap rack, or an intermediate gap rack. Each bracket having a corner between a short leg and a long leg, longer than the short leg. The brackets may also be used to mount the component to a wall instead of installed in a standardized rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING SE
    Inventors: Charles Philip Warlick, Gregory William Goodchild
  • Patent number: 8188949
    Abstract: Display driver circuits are described for driving organic light emitting diode displays, particularly passive matrix displays with greater efficiency. Display driver control circuitry (506) comprises a frame memory interface (505) for reading data from a frame memory (504) for presentation on a passive matrix OLED display. A blank line identifier (507) identifies one or more substantially blank rows of pixels defined by the data in the frame memory and the control circuitry (506) skips past these rows when the passive matrix display is addressed. When blank lines are skipped the apparent brightness of the remaining lines increases and thus preferably the control circuitry includes a power controller (505) for reducing a power supply to the display in proportion to the number of skipped lines. The invention is particularly suited to a display driver providing a controlled current drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Euan C. Smith, Paul R. Routley, William Goodchild
  • Publication number: 20090091559
    Abstract: Display driver circuits are described for driving organic light emitting diode displays, particularly passive matrix displays with greater efficiency. Display driver control circuitry (506) comprises a frame memory interface (505) for reading data from a frame memory (504) for presentation on a passive matrix OLED display. A blank line identifier (507) identifies one or more substantially blank rows of pixels define by the data in the frame memory and the control circuitry (506) skips past these rows when the passive matrix display is addressed. When blank lines are skipped the apparent brightness of the remaining lines increases and thus preferably the control circuitry includes a power controller (505) for reducing a power supply to the display in proportion to the number of skipped lines. The invention is particularly suited to a display driver providing a controlled current drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Euan C. Smith, Paul R. Routley, William Goodchild
  • Patent number: 7474288
    Abstract: Display driver circuits are described for driving organic light-emitting diode displays, particularly passive matrix displays, with greater efficiency. Display driver circuitry includes a frame memory interface for reading data from a frame memory for presentation on a passive matrix OLED display. A blank line identifier identifies one or more substantially blank rows of pixels defined by the data in the frame memory and the control circuitry skips past these rows when the passive matrix display is addressed. When blank lines are skipped the apparent brightness of the remaining lines increases and thus preferably the control circuitry includes a power-controller for reducing a power supply to the display in proportion to the number of skipped lines. The disclosed circuitry is particularly suited to a display driver providing a controlled current drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Euan C. Smith, Paul R. Routley, William Goodchild
  • Publication number: 20050219163
    Abstract: Display driver circuits are described for driving organic light-emitting diode displays, particularly passive matrix displays, with greater efficiency. Display driver circuitry includes a frame memory interface for reading data from a frame memory for presentation on a passive matrix OLED display. A blank line identifier identifies one or more substantially blank rows of pixels defined by the data in the frame memory and the control circuitry skips past these rows when the passive matrix display is addressed. When blank lines are skipped the apparent brightness of the remaining lines increases and thus preferably the control circuitry includes a power-controller for reducing a power supply to the display in proportion to the number of skipped lines. The disclosed circuitry is particularly suited to a display driver providing a controlled current drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Euan Smith, Paul Routley, William Goodchild
  • Patent number: 4249180
    Abstract: Apparatus for use in a secure data communication system includes a microcomputer that controls a cipher process by which sensitive data is encrypted before transmission. When activated, the apparatus accepts either cleartext or ciphertext and transforms the text to its opposite form according to an algorithm that is past dependent and which is also dependent on a pseudo random cipher key. Ciphertext may then be stored in an information retrieval system or transmitted to a destination terminal where the text is deciphered in real time by a corresponding second apparatus that stores the same key. In either case, security of transmitted and stored data is maintained since the sensitive data is in encrypted form. A set of logical instructions according to the algorithm is stored in a read only memory of the microcomputer which includes an EPROM unit having a data field of predetermined characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1981
    Assignee: Northern Telecom Limited
    Inventors: Gernot Eberle, Anthony R. Walker, William Goodchild, Patrice L. D. Humbert-Droz