Patents by Inventor William T. Freeman

William T. Freeman 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: 4724395
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for sensing sampled colored image data and thereafter interpolating the sampled colored image data to provide image data in each color sampled for each point or pixel at which the subject is sensed from which an image of the subject may be constructed having reduced color artifacts and fringing while reducing the blurring to the image that would otherwise be required to correct for such artifacts and fringing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: William T. Freeman
  • Patent number: 4663655
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for sensing sampled colored image data and thereafter interpolating the sampled colored image data to provide image data in each color sampled for each point or pixel at which the subject is sensed from which an image of the subject may be constructed having reduced color artifacts and fringing while reducing the blurring to the image that would otherwise be required to correct for such artifacts and fringing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: William T. Freeman
  • Patent number: 4641185
    Abstract: Image sensing and processing apparatus in which the different colors of a subject are sensed to provide a high resolution electrical color separation signal and a low resolution electrical color separation signal. An enhanced high resolution electrical color separation signal is thereafter provided as a function of the color matrixing of the low resolution electrical color separation signals with the high resolution electrical color separation signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence E. Alston, William T. Freeman
  • Patent number: 4541704
    Abstract: A photographic camera apparatus with electronic image enhancement operates to control the exposure of a photosensitive material to scene light received directly from a scene to be photographed in a manner whereby the photosensitive material is exposed to an extent less than a selected optimum exposure value and the scene light is simultaneously electronically sensed to provide electrical signal information corresponding thereto to control an additional electronic exposure of the photosensitive material so that in conjunction with the direct exposure to scene light there is substantially provided the selected optimum exposure value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1985
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: William T. Freeman
  • Patent number: 4536848
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for making and photographing computer graphic colored images by defining each computer graphic colored image as a plurality of constant color pixel groups, assigning one of a preselected number of colors to each constant color pixel group, and exposing a photosensitive material to each constant color pixel group displayed in a predetermined ordered sequence and color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Alice M. d'Entremont, William T. Freeman
  • Patent number: 4488244
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for making and photographing computer graphic colored images by defining each computer graphic colored image as a plurality of constant color pixel groups, assigning one of a preselected number of colors to each constant color pixel group, assigning one of a preselected number of foreground/background numbers to each constant color pixel group so as to designate its location with respect to the other constant color pixel groups, and exposing a photosensitive material to each constant color pixel group displayed in a predetermined ordered sequence and color so as to maintain the predetermined ordered foreground to background relationship between the constant color pixel groups in the exposure of the photosensitive material to the overlapping areas between the constant color pixel groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1984
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: William T. Freeman
  • Patent number: 4339900
    Abstract: Instead of enclosing the space between a sky-light dome and a ceiling window by the usual custom-built box or shaft, the space is easily, economically and effectively enclosed by a section of large-diameter flexible tubing stretched between the dome and the window. The ends of the tubing section fit over short sleeves on or attached to the dome and the window, and can be fastened to the sleeves by cement and/or constrictable bands. The tubing is preferably formed of an outer plastic ply and an inner light-reflective aluminum-foil or an aluminized-plastic ply, which are adhesively laminated with a helically coiled spring-wire skeleton embedded therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1982
    Inventor: William T. Freeman