Cathode Ray Screen Display Simulated By Light Means (e.g., Light Spot Projected Onto Screen, Etc.) Patents (Class 434/3)
  • Patent number: 8033928
    Abstract: The present invention relates to method and apparatus adapted for use with an assistive energy type golf club which is safe to use, inconspicuous, and able to release sufficient assistive energy at the optimum time during a golf swing to add prescribed incremental velocity to a golf ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Inventor: Donald R. Cage
  • Patent number: 7963859
    Abstract: Apparatus and a method that enables an assistive energy type golf club to sense the approach of the club face toward a golf ball, and to trigger the release of the assistive energy at the optimum time to achieve the desired golf ball velocity and distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Inventor: Donald R. Cage
  • Patent number: 7905769
    Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated game with five subsystems: (i) electronic spell-casting system, (ii) card game system, (iii) user-created card system, (iv) system for replacing the use of dice and/or random number generation; and (v) board game system. Spell-casting system provides a physical input mechanism, e.g., sensor-equipped “magic wand”, and a verbal input mechanism which together trigger a spell. Cards form formations affecting their powers and are marked as “spent” by being placed under another card. Users create their own cards through a Web-accessible site. Random number (generated by computer or dice) usage is replaced by “challenges,” i.e., player-performed tasks. Chess pieces follow standard rules but are deployed one-by-one, as are squares of the chess board. Licensing information is available through www.inventerprise.com.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Inventor: Shelton E. Harrison, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7731602
    Abstract: Apparatus and a method that enables an assistive energy type golf club to sense the approach of the club face toward a golf ball, and to trigger the release of the assistive energy at the optimum time to achieve the desired golf ball velocity and distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Inventor: Donald R. Cage
  • Patent number: 7593017
    Abstract: A system for generating and providing a simulated image. Based upon a source image and first parameters for a first display device, the system generates and displays a simulated image on second display device having second parameters. The first parameters are different from the second parameters, and the simulated image displayed on the second display device provides a visual indication of how the source image would appear when displayed on the first display device. The parameters can include a resolution in pixels per inch and a fill factor for the display device. The system can also be used to provide a visual indication of how the source image would appear when displayed on the second display device under varying lighting conditions and viewing angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: James A. Thielen, Scott J. Reckinger, Richard J. Moore, Patrick A. Thomas, Manoj Nirmal
  • Patent number: 7018482
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing electronic devices, in particular, but not exclusively, semiconductor devices, and apparatus for carrying out such a method, in which method wafers 1, which are provided at a surface 2 with a material 3 to be removed, are subjected, while being divided into successive batches, to a wet treatment in a bath 4 containing a solution 5 of an active component in a solvent. The successive batches of wafers 1 are immersed in the solution 5 at first time intervals during the wet treatment of the successive batches, which first time intervals each consist of a processing period during which the material 3 is removed from the surface 2 of the wafers 1, thereby forming ionic components, and a waiting period following the removal of the wafers 1 from the bath 4 at the end of the processing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Marcellinus J. H. J. Geomini
  • Patent number: 4944679
    Abstract: A software controlled generic radar display system using a microcomputer ing a high performance graphics card that drives a high resolution color monitor which displays the radar sweep, compass rose, front panel symbology and diagnostic information. A target generator provides simulated target information that is displayed on the monitor in standard PPI format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: John H. Allen, Robert S. Reif
  • Patent number: 4876651
    Abstract: A digital mapping display system for an aircraft wherein map data from a mass memory unit is periodically loaded into RAM in the form of a cache memory in accordance with the aircraft trajectory. The cache memory is randomly addressable within the physical address space of a control processor, individual segments of the cache memory being loaded with map data and updated while other segments are being displayed, thereby avoiding the inherent delay of accessing the mass memory unit and addressing the entire RAM array. Parallel processing of map data and symbology facilitate a real-time display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Honeywell Inc.
    Inventors: John F. Dawson, Eldon J. Thompson, James A. Cousens
  • Patent number: 4759716
    Abstract: A rotating cursor plan position indicator radar display is simulated upon a olor mapped computer driven raster scan CRT display by logically dividing the pixels of the display into a plurality of wedge shaped regions. The color attributes of the pixels in each region are changed in a systematic fashion in order to simulate the appearance of a standard radar display for radar operator training purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: John L. Booker, Roger H. Werner
  • Patent number: 4572144
    Abstract: An injection timing control device of the present invention has a timer cover opened at one end and including at the other an end wall portion. The end wall portion of the timer cover is formed with hole concentric with the axis, and a gear driven by an engine, is provided at the outside surface of the end wall portion. In the time cover is disposed a timer hub concentric to the axis. The timer hub can be inserted into the hole, and has a cam boss connected at one end to the fuel injection pump cam shaft and a flange formed integrally with the other end side of the cam boss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shizuo Handa
  • Patent number: 4525717
    Abstract: A position display instrument for light spot display on a map of the position of vehicles, in particular aircraft or helicopters. The instrument comprises a flat map holder for accommodating and holding map sheets in an exact position, a light transmitter located below the map holder for producing a light spot on the map sheet and movable in two coordinates by positioning means, a microcomputer to which the grid coordinates of the vehicle position are applied from a navigational computer and by which the positioning means are controlled, a memory for storing map data, said memory cooperating with the microcomputer, and display means which is connected to the microcomputer and by which the map sheet or map field required for the respective grid coordinates is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Assignee: Universitat Stuttgart, Institut Fur Flugnavigation
    Inventors: Eberhard Wildermuth, Dirk Jansen, Rudolf Burkhardt, Joachim Merz
  • Patent number: 4421484
    Abstract: Digital simulation apparatus, e.g. a digital coastline generator, for simulating a terrain-representative display of the kind produced by a movable scanning-type display device, e.g. a radar display device, comprises a main store for storing digital data representative, in Cartesian co-ordinate form, of terrain features such as contours and buildings in an area, known as the playing area, typically 256 nautical miles by 256 nautical miles. The data is divided into groups relating to contiguous zones each typically 2 nautical miles by 2 nautical miles. The apparatus further comprises means for producing a signal representative of the current position of the display device in the playing area, means for producing successive signals representative of successive segments of scan of the display device, and means responsive to these signals to select from the main store those groups of data corresponding to zones intersected by the current scan segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: The Solartron Electronic Group Limited
    Inventors: Antony J. Wakeling, Alan D. Thompson, Roy W. Sumner