Evans & Sutherland Patents
FIBER OPTIC MECHANICAL/THERMAL TUNING AND ISOLATING DEVICE
Inventors: Marceau; David (US), Elkins; Dennis F. (US), Williams; Forrest L. (US), Tanner; Allen H. (Sandy, US)
Patent Number: US 7,133,583
Issue Date: 20061107
GLV BASED FIBER OPTIC TRANSMITTER
Inventors: Tanner; Allen H. (US)
Patent Number: US 7,113,320
Issue Date: 20060926
FIBER OPTIC MECHANICAL/THERMAL TUNING AND ISOLATING DEVICE
Inventors: Williams; Forrest L. (US), Tanner; Allen H. (US), Marceau; David (US), Elkins; Dennis F. (US)
Patent Number: US 7,110,624
Issue Date: 20060919
VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM UTILIZING GAMMA CORRECTION
Inventors: Coleman; Terrence J. (US), George; Kenneth C. (US)
Patent Number: US 7,038,735
Issue Date: 20060502
WIDE ANGLE SCANNER FOR PANORAMIC DISPLAY
Inventors: Streid; Harry (US), Christensen; Rob (US), Tanner; Allen H. (US)
Patent Number: US 6,871,958
Issue Date: 20050329
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING WAVELENGTH AND DOMINANT MODE IN FIBER LASERS
Inventors: DeWitte; Jeannie (US), Grapov; Yuri (US), Owen; David (US), Elkins; Dennis (US), McAllister; Aaron (US), Tanner; Allen (US)
Patent Number: US 6,868,212
Issue Date: 20050315
ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION LIGHT MODULATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD
Inventors: Winkler; Bret D. (US), Elkins; Dennis F. (US), Tanner; Allen H. (US)
Patent Number: US 6,856,449
Issue Date: 20050215
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RUN-TIME INTEGRATION OF AN INSET GEOMETRY INTO A BACKGROUND GEOMETRY
Inventors: Cosman Michael A (US)
Patent Number: US 6,816,169 Issue Date: 20041109
METHOD FOR REDUCING TRANSPORT DELAY IN A SYNCHRONOUS IMAGE GENERATOR
Inventors: Gardiner Harold D (US), Hadfield Steve O (US)
Patent Number: US 6,801,205 Issue Date: 20041005
ANTI-ALIASED, TEXTURED, GEOCENTRIC AND LAYERED FOG GRAPHICS DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS
Inventors: Cosman Michael (US), Fowler David W (US), Despain Eric (US)
Patent Number: US 6,791,562 Issue Date: 20040914
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED PIXEL RENDERING PERFORMANCE
Inventors: Coleman Terrence J (US), George Ken (US)
Patent Number: US 6,788,307 Issue Date: 20040907
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANTIALIASED PROCEDURAL SOLID TEXTURING
Inventors: Hart John C (US), Tibbitts Stephen A (US), Coleman Terrence J (US)
Patent Number: US 6,788,304 Issue Date: 20040907
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FREQUENCY CONVERSION AND MIXING OF LASER LIGHT
Inventors: Williams Forrest L (US), Grapov Yuri S (US, Elkins Dennis F (US), Tanner Allen H (US)
Patent Number: US 6,763,042 Issue Date: 20040713
EXTENDED PRECISION VISUAL SYSTEM
Inventors: Tidwell Reed P (US)
Patent Number: US 6,760,036 Issue Date: 20040706
NON-SAMPLED AUTO-FORMAT CONVERSION METHOD
Inventors: Tanner Allen H (US), McAllister Aaron S (US)
Patent Number: US 6,751,001 Issue Date: 20040615
RAPIDLY OSCILLATING LASER LIGHT SOURCE
Inventors: Tanner Allen H (US), Elkins, Dennis F (US), Farmer Cameron C (US), Grapov Yuri S (US)
Patent Number: US 6,711,187 Issue Date: 20040323
SCREEN SPACE EFFECTS UTILIZING THE ALPHA CHANNEL AND THE ALPHA BUFFER
Inventors: Tidwell Reed P (US)
Patent Number: US 6,603,482 Issue Date: 20030805
OPTICAL FIBER POLISHING SYSTEM WITH DEPTH REFERENCE
Inventors: Anderegg Jesse (US), Winkler Bret (US), Tanner Allen H (US)
Patent Number: US 6,600,854 Issue Date: 20030729
PROCESS FOR ANTICIPATION AND TRACKING OF EYE MOVEMENT
Inventors: Skolmoski Philip (US)
Patent Number: US 6,574,352 Issue Date: 20030603
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANTIALIASING BUMP TEXTURE AND BUMP MAPPING
Inventors:Cosman Michael A (US)
Patent Number: US 6525740 Issue Date: 20030225
STROKE TO RASTER CONVERTER SYSTEM
Inventors:Tanner Allen H (US); Simmons Calvin L (US)
Patent Number: US 6496160Issue Date: 20021217
MIP MAPPING BASED ON MATERIAL PROPERIIES
Inventors:Mayer Neal L (US)
Patent Number: US 6473090Issue Date: 20021029
MULTI-LEVEL CACHE CONTROLLER
Inventors:Tidwell Reed (US); Pimentel Gary (US)
Patent Number: US 6437789Issue Date: 20020820
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-LEVEL IMAGE ALIGNMENT
Inventors:Poppleton Kenneth A (US)
Patent Number: US 6433840 Issue Date: 20020813
SPAN-BASED MULTI-SAMPLE Z-BUFFER PIXEL PROCESSOR
Inventors:Cosman Michael (US)
Patent Number: US 6404425 Issue Date: 20020611
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING THE RENDERING LOAD FOR HIGH DEPTH COMPLEXITY SCENES ON A COMPUTER GRAPHICS DISPLAY
Inventors:Gardiner Harold D. (US); Urry Russell J. (US)
Patent Number: US 6362818 Issue Date: 20020326
COMPUTER GRAPHICS PIXEL RENDERING SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LEVEL SCANNING
Inventors:Watkins Gary S (US)
Patent Number: US 6236408 Issue Date: 20010522
METHOD FOR TIME BASED SHADOW RENDERING
Inventors: Gardiner; Harold Dee (US)
Patent Number: US 6195099 Issue Date: 20010227
PIXEL SHADING SYSTEM
Inventors: Cosman Michael A (US)
Patent Number: US 6147690 Issue Date: 20001114
REAL-TIME MULTI-SENSOR SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENT CREATED FROM A FEATURE AND TERRAIN DATABASE USING INTERACTING AND UPDATABLE ABSTRACT MODELS
Inventors: Crocker John A F III (US); Deyo Roderic C (US); Isaacson Paul L (US); Olszanskyj Serge J (US)
Patent Number: US 6128019 Issue Date: 20001003
METHOD FOR REDUCING THE RENDERING LOAD FOR HIGH DEPTH COMPLEXITY SCENES ON A COMPUTER GRAPHICS DISPLAY
Inventors: Gardiner Harold Dee (US); Urry Russell Joseph (US)
Patent Number: US 6052125 Issue Date: 20000418
SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL GARBAGE MATTE WHICH ENABLES SIMPLIFIED ADJUSTING OF SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SCENE ELEMENTS
Inventors: Rohlfing Thomas R (US); Houskeeper James H (US)
Patent Number: US 6034739 Issue Date: 20000307
MULTI-CAMERA VIRTUAL SET SYSTEM EMPLOYING STILL STORE FRAME BUFFERS FOR EACH CAMERA
Inventors: Houskeeper James H
Patent Number: US 6014163 Issue Date: 20000111
METHOD FOR MEASURING CAMERA AND LENS PROPERTIES FOR CAMERA TRACKING
Inventors: Rohlfing Thomas R (US)
Patent Number: US 5990935 Issue Date: 19991123
PATIENT-INTERACTIVE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING EYE REFRACTION
Inventors: Rohlfing Thomas R (US); Erickson Bruce E (US)
Patent Number: US 5988814 Issue Date: 19991123
AREA OF INTEREST DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH IMAGE COMBINING USING ERROR DITHERING
Inventors: Cannon Bruce L (US); Poppleton Kenneth A (US)
Patent Number: US 5980044 Issue Date: 19991109
COMPUTER GRAPHICS SYSTEM WITH ADAPTIVE PIXEL MULTISAMPLER
Inventors: Cosman Michael A (US); Drews Michael D (US); Watkins Gary S (US)
Patent Number: US 5943060 Issue Date: 19990824
CAMERA/LENS CALIBRATION APPARATUS AND METHOD
Inventors: Mathisen Allen E (US)
Patent Number: US 5930740 Issue Date: 19990727
HANG GLIDING SIMULATION SYSTEM WITH A STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY
Inventors: Cox Clifford N (US); Edwards Jeffrey B (US); Fisher Ralph W (US); Linton Richard B (US); Lyon Paul C (US); Nye Rulon (US); Walker Joe L (US)
Patent Number: US 5908300 Issue Date: 19990601
METHOD FOR RENDERING SHADOWS ON A GRAPHICAL DISPLAY
Inventors: Gardiner Harold Dee (US)
Patent Number: US 5870098 Issue Date: 19990209
IMAGE MAPPING SYSTEM AND PROCESS USING PANEL SHEAR TRANSFORMS
Inventors: Cosman Michael A (US)
Patent Number: US 5850225 Issue Date: 19981215
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING PIXEL UPDATE PERFORMANCE
Inventors: Drews Michael D (US)
Patent Number: US 5841447 Issue Date: 19981124
PLACEMENT TOOL FOR RETRO-REFLECTIVE CALIBRATION POINTS
Inventors: Walker Joe L (US)
Patent Number: US 5825538 Issue Date: 19981020
COMPUTER GRAPHICS PIXEL RENDERING SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LEVEL SCANNING
Inventors: Watkins Gary S (US)
Patent Number: US 5821944 Issue Date: 19981013
COMPUTER GRAPHICS SYSTEM WITH ADAPTIVE PIXEL MULTISAMPLER
Inventors: Cosman Michael A (US); Drews Michael D (US); Watkins Gary S (US)
Patent Number: US 5818456 Issue Date: 19981006
IMAGE TEXTURING SYSTEM HAVING THEME CELLS
Inventors: Brown Thomas C (US); Cosman Michael (US)
Patent Number: US 5748867 Issue Date: 980505
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING TEXTURED POLYGONS USING PLANAR TEXTURE INTERPOLATION
Inventors: Cosman Michael A (US)
Patent Number: US 5734386 Issue Date: 980331
RENDERING GLOBAL MACRO TEXTURE, FOR PRODUCING A DYNAMIC IMAGE, AS ON COMPUTER GENERATED TERRAIN, SEEN FROM A MOVING VIEWPOINT
Inventors: Erdahl Alan C (US); Robinson John A (US)
Patent Number: US 5699497 Issue Date: 971216
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ZOOMING IMAGES ON A VIDEO DISPLAY
Inventors: Tarolli Gary M (US)
Patent Number: US 5657047 Issue Date: 970812
COMPUTER GRAPHICS SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR ADAPTIVE SUPERSAMPLING
Inventors: Cosman Michael A (US)
Patent Number: US 5651104 Issue Date: 970722
PROJECTION SCREEN WITH RETRO-REFLECTIVE CALIBRATION POINTS, PLACEMENT TOOL AND METHOD
Inventors: Walker Joe L (US)
Patent Number: US 5638208 Issue Date: 970610
MULTIPLE LEVEL COMPUTER GRAPHICS SYSTEM WITH DISPLAY LEVEL BLENDING
Inventors: Drews Michael D (US)
Patent Number: US 5621869 Issue Date: 970415
COMPUTER GRAPHICS PIXEL RENDERING SYSTEM WITH MULTI-LEVEL SCANNING
Inventors: Watkins Gary S (US)
Patent Number: US 5598517 Issue Date: 970128
HANG GLIDING SIMULATION SYSTEM WITH A STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY AND METHOD OF SIMULATING HANG GLIDING
Inventors: Cox Clifford N (US); Edwards Jeffrey B (US); Fisher Ralph W (US) ; Linton Richard B (US); Lyon Paul C (US); Nye Rulon (US); Walker Joe L (US)
Patent Number: US 5584696 Issue Date: 961217
DIRECT RENDERING OF TEXTURED HEIGHT FIELDS
Inventors: Cosman Michael A (US)
Patent Number: US 5579456 Issue Date: 961126
COMPUTER GRAPHICS PARALLEL SYSTEM WITH TEMPORAL PRIORITY
Inventors: Armstrong William (US); Eckart Glen A (US)
Patent Number: US 5574847 Issue Date: 961112
HEAD-MOUNTED PROJECTION DISPLAY SYSTEM FEATURING BEAM SPLITTER AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME
Inventors: Fisher Ralph W (US)
Patent Number: US 5572229 Issue Date: 961105
COMPUTER GRAPHICS FOR ANIMATION BY TIME-SEQUENCED TEXTURES
Inventors: Hatch Kellan L (US); Jackson Michael D (US)
Patent Number: US 5561745 Issue Date: 961001
ATTRIBUTE BLENDING SYSTEM FOR COMPOSING COMPUTER-GRAPHIC IMAGES FROM OBJECTS
Inventors: Watkins Gary S (US)
Patent Number: US 5490238 Issue Date: 960206
COMPUTER GRAPHICS SYSTEM WITH PARALLEL PROCESSING USING A SWITCH STRUCTURE
Inventors: Eckart Glen A (US)
Patent Number: US 5408606 Issue Date: 950418
SYSTEM FOR LINE INTERPOLATION FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS DISPLAYS
Inventors: Brown Russell A (US); Watkins Gary S (US)
Patent Number: US 5381519 Issue Date: 950110
SYSTEM FOR POLYGON INTERPOLATION USING INSTANTANEOUS VALUES IN A VARIABLE
Inventors: Brown Russell A (US); Watkins Gary S (US)
Patent Number: US 5361386 Issue Date: 941101
AREA OF INTEREST DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH OPTO/MECHANICAL IMAGE COMBINING
Inventors: Austin Jim (US); Fisher Ralph W (US)
Patent Number: US 5326266 Issue Date: 940705
SYSTEM FOR BLENDING SURFACES IN GEOMETRIC MODELING; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN SYSTEM
Inventors: Owen John C (GB); Rockwood Alyn P (US)
Patent Number: US 5251160 Issue Date: 931005
VIDEO GRAPHIC SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR WIDE FIELD COLOR DISPLAY
Inventors: Fisher Ralph W (US)
Patent Number: US 5242306 Issue Date: 930907
COMPUTER GRAPHICS DYNAMIC CONTROL SYSTEM
Inventors: Watkins Gary S (US)
Patent Number: US 5061919 Issue Date: 911029
MULTIPROCESSOR TASK SCHEDULING SYSTEM
Inventors: Dulong Carole (US); Leclerc Jean-Yves (US); Scaglia Patrick (US)
Patent Number: US 4985831 Issue Date: 910115
SHADOW MASK COLOR SYSTEM WITH CALLIGRAPHIC DISPLAYS
Inventors: Hintze Richard A (US)
Patent Number: US 4982178 Issue Date: 910101
VARIABLE DELAY BRANCH SYSTEM; PROCESS FOR A PIPELINE COMPUTER OPERATION
Inventors: Dulong Carole (US); Leclerc Jean-Yves (US); Scaglia Patrick (US)
Patent Number: US 4974155 Issue Date: 901127
SHADOW MASK COLOR SYSTEM WITH CALLIGRAPHIC DISPLAYS
Inventors: Hintze Richard A (US)
Patent Number: US 4970500 Issue Date: 901113
COMPUTER GRAPHICS WINDOWING SYSTEM FOR THE DISPLAY OF MULTIPLE DYNAMIC IMAGES
Inventors: Watkins Gary S (US)
Patent Number: US 4954819 Issue Date: 900904
REAL TIME VEHICLE SIMULATION SYSTEM
Inventors: Briggs John A (US); Deyo Roderic C (US); Haug Edward J (US)
Patent Number: US 4952152 Issue Date: 900828
COMPUTER GRAPHICS PRIORITY SYSTEM WITH ANTIALIASING; HIDDEN SURFACE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
Inventors: Brown Russell A (US); Eckart Glen A (US); Watkins Gary S (US)
Patent Number: US 4918626 Issue Date: 900417
COMPUTER GRAPHICS PIXEL PROCESSING SYSTEM
Inventors: DICKSON CALVIN M (US); RUSHFORTH KEVIN C (US)
Patent Number: US 4873515 Issue Date: 891010
SYSTEM FOR TEXTURING COMPUTER GRAPHICS IMAGES
Inventors: ROBINSON JOHN (US)
Patent Number: US 4855934 Issue Date: 890808
CURVILINEAR DYNAMIC IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM
Inventors: ROBINSON JOHN A (US); SCHUMACKER ROBERT A (US)
Patent Number: US 4763280 Issue Date: 880809
COMPUTER GRAPHICS, PARAMETRIC PATCH PARALLEL SUBDIVISION PROCESSOR
Inventors: BROWN RUSSELL A (US); HAYES ALAN B (US); JENSEN THOMAS W (US); MADSEN BRUCE K (US)
Patent Number: US 4646251 Issue Date: 870224
COMPUTER GRAPHICS SYSTEM OF GENERAL SURFACE RENDERING BY EXHAUSTIVE SAMPLING
Inventors: ROCKWOOD ALYN P (US)
Patent Number: US 4625289 Issue Date: 861125
COMMAND LANGUAGE SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE COMPUTER
Inventors: GAFFNEY JOHN (US)
Patent Number: US 4539638 Issue Date: 850903
SHADOW MASK COLOR SYSTEM WITH CALLIGRAPHIC DISPLAYS
Inventors: HINTZE RICHARD A (US)
Patent Number: US 4499457 Issue Date: 850212
SYSTEM OF POLYGON SORTING BY DISSECTION
Inventors: SUTHERLAND IVAN E (N/A)
Patent Number: US 3889107 Issue Date: 750610
COMPUTER GRAPHICS CLIPPING SYSTEM FOR POLYGONS
Inventors: HODGMAN G (N/A); SUTHERLAND I (N/A)
Patent Number: US 3816726 Issue Date: 740611
COMPUTER GRAPHICS MATRIX MULTIPLIER
Inventors: SEITZ C (N/A)
Patent Number: US 3763365 Issue Date: 731002
INCREMENTAL POSITION-INDICATING SYSTEM
Inventors: EVANS D (N/A); SUTHERLAND I (N/A)
Patent Number: US 3732557 Issue Date: 730508
VECTOR COMPUTING SYSTEM AS FOR USE IN A MATRIX COMPUTER
Inventors: SUTHERLAND IVAN E (N/A)
Patent Number: US 3684876 Issue Date: 720815
DISPLAY WINDOWING BY CLIPPING
Inventors: SUTHERLAND IVAN E (N/A)
Patent Number: US 3639736 Issue Date: 720201
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