Dale Ellis Miller

45375020, Aug 27, 1985

Sep 30, 1982

6/428550

Dale D. Miller - Seattle WA
John N. Polky - Kent WA

The Boeing Company - Seattle WA

G01C 308
G01S 1338
G06F 772

356 5

A range determination apparatus for determining target range within a range depth of D and within a range bin error of e comprises a carrier frequency transmitter for transmitting a carrier frequency and a generator for generating at least two modulating signals having frequency f. sub. 1 and f. sub. 2, respectively. A modulation device, operative for at least two discrete frequencies for providing one of simultaneous or sequential modulated signals, is coupled to the carrier frequency transmitter for modulating the carrier. The two modulating frequencies and a common sub-multiple counting frequency are related such that f. sub. o =m. sub. 1. sup. ' f. sub. 1 =m. sub. 2. sup. ' f. sub. 2. A receiver is provided for receiving a reflected signal from the target and for producing a corresponding received electrical signal. A phase detection device is responsive to the modulating signals of the generator and the received signals for detecting the phase difference x. sub. 1. sup. ' and x. sub. 2. sup.

56196270, Apr 8, 1997

May 3, 1994

8/237285

Brian T. Soderberg - Woodinville WA
Dale D. Miller - Seattle WA
Henrik Lind - Seattle WA
Richard Jarvis - Everett WA
Mark Kenworthy - Duvall WA

Loral Aerospace Corp. - New York NY

G06T 1510

395121

Occulting apparatus for use with an image generator that provides for multiple-level occulting of image data. The occulting apparatus comprises a mask buffer and control logic for processing image data to construct and store an obscurance mask in the mask buffer. Foreground entities contained in the image data are logically ORed into the mask buffer until the entities extend beyond a predefined range from a predetermined image viewpoint. Thereafter, the mask is used by the control logic to reject entities contained in subsequently processed image data that are fully obscured by the foreground entities comprising the obscurance mask. The control logic includes an obscurance manager, a region processor, an object processor, a polygon processor, and insertion logic. The obscurance manager is a controller for building and applying the obscurance mask to the image data. The region, object, and polygon processors respectively process regions, objects, and polygons in the image to determine if they are obscured, reject obscured entities, and transmits unobscured entities to subsequent processors.

57580286, May 26, 1998

Sep 1, 1995

8/522870

Carson Kaan - Seattle WA
Annette Janett - Bellevue WA
David Bakeman - Seattle WA
Kent Cauble - Renton WA
Dale Miller - Seattle WA

Lockheed Martin Aerospace Corporation - Bethesda MD

G06F 944

395 51

A fuzzy logic load management controller for use with a computer image generator. The load management controller is used use with a computer image generator having a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs, and includes an adder that couples inputs to the image generator. The load management controller comprises a fuzzy logic controller disposed in a feedback loop between the output of the image generator and the adder. The load management controller includes a fuzzy logic inference engine, a set of membership functions coupled to the inference engine, and a rules database coupled to the inference engine that includes a set of if-then rules that specify the response of the fuzzy logic controller to inputs applied thereto. The fuzzy logic controller provides for load management of the image generator that gracefully degrades a viewed scene, keeps the image update rate constant, and renders important objects in the viewed scene.

47764643, Oct 11, 1988

Jun 17, 1985

6/745030

Dale D. Miller - Seattle WA
Kenneth S. Goldstein - Dallas TX

BAE Automated Systems, Inc. - Carrollton TX

B07C 314
B07C 318

209 33

An article handling system, particularly for baggage routing, has a tag affixed to each article of baggage, each tag bearing human and machine readable destination data disposed immediately adjacent to a uniquely configured target symbol of predetermined and known characteristics. Video cameras disposed adjacent to the baggage transport assembly are effective, in combination with control networks, to detect the target symbol and electronically read the destination data on the tags, so that the baggage can be routed along transport paths respectively corresponding to the intended destination of each article of baggage. The control network is also effective to transform the video image of the target to a desired orientation and configuration, as well as to select for processing the destination data viewed by the camera having the best image of the target.

54936438, Feb 20, 1996

May 3, 1994

8/237286

Brian T. Soderberg - Woodinville WA
Dale D. Miller - Seattle WA
Douglas Pheil - Redmond WA
Kent Cauble - Renton WA
Mark N. Heinen - Issaquah WA
Mark L. Kenworthy - Duvall WA

Loral Aerospace Corp. - New York NY

G06F 1500

395162

An image generator architecture in which tri-level fixed interleave processing provides medium grain parallelism for polygon, tiling, and pixel operations. Input data at each stage are divided into spatially distributed subsets that are interleaved among parallel processors using a fixed, precalculated mapping that minimizes correlation of local scene complexity with any one processor. The present tri-level fixed interleave processing architecture divides a processing task into a pseudo-random, fixed interleaved pattern of regions that are assigned to different processors. Each processor processes many of these randomly located regions. The assignment of processors to regions is a fixed repeating pattern. The highest level of fixed interleave processing is the allocation of fixed-size database regions (area modules) to polygon processors. The next level relates to image sub-region fixed interleave processing.