Lowell A Noble

US Patent:

20110063575, Mar 17, 2011

Filed:

Jun 17, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/818007

Inventors:

Bradley Nelson - Castaic CA, US
Lowell A. Noble - Los Gatos CA, US
Mellissa Noble Asmussen - Los Gatos CA, US

International Classification:

G02B 27/22

US Classification:

353 7, 359463

Abstract:

Multiple sets of view channels originate from multiple projected views modulated through an optic assembly comprising a Fresnel lens, a vertical dispersion lenticular lens, and a diffuser. Compact projection enclosures are formed using image-repeating mirrors to create a three-dimensional autostereoscopic viewing experience in free space without the use of special eyeglasses and without the use of view screens. Multiple sets of images are repeated within a viewing zone that may extend well beyond the confines of the enclosure and may be projected through and beyond a glass window. An observer walking past the window will see one view channel per eye, due in part to the repeated images, and due in part to the vertical dispersion of each projected view. Separate images for each view channel may be created by using two or more cameras spaced apart at a distance interval to match the average horizontal distance between the eyes of a human observer. Multiple views or multiple sets of view channels may be generated and projected.

US Patent:

47362588, Apr 5, 1988

Filed:

Jul 25, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/890705

Inventors:

Lowell A. Noble - Monte Sereno CA
Edmund Sandberg - Santa Clara CA
Norman L. Noble - Los Gatos CA

International Classification:

H04N 585
G11B 7013

US Classification:

358342

Abstract:

An optical storage system achieves high density, sufficiently high to permit both video and audio to be stored on a compact disc, or to store other data at very high density. Pits are encoded on the disc storage medium with respect to timed electronic reference signals (not simultaneously optically encoded on the disc) which divide each revolution of the disc into a multiplicity of equal spaces or references. The pits have leading edges on the leading side of a reference signal and trailing edges on a trailing side of the reference signal, so that each pit staddles a reference signal. The length of the pit leading up to the reference signal represents one sample of information, while the length of the pit from the reference signal to the pit's trailing edge represents another sample of information. In this manner high density is achieved at high accuracy and low noise, since one end of each bit of information is precisely located and readable without the lesser precision involved in determining the location of the leading and trailing edges of the pit in reading the information. On the disc the reference signal frequency is generated during the vertical retrace interval(s), encoded by equally spaced pits, for correlation with the prevailing speed of revolution of the disc.

US Patent:

40653706, Dec 27, 1977

Filed:

Jan 28, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/763438

Inventors:

Lowell Noble - Monte Sereno CA
James T. Gaspar - San Jose CA

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army - Washington DC

International Classification:

C23C 1500

US Classification:

204192N

Abstract:

A method of insuring efficient triggering of a laser flashlamp by ion plag to the outer surface of the quartz envelope of the flashlamp and an elongated thin electrically conductive strip which consists of an underlying thin layer of silver coated with a thin layer of nickel.

US Patent:

40381170, Jul 26, 1977

Filed:

Sep 4, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/610156

Inventors:

Lowell A. Noble - Monte Sereno CA
Leonard N. Grossman - Aptos CA
Mickey O. Marlowe - Livermore CA

Assignee:

ILC Technology, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

C09K 1300

US Classification:

156 2

Abstract:

A process for polishing surfaces of sapphire or similar materials to remove surface imperfections visible at magnifications of 1,000X or higher regardless of the shape of the surface, is disclosed, which process comprises the steps of heating the material to an elevated temperature and exposing the surface to be polished to a static hydrogen environment.

US Patent:

46716254, Jun 9, 1987

Filed:

Aug 22, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/525149

Inventors:

Lowell A. Noble - Monte Sereno CA

International Classification:

G02B 308

US Classification:

350452

Abstract:

Apparatus for producing a natural, viewable and optically interactive image of a luminous object which appears to float in free space at a location different from the location of the object. The apparatus includes a hollow opaque internally non-reflective shroud surrounding the luminous object and an optical system with an opening in the shroud for viewing the image of the object through the optical system. The optical system includes first and second convex lenses each having an f number between about 0. 5 and about 1. 5. Visible reference means defining a transparent plane between the viewer and the optical system are provided. Embodiments having optical systems including mirror means and fresnel lens are described as well as embodiments for simultaneous viewing of images of more than one object.

US Patent:

43393004, Jul 13, 1982

Filed:

Jul 25, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/818817

Inventors:

Lowell A. Noble - Monte Sereno CA

International Classification:

C30B 2308

US Classification:

156601

Abstract:

A process for smoothing surfaces of crystalline materials such as sapphire or the like is disclosed which is capable of producing surfaces which are near atomically smooth. The process comprises the steps of substantially atomically removing crystalline material from the surface to be smoothed at a given rate and simultaneously substantially atomically depositing crystalline material on the surface to be smoothed at an independently controlled rate not greater than the given rate of removal. Various embodiments of the process are described in which combinations of evaporation, sputtering, gaseous chemical reaction and reflection of removed material are used to provide the substantially atomic removal and deposition of materials according to this invention.