Thomas L Skinner

US Patent:

6578235, Jun 17, 2003

Filed:

May 11, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/853476

Inventors:

Michele Rene Womack - Carrollton TX
LeRoy G. Krupke - Carrollton TX
Richard K. Hoofard - Dallas TX
Thomas S. Skinner - Flower Mound TX

Assignee:

Overhead Door Corporation - Dallas TX

International Classification:

A45C 1322

US Classification:

16412, 16413, 16414

Abstract:

A handle assembly, particularly adapted for a sectional door panel includes identical handle parts each having a grip portion and spaced apart transversely extending legs. One of the legs of each handle part has an elongated shank extending therefrom and the other leg of each handle part has a shorter shank or a shank receiving bore formed therein. The handle parts are assembled to each other from opposite sides of a door panel and secured by conventional threaded fasteners which extend through a bore in one leg of each handle part and engage a shank of the other handle part. Tubular spacers may be sleeved over the shanks of the handle parts to limit the spacing between the handle parts during assembly to the door panel.

US Patent:

55816380, Dec 3, 1996

Filed:

Feb 28, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/395633

Inventors:

Fenton L. Givens - Dallas TX
Thomas J. Skinner - Richardson TX
Paul M. Ingram - Mesquite TX

Assignee:

E-Systems, Inc. - Dallas TX

International Classification:

G06K 932
G06F 15336

US Classification:

382294

Abstract:

A method for automatically registering an image pair having a common coverage area, wherein a pair of image data sets, each representing an image of an image pair, are processed to generate initial dewarping coefficients for the image data sets. The translational offset between the images is estimated using a phase correlation process. Next, the common coverage area of the data image sets is determined by finding the vertices defining the limits of the common coverage area. Conjugate point pairs are extracted from the common coverage area by defining a series of block and subblock grids and defining the center point of the grid as a conjugate point location. The determined conjugate point sets are used to generate geometrically corrected registered dewarping coefficients and the image data sets are resampled using the registered dewarping coefficients to generate a registered image pair.