Christopher L Wright

US Patent:

20070063969, Mar 22, 2007

Filed:

Oct 25, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/257842

Inventors:

Christopher Wright - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G09G 5/00

US Classification:

345156000, 345645000

Abstract:

A portable electronic device that can be held in one hand includes a graphical display and an input device that is mounted on a surface opposite the graphical display. The input device can be operated with the user's index finger. This configuration is very space efficient and allows the user to view the graphical display and control the device with either the user's left or right hand.

US Patent:

20080286025, Nov 20, 2008

Filed:

May 4, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/800401

Inventors:

Christopher B. Wright - San Francisco CA, US
Joseph H. Wright, III - Toronto, CA

International Classification:

B41J 3/36
B41J 3/32

US Classification:

400 88, 4001091

Abstract:

A mobile micro-printer delivers and prints incoming messages and text instantly and privately in hard copy on paper or pre-treated plastic and is compatible with cell phones and smart phones. It provides for instant or text messaging from computers, laptops, PDAs, cell or smart phones and other platforms to a user's cell or smart phone to the micro-printer. The mobile micro-printer incorporates a variety of wireless technologies. It can be fully automatic and wireless and can be clipped to a belt, clipped to a strap, or tucked away within each reach. It can produce hard copy messages in viewable text, in Braille, or in a combination of both.

US Patent:

20120092376, Apr 19, 2012

Filed:

Feb 25, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/035872

Inventors:

Chad E. Jones - Davis CA, US
Assana M. Fard - Sunnyvale CA, US
Christopher Wright - Cupertino CA, US

Assignee:

APPLE INC. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G09G 5/00

US Classification:

345647

Abstract:

A system and method for applying motion blur to an application window. Motion blur may be applied to pixel in a window by calculating a velocity vector for each pixel in the window with reference to velocity vectors calculated for each corner of the window. Motion blur may be implemented by placing a number of blur samples in a frame along the pixel velocity vector according to the size of the pixel vector, or by directionally downsampling then re-upsampling the content of the window. For a frame having multiple windows, the motion blur for each window may be determined independent of the motion of other windows or as a composite for windows moving together. According to an embodiment, for each pixel in the frame, the associated application window may be identified and the pixel blurred with reference to the corner velocities of the associated application window.

US Patent:

58390545, Nov 17, 1998

Filed:

Jan 2, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/581932

Inventors:

Christopher B. Wright - San Francisco CA
Stephen D. Bristow - Los Altos CA

Assignee:

Brother International Corporation - Somerset NJ

International Classification:

H04Q 708

US Classification:

455 312

Abstract:

A dedicated paging system having single button paging, requiring only a single press of a dedicated button on a page base to automatically page a pager associated with the page base. Information associating the page base with the pager is stored in the page base and/or a database maintained by a paging service provider with which the paging system is registered. When the dedicated button on the page base is pressed, the page base automatically calls the paging service provider. The paging service provider strips the caller identification number from the incoming call, uses the number to look up the pager identification number stored in the database, and then uses the retrieved pager identification number to send a page signal to the pager. Additionally, the paging system is automatically registered with a single press of the button. When the button is pressed, the page base automatically calls a clearinghouse.

US Patent:

54565391, Oct 10, 1995

Filed:

May 25, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/067291

Inventors:

Christopher B. Wright - San Francisco CA
Alan C. Allison - Pacifica CA

Assignee:

Duplex Printer, Inc. - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

B41J 354

US Classification:

400 82

Abstract:

A printer has dual opposing printheads which can print in tandem on two sides of paper fed along a printing plane. The dual opposing printheads can print the same information on each side of two paper sheets fed in back-to-back (two-ply) fashion, thereby providing a document and copy simultaneously. The printer can also print different information on two sides of the same paper sheet or on each side of two paper sheets, thereby doubling the printing speed as compared to a single printhead. In a preferred embodiment, the dual opposing printheads are mounted in carriages driven reciprocatingly in tandem by one drive belt. Tandem paper feed mechanisms are arranged at one side of the printer and have respective clutch spring devices which are actuated alternately by cam surfaces on the printhead carriages so as to drive a pair of paper feed rollers with the paper fed in between them. Due to the capability for two-sided printing and elimination of the need for making carbon copies, the printer can use quiet, lightweight inkjet printheads for printing with double the usual output printing speed, as well as employ new types of one and two-ply plain paper printer forms.

US Patent:

D3242455, Feb 25, 1992

Filed:

Mar 19, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/495216

Inventors:

Christopher B. Wright - San Francisco CA

US Classification:

D21141

US Patent:

52850412, Feb 8, 1994

Filed:

Sep 14, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/944646

Inventors:

Christopher B. Wright - San Francisco CA

Assignee:

Wright Food Systems, Inc. - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

H05B 668

US Classification:

219717

Abstract:

An automated food vending system includes a vending machine having a plurality of stacks and dispenser mechanisms for dispensing standardized food package units, a microwave oven having a code reader located in a predetermined position in an interior cavity of the oven, and the food package units having standardized shapes corresponding to the vending stacks and to the microwave oven cavity. The food packages have a code for controlling the microwave oven printed in a predetermined position which is readable automatically by the code reader when the package unit is inserted in the oven. The dispenser mechanism has a configuration which allows it to be installed in existing vending machines for canned beverages. It may be formed as a pair of pivotable holding members spaced apart in the widthwise direction of the holding stack, or as a pair of continuous belts spaced apart in the depthwise direction of the holding stack. The interior of the oven may be shaped to hold two or more different standardized package shapes, and can have a drive element for controllably moving the package past the code reader.

US Patent:

48022187, Jan 31, 1989

Filed:

Nov 26, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/935244

Inventors:

Christopher B. Wright - San Francisco CA
Stephen Bristow - Los Altos Hills CA

Assignee:

Wright Technologies, L.P. - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

H04L 900

US Classification:

380 23

Abstract:

An automated transaction system employs a card maintaining an account balance and a terminal for dispensing an article of value and debiting the card's balance. The card has a secure, resident microprocessor which executes an interactive handshake recognition procedure with a secure, resident microprocessor in the value dispensing section of the terminal prior to actuating a requested transaction. In the preferred form, the handshake procedure operates by an exchange of encrypted words between the card microprocessor and the dispenser microprocessor using corresponding encryption algorithms and a secret key number, and the card microprocessor providing a command signal to the dispenser microprocessor only upon successful completion of the procedure. The automated transaction system is particularly suitable as a postage metering terminal having a postmark printer as the value dispensing section. Postage is printed only if the handshake procedure is executed between the card microprocessor and the printer microprocessor.