Vernon W Miller

US Patent:

6543716, Apr 8, 2003

Filed:

Jul 28, 1977

Appl. No.:

05/823886

Inventors:

Vernon W. Miller - Nashua NH
Vincent A. Simeone - Winchester MA
David T. Greynolds - Chelmsford MA
William E. Hunt - Vero Beach FL

Assignee:

Raytheon Company - Lexington MA

International Classification:

F42B 1516

US Classification:

244 321

Abstract:

A combined defense and navigational system on a naval vessel is disclosed. The disclosed system includes a track-while-scan pulse radar which is controlled to provide either navigational information or tracking information on selected targets. Additionally, the disclosed system includes a plurality of guided missiles, each of which may be vertically launched and directed toward intercept of a selected target either by commands from the track-while-scan radar or from an active guidance system in each such missile. The invention herein described was made in the course of or under a contract or subcontract thereunder, with the Department of Defense.

US Patent:

56707290, Sep 23, 1997

Filed:

May 11, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/439435

Inventors:

Allan A. Miller - Hollis NH
Vernon A. Miller - Mount Vernon NH

Assignee:

Virtual Music Entertainment, Inc. - Andover MA

International Classification:

G10H 126
G10H 306

US Classification:

84609

Abstract:

A virtual musical instrument including a hand-held accessory of a type that is intended to be brought into contact with a musical instrument so as to play that instrument. The hand-held accessory includes a switch which, in response to the hand-held accessory being caused to strike another object by a person holding it, generates an activation signal. The musical instrument also includes an audio synthesizer; a memory storing a sequence of notes data structures for a musical score, each of the notes data structures representing a note or notes within said musical score and having an identified location in time relative to the other notes in the sequence; a timer; and a digital processor receiving the activation signal and generating a control signal therefrom. The digital processor is programmed (1) to use the timer to measure a time at which the activation signal is generated; (2) to use the measured time to select one of the notes data structures within the sequence; and (3) to generate the control signal, which causes the synthesizer to generate the note(s) represented by the selected notes data structure.

US Patent:

59258438, Jul 20, 1999

Filed:

Feb 12, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/800221

Inventors:

Allan A. Miller - Hollis NH
Vernon A. Miller - Concord NH
John H. Paquette - Stoneham MA

Assignee:

Virtual Music Entertainment, Inc. - Andover MA

International Classification:

G09B 1502
G10H 306

US Classification:

84609

Abstract:

A computer program for an interactive computer music game is stored on a medium that can be read by a general purpose computer. When read and executed, the program causes the computer to perform functions, including associating a music track on a user compact disc (CD) inserted in the computer's CD-ROM drive with a selected song associated with a music track on a reference CD, and synchronizing music data stored by the computer to the music track on the user CD, where the music data has been derived from the music track on the reference CD associated with the selected song. The program generates user-CD data characteristic of the digital data on the user-CD track, and compares the user-CD data with reference-CD data characteristic of the digital data on the reference-CD track. Based upon the comparison, the computer generates a synchronization function characteristic of timing differences between the reference-CD track and the user-CD track, and adjusts the timing of the music data with the synchronization function. The comparison can include determining a correlation function between the sets of data.