Anthony Botzas

6652284, Nov 25, 2003

Mar 16, 2001

09/809104

Katherine G. August - Matawan NJ
Thomas W. Baker - Orefield NJ
Anthony Botzas - Allentown PA
Joseph M. Cannon - Harleysville PA

Agere Systems Inc. - Miami Lakes FL

A63B 6900

434247, 473266

A virtual coach is provided in the form of a master communications device and one or more player associated communications devices. The master communication device includes a processor which receives information on game play conditions and/or player and game object locations, analyzes the information, and formulates an appropriate coaching instruction which is transmitted to one or more selected players.

6676524, Jan 13, 2004

Aug 11, 2000

09/636456

Anthony Botzas - Allentown PA

Agere Systems Inc. - Allentown PA

A63F 1300

463 43, 463 39, 463 42

A gaming experience is enhanced by employing a game saver drive that is linked with the other devices involved in the game playing experience via a wireless piconet, and that intelligently saves game status information. This information can be used to resume an in-process game at a future time, or to provide for recovery in the case of inadvertent game interruption, such as system failure or crashing. Thus, a system according to one embodiment of the invention includes a game control unit, a video display device, a user input unit, and a game saver unit. The game saver unit is wirelessly linked to at least one of the game control unit, the video display device and the user input unit, and the game saver unit saves status information regarding an in-process game.

7236772, Jun 26, 2007

Jul 19, 2000

09/619401

Anthony Botzas - Allentown PA, US

Agere Systems Inc. - Allentown PA

H04M 3/42

455415, 4554221, 455461, 455445, 4554141, 37921101, 37921102, 37921201

According to one embodiment of the invention, a cellular telephone includes a memory and a transmitter. The memory is adapted to store a telephone number associated with an incoming telephone call, and the transmitter is adapted to transmit the telephone number to another telephone. The cellular telephone may also include a receiver and a calling unit. The receiver is adapted to receive a different telephone number from the another telephone, and the calling unit is adapted to place an outgoing telephone call to the different telephone number. In an alternative embodiment, a method of placing a telephone call from a telephone includes the steps of receiving, over a wireless link, call related information from another telephone, and placing an outgoing call based on the call related information. The other telephone may be a cellular telephone, and the call related information may include a telephone number associated with a telephone call previously received by the other telephone.

7592996, Sep 22, 2009

May 18, 2007

11/750895

Candice Hellen Brown Elliott - Santa Rosa CA, US
Thomas Lloyd Credelle - Morgan Hill CA, US
Anthony Botzas - San Jose CA, US
Michael Francis Higgins - Cazadero CA, US

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Gyeonggi-do

G09G 3/36

345102, 345 88, 345690, 348672

The embodiments disclosed herein comprise a plurality of modules and means to provide effect dynamic gamut mapping and backlight control. In one embodiment, a display system comprises: a transmissive display, said display comprising a plurality of colored subpixels wherein one such colored subpixel is substantially wide spectrum bandpass; a transmissive display controller, said display controller providing signals to said transmissive display to set the amount of transmissivity of each said colored subpixel; a backlight, said backlight providing illumination to said transmissive display; a backlight controller, said controller providing signals to said backlight to modulate the amount of illumination provided by said backlight to said transmissive display; peak surveying module for surveying image data and extracting the image gamut hull for providing intermediate backlight data signals to said backlight controller to match said image gamut hull; and a means for normalizing display image data signals according to said intermediate backlight data signals and providing said normalized image data as intermediate display data.

7876341, Jan 25, 2011

Mar 9, 2007

11/684499

Thomas Lloyd Credelle - Morgan Hill CA, US
Candice Hellen Brown Elliott - Santa Rosa CA, US
Anthony Botzas - San Jose CA, US

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

G09G 5/10

345695, 345690

A display device comprises a display panel comprising high brightness subpixel repeating groups—for example, RGBW display panels. Displays comprise subpixel repeating groups that in some embodiments are part-striped colored subpixels and part-checkerboard pattern colored subpixels.

7893944, Feb 22, 2011

Oct 13, 2006

12/090353

Michael Francis Higgins - Cazadero CA, US
Anthony Botzas - San Jose CA, US
Candice Hellen Brown Elliott - Santa Rosa CA, US

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

G09G 5/00
G09G 5/02
G06K 9/40
G06K 9/32
G06K 9/00
H04N 1/46

345581, 345589, 345591, 345586, 345613, 358518, 358520, 358523, 358525, 382162, 382167, 382254, 382274

In a first embodiment, a display system comprises a display panel with 4 or more colored subpixels. The display system receives input image data specified in a first color space and outputs image data specified in a second color space. The display system further comprises a gamut mapping module for mapping the input image data specified in the first color space to image data specified in the second color space. The gamut mapping module clamps out-of-gamut colors using at least a first clamping system and a second clamping system. The first and second clamping systems yield first and second clamped values. A weighting module produces a resulting clamped value from the first and second clamped values. A final output image value is derived from the resulting clamped value. Other embodiments of the display system include pre-reduction modules and adjustable GMA modules.

8018476, Sep 13, 2011

Apr 12, 2007

11/734275

Thomas Lloyd Credelle - Morgan Hill CA, US
Candice Hellen Brown Elliott - Santa Rosa CA, US
Anthony Botzas - San Jose CA, US

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

G09G 5/10

345690, 345 87

A display device comprises a display panel comprising high brightness subpixel repeating groups—for example, RGBW display panels. Displays comprise subpixel repeating groups that include first and second primary color stripes and third and fourth primary color subpixels that are disposed on a checkerboard pattern. A subpixel rendering operation includes, or is followed by, a white subpixel adjustment operation that adjusts the brightness of the white subpixels in the areas of the displayed image that contain high spatial frequency features such as lines and text, in order to improve image quality such as image contrast.

8139021, Mar 20, 2012

May 19, 2008

12/123414

Anthony Botzas - San Jose CA, US
Sarah Sunyoung Hwang - Sunnyvale CA, US
Michael Francis Higgins - Cazadero CA, US
Candice Hellen Brown Elliott - Santa Rosa CA, US

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

G09G 3/36

345102, 345 89

Displays systems and methods for adjusting backlight illumination are disclosed wherein backlight illumination may be set low enough according to an error threshold amount in order to reduce backlight power consumption while maintaining a level of image quality. In one embodiment, image data is evaluated within a given frame and partitioned into histogram bins depending on the amount of backlight illumination requested or required by the image data. The histogram is traversed to provide an accumulative error measure. The error measure is compared against the error threshold and, if exceeded, the final backlight illumination may be set as a function of various illumination levels considered and possibly the first and a second threshold.