Inventor · Phoenix, AZ, US

William R. Hancock

30Patents
11h-index
34Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 19, 1977 → Aug 21, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4247843A Aircraft flight instrument display system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 110 Expired
US5227786A Inside/out perspective format for situation awareness displays Physics 54 Expired
US5179377A TCAS view display format with horizontal trend Physics 53 Expired
US4149148A Aircraft flight instrument display system Physics 36 Expired
US5339092A Beam former for matrix display Physics 30 Expired
US5074645A Full color three dimensional display system Electricity 22 Expired
US4716460A Display refresh memory apparatus utilizing one half frame updating Physics 20 Expired
US6271866A Dual port memory system for buffering asynchronous input to a raster scanned display Physics 19 Expired
US4931801A Method and apparatus to scan convert radar video to television outputs Physics 16 Expired
US6307565A System for dual buffering of asynchronous input to dual port memory for a raster scanned display Physics 13 Expired
US4649378A Binary character generator for interlaced CRT display Physics 11 Expired
US7830389B2 Dual processor accelerated graphics rendering Physics 10 Active
US6621451B1 Use of texture memory for WX scan conversion Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US8520015B2 Method for intermixing graphics applications using display intermix server for cockpit displays Physics 5 Active
US6980216B2 Graphics driver and method with time partitioning Physics 5 Expired
US7724260B2 Method and system for image monitoring Physics 5 Active
US9659410B2 Low latency augmented reality display Physics 3 Active
US7200733B2 Virtual memory translator for real-time operating systems Physics 3 Expired
US4941116A Elliptical arc generator for display systems Physics 3 Expired
US7737984B2 Method and system for an external front buffer for a graphical system Physics 2 Active
US10018847B2 Methods of vestibulo-ocular reflex correction in display systems Physics 2 Active
US7369139B2 Background rendering of images Physics 2 Expired
US7558940B2 Virtual memory translator for real-time operating systems Physics 2 Active
US8487952B2 Methods and systems for marking pixels for image monitoring Physics 1 Active
US5189729A Video occlusion for overlapping stroke vectors Physics 1 Expired

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