EMPLOYMENT Ken Knowlton |
NETWAVE/QUICKBUY, 1996-2000. Research and Development of tools for Internet browsing and electronic commerce. Six U.S. patents. Co-developed: |
"Visual Link Object," for point and click on
image to visit web site Automatic identification and cutout of strong-image part of web page
Various Screen-savers involving choreography of Visual Link Objects |
WANG LABORATORIES, 1987-1995. Software Engineering Architect, 10 U.S. Patents, Developed, coded, perfected techniques for compression, storage, retrieval, manipulation, editing and browsing among document page images, including: |
Automatic partitioning of images into line art and photograph
An editor with 100 pages on screen in various degrees of compression |
With Karen Donoghue, interactive real-time tools for pen-
and brush-style calligraphy, using a stylus with force-on-table readout
controlling footprint size for footprint of brush (for Eastern) vs. pen
(for Western) style writing.
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A means of integrating scanned image objects with annotations Means
of browsing through and annotating books of miniature pages |
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, Systems
Research Center, 1986-1987. Constructed: |
A library of tools and methods for a new high-res color
graphics board |
NETWORKED PICTURE SYS. & VIA VIDEO (Illustration
graphics suppliers) 1983-1986 |
A Method for the lossless progressive transmission of color
pictures
A means for enlarging color images, with automatic edge straightening Variety of paint-system tools for interactive art/design |
SRI INTERNATIONAL, Computing Research
Division, 1982-1983. |
Preliminary design of a system for modeling of hierarchically-structured environments Twelve invention disclosures with regard to various machines/methods
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BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES, Computer
Techniques Research Dept, 1962-1982. |
New graphics programming languages BEFLIX, EXPLOR, ATOMS,
SPHERES
The Bell Telephone Laboratories' Low-Level Linked List Language L-6 Numerous means for rendering greyscale images on binary output devices
Virtual pushbutton console: keys & lightbuttons optically superimposed The fast storage allocator later known as the "buddy" system
Patterns on Interlaced Display for eye-tracking-dependent ambiguous motion. With G. Gilmer et al: movie depiction of simulations of crystal growth Means for progressive transmission of greyscale and B/W images
Description of an ever-accelerating or -decelerating fractal rhythm (1976) |