Dallas D Hickerson, 6413 Tillage Pt, Sharpsburg, GA 30277

7782323, Aug 24, 2010

May 5, 2006

11/418978

Dallas Dwight Hickerson - Sharpsburg GA, US
Bruce Edward Kerkemeyer - Tyrone GA, US

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, division of Panasonic Corporation of North America - Peachtree City GA

G06T 11/00

345467

The disclosed embodiments relate to a system () that is adapted to process digital video data. An exemplary embodiment of the system () comprises a processor () that produces a digital video data stream (), and a character generator () that is adapted to select a pixel data value from one of a plurality of standard data lines () to insert into the digital video data stream () based on a representation of a character stored in a memory () associated with the character generator ().

8189440, May 29, 2012

Feb 4, 2008

12/012585

James R. Christ - Peachtree City GA, US
Michael P. Colalillo - Peachtree City GA, US
Dallas D. Hickerson - Sharpsburg GA, US

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, division of Panasonic Corporation of North America - Peachtree City GA

G11B 7/00

369 5312

A method of controlling a head for a recording medium includes determining that the head is in an inoperative state, and activating a damping arrangement in response to the determination that the head is inoperative. A movement of the head while the head is inoperative is sensed. The damping arrangement is used in response to the sensing step to exert a force upon the head to thereby damp the movement, a magnitude of the force being dependent upon a parameter of the movement.

2007020, Aug 30, 2007

Feb 24, 2006

11/361170

Hans Troemel - Sharpsburg GA, US
Dallas Hickerson - Sharpsburg GA, US

H04N 9/77

348663000

The disclosed embodiments relate to a system () that processes an analog video signal (), the analog video signal () comprising luminance information (), first chrominance information (), and second chrominance information (). An exemplary video system () comprises a first time-sampled analog filter () that extracts the luminance information () from a first aliased copy of the analog video signal (), a second time-sampled analog filter () that extracts the first chrominance information () from a second aliased copy of the analog video signal (), and a third time-sampled analog filter () that extracts the second chrominance information () from a third aliased copy of the analog video signal ().

2009026, Oct 22, 2009

Apr 16, 2008

12/148062

Nam Chin Cho - Newnan GA, US
Dallas Dwight Hickerson - Sharpsburg GA, US

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America - Peachtree City GA

H04N 7/01
G06F 19/00

348445, 701 36, 348E07003

There is provided a system () and method () of displaying video content. In a method () in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a native aspect ratio of the video content is determined () and an optimized viewing format is selected () from a plurality of viewing formats based at least in part on the native aspect ratio of the video content. The video content is displayed () in the optimized viewing format.

2010007, Mar 25, 2010

Sep 25, 2008

12/284760

Dallas Dwight Hickerson - Sharpsburg GA, US

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America - Peachtree City GA

G06F 3/041

345173

A dual-view display system () includes a dual-view touchscreen display () adapted to display a first image including a first menu to a first user positioned at a first location with respect to system () and to display a second image including a second menu to a second user positioned at a second location with respect to system (). The dual-view display system () further includes at least one sensor () adapted to detect proximity to the dual-view touchscreen display () of the first user relative to the proximity to the dual-view touchscreen display () of the second user. Menu selection logic () identifies a received user touch command as a selection from the first menu or as a selection from the second menu based on the proximity to the dual-view touchscreen display () of the first user relative to the proximity to the dual-view touchscreen display () of the second user.

2010007, Apr 1, 2010

Sep 26, 2008

12/284965

Christopher T. Tarte - Lewisville TX, US
Dallas D. Hickerson - Sharpsburg GA, US

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America - Peachtree City GA

G06K 19/00

340 565

An integrated vehicle entry/data transfer device () comprises vehicle entry logic () adapted to provide at least one vehicle entry function, a data input/output port () that is adapted to receive external data and a memory () that is adapted to store external data received via the data input/output port (). The integrated vehicle entry/data transfer device () also comprises data processing logic () adapted to transfer data from the data input/output port () to the memory () and from the memory () to a vehicle system in a vehicle, whereby the external data is brought into the vehicle via operation of the at least one vehicle entry function and transferred to the vehicle system from the memory ().

2010019, Aug 5, 2010

Jan 30, 2009

12/322246

Dallas Dwight Hickerson - Sharpsburg GA, US

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America - Peachtree City GA

H04N 7/00
H04N 7/18
H04N 5/225

348 36, 348148, 348340, 348E07085, 348E07001, 348E05024

A method of operating a video system includes receiving an image captured by use of a fisheye lens. The image is divided into a plurality of horizontal image lines. A respective fraction of each of the horizontal image lines is sampled with a different respective sampling frequency. Each sampling frequency is inversely related to a size of the sampled fraction. The size of the sampled fraction increases with each horizontal image line in a progression from a top of the image to a bottom of the image.

2012027, Nov 1, 2012

Apr 29, 2011

13/097146

Shree Jaisimha - Senoia GA, US
Dallas Hickerson - Sharpsburg GA, US
Tatsuya Fujisawa - Atlanta GA, US

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America - Peachtree City GA

B60Q 1/00
G06F 17/00

340438, 700 94

A method of operating an audio system in an automobile includes identifying a user of the audio system. An audio recording playing on the audio system is identified. An audio setting entered into the audio system by the identified user while the audio recording is being played by the audio system is sensed. The sensed audio setting is stored in memory in association with the identified user and the identified audio recording. The audio recording is retrieved from memory with the sensed audio setting being embedded in the retrieved audio recording as a watermark signal. The retrieved audio recording is played on the audio system with the embedded sensed audio setting being automatically implemented by the audio system during the playing.