Intellectual Property

Patents issued to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose inventors were in the Department of Computer Science at the time of issue (listed, by type, in reverse chronological order). For information about licensing the technology contained in these patents, contact:

Michael J. Fern
Associate Chairman for Administration and Finance
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3175, 104 Sitterson Hall
Chapel Hill, N.C., 27599-3175
Phone: (919) 590-6077
Fax: (919) 590-6105

Office of Technology Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 4105, 308 Bynum Hall
Chapel Hill, N.C., 27599-4105
Phone: (919) 966-3929
Fax: (919) 962-0646

Patents Available for Licensing

Pat. No.: 8,152,305
Title: Methods, systems, and computer program products for full spectrum projection
Date: 10 April 2012
Inventors: Kurtis P. Keller, Henry Fuchs, Leonard McMillan, Leandra Vicci

Pat. No.: 7,982,751
Title: Methods and systems for controlling a computer using a video image and for combining the video image with a computer desktop
Date: 19 July 2011
Inventors: Paul David Stotts Jr., Jason McColm Smith

Pat. No.: 7,913,007
Title: Systems, methods, and computer readable media for preemption in asynchronous systems using anti-tokens
Date: 22 March 2011
Inventors: Montek Singh, Manoj Kumar Ampalam

Pat. No.: 7,627,861
Title: Methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying computer program source code constructs
Date: 1 December 2009
Inventors: Jason McColm Smith, Paul David Stotts

Pat. No.: 7,447,209
Title: Methods, systems, and computer program products for modeling and simulating application-level traffic characteristics in a network based on transport and network layer header information
Date: 4 November 2008
Inventors: Kevin Jeffay, Felix Hernandez-Campos, F. Donelson Smith, Andrew B. Nobel

Pat. No.: 7,182,465
Title: Methods, systems, and computer program products for imperceptibly embedding structured light patterns in projected color images for display on planar and non-planar surfaces
Date: 27 February 2007
Inventors: Henry Fuchs, Daniel Cotting, Martin Naef, and Markus Gross

Pat. No.: 6,960,984
Title: Methods and systems for reactively compensating magnetic current loops
Date: 1 November 2005
Inventors: Leandra Vicci, Wayne Dettloff

Pat. No.: 6,756,993
Title: Methods and apparatus for rendering images using 3D warping techniques
Date: 29 June 2004
Inventors: Voicu Popescu, Anselmo Lastra, John Eyles

Pat. No.: 6,720,855
Title: Magnetic flux conduits
Date: 13 April 2004
Inventor: Leandra Vicci

Pat. No.: 6,556,628
Title: Methods and systems for transmitting and receiving differential signals over a plurality of conductors
Date: 29 April 2003
Inventors: John Poulton, Stephen Tell, Robert Palmer

Pat. No.: 6,131,078
Title: Method for design verification of hardware and non-hardware systems
Date: 10 October 2000
Inventor: David Plaisted

Appl. No.: 61/680,116
Title: Simulation-based estimation of elasticity parameters and use of same for non-invasive caner detection and cancer staging
Inventor: Mark Foskey, Huai-Ping Lee, Ming Lin, Marc Niethammer

Appl. No.: 61/648,552
Title: Unified scene acquisition, head and hand tracking in a wearable display
Inventor: Gary Bishop, Mingsong Dou, Jan-Michael Frahm, Henry Fuchs, Gregory Welch

Appl. No.: 61/648,384
Title: Concepts for real and apparent deformation and motion of physical-virtual objects
Inventor: Henry Fuchs, Kurtis Keller, Ryan Schubert, Andrei State, Gregory Welch

Appl. No.: 61/618,648
Title: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for rapid filtering of opaque data traffic
Inventor: Michael Bailey, Srinivas Krishnan, Fabian Monrose, Phillip Porras, Andy White

Appl. No.: 13/578,758
Title: Systems and methods that generate height map models for efficient three dimensional reconstruction from depth information
Inventor: Jan-Michael Frahm, David Gallup, Marc Pollefeys

Appl. No.: 13/254,837
Title: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for shader-lamps based physical avatars of real and virtual people
Inventor: Henry Fuchs, Peter Lincoln, Andrew Nashel, Andrei State, Gregory Welch

Appl. No.: 13/254/836
Title: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for generating autostereo three-dimensional views of a scene for a plurality of viewpoints using a pseudo-random hole barrier
Inventor: Henry Fuchs, Leonard McMillan, Andrew Nashel

Appl. No.: 13/001,034
Title: Systems, pipeline stages, and computer readable media for advanced asynchronous pipeline circuits
Inventor: Gennette Gill, Montek Singh

Appl. No.: 12/823,372
Title: A method for normalizing histology slides for quantitative analysis
Inventor: Marc Macenko, James Stephen Marron, Marc Niethammer, Nancy Thomas

Appl. No.: 12/532,327
Title: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically generating customizable user interfaces using programming patterns
Inventor: Prasun Dewan, Olufisayo Omojokun

Appl. No.: 12/384,965
Title: Source and output device-independent pixel compositor device adapted to incorporate the digital visual interface (DVI)
Inventor: Anselmo Lastra, Ruigang Yang

Appl. No.: PCT/US2012/036760
Title: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for detecting infected machine code
Inventor: Srinivas Krishnan, Fabian Monrose, Kevin Snow

Appl. No.: PCT/US2012/036753
Title: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for efficient computer forensic analysis and data access control
Inventor: Srinivas Krishnan, Fabian Monrose, Kevin Snow

Appl. No.: PCT/US2011/059112
Title: Sperm motility analyzer and related methods
Inventor: Summer Goodson, Deborah O'Brien, James Tsuruta, Wei Wang, Zhaojun Zhang

Patents Available for Licensing on a Non-Exclusive Basis

Pat. No.: 8,150,111
Title: Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing three-dimensional image data to render an image from a viewpoint within or beyond an occluding region of the image data
Date: 3 April 2012
Inventors: David Borland, John Clarke, Russell M. Taylor, II
Licensee: Non-Exclusively Licensed- Siemens Medical

Pat. No.: 7,961,187
Title: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for flexible occlusion rendering
Date: 14 June 2011
Inventors: David Borland, John P. Clarke, Russell M.Taylor II
Licensee: Non-Exclusively Licensed- Siemens Medical

Pat. No.: 7,068,274
Title: System and method for animating real objects with projected images
Date: 27 June 2006
Inventors: Kok-Lim Low, Ramesh Raskar, Gregory Welch
Licensee: Jointly Owned- Mitsubishi Electronics Research

Pat. No.: 6,930,681
Title: System and method for registering multiple images with three-dimensional objects
Date: 16 August 2005
Inventors: Kok-Lim Low, Ramesh Raskar, Gregory Welch
Licensee: Jointly Owned- Mitsubishi Electronics Research

Pat. No.: 6,677,956
Title: Method for cross-fading intensities of multiple images of a scene for seamless reconstruction
Date: 13 January 2004
Inventors: Ramesh Raskar, Gregory F. Welch, Kok-Lim Low
Licensee: Jointly Owned- Mitsubishi Electronics Research

Appl. No.: 13/484,127
Title: Online environment mapping
Inventor: Jan-Michael Frahm, Jongwoo Lim, Marc Pollefeys
Licensee: Jointly Owned- Honda Corporation

Appl. No.: 13/336,692
Title: Security policy enforcement framework for cloud-based information processing systems
Inventor: Michael Reiter, Yinqian Zhang
Licensee: Jointly Owned- RSA Laboratories

Appl. No.: 13/174,177
Title: Co-residency detection in a cloud-based system
Inventor: Ari Juels, Alina Oprea, Michael Reiter, Yinqian Zhang
Licensee: Jointly Owned- RSA Laboratories

Exclusively Licensed Patents

Pat. No.: 7,385,708
Title: Methods and systems for laser based real-time structured light depth extraction
Date: 10 June 2008
Inventors: Jeremy D. Ackerman, Kurtis P. Keller
Licensee: InnerOptic Technology, Inc.

Pat. No.: 7,200,251
Title: Methods and systems for modeling objects and object image data using medial atoms
Date: 3 April 2007
Inventors: Sarang Joshi, Edward L. Chaney, Stephen M. Pizer, Thomas P. Fletcher, and Andrew Thall
Licensee: Accuray Incorporated

Pat. No.: 7,191,092
Title: Methods and systems for controlling motion of and tracking a mechanically unattached probe
Date: 13 March 2007
Inventors: Leandra Vicci and Richard Superfine
Licensee: Rheomics, Inc.

Pat. No.: 7,189,969
Title: Methods and systems for controlling motion of and tracking a mechanically unattached probe
Date: 13 March 2007
Inventors: Leandra Vicci and Richard Superfine
Licensee: Rheomics, Inc.

Pat. No.: 7,119,645
Title: Methods and systems for controlling motion of and tracking a mechanically unattached probe
Date: 10 October 2006
Inventors: Leandra Vicci and Richard Superfine
Licensee: Rheomics, Inc.

Pat. No.: 6,503,195
Title: Methods and systems for real-time structured light depth extraction and endoscope
Date: 7 January 2003
Inventors: Kurtis Keller, Jeremy Ackerman, Michael Rosenthal, Henry Fuchs,
and Andrei State.
Licensee: InnerOptic Technology, Inc.

Pat. No.: 6,175,329
Title: Automatic emergency and position indicator
Date: 16 January 2001
Inventor: Leandra Vicci
Licensee: Ymax Communications Corporation

Pat. No.: 6,064,749
Title: Hybrid tracking for augmented reality using both camera motion detection and landmark tracking
Date: 16 May 2000
Inventors: Gentaro Hirota and Andrei State
Licensee: Woters Digital, LCC

Pat. No.: 5,926,568
Title: Image object matching using core analysis and deformable shape loci
Date: 20 July 1999
Inventors: Edward L. Chaney, Daniel S. Fritsch, Stephen M. Pizer, Valen Johnson, and Alyson G. Wilson
Licensee: Accuray Incorporated

Appl. No.: 61/653,827
Title: Example-guided sound synthesis
Inventor: Ming Lin, Zhimin Ren, Hengchin Yeh
Licensee: Impulsonic, Inc.

Appl. No.: 61/614,468
Title: Sound propagation in large scenes using equivalent sources
Inventor: Dinesh Marocha, Ravish Mehra
Licensee: Impulsonic, Inc.

Appl. No.: 13/373,940
Title: Methods and systems for direct-to-indirect acoustic radiance transfer
Inventor: Lakulish Antani, Anish Chandak, Dinesh Manocha, Micah Taylor
Licensee: Impulsonic, Inc.

Appl. No.: 13/373,901
Title: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for fast geometric sound propagation using visibility computations
Inventor: Lakulish Antani, Anish Chandak, Dinesh Manocha, Micah Taylor
Licensee: Impulsonic, Inc.

Appl. No.: 13/145,850
Title: Methods, systems, and computer program products for network server performance anomaly detection
Inventor: R. Broadhurst, Kevin Jeffay, Frank Smith, Jeffrey Terrell
Licensee: Altometrics, Inc.

Appl. No.: 12/873,100
Title: System and method for providing depth adaptive video conferencing
Inventor: Jan-Michael Frahm, Henry Fuchs, Mod Marathe, Bill Mauchly
Licensee: Cisco Systems

Appl. No.: 12/842,261
Title: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for image guided ablation
Inventor: Anna Bulysheva, Henry Fuchs, Tabitha Peck, Andrei State, Hua Yang
Licensee: InnerOptic Technology, Inc.

Appl. No.: 12/738,572
Title: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for mapping regions in a model of an object comprising an anatomical structure from one image data set to images used in a diagnostic or therapeutic intervention
Inventor: R. Broadhurst, Edward Chaney, William Hyslop, Lester Kwock, Stephen Pizer, Eric Wallen
Licensee: Accuray Incorporated

Appl. No.: 12/528,312
Title: Methods and systems for multiforce high throughput screening
Inventor: Richard Superfine, Leandra Vicci
Licensee: Rheomics, Inc.

Appl. No.: 12/366,593
Title: Systems and method for depth perspective image rendering
Inventor: Henry Fuchs, Peter Lincoln, Mod Marathe, Bill Mauchly, Andrew Nashel, Herman Towles, Gregory Welch
Licensee: Cisco Systems

Inactive Patents

Pat. No.: 6,690,816
Title: Systems and methods for tubular object processing
Date: 10 February 2004
Inventors: Stephen R. Aylward, Elizabeth Bullitt, Daniel Fritsch, Stephen M. Pizer

Pat. No.: 6,424,351
Title: Methods and systems for producing three-dimensional images using relief textures
Date: 23 July 2002
Inventors: Thomas Bishop, Manuel M. de Oliveira Neto

Pat. No.: 5,892,754
Title: User controlled adaptive flow control for packet networks
Date: April 6, 1999
Inventors: Vachaspathi P. Kompella, James P. Gray, Frank D. Smith, Kevin Jeffay

Pat. No.: 5,870,136
Title: Dynamic generation of imperceptible structured light for tracking and acquisition of three dimensional scene geometry and surface characteristics in interactive three dimensional computer graphics applications
Date: Feb. 9, 1999
Inventors: Henry Fuchs, Mark A. Livingston, Gary Bishop, and Gregory F. Welch

Pat. No.: 5,777,795
Title: Optical path extender for compact imaging display systems
Date: July 7, 1998
Inventors: D'nardo Colucci

Pat. No.: 5,610,765
Title: Optical path extender for compact imaging display systems
Date: Mar. 11, 1997
Inventor: D'nardo Colucci

Pat. No.: 5,481,669
Title: Architecture and apparatus for image generation utilizing enhanced memory devices
Date: Jan. 2, 1996
Inventors: John W. Poulton, Steven E. Molnar, and John G. Eyles

Pat. No.: 5,387,885
Title: Salphasic distribution of timing signals for the synchronization of physically separated entities
Date: Feb. 7, 1995
Inventor: Vernon L. Chi

Pat. No.: 5,388,206
Title: Architecture and apparatus for image generation
Date: Feb. 7, 1995
Inventors: John W. Poulton, Steven E. Molnar, and John G. Eyles

Pat. No.: 4,827,445
Title: Image buffer having logic-enhanced pixel memory cells and method for setting values therein
Date: May 2, 1989
Inventor: Henry Fuchs

Pat. No.: 4,783,649
Title: VLSI graphics display image buffer using logic enhanced pixel memory cells
Date: Nov. 8, 1988
Inventors: Henry Fuchs and John W. Poulton

Pat. No.: 4,607,255
Title: Three dimensional display using a varifocal mirror
Date: Aug. 19, 1986
Inventor: Henry Fuchs and Stephen M. Pizer

Active Copyright and Software

Pat. No.: 4,590,465
Title: Graphics display system using logic-enhanced pixel memory cells
Date: May 20, 1986
Inventor: Henry Fuchs

UNC Policies on Intellectual Property Rights

Conflicts of Interest and Commitment

UNC-Chapel Hill Copyright Policy (PDF)

External Professional Activities for Pay

Facilities Use Policy (7-1-06)

Patent and Copyright Policies and Procedures (PDF)

Privacy of Electronic Information Policy (2-27-02)

Use of University Resources in Consulting Activity by EPA Employees (10-6-93)

Policy for Use of University Resources in Support of Entrepreneurial Activities (11-7-06)

Document Actions

Print this