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US 7787012
System and method for video image registration in a heads up display
Current assignee: Science Applications International Corp SAIC
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Patent summary
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Patent Overview — US 7,787,012 B2
Title: System and method for video image registration in a heads up display
Patent number / application: US 7,787,012 B2; Application US 11/000,934
Inventors: John Richard Scales; Mark David Hose
Assignee: Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) — original and current assignee as listed. (The excerpt separately lists later reassignments, including SAIC Gemini, Inc. and a change of name back to Science Applications International Corporation, plus security interests held by Citibank, N.A.; these are ownership/encumbrance records and are noted only as they appear in the text.)
Key dates: Priority and filing date 2004-12-02; publication of US 2006/0121993 A1 on 2006-06-08; grant/publication of US 7,787,012 B2 on 2010-08-31; legal status listed as Active, with an adjusted expiration of 2029-05-15.
Purpose and plain-language scope: The patent concerns registering video imagery within a heads-up display — that is, aligning electronically displayed video so it corresponds properly to what the viewer sees. The disclosed subject matter is framed around a display, a visual field, a video source, and a weapon, per the listed prior-art keywords. The classification data places the disclosure in weapon-sighting and aiming contexts (F41G 3/00, 3/14, 3/16) and in electronically generated displays, including overlays simulating a heads-up display and shooting-game targeting (A63F 13/53, 13/837). Related applications include US 8,817,103 B2 (priority claim dated 2010-07-26). The excerpt indicates the family has been subject to PTAB case IPR2019-01311 (not instituted on the merits) and a Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit case (20-1464).
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7787012/en
What the excerpt does not establish: The supplied text contains no claims, abstract, or description body, so the actual claimed scope cannot be stated. It provides only metadata — titles, dates, parties, classifications, keywords, and litigation links — and Google's own notices state that the legal status, priority date, and assignee listings are assumptions, not legal conclusions. Nothing here establishes the technical operation of the registration method, the content of any claim, or the outcome or merits of the referenced proceedings.
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