Patents by Inventor Alan R. Rixon

Alan R. Rixon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5243304
    Abstract: In a vestigial sideband modulator, an i.f. signal is modulated with a video input and the extreme part of one of the sidebands is removed to provide the right frequency response shape for transmission. The signal for transmission is usually produced by mixing the i.f. signal with an oscillator signal known as the heterodyne signal which differs from the desired carrier frequency by the i.f. frequency, and filtering the signal with a subsequent channel filter to remove any unwanted heterodyne oscillator components and the unwanted sum or difference product. To avoid the need for such a channel filter, the filtered video-modulated i.f. signal is demodulated to quadrature baseband components using the i.f. oscillator, and quadrature components at carrier frequency are modulated with these baseband components to produce on combination a v.s.b. modulated video output at carrier frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: GEC - Marconi Limited
    Inventor: Alan R. Rixon