Patents by Inventor Bruce R. Jackson

Bruce R. Jackson 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: 9084070
    Abstract: In one embodiment the present invention includes a circuit for automatically adjusting an output of an audio device. The circuit includes a memory circuit, a detector circuit, a control circuit, and an output circuit. The memory circuit stores configuration information. The detector circuit detects environment information related to an environment in which the apparatus is present. The control circuit selects selected configuration information from the memory circuit according to the environment information detected by the detector circuit. The output circuit receives an input audio signal and the selected configuration information, modifies the input audio signal according to the selected configuration information, and generates an output audio signal corresponding to the input audio signal as modified according to the selected configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Brett G. Crockett, Matthew S. Chang, Alan J. Seefeldt, Mohammad N. Ahmad, Bruce R. Jackson
  • Publication number: 20120106747
    Abstract: In one embodiment the present invention includes a circuit for automatically adjusting an output of an audio device. The circuit includes a memory circuit, a detector circuit, a control circuit, and an output circuit. The memory circuit stores configuration information. The detector circuit detects environment information related to an environment in which the apparatus is present. The control circuit selects selected configuration information from the memory circuit according to the environment information detected by the detector circuit. The output circuit receives an input audio signal and the selected configuration information, modifies the input audio signal according to the selected configuration information, and generates an output audio signal corresponding to the input audio signal as modified according to the selected configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brett G. Crockett, Matthew S. Chang, Alan J. Seefeldt, Mohammad N. Ahmad, Bruce R. Jackson
  • Patent number: 5241285
    Abstract: A phase locked loop circuit may be utilized as a low jitter clock regenerator in order to generate an extremely stable low jitter signal which is to a large extent immune from input phase and frequency noise. The slaving clock generates an output at a fixed phase relationship to a reference input. The clock regenerator is advantageously implemented by a logic gate type phase detector connected to a multi-stage loop filter. The loop filter output is connected to a phase correction circuit whose output is mixed with the loop filter output to provide a control input to a voltage controlled oscillator. The voltage controlled oscillator output may be provided directly, or through a frequency divider, to a feed-back input of the phase detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Apogee Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Bruce R. Jackson