Patents by Inventor Joseph PETRY
Joseph PETRY 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).
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Patent number: 11682395Abstract: An electronic device, a system, a method, and a program for externally adding voice control functionality to another device are disclosed. The electronic device includes memory, a processor, an audio input interface, a first communication interface, a second communication interface, and an audio encoder. First return audio data is received by the first communication interface from a sink device. An audio signal corresponding to a voice command is received by the audio input interface from a transducer. The audio signal is encoded by the audio encoder to obtain second return audio data. The second return audio data is output by the second communication interface to a source device. The second return audio data is encoded by an audio encoder of the source device to obtain control data. A function of the source device is controlled based on the control data.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLCInventors: Brian Carroll, Joseph Petry
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Patent number: 11626866Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to facilitate transitioning a device from a first state to a second state. A switch described herein allows for the use of an electronic circuit to perform the toggle and persistence functions while simultaneously giving more flexibility to the industrial design and physical switch implementation. The switch allows this preserving of the state using only a toggle on a voltage and thus allowing for a hardware only solution. The switch described herein allows for the use of smaller and less complicated mechanical switches allowing for more compact industrial designs. The switch uses a programmable voltage reference as a 1 bit non-volatile memory cell that is programmed by means of a logic pulse to the device. This allows a software independent setting of the state of the privacy switch. This state will remain through power cycles.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLCInventors: Joseph Petry, Brian M. Carroll
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Publication number: 20220077847Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to facilitate transitioning a device from a first state to a second state. A switch described herein allows for the use of an electronic circuit to perform the toggle and persistence functions while simultaneously giving more flexibility to the industrial design and physical switch implementation. The switch allows this preserving of the state using only a toggle on a voltage and thus allowing for a hardware only solution. The switch described herein allows for the use of smaller and less complicated mechanical switches allowing for more compact industrial designs. The switch uses a programmable voltage reference as a 1 bit non-volatile memory cell that is programmed by means of a logic pulse to the device. This allows a software independent setting of the state of the privacy switch. This state will remain through power cycles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Joseph PETRY, Brian M. CARROLL
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Patent number: 11206013Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to facilitate transitioning a device from a first state to a second state. A switch described herein allows for the use of an electronic circuit to perform the toggle and persistence functions while simultaneously giving more flexibility to the industrial design and physical switch implementation. The switch allows this preserving of the state using only a toggle on a voltage and thus allowing for a hardware only solution. The switch described herein allows for the use of smaller and less complicated mechanical switches allowing for more compact industrial designs. The switch uses a programmable voltage reference as a 1 bit non-volatile memory cell that is programmed by means of a logic pulse to the device. This allows a software independent setting of the state of the privacy switch. This state will remain through power cycles.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLCInventors: Joseph Petry, Brian M. Carroll
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Publication number: 20210225375Abstract: An electronic device, a system, a method, and a program for externally adding voice control functionality to another device are disclosed. The electronic device includes memory, a processor, an audio input interface, a first communication interface, a second communication interface, and an audio encoder. First return audio data is received by the first communication interface from a sink device. An audio signal corresponding to a voice command is received by the audio input interface from a transducer. The audio signal is encoded by the audio encoder to obtain second return audio data. The second return audio data is output by the second communication interface to a source device. The second return audio data is encoded by an audio encoder of the source device to obtain control data. A function of the source device is controlled based on the control data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Brian CARROLL, Joseph Petry
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Publication number: 20210211121Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to facilitate transitioning a device from a first state to a second state. A switch described herein allows for the use of an electronic circuit to perform the toggle and persistence functions while simultaneously giving more flexibility to the industrial design and physical switch implementation. The switch allows this preserving of the state using only a toggle on a voltage and thus allowing for a hardware only solution. The switch described herein allows for the use of smaller and less complicated mechanical switches allowing for more compact industrial designs. The switch uses a programmable voltage reference as a 1 bit non-volatile memory cell that is programmed by means of a logic pulse to the device. This allows a software independent setting of the state of the privacy switch. This state will remain through power cycles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Joseph PETRY, Brian M. CARROLL
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Patent number: 10992292Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to facilitate transitioning a device from a first state to a second state. A switch described herein allows for the use of an electronic circuit to perform the toggle and persistence functions while simultaneously giving more flexibility to the industrial design and physical switch implementation. The switch allows this preserving of the state using only a toggle on a voltage and thus allowing for a hardware only solution. The switch described herein allows for the use of smaller and less complicated mechanical switches allowing for more compact industrial designs. The switch uses a programmable voltage reference as a 1 bit non-volatile memory cell that is programmed by means of a logic pulse to the device. This allows a software independent setting of the state of the privacy switch. This state will remain through power cycles.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLCInventors: Joseph Petry, Brian M. Carroll
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Publication number: 20210098137Abstract: Increasingly, multiple users and multiple network devices are connecting to or requesting access to and/or from network resources. Users are increasingly expanding the number of network devices connected to a network. For example, a Home Network Environment (HNE) can have multiple networked devices connected to a single network. Each network device has its own interface and each network device is controlled via this interface which is generally located at the network device. A smart media device (SMD) can provide a centralized control for the multiple network devices and access to and/or from the multiple network resources. The SMD can provide control of one or more Internet of Things devices communicatively coupled to the SMD.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Brian CARROLL, Richard MOORE, JR., Mallika SUBRAMANYAM, Joseph PETRY
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Publication number: 20200395925Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to facilitate transitioning a device from a first state to a second state. A switch described herein allows for the use of an electronic circuit to perform the toggle and persistence functions while simultaneously giving more flexibility to the industrial design and physical switch implementation. The switch allows this preserving of the state using only a toggle on a voltage and thus allowing for a hardware only solution. The switch described herein allows for the use of smaller and less complicated mechanical switches allowing for more compact industrial designs. The switch uses a programmable voltage reference as a 1 bit non-volatile memory cell that is programmed by means of a logic pulse to the device. This allows a software independent setting of the state of the privacy switch. This state will remain through power cycles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Joseph PETRY, Brian M. Carroll
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Patent number: 7260325Abstract: A network component (3d) for an optical network (1) is described, including a coupling device (2; 4, 5) for optical coupling of the network component (3d) to the optical network (1), the coupling device (2; 4, 5) having a receiving module (4) and a transmitting module (5); a first data processing device (8, 9) which is unidirectionally connected to the receiving module (4); a second data processing device (10, 11) which is unidirectionally connected to the transmitting module (5); the first data processing device (8, 9) being unidirectionally connected to the second data processing device (10, 11) for transmitting data to the second data processing device; a detection device (4) for detecting the network status; and a two-way switch (23) for switching of the input of the first data processing device (8, 9) between the receiving module (4) and the output (19) of the second data processing device (10, 11) as a function of the network status detected.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2002Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ansgar Meroth, Dietmar Meyer, Franz-Joseph Petry
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Patent number: 7116377Abstract: The present invention provides an on-screen graphics (OSD) subsystem for overlaying OSD graphic images onto analog or digital video source signals. The OSD system has a video graphics bypass path and graphics bypass switch for directing an analog video channel around the OSD subsystem during time intervals when the OSD subsystem is not required to insert graphics into the source signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2002Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: General Instrument CorporationInventors: David E. Zeidler, Robert M. Simons, Joseph A. Petry
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Publication number: 20040076429Abstract: A network component (3d) for an optical network (1) is described, including a coupling device (2; 4, 5) for optical coupling of the network component (3d) to the optical network (1), the coupling device (2; 4, 5) having a receiving module (4) and a transmitting module (5); a first data processing device (8, 9) which is unidirectionally connected to the receiving module (4); a second data processing device (10, 11) which is unidirectionally connected to the transmitting module (5); the first data processing device (8, 9) being unidirectionally connected to the second data processing device (10, 11) for transmitting data to the second data processing device; a detection device (4) for detecting the network status; and a two-way switch (23) for switching of the input of the first data processing device (8, 9) between the receiving module (4) and the output (19) of the second data processing device (10, 11) as a function of the network status detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventors: Ansgar Meroth, Dietmar Meyer, Franz-Joseph Petry
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Publication number: 20030018982Abstract: A system and method for adjusting a video frequency response of a set-top terminal using a video frequency response filter. The video frequency response filter is included in a video processing subsystem. The video frequency response filter adjusts the video frequency response of the set-top terminal by using a set of filter coefficients determined by a microprocessor subsystem. The set of filter coefficients can be determined by various methods. One method is by measuring the frequency response degradation of the set-top terminal without the video frequency response filter installed in the set-top terminal. Another method is to measure the amplitude of a color burst signal included in the video input signal. Yet another method is to measure the amplitudes of a multi-burst signal included in the video input signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2001Publication date: January 23, 2003Applicant: General Instrument CorporationInventors: David Eric Zeidler, Joseph A. Petry, Mathias Anton Muller
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Publication number: 20030001970Abstract: The present invention provides an on-screen graphics (OSD) subsystem for overlaying OSD graphic images onto analog or digital video source signals. The OSD system has a video graphics bypass path and graphics bypass switch for directing an analog video channel around the OSD subsystem during time intervals when the OSD subsystem is not required to insert graphics into the source signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2002Publication date: January 2, 2003Applicant: General Instrument CorporationInventors: David E. Zeidler, Robert M. Simons, Joseph A. Petry