Patents by Inventor Robert W. Smid

Robert W. Smid 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: 7505506
    Abstract: A method of generating a composite signal includes the steps of: (a) generating a plurality of sub-carriers, each sub-carrier having a different frequency position in a frequency spectrum; (b) generating a plurality of codes; and (c) forming a plurality of code combinations from the plurality of codes generated in step (b). The method also includes the steps of (d) first modulating each sub-carrier using a respective one of the code combinations formed in step (c) to form a plurality of modulated sub-carriers; and (e) second modulating in-phase and quadrature components of a base carrier using the plurality of modulated sub-carriers to form the composite signal having multiple carriers. The composite signal is a constant envelope signal, and a single sideband signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Goran Djuknic, Chi Chiu Chan, Robert W. Smid
  • Patent number: 4450554
    Abstract: The asynchronous integrated voice and data communication system includes a continuously variable slope delta encoder and a continuously variable slope delta decoder to convert voice signals to coded signals and vice versa. A packetizer and a depacketizer are employed with each data and voice user to enable each of the plurality of data and voice users to have random access to a fiber optic transmission medium enabling each of the plurality of data and voice users to receive transmissions from all others of the plurality of users. A microcomputer is coupled to each of the voice and data users and the associated packetizer and depacketizer to enable any one of the plurality of data and voice users to establish communication with any other selected one of the plurality of data and voice users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1984
    Assignee: International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
    Inventors: Peter D. Steensma, Murray Weinberg, Robert W. Smid, Thomas E. Finley