Patents Represented by Attorney Richard Weiss
  • Patent number: 6064732
    Abstract: An interactive subscriber telephone terminal, comprising: a display screen; a plurality of temporarily definable response/data entry keys; and local control means for selectively causing the display screen and/or the response/data entry keys to be controlled by one of: remote signals transmitted to the terminal from a telephone switching office, and the local control means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Northern Telecom Limited
    Inventors: William V. Pezzullo, Michel J. Brisebois, Joseph B. Johns, Kenneth M. Orford, Kristin J. Travis, Bruce H. Tsuji, William T. Ross, Andre J. Robert, Clifford D. Read
  • Patent number: 5500880
    Abstract: Transmission system comprising a sub-band echo canceller which includes a sub-band coding arrangement.The invention relates to a transmission system comprising a sub-band echo canceller which includes a canceller that can be switched between a receive path (r) and a send path (s).To reduce the computational complexity as well as the signal delays also with sub-band coding or sub-band decoding, the sub-band coding arrangement comprises a synthesis filter bank and an analysis filter bank which are provided for sub-band coding and also for sub-band echo cancellation.Advantageous applications for the echo canceller are subscriber terminal units, for example, hands-free facilities for car telephones, videophones or video conference units which have an echo path formed by at least one microphone and at least one loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Walter Kellermann