Patents Assigned to Audio Precision
  • Patent number: 4631522
    Abstract: A method and circuit for reducing the effect of variations in resistances within a multiplying digital-to-analog converter. A first resistor is connected at one end to the feedback resistor of the MDAC, the other end providing a compensated circuit input. A second resistor is connected from the MDAC input to the feedback resistor. The MDAC output to which the feedback resistor is internally connected is connected to the MDAC reference connection, the other output providing a compensated circuit output. The first and second resistors are chosen such that the product of their resistances is equal to the product of the feedback resistance times the MDAC input resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Audio Precision, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard C. Cabot
  • Patent number: 4614914
    Abstract: A low-distortion transformer-coupled circuit. An amplifier is constructed to have a negative output impedance equal to the resistance of the primary winding of a coupling transformer to which the amplifier is connected thereby cancelling the distortion component produced by the transformer distortion current flowing through the primary winding resistance. The input to the amplifier is thus coupled to the secondary winding of the transformer. A low-frequency feedback circuit is provided between the amplifier output and a non-inverting input thereof. Means is provided for adjusting the negative output impedance of the amplifier to match circuit parameters. Alternatively, the coupling transformer employs two matched primary windings and one secondary winding, and the amplifier is constructed to provide a signal to each primary winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignee: Audio Precision, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce E. Hofer
  • Patent number: 4563652
    Abstract: A dual-stage band pass-band reject filter with feedback. Two state variable band pass filters with identical topology are cascaded as first and second stages. Each stage employs two inverting adders and two inverting integrators in a state variable topology, and each provides a band pass output and a band reject output. Both stages are selectively tuned to the same fundamental frequency. The filter output may be switched from a band pass to a band reject mode. In the band reject mode decreased attenuation of harmonics of the fundamental frequency is achieved by providing a predetermined amount of feedback from either the band reject output or band pass output of the second stage to the input of a respective one of the two adders of the first stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1986
    Assignee: Audio Precision, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce E. Hofer