Patents Assigned to GN Netcom
  • Publication number: 20030198362
    Abstract: A microphone array for providing a focused field of optimum audio reception is disclosed. The array has a series of interconnected microphones spaced within a housing. At a midpoint of the spaced microphones is an illuminated polarized centering marker which gives the user a visual signal that the user is located within the optimum filed of audio reception. The housing can be placed on the top front edge of video monitor and has slideably mounted removable feet, which allow the microphones to be aimed more accurately at the user. The array is foldable along a midpoint, which allow for compact storage. The folding mechanism is a hinge, which has a hollow core, and openings which allow the internal wiring to interconnect two wings of the array without exposing the wires. The wings are held in their longitudinally oriented position by a latching mechanism of pins in one wing which snap fit into capture boots within the other wing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: GN Netcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Reed Bodley, Steve R. Lyman, Ian Paul Smith
  • Publication number: 20030118205
    Abstract: A microphone array for providing a focused field of optimum audio reception is disclosed. The array has a series of interconnected microphones spaced within a housing. At a midpoint of the spaced microphones is an illuminated polarized centering marker which gives the user a visual signal that the user is located within the optimum filed of audio reception. The housing can be placed on the top front edge of video monitor and has slideably mounted removable feet, which allow the microphones to be aimed more accurately at the user. The array is foldable along a midpoint, which allow for compact storage. The folding mechanism is a hinge, which has a hollow core, and openings which allow the internal wiring to interconnect two wings of the array without exposing the wires. The wings are held in their longitudinally oriented position by a latching mechanism of pins in one wing which snap fit into capture boots within the other wing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: GN Netcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Reed Bodley, Steve R. Lyman, Ian Paul Smith
  • Patent number: 6526143
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a lifting device which is configured to be coupled mechanically to a given telephone apparatus, said telephone apparatus having a handset and a fixed part, and whereby the lifting of the handset activates a switch in the telephone apparatus. The lifting device comprises a movable element which is configured to be in connection with the handset and lift the handset by means of a drive unit which brings about a movement of the movable element. The lifting device also comprises a bracket which is configured to be placed on the telephone apparatus in between this and the handset, under which the movable element is housed in a movable manner in the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventors: Morten Bjørn Wagner, René Sørensen
  • Patent number: 6526147
    Abstract: Microphone array which comprises a multiple of microphones which are arranged in an elongated element or housing, in which the individual microphones in the microphone array are arranged in pairs. The individual microphones in each pair are disposed on each their side of a centerline for the microphone array, where the signals from the microphones are summated in the formation of the output signal from the microphone array. The microphones on each side of the centerline of the microphone array are disposed with non-equidistant spacing between them, and low-pass filters are coupled between each microphone and a summation link, in that the microphones associated with one and the same pair are connected to low-pass filters having the same cut-off frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventor: Martin Rung
  • Patent number: 6473514
    Abstract: A microphone array for providing a focused field of optimum audio reception is disclosed. The array has a series of interconnected microphones spaced within a housing. At a midpoint of the spaced microphones is an illuminated polarized centering marker which gives the user a visual signal that the user is located within the optimum filed of audio reception. The housing can be placed on the top front edge of video monitor and has slideably mounted removable feet, which allow the microphones to be aimed more accurately at the user. The array is foldable along a midpoint, which allow for compact storage. The folding mechanism is a hinge, which has a hollow core, and openings which allow the internal wiring to interconnect two wings of the array without exposing the wires. The wings are held in their longitudinally oriented position by a latching mechanism of pins in one wing which snap fit into capture boots within the other wing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Gn Netcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Reed Bodley, Steve R. Lyman, Ian Paul Smith
  • Patent number: D463783
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventor: Klaus Rath
  • Patent number: D464333
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: GN Netcom, Inc.
    Inventor: Klaus Rath
  • Patent number: D468728
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom A.S
    Inventors: Klaus Rath, Charles L. Pedersen, Ian Smith, Stephen Lyman, Martin Bodley
  • Patent number: D470477
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom, Inc.
    Inventor: Aimee Dumont
  • Patent number: D470833
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventors: Klaus Rath, Charles L. Pedersen
  • Patent number: D471536
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventors: Klaus Rath, Charles L. Pedersen, Ian Smith, Stephen Lyman, Martin Bodley
  • Patent number: D471889
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcome A/S
    Inventors: Klaus Rath, Charles L. Pedersen
  • Patent number: D472888
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventor: Klaus Rath
  • Patent number: D475698
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventors: Klaus Rath, Charles L. Pedersen, Ian Smith, Stephen Lyman, Martin Bodley
  • Patent number: D478069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Beck, Douglas A. Marsden, Stephen R. Lyman
  • Patent number: D478326
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Petersen, Trung Phung, Glen Walter
  • Patent number: D478561
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Petersen, Trung Phung, Glen Walter
  • Patent number: D478901
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventors: Klaus Rath, Charles L. Pedersen
  • Patent number: D480073
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventors: Finn Jensen, Steve McGugan
  • Patent number: D482019
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: GN Netcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Petersen, Trung Phung, Glen Walter