Patents Assigned to TC Electronic A/S
  • Patent number: 7551022
    Abstract: The invention relates to an amplifier comprising amplification means (AM) comprising an input and an output, said amplification means (AM) comprising a switching output stage delivering at least one output signal (OUS) via said output, said amplification means being fed by power supply means (PSM) said amplifier further comprising compensation means (CM) providing a compensation signal (CS) derived from the power supply voltage (PSV) of the power supply means (PSM), said compensation signal (CS) comprising a substantially inverse representation of said power supply voltage (PSV) and said compensation signal (CS) being fed to said amplification means (AM). According to the invention, an effective error compensation of the output switching stage may in practice be implemented by establishment of a compensation, which on a run-time basis is based on the voltage of the power supply currently applied in the output switching stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: TC Electronic A/S
    Inventors: Lars Arknæs-Pedersen, Kim Rishøj Pedersen
  • Patent number: 7403625
    Abstract: The invention relates to a signal processing unit including an input for receiving an audio signal, and an early pattern generator connected to the input, for defining a predefined early pattern generation. The early pattern generator establishes an output having N directional components which are added to form a signal having N directional components. When representing each source output in a direction containing representation both directionality of the individual sound sources as well as the resulting directionality of the excited sound propagation may be contained and processed in a simple processing algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: TC Electronic A/S
    Inventors: Kim Rishoj Pedersen, Knud Bank Christensen, Morten Lave
  • Patent number: 7391258
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-oscillating circuit comprising comparator means (CM) comprising at least one input means (IM) and at least one output means (OM), at least one of said at least one output means (OM) is coupled to at least one of said at least one input means (IM) via at least one filtering means (FM), said at least one filtering means (FM) at least partly comprising demodulation means (DM), wherein said filtering means (FM) is of at least fifth order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: TC Electronic A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Mansachs Frederiksen, Kim Rishøj Pedersen
  • Patent number: 7388530
    Abstract: The invention relates to at least one self-oscillating loop (SOL) comprising at least one forward path (FP), at least one feedback path (FBP) wherein said at least one forward path (FP) comprises amplitude quantizing means (AQM) combined with time quantizing means (TQM) and outputting at least one time and amplitude quantized signal (OS). According to the invention, a high-speed high-resolution A/D converter may be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: TC Electronic A/S
    Inventors: Kim Rishøj Pedersen, Lars Arknæs-Pedersen
  • Patent number: 7307488
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of estimating an intersection between at least two continuous signal representations (SR1, SR2) in a pulse width modulator, at least one of said continuous signal representations (SR1, SR2) being non-linear, said method comprising the step of providing an intersection estimate (CPE) between said at least two continuous signal representations on the basis of at least one iteration comprising at least one iterative call of a function describing said continuous signal representations (SR1, SR2) being non-linear and whereby said estimating of intersections are performed in a pulse width modulation modulator. According to an embodiment of the invention, a simple iterative call of the established continuous signal representation, e.g. an interpolation polynomial, will provide the desired intersection. It should be noted that the established estimate might be provided without any complicated root solving and avoiding division and even square root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: TC Electronic A/S
    Inventors: Kim Rishøj Pedersen, Lars Arknaes-Pedersen
  • Patent number: 7248089
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of establishing a PWM-modulated output signal representation (OS), providing a stream of parallelly determined intersection representations (PIR) on the basis of a stream of parallel reference signal representation (PRSR) and an input signal (IS), establishing a serial PWM output signal representation (OS) by transforming said stream of parallelly determined intersection representations (PIR) into a stream of serial intersection representations (SIR) by means of a relative time shift of at least one of said parallelly determined intersections (PIR). According to an embodiment of the invention, an advantageous way of providing intersection estimates has been obtained, as each or at least a number of intersection estimates between a reference signal and an input signal may be established partially while taking only the individual partial reference functions into consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: TC Electronic A/S
    Inventors: Kim Rishøj Pedersen, Lars Arknæs-Pedersen