Patents Assigned to Thomcast
  • Patent number: 5548343
    Abstract: A television (TV) signal alignment method and device are disclosed which provide a clear TV picture. The alignment method provides reduced noise. Despite transmission noise, the alignment method reduces noise at frequencies lower than 15 kHz which is generated by the alignment device, to below the visual perception threshold. This improves signal-to-noise ratio. The alignment method and device reduce this noise while rejecting 50 Hz and 25 Hz frequencies of greater than 30 dB. At each line of an image, the alignment method and device use a feedback loop to successively align a plateau at a first start of the current line of a television signal, which has transmission noise superimposed thereon, on the plateau of the preceding line. This is performed to restore the DC component of the television signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Thomcast
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Paquier, Dominique Guillevic
  • Patent number: 5488334
    Abstract: The power loads in certain applications such as dummy antennas must have a substantially constant impedance in a wide band of frequencies. The power load is air-cooled and its resistive element is constituted by the series-connection of resistor modules made of expanded metal. Capacitors are positioned in a branching connection on the resistive element. The positioning of the capacitors along the resistive element and their value are determined to ensure frequency compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Thomcast
    Inventor: Ivan Wolk