Patents by Inventor Carl A. Pesce

Carl A. Pesce has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Architecture For Optimizing Audio and Video Output States for Multimedia Devices
    Publication number: 20100083113
    Abstract: An architecture for automatically optimizing audio and video modes available from interconnected multimedia devices. When one multimedia device is connected with another multimedia device, the devices communicate with each other to determine the modes available from both devices. The devices then compare the different combinations of available audio and video modes and determine which mode combination yields the optimal operating efficiency for outputting a media service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: THOMSON LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: David John Weaver, William Henry Mengel, Lawrence Carl Pesce
  • Architecture for optimizing audio and video operating modes for multimedia devices based on predetermined hierarchical order of available audio and video operating modes
    Patent number: 7447815
    Abstract: An architecture for automatically optimizing audio and video modes available from interconnected multimedia devices. When one multimedia device is connected with another multimedia device, the devices communicate with each other to determine the modes available from both devices. The devices then compare the different combinations of available audio and video modes and determine which mode combination yields the optimal operating efficiency for outputting a media service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: David John Weaver, William Henry Mengel, Lawrence Carl Pesce
  • Architecture for optimizing audio and video output states for multimeda devices
    Publication number: 20040128402
    Abstract: An architecture (102) for automatically optimizing audio and video modes available from interconnected multimedia devices (250). When one multimedia device (102) is connected with another multimedia device (250), the devices communicate with each other to determine the modes available from both devices. The devices then compare the different combinations of available audio and video modes and determine which mode combination yields the optimal operating efficiency for outputting a media service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: David John Weaver, William Henry Mengel, Lawrence Carl Pesce
  • Brush mounting for rotary electrical joint
    Patent number: 4174142
    Abstract: This relates to the mounting of brushes in a rotary electrical joint in a manner wherein the frictional force applied to a brush by a rotary member is restrained so as to eliminate prior tilting of the brush in a manner wherein excessive wear occurred adjacent the leading edge of the brush. Most particularly, the brush is so restrained wherein any tendency thereof to pivot will occur generally about an axis disposed adjacent the leading edge so that there is a uniform force application of the brush against the rotary member and thus a uniform wearing of the brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1979
    Assignee: The Continental Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl A. Pesce, Ralph J. Trnka, Robert A. Winkless