Patents by Inventor Chad Erven

Chad Erven 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).

  • Patent number: 11539605
    Abstract: This application relates to determining transmission quality of a communication channel, in particular for determining a measure of errors in data transmitted as multi-bit symbols. Described is an error checker with an input for receiving an input signal comprising a series of modulated symbols, wherein each symbol encodes multiple bits of a pseudo-random bit sequence. A demodulator is configured to receive the input signal and only partially demodulate at least some of the symbols to generate a partially demodulated bit sequence. A PRBS module is configured to receive the partially demodulated bit sequence and determine the pseudo-random bit sequence and a comparator compares the output of the demodulator to an expected output based on the pseudo-random bit sequence determined by the PRBS module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SEMTECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Damien Latremouille, Chad Erven
  • Publication number: 20220173993
    Abstract: This application relates to determining transmission quality of a communication channel, in particular for determining a measure of errors in data transmitted as multi-bit symbols. Described is an error checker with an input for receiving an input signal comprising a series of modulated symbols, wherein each symbol encodes multiple bits of a pseudo-random bit sequence. A demodulator is configured to receive the input signal and only partially demodulate at least some of the symbols to generate a partially demodulated bit sequence. A PRBS module is configured to receive the partially demodulated bit sequence and determine the pseudo-random bit sequence and a comparator compares the output of the demodulator to an expected output based on the pseudo-random bit sequence determined by the PRBS module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Damien LATREMOUILLE, Chad ERVEN
  • Patent number: 9819892
    Abstract: A transmitter transmits a raster-type video signal. For each one of a plurality of active video segments of a frame of the video signal, the transmitter derives redundant data from the respective active video segment and inserts the redundant data into a horizontal blanking segment of the video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Semtech Canada Corporation
    Inventors: Damien Latremouille, Yann Deslauriers, Chad Erven, Francois Tremblay
  • Publication number: 20160344970
    Abstract: A transmitter transmits a raster-type video signal. For each one of a plurality of active video segments of a frame of the video signal, the transmitter derives redundant data from the respective active video segment and inserts the redundant data into a horizontal blanking segment of the video signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Damien Latremouille, Yann Deslauriers, Chad Erven, Francois Tremblay