Patents by Inventor Harold Metcalfe

Harold Metcalfe 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).

  • Publication number: 20210138602
    Abstract: A wood router support device including a base board having a measurement stick attached to the base board. The base board has a router attachment located at one end and a slot beginning at the router attachment and running longitudinally to the opposite end. The measurement stick is slidably attached to the base board using a tongue and groove attachment. The tongue is part of the base board and is configured to fit within the groove located within the measuring stick. The measuring stick has an aperture located in an end closed to the router attachment. The aperture rotatably accepts an attachment device therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: Harold Metcalfe
  • Patent number: 8253867
    Abstract: A universal smart remote control includes intelligence software and algorithms that have been programmed into the remote control's microprocessor memory, and a large display which is used to prompt the user to take certain actions. The remote control provides guidance to the user in setting up and operating the various components of his or her entertainment system, and asks the user non-technical questions that are understandable to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Audiovox Corporation
    Inventors: Donald L. Hornback, Joseph Craig Engle, Harold Metcalfe, John Roberts, Matthew Dickinson
  • Publication number: 20090237573
    Abstract: A universal smart remote control includes intelligence software and algorithms that have been programmed into the remote control's microprocessor memory, and a large display which is used to prompt the user to take certain actions. The remote control provides guidance to the user in setting up and operating the various components of his or her entertainment system, and asks the user non-technical questions that are understandable to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Audiovox Corporation
    Inventors: Donald L. Hornback, Joseph Craig Engle, Harold Metcalfe, John Roberts, Matthew Dickinson
  • Patent number: 6236801
    Abstract: A video recording and playback device has a control track recorder for recording a control track signal including timing edges recorded on a tape or other storage medium together with the video program. A decoder is coupled to the control track signal and to the tape drive for switching among a forward play mode, a forward skip mode and a rewind mode, as a function of play, skip and rewind codes inserted into the control track as phase variations of edges other than those used for timing, or preferably as pulses with sloping edges distinct from the timing edges. In addition to selectively skipping sections of the video program preceded by a skip code and followed by a play code, such as commercial breaks, the device permits user editing of play and skip codes and selective multiple replays of sections of the video program preceded by a play code and followed by a rewind code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing S.A.
    Inventors: Joseph Craig Engle, Robert Harold Metcalfe, Sung Jo Kim, Jesse Edward Herzberg, Hans-Joachim Platte
  • Patent number: 5953487
    Abstract: A video recording and playback device has a control track recorder for recording a control track signal including timing edges recorded on a tape or other storage medium together with the video program. A decoder is coupled to the control track signal and to the tape drive for switching among a forward play mode, a forward skip mode and a rewind mode, as a function of play, skip and rewind codes inserted into the control track as phase variations of edges other than those used for timing, or preferably as pulses with sloping edges distinct from the timing edges. In addition to selectively skipping sections of the video program preceded by a skip code and followed by a play code, such as commercial breaks, the device permits user editing of play and skip codes and selective multiple replays of sections of the video program preceded by a play code and followed by a rewind code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics
    Inventors: Joseph Craig Engle, Robert Harold Metcalfe, Sung Jo Kim, Jesse Edward Herzberg, Hans-Joachim Platte
  • Patent number: D933441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Harold Metcalfe