Patents by Inventor John M. Royle

John M. Royle 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: 6642796
    Abstract: A digital phase-quadrature oscillator generates a series of sine values representative of a sine wave, and a series of cosine values representative of a cosine wave. In each iteration of the oscillator, a sum of the squares of past sine and cosine values is used as a negative feedback term in synthesizing next sine and cosine values, in order to stabilize the amplitudes of the sine and cosine values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Radiodetection Limited
    Inventor: John M. Royle
  • Publication number: 20030155983
    Abstract: A digital phase-quadrature oscillator generates a series of sine values representative of a sine wave, and a series of cosine values representative of a cosine wave. In each iteration of the oscillator, a sum of the squares of past sine and cosine values is used as a negative feedback term in synthesizing next sine and cosine values, in order to stabilize the amplitudes of the sine and cosine values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Applicant: Radiodetection Limited
    Inventor: John M. Royle
  • Publication number: 20030155922
    Abstract: A system and method to locate electronic marker balls includes receiving a signal representative of a detected marker ball. The signal includes the resolved in-phase and quadrature-phase (I and Q) components, each centered about a first frequency. The I and Q components are filtered in order to shift the first frequency to a second frequency and match the second frequency I and Q components to exponential decay characteristics associated with the marker balls. The second frequency I and Q components phase integrated in order to distinguish the components from noise. The integrating is based upon predetermined gain coefficients and produces integrated I and Q components in accordance with the predetermined gain coefficients. Next, a magnitude of the integrated I and Q components is determined to produce an I and Q magnitude vector and a noise variance associated with the magnitude vector is determined. Finally, the recursive coefficients are adjusted in accordance with the determined noise variance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Applicant: Radiodetection limited
    Inventors: John M. Royle, Richard David Pearson