Patents by Inventor Jonathan Paul Jordan

Jonathan Paul Jordan 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).

  • Transmitting digital signals through channels having resource capability
    Patent number: 6219359
    Abstract: A transmitter for transmitting a plurality of digital signals through a plurality of channels, the channels having a predetermined total allocated bitrate, includes a plurality of encoders each associated with one channel, a multiplexer for receiving the encoded digital signals and for transmitting the encoded signals as a stream of data, and operable for adjusting the distribution of the bitrate allocation between and among the encoded signals, and a processing device for providing an indication of a target quality and an actual quality for each channel and for causing the multiplexer to repeatedly adjust the distribution of the bitrate allocation in response to differences between the indicated actual quality and the indicated target quality for each channel so as to equalize differences between the actual and target quality across at least some of the channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Tanberg Television ASA
    Inventors: Michael Richard Joseph Budge, Robert Julian Stedman, Jonathan Paul Jordan
  • Statistical multiplexing
    Patent number: 5708664
    Abstract: A transmitter for transmitting a plurality of digital signals through a plurality of channels, the channels having a predetermined total allocated bitrate, includes a plurality of encoders each associated with one channel, a multiplexer for receiving the encoded digital signals and for transmitting the encoded signals as a stream of data, and operable for adjusting the distribution of the bitrate allocation between and among the encoded signals, and a processing device for providing an indication of a target quality and an actual quality for each channel and for causing the multiplexer to repeatedly adjust the distribution of the bitrate allocation in response to differences between the indicated actual quality and the indicated target quality for each channel so as to equalize differences between the actual and target quality across at least some of the channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Digi-Media Vision Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Richard Joseph Budge, Robert Julian Stedman, Jonathan Paul Jordan