Patents by Inventor Leander H. Hoke, Jr.

Leander H. Hoke, Jr. 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: 4496986
    Abstract: An interface for subscription television reception which restores the program selection function to the tuner of the television receiver. This is of particular importance to subscribers using remote control receivers. Subscription television signals are split into two substantially identical components, one of which is fed to the tuner of the television receiver and the other of which is passed through a band reject filter to an adder. The intermediate frequency output of the tuner is converted to a predetermined carrier frequency in the television broadcast band and, as so converted, fed to the other input of the adder. The output of the adder is, in turn, fed to a conventional subscription television converter/decoder, which is set to select the program on the predetermined carrier frequency and decode the same. The converter/decoder output is converted to the intermediate frequency carrier for amplification and further processing in the intermediate frequency circuitry of the television receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene Lubchenko, Leander H. Hoke, Jr., Richard J. Burton