Patents by Inventor Mark Jacob Ebling

Mark Jacob Ebling 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).

  • System for formatting and processing multimedia program data and program guide information
    Patent number: 7150029
    Abstract: A device for reading or writing on optical recording media with disk type recognition capability has an optical scanning device and a focus regulating circuit. The object of the invention is to provide a device of this type which can reliably recognize in a short time the type of the recording medium inserted into the device. Another object of the invention is to provide a corresponding process. These objects are attained in that the disk type recognition capability includes a mirror signal generator, a threshold value generator, a counter and an evaluation unit. The process is based on the utilization of a mirror-signal value of the device for disk type recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Mark Jacob Ebling, Edwin Arturo Heredia, Sithampara Niranjan, Chia-Yuan Teng, Mehmet Kemal Ozkan, Timothy William Saeger