Patents by Inventor Nicholas C. Kliewer

Nicholas C. Kliewer 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: 20030021429
    Abstract: A high performance audio processing device having significantly increased reconfigurability capabilities and that offers far more precision and throughput than its predecessors without increasing the per-channel cost of the device above the per-channel cost of the predecessors. The device architecture includes a single-cycle, 48×28 bit multiply feature that is configured as a sophisticated switch to minimize the use of branching such that the reconfiguration capabilities of the device are significantly increased. Multiplying by zero shuts a path off, while multiplying by one turns the path on, and multiplying by −1 turns the path on, but with an inversion of the path signal's phase. The use of a full-precision multiply rather than other forms of decision logic also allows “morphing” from one setting to another on-the-fly, and provides new operating states that are linear combinations of the “on” and “off” settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: David D. Ratcliff, Nicholas C. Kliewer, Rustin W. Allred