Patents by Inventor Nigel Hoy

Nigel Hoy 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).

  • Signal switching
    Patent number: 6765865
    Abstract: A television or other signal is received via main and duplicate feeds into respective buffers. Should the main feed suffer interruption or disturbance the output is switched at a switch over to the duplicate feed, but in a staged process. Upon initial detection of disturbances read-out from the main buffer is performed using locally generated timing signals in lieu of timing signals obtained from the incoming signal. If however the disturbance s persist the two buffers are synchronized and switchover performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventors: Andrew Rayner, Nigel Hoy