Patents by Inventor Prashant Kantak

Prashant Kantak 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).

  • Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for performing rapid speech compression in a mobile telephone system
    Patent number: 5784532
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for implementing a vocoder in a application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is provided. The apparatus contains a DSP core that performs computations in accordance with a reduced instruction set (RISC) architecture. The circuit further includes a specifically designed slave processor to the DSP core referred to as the minimization processor. The apparatus further comprises a specifically designed block normalization circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: John G. McDonough, Chienchung Chang, Randeep Singh, Charles E. Sakamaki, Ming-Chang Tsai, Prashant Kantak
  • Block normalization processor
    Patent number: 5727123
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for implementing a vocoder in a application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is provided. The apparatus contains a DSP core that performs computations in accordance with a reduced instruction set (RISC) architecture. The circuit further includes a specifically designed slave processor to the DSP core referred to as the minimization processor. The apparatus further comprises a specifically designed block normalization circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: John G. McDonough, Chienchung Chang, Randeep Singh, Charles E. Sakamaki, Ming-Chang Tsai, Prashant Kantak