Patents by Inventor Richard Friedrich Schiller

Richard Friedrich Schiller 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).

  • Error rate monitor
    Patent number: 5835500
    Abstract: An error rate monitor having means to detect errors in a data stream and a counter for counting the quantity of data or elapsed time between two consecutive errors. The monitor may also caculate running totals of the number of counts falling within each of a plurality of bands of count value. A display shows the running totals as bars on a bar graph, together with two pointers indicating the counted data or time since the previous error and the counted data or time since beginning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Sony United Kingdom Limited
    Inventor: Richard Friedrich Schiller
  • Light meter
    Patent number: 5777728
    Abstract: A light meter comprising: a light sensitive charge storage array having at least one charge storage cell, and reading circuit means connected to said array for generating a light reading from charge stored in said array, said light reading being indicative of the quantity of light incident on said array; wherein said reading circuit means collects charge from said array and compares said collected charge to a threshold to generate said light reading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony United Kingdom Limited
    Inventor: Richard Friedrich Schiller