Patents by Inventor Robert E. Spero

Robert E. Spero 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).

  • Patent number: 7511469
    Abstract: A phasemeter for estimating the phase of a signal. For multi-tone signals, multiple phase estimates may be provided. An embodiment includes components operating in the digital domain, where a sampled input signal is multiplied by cosine and sine terms to provide estimates of the inphase and quadrature components. The quadrature component provides an error signal that is provided to a feedback loop, the feedback loop providing a model phase that tends to track the phase of a tone in the input signal. The cosine and sine terms are generated from the model phase. The inphase and quadrature components are used to form a residual phase, which is added to the model phase to provide an estimate of the phase of the input signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Peter G. Halverson, Brent Ware, Daniel A. Shaddock, Robert E. Spero
  • Publication number: 20080224689
    Abstract: A phasemeter for estimating the phase of a signal. For multi-tone signals, multiple phase estimates may be provided. An embodiment includes components operating in the digital domain, where a sampled input signal is multiplied by cosine and sine terms to provide estimates of the inphase and quadrature components. The quadrature component provides an error signal that is provided to a feedback loop, the feedback loop providing a model phase that tends to track the phase of a tone in the input signal. The cosine and sine terms are generated from the model phase. The inphase and quadrature components are used to form a residual phase, which is added to the model phase to provide an estimate of the phase of the input signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Peter G. Halverson, Brent Ware, Daniel A. Shaddock, Robert E. Spero
  • Patent number: 5072218
    Abstract: Images are provided to a pilot in an aircraft overflying the earth by means of a helmet mounted display system. The position and attitude of the aircraft with respect to the earth and the attitude of the helmet with respect to the aircraft are monitored in order to convert a plurality of stored earth position signals into helmet coordinates. Earth points which are viewable by the pilot are displayed using symbolic images thereof such that the symbolic images coincide, from the pilot's point of view, with the actual positions of the viewable points on the earth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Inventors: Robert E. Spero, Bruce E. Hamilton, Howard P. Harper, Thomas E. Wright, Lorren Stiles, Robert C. Kass, James J. Licari