Patents by Inventor Robert J. Kansy

Robert J. Kansy 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).

  • System, method, and circuit for dynamic range enhancement in a communication system
    Patent number: 7313377
    Abstract: A circuit includes one or more first amplifiers operable to amplify an incoming signal to produce an amplified incoming signal. The incoming signal is associated with a desired signal. The circuit also includes a controller. In response to the amplified incoming signal exceeding a first threshold and the desired signal not exceeding a second threshold, the controller is operable to allow one or more second amplifiers to amplify the incoming signal and/or increase a current supplied to the one or more first amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: RF Monolithics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Kansy
  • System, method, and circuit for dynamic range enhancement in a communication system
    Publication number: 20040209586
    Abstract: A circuit includes one or more first amplifiers operable to amplify an incoming signal to produce an amplified incoming signal. The incoming signal is associated with a desired signal. The circuit also includes a controller. In response to the amplified incoming signal exceeding a first threshold and the desired signal not exceeding a second threshold, the controller is operable to allow one or more second amplifiers to amplify the incoming signal and/or increase a current supplied to the one or more first amplifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: RF Monolithics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Kansy
  • Integrated circuit detector array incorporating bucket brigade devices for time delay and integration
    Patent number: 5315114
    Abstract: A chip set containing an infrared detector array and two signal processors are located on the focal plane of an infrared detecting system. Included in the processors is time delay and integrate circuitry for improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio of the detector outputs before further processing, remote to the focal plane. The time delay and integrate circuitry is comprised of a number of bucket brigade devices which are situated to form a parallel-input serial shift register. Detector column input signals are decoded and the appropriate detector signal loaded into the correct port on the shift register, so that correlated signals are summed as they move through the register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert J. Kansy, Ricky B. Garner
  • Integrated circuit element, methods of fabrication and utilization
    Patent number: 5293138
    Abstract: A circuit element comprises an acoustic charge transport device comprising an input, a barrier element and an output. A transistor assembly comprises a source, a gate and a drain. One of the input, output and barrier elements is operably connected with one of the source, drain and gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Electronic Decisions Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert J. Kansy