Patents by Inventor Sonke Struck

Sonke Struck 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: 6040727
    Abstract: A delay device includes storage elements arranged in at least two rows 4, 5; 6, 7 in an integrated circuit, preferably in switched-capacitor technology. The delay device 2; 3 has an even number of storage elements. A first clock signal is provided from which, for producing a delay time equal to an odd multiple of the clock period of the first clock signal, a second clock signal is derived by means of a clock generation circuit 9, this second clock signal clocking the storage elements and being derived from the first clock signal in such a manner that one clock pulse of the first clock signal is suppressed in a selectable or given cycle and all the other clock pulses in the cycle are taken over in the second clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Sonke Struck, Ernst Holger
  • Patent number: 5953480
    Abstract: A comb filter arrangement comprising at least one delay circuit and an adder, this adder being twice supplied with a video signal modulated on a carrier, which video signals are applied mutually shifted with time. The signals are delayed by the delay circuits, so that either video signal applied to the adder is delayed relative to the other video signal by a given period of time. Furthermore, the delay circuits are arranged in switched capacitor technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Cord-Heinrich Bartels, Thomas Suwald, Sonke Struck, Jorg Wolber
  • Patent number: 5933198
    Abstract: For activating or deactivating the comb filter function with pixel precision, a comb filter arrangement including a delay circuit (3) and a first matching circuit (1) having at least two storage cells, these circuits receive a picture signal, having a sequence of individual pixels applied to the comb filter arrangement. The output signals of the delay circuit and the first matching circuit are superposed by a superposition stage (4) supplying a filtered picture signal from its output. The matching circuit (1) is implemented in such a way that it gives the picture signal applied thereto substantially the same amplitude variations as the delay circuit (3), and that the difference between the delay of the output signals from the delay circuit (3) and the matching circuit (1) corresponds to a nominal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Sonke Struck, Ole Steinfatt
  • Patent number: 5661679
    Abstract: A delay circuit having at least two memory cells (3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9) each including a capacitive memory element (20, 26, 40, 45), a write transistor (22, 28, 42, 47) by which information to be delayed can be written from a write line (18) into the capacitive memory element (20, 26, 40, 45), and a read transistor (21, 27, 41, 46) by which information can be read from the capacitive memory element (20, 26, 40, 45) on a read line (19), and having a control arrangement which is clocked by means of a first control clock and whose input receives a control signal and which includes intercoupled control circuits (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) one of which is associated with a respective memory cell (3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9), each control circuit (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) of the read transistor (21, 27, 41, 46) of the associated memory cell (3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9) being controllable by means of the input signal and each control circuit (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) of the write transistor (22, 28, 42, 47) of the associated memory cell being c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Sonke Struck