Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Curtis

Thomas E. Curtis 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: 9264018
    Abstract: Filter-chain-creating, digital signal-processing structure, for performing frequency band analysis and selection, which structure features a time-slice-based digital fabricating/instantiating engine, and engine-software-operating structure designed to operate the engine in a time-slice-based fabrication mode to create a chained arrangement of at least one of (a) Type-I, and (b) combined Type-I and Type-I wave digital filter (WDF) agencies in an overall, composite WDF structure to function for frequency band analysis and selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: ACOUSTIC PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Curtis, Steven B. Sidman
  • Publication number: 20130339416
    Abstract: Filter-chain-creating, digital signal-processing structure, for performing frequency band analysis and selection, which structure features a time-slice-based digital fabricating/instantiating engine, and engine-software-operating structure designed to operate the engine in a time-slice-based fabrication mode to create a chained arrangement of at least one of (a) Type-I, and (b) combined Type-I and Type-I wave digital filter (WDF) agencies in an overall, composite WDF structure to function for frequency band analysis and selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Acoustic Processing Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Curtis, Steven B. Sidman
  • Patent number: 8478807
    Abstract: Digital signal-processing structure and methodology which feature a time-slice-based digital fabricating engine, and software operating structure operatively associated with that engine structured to operate the engine in a time-slice-based fabrication mode wherein the engine, in a time-differentiated and instantiating manner, functions to fabricate a time-succession of individual, composite wave digital filters. Each of these filters takes the form of (1) a concatenated assembly including one to a plurality of upstream, early-stage, decimate-by-two, signal-processing agencies connected in a cascade series arrangement, with each such agency possessing a first transfer function having a first transition bandwidth, and (2) a single, downstream, later-stage, decimate-by-two, signal-processing agency which possesses a second transfer function having a transition bandwidth which is less than the mentioned first transition bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Acoustic Processing Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Curtis, Steven B. Sidman
  • Patent number: 7363334
    Abstract: Digital signal-processing structure and methodology which feature a time-slice-based digital fabricating engine, and software operating structure operatively associated with that engine structured to operate the engine in a time-slice-based fabrication mode wherein the engine, in a time-differentiated and instantiating manner, functions to fabricate a time-succession of individual, composite wave digital filters. Each of these filters takes the form of (1) a concatenated assembly including one to a plurality of upstream, early-stage, decimate-by-two, signal-processing agencies connected in a cascade series arrangement, with each such agency possessing a first transfer function having a first transition bandwidth, and (2) a single, downstream, later-stage, decimate-by-two, signal-processing agency which possesses a second transfer function having a transition bandwidth which is less than the mentioned first transition bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Accoutic Processing Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Curtis, Steven B. Sidman