Patents by Inventor William Wesley Beyers, Jr.

William Wesley Beyers, Jr. 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).

  • Bus and interface system for consumer digital equipment
    Patent number: 6236694
    Abstract: A system for generating a signal for coupling digital audio, video and data signals in compressed form via a bus. A processing means formats the digital audio, video and data signals into superpackets for transmission via the bus. Each superpacket comprises a timestamp, and a transport packet, representative of the digital audio, video and data signals. The superpackets have a fixed duration and occur at variable intervals. Devices receive the superpacket signal and may utilize the timestamps for clock synchronization. A recording and replay device processes the variable superpacket signal occurrence for recording. Reproduced timestamps are utilized to control restoration of the superpacket signal to have substantially the duration and occurrence as when formatted for bus transmission. A simplified bus couples superpackets between devices. An indicia is added to a superpacket signal to provide automatic control of device bus interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing S.A.
    Inventors: Harold Blatter, William Wesley Beyers, Jr., Michael Scott Deiss
  • Simple bus and interface system for consumer digital equipment
    Patent number: 5841987
    Abstract: A system for generating a signal for coupling digital audio, video and data signals in compressed form via a bus. A processing means formats the digital audio, video and data signals into superpackets for transmission via the bus. Each superpacket comprises a timestamp, and a transport packet, representative of the digital audio, video and data signals. The superpackets have a fixed duration and occur at variable intervals. Devices receive the superpacket signal and may utilize the timestamps for clock synchronization. A recording and replay device processes the variable superpacket signal occurrence for recording. Reproduced timestamps are utilized to control restoration of the superpacket signal to have substantially the duration and occurrence as when formatted for bus transmission. A simplified bus couples superpackets between devices. An indicia is added to a superpacket signal to provide automatic control of device bus interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold Blatter, William Wesley Beyers, Jr., Michael Scott Deiss