Wisner; Wilford L. - US Patent Attorneys and Agents

Attorney: Wisner; Wilford L.

Number of patents: 39
Last date: August 24, 2004

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D495090	Home curling iron holder	08/24/2004
6388998	Reuse of codes and spectrum in a CDMA system with multiple-sector cells A system and a method for code division multiple access (CDMA) communication. The system includes fixed terminals communicating with a central base station. The terminals in protection sectors of each sector are configured to employ codes from different s...	05/14/2002
6385172	Administrative weight assignment for enhanced network operation Methods and communication networks having a plurality of connection-oriented switches in which administrative weights are assigned based on link call blocking probabilities. Three assignment schemes include, first, a solution that can be built in the swit...	05/07/2002
6373832	Code division multiple access communication with enhanced multipath diversity A system, a transceiver, and methods for code division multiple access (CDMA) communication. The system includes first and second code division multiple access transceivers. The first code division multiple access transceiver has a plurality antennas disp...	04/16/2002
6301402	Control arrangement for optical mechanical switches An arrangement and a method for monitoring and controlling an optical mechanical switch, which may include one or more microelectromechanical switches. In communication using the arrangement or the method, independently of any customer signal, a modulated...	10/09/2001
6275326	Control arrangement for microelectromechanical devices and systems A microelectromechanical system in which, operationally independent of the movable element and the component for moving it, a microelectromechanical sensor senses the position of the movable element. The microelectromechanical sensor adjoins the movable e...	08/14/2001
6208969	Electronic data processing apparatus and method for sound synthesis using transfer functions of sound samples A method and an electronic data processing apparatus for wave synthesis that retains the true qualities of naturally occurring sounds, such as those of musical instruments, speech, or other sounds. Transfer functions representative of recorded sound sampl...	03/27/2001
6185549	Method for mining association rules in data An electronic data mining process for mining from an electronic data base using an electronic digital computer a listing of commercially useful information of the type known in the art as an association rule containing at least one uninstantiated conditio...	02/06/2001
6175670	Planar lightguide circuit having a planar grating A planar lightguide circuit having a grating coupler to backward couple a elected wavelength from among a plurality of optical signals. A cascaded arrangement of such couplers provides multiplexing or demultiplexing. In its simplest form, a planar lightgu...	01/16/2001
6141788	Method and apparatus for forward error correction in packet networks A method for applying forward error correction in a transmission network includes the steps of choosing one of a plurality of possible error correction codes, using an appropriate field to encode a complete forward-error-correcting (FEC) code algorithm in...	10/31/2000
4860358	Speech recognition arrangement with preselection An arrangement and a method for recognizing a speech pattern employs a quick initial processing based upon subpatterns of speech features from which time-sequence information has been removed is followed by more conventional processing of a plurality of t...	08/22/1989
4852180	Speech recognition by acoustic/phonetic system and technique A speech recognition system and technique of the acoustic/phonetic type is made speaker-independent and capable of continuous speech recognition during fluent discourse by a combination of techniques which include, inter alia, using a so-called continuous...	07/25/1989
4850007	Telephone toll service with advertising There is disclosed a system for providing an economical telephone toll service in which a telephone subscriber selects the economical service by, for example, sending an appropriate signal, and then dials his directory assistance call or other telephone t...	07/18/1989
4847906	Linear predictive speech coding arrangement A speech analyzer is adapted to produce speech parameter signals from a Pth order autocorrelation analysis of a speech pattern in a digital signal processor. The analyzer includes a plurality of memories of predetermined arrangement to store feature vecto...	07/11/1989
4835779	Method and apparatus for the operation of a distributed feedback laser There are disclosed a method and apparatus for producing laser pulses at two wavelengths alternately by switching the oscillations of a distributed feedback semiconductor laser of the continuous grating type back and forth across the stop band. The necess...	05/30/1989
4829580	Text analysis system with letter sequence recognition and speech stress assignment arrangement In text-to-speech generating arrangements, text is analyzed to determine the language source of words therein by successively selecting letter sequences of each word in the text. At least one signal representative of the probability that the text word cor...	05/09/1989
4829172	Optical ranging by phase shift measurement with return signal level compensation There is disclosed an optical ranging system adapted for use with widely varying return signal levels. Automatic signal level control is achieved in two parts, a passive optical part and an active electronic AGC part. The optical part is based on the coax...	05/09/1989
4827517	Digital speech processor using arbitrary excitation coding An arrangement for processing a speech message which uses arbitrary value codes to form time frame excitation signals. The arbitrary value codes, e.g., random numbers, are stored as well as signals indexing the codes and transform domain signals correspon...	05/02/1989
4821325	Endpoint detector An arrangement for endpoint detection improves speech recognition accuracy where the input signal includes nonstationary noise. Energy pulses are found by looking for local energy level peaks, then analyzing surrounding energy levels to determine pulse bo...	04/11/1989
4791654	Resisting the effects of channel noise in digital transmission of information A method for resisting the effects of channel noise in the digital transmission of information by means of the technique known as vector quantization, in which the codebook for binary index code assignment is generated by picking a vector quantized codewo...	12/13/1988
4783804	Hidden Markov model speech recognition arrangement Markov model speech pattern templates are formed for speech analysis systems by analyzing identified speech patterns to generate frame sequences of acoustic feature signals representative thereof. The speech pattern template is produced by iteratively gen...	11/08/1988
4767196	Asymmetric optical logic element A radiant energy logic element includes first and second reflecting devices and a radiant energy nonlinear medium between said first and second reflecting devices and in contact therewith. Radiant energy beams of first and second wavelengths are applied t...	08/30/1988
4764963	Speech pattern compression arrangement utilizing speech event identification There are disclosed speech encoding methods and arrangements, including among others a speech synthesizer that reproduces speech from the encoded speech signals. These methods and arrangements employ a reduced bandwidth encoding of speech for which the ba...	08/16/1988
4741038	Sound location arrangement A signal processing arrangement is connected to a microphone array to form at least one directable beam sound receiver. The directable beam sound receivers are adapted to receive sounds from predetermined locations in a prescribed environment such as audi...	04/26/1988
4726037	Predictive communication system filtering arrangement A digital speech signal communication system includes a decoder that generates a predictively coded speech signal responsive to received digital codes and predicitve parameters corresponding thereto. A signal representative of the quality of said predicti...	02/16/1988
4284663	Fabrication of optical waveguides by indiffusion of metals There is disclosed a method of fabricating an optical waveguiding surface layer in an optically transparent crystalline substrate, such as lithium niobate, by selectively indiffusing metal ions, such as titanium, into the crystal to effect an increase in ...	08/18/1981
3991386	Active optical devices with spatially modulated populations of F-centers The disclosed distributed feedback laser employs an alkali halide crystal having a spatially modulated pattern of a stable color center and a complementary spatially modulated pattern of U-centers. The stability of the color centers is provided by initial...	11/09/1976
3986020	Common medium optical multichannel exchange and switching system In the disclosed common medium multichannel exchange and switching system, optical carrier frequencies and bandwidths are employed and provide switched channels of unprecedentedly large bandwidth. At the same time, the switching network at optical frequen...	10/12/1976
3982123	Optical fiber power taps There is disclosed a variety of arrangements for tapping a portion of the signal power from an optical fiber waveguide without requiring that the fiber be terminated or broken. Power is coupled out of the fiber waveguide, which typically includes an inner...	09/21/1976
3978510	Heterojunction photovoltaic devices employing I-III-VI compounds Photovoltaic devices are constructed from a principal body of copper indium selenide (CuInSe2) upon which is deposited a hetero-epitaxial layer of a high bandgap semiconductor, such as an n-type layer of cadmium sulfide (CdS). When made with a ...	08/31/1976
3948583	Isolation of passive devices and integration with active devices in optical waveguiding circuits The comprehensive large scale integration of thin-film optical circuits is made possible by a series of related developments. The key concept is the isolation of the high index substrate, necessary to active devices, wherever it is desired to have a passi...	04/06/1976
3949319	High energy storage lasers employing perovskites containing rare earths New lasers employ a halide crystal including alkali metals and rare earths with a very high concentration of the active ions that are arranged to have largest possible separation between themselves. Such laser crystals provide very high energy storage tha...	04/06/1976
3946338	Acoustic wave devices involving perturbation of acoustic velocity by diffusion of metals Acoustic waveguides, acoustic filters and acoustic reflectors are based upon the discovery of increased acoustic wave velocity in materials such as lithium niobate and lithium tantalate into which a metal such as titanium, nickel or chromium has been diff...	03/23/1976
3944951	Monolithic crystal filter An improved monolithic crystal filter is disclosed. The filter has input and output ports formed from particular combinations of first, second and third terminals, the latter terminals having been adapted to be connected to certain preselected electrodes ...	03/16/1976
3936631	Optical fiber power tap There is disclosed an arrangement for tapping signal power from an optical fiber waveguide without requiring that the fiber be terminated or broken. An intermediate length of a fiber waveguide from which all or most of the outer cladding has been removed ...	02/03/1976
3936776	Interspersed double winding helical resonator with connections to cavity In a helical resonator, sometimes called a coaxial resonator with helical inner conductor, new capabilities are achieved by providing a double winding with the turns interspersed and of like pitch. One pair of respective opposite ends of the two portions ...	02/03/1976
3936301	Process for contact photolithography utilizing a photomask having indented channels In contact type photolithographic masking processes for fabricating planar structures, a photoresist is applied to a wafer and a mask is placed over the photoresist. Illumination through the mask, which has a pattern of opaque areas, produces a photochemi...	02/03/1976
3934773	Method for breaking brittle rods or fibers A method of breaking a rod of brittle material, such as a glass optical fiber, so as to yield a mirrorlike surface across the entire rod end is described. This is achieved by establishing a decreasing tensile stress across the cross section of the rod whi...	01/27/1976
3931518	Optical fiber power taps employing mode coupling means In an optical fiber power tap, signal power is coupled out of an optical fiber waveguide by a dielectric body disposed in a coupling relationship laterally offset from an intermediate length of the fiber, and is converted to a representative electrical si...	01/06/1976

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