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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4099163 | Method and apparatus for digital data transmission in television receiver remote control systems Method and apparatus for serial data transmission wherein each data word has a fixed bit length and each bit is transmitted during a fixed duration data period following a sync pulse. The sync pulse for each data word has a duration equal to a data period... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4086569 | Communication systems A communication system for communicating between a central control unit and a plurality of controlled units, all interconnected by a single communication channel, wherein communication is time multiplexed with control words being transmitted in each direc... | 04/25/1978 |
| 4067008 | Multiplex interrogation system using pulses This interrogation system monitors the status of a plurality of protection zone transducers by repeatedly supplying a series of sequential interrogation pulses thereto sufficient to address and scan every transducer associated with a protection zone. Repl... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4023105 | Counter type remote control receiver producing binary outputs correlated with numerical commands of a companion remote control transmitter A remote control receiver for processing signals representative of a desired television channel number, each channel number being identified by a control signal lying in a respective band of frequencies. The channel number representative control signals a... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4007458 | Digital two-wire irrigation control system Apparatus for the control of a number of remotely located irrigation or sprinkler valves from a central location by means of control signals encoded onto a single pair of power transmission lines linking a central encoder and a number of remote decoders. ... | 02/08/1977 |
| 4007455 | Energy conserving pulse keying technique for a radio control system In a radio control system of the digital proportional control type in which a control signal whose period comprises a plurality of control pulses and a timing pulse is transmitted to control servomechanisms in response to the time width of each control pu... | 02/08/1977 |
| 4006461 | System for transmitting operating condition data from a passive station to a central station The system includes a passive station dedicated to the control and acquisition of data of an electronic apparatus and arranged for communication with a central station over a non-dedicated voice band-width communication link with connections being establi... | 02/01/1977 |
| 4004097 | Automatic meter reading device A device for automatically reading one or more meters at a remote location and supplying the information read over telephone lines to a central station includes a coupler effective on command from the central station to furnish power to the meter reading ... | 01/18/1977 |
| 4002837 | Transceiver A data receiver for transmitting interrogating signals to activate in sequence a plurality of data transponders, receiving data from the transponders, processing the data, correcting the data, storing the data in a temporary memory, and delivering the dat... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3987447 | Missile command link with pulse deletion command coding A command data link between an aircraft and a missile having a high invulability to jamming by providing a communications system in which the missile receiver is normally off and is gated on only during a short time during which a signal is supposed to a... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3976840 | Portable securities selector system A system for enabling securities information to be elicited and transactions to be automatically executed by an investor from a conventional telephone. A portable pocketsized data terminal having a keyboard, a display and status indicator lamps includes a... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3953674 | Telemetry Synchronizer Simultaneous phase lock and synchronization acquisition of an L format biphase input signal having a pseudorandom sequence are obtained with a delay lock loop including a feedback shift register for deriving a first non-return to zero (NRZ) output signal ... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3949365 | Information input device An information input device includes first and second counting means serially connected so as to be cyclically driven, a matrix circuit having row lines connected to an output from the first counting means and column lines, and a timing count value select... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3943489 | Electrical control systems A time-division multiplex (TDM) control system for controlling a plurality of devices from a central point includes a transmitter whose output is coupled over a common path to a plurality of receivers respectively located adjacent to the devices. The tran... | 03/09/1976 |
