Kenneth Wayne Robbins

US Patent:

7796285, Sep 14, 2010

Filed:

Oct 18, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/252818

Inventors:

Kenneth L. Robbins - Sudbury MA, US

Assignee:

Dialogic Corporation - Montreal, Quebec

International Classification:

G06F 3/12

US Classification:

358 115, 358400, 358402, 358442, 37910011, 379 8821

Abstract:

The present disclosure provides supplemental data for facsimile image data representing an image of a document for transmission. The supplemental data can describe an aspect of the document, such as by uniquely identifying the document that the facsimile image data represents. The supplemental data can be provided with the image of the document, in a manner that will not essentially obscure the image of the document. The supplemental data can be in a machine readable form that identifies the document and that can be separate from the image of the document. The supplemental data permits facsimile transmitted documents to be processed automatically by facsimile connected systems.

US Patent:

20060247927, Nov 2, 2006

Filed:

Apr 29, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/118910

Inventors:

Kenneth Robbins - Sudbury MA, US
Eric Burger - Amherst NH, US

International Classification:

G10L 21/00

US Classification:

704225000

Abstract:

While an output is presented to a user, an audio input that can include spoken input from the user is monitored. Presentation of the output is controlled while monitoring the audio input based on the monitoring. In the case of an audio output, the presentation can be controlled by attenuating the audio output according to the monitoring of the audio input. For example, a level of the audio output is reduced for continued presentation to the user after a desired signal is detected in the audio input. The output can include a prompt soliciting an input from a user, and the monitoring can include detecting the user's spoken input in the input audio, for example, estimating a certainty that the audio input includes the user's spoken input, or that such spoken input is in a desired grammar, such as in a desired list of commands or phrases. The approach is also applicable to video outputs.

US Patent:

46957529, Sep 22, 1987

Filed:

Jan 11, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/345310

Inventors:

Gerald F. Ross - Lexington MA
Kenneth W. Robbins - Wilmington MA

Assignee:

Sperry Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

G01R 2902
G01S 728

US Classification:

307518

Abstract:

A baseband receiver with a range gate interval in the order of nanoseconds. A tunnel diode, set to the low level state, is coupled across the output terminals of a bridge that is balanced in the absence of a received signal, during the range gate interval. Signals received by an antenna are coupled to a tunnel diode in an arm of the bridge causing it to change from its low level state to its high level state thereby unbalancing the bridge and establishing a voltage at the output terminals of the bridge that fires the tunnel diode coupled thereacross.

US Patent:

41079876, Aug 22, 1978

Filed:

Jun 27, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/810220

Inventors:

Kenneth W. Robbins - Wilmington MA
Gerald F. Ross - Lexington MA

Assignee:

Sperry Rand Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

E21B 4706

US Classification:

73151

Abstract:

The operating characteristics of deep well pumping equipment in a geothermal well power-generation system are observed by cooperating sensor and communication elements permanently associated with the geothermal well equipment itself. Bridge circuit sensors detect well water temperature and water pressure below and above the pump, while a further sensor detects pump rotational speed. The data is transmitted by a multiplexing acoustic communication link coupled to receiver and display means located at the earth's surface. An electrical generator driven at the pump speed serves as the rotational speed pick off and additionally supplies multiplexing and signal processor power for use at the down-well site. The signal processor includes novel diode circuits in each bridge sensor channel for monitoring the operation of the individual sensors and their common power source, thereby providing a surface display of the parameter being measured by a particular sensor channel and additionally providing a calibrating display of the operating status of that channel.

US Patent:

45168610, May 14, 1985

Filed:

Oct 7, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/540081

Inventors:

John W. Frew - Chelmsford MA
Kenneth W. Robbins - North Reading MA

Assignee:

Sperry Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

G04F 800

US Classification:

368120

Abstract:

A presettable counter and a substantially identical counter both slaved to a crystal-controlled clock oscillator form a programmable slip counter for providing transition signals with a time interval therebetween in accordance with a coarse delay signal preset into the presettable counter. A programmable logic delay line responsive to a fine delay signal delays one of the transitions so as to impart a precise delay interval between the delayed transition signal and the other transition signal.

US Patent:

39342522, Jan 20, 1976

Filed:

Apr 8, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/458967

Inventors:

Gerald F. Ross - Lexington MA
Kenneth W. Robbins - Wilmington MA

Assignee:

Sperry Rand Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

G01S 912
H04B 138

US Classification:

343 7VM

Abstract:

A vehicle safety apparatus includes a base band pulse transmitter-receiver system for the detection of an impending collision immediately prior to the contact of the vehicle with another object for the actuation of restraining or other safety devices to protect the occupants of the vehicle when the crash event actually occurs. A semiconductor base band transmitter and receiver system is synchronously operated by a master clock, providing precise operation of the receiver gain control, sensitivity time control, and other receiver functions, in a low-cost, rugged, long-lived object detection system.

US Patent:

44896018, Dec 25, 1984

Filed:

Jul 18, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/514743

Inventors:

B. Rama Rao - Lexington MA
Kenneth W. Robbins - Wilmington MA

Assignee:

Sperry Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

G01F 2328

US Classification:

73290R

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for measuring the height of a liquid above a reference level in which short pulses of subnanosecond duration are coupled to a dual-mode transmission line immersed in a liquid to propagate thereon in a plurality of modes. A surface wave propagating on the outer conductor is reflected from the surface of the liquid, and coaxial-mode propagating within the transmission line is reflected from the reference level. These reflected pulses propagate back along the transmission line, coupled to a receiver for detection, the detected pulses processed to determine the liquid height above a reference level.

US Patent:

41503759, Apr 17, 1979

Filed:

Mar 2, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/882677

Inventors:

Gerald F. Ross - Lexington MA
Kenneth W. Robbins - Wilmington MA

Assignee:

Sperry Rand Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

G01S 904

US Classification:

343 7VM

Abstract:

A base band transmitter cooperates with dual base band receiver antennas, a single receiver channel, and a tapped delay correlator device for the prevention of vehicular collisions, the configuration effectively narrowing the normally wide base band antenna pattern to span a single predetermined forward traffic lane.