Christopher G Gordon

US Patent:

7053729, May 30, 2006

Filed:

Aug 23, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/925377

Inventors:

Gerardo Aguirre - San Diego CA, US
Christopher Gordon - San Diego CA, US

Assignee:

Kyocera America, Inc. - San Diego CA

International Classification:

H01P 3/08
H05K 1/18

US Classification:

333 33, 333246, 174262

Abstract:

High frequency matching in a multilayer ceramic package is accomplished by a radial stub arrangement provided in one or more of the ground planes of a stack of layers forming the package. A signal via extends vertically upwardly between a ball grid array at a bottom surface of the stack and a coplanar waveguide in the form of a signal trace on a top surface of the stack. Each radial stub arrangement surrounds the signal via and is formed by a central space in the ground plane which surrounds the via and a plurality of stub-forming spaces in the ground plane which extend radially outwardly from the central space. The stub-forming spaces form a plurality of radial stubs which extends inwardly from the ground plane to locations adjacent but spaced apart from the signal via. The discontinuities provided by the spaces behave as a shunt inductance connected to a series capacitance. The radial stub arrangements provide high frequency matching in an arrangement which is confined to the vertical path of the signal via, thereby enabling higher interconnect density in multilayer packages.

US Patent:

20130198773, Aug 1, 2013

Filed:

Jan 28, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/751884

Inventors:

Brian Jentz - Wiltshire, GB
Steven Michael Cormie - Cambridge, GB
Christopher Forrest Gordon - Los Angeles CA, US
David John Terry Evans - Monmouthshire, GB
Marcus Christakis Liassides - Highland UT, US

Assignee:

XUMO LLC - Irvine CA

International Classification:

H04N 21/43

US Classification:

725 32

Abstract:

A system, method, and apparatus provide the ability to augment advertisements in a linear broadcast stream. A device playing video and/or audio broadcast as a linear stream detects the start of an advertisement that has been provisioned with augmented functionality. The device then retrieves the augmentation/augmented functionality and presents the augmentation during broadcast of the advertisement.