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Article: Indiana Inventors Develop Television Receiver
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 15, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- David Glen White and Matthew Thomas Mayer, both of Indianapolis, have developed a television receiver.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and apparatus for isolating a noise intolerant device, e.g., a phase-lock loop of a tuner within a television receiver, from source of noise."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "In one embodiment, the apparatus isolates a phase-lock loop integrated circuit (IC) from the bus, by providing an isolation buffer that allows the receiver to only pass data to the tuner's phase-lock loop IC when a tune command is issued by a processor. When not being ...