Joseph T Osborne

US Patent:

49742523, Nov 27, 1990

Filed:

Oct 4, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/253209

Inventors:

Joseph A. Osborne - Pompano Beach FL

Assignee:

Club Theatre Network, Inc. - Pompano Beach FL

International Classification:

H04M 1100

US Classification:

379 92

Abstract:

A commerical/entertainment network provides interactive communications for patrons and comprises: a plurality of theaters; a plurality of node/filters, connected in tiers; and, a remote broadcast center. Patrons at respective communication positions in the theaters may individually and successively engage in voice conversations with persons at the remote broadcast center and may collectively originate preference data for processing and subsequent telephone transmission to the broadcast center responsive to an audio/video signal displayed in the theater for simultaneous viewing by all patrons and responsive to broadcast data received and simultaneously routed to each of the communication positions. Each of the theaters may comprise: a plurality of uniquely identifiable communication positions, each having a remotely activatable telephone handset and data input/output panel; a telephone connectable to any one of the handsets; a data processor to reduce data rate downstream transmission requirements; a modem enabling two-way voice and data communication with the remote broadcast center; and, a display for audio/video signals originating from the remote broadcast center. Each of the node/filters may comprise: a data processor to reduce downstream data rate transmission requirements; and, a telephone call selector.

US Patent:

46654364, May 12, 1987

Filed:

Dec 20, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/811176

Inventors:

Joseph A. Osborne - Pompano Beach FL
Cindy Seiffert - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

H04N 712

US Classification:

358136

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for compressing digital data for transmission and reception in a narrow bandwidth, the method comprising preliminarily smoothing raw data according to a spatial convolution or running average technique, sampling the convoluted or averaged data to produce a subset having information from the full set of raw data, but fewer data points, determining the energy of the subset with a transform coder, encoding the transformed image, predicting the full set of raw data points at and between the points in the subset by means of a prediction algorithm, subtracting the raw data from the thus-predicted values to develop a difference signal, encoding one field of the difference signal and transmitting the encoded transformed data and the encoded difference signal to a receiver employing the same prediction algorithm. The signal is decoded in the receiver to produce both the transformed image and the difference signal. The decoded transformed image is applied to the predictor, and then subsampled and added to the decoded difference signal, thereby recovering the raw data.