TERRY DEAN BEARD
Pilots at Berryhill Cir, Thousand Oaks, CA

4914520, Apr 3, 1990

Feb 22, 1989

7/314633

Terry D. Beard - Westlake Village CA

H04N 336

358214

An improved method is disclosed for transferring motion pictures from film to videotape, with an improved video image quality for moving objects. In the preferred embodiment, the motion picture is filmed at twice the video frame rate, and alternating scanning fields from each pair of film frames are transferred to interleaved fields on a single video frame. The method is also applicable to the direct transfer of computer generated artwork and the like directly to video storage, without an intermediate film stage; a pair of time-spaced line fields are generated and interleaved for each video frame. The method substantially eliminates image jitter and smearing of moving objects, and is particularly adapted to a new 3-D television technique. Various alternate transfer systems are described, as well as a generalization of the invention to account for different film speeds or numbers of fields per frame.

5386255, Jan 31, 1995

Aug 12, 1992

7/928956

Terry D. Beard - Westlake Village CA
Joseph Dellaria - Agoura Hills CA
James S. Ketcham - Woodland Hills CA

Digital Theater Systems, L.P. - Westlake Village CA

G03B 3100

352 5

A digital sound system for motion picture films employs a digital time code on the film to trigger the transfer of sound data from a digital audio store to a FIFO memory. The digital audio data is read out from the FIFO memory and played back in the theater at a constant rate, with any jumps in the digital time code handled by making a corresponding jump within the digital audio store but not in the FIFO memory. Readout from the FIFO memory and clocking of the digital-to-analog converters (DACs) used for theater playback is synchronized to the AC mains that powers the theater projector, and thus allows for an uninterrupted audio playback even if time code entries on the film are obliterated. The FIFO memory need only have enough capacity to accommodate the maximum audio store access time, and can be quite small.

4862168, Aug 29, 1989

Mar 19, 1987

7/027747

Terry D. Beard - Westlake Village CA

H03M 100

341140

Apparatus and an associated method are described for encoding an analog signal to a digital representation thereof and then decoding the same to reconstruct the original analog signal with reduced quantization noise and error. The analog signal is first adaptively pre-emphasized. A series of samples of the pre-emphasized signal are then obtained and encoded to create a series of digital representations which have a lower order resolution than the samples. The difference between each sample and its corresponding lower resolution digital representation is obtained and combined with the next sample. Decoding of the combined signals takes place in a complementary manner to create an approximate analog output signal, which is then de-emphasized in a manner complementary to the pre-emphasis to produce an analog output signal closely approximating the original analog signal. In a fully digital implementation the samples are converted to a digital format with a higher order resolution; the digital representations are obtained from the digitized samples, and the difference measurements are combined with the samples in their digital format. In a hybrid digital/analog implementation the difference is combined with the analog signal prior to sampling.

5417615, May 23, 1995

Apr 5, 1994

8/223449

Terry D. Beard - Westlake Village CA

A63G 3110

472 50

An air driven amusement ride propels a passenger vehicle upward along a guide cable out of an acceleration tube by a blast of pressurized air within the tube under the vehicle. Passengers experience a feeling of weightlessness and free fall from the time the vehicle exits the tube until it later re-enters, which can exceed ten seconds. The source of pressurized gas for the tube preferably includes a gas reservoir, a pump that raises the gas pressure in the reservoir at a predetermined pump rate, and a release that allows gas to flow from the reservoir into the tube at a rate substantially faster than the pump rate. Various mechanisms are disclosed to prevent the vehicle from over shooting the top of the ride and to limit the acceleration, including pressure relief valves in the acceleration tube, a pressure relief valve that extends through the vehicle itself, an emergency deceleration tube at the top of the guide cable with a pressure relief mechanism and emergency stops, and a system to adjust the acceleration pressure in accordance with the vehicle weight.

7792306, Sep 7, 2010

May 8, 2007

11/745900

Terry D. Beard - Westlake Village CA, US

H04R 5/00, G10L 19/00

381 23, 381 17, 381 18, 381 19, 381 20, 381 21, 381 22, 704500, 704E19005

A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other stereo or monaural delivery systems. The invention reduces the data rate needed for the transmission of multichannel digital audio.

8300833, Oct 30, 2012

Sep 1, 2006

11/515400

Terry D. Beard - Westlake Village CA, US

H04R 5/00, G10L 19/00

381 23, 381 1, 381 2, 381 22, 381 17, 381 18, 704500, 704E19005

A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other stereo or monaural delivery systems. The invention reduces the data rate needed for the transmission of multichannel digital audio.

2007026, Nov 15, 2007

May 8, 2007

11/745880

Terry Beard - Thousand Oaks CA, US

H04R 5/00

381020000

A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other stereo or monaural delivery systems. The invention reduces the data rate needed for the transmission of multichannel digital audio.

7792304, Sep 7, 2010

May 8, 2007

11/745934

Terry D. Beard - Thousand Oaks CA, US

H04R 5/00, G10L 19/00

381 22, 381 17, 381 18, 381 19, 381 20, 381 21, 381 23, 704500, 704E19005

A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other stereo or monaural delivery systems. The invention reduces the data rate needed for the transmission of multichannel digital audio.

8027481, Sep 27, 2011

Nov 5, 2007

11/982918

Terry Beard - Thousand Oaks CA, US

H04R 25/00

381 60, 381328

A personal hearing control system includes a microphone located within a user's sealed ear canal, a speaker having a diaphragm which directs sound into the ear canal, and a controller which drives the speaker such that the system emulates the acoustics of the user's open ear canal. Also provided are a microphone located on the outer ear side of the sealed ear canal, which is coupled to a handheld interface unit having multiple inputs and operating modes. A user-selected input is processed by the interface unit, and the processed signal is coupled to the speaker. In one operating mode, the output of the outer ear mic is processed so as to cancel sound that leaks from the outer ear to the inner ear side of the seal.

4596008, Jun 17, 1986

Aug 25, 1983

6/526433

Terry D. Beard - Westlake Village CA

G11B 7125

369107

The locally averaged or approximate D. C. value of a variable area optical sound track on a film is first determined, and this information is then used to control the width of a scanning slit at a playback station. The scanning slit width is reduced for small signals and increased for large signals, thereby reducing the amount of non-information bearing area on the film which is included in the scanned area. This in turn reduces the amount of noise from dirt and debris in the non-information bearing area, and by reducing the total amount of light transmitted through the film also lowers the level of quantum noise from the photodetector employed at the playback station.