Michael J Grant

20190288549, Sep 19, 2019

Mar 14, 2018

15/920488

- San Jose CA, US
Matt HOWARD - San Jose CA, US
Michael GRANT - San Jose CA, US

H02J 9/06
H02J 1/02

In one embodiment, a power apparatus, includes at least one first and second power supply to receive power from a main power supply, the at least one first power supply including at least one first input capacitor to smooth voltage ripples, a voltage monitor to monitor voltage provided by the main power supply, and cause enablement and/or disablement of at least one part of the at least one first power supply according to the voltage provided by the main power supply, and at least one first blocking and passing component configured to selectively channel energy from the main power supply to charge the at least one first input capacitor during a time when the at least one part is enabled, and channel energy from the at least one first input capacitor to the at least one second power supply during a time when the at least one part is disabled.

20160313783, Oct 27, 2016

Apr 27, 2015

14/696773

- San Jose CA, US
Michael Robert Grant - San Jose CA, US
Jessica Leigh Kiefer - San Jose CA, US
Kan Chiu Seto - Saratoga CA, US

G06F 1/32

In one embodiment, a hot swap circuit is disclosed. The hot swap circuit includes a capacitor in parallel with an input line to a power system. The hot swap circuit also includes a switch in parallel with the input line to the power system and coupled to the capacitor. The hot swap circuit further includes circuitry configured to pre-charge the capacitor to a first voltage while the switch is open. The switch is operable to cause the capacitor to be charged from the first voltage to a second voltage when the switch is closed.

20150348558, Dec 3, 2015

Aug 10, 2015

14/822168

- San Francisco CA, US
Farhad Farahani - Los Altos CA, US
Michael Hoffmann - Pacifica CA, US
Michael Grant - San Francisco CA, US
Freddie Sanchez - Berkeley CA, US

G10L 19/002

Methods for generating or decoding an encoded audio bitstream including audio data and supplementary data (e.g., metadata and/or unrelated audio data), where at least some of the supplementary data is included as LSBs of audio segments, and/or at least some of the supplementary data is included in guard bands. Typical embodiments provide a scalable and video synchronous format compatible with real-time and file-based infrastructure components that support the SMPTE 337 format for carrying data in AES3 serial bitstreams, and/or provide a framework for extending distribution codecs to scale beyond an 8-channel limit to support multiples of 8 channels synchronously across multiple AES3 interfaces. Another aspect is an audio processing unit configured to perform any embodiment of the method or including a buffer memory storing at least one segment of an audio bitstream generated in accordance with any embodiment of the method.