Metra Electronics Corporation

Jessy J Crabb

Stewart Denton

Jeffrey A Boccaccio

A wall-mounted enclosure having a standard forward-facing opening but also having an expanded enclosure behind the opening. The opening allows the use of conventional prior art components (such as cover plates). The expanded enclosure allows a more generous bend radius for the creation of a service loop in a fiber optic cable or similar component.

Expanded two-gang electrical box

An electrical box having a standard forward-facing opening but also having an expanded enclosure behind the opening. The opening allows the use of conventional prior art components (such as cover plates). The expanded enclosure allows a more generous bend radius for the creation of a service loop in a fiber optic cable or similar component.

A method for optimizing the performance of an active HDMI cable. An active cable compensator is provided within the HDMI cable itself. The parameters controlling each of the active components (such as parameters setting gain and frequency distribution) within an individual HDMI cable are set through a programming process. The programming is preferably performed with the cable installed between the actual source and actual sink it will be connecting. The HDMI cable includes an internal controller that governs the equalizers and other active functions. A memory is connected to this controller so that settings may be retained even when power is lost.

Programmable HDMI cable and method including external programmer

A method for optimizing the performance of an active HDMI cable. An active cable compensator is provided within the HDMI cable itself. This device applies an individually-adjusted equalizer to each of the TMDS video data lines. A non-equalizing amplifier is applied to the two TMDS clock lines. An accelerator is applied to the IC data bus. The parameters controlling each of the active components (such as parameters setting gain and frequency distribution) within an individual HDMI cable are set through a programming process. In that process, a calibration source sends known signals through the cable to a programming unit. A programming unit analyzes the signals through the cable and sends commands to the active cable compensator in the cable. The commands adjust the parameters in order to optimize the performance of the individual cable.

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Ormond Beach, FL, United States of America

Jessy J Crabb