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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2001
Rusty R. Everett, San Mateo, CA (US);
Kendrew Lee, Fremont, CA (US);
Yasuhiro Yamamoto, San Francisco, CA (US);
Monster Cable Products, Inc., Brisbane, CA (US);
Abstract
An XBOX optical connector has a miniature phone plug at one end of an adapter cable. The phone plug plugs into a jack provided in a console connector that plugs into the console of an XBOX game machine. A semiconductor laser modulator optical transmitter that modulates digital audio signal data onto a laser light beam is provided. The optical transmitter is powered by 5 volts dc received from the game console. The digital audio signal data is received from the game console, is conducted by the adapter cable, and provided to a television set by means of an optical connector provided at the other end of the adapter cable.