Coded data generation or conversion inventions 07/06

20060164265 - High rate coding for media noise: An apparatus has a conversion circuit, a precoder circuit, and a selection circuit. The conversion circuit converts user data b1, b2, b3 . . . bk to a coded sequence c0, c1, c2 . . . cq. The selection circuit selects c0 in the coded sequence c0, c1, c2 ....

20060164264 - Low power, dc-balanced serial link transmitter: A transmitter for a data communication system that comprises a transmission line between first and second integrated circuits. An encoder on the first integrated circuit encodes an input data stream to produce a sequence of codewords, wherein codewords in the sequence are members of a set of codewords representing data...

20060164263 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding modulation code: A method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding a modulation code are provided. The method includes: adding an error detection bit(s) to source information; performing k-constraint coding by inserting an error pattern that can be detected using an error detection code into a data stream that violates a k-constraint...

20060164266 - Synthesizing a remote controlled clock for data transmission via a digital multimedia link: A system synthesizes a remote controlled clock across data transmission through a digital multimedia link. A clock is generated at the receiver side that is exactly synchronous to a master clock at the transmitter side. The system includes a clock encoder on the transmitter side, a synchronous serial data transmission...

20060164267 - Method and apparatus to facilitate transmission of ternary movable barrier operator information: Ternary data as corresponds to a movable barrier operator is provided (21) and converted (22) into corresponding binary information. In a preferred approach this comprises converting each ternary trit into a corresponding binary pair. Pursuant to a preferred approach binary bits as correspond to, for example, fixed and/or non-fixed information...

20060164268 - Method, medium, and apparatus controlling bit rate in image data encoding: A method, medium, and apparatus controlling a bit rate in image data encoding. The method for controlling a bit rate in image data encoding includes setting a reference bit amount for encoding a block group composed of a predetermined number of blocks created by dividing image data of a frame,...

20060164269 - Adaptive dispatch table based on templates: The present invention is directed to a method of an adaptive procedure table which is capable of providing default behaviors for each procedure if a corresponding procedure is not defined or has been removed from a software build. The default behaviors for each procedure may be defined in a template...

20060164272 - Analog-to-digital-converter comprising a sigma-delta-modulator and receiver with such analog-to-digital-converter: Analog-to-digital converter including a sigma-delta modulator (SD) with noise shaping filtering. Signal transfer filtering is introduced in the feedback loop of the sigma-delta modulator. This may be done without affecting the noise shaping filtering e.g. with a signal transfer filter (L) in the forward path of the feedback loop and...

20060164274 - Cascade-type variable-order delta-sigma modulator: A cascade-type variable-order delta-sigma modulator with low power consumption that can change the number of stages of the quantization loops, which are connected in a cascade configuration, to an optimum number depending on peripheral circuitries in a configuration as simple as possible. The present invention includes first to nth stages...

20060164270 - Decision feed forward equalizer system and method: An equalizer and corresponding methods is arranged and constructed to mitigate adverse effects of a wireless channel (300). The equalizer includes a delay line (503) coupled to an input signal (501) and comprising a delay circuit coupled to an output combiner (507) that is operable to provide an interim signal...

20060164271 - Method and apparatus for converting optical signals to radio channels: The invention relates to a conversion of a pulse modulated signal to a radio frequency signal enableing use of applications and protocols designed for wireless optical links on radio frequency channels. The method comprises receiving the pulse modulated input signal, decoding the received pulse modulated input signal into a decoded...

20060164273 - Self-tuning output digital filter for direct conversion delta-sigma transmitter: A self-tuning filter that is well suited for use as a output digital filter in a direct conversion delta-sigma transmitter is constructed as a high pass finite impulse response filter having a cutoff frequency of twice the desired carrier frequency. The filter is clocked using the same clock as used...

20060164275 - Configuration for digital-analog conversion of high-frequency digital input signal into carrier-frequency analog output signal: A delay device has at least one first delay element and optional additional delay elements connected downstream from the first in a serially consecutive manner. The digital input signal is connected to an input of the first delay element and is connected to an input of a first D/A converter....

20060164278 - A/d converter: A current mode A/D converter for reducing current consumption while enhancing resolution. The A/D converter includes a V/I conversion circuit for sampling and converting an input voltage to a current, an I/V conversion circuit for converting the current supplied from the V/I conversion circuit to a comparison voltage, a comparator...

20060164276 - Mismatch shaped analog to digital converter: A mismatch shaped analog to digital converter. The novel analog to digital converter includes a first circuit for providing a plurality of reference voltages, a plurality of comparators adapted to compare an input signal with the reference voltages, and a second circuit for randomizing connections between the reference voltages and...

20060164277 - Programmable integrating ramp generator and method of operating the same: A ramp generator for an analog-to-digital converter comprises an array of capacitors each controlled by a switch responsive to one or more control signals and operable to connect/disconnect one or more of the capacitors relative to the array and a current source operable to charge at least one of the...

20060164279 - Sample and hold apparatus: An acquisition and averaging circuit is provided in which, during a sampling phase capacitors in sample blocks 4 and 6 are sequentially connected to the input signal to sample it and are then isolated so as to hold the sample. The capacitors are then connected to a combining/averaging arrangement such...

20060164280 - Bluetooth remote controller using zipper interface: A wireless remote control device for transmitting control commands to a Bluetooth™ enabled electronic device, such as a television set, an audio player, or a cellular telephone by manipulating the zipper in a garment, handbag or the like. The zipper fastener consists of opposing rows of interlocking teeth attached to...

20060158352 - Alignment method of liquid crystal of ferroelectric liquid crystal device: Provided is an alignment method of a liquid crystal of a ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) device. An optical axis direction of a liquid crystal molecule is controlled by applying an alternating current (AC) electric field to the liquid crystal in an N*-to-SmC* phase transition temperature area. Since the optical axis...

20060158353 - Light guided keyboard system: A light guided keyboard system essentially comprised of a light emission circuit and a guide control circuit built in the keyboard; an EL lamp or other light emitting device being connected to the light emission circuit; and guide software such as spelling guide or typing method guide, application software control...

20060158355 - Methods of and apparatuses for adaptive entropy encoding and adaptive entropy decoding for scalable video encoding: Methods and apparatuses are provided for adaptive entropy encoding and adaptive entropy decoding using various context models. A scalable entropy encoding method includes determining a context by referring to both syntax elements in the same layer as a block including a syntax element to be encoded and syntax elements in...

20060158354 - Optimised code generation: A method of generating executable program code for a data processing system comprising an encoding stage for generating a compressed intermediate representation (E-IR) of an input code (IC) and a decoding stage for generating the executable code from the intermediate representation. The encoding stage comprises transforming (301) the input code...

20060158356 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding digital signals: Provided are method and apparatus for encoding and decoding multi-channel signals composed of a plurality of channels using a similarity between frequency bands and a similarity between channels. The method of encoding digital signals includes: dividing the multi-channel digital signals into a predetermined number of frequency bands; detecting the most...

20060158357 - Text compression method for multi-level display: A text compression and multi-level display system, including a receiver, a processor, and a display device, is provided. The receiver is adapted to receive a digital audio transmission and generate a digital signal including a text and a text display level corresponding to the text. The processor is in communication...

20060158358 - Timing recovery methods and apparatuses: In a timing recovery method, two consecutive sampling values may be generated based on a sampled input signal. The input signal may be sampled according to a phase interval of a sampling clock. A slope between the two consecutive sampling values may be calculated, and a difference between a target...

20060158359 - Pulse width modulator quantisation circuit: The present invention relates to pulse width modulation (PWM) modulators, especially but not exclusively for digital audio applications; and to quantisers and power switching for the same. The present invention provides a pulse width modulation (PWM) modulator or converter having a guard band quantiser arranged to block low level signal...

20060158362 - D/a conversion circuit and a/d conversion circuit: A D/A conversion circuit for performing D/A conversion at high speeds. The D/A conversion circuit includes a resistor string including a plurality of resistor elements connected between a low-potential power supply and a high-potential power supply. A plurality of first switch groups are connected to the connection nodes between the...

20060158360 - Digital to analog converter: A digital to analog converter comprises a plurality of conversion elements as well as a reference conversion element and further comprises mismatch calibration unit for calibrating at least one of the conversion elements in response to a comparison of that element's output with the output of the reference conversion element....

20060158361 - Digital-to-analog converter: A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is disclosed, which provides different bias voltages to the most significant bits (MSBs) and the least significant bits (LSBs) of the digital signal. These two bias voltages can be adjusted according to the match among the current source cells, and maintain a particular proportional relationship. The...

20060158363 - Current sensing analog to digital converter and method of use: A current sensing analog to digital converter (CS-ADC) is disclosed. The current sensing analog to digital converter comprises a modulator adapted to sense a change in current and generate an oversampled signal. The converter further includes a decimation filter system coupled to modulator for removing out of band noise from...

20060158364 - Minimized sar-type column-wide adc for image sensors: An improved analog-to-digital converter wherein a minimal amount of circuitry is provided for conversion of an analog signal to a series of digital bits. A comparator is provided for generating digital values to which the digital bits correspond. A digital-to-analog converter is provided for generating, via successive approximation, a feedback...

20060158365 - Predictive analog to digital converters and methods of using: Methods and devices are disclosed for performing analog to digital signal conversion in shorter time and/or with less power consumption than that of a comparable analog to digital conversion that uses a conventional sequential approximation method based on a binary search. In one embodiment, a predictive guess is supplied as...

20060158366 - Receiver and method thereof: A receiver and method thereof. The example receiver may include an analog-to-digital (ADC) converter for performing an over-sampling operation on a received signal to generate output data, the over-sampling operation based on a sampling frequency and an over-sampling coefficient and a fast fourier transform (FFT) calculating unit for performing a...

20060158367 - Memory efficient interleaving: A method and system using a single interleaver at a either a receiving device or a transmitting device where a first symbol set is read from the single interleaver and concurrently with a second symbol set is written to the single interleaver, and a controller that synchronizes the reading of...

20060158368 - System, method and interface for controlling multiple electronic devices of a home entertainment system via a single control device: A portable communication device is provided and includes a display. At least one remote control soft button is presented at the display and an electronic device control command is associated with each remote control soft button. Further, the electronic device control command is enabled in response to a code received...

20060152388 - Position sensor with unbalanced cyclic ratio: and the generator elements (7, 8, 9) of the magnetic tracks and the detection cells (3, 4) are arranged so that, depending on the logical processing resources, the digital output signal (S) has the same constant period (T), both on its regular coding part (S1) and on its irregular coding...

20060152389 - Operation input device: An operation input device according to the present invention displays a plurality of keys (7) on a liquid crystal panel (6), and prompts a user to press the keys (7) in the order of numbers assigned to the respective keys (7). On the basis of key pressing periods during which...

20060152390 - Continuously actuatable keys pertaining to a keyboard comprising an integrated signal detection element, and method for signal processing: The aim of the invention is to develop a keyboard for compact mobile electronic appliances, said keyboard comprising an integrated signal detection element and enabling simple data input and simultaneous continuous control possibilities using a plurality of keys; an electronic inquiry mechanism for actuating the keys; and an evaluation method...

20060152391 - Code processing device, code processing method, program, and recording medium: In a code processing device, a rank assignment unit assigns ranks to sets of partial codes of original codes respectively, wherein, when the sets have different quality levels, a high rank is assigned to a set of partial codes having a low quality level, and when the sets have a...

20060152392 - Data transmission between computers: The invention relates to a method, a system and to a transceiver device for transmitting data via a data transmission device. According to said method, during an establishment phase, information concerning the structure of the data to be transmitted is exchanged between two or more transceiver devices. The structure of...

20060152393 - High-speed track and hold architectures: A high-speed sampling system and an analog to digital converter are disclosed. One embodiment of a method of sampling a signal includes receiving an analog signal and generating first samples at a rate of Fs, and generating second sub-samples from the first samples at a rate of Fs/N and having...

20060152394 - Decoding device with multi-buffers and decoding method thereof: A decoding device includes a variable-length decoding circuit, a first buffer, a second buffer and a DC/AC prediction circuit is disclosed. The variable length decoding circuit decodes a first block and a second block from a compressed media stream. The first and second buffers are electrically coupled with the variable-length...

20060152395 - Integrated circuit with embedded identification code: An integrated circuit (100) has a plurality of inputs (110) and a plurality of outputs (120). In a test mode, a test arrangement including a plurality of logic gates (140) is coupled between the plurality of inputs (110) and the plurality of outputs (120). The logic gates from the plurality...

20060152396 - Noise shaper for shaping a power spectral density of an error signal and method therefore: A noise shaper for shaping a power spectral density of an input signal which consists of signal intervals, wherein each signal interval has a corresponding signal amplitude being constant for a variable interval duration time of the signal interval, said noise shaper comprising a calculation unit having at least one...

20060152397 - Analogue-to-digital converter: The invention relates to an analog-to-digital converter. The analog-to-digital converter, for conversion of a signal for digitization into a digital signal, contains a number of comparators, each of which has a first and second input and an output. The digitized signal is provided at said output. Each comparator is further...

20060152398 - Digital interface for analog audio mixers: An analog-digital interface device is provided, which is configured to be housed within or removably coupled with an analog mixer, to thereby form a digital-output analog mixer. The analog-digital interface device includes analog-digital conversion circuitry and digital transmission circuitry that convert analog audio from the analog mixer to digital format...

20060152399 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit including an A/D converter capable of converting an analog signal accepted through an external terminal into a digital signal. The A/D converter includes: a ladder-type resistor for generating a reference voltage; a set of first operational amplifiers, each accepts an output voltage of the ladder-type resistor;...

20060152400 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit including an A/D converter capable of converting an analog signal accepted through an external terminal into a digital signal. The A/D converter includes: a ladder-type resistor for generating a reference voltage; a set of first operational amplifiers, each accepts an output voltage of the ladder-type resistor;...

20060152401 - Method for universal remote control configuration: A controller is connected to one or more media devices. Each media device includes an associated native remote control. The controller includes a data store comprising one or more descriptions of remote control protocols. The user presses a button on the native remote control. The controller receives a resulting signal...

20060145894 - Apparatus and method for latency control in high frequency synchronous semiconductor device: An apparatus for controlling a latency in a synchronous semiconductor device. The apparatus includes a first counting block for counting a cycle of a first clock signal to thereby generate a first binary code; a second counting block for counting a cycle of a second clock signal to thereby generate...

20060145895 - Minimum delta generator for program binaries: Implementations provide a technology for generating a minimum delta between at least two program binaries. An implementation is given a source program (S) in a binary format and a target program (T) in a binary form. It constructs control flow graphs (CFGs) of each. It matches common blocks of the...

20060145896 - Minimum delta generator for program binaries: Implementations provide a technology for generating a minimum delta between at least two program binaries. An implementation is given a source program (S) in a binary format and a target program (T) in a binary form. It constructs control flow graphs (CFGs) of each. It matches common blocks of the...

20060145897 - Variable-length encoding method, variable-length decoding method, storage medium, variable-length encoding device, variable-length decoding device, and bit stream: The present invention correctly decodes data encoded with a variable-length encoding method that improves the compression ratio. The variable-length encoding method encodes a unit data composed of a plurality of sub-data while referencing a parameter table, and includes: an initialization step in which the parameter table is set to initial...

20060145898 - Fast compact decoder for huffman codes: A method may include performing an N bit-at-a-time matching operation for a first N bits in an encoded input stream of bits using a lookup table. The matching operation may obtain a first address in the table, and N may be an integer greater than one. The method may also...

20060145899 - Programmable error amplifier for sensing voltage error in the feedback path of digitially programmable voltage sources: A programmable error amplifier (PEA) that may be used as part of a voltage regulation subsystem to control the output of a digitally programmable voltage source is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the PEA comprises an amplification circuit, an analog voltage sampling circuit and a digital reference voltage sampling circuit....

20060145900 - Analog-to-digital converter arrangement and method: An arrangement (100) and method for sigma-delta analog-to-digital conversion by providing parallel translating sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters (21, 22) and summing their outputs to produce a digital output signal having a bandwidth greater than that of the first or second translating sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters (21, 22). The parallel translating sigma-delta analog-to-digital...

20060145901 - State modulation method and apparatus for inserting state control codes: A state modulation method and an apparatus for inserting state control codes are provided. To overcome the problems of inefficient control on direct current and low frequency component in conventional state modulation techniques, the disclosed method inserts state control codes in a state modulation method to increase the probability for...

20060145903 - Data-converting circuit, data-converting method, and digital-to-analog converter using the same: A data converting method is realized by a data-converting circuit including: a data combining circuit for outputting 1st through (2n−1)th intermediate data bits by combining data bits corresponding to “1”s in n-bit binary data corresponding to a decimal number; a thermometer code generating circuit for generating 1st through (2n−1)th bits...

20060145904 - Digital-to-analog converters including charge pumps and related automatic laser power control devices and methods: A digital-to-analog converter may include a clock signal generator and a charge pump. The clock signal generator may be configured to generate an information clock signal responsive to a digital input signal so that different duty cycles of the information clock signal are provided for different values of the digital...

20060145902 - Method and a digital-to-analog converter for converting a time varying digital input signal: A digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) (1) comprises a digital processing circuit (2) having an input register (10) to which data samples of a digital input signal are written at a data sampling rate (fs). A delay register (14) holds each data sample for one clock cycle of the data sampling rate...

20060145905 - Multi-stage digital-to-analog converter: A multi-stage digital-to-analog converter has been presented. The multi-stage digital-to-analog converter may include a first digital-to-analog stage to output a first voltage and a second voltage in response to a first portion of a digital value, the first voltage being greater than the second voltage by a predetermined value, and...

20060145906 - Minimized sar-type column-wide adc for image sensors: An improved analog-to-digital converter wherein a minimal amount of circuitry is provided for conversion of an analog signal to a series of digital bits. A comparator is provided for generating digital values to which the digital bits correspond. A digital-to-analog converter is provided for generating, via successive approximation, a feedback...

20060145907 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit including an A/D converter capable of converting an analog signal accepted through an external terminal into a digital signal. The A/D converter includes: a ladder-type resistor for generating a reference voltage; a set of first operational amplifiers, each accepts an output voltage of the ladder-type resistor;...

20060145908 - Pipelined analog-to-digital converter having enhanced high frequency performance characteristics: A pipelined digital-to-analog converter includes a first sub analog-to-digital converter and a multiplying digital-to-analog converter. The first sub analog-to-digital converter, which is responsive to a first reference voltage, is configured to convert a first analog signal into a first digital signal. The multiplying digital-to-analog converter is responsive to the first...

20060145909 - Polarity independent precision measurement of an input voltage signal: Polarity independent precision measurement of an input voltage signal is accomplished using a voltage integrating circuit that receives a first positive reference voltage and the input voltage signal, wherein the first positive reference voltage is greater in magnitude than the input voltage signal. A resetting circuit is coupled to the...

20060145911 - Remote control signal, remote control system, and method of controlling device with remote controller: A remote control system includes a remote controller and a device controlled by the remote controller. The remote controller generates a remote control signal and transmits the control signal to the device to control operation of the device. The control signal includes a header portion indicating a key information transmission...

20060145910 - Remote controller with a pressable casing for performing specific function: A remote controller includes a casing, a support seat, an actuator, and a control circuit. The support seat has a base, and a post that extends from the base and into the casing and that is pivoted to the casing so as to permit the casing to be tiltable relative...