Coded data generation or conversion inventions 02/07

20070040707 - Separation of components and characters in chinese text input: Components and characters are separated in a user interface for stroke based input of Chinese characters. A user enters a stroke sequence, and matching components and characters are separately displayed in separate selection lists. When the user selects a component, the character selection list is updated to only display characters... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070040708 - Decoding device or encoding device having intermediate buffer interposed between an arithmetic code decoder or encoder and a reverse binarization device or binarization device: In the decoder of binary arithmetic code of the present invention, the decoding and reverse binarization of arithmetic code are separated and a large intermediate buffer is interposed. The decoding of arithmetic code is first carried out at the time of input of a stream, whereby the arithmetic code can... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070040710 - Fast, practically optimal entropy encoding: An enumerator employs “indexing volumes” as the add-on values used to compute indexes for n-item ordered sets such as symbol sequences. Each indexing volume is associated with a different class into which the allowed ordered sets are partitioned. The indexing volumes all equal or exceed the number of ordered sets... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20070040709 - Scalable audio encoding and/or decoding method and apparatus: A method and apparatus to scalably encode and/or decode an audio signal includes encoding a specific band signal included in an input signal, encoding a frequency envelope of an excited signal in which the encoded specific band signal is removed from the input signal, encoding a residual signal in which... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070040711 - Method and system for fast context based adaptive binary arithmetic coding: A method for efficient and fast implementation of context-based adaptive binary arithmetic encoding in H.264/AVC video encoders is disclosed. The H.264/AVC video standard supports two entropy coding mechanisms. These include Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) and Context Adaptive Variable Length Coding (CAVLC). The entropy coding efficiency of CABAC exceeds... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070040712 - Reconfigurable mixed-signal vlsi implementation of distributed arithmetic: Disclosed herein is a reconfigurable mixed signal distributed arithmetic system including: an array of tunable voltage references operable for receiving a delayed digital input signal; a combination device in electrical communication with the array of tunable floating-gate voltage references that selectively combines an output of the array of tunable voltage... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20070040713 - Low-complexity sampling rate conversion method and apparatus for audio processing: A low-complexity sampling rate conversion (SRC) method and apparatus for the processing of digital audio signals. A first stage upsamples an input audio signal to generate an upsampled audio signal. For example, the first stage may perform 1:2 upsampling using a halfband filter. A second stage re-samples the upsampled audio... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070040714 - Device and method for variable length decoding: An device and method for variable length decoding. The device comprises a device for variable length decoding comprising a first register, a second register, a first barrel shifter, a buffer, a coding table and an adding device. The method is characterized in that the buffer is installed on the output... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070040715 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device including a clock signal generation circuit and a plurality of circuit blocks operating in synchronization with the clock signal, in which each of the plurality of the circuit blocks conducts resetting treatment receiving the interruption signal reset_in outputted in synchronization with the clock signal in the course... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070040716 - Impedance adjustable circuit having on-chip adjustable termination resistor: An adjustable termination resistor includes a reference resistor, a current mirror circuit, a calibration transistor-resistor array, a digital code generator, a comparator, a decision and latch circuit and a termination resistor. The mirror current generated from the current mirror circuit flows through the calibration transistor-resistor array to result in a... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070040717 - System monitor in a programmable logic device: Method and apparatus for a system monitor embedded in a programmable logic device are described. The system monitor includes a dynamic reconfiguration port interface for configuring or reconfiguring the system monitor during operation thereof. The system monitor includes an analog-to-digital converter which is reconfigurable responsive to input via a dynamic... Agent: Xilinx, Inc Attn: Legal Department

20070040718 - Delta-sigma modulator circuits in which dither is added to the quantization levels of methods of operating the same: A delta-sigma modulator circuit includes an n-level quantizer circuit that is configured to generate a quantized output signal responsive to an input signal. The n-level quantizer circuit includes n adder circuits that are configured to add a dither signal to n quantization levels to generate n dithered quantization levels, respectively... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070040719 - Digital/analog converter: The present invention relates to a digital/analog converter. The digital/analog converter includes a divided-voltage generating section that divides a reference supply voltage through the voltage distribution; a decoder section that receives a digital signal so as to output a decoded selection signal; a first divided-voltage selecting section that selects and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070040720 - Method of matching dynamic elements and multi-bit data converter: A method of matching dynamic elements includes sequentially selecting first unit elements corresponding to a value of first digital data among M unit elements in a first direction, the M unit elements being for converting sequentially inputted digital data to an analog signal; checking whether a reference unit element is... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070040722 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus including a signal converter which converts an input analog signal to a digital signal, and a display unit which displays an image. The apparatus comprises a signal analyzer for determining a format of the analog signal. An information inserter adds the determined format information to the digital... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070040721 - Self-oscillating a/d-converter: The invention relates to at least one self-oscillating loop (SOL) comprising at least one forward path (FP), at least one feedback path (FBP) wherein said at least one forward path (FP) comprises amplitude quantizing means (AQM) combined with time quantizing means (TQM) and outputting at least one time and amplitude... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070040723 - Analog-to-digital converter: The invention relates to signal processing circuits, analog-to-digital conversion circuits (A/D conversion circuit) and track and hold and sample and hold circuits. A circuit transfers charge from a first capacitor to a second one where the transfer is enhanced by means of a control signal which influences the value of... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070040724 - Remote control transmitter: A remote control transmitter includes a case having a surface, an operation switch provided in to the case, a door capable of opening and closing the surface of the case, a detection switch provided in the case, an elastic member provided in the door, a controller for generating a signal... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070035417 - Method and circuit for interpolating encoder output: Two-phase sinusoidal signals QA, QB output from an encoder are interpolated by sample-and-hold (S/H) circuits and A/D conversion (ADC) circuits, and data D is output in accordance with a data request signal RQ from exterior. For this interpolation of encoder output, a direction discrimination up/down counter is arranged near a... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070035419 - Electronic module with track identification function and keypad identification function: An electronic module with a track identification function and a keypad identification function is provided. The electronic module includes a touch-control element and a driver. The driver has a track identification mode and a keypad identification mode. When the driver receives a switch signal, the driver mode is switched between... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070035418 - Finger feeling numerical buttons for commercial electronic remote control: The present invention offers a finger feeling numerical buttons for commercial electronic remote control. The altitude of the five even number buttons 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 is higher than the altitude of the other buttons 1, 3, 7, 9, * and #. On the upper, lower, right and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070035420 - Audio device arrangement structure for a motorcycle, and motorcycle incorporating same: An audio device arrangement structure for a motorcycle is configured and arranged to provide high-quality sound output. The audio device arrangement structure serves to mount an audio device, which includes an audio unit, an amplifier and at least one speaker, for a motorcycle. The audio unit is mounted at the... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070035421 - Layout rules for whitespace sensitive literals: Layout rules are provided that enable white-space sensitive literals to be developed within a source program according to arbitrarily defined or virtual margins. In one aspect, a computerized programming system is provided. The system includes a source program having one or more computer program codes or instructions. A rules component... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070035422 - Interface circuit device and printing apparatus: A CPU and an image memory are provided in a printing apparatus. An interface circuit device for inputting/outputting signals representing image data is interposed between the CPU and the image memory. The interface circuit device constitutes of a plurality of SSTL circuits. One of two adjoining pixels in image data... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070035423 - Method for calibrating a multi-bit digital-to-analog converter, multi-bit digital-to-analog converter in with this method is applied and converter provided with such a multi-bit digital-to-analog converter: In a method for calibrating a multi-bit DAC intended, particularly, for application in high-speed and high-resolution ADCs, such as Σ Δ ADCs, and comprising a number of DAC cells, apart from the number of DAC cells applied in the multi-bit DAC for conversion, an additional DAC cell is provided, which... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070035426 - Continuous time deltasigma modulator system with automatic timing adjustment: A continuous time ΔΣ modulation system with automatic timing adjustment includes a loop filter having continuous time elements for receiving an input; and an ADC for sampling the output from the loop filter in response to an ADC clock; a DAC responsive to the output from the ADC for feeding... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070035430 - Delta sigma analog to digital converter system with automatic gain control responsive to out-of-band interferers: An improved ΔΣ analog to digital converter system with automatic gain control response to out-of-band interferers including a ΔΣ multibit analog to digital converter responsive to an analog input for providing a digital output including the in-band signal and out-of-band interferers and quantization noise and a signal peak estimator circuit... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070035429 - Delta sigma modulator system with start up transient suppression: A ΔΣ modulator system with start up transient suppression includes a ΔΣ analog to digital converter having predetermined internal signal limits; an envelope control circuit for attenuating the input signal to the ΔΣ analog to digital converter and a control circuit responsive to a start/reset signal to enable for a... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070035425 - High speed digital delta-sigma modulator with integrated upsampler: Apparatus, and a related method, for converting digital signals directly to radio-frequency (RF) analog signals. The apparatus includes a single high-speed delta-sigma modulator and an integrated upsampler that increases the data rate of digital input samples by a selected factor, such as nine times. The delta-sigma modulator is configured to... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070035428 - Method and apparatus for minimizing the influence of a digital sub-circuit on at least partially digital circuits: One inventive aspect relates to a digital sub-circuit suitable for embedding in an at least partially digital circuit for minimizing the influence of another digital sub-circuit on the at least partially digital circuit, the other digital sub-circuit being part of the at least partially digital circuit. The influence of the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070035427 - Quadrature bandpass delta sigma converter: An improved quadrature bandpass ΔΣ converter includes a loop filter, an ADC responsive to the loop filter, and a first feedback DAC responsive to the ADC; a first summing circuit is responsive to the first DAC and an analog input for providing an input to the loop filter; a second... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070035424 - Sigma-delta modulator: A sigma-delta modulator (SDM) including n (n>_1) integrators in series, where a first of the n integrators receiving an input signal, at least one Q device, which acts as a quantizer when an absolute value of a signal input thereto is smaller and as a gain element (either with or... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070035431 - Analog to digital converter: A method of operating a digital to analog converter comprising the steps of operating the converter in a first mode to obtain a first conversion result, operating the converter in a correction mode in which one or more correction conversions are made, and wherein each correction conversion takes the result... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070035432 - Analog-to-digital converter without track-and-hold: A system and method for converting an analog signal to a digital signal is provided. The analog to digital conversion is achieved without a dedicated sample-and-hold circuit. An ADC stage, preferably the front-end stage in the case of a pipeline ADC, samples the input voltage within a quantizer and within... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070035433 - System and method for scheduling access to an analog-to-digital converter and a microprocessor: An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) system is disclosed and includes a programmable control register and a plurality of channels, each channel having an associated request bit within the programmable control register. The ADC system also includes a scheduler responsive to the programmable control register, the scheduler comprising logic to monitor a... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070035434 - Successive approximation a/d converter: A successive approximation. A/D converter includes a sample-hold amplifier circuit configured to sample and hold an input analog voltage to produce an internal analog voltage proportional to the input analog voltage with a voltage gain being smaller than 1, a switched capacitor D/A converter coupled to the sample-hold amplifier circuit... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070030176 - Digital control system for an electro-optical device: A method and firmware for digitally controlling an electro-optical device include steps of receiving as input a first analog signal representative of a measured parameter from an electro-optical device generated by the electro-optical device in response to a second analog signal representative of a set parameter received by the electro-optical... Agent: Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP

20070030180 - Arithmetic decoding system and apparatus based on an adaptive content: The present invention relates to an arithmetic decoding system and apparatus based on the adaptive content. The system includes a control unit, a decoding unit and an interface unit. The control unit fills the code stream data into the decoding unit and configures and controls the decoding unit through the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070030177 - Data compression: A method of data compression, for example for images or audio signals, comprises encoding the data using a transform such as a wavelet transform or a DCT, grouping the transform coefficients by most significant bit, and/or bit value, and transmitting them group by group. Where the transform uses a code... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070030178 - Image compression and decompression: Techniques employable to compress and decompress images are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070030179 - Method and apparatus for adaptive data compression: We present a method and apparatus for performing adaptive data compression. An alphabet and vocabulary in the encoder and decoder is built adaptively and stored in a dictionary as symbols are to be encoded and decoded. Each time an unknown symbol is to be encoded by the encoder, the encoder... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070030181 - Method, apparatus, system, and program for code conversion transmission and code conversion reception of audio data: A system and a method of suppressing outstanding degradation of decoded audio quality due to a transmission error of audio coded data are provided without feedback information from a receiver, thereby reducing the increase of the number of necessary transmission bands and the arithmetic complexity on the receiving side. A... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070030182 - Time base adjustment in a data processing device: The present invention relates to a data processing device and adjusting method for adjusting the timing of a higher-rate stream of second data samples derived from a lowerrate stream of first data samples. A predetermined one of the first data samples is stored and first predetermined ones of the second... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070030183 - Variable length coding method and variable length decoding method: An image coding apparatus provides a run-length encoding unit RLE1 that subjects quantized coefficients which are obtained by quantizing frequency components of an image signal to a variable length coding process by using a run value Run that indicates the number of successive zero coefficients and a level value Lev... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070030184 - Serializer circuitry for high-speed serial data transmitters on programmable logic device integrated circuits: Serializer circuitry for high-speed serial data transmitter circuitry on a programmable logic device (“PLD”) or the like includes circuitry for converting parallel data having any of several data widths to serial data. The circuitry can also operate at any frequency in a wide range of frequencies, and can make use... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup

20070030185 - Parallel-to-serial converter: Method and system on an aircraft for converting plural data inputs and plural data outputs from a parallel format to a serial format is provided. The system includes an integrated software module that accepts plural variable number of inputs and generates a plural variable number of outputs; an analog input... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070030186 - Method of storing and retrieving miniaturised data: A method of storing data including the steps of providing a first index of first location identifiers, a second index of second location identifiers and a dictionary data base of data items, wherein the first location identifiers are adapted to identify the location of second location identifiers in the second... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070030187 - Analog-to-digital conversion method, analog-to-digital converter, semiconductor device for detecting distribution of physical quantity, and electronic apparatus: In an analog-to-digital conversion method for converting a difference signal component representing a difference between a reference component and a signal component in an analog signal to be processed into digital data, in a first process, a signal corresponding to one of the reference component and the signal component is... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070030189 - Reduced complexity nonlinear filters for analog-to-digital converter linearization: A method of converting an input analog signal to a compensated digital signal comprises converting the input analog signal to an uncompensated digital signal, inputting the uncompensated digital signal to a distortion model, generating a modeled distortion signal based on the uncompensated digital signal, and subtracting the modeled distortion signal... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070030188 - Reference module apparatus and method therefor: A Root Mean Square (RMS) detector circuit comprising a first differential pair circuit arranged to operate in a common mode. The detector circuit also comprises a compensation circuit unit comprising a second differential pair circuit to duplicate an unwanted base current drawn by the first differential pair circuit. The compensation... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd. C/o Klaas, Law, O'meara & Malkin, P.C.

20070030191 - A/d converter: An A/D converter has a first voltage generation circuit, a second voltage generation circuit, a comparator, first and second switch circuits connected in series between an input terminal of an analog input voltage and an output terminal of the first voltage generation circuit, a first capacitor inserted between a connection... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Reserve Attorneys For Client No. 000449, 001701

20070030190 - Analog-to-digital converter with reduced power consumption in cmos image sensor: An analog-to-digital converter includes a comparator, a latch, and a bias control unit. The comparator is turned on by an applied bias voltage for comparing an analog voltage with a ramp voltage. The latch activates an end signal when the ramp voltage becomes greater than the analog voltage as indicated... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070030193 - Dsv control apparatus and dsv control method: A digital sum value (DSV) control apparatus inserts a DC control bit for each DC control block. The apparatus includes a first DSV accumulated value comparator for setting a target flag to a DC control bit for a first DC control block, a second DSV accumulated value comparator for comparing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030192 - Time division sampling digital to analog converter for driving flat panel display, method of implementing the same, and data driver circuit using the same: Disclosed herein are a time division sampling digital to analog converter for a flat panel display, a method of implementing the digital to analog converter, and a data driver circuit using the digital to analog converter. The time division sampling digital to analog converter includes a timing signal generation means... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070024472 - Computing circuits and method for running an mpeg-2 aac or mpeg-4 aac audio decoding algorithm on programmable processors: The present invention relates to the computing method and Huffman computing circuits for improving the correctness and efficiency of the nonlinear inverse quantization when the MPEG-2 AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) or MPEG-4 AAC algorithm which is used as an audio compression algorithm in multi-channel high-quality audio systems is implemented on... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070024473 - Decoding variable length codes while using optimal resources: In one aspect, code-words of variable lengths are decoded using a multi-stage decoding approach, with different stages being of different sizes (and thus accepting input data of corresponding number of bits). According to another aspect, the same bit positions are used for storing symbol information and offset value in case... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070024471 - Systems and methods for secure communication over wired transmission channels: A method of secure communication includes encoding a communication by separating the communication into at least two communication parts, such that each of the at least two communication parts comprises at least a portion of the communication. The communication parts may further be encoded with random or pseudo-random data. The... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070024474 - Variable length coding method and variable length decoding method: An image coding apparatus provides a run-length encoding unit RLE1 that subjects quantized coefficients which are obtained by quantizing frequency components of an image signal to a variable length coding process by using a run value Run that indicates the number of successive zero coefficients and a level value Lev... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070024475 - Variable length coding method and variable length decoding method: An image coding apparatus provides a run-length encoding unit RLE1 that subjects quantized coefficients which are obtained by quantizing frequency components of an image signal to a variable length coding process by using a run value Run that indicates the number of successive zero coefficients and a level value Lev... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070024476 - Pre-emphasis circuit: Disclosed is a pre-emphasis circuit including a first parallel-to-serial converter, a second parallel-to-serial converter, a mixing circuit and a clock generating circuit. The first parallel-to-serial converter converts parallel data into first serial data, and the second parallel-to-serial converter converts the parallel data into second serial data. The mixing circuit receives... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070024477 - Dpsk demodulator and method: There is provided a method and apparatus for demodulating a received hard limited DPSK signal, which may be an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. The apparatus comprises: a digital down converter for generating an in-phase component I and a quadrature component Q of a received signal; at least one decimator for... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070024478 - Information recording processing apparatus, information recording processing method and computer program: An information recording processing apparatus includes a modulating portion operable to modulate write data on an information recording medium and to create code data thereby; and a DC level calculating portion operable to calculate a DC level corresponding to a given run length based on a coefficient defined in accordance... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070024482 - Digital to analog conversion using summation of multiple dacs: A method for converting a digital signal to an analog signal, said method including a plurality of signal sources, preferably current sources, one or more of said signal sources being variable output signal magnitude sources, said method including the steps of setting the output signal magnitudes of the one or... Agent: Perman & Green

20070024479 - Digital-to-analog converter and related level shifter thereof: A digital-to-analog converter has a plurality of current cells. Each of the current cells has a level shifter and a current source. The level shifter connects to a first power terminal and a second power terminal to convert a first input signal and a second input signal into a first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070024480 - Digital/analog converter and method for digital/analog conversion of a signal: A digital/analog converter contains an input for supplying a first digital word having a first word length. A noise shaper is coupled to the input and is designed to convert the first digital word into a second digital word having a second word length and to output this digital word... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070024481 - Method and system for digital to analog conversion using multi-purpose current summation: A method and a corresponding system for converting a digital signal to an analog signal using a plurality of signal sources, preferably current sources, at least two of the signal sources being equal output signal magnitude sources, said method including controlling the equal output signal magnitude sources by a logic... Agent: Perman & Green

20070024483 - Application circuit and method for shaping noises: An application circuit and method for shaping noises are provided. In an embodiment, an analog-to-digital converter converts a first analog signal into an n-bit digital signal for an encoder to generate a p-bit digital signal. Then a control circuit generates a plurality of control signals based on the p-bit digital... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070024484 - Reference voltage pre-charge in a multi-step sub-ranging analog-to-digital converter: Multi-step sub-ranging analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) utilize a plurality of converter modules to generate sub-ranges of bits for a digital output signal during a multi-phase conversion cycle. Each subsequent converter utilizes reference voltage levels corresponding to conversions performed by prior converters during the timing phases of the conversion cycle. Settling time... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070024485 - Reducing variation in reference voltage when the load varies dynamically: Providing a substantially constant reference voltage to a component from a reference buffer connected by a path. The load that would be offered to the reference buffer in desired durations is estimated, and a dummy load is added to the path such that the aggregate load on the path is... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070024486 - Intuitive based control elements, and interfaces and devices using said intuitive based control elements: The present invention relates to intuitive based control elements and interfaces and devices using said intuitive based control elements. In certain embodiments, machine interfaces such as remote control devices for operation of various devices are provided. More specifically, machine interfaces according to embodiments of the invention herein include one or... Agent: Ralph J. Crispino