Coded data generation or conversion inventions 03/07

20070069925 - Encoder signal processing circuit: An encoder signal processing circuit includes: a plurality of detectors adapted to generate signals with different phases; a switching circuit adapted to alternatively select and output a signal from the detectors; and a waveform shaping circuit adapted to shape waveforms of output signals from the detectors that are switched by... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070069926 - Method and apparatus for enhancing performance of entropy coding, and video coding method and apparatus using the entropy coding performance enhancing method: A method and apparatus for enhancing the performance of entropy coding in a multilayer-based codec system are provided. In a variable length coding method for lossless-coding first coefficients among coefficients of a discrete layer and one or more fine granular scalability (FGS) layers, the variable length coding method includes determining... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070069927 - Method of transmitting a serial bit-stream and electronic transmitter for transmitting a serial bit-stream: The present invention relates to an electronic transmitter for serially transmitting bit sequences. The electronic transmitter includes a detection device 10 and a transmitting device 12. The detection device 10 is adapted to detect a predefined bit sequence for transmittal. The predefined bit sequence is susceptible to inter-symbol-interference. The transmitting... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070069928 - Apparatus and method for calibrating mixer offset: A circuit including a subcircuit having differential signals, and a feedback circuit coupled to the subcircuit. The feedback circuit is configured to measure an offset between the differential signals, to generate a calibration signal in response to the measurement, and to reduce the offset in response to the calibration signal.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070069929 - High speed sigma delta device: A system and method are provided for a high speed sigma delta circuit operation including a sigma-delta analog to digital converter configured to receive an input signal and to output a single digital bit representative of that signal and any associated noise. Further included is a finite impulse response filter... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20070069932 - Receiving device: A tuner section is provided on one surface of a multilayered substrate, and a demodulating section on another surface of the multilayered substrate. The multilayered substrate further includes: an analog GND layer connected to the tuner section; a digital GND layer connected to the demodulating section; a shield GND layer... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070069931 - Self-calibrating continuous-time delta-sigma modulator: A self-calibrating continuous-time delta-sigma modulator determines whether time constants of its internal integrators are too large or too small by injecting a calibrating sequence into the modulator and examining a correlation between the calibrating sequence and a modulator output sequence. Then the time constants of the internal integrators are adjusted... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070069933 - Self-oscillating modulator and method for adjusting a self-oscillating modulator: A self-oscillating pulse-width modulator comprises an input, an output and a control loop. The control loop comprises a forward branch and a feedback loop. The forward branch is connected between the input and the output and comprises a comparator and a delay element. The feedback loop loops back to the... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070069930 - Sigma-delta modulated power supply: Embodiments of the present invention provide a sigma-delta modulated power supply that is operable to sum an input signal and a feedback signal, integrate the summed signal, asynchronously quantize the integrated signal, sample the quantized signal utilizing a pseudo-random osculating signal, and amplify the sampled signal. The power supply enables... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070069935 - introduction to r2rc d/a converter: A Digital to Analog (D/A) converter has a plurality of stages. Each of the plurality of stages has a first resistive element. A second resistive element is coupled to the first resistive element and has approximately twice a resistive value of the first resistive element. A capacitor is coupled to... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20070069934 - Pulse metering architecture: In one embodiment, a subscriber line interface circuit includes circuitry to generate metering pulses for insertion onto a subscriber line. The circuitry includes a cascaded digital-to-analog converter (DAC) structure including a first DAC to convert a digital sine wave into an analog representation, a second DAC to multiply the analog... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070069936 - Variable quantization adc for image sensors: An A/D converter suitable for use in a system in which the signal power of noise increases with the signal power of the signal, such as an imaging system, utilizes a variable quantization system for converting analog signals into digital signals. The variable quantization is controlled so that at low... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070069937 - Interleaved analog to digital converter with compensation for parameter mismatch among individual converters: Interleaved analog to digital converter with compensation for parameter mismatch among individual converters. A reference ADC samples an input signal at substantially the same time instances as an individual converter used in the interleaved ADC. The reference values provided by the reference ADC are compared with the digital codes generated... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070069938 - Bulk-compensated sampling network for wide range of signals: A sampling network comprises analog comparator for comparing an analog voltage to a plurality of successive voltage inputs. A plurality of capacitors are connected in parallel with a first end of each of the capacitors coupled to the first input of the analog comparator to provide one of the successive... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070069939 - Controlled sampling module and method for use therewith: A controlled sampling module samples an input signal from an input device and a reference signal. The controlled sampling module includes a plurality of sample capacitors, a switching network, and a switch control module for controlling the switching network. The switching network couples a first capacitor of the plurality of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070063876 - Multiple sensing element touch sensor: Disclosed are touch sensors that include a plurality of separated conductive sensing elements, controller electronics configured to determine touch position based on signals received from the conductive sensing elements in response to a touch, and a plurality of input leads connecting the conductive sensing elements to the controller electronics, each... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070063877 - Scalable compressed audio bit stream and codec using a hierarchical filterbank and multichannel joint coding: A method for compressing audio input signals to form a master bit stream that can be scaled to form a scaled bit stream having an arbitrarily prescribed data rate. A hierarchical filterbank decomposes the input signal into a multi-resolution time/frequency representation from which the encoder can efficiently extract both tonal... Agent: Dts, Inc.

20070063878 - Transmission and reception of a decomposed digitized signal: A voice signal is transmitted in an MOST network on a single channel. The width of the transmitted voice data words is preferably up to 14 bits, and each voice data word is transmitted into successive clock periods of the MOST network, in a byte that includes seven bits of... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070063879 - Method for generating variable numbers: A method for generating a variable number includes generating a clock signal, demodulating a received signal of data transmission, supplying a binary signal having variable frequency pulses, and sampling the clock signal by the binary signal to generate bits of a variable number. The method can be applied to RFID... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070063880 - Highspeed serial transmission system and a method for reducing jitter in data transfer on such a system: In a high-speed serial transmission system (10) comprising a transmitter (12), a transmission line (14) and a receiver (16), the transmitter (12) includes a bit-stream generator (18) for generating a predetermined pseudo random bit sequence (PRBS), and a controllable phase distortion circuit (20) having an input (24) connected to the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070063882 - A/d converter for wideband digital communication: Circuitry for providing non-uniform analog-to-digital (“A/D”) signal conversion for wideband signals is provided. The circuitry of the invention is optimized for wideband signals because it does not sacrifice the small-scale resolution of high-probability signal amplitudes while preventing the clipping of low-probability signal amplitudes. The circuitry includes a nonlinear amplifier and... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup

20070063881 - Modulation apparatus/method, demodulation apparatus/method and program presenting medium: [Problem] How to record and play back data at a high line density. [Means for Solving the Problem] A DSV control bit determining/inserting unit 11 inserts DSV control bits for execution of DSV control into an input data string and outputs the data string including the DSV control bits to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070063883 - Pipelined analog to digital converter: A circuit is provided for receiving an analog signal and providing a digital signal. It includes pre-amplifiers (601, 603, 605, 607), where each pre-amplifier (601, 603, 605, 607) receives an analog signal (Vin) and a respective reference signal (REF1-REFn). Each of the pre-amplifiers (601, 603, 605, 607) produces an output... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070063884 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, storage medium and program: A provider side apparatus provides original digital data together with a digital signature generated by the provider side apparatus, the digital signature detecting whether the original digital data was falsified or detecting a change level given to the original digital data. Upon reception of the digital data, a receiver side... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070063885 - Reconfigurable switched- capacitor input circuit with digital-stimulus acceptability for analog tests: A reconfigurable switched-capacitor input circuit with digital-stimulus acceptability for analog tests disclosed in the present invention provides the digital input interfaces, which are comprised of capacitors, analog switches and digital circuits, for the usage of testing the mixed-signal circuits. The present invention provides a low-priced testing platform to accomplish the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070057821 - Keyboard for hand-held devices: A hand-held electronic device has a keyboard with a plurality of keys, each key having a substantially flat contact surface extending to the sides of each key. One of the sides of the key is beveled.... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070057820 - Retaining device for controller of game machine: A retaining device for a controller of a game machine comprises a body having a concave center portion; a periphery ring portion arranged around the concave portion; the ring portion being formed as a combining portion; the body has a shape like a hat; a penetrating hole formed at the... Agent: Barbara Pao

20070057822 - System and method for improved data entry: A system and method for entering text via a numeric keypad. The keypad is logically divided into columns, with each column having four rows. The first column includes at least the keypad number associated with a particular key, the second column includes the lowercase letters associated with the key and... Agent: Romi N. Bose

20070057823 - Optical storage device decoding method: A decoding method for optical storage device, which decodes channel bits upon a disc by partial response maximum likelihood (PRML) detection, is proposed. Unlike the conventional skills, the present method does not decode the detected RF signals directly, but adjusts values of parts of detected RF signals to their original... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070057824 - Semiconductor integrated circuit having switch circuit of digital signal: A switch circuit shifts a bit number of a digital input signal sequentially according to a selection signal and outputs the shifted digital signal as a digital output signal. A switch control circuit receives a shift signal which changes to a random value, performs an operation on the bit number... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070057825 - Method and system for decoding variable length encoded signals, computer program product therefor: A system adapted for use, e.g. in an MPEG audio-video decoder for decoding variable-length (e.g. Huffman) encoded codewords, each having associated a respective set of sign bits. The system operates on the basis of a signed decoding codebook including extended signed codewords. Each extended codeword includes a respective codeword in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070057826 - Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument: An integrated circuit device includes a high-speed I/F circuit block which transfers data through a serial bus, and a driver logic circuit block which generates a display control signal. The high-speed I/F circuit block includes a physical layer circuit including a receiver circuit, and a high-speed I/F logic circuit including... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070057827 - Method and apparatus for generating a serial clock without a pll: A clock circuit for outputting serial data without using a PLL is described. The clock is a VCO designed to start at a frequency that is slightly higher than necessary to preserve the data. The frequency of the clock is measured and if the frequency is too high or too... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070057828 - Image forming system, image transmitting apparatus, and image transmitting system: An image forming system includes a host device and a terminal device connected to the host device. The host device includes a compressing unit, a code-stream transmitting unit, a control-signal receiving unit and a first controller. The code-stream transmitting unit transmits a code stream generated by the compressing unit. The... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070057830 - Apparatus and method for spectrally shaping a reference clock signal: Clock signal jitter detection circuit for detecting a clock signal jitter in a reference clock signal (CLK), having a switched-capacitor reference digital-analogue converter (15) which is clocked by the reference clock signal (CLK) and which converts a digital input signal into a first current, a current-controlled digital-analogue converter (16) which... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070057829 - Multi-signal analysis device: A multi-signal analyzer (1) includes an AD converter (11) for simultaneously receiving a plurality of time series signals representing physical and chemical phenomena and subjecting the signals to AD conversion, a delay time calculation unit (19) for calculating the delay time between arbitrary two signals x(1) and y(1) input to... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070057831 - Current output circuit: A capacitor having a capacitance value corresponding to the size of an output current generating transistor is connected between the gate terminal of the output current generating transistor and the input terminal of an inverter circuit.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070057833 - A/d conversion circuit with carrier frequency removing feature: The present invention is intended to fully remove a carrier-frequency component despite a compact low-cost configuration. An A/D conversion circuit with a carrier frequency removing feature includes: an A/D converter including a voltage comparator that compares a first signal with a feedback signal and a voltage feedback circuit that produces... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070057836 - Data driver and organic light emitting display device having the same: An organic light emitting display device having a sampling voltage supplying unit is disclosed. The sampling voltage supplying unit supplies a power supply voltage to a plurality of sampling latches in common depending on an output signal of a shift register. Accordingly, it is possible to significantly reduce the number... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070057835 - High speed transmission system: A high speed transmission system includes at least one transmitter; a buffer circuit for assembling into a data packet in parallel a number of sample conversion words from said transmitter; a marker circuit for adding a marker word to said data packet for framing said data packet; and a serializer... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070057832 - High-speed analog/digital converter: An analog-to-digital converter comprising a positive input terminal, a negative input terminal, several difference detection means detecting a voltage difference between a positive input port and a negative input port, first resistors connecting each positive input port of each difference detection means with the positive input terminal and second resistors... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20070057834 - Method and system for obtaining enhanced signal to noise ratio in a laser imaging apparatus: A method for measuring a small, low-frequency electrical current, comprising integrating the electrical current with an operational amplifier configured as a switched integrator to provide an output; digitizing the output of the integrator multiple times to obtain an array of measured values; and calculating a slope of the integrator output... Agent: Shlesinger, Akrwright & Garvey LLP

20070052556 - Adaptive filtering: An adaptive filtering device and method where at least one adaptive filter receives an input signal and a metering device receives an output of the at least one adaptive filter, monitors a characteristic of the output, such as power of high-frequency components, and forwards a correction signal in a feedback... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070052559 - Apparatus and method of binary image compression: An apparatus to compress a binary image includes a symbol dividing unit to extract at least one symbol from a binary image and to output the extracted symbol and a residue image, a symbol matching encoding unit to perform a symbol matching encoding operation on the extracted symbol, to determine... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070052558 - Bases dictionary for low complexity matching pursuits data coding and decoding: Embodiments related to utilizing substantially optimal entries for a relatively low complexity dictionary for matching pursuits coding is disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20070052557 - Shared memory and shared multiplier programmable digital-filter implementation: An integrated circuit for implementing a digital filter has a data memory; the data memory having two ports to permit the access of two data samples at the same time, and a coefficient memory for storing filter coefficients. A first adder adds data samples from first and second data memory... Agent: John A. Thomas

20070052560 - Bit-stream watermarking: The present invention relates to methods, devices, a media signal and a recorded medium for watermarks embedded in the sub-band domain of compressed media. Watermarks (w[n]) are embedded into the sub-band signals (xi−1[n], xi[n], xi+1[n]) of at least one selected sub-band of a compressed bit-stream (bk) using a watermark inserting... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070052561 - Conversion clock randomization for emi immunity in temperature sensors: In one set of embodiments, a temperature measurement system may include an analog to digital converter (ADC) to produce digital temperature readings according to a difference base-emitter voltage (ΔVBE) developed across a PN-junction. A clock generating circuit may be configured to provide a sampling clock used by the ADC, which... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20070052562 - Modular design method and apparatus: Disclosed is a procedure or design approach for functional modules that may be used in connection with a multiprocessor integrated circuit chip. The approach includes keeping the dimensions of each module substantially the same and having the bus, power, clock and I/O connection configured the same on all modules. Further... Agent: Ibm Corporation (cs) C/o Carr LLP

20070052563 - Method and apparatus for encoding binary data as a zero terminated string: Passing input strings through an application programming interface between functions that take null byte terminated strings as arguments, where at least some of said input strings contain null bytes internally. This is accomplished by storing the positions of the null bytes relative to the start of the block and storing... Agent: Lynn L. Augspurger Ibm Corporation

20070052564 - Image sensor capable of cancelling offset voltage of semiconductor device included therein: An image sensor includes: a pixel unit that outputs a first signal including an offset voltage inherent to a pixel; a CDS unit that performs correlated double sampling of a second signal that is obtained from the first signal by canceling the offset voltage inherent to the pixel, and outputs... Agent: Arent Fox Pllc

20070052566 - Capacitive digital to analog and analog to digital converters: A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) comprises a capacitive DAC that comprises N first capacitances that are connected in parallel and that have first ends and second ends, wherein N is an integer greater than one, and N first switches that selectively connect a selected one of the second ends of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070052567 - Capacitive digital to analog and analog to digital converters: A digital to analog converter (DAC) comprises X capacitive DACs that are connected together in series, wherein X is an integer greater than one. Each of the X capacitive DACs comprise M switches wherein M is an integer greater than one; a signal input; a signal output; and M capacitances... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070052565 - Data converter with integrated mems resonator clock: An improved clocked data converter with a vibrating microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonator. The MEMS resonator is used as part of the clock circuitry of an analog to digital converter or a digital to analog converter. The MEMS resonator may be used as the frequency determining element of an on-chip oscillator,... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070052568 - Digital-to-analog converter circuit: Data of a zeroth bit is supplied via a charge control transistor for the zeroth bit to a corresponding capacitor, data of a first bit is supplied via a charge control transistor for the first bit to a corresponding capacitor, and data of a second bit is supplied via a... Agent: Mccarter & English LLP Cityplace I

20070052569 - Resistor-string digital/analog converter circuit and semiconductor device including the same circuit: A resistor-string digital/analog converter circuit includes a plurality of resistors configured to divide a predetermined voltage, a plurality of MOS transistors configured to divide a voltage generated across one resistor of the plurality of resistors, a control circuit configured to control a connection between the one resistor and the plurality... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Reserve Attorneys For Client No. 000449, 001701

20070052572 - Analog and digital signal mixer: A mixer receiving a first analog signal and a first digital signal, corresponding to a succession, at a first frequency, of first messages each comprising a first number of bits, and providing a second analog signal, comprises an analog-to-digital converter of the first analog signal into a second digital signal,... Agent: Plevy & Howard & Darcy P.c.

20070052570 - Precision low noise delta-sigma adc with ac feed forward and merged coarse and fine results: A delta-sigma converter has coarse and fine ADCs, wherein an integrated error signal is coupled to the coarse ADC whose output drives a DAC to create feedback that achieves loop balance. The coarse ADC provides the most significant bits of the result. The integrated error signal is also applied to... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070052571 - Rapid response current measurement system and method: A rapid response measurement is accomplished by providing to a programmable gain amplifier an input to be measured, providing to an analog to digital converter having a predetermined output rate, the output from the programmable gain amplifier, determining when the output is greater than full scale input range of the... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska Intellectual Property Law Attorneys

20070052574 - Capacitive digital to analog and analog to digital converters: A pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) comprises a first stage that receives an input voltage signal and that comprises an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC includes an amplifier having an input and an output. N capacitances are connected in parallel and include first ends that selectively communicate with the input and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070052573 - Pipeline adc with minimum overhead digital error correction: The most hardware efficient way to implement an N-stage pipeline ADC is to use (G+1)-level ADC-DAC for its first (N-1) stages and use (2·G−1)-level ADC for the last stage, where G is the inter-stage gain. For the fist (N-1) stages using (G+1)-level ADC-DAC, the (G+1) levels are uniformly distributed between... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070046501 - Electromagnetic coupling galvanic isolated digital output circuit with output feedback: A galvanic isolated digital output circuit of a digital system is provided herein, which utilizes an electromagnetic coupling device for galvanically isolating the system side and the output side of the digital output circuit. The digital output circuit contains a system-side driving circuit, an electromagnetic coupling device, and an output-side... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070046502 - Keypad and operation method thereof: A keypad and operation method thereof is provided. In this embodiment, the keypad has pre-established corresponding tables (namely, key-signal tables) specifying key signals corresponding to various input keys on a keypad. A switching control key (i.e. a numeric-lock-key) is provided on the keypad to serve as the control key for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070046504 - Adaptive variable length codes for independent variables: A method for coding spatial and quality enhancement information in scalable video coding using variable length codes. Conventional systems have been capable of using variable length codes only with nonscalable video coding. In the present invention, the coded block pattern for each block of information, significance passes, and refinement passes... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070046503 - Circuitry and method for sampling audio data: A method for sampling audio data is provided. In this method, the audio data is received and sampled at a first sampling rate using a first interpolation calculation. Thereafter, the audio data sampled at the first sampling rate is again sampled at a second sampling rate using a second interpolation... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070046505 - Delimiter lookup using processor permutation instruction: Delimiter lookup is accomplished using a processor permutation instruction. A 256-bit bitmap is defined and stored within two sixteen-byte registers. Each bit of the bitmap represents an eight-bit character occurrable within a character string, such as a section of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) code, and has a value indicating whether... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070046506 - Multiplication circuitry: Combination circuitry for combining a plurality of multi-bit partial product terms includes at least one stage arranged to receive a first number of input bits. At least one stage includes at least one combiner having: a first logic device comprising an input arranged to receive a first set of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070046508 - Sampling rate converter and a semiconductor integrated circuit: The present invention reduces the manufacturing cost of a sampling rate converter. The sampling rate converter disclosed herein comprises a buffer for buffering input data, a sampling rate converter core for converting a sampling rate of data output from the buffer, and a sampling rate conversion control unit capable of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070046507 - Sampling rate converting method and circuit: A sampling rate converting circuit receives plural pieces of input data having different sampling frequencies. A plurality of FIR circuits is shared to reduce a circuit area, and, in a case where a magnification ratio of an input frequency and an output frequency is not an integer, signal deterioration due... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070046509 - Method for digitally representing an integral non-linearity response for a device: A method digitally representing an integral non-linearity response for a device includes: (a) In no particular order: (1) Identifying locations of significant departures of the integral response, including: [a]Extracting first and second differential responses from the integral response in first and second device trim states. [b] Twice-filtering first and second... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070046510 - Method for improving linearity of an analog-to-digital converter: A method for determining a minimization factor for improving linearity of an analog-to-digital converter including a plurality of components includes the steps of: (a) Evaluating integral non-linearity response of the apparatus to identify significant departures of the response greater than a predetermined amplitude and to relate each respective significant departure... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070046511 - Method and apparatus for converting parallel data to serial data in high speed applications: A method and apparatus to convert parallel data to serial data. More specifically, there is provided a parallel-to-serial converter comprising a data pipeline configured to receive parallel data, and binary sort logic comprising a plurality of switches arranged to receive the parallel data from the data pipeline, and configured to... Agent: Michael G. Fletcher Fletcher Yoder

20070046512 - Data conversion system: A data conversion system for converting data output from an information processor into data in a different format in real time while preventing image defects such as dropped frames or repeated frames in moving image data by synchronizing data transfer with converted data output. One of first and second nodes... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070046513 - Lossless nonlinear analog gain controller in image sensor and manufacturing method thereof: An image sensor comprises an active pixel sensor (APS) array, a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a ramp signal generator. The APS array has includes a plurality of pixels of arranged in a second order two-dimensional matrix, and wherein the APS array generates a reset signal and an image signal... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070046514 - Asynchronous sample rate correction by time domain interpolation: A circuit is provided to correct a sample rate by way of time domain interpolation having a first circuit loop having an up/down counter configured to receive an input signal and a feedback signal and an adder configured to receive the output signal from the up/down counter and to output... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20070046515 - Method and apparatus of high-speed input sampling: A signal sampler and method for high-speed input sampling of a signal are disclosed. A first sampler samples a data signal at a rising edge of a clock signal and generates a first sampled signal. A second sampler samples the data signal at a falling edge of an inverted clock... Agent: Trask Britt

20070046516 - Integrated fm/pm modulator and method therefor: A PM/FM modulator (100) includes an analog-to-digital converter (110) having an input terminal for receiving an analog input signal, and an output terminal, and a direct digital frequency synthesizer (120) having an input terminal coupled to the output terminal of the analog-to-digital converter, and an output terminal for providing a... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070046517 - Method and system for mitigating background noise for a sigma-delta digital-to-analog converter: A sigma delta digital-to-analog (D/A) converter system (10) includes a summing device (35) at an input of a D/A converter (30), and a low frequency low amplitude wave signal (31) injected at an input of the summing device that remains unfiltered and is used to suppress spurious tone artifacts. The... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070046518 - Digital-analog converter and digital-analog conversion method: The present invention provides a digital-analog converter having: a DEM logic device (10) for generating at least two digital output data items (13, 14) from the digital input data (11) on the basis of a predetermined algorithm to determine an initial cell and a final cell in the array arrangement... Agent: Maginot, Moor & Beck

20070046519 - Methods, systems, and apparatus for integrated circuit capacitors in capacitor arrays: A capacitor array in an integrated circuit with active unit capacitor cells arranged amongst the dummy unit capacitor cells to provide visual and electrical symmetry. The electrical symmetry provides electrical matching between active unit capacitor cells and the visual symmetry provide process uniformity between the unit capacitor cells. Visual symmetry... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070046522 - A/d converter, a/d converter control method, and a/d converter connection method: The present invention is intended to provide an A/D converter making it possible to reduce the power consumption of an output interface. The A/D converter includes an output current value designation register that holds a value sent from an upper-level unit, and an output current value designation circuit that controls... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070046521 - Analog-to-digital converter and analog-to-digital conversion method: The analog-to-digital converter directly acquires a supplied clock signal, generates a current control signal depending on the sampling frequency of the clock signal, so as to control a current value. Thus, it becomes possible to control the current to an optimal value according to the sampling frequency, irrespective of the... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070046520 - Electronic circuit structure using an analog-to-digital conversion concept for saving circuit pins: An electronic circuit structure uses an analog-to-digital conversion concept for saving circuit pins and installs a control circuit on a main board, and the control circuit includes a processor, an analog-to-digital converter circuit, a power supply circuit and an ID generator circuit; wherein the power supply circuit is connected separately... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070046523 - Reference voltage generating circuit: A reference voltage generating circuit includes: a first capacitor; a second capacitor; a reference voltage sampling capacitor; a first switch for alternatively coupling the second capacitor to a predetermined voltage to allow the second capacitor to sample the predetermined voltage; a second switch for alternatively coupling the second capacitor to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation