Coded data generation or conversion inventions 04/07

20070090974 - Process and medium for recording high-density digital data: The invention is to provide a recording process that enables the density of recorded information to be increased on a two-dimensional medium comprising a printing surface, for example a strip of light sensitive film. The process is for a recording system for digital data (1) and a recording medium (7)... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070090976 - Low noise digital to analog converter with audio applications: The present invention relates to multi-bit to pulse width modulated signal conversion, with extensions to digital-to-analog conversion. In particular, it has application to conversion of pulse code modulated signals, such as used in CDs and DVDs, to audio output.... Agent: Ess Technology, Inc C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070090975 - Semiconductor-circuit-device verifying method and cad apparatus for implementing the same: A verifying method verifies the operation of a semiconductor circuit device by inputting, to a logical simulator, logical models representing a logic circuit and an analog circuit. The verifying method includes the steps of adding, to the model representing the analog circuit, a function that generates a function value in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070090977 - High speed multiplexer with parallel architecture: The field of the invention is that of electronic or electro-optical multiplexers for the transmission of digital data at high speed. The device according to the invention makes it possible to multiplex two NRZ-type, binary-coded signals. It mainly comprises: A generator of four primary signals; Means of electronically selecting said... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070090978 - Cross-coupled folding circuit and analog-to-digital converter provided with such a folding circuit: A cross coupled folding circuit comprises a reference voltage circuit to supply m reference voltages, an amplifier circuit to provide control signals, in response to an input signal and to the reference voltages and 2n−I three times cross coupled folding circuits, each of which comprising three differential transistor pairs, said... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070090980 - Dithering noise cancellation for a delta-sigma modulator: In an embodiment, a delta-sigma modulator is constructed from one or more stages of a first order low-pass filter, which has a modest gain compared to the integrator used in other embodiments of delta-sigma modulators. Delta-sigma modulators can be converted into low-pass filter based delta-sigma modulators according to an embodiment... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070090979 - Low-pass filter based delta-sigma modulator: In an embodiment, a delta-sigma modulator is constructed from one or more stages of a first order low-pass filter, which has a modest gain compared to the integrator used in other embodiments of delta-sigma modulators. Delta-sigma modulators can be converted into low-pass filter based delta-sigma modulators according to an embodiment... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070090981 - Current steering digital-to-analog converter: A current steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is provided. At least two lower-resolution DACs are used for converting a high-resolution digital signal. One of the two lower-resolution DACs is used for converting the most significant bits (MSB) of the high-resolution digital signal. The other of the two lower-resolution DACs is used... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070090982 - Control module, related control chip and identifying method thereof: A control module includes a plurality of switching elements, a control chip, and an identification unit. The switching elements are connected to a power terminal through a corresponding resistor each, wherein the resistances of corresponding resistors or equivalent resistance of combination thereof are different. The switching elements generate an input... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070090986 - Analog-digital converter: An analog-digital converter includes an analog switch on a semiconductor substrate, the analog switch having a P-channel transistor and an N-channel transistor; and a capacitive element having a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are formed in a region in a layer different... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070090983 - Apparatus for driving display panel and digital-to-analog converter thereof: An apparatus for driving display panel and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) thereof are provided. The (M+L)-bit digital data provided by the timing controller is converted into N-channel analog output voltages to control and drive the display panel. The number of the analog voltage lines and the number of the selection... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070090984 - Dual mode sample and hold circuit and cyclic pipeline analog to digital converter using the same: A cyclic pipeline analog to digital converter includes a dual mode sample and hold circuit, a multiplying digital to analog converter (MDAC), a sub-analog to digital converter (sub-ADC) and a decoder. The dual mode sample and hold circuit has a charge-redistribution mode and a flip-around mode. The dual mode sample... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070090985 - Microscopy system and recording method for visualizing fluorescence: An image sensor and a circuitry associated with the image sensor is used for recording a series of fluorescence images. The image sensor comprises a plurality of pixels for accumulating charges generated by incident radiation, and the circuitry converts the charges accumulated in the pixels into binary numbers. A gain... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070090987 - Sharing operational amplifier between two stages of pipelined adc and/or two channels of signal processing circuitry: A mechanism for discharging parasitic capacitance at an input of an operational amplifier, which is shared between two stages of a pipelined analog-to-digital converter and/or two channels of signal processing circuitry, before the amplifier configuration of the stages/channels is switched. The discharging act occurs when a short reset pulse is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070085712 - Decoding method, decoding device, and program for the same: To provide a decoding method and a decoding device capable of reducing a power consumption in a decoding processing and a program for the same. The decoding method to be executed by a decoding device decoding a data to be decoded including a header data and an encoded data, including... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070085713 - Imprint-free coding for ferroelectric nonvolatile counters: An encoder utilizes a coding method for use with ferroelectric or other nonvolatile counters which are subject to imprint ensures that all of the bits in the code are frequently switched and not left in a fixed data state. The general coding equation for this method is such that: for... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070085710 - Methods for searching forensic data: In one aspect of the present invention, a software component for conducting digital forensic searches is described. The software component has a header; one or more search markup language programs, and a data features section. The software component, also referred to as a search pack, enables a first entity, such... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070085709 - Symbol detection apparatus and method for two-dimensional channel data stream with cross-talk cancellation: The present invention relates to a symbol detection apparatus for detecting the symbol values of a two-dimensional channel data stream recorded on a record carrier, said channel data stream comprising a set of contiguous symbol strips (B) of symbol rows (r) onedimensionally evolving along a first direction and being aligned... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070085711 - Systems and methods for enterprise-wide data identification data sharing and management: A method of automatically identifying relevant or suspect data during a digital forensic investigation is described. Software accepts as input raw data which are extracted from various digital data sources. The software or digital forensic and data identification application determines to which one or more identification modules the unknown raw... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070085714 - Apparatus, system, and method of data compression: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a method and/or system of compressing an input data item such as, e.g., a cache line of machine-executable code, by selecting a partition of the data item into subsequences that appear as words in a dictionary of a probability-based encoding scheme, such that... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070085715 - Method and apparatus for generating codewords and sets of codewords which are useful for both coherent and non-coherent channel sounding and ranging and also have good auto correlation, cross correlation and spectral properties: The invention describes a method and device for designing a set of codewords, which have good properties for use in communication systems. These codeword sets are useful because they provide advantages to a communication system that uses them in that they result in lower error rates in the receiver. The... Agent: Michael Mclaughlin

20070085716 - System and method for detecting matches of small edit distance: A system and method of approximating edit distance for a set of character strings in a database includes producing a representative sketch for each of the character strings; and approximating an edit distance between two selected character strings based only on the representative sketch for each of the selected character... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070085717 - 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

20070085718 - System and method for a direct conversion multi-carrier processor: A method for a radio communications device such as a receiver, transmitter or transceiver provides direct conversion of quadrature signals between a radio frequency signal and a plurality of resolved channels. The method provides block processing of multiple RF carriers in a wireless communication system using a direct conversion transmitter/receiver... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070085719 - Mixing dac architectures for a radio frequency receiver: A receiver (300) includes a mixing digital-to-analog converter (DAC) (118A), a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) (132) and a dynamic element matching (DEM) circuit (304). A DAC of the mixing DAC (118A) is implemented as a segmented DAC having a thermometer encoded DAC section (120A) and a binary encoded DAC... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070085722 - Circuit and method for extending microcontroller analog input capability: A circuit and method extends the analog input capability of a microcontroller by including an autonomous sequence control circuit that supplies input signal setting data and implements delay functions independent of the microcontroller central processing unit (CPU). The sequence controller supplies input signal selection commands to an input multiplexer, and... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070085723 - Device and method for use in the verification of handwriting: A device (10) for use in the verification of handwriting, comprising: a body (12) having a surface (11) over which a writing instrument (8) is moved during the generation of a piece of handwriting; a transducer (14) for transducing stress-wave activity in the body (12) to an analogue time varying... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20070085720 - In system analysis and compensation for a digital pwm controller: A system for analyzing the operation of a switching power converter includes a digital controller for receiving an analog signal representing the output DC voltage of the power converter for comparison to a desired output voltage level and generating switching control signals to control the operation of the power supply... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070085721 - Signal converters with multiple gate devices: An analog to digital converter including a plurality of multiple independent gate field effect transistors (MIGFET) that provide a plurality of digital output signals, is provided. Each MIGFET of the plurality of MIGFETs may have first gate for receiving an analog signal, a second gate for being biased, and a... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070085724 - Correcting charge transfer inefficiency in a charge coupled analog to digital converter: A technique for correcting charge transfer inefficiencies in a Charge Coupled Device (CCD). The basic approach is to estimate the charge entering at a given stage in a CCD pipeline, and to then determine an estimate of the error introduced by the accumulated leftover charge that will be present at... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070080832 - Decoding system and method based on context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding: A CABAC decoding system and a method are disclosed. The system includes at least a decoding unit group. Each decoding unit group includes N decoding units connected with each other. The Mth decoding unit receives parameter information for decoding bins and bit streams to be decoded, decodes the bins of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070080833 - Digital modulation apparatus and digital modulation method: A digital modulation apparatus capable of generating a modulated code so that binary slice is correctly performed when reproducing is provided. To achieve this, in a digital modulation apparatus (10A), a DSV change amount calculator (15) calculates change amounts (ΔDSVa, ΔDSVb) in DSVs of candidate modulated codes (CODEa, CODEb) generated... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070080834 - Adaptive sample rate converter: A sample rate converter includes a digital filter and control logic coupled to the digital filter. The digital filter is configured to receive an input data stream and to up convert the input data stream to produce an output data stream having a fixed data rate. The control logic configured... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070080835 - Receiver: The receiver, which enables rejection of image signals with higher accuracy over wider frequency band, can be provided as a low IF receiver by inputting a calibration signal of frequency fi (1≦i≦N) before reception of signals and determining the frequency response fa(z) to fd(z) of a calibrating filter in a... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070080836 - Modulation methods and systems: A modulation system includes an encoder for transferring data words to tentative code words. A DSV control bit generator determines the value of a DSV control bit according to the data words or the tentative code words to optimize the cumulative DSVs corresponding tentative code words, wherein the DSV control... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070080838 - Digital-to-analog converter, analog-to-digital converter, and semiconductor device: A DA conversion device includes the following elements. A higher-bit current source cell portion includes uniformly weighted higher-bit current source cells to generate an identical constant current. A lower-bit current source cell portion includes a lower-bit current source cells that are weighted to generate 1/two-to-the-power-of-certain-numbers constant currents. A constant current... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070080837 - Digitizer and related charge pump circuit: A digitizer and a related charge pump are provided. The charge pump includes an input coupled to the output of the comparator and receiving the output of the comparator as a control signal of charging and discharging, three current sources, and three switches, each of which having an end coupled... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070080839 - Two-bit offset cancelling a/d converter with improved common mode rejection and threshold sensitivity: A two-bit offset canceling A/D converter with improved common mode rejection and threshold sensitivity for use in GPS receivers. A device in accordance with the present invention comprises a level shifter, the level shifter receiving a positive signal and a negative signal, the level shifter shifting the positive signal and... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070080842 - A/d conversion array and image sensor: After an input signal Vin is supplied to C1 and held, a reset level is applied to Vin, whereby the differential signal is amplified by the ratio of C1 and C2 (C1/C2) connected to an inverting amplifier. Then an output from the inverting amplifier is held in C1, and the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070080844 - Analog-to-digital conversion method and analog to digital converter: In an analog-to-digital converter, a generating unit executes analog-to-digital conversion of a first input signal and a second input signal based on an analog-to-digital conversion characteristic curve to generate first digital data and second digital data respectively corresponding to the first input signal and the second input signal. The input... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070080840 - Analog-to-digital-converting and suppressing system: Systems (20, 22) with analog-to-digital-converters (5), for use in receivers (30) comprising tuners (31) and channel decoders (32), comprise analog filters (1, 2) located before the analog-to-digital-converters (5). The analog filters (1, 2) at least partly suppress the analog wanted signal and the analog unwanted signal. Compensators (3, 4) compensate... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070080843 - Delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter suitable for use in a radio receiver channel: A radio receiver channel includes an analog front end and a digital signal processing section coupled together by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having a delta-sigma modulator coupled to a first digital decimation filter, which is coupled to second digital decimation filter, wherein the first decimation filter includes a source of... Agent: Raymond J. Werner

20070080841 - Digital input signals constructor providing analog representation thereof: The present invention relates to a method and corresponding device for constructing at least one digital input signal and providing analog representation thereof, featuring a DSP, discrete output devices, and Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) system, wherein the MIMO system, constructed from low accuracy components featuring high speed and low... Agent: Dan Raphaeli

20070080846 - Remote control device with directional mode indicator: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for a remote control device. Means for detecting orientation of the remote control device couples to a processor. The processor is operative to change a mode of operation of the remote control device in response to a change in the orientation.... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070080845 - Universal remote control device with touch screen: A universal remote control device (2) is provided for replacing original remote control devices for remote controlling different appliances. The universal remote control device (2) comprises a remote control signal emitter (8) and receiver (16), a memory component (106), a touch screen (6) and a camera (20). If the functionality... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070075878 - Memory circuit for aho-corasick type character recognition automaton and method of storing data in such a circuit: A memory circuit for an Aho-Corasick type character recognition automaton uses a node tree for recognizing predetermined strings of characters in an incoming data stream. The recognization is based upon successive transitions in the node tree stored in memory in which each node corresponds to a recognized sequence of a... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070075877 - Method of recovering digital data from a clocked serial input signal and clocked data recovery circuit: Digital data are recovered from a clocked serial input signal. The input signal is sampled with a sampling clock signal supplied by a first phase interpolator to obtain a sampled digital signal. The first phase interpolator is controlled with a voting circuit to adjust the phase of the sampling clock... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070075880 - Coding circuit and coding apparatus: Disclosed is a coding circuit including: a data delay unit to delay a second signal as a third signal, the second signal comprising one of two data produced by splitting a data for cording, a first signal comprising the other data; a first arithmetic unit to calculate a logic product... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070075881 - High resolution and wide dynamic range integrator: Integrators are electronic components used to condition received analog signals, for example prior to Analog to Digital Conversion. Wide dynamic range, high gain and fine resolution are required of integrators and Analog to Digital Converters in order to limit the effects of noise, including quantization noise. Conventional integrators preceding Analog... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070075879 - Methods and systems for character conversion: Character conversion methods for converting characters from a source character code set to a destination character code. set. The source and destination character code sets are analyzed to establish a mapping table indicating relationships therebetween. A target character encoded in the source character code set is converted to destination code... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070075882 - Font management system: A time for displaying bitmap data is shortened, and the volume of a font table is reduced. A table having all records from start 0000h to end FFFFh is used as a pointer table which imparts a start address of bitmap data. A start address of bitmap data is stored... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070075884 - Calibration of a redundant number system successive approximation analog-to-digital converter: A system and method calibrate a redundant number system analog-to-digital converter (RNS ADC) using successive approximations of multiple input signals and approximating each input signal at least twice. The RNS ADC includes N analog converter reference elements, each of the analog converter reference elements is associated with a weight in... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070075883 - Image sensor artifact elimination: The method and circuit corrects errors in an active pixel sensor which generates an output indicative of illumination intensity and which may experience an error in the output as a result of artifacts which produce an erroneous output. The approach includes determining the output from the pixel, comparing the output... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070075885 - System and method for adjusting dither in a delta sigma modulator: A delta sigma modulator is provided. The delta sigma modulator comprises quantitizer circuitry configured to generate a digital signal using a first analog signal and dither control circuitry configured to use the digital signal to adjust an amount of dither applied to the first analog signal.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, P.l.l.c.

20070075886 - Transmitting and receiving device and transmitting device and receiving device: According to one aspect of this invention, there is provided a transmitting and receiving device including a transmitting device having a pulse width modulation encoder which generates a pulse width signal having a pulse width corresponding to the binary digital signals outputted from the plurality of sigma-delta analog-to-digital conversion units,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070075888 - Digital readout method and apparatus: Autonomously operating analog to digital converters are formed into a two dimensional array. The array may incorporate digital signal processing functionality. Such an array is particularly well-suited for operation as a readout integrated circuit and, in combination with a sensor array, forms a digital focal plane array.... Agent: James W. Wiegand

20070075887 - Electrostatic particle beam deflector: An electrostatic deflector for a particle beam apparatus comprises opposing deflector plates that face one another across a particle beam gap and are electrostatically chargeable. Each deflector plate comprises its own voltage driver, which has a DAC and amplifier. Digital electronics receives an input digital code that expresses the complementary... Agent: Janah & Associates, P.C.