Coded data generation or conversion inventions 05/07

20070120710 - Cover plate for a mobile device having a push-through dial keypad: A mobile electronic device having a keyboard has a cover plate acting as a dial keypad. The keypad has a push-through, hinge-spring design that activates only one of two keyboard keys underlying a dial key and allows backlighting transmissivity. A translucent material can be used to allow the keyboard key... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070120711 - Decoding systems and methods: Various embodiments of decoding systems and methods are disclosed. One system embodiment, among others, comprises a macroblock decode module configured to decode a plurality of context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) encoded symbols corresponding to a slice without processor intervention.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070120713 - Absolute position detector: An absolute position detector for accurately reading a code recorded on an absolute track is provided. Output signals from sensors that read a code recorded on an absolute track are input into a binarization processor. A compensator provided within the binarization processor functions to correct and determine the value of... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070120712 - Image coding with scalable context quantization: A scalable quantizer is generated from a plurality of context models for each of a plurality of bit rates used in coding a source. A context model for a lower bit rate quantizes conditioning states when there is no compression gain in coding the image using child conditioning states in... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070120714 - Dynamic blocks: Tools and techniques for creating and editing a master block definition for a dynamic block, and manipulating a block instantiation of a dynamic block are described. One or more data structures that can be used to implement a dynamic block feature are described.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070120715 - Accumulator for adaptive sigma-delta modulation: A system and method for adaptive sigma-delta modulation. The system includes a input stage that produces a difference signal representing the difference between an analog input signal x(n) and a analog feedback signal z(n), the amplitude of the analog input signal x(n) within a first range [−a, +a]. An accumulator... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070120717 - Digital to analog converter with reduced ringing: Binary indications are converted to an analog representation with significant reduction in ringing at the transitions between successive binary indications and in the period during each binary indication. The binary indications are disposed in a row-and-column matrix to provide a thermometer code. Each stage of the converter includes a decoder... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070120716 - Digital/analog converting apparatus and digital/analog converter thereof: A digital/analog converting apparatus and digital/analog converter is disclosed. The digital/analog converter includes an operational amplifier, a first filter, a first switch, a second filter, a number of conversion units and a second switch. The operational amplifier has an output terminal, an inverse-phase input terminal and a non-inverse-phase input terminal,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070120718 - Method and apparatus for binary number conversion: The method and apparatus use two inequalities to determine whether an estimated value obtained from conventional method and a correct value obtained from ideal conversion is identical. When those values are the same, the estimated value is not corrected; otherwise, according to the difference between those values, one is added... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070120721 - Adc with dynamic range extension: ADC circuitry has a first programmable gain amplifier to amplify an analog input, a first analog to digital converter coupled to an output of the first amplifier, a second programmable gain amplifier, to amplify the analog input, a second analog to digital converter coupled to an output of the second... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070120722 - Analog to digital (a/d) conversion circuit: A low-power, high-dynamic range, analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion circuit for converting an analog signal to a digital signal having a controllable amplifier for amplifying the analog log signal received at an input of the amplifier in response to a first control signal and for generating an amplified analog signal, a low... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20070120720 - Analog-to-digital converter with non-linearity compensation: Systems and techniques for converting an analog input value to an output digital code are described. A system includes a first internal analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to receive the analog input value and to convert it to a first digital code; a first internal digital-to-analog converter (DAC) configured to convert... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070120719 - Methods and apparatus for multiplexed digital inputs using an analog-to-digital converter: A multiplexing circuit uses parallel-configured switch/resistor pairs in a voltage divider network in such a way that a single analog-to-digital input can be used to specify the state of more than one switch or other component. One circuit includes a reference voltage node, a ground node, and an output node,... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070120723 - Tad a/d converter in which pulse delay circuit is initialized prior to each conversion operation for deriving an output digital value: In a TAD (Time Analog-to-Digital) type of A/D converter in which delay units of a pulse delay circuit successively transfer a pulse signal during each of successive measurement intervals, with each delay unit applying an amount of delay determined by an analog input signal voltage, it is ensured that each... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070120724 - Time-interleaved ad converter: In a time-interleaved AD converter which combines together low-speed high-resolution AD converters for effective high speed operation, various deterioration factors possessed by each of the converters, including DC offset, conversion gain error, sampling timing error, and a frequency characteristic, need to be compensated. The compensation is performed through nonlinear filter... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070120726 - Multiple gate oxide analog circuit architecture with multiple voltage supplies and associated method: An analog circuit architecture with dual gate oxides and dual voltage supplies and associated method is provided. In the analog circuit architecture, different kinds of devices/transistors with different gate oxide thicknesses are powered by different voltages, such that advantages of each device technology are mixed to enhance total performance of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070120725 - Pipelined analog to digital converter with capacitor mismatch compensation: In a pipelined analog to digital converter with multiple stages of sub-converters, capacitor mismatch error can be reduced by splitting the capacitors into multiple numbers and randomly selecting part of the split capacitors as feedback capacitors. The selection of feedback capacitors can be made according to a digital output, clock... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070120727 - Quantum turing machine: A quantum Turing machine constituted using a quantum bit created by localizing a phase difference soliton S between superconducting electrons existing in each of multiple of bands in a ring R0 that includes a ring main body R1 formed of a superconductor, and well-shaped portions W1, W2 formed with a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115143 - Optical disk player: When an optical disk player 1 is switched on, a controller 15 firstly obtains information of a sampling frequency or sampling frequencies that an appliance, which is connected to the optical disc player 1 through the HDMI cable, supports (step #1). Then, when a command of a playing start is... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070115144 - Cylindrical cover-attached encoder apparatus: A cylindrical cover-attached encoder apparatus, including a magnetic metal-based body having a cylindrical shape, a magnetic rubber-based encoder having a cylindrical shape and formed around the outer peripheral surface of said magnetic metal-based cylindrical body, and a nonmagnetic material-based cover having a cylindrical shape and adapted to be mounted on... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070115145 - Direction indicator control device for vehicles: The present invention relates to a direction indicator control device for vehicles, particularly trucks, comprising a driving unit (16) for activating a left and/or right direction indicator in response to a driving command, a transmitting unit (12) for transmitting a start command, and a receiving unit (14). The receiving unit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070115146 - Apparatus and method for inputting character and numberals to display of a mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for inputting character and numerals to display of a mobile communication terminal. According to the present invention, consonant letters of a language are marked on each key of the keypad, and vowel letters are arranged in at least four directions (upper, lower, left, right,... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070115147 - Key scan type input device: A key scan type input device includes a microcomputer having a plurality of output ports for outputting scan signals and a plurality of input ports for receiving key signals in a scan signal section, a first key matrix having a plurality of system control keys arranged in a x*y arrangement,... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070115148 - Compression using multiple markov chain modeling: An input tangled sequence such as an instruction stream is compressed by modeling the sequence into multiple Markov chains to simultaneously capture and exploit the correlations among and within subsequences that are mingled in the input tangled sequence. The multiple Markov chains may be combined to drive an entropy coder.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070115150 - Programmable gate array apparatus and method for switching circuits: A programmable gate array apparatus includes macrocells connected in series, each macrocell including first group of storage elements in which active context data item is stored and second group of storage elements corresponding to storage elements of first group respectively, in which idle context data item is stored, connects storage... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115151 - System and method for incremental and continuous data compression: A data compression system and method for that is capable of detecting and eliminating repeated phrases of variable length within a window of virtually unlimited size.... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070115149 - Systems and methods for managing data on a portable storage device: The present invention is generally directed towards systems and methods for managing multimedia data on a portable storage device. In one embodiment, a computer program product includes a computer-usable medium having a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor of a computing device, causes said processor to execute... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070115153 - Method and device to provide arithmetic decoding of scalable bsac audio data: A method and device to arithmetically decode scalable bit sliced arithmetic coding (BSAC) audio data are provided. The arithmetic decoding method includes checking whether all side information of a last layer of the BSAC audio data is to be decoded, and performing BSAC smart decoding and terminating the decoding when... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070115154 - Method of decoding bin values using pipeline architecture and decoding device therefor: A method and device for decoding bin values using a pipeline architecture in a CABAC decoder are provided. The method includes reading a first context model required to decode a first bin value, from a memory; determining whether a second context model required to decode a second bin value is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115152 - Method, apparatus, computer program and sotrage medium for recording a movement of a user unit: A position code is recorded by capturing a sequence of images while writing on the base with a user unit. The position code may be decoded to a sequence of absolute positions reflecting the movement of the user unit over the base. If the position code in any image is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115156 - Decoding method and encoding method: A decoding method according to the present invention is a method of decoding a variable length code to a Run symbol and a Level symbol. The Run symbol indicates the number of consecutive coefficients each having a value of zero. The Level symbol indicates a value of a non-zero coefficient... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070115155 - Demodulation table, demodulating device and demodulating method, program, and recording medium: A demodulation table for converting variable length code (d, k; m, n; r) is provided. The variable length code has a maximum constraint length r>1, has a minimum run of d (d>0), has a maximum run of k, and a basic codeword length of n bits into data having a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070115157 - Method and system for generation of double-sided pulse wave modulation signal: A method and system for generating a double-sided pulse width modulation (PWM) signal (110) is disclosed. The method includes generating a leading edge PWM signal and a trailing edge PWM signal from a pulse code modulation (PCM) data stream (102) using a modulation conversion circuitry (106). The method further includes... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070115158 - Rf carrier generator and method thereof: An RF carrier generator comprises a circuit for sequentially counting as a function of a randomized offset and time interval, and a memory coupled to the sequential counting circuit. The memory stores samples of a desired Sigma-Delta modulator sequence bit stream. Responsive to an output of the sequential counting circuit,... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070115159 - Analog-to-digital converter: Included are a first DAC taking in and retaining sample data of a first analog signal and generating a comparison signal serving as an object of comparison with the first analog signal, a second DAC taking in and retaining sample data of a second analog signal and generating a comparison... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070115160 - Self-referenced differential decoding of analog baseband signals: Apparatus and methods of differentially decoding analog baseband signals are described. In one aspect, a wireless communication apparatus includes a baseband filtering stage and a differential decoder stage. The baseband filtering stage receives a DPSK analog baseband signal differentially encoded with phase shift differences in successive symbol periods. The baseband... Agent: Edouard Garcia

20070115162 - Folding and interpolating analog-to-digital converter and method of converting analog signal to digital signal: A folding and interpolating analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a preamp unit, a first folding stage, a second folding stage, a comparison unit and an encoder. The preamp unit receives an analog input signal and reference voltages to generate reference signals. The first folding stage generates a first group of folding... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20070115161 - Radio receiver, system on a chip integrated circuit and methods for use therewith: A system on a chip integrated circuit includes a first digital module a second digital module such that the first digital module and the second digital module are operably coupled to generate an output signal based on an input signal, based on the first digital clock signal and the second... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070109150 - Card-cage audio visual signal control system with card id assignment: A card-cage audio visual signal control system with card ID assignment is disclosed. Cards are removably installed in slots inside a cage enclosure, each card performing a specific function with respect to audio visual signals applied to the card. Card IDs are used to communicate with the cards. Card IDs... Agent: Vladimir Khiterer Khiterer Law Office

20070109149 - Data entry device: A self-service terminal alphanumeric data entry device comprises a multi-button input device and processing circuitry comprising a letter selector. At least one of the buttons is associated with a number and with at least two alphabetic letters. The input device is arranged to operate in a number entry mode wherein... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070109151 - Universal keyboard controller data protocol: A keyboard system which includes a keyboard assembly and an embedded controller. The keyboard assembly includes a keyboard matrix and a keyscan controller coupled to the keyscan matrix. The keyscan controller receives position information from a pressed key of the keyboard matrix and generates basic keyscan information. The embedded controller... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070109152 - Method and apparatus for optically detecting selections made on an input device: Optics are utilized in an input device such as a mouse or keyboard, for example, to detect a condition of one or more selection indicators, such as whether a key or button has been depressed or a scroll wheel has been rotated. Depressing a key, clicking a button and/or rotating... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070109156 - Data compression system and methods: Systems and methods for providing fast and efficient data compression using a combination of content independent data compression and content dependent data compression. In one aspect, a method for compressing data comprises the steps of: analyzing a data block of an input data stream to identify a data type of... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070109154 - Data compression systems and methods: Systems and methods for providing fast and efficient data compression using a combination of content independent data compression and content dependent data compression. In one aspect, a method for compressing data comprises the steps of: analyzing a data block of an input data stream to identify a data type of... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070109155 - Data compression systems and methods: Systems and methods for providing fast and efficient data compression using a combination of content independent data compression and content dependent data compression. In one aspect, a method for compressing data comprises the steps of: analyzing a data block of an input data stream to identify a data type of... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070109153 - Method and apparatus for efficient hardware based deflate: A method and apparatus provide for data compression with deflate block overhead reduction through the use of “pseudo-dynamic” Huffman codes to enable single deflate block encoding in a deflate algorithm implementation. Further, provided is data compression with deflate block overhead reduction through the use of “pseudo-dynamic” Huffman codes to enable... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070109157 - Bit line pre-settlement circuit and method for flash memory sensing scheme: A flash memory array includes a reference bit line on which a reference current is imposed. During read operation, bit lines selected for reading are connected to current-to-voltage converters, each of which generates an output voltage based upon the input current flowing in the bit line. The output voltage of... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070109159 - Sampling and measurement of periodic signals: Sampling and measuring a periodic signal is disclosed. A periodic signal is sampled. The sampling frequency is less than the Nyquist rate of the periodic signal. A period of the periodic signal is determined. A phase of the periodic signal is tracked to determine a sample's position on the period... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070109158 - System for suppressing aliasing interferers in decimating and sub-sampling systems: A novel and useful method and apparatus for suppressing aliasing interferers in decimating and sub-sampling discrete time systems. The present invention is operative to reduce the requirements for or completely eliminate the need for the anti-aliasing filter by dynamically modifying the sub-sampling rate (or decimation ratio). Rather than maintain a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070109160 - Method for efficient variable length decoding: Embodiments of the present invention perform efficient decoding of variable length codes statically defined by a coding standard for a wide range of source data. According to the disclosed method, special data structures (decoding tables) are created. A bit set size is associated with each decoding table. Each decoding table... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070109162 - Method of calibrating digital-to-analog converter input based on analog-to-digital converter output and analog encoding apparatus employing the method: A method of calibrating an input of a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter based on an output of an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter in an analog encoding apparatus including the D/A converter and the A/D converter, the method including inputting a certain range of input values to the D/A converter while the output... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070109161 - Reception apparatus and reception method: A reception apparatus capable of calibrating a DC offset voltage fast and with high accuracy even in an environment in which interferer exist without causing noise characteristic degradation. In this apparatus, a digital signal processing section (108) controls the gain of a received signal at such a gain that predetermined... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070109164 - Digital correction of nonlinearity errors of multibit delta-sigma digital to analog converters: Digital correction of multibit ADAC nonlinearities for error feedback DACs is provided. The integral nonlinearity (INL) error of the multibit ADAC is estimated (on line or off line) by a low-resolution calibration ADC (CADC) and stored in a random-access memory (RAM) table. The INL values are then used to compensate... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070109163 - Dynamic comparator system: A dynamic comparator system includes a dynamic comparator, a feedback filter, and a summer. The dynamic comparator is configured with a comparison signal having an initial state. The dynamic comparator is further configured to receive an input signal and to generate an output signal. The feedback filter is configured to... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070109165 - Digital saturation handling in integral noise shaping of pulse width modulation: An audio amplifier includes a digital signal processor (DSP) that contains a noise shaping quantizer having an integrating error amplifier. The integrating error amplifier contains integrators connected in a feedback loop, a summer supplied with an output of each of the integrators, and a saturation function module producing a saturation... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070109166 - Linearizing methods and structures for amplifiers: Methods and structures are provided to enhance the linearity of amplifiers such as those which include a complementary common-collector amplifier stage. The methods and structures configure this stage so that each transistor of the stage drives an output port through a linearizing resistance. The methods and structures then control a... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20070109172 - Ad converter and display unit: An AD converter includes: a reference voltage generator circuit having a plurality of resistors connected in series with predetermined reference voltage applied to both ends thereof, the reference voltage being divided at connecting points between the individual resistors to generate a plurality of reference voltages; a voltage comparator circuit configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070109168 - Analog to digital converter with dither: An analog to digital converter is provided comprising an array of capacitors for sampling an input, each capacitor having at least one associated switch for controllably connecting a terminal of the capacitor to a first reference voltage or to a second reference voltage; and a sequence generator for generating a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070109171 - Audio ouput soft start by use of output driver enable signal: A system and method are provided for signal processing between any two or more connected analog signal processing elements, including a plurality of analog processing elements connected via DC blocking capacitors and a signal processing element that operates as the source of the signal employing a controlling means to adjust... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20070109167 - Fast analogue-to-digital converter: In order to minimize the influence of parasitic capacitances of the resistor network on the comparator response time, it is provided that the series resistor network receives a reference voltage (VH) and is traversed by a fixed current I0 and that the row i (i varying from 1 to N)... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070109170 - Receiving device and automatic gain control method: A receiving device includes a receiver; a frequency converter; an A/D converter; and a digital signal processor, wherein the A/D converter includes a variable gain amplifier adjusting a signal level of the analog signal from the frequency converter; an A/D converting portion converting an analog signal from the variable gain... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070109173 - Resistor ladder interpolation for subranging adc: An analog to digital converter includes a resistive ladder outputting a plurality of reference voltages and a coarse ADC receiving the reference voltages and a voltage input. A plurality of coarse comparators receive an output of the coarse ADC. A switch matrix receives an output of the coarse ADC and... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070109169 - Systems and methods for providing driving voltages to a display panel: Systems for providing driving voltage of display panels. An exemplary system comprises a data driving circuit with a plurality of driving units generating analog voltage to drive corresponding pixels according to digital data signals from a data bus, each comprising a temporary storage unit storing N digital data in sequence... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070109174 - Amplifier circuit and analog-to-digital circuit using the same: One or more input capacitors are connected to an inverting input terminal of an operational amplifier. Connected to the respective input capacitors are switches for on-off control of the input of an input signal, switches for on-off control of the input of another input signal, switches for on-off control of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070103343 - Non-contact linear absolute position sensor: A non-contact linear absolute position sensor includes a first magnetic encoder having n+1 pole pairs, a second magnetic encoder having n pole pairs and located and aligned with the first magnetic encoder so as to cover a linear distance. The magnetic encoders are affixed to a traveling body. Two pairs... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070103345 - Digital audio system on a chip with configurable gpios: A digital audio system on a chip includes a plurality of general purpose input/output (GPIO) modules operably coupled to the bus. Each of the plurality of GPIO modules includes a plurality of GPIO cells, wherein a GPIO cell of the plurality of GPIO cells is coupled to a pin of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070103346 - Matrix decoder: A matrix decoder is provided, which includes a plurality of first level shifters, a plurality of second level shifters, and a demultiplexer. The first level shifters and the second level shifters boost the voltages of inputted signals to the voltages required by high voltage components and output the boosted signals.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070103347 - Method and device for decoding syntax element in cabac decoder: A method and a device for decoding a syntax element in a context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) decoder perform a binary arithmetic coding (BAD) process and a binarization matching (BM) process in parallel. The method includes determining an expected bin value to make a bin string including the bin... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070103344 - Scrambled block encoder: A block encoder flexibly encodes K codes to produce an encoded data block. The block encoder receives an unformatted block of 10 Gigabit Media Independent Interface (XGMII) data. The unformatted block of data includes data and/or K characters, both of which can be located in any position of the unformatted... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070103348 - Threshold search failure analysis: A value range for a code development option, which results in an error when applied to a given code, can be automatically searched to intelligently identify a threshold for the error within the value range. Instead of completely abandoning the optimizations offered by a code development option with a value... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

20070103349 - Lvds and tmds dualfunction device: A LVDS and TMDS dualfunction transmitter for both LVDS and TMDS output channels is disclosed, including an encoder and a serializer. The encoder encodes twenty eight bits of LVDS signals to thirty bits of TMDS signals. The serializer includes four serializer channels for converting the LVDS signals to a serial... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070103350 - Methods and apparatus for testing an integrated circuit: In a first aspect, a method of testing an analog circuit is provided. The method includes (1) providing the analog circuit with a screening circuit adapted to cause the analog circuit to function like a logic gate during a test; and (2) applying digital signals to the analog circuit to... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070103351 - Testing system using configurable integrated circuit: A testing system comprises a configurable integrated circuit that selectively communicates with one or more of N external impedances, that has M predetermined configurations that are selected based on an electrical characteristic of the one or more of the N external impedances, where N and M are integers greater than... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070103352 - Modulation table, modulating apparatus and method, program, and recording medium: A modulation table for converting data with a basic data length of m bits into a variable length code (d,k;m,n;r) is provided. The modulation table includes a basic table for converting data patterns into code patterns and a replacement table for replacing data patterns with code patterns. The replacement table... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070103353 - Modulation table, modulating device and method, program, and recording medium: A modulation table configured to convert data having a basic data length of m bits into variable length code (d, k; m, n; r) is provided. The modulation table includes a maximum constraint length r>1, a minimum run of d (d>0), a maximum run of k, and a basic codeword... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070103354 - Waveform generation method, radar device, and oscillator for radar device: It is possible to generate D/A conversion voltage in which an error generated by numeric irregularities of a D/A conversion element such as resistor constituting a D/A converter 11 is corrected. A waveform generation method characterized in that input data into a D/A converter 11 are provided to the D/A... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103356 - Analog to digital converter with a series of inverting elements: An A/D converter has inverting elements and delay elements alternately disposed in series. Each inverting element receives an analog voltage signal as a power source and converts a pulse signal in an inversion operation time depending on the analog voltage signal. Each delay element delays transmission of the pulse signal.... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070103357 - Analog-to-digital converter with low power track-and-hold mode: A method for converting analog data to digital data is disclosed. The method includes operating an analog-to-digital data converter in a tracking mode to sample an input signal and in a convert mode to convert the sampled input signal after sampling to a digital signal. The analog-to-digital data converter is... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070103355 - Digital recording device, digital recording method, program, and storage medium: A digital recording device includes a microphone configured to convert collected sound into an analog audio signal; a first analog to digital converter configured to convert the signal converted by the microphone into a digital audio signal; a first memory configured to store the digital audio signal of the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103358 - Method for locating an appliance's remote control: The present invention is designed to solve the problem of locating the remote control of an electronic appliance (TV, VCR, air conditioner, stereo, etc.), by means of a button located on the appliance that causes the remote-control to beep when pressed, much like those found on a cordless telephone.... Agent: Oran Joseph Bodner

20070096946 - Information inputting system with a variable arrangement of keypad, and control method thereof: The present invention discloses a keypad matrix element shift arrangement method having an efficient an neighboring numeral traffic line customarily. According to the present invention, an information input apparatus whose key arrangement varies includes a key display section of a square shape for displaying a key image, and a key... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070096947 - Phone-independent key expansion module: A button box provides additional keys that can be used in conjunction with a telephone. In one embodiment, a button box is configured by associating it with a telephone and by programming its keys. When a key on the button box is activated, a key press event is sent from... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070096948 - Remote communication device for use with watercraft towing a secondary recreation apparatus priority: Provided is a communication system to be used between a watercraft towing a remote individual and the remote individual, the communication system including a transmitter unit for transmitting a wireless signal indicating the remote individual's desired condition to the watercraft towing the remote individual; a key pad for providing tactile... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070096949 - Method and apparatus for scanning a key or button matrix: An improved key matrix scanning technique conducts a first pre-scan on a first array of connections in a key matrix to identify any activated keys or buttons associated with the first array. A second sub-scan is conducted on a second array of connections in the key matrix but only for... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070096952 - Compressing log files: Data is compressed, which includes first through sixth patterns having respective first through sixth values, where the first pattern precedes the second pattern in the data, the third pattern precedes the fourth pattern in the data, and the fifth pattern precedes the sixth pattern in the data. Compression includes outputting... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070096953 - Data compression method and compressed data transmitting method: Character strings in sample data are classified into groups of character strings with the same leading n characters (for example, “abc”). Then, one character string with the highest appearance frequency (the most frequently appearing character string) in the sample data is extracted from each group. The most frequently appearing character... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070096951 - Data decoder: A method, apparatus and computer program for decoding a data stream. The method comprises the steps of acquiring an analog data signal, determining an initial polarity of the analog data signal, determining a threshold transition level, determining a plurality of transition edges where the analog data signal crosses the threshold... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20070096954 - Methods and apparatus for performing adaptive compression: Methods and apparatus for performing adaptive compression are disclosed. A data stream is divided into a plurality of data segments. When one of the plurality of data segments is compressed, it is determined whether the compression has been successful. When the compression has been successful, a data segment in proximity... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070096955 - Multiple output converter and control ic: A multiple output voltage converter in accordance with an embodiment of the present application includes a controller and a plurality of conversion devices controlled by the controller and operable to convert an input voltage into an output voltage to provide a plurality of final output voltages that are applied to... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070096950 - Structured set partitioning and multilevel coding for partial response channels: A method and apparatus for channel coding useful for recording channel and other communications applications. The proposed channel coding method is actualized via structured set partition (SSP) in conjunction with multilevel coding (MLC) and offers performance gains over conventional coding schemes with comparable complexity at the bit-error rate (BER) level... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070096960 - Integrated circuit with integrated circuit section to aid in testing: An integrated circuit is disclosed having at least one digital input, which has a first circuit section that has a current-voltage characteristic and that in the absence of an input signal holds a voltage at the input at a defined value, and having a second circuit section that provides a... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070096959 - Method and system for determining an optimal or near optimal set of contexts by constructing a multi-directional context tree: In various embodiments of the present invention, optimal or near-optimal multidirectional context sets for a particular data-and/or-signal analysis or processing task are determined by selecting a maximum context size, generating a set of leaf nodes corresponding to those maximally sized contexts that occur in the data or signal to be... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070096957 - Ramped clock digital storage control: Disclosed herein are digital systems and methods for use with a ramped clock signal. The digital system includes an input element having a data input to receive a data signal, a control input to receive a control signal, and a dynamic node to be driven by the ramped clock signal.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070096956 - Static defined word compressor for embedded applications: The present invention provides lossless, static defined-word compression without a tree structure or recursion, thereby reducing the use of processing resources and memory. The efficiency of the present invention does not decrease when the message probability distribution is highly skewed, and the present invention does not limit the length of... Agent: Powell And Associates

20070096958 - Voltage control circuit and semiconductor device having the voltage control circuit: A voltage control circuit of the present invention is applicable to a combination of a decoder circuit and a level conversion circuit connected to the decoder circuit. The voltage control circuit includes a level conversion circuit voltage line for applying a voltage to the level conversion circuit, and a boost... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070096961 - Signal processing device: if TOTAL1>C1, the input PCM data is selected, and if otherwise the thinned data is selected. The selected data and the determination result information of the determination circuit 2 are written into a memory 3. Therefore, data compression is performed with respect to original data with a simple circuit configuration... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070096962 - Apparatus and method for sigma delta signal treatment: A sigma delta signal treating apparatus includes: (a) a low pass filtered signal path including at least one low pass filter; and (b) a quantization noise filtered signal path coupled with the low pass filtered signal path; the quantization noise filtered signal path including at least one high pass filter... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070096966 - Data driver and organic light emitting display device using the same: A data driver and an organic light emitting display device using the same, in which power consumption and a layout area thereof are reduced. The data driver includes: a shift registering part adapted to supply sampling signals; a sampling latching part including sampling latches adapted to store data in response... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070096965 - Digital to analog converter and a ground offset compensation circuit: A digital to analog converter comprising: a digital to analog conversion core adapted to receive at least one reference voltage and a digital word to be converted, and to output an analog voltage as a function of the digital word and the at least one reference voltage; a sensing circuit... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070096963 - Means/method for generating a laser drive signal: A driver for driving a light generator for generating light, comprising a digitalto-analog converter (DAC) having a data input, a data output for generating an analog signal, a first multiplexer (MUX1) for cyclic selection of a number of data levels corresponding to desired intensity levels of the light and for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070096964 - System and method for efficient upsampled signal processing: A system and method for efficiently upsampling and filtering a signal is provided. The system includes a controller 216 and an upsampler 202 capable of upsampling a digitized signal. The upsampler 202 converts a digitized signal having a first sampled frequency into a digitized signal having a second sampled frequency... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070096967 - Voltage divider circuit: The present invention provides a voltage divider circuit capable of reducing a number of external devices and lowering the cost and power consumption. The present invention includes a plurality of resistors connected in series, a plurality of buffers and at least one source driver IC. In addition, a first terminal... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070096969 - Current steering d/a converter with reduced dynamic non-linearities: A digital to analog converter including a first current source (3) to which a first digital signal (28,31) is applied for conversion to an analog signal, wherein the first digital signal has a predetermined clock cycle. The digital to analog converter further comprising a second dummy current source (30) associated... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070096971 - Extension of accuracy of a flash adc by 1-bit through interpolation of comparator outputs: ADC accuracy is increased by 1 bit by interpolation of comparator outputs in a comparator array, thereby increase accuracy without significant increasing power consumption and size.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070096970 - Inverter-based flash analog-to-digital converter using floating resistor ladder: An analog-to-digital converter device for converting an analog signal into a digital signal includes a comparator array including a plurality of comparators, each of the comparators including a first inverter and a second inverter connected in series with the first inverter, a resistor string including a plurality of resistors connected... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070096968 - Signal processor: A signal-processing unit according to the present invention comprises: an input line provided with a plurality of analog input signal lines; a multiplexer circuit transmitting the plurality of analog signals from this input line to one signal line in the subsequent stage in a desired sequence; an analog-digital conversion circuit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070096972 - Technique for comparing analog signal with reference voltage: The present invention provides a technique for reducing power consumption of an A/D converting device. An A/D converting device according to the present invention includes: multiple comparators each of which has a function for comparing input analog signals with a predetermined reference voltage; an A/D converter for converting the input... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070096973 - High-bandwidth high-gain amplifier: A pipelined analog to digital converter comprises a first stage that receives an input voltage, that generates a first sampled digital value and a first residue voltage, and that includes a first amplifier that amplifies the first residue voltage and generates a first amplified residue voltage. A second stage receives... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C