Coded data generation or conversion inventions 08/07

20070200733 - Lockable keyboard for a handheld communication device having a full alphabetic keyboard: A handheld electronic device useful for wireless communication has a keyboard including a plurality of externally accessible keys and each key has at most, one letter associated therewith. The keys can be disabled (i.e. the keyboard can be locked) to prevent accidental actuation thereof by using the navigation tool which... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070200734 - Lockable keyboard for a handheld communication device having a reduced alphabetic keyboard: A handheld electronic device useful for wireless communication has a keyboard including a plurality of externally accessible keys, of which at least a portion have multiple letters associated therewith. The keys can be disabled (i.e. the keyboard can be locked) to prevent accidental actuation thereof by using the navigation tool... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070200735 - Multi-direction switch for a cursor device: A directional controller for a device is provided. The directional controller consists of keypad contacts, a keyboard, and a button. The keypad contacts are on a printed circuit board. The keyboard has more than four keys and each key is disposed adjacent to one of the keypad contacts. The button... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070200736 - Hand-held device with character input rotary wheel: A hand-held device is provided. The hand-held device includes a rotary wheel, a switch, a character region, and a controller. The rotary wheel has a plurality of positioning inputs. The character region includes a plurality of icons corresponding to the positioning inputs. Each icon includes a character. The controller is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070200737 - Entropy coding method for coding video prediction residual coefficients: The present invention provides an entropy coding method for coding video prediction residual coefficients, comprising the steps of: firstly, zig-zag scanning coefficients of blocks to be coded to form a sequence of (level, run) pairs; secondly, selecting a type of code table for coding a current image block to be... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070200738 - Efficient multiplication-free computation for signal and data processing: Techniques for efficiently performing computation for signal and data processing are described. For multiplication-free processing, a series of intermediate values is generated based on an input value for data to be processed. At least one intermediate value in the series is generated based on at least one other intermediate value... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070200739 - Acs circuit: An ACS circuit includes: a basic DPM retaining section (11) for retaining basic DPMs (differential path metrics); a basic DPM calculating section (12) for calculating the basic DPMs; a reference DPM calculating section (13) for calculating reference DPMs, which are DPMs other than the basic DPMs; a basic DBM calculating... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070200740 - Operational-based compensation of a power amplifier: A method for compensating a power amplifier based on operational-based changes begins by measuring one of a plurality of operational parameters of the power amplifier to produce a measured operational parameter. The method continues by comparing the measured operational parameter with a corresponding one of a plurality of desired operational... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070200741 - Method and apparatus for a multifunction radio: A multifunction radio for receiving radio signals from and sending transmissions to multiple radio systems comprises an antenna and a transmit/receive switch coupled to the antenna. The radio further comprises a receiver section coupled to the transmit/receive switch and configured to receive radio signals from one or more multiple radio... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070200743 - Digital-to-analog converter for simultaneous conversion of a plurality of digital signals: A digital-to-analog converter has a reference value source, a reference value divider arrangement with a tap, a first switch arrangement which is designed to produce an electrical connection between the tap and a first output of the digital-to-analog converter, and a second switch arrangement which is designed to produce an... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20070200742 - Method of reducing inter-symbol interference, a sigma-delta converter for performing this method and a storage medium conveying information generated by this method: A method and arrangement of reducing inter-symbol interference occurring at the digital to analog conversion of a one bit digital signal is provided. During the generation of the one-bit digital signal in a sigma-delta converter the edge-density of the digital signal is measured, the result of the measurement is multiplied... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070200744 - Intrinsic rc power distribution for noise filtering of analog supplies: Analog supply for an analog circuit and process for supplying an analog signal to an analog circuit. The analog supply includes a noise filter having a variable resistor, and a control device coupled to adjust the variable resistor. The control device is structured and arranged to set the resistance of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070200746 - Flash adc: A differential analog to digital converter (ADC) comprises a first resistance ladder leg including two resistances having first ends that communicate with a middle node. A second resistance ladder leg includes two resistances having first ends that communicate with a middle node. A first amplifier applies a voltage based upon... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070200745 - Signal converter and method for operating a signal converter: A method for operating a signal converter, and a signal converter is disclosed. One embodiment has at least one register and a plurality of input channels, wherein information stored in the register is variably assignable to at least one of the plurality of input channels by one or a plurality... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070194954 - Apparatus for and method of processing data: Disclosed herein is a data processing apparatus for processing a plurality of input signals to increase the number of bits thereof to disperse 0s and 1s therein and thereafter converting the input signals into a serial signal, including signal generating means for generating the serial signal having a second bit... Agent: Frommer La Wrence & Haug LLP

20070194953 - Method and apparatus for cabac-based encoding having high compression ratio using improved context model selection and method and apparatus for cabac-based decoding: A method and an apparatus are provided for context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) based encoding or decoding using improved selection of a context model for a high compression ratio. The method of CABAC-based encoding includes selecting a first context model based on statistics of previously input symbols and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070194952 - Multi-channel encoder: There is described a multi-channel encoder (10; 600) for processing input signals conveyed in N input channels to generate corresponding output signals conveyed in M output channels together with complementary parametric data; M and N are integers wherein N>M. The encoder (10; 600) includes a down-mixer for down-mixing the input... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070194955 - Sample rate converter: A sample rate converter for converting a digital input signal having a first sample rate into a digital output signal having a second sample rate, wherein the second sample rate is different from the first sample rate. The sample rate converter includes a digital interpolation filter receiving the input signal... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070194956 - Serializer and method of converting parallel data into serial data: A serializer including a pull-up unit configured to pull up an output node, and a plurality of data select units configured to receive a plurality of input data signals. Each data select unit includes a pull-up device configured to pull up the output node in response to a corresponding input... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070194957 - Search apparatus and search management method for fixed-length data: Fixed-length data (560) contained in a database (560) are segmented into a number of pieces of data that are searchable at a time and searching is performed at high speed. As means for it, a pointer table (500), a secondary pointer table, a local table, and a fixed-length-data table are... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070194958 - Superconducting circuit for high-speed lookup table: A high-speed lookup table is designed using Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic elements and fabricated using superconducting integrated circuits. The lookup table is composed of an address decoder and a programmable read-only memory array (PROM). The memory array has rapid parallel pipelined readout and slower serial reprogramming of memory... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070194959 - Receiving method with digital level adjustment in the analog section and incremental level change in the digital section: In an analog receiving section of a receiving device, the level of a received signal is adjusted by a first correction factor corresponding to a first digital level correction signal. Following this, the level-adjusted received signal is converted into a digital received signal. In a digital receiving section of the... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20070194960 - Time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter having timing calibration: An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having a two-channel or multi-channel structure processes background timing calibration. Signals from the ADC are directly compared for the calibration. Additional signal or interruption of circuit is not required. A dynamic calibration is processed. A timing-skew error is kept in a low level and a process... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070194961 - Method and device for the version of digital signals with heterogeneous formats and application thereof to the digital amplification of audio signals: The invention relates to a method and device for the conversion of digital signals comprising a phase involving modulation with the aid of a vector lattice encoder. The inventive method comprises iterative steps which are performed on N output candidates, consisting in filtering (Hx, Hq), determining the difference between the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070194965 - Digital/analog converting apparatus with high resolution: A high resolution digital/analog converting apparatus applied to a spatial optical modulator is disclosed. The digital/analog converting apparatus includes a resistor string including a plurality of resistors connected to each other in series between operating voltage terminals to divide operating voltages into a plurality of voltages using the plural resistors,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070194963 - Timing generating circuit and digital to analog converter using the same: A current-cell type D/A converter using a timing generating circuit for converting a digital code to the corresponding differential voltage Vout between a first analog voltage and a second voltage includes a plural of current cells and a plural of switch-control-signal generating circuits generating each of switch-control signals being provided... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070194962 - Da converter, ad converter, and semiconductor device: A DA converter includes a first DA conversion section for obtaining an analog output signal in accordance with a digital input signal value, and a second DA conversion section for obtaining an analog gain control output signal in accordance with a digital gain control input signal value. In the DA... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070194964 - Digital-to-analog converter using capacitors and operational amplifier: A digital-to-analog converter using capacitors and an operational amplifier, which can be highly integrated due to its small area and which can rapidly perform a stable converting operation. The digital-to-analog converter includes a data input unit, a first conversion unit, a second conversion unit, and a signal output unit. When... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070194966 - Floating gate digital-to-analog converter: The present invention provides a DAC constructed from a series of floating gate devices which are programmable to a series of predetermined values. Addressing one or more of the programmed floating gate devices will select from a wide variety of analog outputs. Reprogramming the floating gate devices, can provide a... Agent: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.

20070194968 - Memory system including a power divider on a multi module memory bus: A memory system includes a memory controller, a transmission bus, a power divider, a first memory chip, and a second memory chip. The transmission bus is coupled from the memory controller to a first node of the power divider for transferring signals. The first node of the power divider is... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070194967 - Impedance match circuit: An impedance match circuit having high precision without being affected by variations in manufacturing processes. The impedance match circuit includes an impedance detect circuit, a current comparator, successive approximation controller, and an impedance combination circuit. The impedance detect circuit detects an external impedance. The impedance combination circuit outputs an output... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070194971 - Ad converter and radio receiver: Disclosed is an AD converter including: a first conversion stage including a quantizing part to generate m parallel pieces of quantized signals from m pieces of input analog signals representing n-dimensional vectors (n<m<2n), a decoding part to generate m pieces of decoded analog signals from the m parallel pieces of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070194970 - Device and method for encoding a secondary information of a secondary channel into a channel data stream of a primary channel: The present invention relates to a device in a corresponding method for encoding a secondary information (r) of a secondary channel into a channel data stream (3) of a primary channel, said channel data stream (3) comprising at least two symbol rows of channel symbols one-dimensionally evolving along a first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070194972 - Digital amplifier and method thereof: An apparatus includes a first trigger, a second trigger, a pulse generator, and a control unit. The first trigger generates a first trigger signal and a first level signal; the second trigger generates a second trigger signal and a second level signal; the pulse generator generates a digital output signal... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070194973 - Display device: The present invention provides a display device which includes a drive circuit having a CMOS shift register circuit constituted of a simple CMOS circuit. A drive circuit includes a shift register circuit, and the shift register circuit includes n(n≧2) pieces of basic circuits which are connected vertically in multiple stages.... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070194969 - Spectrally-adjusted sampling methods and structures for digital displays: Methods and structures are provided for generating a digital display signal in response to an analog display signal whose amplitude varies at a pixel rate and in response to a synchronization signal that defines spatial order for the analog display signal. The structures include a transform generator for providing a... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20070194974 - Structure and method for reducing the current consumption of a capacitive load: The present invention discloses a structure and method for reducing the current consumption of a capacitive load, wherein a storage capacitor is installed between a capacitive load and the output side of a drive element; a switch is used to switch the connection between the storage capacitor and the capacitive... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070194975 - Method of progressively coding/decoding 3-d mesh information and apparatus thereof: A method of progressively coding/decoding 3-D mesh information, and an apparatus therefor are provided. The progressive 3-D mesh information coding method includes the steps of reconstructing an input 3-D mesh into a plurality of mesh components, coding each of the plurality of mesh components, and multiplexing the plurality of coded... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070188356 - Coding apparatus, decoding apparatus, coding method, decoding method, computer readable medium and computer data signal: A coding apparatus includes a predicting unit, an intermediate-code generating unit, a first coding unit and a second coding unit. The predicting unit generates a piece of prediction data based on each piece of pixel data constituting a color image. The intermediate-code generating unit compares each piece of prediction data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070188354 - Analog continuous time statistical processing: Methods for applications such as signal processing, analysis, and coding/decoding replace digital signal processing elements with analog components are implemented by combining soft logic gates and filters, permitting the functionality of complex finite state machines to be implemented.... Agent: Norma E Henderson Henderson Patent Law

20070188353 - Dynamic bias circuit: A bias circuit includes a digital to analog converter (D2A) generating an output representing a voltage level for tuning an analog signal. The D2A is coupled to a primary register frame that is one of a plurality of register frames forming a data chain. The plurality of register frames are... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070188352 - Method and system for improved lookup table (lut) mechanism for huffman decoding: Methods and systems for improved lookup table mechanism for Huffman decoding are provided and may include selecting, based on a plurality of entropy encoded bits from a received bitstream, one of a plurality of codewords that is indexed according to a specific length and that points to all entries which... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070188357 - Bi-quad digital filter configured with a bit binary rate multiplier: The invention is directed to a bi-quad filter circuit configured with sigma-delta devices that operate as binary rate multipliers (BRMs). Unlike conventional bi-quad filter circuits, the invention provides a bi-quad filter configured with a single-bit BRM. In another embodiment, the invention further provides a bi-quad filter configured with multiple-bit BRMs.... Agent: Ess Technology, Inc C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070188355 - Cryptographic logic circuits and method of performing logic operations: Example embodiments of the present invention disclose a cryptographic logic circuit, which may include a first logic unit configured to execute at least one logic operation for a plurality of data pairs, the data pairs including random data and random masking data, and a second logic unit configured to execute... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070188358 - Method and system for sampling a signal: A system includes a digital circuit that may be clocked by a digital clock signal having an associated clock period. The system also includes a sample clock generation circuit coupled to a sampling circuit. The sample clock generation circuit may be configured to receive an input clock having a fixed... Agent: B. Noel Kivlin Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070188359 - Moving picture coding and/or decoding systems, and variable-length coding and/or decoding system: A coding and/or decoding system includes: a code-word table for storing therein a plurality of code words, which are capable of being decoded both in forward and backward directions and which are formed so that delimiters of the code words are capable of being identified by a predetermined weight of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070188360 - Moving picture coding and/or decoding systems, and variable-length coding and/or decoding system: A coding and/or decoding system includes: a code-word table for storing therein a plurality of code words, which are capable of being decoded both in forward and backward directions and which are formed so that delimiters of the code words are capable of being identified by a predetermined weight of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070188361 - Method and system for mixed analog-digital automatic gain control: Aspects of the invention provide a method and system for a mixed analog-digital automatic gain control. The received analog signal is amplified by the analog amplifier and then converted to a digital value by an ADC. A clamp reference level of the converted signal is removed prior to applying a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070188362 - Multi-bit sigma/delta converter: A multi-bit sigma/delta converter for converting an analog input signal into a digital output signal comprises a filter device for filtering the analog input signal which is added to a feedback signal to form an intermediate signal. An integrator device for integrating the filtered intermediate signal added to an inner... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck Chase Tower

20070188367 - Analog-digital converter circuit: The present invention provides a multi-input A/D converter circuit capable of shorting a conversion time without increasing its layout area and current consumption. When a most significant bit of a binary counter is “L”, individual input signals are sampled by a sample and hold unit, and digital signals held in... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070188366 - Analog-to-digital conversion circuit: Disclosed herein is an analog-to-digital conversion circuit configured to convert an input analog signal into a digital signal, said analog-to-digital conversion circuit includes: a first amplifying unit; a second amplifying unit; a comparing unit; a first averaging unit; a second averaging unit; and a third averaging unit.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070188368 - Analog-to-digital converter: An A-D converter includes a first amplifier circuit, an A-D converter circuit, a D-A converter circuit, a subtraction circuit, a second amplifier circuit, a timing control circuit, a type control unit, an output unit. The type control unit sets the type of the A-D converter circuit at the time of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070188363 - Equivalent time asynchronous sampling arrangement: An asynchronous sampling arrangement utilizes sampling of both a high speed data signal and a trigger (clock) signal. The data signal may be either an optical signal or an electrical signal. The data and trigger signals are sampled in parallel by two separate gates, the gates based on the same... Agent: Wendy W. Koba

20070188364 - High dynamic range analog to digital converter architecture: An analog-to-digital converter (“ADC”) architecture as described herein utilizes a digital signal processor having suitably configured waveform prediction logic that can predict expected types of input signals. The ADC architecture subtracts the predictable signal components from the analog input signal prior to the analog-to-digital conversion, which extends the dynamic range... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070188365 - Method for determining and method for compensating a characteristic of an a/d converter, circuit arrangement for determining such a characteristic, and a/d converter circuit arrangement: An analog-to-digital converter circuit arrangement comprising an analog-to-digital converter that receives an analog input signal and provides a digital output signal. A correction device that corrects the digital output signal using multidimensional correction coefficients indicative of a characteristic of the analog-to-digital converter to be compensated for, and provides a corrected... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070188369 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: A disclosed semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a digital circuit and an analog circuit formed on one semiconductor substrate; a guard band configured to prevent noise generated in the digital circuit from being transmitted to the analog circuit; a first power supply terminal configured to supply a power-supply voltage to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070182593 - Circuit module integrating a light driver and an optical sensor: A circuit module integrating a light driver and an optical scanner is capable of sensing an image of a document and driving a light source. The circuit module comprises a printed circuit board, an optical sensor and a light driver. Both the optical sensor and the light driver are mounted... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070182594 - Self-powered switch initiation system: A self-powered switching system using electromechanical generators generates power for activation of a latching relay. The electromechanical generators comprise electroactive elements or magnetic based microgenerators that may be mechanically actuated to generate electrical power. The associated signal generation circuitry may be coupled to a transmitter or transceiver for sending and/or... Agent: David J. Bolduc Face International Corporation

20070182595 - Systems to enhance data entry in mobile and fixed environment: An electronic device includes a first means for entering characters coupled to the device for generating a first character input data. A second means for entering characters is also coupled to the device for generating a second character input data, where the second means for entering characters includes a system... Agent: Sofer & Haroun, L.L.P.

20070182596 - Key construction method for a keyboard and the keyboard thereof: A key constructing method for a keyboard has M scan lines * N return lines. The electrical interconnects of the M scan lines*N return lines can generate numerical electrical contacts of A1 to AM*N, while the numerical electrical contacts of {A1 to AM*N}are the electrical contact set {A}. This key... Agent: Bayshore Patent Group, LLC

20070182597 - Modulation code system and methods of encoding and decoding a signal: The invention relates to a modulation code system and methods of encoding and decoding a signal to be used for data transmission or data storage. Such systems comprise an encoder (100) for transforming an original signal s into an encoded signal c satisfying predefined second constraints before said signal being... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070182598 - Systems and methods for current management for digital logic devices: Systems and methods for current management for digital logic devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method of current management for a digital logic circuit comprises drawing power to drive a digital logic integrated circuit; determining a priori information about an impending current need of the digital logic integrated circuit;... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070182599 - Systems and methods for current management for digital logic devices: Systems and methods for Current Management of Digital Logic Devices is provided. In one embodiment, a method of current management for a digital logic circuit is provided. The method comprises drawing power to drive a digital logic integrated circuit; performing one or more switching operations with the digital logic integrated... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070182600 - Sram bus architecture and interconnect to an fpga: An SRAM bus architecture includes pass-through interconnect conductors. Each of the pass-through interconnect conductors is connected to routing channels of the general interconnect architecture of the FPGA through an element which includes a pass transistor connected in parallel with a tri-state buffer. The pass transistors and tri-state buffers are controlled... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070182601 - Impedance matching commonly and independently: A semiconductor device is easy for high accuracy impedance matching against differences in impedance of a transmission line and a package wire. A semiconductor chip having external output buffers and a packaging circuit are included. Each external output buffer has a first output portion whose internal impedance is adjusted commonly... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070182602 - Variable-length decoder, video decoder and image display system having the same, and variable-length decoding method: A variable-length decoder includes a bitstream interface unit and a decoding unit, The bitstream interface unit generates a decoding bitstream for a current decoding process based on an unused decoding bitstream and an input bitstream. The unused bitstream includes unused bits of a previous decoding bitstream. The decoding unit decodes... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070182603 - Method and system for detecting a mode of operation of an integrated circuit, and a memory device including same: A threshold detection circuit for developing a mode trigger signal includes an input that receives an input signal. In response to the input signal having approximately an input threshold value for a triggering time, the threshold detection circuit activates the mode trigger signal on an output. In response to the... Agent: Kimton N. Eng, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20070182605 - Fast converter for crossing voltage domains: A voltage domain crossing circuit and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the voltage domain crossing circuit comprises an AC coupling component, a DC biasing component and a high voltage output amplifier. The AC coupling component receives an input low voltage signal and AC couples and splits the signal into... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070182604 - Sample selector time domain interpolation: A signal resampler carries out a time domain interpolation of an input signal for compensating for frequency offset, such as found in an ADSL system. A sample selector interpolator carries out part of the interpolation and a second, e.g. polynomial interpolator carries out the rest of the interpolation. The time... Agent: James H. Morris Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070182607 - Data transmission apparatus, data receiving apparatus and method executed thereof: A data transmitting apparatus 1101 generates, by using predetermined first key information 11; and information data 10, a multi-level signal 13 in which a signal level changes so as to be approximately random numbers, and converts the multi-level signal 13 into a modulated signal 14, in a predetermined modulation method... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070182606 - Comparator chain offset reduction: Comparator chain total offset, static and dynamic, is reduced by injecting a compensation quantity in at least one point in the chain of comparator components. The compensation quantity is determined by providing the comparator chain with calibration signals having equal values and evaluating the output states of the comparator chain.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070182608 - Apparatus and method for controlling temperature: A temperature control apparatus is suitable for use in devices such as consumer electronics devices having different thermal characteristics. According to an exemplary embodiment, the temperature control apparatus includes a fan having a field winding (F3) and a speed controller for providing a speed control signal to the field winding... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070182611 - Sigma-delta modulation with minimized noise and fractional-n phase-locked loop including the same: A sigma-delta modulator (SDM) includes a delay circuit and an operation circuit. The delay circuit generates multiple clock signals with different delays. The operation circuit includes a plurality of operation stages that operate with timing according to all of the clock signals for high-order sigma-delta modulation. Thus, noise may be... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070182610 - Systems and methods for digital control: Methods and systems for digital control.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20070182609 - Binary delta-sigma modulator: A modulator, including an integrator (118), a bistable device (110), an adder (102) and a feedback loop (116) is provided. A method for converting a continuous time signal to a binary signal is also provided.... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans LLP James Coles

20070182614 - Apparatus and method for setting filter coefficient, and recording medium having a program recorded thereon: A filter coefficient setting apparatus that sets filter coefficients of an echo preventing circuit having a first FIR filter that is inputted with a first digital signal and that outputs a second digital signal, a second FIR filter that is inputted with the first digital signal at the same time... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070182613 - Radio communication device: A digital signal processor for handling, as a digital signal, data to be transmitted or received and a analog signal processor for handling the data as an analog signal are so arranged as to be spatially separate from each other, and a converter circuit which performs signal format conversion between... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070182612 - Digital bist test scheme for adc/dac circuits: A generalized method for testing DACs (Digital to Analog Converters) and ADCs (Analog to Digital Converters), such as Sigma Delta (Successive Approximation), Pipeline or Flash ADCs. The DACs and ADCs are tested in pairs using a Digital Tester and on chip test circuitry. The DACs and ADCs may be tested... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070182616 - Capacitor-coupled level shifter with duty-cycle independence and supply referenced bias configuration: A circuit architecture, or topology, that provides a level shifter which is substantially independent of the duty cycle of an input signal includes an H-bridge arrangement of field effect transistors, a pair of capacitively coupled inputs terminals connected to the gates of the high-side (i.e., connected to the positive power... Agent: Raymond J. Werner

20070182615 - Programmable amplitude line driver: Embodiments of the invention include an integrated circuit including a line driver. The integrated circuit includes a voltage mode driver comprising complementary first and second input voltage drivers, a programmable resistor network and a current mode driver. The programmable resistor network allows the amplitude of the line driver outputs to... Agent: Gardner Groff Santos & Greenwald, P.C.

20070182617 - Digital-to-radio frequency conversion device, chip set, transmitter, user terminal and data processing method: The invention relates to a device for digital-to-radio frequency conversion, the device comprising: conversion cell matrices for digital-to-radio frequency conversion; means for providing a digital data signal; means for dividing the digital data signal into data signal groups; means for generating clock signals, the clock signals having different phases, the... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070176798 - Semiconductor device including a high voltage device: Embodiments relate to a high voltage device, a semiconductor device including the same and a method of manufacturing the same. The high voltage device may include a semiconductor substrate provided with at least a high voltage device, an isolation layer formed at an area where each device is isolated on... Agent: Sherr & Nourse, PLLC

20070176799 - Reduced keyboard character selection system and method: A system and method of selecting a character for display in a communication device having a display and a reduced-key keyboard is provided. One of the plurality of keys on the reduced-key keyboard is selected and a default letter associated with the selected key is displayed. A backspace key is... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070176800 - Fast data stream decoding using apriori information: Methods and systems for improving performance of data decoding using apriori information about the data steam. In one aspect a decoder may determine the degree of lossiness inherent in the data or in the application of the data as a maximum resolution of data to be decoded and may thereby... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070176802 - Global printing system and method of using same: A system and method for parsing data formatted in a plurality of encoding schemes at a printer is provided. The method comprises receiving data from at least one host computer at the printer, wherein at least a portion of the data is encoded in a plurality of encoding schemes. The... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070176801 - Tunneling-resistor-junction-based microscale/nanoscale demultiplexer arrays: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to demultiplexers that include tunneling resistor nanowire junctions, and to nanowire addressing methods for reliably addressing nanowire signal lines in nanoscale and mixed-scale demultiplexers. In one embodiment of the present invention, an encoder-demultiplexer comprises a number of input signal lines and an... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070176803 - Integrated circuit having a signal converter: A method for operating a signal converter, and to an integrated circuit having a signal converter, in particular an analog-digital converter is disclosed. One embodiment includes a plurality of registers, wherein the signal converter is designed and equipped such that the function of the registers each can be selected variably,... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070176804 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Information that is required for laying out character string data is entered, as are character string data. The printing attributes for the data are then edited, and are employed to extract contour information. Thereafter, the extracted contour information is employed to determine the information that is to be used as... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070176806 - Dc offset correction device and method: It is an object of the present invention to provide a DC offset correction means capable of correctly performing DC offset correction even when transmitting a non-modulation signal in radio communication equipment for performing orthogonal modulation by a direct RF modulation method. The DC offset correction device comprises a fixed... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070176807 - Electronic test circuit for an integrated circuit and methods for testing the driver strength and for testing the input sensitivity of a receiver of the integrated circuit: The electronic test circuit for an integrated circuit to be tested has an input for receiving an analog data stream (23), a programmable digital line emulator (TPE1) for emulating properties of a transmission path and an output for emitting an analog data stream (24) having a signal-to-noise ratio which can... Agent: Baker Botts, L.L.P.

20070176805 - Measuring and correcting non-linearity of an internal multi-bit analog-to-digital converter in a delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter: An internal ADC in a delta-sigma ADC is characterized using inherent delta-sigma ADC circuitry. In one embodiment, a constant DC value is applied as the input signal. The sum of the constant DC value and a feedback signal is integrated. Then, a digital approximation including the integrated sum is generated.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070176808 - Switching power source device of multi-output type: A switching power source device is provided which comprises a reactor 31 connected in a series circuit of a second secondary winding 2c of a transformer 2, a regulatory MOS-FET 18 and a second rectifying smoother 15; and an output controller 19 for controlling the on and off operation of... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070176810 - Pulse width modulation in digital power amplifier: For PWM (pulse width modulation), a counter generates a count signal by counting a clock signal 2n times for one period of the count signal. A PWM circuit generates a PWM signal from an n-bit pulse code modulation (PCM) data. The PWM signal includes a first pulse and a second... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070176809 - Signal converter, rfid tag having signal converter, and method of driving rfid tag: A signal converter capable of stabling converting input signals in an extended operation margin, a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag having the signal converter and a method of driving a RFID tag. The signal converter includes a first signal converter which converts an incoming analog signal into a power signal,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070176813 - Digital-to-analog converter: For example, in order to convert a 6-bit digital signal into an analog signal, a reference voltage generating circuit for generating 17 reference voltages, a first switch circuit having 19 switch pairs each including a MOS transistor for two reference voltages adjacent to each other in accordance with upper four... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070176811 - Driving circuit and method for increasing effective bits of source drivers: An LCD driving circuit and method for increasing effective bit(s) of the source driver is disclosed. A reference voltage generator generates a group of compensated reference voltage levels that are interlaced with original reference voltage level of original reference voltage generator. One of the multiple groups of reference voltage levels... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070176812 - Echo preventing circuit and digital signal processing circuit: An echo preventing circuit comprises a filter that is inputted with a first digital signal and outputs a second and a third digital signals; a first DA converter that converts the second digital signal into a first analog signal and outputs the first analog signal; a second DA converter that... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070176817 - Analog-to-digital converter: An A-D converter includes an A-D converter circuit, a D-A converter circuit, a subtraction circuit, a second amplifier circuit, a reference voltage control circuit, a timing control circuit 18, an amplifier control circuit 19, and an output circuit. The reference voltage control circuit controls the range of reference voltage in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070176818 - Analog-to-digital converter: An A-D converter includes a group of resistors, a group of comparators, an encoder and an output unit. The output unit includes a correction circuit. An inverter constitutes the correction circuit. The encoder is shared in a case where the A-D converter converts an inputted analog signal to a two-bit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070176814 - Analog-to-digital converter using lookahead pipelined architecture and open-loop residue amplifiers: A lookahead pipelined ADC architecture uses open-loop residue amplifiers with calibration. This approach is able to achieve a high-speed, high-accuracy ADC with reduced power consumption. In one aspect, an ADC pipeline unit includes a plurality of lookahead pipeline stages (i.e., an ADC lookahead pipeline) coupled to a calibration unit. The... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070176815 - Systems and methods for minimizing delay in a control path: Systems and methods for minimizing delay in a feedback path. In one embodiment, an analog-to-digital feedback path includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to receive and digitize an analog signal such as an amplifier output to produce a serial digital output. A serial interface receives and parallelizes the serial digital... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20070176819 - Programmable sample rate analog to digital converter and method for use therewith: A programmable sample rate ADC includes a delta sigma modulator for producing a digital signal, and a programmable decimation filter, that includes X stages of integration, a down-sampling stage for down-sampling by a factor of N, and Y stages of differentiation. The programmable sample rate ADC produces a digital output... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070176816 - Rotary flash adc: A system and method for converting an analog signal to a digital signal is disclosed. The system includes a multiphase oscillator preferable a rotary oscillator, a sample and hold circuit, an integrator and a time-to-digital converter. The multiphase oscillator has a plurality of phases that are used in the time-to-digital... Agent: Dechert LLP

20070176820 - Apparatus and method to facilitate universal remote control: One embodiment of the present invention provides a universal remote control, which includes a display screen and a user input mechanism. The universal remote control also includes a processing unit that is configured to display information on the display screen and to accept selection data from the user input mechanism.... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP