Coded data generation or conversion inventions 10/07

20070247337 - Condensed keyboard for electronic devices: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and media for generating characters for electronic devices using condensed keyboards are disclosed. Embodiments comprise a method of manipulating a set of keys adapted to be manipulated using fingers of a left hand and a right hand of a user, each of the keys capable of generating... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070247338 - Remote control device: Remote control device (10) comprising a circuit board (140) with control inputs (46) arranged on one surface thereof (44); control elements (42) which, following an activating action performed by the user, activate one or more inputs (46) from among those present on said board (140), said control elements (42) being... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070247339 - Keyboard without ghost keys: A keyboard without ghost keys has a circuit which includes a microprocessor in which a plurality of I/O lines form a keyboard scanning matrix. Two of the I/O lines on the matrix cross to define a plurality of signal switches. The microprocessor is electrically connected to a primary level resistance... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247340 - Delta-sigma modulator and a/d converter: A delta-sigma modulator and A/D converter is capable of doubling an oversampling ratio without increasing the operating speed of the circuit at an A/D modulator provided with a delta-sigma modulator which carries out differentiation and integration processing on two channels of analog input. Delta-sigma modulator 100 is configured with first... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070247341 - Sigma-delta modulator: A sigma-delta modulator includes a first adder, a filter, a quantizer and a digital-to-analog converter. The first adder receives an input signal and an analog signal and subtracts the analog signal from the input signal to output a processed signal. The filter receives the processed signal to output a filtered... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070247342 - Methods and apparatus to balance reference settling in switched-capacitor pipelined digital to analog converter: The linearity of switched-capacitor, pipeline digital to analog converters is improved by balancing the settling behavior of its pre-charge switches. In more detail, a switched capacitor DAC includes a number of substantially identical cells, one cell for each bit of an input digital word. A number of switch driver circuits... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070247343 - Digital-to-analog converter with secondary resistor string: A digital-to-analog converter generates a monotonic sequence of reference voltages and selects an arbitrary pair of reference voltages, adjacent in the monotonic sequence. One of the selected reference voltages is supplied through a resistor and a switching device, connected in series, to the output terminal of the converter. The other... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070247346 - Delay line, analog-to-digital converting device and load-sensing circuit using the same: A delay line, an analog-to-digital converting device and a load-sensing circuit using the same are provided. The delay line comprises a delay-control terminal, a reset terminal, n delay cells DCELLx (0<x≦n). The delay cells DCELL1˜DCELLn are connected in series to each other. Each of the delay cells DCELLx is coupled... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070247347 - Electronic circuit device: A circuit (1a) having analog circuits processes an analog input signal (Vin). The circuit (1a) having the analog circuits sends a coefficient s1 to a coefficient detection/control circuit (1b). The coefficient s1 indicates a predetermined property of each of the analog circuits provided in the circuit (1a). The coefficient detection/control... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247344 - Method of generating a digital signal that is representative of match errors in an analog digital conversion system with time interleaving, and an analog digital converter with time interleaving using same: An object of the invention is a method for generating a digital signal representative of the pairing error between the channels of an analog digital conversion system with time interleaving (CAN 10) comprising an analog digital converter (CAN1, CAN2,...,CANN) on each channel. The said method comprises the determination of the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070247345 - System and method for analog-to-digital conversion: A system and method for converting an analog signal to a digital signal is provided including a first circuit (22) having a signal range and an input for receiving a first signal, and a second circuit (24) having an input receiving the analog signal and a first output coupled to... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (fs)

20070247348 - Switched-capacitor reset architecture for opamp: An analog digital converter with switched-capacitor reset architecture. The analog to digital converter (ADC) includes a plurality of pipelined stages, each stage including an analog to digital converter comprising a pair of comparators outputting signals to a multiplying digital to analog converter (MDAC). The MDAC includes an opamp and a... Agent: Arthur M. Reginelli

20070241940 - Air permeable keyboard module and portable electronic apparatus: An air permeable keyboard module suitable for a portable electronic apparatus is provided. The air permeable keyboard module comprises a bottom plate, a flexible printed circuit board (PCB), a plurality of keys, and a unidirectional air permeable material layer. The flexible PCB is disposed on the upper surface of the... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070241939 - Projection apparatus and key input device thereof: A projection apparatus includes a projecting module, a key input device and a controlling unit. The projecting module generates an image light beam. The key input device includes a key unit and a decoding conversion unit coupled to the key unit. The key unit includes a plurality of keys. When... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070241947 - Interface circuit: An interface circuit includes a detector to detect a particular pattern from a sequence of output data, a shift clock generator to change a cycle of a shift clock according to the detection result, a shift register section to change a data output width by the shift clock and output... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070241938 - Appliance information communication system: Communicating operational information to a user of an appliance regarding the operational mode of the appliance and the options available for a selected operational mode and the options selected.... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20070241941 - Method and apparatus for telephonically accessing and navigating the internet: A method for accessing and browsing the internet through the use of a telephone and the associated DTMF signals is disclosed. The preferred embodiment provides a system that converts the information content of a web page from text to speech (voice signals), signals the hyperlink selections of a web page... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070241943 - Flat-top reflection-based optical encoders: A reflection-based optical encoding apparatus for the detection of position and/or motion of a mechanical device includes an encoding medium having at least a first reflective portion, and an encoder housing having a light-emitting source and a light-detecting sensor embedded within, the encoder housing being placed in proximity to the... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070241942 - Programmable crossbar signal processor: A signal processing system is taught to be formed by combining a crossbar array with programming circuitry and signal input circuitry so as to provide a linear transformation from a set of input signals to a set of output signals. Applications of such a system to waveform generation, signal filtering,... Agent: Blaise Mouttet

20070241944 - System and method for modeling consumer choice behavior: Systems and methods are provided applicable to all choice scenarios where alternative competition is a function of alternative proximity along some attribute dimension. Discrete choice models can be developed which assign probabilities that a given decision-maker will choose different alternatives. Ordered Generalized Extreme Value (OGEV) and Hybrid-OGEV models are utilized... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070241945 - User control interface for convergence and automation system: A convergence and automation system includes (a) an internet-protocol based (IP) network implemented with a web service for devices (WSD) protocol, (b) a plurality of devices connected to the network, wherein each device is configured to perform at least one service, (c) a server implemented with the WSD protocol, connected... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070241946 - Circuit and apparatus for reducing interference of digital signals: A circuit for rounding the edges of a digital pulse so as to reduce interference has a first rounding block, a second rounding block and an output stage. The first rounding block rounds the second and fourth pulse edges so as to prolong rising and falling time of the digital... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070241948 - Method and apparatus for data encoding: A method and apparatus for data encoding such as 3 to 4 encoding (base64, uuencode etc.) is provided. Bytes of data to be encoded having negative values are made positive while preserving the information to be encoded. The positive values may be manipulated by addition (e.g. to a common store)... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070241949 - Digitizer arrangement: A digitizer arrangement for converting an analogue signal into a digital signal, including a first A/D converter, said first A/D converter being arranged to convert said analogue signal into a first digital signal with a first sampling rate, the first sampling rate being lower than the frequency of the analogue... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070241950 - Mismatch-shaping dynamic element matching systems and methods for multi-bit sigma-delta data converters: A sigma delta modulator (SDM) data converter system is provided. The SDM data converter system comprises a signal path, a feedback signal path, and a multi-bit quantizer disposed in a feedforward path. The signal path receives an input signal to be processed. The feedback signal path provides a feedback signal... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070241951 - Sigma-delta modulator and method for sigma-delta modulation: A sigma-delta modulator is supplied with a data word and includes a first and at least one further modulation stage, each having at least two adders. The adders in the first modulation stage process a low-significance component and a delayed more significant component of the data word and provide a... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070241952 - Digital to analog converter having integrated level shifter and method for using same to drive display device: A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes a decoder unit for receiving an external digital data signal operating over a first predefined voltage range (i.e., 0-5V); a resistor array for generating a plurality of gray voltages defined across a second voltage range that is substantially wider than the first predefined voltage range,... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070241953 - Comparison cicuit for analog/digital converter: The invention pertains to a comparison circuit for an analog/digital converter. In order to reduce the effect of the offset voltages of the various comparators of the comparison circuit, voltage followers and a resistor network delivering at its outputs, mean voltages that are the average of those present on outputs... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070236369 - Configurable importers and resource writers: The present invention provides a component-based tool for converting a data source from a first format into a second format. Specifically, the present invention includes reusable importer and resource writer components. Each importer component is designed to import all or a portion of a data source of a particular first... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070236370 - Decoding device and method: The present invention discloses a decoding device. The decoding device includes a scaling unit for adjusting a received signal according to a scaling coefficient to generate a scaled signal; a quantizer coupled to the scaling unit for generating a quantized signal by quantizing the scaled signal; a soft decision decoder... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070236368 - Miniaturized keyboard: A miniaturized keyboard clusters character input groups operable by one finger into an integrated single key. It has a keyboard base to hold a plurality of the integrated single keys. Each integrated single key has a touch sensitive pad and is divided into at least one segment. Each segment corresponds... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070236371 - Error cancelling comparator based switch capacitor circuit and method thereof: An error canceling comparator based switch capacitor (CBSC) circuit cyclically works through multiple phases including a sampling phase and a transfer phase. During the sampling phase, an input voltage and also an error due to circuit non-idealities are sampled. During the transfer phase, the sampled input voltage is amplified by... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070236372 - Noise shaping comparator based switch capacitor circuit and method thereof: A noise shaping comparator based switch capacitor (CBSC) comprises a comparator, a charge pump, a plurality of capacitors, and a plurality of shufflers. Each shuffler is controlled by a logical signal to determine a polarity of connection for a circuit element within the CBSC circuit. The CBSC circuit operates cyclically... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070236376 - Methods and apparatus for sigma-delta modulator having selectable osr with optimal resonator coefficient: A programmable Sigma-Delta Modulator (SDM) includes a first input to select an oversampling rate (OSR), which has a corresponding resonator coefficient value to provide an optimal notch in the Noise Transfer Function (NTF).... Agent: Paul D. Durkee Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070236375 - Delta-sigma modulator provided with a charge sharing integrator: An analog-digital delta-sigma converter includes a plurality of continuous time integrators for performing a delta-sigma modulation. Each integrator includes at least one charge sharing integrator at a modulator input. One or more pure integrators follow the charge sharing integrator.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070236373 - Sigma delta modulator: A circuit for converting the capacitive signal change of a differential capacitor into digital signals, the circuit including a sigma delta modulator. The differential capacitor is a component of the signal feed structure and the reference feedback structure of the sigma delta modulator.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070236374 - Universal ultrasound sigma-delta receiver path: Ultrasound information for B-mode and CW Doppler mode use the same digital beamformer. Due to sigma-delta conversion or over sampling, sufficient dynamic range is provided for the desired bandwidth. By mixing the input ultrasound information to base band before conversion, additional dynamic range may be provided. The electrical impedance may... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070236379 - Data driver and liquid crystal display having the same: An exemplary data driver chip (23) includes a multiplexer (31); a first digital/analog (D/A) converter (32); and a second digital/analog (D/A) converter (33). The multiplexer receives a multiplex data stream and decomposes the multiplex data stream to a first signal and a second signal, and respectively sends the first and... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070236378 - Enhancing signal to noise ratio of an interpolated signal: Providing interpolated signals with enhanced signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR). In an embodiment, for each digital sample (of an analog signal) having strength Dn, N values are inserted, with the kth inserted value having a strength of Dn(1±Dk), wherein Dk is selected randomly from within a range set according to quantization noise. The... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070236377 - Digital-to-analog converter: Embodiments of a digital-to-analog converter are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070236380 - Analog-to-digital converters based on an interleaving architecture and associated methods: An analog-to-digital converter based on an interleaving architecture is disclosed. The analog-to-digital converter can include a first sample and hold circuit for sampling and temporarily storing a first input signal. The analog-to-digital converter can also include a comparator for converting the sampled first input signal into a digital signal in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070236381 - Appliance-operating device and appliance operating method: An appliance-identifying unit identifies an appliance to be operated, by referring to room information and position information of the appliance stored in a room-information database, based on an operation vector generated from information on a direction and a distance of the appliance. An operation-contents recognizing unit recognizes contents of an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229314 - Apparatus and method for character entry in a portable terminal: A character entry method and apparatus in a terminal in which characters are grouped into a plurality of character sets and a representative character of each of the character sets is imprinted on a respective key are provided. In the character entry method, when a key imprinted with a representative... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070229315 - Apparatus and method for character entry in a portable terminal: A character entry method and apparatus in a terminal in which characters are grouped into a plurality of character sets and a representative character of each of the character sets is imprinted on a respective key are provided. In the character entry method, when a key imprinted with a representative... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070229316 - Apparatus and method for character entry in a portable terminal: A character entry method and apparatus in a terminal in which characters are grouped into a plurality of character sets and a representative character of each of the character sets is imprinted on a respective key are provided. In the character entry method, when a key imprinted with a representative... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070229318 - Keyboard for a handheld electronic device: A keyboard for a handheld device includes several input keys; a front panel for mounting on an outer surface of the handheld and formed with a mounting hole for receiving a respective one of the input keys; a sliding and pressing mechanism disposed below the front panel to permit sliding... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229321 - Decoder circuit: A decoder circuit that selects a grayscale voltage responsive to digital input includes a first transistor circuit that selects grayscale voltages greater than a certain voltage and a second transistor circuit that selects grayscale voltages less than the certain voltage. The two transistor circuits are formed in separate substrates, one... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070229322 - High-performance, small and inexpensive digital broadcast tuner and digital broadcast receiver having the same: A digital broadcast tuner includes a circuit board and a plurality of terminals. The circuit board has long sides and short sides. The terminals are arranged along one of the short sides of the circuit board. This reduces the length of the long sides of the circuit board and makes... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070229320 - Transmitting/receiving methods and systems for dc balance encoded data including simultaneous switching noise reducing preambles: DC balance encoded data is transmitted by transmitting a preamble of dummy data that is configured to provide an intermediate number of bits of a given logic value that is at least one bit of the given logic value but less than a maximum number of bits of the given... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070229325 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, computer readable medium storing program, and computer data signal: A data processing apparatus includes: an intermediate data generating unit that generates intermediate data expressing input data, which is a subject to be coded, in another expression manner; a coding unit that converts the intermediate data generated by the intermediate data generating unit into code data; and a code quantity... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229326 - Estimating of the jitter of a clock signal: A method and a device for estimating the jitter of a first periodic signal with respect to a second periodic signal, comprising steps of: sampling the first signal by means of the second one; providing the result of the sampling to the input of a shift register triggered by the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070229312 - Apparatus and method for character entry in a portable terminal: A character entry method and apparatus in a terminal in which characters are grouped into a plurality of character sets and a representative character of each of the character sets is imprinted on a respective key are provided. In the character entry method, when a key imprinted with a representative... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070229317 - Sequencing of character assignment for keypads: A ten-key telephone keypad where the sequence of characters assigned to each number on said keypad corresponds with the frequencies of occurrence for said characters relative to one another.... Agent: Kai Chuang

20070229313 - Testing an electronic device having a keypad by simultaneously pressing several keys: The controller of a remote control device is modified to implement a test mode for testing the device's keyboard. During testing, specific ones of the keys are pressed in parallel in selected combinations. In response, the controller has the device generate an RC5 frame with information about functioning of keys... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070229319 - Electrical coupling of an electromechanical control unit: An electromechanical control unit (12) that has keypad and/or touching base areas (102) to control the signal handling processing device, in the control unit (12) there is a surface element (101), by touching the surface element the changeable settings and values of the signal processing device's user are controlled. there... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070229324 - Bus switch encoding for reducing crosstalk effects in buses: Data are transmitted over a bus including a plurality of lines, wherein energy is dissipated as a result of data transmission. Preferably, the data to be transmitted in parallel are partitioned in a plurality of clusters of data bits. Each cluster is subject to re-ordering according to a set of... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070229323 - Methods of creating a dictionary for data compression: Some aspects of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for creating a static dictionary in which longer byte-strings are preferred. To that end, in accordance with aspects of the present invention, a new heuristic is defined to replace the aforementioned frequency count metric used to record the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229327 - Modulation methods and systems: A modulation method for symbols in a frame of a compact disc includes the steps of receiving a plurality of data words, modulating each data word into a code word of a corresponding data symbol, and providing a plurality of combinations of potential merge bits to be inserted between successive... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070229328 - Film fingerprinting: A technique for film marking includes coding a print identifier into a binary-coded bit-complement serial number; identifying particular frames that will be used to convey the bits of the binary-coded bit-complement serial number and marking these bit frames in accordance with the particular bit values of the binary-coded bit-complement serial... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070229329 - Spatial-multiplexed signal detection method and spatial and temporal iterative decoder that uses this method: The present invention is directed to providing a spatial-multiplexed signal detection method that can improve the characteristics of spatial and temporal iterative decoding that is based on turbo principles. According to the method, when implementing factorization of conditional probability referred to as “likelihood” such that the conditional probability can be... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229330 - Method and apparatus for achieving linear monotonic output power: Techniques for achieving linear monotonic output power with piecewise non-linear and/or non-monotonic circuits are described. A coarse gain is selected for a first circuit having non-linear and/or non-monotonic characteristics. A fine gain is selected for a second circuit used to account for output power error due to the coarse gain.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070229331 - Bitstream controlled reference signal generation for a sigma-delta modulator: When a reference signal is generated for a digital-to-analog converter in the feedback path of a sigma-delta modulator, the reference signal can contain modulated error signals, for example when the reference generator implements dynamic element matching. By controlling the reference signal generation in dependence on the bitstream output from the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070229332 - Circuits and methods for using error correction in power amplification and signal conversion: Circuits and methods for using error correction in power amplification and signal conversion are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, methods for using error correction in power amplification and signal conversion including converting an input signal into a digital signal; amplifying and converting the digital signal to produce an amplified analog... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20070229333 - 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.

20070229334 - System and method for correcting dc offset: A system for correcting a DC offset includes a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter module (30), a summing circuit (40), an inphase-to-quadrature (I/Q) modulator (50), a spectrum analyzer module (60) and a DC offset correction module (70). The D/A converter module converts digital control signals to analog control signals, and outputs DC... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070229336 - Dynamic receive beamformer with oversampling for medical diagnostic ultrasound: Receive beamformers for receive beamforming ultrasound information include a plurality of channels. The received signals for each channel are oversampled for conversion to digital form, such as sampling with a sigma-delta converter. The reconstruction of the samples into data at the Nyquist or other rate is performed in stages. Partial... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070229335 - Noise shaping quantizer: A noise shaping quantizer having a first noise shaping quantization unit for applying a first noise shaping operation on an input signal. The first noise shaping quantization unit includes a local quantizer that quantizes the input signal and outputs an output signal; an error accumulator that accumulates at least a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070229337 - Charged particle beam apparatus, abnormality detecting method for da converter unit, charged particle beam writing method, and mask: A charged particle beam apparatus includes a plurality of digital-analog (DA) converter units configured to input digital signals, convert the digital signals into analog values, and amplify the analog values to output the analog values, a deflector configured to input at least one analog value of the plurality of analog... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229338 - Method and related device of source driver with reduced power consumption: A method capable of reducing power consumption of source drivers is disclosed. The method includes a reference voltage source charging or discharging a loading end of a source driver to a reference voltage having a polarity the same as a polarity of a target voltage and a voltage level near... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070229339 - Analog-to-digital converter circuit and signal processing circuit: In an analog-to-digital converter circuit of pipeline type configured by cascade-connecting a plurality of analog-to-digital conversion blocks, at least analog-to-digital conversion blocks at an initial stage excluding an analog-to-digital conversion block at a final stage have each a function as an amplifier and are switched by a control signal inputted... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070229341 - Successive approximation a/d converter comparing analog input voltage to reference voltages: An analog-to-digital converter includes a resistance type potential divider, connected between a supply voltage and a ground terminal, for generating plural reference voltages; and plural switches for selecting one of the reference voltages in response to a select signal. The analog-to-digital converter also includes a capacitor for storing an analog... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070229340 - Automatic gain control: Techniques for performing automatic gain control are described. In some aspects, the gain control is achieved with an apparatus having an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a digital variable gain amplifier (DVGA), the DVGA configured to receive a digital signal from the ADC, the DVGA having a processor configured to compute... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070229342 - Parallel conversion circuit: Disclosed is a serial-to-parallel conversion circuit that detects phase difference between a timing of receiving serial receive data and reconstituting parallel data for each symbol and a timing of outputting the reconstituted parallel data to an inside of an LSI, and outputs the detected phase difference as delay time information.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229343 - Method and apparatus for recognition and tagging of multiple layered entropy coding system: Embodiments herein provide a method and apparatus for recognition and tagging of multiple layered entropy coding system. The method comprises receiving a signal and performing entropy average coding to produce an entropy coded bit stream. Next, the method adds a tag to a beginning portion of the entropy coded bit... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070229344 - Receive circuit: A method and a circuit for decoding a coded signal including a first decoding system capable of receiving the coded signal and of providing a first signal comprising portions considered correct and a second decoding system capable of providing a second signal from the coded signal and from portions considered... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070229345 - Method and apparatus to quantize and dequantize input signal, and method and apparatus to encode and decode input signal: A method and apparatus to quantize and dequantize an input signal, and a method and apparatus to encode and decode an input signal. The method of quantizing an input signal includes determining a quantization scale type according to a distribution feature of the input signal, and quantizing the input signal... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP