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Coded data generation or conversion November USPTO class patent listing 11/07

20070273560 - Low pin count solution using capacitance sensing matrix for keyboard architecture: An apparatus and method for selecting a keyboard key based on a position of a presence of a conductive object on a sensing device and a pre-defined area of the keyboard key. The apparatus may include a sensing device and a processing device. The sensing device may include a plurality... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070273561 - Capacitive keyboard with position dependent reduced keying ambiguity: Apparatus and methods are described for selecting which of a plurality of simultaneously activated keys in a keyboard based on capacitive sensors is a key intended for selection by a user. In embodiments of the invention keys are preferentially selected as the user intended key based on their positions within... Agent: David Kiewit

20070273562 - Key arrangement for portable electronic device: A key arrangement (24) for a portable electronic device (20) comprising a substantially planar body and an input key (25) wherein the input key is attachable to the body and is operable for relative movement along the confronting surfaces of the body and the input key.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070273563 - Method and apparatus of performing sample rate conversion of a multi-channel audio signal: A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing sampling rate conversion of an audio signal from a first sampling rate to any of a plurality of higher sampling rates using a single set of low-pass filter coefficients. Sampling rate conversion is accomplished by effectively up-sampling, low-pass filtering, and down-sampling the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070273564 - Rapidly queryable data compression format for xml files: A method and device for XML compression with easy querying are provided. An XML file is parsed with a SAX-parser, useless characters such as tabulators and white spaces are removed, indicating data marks are inserted, LZ-77 compression is applied, and finally the data are Huffman-encoded and packed in data blocks.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070273565 - Method and device for code generation in the transmission of data via a communications systems: A method and a device for generating codes in the transmission of data via a communications system having at least two subscribers, in which a first subscriber receives at least one data word and forwards the data word or an at least partially changed data word to at least one... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070273568 - Touch panel and method of manufacturing the same: A touch panel includes a light-transmittable upper substrate, a light-transmittable upper resistor layer on a lower surface of the upper substrate, a light-transmittable lower substrate, a light-transmittable lower resistor layer on an upper surface of the lower substrate, an adhesive layer on an upper surface of the upper substrate, and... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070273567 - Adaptive interpolation: A method and apparatus for acquiring an analog signal. The method of the invention comprising the steps of acquiring a first portion of the analog signal by a first channel, the first portion of the analog signal spanning a first bandwidth range, and acquiring a second portion of the analog... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20070273566 - D/a converter circuit, organic el drive circuit, and oragnic el display: [Means for Solving the Problem] A D/A converter circuit, which includes a first current mirror circuit having a plurality of output side transistors provided correspondingly to digits of data to be converted and generates an analog current by obtaining in at least one of the output side transistors a current... Agent: John R Mattingly

20070273569 - High resolution time-to-digital converter and method thereof: A time-to-digital converter (TDC) is disclosed, the TDC comprising: a plurality of parallel circuits for receiving a common first clock and for generating a plurality of delayed clocks; a plurality of sampling circuits for receiving and sampling said delayed clocks at an edge of a second clock to generate a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070273570 - Encoding data generation method and device: In a coded data generation method of resampling a road shape for setting a plurality of nodes, arranging position information of each node represented by a deflection angle from the immediately preceding node to generate a data string of the deflection angles, converting the deflection angles into predicted difference values... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070268161 - Decoding, encoding/decoding and converting: Implementations and embodiments of decoders, encoder/decoder systems and converters are depicted and described.... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20070268162 - Equivalent-time sampling of quasi-repeating bit patterns: An equivalent-time sampling system accommodates quasi-repeating bit patterns by identifying a predetermined sequence of bits within the quasi-repeating bit pattern of a data signal, acquiring a series of samples of the data signal according to the clock signal associated with the data signal, independent of the timing of occurrences of... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070268160 - Method for protecting a character entered at a graphical interface: The present invention provides a method for protecting a character entered at a graphical interface. The method comprises the steps of: generating a set of images that form a complete image of a keypad having a button-to-character assignment; displaying the graphical keypad using said image set; and, obtaining the character... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070268164 - Distributed on-demand media transcoding system and method: A method for delivering media content over a network includes transcoding the media content to generate multiple copies of the media content, each of the multiple copies having a different destination type or a different source type or both, storing the multiple copies in a cache, receiving requests for the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070268163 - System, method and computer program product for facilitating e-commerce involving digital assets: A transactional computer-implemented system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, information is received from a plurality of entities which each has an interest in at least one corresponding digital asset. Utilizing the information, a plurality of interfaces, each associated with at least one of the entities, are... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070268165 - System and method for presenting serial drive signals for effecting communication of a plurality of parallel data signals: A system for presenting serial drive signals for effecting communication of parallel data signals includes: a controller; a serializer coupled with the controller; and a tri-state logic device coupled with the serializer. The controller provides parallel logic state signals to the serializer. The serializer treats the parallel data signals to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070268166 - Optimization of decoder memory usage for vlc tables: Systems and methods for optimizing system performance in variable length decoding systems are described. Embodiments are described in which decode tables are analyzed and elements of the tables sorted by probability of occurrence. Storage of elements can be determined by probability of occurrence and embodiments of the present invention can... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20070268167 - Semiconductor integrated circuit having oscillator frequency compensation function: It is desired that the temperature dependency of the frequency of a oscillator in a semiconductor IC is compensated in high precision. First signal voltage having temperature dependency and second signal voltage set to be constant independently from the temperature are outputted and A/D converted into first and second converted... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070268169 - Switch control device: The present invention relates to a switch controlling apparatus. The switch controlling apparatus controls a main switch by using a first signal that corresponds to a current flowing to the main switch. The switch controlling apparatus includes a PWM controller for generating a control signal to control turning on/off of... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070268168 - Method and system for digital to analog conversion for power amplifier driver amplitude modulation: Aspects of a method and system for digital to analog conversion for power amplifier driver amplitude modulation are presented. Various aspects of the system may include circuitry that enables oversampling, within a single integrated circuit device, of each of a plurality of samples in a digital baseband signal. The circuitry... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070268170 - System and method for spur cancellation: A system for spur cancellation comprises an input, an output, a memory, and a summer. A value corresponding to an energy level of a spur is stored in the memory. The summer is configured to receive an input signal from the input, to receive the value from the memory, to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070268172 - Analog-to-digital converter with pulse delay circuit: In a semiconductor-integrated A/D converter, a pulse delay circuit is provided with a plurality of delay units. The plurality of delay units each includes at least one logic gate and operates based on a level of an input signal. The pulse delay circuit is configured to transfer a pulse signal... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070268171 - Mass spectrometer and method for enhancing dynamic range: A mass spectrometer comprises an ion detector, a first amplifier, a second amplifier, and a spectra combiner. The ion detector is configured to generate an analog signal indicative of ions detected by the ion detector. The first amplifier is configured to amplify the analog signal to provide a first amplified... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070262886 - Effective decoding method of h.264/avc context-based adaptive variable length coding: An effective H.264/AVC CAVLC decoding method is disclosed. In accordance with the method a VLC code is classified into groups according to a correlation thereof, an arithmetic equation is defined for each of the groups, and a decoding is carried out according to the arithmetic equation in order to minimize... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070262890 - Use of 8-bit or higher a/d for nand cell value: A system and method, including computer software, for storing digital information uses multiple NAND flash memory cells. Each memory cell is adapted to receive charge during a write operation to an analog voltage that corresponds to a data value having a binary representation of more than 4 bits. An analog-to-digital... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070262885 - Compact alphanumeric keyboard: An apparatus comprises an input keypad having a plurality of keys. The input keypad outputs an output signal that is indicative of either a single depressed key or a plurality of depressed keys. The apparatus includes a processor for receiving the output signal by the input keypad and associating an... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070262887 - Encode circuit and analog-digital converter: An encode circuit includes a digital average unit that receives cyclic thermometer codes or standard thermometer codes, and that reduces a bubble error in the received thermometer codes by a majority vote rule, a logical boundary detection unit that detects a logical boundary in the thermometer codes output from the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070262891 - Method and system for synchronizing bit streams for pci express devices: A PCI Express device is provided. The PCI Express device includes a symbol lock module that includes a state machine for detecting a special character in a serial bit stream received from a serial/de-serializer, wherein the state machine receives a first special character and verifies alignment of the special character... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070262888 - Modulation bit added to worst case codeword: A data word is error correction encoded to provide a worst case codeword without bit transitions between worst case codeword bits. A modulation bit is calculated as a function of the worst case codeword. The modulation bit has a bit polarity opposite a bit polarity of the worst case codeword... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC Intellectual Property Dept- Col2lgl

20070262889 - Variable length coding method for data compression: The present invention provides method of a variable length coding for data compression. The first coding algorithm is applied to encode the data with the value less than half of the calculated divider and another coding algorithm encoding the subtracted value of the data. Another algorithm applies at least two... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung Rm. 308, Bld. 52. No. 195

20070262892 - Method for generating a modulator input signal and premodulator: A method for generating at least one modulator input signal from at least one regulator signal is provided. The method comprising: generating at least one dither signal based on the periodic output of elements of a discrete dither sequence of the basic form DF=0, 1, 2 . . . 2(m−n)−1;... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070262894 - Circuit for reconstructing an analog signal from a digital signal and transmission system, particularly for wcdma cellular telephony, including such circuit: There is described a circuit for reconstructing an analog signal from a digital signal and wide-band transmission system, particularly for employment in cellular telephony systems, or more in general in mobile communication systems, that adopt the WCDMA standard. The circuit comprises: a digital to analog converter (DAC) suitable for receiving... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070262893 - Techniques for biasing a radio frequency digital to analog converter: Various techniques for biasing a radio frequency digital-to-analog converter are described. In one embodiment, a baseband processor may comprise a plurality of output drivers to generate a plurality of base currents for biasing a radio frequency digital-to-analog converter. The baseband processor may comprise a serial control interface to generate a... Agent: Tyco Electronics Corporation

20070262895 - Digital equalization of multiple interleaved analog-to-digital converters: Time variant interleaving equalization of an interleaved analog to digital converter is disclosed. A high-frequency analog input signal is converted into a plurality of individual digital signals using a plurality of interleaved analog-to-digital converters. the plurality of individual digital signals are interleaved into a composite digital signal. The composite digital... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070257822 - Keypad assembly: A keypad assembly using a waveguide for guiding lights emitted from light emitting devices is disclosed. The keypad assembly includes a switch board having a plurality of dome switches. The keypad also includes a plurality of key buttons; a plurality of light emitting devices included in the switch board; a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070257820 - Laser locus ball apparatus for a wireless keyboard: A laser locus ball apparatus for a wireless keyboard includes a base, a laser source generator, a locus ball, a light sensing element and a key cover. The base provides a lateral plate with a locating hole to locate the laser source generator and has another two opposite lateral plates... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20070257821 - Reconfigurable tactile sensor input device: A reconfigurable tactile input device includes a first rigid electrode layer, a compressible dielectric structure, and a second flexible electrode layer forming together a tactile sensor with appropriate electrode connection means to a control means. The control means may include a mixed-signal IC mounted next to the input device in... Agent: Boris Leschinsky

20070257823 - Chip-to-chip digital transmission circuit delivering power over signal lines: A chip-to-chip digital transmission circuit includes a differential driver portion, a pair of differential signal transmission lines connected to the driver portion, and a receiver portion connected to the transmission lines, an output node of which reproduces a digital bit stream originally presented to a driver side input node, wherein... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20070257824 - Information encoding method, decoding method, common multiplier estimating method, and apparatus, program, and recording medium using these methods: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for encoding signals by separating a signal by using a common multiplier so as to improve the efficiency of compression of audio signals and a method for calculating a common multiplier of a set of numeric values including errors.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070257826 - Coder and a method of coding for codes having a rmtr constraint of r=2: Presently known codes have long trains consisting of consecutive 2T runs that reduce the performance of the bit detector. By using a code with an RMTR constraint of 2 an improvement in the bit detection is achieved. A code constructed in a systematic way that provides an RMTR constraint of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070257825 - Sampling system using sampling apertures of different durations: A signal sampling system includes an input signal and a plurality of samplers. The plurality of samplers produces a plurality of sample output signals. Each sampler from the plurality of samplers samples the input signal to produce a corresponding sample output signal from the plurality of sample output signals. Each... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070257827 - Low power output stage: Power consumption of an output stage such as a class-D output stage may depend on the amplitude and the activity of the signal being output. Here, control signals may be generated to independently control coupled switches of the output stage and to provide a tri-state control scheme for the output... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070257828 - Digital-to-analog converter and method thereof: A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and the method thereof are disclosed. The DAC receives a digital signal with (M+N) bits, and a reference voltage unit sequentially outputs 2M+N reference voltages through the 2N output terminals thereof according to at least N timing signals. Afterwards, a control unit outputs at least a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070257829 - Apparatus and method for an analog-to-digital converter having a programmable trigger level: In response to a selected analog applied to the input terminal of an analog-to-digital converter, the digitized output signal is stored in a buffer/register. In making a comparison with a predetermined value, a second buffer/register stores either a preselected value or a second digitized signal. A comparator is coupled to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070257830 - Amplifier, analogue to digital converter, methods of amplifying and of converting an analogue input signal to a digital output signal and of producing a mineral hydrocarbon fluid: Amplifier comprising an input signal node for conveying an input signal having an input signal value and an output signal node for conveying an output signal having an output signal value. Amplifier circuitry is coupled to the input signal node and provided with a plurality of intermediate output signal nodes,... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20070252730 - Method and network-based system for transferring information over a network to destination devices: P

20070252731 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit including digital circuits and analog circuits integrated over a single substrate includes the substrate including portions where the digital circuits and the analog circuits are to be formed, and a plurality of deep-wells formed to a certain thickness inside the substrate to surround portions where devices... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070252732 - Video reproduction apparatus: A video reproduction apparatus comprises a decoding control unit 1207 for controlling a decoding process on the basis of header information, to which an instruction for repetitive display of image is inputted; a protection processing unit for calculating a position of a coded image data stream on a coded image... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070252729 - Sensing keypad of portable terminal and the controlling method: The present invention provides a sensing keypad of a portable terminal and its controlling method, comprising: placing at least one sensing unit in the keypad area of the portable terminal to form a sensing surface; placing at least one sensing key on the said sensing surface; when a sensing object... Agent: Dong Li

20070252733 - Method and device for transcoding n-bit words into m-bit words with m smaller n: The present invention concerns a method for transcoding a N bits word into a M bits word with M<N. The invention is applicable in various fields and more particularly in the display field. The method comprises the following steps: -breaking down the N bits word into an exponent part and... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070252734 - Systems for processing machine health information: Methods and systems are provided for providing machine health information. In one embodiment, a machine may include a storage device that is configured to store collected machine health data. The storage device has a module that is configured to determine a data characteristic and a communication characteristic. The storage device... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070252735 - Phase linearity test circuit: A circuit includes a phase interpolator and a self test circuit. The phase interpolator is to provide a interpolator output having a phase corresponding to a respective phase step in a plurality of phase steps. The interpolator output is a weighted combination of one or more of a plurality of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20070252737 - Apparatus comprising a sigma-delta modulator and method of generating a quantized signal-delta modulator: A method of generating a quantized signal in a Sigma-Delta modulator (25) comprises the steps of feeding a modulator input signal to a quantizer (15) via at least one integrator (12, 13); generating in the quantizer (15) a quantized signal; feeding back the quantized signal to be subtracted from the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070252736 - Low power sigma delta modulator: A low power analog-to-digital channel includes a decimation filter coupled to a sigma-delta modulator. Various embodiments include a decimation filter including an output and a sigma-delta modulator coupled to the output of the decimation filter, where a clock frequency applied to the decimation filter is approximately a integral multiple of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070252738 - Modulating device and method, program, and recording medium: A modulating device for converting data having a basic data length of m bits into variable length code (d, k; m, n) having a minimum run of d (d>0), a maximum run of k, and a basic codeword length of n bits, wherein the modulating device is characterized by having... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070252740 - Digital television receiver and method for processing a digital television signal: A method of processing a digital television signal in a digital television receiver, the method includes receiving a digital television signal including a streaming data table carrying one or more streaming text data representing additional information transmitted a transmitter; parsing the streaming data table, the parsed streaming data table including... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070252739 - Digital-to-analogue converters: Differential, current-steering DACs with reduced small signal differential non-linearity. A set of binary-weighted steerable constant current generators is used in which each constant current generator comprises a ternary constant current generator configured to generate a three-state differential current in response to a ternary signal on a control input. Each ternary... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070252744 - A/d converter device and electronic control apparatus including same: The A/D converter device includes a comparing section and an abnormality judging section. The comparing section compares a voltage of its signal transfer line connected between its input multiplexer and its A/D converting section through its sample-hold section with a predetermined abnormality judging voltage. The abnormality judging section is configured... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070252742 - Analog to digital converter: The invention relates to an analog-to-digital converter comprising a reference voltage generating circuit, two coarse/fine comparators and two encoders for encoding the comparison result of the two coarse/fine comparators. In the invention, the two coarse/fine comparators processes a coarse comparison procedure and a fine comparison procedure on an input voltage... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070252743 - Dynamic element matching method and device: The invention provides an improved dynamic element matching (DEM) device. The DEM device performs dynamic element matching processing at a second timing rate different from the first timing rate for the digital input. As an embodiment, the DEM device is composed of encoder 10 and feedback circuit 12. Said encoder... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070252741 - Mass spectrometer and method for compensating sampling errors: A mass spectrometer system includes an ion detector, a plurality of analog-to-digital (A/D) converters, an adder, and a controller. The A/D converters are configured to sample an analog signal from the ion detector at different times, and the A/D converters introduce sampling errors to digital samples generated by the A/D... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070252745 - Switching between lower and higher power modes in an adc for lower/higher precision operations: An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) disposed in a data reception path to convert data from an analog format to a digital format is switched between two or more power modes to conserve power when data is not being received. ADC stays in a lower power-lower precision mode until an inbound data... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070252746 - Inline audio/visual conversion: A system, method, and apparatus for inline audio/visual conversion are described. Power to an inline converter is provided over the A/V cable that couples the converter to a destination such as a selector.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070252747 - No-missing-code analog to digital converter system and method: A no-missing-code output from a SAR, pipeline, folding, flash analog to digital conversion can be obtained by providing an analog input to an analog to digital converter having a predetermined m bit resolution output and a predetermined missing code capability and generating in a digital filter from the m bit... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska Intellectual Property Law Attorneys