Coded data generation or conversion inventions 03/08

20080074293 - Input apparatus, input control method, and computer-readable recording media for input control program: An input apparatus and an input control method are provided that enable the confirmation of an operation state using speech each time an operation key is depressed and enable the execution of distributed functions using a straightforward operation. A plurality of functions is allocated to a numeric keypad, and audio... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080074294 - System for controlling keyboard: A system for controlling a keyboard is provided. The present invention adopts a structure integrating a scanning unit into a keyboard device. After scanning the keyboard, a key matrix position of a pressed key is sent to a control device. By looking up a programmable matrix table stored in the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080074291 - Compressive sampling and signal inference: A transmission mask or coded aperture is used in spectroscopy to compressively sample an optical signal. The locations of transmissive and opaque elements of the mask are determined by a transmission function. The optical signal transmitted by the mask is detected at each sensor of a plurality of sensors dispersed... Agent: Kasha Law PLLC

20080074292 - Compressive sampling and signal inference: A transmission mask or coded aperture is used in spectroscopy to compressively sample an optical signal. The locations of transmissive and opaque elements of the mask are determined by a transmission function. The optical signal transmitted by the mask is detected at each sensor of a plurality of sensors dispersed... Agent: Kasha Law PLLC

20080074295 - Handheld electronic device and keyboard having multiple-function keys: An improved handheld electronic device having an improved keyboard provides enhanced usability with fewer keys by enabling the keys to pivot slightly to provide multiple functions to the keys. The improved keyboard may, for example, include internal strips of conductive carbon that are disposed adjacent the keys and are electrically... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080074296 - Variable length coding method and variable length decoding method: An image coding apparatus provides a run-length encoding unit RLE1 that subjects quantized coefficients which are obtained by quantizing frequency components of an image signal to a variable length coding process by using a run value Run that indicates the number of successive zero coefficients and a level value Lev... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080074297 - Method for a general near optimal turbo code trellis termination: A method of terminating two or more constituent encoders of a turbo encoder employing a turbo code, comprising the step of: generating tail input bits at each of two or more constituent encoders, including deriving the tail input bits from each of the two or more constituent encoders separately from... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080074298 - Resolver hall decoding circuit: A device for converting position data to Hall code data includes a data input for providing the position data, a data output for providing the Hall code data, a first adder circuit operative to provide a sum of a first predetermined number and a value provided by the data input,... Agent: Don W. Bulson (parker Hannifin) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080074299 - Electrical signal converting system: An electrical signal converting system includes a housings a transmission interface slot group disposed on the housing, an OTG controller, and a system circuit. The transmission interface slot group is used for accommodating a first electrical memory card storing data consistent with a first storage standard. The OTG controller is... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080074300 - Storage device and method: A storage device comprising a modulation encoder and decoder, an error-correction encoder and decoder, and a metric computation module. The modulation encoder and decoder provide a modulation code for data stored on the storage device. The error-correction encoder and decoder provide an error-correcting code for data to be written on... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080074301 - A/d conversion circuit and optical disk drive: An A/D conversion circuit converts an asymmetric analogue signal into a digital signal. In an A/D conversion circuit of a parallel type, a central value of a reference voltage is adjusted by means of an average of an input analogue signal, such as a reproduced RF signal from an optical... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080074302 - Delta-sigma ad converter: The output of a first integrator is quantized in a quantizer. The quantized signal is subjected to D/A conversion, successively output to a plurality of output paths by a first switching circuit, sampled and held by a plurality of charge-holding circuits of a first feedback circuit, and successively output by... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080074303 - Incremental delta-sigma data converters with improved stability over wide input voltage ranges: A method of operating a delta-sigma data converter includes receiving an input signal at an input of a delta-sigma modulator having a loop filter including a plurality of integrator stages, a quantizer for generating a quantized output code from outputs of the integrator stages, and a feed-back loop coupling a... Agent: Thompson & Knight, L.L.P. Patent Prosecution Group

20080074304 - Cyclic analog-to-digital converter: An A/D converter includes an A/D conversion circuit, a multiplying D/A converter, a switch circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit prevents an A/D output of the A/D conversion circuit from being input to the D/A converter and controls the switch circuit so that an input voltage to be... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080068224 - Actuation apparatus: An apparatus for actuating one or more functions on a remote electronic device comprises one or more button members (41) provided within a housing having no electronic components, each button member (41) being associated with at least one fluid channel (45a, 45b). A remote conversion means is also provided which... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20080068225 - Holographic symbols on soft keys of electronic equipment and method:

20080068226 - Smart filtering with multiple simultaneous keyboard inputs: Keyboard entries by users are tracked and filtered to reduce ambiguity in translating the entries to characters and predicting text based on the entries in a multiple keyboard environment. Key tables such as an equivalence table mapping characters to a base character value, a digit mapping table mapping characters to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080068227 - Input unit and electronic apparatus including same: The present invention provides an input unit wherein a password is hardly presumable even in the case where input keys or characters related to the input keys are peeped at by a third party. The input unit includes an operation panel 2, a display unit 9, an operating section 8... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080068228 - Mobile terminal including multifunctional keypad: Provided is a mobile terminal including an attachable/detachable keypad which has keys arranged so that a user inputs characters using several fingers of one hand. The mobile terminal includes a keypad. The keypad includes a character part including a consonant part for inputting consonants of Korean alphabet, a right-side vowel... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080068229 - Touchpad testing machine: A touchpad testing machine for testing resistive touchpad includes a conductive rubber; a processing unit for generating a pressure control signal and a positioning control signal; a positioning controller for moving the conductive rubber to touch test points of the touchpad, according to the positioning control signal; a pressure controller... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080068230 - Method of 1-bit hysteretic control in n-bit a/d conversion: The present invention introduces methods to eliminate 1-bit jitter problem in the N-bit A/D conversion applications. The methods do not require any increase in the total bit of A/D conversion.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080068231 - Methods and systems for efficiently storing and retrieving streaming data: Various technologies for efficiently storing and retrieving streaming data are described. Bits of data (e.g., P bits of data) are received and separated into most significant bits (MSB) of data and least significant bits (LSB) of data. Further, the MSB of data and the LSB of data are respectively packed... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20080068232 - Data modulating method and apparatus, data demodulating method and apparatus, and code arranging method: In a data demodulating method and apparatus, and a code arranging method, a multiplexer multiplexes an input data stream divided by a predetermined length into a plurality of types of pseudo-random data streams using multiplexed information of predetermined bits by applying a predetermined multiplexing method to each of the pseudo-random... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080068233 - Data modulating method and apparatus, data demodulating method and apparatus, and code arranging method: In a data demodulating method and apparatus, and a code arranging method, a multiplexer multiplexes an input data stream divided by a predetermined length into a plurality of types of pseudo-random data streams using multiplexed information of predetermined bits by applying a predetermined multiplexing method to each of the pseudo-random... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080068234 - Asynchronous sample rate converter: Various embodiments perform sample rate conversion of a sample series at an input rate to an output rate. A version of the sample series is corrected with timing error information generated by a digital loop. The digital loop is locked to a first rate and clocked at a second rate.... Agent: Ess Technology, Inc C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080068235 - Variable length code decoding device and decoding method: A flag indicating whether a decoding process is completed or continued is disposed in each of entries of a decoding process table. A decoded value and a significant bit length are recorded in the entry of a decoding process completion. Information for identifying the decoding process table which is used... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080068236 - Adaptive spectral noise shaping to improve time to digital converter quantization resolution using dithering: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of improving the quantization resolution of a time to digital converter in a digital PLL using noise shaping. The TDC quantization noise shaping scheme is effective to reduce the TDC quantization noise to acceptable levels especially in the case of integer-N channel... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080068237 - Multi-bit pipeline analog-to-digital converter having shared amplifier structure: n

20080068239 - Entry/exit control to/from a low power state in a complex multi level memory system: An embedded megamodule and an embedded CPU enable power-saving through a combination of hardware and software. The CPU configures the power-down controller (PDC) logic within megamodule and can software trigger a low-power state of logic modules during processor IDLE periods. To wake from this power-down state, a system event is... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080068238 - Entry/exit control to/from a low power state in a cpu with an unprotected pipeline: An embedded megamodule and an embedded CPU enable power-saving through a combination of hardware and software. The CPU configures the power-down controller (PDC) logic within megamodule and can software trigger a low-power state of logic blocks and memory during processor IDLE periods. To wake from this power-down state, a system... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080068240 - Transmission circuit and communication device: Provided is a transmission circuit which is small in size, operates with high efficiency, and outputs a transmission signal having high linearity. A signal generation section 11 generates an amplitude signal m(t) and a phase signal. An angle modulation section 17 angle-modulates the phase signal to output an angle-modulated signal.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080068241 - Sigma-delta modulator: An integrator circuit (110) is provided including an amplifier element (170) configured to receive an input signal at an input node, amplify the input signal, and provide an amplified input signal at an output node; a feedback capacitor element (175) connected between the output node and the input node; and... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080068242 - 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.

20080068243 - Analogue to digital converter, and method of analogue to digital conversion: Embodiments of the invention provide an analogue to digital converter comprising a dual differential digital to analogue converter (DAC) having first and second digital inputs for first and second digital input signals respectively, and having first and second analogue differential outputs for first and second differential output signals respectively, where... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080068244 - Discrete synthesis using staggered nyquist regions avoids guard band induced holes near a nyquist limit: b

20080068245 - A-d converter and a-d convert method: An A-D converter includes a plurality of comparators, each of which compares an analog input signal to analog threshold values; an upper field determination section which, during an upper determination phase, supplies in parallel to each of the plurality of comparators the plurality of analog threshold values expressing boundaries of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080068246 - A/d converter: An A/D converter includes a first switched capacitor block that charges and holds charges by connecting each of a first group of capacitors to a single basic reference voltage at a first timing, and discharges each of the charges held by the first group of capacitors at a second timing,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080068248 - Remote controller: A remote controller, which enables secure pressing operation of operational buttons, includes a top case (10) having a plurality of through holes (12) and a plurality of operational buttons (31) exposed respectively from the through holes of the top case, so that each of the operational buttons is pressed for... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080068247 - State-based remote control system: A state-based remote control system for providing efficient and simple operation of a plurality of electronic devices as a coordinated system based upon an overall task. The state-based remote control system includes a housing, a keypad in communication with an electronic system contained within the housing, and a communication device... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080062018 - Complexity-aware encoding: Techniques for encoding data based at least in part upon an awareness of the decoding complexity of the encoded data and the ability of a target decoder to decode the encoded data are disclosed. In some embodiments, a set of data is encoded based at least in part upon a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080062019 - Device for video decoding: A device for video decoding is disclosed. It includes at least a pipeline scheduler, a decoding core, a segmented context memory and a context cache. The pipeline scheduler and the decoding core could decrease the time taken in a code-decoding period. The segmented context memory and the context cache could... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062013 - Wall switch for wired and self-powered wireless controllers with recessed and flush mounting: A self-powered switching system using electromechanical generators generates power for activation of a latching relay. The electromechanical generators comprise electroactive elements 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 receiving RF signals to/from... Agent: David J. Bolduc Face International Corporation

20080062014 - Reduced qwerty keyboard system that provides better accuracy and associated method: A handheld electronic device and an associated method are provided. The handheld electronic device includes a keyboard assembly, a display positioned adjacent the keyboard assembly, a processor structured to receive inputs from the keyboard assembly and to output to the display as a function of the inputs, the processor further... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080062015 - Telphone keypad with multidirectional keys: A telephone keypad for one touch text messaging the QWERTY pattern of keys in a matrix of nine keys. Using the multi position biasing keys only one touch is needed for each character, so in use to input the letter “C” you touch one key one time, decreasing the time... Agent: James H. Bowen

20080062016 - Interactive sequential key system to input characters on small keypads: This invention discloses an interactive sequential system to input letters of the English alphabet and of many world languages, numbers, punctuation marks and many other symbols on keypads with few buttons. The invention includes a device for receiving input characters from a user, having a keypad with a plurality of... Agent: Christine Q. Mcleod Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20080062017 - Debouncing circuit: A switch circuit comprising a mechanical switch having two contact elements, the switch being operable to bring the two contact elements into physical contact and thereby output an analog switch signal representative of operation of the switch and a sigma-delta modulator arranged to receive the analog switch signal and to... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080062020 - Runlength encoding of leading ones and zeros: A method and an encoder (1001) are disclosed for encoding an input bitstream derived from a block of coefficients relating to video data. Leading zeros and tailing zeros are determined and removed (4050, 4070) from the input bitstream. Parity bits are generated (60) for bits remaining in the input bitstream.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080062021 - Decoder circuit, driving circuit for display apparatus and display apparatus: A decoder circuit configured to output an analog voltage signal according to input digital data includes an operational amplifier, first selection circuit and compensation unit. The operational amplifier includes a plurality of input differential pairs and generates an output voltage by interpolating input voltages applied to the plurality of input... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080062022 - Feedback topology delta-sigma modulator having an ac-coupled feedback path: A feedback topology delta-sigma modulator having an AC-coupled feedback path reduces signal level in the loop filter, easing linearity requirements and reduces capacitor size requirements for the filter integration stages. The delta-sigma modulator includes a loop filter having multiple integrator stages, a quantizer, and a feedback network providing at least... Agent: Mitch Harris, LLC - Cirrus

20080062023 - Low-pass filter and voltage-current conversion circuit used in the same: A low-pass filter with a high signal-to-noise ratio is provided. A low-pass filter includes a first RC filter circuit, a differential operation circuit subtracting an output signal from a low frequency component of an input signal and outputting a differential signal, a second RC filter circuit, a voltage-current conversion circuit,... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080062024 - Method of controlling delta-sigma modulator and delta-sigma modulator: To provide a method of controlling a delta-sigma modulator and a delta-sigma modulator capable of suppressing a consumption power and also improving a signal-to-noise ratio by implementing both the zero-point shifting technology and the double sampling technology simultaneously, a delta-sigma modulator includes a first integrator (1), a second integrator (2),... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080062025 - Digital to analog converter with reduced ringing: Binary indications are converted to an analog representation with significant reduction in ringing at the transitions between successive binary indications and in the period during each binary indication. The binary indications are disposed in a row-and-column matrix to provide a thermometer code. Each stage of the converter includes a decoder... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080062026 - Analog-to-digital converter (adc) having a reduced number of quantizer output levels: An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having a reduced number of quantizer output levels provides for reduced complexity and power consumption along with improved linearity. The analog-to-digital converter includes a loop filter, a quantizer for quantizing the output of the loop filter and a digital integrator for integrating the output of the... Agent: Mitch Harris, LLC - Cirrus

20080062029 - Apparatus and method for demodulating a modulated signal: An apparatus for demodulating a modulated signal comprises an analog to digital converter (2, 12) for converting an analog modulated input signal to a digital signal. The analog to digital converter is arranged to sample the input signal at a predetermined sampling rate. A digital down converter (4, 14) then... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080062031 - Apparatus and method for managing access to the analog-to-digital conversion results: In an analog-to-digital converter used to convert and store in buffer registers signals from a plurality of peripheral devices, a mode is provided wherein the processing unit can directly access the buffer registers into which the conversion results have been stored.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080062030 - Apparatus and method for monitoring analog peripheral devices by a processing unit: In an analog-to-digital converter used to convert and store in buffer registers signals from a plurality of peripheral devices, a mode is provided wherein, for selected peripherals, the most recent converted signal overlays the previously stored signal in the buffer registers.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080062028 - Codec simultaneously processing multiple analog signals with only one analog-to-digital converter and method thereof: The invention provides a coder-decoder simultaneously processing a plurality of first analog signals with only one analog-to-digital converter. In an exemplary embodiment, the coder-decoder comprises a multiple access modulator, the analog-to-digital converter, and a multiple access demodulator. The multiple access modulator modulates the first analog signals according to a multiple... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080062027 - Source driving circuit and liquid crystal display apparatus including the same: A source driving circuit includes a source driver circuit, an intermediate voltage generator, and a switching control unit. The source driver circuit receives display data and generates a source driving voltage corresponding to the received display data. The intermediate voltage generator generates an intermediate source driving voltage. The switching control... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080062032 - High speed comparator offset correction: An offset canceling buffer receives a reference voltage, and provides a modified reference voltage to a comparator. The modified reference voltage operates to cancel any comparator offset. The offset canceling buffer includes a digitally controllable current source to steer current in different paths based on comparator offset.... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20080062035 - Ir converter: A television may be configured with a software permitting the television to be controlled by a plurality of brands of remote controls. In particular, the present invention allows replacing hospital televisions with replacement televisions equipped with the present invention regardless of the brand of the replacement television. The present invention... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080062034 - Online remote control configuration system: An online remote control configuration system for efficiently programming a remote control to recognize a plurality of external electronic devices. The online remote control configuration system includes a remote control having a housing, a keypad, and an electronic system for receiving configuration data from a control station via a global... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080062033 - State-based remote control system: A state-based remote control system for providing efficient and simple operation of a plurality of electronic devices as a coordinated system based upon an overall task. The state-based remote control system includes a housing, a keypad in communication with an electronic system contained within the housing, and a communication device... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080055117 - Character entry apparatus and method using numeric key: There are provided a character entry apparatus and a character entry method using numeric keys, the character entry apparatus including: a number input section having ten numeric keys of 0 to 9 for entry of a number set corresponding to a desired character; a display for displaying the character corresponding... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080055118 - Electric capacitance-type touch switch: An electric capacitance-type touch switch, capable of reducing malfunction in switching operations and improving the degree of freedom in the visual design of switch, includes a detection circuit that can detect an electric capacitance change occurring when a human body approaches or contacts to an electrode. A sputter layer (i.e.,... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20080055119 - Video decoder with reduced power consumption and method thereof: A video decoder (10) with reduced power consumption includes a power management controller (45) that is operative to select one of a plurality of different power consumption states for a video decoder (10), and, in response to the determination, vary power consumption of at least one operational portion of the... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080055121 - Data encoder: A data encoder. The novel encoder includes a first circuit for generating a fundamental sequence coded data stream from an incoming input data stream, a second circuit for generating a k-split data stream from the incoming data stream, and a third circuit for combining the fundamental sequence coded data stream... Agent: Raytheon Company Leonard A. Alkov, Esq.

20080055120 - Matching pursuits subband coding of data: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method of coding sub-bands by Matching Pursuits (MP) is described.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080055122 - Systems and methods for code based error reduction: Various systems and methods for code based error reduction are disclosed herein. For example, a digital information system including a channel detector and a decoder is disclosed. In the system, the channel detector receives an encoded data set and is operable to perform a column parity check. The channel detector... Agent: Hamilton And Desanctis

20080055123 - Jitter-free sample rate conversion: A method and apparatus are described for asynchronous sample rate conversion, in particular those which use an interpolating filter, especially a polyphase interpolating filter (FB4). The input and output signals have jitter but the polyphase branch signals have no or reduced jitter due to the operation of a jitter removing... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080055124 - Parallel concatenated code with bypass: A method (1022) of encoding non-key frame data (1022) is disclosed. The method (1022) includes forming (4010 to 4040) a bitstream from the data by arranging the bits from the data in a known order. The bitstream is interleaved (2020) to form an interleaved bitstream, and parity bits are generated... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080055125 - Data storage systems: A data storage system includes an encoder subsystem comprising an error correction code encoder, a modulation encoder, and a precoder, and a decoder subsystem similarly comprising a detector, an inverse precoder, a channel decoder, and an error correction code decoder. The error correction encoder applies an error correction code to... Agent: Ido Tuchman Law Office Of Ido Tuchman

20080055126 - Parallelization of serial digital input signals: A device configured to parallelize N serial digital input signals includes at least M bit storage devices configured to each respectively store one bit of the N serial digital input signals and provide the one stored bit as a bit of a parallel digital output signal with a bit width... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080055127 - Multi-channel pipelined signal converter: A signal converter such as a multi-channel pipelined signal converter includes a plurality of pipelined signal converters and a decision unit. Each of the pipelined signal converters has a respective plurality of stage cells coupled in series with switched coupling between the pipelined signal converters. The decision unit determines a... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20080055128 - Method and apparatus for calibrating imaging device circuits: A method of operating an imaging device, an imaging device, a camera system including an imaging device, and a processing system including an imaging device for calibrating an analog-to-digital converter of the imaging device to generate a look-up table of correction values, and correcting an output of the analog-to-digital converter... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080055129 - Reducing the time to convert an analog input sample to a digital code in an analog to digital converter (adc): A stage of a pipeline ADC which uses separate pairs of sampling network and amplifier (in a sample and hold circuit (SHA)) to provide inputs to quantizer (which generates a sub-code) and a switched capacitor network (implementing a DAC, a subtractor and amplification). Due to the use of separate components/paths... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080055130 - Method and apparatus for analogue to digital conversion: An analogue to digital conversion unit (208, 210) comprises three analogue to digital converters (ADCs) (300, 301, 302) having different dynamic ranges. A lowest dynamic range ADC (300) and middle dynamic range ADC (301) have saturation detectors SAT for outputting a signal when the amplitude of an input analogue signal... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080055131 - Adjustable resistance: In one implementation, a termination circuit may include a variable resistance circuit that comprises a resistance network in which the resistance of a parallel combination of two complementary transistors of opposite types is substantially independent of the drain-to-source voltages of the transistors when the gate-to-source voltages of the transistors are... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20080055132 - Sigma-delta circuit and related method with time sharing architecture: A sigma-delta circuit with time sharing architecture includes a coefficient generation element, a sigma-delta processing element, and a storage element. The coefficient generation element is used for generating coefficients for sigma-delta operations. The sigma-delta processing element is used for executing sigma-delta operations according to the coefficients generated by the coefficient... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080055133 - Multiple input multiple output analog-to-digital converter: A method is provided for multi-channel analog-to-digital conversion. The method includes: receiving an input vector which represents a plurality of analog signals; transforming the input vector using a linear transformation matrix; converting the transformed input vector to a digital stream using an array of sigma-delta converter; and adapting the linear... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080055136 - Converter and method for converting an analog signal and comparator for use in such conversion: A converter comprises an input terminal to receive a first analog signal, a digital-to-analog converter to provide second analog signals related to digital values applied to the digital-to-analog converter. A comparator is coupled to receive the first and second analog signals, the comparator also comprising a variable-gain amplifier to provide... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20080055139 - Digital modulation circuit: Provided is a digital modulation circuit constructed with only a digital circuit. The digital modulation circuit includes: a clock generator which generates a reference clock pulse having a predetermined period; an up/down counter which generates a count value having predetermined bits by up-counting or down-counting the reference clock pulse and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080055135 - Digital-to-analog converter with triode region transistors in resistor/switch network: System and method for high-speed and high-precision digital to analog conversion. A preferred embodiment comprises a dual-resistor ladder digital-to-analog converter with a coarse resistor ladder and a fine resistor ladder, wherein resistors in the fine resistor ladder are implemented using transistors. When the effective resistances of switches used in a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080055138 - Method for vcom level adjustment with integrated programmable resistive arrays: A calibrator circuit and method for VCOM voltage adjustment for an LCD includes using integrated programmable resistive arrays. The method uses two DACs and three integrated circuit arrays to provide all of the advantages of VCOM calibrator circuits using external resistive voltage-dividers. The integrated circuit resistor arrays reduce the number... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080055137 - Overdrive digital-to-analog converter, source driver and method thereof: An overdrive digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a source driver, and a method thereof are provided. The DAC comprises a voltage divider unit, a selection unit, a buffer unit, and a detection unit. The voltage divider unit provides a plurality of reference voltages. The detection unit outputs a regulation signal according to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080055134 - Reduced component digital to analog decoder and method: An n bit D/A decoder is formed using P-type and N-type transistor switches, instead of convention CMOS switches. Each P-type and N-type switch may be formed of fewer transistors than those used to form a CMOS switch, thereby reducing the overall transistor count. The decoder may be used to decode... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080055141 - Continuous time delta-sigma modulator and electronic circuit including the same: An electronic circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and an active integrator. The DAC converts a digital output of the electronic circuit to an analog signal and feeds back the analog signal. The active integrator includes an operational amplifier having a first input terminal that receives a summed signal of... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080055140 - Semiconductor device: A DAC having a memory mat including a plurality of first memory cells, and a plurality of output lines connected to the plurality of first memory cells. Each of the plurality of memory cells has a first memory portion including bipolar transistors and storing information in non-volatility based on whether... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080055142 - Electronic filter device for the reception of tv signals: An electronic filter device for the reception of TV-signals, comprising a plurality of frequency determining elements settable by means of an analog setting voltage, a memory (2) for storing digital values representative of the analog setting voltages and conversion circuitry (11-14) for converting the digital values into the analog setting... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080055143 - Concurrent correlated double sampling and analog-to-digital conversion: For signal processing such as in an image sensor, a CDS (correlated double sampling) unit generates a first CDS signal from a first set of input signals at a predetermined node. In addition, a conversion unit converts a second CDS signal into a respective converted signal concurrently as the CDS... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20080055144 - Detector for detecting information carried by a signal having a sawtooth-like shape: A detector for detecting information carried by a signal having a sawtooth-like shape. The detector includes a first band-pass filter with center frequency around a first frequency value for filtering the signal and generating a first filtered signal, a second band-pass filter with center frequency around a second frequency value... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055145 - Input tracking high-level multibit quantizer for delta-sigma adc: A quantization circuit includes a plurality of resistors, a plurality of tap points, and a plurality of coarse comparators. Each coarse comparator has a first input coupled to an input voltage and a second input coupled to a corresponding coarse tap point voltage. Each coarse comparator operates during a first... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080055148 - Electronic device and controlling method thereof: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a controller which performs communications with a module, executes procedures for initializing the module in response to input of an insertion signal, and stops the communications with the module in response to input of an extraction signal, a power supply which applies... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080055147 - Method and apparatus for controlling an existing remote control: There is described a device for controlling a primary remote control, the apparatus comprising: a receiver adapted to receive a control signal for remotely operating an apparatus from a secondary remote control; and control circuitry coupled to the receiver, configured to be operatively connected to the primary remote control and... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080055146 - Remote controller, electronic product system, and related method with memory capability: A remote controller with memory capability includes a status button, a memory, a processing unit, and a transceiver device. The memory is utilized for storing a status information of an electronic product. When the status button is pressed, the processing unit generates a control signal and determines whether the status... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation