Coded data generation or conversion inventions 07/08

20080180283 - System and method of cross media input for chinese character input in electronic equipment: Disclosed is a system and method for inputting Chinese characters and phrases in electronic equipment, such as, for example, portable communications devices. A cross media bar is provided wherein a user selects an alphanumeric character based on a pronunciation of a Chinese character (e.g., Pinyin method of Chinese text enter)... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080180284 - Information additive code generator and decoder for communication systems: An encoder uses an input file of data and a key to produce an output symbol. An output symbol with key I is generated by determining a weight, W(I), for the output symbol to be generated, selecting W(I) of the input symbols associated with the output symbol according to a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080180285 - Systematic encoding and decoding of chain reaction codes: A method of encoding data into a chain reaction code includes generating a set of input symbols from input data. Subsequently, one or more non-systematic output symbols is generated from the set of input symbols, each of the one or more non-systematic output symbols being selected from an alphabet of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080180286 - Digital compression of binary data blocks: Method and apparatus are configured to assign a code of less than N number of bits in length to a pattern of bits of a first polarity value distributed within a block of N binary bits. The method basically comprises (1) determining a number of bits of the first value... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080180287 - Techniques for 9b10b and 7b8b coding and decoding: A technique for encoding 9-binary symbol (9B) source vectors into 10-binary symbol (10B) encoded vectors include the steps of obtaining a plurality of 9B source vectors, and encoding the 9B source vectors into a plurality of 10B encoded vectors according to an encoding scheme. A fraction of the 10B encoded... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080180288 - Method and system for transmitting/receiving serial data in serial communication system and serial communication system for the same: Disclosed is a method and a system for transmitting/receiving serial data efficiently by minimizing the transitions of bits in a serial communication system, as well as a serial communication system for the same. The method for converting coded parallel data into serial data and transmitting the serial data in a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080180290 - 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

20080180289 - Self-calibrating high-speed analog-to-digital converter: A precisely self-calibrating high-speed analog to digital converter is disclosed, wherein the aspect ratios of tri-state inverters are adjusted to fine-tune threshold voltage as comparators. And the multiplexers composed of tri-state inverters amplify the signal from the output of comparators. Their switches of tri-state inverters may be properly controlled to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080180291 - Systems and methods for kickback reduction in an adc: Various systems and methods for analog to digital conversion are disclosed. For example, some embodiments of the present invention provide analog to digital conversion systems. The analog to digital conversion systems include a first integrator and a second integrator, and a first summation element and a second summation element. An... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080180292 - Digital-to-analogue converter: In a dynamic element matching stage of a digital-to-analogue converter, in which a pair of quantizer outputs are generated, and are constrained such that their sum is equal to the parity of a received bit value, steps are taken to improve baseband noise performance. Each of the quantizers has a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080180293 - Pulse width modulation method and digital analogue converter using the same: In a pulse width modulation method of the present invention, a digital signal is modulated and a pulse width modulation signal is generated in a pulse width modulator by using a digital signal output unit and the pulse width modulator The pulse width modulation method includes: outputting to the pulse... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080180294 - Variable passive components with high resolution value selection and control: The present system provides a method for varying the value of passive components in electronic circuits. Passive components can range from basic resistors, capacitors, and inductors to complex, structures such as transmission lines and resonant cavities. Value selection and variation can either be dynamically performed during circuit operation or as... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080180295 - Digital-to-analog converter: An analog-to-digital converter has a resistor string that generates a series of voltages. An upper selector selects voltages at the upper end of the series. A lower selector selects voltages at the lower end of the series. A pair of midrange selectors select a pair of adjacent voltages in the... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080180296 - Analog-to-digital converter: A subranging analog-to-digital converter is disclosed. The converter includes: a divided voltage generation circuit that equally divides a range of a predetermined voltage, and generates 2m+1 divided voltages; a higher-order conversion circuit that generates a signal for higher-order m bits of the digital signal by comparing the analog signal with... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080180297 - A/d converter, signal processor, and receiving device: An A/D converter which converts an analog current signal into a digital signal, includes: a filter removing a noise component from the analog current signal to output an analog voltage signal; a quantizer quantizing the analog voltage signal outputted from the filter to generate the digital signal; and a D/A... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080180298 - Single slope analog to digital converter using hysteresis property and analog to digital converting method: A single slope ADC using a hysteresis property includes a first comparator, a second comparator, and a code generating unit. The first comparator outputs a compared signal by receiving and comparing an input signal having a constant level with a ramp signal, the second comparator has a hysteresis property having... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080180300 - Analog-digital converter and on-die thermal sensor including the same: An on-die thermal sensor includes an integrating analog-digital converter not requiring a negative reference voltage input. The on die thermal sensor includes a band gap unit, an integrating unit and a counting unit. The band gap unit senses a temperature to output a first voltage corresponding to the sensed temperature.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080180299 - Class d analog-to-digital converter: A new analog-to-digital (ADC) circuit and architecture and the corresponding method of implementation are provided. The analog input signal is converted into a modulated pulse stream such as by a pulse-width-modulation scheme. The time-duration width of the pulses are measured by a TDC (time-to-digital converter) and converted to a digital... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080180305 - Control interface for controlling multiple functional devices or a multiple purpose device having a plurality of modes: The present invention relates to intuitive based control elements and interfaces and devices using said intuitive based control elements. In certain embodiments, machine interfaces such as remote control devices for operation of various devices are provided. More specifically, machine interfaces according to embodiments of the invention herein include one or... Agent: Ralph J. Crispino

20080180304 - Intuitive based control elements, and interfaces and devices using said intuitive based control elements: The present invention relates to intuitive based control elements and interfaces and devices using said intuitive based control elements. In certain embodiments, machine interfaces such as remote control devices for operation of various devices are provided. More specifically, machine interfaces according to embodiments of the invention herein include one or... Agent: Ralph J. Crispino

20080180303 - Learning remote controller, remote controller learning apparatus, learning remote controller learning system, and processing methods and programs for use therewith: Disclosed herein is a remote controller apparatus including: preset holding means for holding, per preset code, preset information representative of correspondence between buttons of a plurality of trial-targeted remote controllers on the one hand, and an output signal given when each of the buttons is pushed on the other hand;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080180301 - Methods, systems, and products for controlling devices: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for controlling a device. A signal is received and a power of the signal is determined. The power is associated to a command, and the command is executed.... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080180306 - Telephonic device including intuitive based control elements: The present invention relates to intuitive based control elements and interfaces and devices using said intuitive based control elements. In certain embodiments, machine interfaces such as remote control devices for operation of various devices are provided. More specifically, machine interfaces according to embodiments of the invention herein include one or... Agent: Ralph J. Crispino

20080180302 - Universal remote control: A universal remote control device is presented. The universal remote control device includes a mechanism for communicating with a host device that includes a video display, an audio output, and a microprocessor. The universal remote control device further includes a media slot configured to receive a removable memory device. The... Agent: Alfred W. Froebrich, Esq. Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080180307 - Audio quantization: For supporting a selection of a predictive or non-predictive quantization in the scope of an audio signal coding, it is determined whether an error resulting with a non-predictive quantization of an audio signal segment lies below a predetermined threshold value. An audio signal segment quantized with the non-predictive quantization is... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080174457 - Structure of a key: A keyboard device has a plurality of keys, each key having a support base where one end of each key is supported and is arranged to allow for movement, and a plate that hides the surface of the base. The keys are created with ultrasonic welding once the base and... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20080174458 - Notebook computer having keyboard decoding in palmrest: A portable information handling system, user interface components thereof, and methods of user control interface and assembly are disclosed. In one embodiment a keyboard assembly, including a large plurality of contacts for a keyboard matrix, connects directly to a palmrest assembly. The palmrest assembly includes a keyboard controller, which decodes... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080174459 - Apparatus and method of dynamically caching symbols to manage a dictionary in a text image coding and decoding system: An apparatus of a text image coding and decoding system includes a decomposer to decompose image data to extract a stripe image having one or more symbols, a matching unit to match the symbols with reference symbols of a symbol dictionary, and a dynamic symbol caching unit to generate one... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080174460 - Apparatus and method for reducing errors in analog circuits while processing signals: A method and apparatus processes signals in a set of analog circuit components of an analog circuit white enforcing a set of explicit constraints corresponding to a set of implicit constraints to reduce errors in output signals.... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080174461 - Time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter and self-calibration method thereof: The present invention discloses a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (ADC), which includes a first and a second sub-ADC and a calibration module. The calibration module includes a switch module and a calibration engine. The switch module selectively provides one of a set of reference voltage levels, which are provided by a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080174462 - Data driver and display device: Disclosed is a data driver including a positive-polarity reference voltage generation circuit that outputs positive-polarity reference voltages, a positive-polarity decoder that receives the positive-polarity reference voltages from the positive-polarity reference voltage generation circuit, and selects and outputs at least one positive-polarity reference voltage in accordance with first digital data, a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080174463 - Switched capacitor type d/a converter, and drive circuit for liquid crystal display: A D/A converter of switched capacitor type capable of shortening the time for D/A conversion process without increasing power consumption is provided. The D/A converter comprises capacitors Cx and Cy for receiving input voltage corresponding to the digital data and charging the amount of charge corresponding to the input voltage,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080174464 - Method for digitizing an analog quantity, digitizing device implementing said method, and electromagnetic radiation detector integrating such a device: A method of digitizing an analog quantity from an electromagnetic radiation detector including a matrix of juxtaposed elementary sensors, including, for each line or column of the matrix, the steps of: integrating the analog quantity using an integrator stage; converting the integrated analog quantity to a first numerical value via... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080174465 - Pipelined analog-to-digital converter having interleaved sample-and-hold circuits coupled in common: A semiconductor integrated circuit device provided with a pipeline A-D conversion circuit in which the enhancement of accuracy and the reduction of power consumption are accomplished is provided. The pipeline A-D conversion circuit is connected in series with an input terminal to which an analog signal to be converted is... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080174466 - Analog error correction for a pipelined charge-domain a/d converter: A technique for correcting errors in Bucket Brigade Device (BBD)-based pipelined devices, such as Analog-to Digital Converters (ADCs). The gain between pipeline stages is desired to be a specific amount, such as unity: that is, all net charge present in each stage ideally is transferred to the next stage. In... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080174467 - Universal remote control programming: An apparatus and method for programming a universal remote control. The method includes receiving a transmitted signal of unknown modulation technique from a native remote control and characterizing the received signal in parameters of a pre-determined modulation technique.... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080174468 - Universal remote control programming: An apparatus and method for programming a universal remote control. The method includes receiving a transmitted signal of unknown modulation technique from a native remote control and characterizing the received signal in parameters of a pre-determined modulation technique.... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080169942 - Adaptive multitap timeout: A communication device may receive successive key inputs, determine an average time duration between successive key inputs, start a timeout, determine if a timeout was successful and adjust the timeout period based on the determined success of the timeout.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080169943 - Integrated removable faceplate for portable computing system: An integrated removable functional faceplate for a portable computer system. The removable functional faceplate employs specially located electrical contacts or pads that mate with similarly located electrical contacts mounted on the portable computer system, e.g., a personal digital assistant (PDA) or other electronic device. The electrical contacts of the functional... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080169944 - Dynamic number keypad for networked phones: Methods and apparatus for allowing images displayed on a keypad of a networked phone to be dynamically changed are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a networked phone apparatus includes a dynamic keypad and control channel logic. The dynamic keypad has a plurality of dynamic keys that... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080169945 - Systems and processes for decoding a chain reaction code through inactivation: A method for processing a chain reaction codes includes first selecting a source symbol which is associated an output symbol of degree two or higher (i.e., an output symbol which is itself associated with two or more input symbols), and subsequently deactivating the selected source symbol in an attempt to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080169946 - Deserializer, related method, and clock frequency divider: A deserializer and method for deserializing data are disclosed. The method includes converting data from a serial data domain to a parallel data domain, detecting a comma related to the parallel data while the data is in the serial data domain, wherein conversion of the data from the serial data... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080169947 - Analog-to-digital converter with dc balanced serialized output: A method of serializing parallel output from an analog-to-digital converter includes receiving a parallel output from an analog-to-digital converter; serializing the parallel output; and encoding the serialized output such that it is DC balanced. A system for serializing and DC balancing an analog-to-digital converter output includes an analog-to-digital converter that... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Graver PLLC

20080169948 - Filter adjustment circuit: In a filter adjustment circuit for an analog filter circuit such as a Gm-C filter, an input signal IS from a reference signal generation circuit 1 is inputted to a Gm-C filter 2 to be filtered and then converted by a conversion circuit 3 to a digital signal. A reference... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080169949 - Error reduction for parallel, time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter: A technique for reducing errors in a PTIC (parallel, time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter) consisting of M ADCs involves sampling an input signal with the PTIC and performing M different DFTs, one for each ADC. Elements of the M DFTs are grouped together according to frequency and multiplied by correction matrices to... Agent: Law Office Of Bruce D. Rubenstein

20080169950 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: The semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a plurality of macro cells; and a serial-parallel conversion circuit for converting a serial signal inputted from outside to generate parallel selection control signals during testing, or an A/D conversion circuit for converting an analog signal inputted from outside to generate digital selection control signals... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080169951 - Direct digital synthesis of transmitter gain and bias control curves: A transmitter includes a plurality of devices which processes a transmit signal. Examples of such devices include a variable gain amplifier, a power amplifier and/or a modulator. Some other these devices are gain controllable. Some of these devices are bias controllable. Each controllable device receives at least one analog control... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080169952 - Column-parallel sigma-delta anolog-to-digital conversion with gain and offset control: A sigma-delta modulation sensing circuit and an analog-to-digital converter for an imager that eliminate the erroneous conversion of non-zero analog voltages to zero digital voltages is provided. The sensing circuit includes an offset branch that allows input of an offset voltage that is at least as large as a negative... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080169953 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: The A/D converter converting an analog input signal into a digital output signal is constructed with a band pass ΔΣ modulator. The band pass ΔΣ modulator includes: a resonator showing a band-pass characteristic at a predetermined frequency and an attenuation characteristic at another frequency; a quantizer; and a local D/A... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080169955 - Ad conversion method, apparatus thereof, solid-state imaging device, driving method thereof, and imaging apparatus: An analog-to-digital conversion method includes the steps of outputting an upper-bit conversion reference signal, obtaining a digital value of upper bits on the basis of a period of time from a set time to the time when a magnitude relation between the analog signal and the upper-bit conversion reference signal... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080169954 - Reconfigurable signal processor for raw data patterns: A system includes a continual process for detecting specific data patterns and changes according to a configuration of re-definable and process generated variables. A coarse sample reference, a fine sample reference, and a data array reference are applied to provide independent control over the number of observable signal elements, the... Agent: Anderson Law Group, PLLC

20080169957 - Integrated remote control unit for operating a television and a video game unit: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for a control unit. A keypad has a plurality of keys on a housing arranged for receiving an input. A CPU generates control signals to control multiple applications based upon the input received from the keypad. A memory communicates with the CPU and stores... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080169956 - Operating device: An operating device enabling recognition, even in a dark room, that an operation of an operating unit has been detected, whether or not a desired main device is operated by the operating device. The device 1 is connected to a main device 20 via signal lines K and G, and... Agent: Chapman And Cutler

20080165034 - Computer keyboard: A keyboard for one-handed data input is disclosed. The keyboard includes a primary keypad including a first set of keys. The primary keypad is defined by a first side and an opposed second side. The keyboard also includes an auxiliary keypad including a second set of keys, as well as... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080165035 - Method and system for customizing keyboard map variants: A system may include (a) at least one key map variant which has a plurality of key values associated with corresponding keystrokes; (b) a character encoding chart which has a plurality of code values associated with corresponding characters of the character encoding chart; (c) an input data reader which receives... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080165036 - System and method for video coding having reduced computational intensity: A system for, and method of, entropy coding. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a memory configured to contained initialized accumulated statistics coding variable values and (2) a processor configured to employ the initialized accumulated statistics coding variable values to context-adaptive encode multiple symbols until an accumulated statistics update... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080165037 - Data throttling circuit and method for a spacewire application: A Data Throttling method duplicates the full-speed transmission of data so that it appears to be transmitting at a 10 Mhz rate. Additional storage elements and multiplexers are added along the data path but this completely eliminates undesirable complexity in the clock tree. In a two-bit application, data is received... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080165038 - Fast implementation of decoding function for variable length encoding: An embodiment of the present inventions is a method for encoding/decoding data of variable length format and is used to omit unnecessary pieces of data for the purpose of improving processing performance, reducing the size of data on communication paths and efficiently using limited physical memory. As examples of such... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080165039 - System and method for communicating at low signal-to-noise ratio using injected training symbols: A system and method for communicating includes a transmitter that transmits a communication signal having a plurality of successive frames, with each frame formed with alternatively arranged N known data symbols and M unknown data symbols such that the N known data symbols as training symbols. The communications signals are... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080165040 - Calibrating a digital-to-analog converter: Methods and corresponding systems for calibrating a digital-to-analog converter include selecting first and second code regions in the digital-to-analog converter, wherein the first and second code regions are separated by a boundary. Thereafter a waveform sequence is input into the digital-to-analog converter, wherein the waveform sequence has a zero offset... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20080165041 - Clock jitter minimization in a continuous time sigma delta analog-to-digital converter: A digital-to-analog converter adapted for use as a feedback converter in a continuous time sigma delta analog-to-digital converter. The digital-to-analog converter has a discrete time digital signal input accepting digital signal samples that are synchronized with an assertion of a first data clock signal and a discrete time clock generator... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20080165042 - Extended range delta-sigma modulator and delta-sigma power converter: Devices, systems, and methods for providing delta-sigma modulation in conjunction with analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog signal conversion are disclosed. The delta-sigma modulator and delta-sigma converter include dynamically-scalable coefficients, which, at relatively low signal amplitudes, allow the delta-sigma modulator and delta-sigma converter to modulate the signals using a first noise transfer function... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080165043 - Method and apparatus for a/d conversion: A method and an apparatus for converting an analog input signal into a digital output signal using a sigma-delta modulator architecture with a digital tracking filter. The digital tracking filter may have and order greater than one, and the signal and noise transfer functions of the sigma-delta modulator architecture are... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck

20080165044 - Method and system for an efficient channel quantization method for mimo pre-coding systems: where A is a matrix of size N by N and aij is element (i,j) of matrix A.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080165045 - System and method for message processing and generation of multimedia content remotely controlled: Messages such as short message service (SMS) and multimedia messaging service (MMS) reach a GVB device for message processing and multimedia content generation through the infrastructure of a mobile provider. Depending on the message content and sender, the GVB device processes messages and generates an appropriate signal for the presentation... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080158021 - Bidirectional wireless number pad and keyboard: The present invention uniquely separates the number pad from a keyboard providing a separate, wireless device. This separate wireless device with the number pad includes a display and has multiple modes of operation.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080158022 - Binary keypad apparatus and method for portable terminal: In a binary keypad apparatus for a portable terminal, a power supply supplies a current, and one or more general keys receive the current from the power supply and output the received current. One or more general purpose input/output (I/O) pins receive the current and output binary values corresponding to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080158020 - Handheld electronic device providing confirmation of input, and associated method: A letter confirmation system is provided on a handheld electronic device. The letter confirmation provides highlighting of various letters that have been input to the handheld electronic device during a string of member input actuations. The letter confirmation system can additionally provide predictive linguistic elements that would be appropriate next... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080158023 - Apparatus and method for expressing hangul: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for expressing Hangul. More specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for expressing Hangul by which Hangul can be inputted, without using a separate function key, to an information appliance with an input means which comprises... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080158024 - Compact user interface for electronic devices: An input interface for an electronic device, comprises: a first directionally articulatable central element for pressure operation by a user to indicate one of a first plurality of inputs depending on a direction of application of pressure, and a first directionally articulatable surrounding element arranged at least partially concentrically about... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080158025 - Method for constructing rll codes of arbitrary rate: The claimed embodiments provide methods, apparatuses and systems directed to run-length limited (RLL) coding of data. In one implementation, concatenatable RLL codes with run lengths of zeroes not exceeding k are constructed for any rate N/(N+1) where N≦2k−2+k−1. As code rates increase, the value of k departs from the minimum... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080158026 - Compensating for harmonic distortion in an instrument channel: Automatic test equipment (ATE) includes circuitry configured to pass a signal in a channel of the ATE, and memory configured to store a first look-up table (LUT) and a second LUT. The first LUT is configured to provide a first correction value based on a first version of the signal,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080158027 - Digital signal coding apparatus, digital signal decoding apparatus, digital signal arithmetic coding method and digital signal arithmetic decoding method: In a bit stream syntax containing compressed video slice data for compressed video data of a slice structure, a slice header for compressed video slice data has attached thereto a slice start code, a register reset flag indicating whether a register value, which designates a status of a codeword occurring... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080158028 - Signal converting apparatus with built-in self test: The present invention provides a signal converting apparatus with built-in self test, including a first signal converting circuit, a second signal converting circuit, a comparing apparatus, a control logic apparatus and a voltage divider. The first and the second signal converting circuit take a first and a second reference voltage... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080158029 - Efficient, selective error reduction for parallel, time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter: A technique for reducing errors in a PTIC (parallel, time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter) consisting of M ADCs involves sampling an input signal with the PTIC and performing M different DFTs, one for each ADC. Elements of the M DFTs are grouped together according to bin number. If all elements corresponding to... Agent: Law Office Of Bruce D. Rubenstein

20080158030 - A/d converter, semiconductor device using a/d converter, and sensor device: An integration type A/D converter in which a dynamic range is enlarged while keeping a simple circuit configuration is provided. Offset potential of an integrator is to be variable. Specifically, offset potential in proportion to input potential is supplied to the integrator. Since an operation point of the integrator is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080158031 - Methods and apparatus for analog-digital signal conversion: Methods and apparatus for the conversion of analog signals into digital signals using second order or higher sigma-delta modulators in pipelined or cyclic architectures.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080158032 - Jitter correction: A system comprising includes a clock generator module, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a correction module. The clock generator module receives a system clock and generates a digital clock that is derived from the system clock, wherein the digital clock has an average frequency. The clock generator module generates a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080158033 - Driving device for image display system: A driving device for driving an image display system, which sequentially receives input image data corresponding to gradation of each pixel of a display image and outputs a driving voltage signal includes: an operation section for obtaining output image data of which a bit number is smaller than a bit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158035 - Clock signal generating device and analog-digital conversion device: A first Delayed Flip Flop includes a first D input terminal, a first clock input terminal, a first output terminal outputting a signal inputted to the first D input terminal based on the clock signal, and a first inversion output terminal inverting and outputting the signal inputted to the first... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080158036 - On die thermal sensor and method for generating thermal code of odts: An on die thermal sensor (ODTS) in a memory device includes: a band gap unit for detecting a temperature of the memory device to output a first voltage corresponding to the temperature; and an analog-to-digital converting unit for outputting a digital code having temperature information based on the first voltage,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158034 - Parallel processed electronic dispersion control: An apparatus, system and method for providing electronic dispersion compensation. In one embodiment an apparatus may include an analog-to-digital converter and a plurality of adaptive filters arranged in parallel. The analog-to-digital converter may output blocks of samples, associated portions of which may be provided as inputs to the filters. Data... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080158037 - Analog-to-digital converter with calibration: An analog-to-digital converter with calibration is provided. The converter includes at least one conversion unit. The conversion unit includes a comparator, a control unit, a count unit, and a calibration unit. The comparator compares the voltage of the first input terminal with the voltage of the second input terminal and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080158038 - Universal remote control for effecting the same function on a plurality of different devices: A universal remote control device effects a same function on a plurality of different remotely controlled devices. The device has a housing, an actuator within the housing, a database of encoded signals for effecting the same function on the plurality of different remotely controlled devices; and a signal emitter configured... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080158039 - Method for coding an output signal of a sensor: A method for coding an output signal of a sensor of an apparatus for determining a rotation angle of a shaft, in particular of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, the shaft being joined to a sensor wheel having teeth and tooth gaps having an asymmetrical pitch, and the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP