Coded data generation or conversion inventions 10/09

20090243898 - Electronic device with intelligent keyboard illumination: An electronic device includes a computer keyboard having keys that are each capable of individual illumination. An electronic dictionary is provided for determining a set of most likely keys to be needed for an application, wherein the electronic dictionary is updated to include new words typed on the keyboard. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090243897 - Method and apparatus for entering alphanumeric data via keypads or display screens: A method and apparatus for entry of alphabetical characters and numeric characters using a touch pad or display screen on an electronic device (e.g., cell phone, GPS navigation system). The touch pad or display has numbers and letters displayed in an optimal arrangement to allow rapid entry of characters by... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090243899 - Interface control circuit: An interface control circuit including a physical layer receiver, a lane receiver, a bridge circuit, a transmitter command encoder, a lane transmitter and a physical layer transmitter is provided. The physical layer receiver receives and converts serial data into parallel data, and determines to transmit the parallel data in a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090243900 - Analog digital converter, a/d conversion stage, method for generating digital signal corresponding to analog signal, and method for generating signal indicating conversion error in the a/d conversion stage: A conversion operation B is performed with respect to a sample value R in an A/D conversion stage 101 to generate a conversion result D3, and a sampling operation A is performed with respect to this conversion result D3 in an A/D conversion stage 103. The conversion operation B is... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090243901 - Pipeline-type analog-to-digital converter: A pipeline-type AID converter includes: N number of stages cascade-connected; and a digital correction circuit that receives digital signals outputted from the N number of stages and outputs a final digital signal. In the converter, an Mth stage in the N number of stages includes: a sub A/D converter A/D-converting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090243902 - Switched-capacitor circuit: In a switched-capacitor circuit such as a DAC, charges are accumulated by a plurality of sampling capacitors in dependence upon input digital data during a sampling phase; then, during a sharing phase these charges are shared with a holding capacitor which is connected across an opamp. In the so-called bipolar... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090243903 - System and method of altering a pwm carrier power spectrum: In a particular embodiment, a circuit device includes an input to receive a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal and an output to send a modulated PWM signal. The circuit device further includes a pulse edge control circuit coupled between the input and the output. The pulse edge control circuit receives the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090243905 - Method and system for bit polarization coding: A method and system for converting a digital code. A digital signal is encoded to have a digital code having multiple binary bits. Substantially one half of the binary bits of the digital code is inverted to produce a modified digital code to reduce digital noise associated with the digital... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090243904 - Randomized thermometer-coding digital-to-analog converter and method therefor: A randomized thermometer-coding digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for the reduction of harmonic distortion due to non-ideal circuit mismatch is presented. The present invention introduces a new dynamic element matching technique that contains three properties of randomization, consecutive selection and less element switching activity to achieve good spurious-free dynamic range and small... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090243906 - Differential comparator, and pipeline type a/d converter equipped with the same: In some examples, a differential comparator includes a differential amplifier configured to output differential output signals, a first switch portion configured to input the differential output signals from the differential amplifier and output the differential output signals from output terminals while alternatively changing over the output terminals, a latch portion... Agent: Watchstone P+d, PLLC

20090243907 - Analog-to-digital converter: A lookahead pipelined ADC architecture uses open-loop residue amplifiers with calibration. This approach is able to achieve a high-speed, high-accuracy ADC with reduced power consumption. In one aspect, an ADC pipeline unit includes a plurality of lookahead pipeline stages (i.e., an ADC lookahead pipeline) coupled to a calibration unit. The... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090243908 - Method and system for decimating a pulse width modulated (pwm) signal: A method and system of decimating a Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) signal (537) is provided. The method includes computing one or more timestamps (553) of the PWM signal (537), the PWM signal being at a first sample rate (567). The one or more timestamps (553) are computed at a second... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090243909 - Reduction of power consumption in remote control electronics: A remote controlling device is disclosed that includes one or more motion sensors configured to sense a motion of the device. The remote control further includes a capacitive sensor and a power source. The capacitive sensor selectively couples the power source to the one or more motion sensors.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP On Behalf Of Echostar Technologies, L.L.C.

20090243910 - Remote controller: The remote controller includes: a casing with a battery holder provided to house a battery; a lid to cover the battery holder of the casing and provided with a latch-hook extending downward at its end; a switch-contact to carry out electrical switching conducted by the operation panel; a controller to... Agent: Ratnerprestia