Coded data generation or conversion inventions

20090267803 - Scale for photoelectric encoder: A scale for a photoelectric encoder effectively protects the base of the scale from corrosion, rust, and flaws. The scale includes a base, a light-absorbing layer including a DLC layer formed on at least one surface of the base, and light-reflecting layers with a higher reflectance than that of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090267804 - Cylindrical cover attached encoder apparatus: A cylindrical cover-attached encoder apparatus, including a magnetic metal-based body having a cylindrical shape, a magnetic rubber-based encoder having a cylindrical shape and formed around the outer peripheral surface of said magnetic metal-based cylindrical body, and a nonmagnetic material-based cover having a cylindrical shape and adapted to be mounted on... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090267805 - Control apparatus and electronic device using the same: A control apparatus includes a motion sensor, an image acquisition device, a processor and a holding device. The motion sensor senses head movements of an operator and generates sensing signals. The image acquisition device captures images of the eye of the operator. The processor calculates a displacement of the motion... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090267806 - Electrical circuit: An electrical circuit for controlling at least one electrical load and at least one function thereof by providing, in the active line of an AC circuit, a modulation switching circuit and a plurality of function keys series-connected with at least with the at least one electrical load and a demodulation... Agent: Law Offices Of Karl Hormann

20090267807 - Electronic device providing a number input system: An electronic device providing number input is an input combination of a number input system. The number input system comprises three horizontal elements and four vertical elements arranged in the shape of the number “8.” The electronic device provides a mechanism for a user to input numbers by pressing combinations... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090267808 - Key for an input device: An input device comprises a plurality of keys, and each of the keys has a pattern. The pattern is a portion of a complete character. The complete character comprises a character feature according to which the character can be recognized, and the aforementioned pattern comprises the character feature.... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090267809 - Method and apparatus for high performance key detection with key debounce: A system for detecting a key with key debounce including a circuit for detecting a key activation; a first counter coupled to the circuit and a clock for testing the key activation for a first user definable number of clock cycles; a key debounce buffer for storing a key index... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20090267810 - Efficient coding of small integer sets: Techniques for coding integer sets are described herein. According to one embodiment, for each data range of parameters to be encoded, a number of bits required to represent a maximum parameter among the parameters in each data range is determined, including a first number of bits and a second number... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090267811 - Code design with decreased transition density and reduced running digital sum: In accordance with one or more embodiments data may be encoded into a code word that meets run length constraints and has a reduced running digital sum by encoding (N-y)−1 data bits and y flag bits into m first n-bit patterns that form a first N-bit code word, producing a... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090267812 - Method for encoding a sequence of integers, storage device and signal carrying an encoded integer sequence and method for decoding a sequence of integers:

20090267813 - Semiconductor devices, a system including semiconductor devices and methods thereof: Semiconductor devices, a system including said semiconductor devices and methods thereof are provided. An example semiconductor device may receive data scheduled for transmission, scramble an order of bits within the received data, the scrambled order arranged in accordance with a given pseudo-random sequence. The received data may be balanced such... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090267814 - Circuit arrangement, l[ocal] i[nterconnected] ne[twork] comprising such circuit arrangement as well as method for processing input signals of the lin: Circuit arrangement, L[ocal]I[nterconnected]N[etwork] comprising such circuit arrangement as well as method for processing input signals of the LIN In order to further develop a circuit arrangement (100)—for processing at least one input signal (12) from at least one data bus (10) of at least one L[ocal]I[nterconnected]N[etwork] and—for providing the data... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090267815 - Metastability error reduction in signal converter systems: Signal converter systems are provided which reduce degradation of system bit error rate that is caused by metastable conversion errors which generally occur when analog input signals are near reference thresholds Vth of system comparators. When operating correctly, the comparators generate a corresponding converter code when the input signals cross... Agent: Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Dawson

20090267816 - Delta sigma-type a/d converter: There is provided a technique for reducing the adverse effect of idle tones in the channels in a ΔΣ-type A/D converter including a plurality of channels for converting analog input signals into digital signals. The ΔΣ-type A/D converter includes an L channel for converting a left analog input signal into... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090267817 - Adjustable analogue-digital converter arrangement and method for analogue-to-digital conversion: An adjustable analog-digital converter arrangement comprising: an input adapted for receiving an input signal; an analog-digital converter operating by successive approximation, having a signal input coupled with the input, wherein said converter is adapted for converting an analog signal at the signal input into a digital value; an attenuator with... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090267818 - Low distortion current switch: A system and method is provided for code independent switching in a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). A synchronous digital circuit is triggered by a synchronizing clocking signal and develops a digital data signal. A circuit arrangement provides the synchronizing clock a constant load at every clocking cycle, thereby assuring a data... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090267819 - Systems and methods for reducing the effects of adc mismatch: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for utilizing a plurality of potentially mismatched analog to digital converters. For example, a method for adaptively processing a variety of input signals is disclosed. The method includes providing an adaptive loop circuit, and a first and second circuit pairs.... Agent: Hamilton,desanctis & Cha (lsi)

20090267820 - Analog/digital, conversion circuit, timing signal generation circuit, and control device: There are provided an analog-digital converter circuit capable of performing the same degree of operation as being performed at a high-frequency oscillation pulse using a low-frequency oscillation pulse without using the high-frequency oscillation pulse, a timing signal generating circuit generating a timing signal at the high frequency, and a control... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090267821 - Analog-to-digital converter: An ADC circuit includes multiple comparators and a controller coupled to the comparators. Each of the comparators is operative to generate an output indicative of a difference between a first signal representative of an input signal applied to the ADC circuit and a corresponding reference signal. The controller is operative... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090261990 - Manual pulse generator: A manual pulse generator includes an operating region receiving contact to generate a contact signal, a touch sensor, and a programmable chip. The touch sensor is capable of generating electrical signals according to the contact signal. The programmable chip is electrically connected to the touch sensor to receive electrical signals... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090261992 - Dual keyboard input device and movable cart having the same mounted thereon: Disclosed are a dual keyboard input device and a movable cart having the same mounted thereon. The movable cart includes a supporting portion, a desk formed on the supporting portion, and a dual keyboard input device reversibly mounted on the desk, and including a flat plate shaped-keyboard body, a button... Agent: Jones Day

20090261993 - Keyboard: A keyboard includes a main body disposed with a plurality of keys and an integrated member. The integrated member is detachably connected to the main body. The integrated member is capable of being moved with respect to the main body between a first position where the integrated member and the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090261991 - Keyboard device: The present invention relates to a keyboard device. The keyboard device includes a base, a main circuit board, a base cover, a touching membrane switch, a touching thin plate, an upper cover and a plurality of keys. The touching membrane switch is activated to implement a predefined hot key function... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090261994 - Device and method for polyphase resampling: The invention relates to a method and a device for polyphase resampling, having a coefficient generator (11) which provides a plurality of coefficients (C0, C1, . . . C5) and an interpolation arrangement used to carry out the resampling by means of the coefficients (C0-C5) applied to input data provided... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck Chase Tower

20090261996 - Data conversion apparatus and control method thereof: This invention converts Packbit-encoded data into new Packbit-encoded data which allows to have a throughput=M. a extraction unit separates inputted encoded data into length information and data information, and outputs them to a conversion unit. The conversion unit has a count unit which cumulatively counts the number of output data... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090261995 - Variable-length code decoding apparatus, variable-length code decoding method, and program: Disclosed herein is a variable-length code decoding apparatus including: a code buffer that holds a variable-length code in which the same bit value continues for a given number of bits from the most significant bit; code word detectors each of which reads the variable-length code from the code buffer to... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090261997 - Multi-speed burst mode serializer/de-serializer: A multi-speed burst mode serializer/de-serializer (SerDes) is configurable and can operate in one of a plurality of operating modes. The plurality of operating modes correspond to the reception of signals from optical network units that operate at different nominal speeds. These various modes of operation can enable a single SerDes... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090261998 - Apparatus and method for sigma-delta analog to digital conversion: A method and apparatus are provided for sigma-delta (ΣΔ) analog to digital conversion, the method including receiving an analog signal, sampling the received signal, comparing the sampled signal with a constant reference voltage, providing at least one high-order bit responsive to the constant reference comparison, comparing the sampled signal with... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090261999 - Device and method for testing of digital-to-analog converter: A current-steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is tested using a test component having a relaxation oscillator with an oscillation frequency based on the output current of the DAC. A series of test values is provided in sequence to the DAC for conversion to an output current with a magnitude that varies... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20090262000 - Electric control system and electric control unit: A plurality of electric control units are connected to perform data-communication through a communication line. Each electric control unit comprises a recording means for recording data and a communication means, to control an operation of an object to be controlled. One of the plurality of electric control units determines whether... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090262002 - Method and apparatus for communication between a remote device and an operator: Embodiments of the invention allow sensors positioned on or near a remotely controlled device to monitor the status and/or internal conditions of the device and transmit the status information through a data link to a receiver station, or control station, where the information can be provided to a user or... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20090262001 - Remote control system and remote control signal processing method: A remote control system is provided. The remote control system includes at least one first remote control apparatus and at least one second remote control apparatus. The at least one first remote control apparatus includes a command input unit, a first control unit, and a first output unit. The at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090256725 - Manual pulse generator: A manual pulse generator that includes a main body, a magnification selector, an axis selector, and an input device is disclosed. The input device is disposed on an upper surface of the main body. The input device includes a control chip and a panel with many touch-sensors electronically connected to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090256728 - Handheld electronic device with keyboard: A keyboard includes a plurality of keys each of which is associated with indicia corresponding to at least one of alphabetic characters, numbers, or commands. The keys of the plurality of keys associated with alphabetic characters number fewer than 26 and greater than nine. No more than two alphabetic characters... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)

20090256726 - Illuminated keyboard with a light guide plate: An illuminated keyboard with a light guide plate of the present invention includes a key module and a luminous module located under the key module. The luminous module includes a transparent light guide plate, a plurality of illuminants, and a light reflection plate located under the light guide plate. The... Agent: Weiner & Burt, P.C.

20090256727 - Side keypad assembly and portable electronic device using the same: A side keypad assembly includes a pressing surface, an opposite mating surface. The pressing surface includes a plurality of keypads protruded thereon. The mating surface includes a plurality of stepped columns protruded thereon corresponding to the plurality of keypads respectively and a plurality of separating protrusions corresponding to the conjoint... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090256730 - Advanced lossless bit coding: A bit coding method modifies the bit-steam information in such a way as to provide a very high compression during lossless symbol coding and may be used as a preprocessor for Huffman and arithmetic encodings or on its own. A bit rearrangement scheme (BRS) improves the run length within a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090256729 - Difference coding adaptive context model using counting: Techniques for improving encoding and decoding data are described herein. According to one embodiment, it is determined whether a current context can encode a retrieved symbol. The current context includes a plurality entries, each representing an encoded symbol, including a count value representing a frequency of the entry being used.... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090256731 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus includes: a data acquisition section inputting data; a data conversion section performing data conversion processing on the data input through the data acquisition section; and a control section performing data processing using the data converted by the conversion processing by the data conversion section, wherein when... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090256732 - Fast compression method for scientific data: A method and system allows for fast compression and decompressing of data using existing repetitive interleaved patterns within scientific data (floating point, integer, and image). An advantage of the method and system is that it is so fast that it can be used to save time due to a lower... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090256733 - Current control circuit: Provided is a current control circuit. A current control circuit may include a clock sensing unit configured to generate a control signal according to one or more frequencies based on a plurality of clock signals, and a current scaling unit configured to scale a bias current according to the control... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090256734 - Time-interleaved analog-to-digital conversion apparatus: A time-interleaved analog-to-digital conversion apparatus is disclosed. The time-interleaved analog-to-digital conversion apparatus is applied for a television system and includes an input multiplexing module, a gain multiplexer and an analog-to-digital converter. The input multiplexing module receives a plurality of image signals, and samples the image signals according to a clock... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090256735 - Analog-to-digital conversion in pixel arrays: An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) generates an output digital value equivalent to the difference between two analog signal values. The ADC 30 receives a first analog signal level, a second analog signal level and a ramp signal. A counter 32 is operable to count in a single direction. A control stage... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090251337 - Grouping variable media inputs to reflect a user session: Embodiments of the invention present a system and method for identifying relationships between different types of data captured by a pen-based computing system, such as a smart pen. The pen-based computing system generates one or more sessions including different types of data that are associated with each other. In one... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090251338 - Ink tags in a smart pen computing system: Embodiments of the invention present a system and method for generating digital links, or “ink tags,” from handwritten notes on a writing surface. Handwritten data, including one or more ink tags identifying digital content, is captured by a smart pen device and used to retrieve a digital document associated with... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090251336 - Quick record function in a smart pen computing system: Embodiments of the invention present a system and method for controlling audio capture by a smart pen based computing system. An audio capture mechanism that is independent from a gesture capture system is included on the smart pen to control audio capture by one or more microphones included on the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090251339 - Information communication apparatus and method of controlling information communication apparatus: An information communication apparatus includes: an electrostatic panel unit that is at least provided with an electrostatically chargeable panel surface; a capacitance detection unit that detects a capacitance variation of the panel surface to detect a location at which an object substantially contacts the panel surface; an electric field communication... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090251340 - Connection mechanism and mobile terminal: An operation input unit includes: a printed board mounted with a plurality of push button switches and a rotation detecting means on its upper face; an operation member formed of a metal thin plate portion and a resin material portion integrated with each other, having press projections, and supported vertically... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090251341 - Huffman decoding method and apparatus: A decoder for decoding an input bit stream into a plurality of symbols is provided. The decoder includes an extractor, a length generator, a base selector, and a processing unit. The extractor receives the input bit stream and extracts a code with a predetermined codeword length therefrom. The length generator... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090251342 - Cabac-type encoding device and method: A CABAC-type encoding device for encoding an initial flow of binary digital information for generating an output flow for forming video images after decoding, includes: elements for analyzing successive sequences of bits of the initial binary flow, bit-by-bit, and for deducing, for each bit, an interval representing the occurrence probability... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090251343 - Curvature correction methodolgy: A method is provided to produce an error corrected digital output from a temperature measurement system that generates digital outputs representative of the output of one or more temperature sensors. In an embodiment of the invention the method comprises: storing in a plurality of memory locations corresponding error correction data,... Agent: Donald J Lenkszus

20090251344 - Successive approximation analog to digital converter: A system and method are provided allowing for successive approximation analog to digital conversion. A first differential voltage is sampled and held during a first cycle. The first differential voltage is converted to a differential current. A second differential voltage is generated based on the differential current flowing through parallel-coupled... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090251345 - Photonic filter bank for high-speed analog-to-digital conversion: An analog to digital converter (ADC) structure and method includes a photonic filter bank having at least two filters. The at least two filters are configured to create a corresponding spectral tributary from an input signal at a target rate, and the at least two filters are configured to exhibit... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090251346 - Segmented data shuffler apparatus for a digital to analog converter (dac): A method and apparatus is disclosed to convert a digital input signal to an analog output signal. A digital to analog converter (DAC) module converts the digital input signal to the analog output signal through segmentation. A primary sigma-delta modulator sigma-delta modulates the digital input signal to produce a primary... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090251347 - Methods and apparatus for rotating a thermometer code: In one aspect, an apparatus for data conversion is provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of inputs whose values together define a thermometer code to be converted to an analog output signal on each of a plurality of successive time increments, a plurality of conversion elements, each configured to convert... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090251348 - Intermediate frequency receiving circuit and intermediate frequency receiving method: An intermediate frequency receiving circuit and an intermediate frequency receiving method are provided. The intermediate frequency receiving circuit includes an inductor-capacitor (LC) resonance circuit whose primary resonance frequency is a central frequency of received signals. The LC resonance circuit receives intermediate frequency signals and suppresses transmitted signals and control signals.... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090251349 - Multiple output time-to-digital converter: A multiple output time-to-digital converter (TDC) and an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) incorporating the multiple output TDC is dislosed.... Agent: Spryip, LLC Ifx

20090251350 - Current sampling mixer with harmonic rejection: Provided is a current sampling mixer that can be applied to a broadband broadcasting system. The current sampling mixer can change a structure of a current sampler including a plurality of capacitors to select and sum capacitors having a weight value given in the output, thereby performing a finite impulse... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090251351 - Method for producing two dimensional codes for defining spatial forces: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251352 - Wireless battery-powered remote control having multiple mounting means: A remote control for a wireless load control system comprises a housing having a length and a width slightly smaller than the length and the width of an opening of a standard faceplate, respectively, such that the housing is adapted to be received within the opening of the standard faceplate.... Agent: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. Mark E. Rose