Coded data generation or conversion inventions

20090278711 - Sensor arrangement for the precise detection of relative movements between an encoder and a sensor: A sensor arrangement and a method for the precise detection of relative movements between an encoder and a sensor, including an encoder, which has an incremental scale having a plurality of scale subdivisions (λ), and a sensor which is magnetically coupled to the encoder via an air gap and includes... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090278712 - Remote device for controlling a computer by a physically limited person: The invention relates to medicine and can be used for persons with paralysis of upper and lower limbs. The inventive device comprises a signal processing and transmitting module (1), a coordinate unit (2), functional contacts (3), control contacts (4) and an elastic base plate (5) which is symmetrical with respect... Agent: Defillo & Associates, Inc.

20090278713 - Handheld electronic device and associated method enabling text input in a language employing non-roman characters: A handheld device includes a plurality of input members, a first set of which each have a Roman character assigned thereto, a least some of which have a first non-Roman, second non-Roman character, and third non-Roman characters assigned thereto. The device is switchable between first and second modes. In the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20090278714 - Capacitive button device: The present invention discloses a capacitive button device, comprising: a signal input unit, a first amplifier, a first switching unit, a second amplifier, a second switching unit, an analog-to-digital converting unit, a third switching unit, a data output unit, a data storage unit and a digital-to-analog converting unit. Thereby, the... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090278715 - Decoding data: Incoming decoded data (1), for example from an H264 decoder, is fed to an encoder unit (2) that entropy encodes the decoded data using a parallel encoding scheme that includes context based arithmetic encoding. The syntax is chosen so that the context does not depend on the immediately previously encoded... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20090278716 - Sample hold circuit for use in time-interleaved a/d converter apparatus including paralleled low-speed pipeline a/d converters: A sample hold circuit is provided for use in a time-interleaved A/D converter apparatus including a plurality of low-speed pipeline A/D converters which are parallelized. The sample hold circuit includes a sampling capacitor and a sample hold amplifier, and operates to sample and hold an input signal by using a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090278717 - Analogue/digital converter: There are provided in a scanning mode: a conversion sequence setting register (12) that sets the sequence in which analogue signals are to he converted; a multiplexer (1) that selects a single analogue signal (AI) sequentially from a plurality of analogue signals (AI0) to (AIn-1), in accordance with the order... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090278719 - Analog-to-digital converter with integrator circuit for overload recovery: Apparatus and methods are provided for overload recovery in high order sigma-delta feedback topologies. An apparatus is provided for an analog-to-digital converter. The analog-to-digital converter comprises a first integrator having a first input, wherein the first integrator is configured to produce a first integrated output. A first switched resistance element... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (fs)

20090278722 - Column-parallel sigma-delta analog-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

20090278720 - Delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter circuit having reduced sampled reference noise: A delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit improves performance by reducing the amount of noise and other error sampled by the reference switching circuit. The reference switching network is operated intermittently only when the charge on an input integrator exceeds a threshold, thereby preventing the input integrator from saturating, while avoiding... Agent: Mitch Harris, LLC - Cirrus

20090278721 - Hybrid delta-sigma adc: A hybrid delta sigma ADC architecture and method is disclosed to implement a high-resolution delta-sigma modulator with a single-bit output. The system contains a low-order multi-bit analog noise-shaping loop, followed by a high-order single-bit digital modulator. The combination simplifies the analog modulator, and allows the use of most of the... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20090278718 - Pressure sensor with improved rate-of-change compatible data output: An integrated sensor implementation employs a data acquisition method for producing digital output signals that enables computing low latency, low noise, rate of pressure (or altitude etc.) change measurements. An example sensor includes a self-digitizing pressure and temperature sensor circuit that outputs a serial digital signal that varies with at... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20090278723 - Digital to analog converter: This invention discloses a digital to analog converter (DAC) for converting a digital signal with a predetermined number of bits to a corresponding analog signal, the DAC comprises a first current source element having a first control signal, the first control signal controlling the conduction current provided by the first... Agent: K & L Gates LLPIPDocketing

20090278724 - Electronic apparatus with remote control functions: An electronic apparatus with remote control functions including an operating module, a control module and a transmitting module is disclosed. The operating module generates at least one operating signal. The control module is coupled to the operating module and generates at least one first control signal and at least one... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090273490 - Multi-directional input apparatus: A multi-directional input apparatus includes an operating member including a shaft portion which extends to the outside, a housing having an opening through which the shaft portion extends and configured to support the operating member in a tiltable manner, interlocking members moved by the operating member when the shaft portion... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090273491 - Arithmetic decoding device: Disclosed herein is an arithmetic decoding device including: an arithmetic decoding unit configured to decode coded data resulting from arithmetic coding on a basis of a context variable indicating a probability state and a most probable symbol; a plurality of arithmetic registers configured to supply the context variable to the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090273492 - Systems and methods for queue based data detection and decoding: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data processing. For example, a variable iteration data processing system is disclosed that includes at least a first detector, a second detector, a decoder, and a queuing buffer. The first detector is operable to perform a data detection on... Agent: Hamilton,desanctis & Cha (lsi)

20090273494 - Clock generators for generation of in-phase and quadrature clock signals: Clock generator embodiments are provided to generate half-rate I and Q clock signals. The generators are configured to insure fan-out limitations, to insure correct phasing at startup, to reduce the number of signal inverters in a critical path, and to reduce the total number of inverter structures to thereby substantially... Agent: Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Dawson

20090273493 - Parallel-to-serial converter: A parallel-to-serial converter includes a data input unit configured to receive a plurality of parallel data by using a plurality of clock signals having different phases, and a parallel-to-serial conversion unit configured to sequentially select and output an output signal of the data input unit by using a plurality of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090273495 - Analog digital converting apparatus, analog digital converting method, test apparatus, program and recording medium: Provided is an AD converting apparatus that converts an analog input signal into a digital output signal, comprising a plurality of AD converters that are supplied with sampling clocks differing from each other by a prescribed phase, and that each output an individual signal obtained by digitizing the input signal... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090273496 - Measurement data acquisition apparatus and method of operation thereof: To avoid the measurement disturbances occurring in a conventional, multi-channel measurement data acquisition apparatus there is proposed a multi-channel measurement data acquisition apparatus which includes at least one analog input assembly having a plurality of analog inputs, a controllable electronic analog signal switch device (12) and a central controllable analog-digital... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090273497 - Method and apparatus for calibrating an rdac for end-to-end tolerance correction of output resistance: A system and method for calibrating an RDAC to obtain an expected resistance are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of obtaining an expected resistance from an RDAC circuit includes receiving a digital signal comprising a digital code by an on-chip calibration code engine, automatically deriving a calibrated digital code... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090273498 - Interrupt based multiplexed current limit circuit: A switching voltage regulator includes, in part, N output stages, a loop ADC, a multiplexer, a current ADC, and an interrupt block. The loop analog-to-digital converter receives the N output voltages each of which is associated with one of N channels. The loop ADC is adapted to vary a duty... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090273500 - Image sensors and dual ramp analog-to-digital converters and methods: Dual ramp analog-to-digital converters and methods allow for performing analog-to-digital conversion of an analog signal. Various dual ramp analog-to-digital converters and methods allow for applying the analog signal and a coarse ramp to a same input of a comparator, and applying a fine ramp to another input of the comparator.... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20090273499 - System and method for improving linearity of electronic circuits with mechanical oscillators: A system converts an analog input signal to an output signal in a very linear manner using very low chip area and very low power consumption. The system includes a micro electromechanical oscillating signal source for generating a linearly varying oscillating signal, an analog signal generator coupled to the micro... Agent: Paul J. Maginot

20090273501 - Successive approximation register analog to digital converter with improved immunity to time varying noise: An SAR ADC provides increased immunity to noise introduced by time varying noise components provided on reference potentials (VREF). Reference voltage noise contributions are canceled by introducing a reference voltage component to a pair of binary weighted capacitor arrays (NDAC and PDAC) during bit trials, which are presented to a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090273502 - Fast, efficient reference networks for providing low-impedance reference signals to signal converter systems: Reference network embodiments are provided for use in pipelined signal converter systems. The network embodiments are fast and power efficient and they generate low-impedance reference signals through the use of a complimentary common-drain output stage, an output current valve inserted between transistors of the output stage, and a controller. The... Agent: Koppel, Patrick, Heybl & Dawson

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.