Coded data generation or conversion inventions

20080106442 - Electronic apparatus with variable functional keys: The invention relates to an electronic apparatus including N functional keys, M functional modules, a communication module, and a processing module. Each of the M functional modules is in charge of a specific function. N is a natural number, and M is an integer larger than N. The communication module... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.c.

20080106441 - Keyboard in the form of a carpet or a mat: A keyboard in the form of a carpet or a mat, comprising: a main body, a plurality of keys disposed within the main body, marks corresponding to the keys disposed on the surface of the main body for identifying key positions, an electrical circuit board disposed within the main body,... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080106440 - Language independent real time communication device and method: This invention discloses a language independent real time communication device and method in healthcare domain. In an embodiment a mobile phone with a language independent keypad capable of acting as real time communication device in health care domain is disclosed. The mobile phone is provided with an indicia on the... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080106443 - Data encoding and decoding using slepian-wolf coded nested quantization to achieve wyner-ziv coding: A system and method for realizing a Wyner-Ziv encoder may involve the following steps: (a) apply nested quantization to input data from an information source in order to generate intermediate data; and (b) encode the intermediate data using an asymmetric Slepian-Wolf encoder in order to generate compressed output data representing... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080106444 - Data encoding and decoding using slepian-wolf coded nested quantization to achieve wyner-ziv coding: A system and method for realizing a Wyner-Ziv encoder may involve the following steps: (a) apply nested quantization to input data from an information source in order to generate intermediate data; and (b) encode the intermediate data using an asymmetric Slepian-Wolf encoder in order to generate compressed output data representing... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080106445 - Digital signal processing apparatus, digital signal processing method, digital signal processing program, digital signal reproduction apparatus and digital signal reproduction method: A digital signal processing apparatus includes: a detection section; a prediction section; and a decision section. The detection section is configured to detect a signal position at which a signal component may possibly have been removed from a digital signal in a signal conversion processed state upon the signal conversion... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080106446 - Self-calibrating pipeline analog-to-digital converter and method of calibrating a pipeline analog-to-digital converter: A pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having a digital calibrating circuit is described. The pipeline ADC includes a pipeline converting circuit and a digital calibrating circuit. The pipeline converting circuit has a plurality of one-bit stages, and converts an analog input signal into a first digital signal having a plurality of... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080106447 - Digital to analogue conversion: A method of Digital to Analogue conversion of an input signal Do for suppressing the effect of clock-jitter in a Delta-Sigma analogue to digital converter, or class D amplifier, comprises charging a capacitor to a reference voltage value (Vref) during a first phase (φ) of a clock signal, discharging the... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080106448 - Multi-channel analog-to-digital converter: A system for multi-channel analog-to-digital conversion has a plurality of sampling modules, wherein each of the modules includes an input node and an output node; multiplexing circuitry configured to selectively route at least one of a plurality of electrical signals present on the output nodes to an analog-to-digital converter; and... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Graver PLLC

20080106449 - Semiconductor device and audio processor chip: An audio processor chip includes a DSP for decoding audio data, a first DAC for performing a D/A conversion to the digital data obtained from the DSP, a PLL circuit for generating a clock signal for the first DAC to supply it to the first DAC and a clock output... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080106450 - Analogue-to-digital converter and method for converting an analogue input signal into a digital information: An analogue-to-digital converter comprises a window comparator. The window comparator comprises an input for an analogue input signal and an output for a comparison result indicating a result of a comparison of the analogue input signal with an upper bound and a lower bound of a level window. The analogue-to-digital... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck Chase Tower

20080106451 - On die thermal sensor having analog-to-digital converter for use in semiconductor memory device: An On Die Thermal Sensor (ODTS) of a semiconductor memory device includes: a temperature detector for detecting an internal temperature of the semiconductor memory device to generate a temperature voltage corresponding to the detected internal temperature; a tracking ADC for outputting a digital code by comparing the temperature voltage with... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080106452 - Apparatus and method for implementing an analog-to-digital converter in programmable logic devices: An apparatus and method for providing an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in programmable logic devices is disclosed. A plurality of multi-purpose input/output (I/O) blocks is configured to provide analog-to-digital conversion and other I/O functionality. The plurality of multi-purpose I/O blocks is also configured to save power when ADC mode is disabled.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080106453 - Sequential comparison-type ad converter having small size and realizing high speed operation: An analog-to-digital converter has a digital-to-analog converter, first, second and third comparators, and a sequential comparison register and control logic circuit. The digital-to-analog converter produces analog signals, the first, second and third comparators compare the input analog signal with first, second and third analog signals which are different from each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080100477 - Method for entering characters on a keyboard and a keyboard: In one aspect, a method for entering characters on a keyboard comprising a first character key, e.g. the space bar, to which a first character, e.g. a blank space is assigned and a second key, to which a second character, e.g. q and a third character, e.g. @ are assigned... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080100478 - Data input device for portable terminal: Provided is a data input device which is employed in a portable terminal and used as an auxiliary input device. The data input device includes first data input means mounted on a predetermined position of a side surface of the main body of the portable terminal so that a portion... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080100479 - Decoding apparatus and decoding method: A decoding apparatus for arithmetically decoding input coded data into symbol data by using a state variable and a context variable includes: a first decoding unit executes arithmetic decoding processing by using the state variable and the context variable and outputs first symbol data, and outputs the state variable and... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080100480 - Decoding apparatus and decoding method: A decoding apparatus includes a state variable calculation unit which calculates a second state variable based on a first context variable and a first state variable which are stored in a first memory unit and a second memory unit, respectively, and determines a selection signal representing a symbol as a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080100481 - 64b/66b encoding data generation method and circuit: In a more effective data generation method and circuit used for 64B/66B encoding, when packet data, and head and tail information of the data packet are received, write user data in which a head and tail identifying bytes are respectively added to a head and a tail of the packet... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080100482 - Multichannel time encoding and decoding of a signal: Analog signals can be fully encoded as an asynchronous time sequence generated by a time encoding machine. With knowledge of the parameters of the time encoding machine, the asynchronous time sequence can be decoded using a non-linear time decoding machine. Such a system can be extended into an encoder/decoder in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080100483 - Method of compensating for deterministic jitter due to interleave error: A system and method for compensation of deterministic jitter in measurements made when utilizing a plurality of time interleaved analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The system includes edge timing measurement error information for each of the plurality of time interleaved ADCs and a processing element for converting a measured edge time of... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20080100484 - Methods and apparatus to measure a voltage on an integrated circuit: Methods and apparatus to measure a voltage on an integrated circuit are disclosed. An example method to measure a voltage on an integrated circuit provides a reference signal to a first input of an encoder, provides a signal having a first voltage to a second input of the encoder, varies... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080100485 - Ofdm receiver: The present invention provides an OFDM receiver having a level control section comprising comparators which respectively compare a first signal outputted from an ADC with threshold values, counters which respectively count the frequencies with which the level of the first signal exceeds the threshold values, based on second and third... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080100486 - Method and apparatus to reduce internal circuit errors in a multi-bit delta-sigma modualtor: An N-bit delta-sigma modulator reduces circuit errors associated with an internal N-bit digital-to-analog converter by replacing the N-bit digital-to-analog converter with a digital feedback circuit comprising a ternary digital-to-analog converter and an (N−1)-bit digital-to-analog converter. The internal N-bit digital-to-analog converter is typically used to generate a global feedback signal that... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080100487 - System and method for improving linearity of a dac: A system and method for improving the linearity of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is provided. In one embodiment, the system comprises a digital waveform generator that generates a digital sequence associated with a desired analog waveform and a pseudo-random noise component that provides a pulse shaped band limited pseudo-random noise... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080100488 - System on a chip with multiple independent outputs: An audio output circuit includes a DAC module, a line out circuit, and a headphone amplifier circuit. The digital to analog conversion (DAC) module is coupled to convert an audio component of digitized multimedia data into an analog audio signal. The line out circuit is coupled to amplify the analog... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080100489 - Digital to analog converter architecture and method having low switch count and small output impedance: A digital to analog converter includes a coarse resolution resistor circuit (11) coupled between a first voltage (Vin) and an intermediate voltage (V0) to produce coarse resolution node voltages (V0, . . . V240), and also includes a fine resolution resistor circuit (20) coupled between the intermediate voltage and a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080100490 - Successive appromixation analog/digital converter and associated integrated component and conversion method: A successive approximation analog/digital converter is provided, which includes a successive approximation register supplying a digital/analog converter, first means of comparing an input signal of the analog/digital converter to an output signal of the digital/analog converter delivering a first comparison signal, said successive approximation analog/digital converter being synchronised by a... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080100491 - Generating device of trigger signal: A trigger signal generating device includes a first power source terminal and a second power source terminal; a first current generator to generate a first current with a first amplitude in accordance with the amplitude of the input signal; a second current generator to generate a second current with a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080100492 - System and method of using a remote control and apparatus: A method includes receiving a first identification signal, where the first identification signal corresponds to a first control. The method also includes determining an active device function to which the first control corresponds, where the active device function is a first function of a first device when the first device... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080094258 - Electronic system with user-operable keys and capability of prompting keys being touched: The invention discloses an electronic system with a plurality of user-operable keys and capability of prompting the keys being touched. An electronic system, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, comprises a user input device, a prompting device, and a processor. The user input device includes the plurality of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20080094257 - Input device and personal mobile terminal having the same: The input device provided for an apparatus 1 which is held with a hand of a person, the input device comprising a plurality of input keys 5 which are operated with a finger holding the apparatus 1, wherein in a case where the apparatus 1 having the input device is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080094259 - Context-based encoding and decoding of signals: A system for the context-based for the context-based encoding of an input signal includes a domain transform module and a context-based coding module. The domain transform module is operable to convert the input signal into a sequence of transform coefficients c[i]. The context-based coding module includes a bit-plane scanning module,... Agent: Crockett & Crockett

20080094260 - Logic circuit: A logic circuit that executes a prescribed arithmetic processing includes a decoder that converts one or more binary input data into a first plurality of bit data of a constant hamming weight regardless of a hamming weight of the input data, an interconnect network that is connected to the decoder,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080094262 - Data modulating method and apparatus, data demodulating method and apparatus, and code arranging method: In a data demodulating method and apparatus, and a code arranging method, a multiplexer multiplexes an input data stream divided by a predetermined length into a plurality of types of pseudo random data streams using multiplexed information of predetermined bits by applying a predetermined multiplexing method to each of the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094261 - Method of code generation, and method and apparatus for code modulation: A method of generating codewords that conform to a run length limited (RLL) constraint represented by (d, k, a, b), where d is a minimum run length of a codeword, k is a maximum run length of the codeword, a is a length of source data, and b is a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094263 - Optical quantizing unit and optical a/d converter: An optical quantizing unit includes an optical divider dividing 1st optical pulses to be quantized and sending the divided 1st optical pulses into a plurality of paths; a plurality of optical filters passing with different transmittances the divided 1st optical pulses; and an optical threshold filter sequentially receiving the 1st... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080094264 - Digital-to-analog converting circuit for power soft-switching: A digital-to-analog converting circuit for power soft-switching, comprising: a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET); a digital-to-analog control circuit, for controlling the MOSFET to operate in either the cut-off region, the saturation region or the linear region; a digital control unit, using an output signal so as to control an input current... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080094265 - Arrangement for the synchronous output of analog signals generated in two or more digital-to-analog converters: To achieve a synchronous output of analog signals generated in two or more digital-to-analog (DAC) converters, an adjustable, digital delay device, of which the delay time is adjustable dependent upon the cross-correlation determined between the analog output signals of the digital-to-analog converters, is provided upstream of at least one of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080094266 - Reducing noise associated with local reference-potential fluctuations in mixed-signal integrated circuits: An integrated circuit (IC) adapted to (i) measure a voltage differential between a ground potential external to the IC and a ground potential internal to the IC and (ii) based on the measurement result(s), adjust a signal referenced to the internal ground potential to reduce signal error associated with the... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080094267 - Voltage conversion device having non-linear gain: A voltage conversion device has a non-linear gain, for converting analog voltage provided by an analog voltage source. The voltage conversion device comprises a gain decision module, a voltage selection module, and a voltage output module. The gain decision module comprises an analog to digital (A/D) converter and a gain... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094268 - Ad converter arrangement: In an AD converter a primary ΣA-modulator digitizes the analog input signal. The quantization noise generated thereby is isolated in the analog domain and digitized in a secondary ΣA-modulator. The quantization noise so digitized by the secondary ΣA-modulator is subtracted from the quantization noise in the output of the primary... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094271 - Analog-to-digital converter and semiconductor device: An analog to digital converter comprising a reference signal generator, a comparator, and a counter wherein the reference signal generator is operable to generate a reference for converting an analog signal into a digital signal. The reference signal generator is also operable to generate a plurality of the reference signals... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080094270 - Electronic circuit for the analog-to-digital conversion of an analog input signal: Electronic circuit for the analog-to-digital conversion of the alternative current (AC) component of an analog input signal. The electronic circuit has a coupling device with an input and an outputcoupling device delivers at its output an analog AC signal when the analog input signal is applied to the input. An... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080094269 - Interleaved track and hold circuit: The invention relates to an interleaved track and hold circuit for tracking and holding a value of a continuous input signal and to provide discrete values thereof, wherein the circuit comprises a first and a second stage. To avoid tones caused by differences in the non-ideal elements when switching through... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080094272 - Multi-channel sample and hold circuit and multi-channel a/d converter: A multi-channel sample and hold circuit includes an operational amplifier, plural electric charge setting channels. Each of the electric charge setting channels includes an input terminal, an electric charge setting capacitor, an electric charge setting switch connected between the input terminal and the electric charge setting capacitor, a channel separating... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080088487 - Hand writing input method and device for portable terminal: The present invention provides a method and apparatus of handwriting text input on a portable terminal with a microprocessor, a screen, and a keypad area formed by at least one key, comprising of: Placing at least one sensing unit in the keypad area of the portable terminal to form a... Agent: Dong Li

20080088489 - Key input apparatus of portable terminal: Disclosed is a key input apparatus of a portable terminal which is pushed or slid in various directions so as to make contact with contact pieces. The key input apparatus includes a switch part having a plurality of contact pieces disposed in a circumference of the switch part, the switch... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080088488 - Keyboard scan for human interface devices: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for scanning a keyboard are disclosed. Actuation of each of the keys electrically couples one of a plurality of first lines and one of a plurality of second lines. A first signal is applied to a plurality of first lines. A second signal is applied... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080088491 - Character arrangements, input methods and input device: The present invention relates to character arrangements, input methods and input device. More particularly, the present invention relates to Korean, English and symbols arrangements that are effectively arranged on a limited number of buttons, input methods using the character arrangements and input device thereof. The present invention provides fundamental and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080088490 - Lighting and usability features for key structures and keypads on computing devices: A keypad is provided for a computing device. The keypad includes one or more lighting devices or mechanisms for illuminating a plurality of keys structures. In an embodiment, the plurality of key structures are formed from a milky material.... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080088492 - Double data rate serial encoder: A double data rate serial encoder is provided. The serial encoder comprises a mux having a plurality of inputs, a plurality of latches coupled to the inputs of the mux, an enabler to enable the latches to update their data inputs, and a counter to select one of the plurality... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080088493 - Resistor ladder interpolation for pga and dac: A voltage interpolation circuit includes a resistive ladder connected between ground and a voltage input and having a plurality of resistors with voltage taps between the resistors. An amplifier (optionally) has first and second capacitors connected together at their respective first terminals and to an input of the amplifier. A... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080088494 - Electronic circuit protecting against the effect of injection current and analog to digital conversion circuit: An electronic circuit includes a transmission circuit transmitting an input signal of a first node as an output signal of a second node in response to a control signal and a discharge circuit selectively discharging the input signal of the first node in response to the control signal.... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080088495 - Remote operation system: When a television receiver is connected to a DVD player via an HDMI cable, HDMI authentication is carried out. EDID data is then acquired from the television receiver and a manufacturer name is determined. When the manufacturer name is determined to be, for example, “company A”, a table indicating a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP