Pulse or digital communications inventions 02/07

20070041426 - Data transfer system, wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and computer program: In a data transfer system in which wireless data transmission is carried out between a first device and a second device that each has a UWB wireless device, the data transfer system includes a ranging unit that is provided in the UWB wireless device of at least one of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070041427 - Frequency coherence within a location network: The present invention discloses a system and method of generating frequency coherence between a received reference positioning signal transmitted by at least one reference transmitter and a unique positioning signal generated by a positioning-unit device. A positioning-unit device is a specialized transceiver capable of receiving and interpreting reference positioning signals... Agent: David Small C/- Victoria Gaw

20070041428 - Nonlinear precoding in code-division multiple access communication system: A precoding technique is herein disclosed for a spread-spectrum transmission system which advantageously addresses intersymbol interference along with multiuser and interchip interference.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070041429 - Reverse link power control for an ofdma system: Techniques for performing power control of multiple channels sent using multiple radio technologies are described. The transmit power of a reference channel, sent using a first radio technology (e.g., CDMA), is adjusted to achieve a target level of performance (e.g., a target erasure rate) for the reference channel. The transmit... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070041431 - Positioning a multipath search window: Multipath components of a signal transmitted through a time-varying digital radio channel are received with individual delays (τ) within a range (τ1 . . . τM) of possible delay values. The individual delays are estimated and a delay profile (g(τi)) calculated repetitively. The method comprises searching repetitively for new multipath... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070041430 - Reception device: If a spreading factor is small, the number of multiple paths is large, and an interference signal power is larger than a desired signal power, a conventional RAKE combining receiver presents insufficient suppression of the interference signal by means of despreading, resulting in largely degraded reception performances. Upon a receiver... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070041432 - Averaging a delay profile in a limited delay range: Multipath components of a signal transmitted through a time-varying digital radio channel are received with individual delays (τ) within a range of possible delay values. An instantaneous delay profile indicating an instantaneous magnitude (g(τ)) for each of a number of individual delays (τ) is calculated repetitively, and an averaged delay... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070041433 - Method and apparatus for compact ovsf despreading: A despreader for generating one or more despread values corresponding to application of one or more despreading codes to a sequence of spread values comprises a data buffer, an adder, a subtractor, and a controller. The adder is adapted to generate a sum of a pair of values read from... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070041434 - Apparatus and method of on-channel repeater: Provided is an on-channel repeater and method thereof. The on-channel repeating apparatus includes: a receiving unit for receiving a Radio Frequency (RF) broadcast signal; a demodulating unit for converting the RF signal into a baseband signal; an equalizing unit for equalizing the baseband signal to generate an equalized baseband signal;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070041435 - Networking methods and systems: A network system includes integrated radio transceivers and digitizers, integrated baseband processors and device controllers, digital interfaces there between, and architectures and partitions for same. Licensing methodologies are provided for implementing the features described herein, and for other products and services.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070041436 - Circuit for generating dying gasp signals and electronic device utilizing the same: An exemplary circuit for generating dying gasp signals (30) includes a power loss detecting circuit (320), a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) (310), a unipolar switch circuit (330), and a capacitor (C1). The power loss detecting circuit is used for detecting power loss statuses and generating interrupt signals, and includes a... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070041437 - Bit error probability estimating system and related method thereof: According to the claimed invention, a bit error probability (BEP) estimating system and method for determining the BEP of a received signal are disclosed. The BEP estimating system includes: a soft equalizer for generating a plurality of soft outputs according to the received signal; a calibration apparatus for deriving a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070041439 - Filtering method and an apparatus: The invention relates to a method for filtering. In the method an adaptive filtering is performed to an input signal. The filtered signal is further interpolated. The input signal is also interpolated for adapting the adaptive filtering. In the method the properties of the interpolation of the filtered signal are... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070041438 - Sampling rate conversion device and method, and audio device: A sampling rate converter able to obtain an amplitude characteristic that passes any frequency and able to achieve a high precision conversion without depending upon a cutoff frequency, having an up sampler 103 for inserting (U−1) zero points between signals and raising a sampling frequency Fsi U-fold, a convolution processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070041440 - Method and device for echo cancellation: The invention relates to a repeater and a method for re-transmitting single frequency signals, in particular of the type used in single frequency signal repeaters for use in single frequency networks (SFNs) like digital video/audio broadcasting (DVB/DAB) networks. The estimation of echo feedback is derived from the measured power density... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070041441 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: An information processing apparatus controlling processing for splicing first and second compressed image data at an editing point includes acquiring means for acquiring the code amounts of the first compressed image data near the start point and the second compressed image data near the end point of a first range... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070041442 - Stereoscopic three dimensional video image digital coding system and method: In order to obtain three-dimensional images from a digital video stream, certain modifications have been made to the current MPEG2 coders; software and hardware changes in different parts of the coding process are made. In effect, the structures and the video_sequence of the video data stream are modified to include... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070041443 - Method and apparatus for encoding multiview video: A method and an apparatus for encoding a multiview video using a minimum amount of information regarding the multiview video are provided. The method includes: categorizing a plurality of B frames into at least two groups according to a predetermined standard; and sequentially encoding the categorized B frames. Therefore, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070041444 - Stereoscopic 3d-video image digital decoding system and method: Described herein is a MPEG-2 compatible stereoscopic 3D-video image digital decoding method and system. In order to obtain 3D-images from a digital video stream, modifications are made to the current MPEG2 decoders, by means of software and hardware changes in different parts of the decoding process. Namely, the video_sequence structures... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070041446 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus and a control method which can effectively remove a false contour and a motion blur from a moving picture when an image includes a repetitive pattern of a frame are provided. A display apparatus comprises a pattern determiner to determine a frame pattern of the input image,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070041445 - Method and apparatus for calculating interatively for a picture or a picture sequence a set of global motion parameters from motion vectors assigned to blocks into which each picture is divided: Global motion estimation techniques play an important role in advanced video coding. Global motion estimation is useful for increasing the coding efficiency. However, it is of high complexity due to using a multiple parameters model and an iterative processing. The invention is based on a four-parameter linear global motion estimation... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070041448 - Artifact and noise reduction in mpeg video: A method and apparatus for improving the quality of MPEG video are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a group of pictures (GOP) is obtained and decompressed, producing an initial decompressed GOP. This initial decompressed GOP is spatially shifted to at least two shift positions. At each shift position, MPEG compression... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070041447 - Content analysis of coded video data: The invention relates to a system (101) for content analysis. The system (101) comprises an interface receiving a video signal in accordance with a first encoding standard, such as H.264. The interface is coupled to an extraction processor (107) which extracts video coding data from the video signal. The video... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070041449 - Context-adaptive vlc video transform coefficients encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses: Transform coefficients of sample blocks of a macroblock of a video picture are encoded by adaptively encoding a combination, the number of non-zero coefficients before the trailing one coefficients and the number of trailing one coefficients. The transform coefficients may be further encoded by adaptively encoding one or more of... Agent: Axios Law Group/ Real Network, Inc

20070041450 - Method and apparatus for image intraperdiction encoding/decoding: Provided is a method and apparatus for image intraprediction encoding/decoding. The method for image intraprediction encoding includes an intraprediction unit which divides an input block into at least one first sub-block of a predetermined size, and performing intraprediction encoding on the at least one first sub-block according to a first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070041452 - Moving picture coding method, and moving picture decoding method: According to the present invention, a moving picture coding apparatus (70) for performing inter-picture predictive coding for pictures constituting a moving picture is provided with a coding unit (103) for performing predictive error coding for image data; a decoding unit (105) for performing predictive error decoding for an output from... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070041451 - Moving picture coding method, and moving picture decoding method: According to the present invention, a moving picture coding apparatus (70) for performing inter-picture predictive coding for pictures constituting a moving picture is provided with a coding unit (103) for performing predictive error coding for image data; a decoding unit (105) for performing predictive error decoding for an output from... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070041453 - Signal processing apparatus, program product and method therefor: A method, apparatus and program product for signal processing a coded signal is provided such that multiple signal points, having individual signal values consonant with coded values, are contiguously arranged in accordance with a predetermined time base order or a predetermined spatial order. In one embodiment a signal restoration unit.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070041454 - Device having communication function, method for automatically adjusting transmitter, system and program: The transmission control unit of the device transmits sample data while changing the setting of output amplitude and emphasis of the transmitter within a prescribed range. The transmission processing unit of the device generates an eye diagram from the sample data received by the receiver, detects receivable phase-range data from... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070041455 - High-speed serial data receiver architecture: Serial data signal receiver circuitry for inclusion on a PLD includes a plurality of equalizer circuits that are connected in series and that are individually controllable so that collectively they can compensate for a wide range of possible input signal attenuation characteristics. Other circuit features may be connected in relation... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup

20070041459 - Apparatus and method for reducing peak-to-average power ratio in an ofdm communication system: A Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction apparatus and method in an OFDM communication system are provided. In the PAPR reduction method, magnitude and phase components are extracted from transmission sample data. Peaks having magnitude components exceeding a threshold are detected by comparing the extracted magnitude components with the threshold. The... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070041458 - Encoding for digital communications in a multiple-input, multiple-output environment: Transceiver circuitry for use in a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO), orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), communications environment, is disclosed. Error correction coding according to a fixed-block size code, such as low density parity check (LDPC) coding, is implemented. The codeword length, and codeword arrangement, are selected by determining a minimum number of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070041457 - Method and apparatus for providing antenna diversity in a wireless communication system: Transmission schemes that can flexibly achieve the desired spatial multiplexing order, spatial diversity order, and channel estimation overhead order are described. For data transmission, the assigned subcarriers and spatial multiplexing order (M) for a receiver are determined, where M≧1. For each assigned subcarrier, M virtual antennas are selected from among... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070041456 - Method and device for estimating a multicarrier signal propagation channel: A method is provided for estimating a propagation channel composed of successive symbols of a multicarrier signal, each comprising at least one reference pilot and a plurality of data-carrying frequencies. Such a method comprises, in particular, at least one step consisting of correcting the at least one reference pilot on... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070041460 - Wireless communication apparatus using fast fourier transforms to create, optimize and incorporate a beam space antenna array in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver: A wireless communication apparatus which uses fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver which incorporates a beam space antenna array. The beam space antenna array may be implemented with a Butler matrix array. The beam space antenna array may be a circular array, vertical array,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070041462 - Method of transmitting captured image in digital broadcasting reception terminal: A method of transmitting a captured image in a digital broadcasting reception terminal includes outputting digital broadcasting data being received as video and audio data in response to a digital broadcasting output request of a user; if a predetermined key is pressed while the digital broadcasting data is being output,... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070041461 - Multi-layer coded modulation for non-ergodic block fading channels: A multi-layer coded modulation technique is disclosed for a wireless communication system with non-ergodic channels, which is particularly advantageous for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070041466 - Antenna virtualization in communication systems: Communication systems and methods are described in which multiple transmit signals are generated from an input stream or signal. The communication systems and methods, collectively referred to as antenna virtualization or virtual antenna systems, generate from each input stream multiple transmit signals that when driven into multiple antennas create a... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070041465 - Antenna virtualization in communication systems: Communication systems and methods are described in which multiple transmit signals are generated from an input stream or signal. The communication systems and methods, collectively referred to as antenna virtualization or virtual antenna systems, generate from each input stream multiple transmit signals that when driven into multiple antennas create a... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070041464 - Selective virtual antenna transmission: Techniques for transmitting data from virtual antennas instead of physical antennas are described. Each virtual antenna may be mapped to some or all physical antennas by a different mapping. The performance of different sets of at least one virtual antenna is evaluated based on one or more metrics such as... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070041467 - Signal detection method for mimo communication system employing spatial multiplexing: Disclosed is a signal detection method for a receiver of a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system having nT and nR (where nR is greater than or equal to nT) transmission and reception antennas, respectively, and an nT×nR channel matrix. The signal detection method includes selecting a plurality of sub-channel matrices... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070041463 - Superimposed training for multiple antenna communications: A training-based transmission technique for multiple-antenna communication systems is disclosed herein where the transmitted symbols are a superposition of the training symbols and the data symbols.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070041468 - Digital transmitter: An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070041469 - Digital transmitter: An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070041470 - Transmitter control: An apparatus for transmitter control is disclosed. The apparatus includes an analog circuit designed to operate on at least a portion of a communications signal to be wirelessly transmitted, based at least in part on a control signal. The apparatus includes a lookup table coupled to the analog circuit, with... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

20070041471 - Transmitting apparatus and method in transmit diversity system: A transmitting apparatus and method in a transmit diversity system, which transmits a plurality of block-coded symbols over a plurality of antennas are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes N+M antennas where N is an integer equal to or greater than two and M is an integer equal to or greater... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070041472 - Phase sampling techniques using amplitude bits for digital receivers: The present invention uses at least one amplitude bit to assist the phase-sampling technique used in digital receiver architectures. For digital receivers where the Intermediate Frequency (IF) is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency f0, the present invention provides reduced processing complexity and reduced power consumption. The present invention... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070041473 - Modulation detection in a saic operational environment: Blind modulation detection in a receiver of a wireless communication device calculates error energies for PSK and GMSK based on differences between a received training sequence signal and synthesized training signals generated from PSK and GMSK channel estimations and a known training sequence phase rotated by 3π/8 and π/2 per... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070041474 - Method and apparatus for wide dynamic range reduction: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for wide dynamic range phase conversion. In one embodiment, inphase and quadrature signal components of a complex input signal are collapsed into a single quadrant to produce a first signal representation. A scaling operation is subsequently performed on the first signal representation... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070041477 - Characterizing channel response in a single upstream burst using redundant information from training: Characterizing channel response in a single upstream burst using redundant information from training tones (TTs). The invention is operable to utilize inserted TTs, contained within a transmitted data frame, to provide for an improved estimate of a communication channel's actual response and an improved estimate of the noise of the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070041475 - Iterative mimo receiver using group-wise demapping: A STBICM MIMO receiver includes a plurality of demappers for demapping a plurality of complex symbols transmitted by a STBICM MIMO transmitter. Each demapper is configured to have one or more complex symbols associated therewith and is responsible for demapping its associated complex symbols.... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070041476 - Rfid reader: Provided are an RFID reader reading data from an RFID tag using a wireless connection over a specified frequency bandwidth, including a transmitting unit synthesizing sequentially and cumulatively frequency control signals generated every clock, mixing the synthesized specific frequency signal and a fixed frequency signal, and as a result outputting... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070041478 - Modified branch metrics for processing soft decisions to account for phase noise impact on cluster: Modified branch metrics for processing bit-soft decisions to account for phase noise impact on cluster variance (CV). The present invention is able to partition a modulation scheme's constellation into two or more regions, so that the bit-soft decision branch metrics may be adjusted based on the CV of the various... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070041479 - Apparatus for determining a frequency offset error and receiver based thereon: Pigment compositions for oil-based lithographic printing ink systems are provided which comprise as colourant a mixture of an organic pigment and an organic dyestuff soluble in an organic solvent (solvent dye). The printing inks prepared from these pigment compositions show outstanding improvements in colour strength combined with improvements in both... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070041480 - High frequency signal level determining device and high frequency signal receiver apparatus using the same: In a high-frequency signal level detection apparatus for detecting an inputted signal level of a high-frequency signal, an AGC circuit executes an AGC on an intermediate frequency (IF) signal obtained by converting a frequency of a received high-frequency signal, using an RFAGC value and an IFAGC value for controlling gains... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070041481 - Single path architecture & automatic gain control (sagc) algorithm for low power sdars receivers: An automatic gain control (AGC) for use in a digital radio receiver that allows at least two types of input signal to be processed using a single receiver front end by supporting two modes of operation, each optimized for one particular signal type, and a third mode not optimized for... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP-agere

20070041482 - Communication network and method of controlling the communication network: The invention relates to a communication network with at least two network nodes, with transmission channels for transmitting data packets between the network nodes, and with at least one active coupler. The invention provides for coupler information to be attached to the data packets as they pass through the active... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070041483 - Clock recovery circuit: A driver and a receiver supply a data signal, which is based on serial data having a regular bit pattern, such as a clock, which includes 1's and 0's alternating with each other during an adjustment period, and is based on serial data having an arbitrary bit pattern during a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070041485 - Clock-signal adjusting method and device: A clock-signal adjusting method and device is used for adjusting a frequency of a clock signal according to a frequency of an input data. The input data is sampled with a sampling frequency m times of the clock frequency to obtain a data transition waveform indicating data transition timing distribution.... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070041484 - Method and system for a digital frequency divider: Methods and systems for generating a signal are disclosed herein and may comprise digitally frequency dividing a input signal by a factor value specified as an N+1-bit value, utilizing a counter of N bits. A count value may be generated based on a number of cycles of the input signal... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070041486 - Semiconductor device, spread spectrum clock generator and method thereof: A semiconductor device, a spread spectrum clock generator and method thereof are provided. The example semiconductor device may include a frequency dividing unit receiving an output signal, generating a first feedback signal and a second feedback signal by dividing a frequency of the received output signal, and a phase offset... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070036202 - Code, signal and conjugate direction design for rapidly-adaptive communication receivers and electromagnetic, acoustic and nuclear array processors: A system and method are disclosed that substantially reduce the complexity of receivers in digitally modulated wireless communication systems such as systems that use CDMA and similar multi-access coding. Transmitted signals are designed to use orthogonal or non-orthogonal codes with specific amplitudes that reduce the number of distinct eigenvalues in... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070036203 - Processor, modulators and transceivers for spread spectrum, cdma, csma, ofdm, tdm, tdma cross correlated and filtered systems: Processors for processing, modulating, transmitting and receiving spread spectrum, CDMA, CSMA, OFDM, TDM, TDMA, filtered and cross-correlated signals. A first processor and filter for processing and filtering spread spectrum signals and a second processor for processing and filtering Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) or Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) signals or... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20070036205 - Mobile communication terminal: There is disclosed a mobile communication terminal equipped with a multipath interference canceller for canceling multipath interference, comprising number-of-samples controlling unit for controlling a number of samples to be sampled from a received signal, channel matrix generating unit for generating a channel matrix on the basis of sample data of... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036204 - Reception device, communication control method in mobile communication system: When a closed loop transmission diversity control is performed by controlling the phase of the transmission signals from the plurality of antennas according to feedback information noticed by the mobile station to transmit the signals, an antenna verification on-off control unit 370 controls the on-off of an antenna verification process... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070036206 - Method and device for facsimile communication capable of completing communication even when there is disruption to communication: This patent specification describes a MODEM device which includes a detector configured to detect a synchronization signal transmitted from a source MODEM in a resynchronization process of a primary channel and a timer configured to count up starting from a beginning of a detection of the synchronization signal, and send... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070036207 - Near-end crosstalk noise minimization and power reduction for digital subscriber loops: To optimize the performance of DSL modems in the same cable bundle, the size and position of the group of subcarriers used for transmission is intelligently selected when the bit rate necessary for making the transmission is less than the total available bandwidth provided by all subcarriers. By intelligently selecting... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070036208 - Method for measuring multiple parameters of a signal transmitted by a signal generator: A method is disclosed for measuring one or more parameters of a signal generated by a signal generator. The method employs capturing and analyzing a train of data packets or other forms of signals from a single transmission to obtain measured values for the one or more parameters. The obtained... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070036209 - Jitter producing circuitry and methods: To facilitate measurement of the jitter tolerance of circuitry such as serializer/deserializer (SERDES) circuitry, test circuitry is provided that can add jitter to a data signal. The jitter added is preferably controllable and variable with respect to such parameters as jitter frequency (i.e., how rapid is the jitter) and/or amplitude... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup

20070036210 - Joint space-time optimum filters (jstof) with at least one antenna, at least one channel, and joint filter weight and cir estimation: A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, at least one virtual antenna carried by the portable housing, and a space-time filter circuit carried by the portable housing for filtering a communications signal received by the at least one virtual antenna by jointly estimating space-time filter weights and... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070036211 - Signal processing device and method, and signal decoding device and method: Disclosed is a signal processing apparatus for implementing a quadratic term of a second-order Volterra filter. This signal processing apparatus (1) includes a plural number of multipliers each adapted for multiplying first and second signals. Each multiplier includes one or more series-connected delay circuits, each delaying a signal output from... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036212 - Digital controller based power factor correction circuit: A power factor correction circuit utilizes a digital controller string comprised of an analog-to-digital converter, which is input to a digital compensator followed by a pulse width modulation circuit for generating a switching pulse. The loop current in a regulator circuit such as a boost regulator is sensed and input... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070036214 - Coding apparatus, coding method, coding program and recording medium: Searching an optimal quantization step size at high speed when controlling the coding rate of an image sequence. A skip binary search section determines quantization step size Δskip by binary search, using a frame out of every m [0] frames of an image sequence. A quantization step size correcting section... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070036213 - Video encoding apparatus and video encoding method: A video encoding apparatus provides with a generator to generate a decoded image corresponding to an image obtained by decoding an encoded image obtained by encoding an original image by a first prediction scheme, a selector to select one of the original image and the decoded image as an input... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070036215 - Fast mode decision algorithm for intra prediction for advanced video coding: A method (400) and an apparatus for AVC intra prediction to code digital video comprising a plurality of pictures are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: generating (410) edge directional information for each intra block of a digital picture; and choosing (420) most probable intra prediction modes for rate... Agent: Fulwider Patton

20070036216 - Video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus: A video picture is encoded by adaptively switching between the operation of using a plurality of decoded video signals as reference frames and generating a predictive macroblock picture from a plurality of reference frames for each macroblock, the operation of extracting reference macroblocks from a plurality of reference frames and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036217 - Motion picture encoding method and device: A motion picture encoding method includes searching for a first motion vector between an object block of an input motion picture and a reference image for a frame-based prediction mode, searching for a second motion vector between the object block and the reference image for a field-based prediction mode, generating... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070036219 - Video decoding method and apparatus for intensity compensation: A video decoding method and a video decoding apparatus capable of reducing a memory bandwidth in an intensity compensation process are provided. The video decoding apparatus includes: a bit stream parsing unit which parses an input bit stream, extracts intensity compensation data of a picture to be decoded; a decoding... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036220 - Video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus: A video picture is encoded by adaptively switching between the operation of using a plurality of decoded video signals as reference frames and generating a predictive macroblock picture from a plurality of reference frames for each macroblock, the operation of extracting reference macroblocks from a plurality of reference frames and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036221 - Video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus: A video picture is encoded by adaptively switching between the operation of using a plurality of decoded video signals as reference frames and generating a predictive macroblock picture from a plurality of reference frames for each macroblock, the operation of extracting reference macroblocks from a plurality of reference frames and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036218 - Video transcoding: The invention relates to video transcoding between a first and second video standard, such as H.264 and MPEG-2. A video transcoder (201) comprises an interface (203) that receives a video signal in accordance with a first video encoding standard. The video signal is decoded in a decoder (207). An extraction... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070036223 - Efficient coding and decoding of transform blocks: A block transform-based digital media codec more efficiently encodes transform coefficients by jointly-coding non-zero coefficients along with succeeding runs of zero-value coefficients. When a non-zero coefficient is the last in its block, a last indicator is substituted for the run value in the symbol for that coefficient. Initial non-zero coefficients... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070036222 - Non-zero coefficient block pattern coding: A block transform-based digital media codec efficiently compresses digital media data using block patterns representing whether a block's coefficients are zero- valued, such that their explicit encoding is skipped. Because the block patterns can have widely varying probability distributions, the codec adaptively chooses a prediction mode for modifying the block... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070036224 - Prediction of transform coefficients for image compression: A block transform-based digital media codec uses a transform coefficient prediction that takes into account a dominant directionality of the digital media data (e.g., an image with strong horizontal or vertical features), and further operates compatibly with a two-stage transform. For DC and DCAC coefficients from an inner stage transform... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070036225 - Simd lapped transform-based digital media encoding/decoding: A block transform-based digital media codec achieves faster performance by re-mapping components of the digital media data into vectors or parallel units on which many operations of the transforms can be performed on a parallel or single-instruction, multiple data (SIMD) basis. In the case of a one-dimensional lapped biorthogonal transform,... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070036226 - Intraprediction encoding/decoding method and apparatus: An intraprediction encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. The intraprediction encoding method includes forming a flipped reference block by flipping pixels of a reference block used for intraprediction symmetrically with respect to a straight line of a predetermined direction passing through the center of the reference block, and performing intraprediction... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036227 - Video encoding system and method for providing content adaptive rate control: A video encoding system (200) provides content adaptive rate control that includes a visual analyzer (208) utilizing at least one visual analysis tool for processing a video frame to provide visual information describing the video frame. An encoder (204) generates encoding status information relating to the video frame being processed.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070036228 - Method and apparatus for audio encoding and decoding: An audio encoder for coding an audio bitstream. The side flag is asserted when a first side information and a second side information are the same, a scale flag is asserted when a first scale factor and a second scale factor are the same. A data packer packs a set... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070036230 - Transmitter for operating multiple devices: A transmitter that is programmable to transmit one or more identification or device codes, using one or more transmission formats, at one or more transmission frequencies to control one or more respective devices. In one embodiment, the transmitter includes a controller and memory for storing transmission values and corresponding transmission... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070036229 - Wideband-narrowband telecommunication: Here is described a method, a near end telecommunications terminal and a computer executable software code which allow to perform a telecommunications with a far end telecommunications terminal providing the option of applying a narrowband encoding technique without loosing the benefit of a wideband encoding technique. This is achieved after... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036231 - Demodulation device and demodulation method: The present invention relates to a demodulation device and a demodulation method, and its object is to demodulate subcarrier components utilizing estimated delay profiles to control the timing for performing a Fourier transform and the pass band of an interpolation filter used in interpolating transmission channel characteristics along a frequency... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070036232 - Ofdm reception apparatus and ofdm reception method: Precision of channel estimation is improved. An OFDM reception apparatus for receiving and demodulating an OFDM signal which transmits a pilot signal, comprises a channel estimation section for calculating a channel response before interpolation by performing computation between a frequency-domain OFDM signall and the pilot signal, performing interpolation with respect... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070036234 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with pn-sequence: The invention relates to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with PN-sequence. In the synchronization of the invention, both timing offset and frequency offset are estimated and compensated by utilizing a time and frequency synchronization device. In addition, the PN-sequence with the cyclic prefix is added to the OFDM symbol... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070036233 - Sampling of data streams and supporting methods and apparatus: In the present sampling technique of a transmitted data stream, a data stream is divided (318, 504) into a predefined number of sample streams to provide a plurality of sample streams, and for at least two of these sample streams, a metric value is assessed (324, 514, 516) and compared... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070036235 - Transmitting apparatus and method for a digital telecommunication system: The present invention relates to a receiving apparatus (1) for receiving signals in a digital telecommunication system and a synchronising method for synchronising such a receiving apparatus (1). The receiving apparatus (1) comprises receiving means (2, 3) for receiving a reference symbol comprising at least two repetition patterns, whereby one... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036236 - Interference canceling matched filter (icmf) and related methods: An interference cancelling matched filter (ICMF) may include an antenna array for receiving a signal burst including a training sequence therein, and an adaptive space-time filter connected to the virtual antenna array and having settable filter coefficients. The ICMF may further include a channel impulse response estimator for estimating a... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070036237 - Semiconductor device and wireless communication system: The present invention provides a structure in which an amplitude-modulation mode and a frequency-modulation mode are switched. A semiconductor device of the invention has: a reset control circuit to which a modulation mode select signal which selects an amplitude-modulation mode or a frequency-modulation mode and Manchester-encoded information are input, which... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070036238 - High pass modulation of a phase locked loop: A radio frequency modulator based on direct frequency/phase modulation of output signal of a controllable oscillator (724) that is a part of a phase locked loop (PLL) provides a direct modulator that is able to operate over a wide frequency range with a flat frequency response. A modulation signal is... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070036240 - Quadrature alignment in communications receivers: The present invention, generally speaking, takes advantage of the properties of quadrature signals to achieve precise quadrature alignment in a simple fashion. In particular, the expectation of the product of quadrature signals is zero. In accordance with the teachings of the invention, a phase error detection network therefore operates by... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070036239 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for impulse noise mitigation: A method of signal processing according to one of several embodiments includes estimating a deterministic component of a received signal. The estimating is based on an estimated response of a transmission channel. Based on the estimated deterministic component, a non-deterministic component of the received signal is estimated. Based on corrupted... Agent: Hartman Patents PLLC

20070036241 - Energy threshold selection for uwb toa estimation: A method for estimation a time-of-arrival of a radio signal is provided. The signal is an ultra-wideband (UWB) signal. The method uses kurtosis of the received signal to estimate an energy threshold of the signal. The energy threshold can be used to determine a time-of-arrival of the signal.... Agent: Patent Department Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070036242 - Receiver capable of increasing operation speed with suppressing increase of power consumption: A receiver is constructed by a signal reception circuit including a first amplifier section adapted to generate a first current in response to a first input signal and a second amplifier section adapted to generate a second current in response to a second input signal, to thereby generate an amplification... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070036243 - Channel estimation using pilot symbols: A system for estimating the transfer function of a transmission channel such as the downlink channel in a CDMA system over which a pilot signal and a data signal are transmitted. The system includes at least one estimator for producing first and second channel estimates from the pilot signal and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070036244 - Look-ahead maximum-likelihood data detector for optical disk drives: An apparatus and method for look-ahead data detection are provided, the apparatus including a boundary function generator, a boundary decision unit in signal communication with the boundary function generator, a next state generator in signal communication with the boundary decision unit, and a sample value generator in signal communication with... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070036245 - Methods and systems for soft-bit demapping: Methods and systems for reconfigurable soft-output bit demapping, reconfigurable for different modes of operation (i.e., different transmitter/receiver configurations) and for different modulation schemes are provided. In an embodiment, a reconfigurable soft-output bit demapping system includes a mode/modulation independent equalizer, a plurality of mode/modulation independent soft-slicers coupled to the outputs of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070036246 - Methods and systems for soft-bit demapping: Methods and systems for reconfigurable soft-output bit demapping, reconfigurable for different modes of operation (i.e., different transmitter/receiver configurations) and for different modulation schemes are provided. In an embodiment, a reconfigurable soft-output bit demapping system includes a mode/modulation independent equalizer, a plurality of mode/modulation independent soft-slicers coupled to the outputs of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070036247 - Receiver with frequency offset compensation for m-state phase modulation: Method and apparatus for a wireless receiver are described which derive at least a first stream of first digitized samples from a received analog signal at a first sampling rate and identify a first frequency offset based on a plurality of parallel correlations using complex reference signals which differ from... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070036248 - Frequency offset estimator: A complex symbol sequence (13), which is a product of an orthogonally detected complex demodulated symbol sequence (1) and a conjugate complex number of a known symbol sequence (2), is applied to phase rotating units (4a, 4b, 4c) which change the phase of the complex symbol sequence (13) based on... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070036249 - Technique for reducing multipath distortion in an fm receiver: A technique for reducing multipath distortion in a mobile FM receiver with a plurality of antennas is accomplished through a number of steps. Initially, a first antenna signal and a second antenna signal are received. The first antenna signal is weighted with a variable first weight and the second antenna... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070036250 - M-algorithm multiuser detector with correlation based pruning: A multiuser detector system with correlation based pruning including a parameter estimation module adapted to receive complex signals, and to produce estimated signature waveforms for each of K co-channel interfering signals. Pre-processing the estimated signature waveforms using an S-matrix module and producing a more valid set of hypotheses, wherein the... Agent: Maine & Asmus

20070036251 - Method and system for clipping a baseband input signal: A method for clipping a baseband input signal filters the complex baseband input signal with a function H1 for forming a filtered first signal. To form a clipped signal in the baseband the filtered first signal is multiplied by a scaling factor. By a signal analysis of the filtered first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070036252 - Receiver with clock drift compensation: A receiver is described including circuitry for deriving at least a first stream of first digitized samples from a received analog signal at a first sampling rate, circuitry for selecting a first sampling point and at least a second sampling point, a demodulator for demodulating first and second symbols from... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070036253 - Apparatus for updating gain of loop filter: For updating a gain of a loop filter from a timing error signal, a timing signal estimator generates a current timing signal estimation value from a prior timing error estimation value, a prior gain value, and a prior timing signal estimation value. A timing error estimator generates a current timing... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070036254 - Timing generator and methods thereof: A timing generator and methods thereof are provided. In a first example method, a timing control signal may be produced by generating a base clock signal and a higher delay resolution clock signal, a clock cycle of the higher delay resolution signal being less than a clock cycle of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070036256 - Apparatus for and method of measuring clock skew: Timing jitter sequences Δφj[n] and Δφk[n] of respective clock signals under measurement xj(t) and xk(t) are estimated, and a timing difference sequence between those timing jitter sequences is calculated. In addition, initial phase angles φ0j and φ0k of linear instantaneous phases of the xj(t) and xk(t) are estimated, respectively. A... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20070036255 - Synchronization of data streams from data acquisition processors using a common signal: The present invention is a system and method of synchronizing data streams from data acquisition processors. The system and method utilizes a common signal to data acquisition processors to trigger a measuring of the data sampling signal. These measurements are averaged and compared to an expected phase, whereby either of... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070036257 - Apparatus and method for clock data recovery with low lock frequency: For clock and data recovery (CDR), a clock processor generates sampling clock signals from original phase-shifted clock signals each having a frequency that ⅛ of a frequency of an input data signal. The sampling clock signals are used to sample the input data signal for generating error signals and reference... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070030881 - Signal transmission method: A data transmission method superimposes a spread code onto data in order to synthesize a first signal. The method changes the switching frequency of a switching power supply based on the first signal, transmitting the second signal to a plurality of semiconductor apparatuses (satellite apparatuses) via an output line of... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070030882 - User equipment for controlling transmission power levels: A user equipment (UE) for controlling transmission power levels in a system employing a spread spectrum time division duplex (TDD) technique having frames with timeslots for communication comprises a measuring device configured to receive, during a first time slot, a communication including a power level and measure the power level... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070030883 - Spectrum shaping using code-hopping cdma: A method for spectrally shaping a communication signal is provided. The method comprises generating a plurality of spreading codes, assigning a probability to each of the plurality of spreading codes, and modulating the communication signal by hopping between the plurality of spreading codes such that a time-average proportion of time... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070030884 - System and method for adjusting acquisition phase: A method (800) is provided of processing a wireless signal (105) at a receiving device (125). The method includes: receiving the wireless signal at the receiving device; performing an acquisition process (820, 830) to determine a phase estimate for the wireless signal; adjusting the phase estimate by a correction value... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070030885 - Method and system of transmitting word representing transmission parameters respectively allocated to mobile stations communicating with a base station in a mobile communication system: Method for transmitting a word representative of transmission parameters respectively allocated to the mobile stations in communication with a base station of a mobile telecommunication system, wherein it includes the step of: including, in each transmission burst a midamble resulting from the sum of selected midambles among all the available... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030886 - Radio reception system that can remove interference signal component: In a reception system of a base station according to the communication system of a PDMA, CDMA and the like, the reception signals from a plurality of users received on a plurality of antennas are frequency-converted by a frequency conversion circuit, and then converted into digital signals by an A/D... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070030887 - Cdma frequency acquisition using a simplified crystal oscillator that is not temperature compensated: CDMA code channels are acquired using a crystal oscillator that is not temperature compensated and that generates a tuning signal with relatively large frequency error (e.g., +/−5 ppm). Channel acquisition is first attempted at no offset from a start frequency that is obtained by fitting an ideal temperature/frequency error curve... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070030888 - Method for reducing auto-correlation or cross-correlation in weak signals: The present invention discloses methods, apparatuses, and systems for eliminating auto- and cross-correlation in weak signal CDMA systems, such as GPS systems. The invention uses parallel data paths that allow standard correlation of signals in parallel with verification of the lock signal to determine whether the system has locked onto... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070030889 - Voice modem protocol for uninterrupted data connection: A back-up solution is presented for a DSL modem that guarantees essentially uninterrupted data connections in the event of a failure in the DSL connection. When a DSL data connection fails, e.g., due to changes of the local loop characteristics in the high frequency band, a voice-band modem is used... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP-agere

20070030890 - Partial response transmission system and equalizing circuit thereof: A partial response transmission system in which a data signal is transmitted from a transmission side to a reception side through a transmission medium, includes an equalizing circuit provided in the transmission side or the reception side, and configured to adjust a transfer function for an entire system including the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070030891 - Receiver for an optical signal: A receiver for an optical signal is described. The receiver comprises a decision feedback equalizer (DFE), wherein a distorted input signal (DIS) being derived from the optical signal, as well as a first threshold signal (Th1) and/or a first coefficient (Coeff1) are provided to the decision feedback equalizer (DFE), and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070030892 - Image decoder system: An image decoder system includes a series of optically or digitally encoded images mounted on a series of flat surfaces. A decoding lens is positioned over the encoded images. The decoding produces simulated three-dimensional image, simulated motion images or other visible effects. The system includes a backing plate to which... Agent: Belasco, Jacobs & Townsley LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070030894 - Method, device, and module for improved encoding mode control in video encoding: In general the present invention provides a video encoder, which is arranged for adaptive encoding mode selection. The video encoder is operable with a plurality of encoding modes for encoding a current macroblock of a video sequence. The video sequence is preferably intended for being transmitted by a communication network,... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070030895 - Coefficient scaling operational units: Techniques for providing a coefficient scaling operational unit to perform the coefficient scaling computation for various image compression schemes are disclosed. To minimize multiple units, each for one image encoding/decoding scheme (e.g., MPEG4 and WMV9), a single coefficient scaling operational unit is designed to accommodate various standards. In one embodiment,... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20070030896 - Real-time video object generation for smart cameras: An apparatus and method for video object generation and selective encoding is provided. The apparatus includes a detection module for detecting a first object in at least one image frame of a series of image frames; a tracking module for tracking the first object in successive image frames and segmenting... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070030893 - Apparatus and method for conserving memory in a fine granularity scalability coding system: Decoding time stamps (DTSS) and presentation time stamps (PTSs) are used in fine granularity scalability (FGS) coding during MPEG-4 video coding. An input video is encoded in an FGS encoder into a base layer bitstream and an enhancement bitstream. The bitstreams are provided over a variable bandwidth channel to an... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070030897 - Encoding apparatus and method, recording apparatus and method, and decoding apparatus and method: A new technique is disclosed, in which no freezing of image occurs even when time information becomes discontinuous as in the case of a jointed image-taking, and by which the image signal can be displayed without trouble before and after the jointed image-taking. According to this technique, an image encoding... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20070030899 - Motion estimation apparatus: A motion estimation apparatus, which can prevent a system breakdown without evenly lowering the quality of a picture to be decoded, includes: a reference picture setting unit which restricts a data transfer amount of image data to be transferred from an external multi-frame memory, in accordance with a data transfer... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070030898 - Performance adaptive video encoding with concurrent decoding: An encoder circuit, a task scheduler circuit and a decoder circuit. The encoder circuit may be configured to (i) generate one or more first status signals in response to one or more report signals and (ii) perform video encoding tasks based on available central processing unit (CPU) cycles and memory... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070030900 - Denoising video: A denoising process statistically processes a series of frames of a motion picture to construct respective data structures for the frames. Each data structure indicates for each of multiple contexts, occurrences of symbols that have the same context and are in the corresponding one of the frames. The data structures... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070030901 - H.264 to vc-1 and vc-1 to h.264 transcoding: A method for transcoding from an H.264 format to a VC-1 format. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) decoding an input video stream in the H.264 format to generate a picture having a plurality of macroblock pairs that used an H.264 macroblock adaptive field/frame coding; (B) determining a... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070030903 - Method and apparatus for h.264 to mpeg-2 video transcoding: A method for transcoding from an H.264 format to an MPEG-2 format is disclosed. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) decoding an input video stream in the H.264 format to generate a picture having a plurality of macroblock pairs that used an H.264 macroblock adaptive field/frame coding; (B)... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070030904 - Method and apparatus for mpeg-2 to h.264 video transcoding: A method for transcoding from an MPEG-2 format to an H.264 format is disclosed. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) decoding an input video stream in the MPEG-2 format to generate a plurality of macroblocks; (B) determining a plurality of indicators from a pair of the macroblocks, the... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070030906 - Method and apparatus for mpeg-2 to vc-1 video transcoding: A method for transcoding from an MPEG-2 format to a VC-1 format is disclosed. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) decoding an input video stream in the MPEG-2 format to generate a picture; (B) determining a mode indicator for the picture; and (C) coding the picture into an... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070030902 - Method and apparatus for vc-1 to mpeg-2 video transcoding: A method for transcoding from a VC-1 format to an MPEG-2 format is disclosed. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) decoding an input video stream in the VC-1 format to generate a picture; (B) determining a first mode indicator for the picture; and (C) coding the picture into... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070030905 - Video bitstream transcoding method and apparatus: A video transcoder is disclosed. The video transcoder generally comprises a processor and a video digital signal processor. The processor may be formed on a first die. The video digital signal processor may be formed on a second die and coupled to the processor. The video digital signal processor may... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070030907 - Video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus: A video picture is encoded by adaptively switching between the operation of using a plurality of decoded video signals as reference frames and generating a predictive macroblock picture from a plurality of reference frames for each macroblock, the operation of extracting reference macroblocks from a plurality of reference frames and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030908 - Video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus: A video picture is encoded by adaptively switching between the operation of using a plurality of decoded video signals as reference frames and generating a predictive macroblock picture from a plurality of reference frames for each macroblock, the operation of extracting reference macroblocks from a plurality of reference frames and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030909 - Video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus: A video picture is encoded by adaptively switching between the operation of using a plurality of decoded video signals as reference frames and generating a predictive macroblock picture from a plurality of reference frames for each macroblock, the operation of extracting reference macroblocks from a plurality of reference frames and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030910 - Video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus: A video picture is encoded by adaptively switching between the operation of using a plurality of decoded video signals as reference frames and generating a predictive macroblock picture from a plurality of reference frames for each macroblock, the operation of extracting reference macroblocks from a plurality of reference frames and... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070030911 - Method and apparatus for skipping pictures: In a video decoder having a picture skip function, the video decoder may obtain reference information from a network abstraction layer (NAL) unit, and upon receipt of a skip command, skips frames/pictures from where a non-reference frame/picture begins. The video decoder may execute a picture skip function, either at a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070030912 - Two-dimensional modulation encoding for high density optical storage: The present invention relates to an encoding apparatus and a corresponding method for two-dimensionally encoding user data of a user data stream into channel data of a channel data stream along a two-dimensional channel strip of at least two bit rows one-dimensionally evolving along a first direction and being aligned... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070030914 - Method and system for channel estimation and interference cancellation in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access network: A method of channel estimation and interference cancellation in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access network is provided. The method includes determining an estimate of a transmitted signal based on an initial channel estimate and a received signal. An extracted transmitted signal is generated based on the estimate of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070030913 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver capable of canceling impulse interference: An orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver that has a capability for canceling impulse interference is introduced in the present invention. The OFDM receiver includes an impulse noise remover for receiving incoming signals and canceling the impulse interference and a demodulator to demodulate the incoming signals. The impulse noise remover includes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070030915 - Receiver block providing signal quality information in a communication system with signal constellation not having multiple symbols in same angle: An aspect of the present invention provides signal quality information representing the angular deviations (i.e., based on the phase angle difference between the received symbol and the corresponding decoded symbol (i.e., selected symbol point in a signal constellation)). As a result, a relatively more accurate signal quality information is provided... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070030916 - System and method for demodulating multiple qam signals: A system and method demodulate N QAM signals (N being a positive integer equal to or greater than 1) substantially simultaneously using, for example, one or two oscillators, regardless of how many QAM signals need to be demodulated.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070030917 - Methods of channel coding for communication systems: A method of encoding data for transmission to one or more users selects a given number of bits of data from a transport block to be subject to hybrid ARQ functionality for channel coding. Only the selected bits are channel coded in a HARQ block for subsequent transmission using a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070030919 - Channel estimation for wireless systems with multiple transmit antennas: In various embodiments, techniques are provided to determine channel characteristics of various communication systems such as OFDM systems or systems using a plurality of transmit antennas by using various sets of training symbols.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070030918 - Secure communication method, transmission apparatus and reception apparatus: A transmitting apparatus that transmits signals from a plurality of antennas, and can improve the security of communication compared with a conventional system. In this apparatus, an antenna changing section (105) stores an antenna change pattern in internal memory, and each time a clock signal is input, generates an antenna... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070030920 - Address generating device and method of generating address: An address frequency operation unit counts frequencies of occurrences of addresses output by an address conversion unit 14, and a CPU 16 rewrites an address conversion table in the address conversion unit 14 based on a comparison between the counted result and a threshold value. When the frequency of the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070030921 - Method for data communication between a base station and a transponder: A method is disclosed for wireless data communication between a base station and at least one transponder by a high-frequency electromagnetic carrier signal onto which information packets are modulated, each information packet comprising a header section, a middle section, and a terminating end section. This end section s provided with... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070030922 - Error correction signal generating device and orthogonal modulator equipped with the error correction signal generating device: An offset errors of a quadrature modulator is corrected. A device including a first correction signal output unit (50) for outputting a first correction signal based upon a local signal (phase: 0°) from a 180°-phase amplifier (27) or a phase shift local signal (phase: 180°) from a 180°-phase amplifier (23),... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070030924 - An iterative frequency offset estimator for psk modulation: A method for non-data aided frequency offset determination for MPSK demodulation is accomplished by receiving a stream of K symbols and providing the symbol stream to a delay line of L symbols in length with L greater than 1. The symbol stream and an output of the delay line is... Agent: Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20070030923 - High accuracy non data-aided frequency estimator for m-ary phase shift keying modulation: A method for non-data aided frequency offset determination for MPSK demodulation is accomplished by receiving a stream of K symbols and providing the symbol stream to a delay line of L symbols in length with L greater than 1. The symbol stream and an output of the delay line are... Agent: Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20070030928 - Frequency offset cancellation circuit for data determination in wireless communications: A demodulating semiconductor integrated circuit device used in a wireless communication system of an FM-modulation scheme, wherein a circuit for canceling a frequency offset is made of a digital circuit, so as to make a high-accuracy decision as to received data and prevent error frequency offset cancel due to a... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070030926 - Iterative non-coherent cpm decoder: The invention relates to a method of non-coherent decoding an encoded CPM signal received by a wireless receiver, and a CPM decoder implementing the method, wherein the signal is generated by a transmitter using a serial concatenation of an outer encoder, an interleaver and an M-ary CPM modulator, and may... Agent: Teitelbaum & Maclean

20070030925 - Method and system for determining a log-likelihood ratio (llr) corresponding to each bit of a symbol: Methods and systems for determining a Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) corresponding to each bit of a symbol are provided. The symbol comprises a predefined number of bits based on a predetermined constellation. The methods and systems include expanding the predetermined constellation. The predetermined constellation comprises a plurality of constellation-points wherein each... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20070030927 - Robust frequency offset estimation: Methods and apparatus for the correction of Doppler frequency offset in a terrestrial wireless communications system are described, comprising: determining a first estimation of frequency offset f1 in a received signal over a first time period of the received signal; determining a second estimation of frequency offset f2 in a... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070030929 - Television reciever with automatic gain control (agc): A radio frequency (RF) signal is attenuated using first (220) and second (241) attenuation elements. In one embodiment an initial overall attenuation of the RF signal is set using both the first (220) and second (241) attenuation elements during a calibration period. The initial overall attenuation of the RF signal... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070030930 - Channel estimation and/or equalization using repeated adaptation: A novel approach of repeated adaptation is provided that can be applied to either one or both of channel estimation and/or equalization. From an incoming data packet that includes data and a training sequence, a modified data packet is generated that includes the data, the training sequence, and at least... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070030931 - Method of and apparatus for detecting impulsive noise, method of operating a demodulator, demodulator and radio receiver: In a digital receiver for receiving COFDM modulated television signals or the like, consecutive samples are compared with a detection threshold and the number of samples having amplitudes greater than the threshold is determined. This is compared with a further threshold and, if the number of such samples exceeds the... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070030932 - Radio receiver with selectively disabled equalizer: A controllable equalizer is arranged to be automatically and selectively disabled and is configured to operate in a frequency modulated (FM) radio receiver. The controllable equalizer includes an equalizer (115) that is configured to perform an equalization algorithm, e.g., CMA, that relies on a predetermined distribution for a received signal,... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20070030933 - Auto-synchronization of format definitions in a commutation/de-commutation system: A system and a method for dynamically synchronizing a client (110) to a data source (105). The method can include the step of dynamically selecting a first length of format data to correspond to an amount of bandwidth of a commutated bitstream (115) allocated for synchronization. At least a first... Agent: Sacco & Associates, Pa

20070030934 - Data serializer: A method of serializing a data stream includes passing a series of data words from a source in a first clock domain to a serializer in a second clock domain and passing valid signals from the source to the serializer indicating when each of the data words is available from... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070030935 - Method of synchronization for universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter: A method for a synchronization between two mainframe apparatuses is disclosed, which uses a synchronous module with fast response time, reduced deviation, less electric current consumed and low cost.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070030936 - Clock-and-data-recovery system having a multi-phase clock generator for one or more channel circuits: In one embodiment of the invention, a clock-and-data-recovery (CDR) system has a multi-phase clock generator that generates a plurality of phase-offset clock signals and one or more channel circuits, each receiving a (different) input data signal and all of the phase-offset clock signals and generates an output data stream and... Agent: Mendelsohn And Associates, P.C.

20070030937 - Bit synchronization circuit with phase tracking function: A bit synchronization circuit comprising an initial phase determining unit for rapidly determining, during a period of receiving a preamble of burst data, a clock with a phase synchronized with received burst data from among multi-phase clocks having the same frequency as an internal reference clock and a phase tracking... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070030939 - Digital phase locked loop for sub-mu technologies: A digital phase locked loop has a digitally controlled oscillator for generating an output frequency, a phase detector device for detecting the phase difference between a reference frequency and an output frequency of the oscillator, said phase detector device containing a delta-sigma frequency decision maker, and a digital loop filter,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Infineon

20070030938 - Method and apparatus for predictive switching: A method and apparatus for predictive switching an output have been disclosed.... Agent: Heimlich Law

20070025419 - All digital implementation of clock spectrum spreading (dither) for low power/die area: A digital circuit configured to spread a clock train spectrum includes a clock configured to generate the clock train, and a variable divider configured to divide the frequency of the clock train by a temporally-varying-divider value to modulate the clock train and generate a dithered clock train. The circuit further... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070025418 - Overlaying digital signals on analog wireless communication signals: A method and system of providing digital communications over frequencies concurrently utilized for analog communications. In one embodiment, the method (400) includes the step of establishing (410) a digital channel including two or more analog channels that are concurrently used to provide analog communications. A spread spectrum digital waveform is... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070025417 - System and method for mitigating filter transients in an ultra wideband receiver: A system (600) and method (500) are presented for mitigating a transient in processing a received signal (710) in a signal path associated with an Ultra Wideband (UWB) receiver. An impending processing event associated with processing the received signal is de