Pulse or digital communications inventions 07/07

20070171960 - Apparatus and methods for implementing a split equalizer filter for sparse channels: The invention concerns methods and apparatus for performing channel equalization in a direct-sequence spread spectrum communications system. The methods and apparatus of the present invention are particularly applicable in situations where communication occurs over a channel experiencing multipath interference associated with paths having significantly different lengths. The impulse response-delay profile... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070171961 - Method and apparatus for spreading and modulating communication signals: According to one embodiment, a lower order modulator is provided using a number of higher order modulators. According to another embodiment, a signal having a lower order spreading factor is generated using circuitry for generating a number of signals with a higher order spreading factor.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070171962 - Method and system for code reuse and capacity enhancement using null steering: The number of users and data capacity of wireless systems are increased by employing apparatus and method for increasing the number of spreading codes available in the system by providing a mechanism to reuse the already allocated spreading code or use the codes that may correlate to those already being... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070171963 - Iterative multi-stage detection technique for a diversity receiver having multiple antenna elements: An iterative multistage detection system and method for orthogonally multiplexing K channels onto a signal processing chain using N orthogonal sequences of length N. The K channels include a first set of N channels and a second set of M channels (the M channels being separate and distinct from the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070171964 - Optimized stochastic resonance method for signal detection and image processing: Apparatus and method for improving the detection of signals obscured by noise using stochastic resonance noise. The method determines the stochastic resonance noise probability density function in non-linear processing applications that is added to the observed data for optimal detection with no increase in probability of false alarm. The present... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070171965 - Method and apparatus for equalization: An exemplary embodiment of an adaptive equalizer is provided, receiving symbols to generate an equalizer output. The adaptive equalizer comprises a plurality of tap cells, a coefficient updater, a plurality of multiplexers, a controller and an integrator. Each tap cell generates a filter value from a tap data value and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070171966 - Passive tap and associated system for tapping network data: A network tap device array including one or more passive full-duplex bidirectional ZPL network tap devices is disclosed. The array enables data from multiple nodes in a communications network to be tapped and forwarded to a plurality of monitoring devices. In one embodiment the network tap device array includes a... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070171968 - Binary phase detector and clock data recovery device: A binary phase detecting device (2) comprises a first decision feedback equaliser (DFE1) connected in parallel with a decision unit (DFE2), which can be devised as a second decision feedback equaliser. Respective outputs (Q) of the first decision feedback equaliser and the decision unit are input to a first (8)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171967 - Intergrating receiver having adaptive feedback equalizer function to simultaneously remove inter-symbol interference and high frequency noises and system having the same: Provided is an integrating receiver having an adaptive decision feedback equalizer function and a system having the same. The integrating receiver can simultaneously remove an inter-symbol interference (ISI) and high frequency noises in a high speed DRAM data transmission system. The integrating receiver reduces a probability of wrong decision of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070171970 - Method and apparatus for video encoding/decoding based on orthogonal transform and vector quantization: Provided are a method and an apparatus for video encoding/decoding based on an orthogonal transform and vector quantization. A video encoding method includes determining whether an input image is a residual image, if the input image is a residual image, performing first encoding on the input image through transform/quantization and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171969 - Multilayer-based video encoding/decoding method and video encoder/decoder using smoothing prediction: A method and apparatus for reducing block artifacts during a residual prediction in a multilayer-based video coding are disclosed. The multilayer-based video encoding method includes obtaining a difference between a predicted block for a second block of a lower layer, which corresponds to a first block included in a current... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171974 - Method of and apparatus for deciding encoding mode for variable block size motion estimation: Provided are a method of and an apparatus for deciding an encoding mode for variable block size motion estimation, which can decide an encoding mode quickly and with less computation during variable block size motion estimation. The method includes searching in a reference frame for a macroblock that is most... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171972 - Adaptive gop structure in video streaming: This system adaptively assigns picture types used for temporal compression to frames of streaming video at the input. Based on threshold testing of two metrics that are measures of distance between the frames at the input, a frame may be assigned to be compressed as an I, P, or B... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070171973 - Image coding apparatus and method: An image coding apparatus includes a coding unit configured to set, when coding processing is performed on input image data, a first coding picture that is to be generated by intra-picture prediction coding within the first coding picture, skip reference beyond the first coding picture being inhibited, and set, when... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070171971 - Method for coding and decoding an image sequence encoded with spatial and temporal scalability: The method is characterized in that the resolution chosen for the motion information and the complexity of the interpolation filters used during a motion compensated filtering operation depend on a decoding scenario, namely the spatial and temporal resolutions and the bit-rate selected for the decoding or the corresponding temporal decomposition... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070171975 - Parallel decoding of intra-encoded video: A video stream (for example, H.264 video) includes intra-encoded portions. Decoding an intra-encoded portion utilizes the result of decoding one or more other portions (called predecessors) in the frame. Frame reconstruction involves identifying a portion that has no predecessor portions that have not been decoded and then initiating decoding of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070171977 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture coding device: The moving picture coding device is a coding device which codes a moving picture that includes a B picture on which predictive coding is performed by referencing plural coded pictures which are temporally located before or after the B picture, and which includes a temporal direct mode processing unit operable... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070171976 - Seamless switching between random access units multiplexed in a multi angle view multimedia stream: The multiplexing apparatus which does not make a user who watches a moving picture feel uncomfortable, the moving picture including: (i) a coding unit (42) for generating one or more coded streams so that no gap occurs at the connection of predetermined two access units in a process of decoding,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070171978 - Image encoding apparatus, image encoding method and program thereof: An object to be attained by the present invention is to provide an image encoding technology for reducing the number of transform operations required in SATD calculation in intra-frame predictive direction estimation using a method involving no image quality degeneration. An image encoding apparatus of the present invention transforms an... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070171980 - Method and related apparatus for decoding video streams: A method for decoding a picture of a video signal constructs a macroblock of the picture, stores a portion of the macroblock needed for an intra-prediction operation, and performs a de-blocking filter process for the macroblock.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070171979 - Method of video decoding: A method of decoding video data (ENC(VI)) in a video decoder (50) for regenerating sequence of images (VO) is described. The method involves arranging for the decoder (50) to include processing means (70) coupled to data memory (60). Moreover, the method involves: (a) receiving and then storing the video data... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070171982 - Methods for encoding digital video for decoding on low performance devices: A video encoder encodes the video stream frame by frame. An encoding process generally includes receiving a video frame, subdividing the video frame into uniform pixel blocks, comparing a selected pixel block with the corresponding pixel block in a previous decoded video frame to determine which blocks have changed, copying... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070171981 - Projection based techniques and apparatus that generate motion vectors used for video stabilization and encoding: In a video system a method and/or apparatus to process video blocks comprising: the generation of at least one set of projections for a video block in a first frame, and the generation of at least one set of projections for a video block in a second frame, The at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070171983 - Image coding method and apparatus and image decoding method and apparatus: An image processing method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image data in which the coding and decoding method may be simplified based on factors such as processing speed requirements. In encoding, an image input unit receives a first image and a second image (key frames). A matching processor begins... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070171984 - Method and related apparatus for indexing video data: The present invention provides for a method of indexing video data (18) by the creation of a plurality of scaled-down reference pictures (24) and including the steps of creating an index file (26) comprising a plurality of compression-encoded reference frames (28), and adding the plurality of reference pictures (24) created... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070171985 - Method, medium, and system encoding/decoding video data using bitrate adaptive binary arithmetic coding: A method, medium, and system encoding/decoding video data using a binary arithmetic coding adaptive to a compression bit rate of the video data. The system may include a bitrate adaptation unit determining a maximum length of a prefix using a compression bitrate of the video data, a binarization unit dividing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070171986 - Video coding: A method of video encoding including receiving a video signal to be coded; coding data representing a frame of said video signal; and repeating part, but not all, of the data. The repeated part including the picture header for the frame. A method of decoding an encoded video signal including... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070171987 - Method for optical flow field estimation using adaptive filting: A motion estimation process in video coding takes into account the estimates in the immediate spatio-temporal neighborhood, through an adaptive filtering mechanism, in order to produce a smooth and coherent optical flow field at each pixel position. The adaptive filtering mechanism includes a recursive LMS filter based on pixel-wise algorithm... Agent: Ware, Fressola, Van Der Sluys & Adolphson LLP

20070171988 - Adaptive filtering to enhance video encoder performance: This disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques to improve the quality of captured imagery, such as video or still images. In particular, this disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques that filter each pixel as a function of a set of surrounding pixels. An adaptive image filter may compare image information associated with... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070171989 - Method of channel coding for digital communication system and channel coding device using the same: A method of channel coding a digital communication system and a device using the same is provided. The method includes quantizing analog data to digital data, the digital data corresponding to a predetermined number of digital codes; allocating channel codes to the digital codes, as a Hamming distance between a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171990 - Apparatus for decoding audio data with scalability and method thereof: An apparatus for decoding audio data that is capable of reducing the amount of calculations that are performed during the arithmetic decoding of an audio signal coded by bit sliced arithmetic coding (BSAC) to improve the performance of a decoder and a method thereof are provided. According to the embodiments... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070171991 - Current mode differential signal transmitting circuit sharing a clock outputting unit: A current-mode differential signal transmitting circuit is disclosed, including a transmitter having a first transmitting module and a second transmitting module. The first transmitting module includes a plurality of first outputting units to output first data and a clock outputting signal. The second transmitting module includes a plurality of second... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070171992 - Near field rfid system with multiple reader coils: A near field RFID system includes an RFID reader and an RFID tag. The RFID reader includes a transmit path and a receive path, wherein the transmit path includes: an encoding section coupled to convert data into encoded data; a digital to analog conversion module coupled to convert the encoded... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070171995 - Method and apparatus for increasing the number of orthogonal signals using block spreading: Embodiments of the invention apply block spreading to transmitted signals to increase the number orthogonally multiplexed signals. The principle of the disclosed invention can be applied to reference signals, acknowledgement signals, and channel quality indication signals. In any given time interval, the set of transmitted signals is defined by two... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070171994 - Methods for data transmission: This invention relates to methods for data transmission in OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed) communication systems. More particularly, it relates to data transmission in multi-band OFDM (MB-OFDM) systems. The method of generating an OFDM signal for transmission, comprises the steps of: dividing a plurality of subcarriers into two or more... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070171993 - Adaptive overlap and add circuit and method for zero-padding ofdm system: The invention relates to an Overlap and Add circuit, and in particular, an adaptive Overlap and Add circuit. The adaptive OLA circuit comprises a detection unit, an estimator, and an OLA circuit. The detection unit estimates a channel property according to an OFDM signal received through a channel. The estimator... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070171996 - Wireless communication apparatus and method, and signal attenuation prediction apparatus and method: A wireless communication apparatus that transmits a transmission signal and receives a reception signal via a wireless transmission line, the wireless communication apparatus including prediction means for predicting the amount of signal attenuation along the wireless transmission line, a first conversion table that converts the level of the transmission signal... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070171997 - Method and apparatus for control of transmitter power consumption: A method and apparatus improve the design and control of amplification stages in a radio frequency (RF) transmitter, so as to reduce its power consumption. In some aspects, the transmitter is operable to transmit an output RF signal at a target power level, which may vary over a wide dynamic... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070171998 - Method and system for decoding multilevel signals: A multilevel optical receiver can comprise a plurality of comparators that generally correspond with the number of levels in a multilevel data stream. Each comparator can be individually controlled and fed a decision threshold in order to decode a multilevel signal. The multilevel optical receiver can generate a statistical characterization... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070171999 - Carrier phase ambiguity correction via dc offset: A receiver comprises a carrier tracking loop (CTL), a filter, a look-up table and a rotator The CTL provides a base-band signal having in-phase and quadrature signal components. The filter provides a DC-offset level associated with each component to the look-up table, which, in response thereto, provides a phase adjustment... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070172000 - Modulation method and demodulation method achieving high-quality modulation-and-demodulation performance, and modulation apparatus, demodulation apparatus receiving apparatus using the same: A general purpose of the present invention includes providing a high-quality transmission in a multi-level modulation. Signal points to which symbols are to be assigned are not fixed and the positions of the signal points are varied for each transmission so as to reduce the symbols assigned only to the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070172002 - Demodulation circuit and demodulating method: A demodulation circuit can perform a capturing operation although afrequency error is large. A phase comparator out puts a predetermined value other than 0 as a determination result of a phase error when a phase error of a carrier wave is large and a signal point is located at a... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070172001 - Demodulation circuit and demodulation method: A demodulation circuit according to the present invention comprises an automatic equalizer for carrying out equalization processing of a signal, a carrier recovery circuit for carrying out carrier recovery processing based on an equalized signal by the automatic equalizer. A center tap for carrying out an amplitude control of the... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070172003 - Dtv receiver and method of processing a broadcast signal in dtv receiver: A DTV receiver includes a tuner, an information detector, a demodulator, and a channel equalizer. The tuner receives a broadcast signal including valid data in which a known data sequence is periodically repeated. The information detector detects location information of the known data sequence and a coarse frequency offset value... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070172004 - Active noise controller: An active noise controller can determine the signal transmission characteristics from the power amplifier and the speaker to the microphone without using any special external measuring instrument and calculate a cosine correction value and a sine correction value without using an external computer. The active noise controller uses the cosine... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070172005 - Processing servo data having dc level shifts: A read channel component of a magnetic recording system employs equalization of a signal received from the magnetic recording channel, the equalization being modified depending upon the presence or absence of DC shifts in the signal. Equalization corrects for DC shifts, if present, prior to detection and decoding of servo... Agent: Mendelsohn And Associates, P.C.

20070172006 - Method and circuit for sampling data: A method for sampling data is disclosed. The method includes providing a first data and a second data, detecting a phase of the first data by a first clock, and sampling the second data by an inverted signal of the first clock.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070172007 - Decoding of bi-phase encoded data: A method for decoding bi-phase encoded data begins by interpreting a first bit boundary of a bit of the bi-phase encoded data to produce a first boundary value. The method continues by interpreting a second bit boundary of the bit of the bi-phase encoded data to produce a second boundary... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070172008 - Circuit and method for detection of synchronization signal: A synchronization detection circuit in which serial data received is collated to a predetermined matching pattern in a synchronization detection window to generate a detection level having a value corresponding to the degree of conformity to the matching pattern and in case a pattern is detected, whose detection level exceeds... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070172009 - Timing device with coarse-duration and fine-phase measurement: A high-precision measurement of a duration is calculated from a coarse duration measurement and at least one trigger-phase measurement.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070172010 - System, apparatus and method of providing accurate time-based counters for scaling operating frequencies of microprocessors: The illustrative embodiments provide a system, apparatus and method for providing accurate time-based counters for scaling operating frequencies of microprocessors. The system, apparatus and method make use of a time-based counter circuit configuration in which a fixed frequency clock is derived from a PLL of the clock generation circuit of... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070172011 - Sampling rate mismatch solution: Methods and apparatuses for compensating for differences in communication system transmit and receive clock signal frequencies include buffer timing modification and sample addition. In buffer timing modification, a buffer clock signal is interrupted as needed to slow the rate of data through the buffer. In sample addition, pseudo samples are... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070172012 - Timing recovery system for a multi-pair gigabit transceiver: A method and a timing recovery system for generating a set of clock signals in a system which includes a set of subsystems. Each of the subsystems includes an analog section. The set of clock signals includes a set of sampling clock signals. Each of the analog sections operates in... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070172014 - Digital pll circuit and optical disk apparatus having digital pll circuit: An optical disk apparatus includes a binarizing circuit part for outputting a reference digital signal, and a digital PLL circuit part for outputting a write timing signal based on the reference digital signal, the write timing signal indicating a timing synchronizing with a digital clock signal having a predetermined frequency.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070172013 - Frequency-to-current converter: A frequency-to-current converter includes a digitally selectable capacitor, a sampling capacitor, an integrator circuit and an output transconductor. The sampling capacitor is operatively coupled via a first switch to the digitally selectable capacitor. The first switch is operated by a first clock pulse from a clock generator responsive to a... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070165693 - Methods and apparatus for reducing discrete power spectral density components of signals transmitted in multi-band wideband communications systems: Methods and apparatus for processing data for transmission that reduces discrete power spectral density (PSD) components of a transmitted multi-band wideband signal including the processed data are disclosed. Each band of the multi band wideband signal includes waveforms corresponding to a different band of frequencies. Data is processed for transmission... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070165694 - Method of tone allocation for tone hopping sequences: Methods and apparatus for allocating tones for communications purposes in adjoining cells of an OFDM system are described. Tones used in each cell are allocated to tone hopping sequences according to a tone to tone hopping sequence allocation function. Different cells use different tone to tone hopping sequence allocation functions... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070165695 - Techniques for generating and using a reservation map: A method of allocation transmission channels of a frequency band to has each of a plurality of remote stations monitor all channels of the frequency band in its area for the presence of transmissions from stations not part of the network. Each remote station transmits its clear channel list to... Agent: Charles E. Wands Allen Dyer Doppelt Milbrath And Gilchrist Pa

20070165696 - Soft handoff with interference cancellation in a wireless frequency hopping communication system: Techniques are provided to support soft handoff in a frequency hopping OFDMA system. Each sector concurrently supports “non-handoff” users and “soft-handoff” users. A non-handoff user communicates with only one sector, and a soft-handoff user communicates with multiple sectors simultaneously. Non-handoff users are assigned traffic channels by their sole sectors, and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070165697 - Digital radio system: Methods and apparatus for digital communications are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, chirp waveforms (10) are used to convey meanings of “one” and “zero.”... Agent: Giaccherini

20070165698 - Pre-whitened dc free line coding: A pre-whitened DC free line coding system is provided. The pre-whitened DC free line coding system comprises a scrambler adapted to whiten an input signal and an encoder adapted to convert the whitened input signal to a DC balanced signal.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070165699 - Code division multiple access wireless system with closed loop mode using ninety degree phase rotation and beamformer verification: A wireless communication system (10). The system comprises a user station (12). The user station comprises despreading circuitry (22) for receiving and despreading a plurality of slots received from at least a first transmit antenna (A121) and a second transmit antenna (A122) at a transmitting station (14). Each of the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070165702 - Apparatus for measuring frequency error of cdma signals: Phase error signals are detected at the symbol evaluation point of signals under test that have been receiver filter-processed, and reference signals obtained by remodulation and respreading of bit data restored from the filter-processed signals under test, or signals obtained by differentiating said phase error signals are calculated, and either... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070165701 - Receiver capable of enhancing receiving efficiency in a code division multiple access communication system: A receiver capable of enhancing receiving efficiency in a code division multiple access communication system includes a signal reception end for receiving signals, a data output unit for outputting a plurality of data streams corresponding to a plurality of codes according to signals received by the signal reception end, a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070165700 - Variable spreading factor-orthogonal frequency and code division et al.: A variable spreading factor-orthogonal frequency and code division multiplexing (VSF-OFCDM) system and receiver for use therein has a sequence extension remover for removing a predetermined number of chips from the received signal to form a modified signal, and a first converter for converting the modified signal from a serial sequence... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070165706 - Code division multiple access receiver and method for processing signals thereof: The invention provides a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) receiver for sampling a received CDMA signal into a plurality of samples. The CDMA receiver comprises a sampling control module, a code generator, and a plurality of despreaders. The sampling control module delays the samples for a plurality of different delay... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070165705 - Method of enhancing frequency diversity in block cdma systems: Many MUI-free techniques rely on user separation in the frequency domain by assigning mutually exclusive sets of tones to each user. The known techniques of multiple access, however, do not allow each individual user to fully exploit the frequency diversity in the channel since each user only utilises a portion... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165703 - Method and apparatus for robust automatic frequency control in cdma systems with constant pilot signals: There is provided a method for generating an error signal for an automatic frequency control (AFC) loop in a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system. Sign information relating to phase differences in received pilot signals is accumulated. In one embodiment, the accumulated sign information is compared against predetermined threshold levels.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070165704 - Method for auxiliary pilot cancellation in wireless network reverse link: In carrying out a method for auxiliary pilot cancellation in a wireless network reverse link, a base station receives signals from various wireless units over the reverse link. Some of the wireless units may transmit auxiliary pilot signals when transmitting high-speed packet data. For each active wireless unit, the base... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070165707 - Hybrid rake/equalizer receiver for spread spectrum systems: There is provided a hybrid rake/equalizer receiver for correlating a delay spread in a spread spectrum system. The hybrid rake/equalizer receiver includes a plurality of adaptive equalizers, each for filtering different regions of the delay spread that have an energy level above a pre-specified threshold to respectively provide equalized-descrambled chip... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070165709 - Time slicing techniques for variable data rate encoding: The disclosure is directed, to a multi-channel encoder. The multi-channel encoder is configured to generate an encoded data stream. The multi-channel encoder includes a plurality of channel encoders, and a processor configured to allocate time slots in the encoded data stream to each of the channel encoders to vary the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070165708 - Wireless transceiver with modulation path delay calibration: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless systems, and relating to wireless transceivers. In an example embodiment, the wireless transceiver may include a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that may be controlled by a phase-locked loop (PLL). A fractional-N divider may be coupled to a feedback loop of the PLL and... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20070165710 - Bus interface and method for conveying multi-level communication signals between a communication bus and a device coupled to a communication bus: A bus interface and corresponding method is provided for conveying communication signals supporting multiple modes, where at least two of the modes have distinct operational communication signal levels. The bus interface is adapted to convert the communication signals between communication signals having distinct signal levels, and communication signals having compatible... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070165711 - Electronic device including image forming apparatus: When a plurality of sub-processors are daisy chained in a loop, for example, to a main processor by a one-way bus, a command packet from the main processor addressed to itself is transmitted to the one-way bus which form a return path back to the main processor so as to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070165713 - Method and device for encoding blocks of values: The present invention relates to a method of encoding blocks of values, e.g. DCT blocks, generated in accordance with an image compression scheme. The values are expressed as a set of bit planes, each bit plane comprising, for the values, all bits with a specific significance. In each bit plane... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165714 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165712 - Video processing circuit and method of video processing: Video stream processing, such as processing that includes MPEG decoding an subsequent post-processing involves using signal processing circuitry (102, 106) to execute a first and a second video stream processing function. The first video stream processing function produces frame data of successive video frames in a temporally ordered output sequence... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165716 - Signal processing device, image capturing device, network camera system and video system: A reference image memory comprises seven reference bank memories each having a capacity which can store three reference macroblocks in the vertical direction. Of the seven reference bank memories, any three reference bank memories are adaptively allocated to motion estimation of full pixel precision, any other three reference bank memories... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070165715 - Editing device, editing method, splicing device, splicing method, encoding device, and encoding method: A plurality of bit streams are seamlessly spliced. Separate decoders decode each bit stream. A controller selects the decoded pictures according to a re-encoding range in the vicinity of a splicing point of the bit streams. Pictures presenting a reordering of the streams are excluded in the selection of the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070165718 - Encoding apparatus, encoding method and program: A encoding apparatus which encodes picture data obtained by decoding the encoded data includes a decision means for deciding whether a motion vector is generated or not in the encoding of the picture data based on a motion vector of the encoded data obtained by decoding, a motion vector generating... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070165721 - Motion picture encoding device and motion picture decoding device: When a prediction is made between fields with different parity, the predicative efficiency of a chrominance vector is improved by adaptively switching the generation of a chrominance motion vector depending on a encoding/decoding field parity (top/bottom) and a reference field parity (top/bottom), and the coding efficiency is improved accordingly.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070165722 - Motion picture encoding device and motion picture decoding device: When a prediction is made between fields with different parity, the predicative efficiency of a chrominance vector is improved by adaptively switching the generation of a chrominance motion vector depending on a encoding/decoding field parity (top/bottom) and a reference field parity (top/bottom), and the coding efficiency is improved accordingly.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070165719 - Motion vector detection method and apparatus: A motion vector detection method includes extracting a first block from the m-th picture, extracting second blocks having a large correlation with respect to the first block from a (m+n)-th picture ((m+n) >m-th), detecting first motion vectors between the first and second blocks, extracting a third block located in spatially... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165717 - System and method for rate-distortion optimized data partitioning for video coding using parametric rate-distortion model: A system and method are disclosed that provide a simple and efficient layered video coding technique using a parametric rate-distortion (RD) model. The video coding system may include an rate-distortion optimized data partitioning encoder and decoder. The generalized RD-DP encoder adapts the partition point block-by-block which greatly improves the coding... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070165720 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165724 - Extension of two-dimensional variable length coding for image compression: A method and an apparatus to encode a series of quantized coefficients of a transform of a block of image data. The transform is such that 0 is the most likely coefficient amplitude and 1 is the next most likely coefficient amplitude. The method includes forming symbols (called events) from... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070165723 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165725 - Independently adjusting the quality levels for luminance and chrominance channels in a digital image: A system that compresses a digital image. During operation, the system obtains a digital image in which the image components are de-correlated into separate channels containing luminance information and chrominance information. Next, the system receives a quality number for the luminance channel and a quality number for the chrominance channels,... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.C. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20070165731 - Method and apparatus for conveying control channel information in ofdma system: Various embodiments are described which can serve to mitigate interference between the control channel signaling of adjacent sectors/cells. Potentially, these techniques may have the benefit of reducing the system resource drain caused by control channels, particularly control channels in high frequency-reuse, OFDMA systems. A transmitting device (101) transmits primary control... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070165732 - Method for performing adaptive subcarrier allocation to a mobile terminal for fdm or ofdm transmission in a multi cell network, a base station, a mobile terminal and a multi cell network therefor: The invention concerns a method for performing adaptive subcarrier allocation to a mobile terminal (T1-T4) for OFDM or FDM transmission in a multi cell network (CN), whereby transmit powers of base stations (BS1-BS8) are estimated, channel transfer functions are calculated based on measurements in the mobile terminal (T1-T4) of pilots... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165730 - Transmitter cellular communication system and method of transmitting therefor: A transmitter comprises functionality (101, 103) for generating a block of input modulation symbols for example from received data bits. An M-point discrete Fourier transform (105) is applied to the block of input modulation symbols resulting in a frequency domain symbol block. This block is fed to an N-point inverse... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070165726 - Apparatus and method for channel estimation using training signals with reduced signal overhead: A base station comprising an antenna array including M antennas for transmitting data to a plurality of subscriber stations. The base station generates a first pilot signal preamble by adding a first cyclic prefix to a first pilot signal sequence and generates a second pilot signal preamble by adding a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070165729 - Apparatus and method for receiving data in a wireless communication system using bit interleaving, symbol interleaving and symbol mapping: An apparatus and method are provided for receiving data generated by sequentially performing bit interleaving, symbol interleaving and symbol mapping in a wireless communication system. A fast Fourier transform (FFT) processor receives in-phase/quadrature phase (I/Q) data of a radio channel generated by sequentially performing bit interleaving, symbol interleaving and symbol... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070165727 - Approximate linear fm synchronization symbols for a bandwidth configurable ofdm modem: A communications system permits bandwidth configurability using a linear frequency modulated (LFM) waveform for transmitter/receiver synchronization. The system permits enhancement of MIL-STD-1553 data buses, and is likewise applicable to any bandwidth-configurable modem.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070165734 - Method and apparatus for domain transformation multiple signal processing: A method and apparatus of joint processing a plurality of digital signal streams is disclosed. The method includes transforming a plurality of the digital signal streams from an original domain to a lower complexity processing domain. The transformed plurality of digital signal streams are joint processed, wherein the joint processing... Agent: Teranetics Patent Dept.

20070165728 - Multi-symbol signals including an initial symbol and an extension portion: A base station generates and transmits a multi-symbol beacon/timing synchronization signal. The multi-symbol beacon/timing synchronization signal includes: (i) an initial symbol including a body portion and a cyclic prefix, the cyclic prefix preceding the body portion and being generated from an end portion of the body portion and (ii) an... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070165733 - Reception apparatus: A reception apparatus includes a plurality of antennas for receiving modulation signals of channels in the same frequency band, an received signal strength intensity estimation unit for estimating the reception received signal strength intensity of each reception signal, transmission path fluctuation estimation units for estimating a transmission path fluctuation of... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070165737 - Order recursive computation for a mimo equalizer: A receiver module includes an input that receives a data message from a wireless communication channel. The data message has a plurality of training fields and data. A channel estimator module recursively estimates a matrix H that represents the channel based on the plurality of training fields. The recursive estimation... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070165739 - High rate transmission diversity transmission and reception: The performance and symbol rate in a wireless mobile system are increased by forming a transmission code matrix using transformed orthogonal codes, in such a way that the code is robust to channel statistics and operates well in both Ricean and (correlated) Rayleigh channels. Furthermore, the invention enables high symbol... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070165738 - Method and apparatus for pre-coding for a mimo system: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitates computing a precoding index which correlates to a precoding matrix within a codebook. According to various aspects, systems and/or methods are described that facilitate computing an effective signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Such systems and/or methods may further facilitate selecting a precoding matrix and a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070165736 - Method and apparatus for selecting a beam combination in a mimo wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for selecting a beam combination of beam switched antennas in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system including a first node and a second node. The first node sends a plurality of modulation and coding scheme (MCS) requests to the second node. Each of the plurality... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070165735 - Method and apparatus for supporting transmit diversity in a receiver: A method and apparatus for supporting transmit diversity are disclosed. A wireless communication system includes a transmitter having a plurality of transmit antennas and a receiver having at least one receive antenna. The transmitter transmits different pilot code sequences via each of the transmit antennas. The receiver comprises at least... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20070165740 - Method for wireless information transfer: Method for wireless information transfer, in particular for mobile communications, in which an input signal (s1, g4) is subjected to a modulation in a transmitter (2 to 8) and reaches a receiver (11 to 15) through a transmission channel, whereby angle modulated pulses, carrying information and possessing a frequency spectrum,... Agent: Marchant & Gould PC

20070165741 - Method for data transmission between switch and terminal, fsk processing module, terminal, and switch: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for data transmission between a switch and a terminal, which includes: transmitting data between the switch and the terminal in a bidirectional Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) mode. The embodiments of the present invention provides an FSK processing module, a terminal, and a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070165742 - Method for enhancing bluetooth transmission speed and robustness of emitting end and receiving end of communication system: A method for enhancing the Bluetooth transmission speed and robustness of an emitting end and a receiving end is provided. The method is utilized in a system having an emitting end and a receiving end, wherein at least one of the emitting and receiving ends is provided with BlueSPEED-PSK or... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20070165744 - Transmission circuit and communication apparatus comprising the same: A transmission circuit is provided which can quickly and accurately control an output power of a transmission signal even when the transmission signal is output at a high modulation rate and in a wide dynamic range. A switching control section controls a modulation method changing section to change a modulation... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070165743 - Radio frequency transmitter and method therefor: An RF transmitter (10) is configured to transmit either wideband multichannel modulations or narrowband multichannel modulations in a variety of licensed frequency bands (70) using a single set of hardware. For narrowband modulations, a digital IF upconversion stage is performed so that, after upconversion to RF, image signals 74 are... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20070165746 - Transmission circuit by polar modulation system and communication apparatus using the same: A transmission circuit for alleviating the frequency characteristics of the group delay and the attenuation amount in a transmission signal band and expanding the dynamic range to a high frequency band is provided. A ladder-type resistance-type attenuator includes switching elements (12-19), 2R resistor elements (20-28) and R resistor elements (29-35).... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070165745 - Adaptation of iq-error compensation: A radio transmitter with IQ-modulator error compensation includes a homodyne observation receiver (42) producing a first real baseband (S5) signal from a real radio frequency signal (S2). A real-value extracting element (44) and a down-sampler (46) convert a complex baseband signal (S1) into a second real baseband signal. An adapter... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070165747 - Digital clock controller, radio receiver, and methods for use therewith: A digital clock generator includes a base clock generator for generating a base clock signal at a variable base clock frequency in response to a control signal. A digital clock controller generates a digital clock signal having a substantially constant number of digital clock cycles over a predetermined period.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070165748 - Low if radio receiver: A slot-based low Intermediate Frequency (‘IF’) radio receiver comprises an IF local oscillator for producing I and Q IF local oscillator signal components in phase quadrature, I and Q mixer channels for mixing the input signal with the I and Q IF local oscillator signal components to produce I and... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20070165749 - Method and system for an improved cellular diversity receiver: Aspects of a method and system for an improved cellular diversity receiver are described. Aspects of the system may include circuitry that enables generation of an initially decoded output bit sequence by a first frame process for a received bit sequence for a plurality of received multipath signals. The first... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070165750 - Apparatus of maximum likelihood signal detection: An apparatus for maximum likelihood signal detection comprises a reference data unit, a branch metric unit, an add-compare-select unit, a path metric unit and a path memory, and is used for detecting maximum likelihood signal. The reference information unit, the branch metric unit, the add-compare-select unit or the path metric... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165751 - Symbol point estimating apparatus, method, program, and recording medium: The symbol points of a received signal can be more precisely measured. A symbol point estimating apparatus, which estimates the symbol points of a received signal z(k) by deciding a time delay T between sampling points of the received signal z(k) as sampled at a sampling frequency fs and the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070165755 - Method and apparatus for removing channel interference in wireless communication system: A wireless communications receiving apparatus and a method for removing interference in a wireless communication system. The apparatus removes interferences and comprises a power detector, a channelization filter, a channel filter unit having a plurality of filters (e.g., including an all-pass filter, a low-pass filter and a high-pass filter), a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070165756 - Signals reception chain: w

20070165752 - Frequency compensated communications reception: Frequency compensated communications reception includes compensating for frequency offset in a received signal by constructing a reference signal for comparison with a training sequence in a received signal. The reference signal is formed from basis functions and the training sequence. It is obtained by minimising a cost function J constructed... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070165753 - Impulse noise remover and related method: An impulse noise remover includes a delay chain, a plurality of detection modules coupled to the delay chain, a logic unit coupled to the detection modules, and a multiplexer coupled to the delay chain and the logic unit. The delay chain delays the input signal to generate a plurality of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070165754 - Method for avoiding interference from a cellular transmitter to the 2.4/5ghz ism band: A method, terminal, and computer program are disclosed to reduce radio interference in a wireless communications device having a combination of a wireless telephone unit, such as a GSM cellular phone, and a short range wireless communications unit, such as a WLAN communications unit or a Bluetooth communications unit. An... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20070165758 - Device and method for improving the carrier-to-noise ratio for a receiver with diversity: The method of improving the carrier-to-noise ratio for a receiver with diversity, and the associated device, consists, after extracting, by phase shifting, the noise component of the signals to be demodulated, in optimizing the cancellation of the useful component via a feedback loop acting on the phase shifter and in... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070165757 - Method and system for an improved cellular interference cancelling diversity receiver: Aspects of a method and system for an improved cellular interference cancelling diversity receiver are described. Aspects of the system may include one or more circuits that enable reception of a plurality of individual path signals associated with a multipath cluster for each of a plurality of mobile terminals. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070165760 - Apparatus and method for checking network synchronization clock signal in communication system: In an apparatus and method for checking a network synchronization clock signal in a communication system, the apparatus generates a divided clock signal which is the same as an externally inputted network synchronization clock signal, compares the value of one period of the network synchronization clock signal to the value... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070165759 - Plural circuit selection using role reversing control inputs: Data is communicated through two separate circuits or circuit groups, each having clock and mode inputs, by sequentially reversing the role of the clock and mode inputs. The data communication circuits have data inputs, data outputs, a clock input for timing or synchronizing the data input and/or output communication, and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070165761 - Method and system for universal sampling rate conversion: A sampling rate converter (100) is provided. The system can include a data buffer (102), a processor (104) for processing data in the buffer (10), and a plurality of sampling rate lines for configuring the processor. For example, the input signal can have an input sampling frequency corresponding to a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070165762 - Nicam audio signal resampler: A NICAM audio signal re-sampler may include a non-linear interpolator configured to interpolate in a non-linear manner between sequential digital samples that are based on a stream of demodulated NICAM audio samples. A phase differential calculator may be included that compares phase information at different resolutions.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070165763 - System and method for transporting unaltered optical data stream: Embodiments of the invention provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for maintaining proper bit sequence as well as the rate at which the bits occur within the data stream, enabling the transport of an unaltered optical stream from one point to another. Bits of data in a data stream are read... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070165764 - Phase conjugate circuit: A phase conjugate circuit is disclosed for deriving phase conjugation information from a main input signal of a given frequency comprising: an input receiving a reference input signal; at least one phase locked loop circuit comprising an oscillator having a main output signal, an input receiving a PLL input signal,... Agent: Gregory J Lavorgna Drinker Buiddle And Reath

20070165765 - Use of placeable channels in the construction of embedded applications: In one embodiment, a method for constructing an application includes identifying one or more channel types for a design of the application. Each of the identified channel types specifies resource needs of a hardware function pertaining to the design. The method further includes creating channel instances of the identified channel... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070160115 - Methods and apparatus for flexible hopping in a multiple-access communication network: Techniques for efficiently designing random hopping patterns in a communications system are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for generating random hopping patterns, updating the patterns frequently, generating different patterns for different cells/sectors, and generating patterns of nearby sub-carriers for block hopping.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070160116 - Communication device with smart antenna using a quality-indication signal: Communication is performed for a first communication device having a set of antenna elements. A quality-indication signal is received from a second communication device (e.g., a basestation). A complex weighting is calculated based on the quality-indication signal. A pre-transmission signal is modified based on the complex weighting to produce a... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070160118 - Pilot scrambling in communications systems: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for pilot scrambling using a scrambling code (e.g., pseudo-noise code such as a Gold code, a Kasami code, a Hadamard code, m-sequences, etc.) in communication systems, e.g., for wireless communications. The sector/cell specific scrambling codes are mapped... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070160117 - Satellite signal receiver apparatus and satellite signal reception method: A satellite signal receiver apparatus by which the hardware scale can be suppressed while high speed synchronization is assured. A carrier frequency component is removed from a satellite signal. Then, adding those of signals obtained after every period interval of spread spectrum codes and signals stored in a memory which... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070160120 - Method for code-alignment for dsss signal processing: An embodiment generally relates to a method of processing direct-sequence spread spectrum signals for temporal alignment between a received direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) signal and a local reference signal. The method includes receiving the received DSSS signal with bandwidth to resolve at least N samples per code chip and... Agent: Andrew Abeyta, Esq. Honeywell International, Inc.

20070160119 - Umts receiver symbol synchronization: The present invention relates to a method of performing time drift compensation in a receiver (200) and a receiver (200) for performing time drift compensation. The basic idea of the invention is that a signal is received at the receiver. A control pulse is produced after a certain number of... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070160121 - Method and apparatus for performing signal correlation: A method of computing a correlation between a pseudorandom reference code and a satellite signal is provided. The method comprises receiving a satellite signal having a repeating code modulated thereon, wherein the satellite signal comprises a pseudorange; correlating the satellite signal with less than an entire length of the pseudorandom... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070160122 - Wireless apparatus, wireless communication system, and transmission mode selecting method: A wireless apparatus 1 receives reception quality information, propagation environment information, and block error rate detection information from a wireless apparatus of the other end of communication together with a data signal, and the target error rate selecting unit 7 selects any one of a plurality of tables in which... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070160124 - Modem for communicating data over a voice channel of a communications system: A modem used for communicating data. The modem may include a packet generator and modulator. The modulator may include an electronic device configured to select at least one frequency from at least three or more candidate frequencies. At least one oscillator may be in communication with the electronic device and... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070160123 - System for isolating an object in a broadcast signal: A system for isolating an object in a broadcast signal is disclosed. The system scans the broadcast signal for at least one identifiable object and selectively filters the broadcast signal. In selectively filtering the broadcast signal, the identifiable object is selectively passed or removed from the broadcast signal. The identifiable... Agent: Law Office Of Marc D. Machtinger, Ltd.

20070160125 - Adaptive filter having shared structure: An adaptive filter may include a unitary filter, a combiner, and an error estimator. The unitary filter may include a feedback portion to generate a feedback output and a feed forward portion to generate a feed forward output. The combiner may combine the feedback output and the feed forward output... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070160127 - Bandwidth adaptive stream selection: An apparatus and corresponding method are provided for selecting one of several alternate input streams for transmission, the method including determining bandwidth requirements for each of the alternate input streams, measuring bandwidth currently available for transmission, and selecting for transmission one of the alternate input streams that has the highest... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070160128 - Method and apparatus for shot detection in video streaming: The invention comprises devices and methods for processing multimedia data. Such methods can include obtaining at least one metric indicative of a difference for a selected frame and adjacent frames in a plurality of video frames, the metric comprising bi-directional motion information and luminance difference information, determining a shot event... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070160126 - System and method for improved scalability support in mpeg-2 systems: A heterogeneous layered video decoding system and associated method is disclosed that provides for flexible and cost effective scalability through the use of generic decoders (e.g., MPEG-2/4/AVC) at each layer instead of decoders specifically designed for scalable systems. In one embodiment, additional signaling information (220) embodied as a parameter list... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070160129 - Video decoding apparatus and video decoding method: According to one embodiment, a video decoding apparatus decoding a video stream selectively generates one of an intra prediction image and an inter prediction image based on an encoding mode of a decoding object from the video stream and decoded images thereof, generates a residual decoded image based on a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070160130 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070160131 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070160132 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070160135 - Multi-view video coding method and apparatus: A multi-view video coding method comprises the steps of: collecting position information of the video cameras, determining one video camera as a base video camera among the video cameras, collecting sequences of synchronism from the video cameras, independently coding a sequence of the base video camera, predictively coding a sequence... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070160138 - Encoding and decoding of video images based on a quantization with an adaptive dead-zone size: The present invention enables to control the encoding of film grain information without adversely affecting the over-all coding efficiency of the encoding process of video data. For this purpose, a control of the size of the quantization interval for the lowest transform coefficient values is separated from a control of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070160139 - Method and apparatus for varied format encoding and decoding of pixel data: An apparatus, system, and method for encoding video pixels is provided in some embodiments. At least one encoder may encode a video pixel data as a symbol. A selection unit may select the symbol. A selection of the symbol is a function of a pixel format that is of one... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070160136 - Method and apparatus for motion prediction using inverse motion transform: A method and apparatus for performing a motion prediction using an inverse motion transformation are provided. The method includes generating a second motion vector by inverse-transforming a first motion vector of a second block in a lower layer, the second block corresponding to a first block in a current layer;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070160134 - Methods and systems for filter characterization: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for down-sampling and up-sampling an image. Some embodiments comprise methods and systems for sampling images for spatial scalability.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070160133 - Video coding with fine granularity spatial scalability: The disclosure is directed to video coding techniques that support spatial scalability using a generalized fine granularity scalability (FGS) approach. Various degrees of spatial scalability can be achieved by sending spatially scalable enhancement layers in a generalized FGS format. Spatially scalable enhancement bitstreams can be arbitrarily truncated to conform to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070160137 - Error resilient mode decision in scalable video coding: An encoder for use in scalable video coding has a mechanism to perform macroblock mode selection for the enhancement layer pictures. The mechanism includes a distortion estimator for each macroblock that reacts to channel errors such as packet losses or errors in video segments affected by error propagation; a Lagrange... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070160140 - Information processing apparatus and video decoding method of information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, information processing apparatus which decodes compressed and encoded video stream by software, selectively generates one of intra and inter prediction image on the basis of encoding mode of decoding object from video stream and decoded images thereof, generates a residual error decoded image on the basis... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070160142 - Camera and/or camera converter: Methods, devices, systems and/or storage media for video and/or audio processing. An exemplary method of controlling a display device includes receiving an executable file and/or code via a network interface, receiving video data via a serial digital interface, executing the executable file and/or code on a runtime engine, processing the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070160141 - Picture encoding method and apparatus and picture decoding method and apparatus: A picture encoding method includes receiving an input video signal, encoding the video signal using a reference picture signal to generate a video code stream, encoding the reference picture signal to generate a reference picture code stream, and multiplexing the video code stream with the reference picture code stream to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070160143 - Motion vector compression method, video encoder, and video decoder using the method: Provided are a method and apparatus for increasing the compression efficiency of a motion vector by efficiently predicting a motion vector of a frame that is located in a current temporal level of multiple temporal levels using a motion vector of a frame that is located in a next temporal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070160145 - Frame rate converter: A frame rate converter is provided, and includes a motion vector calculator which calculates a motion vector; a motion error calculator which calculates a motion error level of the motion vector; an interpolation frame output part which generates a repetition interpolation frame, which corresponds to the current frame or the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070160146 - Reduced error processing of transformed digital data: This invention solves problems due to employing error degraded data in digital processing. It particularly solves multi-generation problems wherein transform data degrade during each inverse transform and forward transform cycle even without any processing due to the rounding and clipping errors. It provides methods, systems and devices for reduced-error processing... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20070160144 - Systems and methods for visual signal extrapolation or interpolation: The present invention relates to computer-based systems and methods for visual signal extrapolation or interpolation based on statistic similarity estimation. Specifically, a first and a second reference pictures are provided, and motion estimation is conducted on the first and second reference pictures to generate motion vectors indicative of movement of... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070160147 - Image encoding method and image decoding method: This image coding method includes: a coding step (S102) of coding an input image and generating a bit stream including the coded input image; a decoded image generation step (S104) of generating a decoded image by decoding the coded input image; and a parameter generation step (S106 and S108) of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070160148 - Moving picture coding and/or decoding systems, and variable-length coding and/or decoding system: A coding and/or decoding system includes: a code-word table for storing therein a plurality of code words, which are capable of being decoded both in forward and backward directions and which are formed so that delimiters of the code words are capable of being identified by a predetermined weight of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070160149 - Moving picture coding and/or decoding systems, and variable-length coding and/or decoding system: A coding and/or decoding system includes: a code-word table for storing therein a plurality of code words, which are capable of being decoded both in forward and backward directions and which are formed so that delimiters of the code words are capable of being identified by a predetermined weight of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070160150 - Moving picture coding and/or decoding systems, and variable-length coding and/or decoding system: A coding and/or decoding system includes: a code-word table for storing therein a plurality of code words, which are capable of being decoded both in forward and backward directions and which are formed so that delimiters of the code words are capable of being identified by a predetermined weight of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070160151 - Video decoding device: A video decoding circuit comprising: a first video data processor; a second video data processor; and a connection connecting the first video data processor and the second data processor; wherein the first video data processor is arranged to receive a first signal comprising encoded video data, process the first signal... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070160152 - System for encoding/decoding motion picture and method for encoding/decoding motion picture: [Means of solution] The system and the method are severally provided with a processor 1, a means of calculating necessary operation volume 2 for calculating the volume of operation necessary for encoding/decoding the present frame, and a means of calculating power-supply voltage, substrate bias voltage and operating frequency 3 for... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070160153 - Resampling and picture resizing operations for multi-resolution video coding and decoding: Techniques and tools for high accuracy position calculation for picture resizing in applications such as spatially-scalable video coding and decoding are described. In one aspect, resampling of a video picture is performed according to a resampling scale factor. The resampling comprises computation of a sample value at a position i,j... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070160154 - Method and apparatus for injecting comfort noise in a communications signal: Background noise, optionally spectrally matched, is performed directly in a coded domain. A Coded Domain Spectrally Matched Noise Injection (CD-SMNI) system modifies at least one parameter of a first encoded signal, resulting in corresponding modified parameter(s). The CD-SMNI system replaces the parameter(s) of the first encoded signal with the modified... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070160155 - Data signal transmission devices and methods for ternary-line differential signaling: An apparatus for transmitting data signals includes a logic unit configured to generate an encoded clock signal in response to a clock signal and a first data signal, and a demultiplexer configured to receive the encoded signal, the first data signal, and a second data signal, and to output odd-numbered... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070160159 - Device and method of performing channel estimation for ofdm-based wireless communication system: A device and method of performing channel estimation for an OFDM-based wireless communication system performs a Least Square interpolation with a statistical channel profile consideration on pilot channel estimates to derive data channel estimates at data subcarrier locations.... Agent: Wilson & Ham Pmb: 348

20070160158 - Ofdma device and method of correcting frequency offset in ofdma signals: An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) device and method of correcting frequency offset in OFDMA signals computes an estimated frequency offset, which is used for mixing an incoming OFDMA signal with a frequency offset-compensated mixer signal and for digitally correcting sampling errors in the signal.... Agent: Wilson & Ham Pmb: 348

20070160157 - Radio transmitter apparatus, radio receiver apparatus, and wireless communication system: A wireless communication system capable of obtaining diversity gain without fail even when the distribution of the reception qualities is large. radio transmitter apparatus (100) of the wireless communication system, a repetition/constellation pattern ratio deciding part (113) adjusts the number of constellations to be used by a modulating part (102)... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070160156 - Wireless communication device employing interference-sensitive mode selection and associated methods: Embodiments of a wireless communication system employing interference-sensitive mode selection and associated methods are generally introduced.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070160162 - Method and system for transmitting data in a communication system: A method and system are provided for transmitting data in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. A receiver sets the number of sub-streams of each column of a preceding matrix with respect to all precoding matrices of channels formed between the receiver and a transmitter and measures channel states with... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070160161 - Transmitter apparatus, receiver apparatus, and wireless communication method: When space-time block code signals (103, 104) are to be transmitted, the patterns thereof are changed in accordance with data to be transmitted. This advantageously allows a good-quality data transmission to be achieved by the space-time block code signals (103, 104). In addition, since data can be transmitted by use... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070160160 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, and resource assignment method used therein: In a transmitting portion of a wireless communication apparatus, hopping pattern generating portions 16 and 17 produce hopping patterns independent from each other and specific to a transmitter. Subcarrier assigning portions 18 and 19 assign transmission symbol sequences to subcarriers 1 to R in accordance with the hopping patterns and... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070160163 - Apparatus and method for transmitting or receiving data: A bit adding part acquires RSSI as measured by an RSSI measuring part, and adds “1” to each bit of protected audio data of an audio vocoder, if the acquired RSSI is smaller than a predetermined threshold value. If the acquired RSSI is equal to or greater than the predetermined... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070160164 - Digital transmitters for wireless communication: Digital transmitters having improved characteristics are described. In one design of a digital transmitter, a first circuit block receives inphase and quadrature signals, performs conversion from Cartesian to polar coordinates, and generates magnitude and phase signals. A second circuit block (which may include a delta-sigma modulator or a digital filter)... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070160165 - Composite channel equalization of a wideband wireless communication system: A method and an apparatus for using a plurality of antennas to equalize a composite propagation channel of a wideband wireless communication is provided. The method comprises adjusting a corresponding weight associated with at least two of the plurality of antennas to obtain a channel response from the plurality of... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070160166 - 8psk modulator: A modulation circuit uses pre-calculated and stored data to generate the modulated output. The modulator architecture uses pre-calculated, Gaussian filtered sine and cosine responses that are stored in a ROM (read-only memory) or other memory structure. The modulator output is then calculated as a simple sum of values read from... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070160167 - Integrated circuit having radio receiver and methods for use therewith: An integrated circuit includes a radio receiver for receiving a received radio signal having a plurality of channel signals, each of the plurality of channel signals being modulated at one of a corresponding plurality of carrier frequencies. The radio receiver converts a selected one of the plurality of channel signals... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070160168 - Apparatus and method for signal phase control in an integrated radio circuit: An apparatus and method to control signal phase in a radio device includes a phase rotator configured to control a phase of a local oscillator. A phase error determination module is configured to determine phase error information based on received in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) (IQ) signal values. A phase... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070160169 - Demodulation apparatus and receiving apparatus: A demodulation apparatus that can support various oscillation frequencies. The portable phone device includes a frequency synthesizer for generating a local-oscillation signal having a local oscillation frequency for converting the frequency of an input receiving signal into an intermediate frequency based on an oscillation signal generated by an TCXO and... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070160170 - Detector for detecting a frequency-shift keying signal by digital processing: A frequency-shift keying (FSK) signal detector includes a binarizing circuit for receiving an FSK signal and expressing amplitude of the FSK signal in binary; a correlator for receiving the FSK signal expressed in binary and acquiring a correlation of the FSK signal; and an arithmetic unit for performing an arithmetic... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070160171 - Receiver apparatus: A metric calculating unit calculates a metric based on a provisional determination of a transmission signal and a reception signal. A lattice-point-range setting/estimate-symbol generating unit forms a hypersphere centering around a reception signal point based on the calculated metric or an updated metric, and determines whether a candidate of an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070160172 - Communications device and communications method: A communications device 100, which performs data communication, includes an AC cycle sensor 30 which is connected to a power line 106 supplied with an a.c. voltage and generates a synchronous signal SS at timing of an a.c. voltage waveform AC of the power line 106; a data communicator 10... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070160173 - Clock and data recovery circuit and serdes circuit: Disclosed is a clock-and-data recover circuit in which a data sampling circuit, a phase comparator, a phase controller and a phase interpolator make up a loop. The data sampling circuit samples serial input data, and the phase comparator receives an output from the data sampling circuit to detect the phase... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070160174 - Packet preamble search method and device thereof: A packet preamble search method for locating a packet preamble with multiple predetermined patterns of a regular form within a received transmission signal with sequential multiple patterns. The pattern of the received transmission signal and the predetermined pattern of the packet preamble have the same length with even bits. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070153873 - Fast locking mechanism for channelized ultrawide-band communications: A receiver for acquisition and lock of an impulse radio signal comprising an adjustable time base to output a sliding periodic timing signal having an adjustable repetition rate, and a decode timing modulator to output a decode signal in response to the periodic timing signal. The impulse radio signal is... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070153874 - System and method for cross-modulation interference reduction for pulse-position modulated ultrawideband signals: The present invention provides a novel technique for reducing the effect of CMI for PPM UWB signals. The system and method in accordance with the present invention greatly improves the performance of receivers and eliminates the possibility of catastrophic errors. The proposed technique introduces a variable modulation index instead of... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070153875 - Ultra-wideband pulse modulation system and method: An ultra-wideband pulse modulation system and method is provided. One method of the present invention includes transforming data into a ternary data set with data being represented with states of zero, positive one and negative one. The modulation and pulse transmission method of the present invention enables the simultaneous coexistence... Agent: Pulse-link, Inc.

20070153876 - Method and apparatus for providing addressing to support multiple access in a wireless communication system: An approach is provided for signaling in multi-carrier system. Communication information that enables communication over a communication network is received. The communication information is mapped to a sequence among a plurality of sequences having a predetermined correlation property to output a communication information sequence.... Agent: Ditthavong & Mori, P.C.

20070153877 - Ultra-wideband high data-rate communication apparatus and methods: An RF transmitter includes a reference signal generator, a signal generator, and a mixer. The reference signal generator provides a reference signal that has a prescribed or desired frequency. The signal generator provides an operating signal in response to a selection signal. The operating signal has a frequency that equals... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070153878 - Spur suppression for a receiver in a wireless communication system: Techniques for suppressing spurs in a receiver are described. A processor (e.g., within a wireless device) receives digital samples for a desired signal having a spur located within the bandwidth of the desired signal. A spur is an undesired signal that may be generated internally at the receiver or may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070153879 - Apparatus and method for estimating and combining frequency errors in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for estimating and combining frequency errors in a mobile communication system. A controller divides data received from a main base station (BS) and control information received from a neighbor BS and controls allocation to fingers. A main automatic frequency control (AFC) loop is formed by estimating... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153880 - Dynamic switching of carrier tracking loops without loss of tracking information: A method of dynamic switching of a plurality of carrier loops in a radio receiver, wherein each channel comprises a plurality of carrier tracking loops; and wherein each carrier tracking loop is configured to track a radio source. Each carrier tracking loop includes a predetermined accumulation period. The method comprises... Agent: The Law Offices Of Boris G. Tankhilevich

20070153881 - Adaptive ultrawideband receiver and method of use: In accordance with the present invention, novel methods for adaptive receiver design and related parameter estimation techniques for efficient and non-coherent reception of ultrawideband signals are presented. Efficient estimation of maximum excess delay of the channel for enabling many useful adaptation techniques is additionally provided. Also, noise power estimation which... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070153883 - Low i/o bandwidth method and system for implementing detection and identification of scrambling codes: A system for detecting and identifying the identity of a base station or cell which transmits a scrambling code is provided. According to one aspect of the system, the system is used to perform scrambling code detection of eight (8) primary cells (each scrambling code's X-component being spaced sixteen (16)... Agent: Stevens Law Group, P.C.

20070153882 - Performing a correlation in reception of a spread spectrum signal: A correlator (30) for performing a correlation with a received spread spectrum signal, comprising at least an input (30.1) for inputting samples of a received signal; at least one reference code input (30.2) for inputting at least one reference code, a correlator block comprising a data shift register (36) for... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070153884 - Closed-loop receiver feedback pre-distortion: Methods and systems for calculating pre-distortion coefficients in a closed-loop communication system are presented. Transmission terminals that include high power amplifiers are difficult to operate at or near the saturation point without transmitting signals with nonlinear distortions. By pre-distorting the signal prior to amplification the transmitted nonlinear distortions may be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20070153885 - High-frequency homepna: A network device includes a HomePNA modem and means for synchronizing its clock with clocks of other HomePNA modems in the network in order to communicate at a higher frequency band. In one embodiment, the synchronization is with pilot signals. In another, it is by correcting for clock differences. The... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070153886 - Isolator and a modem device using the isolator: A communication system is provided including a transceiver and an application controller to transmit and receive signals through the transceiver. An isolator which insulates and separates the transceiver and application controller includes primary and secondary side circuits insulated from each other on a substrate and a capacitive insulating means to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070153887 - Transmit equalizer compensation for probe receivers: Transmit equalization over high speed digital communication paths may be compensated in a receiver for a probe on that path. In one example, a probe input provides a signal from an electronic communications path, the signal having been processed by a transmit equalizer. A filter circuit processes the signal to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070153888 - Dtv receiver and method of processing broadcast signal in dtv receiver: A DTV receiver includes a tuner, a demodulator, a known sequence detector, and a frequency domain equalizer. The tuner initially receives a broadcast signal including valid data in which a known data sequence is periodically repeated. The demodulator demodulates the broadcast signal, and the known sequence detector detects the known... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070153889 - Application of leakage to an adaptive equalizer: Digital signal processing apparatus and methods for modifying frequency response of a signal is described herein. In one aspect, the invention relates to an improved method for stabilizing the LMS adaptation of an FIR filter. In another aspect, the invention relates to a digital equalizer with tap weights that are... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070153890 - Pulse width modulation method: A method is for the pulse width modified control of switching elements in a frequency converter having N phases, in which for each phase the control pulses of the switching elements are derived from, in each case, one P-periodic control voltage. The P-periodic control voltages correspond to a superposition of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070153892 - Encoder with adaptive rate control for h.264: A video encoder is disclosed, the encoder for encoding image frames that are divisible into macroblocks. The video encoder includes means for generating a QP estimate for the macroblocks of an image frame. The video encoder further includes means for selection of a frame level quantization parameter (QP) for the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070153891 - Method and apparatus for smoothing overall quality of video transported over a wireless medium: A system and method for controlling a scalable video application by modeling it as a Markov decision process. The model is based on measuring the relative progress of the application, where relative progress is the difference between the allocated CPU budget for processing a frame and the actual CPU cycles... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070153893 - Picture encoding method and apparatus and picture decoding method and apparatus: A picture encoding method includes receiving an input video signal, encoding the video signal using a reference picture signal to generate a video code stream, encoding the reference picture signal to generate a reference picture code stream, and multiplexing the video code stream with the reference picture code stream to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153894 - Picture encoding method and apparatus and picture decoding method and apparatus: A picture encoding method includes receiving an input video signal, encoding the video signal using a reference picture signal to generate a video code stream, encoding the reference picture signal to generate a reference picture code stream, and multiplexing the video code stream with the reference picture code stream to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153895 - Picture encoding method and apparatus and picture decoding method and apparatus: A picture encoding method includes receiving an input video signal, encoding the video signal using a reference picture signal to generate a video code stream, encoding the reference picture signal to generate a reference picture code stream, and multiplexing the video code stream with the reference picture code stream to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153896 - Methods and apparatuses for selecting a mode within a compression scheme: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a current macroblock and an adjacent macroblock within the scene; detect a mode of the adjacent macroblock; and select a skip mode as a mode for the current macroblock based on the mode of the adjacent macroblock.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070153898 - Hybrid error concealment method: Disclosed herein is a hybrid error concealment method. The hybrid error concealment method of the present invention includes a first step of calculating a side match distortion, measured when a motion vector for an arbitrary intra-frame is assumed to be zero, and the intra-frame is temporally reconstructed, a second step... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20070153903 - Motion vector detection method and apparatus: A motion vector detection method includes extracting a first block from the m-th picture, extracting second blocks having a large correlation with respect to the first block from a (m+n)-th picture ((m+n)>m-th), detecting first motion vectors between the first and second blocks, extracting a third block located in spatially the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153904 - Motion vector detection method and apparatus: A motion vector detection method includes extracting a first block from the m-th picture, extracting second blocks having a large correlation with respect to the first block from a (m+n)-th picture ((m+n)>m-th), detecting first motion vectors between the first and second blocks, extracting a third block located in spatially the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153902 - Motion vector encoding device and decoding device: A prediction error generating unit generates a predictive vector from the motion vectors of a plurality of adjacent blocks, and obtains a difference from a target vector. A plurality of variable-length coding units respectively encode the output of the prediction error generating unit with different encoding methods. A determining unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070153897 - System and method for fast motion estimation: A fast motion estimation system that determines a reference macroblock or sub-block combination within a reference frame for a current macroblock in a current frame includes a memory, a reference macroblock search circuit, a sub-block combination search circuit, and a comparator circuit. The reference macroblock search circuit determines a motion... Agent: The Law Offices Of Gary R. Stanford

20070153899 - Video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method includes extracting at least one reference macroblock from each of a plurality of reference frames to generate a plurality of reference macroblocks, computing a linear sum of the reference macroblocks using weighting factors to generate a predictive macroblock, generating a motion vector between the video macroblock... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153900 - Video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method includes extracting at least one reference macroblock from each of a plurality of reference frames to generate a plurality of reference macroblocks, computing a linear sum of the reference macroblocks using weighting factors to generate a predictive macroblock, generating a motion vector between the video macroblock... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153901 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding apparatus comprises a frame memory/predictive image generator having a first predictive mode for generating a predictive image signal by selecting a combination from among a plurality combinations of a reference image number and a plurality of predictive parameters, and a second predictive mode for generating a predictive... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153905 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153909 - Apparatus for image encoding and method thereof: A method for image encoding is provided, which are capable of encoding video images using a lower memory bandwidth. The method includes the following steps. First, a reference window of a reference frame is read and the position of the reference window is called a first position. Secondly, macroblocks of... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070153906 - Method and apparatus for compression of a video signal: Single instances of individual codecs are instantiated on different processing elements, and blocks of video frames are interspersed or ‘striped’ across the multiple instances. An apparatus according to the invention comprises a demultiplexer for receiving the incoming uncompressed video stream and parsing it into blocks, each containing an integer multiple... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070153908 - Method for processing motion image: A method for processing a motion image comprises of receiving a plurality of frames of a motion image, and dividing each frame into a plurality of macro blocks. Then, one of the macro blocks defines a comparing block. The pixels in the comparing block of a current frame are processed... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070153907 - Programmable element and hardware accelerator combination for video processing: In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises a hardware accelerator to execute one or more process operations on one or more pixels of a macroblock of a video frame that is based on a video standard. The apparatus also comprises a programmable element to process a configuration header of the macroblock.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070153911 - Picture encoding method and apparatus and picture decoding method and apparatus: A picture encoding method includes receiving an input video signal, encoding the video signal using a reference picture signal to generate a video code stream, encoding the reference picture signal to generate a reference picture code stream, and multiplexing the video code stream with the reference picture code stream to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153913 - Picture encoding method and apparatus and picture decoding method and apparatus: A picture encoding method includes receiving an input video signal, encoding the video signal using a reference picture signal to generate a video code stream, encoding the reference picture signal to generate a reference picture code stream, and multiplexing the video code stream with the reference picture code stream to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153912 - Picture encodng method and apparatus and picture decoding method and apparatus: A picture encoding method includes receiving an input video signal, encoding the video signal using a reference picture signal to generate a video code stream, encoding the reference picture signal to generate a reference picture code stream, and multiplexing the video code stream with the reference picture code stream to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153910 - System and method for delivery of content to mobile devices: The preferred embodiments of the present invention relates to the preparation and delivery of media content from a source to a remote device, and the use of the remote device to re-construct, format, composite, convert and/or otherwise pre-process the content into a suitable form for presentation/playback. In particular it relates... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070153915 - Digital media mixer and method thereof: The present invention provides a digital media mixer including a plurality of analog-to-digital converters for transforming analog audio/video signals to digital audio/video signals, a plurality of encoders for encoding the digital audio/video signals, a multiplexer for mixing the encoded digital audio/video signals using an MPEG-2 TS format, and a network... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070153917 - Remote surveillance system: An audio/visual surveillance system for use in mobile vehicles such as patrol cars includes two video cameras producing video signals and four audio sources producing audio signals. The signals are MPEG-2 compressed and streamed in real time with geographic and time data to a digital cartridge-type tape recorder located in... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070153914 - Tune in time reduction: The time until a media decoder is refreshed to produce correct output samples is minimized if an IDR picture is the first picture in a decoding order in each MPE-FEC frame. A system enabling minimization of tune-in delay is described. Aspects of the system include a content encoder for receiving... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070153916 - Wireless video transmission system: A transmission systems suitable for video.... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20070153918 - Systems and methods for processing chroma samples in video: Embodiments of systems and methods for processing chroma samples in video are provided. One system embodiment, among others, comprises a memory with logic, and a processor configured with the logic to receive a compressed video stream that includes a picture having chroma samples and luma samples, receive in said compressed... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20070153919 - Rom addressing method for an adpcm decoder implementation: A micro-controller is connected between a hardware-based adaptive differential pulse code modulation (ADPCM) decoder and a read only memory (ROM) storing both micro-controller programming instructions and ADPCM encoded source file data. A micro-controller architecture implements time multiplexed ROM addressing driven by a two phase clock signal. In an instruction phase,... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070153920 - Dynamic refreshed receiver for proximity communication: A system that dynamically refreshes the inputs of a differential receiver. During operation, while a differential transmitter is not transmitting data, the system applies substantially equal voltages to the outputs of the differential transmitter so that the differential voltage on the outputs of the differential transmitter is substantially zero. The... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070153921 - Qos control method for transmission data for radio transmitter and radio receiver using the method: A radio transmitter/receiver having a QoS control unit for outputting the transmission data in order taking the quality of service (QoS) into consideration. In the case where the information transmission rate for a radio section is not lower than a threshold value, the QoS control operation of the transmission data... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070153929 - Method for performing frequency selective control channel scheduling in networks using an ofdm spectrum, a base station, a mobile terminal and a network therefor: The invention concerns a method for performing frequency selective control channel scheduling in networks using an OFDM spectrum, whereby a base station (BS1-BS8) broadcasts on at least one predefined subcarrier which is known to all mobile terminals (T1-T4) a signaling information common to all mobile terminals (T1-T4) indicating the position... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153924 - Methods and apparatus for noise estimation in a communication system: Methods and apparatus for noise estimation in a communication system. In an aspect, a method for noise and interference estimation is provided. The method includes identifying one or more unmodulated subcarriers in a received waveform, processing the one or more unmodulated subcarriers to produce a demodulated output, and determining a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070153931 - Apparatus and method for determining pilot pattern in a broadband wireless access communication system: An apparatus and method for determining a pilot pattern in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. In the pilot pattern determining method, an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) demodulator generates frequency-domain data by fast-Fourier-transform (FFT)-processing a received signal. A pilot pattern decider calculates a coherence bandwidth and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153930 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing joint synchronization using semi-analytic root-likelihood polynomials for ofdm systems: A method includes determining a number of observations. Each observation occurs at an observation time and corresponds to one of a number of received frequency multiplexed training symbols. The method also includes determining a number of roots of a first polynomial equation that is a function of a variable corresponding... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070153928 - Harq method and system: Embodiments of the present invention include one HARQ method and system in which the data is transmitted/received with N transmit antennas and M receive antennas, wherein each transmit antenna transmits data by using L subcarriers, M and N are natural numbers and L is the multiple of 2. The method... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070153925 - Method and apparatus for dynamic switching of space-time coding/decoding method: The present invention provides dynamic switching technique for space-time coding/decoding mode based on channel status information for a MIMO-OFDM system, in which a method for dynamic switching of space-time coding mode comprises: determining step for determining a space-time coding mode based on feedback information by a transmitter; mapping step for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153923 - Method and apparatus for providing a link adaptation scheme for a wireless communication system: An approach is provided for error correction in a multi-carrier wireless network or an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) network. A first rate is assigned to a first error correction channel. A second rate is assigned to a second error correction channel, wherein the first rate is different from the... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070153932 - Ofdm communication system and method having a reduced peak-to-average power ratio: An OFDM system embeds sequence information in the transmitted signal that reduces peak average power ratio (PAP) with minimal impact on the overall system efficiency. A marker is embedded onto the transmitted information that is used to identify the combining (inversion) sequence at the receiver. In one embodiment, selected tones... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20070153922 - Receiver and method for channel estimation for multicarrier communication systems: Embodiments of system and method for generating channel estimates in a wireless network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a linear interpolator uses refined cross-correlation and autocorrelation estimates and pilot subcarrier estimates to generate channel estimates for the current OFDM data symbol.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070153927 - Receiver apparatus of the adaptive ici cancellation iterative receiver in wireless communication system and ici cancellation method: An ICI cancellation iterative receiver and an ICI cancellation method in the wireless communication system is provided. In order to eliminate the Inter-carrier-interference (ICI) due to phase noise, an adaptive ICI cancellation scheme based on the wireless communication system is presented. In order to correct the contaminated preamble symbols due... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070153926 - System and method for improved channel estimation for wireless ofdm systems: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a novel system and method for MMSE channel estimation are provided that take synchronization errors, either intentional or unintentional, into account during the channel estimation process. The proposed channel estimation in accordance with the present invention improves the noise averaging capability... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070153933 - Dtv transmitter and method of coding data in dtv transmitter: A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor expanding original enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including the expanded enhanced data and inserting known data place holders into the data packets, a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets including main data, and an RS encoder... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070153934 - Constant uneven power loading in beamforming systems for high throughput wireless communications: An apparatus and method for closed-loop signaling over multiple channels in a telecommunication system, wherein a power loading method using constant uneven power loading under the power sum constraint is utilized. The detection of power loadings at the receiver is not necessary, which simplifies the receiver design. Nor is there... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070153935 - Method and device for cancelling interference in wireless communication system: The present invention provides a transmitter having multiple transmitting antennas, comprising: SM/STC apparatus for performing spatial multiplexing or space-time coding diversity on data and for causing resulting signals to be transmitted parallel by multiple transmitting antennas; and a controller for controlling the SM/STC apparatus to operate in SM mode or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153936 - Digitally convertible radio: A forward link transmitter in a sectored cell includes a baseband processor having traditional baseband signal digital processing circuitry in addition to including a digital hybrid matrix (vector and delay compensated transformation module) whose phase and amplitude (vector) and delay may be adjusted to compensate for downstream errors that are... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070153937 - Power control circuitary for a mobile terminal application: The step of calculating (S1A) the reference signal (Vref) as a function of the reference ramp signal (Vramp) and a DC feedback signal (VPD) is realized by the substeps of multiplying (S1a′) a processed version (K·GOP·VPD) of the DC feedback signal (VPD) by the reference ramp signal (Vramp) and adding... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070153938 - Method and a system for generating an adaptive slicer threshold: An adaptive slicer threshold is derived from averages of maximum and minimum values of the received signal, the method comprising the steps of: —averaging (86) several detected maximum values and averaging several detected minimum values, and —calculating (86) the slicer threshold from these average minimum and maximum values.... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070153939 - Method of differential-phase/absolute-amplitude qam: A method of quadrature amplitude modulation involving encoding phase differentially and amplitude absolutely, allowing for a high data rate and spectral efficiency in data transmission and other communication applications, and allowing for amplitude scaling to facilitate data recovery; amplitude scale tracking to track-out rapid and severe scale variations and facilitate... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070153940 - Correction circuit: A comparator compares the voltage of an envelope signal by applying envelope detection to a signal amplitude-modulated by a digital signal encoded by a Manchester code with the terminal voltage of a capacitor constituting a filter for converting the output current of a charge pump into a voltage. The charge... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070153941 - Method and apparatus for coordinating transmission of short messages with hard handoff searches in a wireless communications system: A method and apparatus for coordinating the time at which a mobile station performs searches for alternative systems to which a hard handoff will occur. The mobile station receives a command which instructs the mobile station as to when to tune to alternative frequencies in order to search for indicates... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070153942 - Method and system for decoding single antenna interference cancellation (saic) and redundancy processing adaptation using frame process: Aspects of a method and system for decoding single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) and redundancy processing adaptation using frame process are provided. A receiver may decode video, voice, and/or speech bit sequences based on a first decoding algorithm that may utilize data redundancy and that may impose physical constraints. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070153943 - Turbo equalization scheme: A flexible solution for turbo equalization is provided. According to the solution, the turbo equalization process is divided into an inner loop equalization process and an outer loop decoding process. Consequently, it is not necessary for each equalization process to be followed by a decoding process. Thus, equalization based soft... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070153944 - Frequency adjustment of wireless telecommunication device: A system, a wireless telecommunication device, a method and a computer program are provided. The system comprises: a frequency generator for supplying a frequency reference for the wireless telecommunication device, the frequency generator further being configured to generate a first frequency and a second frequency simultaneously, the first frequency having... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC Suite 125

20070153945 - Dc offset correction for high gain complex filter: A DC voltage offset correction circuit that provides for correction of a DC offset voltage of an output of a filter stage of a complex filter circuit includes a DC offset sensing device that is connected to an output of a filter stage of a complex filter to generate an... Agent: George O. Saile

20070153946 - Differential evolution design of polyphase iir decimation filters: A method for designing a digital filter, includes: (a) selecting a predetermined number of current sets of coefficients for the digital filter; (b) selecting a metric for evaluating coefficients of the digital filter; (c) computing a metric for each current set of coefficients; (d) deriving a next set of coefficients... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070153947 - Method and computer program for identifying a transition in a phase-shift keying or frequency-shift keying signal: The present invention is a method and computer program for identifying phase transitions in phase-shift keying signals and frequency transitions in frequency-shift keying signals. The method of the present invention is implemented via the computer program. With respect to phase-shift keying signals, the method broadly comprises the steps of: selecting... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070153948 - Method for optimizing a dsp input clock using a comparing/analyzing circuit: A method optimizes a DSP Input clock using a clock comparing/analyzing circuit. The method of the present invention enables PLD to select a delay function of the PLD and signals from a plurality of patterns, in addition to varying three elements' values of R, L and C, a driver delay,... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070153949 - Pll apparatus with power saving mode and method for implementing the same: The invention relates to a PLL apparatus with power saving mode and a method for implementing the same, comprising: a phase detector, a control unit, a charge pump, a loop filter, and a voltage control oscillator. The phase detector generates two detection signals indicating a phase difference between a reference... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070153950 - Delay circuit with timing adjustment function: In a phase locked loop circuit, a phase comparator compares the phase of input clock and that of output clock, and provides a control signal as the comparison result. A charge pump circuit includes a clamp circuit, and based on the control signal, provides a control voltage of which lower... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070153953 - Phase-locked loop: The present invention relates to a phase-locked loop for frequency synthesis, which has a memory for a control value for the controllable oscillator of the phase-locked loop, which is connectable via a first switch to the control input of the controllable oscillator and is implemented to output a stored control... Agent: Intellectual Property Department Dewitt Ross & Stevens S.c.

20070153952 - Frequency modulated output clock from a digital phase locked loop: A frequency modulated output of a digital locked loop (DLL) is implemented with a Johnson Counter outputting a sample clock and a synchronized digital code at a multiple of the sample clock. The digital code drives a digital-to-analog converter to generate a frequency modulated control signal. The control signal is... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070153951 - Phase interpolation for phase-locked loops: Embodiments of a phase interpolator for a phase-locked loop are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC C/o Portfolioip