Pulse or digital communications inventions 03/08

20080075164 - Motion picture encoding apparatus and method: A bits assignment unit assigns target bits to pictures of an input image by analyzing the input image. A prediction unit predicts a buffer occupancy of a hypothetical decoder buffer based on the target bits. A segmentation unit generates segments by temporarily dividing the input image. Each segment has a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080075165 - Adaptive interpolation filters for video coding: In encoding or decoding a video sequence having a sequence of video frames, interpolation filter coefficients for each frame or macroblock are adapted so that the non-stationary properties of the video signal are captured more accurately. A filter-type selection block in the encoder is used to determine the filter-type for... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080075167 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus 1 includes a counter unit 102 which counts the number of pictures following an intra coded picture; and a motion estimation unit 101 which compares respectively only reference pictures which are the intra coded picture or the following pictures, selected from among a reference picture... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080075166 - Unbiased rounding for video compression: Unbiased rounding of unsigned data is employed in the decoding or the encoding and decoding of digital bitstreams representing data-video when the video is encoded at a first bit depth and is decoded at a second bit depth, lower than the first bit depth. The unbiased rounding may be employed... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20080069181 - Method for detection and avoidance of ultra wideband signal and ultra wideband device for operating the method: A DAA method of a UWB signal with respect to a WiMax signal, the method including: generating the UWB signal by tone mapping a predetermined data bit; and controlling a first band to shift to a second band where an interference with the WiMax signal occurs, the first band including... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080069182 - Spread spectrum communication device and spread spectrum communication method: In a compressed mode, a spread spectrum communication device interleaves bit units across multiple frames using an interleaver, reduces the spreading factor using a framing/spreading unit, outputs the compressed mode frames at a predetermined compressed mode frame timing, and increases the average transmission power in the compressed mode at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069183 - Receiver: Power switches of circuits at respective stages of a low noise amplifier, demodulators, low-pass filers, variable gain amplifiers, and analog-to-digital converters are controlled to be off by an operation control unit in a non-reception period of an impulse signal. An increase in power consumption due to the adoption of an... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080069184 - System and method for spread spectrum communication: A spreading code generating apparatus carries out M-sequence multiplication and zero value addition of generated orthogonal codes to obtain channel identification codes, and then carries out inverse Fourier transform of the channel identification codes to generate spreading codes and inverse spreading codes. A transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus store... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069185 - Methods and systems for demodulating a multiuser signal using channel decoders for a multiple-access communication system: Methods and systems for demodulating a multiuser signal using channel decoders for a multiple-access communication system are disclosed. According to one method, a signal containing information for a plurality of users in a multiple-access communication system employing spreading sequences is received. The received signal is despread using a signature sequence... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080069186 - Spread-spectrum transceiver: An assembly of simultaneously transmitted electrically generated signals, which contains a subset of binary spreading-code sequences that are members of a large set of binary spreading-code sequences available to a particular node of a multi-node communication network. All sequences in the set of spreading-code sequences available to the particular node... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080069187 - Boc signal acquisition and tracking method and apparatus: A BOC signal acquisition and tracking apparatus and method. In the present invention, a BOC subcarrier, a QBOC subcarrier and harmonics thereof are used as subcarriers. Those subcarriers can be mixed with a received signal and integration result of each mixing result is calculated. Then, all the integration results are... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080069188 - Virtual reference timing for multi-time based systems: A timing-reference circuit is employed by a multi-time-based system in which a timing reference is required for system processing. The timing-reference circuit may be used in a wireless receiver in which one or more transmitted signals are received as multipath signals, each corresponding to a different time reference. The timing-reference... Agent: Tensorcomm, Inc.

20080069189 - Low gate count sequential multitap correlator: A system and method of achieving a reduced time for first fix in a global positioning system receiver (GPS). The GPS receiver includes a low gate count sequential multitap correlator (102) in combination with a digital signal processor (106) and a down converter (101). The low gate count sequential multitap... Agent: Ashok Tankha, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20080069190 - Receiver of a coma system with a path alignment circuit: A receiver of a CDMA system, receiving a signal transmitted through a multi-path channel, with a path alignment circuit is disclosed. The path alignment circuit has a pack-based memory device serially inputting samples of low over-sampling rate than that required by the CDMA system and outputting data packs pack by... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080069191 - Band-pass high-order analog filter backed hybrid receiver equalization: A system and a method for channel equalization are provided. A linear equalizer using a continuous-time linear equalization and a decision feedback equalizer using a discrete-time decision feedback equalization are integrated together from a hybrid receiver equalizer. The continuous-time linear equalization scheme and the discrete-time decision feedback equalization scheme are... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation Legal Department - Ip

20080069192 - Transmitting device, receiving device, transmission system, and transmission method: A transmitter LSI 1 transmits a source clock, transmission data, and a transmission sync signal indicating the timing of the transmission data to a receiver LSI for establishing transmission synchronization between LSIs. The transmitter LSI 1 includes: a data transmission section that transmits, as the source clock, a transmitter LSI... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080069193 - Method and apparatus for differentiated communication channel robustness in a multi-tone transceiver: A multi-tone transceiver including: a channel controller and a plurality of components forming a transmit path and a receive path. The channel controller configured to determine bit-loading for each successive symbol or tone set based on a 1st noise margin target for a first subset of tones in each tone... Agent: Ip Creators

20080069194 - System and method for controlling line driver power in digital subscriber line modems: A method for operating plurality of DSL modem transmitters integrated within a circuit card. The method includes each DSL modem transmitter: generating a full power physical frame when the DSL modem transmitter is provided with data to transmit; generating a low power physical frame having a control channel signal component... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080069195 - Systems and methods for producing constellation patterns including average error values: Embodiments of an apparatus for generating a constellation diagram generates a first ellipse, or circle, centered on a constellation point having radii representative of current average values of an error rate metric. In further embodiments, the constellation diagram display has a second ellipse, or circle, centered on the constellation point... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080069196 - Parameter scanning for signal over-sampling: A method and apparatus for parameter scanning for signal over-sampling. An embodiment of an apparatus includes an equalizer to equalize received data values, and a sampler to over-sample the equalized data. The apparatus includes an eye monitor to generate information regarding quality of signal eyes for the over-sampled data, and... Agent: Silicon / Blakely Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080069197 - Equalizer for equalizing multiple received versions of a signal: In one embodiment, an equalizer equalizes two versions of a signal that are received through separate propagation paths, to generate one equalized signal. The equalizer comprises a single FIR filter and an NLMS updater. During each iteration, the NLMS updater supplies a set of coefficients to the FIR filter. The... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080069199 - Non-linear decision feedback equalizer: Embodiments include a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) that includes a first comparator configured to receive as inputs a soft value and a first threshold, a second comparator configured to receive as inputs the soft value and a second threshold, a selector configured to select an output of either the first... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080069198 - Sequence decision feedback equalizer: Embodiments include a system for performing dispersion compensation on an electromagnetic signal received over a communication channel, the electromagnetic signal bearing information at a symbol rate. An interleaved analog to digital converter (“ADC”) block may be used, wherein the interleaved ADC block may be configured to generate a plurality of... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080069200 - Transmitting device using multicarrier transmission system and receiving device: A transmitting device includes a setting unit dividing a transmitting frequency bandwidth into frequency blocks each narrower than a receivable bandwidth of a receiving device, and setting a transmission rate in each of the frequency blocks so as to increase or decrease stepwise, and a receiving device receiving signal with... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080069206 - Bandwidth based licensing scheme for video, audio and/or multimedia content: Methods and apparatus are provided for licensing service providers to process video, audio and/or multimedia content using a video processing device. A license key indicative of a license for an amount of bandwidth is generated. The license key is used at the video processing device to enforce the license based... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080069205 - Contents providing apparatus and contents providing method: A contents providing apparatus includes storage which records contents with plural types of formats, output ports which respectively output contents read from the storage, decoders which are connected to the output ports and respectively correspond to the formats, channels which respectively provide contents decoded by the decoders, a switcher which... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080069203 - Method for sub-pixel value interpolation: A method of interpolation in video coding in which an image comprising pixels arranged in rows and columns and represented by values having a specified dynamic range, the pixels in the rows residing at unit horizontal locations and the pixels in the columns residing at unit vertical locations, is interpolated... Agent: Perman & Green

20080069204 - Picture control device and method of the same: A picture control device configured to convert and output a bit-rate of an input picture data stream having an input bit-rate, includes: a first decoder configured to decode the input picture data stream; an encoder configured to encode the output of the first decoder with a plurality of converted bit-rates;... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080069207 - System and method for dynamically switching quality settings of a codec to maintain a target data rate: A video compression system includes a compression module to compress each of a plurality of segments of an input signal using an initial quality setting. A rate calculation module calculates, for each compressed segment, a data rate for an output signal that would result from adding a compressed segment to... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20080069202 - Video encoding method and device: Successive images of a video image are encoded in order to generate parameters which are included in an output flow that is to be transmitted to a decoder. The encoding of certain images is carried out in inter mode in relation to one or several previous images of the sequence,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080069208 - High-efficiency encoder and video information recording/reproducing apparatus: In a high-efficiency encoder which performs motion-compensation prediction, an intra-field is set every n fields. The presence of a scene change is detected. When a scene change occurs, a reference picture of motion-compensation prediction is switched, or the field immediately after the scene change is set as an intra-field.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069201 - Distributed channel time allocation for video streaming over wireless networks: A system for transmitting video from a plurality of transmitters to a plurality of receivers over a shared wireless channel includes a plurality of transmitters each receiving a respective video stream to transmit over the shared wireless channel. Distortion-related information is associated with each of the respective video streams and... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080069209 - Motion picture encoder, motion picture decoder,and method for generating encoded stream: The present invention restricts the arrangement of parameter sets to enable a stream to be easily decoded on the basis of random accesses. In a stream including a plurality of first units each containing unit identification information and image compressed data as well as a reference target unit information, and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080069210 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: A picture coding apparatus (300) is a picture coding apparatus that codes a difference between picture data (Img) representing an input picture and predictive picture data (Pred) representing a predictive picture for the input picture and generates coded picture data, and includes a picture decoding unit (104) for decoding coded... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069211 - Apparatus and method for encoding moving picture: Provided are moving picture encoding apparatus and method skipping intra prediction in encoding mode determination using rate-distortion (RD) costs and determining an encoding mode at high speed. The moving picture encoding method includes the steps of: setting the lowest one of rate-distortion costs of macroblocks adjacent to a macroblock to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080069212 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus (10a) according to the present invention includes a level analyzer (100a) that decides the maximum number of intra frame pixels which can be coded (Nfpx) and the maximum number of storage pixels which can be stored in a picture memory of a decoding apparatus (Nspx)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069213 - Moving picture coding method and a moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus includes a motion estimation unit (101) for performing motion estimation by fixing the one of two reference pictures as a reference picture indicated by an inputted default reference picture number DefRefNo and a variable length coding unit (107) for performing variable length coding on coded... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069214 - Moving picture coding method and a moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus includes a motion estimation unit (101) for performing motion estimation by fixing the one of two reference pictures as a reference picture indicated by an inputted default reference picture number DefRefNo and a variable length coding unit (107) for performing variable length coding on coded... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069216 - Moving picture coding method and a moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus includes a motion estimation unit (101) for performing motion estimation by fixing the one of two reference pictures as a reference picture indicated by an inputted default reference picture number DefRefNo and a variable length coding unit (107) for performing variable length coding on coded... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069215 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus includes a motion estimation unit (101) for performing motion estimation by fixing the one of two reference pictures as a reference picture indicated by an inputted default reference picture number DefRefNo and a variable length coding unit (107) for performing variable length coding on coded... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069217 - Frame interpolation apparatus and frame interpolation method: A frame interpolation apparatus generates a pixel value at an interpolation position by examining pairs of pixel blocks, one from a preceding reference frame and one from a following reference frame, located in positions that are point-symmetric or nearly point-symmetric with respect to the interpolation position. The pair of pixel... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069218 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: In a picture coding method for generating a coded signal corresponding to each picture by coding a plurality of coded signals, a switching picture which is capable of switching a plurality of coded signals and subsequent pictures of the switching picture can refer to only a group of pictures of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069221 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for detecting motion vector and for creating interpolation frame: An apparatus for creating an interpolation frame includes a first computing unit that computes a first motion vector in relation to a first block in a first reference frame, a second extracting unit that extracts a second block in a second reference frame based on the first motion vector, a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080069219 - Method and/or apparatus for implementing reduced bandwidth high performance vc1 intensity compensation: An apparatus comprising a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit is disclosed. The first circuit may be configured to generate an output signal and one or more motion vectors in response to (i) a bitstream signal and (ii) a predictor signal. The second circuit may be configured... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080069220 - Method for storing interpolation data: A method for storing interpolation data is provided. The method uses a buffer in a cache memory and the concept of memory overlap record for storing previously calculated interpolation data, so as to avoid repeated interpolation, thereby decreasing the amount of system operation and the frequency of reading integer points... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080069224 - High efficiency encoder and video information recording/reproducing apparatus: In a high-efficiency encoder which performs motion-compensation prediction, an intra-field is set every n fields. The presence of a scene change is detected. When a scene change occurs, a reference picture of motion-compensation prediction is switched, or the field immediately after the scene change is set as an intra-field.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080069223 - Method of decoding a bi-predictive image block: In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining reference picture information, and determining a first reference picture of the bi-predictive image block. The first reference picture has a co-located image block with respect to the bi-predictive image block. A second reference picture is determined based on a motion vector of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080069222 - Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture: A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080069226 - Motion picture encoder, motion picture decoder,and method for generating encoded stream: The present invention restricts the arrangement of parameter sets to enable a stream to be easily decoded on the basis of random accesses. In a stream including a plurality of first units each containing unit identification information and image compressed data as well as a reference target unit information, and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080069236 - Motion vector coding and decoding methods: A motion vector coding method and apparatus that improves efficiency of coding motion vectors when a current block is coded using a plurality of motion vectors. The apparatus includes a motion vector coding unit that codes a motion vector inputted from a motion vector detecting unit. A motion vector for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069237 - Motion vector coding and decoding methods: A motion vector coding method and apparatus that improves efficiency of coding motion vectors when a current block is coded using a plurality of motion vectors. The apparatus includes a motion vector coding unit that codes a motion vector inputted from a motion vector detecting unit. A motion vector for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069227 - Motion vector coding method and motion vector decoding method: A motion vector coding unit 117 executes processing including a neighboring block specification step (S100) of specifying a neighboring block which is located in the neighborhood of a current block; a judgment step (Steps S102, S104) of judging whether or not the neighboring block has been coded using a motion... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069228 - Motion vector coding method and motion vector decoding method: A motion vector coding unit 117 executes processing including a neighboring block specification step (S100) of specifying a neighboring block which is located in the neighborhood of a current block; a judgment step (Steps S102, S104) of judging whether or not the neighboring block has been coded using a motion... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069229 - Motion vector coding method and motion vector decoding method: A motion vector coding unit 117 executes processing including a neighboring block specification step (S100) of specifying a neighboring block which is located in the neighborhood of a current block; a judgment step (Steps S102, S104) of judging whether or not the neighboring block has been coded using a motion... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069230 - Motion vector coding method and motion vector decoding method: A motion vector coding unit 117 executes processing including a neighboring block specification step (S100) of specifying a neighboring block which is located in the neighborhood of a current block; a judgment step (Steps S102, S104) of judging whether or not the neighboring block has been coded using a motion... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069233 - Motion vector derivation method, moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A motion vector derivation unit includes a comparison unit for comparing a parameter TR1 for a reference vector with a predetermined value to determine whether it exceeds the predetermined value or not; a switching unit for switching selection between the maximum value of a pre-stored parameter TR and the parameter... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069234 - Motion vector derivation method, moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A motion vector derivation unit includes a comparison unit for comparing a parameter TR1 for a reference vector with a predetermined value to determine whether it exceeds the predetermined value or not; a switching unit for switching selection between the maximum value of a pre-stored parameter TR and the parameter... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069235 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: The moving picture coding apparatus includes a motion compensation coding unit (107) for deciding a coding mode for coding a current block to be coded and for generating predictive image data based on the coding mode; and a direct mode enable/disable judgment unit (109) for judging whether or not scaling... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069231 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method for performing inter picture prediction coding and inter picture prediction decoding using previously processed pictures as reference pictures: A coding control unit (110) and a mode selection unit (109) are included. The coding control unit (110) determines the coding order for a plurality of consecutive B-pictures located between I-pictures and P-pictures so that the B-picture whose temporal distance from two previously coded pictures is farthest in display order... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069232 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method for performing inter picture prediction coding and inter picture prediction decoding using previously processed pictures as reference pictures: A coding control unit (110) and a mode selection unit (109) are included. The coding control unit (110) determines the coding order for a plurality of consecutive B-pictures located between I-pictures and P-pictures so that the B-picture whose temporal distance from two previously coded pictures is farthest in display order... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069225 - Moving picture encoding method and decoding method: A moving picture decoding method, which generates a predicted image using information on motion vectors and information on reference images, the moving picture decoding method having multiple prediction modes including a mode without motion vector decoding, including: a step of selecting a frame(s) to be referenced to in the prediction... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080069238 - Filtering strength determination method, moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus including an inter-pixel filter having the filters for filtering decoded image data so as to remove block distortion which is high frequency noise around block boundaries. The filters include a filter A114a, a filter B114b, a filter C114c, and a filter D114d; each having a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069239 - Dyadic spatial re-sampling filters for inter-layer texture predictions in scalable image processing: A dyadic spatial down sampling filter having tap values configured according to a Kaiser window function a beta factor of approximately 2.5, having approximately 1.5 side lobes, and having a down sampling ratio of approximately 1.9. The dyadic spatial down sampling filter may have tap values [−1, 17, 32, 17,... Agent: The Law Offices Of Gary R. Stanford

20080069240 - Encoding and decoding method and encoding and decoding device: A method for produces a video data stream for an expansion signal, wherein a base signal represents a first video quality degree and the expansion and base signals jointly represent a second video quality. Only second syntax elements of the expansion signal which are not describable by the first syntax... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080069241 - Picture coding and decoding apparatuses and methods performing variable length coding and decoding on a slice header stream and arithmetic coding and decoding on a slice data stream: A frame coding unit generates individual picture signal information from a moving picture signal, and outputs a frame code value which is a numeric value to be obtained as a result of coding picture signal information of each frame. A variable length coding unit decomposes the frame code value into... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069243 - Contents providing apparatus and contents providing method: A contents providing apparatus includes a storage which records contents with plural types of formats, output ports which respectively output the contents, decoders which are connected to the output ports and respectively correspond to the formats, channels which respectively provide contents decoded by the decoders, a switcher which selectively derives... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080069242 - Distributed joint source-channel coding of video using raptor codes: A video encoder system includes a base layer and an enhancement layer for encoding video data. The base layer encodes a reduced quality version of the video data to obtain base layer data. The enhancement layer encodes the video data using energy-concentrating transform operations, nested scalar quantization, and Raptor encoders.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080069244 - Information processing apparatus, decoder, and operation control method of playback apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a moving picture stream encoded for respective macroblocks of n×n pixels, which are generated by dividing each image in a matrix pattern, an analysis unit configured to analyze information of a slice which is included... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080069245 - Coding distortion removal method, video encoding method, video decoding method, and apparatus and program for the same: Mosaic-shaped block noise occurs when a compressed video signal is reproduced. This block noise is removed, but removing block noise from every block using a deblocking filter imposes a significant load on the deblocking filter. This load is therefore reduced by determining whether coding distortion removal (deblocking) is necessary, and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080069246 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding method for coding a picture with switching between frame coding and field coding adaptively on a block-by-block basis includes: determining the maximum number of reference indices for field coding for specifying fields which are to be referred to at the time of field coding, using the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069247 - Video information processing system with selective chroma deblock filtering: A video information processing system including a processing circuit and a deblocking filter. The processing circuit provides video information including a chroma component and a luma component. The deblocking filter has an input receiving the video information and an output providing filtered video information, and is configured to selectively disable... Agent: The Law Offices Of Gary R. Stanford

20080069248 - Methods and systems for adaptive communication: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of transferring data in a communication system. In the method, an initial impulse noise protection value is determined. A number of redundancy bits is added to blocks of data to form codewords as a function of the initial impulse noise... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080069249 - Transfer of digital data through a transformer: A method and a system for transferring a digital signal through a transformer, including a circuit for coding the digital signal to be transferred, having two outputs connected to the respective ends of a primary winding of the transformer, and a circuit for decoding the current in a secondary winding... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080069252 - Apparatus, a receiver and a method for timing recovery in an ofdm system: An apparatus for timing recovery in an OFDM system comprises a third order phase lock loop comprising a Fast Fourier Transform stage for receiving a number of input signals in the time domain and transforming the signals to the frequency domain. A phase rotation stage adjusts the phase of one... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080069250 - Multipath processing systems and methods: Various embodiments of multipath processing systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises the steps of providing a frequency domain channel response corresponding to a received signal, and applying a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the frequency domain channel response to provide multi-path channel information.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080069254 - Peak-to-average-power-ratio reduction in communication systems: An adaptation apparatus for adapting an input signal, the input signal being digital in the frequency domain and having a peak-to-average-power-ratio in the time domain. The adaptation apparatus has an evaluation unit for evaluating the input signal and for providing an evaluation signal based on an optimization criterion. The adaptation... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080069255 - Efficient bit interleaver for a multi-band ofdm ultra-wideband system: An efficient bit interleaving scheme for a multi-band OFDM ultra-wideband (UWB) system. The encoded bits of the multi-band OFDM system are interleaved within each OFDM symbol and across OFDM symbols. The bit interleaving scheme minimizes performance degradation due to groups of contiguous OFDM tones experiencing a poor SNR caused by... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080069257 - M-ary orthogonal keying system: A digital modulation system provides enhanced multipath performance by using modified orthogonal codes with reduced autocorrelation sidelobes while maintaining the cross-correlation properties of the modified codes. For example, the modified orthogonal codes can reduce the autocorrelation level so as not to exceed one-half the length of the modified orthogonal code.... Agent: Law Office Of John Ligon

20080069251 - Radio communication device, radio communication system, and radio communication method: There is disclosed a radio communication device capable of preventing wire-tap of an encrypted communication even if a radio signal is wire-tapped by a third person in a radio communication system using the MIMO technique. In this device, an inter-channel correlation calculation unit (104) calculates an inter-channel correlation value between... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080069258 - Simplified narrowband excision: An improved ingress cancellation filter comprising a Fast Fourier Transform circuit which replaces the analysis filter bank of the prior art to break the incoming signal down into sub bands, an ingress cancellation filter that weights each sub band based upon the probability that the sub band is corrupted by... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080069253 - System and method for scrambling the phase of the carriers in a multicarrier communications system: A system and method that scrambles the phase characteristic of a carrier signal are described. The scrambling of the phase characteristic of each carrier signal includes associating a value with each carrier signal and computing a phase shift for each carrier signal based on the value associated with that carrier... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20080069256 - Ultra-wideband communication apparatus and methods: Ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems and apparatus are provided. One embodiment of an UWB receiver may include a first antenna that receives UWB pulses, and a second antenna that also receives UWB pulses. The UWB receiver also includes a delay element communicating with the second antenna, with the delay element delaying... Agent: Pulse-link, Inc.

20080069259 - Communication system: At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point groups to which data of the first... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069260 - Method and device for estimating the relative drift between two clocks, in particular for ranging applications in uwb-ldr technology: A method is for estimating drift between a first clock used in a digital transmission processing of a first Ultra Wide Band (UWB) pulse train signal and a second clock used in a digital reception processing of a second UWB pulse train signal resulting from a transmission of the first... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080069262 - Enhanced successive interference cancellation (sic) receiver for multiple-input multiple-output (mimo) systems: A method includes the steps of: i) listing out all possibilities for first symbol of a two stream signal; ii) determining a second symbol of the two stream signal for each said first symbol listed out, iii) evaluating a metric for each said first symbol and second symbol pair, iv)... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080069261 - Interpolation based qr decomposition for mimo-ofdm systems using d-smc demodulator with per chunk ordering: In accordance with the invention, a method includes determining either the number of tones per chunk required to compute per-chunk order responsive to a sub-band bandwidth, a coherence bandwidth and number of chunks, or the number of chunks responsive to a sub-band bandwidth and a coherence bandwidth; determining an order... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080069263 - Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, transmission method, and reception method: An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing transmission method includes generating a data symbol. A control information signal is generated. The control information signal relates to a modulation scheme and an error correction scheme of a data symbol in a frame. An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal is formed. The orthogonal frequency... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080069264 - Data transmitting apparatus and data receiving apparatus: A data communication apparatus which improves security against eavesdropping is provided for secret communication using Y-00 protocol. A multi-level code generation section 111 generates, based on key information 11, a multi-level code sequence 12 in which signal in which a signal level changes so as to be approximately random numbers.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080069266 - Apparatus and method for up-conversion and power of amplification of radio signals: Apparatus and method for up-conversion of radio signals are disclosed. For example, an apparatus for up-conversion of radio signals is disclosed. The apparatus includes a signal conversion unit operable to convert an input signal to a plurality of single bits of data, a narrow pulse generator unit coupled to the... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080069265 - Transmitter: A transmitter for transmitting signals over a communication channel, the signals comprising reference information known to a receiver arranged to receive the transmitted signals, the transmitter comprising: a modulator arranged to modulate a first data signal with a second data signal comprising reference information known to the receiver to generate... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080069267 - System and method for transmit timing precompensation for a serial transmission communication channel: An improved method and apparatus for transmitting digital signals in a communications channel by compensating for distortions due to attenuation of high frequency components suffered by the digital signals. In a preferred embodiment, the digital signals are pulses and the compensation is performed at the transmitter without the need for... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080069268 - Rc filter pole for fm transmitters: An RC filter pole (R1, C1) for FM transmitters converts an internal 2-pole Bessel-type filter (R1, C1, C2) on a chipset (BH141XS/F) by adding an external filter function to create a 3-pole composite filter with improved roll-off characteristics. The design methodology and specific low cost circuit implementation of the composite... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20080069269 - Method of scaling input data and mobile device utilizing the same: A mobile device capable of scaling input data and a method thereof. The mobile device comprises a data segmentation module, a quality measure module, and a scaling module. The data segmentation module divides the input data into a plurality of subdata. The quality measure module, coupled to the data segmentation... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080069270 - Power measurement of received cdma signals using soft threshold preprocessing after correlation: A receiver for generating a soft threshold value for use in measuring the power of a received signal includes a correlator, an automatic gain controller, a noise level measuring device, and a soft threshold device. The correlator is configured to receive the signal as an input and to produce a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080069272 - Decoding coded data streams: A method of decoding, in one particular embodiment, an IEC 60958 biphase coded data stream comprising determining the maximum period in the data stream without a transition; determining a first threshold corresponding to a period of time less than the maximum period and greater than the data bit period; determining... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080069271 - Decoding gps satellite data at low signal to noise levels by computing total probability of current data bit at current time epoch: A method of decoding a GPS carrier signal comprising: (A) receiving a phase modulated GPS signal by using a GPS antenna; (B) extracting a GPS data from the received phase modulated GPS signal; and (C) computing a total probability of a current GPS data bit being “one” or “zero” at... Agent: Law Offices Of Boris G. Tankhilevich

20080069274 - Maximum likelihood detection method using a sequence estimation receiver: The invention relates to a detection method using a receiver of a digital communication system for the detection of a symbol from a received signal, which signal is transmitted by a transmitter of the digital communication system, wherein the symbol is a selected symbol out of a predetermined set of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080069273 - System for compensating turbodecoder phase shift: A turbocode receiver system of a signal emitted by a turbo-coded modulated transmitter system, includes: a soft demapper (1) the output of which is connected to a turbodecoder (2), and an adaptive locked loop including: a measurement generator (3) the input of which is connected to the turbodecoder output to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080069275 - Communication apparatus and program: A communication apparatus includes unit measuring a first interference feature quantity indicating a state of an interference signal in a transmission frequency band (TFB), unit determining from the first interference feature quantity whether the interference signal exists in the TFB, unit acquiring, after measurement of the first interference feature quantity,... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080069276 - Digital adaptation circuitry and methods for programmable logic devices: Equalization of an incoming data signal can be controlled by sampling that signal at times when data values in that signal should be stable (“data samples”) and when that signal should be in transition between successive data values that are different (“transition samples”). A transition sample that has been taken... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080069278 - Asynchronous phase rotator control: The present invention generally relates to centering a clock edge at or near the center of a data eye. Data may be sent from a first device to a second device in conjunction with a clock signal. A phase rotator operating in an external clock domain governed by the clock... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080069277 - Method and apparatus for modeling signal delays in a metastability protection circuit: Methods and apparatus are provided for modeling signal delays in a metastability protection circuit. A metastability protection circuit that processes a signal that crosses between two clock domains is modeled by introducing a random transition delay into the signal upon detection of an edge in the signal. Thereafter, an effect... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080069279 - Methods and arrangements for link power reduction: Methods, and arrangements for extension of clock and data recovery (CDR) loop latency and deactivation of CDR circuits are disclosed. In particular, embodiments address situations in which a receiver, designed to handle spread spectrum clocking, may not always or continuously encounter spread spectrum signals. As a result, power consumption by... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080069280 - Method for enhanced dedicated channel (e-dch) transmission overlap detection for compressed mode gap slots: A method and apparatus for detecting an overlap of an E-DCH transmission or retransmission in TTIs that overlap with an assigned uplink compressed mode gap is disclosed. More specifically, detecting an overlap of an E-DCH transmission or retransmission in TTIs that overlap with an uplink compressed mode gap assigned by... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080069281 - Statistical feedback for mimo transmit beamforming: The present invention comprises a method of statistical feedback for Multiple In-Multiple Out (MIMO) transmit beamforming comprising combining a short term channel state information and long term statistics in deriving a precoding matrix. At least one measurable parameter is observed, and a forgetting factor is determined based upon the observed... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080069282 - Jitter suppression circuit: In a circuit suppressing jitters without a synchronizing clock signal and an increase of a circuit scale, input data is regenerated by a data regeneration circuit in a broadband, a predetermined signal pattern which generates phase deviations exceeding a predetermined value is detected from the data regenerated by the data... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080069286 - Computation spreading for spur reduction in a digital phase lock loop: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of spur reduction using computation spreading in a digital phase locked loop (DPLL) architecture. A software based PLL incorporates a reconfigurable calculation unit (RCU) that is optimized and programmed to sequentially perform all the atomic operations of a PLL or any other... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080069283 - Noise tolerant phase locked loop: An apparatus and method for providing timing recovery under conditions of low signal to noise ratios (SNRs) is disclosed herein. A preliminary phase error signal is generated by comparing an input signal with a preliminary estimation of an output signal corresponding to the input signal. A correction signal is generated... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080069284 - Numerically controlled oscillator (nco) output clock phase smoothing: A system and method for performing output clock phase smoothing. A phase smoothing circuit is described and includes a numerically-controlled oscillator (NCO) configured to produce a plurality of NCO clock pulses at a selectable frequency that is based on an input clock. Edges of the plurality of NCO clock pulses... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20080069285 - Clock supply circuit and clock supply method: The present invention provides a clock supply device and a clock supply method by which the holdover characteristics that maintains with high precision the same frequency as the frequency observed immediately before an error can be achieved simply with the addition of a high stability oscillator. An output clock signal... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080063028 - Photonics-based multi-band wireless communication methods: Methods for wireless communication may include selection of a photonic signal to generate a carrier frequency for wireless communication. In an illustrative example, the selected photonic signal may have sidebands with a frequency difference corresponding to a carrier frequency within one of multiple predetermined carrier frequency bands. In some implementations,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080063029 - Weighted open loop power control transmitter cross reference to related applications: A weighted open loop power control transmitter for controlling transmission power levels using a spread spectrum time division duplex (TDD) technique having frames with timeslots for communication includes a demodulator configured to receive a transmitted signal from the receiver, a channel estimation device, a data estimation device, and a weighted... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080063030 - Method and system for automatically establishing a connection between a master terminal and a slave device: Disclosed is a method for quickly and conveniently establishing a connection between a master terminal and a slave device communicating with each other using Bluetooth. The slave device implements a special direct connection mode in which the slave device can be directly connected to the master terminal. When a user... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080063031 - Enhanced uplink packet transfer: An enhanced spread-spectrum uplink technique provides more efficient packet transfer in a wireless network. A mobile station requests to utilize an uplink channel, typically, a physical dedicated channel. If the network will grant access, a base station sends back a channel-request-granted message, which specifies a transmission start time and length.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080063032 - Codebook indexing to achieve high bit densities in a direct-sequence cdma spread spectrum communication system: Apparatuses for achieving high bit densities in a direct-sequence CDMA spread spectrum communication system are disclosed. A table of orthogonal pseudo-noise codes is stored. This table is then partitioned into multiple codebook. Then, the codebook is assigned to a user. The pseudo-noise code contained within the codebooks are used to... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080063033 - Method for covariance matrix update: A method and apparatus for updating a square root matrix of a covariance matrix when sample sets are added to or removed from a received signal. When a sample set is added to the received signal, a processor augments the square root matrix to generate an updated square root matrix... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080063034 - Multi-rake receiver: A wireless receiver includes M antennas that each receive a wireless signal. N rake receiver modules receive the wireless signals from the M antennas and combine multipath components of the wireless signals. A summing module receives outputs of the N rake receiver modules and combines the outputs to generate an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080063035 - Method and system for utilizing space-time and space-frequency codes for multi-input multi-output frequency selective fading channels: A communication system for transmitting encoded signals over a communication channel is disclosed. The system includes a transmitter, which has a source that outputs a message signal. The transmitter also includes an encoder that generates a code word in response to the message signal. The code word has a construction... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080063036 - Method and system for fast acquistion of ultra-wideband signals: A system and method are provided that can detect any part of a multipath impulse radio signal. More specifically, the method compares a template pulse train and the multipath impulse radio signal to obtain a comparison result. The system performs a threshold check on the comparison result. If the comparison... Agent: Venable LLP

20080063037 - multimode multicarrier modem system and method of communication over the same: An alternative approach to coping with the ever increasing demand for faster communications hardware is to design modems that are capable of operating its speeds at a higher data rate than a speed required for a single port of the standard communication rate for that modem. Basically, by utilizing a... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20080063038 - Transfer of error-analysis and statistical data in a fibre channel input/output system: A computer Input/Output system having a fabric, a control unit (CU) and a host computer including a channel, the channel having a channel port connected by a first link to a channel neighbor port of the fabric, and the control unit having a CU port connected by a second link... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080063039 - Optimization of ultra-wideband communication through a wire medium: Apparatus and methods to optimize ultra-wideband communication through wire and cable media are provided. One apparatus comprises an ultra-wideband transmitter structured to transmit a training set of ultra-wideband pulses through the wire medium. An ultra-wideband receiver is structured to receive the training set of ultra-wideband pulses from the wire medium.... Agent: Pulse-link, Inc.

20080063040 - Equalizer demodulating a signal including sp symbols and an equalization method therefor: In an equalizer, an scattered pilot (SP) extractor in a channel estimator extracts an SP symbol from an input signal, an IDFT circuit calculates from the SP a complex gain of each path, and a threshold comparator and a “0” addition circuit extract signals of paths. An FFT circuit Fourier-transforms... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080063043 - Apparatus for and method of developing equalized values from samples of a signal received from a channel: An equalizer (200A) comprises a feedforward filter (210), wherein the feedforward filter includes a plurality of feedforward filter taps, coefficients are associated with the plurality of feedforward filter taps, and values of all of the coefficients associated with the plurality of feedforward filter taps are dynamically determined. In some embodiments,... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20080063042 - Equalization method with adjustable equalizer span: An equalization method receiving a received sample to generate an equalizer output. A channel profile is first provided, comprising a main path and a plurality of echoes distributed in time domain. Echoes anterior to the main path are precursors, and echoes posterior to the main path are postcursors. The received... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080063041 - Fast training equalization of a signal: A signal receiver inputs a signal, computes a set of equalizer tap values during a signal acquisition phase by applying an algorithm iteratively to a given set of training data contained within the signal, and uses the set of equalizer tap values to process the signal during the signal acquisition... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080063044 - Burst control pulse generatnig circuit, and digital modulating circuit and electronic device including burst control pulse generating circuit: A burst control pulse generating circuit which generates a pulse signal used to provide communication includes a timing generating circuit containing a ring oscillation circuit which oscillates a periodic signal based on a burst signal for controlling the ON and OFF condition of the communication to output a plurality of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080063045 - Parameter estimate initialization using interpolation: A receiver is described herein that is capable of receiving and processing a radio signal and further capable of using interpolation to initialize receiver parameters when there is a change in at least one delay associated with the received radio signal or when there is at least one new correlator... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080063046 - Method and system for estimating signal error in a communication system: Estimating error signals in a communication system may include determining a frequency error of a received RF signal utilizing a plurality of correlators, where one or more of the correlators may be fed with a carrier frequency of the received RF signal and a remaining portion of the plurality of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080063047 - Intra prediction circuit device applied to the h.264 video coding standard: An intra prediction circuit device applied to the H.264 video coding standard is provided. The intra prediction device uses a method of decreasing the repeated operations of the shared terms of the video pixel data to reduce the circuit computation and simplify the hardware architecture. In the intra prediction scheme,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063048 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus comprises an input unit adapted to input frame data; a memory adapted to store frame data; a decision unit adapted to decide correction data by comparing the frame data that has been input and the frame data that immediately precedes the input frame data in the memory;... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080063050 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: A picture coding method for preventing occurrence of a malfunction includes: an adding step (Step S203) of coding a memory management command for the first picture of a predetermined picture number and adding the coded command to the second picture that is different from the first picture; and a re-adding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063049 - Video data source system: A video data source system includes a video encoder and an analog back end device. The analog back end device includes a digital to analog converter and a post-stage driving unit. The video data source system adds the post-stage driving unit into the analog back end device and strengthens its... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063051 - Rate control method with frame-layer bit allocation and video encoder: A video encoder controlling rate of each frame in a current frame set (Group of Picture, GOP), and method thereof. The video encoder comprises a frame grouping device, a GOP initialization device, and a GOP encoding device. The frame grouping device allocates a target bit budget RGOP to the current... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080063052 - Quantizer parameter determination for video encoder rate control: An apparatus and corresponding method are provided for encoding video signal data by applying an adaptive quantizer parameter responsive to bit-rate; where a video encoder for encoding video signal data for an image block relative to at least one reference picture includes an adaptive quantizer for applying an adaptive quantizer... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080063053 - Image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, image communications system and coded bit stream converting apparatus: An image decoding apparatus is capable of decoding coded bit streams with different coding schemes. The image decoding apparatus includes a coding scheme decision section for deciding a coding scheme from coding scheme identification information multiplexed into a coded bit stream, a setting unit for setting header information on a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063057 - Image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, image communications system and coded bit stream converting apparatus: An image decoding apparatus is capable of decoding coded bit streams with different coding schemes. The image decoding apparatus includes a coding scheme decision section for deciding a coding scheme from coding scheme identification information multiplexed into a coded bit stream, a setting unit for setting header information on a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063055 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: The method includes the following units: a coefficient number detecting unit (109) for detecting the number of coefficients which has a value other than 0 for each block according to the generated coefficient, a coefficient number storing unit (110) for storing the number of coefficients detected, a coefficient number coding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063056 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: The method includes the following units: a coefficient number detecting unit (109) for detecting the number of coefficients which has a value other than 0 for each block according to the generated coefficient, a coefficient number storing unit (110) for storing the number of coefficients detected, a coefficient number coding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063054 - System and method for the dynamic resolution change for video encoding: The present invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for the predictive encoding of digital video sequences. The objectives of the invention are accomplished by dynamically determining the resolution of a current frame being encoded and outputting the determination. The determination process is based on statistical and... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080063058 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus (10a) according to the present invention includes a level analyzer (100a) that decides the maximum number of intra frame pixels which can be coded (Nfpx) and the maximum number of storage pixels which can be stored in a picture memory of a decoding apparatus (Nspx)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063059 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus (10a) according to the present invention includes a level analyzer (100a) that decides the maximum number of intra frame pixels which can be coded (Nfpx) and the maximum number of storage pixels which can be stored in a picture memory of a decoding apparatus (Nspx)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063060 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method for performing inter picture prediction coding and inter picture prediction decoding using previously processed pictures as reference pictures: A coding control unit (110) and a mode selection unit (109) are included. The coding control unit (110) determines the coding order for a plurality of consecutive B-pictures located between I-pictures and P-pictures so that the B-picture whose temporal distance from two previously coded pictures is farthest in display order... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063061 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method for performing inter picture prediction coding and inter picture prediction decoding using previously processed pictures as reference pictures: A coding control unit (110) and a mode selection unit (109) are included. The coding control unit (110) determines the coding order for a plurality of consecutive B-pictures located between I-pictures and P-pictures so that the B-picture whose temporal distance from two previously coded pictures is farthest in display order... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063063 - Electronic device and method for block-based image processing: The electronic device comprises electronic circuitry which functionally comprises a boundary detector, an analyzer and an includer. The boundary detector is operative to determine a boundary (47) between a relevant area (45) and an irrelevant area (43) of an image (41). The analyzer is operative to analyze blocks (55) of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080063067 - Frame interpolating circuit, frame interpolating method, and display apparatus: According to one embodiment, there is provided a frame interpolating circuit including a detecting unit which detects a first frame image and a second frame image from an input image signal and compares both the images to detect a motion vector, a comparing unit which compares a size of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080063064 - Method and system for motion compensated temporal filtering using iir filtering: Certain aspects of a method and system for motion compensated temporal filtering using infinite impulse response (IIR) filtering may include generating a corresponding non-motion compensated output picture of video data and a corresponding motion compensated output picture of video data from an infinite impulse response (IIR) filtered output picture of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080063062 - Neighbor management module for use in video encoding and methods for use therewith: A motion compensation module can be used in a video encoder for encoding a video input signal. The motion compensation module includes a neighbor management module that generates and stores neighbor data for at least one macroblock of the plurality of macroblocks for retrieval for retrieval by at least one... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080063070 - Encoder rate control: A method and apparatus for performing compression and/or decompression is described. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a system having a buffer, a wavelet transform unit, and a coder. The wavelet transform unit has an input coupled to the buffer to perform a wavelet transform on pixels stored therein... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080063065 - Fast motion estimation for multiple reference pictures: An apparatus and corresponding method for fast motion estimation with multiple reference pictures are provided, where an exemplary video encoder for encoding video signal data for an image block relative to multiple reference pictures includes a fast motion estimator for providing motion vectors corresponding to one of the reference pictures,... Agent: Joseph J Laks Patent Operations

20080063068 - Image coding apparatus, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image decoding method and communication apparatus: Each of an image coding apparatus and an image decoding apparatus uses a motion compensated prediction using virtual samples so as to detect a motion vector for each of regions of each frame of an input signal. Accuracy of virtual samples is locally determined while the accuracy of virtual samples... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063069 - Image coding apparatus, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image decoding method and communication apparatus: Each of an image coding apparatus and an image decoding apparatus uses a motion compensated prediction using virtual samples so as to detect a motion vector for each of regions of each frame of an input signal. Accuracy of virtual samples is locally determined while the accuracy of virtual samples... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063066 - Method of decoding a current image block: In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining reference picture information, and determining at least one reference picture of the current image block from the reference picture information. The reference picture information indicates a reference picture type of the reference picture. The reference picture type is based on temporal distance between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080063075 - Motion vector calculation method: When a block (MB22) of which motion vector is referred to in the direct mode contains a plurality of motion vectors, 2 motion vectors MV23 and MV24, which are used for inter picture prediction of a current picture (P23) to be coded, are determined by scaling a value obtained from... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063077 - Motion vector coding and decoding methods: A motion vector coding method and apparatus that improves efficiency of coding motion vectors when a current block is coded using a plurality of motion vectors. The apparatus includes a motion vector coding unit that codes a motion vector inputted from a motion vector detecting unit. A motion vector for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063076 - Motion vector derivation method, moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A motion vector derivation unit includes a comparison unit for comparing a parameter TR1 for a reference vector with a predetermined value to determine whether it exceeds the predetermined value or not; a switching unit for switching selection between the maximum value of a pre-stored parameter TR and the parameter... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063071 - Moving picture encoding method and decoding method: A moving picture decoding method, which generates a predicted image using information on motion vectors and information on reference images, the moving picture decoding method having multiple prediction modes including a mode without motion vector decoding, including: a step of selecting a frame(s) to be referenced to in the prediction... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080063072 - Moving picture encoding method and decoding method: A moving picture decoding method, which generates a predicted image using information on motion vectors and information on reference images, the moving picture decoding method having multiple prediction modes including a mode without motion vector decoding, including: a step of selecting a frame(s) to be referenced to in the prediction... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080063073 - Moving picture prediction system: To achieve an encoding system including a highly efficient prediction performed in response to the content of a scene, a significance, and a motion characteristic of a moving picture and the like, memories a, b, c, motion compensator 5 responsive to an arbitrary transform parameter representing the motion of a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063074 - Multi-standard variable block size motion estimation processor: An apparatus generally having a first circuit and a second circuit is disclosed. The first circuit may be configured to generate a plurality of sum values by adding a plurality of pixel difference values between a current block and a reference block, one of the sum values corresponding to each... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080063078 - Apparatus and method of information processing, program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus which sends image data subjected to line based wavelet transformation to another device is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a storing means for splitting the image data supplied in units of precincts that are the set of lines to be a unit of processing for the line... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080063079 - Apparatus and method for receiving digital video signals: An apparatus is operable to receive a digital video signal transmitted over a channel and comprises an operational module configured to operate in a first mode of operation and in a second mode. The apparatus is configured to switch operation of the operational module from the first mode to the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080063080 - Hierarchical motion estimation using original frame for sub-sampled reference: This invention calculates motion vectors during video encoding for sub-sampled data using a hierarchical search. The motion vector calculation employs a prior original frame as the reference frame rather than a reconstructed frame according to the prior art.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080063081 - Apparatus, method and program for encoding and/or decoding moving picture: In a moving picture decoding apparatus compliant with a coding standard, such as CABAC of H.264 and the like, for coding of a stream including arithmetic coded data, a first type variable length decoding section performs first variable length decoding including arithmetic decoding to input stream data to generate first... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080063082 - Mpeg decoder and mpeg encoder: A moving picture decoding apparatus includes one or more variable-length decoding units, a data buffer configured to store data output from the one or more variable-length decoding units, and a plurality of image decoding units configured to read the data from the data buffer and to perform image decoding the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080063083 - Variable length coding method and variable length decoding method: A variable length coding method is provided for coding coefficients in each block which are obtained by performing frequency transformation on picture data of a moving picture per block having a predetermined size, and includes: a coefficient scanning step of scanning the coefficients in the block in a predetermined order;... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063084 - Coding distortion removal method, video encoding method, video decoding method, and apparatus and program for the same: A coding distortion removal method for removing coding distortion in an image which was has been divided in to a plurality of macroblocks. The method operates under the following conditions such that: (i) a size of a pixel in a motion compensation block is smaller than a size of a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080063085 - Post-processing for decoder complexity scalability: Systems, apparatuses and methods whereby a base coded video signal is provided to a decoder having a set of post-processing stages. The base coded video signal can be decoded to produce a base decoded video signal. Post-processing of the base decoded video signal can be used to produce an enhanced... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080063086 - Image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, image communications system and coded bit stream converting apparatus: An image decoding apparatus is capable of decoding coded bit streams with different coding schemes. The image decoding apparatus includes a coding scheme decision section for deciding a coding scheme from coding scheme identification information multiplexed into a coded bit stream, a setting unit for setting header information on a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063088 - Image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, image communications system and coded bit stream converting apparatus: An image decoding apparatus is capable of decoding coded bit streams with different coding schemes. The image decoding apparatus includes a coding scheme decision section for deciding a coding scheme from coding scheme identification information multiplexed into a coded bit stream, a setting unit for setting header information on a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080063087 - Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus (10a) according to the present invention includes a level analyzer (100a) that decides the maximum number of intra frame pixels which can be coded (Nfpx) and the maximum number of storage pixels which can be stored in a picture memory of a decoding apparatus (Nspx)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080063089 - Method and system for synchronizable e-vsb enhanced data interleaving and data expansion: Methods and systems for a synchronizable E-VSB enhanced data interleaving and data expansion are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include a packet processor that may generate valid output when a portion of the packet processor may initially contain invalid data. The packet processor may generate the valid data after... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080063091 - Ac coupling circuit integrated with receiver with hybrid stable common-mode voltage generation and baseline-wander compensation: In a receiver, an AC-coupling solution uses a fully integrated circuit for simultaneously providing both baseline wander compensation and common-mode voltage generation. Usefully, an integrated capacitor is placed between the receiver input pin and the input buffer, and a high resistive impedance element is connected to the internal high-speed data... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation Legal Department - Ip

20080063092 - Printed wiring board and electronic equipment: A printed wiring board, comprising a signal plane having a baseband block for processing a baseband signal and a high-frequency block for processing a high-frequency signal which is obtained by converting the baseband signal, and a ground plane opposing to the signal plane. The baseband block and the high-frequency block... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080063090 - System and method for automatic compensation of video signals: A system for delivering signal, such as video signal, over signal c