Pulse or digital communications inventions 06/08

20080151967 - Time transfer using ultra wideband signals: Time is transferred from an ultra wideband (UWB) transmitter to UWB receiver by transmitting a signal structure having an associated timing reference point together with a time value for the timing reference point. The UWB receiver receives the timing signal structure by synchronizing a receiver time base to the signal... Agent: Venable LLP

20080151968 - Dual code spread spectrum communication system: A direct sequence spread spectrum receiver includes a first spreading code generator for receiving a first channel signal spectrum spread by a first spread code, while a second group of receivers use a second spreading code, where the first and second codes are partially correlated, so that, the first group... Agent: The Aerospace Corporation

20080151969 - Efficient delay profile computation with receive diversity: An instantaneous power density profile (PDP) is generated by dynamically switching between signals from two or more antennae, each for a variable number of signal samples. A variable number NC of samples are correlated with a known chip code, the correlations phase-coherently accumulated, and a number NNC of such coherent... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080151970 - Fractional chip correlation device and method for operating fractional chip correlation in spread spectrum receiver: A fraction chip correlation device for a spread spectrum receiver for receiving signals modulated with spread spectrum codes and a method for operating fractional chip correlation to spread spectrum signals received by the spread spectrum receiver are disclosed. In the present invention, at least one delayed version of an input... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080151971 - Narrow correlator technique for multipath mitigation: The present invention provides systems and methods for implementing narrowly spaced correlators to mitigate multipath error, and systems and methods for adaptively changing the correlator spacing for varying multipath conditions. In an embodiment, two sets of correlators with the same code frequency but different code phases are used to implement... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Ip Prosecution Department

20080151972 - Method and apparatus for communicating the existence of an emergency situation without uniquely identifying the source of the communication: A system in which one or more alarm sources (10) can wirelessly communicate with a receiver (30) to activate an alarm and does not contain any identification that indicates the communication's source (10). The system may include “repeaters” (40) whose function is to relay the communication from one station to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080151973 - Control system methods and appratus for inductive communication across an isolation barrier: Improved control apparatus and methods transfer information between devices, such as controllers and field devices, utilizing a modulator that generates a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal containing information to be transferred by a first of the devices, e.g., the controller, to the second device. A transformer or other inductive device... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080151975 - Audio codec integrated with baseband processing and rf: An audio codec integrated with baseband processing and RF on a single IC chip. The audio codec may be implemented in a variety of wireless transceivers, such as cell phones, to offer voice, data and/or music functions. The codec also has monaural and stereo channels for audio output, as well... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080151974 - Digital compensation for nonlinearities in a polar transmitter: A polar transmitter includes a digital processor coupled to receive a complex modulated digital signal and a feedback signal produced from the complex modulated digital signal and that is operable to compare the complex modulated digital signal to the feedback signal to determine an error signal indicative of a difference... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080151977 - Method and apparatus for compensating for mismatch occurring in radio frequency quadrature transceiver using direct-conversion scheme: A method and apparatus for compensating for a mismatch in a radio frequency (RF) quadrature transceiver using a direct-conversion scheme is provided. The method includes setting an amplification gain for a baseband quadrature signal to be larger than an amplification gain for a baseband in-phase signal in a reception module;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080151976 - Ultra wideband communications systems: The invention relates to communications protocols for very high-speed data transmission, in particular burst mode packet data communications for ultra wideband (UWB) communications systems. We describe a method of sending a burst of data packets from a first OFDM transceiver to a second OFDM transceiver, said transceivers having a set... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080151978 - Antenna sharing arrangement for information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a first transmission/reception antenna element, a second transmission/reception antenna element, a reception antenna element, a first wireless communication module which is connected to the first transmission/reception antenna element, a second wireless communication module which is connected to the second transmission/reception antenna... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080151979 - Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program: In a signal processing apparatus adapted to process a signal transmitted via a transmission path, an acquisition unit acquires a signal value of a specific symbol from a signal transmitted via the transmission path, and a prediction unit predicts a signal value of the specific symbol for each of values... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080151981 - Jitter amplifier circuit, signal generation circuit, semiconductor chip, and test apparatus: There is provided a jitter amplifier circuit for amplifying jitter included in an input signal. The jitter amplifier circuit includes a distorting circuit that receives the input signal, and distorts a waveform of the input signal so as to generate a harmonic component of the input signal, and a filter... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080151980 - Method of and apparatus for adaptive frequency error estimation: A method and apparatus that adapts, from time to time, a frequency error estimation algorithm between a cyclic prefic (CP) correlation algorithm and pilot symbols algorithm depending on the values of several variables, including service (VoIP/high data rate), signal to noise ratio (SNR), Doppler spread, system BW, and whether the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080151982 - Method and system for conducting hearing aid compatibility testing of a mobile communication device: Embodiments relate to a system for conducting hearing aid compatibility testing of a mobile communication device. The system comprises: a simulated hand for supporting the mobile communication device during the testing; a probe; and a processor. The processor is configured to cause the probe to be positioned in a sequence... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080151983 - Efficient delay profile computation with receive diversity: An instantaneous power density profile (PDP) is generated by dynamically switching between signals from two or more antennae, each for a variable number of signal samples. A variable number NC of samples are correlated with a known chip code, the correlations phase-coherently accumulated, and a number NNC of such coherent... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080151984 - Sampling rate conversion system: A sampling rate conversion system reduces the signal processing burdens carried by cellular phones, headsets, and other electronic devices. Because the system consumes fewer resources to convert between signal sampling rates, the system may significantly reduce processing time and resource requirements in the device. As a result, the device may... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080151986 - Fade equalizer: Processing a received signal is disclosed. It is determined that a received signal does not satisfy a prescribed signal quality criterion. Based at least in part on the determination, an equalizer tap is not updated based on the received signal.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080151985 - Network-assisted bts receiver performance optimization: A wireless communication system (100), method, and base station (112) are provided for optimizing performance of a base station receiver (120). The method includes selecting an interpolation matrix (216) specially tailored for particular channel characteristics from a pre-defined set of interpolation matrices (218), and using the selected interpolation matrix in... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080151987 - Reproducing apparatus and method, signal processing apparatus and method, and program: A reproducing apparatus for reproducing channel data from a recording medium using the ITR includes a reading unit reading an information signal recorded on the recording medium; a phase interpolator interpolating a phase of the information signal read on the basis of a phase error signal sent as a feedback;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080151988 - Multi-pair gigabit ethernet transceiver: Various systems and methods providing high speed decoding, enhanced power reduction and clock domain partitioning for a multi-pair gigabit Ethernet transceiver are disclosed. ISI compensation is partitioned into two stages; a first stage compensates ISI components induced by characteristics of a transmitter's partial response pulse shaping filter in a demodulator,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080151990 - Digital generator of phase shift modulation: A digital generator of phase shift modulation receives two binary coded numbers (F) and (P), that represent a requested frequency value and a requested phase value, respectively, and generates two pairs of phase-shifted signals a, b and c, d. One pair of the phase-shifted signals is intended to control one... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080151989 - Quasi-pilot symbol substitution: To improve the reliability of channel estimation, data symbols at determined positions of the transmitted data stream are replaced by quasi-pilot symbols. The quasi-pilot symbols carry data modulated onto the carrier with a different modulation scheme than the original symbols. The modulation scheme for the quasi-pilot symbols has a lower... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080151992 - Method for dynamically adjusting video frame: A method for dynamically adjusting video frame is adapted to store video data to a cache memory with a plurality of registers. The method comprises the steps: first, receiving the video data and compressing the video frames; next, obtaining a first usage level of the cache memory; next, gathering statistics... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080151994 - Storage medium having interactive graphic stream and apparatus for reproducing the same: A storage medium including an interactive graphic stream providing menus using various transition effects regardless of reproducing modes of multimedia data and an apparatus for reproducing the same. The storage medium in which multimedia information is recorded includes: video data; and graphic data to provide a menu screen overlaid on... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080151991 - System and method for implementing improved zoom control in video playback: A system and method for enabling improved zoom control during the playback of a video. In various embodiments, a video player includes an improved dynamic user interface which UI enables a user to zoom into high resolution images whenever the “pause” button is pressed on the video player. Various embodiments... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080151993 - Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method, and broadcasting receiving apparatus: According to one embodiment, there is provided a video signal processing apparatus including a determining section which receives a type signal representing whether a video signal is an uncoded video signal or a video signal obtained by decoding a coded digital signal, determines a first threshold (Tha, Thc, The) for... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080151996 - Moving picture coding apparatus and moving picture coding method: The moving picture coding apparatus according to the present invention includes: a decoding unit 10 which decodes an MPEG2 stream; a coding parameter extracting unit 11 which extracts a coding parameter of MPEG2 from the MPEG stream; a re-coding parameter determining unit 12 which judges, based on the coding parameter... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080151997 - Techniques for content adaptive video frame slicing and non-uniform access unit coding: Techniques for content adaptive video frame slicing and non-uniform access unit coding for improved coding efficiency are provided. An encoder and decoder are disclosed to process (encode or decode) a single non-uniform video access unit (VAU) employing flexible macroblock ordering (FMO) in conjunction with different slice coding types in response... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080151999 - Bypass using sum of absolute transformed differences value (satd) in a video coding process: In one embodiment, a method for bypassing transform and quantization steps in a video compression is provided. The method determines one or more threshold values that are computed for a bypass of the transform and quantization steps. A sum of absolute transformed differences (SATD) value from a motion estimation of... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080152000 - Coding mode selection using information of other coding modes: This disclosure describes techniques for coding mode selection. In particular, an encoding device determines whether or not to code a block of pixels in a coding mode currently being considered for selection using information associated with at least one other coding mode with a different block partition. In one aspect,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080151998 - Method and apparatus for providing rate control for panel-based real time video encoder: A method and apparatus is provided for panel-based rate control in an MPEG encoder. In one embodiment, the method begins by estimating a complexity measure of pictures in a GOP and calculating a GOP bit budget for the GOP. Portions of the GOP bit budget are assigned to the pictures... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080152001 - Physical layer aware video encoding for mobile tv applications: A system and method of transmitting video in a time division multiplexing (TDM) system, wherein the method comprises identifying a video reference frame from a series of video frames; encoding a difference between the video reference frame and a video non-reference frame; placing the video reference frame at a beginning... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080152002 - Methods and apparatus for scalable video bitstreams: In some embodiments, a method includes generating a first image data frame, a first error image data frame and a second error image data frame based at least in part on a bitstream. The method further includes upscaling or de-quantizing the first image data frame to provide a first predicted... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080152003 - Multimedia data reorganization between base layer and enhancement layer: This disclosure describes techniques for allocating and reallocating multimedia data between a base layer and an enhancement layer defined in a wireless modulation scheme. The reallocation techniques may vary depending on whether bidirectional predictive (B) frames were originally allocated to the base layer, and whether a re-encode request has been... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080152005 - Systems and methods for efficient spatial intra predictabilty determination (or assessment): Techniques for efficient determination of a macroblock's spatial predictability quality with respect to the H.264 specification are provided. A device comprises a processor operable to estimate a first subset of spatial prediction modes based on a first pixel subset of a current subblock of an intra-frame. The processor is also... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080152004 - Video coding apparatus: One embodiment of the invention provides a video coding apparatus including an intraprediction section that generates prediction signals by plural intraprediction modes, an interprediction section that generates prediction signals by plural interprediction modes, and a first determination section that selects a first prediction mode to select a prediction signal by... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080152006 - Reference frame placement in the enhancement layer: The disclosure relates to techniques for allocating the frames of data between the base layer and one or more enhancement layers. The techniques described herein allow for selective placement of frames between the base layer and the enhancement layer to make better use of unused bandwidth in the enhancement layer.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080152007 - 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

20080152012 - Device and method for coding moving pictures: Provided is a moving picture coding device and a moving picture coding method used by the device, which can prevent a search range of reference pictures from being unnecessarily extended when the first coding method is converted into the second coding method. The moving picture coding device codes moving pictures... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080152010 - Inter sub-mode decision process in a transcoding operation: In one embodiment, a macroblock is determined in an incoming bitstream. In one example, the macroblock may be a 16×16 macroblock for a first coding standard, such as MPEG-2. The macroblock is then divided into a plurality of segmented blocks. For example, an arbitrary sized segment of blocks may be... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080152013 - Moving picture encoding device, moving picture decoding device, moving picture encoding method, moving picture decoding method, program, and computer readable recording medium storing program: An object of the present invention is to express a predicted picture signal with light overheads, and to provide motion compensation of different pixel accuracy. A moving picture encoding device 20 according to the present invention includes a motion vector detection means 32 for detecting a motion vector of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080152008 - Offline motion description for video generation: The present motion description technique provides a technique for defining a motion description offline. The motion description can then later be extracted from a multimedia representation and adapted to various multimedia-related applications in a manner that not only reduces the processing for motion estimation but also provides high compression performance... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080152009 - Scaling the complexity of video encoding: Video encoding that enables fine-grained control over the complexity of motion estimation to meet encoding constraints includes scaling a set of complexity control parameters in response to an encoding constraint and encoding the video in response to the complexity control parameters.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080152011 - Wavelet based multiresolution video representation with spatially scalable motion vectors: Wavelet based multiresolution video representations generated by multi-scale motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) and spatial wavelet transform are disclosed. Since temporal filtering and spatial filtering are separated in generating such representations, there are many different ways to intertwine single-level MCTF and single-level spatial filtering, resulting in many different video representation... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080151995 - Dct/q/iq/idct bypass algorithm in mpeg to avc/h.264 transcoding: In one embodiment, a first DCT block of coefficients is received from a transcoding process. The DCT block is of a first size, such as an 8×8 size, and in a first coding standard, such as MPEG-2. A distribution of zero and non-zero coefficients is then determined from the first... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080152014 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding of video streams: A method and processor to encode and/or decode a video stream exploiting frame-level parallelism. Frames of the video stream are encoded and/or decoded using M processing units where each processing unit processes one different frame at a time. Each processing unit writes the reconstructed frame to a frame buffer. A... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20080152015 - Efficient 8x8 cabac residual block decode: A circuit generally having a first module, a second module and a third module is disclosed. The first module may be configured to (i) generate a plurality of parsed residual blocks by parsing an 8×8 CABAC (context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding) residual block received in an input signal and (ii)... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080152016 - Information delivery apparatus, stream recording apparatus, recording system, stream reproducing apparatus, and record reproducing system: An information delivery apparatus includes an encoder for encoding and packetizing digital data of an image or an audio, a frame assembly identification packet insertion unit for inserting a frame assembly identification packet including time information in the data packetized by the encoder on a frame assembly basis, and a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080152017 - Mpeg noise reduction: A method of processing an image based upon edge energy is disclosed. The method comprises providing (100) an edge map (540) for a group of pixels, classifying (100, 110, 120) pixels in the group as either smooth region pixels or edge region pixels, identifying (120), in the group of pixels,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080152020 - Encoding/decoding system, encoding system, and decoding system: Each of a plurality of encoders calculates a first time by adding an encoding delay time commonly determined between the encoders to a value of an STC counter, and transmits a system stream generated by including the calculated first time to a decoder associated with the encoder in one-to-one correspondence,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080152018 - Fast re-synchronization techniques for dvb-h systems: A system and method of performing re-synchronization for a Digital Video Broadcasting over Handheld (DVB-H) receiver comprises performing a time division multiplexing (TDM) data burst transmission sequence on bits of data received by the DVB-H receiver; performing a data bit re-synchronization sequence on the DVB-H receiver; and reducing a re-acquisition... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080152019 - Method for synchronizing video signals and audio signals and playback host thereof: A method for synchronizing video signals and audio signals includes: (a) receiving a video signal and an audio signal; (b) controlling a video playback device to display an image corresponding to the video signal; and (c) controlling a speaker to output sound waves corresponding to the audio signal in a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080152021 - Pre-processing device and method before encoding of a video image sequence: m

20080152022 - System and method for noise filtering data compression: Noise filtering data compression removes noise differences from successive frames in a video signal. This is accommodated by accessing successive frames corresponding to a video signal. Frequency domain representations, for example first row and first column coefficients in the quantized DCT result matrix, are used to determine whether the block... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080152023 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus configured to connect an external device in conformity with a predetermined interface specification, includes: a control LSI configured to control signal output to an external device effectively connected; and a CPU configured to control the operation within the apparatus including the control LSI as a whole;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080152024 - Two-way communication circuit, two-way communication system, and communication method of two-way communication circuit: A two-way communication circuit is connected to one end of a cable performing half-duplex communication. The two-way communication circuit includes a controller register storing a control signal including switch indication information switching a transmission direction and a reception direction; a communication controller managing timing depending on the control signal stored... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080152025 - Signal bypass device: When a communication interference device is present in the middle of two electric wires, the signal bypass device includes: split cores each of which is disposed in two electric wires at both ends of the communication interference device; a cable wired through the split cores at both ends of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080152032 - Apparatus and method for receiving signals in multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for receiving signals in a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system is provided. A receiving end using as many as N Receive (Rx) antennas includes a first detector, as many as (N-2) nth detectors, and an Nth detector. A signal detection technique of the present invention... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080152029 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving control information in packet data communication system: Provided is a control information transmission/reception method and apparatus for providing a packet data service in an OFDM based mobile communication system. The method includes transmitting a first maximum number of control channel blocks transmissible by using a first modulation scheme and a second maximum number of control channel blocks... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080152028 - Ofdm communication system: N sub-carriers are grouped in units of predetermined quantities in order beginning with the one exhibiting the highest communication channel quality to generate an optimal group pattern on the reception side. Then, communication channel information is calculated for each of sub-carrier groups in the optimal group pattern or a quasi-optimal... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080152027 - Ofdm receiver and method for decoding ofdm symbols of two or more data streams with reduced multiplication operations: Embodiments of an OFDM receiver and methods for decoding OFDM symbols of two or more data streams with reduced multiplication operations are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, one or more terms of a modified L2-squared-norm cost function are precomputed and stored for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080152030 - Optimized directional mimo antenna system: A wireless communication device with a plurality of radios and a plurality of configurable antenna systems. Determining a plurality of transmit and receive signal quality metrics for connections between the wireless communication device and a plurality of stations for a plurality of radios and configurable antenna systems in a plurality... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080152033 - Pilot transmission and channel estimation for an ofdm system with excess delay spread: Pilot transmission and channel estimation techniques for an OFDM system with excess delay spread are described. To mitigate the deleterious effects of excess delay spread, the number of pilot subbands is greater than the cyclic prefix length. This “oversampling” may be achieved by using more pilot subbands in each symbol... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080152026 - Sender, receiver and method of transferring information from a sender to a receiver: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for transferring information from a sender to a receiver, a symbol is selected out of a plurality of symbols representing the information, wherein each of the plurality of symbols representing the information comprises a number of digits, the number of digits equaling... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Gero Mcclellan / Qimonda

20080152031 - Uplink scheduling method and apparatus in communication system: Provided is an uplink scheduling method and apparatus of a Base Station, in which total packet transmission time can be reduced by reducing the time required for a Subscriber Station to request a frequency band for packet transmission to the BS through a series of contention procedures and to be... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080152035 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data: A digital broadcasting system and method of processing data are disclosed. The digital broadcasting system includes a transmitting system and a receiving system. The transmitting system comprises a distributed transmission adapter and a plurality of transmitters each being operated as a slave of the distributed transmission adapter, and each sharing... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080152034 - Scanning operations in wireless networks based on location service data: Methods and apparatus to improve scanning operations in wireless networks are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device transmits a scan request to an access point controller to cause the access point controller to determine one or more future neighboring access points of the wireless device. Other embodiments are also... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080152036 - Transmission device: A transmission device of the present invention comprises: an orthogonal modulator performing orthogonal modulation on a carrier wave using an input signal comprising an in-phase signal component and an orthogonal signal component, and outputs a modulation signal to be transmitted; a detection unit detecting a carrier leaking component included in... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080152037 - Method and system for baseband predistortion linearization in multi-channel wideband communication systems: An efficient baseband predistortion linearization method for reducing the spectral regrowth and compensating memory effects in wideband communication systems using effective multiplexing modulation technique such as wideband code division multiple access and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing is disclosed. The present invention is based on the method of piecewise pre-equalized lookup... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Eakin

20080152038 - System and method for data communication: A data communication system includes a terminal identification information adding unit generating a unit carrier wave including a predetermined plurality of periods of carrier waves and arranging the unit carrier wave in arrangement patterns differing at every transmission terminal to generate a unit carrier row signal shorter than one bit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080152039 - Method and apparatus for store and replay functions in a digital radio broadcasting receiver: A method is provided for receiving and processing a digital radio broadcasting signal. The method includes the steps of receiving a digital radio broadcasting signal including content, storing encoded content, and decoding the stored encoded content to recover decoded content. The stored encoded content can include protocol data units or... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP

20080152040 - Receiver and receiver control method: A method of controlling a receiver (30) that is arranged to operate in a reception operating mode (2; 4) for receiving an amount of data in a transmission from a sender and in one or more further operating modes (1-7), said method comprising: setting (S1) an internal transmission-over indicator to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080152041 - Method and device for decoding a signal: A method and a circuit for determining the frame header of a signal that can be applied to standard DVBS2.... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080152042 - Ofdm receiver apparatus: An OFDM receiver apparatus receives an OFDM signal including a plurality of DBPSK signals transmitting identical information. An extraction unit extracts the plurality of DBPSK signals from the OFDM signal. A phase difference calculation unit calculates a phase difference between symbols of each of the plurality of extracted DBPSK signals.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080152043 - Apparatus and method for estimating channel in broadband wireless access (bwa) communication system: An apparatus and a method for estimating a channel in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a subcarrier demapper for extracting pilot symbols at preset positions for a channel estimation; and a channel estimator for acquiring channel estimate values of subcarriers through an Infinite... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080152045 - High-throughput memory-efficient bi-sova decoder architecture: Described herein are one or more implementations of a high-throughput and memory-efficient “windowed” bidirectional Soft Output Viterbi Algorithm (BI-SOVA) decoder. The described BI-SOVA decoder uses the “window” technique to concurrently decode several different non-overlapping portions of a subject signal in parallel.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080152044 - Veterbi decoding method for convolutionally encoded signal: An improved Viterbi decoding method for convolutionally encoded signals is disclosed. By using the method of the present invention, a trellis of Viterbi Algorithm (VA) for convolutionally encoded SBAS signal, for example, are arranged into butterflies. The butterflies are classified into groups according to branch metrics. Therefore, the butterflies can... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080152047 - Channelization filter communication systems and methods therefor: A channelization filter communication system comprises: a channelization filtering system, a calibration unit, amplifiers, communication channel frequency converters and a baseband processor. The channelization filtering system includes a selector input configured to receive a communication channel filter selector signal and selectable communication channel filter elements. The selectable communication channel filter... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080152046 - Synchronization system and method for wireless communicating nodes: A system includes first and second wireless nodes having a clock with plural times, a wireless transceiver, and a processor cooperating with the transceiver to transmit and receive packets. The second node transceivers wirelessly communicate with the first or other second node transceivers. The second nodes include a Kalman filter... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080152048 - Transmission mode/guard length detection circuit and method therefor: A transmission mode/guard length detection circuit that uses the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing method, in which: a difference between a reference wave having a constant period generated on the basis of a transmission mode length that is a time period length of the predetermined symbol and a guard length that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080152049 - Digital audio broadcast receiver: A digital audio broadcast (DAB) receiver (10) for receiving an RF signal comprises a low noise amplifier (16), an RF mixer (24) that generates an intermediate frequency signal, and a voltage controlled oscillator (23). The receiver includes a tracking filter (18) downstream of the low noise amplifier (16) and upstream... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080152050 - Radio communication device: Disclosed herein is a radio communication device configured to perform baseband processing by subjecting a received signal to an AD conversion at a predetermined sampling frequency and converting a digital signal resulting from the AD conversion into a baseband signal by frequency conversion, the radio communication device including: a frequency... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080152051 - Digital broadcasting receiver: A digital broadcasting receiver includes: a variable gain amplifier for amplifying an electric wave received through an antenna, a gain of the variable gain amplifier being made variable in accordance with a signal from the outside; a distributor for distributing the signal from the variable gain amplifier into two signals;... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080152052 - Interference suppression for partial usage of subchannels uplink: Disclosed are a method, information processing system and wireless communications device for suppressing interference. The method includes receiving a transmission from each of a target (104) and interfering device (106). A set of pilot sequences (604) for an interfering device (106) and the target device (104) are determined. A channel... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080152054 - Interferer diversity: Providing interferer diversity is disclosed. A received wireless signal is processed to obtain a first processed signal in which a desired information is translated to a first frequency in a first Nyquist zone. The received wireless signal processed to obtain a second processed signal in which the desired information is... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080152053 - Method and apparatus for determining combining weights for mimo receivers: According to a method and apparatus taught herein, the computation of intermediate combining weights considers impairment correlations common to two received signal streams, but does not account for cross-stream interference attributable to channel reuse between the two streams. Excluding consideration of channel reuse cross-stream interference from the computation of intermediate... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080152057 - Data recovery using data eye tracking: A data recovery system for a serial digital data link includes a data sampler, compare logic, a phase controller, and a phase shifter. The data sampler samples input data three times in a bit time which time is determined by clock pulses generated by the phase shifter, and recovers digital... Agent: Silicon Image, Inc.

20080152055 - System and method of signal processing: An audio processor is disclosed and includes a sample rate converter and a digital phase-locked-loop module in communication with the sample rate converter. The sample rate converter includes a plurality of digital filters, and the digital phase locked loop module includes a phase accumulator having an initialization value determined based... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080152056 - Wireless communication apparatus and method thereof: A wireless communication apparatus for performing reception processing while tracking a symbol timing obtained by synchronization, the wireless communication apparatus includes a resampler for performing resampling to oversample a received symbol in a plurality of phases by using a sampling rate higher than a symbol rate, a phase-error detector for... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080152058 - Communications system using a low cost oscillator and related method thereof: A communications system includes a first oscillator for producing a first clock signal; a second oscillator for producing a second clock signal; and a secondary circuit coupled to the first oscillator and the second oscillator for determining a second oscillation frequency corresponding to a frequency of the second clock signal;... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080152059 - Inter-base station synchronization system, synchronization control device, and base station: [Solving Means] In a base station synchronization system including a plurality of base stations 13 and a base station concentrator 12, the base station concentrator 12 includes a control information generator 21 for generating synchronization control information, and each base station 13 includes a VCO 30 oscillating at a frequency... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080152060 - Method and apparatus for evaluating a clock in a satellite: In a system for characterizing a satellite clock in a satellite, the satellite has a transmitting device configured to emit a transmission signal at a transmission frequency as a function of a state of the satellite clock. The system includes a receiver clock which has a higher precision than the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080152061 - Method and apparatus for opportunistic multicasting with coded scheduling in wireless networks: A method, apparatus and system for opportunistic multicasting are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus for use in a wireless multicast system comprises: a storage to store channel state and/or rate information received from the plurality of receivers; an optional encoder to generate encoding blocks from the original multicast/broadcast content;... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080152062 - Multiple channel synchronized clock generation scheme: Multiple channel synchronized clock generation scheme. A novel approach is presented herein in which synchronized clock signals are generated that can be used in parallel processing of deserialized signals. When a serial input signal is received, it can be deserialized into a plurality of parallel signals, and each of these... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080152063 - Serial interface connecting circuit: A serial interface connecting circuit includes a first IC (10) with a signal transmitting and a signal receiving terminal, a second IC (20) with a signal transmitting and a signal receiving terminal, and a connecting circuit (30) coupled between the first IC (10) and the second IC (20). The connecting... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080152064 - Digital transmission apparatus and methods: PCR jitter is improved when writing an input stream TS having a packet with a PCR in a memory 10 and reading it at a high speed. An oscillator 44 oscillates a local clock signal having a frequency of a reference clock for the input TS and a counter 46... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080152065 - Automatic frequency monitoring circuit, electronic device, automatic frequency monitoring method, and automatic frequency monitoring program: An automatic frequency monitoring circuit automatically monitors a frequency of a clock related to an operation of a device to be monitored. In the automatic frequency monitoring circuit, a frequency detecting unit detects, upon detecting a predetermined momentum, the frequencies of a monitoring target clock during a predetermined time for... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080144701 - Method and system for synchronizing and selectively addressing multiple receivers in a wireless, spread spectrum communication system: A system and method for synchronizing and selectively addressing multiple receivers in a wireless communication system includes a spread spectrum transmitter and one or more spread spectrum receivers. The transmitter transmits a signal having an observable parameter which is pseudo-randomly varied. The receiver measures the relative times between recurrences of... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20080144703 - Method for path selection and signal processing in wireless communications system: A method of path selection in a multi-path channel communications system that includes providing path information including at least path parameters and path statuses, setting a plurality of thresholds for the path parameters, comparing the path parameters to the thresholds corresponding to the path parameters, assigning a weighting to the... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080144702 - Method of and apparatus for computation of unbiased power delay profile: A method of determining a noise-corrected power delay profile includes determining a power delay profile and calculating a noise-corrected power delay profile. The step of calculating the noise-corrected power delay profile includes using a biased noise-floor power estimate, the power delay profile, and a noise-scaling factor.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080144704 - Spreading codes: An apparatus including a spreading code generator for generating a spreading code; a scrambling code generator for generating a scrambling code; and a modulator for scrambling the spreading code using the scrambling code to produce a modified spreading code.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080144705 - Universal external multimedia adapter for use in a vehicle: A vehicle audio/video media system includes an adapter apparatus in electrical communication with an audio/video head unit. The adapter apparatus includes a digital input receiving digital audio/video content from an external source. A digital-to-analog converter is coupled to the digital input and converts the digital audio/video content into analog audio/video... Agent: Panasonic Automotive System Company Of America

20080144706 - At-command analyzing device: An UART receives asynchronous transmission serial data based on a baud-rate clock from a DTE. An MPU analyzes the data received by the UART. A baud-rate generating portion generates the baud-rate clock to be output to the UART in accordance with instructions from the MPU. A first counter measures the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080144707 - Transmitter built-in production line testing utilizing digital gain calibration: A novel and useful self-calibration based production line testing mechanism utilizing built-in closed loop measurements in the radio to calibrate the output power of an external power amplifier coupled to a SoC radio. The mechanism is applicable during production line testing and calibration which is performed on each SoC and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080144708 - Method and apparatus for equalization: An equalization circuit and an equalization method implemented thereby are provided. A received symbol is received to generate a equalizer output. In the equalization circuit, an equalizer performs equalization to the received symbol based on a SNR value of the equalizer output. A SNR estimator coupled to the output of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080144709 - Rf transmitter with predistortion and method therefor: An RF transmitter (10) includes a linear predistorter (22) and a nonlinear predistorter (24) which together drive analog transmitter components (14). The linear and nonlinear predistorters (22, 24) are implemented using a collection of adaptive equalizers (30). A feedback signal (20) is developed by downconverting an RF communication signal (16)... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20080144710 - System for decoding a digital radio stream: To improve the user experience, a digital radio receiver may output the data contained within the Fast Access Channel and Service Description Channel of a Digital Radio Mondiale stream when their decoding is complete without waiting for the Main Service Channel decoding to finish. When the Main Service Channel decoding... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080144711 - Encoding video at multiple resolution levels: A method and related system of encoding or re-encoding video is disclosed. In the method, video data comprising a sequence of frames is received. For a respective frame in the sequence of frames, a multi-level frame is generated comprising the respective frame and a plurality of copies of the respective... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080144712 - Line merging video content: Reducing the file size for a video data file by obtaining the video data file in a data line format (4) that has multiple data lines which contain pixel information, organizing the data lines into groups, and merging the pixel information amongst the data lines in each of the groups... Agent: Tips Group

20080144713 - Acm aware encoding systems and methods: Methods, systems, and devices are described for hierarchical communication of a set of source data over a communication link. Sets of representation data may be generated by applying precoding schemes to a set of source data. The sets of representation data may be associated with coding and modulation schemes of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080144714 - Moving picture encoding device, moving picture decoding device, moving picture encoding method, moving picture decoding method, program, and computer readable recording medium storing program: An object of the present invention is to express a predicted picture signal with light overheads, and to provide motion compensation of different pixel accuracy. A moving picture encoding device 20 according to the present invention includes a motion vector detection means 32 for detecting a motion vector of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080144715 - Moving picture coding method, and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus (10) for performing inter-picture predictive coding on pictures constituting a moving picture is provided with a coding unit (103) for performing predictive error coding on image data; a decoding unit (105) for performing predictive error decoding on an output from the coding unit (103); a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080144716 - Method for motion vector determination: In a method for determining motion vectors from image data for blocks or objects of an image taken from an image sequence a block B(X) or object of pixels is divided (33) in two or more groups (Ga, Gb) within the block B(X) or object a motion vector (Da, Db)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080144720 - Moving picture encoding device, moving picture decoding device, moving picture encoding method, moving picture decoding method, program, and computer readable recording medium storing program: An object of the present invention is to express a predicted picture signal with light overheads, and to provide motion compensation of different pixel accuracy. A moving picture encoding device 20 according to the present invention includes a motion vector detection means 32 for detecting a motion vector of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080144718 - 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

20080144719 - 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

20080144717 - Variable length decoding method: The present invention is to provide a variable length decoding method for decoding complete binary tree code, which is implemented to an entropy coding module for executing the process comprising the steps of: procuring a TabIndex to calculate a value T=└log2(TabIndex)┘; reading T bits from a bitstream to obtain a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080144721 - Video coding apparatus: According to one embodiment, a video coding apparatus for coding a video signal including a frame which is divided into a plurality of blocks, includes: a prediction section that performs a plurality of predictions for each of the plurality of blocks or each of subblocks into which each of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080144722 - Derivation process of boundary filtering strength, and deblocking filtering method and apparatus using the derivation process: Provided are a bS derivation process and a deblocking filtering method and apparatus using illumination compensation and/or chrominance compensation, such as a multi-view video coding, in a picture coding/decoding process in which a prediction coding is performed. If neither of the two blocks are intra-coded, neither of the two blocks... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080144724 - Method for protecting video transmission based on h.264: A method for protecting video transmission based on H.264 is disclosed, In the invention, a receiving end performs statistical analysis on the communication quality and the result is fed back to a transmitting end, the transmitting end adjusts the protection strategy self adaptively; the receiving end performs statistical analysis on... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080144723 - Rate control for multi-layer video design: Methods and apparatus for efficient encoding multimedia data, such as live video streams are disclosed. The multimedia data is pre-encoded into multiple layers and characteristics of the pre-encoded data are determined. Based at least in part on the determined characteristics, the multimedia data is encoded into multiple layers.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080144725 - Methods and devices for re-synchronizing a damaged video stream: The invention concerns methods and devices for concealing artefacts induced by transmission errors in a video sequence transmitted over a network between a server and a client making it possible to avoid abrupt resynchronization following a transmission error. When an error is detected, a video stream is created from a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080144726 - Device, method and system of uplink communication between wireless video modules: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of wireless video communication. Some embodiments include an apparatus including a downlink receiver to receive a wireless downlink video transmission from a video source module, and an uplink transmitter to transmit to the wireless video source module a wireless uplink transmission. Other... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080144727 - Method, apparatus and system for visual inspection of transcoded: The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system for visually comparing a video file against its source as the video file is being re-encoded, for example, into another video format. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a video frame and a corresponding re-encoded video frame are... Agent: Joseph S. Tripoli, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing Llc

20080144728 - Parallelized dynamic huffman decoder: Several code detectors in parallel simultaneously examine varying overlapping segments of a data stream containing variable length codes, referred to as a data window. The data window segments directly address memory structures within each of the code detectors without any previous logic stages. Each code detector is responsible for a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080144731 - Apparatus and method for clock synchronization in a multi-point ofdm/dmt digital communications system: A multi-point communications system is set forth herein. The communications system comprises a transmitter for transmitting OFDM/DMT symbols over a predetermined number of bins across a transmission medium. The OFDM/DMT symbols are generated using at least one timing signal. At least one of the predetermined number of bins includes a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080144730 - Edge mmse filters: A method for performing channel estimation of an OFDM channel includes, in part, interpolating pilots for sub-channels positioned within a first range of an OFDM symbol, and estimating frequency response of sub-channels positioned within a second range of the OFDM symbol. The first range is defined by subchannels positioned substantially... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080144729 - Ofdm communication apparatus and ofdm communication method: An OFDM communication apparatus that can set an optimum repetition number to data to be transmitted, thereby improving the error rate characteristic and hence the communication quality. In this apparatus, a repetition number deciding part (153) decides, based on quality information outputted from a quality information extracting part (152), a... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080144732 - Systems and methods for high-throughput wideband wireless local area network communications: A frame format provides for wideband wireless local area network communications and informs narrower-band communication units when the channels are occupied by wider-band communication units. In some embodiments, the frame format includes a channelization field identifying channels that are used for communicating subsequent wideband fields of a packet, and a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080144734 - Downstream broad beam diversity: A satellite communication system is provided according to one embodiment of the invention. The satellite communication system includes a plurality of satellites, a gateway and a plurality of subscriber terminals in communication with the gateway through the satellites. The gateway includes a plurality of antennas pointed toward a specific satellite.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080144733 - Mimo transmitter and receiver for supporting downlink communication of single channel codewords: The downlink (DL) communication of single channel codewords is supported by providing a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmitter and receiver. The transmitter includes NT transmit antennas for transmitting spatial streams to a receiver having NR receive antennas, a precoder and a space-time or space-frequency matrix construction unit in communication with the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080144735 - Broadband transmitter: A broadband transmitter includes a modulator and circuits for translating and conditioning the modulated signal to produce a modulated, analog signal at a predetermined frequency. A low-linearity power amplifier amplifies the analog signal at a predetermined frequency; the low-linearity amplifier benefits from having a smaller physical size and a lower... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080144736 - Method for calibrating a quadrature modulator and a modulation system: A method and system for calibrating a quadrature modulator. The method includes: determining a set of sideband calibration frequencies; for each sideband calibration frequency out of the set of sideband calibration frequencies: inputting an input signal having the sideband calibration frequency to the quadrature modulator; measuring a sideband signal power... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080144738 - Beam space time coding and transmit diversity: Methods and apparatus for increasing diversity gain at a receiver by applying beamforming to transmit diversity space-time coded signals. Transmit diversity can be provided at a signal source by space-time coding the signal. A transmit signal is space-time coded over a plurality of space-time antenna groups, with each space-time antenna... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080144737 - Beamspace-time coding based on channel quality feedback: Methods and apparatus for increasing diversity gain at a receiver by applying beamforming to transmit diversity space-time coded signals. A transmit signal is space-time coded over a plurality of space-time antenna groups, with each space-time antenna group associated with a specific space-time code. The signal at each space-time antenna group... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080144739 - Maximum ratio transmission: t

20080144740 - Digital mixer system and method: A digital mixer system and method is disclosed. In an embodiment, a digital mixer can receive a modulated signal having a sample rate approximately equal to a clock rate divided by an integer factor. The digital mixer can include a first mixing stage having a first plurality of Coordinate Rotation... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080144741 - Methods for power reduction detection for enhanced dedicated channel: A method for detecting transmission power reduction in a physical channel including at least a non-enhanced data channel portion, a non-enhanced control channel portion, an enhanced control channel portion and an enhanced data channel portion is provided. The method includes estimating a ratio of a transmission power associated with the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080144742 - Method and apparatus for performance metric compatible control of data transmission signals: The DC offset of a differential signal can be changed by differentially shifting the DC offset of each of its signals. Techniques are presented for changing, in a controlled way, the DC offset of a differential signal as received by a receiver of a data transmission system. Several classes of... Agent: Pvf -- Synopsys, Inc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080144743 - Demodulator system and method: A demodulator system and method is disclosed. In an embodiment, the demodulator system can include a Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer (CORDIC) mixer to mix a first signal substantially to baseband using a first input frequency and to mix a second signal substantially to baseband using a second input frequency. In... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080144744 - Method and system for demodulation of a differential loran c signal: A system for demodulation of the Loran Data Channel transmitted over the Enhanced Loran (eLoran) system including a quadrature filter. The quadrature filter calculates the real and quadrature phase components of a received ninth pulse. The resultant components are used to obtain the angle of the ninth pulse. This angle... Agent: Chris A. Caseiro

20080144745 - Channel estimation device, method, and computer readable medium for estimating channel by a previous channel signal: A channel estimation device estimates channel by a previous signal, comprising an F evaluation module, a digitalization module, and a transferring module. The evaluation module processes a initial channel estimation according to at least one pilot signal of the previous signal. The digitalization module digitalizes a data carrier to a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080144746 - Parameterized sphere detector and methods of using the same: A Multiple-input Multiple-Output (MIMO) receiver is provided. The MIMO receiver comprises a parameterized sphere detector having two search modes. During a first search mode, the parameterized sphere detector enumerates a number of best candidate vectors up to a fixed parameter value. During a second search mode, the parameterized sphere detector... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080144747 - Filtering apparatus and digital broadcast receiving apparatus: A filtering apparatus including: first and second filters used to filter inputted packets; a connection information register disposed in correspondence with the first filter; a condition storage portion configured to store a filter condition for identifying a packet associated to the second filter; a reference number register configured to allocate... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080144748 - Method and system for providing analog control of digital gain in a wireless device: A method for providing analog control of digital gain in a wireless device is provided. The method includes receiving an analog gain from a baseband modem at a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) having a digital region. The baseband modem is associated with a first operating range, and the digital... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080144749 - Inter-carrier interference cancellation for ofdma systems: Inter-carrier interference (ICI) cancellation is performed on a received signal comprising signals transmitted by a transmitter to a plurality of users. ICI cancellation is performed for a given user by identifying the signals transmitted to other users that cause the largest ICI to signals transmitted to the receiving user, and... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080144750 - Method of and system for optimizing the capacity of a digital communication system in presence of both internal and external noise: A method of optimizing a communication system for receiving and processing an input communication signal includes selecting a first noise margin m to be applied against an external noise present on the input communication signal. The method further includes selecting a second noise margin mi to be applied against an... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080144752 - Channel environment-adapted mmse reception method and apparatus using multiple receive antennas: Method and Apparatus for controlling combining coefficients of multiple receive antennas according to the channel conditions in a mobile communication system, to improve data restoration performance. A mobile station detects preamble, pilot and data from a signal received from a base station via the multiple receive antennas, measures a channel... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080144753 - Method of and device for antennae diversity switching: The invention relates to the field of wireless communications, more particularly to a method of and device for switching between antennae in communication with a diversity receiver, each of the antennae receiving signals transmitted from a single source. A packet from a transmitter is received by respective antenna communicating with... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080144751 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed high definition video data using beambook-constructed beamforming signals: A system and method for generating a number of candidate beamforming vectors for transmission of high definition video data over a wireless medium is disclosed. In one embodiment the system comprises a memory configured to store a plurality of candidate beamforming vectors and a processor for executing software configured to... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080144754 - Wireless communications device providing temperature-compensated clock correction features and related methods: A wireless communications device may include a portable housing and a temperature-compensated clock circuit carried by the portable housing. The device may further include a wireless receiver carried by the portable housing for receiving timing signals, when available, from a wireless network, and a satellite positioning clock circuit carried by... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20080144755 - Method and device for the sampling of digital data in synchronous transmission, with maintenance of binary integrity: The method is applicable to the reception of data in the case of a digital transmission in which the pieces of data are transmitted by a unit of equipment A to a unit of equipment B with an accompanying clock signal HA. This accompanying clock signal transmitted by the transmitter... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080144756 - Apparatus and method of acquiring initial synchronization of terminal in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of acquiring initial synchronization of a terminal in a mobile communication system. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, one or more auto-correlation values of a preamble constituting a signal that is received from a base station are calculated.... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080144757 - Device, method and program for detecting communication frame base point through blind processing: A base point of a communication frame is detected by only using a reception signal, and an offset amount from the base point and the like are estimated. A device includes: an extraction unit for extracting self correlation processing signals from a digital communication signal having a signal frame for... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080144758 - Method and system for receiving distance measurement equipment channels in an undersampled broadband receiver: A method to receive channels in an undersampled broadband receiver comprising mixing bands of assigned channels with an oscillator to generate downconverted bands, wherein each assigned channel has an assigned unique identifying code. The method further includes undersampling the downconverted bands and determining if the unique identifying code associated with... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080144759 - method of coupling tubular member: A method of coupling tubular members.... Agent: King & Spalding, L.l.p. Todd Mattingly

20080144760 - Clock repeater and phase-error correcting circuit: Embodiments of a clock repeater and phase-error correcting circuit are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a clock repeater and phase-error correcting circuit may include a polyphase network having a non-symmetrical frequency response selected to reduce static phase error from a multi-phase clock... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080137714 - Spread spectrum signal: A spread-spectrum signal comprises a spreading waveform modulating a carrier wave and containing a real linear combination of a first waveform at a first waveform rate and a second waveform at a second waveform rate, the first waveform rate being distinct from the second waveform rate and both waveform rates... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080137715 - Secure spread spectrum-facilitated remote control signaling method and apparatus: Remote control signaling may be conveyed using a spread spectrum link and/or a non-spread spectrum link. Enabling link interfaces (such as corresponding transmitters, receivers, or transceivers) to support this flexibility are provided in a shared housing and couple as appropriate to a remote control signal platform. A corresponding apparatus may... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080137716 - Digital frequency hopping in multi-band ofdm: A transmitter configured for generating a frequency-hopped OFDM signal comprises a digital Fourier transform circuit, a variable bandpass filter, and a frequency-hopping controller. The digital Fourier transform circuit comprises a plurality of input frequency bins and is configured to modulate complex data symbols onto a plurality of OFDM subcarriers. The... Agent: Steven J Shattil

20080137717 - Differential orthogonal modulation method and apparatus using repetition time interval difference of chirp signal: A differential orthogonal modulation method and a differential orthogonal modulation apparatus using a repetition time interval difference of a chirp signal are disclosed. Such a differential orthogonal modulation method performed in a transmitter unit of a digital communication system comprises the steps of converting data having a serial bit format... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080137718 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for allocating training signals and information bits: Techniques of channel correction and demodulation for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are enhanced so that higher effective data rates and/or lower error rates can be achieved with a minimal processing load. Pilots are adaptively moved and/or removed, and their positions are changed, to enhance the channel estimation, decoding,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20080137719 - Serial transmission system, a method for automatically correcting signal quality of serial transmission system, and port: A serial transmission system performs data transfer between a first port and a second port via a transmission path. The first port includes a receiving unit that receives data, a signal-quality measuring unit that measures the signal quality of receive data, a correction-request-data generating unit that generates correction request data... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080137720 - Scaling to reduce wireless signal detection complexity: In at least some embodiments, a receiver for a wireless communication system is provided. The receiver includes an equalizer that provides an equalized channel matrix. The receiver also includes scaling logic coupled to the equalizer, the scaling logic selectively scales coefficients of the equalized channel matrix. The receiver also includes... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080137721 - Automatic adaptive equalization method for high-speed serial transmission link: In a method for performing equalization of a communication system, a predetermined signal can be transmitted from a transmitter unit to a receiver unit in a downchannel direction on a transmission line, for example as a pair of differential signals which simultaneously transition in opposite directions on respective signal conductors... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080137722 - Oversampled channel response identification: Methods, apparatus and computer programs are provided for multiplication-free identification of the impulse response of an oversampled data channel. An input comprising a pseudo-random binary sequence of L symbols is supplied to the channel at a symbol rate of 1/T. A channel output is produced by sampling a channel output... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080137723 - Equalization method and apparatus for time domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver: An equalization method and apparatus for a Time domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) receiver. The equalization method includes estimating a channel impulse response (CIR) based on a baseband sampled complex signal and locally stored pseudo-noise; eliminating the pseudo-noise from the baseband sampled complex signal based on the CIR;... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080137724 - Data decoding method and data decoding device employing same: A data decoding method judges a signal state where there is a transition from a low level to a high level or from a high level to a low level at the center portion of a bit interval as logical “1” or “0”, and a signal state where a low... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080137730 - Data recording method, data editing method, data decoding method, and apparatus and recording medium therefor: A system records an AV stream composed of a plurality of record units (RUs) containing independently reproducible video units (VUs) of at least video or audio and program information (Movie atom) managing the AV stream, onto a recording medium. The program information contains a piece of information (Edit list atom)... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080137733 - Encoding device, decoding device, recording device, audio/video data transmission system: The invention relates to a video data encoding device comprising means for encoding the images in data groups. The device comprises means for inserting, into the encoded data groups, a message comprising parameters representative of the chaptering of the data.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080137731 - Image encoding method and image decoding method, image encoder and image decoder, and image encoded bit stream and recording medium: The present invention makes it possible to include, when encoding processing is applied to three color components using a 4:0:0 format, data for one picture in one access unit and makes it possible to set the same time information or the same set encoding modes among the respective color components.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080137732 - Image encoding method and image decoding method, image encoder and image decoder, and image encoded bit stream and recording medium: The present invention makes it possible to include, when encoding processing is applied to three color components using a 4:0:0 format, data for one picture in one access unit and makes it possible to set the same time information or the same set encoding modes among the respective color components.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080137727 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A basic pattern generating unit 81 generates a film grain basic pattern 86 in which the histogram of random noise is substantially the same as the film grain basic pattern information 53. The film grain basic pattern 86 is of (64×64) pixels and an area of (16×16) pixels is cut... Agent: William S. Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080137726 - Method and apparatus for real-time video encoding: A real-time encoder, e.g., a real-time H.264 compliant encoder or a real-time AVC compliant encoder is disclosed. For example, the encoder comprises a first digital signal processor (DSP) for processing a first panel of an input image and a second digital signal processor (DSP) for processing a second panel of... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080137729 - Storage medium including data structure for reproducing interactive graphic streams supporting multiple languages seamlessly; apparatus and method therefore: A storage medium having a data structure for seamlessly reproducing interactive graphic streams supporting multiple languages, and an apparatus and method therefor are provided. The storage medium includes: a main stream generated by compressing and encoding a multimedia image; and interactive graphic streams multiplexed into the main stream and forming... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080137728 - System, transmitter, receiver, method and software for transmitting and receiving ordered sets of video frames: When distributing a set 101 of frames 102 each with encoded data 103 from a transmitter 104 to a receiver 105, a dependent frame 108 requires an independent frame 107 for decoding, and the transmitting 111 of the frames 102 from a buffer 110 at the transmitter 104 is reordered... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080137725 - Systems and methods for displaying local media signal and broadcast signal utilizing one decoder: A system for displaying a first data signal and a second data signal is disclosed. The system includes: a decoder, for selectively decoding the first data stream to output a first decoded signal or the second data stream to output a second decoded signal according to a command signal; and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080137734 - Video encoding method, video decoding method, video encoding program, video decoding program, video encoding apparatus, and video decoding apparatus: In a video encoding method according to the present invention, an encoding mode controller 102 determines an encoding mode of each image on the occasion of encoding a moving picture consisting of a plurality of images, and a region partitioning unit 104 determines a region structural unit for partitioning the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080137738 - Line-based video compression: A method for line-based video rate control is provided. The line based video rate control method includes system feedback to change system operating parameters, including on a packet-by-packet basis and also on a line-by-line basis. Also provided is a method for line-based compression. The method includes basic elements of an... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080137737 - Line-based video rate control: A method for line-based video rate control is provided. The line based video rate control method includes system feedback to change system operating parameters, including on a packet-by-packet basis and also on a line-by-line basis. Also provided is a method for line-based compression. The method includes basic elements of an... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080137736 - Method and apparatus for real time parallel encoding: There are provided apparatus and methods for parallelizing an encoding process across multiple processors. An apparatus includes a computing resource balancer and a splitter. The computing resource balancer is for assigning encoder instances to respective ones of the multiple processors based on at least one of thread affinity and process... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080137735 - Processing video signals: A video sequence (4) is subjected to a signal compression process, in which the video sequence is divided (14) into a plurality of segments such that in each segment the number of bits required to code each frame in uncompressed form falls within a range having a predetermined magnitude, and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080137739 - Method and apparatus for predicting the size of a compressed signal: Method and apparatus for providing an estimate of the size of a compressed signal without actually compressing the signal. A compression estimation mechanism models the behavior of entropy encoders on the transform coefficients generated by the application of a discrete transform method on an input uncompressed signal. The compression estimation... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.c. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20080137740 - Method of transcoding data from the mpeg2 standard to an mped4 standard: t

20080137741 - Video transcoding: A method for receiving encoded H.264 video signals and transcoding the received encoded signals to encoded MPEG-2 video signals, including the following steps: decoding the encoded H.264 video signals to obtain uncompressed video signals and to also obtain H.264 feature signals; deriving MPEG-2 feature signals from the H.264 feature signals;... Agent: Martin Novack

20080137743 - Intra-mode predication search method and apparatus for compression of real-time video signal: Provided is an intra-mode prediction search method for compression of a real-time video signal, the method including the steps of: measuring a Rate-Distortion (R-D) cost of a video-signal macro block received from outside; determining a search threshold value by comparing the R-D cost of the received macro block with R-D... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080137742 - System and method for implementing efficient decoded buffer management in multi-view video coding: A system and method for encoding a first picture sequence and a second picture sequence into coded pictures, with the first picture sequence and the second picture sequence being different, and with at least one coded picture of the second picture sequence being predicted from at least one picture in... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080137744 - Image encoder and image decoder, image encoding method and image decoding method, image encoding program and image decoding program, and computer readable recording medium recorded with image encoding program and computer readable recording medium recorde: An image encoder including: a predicted-image generating unit that generates a predicted image in accordance with a plurality of prediction modes indicating predicted-image generating methods; a prediction-mode judging unit that evaluates prediction efficiency of a predicted image outputted from the predicted-image generating unit to judge a predetermined prediction mode; and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080137747 - Interpolated frame generating method and interpolated frame generating apparatus: According to one embodiment, interpolated frame generating method of generating a new interpolated frame inserted between sequential frames, by using a plurality of input frame images, comprises first detecting of detecting at least one potential motion vector by block matching between the input frame images, using a first block of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080137745 - Method and device for processing video data: A device capable of video data processing includes a first unit capable of analyzing at least one motion vector of a macroblock to determine at least one sub-region in at least one reference, each of the at least one sub-region corresponding to one of the at least one motion vector,... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080137746 - Method for predicting performance of patterns used in block motion estimation procedures: A method of determining performance of block motion estimation procedures, including specific search patterns is disclosed. The patterns are based on genetic competition between paired coordinate points. An evaluation of a block matching cost is used to identify a survivor between the two selected points. Models are also provided for... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080137748 - Moving picture coding method, and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus (10) for performing inter-picture predictive coding on pictures constituting a moving picture is provided with a coding unit (103) for performing predictive error coding on image data; a decoding unit (105) for performing predictive error decoding on an output from the coding unit (103); a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080137749 - Assessing quality of service using digital watermark information: The disclosure details methods of measuring the quality of service of received media signals by analyzing digital watermarks embedded in such signals. The quality of a received video or audio signal can thereby be assessed without having the original version of the signal before transmission. Instead, the strength or quality... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080137750 - Motion adaptive image processing: A method of image processing for image conversion, comprises the steps of calculating a difference measure of the difference in pixel values between corresponding blocks of a current image field and a preceding image field, calculating a variability measure of the variability of pixel values from at least one of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080137751 - Separate plane compression using plurality of compression methods including zln and zld methods: Methods, medium, and machines which compress, enhance, encode, transmit, decode, decompress and display digital video images. Real time compression is achieved by sub-sampling each frame of a video signal, filtering the pixel values, and encoding. Real time transmission is achieved due to high levels of effective compression. Real time decompression... Agent: Kendyl A Roman

20080137752 - Adaptive disabling of deblock filtering based on a content characteristic of video information: A method of adaptively disabling deblock filtering of video information including determining a content characteristic of the video information, and adaptively disabling deblock filtering of the video information based on the content characteristic. The content characteristic may be a content complexity, such as an average of minimum sums of absolute... Agent: The Law Offices Of Gary R. Stanford

20080137754 - Image decoding apparatus and image decoding method: The image decoding apparatus and the image decoding method according to one aspect of the present invention have a configuration for storing an image decoded in the past as a reference picture into a frame memory, in a field structure in which top lines in the reference picture are stored... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080137753 - System and method of determining deblocking control flag of scalable video system for indicating presentation of deblocking parameters for multiple layers: A method of generating a video sequence including setting a state of a deblocking control flag in a frame header of a frame to indicate that a deblocking parameter is presented for some but not all layers. A method of processing a received video sequence including determining a state of... Agent: The Law Offices Of Gary R. Stanford

20080137755 - Optimal video adaptation for resource constrained mobile devices based on subjective utility models: The invention relates to using the properties of the mobile client terminal, preferably data processing capability and the screen size, and the capacity of the communication channel between the video streaming server and the client terminal, to determine the bit rate, frame rate and the spatial resolution that the multimedia... Agent: Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney, P.c.

20080137756 - System and method for capturing, editing, searching, and delivering multi-media content: Apparatus is disclosed which may be operated according to a session acquisition mode, an editing mode, and a playback or distribution mode. In the session acquisition mode, in response to a global sync signal or a locally generated start signal, acquisition streams are automatically produced which capture an analog or... Agent: Jones Day

20080137757 - Low complexity and unified transforms for video coding: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for decoding data (e.g., video data) using transforms. In one embodiment, the decoding process comprises scaling a block of coefficients using a scaling factor determined for each coefficient by computing an index for said each coefficient and indexing a look-up table (LUT) using... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080137758 - Low complexity and unified transforms for video coding: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for decoding data (e.g., video data) using transforms. In one embodiment, the decoding process comprises scaling a block of coefficients using a scaling factor determined for each coefficient by computing an index for said each coefficient and indexing a look-up table (LUT) using... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080137759 - Network devices with solid state transformer and class ab output stage for active emi suppression and termination of open-drain transmit drivers of a physical device: Embodiments disclosed herein describe a network device including a class AB common mode suppression (CMS) circuit coupled in parallel between a line voltage source and a physical layer (PHY) device that provides active EMI suppression and Phy device termination. A network connector is coupled to provide the line voltage source... Agent: Koestner Bertani LLP

20080137763 - Candidate list generation and interference cancellation framework for mimo detection: A method and system for performing Multiple-input Multiple-Output (“MIMO”) detection that reduces complexity by decomposing MIMO detection problem into two less complex problems, Candidate List generation and Interference Cancellation (“CLIC”). Embodiments of the CLIC framework parse an N element channel output into a first set containing S elements and a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080137762 - Dynamic resource allocation to improve mimo detection performance: A method and apparatus for detecting symbols in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (“MIMO-OFDM”) system. A MIMO-OFDM receiver includes a first detector that estimates a symbol of a first MIMO-OFDM sub-carrier and a second detector that estimates a symbol of a second MIMO-OFDM sub-carrier. The second detector differs... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080137764 - Method for assigning channels based on spatial division multiplexing in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with multiple antennas: A method for assigning a single frequency sub-channel to a plurality of MSs (Mobile Stations) in an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system utilizing SDM (Spatial Division Multiplexing) with multiple transmit/receive antennas. In the method, a BS (Base Station) can effectively assign a pilot channel to estimate a downlink channel.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080137760 - Method for transmitting signals in a communication system: Signals having an antenna-individual training sequence are transmitted from at least two transmitting antennas in a transmitting station of a communications system. The training sequences are formed in such a manner that the respective transmitting antenna can be identified on the receiving side based on the training sequence.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080137761 - Transmitting device, receiving device and communication method for an ofdm communication system with new preamble structure: A transmitting device, a receiving device, and a communication method for transmitting and receiving data modulated on frequency subcarriers of an OFDM communication system. An OFDM burst includes a preamble part and payload data part, whereby the preamble includes a section of pilot symbols mapped onto every n-th frequency subcarrier... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080137765 - Candidate generation: A method and system for generating a set of candidate symbols. A system includes a Multiple Input Multiple Output (“MIMO”) receiver. The receiver includes a candidate generation look-up table (“LUT”) that provides a list of candidate values for a transmitted symbol selected from a constellation of symbols. The candidate generation... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080137766 - Method and apparatus for orthogonally overlaying variable chip rate spread spectrum signals: A system and method for transmitting wideband signals via a radio communication system adapted for transmitting narrow-band signals is described. A base station is used to transmit and receive a plurality of relatively narrow-band and a plurality of relatively wideband signals. The electromagnetic spectrum available to the plurality of narrow-band... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080137769 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving preamble signal and estimating channel in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication systems using multiple input multiple output scheme: A signal reception apparatus of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system using a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) scheme. The signal reception apparatus, when it uses the NR receive antennas, receives a time-domain preamble signal transmitted by a signal transmission apparatus corresponding thereto via each of the NR... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080137768 - Apparatus and method of compensating for frequency offset in ofdma system: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of compensating for a frequency offset in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system that is capable of efficiently estimating and compensating for the frequency offset. A receiver of the orthogonal frequency division multiple access system can individually estimate a fractional... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080137767 - Ofdm clipping using sidebands and up-sampling: The invention concerns a method for clipping a wideband radio signal in the time domain at a predefined threshold defining the maximum magnitude of the signal, where a difference signal for clipping is determined and subtracted such that the difference signal concentrates spectral interference in one or more unused subcarrier... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080137770 - Method and system for compensating for estimated distortion in a transmitter by utilizing a digital predistortion scheme with a quadrature feedback mixer configuration: Aspects of a method and system for compensating for estimated distortion in a transmitter by utilizing a digital predistortion scheme with a quadrature feedback mixer configuration are presented. Aspects of the system may include an RF transmitter that enables generation of an RF output signal in response to one or... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080137771 - Dsl trellis encoding: A method is used that substantially simultaneously trellis encodes data to be modulated onto multiple tones. The embodiments of the present invention comprise the steps of: (a) using a first input operand comprising state bits for a first trellis stage; (b) using a second input operand comprising a plurality of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080137772 - Method and system for compensating for estimated distortion in a transmitter by utilizing a digital predistortion scheme with a single feedback mixer: Aspects of a method and system for compensating for estimated distortion in a transmitter by utilizing a digital predistortion scheme with a single feedback mixer are presented. Aspects of the system may include at least one circuit that enables generation of an output signal in response to one or more... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080137773 - Method and system for enhancing efficiency by modulating power amplifier gain: Aspects of a method and system for enhancing efficiency by modulating power amplifier (PA) gain are presented. Aspects of the system may comprise a PA gain modulator that enables modification of an amplitude of a digital baseband signal. A baseband processor may enable computation of a first gain value based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080137774 - Modulation-index adjustable amplitude shift keying transmitter: Provided is a modulation-index adjustable amplitude shift keying (ASK) transmitter including: a bias current supply unit supplying one or more bias currents in response to a digital signal that is to be transmitted and one or more bias current control signals; and a modulation signal generator generating a modulation signal... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080137775 - Method and apparatus for hierarchical modulation and demodulation in digital broadcasting system: Provided are a method and apparatus for hierarchical modulation and demodulation in a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) system. The method for hierarchical modulation in a digital broadcast signal transmitter includes the steps of: receiving a first broadcast signal and a second broadcast signal from outside, and encoding the broadcast signals... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080137776 - Method and system for sub-chip resolution for secondary cell search: A Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) receiver comprises an adjustable delay line, a secondary synchronization processor and a controller. The secondary synchronization processor performs frame synchronization on a received wireless signal that is provided via the adjustable delay line. The controller varies the sub-chip timing delays provided by the adjustable... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080137777 - Method and system for independent i and q loop amplitude control for quadrature generators: Certain aspects of a method and system for independent in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) loop amplitude control for quadrature generators may include determining an amplitude voltage associated with an in-phase (I) component and a quadrature (Q) component of a generated signal. A DC reference voltage associated with the I component... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080137778 - Receiving device and receiving method: A demodulating unit demodulates a differential M-phase shift keying signal light by causing delay and interference. A phase-error detecting unit detects an error of a control phase amount of the delay and the interference caused by the demodulating unit. A control unit adjusts the control phase amount to a predetermined... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080137779 - Metrics calculations utilising pre-stored values: The trellis processing apparatus and method achieve a reduced computational structure when implementing a DDFSE-like branch metrics calculation by pre-storing computed values, which can be re-used.... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080137780 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device having an antenna, an asynchronous counter, and a circuit is provided. The antenna converts a carrier wave into an electrical signal. The asynchronous counter has a plurality of flip-flop circuits, each of which has a plurality of thin film transistors. Alternatively, each of the plurality of flip-flop... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080137781 - Method of detecting space-time code in mobile communication system with 4 tx antenna: The present invention relates to a method of detecting a space-time code in a mobile communication system. When detecting a space-time code B for a plurality of transmitting antennas, an ML (maximum likelihood) metric, which is generally calculated by using a specific structure of a matrix B, is defined as... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080137782 - Signal detection method and receiving apparatus in mimo system: The present invention relates to a signal detection method and a receiving apparatus in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a signal detection device in a MIMO system using a spatial multiplexing (SM) method. In the signal detection method, a channel is... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080137783 - Adjustable dual-band link: A communication system utilizing an adjustable link has at least a first data transmission circuit including at least a first communication link circuit. The first communication link circuit has a baseband circuit and at least a passband circuit. The baseband circuit corresponds to a baseband sub-channel and the passband circuit... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20080137784 - Reducing noise during a gain change: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for injecting a gain compensation value into a signal path of a receiver for a predetermined time when a change to a control value for an amplifier of the receiver occurs. This gain compensation value may be used to at least... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080137786 - Adaptively modifying the even harmonic content of clock signals: A wireless device that covers the wireless communication frequency bands incorporates a frequency domain monitor to adaptively modify the time domain waveform of a clock signal to suppress even order harmonics caused by asymmetry in the driver or load. Even order harmonics may be avoided where clock shifting is not... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080137787 - Method and apparatus to overcome harmonic interference: A computing platform and method of controlling interference caused by a clock of the computing platform is provided. The method includes, locating a band of frequencies of a wireless communication device which interfered by one or more harmonics of the clock frequency of the computing platform and modulating the clock... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080137785 - Method and system for rc-cr quadrature generation with wideband coverage and process compensation: Certain aspects of a method and system for RC-CR quadrature generation with wideband coverage and process compensation may include determining an amplitude mismatch between an in-phase (I) component and a quadrature (Q) component of a signal generated in a radio frequency (RF) transmitter or receiver. A variation in resistance of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080137788 - Apparatus and method of estimating channel based on channel delay spread in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of estimating a channel based on a channel delay spread in a mobile communication system. Pilot subcarriers are inserted between data subcarriers at predetermined intervals to estimate a channel at locations of the pilot subcarriers. An approximate channel delay spread value... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080137789 - Systems and arrangements for clock and data recovery in communications: A sampling clock signal controller for receivers of digital data is disclosed. Specific bit patterns of a data waveform can be identified, and stored time samples of the waveform that correspond to the specific bit patterns can be analyzed to improve the timing of a sampling clock signal. These “time-amplitude”... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080137790 - Systems and arrangements for clock and data recovery in communications: A dual mode clock and data recovery (CDR) system is disclosed. A fast locking, oversampling CDR acquisition module can begin the process to quickly create a data acquisition clock signal in start up data acquisition conditions. When at least some data can be extracted from the incoming data stream, the... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080130711 - Method and apparatus for adaptive noise and/or signal filtering in an hsdpa channel quality indicator (cqi) selection: Methods and systems for processing signals in a wireless communication system are disclosed. Aspects of the method may include estimating at a receiver, a rate at which a communication channel changes. A length of a filter used to average a noise power estimate and/or a signal power estimate may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080130713 - Method of generating multi-channel local oscillation frequencies: A method of generating multi-channel local oscillation frequencies in an ultra wide band communication system having multiple channels of identical bandwidth, the method including: generating at least one reference frequency; generating a plurality of auxiliary frequencies by dividing and multiplying the at least one reference frequency; and generating a plurality... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080130712 - Switched-current oscillator for clock-frequency spreading: A switched-current oscillator having a dc current source adapted to charge a capacitor so that the capacitor charging time is controlled based on a sequence of (pseudo)randomly selected values, each of those values defining a corresponding charging time. A discharge device is adapted to discharge the capacitor if the voltage... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.c.

20080130714 - Interference cancellation for wireless communication: Interference in a wireless communication is minimized, or at least reduced, by scaling the symbols received from an interfering transmitter. Input samples from the interfering transmitter are isolated and decovered to generate received symbols. The gains of the received symbols are scaled to reduce the interference and the scaled symbols... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130716 - Apparatus and method for spreading/despreading data using pair of child orthogonal variable spreading factor codes: there is provided a spreading apparatus using a child orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) code pair, including: a channel condition information receiving unit for receiving channel condition information including a channel condition metric; a switch controlling unit for receiving the channel condition information from the channel condition information receiving unit... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080130715 - Method and apparatus for communication by a secondary user of spectrum: During operation of a node in a secondary communication system (100) data enters a spreader (301) and is appropriately spread. The spread data is then modulated onto all available channels using a multi-carrier OFDM modulation technique. This entails the spread data being modulated onto those channels that are currently being... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080130717 - Dynamic memory and i/o management in a gps receiver: Clock compensation for GPS receivers. A receiver in accordance with the present invention comprises a Radio Frequency (RF) portion, and a baseband portion, coupled to the RF portion, wherein the baseband portion comprises a crystal, an oscillator, coupled to the crystal, wherein the oscillator generates a clock signal based on... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20080130719 - Method and apparatus for suppressing interference based on channelization code power estimation with bias removal: Processing in a baseband processor is improved by estimating channelization code powers when processing received signals and reducing at least one of interference and noise power from the code power estimates. According to one embodiment of a wireless communication device such as a mobile phone or Local Area Network (LAN)... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080130718 - Method and system for delay matching in a rake receiver for wcdma closed loop modes: Certain aspects of a method and system for delay matching in a rake receiver for WCDMA closed loop modes are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include selecting a set of channel estimates from a plurality of channel estimates generated for a delay matched branch and/or a non-delay matched branch... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080130720 - Receiver processing system: A method of adjusting the relative timing of a spreading sequence and a sampled input signal for a spread spectrum receiver correlator, the spreading sequence having an associated spreading sequence chip clock, the input signal being sampled at sample clock intervals, the method comprising: delaying the sampled input signal by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130721 - Receiver processing system: A spread spectrum receiver architecture comprising: a spread spectrum signal sampler; a sample delay stage, coupled to the spread spectrum sampler, to provide a set of spread spectrum samples having a plurality of different delays on a delayed sample bus; a plurality of scramble code generators to provide a plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130722 - Apparatus and method for detecting time-frequency code in mb-ofdm uwb system: Provided is an apparatus and method for detecting a time-frequency code in an MB-OFDM UWB system. The apparatus includes a controller for providing a band selection signal to the RF receiver and outputting a preamble selection signal at regular symbol periods to calculate a cross correlation value for a predetermine... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080130723 - Method for ranging with access point and repeater in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and more particularly, to a repeater and a ranging method using the repeater. In the mobile communication system including the repeater, a ranging operation is performed so that data are transmitted to a base station regardless of whether a mobile terminal... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080130725 - Method and apparatus for canceling interference in a hybrid terminal supporting both broadcast service and mobile communication service, and a hybrid terminal thereof: A method and apparatus for canceling interference during reception of a broadcast signal in a hybrid terminal including a broadcast receiver and a mobile communication terminal. In the interference cancellation apparatus, a gain controller adjusts transmission power of the mobile communication terminal, and a transmission power controller determines whether there... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130724 - Relative value notifying method, base station and mobile station: A relative value notification method for notifying a relative value of a certain variable, from a transmitting side apparatus to a receiving side apparatus, includes the steps of: generating, at the transmitting side apparatus, a control signal indicating the relative value by using the number of values 1 or 0... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080130726 - Data rate coordination in protected variable-rate links: A method for communication includes sending first data over a first communication link to a destination communication system at a first data rate, which can be varied. Second data, including at least a portion of the first data, is sent over a second communication link from the source communication system... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080130728 - Monitoring and control of transmit power in a multi-modem wireless communication device: A method (100) for limiting transmission power of a communication device (600) having a plurality of transceivers (610, 615). The method can include determining a desired maximum transmission power and determining a plurality of power contribution factors. Each of the power contribution factors can be associated with a respective one... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080130727 - Monitoring multiple modem transmission in a communication device: Within a communication device, a method of managing a plurality of modems can include determining a first measure of transmission power for a first modem (710), wherein the first measure of transmission power is a running total of transmission power for the first modem over a predetermined time period, and... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080130729 - Frequency error correction by using remodulation: A communications signal is received through a propagation channel, down-converted in frequency and then converted into a digital signal. The samples of the digital signal are processed to estimate the information conveyed by the communications signal. The estimated information is then used with knowledge about the propagation channel to model... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080130731 - Noise and channel estimation using low spreading factors: Noise measurements are made within a fraction of a single symbol period of a longest orthogonal code symbol. A control processor identifies an unoccupied code having a spreading factor that is less than a longest spreading factor for the system. A despreader measures symbol energy based on the unoccupied code... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130730 - Refinement of channel response calculation: A scheme for determining which of a set of taps that can potentially be used to measure a channel impulse response should be used to estimate the channel impulse response.... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080130733 - Equalizer device: An equalizer device which enables tap coefficient correction accuracy to be improved to enable high-quality adaptive equalization. A tap coefficient filter corrects tap coefficients thereof in accordance with a control signal and equalizes a received signal in which a data signal is multiplexed with a pilot signal, which is a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080130732 - Method and system for low complexity conjugate gradient based equalization in a wireless system: Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may include updating a plurality of filter taps utilizing at least one channel response vector and at least one correlation vector, for a plurality of received clusters, based on initialized values related to the at least one... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080130734 - Method and system for receiving pulse width keyed signals: Provided is a method to process a pulse width coded signal. The method includes digitizing a received pulse width coded signal and transforming the digitized signal to at least one of power domain and absolute value domain. The converting produces a converted signal. The method also includes estimating a signal... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080130735 - Methods and apparatus for data decoding/encoding and for searching for/inserting stuffing bytes: In a method of decoding data that contains payload data, start codes and stuffing data that prevents emulation of start codes within the data, and correspondingly in a method of encoding data that contains payload data and start codes, data is read or written. Substantially simultaneously with reading or writing... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c. David A. Rose

20080130737 - Buffer underflow prevention: A video stream is digitally encoded such that the rate at which individual segments of data are encoded varies according to the amount of data required to generate each segment. Frames are selectively omitted from transmission (32) such that the cumulative frame rate does not fall below a predetermined value.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080130740 - Image encoding method and image decoding method, image encoder and image decoder, and image encoded bit stream and recording medium: The present invention makes it possible to include, when encoding processing is applied to three color components using a 4:0:0 format, data for one picture in one access unit and makes it possible to set the same time information or the same set encoding modes among the respective color components.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130739 - Method and device for transmitting video data: This method allows the transmission of coded data representing a sequence of digital images. A predetermined quantity of this data is stored in a buffer before transmission over a communication network. The method comprises a step of determining a subset of data in the buffer to be transcoded, as a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080130736 - Methods and devices for coding and decoding images, telecommunications system comprising such devices and computer program implementing such methods: i

20080130738 - Reference frame ordering for multi-view coding: A method for setting the order of reference frames for multi-view coding and a recorded medium recording the method are disclosed. The method of setting the order of reference frames, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of selecting the n (integer) number of frames... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080130741 - Wireless hd av packet format: An audio/video (AV) processor is coupled to a media access controller (MAC) to generate a composite packet having an optimized format for carrying audio, video, and data traffic with fields in a header of the composite packet specifying video-specific information. A physical device interface (PHY) is coupled to the MAC.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080130742 - Processor for video data encoding/decoding: A video processor uses attributes of video data to perform encoding and decoding. Some embodiments dynamically configure the processor via a sequence of instructions, where the instructions include information on the attributes of the current video data. Some embodiments include a dynamically configurable adder array that computes difference functions thereby... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080130744 - Video object segmentation method and system: A method and system of video object segmentation are disclosed herein. A pixel data of an image is received, wherein the pixel data has a corresponding location. A difference value between a pixel value of the pixel data and a pixel value in the corresponding location of a previous image... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080130745 - Method and apparatus for intra prediction for rru: There are provided encoders, decoders and corresponding encoding and decoding methods. A reduced resolution update based video encoder for encoding video data divisible into macroblocks includes a memory device, a downsampler, INTRA coding means, an encoder, a decoder, and an upsampler. The memory device is for storing reduced resolution neighboring... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080130746 - Decoding a progressive jpeg bitstream as a sequentially-predicted hybrid video bitstream: An apparatus generally including a first circuit and a second circuit is disclosed. The first circuit may be configured to generate an intermediate bitstream by parsing a Joint Picture Expert Group (JPEG) bitstream carrying a picture. The intermediate bitstream generally includes one or more encoded frames each representing a portion... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080130747 - Image encoder and image decoder, image encoding method and image decoding method, image encoding program and image decoding program, and computer readable recording medium recorded with image encoding program and computer readable recording medium recorde: An image encoder including: a predicted-image generating unit that generates a predicted image in accordance with a plurality of prediction modes indicating predicted-image generating methods; a prediction-mode judging unit that evaluates prediction efficiency of a predicted image outputted from the predicted-image generating unit to judge a predetermined prediction mode; and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130748 - Highly parallel pipelined hardware architecture for integer and sub-pixel motion estimation: Disclosed is a pipelined motion estimation system and method. The pipelined motion estimation system includes a current frame input storage means for storing contents of a current frame and a previous frame input storage means for storing contents of one or more previous frames. A sum-of-absolute differences calculation module concurrently... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20080130750 - Illumination compensation method and apparatus and video encoding and decoding method and apparatus using the illumination compensation method: Provided are an illumination compensation method and apparatus and video encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses using the illumination compensation method. The illumination compensation method for a reference block used for motion estimation includes receiving pixel values of reconstructed neighboring pixels around a current block to be encoded and pixel values of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080130752 - Interpolated frame generating method and interpolated frame generating apparatus: According to one embodiment, an interpolated frame generator comprises first detector detects potential motion vector by block matching between input frame images, using first block of fixed size, second detector detects motion vector by block matching between the input frame images, using second block having fixed size larger than that... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080130749 - Method for performing pattern-based block motion estimation: A block motion estimation search method and related search pattern for determining motion vectors of varying image data is disclosed. The patterns are based on genetic competition between paired coordinate points. An evaluation of a block matching cost is used to identify a survivor between the two selected points. Models... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080130751 - Motion vector detecting apparatus and motion vector detecting method: In encoding an interlace picture in a field picture, a motion-vector detecting apparatus changes over a reference picture of a P-picture in a field unit, and changes over a reference picture of a B-picture in a frame unit. Moreover, in detecting the motion vector in different predictive directions, the motion-vector... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080130753 - Interpolated frame generating method and interpolated frame generating apparatus: 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.

20080130743 - Tv signal processing circuit: When data is an HDTV signal, a buffer memory is used as two banks and pipeline processing is performed. When data is an SDTV signal, on the other hand, the buffer memory is used as a bankless buffer memory, and the pipeline processing is not performed.... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080130754 - Memory reduced h264/mpeg-4 avc codec: A method for reducing memory utilization in a digital video codec. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a second reference picture by downsampling a first reference picture using a pattern, wherein the pattern (i) comprises a two-dimensional grid and (ii) is unachievable by performing a vertical downsampling... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080130755 - Apparatus and method of reduced reference frame search in video encoding: Aspects include systems and methods of improving processing in an encoder in a multimedia transmission system. Multimedia data may include one or more of motion video, audio, still images, or any other suitable type of audio-visual data. Aspects include an apparatus and method of encoding video data. For example, an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130756 - Image encoding method and image decoding method, image encoder and image decoder, and image encoded bit stream and recording medium: The present invention makes it possible to include, when encoding processing is applied to three color components using a 4:0:0 format, data for one picture in one access unit and makes it possible to set the same time information or the same set encoding modes among the respective color components.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130758 - Method and apparatus for determining resolution of encoding for a previous image compression operation: A method and apparatus for determining a previously encoded resolution of blocking of a decompressed video signal. Edges are detected in a sample of the decompressed signal and it is determined whether an edge exists at each horizontal position along each video line in turn to output a signal when... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080130757 - Method and system for scalable bitstream extraction: A scalable video compression system (100) having an encoder (120), bit extractor (140), and decoder (160) for efficiently encoding and decoding a scalable embedded bitstream (130) at different video resolution, framerate, and video quality levels is provided. Bits can be extracted in order of refinement layer (136), followed by temporal... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080130759 - Method and device for texture based coding: For reducing the false contour effect the gravity centre coding is utilized. However, a GCC with a few number of levels introduces noise in a picture. Therefore, each picture is divided into segments and such GCC is performed only in regions, where the false contour effect is critical. This is... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080130761 - 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

20080130760 - Decoder device, receiver device, and medium reproduction device: A decoding/outputting section decodes encoded data. A decoding error determination section determines presence/absence of a decoding error each time the encoded data is decoded by the decoding/outputting section. A storing section stores determination results in a chronological order. A determination section determines whether the number of determination results indicating “decoding... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080130763 - Asynchronous data transmitting apparatus: An asynchronous data transmitting apparatus includes data signal transmission lines; two control transmission lines having a minimum delay and maximum delay respectively; a transmitter; and a receiver. The transmitter includes a data transmitting unit that transmits a data signal through the data signal transmission lines, depending on a transmit clock;... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080130762 - Method for transmitting data: In a method for transmitting data using a predetermined data protocol between a first electronic control unit and a second electronic control unit in a motor vehicle, in which a data protocol is transmitted in the form of a pulse-pause sequence via a single electrical line, a first data protocol... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080130764 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed high definition video data using beamforming vector feedback based on hybrid quantization: A system and method for obtaining a transmit beamforming vector for transmission of high definition video data over a wireless medium is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a transceiver and a processor configured to i) receive a training signal using the transceiver, ii) obtain a transmit beamforming vector... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080130771 - Channel estimation for ofdm systems: In a method for channel estimation of an OFDM signal transmitted via a channel, an initial channel transfer function is calculated by channel estimation. A channel impulse response is calculated on the basis of the initial channel transfer function. Values of the channel impulse response or of a filtered channel... Agent: Thomas G. Eschweiler, Esq. Eschweiler & Associates, Llc

20080130768 - Frequency synthesizer and method thereof: A frequency synthesizer and a method thereof. The method comprises grouping the carrier frequencies into first through fifth frequency groups comprising the first to third frequencies, the fourth to sixth frequencies, the seventh to ninth frequencies, the tenth to twelfth frequencies, and the thirteenth to fourteenth frequencies, generating a center... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080130765 - Method and apparatus for multiple input multiple output wireless: A method and system for communicating multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless data comprising inputs for a plurality of signals Si, a network for weighting each of a plurality of signals Si for each of a plurality of transmit antennas and combining signals weighted for each of the plurality of... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20080130769 - Method and apparatus for wideband transmission from multiple non-collocated base stations over wireless radio networks: A method, apparatus and system are disclosed herein for wireless transmission from multiple non-collocated base stations. In one embodiment, the system comprises one or more terminals; and at least two base stations wirelessly communicating information-bearing signals from a set of antenna elements dispersed over multiple, non-collocated base stations to the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080130773 - Multiple-branch wireless receiver: A wireless receiver detects signals received at two or more antennas, with each antenna coupled to an input receive chain. A switch is employed to couple selected input receive chains to one or more corresponding output receive chains during listening, coarse-detection, and fine-adjustment modes. At least one channel selection filter... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.c.

20080130772 - Space-time coded ofdm system for mmds applications: A communications system includes a base station that is configured to transmit a signal that is modulated according to a predetermined modulation scheme and an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme, wherein the signal is encoded using space-frequency coding. The base station includes a plurality of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transceivers. The... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080130770 - System and method for acquisition in wireless communication systems: Techniques for supporting efficient operation by terminals in a wireless communication system are described. A base station transmits a preamble periodically in each superframe. The preamble includes at least one first OFDM symbol for control information followed by at least one second OFDM symbol for paging information. A terminal receives... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130766 - Systems and methods for rapid uplink air interface synchronization: Rapid uplink synchronization is enabled by reducing a 2D search problem to two 1D search problems, which can generally be performed in less time. Advantage is taken of fact that a mobile device sends a ranging code on multiple sub-carriers. Using the assumption that adjacent sub-carriers will have approximately equivalent... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080130767 - Transmitter for suppressing out-of-band power for a signal: A transmitter includes: a limiter performing clipping in which an amplitude part at a level higher than an amplitude level based on a predetermined clipping level is clipped from an input signal, separating the input signal into an input signal after the clipping, which contains a predetermined out-of-band component, and... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080130774 - Antenna selection for mimo decoding: A MIMO decoder is configured to obtain a channel matrix and generate a Hermitian transpose of the channel matrix. A product of the Hermitian transpose of the channel matrix and the channel matrix is generated to provide a first product having multiple diagonal elements. A partial matrix inversion of the... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080130775 - Soft demapping for mimo decoding: A look-up table having distance information corresponding to a distance between a potential candidate symbol and a most proximate competing symbol for each bit of a plurality of potential candidate symbols is provided for a given modulation type. A MIMO decoder will obtain multiple candidate symbols that are provided in... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080130776 - Trellis encoder and trellis encoding device having the same: A trellis encoding device includes a plurality of trellis encoders to perform trellis-encoding of a transport stream into which a supplementary reference signal (SRS) has been inserted, and performs a memory reset in a region that precedes an SRS; and a parity compensation unit to compensate for parities of the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080130779 - Apparatus and methods for compensating for signal imbalance in a receiver: Apparatus, methods and systems for compensating for an I/Q imbalance may include compensating for an imbalance between a first component of a data signal and a second component of the data signal. The data signal may be modulated by a carrier signal having a frequency error. The first component may... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20080130777 - Method and system for cluster processing using conjugate gradient-based mmse equalizer and multiple transmit and/or receive antennas for hsdpa, sttd, closed-loop and normal mode: Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may include generating a plurality of chip-rate synchronously sampled signals utilizing a plurality of received clusters. At least a portion of the generated plurality of chip-rate synchronously sampled signals may be simultaneously equalized in time domain and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080130778 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed high definition video data using a transfer matrix for beamforming estimation: A system and method for generating a number of training symbols is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a processor configured to determine the number (N) of transmitter antennas and the number (Q) of training symbols to be transmitted, wherein Q is greater than or equal to N, generate... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080130780 - Time-domain iq mismatch detection apparatus of ofdm receiver: A time-domain IQ mismatch detection apparatus for detecting mismatch between an I-channel signal and a Q-channel signal in unit of a sample included in a symbol of an OFDM signal comprises: a first delayer which delays an input I-channel signal by one sample interval; a second delayer which delays an... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080130781 - Method and transmission apparatus for transmitting a bivalent signal: A method and an apparatus for transmitting information contained in a transmission signal via at least one channel includes a number of processing steps at the transmitter end. At least one pulse sequence with at least one pulse is produced as stipulated by the transmission signal. The pulse sequence is... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080130784 - Coding device, decoding device, transmitter and receiver: A coding device including a coding unit generating a systematic bit, a first redundant bit corresponding to the systematic bit, and a second redundant bit corresponding to the systematic bit, has a generating unit generating, from the two pieces of systematic bits, the two pieces of first parity bits corresponding... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080130782 - System for using tv/radio stations for broadcasting digital codes in order to automatically activate a receiver to notify the public of emergency information: The present invention provides a means of using transmitted radio and/or TV signals to automatically turn on a receiver in order to broadcast emergency information. It is comprised of a radio or TV transmitter that has the capability of broadcasting a digital code, and a receiver capable of interpreting the... Agent: Kenneth John Lannes

20080130783 - Transmission apparatus and transmission method: A transmission apparatus including: a layer multiplexing unit configured to assign, to a radio resource which is divided based on a time, a frequency and a layer, a bit sequence which constitutes at least one information source to be transmitted, in accordance with a communication state and a priority level... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130785 - Frequency and temperature dependent pre-distortion: A frequency and temperature dependent pre-distortion device. The novel pre-distortion device includes a plurality of pre-distortion generators, each pre-distortion generator adapted to receive an input signal and output a pre-distorted signal, and a pre-distortion selector for selecting one of the pre-distortion generators in accordance with a frequency of the input... Agent: Raytheon Company Patent Docket Administration

20080130786 - Current consumption reduction with low power amplifier: A transceiver circuit and a method in a wireless communication network are provided, where a signal power level for a signal received at the transceiver circuit is measured and compared to a predefined threshold power level. At least two groups of power amplifiers may be used, where one group is... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080130788 - System and method for computing parameters for a digital predistorter: Digital predistortion system, methods and circuitry for adapting a predistortion system linearizing a non-linear element. The system is a multiply partitioned architecture that addresses long or “memory” effects, and separately addresses shorter duration effects. In a preferred method, the non-linear element is first modeled in software as a nonlinearity and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080130787 - System and method for digitally correcting a non-linear element using a multiply partitioned architecture for predistortion: Digital predistortion system, methods and circuitry for linearizing a non-linear element using a multiply partitioned architecture that first addresses long or “memory” effects, and separately addresses shorter duration effects. These blocks or circuits are operated with the non-linear element to provide a highly linear system. A first or long predistortion... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080130789 - System and methods for digitally correcting a non-linear element using a digital filter for predistortion: System and methods for a digital linearization of a non linear element. Digital predistortion methods and circuitry for linearizing a non-linear element that address long or “memory” effects and shorter duration effects, these two predistortion functions are operated together in an adaptive fashion with the non-linear element to provide a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080130790 - System and method for distributed input distributed output wireless communications: A system and method are described for compensating for frequency and phase offsets in a multiple antenna system (MAS) with multi-user (MU) transmissions (“MU-MAS”). For example, a method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: transmitting a training signal from each antenna of a base station to one or... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080130791 - Network id activated transmitter: A security code transmitter is provided to transmit a control signal to a barrier movement operator to controlling movement of a movable barrier. The barrier movement operator is proximate to a wireless communication network having a network ID. A receiver of the security code transmitter receives a transmitted network signal... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080130792 - Transmitting and receiving apparatus for supporting transmit antenna diversity using space-time block code: A transmitter and a receiver are disclosed herein that support transmit antenna diversity using space-time block coding in a wireless communication system. The transmitter produces symbol combinations containing, as their elements, input symbols, the inversions and conjugates of the symbols, and symbols obtained by rotating the phases of the symbols... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130794 - Method for optimum threshold selection of time-of-arrival estimators: The following invention relates to geolocation technology. In particular, the proposed method can be used to determine the optimum threshold value that minimizes the estimation error. The proposed method also allows the threshold value to be varied adaptively according to the signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) under consideration. This is to ensure... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080130793 - Systems and methods for dynamic normalization to reduce loss in precision for low-level signals: A normalization factor for a current frame of a signal may be determined. The normalization factor may depend on an amplitude of the current frame of the signal. The normalization factor may also depend on values of states after one or more operations were performed on a previous frame of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130795 - Method and system for signal phase variation detection in communication systems: Aspects of a method and system for signal phase variation detection in communication systems are presented. Aspects of the system may enable detection of phase change between a current received symbol, and one or more previous received symbols. Based on the phase change a channel estimation filter bandwidth may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080130796 - Multi-modulation reception method based on demodulation of signals from modulations whose symbols are included in a main constellation: The disclosure relates to a method for receiving a modulated signal according to a main constellation, known as a mail signal, and at least one signal which is modulated according to a second constellation, known as a second signal. The second constellation is included in the main constellation. The method... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080130798 - Delay regulating device: In a delay regulating device, delay regulation is performed using a delay circuit performing delay regulation in a clock unit and a delay filter performing delay regulation in a tap unit smaller than the clock unit. The delay regulation is performed so as to obtain the maximum value of the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080130797 - Method and apparatus for selecting signal processing delays based on historical selection data: Signal processing delays are selected from a candidate set in a wireless receiver based on both present and past channel behavior. According to one embodiment, a subset of signal processing delays are selected for received signal processing by accumulating a history of periodic delay selection computations for a candidate set... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080130801 - Automatic gain control method and apparatus for wireless communication systems: A system and method are provided for automatic gain control (AGC) using an adaptive reference and a threshold. An adaptive reference allows for adjusting the target power based on variations in operating parameters and conditions, such as a change to a modulation schemes which requires a different signal to noise... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080130799 - Stepped automatic gain control for ofdm systems: A system and method for performing stepped automatic gain control (AGC) for orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) applications comprises a radio frequency (RF) tuner and an OFDM demodulator operatively connected to the RF tuner, the OFDM demodulator comprising logic circuitry adapted to (i) detect OFDM symbols from a stream of data; (ii) detect... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080130800 - Techniques for performing gain and phase correction in a complex radio frequency receiver: A receiver (300) includes a first mixing digital-to-analog converter (DAC) (336, 332), a second mixing DAC (338, 334), a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) (302), a phase correction circuit (340), a selectable load (306) and a magnitude correction circuit (350). The first mixing DAC (336, 332) includes a first input... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080130803 - Apparatus and method for canceling interference in broadband wireless access system: Provided are an apparatus and method for canceling interference in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system. The method includes estimating channel coefficient vectors of a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs) using the same resource; computing a correlation matrix by subtracting a channel coefficient vector of a corresponding MS from a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080130804 - Interference power estimating device and interference power estimating method: The present invention relates to an interference power estimating device that estimates interference power with high accuracy. The interference power estimating device includes a reference symbol acquiring unit acquiring a reference symbol corresponding to each of the pilot symbols included in a received signal by symbol-averaging a reference signal including... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080130802 - Method and system for sliding window phase estimator for wcdma automatic frequency correction: Aspects of a method and system for a sliding window phase estimator for wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) automatic frequency correction are presented. Aspects of the system may include one or more circuits that enable adjustment of a current demodulation frequency for receiving at least one subsequent symbol based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080130806 - Adaptive equalization system for a signal receiver: A communication channel delivers a binary signal representing a data sequence by a pattern of high and low logic levels (symbols) from a transmitter to a receiver. The communication channel low-pass filters the transmitter output signal (VX) so that the signal (VR) arriving at the receiver is a distorted version... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080130805 - Timing tracking in a multiple receive antenna system: Apparatus and methods for determining timing tracking in a multiple antenna wireless system are disclosed. Timing tracking is obtained, in particular, by determining at least two channel density profiles for signals respectively received by at least two antennas of multiple receive antenna wireless device. The channel density profiles are then... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080130807 - Rf receiver with nlms channel estimator and method therefor: An RF receiver (12) includes a channel estimator (52). The channel estimator (52) includes a channel estimation filter (82), error signal generator (84), and normalized Least-Mean-Square (NLMS) filter-definition generator 36. The filter (82), error generator (84) and NLMS filter-definition generator (86) function together as an adaptive estimator. An error signal... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20080130808 - System and method for digitizing bit synchronization in wireless communication: This invention relates to a method and system for digitizing bit synchronization in wireless communication. The method comprises delaying at intervals an input signal sequence, which contains at least one path of input signals; multiplying each path of input signals respectively by input signals in at least one local channel... Agent: Global Ip Services

20080130811 - Circuit and method for removing skew in data transmitting/receiving system: A data transmission/reception system can lessen a skew between data and clock signal by substantially reducing a data reception error. The data transmission/reception system using a first clock signal and a second clock signal having a phase difference corresponding to a half of data bit period as compared with the... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20080130810 - Clock and data recovery circuits using random edge sampling and recovery method therefor: A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit comprises a data sampling unit which latches serial data input in response to data clock signals, and outputs a plurality of sampling data, the data clock signals maintaining a constant phase difference and having mutually different phases, an edge sampling unit which outputs... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20080130809 - Method and system for delay locked loop for rake receiver: Certain aspects of a method and system for a delay locked loop for a rake receiver are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include normalizing a signal power of a first control channel based on a threshold value. A sampling time associated with at least one or more of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080130812 - Data synchronization system: A data synchronization system is provided. In the data synchronization system, a synchronization message transmitting party transmits a synchronization message with meta information to a synchronization message receiving party, and the synchronization message receiving party interprets and stores the meta information included in the synchronization message, and performs further processing... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080130813 - Apparatus and method for compensating timing offset in broadband wireless communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for compensating a timing offset in a broadband wireless communication system. A receiving apparatus for the timing offset compensation includes a selector, a first calculator, and a second calculator. The selector groups two or more adjacent tiles into one or more tile groups and... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080130814 - Multi-lane elastic buffer cluster for clock tolerance compensation and de-skew among multiple receiving lanes: System and method for data transfer with buffer control. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a system for synchronized data communication. The system includes a first communication interface for receiving data and a first clock signal. For example, the first clock signal is associated with a transmitting source.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080130815 - Selective tracking of serial communication link data: Embodiments to selectively track serial communication link data are presented herein.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080130816 - Serializer deserializer circuits: A phase lockedcircuit comprising a phase detector for comparing an incoming serial data signal with a feedback clock signal and generating a digital phase detector output signal representing a phase difference between the incoming data signal and the feedback clock signal; a dual path filter for receiving the phase detector... Agent: Arthur M. Reginelli