Pulse or digital communications inventions 02/09

20090052499 - System, method and apparatus for managing communication in a public safety communication network: A method, system and apparatus for managing communication in a Public Safety Communication Network (PSCN). The PSCN includes a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs) (110, 115, 120) and a master controller (105). The method includes initiating a communication between one or more MSs and the master controller using a primary... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090052500 - Multi-band signal detection: Apparatus may be provided including a spectrum analyzer and decision circuitry. The spectrum analyzer may be configured to ascertain wireless signal signature data from a wide range of frequency bands. The decision circuitry may be configured to modify operation of one or both of a receiver and a transmitter based... Agent: Prass LLP

20090052501 - Voice communication apparatus: A voice communication apparatus includes a primary modulator configured to perform primary modulation of a carrier with a center frequency outside a voice band by an analog voice signal; a PN-code generator configured to convert data into a PN code; an adder configured to add data included in the voice... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20090052502 - Rake receiver interface: In some embodiments of the present invention, a method and apparatus to generate interrupts in a transfer of information between a rake receiver and a processor, said interrupts having a rate of generation per unit time independent of a rate of the transfer of information per unit time.... Agent: Marvell/finnegan Henderson LLP C/o Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garnett Et. Al.

20090052503 - Shifted channel characteristics for mitigating co-channel interference: Methods and apparatuses for minimizing co-channel interference in communications systems are disclosed. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises shifting a characteristic of the first signal with respect to a like characteristic of the second signal to mitigate co-channel interference, and transmitting the first signal and the second... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090052504 - Communication terminal, base station, and receiving method: A communication terminal in which a circuit component can measure active sets thereby to reduce the circuit scale. In the terminal, a synchronization base station switch (105) outputs a switching timing signal so that frequency shift information, reception timing information, and scramble code information on a base station where the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090052506 - Acquisition of a code modulated signal: The invention relates to the acquisition of a code modulated signal, wherein a first set of correlation results for correlations between the code modulated signal and a first replica code with different code phases and a second set of correlation results for correlations between the code modulated signal and a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090052505 - Method and device for receiving a degraded radionavigation signal: The invention relates to a method of receiving a radionavigation signal. Over a first determined time correlations of the sampled signal received are calculated with a locally generated code of period T. The signal is received and the code is shifted with respect to one another from one correlation to... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090052507 - System and method for closed-loop signal distortion: The system and method disclosed herein provide for closed-loop compensation of significant amplitude versus frequency group delay distortion that may be introduced into a satellite communication system signal by the uplink equipment and a satellite repeater equipment. One or more equalizers can be configured to automatically assess distortion at the... Agent: Booth Udall, PLC

20090052508 - Adpll frequency synthesizer: In the case where a frequency control word is changed from FCW0 to FCW2, a control sensitivity estimation section 12 firstly measures oscillatory frequencies f1L and f1H obtained, respectively, when frequency control words FCW1L and FCW1H being used as dummies are set, and then measures an oscillatory frequency f2 obtained... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090052509 - Phy control module for a multi-pair gigabit transceiver: A method for controlling operation of a multi-pair gigabit transceiver. The multi-pair gigabit transceiver comprises a Physical Layer Control module (PHY Control), a Physical Coding Sublayer module (PCS) and a Digital Signal Processing module (DSP). The PHY Control receives user-defined inputs from the Serial Management module and status signals and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090052510 - Device, method, and program for signal analysis, and recording medium: The time required for analyzing a modulation accuracy of a modulated signal is reduced. A signal analyzing device which analyzes a signal to be measured including multiple frames each of which includes a preamble and a data symbol, includes frame acquisition units which acquire the frame from the signal to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090052511 - Method for signal jitter detections based on time-frequency domain analysis: A jitter measuring method that helps the electronic system designer to reduce system jitter by tracing the jitter frequency variation and by detecting the transient jitter. The method includes below procedure: first, calculate the jitter of the signal to obtain signal jitter time trend waveform; then, decompose the jitter time... Agent: Wei Wu

20090052512 - Link adaptation system using doppler frequency and method using the same: A link adaptation system using a Doppler frequency is provided. The link adaptation system includes: a Doppler frequency estimation unit to estimate a Doppler frequency of a signal transmitted via a wireless channel; a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) measurement interval determination unit to determine an SNR measurement interval of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052513 - Data processing method, equalizer, receiver, communication system, network element, and terminal using simplified channel matrix inversion: The invention is related to a communication terminal, comprising: means (618) for creating at least one channel matrix assuming predetermined interfering signals as a part of a desired signal; means (618) for dividing the at least one channel matrix into multiple sub-matrices; means (618) for diagonalizing the sub-matrices by using... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090052515 - Method and apparatus for calibrating equalizers without knowledge of the data pattern being received: A method and apparatus for calibrating an equalizer. The method comprises the steps of defining one or more equalization parameters and calculating a bit error rate of a signal for one or more values of a first of the one or more equalization parameters by counting at least one of... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20090052514 - Method and apparatus for generating coefficients in a multi-input-multi-output (mimo) system: SIC equalizer coefficients for multiple layers are concurrently generated in a manner that reduces computational overhead and complexity. If number of transmit antennas (MT) used exceeds two, matrix inverse(s) are generated by using a modified version of Riccatti Recursion. While producing an inverse matrix using this technique, for an N... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090052516 - Per-survivor based adaptive equalizer: A method used in an adaptive survivor based channel equalizer, the method comprises selecting at a decision time a survivor in a Viterbi trellis and a corresponding equalizer, adaptively updating at the decision time the corresponding equalizer to define a new corresponding equalizer for use at a next decision time,... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20090052517 - Diversity gmsk-receiver with interference cancellation and methods therein: Method in a diversity antenna GMSK receiver of determining interference canceling equalizers and corresponding equalizers are described. The method includes providing a plurality of GMSK received signals; de-rotating and splitting each of the plurality of received signals into in phase and quadrature parts to provide a multiplicity of real valued... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20090052519 - Method of processing a signal and apparatus for processing a signal: A method and apparatus for signal processing which enable data compression and recovery with high transmission efficiency are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with correlation and grouping is used to increase coding efficiency. A method for signal processing according to this invention, the method includes decapsulating the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090052518 - Mobile radio communication device and channel estimate calculation method: This mobile radio communication device comprises pilot symbol number determination unit 102 for determining the number of pilot symbol blocks necessary to determine a channel estimate in response to phasing variation, storage unit 104 for storing said determined number of pilot symbol blocks, and unit 103 for using said stored... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090052520 - Transport stream generating device, transmitting device, receiving device, and a digital broadcast system having the same, and method thereof: A transport stream (TS) generating apparatus, a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, a digital broadcast system having the above, and a method thereof are provided. The digital broadcast system includes a transport stream (TS) generating apparatus which generates a multi transport stream (TS) by multiplexing a normal stream and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052521 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The method includes receiving a data processing method includes receiving a broadcast signal in which main service data and mobile service data are multiplexed, acquiring transmission-parameter-channel signaling information including transmission parameter information of the mobile service data, and fast-information-channel... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052523 - Digital broadcasting transmitter, turbo stream processing method thereof, and digital broadcasting system having the same: A digital broadcasting transmitter, a turbo stream processing method thereof, and a digital broadcasting system having the same. The digital broadcasting transmitter includes a first compressor, forming a normal stream by compressing audio and video signals in a first compression format, a second compressor, forming a turbo stream by compressing... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052522 - Transmitter and system for transmitting/receiving digital broadcasting stream and method thereof: A digital broadcasting transmission system processes dual transport stream (TS) including multi turbo streams. The digital broadcasting transmission system includes a turbo processor to detect a turbo stream from a dual transport stream (TS) which includes a multiplexed normal stream and a turbo stream, encoding the detected turbo stream and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052524 - Video data communication system and method: A video data communication system, method and computer program for providing interactive video communications to a remote user is disclosed. The system comprises a compositing, compression and encoding system and an interaction engine. The compositing, compression and encoding system is arranged to composite, compress and encode video data for transmission... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090052526 - Encoding device and dynamic image recording system using the encoding device: An encoder performs motion compensated inter-picture predictive coding on moving picture data in a selected one of prediction modes. The encoder includes: a detecting section for detecting an accumulated error and a motion vector of a block, included in a picture to be encoded, by reference to a block in... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090052527 - Luma-chroma coding with one common or three distinct spatial predictors: There are provided video encoders, video decoders, and corresponding methods. A video encoder for encoding video signal data for an image block includes an encoder for encoding all color components of the video signal data using a common predictor.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090052530 - Image data compression device, compressing method, image data decompression device, decompressing method, and recording medium: A quantizer quantizes a “prediction error” as a difference value between a pixel X to be compressed and a prediction value X′. A variable-length encoder inputs a quantization number obtained from a quantization table of the quantizer, and outputs a variable-length code (compressed code). A prediction value candidate calculation module... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090052528 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding video signal using block prediction information: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for encoding video signals using prediction information of an intra mode block of a sub-layer and decoding the encoded video data accordingly. The method encodes a video signal in a scalable MCTF scheme to output a bit stream of an enhanced layer,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090052529 - Method and apparatus for providing reduced resolution update mode for multi-view video coding: There are provided a method and apparatus for illumination and color compensation for multi-view video coding. A video encoder includes an encoder (100) for encoding a picture by enabling color compensation of at least one color component in prediction of the picture based upon a correlation factor relating to color... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090052531 - Video coding: A video encoder using inter-frame differential coding has a store (3) for containing a plurality of reference pictures. For each incoming picture it chooses one (or more) of the stored reference pictures to use. Control means (10) select which locally decoded pictures are to be entered into, and removed from,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090052532 - Automatically identifying edges of moving objects: The edge identification system receives a pair of images from which an in-between image is to be created. The edge identification system calculates two vector fields: one to warp the second image onto the first, and the other to warp the first image onto the second. The two vector fields... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090052534 - Direction detection algorithms for h.264/avc intra prediction: A block intra prediction direction detection algorithm comprises acts of dividing a block, finding directions from edge assent rules, determining a main edge of the block, selecting prediction modes from the main edge, choosing base prediction modes and using all unique selected and base prediction modes in intra prediction. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090052533 - Luma and chroma decoding using a common predictor: There are provided video encoders, video decoders, and corresponding methods. A video encoder for encoding video signal data for an image block includes an encoder for encoding all color components of the video signal data using a common predictor. A video decoder for decoding video signal data for an image... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090052535 - System and method for providing improved intra-prediction in video coding: A system and method for improving the efficiency of decoding intra-coded blocks in video decoding, even in the event that neighboring pixels of the block are unavailable. According to various embodiments, in addition to information that is used to describe how a prediction is formed using a specified process, other... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090052536 - Video decoding device, decoded image recording device, their method and program: [Means for Solving the Problems] The video decoding device includes a reference degree weighting recompression block 102 in which reference feasibility of a certain image position within a frame from a reference image position to be referred to in a compression encoding system, which is an object of a decoding... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090052537 - Method and device for processing coded video data: The present invention relates to a method of processing digital coded video data available in the form of a video stream consisting of consecutive frames divided into slices. The frames include at least I-frames, coded without any reference to other frames, P-frames, temporally disposed between said I-frames and predicted from... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090052525 - Apparatus for protection of data decoding according to transferred medium protection data, first and second apparatus protection data and a film classification system, to determine whether main data are decoded in their entirety, partially, or not at all: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090052538 - Moving image distribution system and conversion device: A moving image distribution system of the present invention is a moving image distribution system for distributing one or more streams through a transmission path 104 and a transmission path 105 to a terminal 103, and has a converter configured to posting a predetermined capability information to the terminal 103... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090052539 - Luma and chroma encoding using a common predictor: There are provided video encoders, video decoders, and corresponding methods. A video encoder for encoding video signal data for an image block includes an encoder for encoding all color components of the video signal data using a common predictor. A video decoder for decoding video signal data for an image... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090052541 - Method and apparatus for preserving deinterleaving erasure information of block interleaved coded signal: Erasure information associated with a received group of encoded and interleaved data in a digital video broadcasting system is stored in a much compacted form. An erasure flag and an address of a last byte associated with the received group of encoded and interleaved data (a record) encapsulated in an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090052543 - Method and apparatus for redundant video encoding: A method and apparatus are provided for redundant video coding. The apparatus includes an encoder for encoding a redundant coded picture corresponding to a source picture by selecting individual blocks in the source picture for inclusion into the redundant coded picture.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090052540 - Quality based video encoding: A method of preprocessing a video stream including receiving a video stream formed of a sequence of blocks and setting one or more quality level constraints for the video stream. The method further includes selecting for each of at least a plurality of the blocks of the video stream, one... Agent: Robert G. Lev

20090052544 - Staggercasting of dtv signals that employ concatenated convolutional coding: In a “punctured” variant of the SCCC staggercasting procedure, SCCC using one type of outer convolutional coding is transmitted at a relatively early time and after a prescribed interval SCCC using another type of outer convolutional coding of the same data is transmitted at a relatively late time. In the... Agent: Allen Leroy Limberg, Esq.

20090052545 - Transmitter and system for transmitting/receiving digital broadcasting stream and method thereof: A digital broadcasting transmission system processes dual transport stream (TS) including multi turbo streams. The digital broadcasting transmission system includes a turbo processor to detect a turbo stream from a dual transport stream (TS) which includes a multiplexed normal stream and a turbo stream, encoding the detected turbo stream and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052542 - Video decoding method and apparatus: A video decoding method and apparatus, the video decoding apparatus including: a decoder unit to control a video decoding operation; and a multi-core processor to perform the video decoding operation on an input bitstream by using the decoding unit, wherein the multi-core processor includes: a first core to parse the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052546 - A digital broadcasting transmission system, and a signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcasting transmission system, and a signal processing method thereof, includes a parity area generating unit preparing a first area for parity insertion with respect to a dual transport stream (TS) which includes a normal stream and a turbo stream as multiplexed, a first interleaver interleaving the dual TS... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052549 - Digital broadcasting transmission and reception devices and methods thereof: Digital broadcasting transmission and reception devices and methods thereof are provided. The digital broadcasting transmission device includes a randomizer which randomizes a dual transport stream including a normal stream and a robust stream, a supplementary reference signal inserter which inserts a certain supplementary reference signal into a stuffing region included... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052547 - Digital broadcasting transmission/reception system utilizing mull packet and trs code to improve receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcasting transmission and/or reception system having an improved reception performance and a signal-processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter comprises a TRS encoder for to TRS-encode a MPEG-2 transmission stream having null data for inserting a Known data and a TRS parity at predetermined positions, randomizer to input... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090052548 - Transmitter and system for transmitting/receiving digital broadcasting stream and method thereof: A digital broadcasting transmission system processes dual transport stream (TS) including multi turbo streams. The digital broadcasting transmission system includes a turbo processor to detect a turbo stream from a dual transport stream (TS) which includes a multiplexed normal stream and a turbo stream, encoding the detected turbo stream and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052552 - Constant bit rate video stream: A method of media transmission. The method includes providing at least one variable bit rate (VBR) video stream and multiplexing the at least one VBR video stream together with auxiliary data related to the at least one VBR video stream, in a constant bit rate (CBR) stream. The stream is... Agent: Robert G. Lev

20090052551 - Method and apparatus for coding moving image and imaging system: A moving image signal is coded so that a coded stream is generated. Coded pictures are periodically eliminated from the coded moving image signal so that another coded stream associated with another moving image signal having a frame rate different from the coded moving image signal is generated.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090052550 - Method for shaping frames of a video sequence: Procedure and device for shaping frames of a video sequence or group of pictures GOP using a mixing table adapted for arranging the frames of the highest importance regularly while leaving intervals between them, filling the intervals with frames of lesser importance, and coding the new sequence thus obtained.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090052553 - Device and associated method for concealing errors in decoded media units: The present invention relates to a device (101) for decoding a plurality of encoded media units in streamed media. The device (101) comprises decoder means (104) for decoding one or more of the encoded media units thereby generating one or more decoded media units and first concealment means (105) for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090052554 - Multi-transport stream (ts) generating apparatus and method, and digital broadcasting transmission and reception apparatuses and methods: A multi-transport stream (TS) generating apparatus and method, and digital broadcasting transmission and reception apparatuses and method are provided. The multi-TS generating apparatus includes an adaptor to generate an adaptation field in some packets of a normal stream; an interleaver to interleave the normal stream; a turbo processor to turbo-code... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052555 - System and method for providing dynamic deblocking filtering on a mobile device: A system and method are provided that can be used for applying a deblocking filter to a video according to processor usage, in particular on a mobile device. To determine which of a plurality of deblocking filters to use, the system determines an environment indicator indicative of current processor usage,... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20090052557 - Data encoder system: A data encoder-decoder which generates an encoded data element which can be stored in and retrieved from a reduced space memory element.... Agent: Cr Miles, P.C. Craig R. Miles

20090052556 - Frequency interleaving method for wideband signal generation: Wideband signal generation systems and methods are provided which employ frequency interleaving for generating wideband signals. A general method increases a digitally synthesized signal's bandwidth by frequency interleaving multiple digitally synthesized signal sources of narrower bandwidth. Frequency interleaving creates a continuous wideband signal by summing multiple narrower band signals that... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090052558 - Nicam system and symbol rate conversion method thereof: A NICAM system includes a NICAM deframer, a FIFO buffer and a symbol rate conversion (SRC) unit. The NICAM deframer obtains multiple deinterleaved symbols according to a strobe signal and a data signal in each timing and expands the deinterleaved symbols to corresponding multiple pulse code modulation (PCM) symbols. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090052559 - Differential transmitter, differential receiver, signal transmitter, and signal transmitting system: According to one embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to realize a signal transmitter which is capable of reducing power consumption and which can be easily designed. A differential transmitter block outputs differential output signals fixed to a predetermined logic signal to a differential receiver block and disconnects... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090052562 - Correlation calculation unit and correlation calculation apparatus: A correlation calculation unit includes: four arithmetic units each including a first differential arithmetic section calculating a difference between an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) signal and a first delay signal, a second differential arithmetic section calculating a difference between a second delay signal and a third delay signal, and... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090052563 - Decoding apparatus and decoding method: Provided are a decoding apparatus and method for a system supporting an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) scheme, the apparatus and method compensating received signals according to a wireless channel estimation result and thereby simply performing decoding by a coherent method. The decoding method includes the steps of: receiving... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090052566 - Method for channel estimation using recursive filtering and multicarrier receiver with interference-aware demodulation: Embodiments of a multicarrier receiver with interference-aware demodulation and methods for channel estimation using recursive filtering in wireless networks are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, orders of a recursive filter are allocated to track a main channel and one or more interfering... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/intel

20090052561 - Methods and apparatus for generating and communicating wireless signals having pilot signals with variable pilot signal parameters: An embodiment for wirelessly communicating a signal includes a transmitter generating and transmitting a wireless signal over a wireless communication channel. The wireless signal includes a guard band, data represented within a plurality of data-bearing subcarriers, and a plurality of pilot signals represented within a plurality of pilot subcarriers. In... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gd)

20090052564 - Receiving apparatus and receiving method: An average power indicating channel characteristics is outputted from a reference value calculation unit as a reference value. An interference level corresponding to the degree of influence by frequency selective interference is outputted from an interference detection unit. A reliability determination unit determines a carrier that has been subjected to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090052567 - Synchronization sequence with tone notching in ofdm systems: The present invention is a system, apparatus, and method for current MB-OFDM systems to design a time-domain sync sequence regarding DAA that (1) minimizes change to the current sync sequence, and (2) maintains the robustness of synchronization. Two tone-notching embodiments are provided for sync sequence design in the preamble when... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090052560 - Transmission method and transmission apparatus used in multiantenna wireless communication system: A transmission bit and transmission power distributing method that can reduce the arithmetic amount in a multiantenna-input/multiantenna-output (MIMO) wireless communication system. This method comprises steps of calculating a signal-to-interference-noise ratio (SINR) gain after MIMO detection of each of transport substreams (S601, S602); optimizing, based on the acquired SINR gain, a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090052565 - Turbo channel estimation for ofdm systems: A system and method for estimating a channel in a wireless receiver is disclosed. The method preferably applies to a communication system using the OFDM standard. The method comprises receiving a block of “n” transmitted symbols, the symbols including pilot symbols and “d” data symbols, estimating a channel using the... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090052568 - Qam communication system and method thereof and qam receiving apparatus and method thereof: In a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) communication system and corresponding method, and a QAM receiving apparatus and corresponding method, a sending apparatus that generates a sending signal adds CRC bits thereto. In a receiving apparatus, data rate is determined without a 16QAM demapping circuit and/or notification of the data rate,... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090052569 - Digital broadcast transmitter/receiver having an improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system, and a signal processing method thereof, includes a randomizer for randomizing a transport stream into a specified position of which stuff bytes are inserted, a stuff-byte exchanger for replacing the stuff bytes included in data output from the randomizer with specified known data, an RS... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052571 - Method and apparatus of data processing in mimo system: A method of data processing includes the steps of: dividing user terminals into groups based on channel attributes and service requirements of the user terminals and setting a precoding code word and a cyclic delay for each of the groups; and determining which group a user terminal corresponding to the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090052570 - Operating environment analysis techniques for wireless communication systems: Methods and systems of analyzing an operating environment of wireless communication equipment in a wireless communication system are provided. A stimulus in the operating environment at a location of the wireless communication equipment is sensed and linearly expanded in Slepian sequences using a multitaper spectral estimation procedure. A singular value... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20090052573 - Method and apparatus for forward link power control: A forward link power control mechanism measures the reverse link power control bits which are transmitted on the forward traffic channel. At the remote station, the reverse link power control bits from multiples base stations or multiple signal paths are measured, combined, and filtered to yield an improved measurement of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090052572 - Method and system for transmitting signals with reduced spurious emissions: An RF power amplifier architecture minimizes spurious emissions by breaking the transmitted signal into narrow spectrum sub-bands, amplifying each separately, and then combining the signals for transmission purposes.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090052574 - Media access control adaptation method for microwave interference: Disclosed is a Media Access Control (MAC) adaptation method for adapting transmission of packets by a wireless device in response to interference in a wireless medium. On detecting interference in the wireless medium, the wireless device triggers sensing of wireless spectrum to determine presence of a periodic interference signal. A... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090052575 - System and method for power control in a wireless transmitter: A system and method for power control in a wireless transmitter. A power control loop includes a feed forward unit coupled to a data source, the feed forward unit processes a signal for transmission, a feedback unit coupled to the feed forward unit, the feedback unit generates a feedback signal... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090052576 - Data transmissions in a mobile communication system employing diversity and constellation rearrangement of a 16 qam scheme: The invention relates to methods for transmitting and receiving a data bit stream in a communication system using 16-QAM constellations. Further, an apparatus for performing the methods is provided. To improve the bit-error rate performance of the communication using the 16-QAM constellations the invention suggests the use 16-QAM constellations with... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090052577 - Peak to average power ratio reduction: The present invention is related to a method for reducing a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of a signal in a wireless communication system. PAPR is reduced by modulating a data stream into a plurality of symbols, dividing the plurality of symbols into symbol groups, applying a Fourier transform... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052578 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication device, and wireless communication method: A wireless communication system includes a transmitting device and a receiving device each including a plurality of antennas. A plurality of streams are subjected to spatial multiplexing and are transmitted in a downlink in which packets are transmitted from the transmitting device to the receiving device. In the transmitting device,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090052579 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcast receiving system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The method a method for controlling a digital broadcast receiving system includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052580 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcast system and a method of processing data disclose. A receiving system of the digital broadcast system may include a baseband processor, a management processor, and a presentation processor. The baseband processor receives broadcast signals including mobile service data and main service data. The mobile service data configures... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052581 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcasting system includes a baseband processor, a management processor, and a presentation processor. The baseband processor receives broadcast signals including mobile service data and main service data. Herein, the mobile service data may... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052582 - Method for improving the performance of ofdm receiver and a receiver using the method: One or more parameters of a tuner of a receiver may be adjusted by generating for the receiver one or more control signals associated with one or more parameters and applying control signals to the tuner during a cyclic prefix (CP) period. The receiver may generate a control strobe in... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20090052583 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in the digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcast system and data processing method therein are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcast system includes a baseband processor, a table handler, a DSM-CC handler, and a display module. The baseband processor receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data. The mobile... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052588 - Apparatus and method for sensing an atsc signal in low signal-to-noise ratio: A Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) receiver comprises a transceiver for communicating with a wireless network over one of a number of channels, and an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) signal detector for use in forming a supported channel list comprising those ones of the number of channels upon which... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090052585 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method: A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed, which are robust to error when mobile service data are transmitted. To this end, additional encoding is performed for the mobile service data, whereby it is possible to strongly cope with fast channel change while giving robustness to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052587 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The receiving system of the digital broadcasting system includes a baseband processor, a first handler, a second handler, and a storage unit. The baseband processor receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data. Herein, the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090052590 - Layered modulation for digital signals: Signals, systems and methods for transmitting and receiving layered modulation for digital signals are presented. A layered signal for transmitting data, comprises a first signal layer including a first carrier and first signal symbols for a first digital signal transmission and a second signal layer including a second carrier and... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090052586 - Pulse receiving circuit, pulse receiving method and pulse wireless communication device: A pulse receiving circuit which receives a receiving signal from the outside includes: a template pulse generating circuit which generates a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal having phase different from that of the first pulse signal based on a pulse position timing signal; a first multiplying circuit... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090052584 - Selective signal demodulation method and apparatus: Signal quality estimation and demodulation are tailored to the received signal quality. According to one embodiment, a received signal is processed by determining a first set of combining weights based on a first impairment covariance estimate derived assuming a low signal quality environment. A second set of combining weights is... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090052589 - Transport stream generating device, transmitting device, receiving device, and a digital broadcast system having the same, and method thereof: A transport stream (TS) generating apparatus, a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, a digital broadcast system having the above, and a method thereof are provided. The digital broadcast system includes a transport stream (TS) generating apparatus which generates a multi transport stream (TS) by multiplexing a normal stream and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052591 - Gmsk-receiver with interference cancellation: A GMSK receiver with interference cancellation includes a linear equalizer configured to be coupled to a received signal from a first antenna and to provide first soft bits, an adaptive estimator, e.g., adaptive MLSE coupled to the first soft bits and configured to provide second soft bits; a quality assessor... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20090052593 - Log likelihood ratio calculation method, transmit signal detection method, and receiver: The present invention relates to a log-likelihood ratio calculation method, a transmitting signal detection method, and a receiver. The present invention estimates a channel on the basis of the received signal and rearranges a plurality of layers. Further, at the time of rearrangement of the layers, a symbol of a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090052592 - Method and arrangement for recovering a binary dc-free code from a frequency modulated signal: The invention is related to a method and an arrangement for recovering a binary DC-free code from a frequency-modulated signal, without any analog signal demodulation of the frequency-modulated signal. The invention relates more particularly to an ATIP bi-phase channel bit and timing recovery in a deteriorated wobble channel as e.g.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090052595 - Method of evaluating a readout signal, and optical disc apparatus: A method and optical disc apparatus for evaluating a quality of a read signal adapted to the PRML method by evaluating a binary code decoded from the read signal obtained by a head, in which an error bit sequence having one bit edge shift from the binary code is generated,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090052594 - Robust joint erasure marking viterbi algorithm decoder: Joint erasure marking Viterbi algorithm (JEVA), decoder schemes, methods, and systems are provided which perform robust trellis decoder techniques. The provided JEVA decoding schemes are shown to be maximum likelihood decoding schemes that find the most likely transmitted code sequence with a set of symbol erasures, without knowledge of the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090052596 - Decoder and decoding method: Provided are a decoding apparatus and method for a system supporting an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)/Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) scheme, the apparatus and method capable of simply performing decoding by a non-coherent method. The decoding method includes the steps or receiving quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulated... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090052597 - Scalable reconfigurable concurrent filter for wide-bandwidth communication: The invention relates to a reconfigurable continuous FIR filter. The reconfigurable continuous FIR filter includes a delay line including at least two delay elements coupled in cascade. The reconfigurable continuous FIR filter also includes a filter section including at least three gain-phase elements. The filter section also includes a summing... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20090052598 - Method and device for providing timing information in a wireless communication system: A method and a device of providing timing information within a wireless communication system is described. The timing information is extracted from a received transmit signal. The inventive method comprises the steps of providing a training signal on the receiver side relating to a known signal portion of the transmit... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090052599 - Transmitter and transmitter/receiver: The present invention provides a transmitter capable of reducing the occurrence of noise when switching from the SD signal to the HD signal, for example. A microcomputer (151) controls a 10-times multiplication PLL (13) to increase the amount of jitter of a multiplied clock (CLK1×10) upon signal switching, i.e., when... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090052600 - Clock and data recovery circuits: A data communication system comprising a first transmitter set configured to transmit a first output based on a first signal, the first output including one of a training pattern and a first data, the training pattern and the first data including clock information, a second transmitter set configured to transmit... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20090052601 - Method and apparatus for frame-based buffer control in a communication system: A method and apparatus are disclosed for controlling a buffer in a digital audio broadcasting (DAB) communication system. The decoder buffer level limits are specified in terms of a maximum number of encoded frames (or duration). The transmitter can predict the number of encoded frames, Fpred, in the decoder buffer... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis LLP

20090052602 - Systems and methods for improved timing recovery: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for improved timing recovery. As one example, some embodiments of the present invention provide timing recovery circuits that include an error signal and a digital phase lock loop circuit. The error signal indicates a difference between the predicted sample time... Agent: Hamilton,desanctis & Cha (lsi)

20090046763 - Conditional scanning: A method of controlling a low power radio receiver including controlling the radio receiver for a first, relatively short, period of time to detect radio transmissions in a predetermined frequency band, and determining whether to control the radio receiver for a subsequent second relatively longer period of time to receive... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090046764 - Spread carrier self correcting codes: A transmitter, receiver and communication technique. The transmitter is adapted to interleave a first pseudo-noise sequence with a second pseudo-noise sequence to provide a third pseudo-noise sequence. The third sequence is transmitted and then received by the inventive receiver. The first and second sequences are chosen so that an XOR... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20090046765 - System and method for acquiring beamforming vectors using training sequences with adaptive spreading gains: A method and system for acquiring beamforming vectors using multiple spreading sequence spreading gains is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention allows time and power to be saved by spreading a training sequence with spreading sequences of different gains in different iterations of an iterative beamforming acquisition procedure. In one... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090046766 - Method and system for resolving the acquisition ambiguity and the problem of false lock in tracking boc(m,n) modulated signals, particularly for satellite positioning/navigation systems: m

20090046767 - Method and apparatus for communication handoff: Seamless communication handoff is achieved by establishing a protocol tunnel to route leftover packets between network access nodes during the handoff. For example, in a mobile IP-based system, a mobile node may perform a handoff from a first access node that is associated with a first routing node to a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046768 - Method and apparatus for adaptive reduced overhead transmit beamforming for wireless communication systems: A multi input multi output (MIMO) transceiver having a channel estimation module being responsive to received samples including channel state information (CSI) and operative to generate time domain beamforming parameters, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. The multi input multi output (MIMO) transceiver further includes an adaptive... Agent: Maryam Imam

20090046770 - Method and apparatus for avoiding false initialization of xdsl transceivers: The present invention discloses a method for avoiding false initialization of xDSL transceivers. Prior to the initialization of xDSL transceivers, the method includes: by the transmitting port of a first xDSL transceiver, sending a message about the transmitting port to the corresponding receiving port of a second xDSL transceiver; by... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090046769 - Method and apparatus for reducing signal processing requirements for transmitting packet-based data: A modem and method for operating same. A receiver circuit of the modem is coupled to receive a continuous analog signal from a communication channel. This analog signal includes both packet and idle information. The receiver circuit monitors the analog signal to detect the presence of idle information. Upon detecting... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20090046771 - Reception quality estimating apparatus, wireless communication system, and reception quality estimating method: A reception quality estimating apparatus, a wireless communication system and a reception quality estimating method wherein the communication qualities in a case where different communication schemes are used to have communication can be artificially estimated without switching the communication schemes to be used for the communication. A wireless communication apparatus... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090046772 - Method and apparatus for carrier power and interference-noise estimation in space division multiple access and multiple-input/multiple-output wireless communication systems: Estimates of carrier signal power S and interference-noise NI at the output of the equalizer in a wireless communication system is obtained by (i) determining the variance, σZ2, of the noise at the output of the equalizer dependent upon the equalization matrix, WH and an estimate of the variance σ2... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090046773 - System including reply signal that at least partially overlaps request: A system including a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to transmit a request. The transmitter is configured to transmit a reply signal that at least partially overlaps the request.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090046774 - Space-time coding/decoding method for multi-antenna pulse type communication system: A space-time coding method for a UWB pulse type transmission/reception system. The space-time code, given for P=2, 4 or 8 transmission antennas, makes it possible to code 2-PPM information symbols and to modulate the position of UWB pulse signals using coded symbols, without requiring extension of the modulation alphabet. The... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090046775 - System and method for delivery of electronic data: System and method for compressing data with the use of an Adaptive Progression Pattern and/or Logical Frequency Lexicon. The system and method may also comprise a adaptive learning scheme to update the Adaptive Progression Pattern and/or Logical Frequency Lexicon.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090046776 - Efficient temporal search range control for video encoding processes: Gain Saturation (GS) for MRFME is where searching in more previous frames offers very limited or even no performance gain. Similarly, gain aggregation (GA) is where significant gain can be obtained by searching more frames. By dynamically determining, while encoding, if either condition applies, and changing the search range accordingly,... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090046777 - Image compression system with coding quantity control: An apparatus and method to preferentially select code quantity from DPCM path in a manner to satisfy the target code quantity thereby preventing deterioration of image quality. Code quantities obtained by a first compression system of quantizing an input image signal by quantization steps different from each other, or code... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090046778 - Bit rate control method and apparatus: Provided are a bit rate control method and apparatus for intra-only coding, the method including calculating a similarity between at least one block group from among block groups including a plurality of macroblocks in a current frame to be encoded and at least one block group in a previous frame,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090046779 - Method and apparatus for determining block mode using bit-generation probability estimation in moving picture coding: Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a block mode using bit-generation probability estimation in motion picture coding. In H.264 video coding for Internet protocol (IP)-television (TV), the method and apparatus first determine whether or not a current block mode is a skip mode or a direct-prediction mode using... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090046780 - Moving image encoding apparatus,moving image encoding method, and program: A moving image encoding apparatus includes a first-step encoding section for executing a plurality of times first-step encoding by use of different quantization control variables; a code-amount estimation section for estimating, for all the quantization control variables, an amount of codes generated for each frame by making use of a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090046781 - Moving image coding apparatus and moving image decoding apparatus: A macro block size determining unit 1 determines the size of each macro block on a frame-by-frame basis. A macro block dividing unit 2 divides an inputted image into macro blocks each having the size determined by the macro block size determining unit 1. A macro block coding unit 3... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090046782 - Transport stream generating device, transmitting device, receiving device, and a digital broadcast system having the same, and method thereof: A transport stream (TS) generating apparatus, a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, a digital broadcast system having the above, and a method thereof are provided. The digital broadcast system includes a transport stream (TS) generating apparatus which generates a multi transport stream (TS) by multiplexing a normal stream and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090046783 - Method and related device for decoding video streams: A method for decoding a picture of a video stream includes decoding the video stream by a video decoder for generating a plurality of macroblocks corresponding to the picture, macroblock information corresponding to the plurality of macroblocks, and picture information corresponding to the picture; storing the macroblock information and the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090046784 - Differential signal output device: A differential signal output device is disclosed that outputs transmission data as a differential signal. The device includes a first differential signal generation circuit that amplifies a signal representing the transmission data and generates the differential signal from the amplified signal; a dummy data generation circuit that is synchronized with... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090046785 - Interface circuit: A transmission circuit (101) for transmitting data onto a transmission line, and a mask circuit (102) for generating a mask signal (105) for removing a reflected wave based on a transmission timing notification signal (104) supplied form the transmission circuit (101) are provided. For example, a timer circuit (301) causes... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090046793 - Method and system for selective use of control channel element based implicit pointing: A method for selective use of control channel element (CCE)-based implicit pointing. The method includes the step of determining whether a number of multiple user elements (UE) within a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) group is greater than the number of resource blocks allocated to the MU-MIMO group. If the number... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090046792 - Method and system of time-of-arrival estimation for ultra wideband multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signals: A time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation method for multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) signals uses a simple equally-spaced channel model to recover the impulse response of the wireless channel, and locates the delay of the first channel path by minimizing the energy leakage from the first channel path. The TOA is... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090046790 - Multi-bandwidth communication system using a shared baseband processor: Systems and methods are provided for transceiving information via alternate bandwidths using a shared baseband processor. The transmission method selects clock sampling frequencies, for example a first clock frequency (l×F1), or a second clock frequency (k×F1), where k>l. Digital information is processed using the selected clock sampling frequency and a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046794 - Multi-input multi-output communication device, antenna device and communication system: A multi-input multi-output communication device can communicate with other communication device. The multi-input multi-output communication device includes: an antenna device configured to perform communication using a plurality of polarized waves; a transmitting circuit configured to divide data to be transmitted into a plurality of data streams, and transmit the data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090046791 - Multicarrier receiving apparatus, multicarrier communication system and demodulation method: To suppress effects produced on other terminals as much as possible, while obtaining the advantage of soft-combining. A multicarrier receiving apparatus that receives a packet comprised of at least a propagation path estimation symbol and a scrambled information symbol to demodulate, and has propagation path estimating sections 3-a and 3-b... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090046786 - System and method of operating a mimo system: A MIMO system comprising a transmitting station (10) for transmitting a plurality of encoded data streams and a receiving station (12) for receiving and for decoding the encoded data streams, the performance of the receiving station being dependent on the order in which the received encoded data streams are decoded,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090046789 - Systems and methods for conserving the power supply of a communications device: A method for conserving the power supply of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communications device is described. The location of a bit of information within one of a plurality of symbols is obtained. A sleep mode is entered into. The one symbol that includes the bit of information is... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090046788 - Techniques for reducing precoding overhead in a multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system: A technique of operating a wireless communication device in a multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system includes receiving, at a first wireless communication device, recommended precoder information from a second wireless communication device, which is associated with a recommended precoder. A precoded signal is then formed at the first wireless communication... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090046787 - Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, and wireless communication method: A transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus and a wireless communication method for suppressing interference between codes, while further reducing the ratio of redundant components occupying a signal to improve the transmission efficiency. The transmitting apparatus (100) transmits a signal having a frame structure in which a plurality of symbols follow... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090046795 - Transport stream generating device, transmitting device, receiving device, and a digital broadcast system having the same, and method thereof: A transport stream (TS) generating apparatus, a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, a digital broadcast system having the above, and a method thereof are provided. The digital broadcast system includes a transport stream (TS) generating apparatus which generates a multi transport stream (TS) by multiplexing a normal stream and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090046796 - Transport stream generating device, transmitting device, receiving device, and a digital broadcast system having the same, and method thereof: A transport stream (TS) generating apparatus, a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, a digital broadcast system having the above, and a method thereof are provided. The digital broadcast system includes a transport stream (TS) generating apparatus which generates a multi transport stream (TS) by multiplexing a normal stream and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090046799 - Decoder and decoding method supporting ofdm/ofdma: Provided are an apparatus and method for efficiently decoding signals input through a plurality of antennas in a system supporting an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)/Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) scheme. A method for decoding signals received via at least two paths through a plurality of antennas in a... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090046800 - Feedback and rate adaptation for mimo transmission in a time division duplexed (tdd) communication system: Techniques for sending a MIMO transmission in a wireless communication system are described. In one design, a transmitter sends a first reference signal to a receiver. The receiver selects a precoding matrix based on the first reference signal and in accordance with a selection criterion. The receiver estimates noise and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046801 - Method and apparatus for creating a multi-user mimo codebook using a single user mimo codebook: A wireless communication method and apparatus for creating a codebook in a multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication system are disclosed. The method includes adapting a single user codebook, wherein the single user codebook comprises a plurality single user beamforming vectors, into a multi-user codebook, wherein the multi-user codebook comprises... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090046797 - Method and system for retransmitting data packets: A method and system are provided for minimizing errors by retransmitting packets in a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) space-time coded packet radio. A packet is transmitted using a first STC code mapping, the mapping including well-known symbol operations, and optional signal weighting. When transmission errors are detected the packet is re-transmitted using... Agent: Gowling, Lafleur & Henderson LLP

20090046802 - Successive interference cancellation receiver processing with selection diversity: Techniques are provided to support successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver processing with selection diversity whereby each of NT transmit antennas may be turned on or off. One symbol stream may be transmitted from each transmit antenna. A SIC receiver recovers the transmitted symbol streams in a specific order. Up to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046798 - System and method for acquiring a training matrix for a breamforming acquisition protocol using a butson matrix: A method and system for obtaining and transfer matrix and or acquiring beamforming vectors using a Butson matrix is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes i) determining the number (N) of transmitter antennas, ii) obtaining a unitary matrix having M rows and M columns, wherein M is an greater... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090046804 - Network device and transmission method thereof: A network device and a transmission method thereof are disclosed. The network device consists of a first network device and a second network device. According to at least one command, the first network device generates serial command, inserts the serial command into gaps between packet data and transmits the serial... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090046803 - Transmitter and receiver for a wireless audio transmission system: There is provided a transmitter for a wireless audio transmission system comprising at least one analog/digital converter unit for analog/digital conversion of the analog audio signals to be transmitted, at least one digital signal processing unit with a compressing/encoding device for compressing and encoding the digitized signal to be transmitted,... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20090046805 - Uplink control channel format: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate encoding feedback or control information into a compact payload. In particular, a rank indicator, a precoding matrix indicator and channel quality indicators are packaged into a control channel payload that fits into a single sub-frame. The payload format is determined based at least... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090046806 - Wireless communication method in multiantenna communication system: A wireless communication method in which use of the HERQ technique brings about an improved throughput of data transmission. In this method, if the number of retransmissions n is equal or below an upper limit value (ST404: NO), a transmission mode k is computed for k=n mod 4 at the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090046807 - Method and system for beamforming communication in wireless communication systems: A method and system for beamforming communication in a wireless communication system that includes a wireless initiator and a wireless responder is provided. A channel matrix is estimated at the responder. The singular value decomposition of the channel matrix yields the right singular matrix, which is further deconstructed into certain... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090046808 - Rate matching and scrambling techniques for control signaling: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter includes an input padding module configured to provide padded bits having padding bits added to payload bits for one or more control channels, and a scrambling... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090046810 - Gain weighted code combining system and method for combining bpsk codes: A method and system for generating a composite binary phase shift keying (BPSK) code from at least two independent component BPSK codes that is representative of each of the component BPSK codes. According to one embodiment the method involves gain weighting each BPSK code by its respective code power ratio... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090046809 - Sampling demodulator for amplitude shift keying (ask) radio receiver: A method, algorithm, circuits, and/or systems for amplitude shift keying (ASK) modulation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sampling demodulator includes a comparator configured to compare an ASK modulated input to a predetermined voltage level and provide a comparison result, a pulse stretcher with a sampler configured to sample the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090046811 - Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, transmission method, and reception method: A transmission method includes generating a control information signal relating to control information of a data signal. A transmission frame is formed by repeating and discretely arranging the same control information signal. The data signal and the control information signal are transmitted using the transmission frame.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090046812 - Method and data receiver apparatus for implementing memory read data eye stretcher: A method and data receiver apparatus implement a high speed, such as double data rate (DDR), memory read data eye stretcher. Altering the reference level is performed to increase the size of the data eye. Knowledge of the previous data state is used to adjust the reference level for the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20090046813 - Method and data receiver apparatus for implementing memory read data eye stretcher: A method and data receiver apparatus implement a high speed, such as double data rate (DDR), memory read data eye stretcher and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides is provided. Altering the reference level is performed to increase the size of the data eye. Knowledge of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20090046814 - In-phase signal and quadrature signal generator of multi-port network: An I/Q signals generator of multi-port network includes a multi input/output unit configured to down convert a RF signal into a plurality of phase signals having different phase according to a predetermined reference frequency signal to detect the powers of the phase signals, and an I/Q signal generating unit configured... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090046815 - Broadcasting receiver and broadcast signal processing method: A digital broadcasting system which is robust against an error when mobile service data is transmitted and a method of processing data are disclosed. The mobile service data is subjected to an additional coding process and the coded mobile service data is transmitted. Accordingly, it is possible to cope with... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090046816 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data: A digital broadcast system and a method of processing data are disclosed. The receiving system of the digital broadcast system includes a signal receiving unit, a first data processor, a second data processor, and an A/V decoder. The signal receiving unit receives at least one of first mobile service data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090046817 - Receiving apparatus and method: A receiving apparatus includes a unit detecting a specific-bit sequence included in a data sequence, a unit counting, as a count value n1, a first number of oscillations during a 1-bit-wide period of a first bit of the specific-bit sequence, and to count, as a count value n2, a second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090046818 - Reception device: It is possible to demodulate a plurality of modulated signals transmitted from a plurality of antennas by using a comparatively small-size circuit with a preferable error ratio characteristic. Partial bit judgment units (509, 512) demodulates partial bits of the 64 QAM-modulated signal by modifying which of the bits in the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090046819 - Method of reducing quantization noise: (b) modifying one or more earlier quantizing devices (30; 350) in the system (10; 300) with backward correction to reduce tandem noise arising therein from said determined signal regions (290), said one or more earlier quantizing devices (30; 350) not including a last quantizing device (70; 370) in series the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090046820 - Serial data sampling point control: Serial data transmission is performed using a serial data signal (8) with an associated clock signal (10) having sampling-trigger characteristics within the clock signal for controlling when the serial data signal is sampled by the receiver (2). Instead of reducing the clock signal frequency to a level where minimum setup... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090046821 - Receiving apparatus: A capsule endoscope 3 is inserted into a subject and transmits a capsule ID, which is received by an RF receiving unit 11 of a receiving apparatus 2. A capsule ID detecting circuit 19 detects the capsule ID. A control unit C recognizes a type of the capsule endoscope 3... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090046822 - System and method for clock drift compensation: Embodiments for compensating clock drift in a system have been described and depicted.... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090041087 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: Transmission data spread over a frequency domain and a time domain is efficiently received. When a spread signal is received, if the SNR exceeds a predetermined value, it is determined that a despreading process is not necessary for all blocks, and a block selection flow is started. If a block... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090041088 - Methods and apparatuses for channel assessment: An embodiment of an apparatus for channel assessment is provided, comprising a radio frequency (RF) unit, a baseband unit and a microprocessor control unit (MCU). The baseband unit coupling to the RF unit directs the RF unit to selectively hop into one of a plurality of available channels in a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090041089 - Shared correlator for signals with different chip rates and correlation method thereof: Disclosed is a shared correlator for processing signals with different chip rates from respective channels. The shared correlator comprises a mode controller, a plurality of sub-correlators, a PRN code generator and a plurality of accumulators. The mode controller arranges channel allocations for respective IF signals down converted from the signals.... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090041090 - Method for transmitting signals using antenna diversity, for instance in mobile communication systems, transmitter, receiver and computer program product therefor: Encoded digital symbols are transmitted via a first pair of antennas and at least one second pair of antennas. The sets of symbols used for the transmission via the second pair of antennas are re-ordered temporally into subsets of symbols with respect to the symbols used for the first pair... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090041091 - Receiver with the function of adjusting clock signal and an adjusting method therefor: A receiver having a first clock signal is provided. The first frequency of the first clock signal is adjusted to be close to a second frequency of a second clock signal of a transmitter. The receiver includes a clock generator, a processor and a controller. The clock generator is for... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090041092 - Method for transmitting and receiving data in a multi-carrier system: A method of transmitting data in a multi-carrier communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes mapping at least one data symbol to at least one subcarrier of a first frequency domain and at least one data symbol to at least one subcarrier of a second frequency domain, wherein... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090041094 - Signal receiving apparatus including equalizer, terminal apparatus, signal receiving method, and signal receiving program: The signal receiving apparatus includes a filter coefficient updating unit 104 which generates a filter coefficient w on the basis of an input signal x, a transformational despreading unit 101 which performs a despreading process to the input signal x, and an FIR filter 103 which performs multiplication by using... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090041093 - Time-tracking management of demodulation elements in a receive diversity enabled rake receiver: A rake receiver comprises a plurality of receive antennas and a processing system. Each receive antenna has a plurality of demodulation elements. The processing system is configured to assign a plurality of demodulation elements from a plurality of receive antennas to a multipath group, assign the multipath group to a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090041095 - Method and apparatus for fine frequency synchronization in wireless broadband (wibro) system without using global positioning system (gps) receiver: Provided is a fine frequency synchronization method of a WiBro system, and particularly, a fine frequency synchronization method which measures a spread degree of a received signal of an adjacent subcarrier using orthogonality of PN sequences and thereby estimates a frequency offset, in a base station or a wireless repeater... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090041096 - Efficient synchronization of a spread spectrum signal in the presence of delay and frequency uncertainty: Implementations for the synchronization of a spread spectrum signal in the presence of delay and frequency uncertainty. According to one embodiment, there is a signal processing technique that combines coherent integration with a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Coherent integration with the direct sequence code is achieved through the use of... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20090041097 - Apparatus and method for network-coding: Provided are a network-coding apparatus and method which can increase a data communication capacity in a communication environment to which an error-correction code (ECC) is applied. The network-coding apparatus includes a received signal processing unit receiving at least two signals, and decoding the at least two received signals; and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090041098 - Coding device, pulse regenerating device, and communications system: It is an object of the present invention to provide coding techniques which allow for higher efficiency and easier synchronization with coded data. In order to attain the object, a coding device according to the present invention converts 2-bit informational data into 4-bit coded data according to a predetermined coding... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090041100 - Link aware mobile data network: Methods, systems, and devices are described for communicating data from multiple data terminals to an aggregator terminal over a communication link having changing link conditions. In some embodiments, source data is received at multiple data terminals, each in communication with an aggregator terminal over a communication link. For example, during... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090041099 - Link interface technique including data indicator symbols: In some embodiments, a chip includes transmitters and generation circuitry to provide data symbols and special characters to the transmitters to be transmitted. The chip also includes match detection circuitry to detect when the data symbols match the special characters; and indicator symbol generation circuitry to create data indicator symbols... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090041102 - Jitter injection circuit, electronics device, and test apparatus: Provided is a jitter injection circuit that injects jitter having a predetermined amplitude to a transmission signal outputted from a transmission circuit, and inputs the resulting transmission signal to a reception circuit, the jitter injection circuit including: a retiming section that receives the transmission signal from the transmission circuit, and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090041101 - Test apparatus: A test apparatus includes a transmitting-side jitter measuring unit which measures a jitter of a transmission signal output from a transmitting circuit, a jitter applying unit which applies a jitter to the transmission signal and inputs the signal to a receiving circuit, a jitter range measuring unit which determines whether... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090041103 - Method and device for performing communication in digital subscriber line: A method and transmitter receiver sets are used to perform communication in digital subscriber line technology. The method includes: acquiring communication performance parameter; the first transmitter receiver set and the second transmitter receiver set using the predetermined communication standard to perform communication when the communication performance parameter is equal to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090041104 - Phase and frequency recovery techniques: Phase and frequency recovery techniques comprising; a software controlled clock synthesizer (SCCS) for high accuracy phase & frequency synthesis producing synchronized low jitter clock from external time referencing signals or time referencing messages wherein SCCS includes a hybrid PLL (HPLL) enabling 1-50,000 frequency multiplication with very low output jitter independent... Agent: John W. Bogdan

20090041105 - Communication control method, receiving station apparatus, transmitting station apparatus, and communication system: A receiving station apparatus controls a number of null carriers included in a transmission signal transmitted by a transmitting station apparatus in a communication system adopting a multicarrier modulation system to suppress inter-carrier interference by using the null carrier. For example, a reception-quality measuring unit measures a reception quality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090041106 - Variable equalizer apparatus: A variable equalizer apparatus for forward and/or reverse equalizers in an amplifier. The system can include a structure to allow continuous contact of the signal flow as an equalizer is removed; jumpers with fixed resistors and associated capacitors and inductors to produce a variable range over many different values; and/or... Agent: Loeb & Loeb, LLP

20090041107 - Finite-length equalization over multi-input multi-output channels: A MIMO Decision Feedback Equalizer improves operation of a receiver by canceling the spatio-temporal interference effects caused by the MIMO channel memory with a set of FIR filters in both the feed-forward and the feedback MIMO filters. The coefficients of these FIR filters can be fashioned to provide a variety... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090041108 - Cascaded phase pulse position and pulse width modulation based digital transmitter: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a digital transmitter may comprise two or more phase modulators in a cascaded arrangement. The phase modulators may modulate a local oscillator signal using control signals derived from the quadrature baseband data to be transmitted. A closed loop power control feedback arrangement... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Intellevate

20090041111 - spectral translation/folding in the subband domain: The present invention relates to a new method and apparatus for improvement of High Frequency Reconstruction (HFR) techniques using frequency translation or folding or a combination thereof. The proposed invention is applicable to audio source coding systems, and offers significantly reduced computational complexity. This is accomplished by means of frequency... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090041109 - Compact floating point delta encoding for complex data: A method and apparatus for compression of complex data signals within a telecommunications base station. The method includes representing a sample of a complex value discrete time signal using 2(L−N)−S mantissa bits and 2N+S exponent bits to realize peak output signal to noise ratios over a wider dynamic range compared... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20090041110 - Rate matching with multiple code block sizes: Bits included in each code block of a transport block can be stored to an associated circular buffer and transmitted over a channel. Each circular buffer can vary in size in proportion to a size of the associated code block. Therefore, since in certain operating environments code blocks for a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090041117 - Coding scene transitions in video coding: A method of generating a scene transition in a video sequence between a first and a second scene is provided. One of the scenes comprises independently decodable video frames coded according to a first frame format, and video frames coded according to a second frame format, one of the video... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC Suite 125

20090041116 - Data conversion apparatus, recording apparatus including the data conversion apparatus, and data conversion method: A data conversion apparatus which converts data including a K pixel amount of bit data expressed as N bits/1 pixel, where N and K are plural, using conversion data of predetermined bits comprising: a holding unit configured to hold input data in K×N bits; an acquisition unit configured to acquire... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090041112 - Method and apparatus of compressing image data: A method and an apparatus of compressing image data are provided. The method of compressing data comprises calculating differences between values of predetermined pixels from among pixels constructing an image and values of reference pixels respectively corresponding to the predetermined pixels; ordering bits, which correspond to bit strings of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090041114 - Method and system for viewer quality estimation of packet video streams: A method and system for the estimation of the effect of packet loss on a viewer's subjective perception of a packet video stream. The method involves estimating a quality metric for every frame in the video stream, accumulating such metrics over time, and transforming the result into a Mean Opinion... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090041118 - Method for bandwidth regulation on a cable television system channel: A method for regulating bandwidth usage in an output data stream transmitted on an analog channel from a cable head end. The output data stream comprises a plurality of input information content signals. For each input information content signal, a series of images are captured, compressed and formed into an... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090041113 - Method for processing a signal and apparatus for processing a signal: A method and apparatus for processing a signal compressed in accordance with a specific alternative coding scheme are disclosed. In detail, a coding method for signal compression and signal restoration using a specific alternative coding scheme, and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding according to the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090041115 - Ts packet grooming: Received data packets are groomed to improve performance of MPEG-2 transport stream packet in a digital video broadcasting system. Multitude of crosschecking techniques are applied to ensure that crucial pieces of information such as the packet identifier (PID) field, the continuity counter (CC) field, table ID, section length, IP header... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090041119 - Method and device for coding a video image: The method comprises a coding of a source block according to a coding mode wherein the selection of the coding mode is carried out, for a source block, according to coding error estimations and source block coding cost estimations for the different coding modes tested, the coding error being estimated,... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090041122 - Image coding apparatus, image coding method and image coding program: The image coding apparatus is provided to realize image coding with little calculation quantity and through rate distortion optimization thereby maintaining a favorable image quality. The image coding apparatus includes a processing unit that conducts frequency transform and quantization on a block in a predetermined manner for a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090041120 - Luma and chroma encoding using a common predictor: There are provided video encoders, video decoders, and corresponding methods. A video encoder for encoding video signal data for an image block includes an encoder for encoding all color components of the video signal data using a common predictor. A video decoder for decoding video signal data for an image... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090041121 - Method and apparatus for encoding video data, and method and apparatus for decoding video data: Scalable video coding based on H.264/AVC uses motion compensation, which results in motion vectors and residual pictures. To optimize the encoding of the residual pictures of the enhancement-layer, they can be predicted from the base-layer. This requires complex encoders and decoders. Simplified residual prediction techniques are provided that focus on... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090041123 - Generalized scalability for video coder based on video objects: A video coding system that codes video objects as scalable video object layers. Data of each video object may be segregated into one or more layers. A base layer contains sufficient information to decode a basic representation of the video object. Enhancement layers contain supplementary data regarding the video object... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090041126 - Electronic apparatus, motion vector detecting method, and program therefor: An electronic apparatus includes an extracting unit, a retrieving unit, a detecting unit, and a controlling unit. The extracting unit extracts a first block at a first position of a first frame image from plural frame images constituting video data. The retrieving unit retrieves, from a retrieval region within a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090041124 - Image coding apparatus and method: The image coding apparatus comprises: a decoding unit 102 which decodes first coded data to generate a decoded picture and decoding information containing motion vectors; a coding unit 104 which codes, in a second coding scheme, the decoded picture generated by the decoding unit 102, to generate second coded data... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090041125 - Moving picture coding apparatus and method: A motion vector estimating device estimating a motion vector having high accuracy is provided. An eliminating unit eliminates each of pictures in a set of input pictures for each picture. A picture reducing unit reduces left pictures after the elimination, and generates reduced pictures. An overall motion vector estimating unit... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090041127 - Flexible length decoder: A flexible length decoder including a plurality of data filter units and a control unit is provided. The data filter units perform a comparing operation on a data stream according its corresponding pattern and output a comparing result. The control unit controls the configurations of the data filter units. If... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090041128 - System and method for using pattern vectors for video and image coding and decoding: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method of using pattern vectors for image coding and decoding. The method comprises converting a block of image data into a set of transform coefficients, quantizing the transform coefficients such that a number of the coefficients become zero, constructing a single... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090041129 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method: A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed, which are robust to error when mobile service data are transmitted. To this end, additional encoding is performed for the mobile service data, whereby it is possible to strongly cope with fast channel change while giving robustness to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090041132 - Method and device for adapting a temporal frequency of a sequence of video images: The invention concerns a method of adapting a temporal frequency of a sequence of video images for the purpose of its transmission over a communication network, characterized in that images of the sequence having been sampled at a temporal frequency f1. The method and device for adapting a temporal frequency... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090041131 - Method for protection of data reproduction according to both medium protection data and apparatus protection data, including limitation of reproduction based on a film classification system: In a reproduction apparatus, for reproducing an original signal conveyed as main data by a data medium such as a recording disk or broadcasting system, with medium protection data which are specific to the data medium being conveyed together with the main data, the apparatus includes a section for generating... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090041130 - Method of transmitting picture information when encoding video signal and method of using the same when decoding video signal: A method of transmitting picture information of a video signal from an encoder and a method of using the picture information in a decoder are provided. When a video signal is encoded, the video signal is coded according to a specified scheme while being divided into key and non-key pictures,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090041133 - Communication protocol methods: Communication protocol methods for performing signal synchronization, data transmission, and data acknowledgement between a transmitting device and a receiving device are provided. The methods are characterized by a plurality of transmission lines which are used for performing signal synchronization, data transmission, and data acknowledgement by the communication protocol methods.... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090041139 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving uplink control channels in a wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving pilot symbols for demodulation of control channel information in the uplink of a wireless communication system are provided. When an Evolved Node B (ENB) expects to receive both the Channel Quality Information (CQI) and the Acknowledgement (ACK)/Negative ACK (NACK) from a User Equipment (UE)... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090041138 - Efficient cqich transport format: An efficient channel quality indicator channel (CQICH) transport method and system are disclosed. The CQICH transport method defines five types of CQI transport formats, to cover known cases of CQI feedback. The CQICH transport method further defines the format of transportation, which enables any of the five types of CQI... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20090041137 - Individual interleaving of data streams for mimo transmission: The present invention, generally speaking, provides interleavers and methods of interleaving that satisfy the need for backward compatibility while effectively addressing competing design objectives. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, data is transmitted using a number of transmit antennas greater than an expected number of receive antennas. At... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090041136 - Method and apparatus for recognition of transmission parameter signaling (tps) at frequency domain in a tds-ofdm receiver: A receiver comprises a method is provided. The method has the step of: determining a transmission parameter signaling (TPS) parameter based a group of vectors inherent to a communication system.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20090041140 - Method for blindly detecting a precoding matrix index: A method for blindly detecting a precoding matrix index used to transmit a data or control signal is provided. The method includes receiving at a mobile station (102) a common reference signal and user specific data and control signal weighted by precoding matrix. An objective function is applied to the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090041134 - Methods and apparatus for channel estimation for wideband ofdm communication systems: Systems and methods according to the present invention provide channel estimation methods, systems and devices which determine a coarse channel estimate (40) and a fine channel estimate (66). The coarse channel (40) estimate can be determined based on the channel estimation sequence transmitted to the receiver and then used to... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090041143 - Multi-carrier transmission system: Multi-carrier transmission system comprises transmitter including acquisition unit configured to acquire 2m (m: a natural number) modulated signals including no-information signals which are failed to be used for information transmission and 2n (n: a natural number, n<m) signals, acquisition unit subjecting modulated signals to inverse discrete Fourier trans-form to obtain... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090041144 - Multi-user mimo receiver and method for decoding simultaneous uplink transmissions from mobile stations: Multicarrier receivers and methods for carrier frequency offset correction and channel estimation for receipt of simultaneous transmissions over a multi-user uplink are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/intel

20090041135 - Null detection in dab, t-dmb, and dab-ip systems: Detecting Null symbols in a video data frame comprises sending OFDM symbols through a sliding windowed correlation process having a correlation window length proportional to a cyclic prefix length and a delay equal to a FFT size of the symbols, wherein output peaks of the process occur where two similar... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090041141 - Pilot pattern design for an ofdm system: The present invention relates to a transmitting device and a receiving device in a wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) communication system with space time transmit diversity (STTD). Further, the present invention relates to a channel estimation method for performing a channel estimation in such a wireless communication system, in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090041142 - Pilot pattern design for an ofdm system: A transmitting device for transmitting data symbols and pilot symbols in an OFDM transmission system; the device comprising symbol generating means for generating said data symbols and said pilot symbols, means for transmitting said data symbols and pilot symbols respectively by using a plurality of subcarriers of said OFDM transmission... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090041145 - Method to detect data transmitted from multiple antennas and system thereof: A method to detect data transmitted from multiple antennas, said method comprising steps of: selecting a starting data block and calling it as previous data block; defining a set of indices of bits to be checked for possible flip in the previous data block as a check candidate set; applying... Agent: Nixon Peabody

20090041146 - Transport stream generating device, transmitting device, receiving device, and a digital broadcast system having the same, and method thereof: A transport stream (TS) generating apparatus, a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, a digital broadcast system having the above, and a method thereof are provided. The digital broadcast system includes a transport stream (TS) generating apparatus which generates a multi transport stream (TS) by multiplexing a normal stream and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090041147 - Transport stream generating device, transmitting device, receiving device, and a digital broadcast system having the same, and method thereof: A transport stream (TS) generating apparatus, a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, a digital broadcast system having the above, and a method thereof are provided. The digital broadcast system includes a transport stream (TS) generating apparatus which generates a multi transport stream (TS) by multiplexing a normal stream and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090041152 - Apparatus and method for generating per stream effective signal to noise ratio in a multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system: In the present invention, an apparatus and a method for generating feedback information for a Maximum Likelihood (ML) detection scheme in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wireless communication system are provided. An apparatus of the invention includes a generator for generating constellation difference points by converting a constellation domain representing values... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090041150 - Method and apparatus of codebook-based single-user closed-loop transmit beamforming (su-cltb) for ofdm wireless systems: A method includes broadcasting, at a transmitter, messages comprising antenna configuration, antenna spacing and a number of antenna of the transmitter and reference signals; generating, at a receiver, a codebook comprising a plurality of antenna beams based on the broadcasted messages; receiving, at the receiver, the broadcasted reference signals; selecting,... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090041153 - Mimo receivers having one or more additional receive paths: In a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) system, a receiver is implemented with at least one additional receive path beyond the number of transmit antennas used to transmit the signals (e.g., wireless OFDM signals) received at the receiver. In one embodiment, the additional receive path is used to reduced co-channel interference (CCI)... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20090041149 - Multiple input-multiple output communication system:

20090041148 - Open loop mu-mimo: A unified open loop single-user/multiple-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system and method are disclosed. The system and method operate without use of channel state information feedback. Instead, the method utilizes channel quality indicator feedback to schedule users to spatial resource blocks. Both symmetric multi-user MIMO schemes (like 2×2 and 4×4) and asymmetric... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20090041151 - Pilot boosting and traffic to pilot ratio estimation in a wireless communication system: Methods and circuits for assigning pilot boosting factors and calculating traffic to pilot ratios in a wireless communication system. The data to be transmitted is first modulated to generate a plurality of data modulation symbols. The plurality of data modulation symbols and a plurality of reference signal symbols are mapped... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090041154 - Apparatus for transmitting signal in semiconductor integrated circuit: An apparatus for transmitting a signal in a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a multilevel transmission control block that outputs a plurality of bits of an input signal in serial or parallel according to whether a multilevel transmission operation is performed or not, and a signal processing block that selectively performs... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090041155 - Stream distribution system: Provided is a stream distribution system, including: a content server device for performing content distribution in a network; a reception terminal device capable of reproducing a content having a specific format; a plurality of transcoder devices provided in the network, for applying format conversion to a content distributed in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090041156 - Uwb system employing gaussian minimum shift key modulation, common mode signaling, and beamforming: A multi-mode transmission system supporting OFDM and single-carrier signals is configured to perform interpolation and decimation such that the ratio of the interpolation factor to the decimation factor equals the ratio between the OFDM sampling rate and the single-carrier chip rate. A constant-envelope modulator comprises a π/4 fixed rotator, a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090041157 - Medium loss high power iboc combiner: A method and apparatus are disclosed for combining digital sidebands with an FM analog signal for IBOC transmission by a single antenna. Specifically, a high power filter combiner for combining an FM analog and a digital signal of the same channel, or frequency, is disclosed. The combiner has two inputs... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090041158 - Digital demodulating apparatus, digital receiver, controlling method of the apparatus, computer program product, and recording medium recording thereon the product: A digital demodulating apparatus comprises circuit components constituting a tuner that applies channel select processing to a received signal, and a demodulator that demodulates the signal to which the tuner has applied channel select processing; a power supply unit that supplies power to each circuit component; a reception condition detecting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090041159 - Power control for respective hardware engines in wireless receiver: Systems, methods, devices, and processors are described for a wireless receiver. The receiver may be configured to receive signals transmitted according to various mobile digital television standards. The receiver may include a number of hardware engines. The hardware engines may be individually controlled in a number of aspects. Power to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090041160 - Taps for data from hardware engines in a receiver: Systems, methods, devices, and processors are described for a wireless receiver. The receiver may be configured to receive signals transmitted according to various mobile digital television standards. The receiver may include a number of hardware engines. The hardware engines may be individually controlled in a number of aspects. Power to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090041161 - Dc offset estimation system and method: A DC offset estimation system is disclosed. A DC offset estimation system includes a carrier frequency offset estimator receiving an input signal and estimating a carrier frequency offset value, a symbol timing recovery unit providing a symbol boundary of the input signal, and a DC offset estimator estimating a DC... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090041162 - Searcher for multiple orthogonal channels with known data wcdma step2 search: A circuit and algorithm are disclosed for a step2 search of a three step search of synchronization channels in a W-CDMA system. A mobile terminal of the CDMA system includes an RF downconverter for receiving I and Q signals. A searcher, responsive to the I and Q signals, includes a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090041163 - Selecting delay values for a rake receiver: Multipath components of transmitted data symbols are received with individual delays and processed by a RAKE having a number of fingers. A delay profile indicating magnitudes for a first number of delay values is provided. Estimated magnitudes for a second number of delay values located between the first number of... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090041164 - Apparatus and method to generate convolution encoded data: An apparatus and method are disclosed to generate convolution encoded data. The method supplies a convolution encoder. The method receives original data and generates convolution encoded original data. The method receives revised data. The method generates an XOR data stream by Exclusive OR'ing the original data with the revised data,... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20090041166 - Method and apparatus to improve information decoding when its characteristics are known a priori: The present invention provides systems and methods for decoding received messages using a priori characteristics of selected message portions. A message which has been encoded in a particular format, such as a tail-biting convolutional coding, is received and decoded by utilizing the a priori information about the message. In one... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090041165 - Receiver apparatus: A receiving apparatus includes: a transmission-channel estimating unit that estimates a transmission-channel response matrix; a hard-decision sequence estimating unit that estimates a hard decision sequence and outputs the hard decision sequence and likelihood information α corresponding to the hard decision sequence; and a soft-decision value creating unit that creates likelihood... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090041167 - Demodulator, receiver, and demodulation method: In an OFDM receiver with a diversity configuration having a plurality of demodulation modules, to perform FFT window position recovery and clock recovery, the gain values calculated by the AGC units (16, 26) provided in the demodulation modules for adjusting the level of the received signal are supplied to a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090041168 - Harmonics avoidance: Systems, methods, devices, and processors are described for a wireless receiver. The receiver may be configured to receive signals transmitted according to various mobile digital television standards. The receiver may include a number of hardware engines. The hardware engines may be individually controlled in a number of aspects. Power to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090041169 - Pulse modulation type transmitter apparatus and pulse modulation type receiver apparatus: A pulse modulation type transmitter apparatus and a pulse modulation type receiver apparatus wherein both a fast synchronization establishment and a low power consumption of a synchronizing part can be achieved at the same time and wherein the data transmission/reception can be performed soon after a commencement of communication, and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090041170 - Dynamic phase alignment methods and apparatus: Dynamic phase alignment circuitry selects from among several, phase-distributed, candidate clock signals the one of those signals that is currently best for use in controlling the timing of sampling of a serial data signal to recover the data from that signal. The circuitry selects two phase-adjacent ones of the candidate... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090041171 - Accelerated processing in subset of hardware engines in wireless receiver: Systems, methods, devices, and processors are described for a wireless receiver. The receiver may be configured to receive signals transmitted according to various mobile digital television standards. The receiver may include a number of hardware engines. The hardware engines may be individually controlled in a number of aspects. Power to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090041172 - Phase detection circuit: A phase detection circuit includes a phase frequency detector for comparing a first input signal and a second input signal and outputting a first phase comparison signal and a second phase comparison signal, and a sensing circuit for sensing a pulse width difference between the first phase comparison signal and... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090041173 - Data clock recovery system using digital arrival-time detector: This patent disclosure presents circuits, systems and methods to extract the clock signal from a data stream. This new invention is far better than the current technologies in the range of frequency locking and tracking. Since the new data clock recovery system is built by digital circuits only, it can... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20090034585 - Demodulation method and device, equalization method and system in transmitting diversity mode: A demodulation method and device, an equalization method and system in a transmitting diversity mode are provided. The demodulation method includes: demodulating two equalized equalization signals respectively through a transmitting diversity mode; and then performing a maximum ratio combination on the demodulated signals. According to embodiments of the present invention,... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090034586 - Transmission system, transmission method, reception system, and reception method: First normalizing means (12) normalizes first and second code streams (s1, s2). First spreading means (13) spreads the output of the first normalizing means (12). STTD coding means (14) subjects the first and second code streams (s1, S2) to STTD coding. Second normalizing means (15) normalizes the output of the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090034587 - Signal processing device and wireless apparatus: There is provided a signal processing device and a wireless apparatus capable of not erroneously determining polarity, appropriately performing a spread modulation process, a carrier modulation process, and reception data demodulation process, improving reception accuracy, and miniaturizing a circuit, even when IF carrier frequency shift occurs. The signal processing device... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090034588 - Method and apparatus to process dedicated pilot bits from multiple fingers: A method to process DP bits from multiple fingers within a WCDMA rake receiver is provided. DPCH pilot symbols are received, quantized and channel compensated. Then processing operations for individual fingers for the channel compensated quantized despread DPCH pilot symbols are chosen based on the DPCH slot format. The DPCH... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090034589 - Multiple branch psync detection module: A wireless terminal is operable to receive a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal from a base station and includes clock circuitry, a wireless interface, and a Primary Synchronization (PSYNC) module. The clock circuitry generates a wireless terminal clock using a wireless terminal oscillator. The wireless interface receives the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090034590 - Method and apparatus to perform modulation using integer timing relationships between intra symbol modulation components: A method and apparatus to improve modulation efficiency for chip to chip interconnects. Modulation objects that are integer multiples of a fundamental time unit (FTU) are used to populate a symbol period that is also an integer multiple of the FTU. A possible symbol set is established as the set... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090034591 - Method of pairing devices: Some aspects include a method of associating electronic devices for communicating data. The method includes receiving a message on a first device indicating that a second device is discoverable and pairable. The method further includes determining whether the first device is pairable, transmitting a pairing response to the second device... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090034592 - Crosstalk cancellation in digital subscriber line communications: A digital subscriber line (DSL) modem that has a canceller digital filter for cancelling crosstalk and RF interference in a received DSL signal is disclosed. The modem includes common-mode sense circuitry and also differential-mode sense circuitry. Samples of the common-mode signal are acquired during a “quiet” period of initialization of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090034595 - Data coupler: A data coupler includes an antenna substrate that is not electrically connected in a DC arrangement to an electric power line, is arranged adjacent to the electric power line, and is connected to a modem. A resonant circuit including an inductance element and a capacitance element is provided in the... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090034593 - Data transmission rate adjustment system and method thereof: A data transmission rate adjustment system and method thereof comprise a driving module and a control module. The driving module performs a predetermined mathematical calculation based on a transmission rate request to generate a divisor. The control module then performs a division that divides a reference frequency by the divisor... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090034594 - Keeping modems online upon n+1 switchover in cable modem termination systems: According to a first aspect, in a time period after a line card switchover, a CMTS router makes each ranging opportunity in a bandwidth allocation map effectively wider by padding mute areas, which no modem can use, before and after a ranging opportunity. This is to keep a ranging packet... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090034596 - Ethernet traffic emulation using ramped traffic generation techniques: The invention relates to a testing system for generating a plurality of independently controllable streams of Ethernet frames, e.g. voice, data and video, in which the bandwidth utilization thereof can be held constant or ramped up to test the effects thereof on the other streams.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090034597 - Method and apparatus for measuring bit error rate of tuner: A test signal generator 2 comprises a Pseudo Random Binary bit Sequence generator 20 for generating a Pseudo Random Binary bit Sequence in the form of burst while holding the continuity of the code, and intermittently operates in a burst form in response to operation control signals from circuits 22,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090034598 - Method and apparatus to compute a noise power estimate in a wcdma network based on dedicated physical control channel (dpcch) processing: A method to process DP bits within a WCDMA receiver where a noise estimation that may be implemented within hardware is provided for improved flexibility and performance. DPCH pilot symbols are received, quantized, channel compensated and combined. The computation of an SNR estimate based on the combined DPCH pilot symbols... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090034599 - Method and apparatus for indicating the performance of a digital signal, based on a mapping of symbols extracted from the digital signal to one or more target symbol states: In one embodiment, a digital signal having a modulation format is demodulated, in real time, to extract symbols from the digital signal. The extracted symbols are then mapped to one or more target symbol states of the modulation format, in real time; and the performance of the digital signal is... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090034601 - Adaptive equalization system and method having a lock-up-free quantized feedback dc restoration circuit: An adaptive equalizer may include one or more equalizing gain stages coupled to an input signal. An automatic gain control circuit may be used to control the gain of the one or more equalizing gain stages, the automatic gain control circuit having an AGC reference input. A dual-output DC restoration... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090034602 - Filter weight estimation device with update at hsdsch symbol rate, for a symbol level equaliser: A filter weight estimation device (D), for an equaliser of a communication receiver, comprises i) a tap delay line connected to N branches each comprising a descrambler (DS1-DSN) and a despreader (DE1-DEN), for despreading received signals, corresponding to one or more available multiplexed channels associated with different channelization codes, with... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20090034600 - Method for manufacturing an equalizer: in which the gain represents an ideal gain; next, performs an integration about the transmission line scattering-parameter, the ideal gain and an equalizer scattering-parameter, and performs a differentiation about the transmission line scattering-parameter and the equalizer scattering-parameter to get the component impedances of the equalizer. Then manufacture the equalizer circuit... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20090034603 - Subranging for a pulse position and pulse width modulation based transmitter: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, in a pulse position and pulse position modulation out-phasing transmitter, the range of the phase angle, theta, may be divided into more than one range to drive a first power amplifier with a first range of theta, and to drive a second... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Intellevate

20090034606 - Display device with conversion capability for portable media player: Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for a monitor with conversion capabilities for transferring data to a portable media player. In one embodiment, there is presented a monitor for displaying video data. The monitor comprises at least one input, a screen, an encoder, a memory, and an interface. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090034607 - Integrated circuit with conversion capability for portable media player: Presented herein are system(s), method(s) and apparatus for an integrated circuit with conversion capabilities for transferring data to a portable media player. In one embodiment, there is presented an integrated circuit for providing video data. The integrated circuit comprises at least one input, at least one output, an encoder, and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090034609 - Method and apparatus for providing prediction mode fine granularity scalability: In an encoding process, video data are represented as a bitstream of a quantized base layer and at least two enhancement layers, with each picture in each layer identified by a start code. The base layer, plus a number of enhancement layers capable of being transmitted by the communication channel's... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090034608 - Method and device for lossy coding of a digital signal: The invention concerns a method of lossy coding of a digital signal to transmit over a communication system, characterized in that it comprises a step of determining at least one coding parameter reducing the distortion due to the coding under a rate constraint by taking account of the possible variations... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090034605 - Method and device for routing of specific data, particularly of receiving rights in a pay-tv terminal: A method and a device for the routing of specific data, particularly of receiving rights, in a pay-TV terminal, the data being transmitted from a transmitter via a transmission medium to the pay-TV terminal, using mobile data carriers, particularly chipcards. The method and device are characterized in that the pay-TV... Agent: Richard L. Mayer Kenyon & Kenyon

20090034604 - Method and system for subdividing a digital broadcast program into distinct identified sections for selective digital video recording and archiving: A method for subdividing audio/video (A/V) content, includes: labeling a series of A/V content as individual sections; assembling the individual sections of the A/V content into a continuous series of segments; wherein a segment includes part or all of a section of A/V content; assigning sub-section identification to each segment... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Endicott

20090034610 - Video rate adaptation to reverse link conditions: The disclosure relates to video rate adaptation techniques that may use information from a medium access control (MAC) layer and radio link protocol (RLP) layer. The techniques may greatly reduce video delay by adjusting video encoding rate. For real-time video telephony (VT) applications, these techniques may provide graceful quality degradation... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090034611 - Cavlc run before encode with zero cycle costs: An apparatus including a control circuit and an encoder circuit. The control circuit may configured to generate a first control signal and a second control signal. The encoder circuit may be configured to (i) receive a plurality of coefficients, the first control signal and the second control signal and (ii)... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20090034612 - Quantization method and apparatus in encoding/decoding: A method and apparatus is provided for implementing quantization in encoding/decoding. Firstly, the quantization on the picture transformed coefficient matrix is performed using a quantization parameter model, that is, the coefficient matrix is modeled as a parameter model represented by only several parameters, in which the parameter model includes two... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090034613 - Method and apparatus for generating multimedia data having decoding level, and method and apparatus for reconstructing multimedia data by using the decoding level: Provided is a multimedia data generation method which includes allocating one or more pieces of image object information to each of a plurality of nodes, generating a scene tree by linking nodes according to correlation between the object information allocated to each node, and adding an event execution level attribute... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034614 - Feedback assisted transmission of multiple description, forward error correction coded, streams in a peer-to-peer video system: MD-FEC is considered an efficient way to generate a large number of descriptions. However, typically, MD-FEC introduces significant redundancy across streams. MD-FEC encoded streams (descriptions) are adapted based on feedback. Specifically, the bits sent in each description by a supplying peer are adapted based on the number of available descriptions... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090034615 - Decoding device and decoding method: According to one embodiment, a decoding device, includes an input unit configured to input a moving image stream wherein each image is encoded in macro-blocks of n×n pixels to be generated by being divided in a matrix shape, a detection unit configured to analyze information of a slice composed of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090034616 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: The method includes the following units: a coefficient number detecting unit (109) for detecting the number of coefficients which has a value other than 0 for each block according to the generated coefficient, a coefficient number storing unit (110) for storing the number of coefficients detected, a coefficient number coding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090034617 - Image encoding apparatus and image encoding method: In an image encoding apparatus including an intra-frame prediction unit that executes intra-frame prediction regarding an input image, when locally decoded pixels are not available, pseudo reference pixels are set to calculate an intra-frame-prediction evaluation value, and a method of encoding to be used for a block to be encoded... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090034619 - Adapting an encoded video signal to encoding complexity: Techniques for adapting an encoded video signal to a complexity of video encoding may be used to reduce a bit rate of an encoded video signal when the complexity is reduced. Video communication according to the present techniques includes adapting an encoded video signal to an encoding complexity used to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090034618 - Decoding method and apparatus for block-based digitally encoded picture: A decoding method for block-based digital encoded picture is disclosed. The method including the steps of reconstructing a zeroth reference picture list and a first reference picture list for a current picture based on a predetermined digital picture coding protocol; establishing a lookup table which includes a parameter field for... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090034622 - Learning filters for enhancing the quality of block coded still and video images: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for reducing blocking artifacts in block-wise coding of still and video images. A learning filter generator is provided at the image encoder for generating a set of filters and associated filtering rules for filtering cross-boundary image patterns based on representative original... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090034621 - Low-complexity motion vector prediction systems and methods: A method of motion vector prediction for use in differential motion vector coding within a block motion-compensation-based video coder. The video coder employs a generalized multiple reference picture buffer which may contain multiple reference pictures in both the forward and backward temporal direction from the current picture. For the purpose... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090034620 - Motion estimation method: A motion estimation method capable of reducing the amount of calculation as compared to a full search method. In the method, a coarse search block and fine search blocks are defined. The fine search blocks are given by dividing the coarse search block into a plurality of blocks so that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090034623 - Image encoding device and image encoding method: The image encoding device (1) including a first one-dimensional orthogonal transform processing unit (10), a two port memory for transposition processing (20), a second one-dimensional orthogonal transform processing unit (30), a first address generation unit (40), a second address generation unit (50), a coefficient table holding unit (60), a parameter... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090034624 - Method and apparatus for a multidimensional discrete multiwavelet transform: Methods and apparatuses for compressing and decompressing digital data. The method for compressing digital data comprises a number of steps: a) generating a vector-valued dataset according to the digital data, b) transforming the vector-valued dataset into multiwavelet coefficients, and c) entropically coding the multiwavelet coefficients. The method for decompressing digital... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20090034625 - Image decoder: The present invention relates to an image decoder which implements high speed image decoding with a low cost and simple configuration. By a stream dividing module, an input video stream is divided in units of frames as a plurality of frame rows for distribution. Each of plural decoders generates decoded... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090034626 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding of a video signal: In decoding a scalable video signal using a partial picture reference on a temporal domain and a scalable domain, the present invention provides a method including obtaining a first partial picture on a first temporal point, and decoding a full picture referring to the first partial picture, the full picture... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090034628 - Audio/video system with auxiliary data: A video system includes a plurality of frames of video each of which is defined by a plurality of scene elements. The scene elements for a respective frame together define an image of the frame. First auxiliary data is descriptive of a first scene element of the frame and second... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20090034627 - Non-enhancing media redundancy coding for mitigating transmission impairments: In one embodiment, a method comprises identifying a plurality of frames of interest from a primary stream of encoded frames. The method further comprises selecting at least one of the frames of interest for inclusion in a separate redundant stream. The method further comprises producing another encoded instance of the... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20090034630 - Broadcast receiver and method of processing data: A broadcast receiver, and a method of processing data are disclosed. The broadcast receiver includes a receiving unit, a RS frame decoder, a decoding unit, and an output unit. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal multiplexed mobile broadcast service data including a first information associated with safety/security and main... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090034631 - Broadcast receiver and method of processing data: A broadcast receiver and a method of processing data are disclosed. The broadcast receiver includes a broadcasting module, at least one function module, and a controller. The broadcasting module receives and processes mobile broadcast signal. The function module outputs at least one of a video output and an audio output.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090034629 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method: The present invention provides a method of processing data in digital broadcasting system. The method includes receiving a broadcast signal including mobile broadcast service data and main broadcast service data, wherein the mobile broadcast service data configures a RS frame, and wherein the RS frame includes at least one data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090034632 - Intra-forecast mode selecting, moving picture coding method, and device and program using the same: An intra-forecast mode selecting method is provided to select an intra-forecast mode suitable for intra-forecast coding of a coding subject block from intra-forecast modes including a DC intra-forecasting mode based on a difference in forecast between a coding amount of the intra-forecast mode and an intra-forecast. The intra-forecast mode selecting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034633 - Simultaneous processing of media and redundancy streams for mitigating impairments: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a primary stream of encoded frames and a separate stream of redundant frames. The method further comprises decoding and reconstructing in parallel the frames in the primary stream and the separate stream of redundant frames, on a real-time basis, in accordance with a... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20090034634 - Differential coding with lossy embedded compression: A coding system (1) comprises an encoder device (2) and a decoder device (3) which both have a memory unit (23; 33) arranged in a loop for generating a prediction signal (y; g). The memory units apply lossy compression to reduce the memory requirements. In order to prevent drift due... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090034639 - Apparatus and method for supporting a plurality of mimo modes in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for supporting a plurality of MIMO modes in a wireless communication system are provided, in which a receiver selects one of the plurality of MIMO modes according to at least one of a received signal strength, a speed of the receiver, a correlation between a transmitter... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090034636 - Feedback scheduling to reduce feedback rates in mimo systems: In a closed-loop wireless communication system, a codebook-based feedback control mechanism is provided where feedback from each of a plurality of receivers is scheduled to control the feedback so that the receiving devices do not needlessly feed back precoding information to the transmitting device. The feedback may be controlled by... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP - Freescale

20090034635 - Method for reducing ambiguity levels of transmitted symbols: The present invention is directed to a transmitter and method for transmitting data in a digital communication system, the method comprising generating an original symbol by mapping the bits of the original bit sequence using a modulation constellation, generating at least one counter part symbol from the original symbol or... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090034640 - Multi-element antenna beamforming in a wireless access network: A communication node of a wireless local area network utilizes a multi-element array antenna to estimate an angle-of-arrival for one or more signal sources which may communicate on symbol-modulated orthogonal subcarriers. Channel coefficients may be estimated from the angle-of-arrival for the one or more signal sources to increase channel capacity,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090034638 - Radio parameter group generating apparatus, transmitter and receiver: An apparatus for generating sets of radio parameters includes a first deriving unit deriving a set of radio parameters for specifying a symbol including an effective symbol part with the same period as the effective symbol part specified by another set of radio parameters and a guard interval part with... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090034637 - Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, and link adaptation method: A link adaptation method and others wherein feedback information amount can be reduced. According to this method, a receiving apparatus (100) calculates, based on a channel matrix, a capacity (C) and a stream ratio (r) that is a ratio of the reception qualities of streams, and then transmits, as feedback... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090034642 - Method and system for power supply adjustment and polar modulation in a mimo system: Aspects of a method and system for power supply adjustment and polar modulation in a MIMO system are provided. In each RF transmit chain of a MIMO system that utilizes polar modulation, aspects of the invention may enable generating a signal representative of an amplitude of a pair of phase-quadrature... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090034641 - System and method for dynamic calibration of a quadrature encoder: A system and method for real time calibration of a quadrature encoder. Errors from sources such as signal offsets, amplitude mismatches and phase errors are addressed. In one embodiment, the errors are addressed by determining and applying a dynamic operational set of calibration parameters. The process for determining the operational... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090034643 - Communication system, transmitter, receiver, transmitting method, receiving method, and program: A transmitter 131 in a communication system 101 receives data to be transferred, performs STBC coding thereon to acquire two signals, performs an OFDM transmission process on the signals which are radio-transmitted to from antennas 141, 142 having polarization polarities orthogonal to each other. A receiver 151 radio-receives the signals... Agent: Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP

20090034644 - Mimo communication system and method for communicating with single antenna and multi-antenna mobile stations: In a wireless local area network (WLAN) that includes high-throughput communication devices with multiple antennas and legacy communication devices with single antennas, training tones are transmitted over a plurality of spatial channels during a first portion of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) packet-training preamble. The training tones are interspersed... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090034645 - System and method for gain weighted code combining for two binary phase shift keying codes: A method and system for generating a composite binary phase shift keying (BPSK) code from two independent component BPSK codes that is representative of the two component BPSK codes. In one implementation the method involves gain weighting each of the first and second component BPSK codes by its respective code... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090034647 - Transmitting device, wireless communication system and transmitting method: At a time T131, a wireless communication apparatus 11A determines to transmit a data packet, and then performs interference signal detection for a period TA. At a time T132 preceding a time T133 at which the period TA has elapsed since the time T131, the wireless communication apparatus 11A detects... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090034646 - Windowed level detector for partial response channels: An estimator of the noiseless output of a noisy partial response channel is described. The estimator operates recursively. In each iteration, the estimator processes a window of the N most recently received noisy channel outputs to compare output level metrics for all possible channel output level, and selects a noiseless... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20090034648 - Method and apparatus for sending dc-balanced signals over a transmission line: A DC-balanced signal is imposed on the input of a transmission line. Prior to imposing the DC-balanced signal, the input of the transmission line is held at an intermediate DC level that intermediate between the maximum and minimum DC levels of the DC-balanced signal. Alternatively, a compensating pulse is additionally... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090034649 - Constructive method of peak power reduction in multicarrier transmission: A plurality of bits is transmitted by partitioning the bits among n subsets; encoding each subset as a respective symbol; selecting a balancing vector, in accordance with the symbols, from a set of size 2p of codewords of length n in {−1,1}; multiplying each symbol by a corresponding element of... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090034650 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and method for operating ultra wide band-impulse radio-transmitter: Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit, in which a transmit pulse having an impulse waveform is produced using pull-up and pull-down currents of the charge pumps of pattern-generating cells of the pattern generator. During the first calibrating operation of semiconductor integrated circuit, the variation in amplitude of the transmit pulse... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090034652 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method: A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed, which are robust to error when mobile service data are transmitted. To this end, additional encoding is performed for the mobile service data, whereby it is possible to strongly cope with fast channel change while giving robustness to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090034651 - Method for fast convergence calibration of radio-frequency transceivers: To more efficiently compensate for modulation imbalance, a mobile device modulates and demodulates a calibration tone and generates digital data representing modulation imbalance effects on the calibration tone. Using digital data enables modulation imbalance effects to be quickly estimated using digital signal processing techniques, increasing the number of estimates of... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090034653 - Method and system for polar modulation with discontinuous phase: Aspects of a method and system for polar modulation with discontinuous phase are provided. In this regard, in-phase and quadrature-phase components may be generated from a modulated baseband signal, and the signal components may be utilized to generate a signal representative of the amplitude of the baseband signal. Furthermore, the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090034654 - Dynamic multiplexing and de-multiplexing technique with enhanced synchronization: A communication system having a first station and a second station in communication over a wireless communications link. The first station is operative during a communication session to assemble signals from multiple data sources into a common data stream and to transmit the data stream as frame-based communication signals to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034655 - Method and transmitter structure reducing ambiguity by repetition rearrangement in the bit domain: A method is provided which improves reliability of channel estimation in a digital communication system by reducing the ambiguity in the recognition of received symbols evaluated for the channel estimation. A first plurality of bits is mapped to a modulation state according to a given Gray mapping of binary numbers... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090034656 - Broadcast receiving system and method for processing broadcast signals: A broadcast receiving system capable of receiving mobile broadcast data and a method for processing broadcast signals are disclosed. The broadcast receiving system includes N number of antenna elements, a demodulator, a transmission parameter detector, and a block decoder. The N number of antenna elements receives each of the broadcast... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090034657 - Electromagnetic wave-potential communication system: A wave-potential detector and a wave-potential radiator are provided that detect and radiate wave-potential signals having longitudinally polarized A vectors, respectively. Wave-potential receivers and transmitters incorporating the wave-potential detector and wave-potential radiator, respectively, are also provided. The wave-potential detector includes a biased plasma device, having at least a portion of... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090034658 - Self-mixing receiver and forming method thereof: This invention is primarily a circuit structure of self-mixing receiver, and the methodology of circuit structure is described as follows. The first stage is a high input impedance voltage amplifier utilized to amplify the received RF carrier signal from the antenna. Besides, there are no any inductors required. The second... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090034660 - Low power radio transmitter using pulse transmissions: A radio receiver includes a low-noise amplifier, pulse-to-signal conversion module, and intermediate frequency stage. The low-noise amplifier is operably coupled to receive and amplify an M-bit signal at a radio frequency. The M-bit signal at a radio frequency is representative of a pulse signal that is carried on a radio... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090034659 - Pilot symbol assisted modulation signal processing systems and methods: Pilot symbol assisted modulation (PSAM) techniques for Rayleigh and Rician fading channels are derived. Previous techniques implement PSAM signal detectors as an ad-hoc design, using pilot symbols to first estimate channel gain, and then using channel gain estimates in a conventional coherent detector to make data decisions. Although this structure... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090034661 - Coordinate-ascent method for linear programming decoding: A decoder is operable to decode data transmitted on a noisy communication channel. The decoder includes a memory storing bits of encoded data received over the communication channel. The decoder also includes a processor estimating a transmitted codeword from the received bits. The processor is operable to determine a linear... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090034664 - Maximum likelihood decoding method and receiver: Provided is a maximum likelihood decoding method that includes the steps of; firstly arranging channel impulse responses corresponding to the received signals in a plurality of different orders; secondly specifying the same number of parts as the plurality of different orders in which the channel impulse responses are arranged, so... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090034663 - Tone ordered discrete multitone interleaver: A tone ordered discrete multitone interleaver system and method, including a tone ordered interleaver and deinterleaver, are provided for efficiently communicating data despite noise affecting a Discrete Multitone modulation (DMT) system. The tone ordered discrete multitone interleaver forces interleaving of trellis encoded information by assigning a different number of bits... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090034662 - Unified multi-mode receiver detector: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a unified simplified maximum likelihood detector to be utilized with multiple input multiple output (MIMO) receivers to estimate transmitted signals. The unified detector includes a common framework capable of being utilized for multiple spatial operational modes and multiple MIMO configurations.... Agent: RyderIPLaw C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090034665 - Method, system and apparatus for quantifying the contribution of inter-symbol interference jitter on timing skew budget: An apparatus, method and system are provided for quantifying communication channel intersymbol interference jitter effect contribution to timing skew. In general, lossy and lossless characteristics of the communication channel are preferably obtained and an output signal of the communication channel is sampled. From the sampled output signal and the lossy... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090034666 - Iq imbalance image suppression: A WCDMA receiver performs baseband suppression of the image signal component caused by IQ imbalance. An IQ imbalance image scaling factor is computed from conventional channel estimates and estimates of the IQ imbalance image channel, the latter computed using a conjugated scrambling sequence as the reference sequence for despreading. An... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090034668 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing a receiver: Various embodiments generally relate to a method for synchronizing a receiver, said method including receiving a stream that includes a cyclic extension, estimating a size of the cyclic extension, extracting an amount of the stream according to the estimated size, and comparing the extracted amount to the stream to determine... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20090034667 - Method and device for providing timing information in a wireless communication system: A method and a device of providing timing information within a wireless communication system is described. The timing information is extracted from a received transmit signal. The inventive method comprises the steps of providing a training signal on the receiver side relating to a known signal portion of the transmit... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090034670 - Method of generating an index value: A method of generating an index value associated with a primary synchronization code within a communication signal includes splitting a sampled communication signal into even and odd samples. The even and odd samples are correlated with a primary synchronization code of the communication signal and complex values of the even... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090034669 - Periodic calibration for communication channels by drift tracking: A method and system that provides for execution of a first calibration sequence, such as upon initialization of a system, to establish an operation value, which utilizes an algorithm intended to be exhaustive, and executing a second calibration sequence from time to time, to measure drift in the parameter, and... Agent: Rambus, Inc. C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090034671 - Synchronous circuit and method for receiving data: The present invention includes: a synchronous-word detecting unit receives a baseband received signal including a synchronous word and data for each frame, and detects whether or not the synchronous word is coincided with an expected value in the baseband received signal by using an N−(N is an integer of 2... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090034672 - Method and apparatus for time synchronization using gps information in communication system: A method and apparatus for time synchronization (TS) method using GPS information in a communication system synchronizing the time of slave nodes, which do not have a GPS receiver, by using GPS information of a node having a GPS receiver. The method includes the steps of extracting 1PPS, TOD, 1PPS_en,... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090034673 - System and method for adaptively deskewing parallel data signals relative to a clock: A system and method of reducing skew between a plurality of signals transmitted with a transmit clock is described. Skew is detected between the received transmit clock and each of received data signals. Delay is added to the clock or to one or more of the plurality of data signals... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.