Pulse or digital communications inventions 03/09

20090080493 - Apparatus and method for generating a monocycle: An apparatus for generating a monocycle comprises an input signal source (76) for providing an input signal, and a step recovery diode (SRD) (80) for receiving the input signal and producing an impulse. A shunt inductor (102) is provided to act as a first differentiator and a capacitor (92) connected... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090080494 - Communication system and communication method: A communication system is disclosed that includes a first device that performs communication of information with the outside; a second device through which the information is input and output; and a relay device that performs wired communication with the first device and wireless communication with the second device to relay... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090080495 - Groupwise successive interference cancellation for block transmission with reception diversity: A plurality of data signals are received over an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. The data signals are transmitted over a shared spectrum in a wireless communication system. A signal having each of the data signals is received over each antenna element. The plurality of data signals... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090080496 - User equipment for controlling transmission power levels: A user equipment (UE) with circuitry configured to determine a pathloss associated with a received signal. The circuitry is configured to receive an adjustment and adjust a value in response to the received adjustment. The circuitry is configured to determine a transmit power level based on multiplying the determined pathloss... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090080497 - System and method for concurrent frequency hopping of radio communications: A method and system for selecting frequency channels for a concurrent dual transceiver system are provided. In one aspect, a single hop table for at least two transceivers is used. The single hop table tracks information associated with a plurality of frequency channels that the transceivers can use. An available... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090080498 - Adaptive radio frequency interference mitigation during channel scanning or hopping: In some embodiments an adaptive clock controller is to determine clock interference associated with a channel changing pattern for a radio in a computing platform, and to determine an earliest switching time of a clock of the computing platform. A clock generator is to change a frequency of the clock... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090080499 - Interference management employing fractional code reuse: Interference that occurs during wireless communication may be managed through the use of fractional reuse and other techniques. In some aspects fractional reuse may relate to HARQ interlaces, portions of a timeslot, frequency spectrum, and spreading codes. Interference may be managed through the use of a transmit power profile and/or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080500 - Reference signal structure for ofdm based transmissions: A method for transmitting a plurality of sequences across a plurality of bands of a wireless spectrum is described in which a first sequence is produced using a set of reference signal sequences, wherein the set of reference signal sequences comprises at least CAZAC sequences and near-CAZAC sequences. A second... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090080501 - Mobile communication systems and ranging methods thereof: A mobile communication system, including: first and second nodes, wherein the first node includes: a first transmitter and a first receiver, and wherein the second node includes: a second receiver receiving a ranging signal from the first transmitter; a frequency synthesizer generating an internal signal in response to a sensing... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090080503 - Apparatus and method for controlling an operation of an apparatus: The present invention relates to various embodiments of an apparatus, particular to an apparatus comprising a radio signal transmitter and/or receiver circuitry and to a method for controlling an operation of an apparatus.... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20090080502 - Method and system for distributed transceivers based on rf quadrature and lo quadrature filtering for high frequency applications: Aspects of a method and system for distributed quadrature transceiver using phase shifting may include frequency-translating a first signal to generate a second signal and a third signal, utilizing a plurality of conversion stages, wherein in at least one of said plurality of conversion stages, a first frequency scaled signal... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090080504 - Delay compensation for transmit/receive chain calibration and multiuser mimo: Compensation is provided for errors in channel information that can result when there is a delay between the measurement of the channel information and the subsequent use of the channel information. In one embodiment, downlink channel prediction is performed within a user device, in a system employing closed loop MIMO... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele, LLC

20090080505 - Ranging and round trip delay timing adjustment in a multi-point to point bidirectional communication system: Systems and methods for ranging adjustments are provided. In one embodiment, a remote service unit comprises: a transceiver communicatively coupled with a host in a multi-point to point configuration, the transceiver configured to communicate with the host via an OFDM waveform; and a multi-carrier modem coupled to the transceiver and... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090080506 - Receiver employing non-pilot reference channels for equalizing a received signal: In one embodiment, a receiver has a reference generator and a main equalizer. The reference generator equalizes a received signal using one or more pilot reference signals. Then, the reference generator decodes one or more predetermined data channels of the equalized signal, makes hard decisions on the data of each... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20090080507 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. A receiver receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data. A known data detector detects known data from the broadcast signal. An equalizer performs channel equalization on the mobile service data received by means of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090080508 - Fast square root algorithm for mimo equalization: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate equalization of received signals in a wireless communication environment. Using multiple transmit and/or receive antennas and MIMO technology, multiple data streams can be transmitted within a single tone. During equalization, receivers can separate data received within a tone into individual data streams. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080509 - Data processor: A data processor includes: a receiving section for receiving a signal representing first video in which a plurality of pictures are presented at a first frequency; an encoder for generating a data stream representing second video, in which the pictures are presented at a second frequency, different from the first... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090080510 - Information signal, apparatus and method for encoding an information content, and apparatus and method for error correcting an information signal: A scalable information signal is protected in a more efficient and/or safe way by adopting the inter-relationship among the plurality of portions of different levels within the information signal in FEC protecting the information signal. In particular, portions of the information signal representing the information content at a higher level... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090080512 - Method and apparatus for receiving multiple simultaneous stream bursts with limited dvb receiver memory: An apparatus and method for receiving multiple simultaneous stream bursts comprising determining if a frame size is smaller than a size of an available memory; determining if a priority of a first packet is lower than a priority of a second packet, wherein the frame size is of a frame... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080511 - Method and apparatus for stream parsing and picture location: In one embodiment of the invention, video data is received in a buffer and parsed for a first and second start code to determine whether a complete video picture is present. After failing to identify the second start code, additional video data is added to the buffer and parsed beginning... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090080513 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090080514 - Sender side channel adaptive video transmission: A channel adaptive video transmission system and method. A system (10) is provided that includes: a variable length decoding system (VLD) (14) for generating header codes and discrete cosine transform (DCT) run length codes from the compressed video signal; a DCT codes marking system (16) for inserting markers into the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090080517 - Method and related device for reducing blocking artifacts in video streams: A method for reducing blocking artifacts in a video stream comprises receiving a picture of the video stream, wherein the picture includes a plurality of macroblocks and each of the plurality of macroblock includes four blocks, determining blocks with quantization parameters greater than a first threshold value in the picture,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090080516 - Method of encoding and decoding texture coordinates in three-dimensional mesh information for effective texture mapping: Provided is a method of encoding and decoding texture coordinates of 3D mesh information. The method of encoding texture coordinates in 3D mesh information includes the steps of: setting an adaptive quantization step size used for quantizing the texture coordinates; quantizing the texture coordinates using the adaptive quantization step size;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090080518 - Rate control and video denoising for noisy video data: A method and a computer-readable medium containing computer program for simultaneously performing rate control and video denoising for video corrupted by noise are presented. Video data includes original video data and noise data. A variance of the noise data for each macroblock within a frame is estimated. Based on the... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090080519 - Method for encoding/decoding video sequence based on mctf using adaptively-adjusted gop structure: Provided is a method for performing motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF)-based coding on a video sequence using the structure of adaptively divided group of pictures (GOP). The method includes the steps of, for each predefined 2N frame-sized group of pictures (GOP) of the video sequence, (a) encoding the 2N frame-sized... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090080520 - Video decoding apparatus and video decoding method: According to one embodiment, a video decoding apparatus includes a decoding module configured to decode syntax values of respective macroblocks included in a picture to be decoded in the video stream, an error detection module configured to detect an error in the syntax values decoded by the decoding module, and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090080521 - Video frame encoding and decoding: A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090080522 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090080523 - Remote user interface updates using difference and motion encoding: Frames of user interface graphical data can be remotely rendered at a client during a remote session with a server by providing graphical data commands to the client. The commands include motion commands derived from objects that change position between a current frame and a new frame and delta commands... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20090080524 - Video decoding apparatus and video decoding method: According to one embodiment, a video decoding apparatus which decodes a compression-coded video stream, includes an error detection module configured to detect an error in a syntax values decoded by a decoding module, and an error concealment processing module configured to execute, in the case where the picture to be... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090080526 - Detecting visual gestural patterns: A processing device and method are provided for capturing images, via an image-capturing component of a processing device, and determining a motion of the processing device. An adaptive search center technique may be employed to determine a search center with respect to multiple equal-sized regions of an image frame, based... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090080529 - Image encoding apparatus, method of controlling therefor, and program: An image encoding apparatus for performing inter-frame encoding of moving image data is provided. The apparatus refers to a block within a frame other than a current frame to generate a first prediction image of a block to be encoded within the current frame, and performs prediction encoding using the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090080527 - Method and apparatus for providing a fast motion estimation process: A process performs a search on a base reference frame in a video signal to determine a first motion vector for each of the possible partitions of a current macroblock. The first motion vector for a partition provides the most optimal match for the partition in the base reference frame.... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090080525 - System and method for adaptive video compression motion compensation: Methods and systems for video coding are provided. A method includes receiving a digital video stream. The digital video stream includes multiple sequential independent frames. The method further includes storing a first frame of the digital video stream. The method also includes encoding a second frame of the digital video... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090080528 - Video codec method with high performance: The present invention relates to a video codec method with high performance comprising the following steps: 1. predicting the motion vectors in the blocks to be predicted through Median Prediction and Up-layer Prediction, 2. terminate the motion prediction in the blocks predicted once the predicted motion vectors are below a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090080530 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090080515 - Efficient transformation techniques for video coding: This disclosure describes efficient transformation techniques that can be used in video coding. In particular, intermediate results of computations associated with transformation of a first block of video data are reused in the transformation of a second block of video data. The techniques may be used during a motion estimation... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080531 - Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and control method therefor: This invention scans a block using a window having a size of p×q pixels, and encodes p×q sub-block data each formed from pixel data at relatively identical positions in windows. A blocking unit receives a 16×16-pixel block image. A sub-block division unit scans the received block for each 2×2-pixel window,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090080532 - Video frame encoding and decoding: A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090080534 - Image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image encoded bitstream and recording medium: The present invention makes it possible to include, when encoding processing is applied to three color components using a 4:0:0 format, data for one picture in one access unit and makes it possible to set the same time information or the same set encoding modes among the respective color components.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090080533 - Video decoding using created reference pictures: Reference pictures can be created to assist with video decoding. For example, a method for decoding video can comprise receiving an encoded video bit stream, determining that a reference picture is needed, and creating and inserting the reference picture into the encoded video bit stream. A method for decoding video... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090080536 - Image processing apparatus, display apparatus, display system and control method thereof: An image processing apparatus includes: a signal receiver which receives an image signal; a signal processor which compresses the image signal; a wireless transmitter which transmits the compressed image signal to a display apparatus wirelessly; and a controller which controls the signal processor to raise a compression rate of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090080535 - Method and apparatus for weighted prediction for scalable video coding: There are provided scalable video encoder and decoders, and corresponding scalable video encoding and decoding methods. A scalable video encoder includes an encoder for encoding a block in an enhancement layer of a picture by applying a same weighting parameter to an enhancement layer reference picture as that applied to... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090080537 - Robust digital communication system: Normally ordered robust VSB data are reordered in accordance with a first interleave to produce reordered robust VSB data. The reordered robust VSB data and ATSC data are reordered in accordance with a second interleave to produce normally ordered robust VSB data and reordered ATSC data. The normally ordered robust... Agent: Zenith Electronics LLC

20090080538 - Method and apparatus for decoding a video signal: An apparatus for transmitting a video signal has a receiver, a processor and a multiplexer. The receiver receives the video signal and separates a composite sync signal from the video signal. The processor generates a vertical sync signal and a selecting signal with reference to timing characteristics of the composite... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090080539 - Method and apparatus for smooth digital media playback: In one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus may comprise a memory to receive original video data that includes a continuity of time stamps and a discontinuity of time stamps. A processor may shift a first time stamp from the continuity of time stamps to the discontinuity of time stamps... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090080540 - Pulse transmitter, pulse receiver, pulse transmitting method, and pulse demodulating method: A pulse transmitter having a relatively simple structure and generating a pulse modulating signal even at a high transmission rate. In the pulse transmitter, a symbol pulse generating part (103) generates a symbol pulse of amplitude level β when data S1 is “0,” and that of amplitude level &ggr; when... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090080542 - Interference mitigation for impulse-based communication: In a pulse-based communication system a transmitting device may generate a series of pulses to convey information via a communication medium to a receiving device. In some situations, interference from one or more interfering devices may alter the pulse energy as it is transmitted through the communication medium. To mitigate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080541 - Method and system for transmission and/or reception of signals utilizing a delay circuit and ddfs: Aspects of a method and system for transmission and/or reception of signals utilizing a delay circuit and a DDFS are provided. In this regard, a first signal may be delayed by 90°, via a plurality of delay elements and variable capacitance, to generate a second signal. The first and second... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090080543 - Adaptive cyclic delay diversity for mobile devices: Embodiments of the present invention provide for adaptive cyclic delay diversity to be used in wireless transmissions to mobile devices. The cyclic delay diversity may be adapted through cyclic delay parameters determined based at least in part on a determined speed of the mobile device. Other embodiments may be described... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090080551 - Bandwidth efficient coding for an orthogonal frequency multiplexing ofdm system: A method for encoding an OFDM signal includes pairing two adjacent subcarriers of an OFDM signal as a group, changing a modulated symbol set of the OFDM signal to a modified symbol set for coding the OFDM signal, and providing a modified baseband OFDM signal with an increased frequency separation... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090080547 - Base station apparatus and mobile station apparatus: A base station apparatus that transmits frames in accordance with a communication format, and a mobile station apparatus that uses the frames to determine the communication format of the base station apparatus, and then performs an adaptive cell search in accordance with the determined communication format. The base station apparatus... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090080550 - Communications device: A communications device for generating a Zadoff-Chu sequence includes a storage unit storing real and imaginary part values of exp{−j·(2π/N)·(m/2)} for the Zadoff-Chu sequence of the sequence length N, wherein m is an integer (0≦m<(N+1)/2); a parameter acquisition unit acquiring a sequence number u, data number k, cyclic shift amount... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090080549 - Efficient mimo precoding feedback scheme: Methods and apparatus for efficiently feeding back preceding information in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. A codebook including a plurality of codebook entries is constructed. A plurality of subsets of codebook entries are defined for the codebook. Each subset includes a plurality of codebook entries. A subset of... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090080555 - Guard interval lenght selection in an ofdm systems based on coherence bandwidth of the channel: A system, apparatus and methods are described that select a guard interval length (345) for a multi-path communications channel. In one embodiment, the guard interval length is selected based on a relationship between a selected coherence bandwidth (335) and a RMS delay (340) of the communication channel.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090080546 - Limitation feedback method for multiantenna system, channel parameter generating method, and wireless receiver: A channel parameter generating method realizing limited feedback of a MIMO system. In this method, a channel parameter of a MIMO channel fed from a wireless receiver back to a wireless transmitter is generated. Channel estimation is carried out by using a signal received through a MIMO channel, the ranks... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090080544 - Method and apparatus for an ofdma parallel architecture scheduler: A method and apparatus for calculating an optimal sub-channel allocation of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) from a first bipartite graph that may map users, to a second bipartite graph that may map additional users, including original users. A calculation of each bipartite graph may include a calculation of... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090080548 - Ofdm demodulation device: A delay indicator calculator calculates at least two of a first delay indicator indicating a delay time determined based on a correlation value having a predetermined difference from the maximum value of the correlation signal, a second delay indicator indicating a change of a delay time determined based on time... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090080545 - Reducing data stream jitter during deinterleaving: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a deinterleaver having an input interface to receive orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols from a demodulator, a memory coupled to the input interface to store the OFDM symbols, an output interface coupled to the memory to receive the OFDM symbols stored in... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090080553 - Synchronization techniques in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: Systems and methods for synchronization techniques in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are provided. In one embodiment, a method for multipoint-to-point communication comprises: receiving at a host a plurality of upstream symbols transmitted from a plurality of remote units, the upstream symbols transmitted on a plurality of orthogonal... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090080552 - System for multiple use subchannels: Systems for multiple use subchannels are provided. In one embodiment, a bidirectional communication system comprises: a first remote unit for communicating with a host using OFDM, the host communicatively coupled to a plurality of remote units in a multipoint-to-point configuration. The first remote unit is configured to transmit up to... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090080554 - Tone allocation in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: Systems and methods for OFDM tone allocation are provided. In one embodiment, an end-user communication device comprises: a first remote unit for communicating with a host unit using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), the host unit communicatively coupled to a plurality of remote units in a multipoint-to-point configuration, wherein OFDM... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090080556 - Reducing peak-to-average-power-ratio in ofdm/ofdma signals by deliberate error injection: A method and system reduces a peak to average power ratio of a transmitted OFDM signal. An input signal is encoded using a forward error correcting code to produce a codeword corresponding to the input signal. A peak power corresponding to the codeword is measured. The peak power is compared... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090080559 - Antenna diversity by means of its through connection for receivers of digital radio signals: The invention relates to an antenna diversity in which high-frequency signals (HF signals) received via a plurality of antennas are fed to a respective tuner (1, 3). The invention is characterized in that the intermediate frequency output signals (IF signals) of the tuners (1, 3) are fed to a connect-through... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20090080560 - Closed-loop beamforming weight estimation in frequency division duplex systems: A closed-loop beamforming weight estimation process in which, at a first device, respective ones of a plurality of beamforming weight vectors are applied to subcarriers associated with a pattern of subcarriers assigned to a corresponding subcarrier stream such that the plurality of subcarriers assigned to a subcarrier stream is weighted... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090080561 - Pilot pattern design for a sttd scheme in an ofdm system: A transmitting device for transmitting data and pilot symbols in an OFDM transmission system having transmission antennas. The device includes symbol generating means for generating data and pilot symbols, means for transmitting the data and pilot symbols using subcarriers of the OFDM system. The symbol generating means generates a first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090080557 - Quality of service based antenna mapping for multiple-input multiple-output communication systems: The teachings presented herein provide methods and apparatus for use in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system transmitting a plurality of data substreams to a receiver employing ordered successive interference cancellation detection according to a predetermined sequence for decoding the data substreams. In an exemplary method, a quality of service (QoS)... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090080558 - Space-time mimo wireless system based on feedback optimum weight design: A FOW-based 2-by-2 space-time MIMO wireless system based on Alamouti's Space-Time block code with a feedback optimum weight (FOW) technique is provided, including a MIMO transmitter, a 2-by-2 MIMO channel, two FOW-based MIMO receivers, an optimum weight vector module, a Bayes decision algorithm module, a coherent combining unit, and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090080562 - Wireless sata/sas data transfer system: A wireless data transfer system. The system includes a first hard disk, a first hard disk interface, and a first transmitter. The first hard disk interface is configured to retrieve first read data from the first hard disk and to create a first bit serial signal from the retrieved first... Agent: Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090080563 - Signal generating apparatus and method thereof: A signal generating apparatus is disclosed. The signal generating apparatus includes a test data generator for generating a test data; a fractional-N phase-locked loop device coupled to the test data generator for generating a synthesized signal according to the test data when the test data is received; and a calibrating... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090080564 - Context-sensitive overhead processor: The present invention discloses an overhead processor for data transmission in digital communications. First, incoming data is transmitted along a datapath. If the incoming data forms one group of data, said group of data is transmitted along the datapath, into an elastic store and then is transmitted into one or... Agent: Avalon Microelectronics, Inc. Attn: Intellectual Property

20090080565 - Pulse shaping for egprs-2: A method and apparatus are disclosed for wireless transmission using two or more pulse shaping filters. Wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) and network entities are capable of utilizing a narrow band pulse shaping filter, a wideband pulse shaping filter, or both. The network entity and/or the WTRU select a pulse shaping... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090080566 - Space-time block coding systems and methods: Althrough orthonormal space-time coding matrices provide for optimal communication system performance in that associated correlation matrices include no non-zero off-diagonal elements, unity code rate orthonormal coding matrices are difficult to identify for arbitrary communication network equipment. According to embodiments of the present invention, non-orthonormal space-time coding matrices, for which associated... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090080567 - Wireless communication using a plurality of antennas: A wireless communication apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, transmits a plurality of known symbol sequences each including a plurality of known symbols by using the antennas, each of the known symbols having subcarrier arrangement on which plural known information of the each of the known symbols are carried on,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090080568 - Signal generator with adjustable phase: Phase of an output signal is based on comparison of an oscillating signal with an adjustable threshold. Here, adjustment of the threshold results in a corresponding adjustment of the phase of the output signal. For example, the adjustable threshold may comprise an adjustable bias signal for a transistor circuit whereby... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090080569 - Method of generating reference signal in wireless communication system: A method of generating a reference signal includes acquiring a base sequence and acquiring a reference signal sequence with a length N from the base sequence. Good PAPR/CM characteristics of the reference signal can be kept to enhance performance of data demodulation or uplink scheduling.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090080570 - Integrated circuit and method of generating a bias signal for a data signal receiver: An integrated circuit and method of generating a bias signal for a data signal receiver is disclosed. One embodiment provides a replica circuit configured to generate a feedback signal, wherein the replica circuit is a replica of at least a part of a data signal receiver, and wherein the feedback... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090080571 - Reception apparatus and reception method: A receiving apparatus includes an amplification section that amplifies a received signal and a frequency conversion section that converts a frequency of the received signal, from a radio frequency to a baseband, the baseband having a lower frequency than the radio frequency. A gain control section amplifies, by a predetermined... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090080573 - Digital broadcasting receiver and method for controlling the same: A reception system and a method for processing data in the reception system are disclosed. The reception system includes a baseband processor receiving a broadcasting signal including mobile service data and main service data, the mobile service data including first service data and second service data having a format different... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090080572 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The control method includes receiving a broadcast signal into which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, extracting TPC signaling information and FIC signaling information from a data group in the received mobile service data, acquiring a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090080574 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The control method includes receiving a broadcast signal into which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information channel (FIC) signaling information from a data group in the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090080575 - Method for near optimal joint channel estimation and data detection for cofdm systems: Joint channel estimation and maximum likelihood decoding method for Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (COFDM) systems are presented. Using this method in conjunction with convolutional coding, robust and nearly optimal coherent detection can be achieved in rapid dispersive fading channels. Significant performance gain in packet data throughput is realized in... Agent: At & T- Brendzel

20090080576 - Enhanced carrier frequency offset estimator: A method is provided for estimating a frequency offset in a carrier signal caused by the Doppler effect. The method determines a frequency offset estimate by utilizing a multi stage estimation scheme. More specifically, the method determines the frequency offset estimate of a data frame by iteratively estimating the frequency... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090080577 - Communication semiconductor integrated circuit, radio communication system, and adjustment method of gain and offset: A D.C. offset canceling and gain adjusting techniques permitting completion of correction of D.C. offsets and gain adjustment of amplifiers for amplifying reception signals in a radio communication system are provided. A communication semiconductor integrated circuit has a plurality of low-pass filters and variable gain amplifiers which are alternately connected... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090080578 - Phase noise limiting apparatus, phase noise limiting method, receiving apparatus, receiving method, and programs: Disclosed herein is a phase noise limiting apparatus including a detection section configured to detect a phase noise quantity from an input signal; a determination section configured such that furnished with a plurality of correspondence tables indicating parameters used for phase synchronization with the input signal, the determination section determines... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090080580 - Diversity receiver: The objective of the present invention is to provide a diversity receiver that detects differences in reception qualities for reception branches, and that controls the starting and halting of a diversity operation in accordance with the difference in the reception qualities, so that power saving is enabled and battery operating... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090080579 - Receiving apparatus and method: A receiving apparatus includes a combining and quantizing unit that combines channel vectors corresponding to a combination of a plurality of antennas in order to generate a combination channel vector and selects a predetermined quantization vector according to the generated combination channel vector, an error detecting unit that detects whether... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090080581 - Time sequential processing operations: At least some of the arithmetic operations of a filter or other digital process can be performed time sequentially, which may allow the arithmetic elements for the filter or other digital process to be used multiple times for multiple operations.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090080582 - Method and apparatus for adjusting the timing of an electronic circuit: Methods and circuits for detecting variations in signal propagation rates within an electronic device, and for adjusting the output timing of the device in response to the variations in signal propagation rates. According to an embodiment of the invention, a signal may be propagated through an uncompensated delay chain and... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Gero Mcclellan / Qimonda

20090080583 - Adaptive control of clock spread to mitigate radio frequency interference: In some embodiments an adaptive clocking controller determines a clock spread of a system clock that would result in a lowest total interference between a channel received by a radio receiver and the system clock. A clock generator modifies a spread of the system clock in response to the determined... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090080584 - Semiconductor system: A semiconductor system has a SerDes circuit for receiving serial data, and a reference SerDes circuit for receiving clock signals running in parallel. The SerDes circuit performs serial to parallel conversion of the serial data captured by the recovery clock whose phase is controlled by utilizing the phase control signal... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090074030 - Method of characterizing parameters and removing spectral components of a spread spectrum clock in a communications signal: Parameters of a spread spectrum clock signal in a communication signal are characterized by acquiring voltage samples of the communication signal at a nominal time location of an edge of the communication signal. The voltage samples are converted to time samples and the difference between the maximum and minimum time... Agent: William K. Bucher Tektronix, Inc.

20090074031 - Spread spectrum radar apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to prevent the sensitivity of radar apparatus from falling. A spread spectrum radar apparatus which detects an object, includes a carrier wave oscillator which generates a carrier wave, transmission unit which transmits a spread signal which is the carrier wave spread using... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090074033 - Cost efficient spectral-reuse transceiver: An operational mechanism enables frequency re-use techniques, including selective frequency hopping and channel aggregation, on very low-cost transceiver hardware.... Agent: Feldmangale, P.A.

20090074032 - Distributed spectrum allocation scheme for cognitive radio: A technique (300) and apparatus for sharing frequency spectrum amongst cognitive radios is provided. By maintaining an unoccupied spectral quantum between each CR device, the channel technique ensures that a device just beginning transmissions in the CR frequency band will have spectrum from which to start growing. The growth can... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090074034 - Direct sequence spread spectrum transceiver: A direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) transceiver including a DSSS transmitter and a DSSS receiver, wherein the DSSS transmitter includes: an integral code mapping unit mapping source bit data in one of 2N (N is a natural number) of predetermined symbols by N bits and mapping the symbol in one... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090074035 - Receiver for receiving a spectrum dispersion signal: A receiver for the CDMA system which reduces power consumption during a suspension period of intermittent receiving operation by monitoring a suspension period by a low-power timer so that a VC-TCXO, reference signal group generation and receiving units are turned off and a modem unit is set to a sleep... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090074036 - Segment-wise channel equalization based data estimation: Data is estimated of a plurality of received spread spectrum signals by a wireless communication apparatus. The plurality of received communications are received in a shared spectrum. The received communications are sampled to produce a received vector of sequential samples. The received vector is processed to produce a plurality of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090074038 - Method for estimating hidden channel parameters of a received gnns navigation signal: t

20090074037 - Tracking apparatus and method in mobile terminal: A tracking apparatus and method in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes extracting an on-time energy signal, an early energy signal, and a late energy signal from a received signal, estimating respective ICI components from the early energy signal and the late energy signal, measuring an early energy... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090074039 - Gmsk spread modulation receiver: A technique for receiving spread spectrum GMSK signals that demodulates Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying transmissions involving a sequence of data symbols, a spread spectrum code comprising a sequence of spread spectrum chips, a sequence of pre-modulation chips combining the sequence of data symbols with the spread spectrum chips, wherein for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090074040 - Methods for managing a multi data type communication link: Methods for operating a multi data type communication link transceiver, including: testing the type of the link partner transceiver. If the link partner transceiver is not a multi data type communication link transceiver, operating the multi data type communication link according to the detected type of the link partner transceiver.... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20090074041 - Electronic synchronous/asynchronous transceiver device for power line communication networks: An electronic synchronous/asynchronous transceiver device for power line communication networks is integrated into a single chip and operates from a single supply voltage. The transceiver device includes: at least an internal register that is programmable through a synchronous serial interface; at least a line driver for a two-way network communication... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090074043 - Resource adaptive spectrum estimation of streaming data: Streaming environments typically dictate incomplete or approximate algorithm execution, in order to cope with sudden surges in the data rate. Such limitations are even more accentuated in mobile environments (such as sensor networks) where computational and memory resources are typically limited. Introduced herein is a novel “resource adaptive” algorithm for... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20090074042 - Scaling apparatus of a receiver: A scaling apparatus set in a receiver is disclosed. The receiver includes a symbol-processing unit. The scaling apparatus includes a calculating unit and a scaling unit. The calculating unit estimates the signal strength of an input symbol and generates a scaling factor accordingly. The scaling unit scales an output symbol... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090074044 - Communication apparatus, communication system, communication method, integrated circuit and circuit module: A communication apparatus which transmits data to another communication apparatus through a transmission channel, includes: a display which displays a plurality of communication rates; and a controller which permits the display to display the communication rates. The controller acquires a first communication rate received from the another communication apparatus and... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090074045 - Estimating frequency offset at a subscriber station receiver: A method and system of estimating frequency offset at a subscriber station is disclosed. The method includes the subscriber station receiving a composite signal, in which the composite signal includes multi-carrier signals transmitted from a plurality of base stations. The subscriber station selects a subset of the plurality of base... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090074047 - Apparatus and method for estimating signal to interference and noise ratio in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for estimating a Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes processing a received signal by Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) demodulation to convert the received signal into frequency-domain data, selecting ranging data from the frequency-domain data,... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090074046 - Data structure boundary synchronization between a transmitter and receiver: Synchronization between a transmitter and a receiver with respect to the boundary of higher-layer logical data structures is improved by considering both the statistical likelihood of the value of a transmitted boundary indicator and the quality of the channel during the transmission. A boundary indicator received under poor channel quality,... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090074048 - Equalizer system having a tunable active inductor: An linear equalizer system for a transmission channel includes an active inductor with a tunable inductance and quality factor. The active inductor includes a transconducting element. A current steering digital to analog converter controls the flow of a bias current through the transconducting element to tune the active inductor.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20090074050 - Method and apparatus for receiving coded signals with the aid of channel state information: Method and apparatus for receiving coded signals with the aid of CSI are provided. The method comprises: performing channel estimation to obtain a CFR estimation vector; computing a squared magnitude of the CFR estimation vector, and obtaining a normalization factor α by averaging the squared magnitudes of CFR estimations on... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090074049 - Use of emphasis to equalize high speed signal quality: A method, apparatus, and system for minimizing ringing in a high speed channel between a transmitter and a receiver in a circuit, including a component for initializing an n-tap equalization filter. The n-tap equalization filter includes numerous taps, each associated with each of numerous jitter pulses received from the transmitter... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090074051 - Method and apparatus for wireless transmission of high data rate streams: Methods, system and devices for wireless transmission of HDMI data streams. Plurality of data multiplex converters are constructed and used in parallel to process one HDMI datastream into plurality of channels of data packets wherein the plurality of channels of data packets are transmitted through Wi-Fi wireless protocols to a... Agent: Groover & Associates

20090074052 - Encoding device, encoding method, encoding program, decoding device, decoding method, and decoding program: The present invention relates to an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, an encoding program, a decoding apparatus, a decoding method and a decoding program for adaptively controlling an encoding bit rate. Coefficient data obtained using wavelet transform is quantized, and segmented into bit planes. The coefficient data is entropy encoded... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090074055 - Extreme video compression over a fixed bandwidth channel: Compression using a graded wavelet, general and camera motion compensation, and spatial and entropy coding to create a compressed video.... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20090074053 - Personal video recorder: A sequence of picture slices is encoded as reference slices and non-reference slices, wherein the reference slices include B slices, by forming, for each B slice, at least one data packet containing data values derived from brightness and color information pertaining to the slice. The data packet for each B... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090074054 - Resolution-converting apparatus, resolution-converting method and previewing apparatus: A resolution-converting apparatus includes an input interface, a parameter calculator, a first converter, a decoder, and a second converter. The input interface inputs a video content compression-encoded and having first resolution, together with a second resolution which has been designated and which is lower than the first resolution. The parameter... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090074056 - System for preparing a multimedia stream: A system for preparing a first multimedia stream, for use with an environment comprising a repository for storing a plurality of tracks. Each track may be associated with at least one second multimedia stream. A track may comprise a single type of data (e.g., audio, video, etc.). The method may... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090074057 - Video frame encoding and decoding: A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090074058 - Coding tool selection in video coding based on human visual tolerance: In one embodiment, a coding mode selection method is provided to improve the visual quality of an encoded video sequence. The coding mode is selected based on a human visual tolerance level. Picture data may be received for a video coding process. The picture data is then analyzed to determine... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090074059 - Encoding method and device for image data: An encoding method for encoding image data comprising a plurality of pixels is disclosed. Each pixel corresponds to a pixel value. First coefficients in different frequencies which are transformed and quantized from a first set of pixel values are provided. Second coefficients in different frequencies which are transformed and quantized... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090074060 - Method, medium, and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding video: A method, medium, and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding video by generating a scalable bitstream formed of a base layer bitstream and an enhancement layer bitstream so as to have forward compatibility, wherein the enhancement layer bitstream comprises a bit-depth field of the enhancement layer, a frame or a picture... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090074061 - Method and apparatus for macroblock adaptive inter-layer intra texture prediction: There are provided scalable video encoders and decoders and corresponding methods for scalable video encoding and decoding. A scalable video encoder includes an encoder for selectively using spatial intra prediction to code, on a macroblock adaptive basis, an enhancement layer residue generated between an enhancement layer macroblock and a corresponding... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090074062 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 0 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture if the co-located block has the list 0 motion vector and a list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference picture permitted to be... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074063 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 1 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture if the co-located block only has the list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference picture permitted to be located temporally before or after... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074064 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 0 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture if the co-located block has the list 0 motion vector and a list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference picture permitted to be... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074065 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 0 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture as the motion vector if the co-located block has the list 0 motion vector and a list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074066 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 0 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture as the motion vector if the co-located block has the list 0 motion vector and a list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074067 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 0 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture as the motion vector if the co-located block has the list 0 motion vector and a list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074068 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 0 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture as the motion vector if the co-located block has the list 0 motion vector and a list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074069 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 0 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture as the motion vector if the co-located block has the list 0 motion vector and a list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074071 - Apparatus and method for image processing and computer program: An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. A local motion vector estimation unit estimates a local motion vector associated with each of blocks, serving as segments of an image frame constituting a moving image. A block weight calculation unit calculates a block weight as an index of the reliability... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090074073 - Coding of motion vector information: Techniques and tools for encoding and decoding motion vector information for video images are described. For example, a video encoder yields an extended motion vector code by jointly coding, for a set of pixels, a switch code, motion vector information, and a terminal symbol indicating whether subsequent data is encoded... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090074070 - Method and apparatus for slice adaptive motion vector coding for spatial scalable video encoding and decoding: There are provided spatial scalable video encoder and decoders and corresponding methods for scalable video encoding and decoding. A method for spatial scalable video encoding includes selecting between scalable coding and non-scalable coding of motion vectors on a slice basis.... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090074072 - Moving image coding apparatus: A moving image coding apparatus includes a motion vector search unit configured to read coding target image data and reference image data which are stored in a memory, and search a motion vector. The motion vector search unit reads the coding target image data in multiple units of N horizontal... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090074074 - Multiple description encoder and decoder for transmitting multiple descriptions: An apparatus and method for joint reconstruction of multiple data streams is provided. An MD encoder can include a plurality of sub-encoders for encoding an input signal into a plurality of unique descriptions based on linear transformations and quantization of the input signal. An MD decoder can decode a plurality... Agent: Thomas E. Watson Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090074075 - Efficient real-time rate control for video compression processes: In advanced video coding standards such as H.264, macro-blocks belong to more advanced MB types, such as skipped and non-skipped macro-blocks. In non-skipped macro-blocks, the encoder determines whether each of 8×8 luminance sub-blocks and 4×4 chrominance sub-block of a macro-block is to be encoded, giving the different number of sub-blocks... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090074076 - Method and device for vector quantization: A method for quantizing vector. The method includes: performing a quantization process on a vector to be quantized by use of N basic codebook vectors and the adjustment vectors of each of the basic codebook vectors, generating a basic codebook vector and an adjustment vector used for quantizing the vectors... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090074079 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The data processing method includes receiving a broadcast signal in which main service data and mobile service data are multiplexed, demodulating the broadcast signal to acquire fast-information-channel signaling information including reference time information for a system clock, and outputting... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090074078 - Moving image reproduction device: When an abnormality detected by abnormality detection means is a predetermined abnormality, list correction means corrects a reference list used for enabling access to be made to a decoded frame stored in storage means and used as a reference image. In the case where an n-th frame is a frame... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090074077 - Video source coding with decoder side information: A method and system (3000) of decoding video data using joint decoding (3100) of independently encoded sources (1010 and 3012) is disclosed. The method includes storing (1030) an initial estimate of first media data from a first source (1010). Second media data (3032) from a second source (3022) is received,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090074080 - Estimating complexity of video frames for encoding: Complexity for a video frame after a special event is estimated and used for encoding the frame. The complexity for a key frame of a special event is estimated based on its intra activity and a complexity of a previously encoded key frame in the video stream prior to the... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090074081 - Method for formatting digital broadcast transport stream packet for improved receiving performance, digital broadcast transmitter, and signal processing method thereof: A method of formatting a digital broadcast transport stream packet, a digital broadcast transmitter, and a signal processing method thereof, includes constructing a transport stream packet that includes a stuffing region for an insertion of a known supplementary reference signal (SRS) data therein, randomizing the packet that includes the stuffing... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090074082 - System and method of error control for video coding: A system and method for video coding include an encoder and decoder. The encoder/decoder respectively include a base layer encoding/decoding apparatus, at least one enhancement layer encoding/decoding apparatus, and an encoder/decoder drift control apparatus. The encoder drift control apparatus is configured to determine the amount of local error drift for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074083 - Method of processing video data and wireless communication apparatus: A method of processing video data includes allowing a counter to start counting, receiving the video data to which a timestamp is applied, checking the amount of video data in a buffer memory, comparing the timestamp with a count if the amount of video data in the buffer memory is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090074084 - Method and system for adaptive preprocessing for video encoder: Certain aspects of a method and system for adaptive preprocessing for an encoder may comprise filtering received video data using one or more spatial and/or temporal filtering parameters. The spatial and/or temporal filtering parameters may be adaptively updated to achieve a targeted bitrate based on statistical analysis of received video... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090074085 - Communication device, multi carrier transmission system, communication method, and recording medium: The present invention provides a communication device that may suppress unnecessary break points. A communication device 200 includes a noise measuring unit 205 that measures noise occurring on a communication line 300; a communication controlling unit 202 that adjusts an SNR value of a transmission signal based on the noise... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090074088 - Adaptive fragmentation for harq in wireless ofdma networks: A method performs a hybrid automatic repeat-request (HARQ) operation in a wireless orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) network. A quality of a channel between a transmitter and a receiver is estimated as an error metric. A packet for the HARQ operation is fragmented adaptively at the transmitter according to... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090074096 - Apparatus for high data throughput reception in a wlan: An apparatus for high data throughput reception in a WLAN includes a receiving module, first and second determining modules, a generating module, and a producing module. The receiving module receives a symbol vector representing M streams of symbols transmitted via a wireless communication channel. The first determining module determines inner... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090074093 - Apparatus for transmitting data using carriers and method thereof: An apparatus for transmitting data using a plurality of carriers and method thereof are disclosed, by which PAPR improving effect is enhanced. A method of generating an OFDM signal, which is transmitted by spreading data symbols using a DFT (Discrete Fourier Transform) matrix, according to the present invention includes the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090074094 - Beacon symbols with multiple active subcarriers for wireless communication: Techniques for transmitting information using beacon symbols in a wireless communication system are described. In one design, a transmitter may map information to multiple subcarriers among a plurality of subcarriers, with the information being conveyed by the position of the multiple subcarriers. The transmitter may map the information to at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090074089 - Cqi reporting techniques for ofdma wireless networks: Various embodiments of the invention may use bitmaps to communicate channel quality index (CQI) information for multiple sub-channels in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless communications network. A base station may use bitmaps to report on whether the CQI information for each sub-channel has been under-reported or over-reported.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090074091 - 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

20090074086 - Mimo-ofdm transmission device and mimo-ofdm transmission method: e

20090074092 - Ofdm reception device and ofdm receiver using the same: An OFDM reception device includes: a first channel estimation unit for estimating a channel distortion by using a signal that is supplied from the reception unit and has a first time interval; a second channel estimation unit for estimating a channel distortion by using a signal that is supplied from... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090074097 - Symbol de-mapping methods in multiple-input multiple-output systems: In a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, multiple receive antennas produce a received signal vector, Y, which includes an element for each of the receive antennas. In an embodiment of a de-mapping method performed within a MIMO receiver, a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) search is performed within a search space... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090074098 - System and method for embedding ofdm in cdma systems: Systems and methods of combining OFDM and CDMA signals are provided. An OFDM packet data channel is overlaid over CDMA transmissions. The channel is scheduled slotwise between multiple users. In some embodiments, there is a CDMA packet data channel which is scheduled together with the OFDM packet data channel.... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090074087 - System for follow-up synchronization to maintain synchronization throughout transmission: A bidirectional communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a host unit to communicate with a plurality of remote units using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, the plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit in a multipoint-to-point configuration; the host unit receiving an orthogonal frequency... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090074095 - System for multi-frame alignment: A bidirectional communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a host and a plurality of remote units, wherein a plurality of tones is shared among the plurality of remote units in order to communicate with the host using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, wherein the plurality of tones... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090074090 - Systems and methods for restricting the location of control information in physical layer signaling: A method for conserving the power supply of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communications device is described. The location of control information within one or two of a plurality of symbols is obtained. A sleep mode is entered into. The one or two symbols that include the control information... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090074100 - Apparatus and method for detecting cyclic prefix length in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for detecting a Cyclic Prefix (CP) length in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes first, second, third and fourth correlators, an average unit, and a length detector. The first, second, third and fourth correlators respectively correlate first, second, third and fourth CP parts... Agent: Maeng-ho Shin JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090074099 - Channel aware multiple user mimo scheme unified with single user closed loop mimo: A base station is capable of unifying a single-user MIMO scheme with a multi-user MIMO scheme by receiving a Rank-1 CQI values from one or more subscriber stations. The base station also receives preceding vectors from the subscriber stations, and then determines which of the subscriber stations has a best... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Intellevate

20090074101 - Detection performance in communication systems: A method and system to generate decoded information from received symbols in communication receivers. A first embodiment is a method to detect digitally modulated symbols and generate decoded information. The method includes receiving digitally modulated symbols, demapping the digitally modulated symbols to generate soft decisions representing digitally modulated symbols, multiplying... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090074102 - Method and apparatus for wired signal transmission: A method and apparatus for high quality signal transmission, which utilizes normal-mode current flow and produces an audio output signal with suppression of normal-mode voltage amplitude, comprising transmitting an audio input signal source though (1) a buffer amplifier; (2) a modulated current source; (3) a pair of wires; (4) a... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20090074103 - Rate matching to maintain code block resource element boundaries: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter is for use with multiple transmit antennas and includes an encoding unit configured to segment input bits into one or more code blocks. The transmitter also... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090074104 - Subdimensional single-carrier modulation: A method for modulating a sequence of data symbols such that the transmit signal exhibits spectral redundancy. Null symbols are inserted in the sequence of data symbols such that a specified pattern of K data symbols and N−K null symbols is formed in every period of N symbols in the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090074105 - Correction of distortions in an emission chain: A delayed input signal is obtained by applying a second delay (τ) having a value greater than or equal to the maximum value of the first delays. Next, N correction delays (τ−τi) are applied respectively to the N signal components, this step being carried out on the basis of a... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20090074107 - Method and apparatus for optimizing transmitter power efficiency: A peak to average power ratio signal is generated from a first mapping function that selects the peak to average power ratio signal that corresponds to the data rate or data format of the signal to be transmitted. The selected peak to average power ratio signal is summed with a... Agent: Moffat & Co

20090074106 - Multi-mode and multi-band transmitters for wireless communication: Transmitters supporting multiple modulation modes and/or multiple frequency bands are described. A transmitter may perform large signal polar modulation, small signal polar modulation, and/or quadrature modulation, which may support different modulation schemes and systems. Circuit blocks may be shared by the different modulation modes to reduce cost and power. For... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090074108 - Method and system for adjusting the amplitude and phase characteristics of real and imaginary signal components of complex signals processed by an analog radio transmitter: A method and system for determining amplitude and phase compensation values used to adjust the amplitude and phase characteristics of real and imaginary signal components of complex signals processed by an analog radio transmitter. The compensation values may be determined in response to detecting a significant temperature change in the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090074109 - High power high linearity digital phase shifter: A digital phase shifter suitable for high power RF applications is disclosed. A plurality of MEMs switches selectively couple delay lines into the RF signal path providing adjustable phase shift under digital control. 90 degree hybrid combiners on either side of the MEMs switches allow two signal paths to be... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090074110 - Methods and systems for detecting defects in serial link transceivers: Methods and systems for detecting defects in serial link transceivers. Defect detection includes detecting open circuits in one or more of the transmission lines, detecting short circuits between one or more of the transmission lines and a power supply, detecting short circuits between the transmission lines, or detecting short circuits... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090074112 - Method for operating a software radio receiver and software radio receiver: The present invention disclosed a method for operating a software radio receiver. Said method comprises receiving a radio signal, determining a signal quality of said radio signal, selecting a suitable algorithm for a function in the receiver in accordance with said determined signal quality and applying said selected algorithm to... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090074111 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for performing post-detection constellation correction: A method and apparatus for correcting the phase and gain of data associated with a constellation pattern of a plurality of received individual symbols. Each symbol is divided into real and imaginary symbol components. The signs of the real and imaginary symbol components of each symbol are determined and used... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090074116 - Iterative decoding: This invention provides an iterative process to maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding. The iterative process uses an auxiliary function which is defined in terms of a complete data probability distribution. The auxiliary function is derived based on an expectation maximization (EM) algorithm. For a special case of trellis coded modulators,... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090074114 - Method and system for approximate maximum likelihood (ml) detection in a multiple input multiple output (mimo) receiver: Aspects of a method and system for approximate maximum likelihood (ML) detection in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) receiver may comprise computing soft decision values for bits that may be decoded from a received signal vector by utilizing approximate ML detection. The soft decision values may be computed for... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090074115 - Soft bit viterbi equalizer using partially collapsed metrics: A system and method of decoding data are provided. A particular method includes determining a first partially collapsed metric value for each bit in a symbol transition, where each first partially collapsed metric value is a cumulative metric of starting in a first state and ending in a second state... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090074113 - Wireless receiver supporting multiple algorithms and algorithm selection method thereof: Provided is a method of selecting an algorithm in a wireless receiver which supports a plurality of algorithms, more particularly, a method of selecting a suitable algorithm which is adaptive to changes in channel environment and satisfies requirements of applications, using information which is available in the wireless receiver. The... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090074117 - Pulse radio receiver: A pulse radio receiver not needing re-setting of the threshold for reception synchronization, judging the direction and amount of adjustment of the synchronization even if the signal strength varies, and having a shortened pull-in time of the synchronization position. The receiver comprises a detect (104) for creating a detection signal... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090074118 - Front-end for digital video receiver and method for automatic gain control thefeof: A method for automatic gain control of a front-end for a digital video receiver is provided. The method includes the following steps. First, a radio frequency signal is received and converted to an intermediate frequency signal. Then, the IF signal is amplified according to a gain. Next, the amplified IF... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090074119 - Multi-pulse frequency shifted (mpfs) multiple access modulation for ultra wideband: The multi-pulse frequency shifted technique uses mutually orthogonal short duration pulses o transmit and receive information in a UWB multiuser communication system. The multiuser system uses the same pulse shape with different frequencies for the reference and data for each user. Different users have a different pulse shape (mutually orthogonal... Agent: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

20090074120 - Auto-calibration for a filter: A filter is configured to receive a filter charging signal and to produce a filter output signal based on the filter charging signal. The filter includes an element array with one or more switched elements which include an element and a switch configured to connect the element to or disconnect... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090074121 - Method for extracting clock in clock data recovery system: A method for extracting a clock in a clock data recovery system is provided. The method includes following steps. First, a serial link transmission data is sampled for a number of times, and a number of pulse signals are generated and sequentially arranged. Then, a mark is inserted after all... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090074122 - Data transmission method and system: A data transmission method for a data transmission system including a first device and a second device is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of transmitting a clock signal to synchronize the first device and the second device; transmitting a mode signal from the first device to the second device,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090074123 - Phase/frequency detector and charge pump architecture for referenceless clock and data recovery (cdr) applications: A stream of data may flow over a fiber or other medium without any accompanying clock signal. The receiving device may then be required to process this data synchronously. Embodiments describe clock and data recovery (CDR) circuits which may sample a data signal at a plurality of sampling points to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090074124 - Determining a time interval based on a first signal, a second signal, and a jitter of the first signal: An apparatus including a circuit configured to determine a jitter of a first signal, and to determine a time interval between a feature in a second signal and a feature in the first signal based on the determined jitter.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client 007052

20090074125 - Time-interleaved clock-data recovery and method thereof: A clock-data recovery (CDR) that employs a time-interleaved scheme is disclosed. the circuit comprises: a time-interleaved sampler/phase-detector circuit for receiving an input voltage signal and a plurality of clock signals and outputting N-bit data and N phase signals, wherein N is an integer greater than 1; a control circuit, coupled... Agent: Ipr Works, LLC

20090074127 - Phase locking method and apparatus: A phase locking method and apparatus by which a phase of an input signal is locked using the input signal and a clock signal, where the phase locking method includes generating n multi-phase clock signals using the clock signal where n is an integer, generating n multi-phase input signals from... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090074126 - Systems and methods for data recovery in an input circuit receiving digital data at a high rate: Embodiments include systems and methods for recovery of data from an incoming digital data stream. Embodiments comprise a fine tracking loop to track the data when the phase between the incoming data and the receiver clock varies relatively slowly. Embodiments comprise a fast tracking loop performs to track the data... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090067476 - Wireless communication system and method: Disclosed is a wireless communication system in which a mobile station transmits a plurality of reference signals upon placing the reference signals in temporally spaced-apart relation in at least one of information transmission units wirelessly transmitted in conformity with a hopping period, and a base station receives an information transmission... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090067477 - Method and apparatus for measuring timing of signals received from multiple base stations in a cdma communication system: Unassigned finger processors are used to process and measure the arrival times of transmissions from base stations not in the active set. A first set of one or more base stations in active communication with the remote terminal is identified and each base station in the first set is assigned... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090067478 - Method and system for implementing a pll using high-voltage switches and regulators: A method and apparatus in an integrated circuit radio transceiver are operable to apply a modified control signal to drive logic that includes a plurality of first devices having a first threshold voltage and a first gate oxide thickness that are both greater than a second threshold voltage and a... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090067479 - Processing received digital data signals based on a received digital data format: An integrated circuit radio receiver includes radio frequency (“RF”) front end circuitry for receiving and transmitting digital data received through a wireless interface. A baseband processor is operable to process the digital data received through the wireless interface. A plurality of digital filtering logic is included wherein each digital filtering... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090067481 - Identification of target signals in radio frequency pulsed environments: A system and method for processing signals are disclosed. The method may be performed, at least partially, by the system. In one embodiment, the method comprises sending a first plurality of data including transmission parameters to a transmission system for transmitting of a first plurality of signals, receiving a second... Agent: Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center Office Of Counsel

20090067480 - Method and system for monitoring various signals in a continuous processing circuit for a single channel in a communication system: A method and system for monitoring includes a transfer switch and a first receiver decoder circuit for a first channel coupled to the first transfer switch. The first receiver decoder circuit generates a first receiver decoder circuit signal. A second receiver decoder circuit for the first channel is coupled to... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090067482 - Selectable-tap equalizer: A signaling circuit having a selectable-tap equalizer. The signaling circuit includes a buffer, a select circuit and an equalizing circuit. The buffer is used to store a plurality of data values that correspond to data signals transmitted on a signaling path during a first time interval. The select circuit is... Agent: Deniro/rambus

20090067483 - Efficient adaptive equalizer implementation: The present invention is related to the digital implementation of adaptive equalizers for high-speed communication systems, using finite precision arithmetic, for example, as implemented in a silicon ASIC.... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20090067484 - Selectable-tap equalizer: A signaling circuit having a selectable-tap equalizer. The signaling circuit includes a buffer, a select circuit and an equalizing circuit. The buffer is used to store a plurality of data values that correspond to data signals transmitted on a signaling path during a first time interval. The select circuit is... Agent: Deniro/rambus

20090067485 - Waveform equalizing device: A waveform equalizing device for performing high-precision waveform equalization for an input signal and outputting the result as an output signal, includes: a FIR filter for performing convolution operation between the input signal and a plurality of tap coefficients; first and second slicers at least one of which makes decision... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090067486 - Method and apparatus for joint decoding and equalization: The present invention is related to joint trellis decoding and equalization using a decision feedback equalizer.... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20090067487 - Increasing pwm resolution by modulation: A method for generating a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal includes determining a PWM period and/or a pulse width of the pulse width modulated signal by counting the number of clock cycles of a reference clock signal and by switching the pulse width modulated signal when a predetermined number of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090067488 - Hdmi-quality content transmission along a single medium: In a presentation system, a source device provides uncompressed presentation content in an HDMI format. A first conversion device converts the uncompressed presentation content to an uncompressed second format and entirely transmits the uncompressed presentation content in the second format along an electrically conductive member. A second conversion device receives... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090067489 - Method and system for monitoring a content signal: A system and method for monitoring a signal includes a monitoring display and an automation system receiving the content signal and either captures an I-frame of the content signal or encodes the content signal into an MPEG signal. The automation system communicates the I-frame or MPEG encoded signal to a... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090067490 - Method and system for monitoring and switching between a primary encoder and a back-up encoder in a communication system: A system and method for switching to a back-up encoder includes a first encoder processing a first channel signal to form a first encoded signal, a second encoder an uplink signal processing system generating a first uplink signal from the first encoded signal. A monitoring system previews the first channel... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090067491 - Learning-based image compression: Learning-based image compression is described. In one implementation, an encoder possessing a first set of learned visual knowledge primitives excludes visual information from an image prior to compression. A decoder possessing an independently learned set of visual knowledge primitives synthesizes the excluded visual information into the image after decompression. The... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090067493 - Method and apparatus for controlling bitrate of scalable video stream: Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling a bit-rates in which an amount of generated bits is adjusted according to the complexity of each frame, and a bit-rate within a frame can be further effectively adjusted by applying different quantization parameter (QP) values to respective macro blocks. In the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090067492 - Method and device for minimizing a quantization errror: A device minimizes a quantization error in the inverse quantization of a quantized coefficient during a compression method, said quantization error describing a difference between the quantized coefficient after inverse quantization and an associated coefficient prior to quantization. According to said method, at least one parameter that is characteristic of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090067494 - Enhancing the coding of video by post multi-modal coding: Post multi-modal coding overcomes the shortcomings of video encoders which fail to meet an expected quality standard while encoding some portions of a video. The deficient encoding is typically due to the type of video content or the encoding technique. A method to improve the quality of the deficient portions,... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090067495 - Rate distortion optimization for inter mode generation for error resilient video coding: Optimal selection of an inter mode is provided for video data being encoded to achieve enhanced error resilience when the video data is decoded. End to end distortion cost from encoder to decoder for inter mode selection is determined based on residue energy and quantization error. Using the distortion cost... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090067496 - Method and apparatus for coding interlaced video data: Often hierarchical bi-directionally predicted frame structures are used for encoding a video picture sequence. The frames may consist of interlacing fields. A method for encoding interlaced video, wherein inter-prediction of fields is used and reference lists are assigned to the fields for indicating reference frames or fields, comprises that, if... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090067497 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 1 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture if the co-located block only has the list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference picture permitted to be located temporally before or after... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090067498 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting the list 1 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture if the co-located block only has the list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference picture permitted to be located temporally before or after... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090067499 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 0 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture if the co-located block has the list 0 motion vector and a list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference picture permitted to be... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090067500 - Method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a motion vector of a co-located block in a reference picture: In one embodiment the method includes selecting a list 0 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture as the motion vector if the co-located block has the list 0 motion vector and a list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090067501 - Dynamic image encoding device, dynamic image decoding device, dynamic image encoding method, dynamic image decoding method, dynamic image encoding program, and dynamic image decoding program: A moving image encoding device measures a band of a target image to be encoded and a band of a reference image by a band analyzer, and generates band-related information representing these bands. A prediction signal generator generates a prediction signal such that the signal matches the band of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090067505 - Method and apparatus for motion estimation using combined reference bi-prediction: A method and apparatus are provided for motion estimation using combined reference bi-prediction. The apparatus includes an encoder (200) for encoding a multi-prediction picture from a combination of two or more reference pictures by respectively predicting a motion vector for a particular one of the two or more reference pictures... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090067503 - Method and apparatus for video data encoding and decoding: Video data encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses are provided. In the video data encoding and decoding methods, codes books are provided to an encoder and a decoder. In the encoder, an index corresponding to a vector that is most similar to a current vector of an input moving picture... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090067502 - Method for scalably encoding and decoding video signal: The present invention relates to a method for scalably encoding and decoding a video signal. In an embodiment of the present invention, motion information, such as reference indices, motion vector, modes, etc., for an enhanced layer can be derived from a base layer, and a reference index for an image... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090067504 - Real-time video coding/decoding: A video codec having a modular structure for encoding/decoding a digitized sequence of video frames in a multi-core system is described. The video codec comprises a memory unit; a multithreading engine. and a plurality of control and task modules organized in a tree structure, each module corresponding to a coding... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20090067506 - Method and system for weighted encoding: A method and system for weighted encoding of image data includes a transformation device configured to determine a non-linear transformation function for use in weighting an encoding of image data such that selected areas of the image data where increased detail is desired are encoded using a disproportionately greater number... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090067508 - System and method for block-based per-pixel correction for film-based sources: A system and method for block-based per-pixel correction for film-based sources. The appearance of mixed film/video can be improved through an adaptive selection of normal deinterlaced video relative to inverse telecine video. This adaptive selection process is based on pixel difference measures of sub-blocks within defined blocks of pixels.... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090067507 - Video compositing of an arbitrary number of source streams using flexible macroblock ordering: In one embodiment, a system includes a compositor operable to receive a plurality of source video streams, each containing source images, and to convert each of the source video streams into source slice groups using flexible macroblock ordering (FMO). The compositor is further operable to add pad slice groups to... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20090067510 - Method and apparatus for inserting digital media advertisements into statistical multiplexed streams: A method and system for the insertion of local signals, including digital media advertisements, into statistically multiplexed streams is presented. The rate control and timing information is computed and is used to specify the insertion time and rate parameters for digital advertisements. In one embodiment, a maximum bit rate over... Agent: Carlineo, Spicer & Kee, LLC

20090067509 - System and method for displaying a digital video sequence modified to compensate for perceived blur: A system for displaying a digital video sequence includes a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a display device. The GPU receives and modifies the digital video sequence to compensate for perceived blur based on motion between frames of the digital video sequence. The display device displays the modified digital video... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090067511 - Method of generating a blockiness indicator for a video signal: The described embodiments relate to methods and systems for detecting the blockiness of a video signal comprised of a number of pixels. The method includes the steps of calculating a total number of pixels in the video signal in flat blocks and visible block edge transitions, and generating a blockiness... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20090067512 - Multi-tiered quantization of channel state information in multiple antenna systems: A multi-tiered CSI vector quantizer (VQ) is provided for time-correlated channels. The VQ operates by quantizing channel state information by reference to both the current channel state information and a prior channel state quantization. A system is also provided that uses multi-tiered CSI quantizers. Enhanced signaling between the transmitter and... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090067525 - Apparatus and method for pilot transmission in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for pilot transmission in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes generating a precode and a postcode for coordinated beamforming using channel information of one or more streams for transmitting signals to one or more receive ends, selecting one or more streams to be... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090067521 - Blind estimation method of ofdm modulation paratmeters: The present invention concerns a blind estimation method of at least one temporal modulation parameter of an OFDM signal, in which a plurality of demodulation attempts of said OFDM signal are carried out using a plurality of respective values of this temporal parameter and, for each demodulation attempt, a cost... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090067519 - Estimation of length of channel impulse response: In a receiver for processing OFDM encoded signals, wherein the OFDM encoded digital signals are transmitted by means of a symbol in each of subcarrier frequency channels, with at least some of said subcarriers containing user data symbols, an initial estimate of a channel frequency response is formed from magnitudes... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090067523 - Fast initialization using seamless rate adaptation: A method for initializing modems in a multicarrier transmission system to establish a communication link between the transmitter and the receiver. An exemplary embodiment includes the steps of providing a predetermined parameter value that approximates a corresponding actual parameter value of the communication link, establishing a data communication link between... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20090067524 - Guard interval lenght selection in an ofdm systems based on coherence bandwidth of the channel: A system, apparatus and methods are described that identify a maximum cyclic delay and corresponding cyclic prefix for a multi-path communications channel. In one embodiment, the maximum cyclic delay (245) is identified based on a relationship between a selected covariance bandwidth (235) and RMS delay (240) of the OFDM channel.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090067518 - Interpolation method and a related device for channel estimation in communication systems: A method for interpolating between a first and a second point includes the steps of calculating a first distance between a first and a second independent value and a second distance between a first and a second dependent value, right shifting the first and the second distances by a predetermined... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090067520 - Method and apparatus for channel estimation in communication systems, and related computer program product: m

20090067514 - Method of non-uniform doppler compensation for wideband orthogonal frequency division multiplexed signals: Described is a method for compensation of an OFDM signal propagating through Doppler-distorted, time-varying multipath channels. The method is based on low-complexity post-FFT signal processing. Minimum mean square error combining of signals is performed for signals received at spatially-distributed receiver elements using adaptive channel estimation and phase tracking. Doppler shifts... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20090067517 - Preamble sequence detection and integral carrier frequency offset estimation method for ofdm/ofdma wireless communication system: In multi-cell OFDM/OFDMA wireless communication systems, any subscriber station (SS) or mobile station (MS) that intends to enter the system needs to establish time and frequency synchronization with the base station (BS) and obtain the identification code of the BS, where in frequency synchronization one usually needs to estimate the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090067516 - Ranging and round trip delay timing adjustment in a multi-point to point bidirectional communication system: A bidirectional communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing multipoint-to-point communications system comprises establishing communication between a first remote unit of a plurality of remote units and a host unit, the plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit in... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090067513 - Smart antenna system and method thereof for forming uplink eigenbeam of ofdm/tdd: A mobile station transmitting and receiving method and a corresponding mobile station transmitter and receiver of a smart antenna system for forming uplink eigenbeams of the OFDM/TDD (orthogonal frequency division multiplex/time division duplex), wherein OFDM symbols are received from a base station through a downlink via multiple antennas (250) and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090067515 - System and method for determining transmission parameters in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexed data stream: A system for identifying transmission parameters of an OFDM signal transmitted according to a transmitter clock includes a first correlator to receive and correlate samples of the signal sampled according to a receiver clock and provide a first metric indicative of whether the signal has a first transmission mode, a... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP Z2002

20090067522 - Wireless communication system using pilot subcarrier allocation: A wireless communication system using pilot subcarrier allocation and a method of allocating the pilot subcarriers for use in downlink and uplink communication in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation are disclosed. The method includes providing a frame structure comprising OFDM symbols in... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090067526 - Method and device for transferring data in a multi-carrier system having parallel concatenated encoding and modulation: The invention relates to a transmitter-receiver pair for improved data transmission in a multi-carrier system and to a corresponding method, according to which a chain coding is used. To this end, a transmitter has a first coding stage, a transmission-demultiplexer stage, a second coding stage, a modulator stage, a transmission... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20090067527 - Data puncturing ensuring orthogonality within communication systems: Data puncturing ensuring orthogonality within communication systems. A means is presented herein by which puncturing is employed within communication systems to ensure orthogonality (or substantial orthogonality) of various transmissions between communication devices within communication systems. Any of a variety of types of signals can be employed herein including uncoded signals,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090067528 - Link-adaptation system in mimo-ofdm system, and method therefor: A system for link adaptation in a MIMO-OFDM system. In this system, the V-BLAST processor (308) performs V-BLAST processing and separates receive signals for the multiple antennas of the transmitter into data streams. The vector information output section (312) sends feedback vector information obtained from V-BLAST processing to the transmitter.... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090067531 - Method for reporting channel information in multiple antenna system: There is provided a method of reporting downlink channel information to a base station in a multiple antenna system. The method includes reporting a single rank for overall subband, the overall subband comprising a plurality of subbands and reporting a CQI for the single rank for at least one subband.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090067532 - Methods and systems for diversity combining of synchronization statistics in ofdm systems: Various embodiments of the systems and methods described herein may be used to compute a minimum variance unbiased estimator by receiving a first OFDM signal at a pilot tone, receiving a second OFDM signal sent in the same frequency band and determining a differential phase metric between the first OFDM... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090067533 - Mimo based network coding network: A wireless communication system includes an intermediate node, a first node and a second node. There is described a method for implementing MIMO based network coding, comprising the first node transmitting first data to the intermediate node, and the second node transmitting second data to the intermediate node. Both the... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090067530 - Providing feedback in a mimo system: There is provided a system and method of operating a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receiver with N antennas in a wireless communication system. The method includes measuring N vectors, each vector defining channel transfer coefficients between M antennas of a transmitter and a corresponding antenna of the receiver. Additionally, a vector... Agent: Michael G. Fletcher Fletcher Yoder PC

20090067529 - Quantized channel state information prediction in multiple antenna systems: A CSI vector quantizer (VQ) system is provided for time-correlated channels. The VQ system operates a receiver forwarding quantized channel state information in the form of indices and a transmitter predicting channel state change. The VQ system is aimed at feedback channels, in which bit errors, erasures and delays can... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090067534 - Wireless communication system using pilot subcarrier allocation: A wireless communication system using pilot subcarrier allocation and a method of allocating the pilot subcarriers for use in downlink and uplink communication in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation are disclosed. The method includes providing a frame structure comprising OFDM symbols in... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090067537 - Adjustable dual-band link: A communication system utilizing an adjustable link has at least a first data transmission circuit including at least a first communication link circuit. The first communication link circuit has a baseband circuit and at least a passband circuit. The baseband circuit corresponds to a baseband sub-channel and the passband circuit... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20090067538 - Receiver based transmission characteristic estimator: A processor-implemented method of estimating the saturation level of a transmitter from a transmitted communication signal received from the transmitter comprises generating a received data signal from the transmitted communication signal received from the transmitter, generating a transmitted data signal from the received data signal that corresponds to the actual... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090067535 - Transfer device: A transfer device for receiving packets that were transmitted by a device in a home network onto a transmission path, and transfers the received packet to another device. The stream to be transferred is classified into three types: (i) a type where each of packets constituting the stream is not... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (panasonic)

20090067536 - Wide-band direct conversion transmission apparatus: There is provided a wide-band direct conversion transmitting apparatus including: a local oscillation unit generating first, second, and third oscillation signal pairs each including a pair of signals having a phase difference of 90°; an image rejection mixer unit mixing baseband transmission signals including an I signal and a Q... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090067540 - Method for constructing rach preamble and method for transmitting rach signal: A wireless communication system is disclosed. A method for constructing a RACH preamble according to a cell radius of a base station (BS) irrespective of a guard time (GT) and a method for allocating the RACH preamble are disclosed. A method for constructing a preamble of a random access channel... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090067539 - Wireless personal area network communication systems, apparatus and methods with fast adaptive beamforming: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for communicating in a wireless personal area network, comprising using adaptive beamforming configured for a low-rate mode for reliable low-rate communications and a high-rate mode for high-rate communications and using a fast algorithm to perform antenna beamforming for the high rate... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090067541 - Digital linear amplification with nonlinear components (linc) transmitter: Embodiments of the invention may provide for a digital LINC (linear amplification with nonlinear components) transmitter. The digital LINC transmitter may include a signal component separator, at least one digital delay modulator, a frequency synthesizer, at least one power amplifier, a power combiner, an antenna, and a mismatch compensator. Additionally,... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090067543 - Method and apparatus for multi-rate control in a multi-channel communication system: An apparatus for data processing in a multi-channel communication system is provided. The apparatus includes an encoder configured to encode a number of bits for transmission via channels in the multi-channel communication system into coded bits and split the coded bits into a number of first sets of bits at... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090067542 - Method and device for communicating incremental broadcast information: This invention relates to a system, terminals, and a method of communicating broadcast information where broadcast information comprising at least two parts is transmitted to at least one communications terminal. The transmission comprises transmitting the broadcast information during at least a first time instance, and where the transmission further comprises... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090067544 - Method for recovering a baseband signal from an rf signal: By shifting an RF signal to IQ components of a modulated baseband signal directly, the zero-IF technology and IQ interface are applied in ATSC, NTSC, and PAL systems, and VSB and SSB modulations. The mathematic calculations are based on Fourier transform for shifting the RF signal and for recovering a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090067547 - Method and apparatus for processing selectdinterplace operation in open state in wireless communication system: A method and apparatus for processing SelectedInterlace operation in open state in a wireless communication system is described. It is determined if a SelectedInterlaceResponse message with SelectedInterlaceEnabled set to ‘1’ is sent. A SelectedInterlaceOn mode is entered. A shared signaling channel (SSCH) block is sent to an access terminal on... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin LLP

20090067546 - Method for compensating electromagnetic data: Method for compensating for phase errors in electromagnetic data by exploiting the frequency scaling properties of electromagnetic fields. The data are obtained at various source-receiver offsets. Then, temporal frequency components of the data at each offset R are determined. Next, the phase spectrum (phase vs. offset) for each of the... Agent: Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company

20090067545 - Receiver of high speed digital interface: A receiver of a high speed digital interface includes at least one differential amplifier, a pair of resistive elements, a current source and a pair of transistors. The differential amplifier receives a small differential signal at a pair of input terminals and outputs an amplified differential signal. Each of the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090067548 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data: A digital broadcast system and a data processing method are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcast system includes a signal receiving unit, a demodulating unit, a program table decoder, and a controller. The signal receiving unit receives a broadcast signal in which at least one parade and main... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090067549 - Optimal two-layer coherent demodulation for dpsk (differential phase shift keying): A D-PSK demodulator utilizes a two-layer coherent approach to estimate the phase shift of adjacent symbols. There is generated a probability set of each received symbol being one of possible constellation values. There is also generated a probability set of each of possible phase difference between two adjacent symbols. This... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090067551 - Generating and communicating source identification information to enable reliable communications: A method of generating Source Identification information from a source packet stream and reliably transmitting the Source Identification information from a source to a destination over a communications channel is provided. The method operates on a set of source packets, wherein Source Identification information for each source packet to be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090067550 - Method and system for redundancy-based decoding of audio content: Aspects of a method and system for redundancy-based decoding of audio content are provided. A redundancy parameter may be generated for verifying a decoded bit sequence that comprises audio content, such as a decoded audio frame. The redundancy parameter may be a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value and/or a length... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090067554 - High throughput and low latency map decoder: In digital communication systems forward error correction coding techniques are typically used to improve the bit error rate performance. The receiver of the digital communication systems employs a decoding apparatus which may use Maximum A posteriori Probability (MAP) algorithm and its variations such as Logarithmic-MAP (Log-MAP), Maximum-Logarithmic-MAP (Max-Log-MAP). MAP decoding... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090067553 - Joint symbol, amplitude, and rate estimator: The system in one embodiment relates to tightly integrating parameter estimation, symbol hypothesis testing, decoding, and rate identification. The present invention provides Turbo-decoding for joint signal demodulation based on an iterative decoding solution that exploits error correction codes. The system iteratively couples an initial amplitude estimator, a symbol estimator, a... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20090067552 - Method for the detection of symbols and associated receiver: Method for the detection of symbols by a receiver, each symbol (S0, S1) being transmitted from a transmitter in the form of a succession of pulses (3a, 3b, . . . , 3n; 4a, 4b, . . . , 4n) representing a predetermined sequence of numerical values, the numerical values... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090067555 - Filter circuit, receiver using the same and filtering method: A filter circuit includes a sampler which samples an input signal to generate a first analog signal, an analog-to-digital converter which converts the first analog signal into a first digital signal, a digital filter which extracts a signal component out of a desired band from the first digital signal to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090067556 - Communications adaptive automatic gain controller: An adaptive scaling processor operates in combination with a conventional automatic gain control controller providing an amplification gain A to m-ary symbol-modulated communication signals, the scaling processor scaling by a scaling factor Z the m-ary communication signal for providing an over all gain of an (A)(Z) product minimizing the BER... Agent: Carole A. Mulchinski M1/040

20090067557 - Accurate channel quality indicator for link adaptation of mimo communication systems: A method for performing link adaptation in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system comprises: receiving a signal at a receiving unit of the MIMO system, calculating channel state information (CSI) from the received signal, and calculating a plurality of values of a parameter from the CSI, the parameter mapping... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090067558 - Method for estimating, in a communication system, the level of interference plus noise affecting received signals representative of a set of received pilot symbols: m

20090067559 - System and method for high-speed decoding and isi compensation in a multi-pair transceiver system: A method and a system for providing ISI compensation to an input signal in a bifurcated manner. ISI compensation is provided in two stages, a first stage compensates ISI components induced by characteristics of a transmitter's partial response pulse shaping filter, a second stage compensates ISI components induced by characteristics... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090067560 - Parallel decoder: A parallel decoder for decoding a code division multiplexed (CDM) signal. The parallel decoder has two matched filters, both operating at a frequency equal to half the chip rate of the CDM signal. One matched filter correlates odd-numbered chips of the CDM signal with odd-numbered chips of the spreading code.... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090067561 - System and method for generating linear time code data: The present invention relates to a linear time code (LTC) generator that is adapted to generate LTC data. The LTC generator comprises a rising edge detector that is adapted to detect a frame sync input corresponding to a beginning of a frame time of video data and to generate a... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090067562 - Doppler tracking method and device for a wide band modem: A system and method for estimating and tracking the frequency offset for a transmission system whose bandwidth is not insignificant with respect to the central frequency, the system transmitting a waveform including fixed carriers whose level is substantially greater than that of the carriers transporting the information, the carriers having... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090067563 - Frequency synthesizer, coupled divide-by-n circuit, current-reuse multiply-by-m circuit: A frequency synthesizer is provided in the present invention. The frequency synthesizer includes a single phase-locked loop having a reference frequency signal input, a first output, a second output and a pair of divide-by-N circuits coupled with each other and electrically connected to the second output; a multiply-by-M circuit having... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090060000 - Acquisition of spreading factors (sfs) of multiple transmitted signals in code division multiple access system: A method for successive interference cancellation in code division multiple access (CDMA) systems is provided that uses variable interferer weights. This method allows interfering signals to be cancelled in order to recover a transmitted data signal. This method involves receiving the data signal subject to interference from at least one... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090060001 - Cognitive frequency hopping radio: A cognitive frequency hopping radio includes a cognitive engine to actively monitor frequency spectrum to adapt transmission characteristics of the cognitive radio to communicate with other devices operating in the network. A frequency hopping block controls the transmitter to transmit radio signals by switching a carrier among many frequency channels... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090060002 - Adaptive bandwidth, multi-channel digital modulation: A wireless product for wireless communication is constructed for spread spectrum operation within a required channel bandwidth where an RF signal for transmission in the channel is divided into sub-channels, each of which is less than the minimum channel bandwidth permitted by FCC regulations in order to realize improved transmission... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090060003 - Cellular communication system and a method of operation therefor: A cellular communication system employs a plurality of bandwidths. The cellular communication system comprises a plurality of base stations (101, 103) each of which transmits a reference signal comprising a Generalised Chirp-Like, GCL, sequence. The length of the GCL sequence is dependent on the bandwidth employed by the base station... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090060004 - Sequence hopping in sc-fdma communication systems: A method and apparatus are provided for the selection of sequences used for the transmission of signals from user equipments in a cellular communication system. The sequences can be selected either through planning or through pseudo-random hopping among a set of sequences. With planning, the serving Node B signals the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090060005 - Method for using a non-orthogonal pilot signal with data channel interference cancellation: A system and method for encoding/decoding data channels in a CDMA system having data channel interference cancellation, wherein data channel interference cancellation is used to remove unwanted non-orthogonal pilot signal components which are present within a demodulated data signal. This is accomplished by regenerating interference terms with respect to the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090060007 - Fast joint detection base station: A code division multiple access base station receives K data signals over a shared spectrum. The base station receives and samples a combined signal having the K transmitted data signals. A combined channel response matrix is produced. A block column of a cross correlation matrix is determined using the combined... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090060006 - Receiver detecting signals based on spectrum characteristic and detecting method thereof: A receiver for receiving a target signal complying with a specific communication specification comprising a specific spectrum characteristic includes a detecting module for detecting a packet of an input signal, a transforming unit for transforming the packet from a time domain to a frequency domain to derive a spectrum characteristic... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090060008 - System and method for blind source separation of signals using noise estimator: An array has Nel array elements for receiving a plurality of communication signals from different sources. A noise power estimator at each array element receives a signal and estimates the noise power by collecting Ns data samples, forming a covariance matrix of the Ns data samples based on a model... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090060009 - Aggregate data frame generation: In an example embodiment, an aggregate frame, such as a A-MSDU aggregate is generated from interleaved frames addressed to various receiver addresses. The incoming frames are regrouped by receiver address. The aggregate frame is generated from the regrouped frames.... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090060010 - Differential channel quality reporting: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to one example embodiment, a method may include obtaining a first channel quality measurement for a wireless node such as a mobile station or relay station in a wireless network. The method may further include sending, from the wireless node, a full channel... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090060011 - Reuse of digital interface for multiple components: In one embodiment, a circuit can selectively adjust a current for driving a load. The circuit includes a sensor configured to measure a magnetic field associated with the current and provide a sensor voltage representative thereof. A control circuit is configured to selectively adjust the current as a function of... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20090060012 - System for transmitting information data from a transmitter to a receiver over a nested block channel: The present invention concerns a system for transmitting information data from a transmitter to a receiver over nested block channel, the transmitter (TRD) comprising an encoder (ENC) following an error correcting code structure, the receiver (RCV) comprising a decoder (DEC) defined according to the error correcting code structure, the nested... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060013 - Optimizing precoder settings using average sinr reports for groups of tones: Techniques are disclosed for compensating for crosstalk using adaptation of data signals transmitted over respective channels of a communication network. In one example, a method comprises the following steps. Data is transmitted to a communication network device via a communication line during a sequence of periods. For each period of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090060014 - System and method for automated link quality measurement for adaptive modulation systems using noise level estimates: A communications system includes a transmitter that transmits a modulated signal having encoded communications data over a communications channel. The transmitter adjusts one of at least modulation and coding at the transmitter based on the received channel state information of the transmitted signal. A receiver determines received signal metrics from... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090060015 - System and method for estimating noise power level in a multi-signal communications channel: A system estimates noise power in a scalar, multi-signal communications channel. A data sampler collects N data samples from communications signals received from the communications channel. A module forms a covariance matrix of the N data samples based on a model order estimate. A module also computes the eigenvalue decomposition... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090060016 - Method of estimating inter-carrier interference (ici) and ici mitigating equalizer: An inter-carrier interference (ICI) mitigating equalizer includes a channel estimator, a channel calculator, an ICI estimator, a subtracter, and an equalizer. The channel estimator estimates a channel response from a received signal, and the channel calculator calculates a basic component of a channel response and fluctuating components of the channel... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090060017 - Selectable-tap equalizer: A signaling circuit having a selectable-tap equalizer. The signaling circuit includes a buffer, a select circuit and an equalizing circuit. The buffer is used to store a plurality of data values that correspond to data signals transmitted on a signaling path during a first time interval. The select circuit is... Agent: Deniro/rambus

20090060018 - Transmit equalizer for dispersive channels: An equalizer at the transmitter reduces data-dependent jitter introduced by a non-linear device in the transmitter. In one implementation, the equalizer is T/2-spaced. In an alternate implementation, it is T-spaced.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090060019 - Equalizer system and filtering method: An equalizer system comprises a gain adjuster and a filter system. The gain adjuster provides a plurality of gain settings. The filter system is coupled to the gain adjuster and filters an input signal to output a filtered signal in response to the gain settings. The filter system comprises at... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090060020 - Method and apparatus for estimating and correcting baseband frequency error in a receiver: A method and apparatus for estimating and correcting baseband frequency error in a receiver. In one embodiment, an equalizer performs equalization on a sample data stream and generates filter tap values based on the equalization. An estimated frequency error signal is generated based on at least one of the filter... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090060021 - Multi-tap decision feedback equalizer (dfe) architecture eliminating critical timing path for higher-speed operation: A decision feedback equalizer (DFE) and method include summer circuits to add a dynamic feedback signal representing a dynamic feedback tap to a received input and to speculate on a speculative tap. Data slicers are configured to receive outputs of the summer circuits and sample the outputs of the summer... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090060022 - System and method for equalizing an incoming signal: An equalizer is provided, comprising: a feedback combiner to combine an input signal and a feedback signal to produce a first signal; a delay line to delay the first signal to produce a second signal; a feed-forward combiner to combine the second signal and a feed-forward signal to produce an... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090060023 - Transmission circuit, cmos semiconductor device, and design method thereof: A transmission circuit, which transmits a differential signal having pulse time larger than a predetermined minimum pulse time, includes: a driving unit for feeding the differential signal as a potential difference between two transmission lines; a driven unit for operating on the basis of the differential signal by receiving the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090060025 - 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

20090060024 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding media signal: A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a media signal. The method of decoding a media signal includes extracting first table index information from a header. The first table index information indicates M (M<N) tables substantially referred to by frames from among N tables which can be referred to for performing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090060027 - Compressed signal subjective quality ratings prediction: A no-reference subjective quality ratings predictor for a lossy compressed signal decodes the lossy compressed signal to produce a decompressed signal, and extracts from the lossy compressed signal error bounding parameters and information data. An error estimation generator converts the error bounding parameters to sensitivity test data which is combined... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20090060030 - 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 receiving unit, an SI handler, and a decoding unit. The receiving unit receives broadcast signals including mobile service data and main service data. Herein, the mobile service data may... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090060026 - Enhanced presentation of sub-picture information: A system is provided for processing video images for display. In one example, the system comprises a stream parser for retrieving a compressed main video data and a sub-picture identifier. A video decoder generates a main video image having a main video intensity value for each pixel in the main... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090060029 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding: The present invention relates to a multimedia data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The encoding method includes generating a file type area having information on a file format; generating a data area comprising a plurality of media data areas; and generating a media information area comprising a plurality of track areas... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090060031 - Opto-electronic video compression system: An opto-electonic video compression system is disclosed including a lens element for transmitting light of an image and having one or more lenses, each lens having a predetermined focal length. A sensor array includes a first sensor for receiving focused light from the lens element and a second for receiving... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20090060032 - Software video transcoder with gpu acceleration: Embodiments of the invention as described herein provide a solution to the problems of conventional methods as stated above. In the following description, various examples are given for illustration, but none are intended to be limiting. Embodiments are directed to a transcoding system that shares the workload of video transcoding... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090060028 - System and method of delivering video content: A method to deliver video content is disclosed and includes sending a bandwidth change request from a set-top box device associated with a home network to a server via an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) access network. The bandwidth change request includes a requested bandwidth change event and an upper limit... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090060033 - Predictive adaptive coding and modulation: Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing predictive adaptive communications. Embodiments include a network access unit, in communication with multiple data terminals, and adapted to determine geospatial and other network data (e.g., current capability and position information relating to a designated one of the data terminals, map data, etc.),... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090060036 - Coding apparatus, coding method, decoding apparatus, and decoding method: A coding apparatus includes: a storage section that stores information for coding an image area to be currently coded in a direct prediction mode that predicts motion information of an image area to be coded by referring to motion information of a previously coded image area; a deriving section that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090060038 - Encoding device and encoding method and decoding device and decoding method: An encoding device including a calculation result storage unit adapted to store information based on a result of a difference calculation of the differential encoding along with information on a referenced picture used for the differential calculation a determination unit determining from the information on the referenced picture stored in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090060034 - Method and apparatus for scalably encoding and decoding video signal: In one embodiment, the method includes predicting at least a portion of a current image in a current layer based on at least a residual coded portion of a base image in a base layer, a reference image, shift information for samples in the predicted current image, and offset information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090060037 - Method and system for determining prediction mode parameter: For determining a prediction mode parameter, a macroblock of an image is divided into a plurality of blocks; most prediction mode parameters corresponding to a plurality of first blocks along a left most edge of the macroblock are determined; most prediction mode parameters corresponding to a plurality of second blocks... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090060035 - Temporal scalability for low delay scalable video coding: A method of processing video information which includes receiving encoded video information including an encoded base layer frame and encoded enhanced layer frames for providing temporal scalability, decoding the encoded video information in display order, and using a decoded first enhanced layer frame as a reference frame for decoding a... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20090060039 - Method and apparatus for compression-encoding moving image: Encoding processes are performed in their respective encoding modes until their respective quantized DCT (discrete cosine transform) coefficients are generated. Based on information about code amounts generated in the encoding modes, an encoding mode that provides a smallest code amount is determined. DCT coefficients corresponding to the determined encoding mode... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090060040 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: A method of decoding a current layer using inter-layer prediction is disclosed. The present invention includes obtaining a first flag information indicating whether a current block of the current layer is coded using the inter-layer prediction, obtaining a quality identification information identifying a quality of the current block, obtaining an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090060044 - 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 data group, wherein the data group is divided into a plurality of... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090060045 - Moving picture encoding apparatus and moving picture encoding method: According to one embodiment, a reference macroblock determination module determines, with respect to each of the peripheral macroblocks corresponding to the to-be-encoded macroblock, whether the macroblock is an encoded macroblock or not, determines, if the macroblock is the encoded macroblock, the macroblock as a reference macroblock which is to be... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090060043 - Multiviewer based on merging of output streams of spatio scalable codecs in a compressed domain: A viewer system, components and method that are operable to efficiently merge data streams prior to decoding them, and then transmit the merged data stream for decoding and displaying. Unlike prior art multiple encoded image viewing solutions, the present system and method enables the use of significantly less bandwidth and... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090060042 - System and method for motion vector collection based on k-means clustering for motion compensated interpolation of digital video: A system and method of collection motion vectors for motion compensated interpolation of digital video are disclosed. For example, one embodiment includes a method of identifying motion vectors for interpolating a portion of a digital video signal. The method comprises identifying a plurality of motion vectors indicative of differences between... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090060041 - System and method for motion vector collection for motion compensated interpolation of digital video: A system and method of collection motion vectors for motion compensated interpolation of digital video are disclosed. For example, one embodiment includes a method of identifying motion vectors for interpolating a portion of a digital video signal. The method comprises identifying a plurality of motion vectors indicative of differences between... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090060046 - Method and apparatus for improving the quality of a transmitted video signal: A feedback circuit for restoration of DC reference levels in video signals is presented. In one or more embodiments, a DC sample pulse is generated representing the back porch of an incoming video signal. A sample and hold circuit, which is controlled by the DC sample pulse, obtains the correct... Agent: The Hecker Law Group

20090060047 - Data compression using an arbitrary-sized dictionary: A data compression method improves Lempel-Ziv (“LZ”) compression by encoding the offsets produced during LZ compression as variable-bit-length (“VBL”) encoded integers, and outputting the VBL integers as part of the compressed data. Other integers produced during LZ compression, as well as integers produced by other data compression algorithms, can also... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090060049 - Method and system for calculating flag parameter of image block: A flag parameter in a digital image decoding is calculated. For a macroblock consisting of M×N blocks, a first operation is performed on M block along a first edge to obtain M first parameters, and a second operation is performed on N blocks along a second edge to obtain N... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090060050 - Method for encoding and decoding video signal: Disclosed is a method for encoding a decoding a video signal. In the procedure of encoding the video signal, when a frame temporarily simultaneous with a frame including a macro block of an enhanced layer which will obtain a prediction video does not exist in a base layer, the macro... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090060048 - Motion detection circuit and method: A motion detection circuit calculates and updates a first Sum of Absolute Differences (SAD) between a reference macroblock stored in a reference macroblock buffer and a coding macroblock stored in a first coding macroblock buffer and calculates and updates a second SAD between a reference macroblock stored in the reference... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090060051 - 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

20090060054 - 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

20090060052 - 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

20090060053 - 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

20090060055 - Method and apparatus for encoding metadata into a digital program stream: A method and apparatus for encoding data into a digital program stream includes receiving a digital program stream having a pre-allocated data channel, where the pre-allocated data channel has a pre-defined bandwidth. In one embodiment, metadata may be received and an unused portion of the pre-defined bandwidth of the pre-allocated... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090060056 - Method and apparatus for concealing errors in a video decoding process: A method for concealing errors in a video decoding process according to the invention, wherein said method comprises the steps of: receiving a frame of video picture comprising an comprising an error-existing picture area and a neighboring picture area; searching a similar picture area to said neighboring picture area according... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090060059 - Encoded stream transmitter: The accuracy of time information set in a packet is improved. Time information calculator 24 calculates time information, using the encoding information received by control information receiver 23 and the encoded stream received by encoded stream receiver 21. When the time information is not pertinent, time information calculator 24 corrects... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090060057 - 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

20090060058 - 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

20090060061 - Communication apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit: A communication apparatus is connected to a transmission channel for transmitting data to another communication apparatus. The communication apparatus includes: a communication frame generator which generates a communication frame for storing the data; and a controller which controls to insert a pilot symbol into the communication frame based on a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090060060 - Method for transmitting a signal from a transmitter to a receiver in a power line communication network, transmitter, receiver, power line communication modem and power line communication system: A method for transmitting a signal from a transmitter over a channel to a receiver on a Power Line Network, wherein said signal is OFDM-modulated on a set of sub-carriers, is proposed, wherein an OFDM tonemap and an eigenbeamforming encoding matrix are determined based on a channel estimation for each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060062 - Induction neutralizing transformer: An induction neutralizing transformer is provided. The induction neutralizing transformer includes a core and a coil wrapped around the core. The coil has a length between approximately 100 feet and approximately 200 feet and includes a plurality of twisted wire pairs. The induction neutralizing transformer does not include a screen... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090060070 - Apparatus and method for peak suppression in wireless communication systems: A method for suppressing the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) while limiting deterioration in signal characteristics in wireless communication devices utilizing wireless communication methods (OFDM method, MIMO method) for multiplexing and sending multiple signals. A weight calculator unit sets a large weight for transmit signals whose channel quality is poor, relative... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090060065 - Communication system and method for receiving high priority and low priority signals: A communication system and method of communicating signals to a plurality of different types of receivers is provided. At least one transmitter transmits hierarchically modulated high priority and low priority signals as a single frequency network. At least one satellite re-transmits the high priority signal in a first circularly polarized... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090060066 - Communication system and method for transmitting signals to a plurality of different types of receivers: A communication system and method of communicating signals to a plurality of different types of receivers is provided. The communication system includes at least one transmitter that transmits high priority and low priority signals as a single frequency network. At least one satellite receives and re-transmits at least one of... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090060072 - Decoding method for receiving ofdm signals, and decoding apparatus and receiving apparatus using the same: A phase derivation unit derives a phase difference between two symbols for each subcarrier, based on phase components of symbols. A weighting factor derivation unit derives a weighting factor for each subcarrier, based on amplitude components of the symbols. A multiplier weights the phase difference with the weighting factor for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090060071 - Demodulation method for receiving ofdm signals, and demodulation apparatus and receiving apparatus using the same: A phase derivation unit derives a phase difference between two symbols for each subcarrier, based on phase components of symbols. A weighting factor derivation unit derives a weighting factor for each subcarrier, based on amplitude components of the symbols. A multiplier weights the phase difference with the weighting factor for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090060067 - Determining channel matrices by correlated transmissions to different channels: A method involves performing a plurality of acts. The acts include transmitting a first signal stream to a first channel of a multi-channel communications medium while transmitting a second signal stream to a different second channel of the medium. The second signal stream is substantially temporally correlated to the first... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator-room 2f-192

20090060068 - Method and apparatus for bit interleaving and deinterleaving in wireless communication systems: Disclosed herein is a method and system for interleaving and deinterleaving of data bits in wireless data communications. Interleaving is performed as a single stage parallel operation using a single standard memory block. The disclosed method and system is capable of implementing different interleaving techniques, individually, or as a combination... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20090060063 - Method and apparatus for robust control signaling distribution in ofdm systems: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) systems distribute some number of pilot subcarriers within the larger set of subcarriers comprising an OFDM signal. In that context, according to teachings presented herein, control signaling is sent on subcarriers selected for their proximity to pilot subcarriers. Correspondingly, an OFDM receiver is configured to... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090060073 - Method for suppressing peak power of orthogonally multiplexed signal, peak power suppressing circuit, and transmitter: To suppress the peak of the orthogonal multiplex transmission signal which is small in deterioration of the quality of the reception signal by generating the cancellation waveform in synchronization with the timing of the symbol of the transmission signal. There is provided a peak suppressing method that suppresses peaks of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090060064 - Ofdm communication system, method for generating feedback information thereof, and communication apparatus: An OFDM communication system which performs appropriate feedback flexibly adapted to channel states, while suppressing an amount of feedback information. The OFDM communication system has first and second communication apparatuses. In a second receiver of the second communication apparatus, a channel quality measurement part measures channel quality for each of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090060075 - Ofdm modem using pilot sub-carrier structure: An OFDM modem is presented that uses a pilot sub-carrier signal structure for channel estimation to reduce link latency of the modem, or alternatively, a pseudo-random number sequence inserted into the OFDM signal for later detection for channel estimation. The OFDM signal includes multiple symbols, each symbol having a plurality... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090060069 - Signal transmitting apparatus, method thereof, and inverse fast fourier transform apparatus for signal transmitting apparatus: The present invention relates to a signal transmitting apparatus, a method thereof, and an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) apparatus for a signal transmitting apparatus. A signal transmitting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention receives data, and performs inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on the data on... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090060076 - System access and synchronization methods for mimo ofdm communications systems and physical layer packet and preamble: A method and apparatus are provided for performing acquisition, synchronization and cell selection within an MIMO-OFDM communication system. A coarse synchronization is performed to determine a searching window. A fine synchronization is then performed by measuring correlations between subsets of signal samples, whose first signal sample lies within the searching... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090060077 - Wireless communication base station apparatus and pilot signal disposing method: A base station device is provided with features in which multicast data can be prevented from deterioration in the accuracy of channel estimation due to interference of a unicast data pilot signal when multicast data and unicast data are multiplexed for transmission. In this device, a unicast pilot signal generating... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090060074 - Wireless communications apparatus: Precoding a plurality of subcarriers in preparation for MIMO transmission is carried out by deriving preceding matrices from available information. When the number of data streams borne by the subcarriers equates to the number of transmit antennas employed in the MIMO transmission, the method comprises deriving, from respective acquired unitary... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060078 - Near soft-output maximum-likelihood detection for multiple-input multiple-output systems: Systems and methodologies are described that provide low-complexity soft-output detection for MIMO communication systems. Looping can be performed over a set of constellation points per spatial stream to obtain distance metrics for each of a series of transmitted streams, for which values for the other transmitted streams can be estimated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090060079 - Method for detecting a symbol using trellis structure on the multiple input multiple output mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method for detecting a symbol using a trellis structure on a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of: setting a plurality of states by grouping symbols producible from a receiving signal in the unit of sub-states; calculating metric values for... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090060080 - Methods and apparatus for location-based rate limiting in wireless networks: Methods and systems are provided for location-based network rate limiting The system allows an administrator to logically partition an environment into a plurality of spatial regions. The method then includes specifying, for each of the spatial regions, a rate limit for that spatial region, then performing a locationing procedure to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090060081 - Systems and methods for ofdm channelization: Systems and methods for OFDM channelization are provided that allow for the co-existence of sub-band channels and diversity channels. Methods of defining diversity sub-channels and sub-band sub-channels are provided, and systematic channel definition and labeling schemes are provided.... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090060082 - Wireless communication apparatus, and feedback information generating method: A wireless communication apparatus that allows channel information to be reproduced with high precision at a transmitting end without increasing feedback information amount. In this apparatus, a channel estimating part (103) uses received pilot signals to perform channel estimation for each channel. A correlation detecting part (104) uses the result... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090060083 - Receiver circuit: A receiver circuit includes a voltage controller configured to output an offset voltage varied according to a control code; and a multilevel receiving block configured to be controlled by the offset voltage and to amplify and output input data signal having multilevels.... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090060084 - Data receiver apparatus and data transmitter apparatus: Write pointer generation units successively switch and indicate storage locations of data transmitted from a transmitter end LSI from plural buffers constituting FIFO circuits. A clock-step ring buffer delays a gated step signal to instruct an operation stop. When receiving the gated stop signal delayed by the clock-step ring buffer,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090060087 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method thereof: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method thereof are provided. An apparatus for generating a transport stream includes a packet generator for generating a plurality of packets by compressing video and audio signals; a counter for counting the number of the generated packets and outputting the count result;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090060085 - System and method for wrist band transmitter and system thereof: A light weight transmission device providing an identification signal is disclosed. In one aspect, the device comprises a gating device for controlling the transfer of information to the transmitter, a data retaining device, in communication with the gating device, receiving and storing the information for a known period of time,... Agent: Law Office Of Carl Giordano, Pa

20090060086 - Terminal aware multicasting: Methods, systems, and devices are described for using adaptive coding and modulation (“ACM”) to adaptively communicate with a plurality of data terminals having different capabilities. Embodiments provide hierarchical communications of content, generated by applying hierarchical pre-coding schemes to the source data and then associating the pre-coding levels with coding and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090060088 - Detecting the number of transmit antennas in a base station: Data is scrambled at a transmitter according to one of a number of predetermined scrambling sequences which are associated with a particular one of a number of predetermined transmit antenna diversity schemes (i.e., a specific number of transmit antenna ports). Received data is decoded using one or more of the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090060089 - Polar modulation transmitter circuit and communications device: Provided is a transmitter circuit capable of operating with low distortion and high efficiency even in a modulation method using wide modulation bandwidth. In the transmitter circuit, a signal generation section (11) generates an amplitude signal and an angle-modulated signal. Based on a predetermined characteristic, a compensating filter (12) wave-shaping-processes... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090060090 - Transmitter and receiver: There is provided with there is provided with a transmitter including: a pilot generation unit configured to generate a plurality of pilot symbols; a bit sequence generation unit configured to invert each bit in a first bit sequence to generate a second bit sequence; a transmission block generation unit configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060091 - Low-power, low-area high-speed receiver architecture: A high-speed receiver includes multiple receiver components. Each receiver component includes sampling latches for receiving data, phase rotators for controlling timing of sampling of data by the sampling latches, and a clock-tracking logic stage for providing clock and data recovery. The clock-tracking logic stage is divided into a high-speed early/late... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090060092 - Circuit and method for improved offset adjustment of differential amplifier within data receiving apparatus: A data receiving apparatus is provided to receive command data encoded by using a combination of high-level periods during which there is radio wave and low-level periods during which there is no radio wave. The data receiving apparatus is provided with a receiving circuit including a differential amplifier circuit receiving... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090060093 - Multi-function decoder engine 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

20090060094 - Transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for interleaver division multiple access system: Provided is a transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for an IDMA system. The receiving apparatus includes a channel estimator, an estimator, and a determiner. The channel estimator estimates a channel using a multi-user signal received through at least one RX antenna. The estimator estimates the noise power and the signal power... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20090060098 - Algorithm for multiple-symbol differential detection: A method for differential phase evaluation of M-ary communication data is employed in which the data consists of N sequential symbols r1 . . . rN, each having one of M transmitted phases. Selected sequences of N−1 elements that represent possible sequences of phase differentials are evaluated using multiple-symbol differential... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090060097 - 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

20090060095 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for classifying uncertain data: Uncertain data is classified by constructing an error adjusted probability density estimate for the data, and applying a subspace exploration process to the probability density estimate to classify the data.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090060096 - 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

20090060099 - Devices for carrier recovery and related methods: Devices for carrier recovery and related methods are provided. A receiving signal is provided to perform an interpolation filtering process and a frequency multiplication sampling process. The receiving signal is then processed with a dealing signal. The dealing signal is generated by shifting a PN code with a frequency offset.... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090060101 - Method and apparatus for carrier frequency offset synchronization of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receivers: A carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation and synchronization method and apparatus of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver receiving an OFDM modulated signal. The OFDM receiver's CFO synchronization method includes step (a) performing an initial CFO estimation pull-in step using double correlation, step (b) performing a coarse residue CFO... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090060100 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: A wireless communication apparatus capable of enhancing the transmission efficiency, while maintaining a good BER characteristic. In this apparatus, a setting part (13) sets, based on the maximum delay amount of a delayed wave and also based on the expansion of impulse response of FDE, an FFT part (14) to... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090060104 - Apparatus and method for rf packet detection and symbol timing recovery: A radio frequency (RF) receiver having an analog gain control section for controlling the gain of a received RF signal, and a digital demodulator section for demodulating the output of the gain control section, includes an analog GO circuit connected to recognize the presence of a data packet within a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090060103 - Channel estimation apparatus and method for the same: A channel estimation apparatus and a method for the same are provided. The channel estimation apparatus includes a preamble buffer unit, a gain adjusting unit, a demodulation unit, and an estimation unit. The preamble buffer unit receives and temporarily stores a plurality of symbols in preamble signal. The symbols correspond... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090060102 - Fast predictive automatic gain control for dynamic range reduction in wireless communication receiver: A method of fast predictive automatic gain control is disclosed including estimating channel gain applied to a received signal, predicting channel gain at a subsequent time by applying temporal correlation statistics to the estimated channel gain, determining a predicted receiver gain which reduces variance between the predicted channel gain and... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20090060105 - Interference level estimation of path monitoring in w-cdma using the order statistics of beaulieu series: A technique for interference level estimation for a WCDMA system based on the low order statistics of Beaulieu Series is provided. Correlation of a locally generated copy of a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) with the input samples of the radio frequency message is performed using low order statistics of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090060106 - Diversity device: The diversity device includes: a plurality of antennas via which electric wave signals are respectively received; and a plurality of front-end circuits for amplifying signal levels of the electric wave signals received via the plurality of antennas, respectively, target signal levels of output signals supplied from the plurality of front-end... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090060107 - Data sampling circuit and method for clock and data recovery: A clock and data recovery circuit and method are used in a digital data communications system. The circuit and method are effectively employed for high speed, burst-mode transmission and allow rapid recovery of the clock and data signals without the need for an extended header, and notwithstanding the presence of... Agent: Ernest D. Buff Ernest D. Buff And Associates, LLC.

20090060109 - Apparatus for generating clock signal in mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is an apparatus for generating a stable clock signal having a Long term jitter noise removed therefrom. In a mobile communication terminal having a power management chip for converting a sinusoidal wave oscillated in a crystal into a clock signal of square wave, the sinusoidal wave is converted into... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090060108 - Device for estimating symbol timing or frequency offset with reliability of demodulated signal determined: A PHS mobile phone set is provided with an offset estimation device which estimates an offset of a signal received through digital communication and makes use of the estimated offset as correction information for offset correction. The received signal is corrected in offset by use of the estimated offset and... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC