Pulse or digital communications inventions 04/09

20090110030 - High bandwidth data transport system: A device for sending and receiving ultra wideband communications over a guided medium includes a line interface configured for electrical communication to the guided medium and adapted for interfacing with the guided medium, an ultra wideband impulse transmitter electrically connected to the line interface for transmitting amplitude modulated ultra wideband... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20090110032 - Method of reusing spreading codes: A method of wireless data communication. The method includes the step of receiving a feedback indicator signal at two or more points in space from two or more transmission paths. Each transmission path may correspond with a wireless unit seeking to communicate over a downlink and/or an uplink. The method,... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20090110031 - Millimeter wave beaconing with directional antennas: A wireless device comprises a code-assignment module configured for assigning Golay codes to be used for spreading, a spreading module configured for spreading data with the Golay codes to produce a signal, wherein the Golay codes are randomly used to spread the data, and a transmitter configured for transmitting the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090110033 - Multicarrier sub-layer for direct sequence channel and multiple-access coding: Carrier Interferometry (CI) provides wideband transmission protocols with frequency-band selectivity to improve interference rejection, reduce multipath fading, and enable operation across non-continuous frequency bands. Direct-sequence protocols, such as DS-CDMA, are provided with CI to greatly improve performance and reduce transceiver complexity. CI introduces families of orthogonal polyphase codes that can... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090110034 - Systems and methods for generating sequences that are nearest to a set of sequences with minimum average cross-correlation: A method for generating sequences that are nearest to a set of sequences with minimum average cross-correlation is described. Each element of a set of sequences is projected to a nearest constellation point. The set of sequences is converted into a time domain representation. An inverse discrete Fourier Transform (IDFT)... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090110035 - Radio communications system designed for a low-power receiver: The invention relates to methods by which radio signals can be transmitted to, and received by, a radio receiver such that the receiver consumes very little power from a battery or energy source. The invention is applicable not only to medical implants, but any application requiring a radio receiver to... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20090110036 - Processing digital samples in a wireless receiver: A method of processing digital samples of a signal received at a receiver of a wireless communication system includes monitoring channel conditions and generating a channel indicator including at least one channel parameter by performing at least one of: estimating a channel mobility parameter and comparing it with a threshold;... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090110037 - Channel estimation for time division duplex communication systems: A plurality of communication bursts are used to communicate data in a shared spectrum in a time slot of a time division duplex communication system. Each burst has an associated midamble sequence of a set of known sequences. A wireless communication apparatus has a receiver component configured to receive the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090110038 - Arrangement and method for transmitting control information in wireless communication systems: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate arrangement and transmission of control information in a wireless communication system. As described herein, a scheduled transmission of acknowledgement (ACK) signaling and channel quality information (CQI) signaling in a common subframe can be adapted for network implementations with limited link budget wherein ACK... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090110039 - Bus interface unit for interposing in a two-wire current loop, as well as a transducer, position controller and analog input and output module with such a bus interface unit: A bus interface unit is provided for intermediate switching in a two-wire current loop, wherein the bus interface unit has a transformer for potential-free decoupling of an alternating current signal modulated with digital receive data and/or for coupling in of an alternating current signal to be modulated with digital send... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090110041 - Method and device for transmitter calibration: A device for calibrating a digital communication station uses an initial ranging procedure for measuring channel parameters in a communication channel. The device comprises a communication emulator, a measuring device, and a calibrator. The communication emulator transmits a signal to the communication station which transfers the communication station into an... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090110040 - Transceiver system and associated methods and systems: In the example embodiments, test signals sent from a transmitting system are received at a receiving system. The receiving system generates a determination signal indicating, in one embodiment, whether received signals have a desired relationship with respect to a clock signal at the receiving system. Timing of the clock signal... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090110042 - Determining a bit error rate (ber) using interpolation and superposition: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a jitter profile and a step response of a channel coupled between a transmitter and a receiver and a bit pattern to be transmitted, transmitting the bit pattern along the channel from the transmitter to the receiver with the... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090110044 - Method and apparatus for deciding a channel impulse response: Method and apparatus for deciding a channel impulse response for an OFDM system are provided. First, a channel frequency response is generated by using a plurality of pilot tones of a signal. A channel impulse response is generated by applying the IFFT to the channel frequency response. A plurality of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090110043 - Performing adaptive external equalization: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method communicating control information for an external adaptive equalization process for a channel coupled between a transmitter and a receiver from an external agent. In this way, the external agent may control tap settings of an equalizer based on feedback information from... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090110047 - Demodulator with configurable adaptive equalizer: An improved multi-channel receiver for satellite broadcast applications or the like. In an exemplary embodiment, the receiver has an adaptive equalizer configurable to operate with QPSK or 8PSK modulated signals. In the equalizer, a slicer table memory responsive to an 8-level quantizer (slicer) and a select signal is configured to... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20090110046 - Method and apparatus for equalization using one or more qualifiers: Methods and apparatus are provided for equalizing a received signal. A received signal is equalized by updating one or more equalization parameters; and discarding the updated equalization parameters if one or more predefined qualifier conditions are detected during the equalizing step. The received signal can optionally be equalized using the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090110045 - Method and apparatus for rate-dependent equalization: Methods and apparatus are provided fox equalizing a received signal. A received signal is equalized by determining a data rate of the received signal; obtaining one or more equalization parameters associated with the determined data rate; and equalizing the received signal using the obtained one or more equalization parameters. The... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090110048 - Radio receiver in a wireless communications system: Techniques are described for optimizing the processing facilities of a receiver in a wireless communication environment, taking into account processing performance set against the computing resources and/or power consumption required to obtain that processing performance. A radio receiver for a wireless communications system can include channel equalization means arranged to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090110049 - Radio receiver in a wireless communications system: Techniques are described for optimizing processing facilities of a receiver in a wireless communication environment, taking into consideration processing performance set against the computing resources and/or power consumption required to obtain the processing performance. An embodiment of a radio receiver is described that includes a channel equalization means arranged to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090110050 - Space-time coding method using a partitioned position modulation alphabet: The invention relates to a space-time coding method for a MIMO-UWB system with P antennas using information symbols belonging to an M-PPM, where M is a multiple of P. The modulation alphabet is partitioned into P sub-alphabets corresponding to successive ranges of modulation positions. An extension of the initial alphabet... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090110053 - Embedded system and remote-control servo apparatus thereof: A remote-control servo apparatus of an embedded system is provided. The remote-control servo apparatus includes a compression unit and a network interface unit. The compression unit coupled to an image output interface of the embedded system receives and compresses an output image of the embedded system to generate a compressed... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090110052 - Method and system for monitoring and controlling a back-up receiver in local collection facility from a remote facility using an ip network: A system and method suitable for collecting local television signals includes a local collection facility having a plurality of primary receiver circuit modules with a first receiver circuit module and a back-up receiver module. The local collection facility includes the first receiver circuit module receiving and demodulating the first channel... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090110051 - Method and system for reducing the impact of latency on video processing: The disclosed systems and methods relate to reducing the effect of video processing latency in devices that utilize PCI Express Active State Power Management (PCI-E ASPM). Power state transition delay may be reduced by initiating an early L1 exit based on a video processing stimulus. Aspects of the present invention... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090110055 - Method for transmitting moving image data and communication apparatus: A method for transmitting moving image data that includes a plurality of frames each divided into a plurality of pieces of data includes setting a priority to each of the plurality of pieces of data based on a characteristic thereof, determining a transmission order of the plurality of pieces of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090110056 - Moving-picture compression-encoding apparatus: Re-encoding information indicating whether or not an input moving picture has been compression-encoded is provided to a mode determining unit. The mode determining unit determines an optimal encoding mode for the input moving picture, out of a plurality of encoding modes. The mode determining operation is controlled by the re-encoding... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090110057 - Processing apparatus and processing method for a digital television: A processing method and a processing apparatus for a digital television are provided. A processing apparatus for a digital television (DTV) to process a DTV stream, comprising: a demultiplexing unit for retrieving a service information from the DTV stream; a memory coupled to the demultiplexing unit for storing the service... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090110058 - Smart image processing cctv camera device and method for operating same: A smart image processing CCTV camera device and a method for operating the same are proposed. The camera can process, compress and store digital images, and zoom to a captured image using a digital image-capturing component therein. It can also restore the captured image to either an analog or a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090110060 - Method and apparatus for performing lower complexity multiple bit rate video encoding using metadata: A Multiple Bit Rate (MBR) video encoding system wherein a first video encoding at a first bit rate is performed based on the original video source material, and wherein the first video encoding generates and saves metadata relating to the encoding process. In typical block-based motion-compensated video encoding techniques, this... Agent: Docket Administrator - Room 2f-192 Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090110061 - Method and apparatus for predicting video traffic: A method and apparatus for predicting video traffic are provided. The method includes extracting the statistical properties of previous Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)-4 video traffic and predicting the size of a subsequent frame based on the statistical properties of the previous MPEG-4 video traffic. Therefore, it is possible to... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090110063 - Encoding apparatus, method of controlling thereof, and computer program: An encoding apparatus comprises, a detection unit configured to determine a characteristic of the image of each of a plurality of blocks and to detect whether visual degradation in each block is noticeable, a determination unit configured to determine a quantization parameter of each block based on a detection result,... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090110062 - Optimal heegard-berger coding schemes: Optimal Heegard-Berger coding methods, devices, and systems are provided based on the disclosed coding schemes. The disclosed schemes facilitate decoding even in the absence of side information, with lower coding complexity than conventional Wyner-Ziv based distributed coding techniques. The disclosed details enable various refinements and modifications according to system design... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090110064 - Method of selecting a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes determining reference picture index numbers in a reference picture list. The reference picture index numbers increase for reference pictures having a decreasing display order with respect to a picture including the macroblock. The reference picture index numbers increase for reference pictures having an increasing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090110065 - System and method for scalable portrait video: Generation, coding and transmission of an effective video form, scalable portrait video. As an expansion to bi-level video, portrait video is composed of more gray levels, and therefore possesses higher visual quality while it maintains a low bit rate and low computational costs. Portrait video is a scalable video in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20090110054 - 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 with a base layer bitstream and an enhancement layer bitstream, in order to provide forward compatibility, is described. The method includes reconstructing an image having an extended bit-depth and an extended video format into... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090110068 - Coding apparatus, coding method, decoding apparatus, decoding method, and program: A coding apparatus for hierarchically (layering) coding top field data and bottom field data divided from each of a plurality of picture data composing a moving picture image has a first coding unit (12) configured to encode one field data between two field data of the top field data and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090110070 - Image encoding device and encoding method, and image decoding device and decoding method: In an image encoding/decoding device of the present invention, the prediction direction in a target block, i.e., a block which becomes the target of the intra-frame prediction processing, is estimated by taking advantage of pre-encoded blocks which are adjacent to the target block. First, as edge information on decoded images... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090110067 - Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method and image decoding method: An encoding device includes a color component separating unit for separating an input bit stream for the respective color components, a block dividing unit for dividing an input color component signal into blocks to generate a signal of an encoding unit area, a predicted image generating unit for generating a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090110069 - Method and apparatus encoding and/or decoding image by using diffusion properties of the image: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a moving picture by using the diffusion properties of the image. In the method, a value of a current pixel is predicted from the values of neighboring pixels of the current pixel, based on the variations between the values of the neighboring... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090110066 - Method and apparatus for selecting a coding mode: A method and apparatus for selecting a coding mode for a block of a current picture are disclosed. For example, the method selects a coding mode in accordance with a cost function, for coding the block, wherein the cost function comprises a coding distortion parameter and a number of coding... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090110072 - Moving picture prediction method, moving picture coding method and apparatus, and moving picture decoding method and apparatus: A moving picture prediction method for enabling a calculation amount and a storage capacity to be reduced in a prediction about a moving picture by scaling processing is provided. A method for predicting the value P of Time T from the value P0 of Time T0 and the value P1... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090110071 - 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.

20090110073 - Enhancement layer residual prediction for bit depth scalability using hierarchical luts: A scalable video bitstream may have an H.264/AVC compatible base layer and a scalable enhancement layer, where scalability refers to color bit-depth. According to the invention, BL information is bit-depth upsampled using separate look-up tables for inverse tone mapping on two or more hierarchy levels, such as picture level, slice... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090110077 - Image coding device, image coding method, and image coding integrated circuit: When compression encoding processing of an image is performed in units of macroblocks using pipeline structure, application of the skip mode or the like according to MPEG4AVC to compression encode an encoding target block requires motion vectors and the like of adjacent blocks of the encoding target block. However, depending... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090110075 - Method and system for motion compensated picture rate up-conversion of digital video using picture boundary processing: Certain aspects of a method and system for motion-compensated picture rate up-conversion (PRUC) of digital video using picture boundary processing may include generating one or more forward motion vectors and one or more backward motion vectors based on extracted picture rate up-conversion (PRUC) data. A cost of performing motion estimation... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090110074 - Method and system for motion compensated picture rate up-conversion using information extracted from a compressed video stream: Certain aspects of a method and system for motion-compensated picture rate up-conversion (PRUC) using information extracted from a compressed video stream may include extracting PRUC data from a compressed video data stream while the compressed video data stream is being decompressed by a video decompression engine. The PRUC data may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090110076 - Method and system for optical flow based motion vector estimation for picture rate up-conversion: Certain aspects of a method and system for optical flow based motion vector estimation for picture rate up-conversion (PRUC) may include generating one or more motion vectors based on extracted picture rate up-conversion (PRUC) data by minimizing a cost function. The cost function may be constrained by any combination of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090110059 - Method and system for transmitting end-user access information for multimedia content: A system, method and devices for embedding end-user access information, such as digital rights management (DRM) information and/or conditional access (CA) information, in multimedia content, such as broadcast video content, and transmitting or distributing the multimedia content, including the end-user access information, to one or more end user devices, such... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090110079 - Information encoding apparatus and method, information searching apparatus and method, information searching system and method, and program therefor: An information searching system includes an encoding apparatus and a searching apparatus. The encoding apparatus inputs information to be stored, encodes the input information in layers, and then stores the resulting per-layer encoding information in a database. The searching apparatus acquires information that has been thus encoded in layers in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110080 - Method of processing a current field macroblock: In one embodiment, the method includes determining reference picture index numbers in a reference picture list. The reference picture index numbers increase for reference pictures having a decreasing display order with respect to a picture including the macroblock. The reference picture numbers increase for reference pictures having an increasing display... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090110078 - Temporal video filtering for real time communication sytems: Background vs. foreground decisions for video frames to be compressed and transmitted in a real time video communication system are made based on a non-parametric approach using signs of pixel value changes in sequential frames. Pixel value changes are tracked as negative or positive. Cost functions may be assigned to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090110081 - Single pass variable bit rate control strategy and encoder for processing a video frame of a sequence of video frames: An encode control strategy is provided for variable bit rate encoding of a sequence of video frames in a single pass. The control strategy includes determining whether a video frame has a complexity level statistically outside a defined range from a complexity level of at least one preceding frame of... Agent: Ibm Corporation Department 417

20090110083 - Method for turbo transmission of digital broadcasting transport stream, a digital broadcasting transmission and reception system, and a signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcasting transmission/reception system, and a signal processing method thereof for turbo-processing digital broadcasting transport stream and transmitting the processed stream, includes a parity area generating unit preparing a first area for parity insertion with respect to a dual transport stream (TS) which includes a normal stream and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090110082 - Robust pid filtering for dvb-h: One embodiment provides a method of performing packet identifier (PID) filtering of a digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H) transport stream and includes processing a PID and a continuity counter (CC) sequence of the DVB-H transport stream, computing a number of mismatched bits between the PID and a desired PID, proceeding to... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090110085 - High bandwidth data transport system: A method of data transmission includes representing data using at least one amplitude modulated impulse based on an ultra wideband impulse, sending the at least one impulse over an electrically conductive guided media, receiving the at least one impulse over the electrically conductive guided media, recovering the data from the... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20090110084 - Receiver termination circuit for a high speed direct current (dc) serial link: A method for matching receiver and transmitter common-mode voltages for a high-speed direct current (DC) serial connection between the receiver and the transmitter includes measuring, at the receiver, a common-mode voltage of the transmitter. The common-mode voltage of the transmitter is an average of a voltage signal transmitted by the... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20090110103 - Adaptive puncturing technique for multicarrier systems: Various embodiments are described for adaptive puncturing techniques.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20090110100 - Allocating data between tones: A new protocol is proposed for transmission of data through lines such as telephone lines. The tones of a signal are associated into groups 10, 11, and tone ordering, gain selection, and/or bit swapping within the processing system are done within the members of a group 10, 11. This idea... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090110087 - Channel-dependent frequency-domain scheduling in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communications system: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for scheduling sub-carriers in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication system. In an exemplary method, channel quality metric values for each of a plurality of sub-channels are determined, in view of a selected mobile terminal. For each of two or more threshold levels for... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090110101 - Communication apparatus: A wave detecting section of a receiver has a first wavelet transformer involving a plurality of wavelet filters orthogonal to each other for performing a wavelet transform on received waveform data, a Hilbert transformer for performing a Hilbert transform on the received waveform data, a second wavelet transformer having the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090110096 - Communication apparatus, communication method and integrated circuit: A communication apparatus carries out multicarrier communication with another communication apparatus through a transmission channel. The communication apparatus includes a first communication unit which carries out communication using a subcarrier at a first frequency band; a second communication unit which carries out communication using a subcarrier at a second frequency... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090110089 - Cross layer network optimization for ofdma systems using message passing algorithm: A method determines channel state information of a channel of a wireless network. Each of the wireless devices is configured to operate over the wireless network. An allocation of available transmission resources is performed according to a utility-based cross-layer resource management framework that transforms a utility function into an equivalent... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090110091 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110092 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data processing apparatus is arranged to map input data symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed OFDM symbols. The predetermined number of sub-carrier signals is determined in accordance with one of a plurality of operating modes and the input data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110093 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110094 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110095 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data processor maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory reads-out... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110097 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110098 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110086 - Method and apparatus for performing bit loading in a multicarrier system: Bit loading is performed in a multicarrier communication system in an efficient and computationally simple manner. In at least one embodiment, bit loading techniques are used that allow bit loading to be performed using fixed point computation. A bit loading cost function may be used that is calculated as the... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele, LLC

20090110099 - Signal receiving apparauts, signal receiving method and program: Disclosed herein is a signal receiving apparatus including a profile inference section; a delay-spread computation section; a position determination section; a signal-by-function multiplication section; an interval extraction section; an interval-to-signal addition section; and a signal processing section.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090110102 - Signal routing method: A signal routing method adapted to a DWA structure is provided. The signal routing method at least includes following steps. An M-bit input digital signal is provided. The odd bit in the input digital signal is routed into a low-bit signal of an output digital signal, and the even bit... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090110088 - System and method for providing a versatile rf and analog front-end for wireless and wired networks: Embodiments related to analog front-ends for wireless and wired are described and depicted.... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090110090 - Wireless communication receiving system and apparatus and method for deciding a transmitted signal corresponding to a received signal thereof: A wireless communication receiving system and an apparatus and a method for deciding a transmitted signal corresponding to a received signal thereof are provided. The transmitted signal comprises a plurality of sub-transmitted signals. The system selects at least one of the sub-transmitted signals as a reference signal group, wherein each... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090110104 - Equalization of transmit diversity space-time coded signals: w

20090110105 - System and method for scrambling the phase of the carriers in a multicarrier communications system: A system and method that scrambles the phase characteristic of a carrier signal are described. The scrambling of the phase characteristic of each carrier signal includes associating a value with each carrier signal and computing a phase shift for each carrier signal based on the value associated with that carrier... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20090110106 - System and apparatus for error control codes based on layering and linear transformations: A powerful new class of methods for encoding digital data for reliable transmission over unreliable communication channels is described. With this method, the message bits are divided into multiple submessages and the bits in each layer are encoded using a standard error correction code to provide a plurality of subcodewords.... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090110109 - Apparatus and method for generating a transmit signal and apparatus and method for extracting an original message from a received signal: A method for extracting an original message from a received signal including data bits representing the original message or an inverted version thereof, an indicator indicating whether the data bits represent the original message or the inverted version thereof, and a check information which depends on the data bits and... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090110108 - High bandwidth data transport system: Preparing data for transmission includes determining bit loading per frequency bin based on channel estimation data to create a data symbol, performing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the interleaved data symbol array, mapping FFT data output sub-channel to a frequency bin to provide frequency mapped data, and performing an... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20090110111 - Signal processing apparatus, signal transmitting system, and signal processing method: A signal processing apparatus, which executing a decoding process for a digital signal Manchester-encoded by assigning two bits of “10” to any one of binary digital signals “0 and “1”, and assigning two bits of “01” to the other binary digital signal, is provide with a decoding unit which executes... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090110107 - System and method for wireless signal communication in an oil field environment: A method is disclosed for transmitting data in a wireless oil field environment, the method comprising sensing a signal change rate for an input signal from an oil field apparatus; selecting a real time transmission mode when the signal change rate is less than a predetermined value; selecting a buffered... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20090110110 - Transmission apparatus, transmission method, communication apparatus, and program: A transmission apparatus includes a memory adapted to store data to be transmitted, a transmission unit adapted to transmit, via a network, the data to be transmitted to a destination apparatus connected to the network, and a first rate controller adapted to control a first rate such that when the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090110112 - Method and apparatus for reducing phase noise in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems: Method and apparatus for reducing phase noise from a multi-carrier modulation (MCM) system, such as an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system, by transmitting known data on a sub-carrier at a power level adapted to allow for accurate estimation. Preferably, the sub-carrier is the DC sub-carrier.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090110113 - Wireless communication systems, apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a plurality of information bits: Wireless transmitted system and apparatus and method for encoding a plurality of information bits to a plurality of transmitted signals thereof, and wireless received system and apparatus and method for decoding a received signal to a plurality of information bits thereof are provided. The wireless transmitted system encodes a plurality... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090110114 - Open-loop mimo scheme and signaling support for wireless networks: Transmission with multiple antennas in a wireless network is performed by selecting between adaptive precoding and fixed precoding based on a selection criterion. Transmission using spatial multiplexing with adaptive precoding is performed if the selection criterion is fulfilled. Transmission using spatial multiplexing with fixed preceding is performed if the selection... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090110115 - Method and apparatus for data recovery: A method for recovering data includes oversampling an input data signal to provide sample sets, and storing a plurality of sample sets in addressable memory. The sample sets are processed, using sequential logic to make determinations of respective samples suitable for use in data recovery from corresponding sample sets. One... Agent: Rambus, Inc. C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090110116 - Method and apparatus for training the reference voltage level and data sample timing in a receiver: Methods and apparatuses for calculating the location of an optimal sampling point for a receiver system are disclosed. In brief, a first method comprises determining a maximum voltage margin and a maximum timing margin of a received signal, and from these margins, determining an optimal sampling point, which includes a... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090110117 - Active clamp circuit for electronic components: An active clamp circuit for electronic components includes two sets of diode connected transistors that are inversely connected in parallel across an output of the component for providing both positive and negative differential conducting paths. The diode connected transistors cooperatively operate to limit a differential output voltage between the positive... Agent: Raytheon Company, Intellectual Property

20090110118 - Adaptive deinterleaver memory allocation: A receiver for use in a wireless network comprising a communications channel and a method of allocating deinterleaver memory usage in the receiver, wherein the receiver comprises a processor adapted to organize subchannels of the communications channel and set a number (N) of data bits per soft decision, wherein the... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090110119 - Digital satellite broadcasting receiving tuner and satellite broadcasting receiving device including the same: When a satellite broadcasting receiving device 5 is initially set up, a receivable channel is searched for each satellite. In this search, a wider frequency acquisition range than a frequency acquisition range which is generally used is set for a QPSK demodulation IC 15, while the frequency of a PLL... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090110122 - Apparatus and method for controlling iterative decoding in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and a method for raising a data throughput by dynamically changing the maximum number of iterative decoding times of an iteratively decodable code in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes an early stop controller for determining whether an early stop condition is satisfied during a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090110123 - Method and apparatus for transmitting high speed data by spectral decomposition of the signaling space: A method and apparatus of high speed multi-dimensional signaling via a modem has a processing method of utilizing prolate pulses to optimize the transmission capacity of the channel. The modem includes a process that segments the channel bandwidth and allocates the power and bit loading in relation to a measure... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20090110121 - Programmable signal slicer: Disclosed are various embodiments of a programmable slicer in a digital signal processing system and/or software radio system. In one embodiment, a plurality of demodulation schemes and a plurality of channel definitions are stored in a channel allocation table. An analog waveform is received and converted into at least one... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090110120 - Wireless communications apparatus: Lattice reduction aided MIMO detection is disclosed for a packet based signal comprising a header and one or more data symbols. The detector comprises a pre-processing section operable to derive channel decoding information on the basis of a channel estimate from the header, storage means operable to store the channel... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110125 - Maximum a posteriori probability decoder: A method is provided for performing a MAP probability decoding of a sequence R(n) including N bits of encoded data. The method includes the steps of: (a) generating a sequence rn of sot-values by processing the sequence R(n); (b) performing a forward recursion by computing alpha values αS,SG utilizing the... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090110126 - Reduced complexity viterbi decoder: A Viterbi decoder includes a branch metric unit, an add-compare select unit coupled to the branch metric unit, and a trace-back unit coupled to the add-compare select unit. The branch metric unit includes a branch metric computation unit coupled to a thresholder unit. The branch metric computation unit is configured... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090110124 - Soft decision enhancement: A Viterbi trellis processing technique in which soft decisions and hard decisions are derived from a received signal and the soft decisions are enhanced by being modified using the hard decisions. A log likelihood ratio for a bit of the received signal can be derived by grouping candidate metrics associated... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090110127 - Reception apparatus, reception method and program: A reception apparatus includes: an extraction section; a transmission line characteristic estimation section; an estimation section; a frequency shift amount production section; a control section; an addition section; a first frequency shifting section; a second frequency shifting section; an interpolation section; a compensation section; a detection section; and an operation... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090110131 - Assessing noise on a communication channel: A system and method involve transceiving successive first and second synchronization signals defining endpoints of a frame. A digital signal is transceived by a modulating time interval between portions of the first and second synchronization signals. A first data pulse is transceived during the frame. A relative position in the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090110133 - Distributed translator with received signal synchronization and method thereof: A distributed translator and an operation method of the distributed translator are proposed. The distributed translator includes: a demodulator demodulating a received signal to extract a transport stream and synchronization information from the received signal; a modulator generating an output frame based on the synchronization information to modulate the output... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090110130 - Method and circuit for changing modes without dedicated control pin: A system and process for eliminating a control wire between logic systems that communicate with each other. In one embodiment, a system sends to a receiver a frequency that indicates a first mode. In the first mode a first data type may be sent. When the frequency is changed a... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090110128 - Synchronization acquiring device and synchronization acquiring method: A synchronization acquiring device and method for realizing synchronization acquisition at high speed equivalent to that of parallel search with a simple constitution similar to that of series search. A synchronization acquiring device (100) has a superposition template acquiring section (120) for acquiring superposition template signals generated by superposing template... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090110129 - Synchronous rectifying circuit for offline power converter: A synchronous rectifying circuit is provided for power converter. An integrated synchronous rectifier has a rectifying terminal, a ground terminal a first input terminal and a second input terminal. The rectifying terminal is coupled to secondary side of a transformer. The ground terminal coupled to output of the power converter.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090110132 - System and method for re-synchronization of a pss session to an mbms session: An accurate indication of a re-synchronization point/time in streamed media content is provided to allow playout of the streamed media content from or at a desired point/time when a client or receiver switches from multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) to packet switch stream (PSS) service. Various parameters, e.g., synchronization source... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090110135 - Methods for prs-based symbol timing adjustment for ofdm systems: This invention relates to methods for determining symbol timing shift for a received signal, comprising the steps of: demodulating a received signal; removing a phase reference sequence from the demodulated signal to generate a channel frequency response; converting said channel frequency response to the time domain to generate a channel... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090110134 - Noise floor independent delay-locked loop discriminator: A system and method for providing code tracking in a CDMA based communications receiver. In example systems and methods, a CDMA receiver, such as a GPS receiver, receives a signal and demodulates the signal to yield a digital IF signal. The digital IF signal is down-converted to a received code... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090110136 - Bang-bang phase detector with sub-rate clock: The present invention describes methods and circuitry for a sub-rate bang-bang phase detector, in which the reference clock has frequency that is a fraction of the bit rate of the received data stream. The sub-rate bang-bang phase detector is enabled by multiple phases of the reference clock.... Agent: Allan Williams

20090103590 - Code division multiple access wireless system with closed loop mode using ninety degree phase rotation and beamformer verification: A wireless communication system (10). The system comprises a user station (12). The user station comprises despreading circuitry (22) for receiving and despreading a plurality of slots received from at least a first transmit antenna (A121) and a second transmit antenna (A122) at a transmitting station (14). Each of the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090103589 - Incoherent type mimo uwb communication system: This invention relates to a space-time coding process for a pulse type MIMO-UWB system using symbols belonging to a PPM modulation alphabet. Orthogonality of signals emitted by the different antennas is achieved by providing a mechanism for permutation of PPM symbol modulation positions and by imposing a constraint on the... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090103591 - Bit confidence weighting based on levels of interference: Methods and systems of frequency hopping communication are disclosed. One method includes a receiver obtaining a frequency hopping sequence, wherein the frequency hopping sequence defines a time sequence of reception through each of a plurality of frequency hopping bands. For each of the plurality of frequency hopping bands, the receiver... Agent: Tzero Technologies

20090103592 - Myriad filter detector for multiuser communication: An adaptive receiver for multiple access communication, illustratively UWB multiple access communication, is provided. One embodiment of a detector is derived based on the finding that an symmetric alpha-stable model is more suitable for modeling the MAI in multiuser UWB systems than existing models. A myriad filter detector works better... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090103593 - Array antenna system and spread spectrum beamformer method: A method for transmitting digital beamformed signals in a transmit array antenna apparatus utilizing a single transceiver with one power amplifier, one up-frequency converter and one digital-to-analog converter for said array transmit antenna apparatus comprising the steps of: generating a first set of direct-sequence spread spectrum codes; generating a plurality... Agent: Maurice M. Lynch

20090103594 - Communications module, device, and method for implementing a system acquisition function: A communications module, device and corresponding method for facilitating PN code searching. The module and device have a PN sequence generator configurable to generate a plurality of PN sequences. The module and device also include computational units configurable to correlate received signal samples of a plurality of received signal samples... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090103595 - Device and method for transmitting/receiving pulse signal: A pulse signal transmitting/receiving device is provided. The device includes a signal generating module for generating a transmitting signal including an amplitude-modulated chirp signal, and a reference signal including a chirp signal having a frequency that changes similarly to that of the transmitting signal, a transmitting module for transmitting a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090103596 - If interface: Systems, devices, and methods may be provided for communicating telemetry signals between a satellite modem and transceiver over an IF receive link. In an exemplary embodiment, a communication system comprises a modem, a transceiver, an IF receive communication link coupling the modem and the transceiver and configured to allow IF... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20090103597 - Wireless modem system and method for connecting to communication network using the same: A wireless modem connection apparatus including a connection unit for connecting a first and second modem and to a portable computer; and a control unit for detecting radio wave reception strength of each of first and second communication networks connected through the first and second modems and setting an operation... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090103598 - Link adaptation in wireless networks for throughput maximization under retransmissions: The present invention implements a method and system for dynamically adapting the modulation and coding scheme for radio links in a wireless communications network based on a retransmission environment model in order to maximize throughput and most efficiently allocate bandwidth resources. The present invention encompasses a refined calculus and methodology... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20090103599 - Dual transmission stream generating device and method: A dual transmission stream generating device includes an adaptor to receive a normal stream and to generate an adaptation field in an area of a packet of the normal stream; and a stuffer to generate a packet for a dual transmission stream by stuffing a turbo stream into the adaptation... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090103600 - mobile receiver equalizer structure for use in the atsc standard: A receiving device is provided that comprises: a channel estimator adapted to receive an input; and an equalizer adapted to receive the input and generate an equalized output, wherein the equalized output is used by the channel estimator for at least one subsequent channel estimation.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20090103601 - Methods for soft bit companding for time de-interleaving of digital signals: This invention provides methods for reducing the bit width of soft information, while maintaining a large dynamic range by applying compression and expansion. In particular, this invention provides methods for time de-interleaving of soft information, comprising the steps of: quantizing the soft information into a first soft information having a... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090103604 - Method and apparatus for on-chip voltage controlled oscillator function: This invention uses a flying adder frequency synthesis circuit to provide the required frequency adjustments to accommodate the varying encoding density of a MPEG2 video data stream. This invention adjusts the local clock based on the information extracted from the program clock reference signal in the incoming data. This invention... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090103602 - Overcomplete basis transform-based motion residual frame coding method and apparatus for video compression: The present invention provides a method to compress digital moving pictures or video signals based on an overcomplete basis transform using a modified Matching Pursuit algorithm. More particularly, this invention focuses on the efficient coding of the motion residual image, which is generated by the process of motion estimation and... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090103605 - Processing identifiable video streams of a program according to stream type values: Methods and systems for the efficient and non-redundant transmission of a single video program in multiple frame rates, optionally employing a combination of video coding standards, in a way that is backwards-compatible with legacy receivers only supportive of some subsection of frame rates or of some subsection of video coding... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090103603 - Simulcast reproducing method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for reproducing moving pictures upon receiving simulcast first bit stream and second bit stream, the method comprising: receiving the first bit stream and the second bit stream simultaneously; decoding the first bit stream into a first moving picture comprising a first... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090103606 - Progressive distributed video coding: Progressive distributed video coding is described. In one implementation, video data maybe encoded by arranging the data into bit-planes. The arrangement of bit-planes is adapted by shifting the first non-zero bit-plane left by one place in the binary digits and moving the sign bit immediately in the place vacated by... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090103607 - Systems and methods for controlling the encoding of a media stream: Systems and methods are described for providing a media stream transmitted from an encoding system to a remotely-located media player. The media stream is encoded according to an encoding parameter. Data is gathered about a transmit buffer within the encoding system, and the gathered data is processed to arrive at... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (es)

20090103609 - Adaptive rate control for encoding of variable frame rate video sources: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for performing rate control for encoding of video frames are provided. A first timestamp is received that indicates a capture time for a prior video frame. A second timestamp is received that indicates a capture time for a current video frame. A time difference between the... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090103610 - Rate control for video coder employing adaptive linear regression bits modeling: A rate control system is disclosed for video coding applications. The rate controller assigns a quantization parameter for video data in a picture in response to complexity indicators indicative of spatial complexity, motion complexity and/or bits per pel of the picture. A virtual buffer based quantizer parameter is proposed based... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090103611 - Signal compressing system: A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, and a selection signal which identifies the scanning pattern found to be most... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20090103612 - Signal compressing system: A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, and a selection signal which identifies the scanning pattern found to be most... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20090103616 - Method and device for generating depth image using reference image, method for encoding/decoding depth image, encoder or decoder for the same, and recording medium recording image generated using the method: The present invention relates to a method and device for generating a depth image, a method for encoding/decoding the depth image, an encoder/decoder for the same, and a recording medium recording an image generated by the method, which are related to a depth image encoding method that can effectively reduce... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090103613 - Method for decoding video signal encoded using inter-layer prediction: A method for receiving and decoding an encoded bitstream of a first layer and an encoded bitstream of a second layer into a video signal is provided. It is determined whether or not a block temporally coincident with a target block in a picture of the first layer is present... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090103614 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method: A picture coding apparatus (300) is a picture coding apparatus that codes a difference between picture data (Img) representing an input picture and predictive picture data (Pred) representing a predictive picture for the input picture and generates coded picture data, and includes a picture decoding unit (104) for decoding coded... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090103615 - Simplified inter-layer motion prediction for scalable video coding: The invention relates to a method for determining for a high layer macroblock that uses inter-layer prediction a partitioning of the macroblock in partitions. It comprises the following steps: —dividing the high layer macroblock in non-overlapping high layer blocks of a predefined size; —determining a corresponding base layer pixel for... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090103617 - Efficient error recovery with intra-refresh: Systems and methodologies for concealing errors related to INTRA-frame losses in a transmitted video signal are provided herein. Systems and methodologies provided herein can refine a lost INTRA-coded frame and its subsequent INTER-coded frames using INTRA-coded macroblocks that are provided in a video bitstream in accordance with a Random INTRA... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090103618 - Picture coding apparatus and picture coding method: The picture coding apparatus includes: a picture feature amount extracting unit which extracts respective feature amounts of the current picture and a picture having a specific relationship with the current picture; a correlation degree calculating unit which calculates, based on the feature amount extracted by the feature amount extracting unit,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090103623 - Image information encoding method and encoder, and image information decoding method and decoder: In an image information encoder (10) supplied with an interlaced image in a 4:2:0 format, a color-difference signal phase correction unit (22) shifts, for motion estimation and compensation, the phase of the color-difference signal in a reference image block adaptively to a selected motion estimate mode and the value mv... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090103621 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: Described herein is an image processing apparatus for calculating a motion vector between two screen images including a target screen image and a reference screen image, including: a base face motion vector calculation section; a high-accuracy base face motion vector calculation section; a reduction face motion vector calculation section; a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20090103622 - Method and system for determining a macroblock partition for data transcoding: A system and corresponding method determines a macroblock partition to transcode digital data from a first video standard to a second video standard with any spatial resolution. The system includes a processing module and an encoding module. The processing module processes digital data to determine a macroblock partition. The encoding... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090103619 - Method of coding and decoding multiview sequence and method of displaying thereof: A method of coding/decoding a multiview sequence and display method thereof are disclosed, by which multiview sequence data can be efficiently coded and decoded. A multiview sequence coding method according to the present invention includes a step of generating a bit stream by encoding a plurality of pictures acquired from... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090103620 - Video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus: Provided are a video encoding method and apparatus and a video decoding method and apparatus in which a processing order for predetermined-size blocks included in a macroblock is defined in order to efficiently use spatial correlation in an image. After a macroblock is divided into first blocks of a predetermined... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090103624 - Polymorphic codec system and method: An input module obtains a media signal to be communicated to a destination system, after which an identification module identifies a plurality of segments within the media signal. A codec includes a selection module that automatically selects different compression methods to respectively compress at least two of the segments. The... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20090103608 - Method and system for entropy coding: A method and system are provided for encoding a plurality of integers with variable-length code tables constructed by combining a plurality of structured code tables. Each code table has an associated set of integer values; the sets are disjoint and exhaustive, so that every integer appears in exactly one set.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090103626 - Signal compressing system: A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, and a selection signal which identifies the scanning pattern found to be most... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20090103627 - Signal compressing system: A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, and a selection signal which identifies the scanning pattern found to be most... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20090103628 - Signal compressing system: A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, and a selection signal which identifies the scanning pattern found to be most... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20090103629 - Signal compressing system: A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, and a selection signal which identifies the scanning pattern found to be most... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20090103625 - Video encoding apparatus and method using pipeline technique with variable time slot: A video encoding apparatus and method using a pipeline technique with a variable time slot are provided. More particularly, a video encoding apparatus and method capable of shortening a video encoding time by variably adjusting lengths of time slots when an H.264 video encoding process is performed in a pipeline... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090103631 - Device and method for unified codes: A unified codec device and method are disclosed. A decoding device includes a decoding description decoder, generating at least one table by using inputted decoding description; and a codec unit, decoding and outputting encoded video data, included in an inputted bit-stream, to moving picture data by using the table. With... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090103632 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method in digital broadcasting system: A receiving system and a data processing method for receiving and processing mobile service data are disclosed. The receiving system comprises a demodulating unit, a block decoder, a controller, and an RS frame decoder. The demodulating unit receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090103630 - Image processing device: An image processing device comprising: an imaging unit outputting frames of image data sequentially in order of imaging; a first generation unit generating first image data sequentially in units of a predetermined number of consecutive frames of image data, from the output frames of image data, wherein a total exposure... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090103633 - Data aided detection of spectrum inversion: Methods and apparatuses to detect spectrum inversion based on estimated frequency offset in carrier signal. In one embodiment, a receiver includes an I/Q swap module to output an in-phase component and a quadrature-phase component; a frequency offset estimator to determine an offset in carry frequency of the in-phase and quadrature-phase... Agent: Ivy Y. Mei

20090103634 - Providing a video stream with alternate packet identifiers: Methods and systems for the efficient and non-redundant transmission of a single video program in multiple frame rates, optionally employing a combination of video coding standards, in a way that is backwards-compatible with legacy receivers only supportive of some subsection of frame rates or of some subsection of video coding... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090103636 - Apparatus and method for decoding low density parity check coded signals: The disclosed embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for decoding signals in a receiver, such as signals using low density parity check error correction. The apparatus includes a link circuit. The link circuit may include a first memory, a first and second processing block, and also include a first... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090103635 - System and method of unequal error protection with hybrid arq/fec for video streaming over wireless local area networks: A transmitter system comprises an interface operative to receive compressed video data for a group of pictures, each picture containing picture subsets; a data prioritization engine operative to define a priority level of each picture subset, the priority level being based on a picture contribution value of the picture subset;... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090103637 - Selective chrominance decimation for digital images: A method of decimation of a digital image, the digital image represented by a plurality of pixels, is claimed. In the pixel domain, the digital image is divided into a plurality of blocks. Certain ones of the blocks are selectively decimated based upon predetermined criteria. In an embodiment, the chrominance... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090103638 - Method and system for increasing transmission speed of wired or wireless signals while minimizing the bit error rate: A communication system is provided which offers increased transmission speed while maintaining a low bit error rate. At the transmitter, a digital input is entered and a microprocessor determines from a particular subset of pulse sequence codes a single sequence of pulse coefficients that corresponds to that particular digital input.... Agent: David Giglio, Esq.

20090103642 - Communication apparatus, communication method, circuit module and integrated circuit: In communication method for communicating via a transmission channel to which first communication apparatuses communicating based on a first communication system, second communication apparatuses communicating based on a second communication system, and third communication apparatuses communicating based on a third communication system are connected, a data transmission domain and a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090103645 - Digital mobile communication system and transmission/reception method thereof: A radio communication system in which a transmission station performs window function processing on a transmission symbol to which cyclic prefixes have been attached for each specified number of samples, then transmits the signal, and a receiving station extracts and demodulates effective signal portions from the received signal, wherein the... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090103643 - Human body communication method using multi-carrier modulation method: Provided is a human body communication method using a multi-carrier modulation method, in which users do not interfere with each other in an environment with several users, and stable communication is possible when users are exposed to strong interference generated at other electronic devices. Also, provided are a multi-carrier modulation... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090103641 - Maximum likelihood decoding method, equipment, and receiver: Provided is a maximum likelihood decoding method of separating and estimating multiple transmitted signals transmitted by multiple transmitter antennas from multiple received signals received by multiple receiver antennas, comprising: a first step of generating a channel matrix based on channel impulse responses corresponding to the received signals; a second step... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090103640 - Method and an apparatus for timing control of channel estimation: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for timing control of channel estimation. The method includes: sequentially shifting a channel estimation window in a power-delay profile in a specific time interval to obtain a plurality of candidate segments; sequentially calculating a metric corresponding to the candidate segments... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090103639 - Peak to average power ratio reduction apparatus and method for a wireless ofdm transmitter: An OFDM symbol comprises information subcarriers which carry the information to be transmitted, accompanied by edge subcarriers, which are selected to minimize the PAPR of the transmitted signal. The selection of edge subcarriers which minimizes PAPR enables either higher power transmission for the same information content, or lower power consumption... Agent: Jay Chesavage

20090103644 - Transmitting and receiving method, and radio apparatus utilizing the same: A processing unit transmits, from at least one of a plurality of antennas, data corresponding respectively to the plurality of antennas. A control unit generates request signals with which to let a second radio apparatus supply information on rates at the second radio apparatus. When transmitting the request signal, the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090103647 - Digital broadcasting transmission/reception system capable of improving receiving and equalizing performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitting and receiving system and a signal processing method thereof that improves the receiving performance of the system. A digital broadcast transmitter includes a randomizer to receive and randomize a data stream into a specified position of which stuff bytes are inserted, a replacement sequence generator to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090103646 - Tiled-building-block trellis encoders: A first convolutional coder (building-block trellis coder) is used to establish a minimum squared Euclidian distance (MSED) between signal points within a coded constellation building block. A second convolutional encoder (tiling encoder) is designed to ensure that the building block's MSED is maintained between building blocks once they are tiled... Agent: Eric M. Dowling

20090103648 - Wireless communication base station apparatus and wireless communication method in multicarrier communication: A base station apparatus wherein the interference suppression symbol combination can be performed in a case of using the repetition technique in a multicarrier communication. In a base station (100), a repetition part (103) repeats or copies each of data symbols received from a modulating part (102) to create a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090103649 - Digital broadcast signaling metadata: Embodiments are directed to transmitting L1 pre-signaling information with predetermined modulation and code rate such that L1 pre-signaling information can be received without preliminary knowledge on the network. L1 pre-signaling information makes it possible to receive the L1 signaling information, data link layer information, and notification data that may have... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090103650 - Method for digital wireless communications: In a multivalue modulation type with one pilot symbol inserted for every 3 or more symbols, signal points of each one symbol immediately before and after a pilot symbol are modulated using a modulation type different from that for pilot symbols. In this way, it is possible to suppress deterioration... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090103651 - Digital video broadcast service discovery: Embodiments are directed to binary phase shift key modulating a first pilot symbol according to a reference sequence, and differentially binary phase shift key modulating a second pilot symbols. The original reference sequence and the delayed differentially modulated sequence are then combined before performing an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090103652 - Sampling receiver: The switching operation of a high frequency switch connected in series downstream from the amplifier circuit produces a load variation on the amplifier circuit, and serially connecting the amplifier circuit and high frequency switch causes a drop in gain due to an in-band mismatch. An amplifier circuit is connected to... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090103653 - State metrics memory reduction in a turbo decoder implementation: Methods and apparatus are described for reducing memory storage cells in a turbo decoder by storing only half the state metrics generated during a scan process. States associated with each bit transmission may be divided into couples and only one state from every state couple may be stored. In one... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090103654 - Low intermediate frequency receiver: One embodiment relates to a low intermediate frequency (IF) receiver. The low-IF receiver includes an analog front end that is configured to receive a modulated IQ data signal and provide an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal, where the in-phase signal is phase shifted by approximately 90° relative to the... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20090103655 - Simplified de-rotation in digital fm demodulator architectures: The present invention relates to a digital receiver for FM signals, in particular to a new demodulator structure and demodulating method, by which according to a first aspect of the invention the usual complex de-rotation process is reduced to a simple addition/subtraction. According to a second aspect of the invention,... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090103656 - Correlation device and method for different modulated signals: A correlation device and method for different modulated signals such as BPSK signal and BOC signal. According to the present invention, the correlation device has one or more sections. Each section comprises a correlation unit for executing correlation; a first signal path for passing a received signal directly to the... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090103658 - Digital broadcast transmission and receiving system having an improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitter comprising: a randomizer to receive a data stream of which stuff bytes are inserted into a specified position and to randomize the received data stream; a stuff-byte exchange unit to generate known data having a predefined pattern and to insert the known data into the specified... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090103657 - Digital broadcasting transmission/reception system capable of improving receiving and equalizing performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitting and receiving system and a signal processing method thereof that improves the receiving performance of the system. A digital broadcast transmitter includes a randomizer to receive and randomize a data stream into a specified position of which stuff bytes are inserted, a replacement sequence generator to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090103666 - Channel estimation for rapid dispersive fading channels: This invention addresses the problem of channel estimation in fast fading communications channels, particularly for OFDM systems. It finds wide application in existing and future systems such as WLAN and WiMax. In particular, the invention involves a method of channel estimation and data detection for rapid dispersive fading channels due... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20090103661 - Digital broadcast transmission and receiving system having an improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitter comprising: a randomizer to receive a data stream of which stuff bytes are inserted into a specified position and to randomize the received data stream; a stuff-byte exchange unit to generate known data having a predefined pattern and to insert the known data into the specified... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090103662 - Digital broadcast transmission and receiving system having an improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitter comprising: a randomizer to receive a data stream of which stuff bytes are inserted into a specified position and to randomize the received data stream; a stuff-byte exchange unit to generate known data having a predefined pattern and to insert the known data into the specified... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090103663 - Digital broadcast transmission and receiving system having an improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitter comprising: a randomizer to receive a data stream of which stuff bytes are inserted into a specified position and to randomize the received data stream; a stuff-byte exchange unit to generate known data having a predefined pattern and to insert the known data into the specified... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090103664 - Digital broadcast transmission and receiving system having an improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitter comprising: a randomizer to receive a data stream of which stuff bytes are inserted into a specified position and to randomize the received data stream; a stuff-byte exchange unit to generate known data having a predefined pattern and to insert the known data into the specified... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090103665 - Digital broadcast transmission and receiving system having an improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitter comprising: a randomizer to receive a data stream of which stuff bytes are inserted into a specified position and to randomize the received data stream; a stuff-byte exchange unit to generate known data having a predefined pattern and to insert the known data into the specified... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090103660 - Digital broadcasting transmission capable of improving receivng and equalizing performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitting system and a signal processing method thereof that improves the receiving performance of the system. A digital broadcast transmitter includes a randomizer to receive and randomize a transport stream into a specified position of which stuff bytes are inserted, a replacement sequence generator to generate known... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090103659 - Reduced-complexity decoding algorithms for tail-biting convolutional codes: A decoder is provided which is configured to operate upon an input encoded sequence using a wrap around Viterbi procedure, and a decoding method which employs the decoder. The decoder/method is configured to output a selected path as a decode sequence, and to avoid storing, for a current iteration of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090103667 - Methods for modified signal acquisition for ofdm schemes: This invention relates to methods for determining coarse symbol timing and mode detection by using CP correlation-based techniques. In particular, this invention relates to methods for determining symbol timing, frame timing, and system mode for signal acquisition, comprising the steps of: detecting symbol timing and system mode based on cyclic... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090103668 - Automatic gain control circuit: A first MOS transistor (M1) and a second MOS transistor (M2) constitute a cascode amplifier. The second MOS transistor (M2) is in a differential connection with a gain control MOS transistor (M4), which has its gate supplied with an AGC control voltage (VAGC), and it is arranged that the device... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090103669 - Adaptive equalization and interference cancellation with time-varying noise and/or interference: A method and apparatus is disclosed to compensate for interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communication signal in the presence of one or more time-varying noise and/or interference conditions. A communications receiver includes a noise analyzer to characterize the composition of the interference and/or the distortion impressed onto a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090103670 - Pseudo-echo cancellation processing apparatus, pseudo-echo cancellation method and digital-broadcast receiving apparatus: Disclosed herein is a pseudo-echo cancellation processing apparatus including: a correlator for computing a complex mutual-correlation value, that is, the value of a mutual correlation between the real part of a complex baseband signal of a received input-signal sequence and a reference-signal sequence included in the input-signal sequence as well... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090103671 - Low power fast impulse radio synchronization: A method for synchronizing on a pulsed waveform sequence including pulsed waveforms. An impulse radio receiver is provided including a radio frequency (RF) front end connected to a demodulator, and the demodulator is connected to a processing unit. Power is provided to at least a portion of an RF component... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090103673 - Signal power combiner with dynamic phase compensation: The present invention relates to a signal power combiner with dynamic phase compensation, which uses a plurality of phase shifters to receive a first input signal and a second input signal, and shift the phases of the first and second input signals. A detection unit detects the phases of the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090103672 - Transmission system, transmitter, receiver, and transmission method: There is provided a circuit constituted by small-sized and simple logical gates which reduces the bit errors generated in a data sequence received by a receiver. A transmission system, in which a data sequence is transferred, includes a transmitter that transmits a first transfer signal including an edge-present data waveform... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090103674 - Data transmission system and method thereof: A data transmission system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter mixes an original clock signal and an original data signal to generate and output a hybrid differential signal, the hybrid differential signal having multiple clock pulses and multiple data pulses. At lease one data pulse occurs between two... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090103675 - Linear phase interpolator and phase detector: A novel interpolating phase detector for use in a multiphase PLL is described comprising an array of individual phase comparators, all operating at essentially the same operating point which permits the circuits to be designed simultaneously for high speed and for low power consumption. Two adjacent phase outputs of a... Agent: Allan Williams Hazeldean Rpo

20090097530 - Hybrid channel map: A hybrid channel map is described. In an implementation, a client obtains a plurality of channel maps, each from a respective one of a plurality of content providers that are configured to provide content via channels to the client. A hybrid channel map is formed from the plurality of channel... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090097531 - System and methods for securing data transmissions over wireless networks: A method of communicating over a network for wireless communications is disclosed. The method transmits encoded data from a source device to a destination device via a single path up through a plurality of wireless paths using a random frequency hopping tuning pattern for wireless communications, and pseudo-randomly varies dwell... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090097532 - Feedback of decoded data characteristics: 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

20090097533 - Method and apparatus for single carrier spreading: A wireless device comprises a code-assignment module configured for assigning Golay codes to be used for spreading, a spreading module configured for spreading data with the Golay codes to produce a signal, wherein the Golay codes are randomly used to spread the data, and a transmitter configured for transmitting the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090097534 - Apparatus and method for receiving multipath signal in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for receiving a multipath signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a sample buffer, a buffer index controller, a finger, and a Deskewer buffer and combiner. The sample buffer stores sample data corresponding to a defined number of chips among reception data... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090097535 - Multi-channel data detection phase locked loop error combination logic: Phase-error combination for a multi-channel data detection system with a phase locked loop for each channel, comprises receiving phase error information with respect to each channel; combination logic configured to combine the received phase error information and generate a combined phase error; and a phase-error output configured to apply the... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20090097536 - Multi-channel data detection phase locked loop frequency error combination logic: Frequency error combination for a multi-channel data detection system with a phase locked loop for each channel, comprises receiving frequency error information with respect to each channel; combination logic configured to combine the received frequency error information and generate a combined phase error, weighting the received frequency error information from... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20090097537 - Simplified algorithm for abnormal situation prevention in load following applications including plugged line diagnostics in a dynamic process: Systems and methods are provided for detecting abnormal conditions and preventing abnormal situations from occurring in controlled processes. Statistical signatures of a monitored variable are modeled as a function of the statistical signatures of a load variable. The statistical signatures of the monitored variable may be modeled according to an... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20090097539 - Communications system using adaptive filter and variable delay before adaptive filter taps: A communication system receives a modulated signal that carries encoded communication data. An adaptive filter has a plurality of adaptive filter taps and weighted coefficients and a variable delay circuit operative before the adaptive filter taps for separating the spacing of multipath introduced by adaptive filter and producing a filtered... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090097538 - Methods and apparatus for adaptive equalization using pattern detection methods: Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptive equalization using pattern detection methods. A signal is equalized by detecting one or more predefined patterns in the signal; and then changing one or more parameters of the equalization, such as an equalization adaptation rate, based on the detected predefined patterns. The equalization... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090097540 - Receiving apparatus having equalizer, and receiving method: A timing recovery circuit recovers the symbol timing of a modulation signal. A carrier recovery circuit corrects the frequency shifts of output signals of the timing recovery circuit. An FIR equalizer having a plurality of taps, and corrects the distortions of output signals of the carrier recovery circuit. A control... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090097541 - Methods and apparatus for determining receiver filter coefficients for a plurality of phases: Methods and apparatus are provided for determining receiver filter coefficients for a plurality of phases. One or more coefficients for a receiver filter are determined by determining a first coefficient for a first phase of a data eye; and determining a second coefficient for a second phase of the data... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090097542 - Signal coding and decoding with pre- and post-processing: In a data compression, a pre-processing is applied to a signal before it is encoded and a post-processing is applied to a signal after it is decoded. A pre-processor for signals to be encoded includes a filtering device for filtering a signal with one or more filters and a providing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090097544 - Converting image format: An apparatus for converting an image format of data and a method thereof is disclosed. An apparatus for converting an image format of data comprises an image converter (126) for converting parameters of the image format, an encoder (127) for encoding the format changed data and a file system converter... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090097545 - Fixed-point implementation of an adaptive image filter with high coding efficiency: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: representing coefficients of an adaptive image filter in binary words wherein the coefficients are restricted and the binary words have a maximum number of bits defined at least in part by a precision index; computing at least one... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20090097547 - Fixed-point implementation of an adaptive image filter with high coding efficiency: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: representing coefficients of an adaptive image filter in binary words wherein the coefficients are restricted and the binary words have a maximum number of bits defined at least in part by a precision index; computing at least one... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20090097546 - System and method for enhanced video communication using real-time scene-change detection for control of moving-picture encoding data rate: Disclosed is a method for detecting a scene change in real time in order to control a moving-picture encoding data rate, the method including: dividing a current frame into a plurality of regions, and calculating a dissimilarity metric (DM) of each divided region; determining if the dissimilarity metric of each... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090097548 - Enhancement layer coding for scalable video coding: This disclosure describes scalable video coding techniques. In particular, the techniques may be used to encode refinements of a video block for enhancement layer bit streams in a single coding pass, thereby reducing coding complexity, coding delay and memory requirements. In some instances, the techniques encode each nonzero coefficient of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090097549 - 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 with a base layer bitstream and an enhancement layer bitstream in order to provide forward compatibility, the scalable bitstream comprising a base layer bitstream including a base quantized level and a base quantization parameter... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090097551 - Methods for efficient bandwidth scaling of compressed video data: The present invention relates to systems and methods for efficient bit rate alteration of a bitstream to match an available channel capacity. The efficient bit rate alteration includes selective re-quantization of the compressed bitstream. Selective re-quantization according to the present invention applies multiple re-quantization schemes to different portions of a... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090097552 - Signal compressing system: A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, and a selection signal which identifies the scanning pattern found to be most... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20090097553 - Signal compressing system: A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, and a selection signal which identifies the scanning pattern found to be most... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Mackeak & Seas

20090097550 - Video coding apparatus and video coding method: A video coding apparatus includes a quantization unit for quantizing a video data; a binarization unit for converting the quantized video data into binary symbol series; an arithmetic coding unit for subjecting the binary symbol series to arithmetic coding; and a quantization control unit estimating a generated data amount on... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090097554 - Methods and apparatus to manage a bonded digital subscriber line (dsl) service: Methods and apparatus to manage a bonded digital subscriber line (DSL) service are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises collecting data representative of bandwidth usage for two or more applications serviced by a bonded set of subscriber lines; analyzing historical activity of the two or more applications based on the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090097543 - Pattern detection module with region detection, video encoding system and method for use therewith: A system for encoding a video stream into a processed video signal that includes at least one image, includes a pattern detection module for detecting a pattern of interest in the at least one image and identifying a region that contains the pattern of interest when the pattern of interest... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090097556 - Encoding apparatus, encoding method, program for encoding method, and recording medium having program for encoding method recorded thereon: An encoding apparatus for generating, in an intra prediction mode, difference data by subtracting prediction values from input image data, and performing encoding processing on the input image data by processing the difference data. The apparatus includes a first prediction mode detecting section for detecting a first best prediction mode,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090097557 - Image encoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding apparatus, and image decoding method: The present invention provides an image encoding/decoding technique that is capable of achieving the higher compression efficiency. An image encoding method comprises: an intra prediction step which performs intra prediction on a block basis to generate a predicted image; a subtraction step which calculates the difference in prediction between the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090097555 - Video encoding method and device: Successive images (F) of a video sequence are encoded in order in generate parameters which are included in an output flow (F) that is to be transmitted to a decoder. The encoding of certain images is effected in Inter mode relative to one or several previous images of the sequence.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090097558 - Scalable video coding techniques for scalable bitdepths: This disclosure describes video coding techniques that are executed in a bitdepth-based scalable video coding (SVC) scheme. Base layer video data and enhancement layer video data may be defined at different bitdepths. The techniques of this disclosure concern the coding of enhancement layer video blocks using a unique combination of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090097559 - Method and system for processing b pictures with missing or invalid forward reference pictures: Methods and systems for processing B pictures with missing or invalid forward reference pictures are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include decoding of a contiguous sequence of B pictures that immediately follow a first I picture after a sequence header. The decoding of the B pictures may handle video... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090097561 - Bit depth enhancement for scalable video coding: A video system includes an analyzer and a bit depth predictor. The analyzer receives a first coded video signal, which is indicative of first values for pixels. The first values are associated with a first bit depth. The analyzer, for each pixel, analyzes the first values for the pixels located... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090097563 - Method and apparatus for handling video communication errors: A method for handling video bitstream errors in a multimedia gateway device wherein a gateway device detects errors in the incoming video bitstream and sends a signal to the originating device to refresh the bitstream without need of error detection from an end terminating device. When the terminating device signals... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090097562 - System and method of estimating motion of image using block sampling: A system and method of estimating a motion of an image using block sampling are provided. The motion estimation system includes: a block sampling unit to divide a frame of an input image into a plurality of blocks and sample the plurality of blocks based on a lattice structure; a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090097560 - System for and method of transcoding video sequences from a first format to a second format: The present invention discloses systems for and methods of transcoding first video data in a first format, such as AVC, into second video data in a second format, such as MPEG-2. A method in accordance with the present invention disables deblocking filters, bypasses macroblock encoding for certain picture types, such... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090097564 - Matching-pixel sub-sampling motion estimation method for video compression: Sub-sampling pattern design for motion estimation in video compression. A motion estimation method divides a first frame into a plurality of macroblocks, performs block matching for a current macroblock pair on a candidate macroblock pair of a second frame. The current macroblock pair and the candidate macroblock pair are sampled... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090097565 - Vector coding/decoding apparatus and stream media player: A vector coding apparatus includes a decomposing unit to obtain a sign vector and an initial absolute vector, a sign coding unit to code the sign to obtain a sign code, a multi-level permutation-based coding unit to perform multi-level permutation-based coding to obtain an absolute vector code, a combining unit... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090097567 - Encoding apparatus and encoding method: An encoding apparatus includes: an orthogonal transformation unit configured to orthogonally transform image data of a predetermined block size; a binarization unit configured to binarize the image data outputted from the orthogonal transformation unit; an arithmetic encoding unit configured to arithmetically encode the binary data generated by the binarization unit;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090097568 - Entropy coding of interleaved sub-blocks of a video block: This disclosure describes techniques for entropy coding of video blocks, and proposes a syntax element that may promote coding efficiency. The syntax element may identify a number of non-zero value sub-blocks within a video block, wherein the non-zero value sub-blocks comprise sub-blocks within the video block that include at least... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090097566 - Macroblock pair coding for systems that support progressive and interlaced data: A method of performing block matching on a video image of progressive data includes: receiving the video image; storing the video image to a first storage; loading a current macroblock pair and a current search window of the video image to a second storage and utilizing the current search window... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090097569 - Signal compressing system: A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, and a selection signal which identifies the scanning pattern found to be most... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Mackeak & Seas

20090097570 - Signal compressing system: A multi-scanner scans a signal according to several different patterns. A scanning pattern selector determines which scanning pattern produced the most efficient coding result, for example, for runlength coding, and outputs a coded signal, coded most efficiently, and a selection signal which identifies the scanning pattern found to be most... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20090097571 - Motion picture encoding apparatus and motion picture decoding apparatus: A motion picture encoding apparatus for encoding a motion picture signal includes a plurality of transform units for different transform schemes, and a transform scheme control unit for selecting, from the plurality of the transform units, the transform unit for the transform scheme adapted to the motion picture signal.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090097574 - 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

20090097573 - Scalable video coding method and apparatus and scalable video decoding method and apparatus: Provided are a scalable video coding method and apparatus, and a scalable video decoding method and apparatus. The coding method generates a base layer bitstream of video by using one of a plurality of codecs, determines whether the used codec supports enhancement layer coding, decodes the base layer bitstream according... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090097572 - Using black detection to improve video splicing: In one embodiment, a network device analyzes an encoded video stream using black detection before splicing video into the encoded video stream. When black data is detected, the network device determines whether insertion of a black intra frame with the spliced video will improve viewing upon decoding. The network device... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090097575 - Universal blockiness correction: Techniques to remove inherited blockiness with a low million instructions per second (MIPs) are provided. In one configuration, a device comprises a processor operative to implement a set of instructions to universally correct blockiness. The processor commandeers the in-loop deblocking filtering engine and universally corrects blockiness, including inherited blockiness, using... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090097580 - Apparatus and method for modulating data message by employing orthogonal variable spreading factor (ovsf) codes in mobile communicating system: A method for converting source data to a channel-modulated signal having a plurality of pairs of in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) data in a mobile station, wherein the mobile station uses at least one channel, includes the steps of: a) encoding the source data to generate at least one data... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090097579 - Apparatus and method for reducing papr in an ofdm system: An apparatus and method for reducing a Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) are provided. The apparatus includes a gain processor for multiplying time signals in paths by gains set for respective paths, a delay processor for delaying gain-multiplied signals in second to last paths except for a first path by time... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090097581 - Method and apparatus for adaptively controlling signals: A signal processing system according to various aspects of the present invention includes an excursion signal generator, a scaling system and a filter system. The excursion signal generator identifies a peak portion of a signal that exceeds a threshold and generates a corresponding excursion signal. The scaling system applies a... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090097578 - Methods for decoding tps carriers in ofdm systems: The present invention relates to methods for TPS demodulation, frame boundary detection, and TPS decoding. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for finding a frame boundary in demodulating an OFDM signal, comprising the steps of: differentially demodulating each symbol to generate differentially demodulated symbol bits; and finding... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090097576 - Ofdm receiver apparatus having a plurality of receiver circuits and ofdm receiving method: A receiver circuit in each branch has an FFT unit that performs Fourier transform on OFDM signals. A slave branch FFT window control unit determines whether an undesired wave is a preceding wave or a delay wave, and notifies a master branch of the result. In response to the notification... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090097577 - Ofdm receiving apparatus having plurality of ofdm branches: An OFDM signal is demodulated to generate a frequency domain signal in each of a plurality of branches. A diversity combining unit combines the demodulated signals respectively obtained in each of the branches. A clock recovery unit recovers the clock for the OFDM signal. A guard correlation unit detects the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090097582 - methodology and method and apparatus for signaling with capacity optimized constellations: Communication systems are described that use geometrically shaped constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. In several embodiments, the geometrically shaped is optimized based upon a capacity measure such as parallel decoding capacity or joint capacity. In many embodiments, a capacity optimized... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20090097585 - Apparatus and method for generating per stream channel quality information in multiple-input multiple-output (mimo) wireless communication system: The generation of per stream Channel Quality Information (CQI) in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wireless communication system is provided. An apparatus includes a receiver for receiving signals from a transmitting end via a plurality of antennas; an estimator for estimating channels per antenna in relation with the transmitting end using... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090097586 - Apparatus and method for hybrid automatic repeat request (harq) in wireless communication system: A Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wireless communication system is provided. A receiving end includes a selector for selecting at least one stream for a MultiUser (MU) mode; a first generator for generating per stream channel quality information for the at least one selected stream as at least one candidate for channel... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090097583 - Apparatus and method for selecting operation mode in mimo communication system: An apparatus and a method for selecting an operation mode to improve a throughput in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a Carrier to Interference and Noise Ratio (CINR) predictor for predicting a probable average and dispersion for a CINR measured using a preamble of a received... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090097584 - Wireless transmission system, wireless transmission method, and wireless station and transmitting station used therein: The present invention provides a wireless transmission system capable of exerting a maximum path diversity effect by using combinations formed by a plurality of symbol waveforms even when a maximum number of effective branches is limited to a small number. A transmission timing controlling section (23) determines a timing delayed... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090097587 - Vector coding method and apparatus and computer program: A vector coding apparatus and method includes decomposing an initial vector to obtain a sign vector and an initial absolute vector. Coding the sign vector to obtain a sign code, performing multi-level permutation-based coding on the initial absolute vector to obtain an absolute vector code, and combining the sign code... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090097588 - Digital data encoding and decoding method and system: Digital data encoding and decoding method and system is provided. The method for digital data communication include encoding bit stream having monitoring a specific bit pattern in the bit stream when a frame signal is received, and based on the monitoring, creating a unique encoding pattern for the frame signal... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090097589 - Lower complexity layered modulation signal processor: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a coded signal having an upper layer signal and a lower layer signal is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of combining the upper layer signal and the lower layer signal, encoding the combined upper layer signal and lower layer signal, delaying... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090097590 - Distortion-compensated rf transmitter and method therefor: An RF transmitter (10) includes an RF amplifier (28) that generates an amplified RF signal (36) including a linear RF signal (92) and a spurious baseband signal (94). The spurious baseband signal (94) interacts with bias feed networks (56, 66) to cause the RF amplifier (28) to generate an unwanted... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20090097591 - Apparatus and method for envelope tracking power amplification in wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for Envelope Tracking (ET) power amplification in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a baseband signal controller for outputting an envelope signal in an envelope signal path and outputting a constant signal in a baseband signal path when measuring a time delay... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090097592 - Hierarchical offset compensation to improve synchronization and performance: Systems and methods for removing phase shifts due to hierarchical modulation to improve synchronization and performance in legacy and hierarchical decoders are presented. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, methods of compensating for the effects of hierarchical modulation can, for example, comprise receiving an I,Q symbol that has been... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090097593 - Broadcast demodulation device: In a demodulation device with a plurality of branches, the receiving quality of each branch and signal quality after composing signals from the plurality of branches is inspected. If the signal quality is good, the operation of a branch whose receiving quality of each branch is the worst is stopped.... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090097594 - Mirror sub-carrier demodulation circuit, receiving device with the same, and mirror sub-carrier demodulating method: A mirror sub-carrier demodulation circuit includes a waveform generation unit 104 which generates a composite waveform of received I and Q signals, a peak detection unit 105 which detects peak values of the composite waveform generated by the waveform generation unit 104, a peak interval detection unit 106 which detects... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090097595 - Vector decoding method and apparatus and computer program: A vector decoding method includes decomposing a code of an initial vector to obtain a sign code and an absolute vector code, decoding the sign code to obtain a sign vector, performing multi-level permutation-based decoding on the absolute vector code to obtain an initial absolute vector, and combining the sign... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090097596 - Methods and systems for impulse noise compensation for ofdm systems: Methods and systems are provided to reduce the effects of impulse noise in decoding a received OFDM signal by reducing the bit error number in burst error positions and by reducing the impulse noise contribution to channel estimation. In order to reduce the performance degradation due to impulse noise, it... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090097597 - Methods for coarse frequency offset estimation for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing schemes: The present invention provides methods for coarse frequency offset estimation, where those methods may comprise the steps of: removing fading channel impact by calculating accumulated correlation values; removing CCI and phase rotation due to large sampling offset by calculating an accumulation metric as a function of the accumulated correlation values,... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090097598 - Multiple input multiple output (mimo) receiver and signal detection method thereof: A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) receiver and a signal detection method thereof are provided. Since no square root calculation needs to be performed when a calculation for detecting a transmission signal is performed using a Zero Forcing-Sorted QR Decomposition (ZF-SQRD) algorithm and a Minimum Mean Square Error-Sorted QR Decomposition... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090097600 - Diversity receiver and method for controlling power thereof: The present disclosure provides a diversity receiver. The diversity receiver includes a plurality of tuners, a plurality of demodulators operatively coupled to the plurality of tuners and a controller operatively coupled to the plurality of demodulators and the plurality of tuners. Each tuner is capable of receiving a modulated signal... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090097599 - Switchable dvb-h receiver: One embodiment provides a method of providing low power operations in a switchable Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) receiver operable as a single receiver and as a diversity receiver includes operating the switchable DVB-H receiver in a single receiver mode in a first coverage region, the first coverage region corresponding to... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090097601 - Multi-dynamic multi-envelope receiver: The present invention is a system and a method of filtering a signal at a receiver, the signal having at least a desired channel and blockers. A first converter converts a first copy of the signal resulting in a relatively narrow band, high-resolution first signal. A second converter converts a... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20090097602 - Apparatus and method for non-contact sensing using temporal measures: An embodiment of the invention relates to a sampling circuit comprising at least one clock, a reference trace, a sensor trace adapted to be connected to a sensing element, and a device to measure a length of delay between a reference signal transmission time of a reference signal transmitting through... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090097603 - Common state-space multi-channel digital sample timing phase control of multiple read channels for correlated signals: Common sample timing control for sample timing of multiple read channels, wherein the signal clocking of the signals received by the multiple read channels are correlated, for example from parallel tracks of magnetic tape that have been written simultaneously. In one embodiment, a common sample timing control comprises multiple phase... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20090097604 - Methods for multi-channel data detection phase locked loop error combination: Phase-error combination methods for a multi-channel data detection system with a phase locked loop for each channel, comprises receiving phase error information with respect to each channel; combining the received phase error information and generating a combined phase error; and applying the combined phase error to at least one channel... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20090097605 - System for phase offset cancellation in systems using multi-phase clocks: A system for use with a multi-phase clock generator is disclosed. It should also be understood that the multiphase clock generator can be a phase lock loop (PLL), delay lock loop (DLL), or any other circuit capable of providing a multiphase clock. The system comprises at least two phase detectors... Agent: Law Office Of Stephen D. Burbach/rambus

20090097609 - Error compensation method, digital phase error cancellation module, and adpll thereof: Phase error of a time-to-digital converter (TDC) within an all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) is compensated by predicting possible phase error, which are predicted according to an estimated quantization error, a period of a digital-controlled oscillator (DCO), a gain of the TDC or a combination thereof. By appropriate inductions, the possible... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090097607 - Method and system of detecting and locking to multi-standard video streams: A video processing system includes a video detection circuit for determining the clock frequency of an incoming video signal. Using the determined clock frequency, adjustments are made in a phase lock loop to enable a quick lock onto the clock frequency of the incoming video signal.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090097606 - Methods for multi-channel data detection phase locked loop frequency error combination: Frequency error combination for a multi-channel data detection system with a phase locked loop for each channel, comprises receiving frequency error information of a signal relevant to a phase locked loop with respect to each channel; combining the received error signal information and generating a combined error signal, weighting the... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20090097608 - Phase detecting circuit and clock generating apparatus including the same: A phase detecting circuit includes a first node that outputs a pull-up control signal, a second node that outputs a pull-down control signal, an initializing unit that initializes voltage levels of the first and second nodes in response to a pre-charge signal, a data input unit to which receives a... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090092174 - Optimizing transmission for broadcast multicast service: The present invention is method and system for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system. The present invention includes differentiating a data stream into at least a first layer data stream and a second layer data stream. At least the first layer data stream and the second layer data... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090092175 - Cdma receiving apparatus: Disclosed is a CDMA receiver including a delay profile generating unit for generating a plurality of delay profiles in time slots; path detecting units for detecting paths from the plurality of delay profiles; delay spread calculating units for calculating delay spreads based upon the detected paths; a finger-number-allocation calculating unit... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090092176 - Regenerator unit: A communication system comprises a central unit configured to transmit and receive communication signals; a remote unit configured to transmit and receive communication signals; and a regenerator unit configured to regenerate and transmit received communication signals, the regenerator unit comprising a first interface, a second interface and a control and... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090092177 - Vector signal measuring system, featuring wide bandwidth, large dynamic range, and high accuracy: A new measurement system, with two receiver channels per measurement port, has been developed that provides absolute magnitude and absolute phase relationship measurements over wide bandwidths. Gain ranging is used at RF to provide optimum noise performance and a swept YIG preselector filter is used to avoid spurious signals. A... Agent: Lowell W. Gresham Meschkow & Gresham, P. L. C.

20090092179 - Method and a circuit for estimating the signal quality of a communication channel and a wireless receiving apparatus using the same: A method for estimating the signal quality of a communication channel is disclosed. Firstly, an input signal passes through a match filter at the initial stage of an estimation period. Next, the output of the match filter is calculated to obtain the noise reference value within a pre-determined period. The... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090092178 - Techniques for estimating received signal strength and carrier to interference and noise ratio in ofdm systems: A technique for determining a received signal strength indicator of a target base station at a subscriber station includes performing a discrete Fourier transform on a received signal to provide a transformed signal. In this case, the transformed signal occupies one or more segments of a channel and the one... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090092180 - Equalizer circuitry for mitigating pre-cursor and post-cursor intersymbol interference: One or more embodiments of the invention comprise a continuous-time equalizer (CTE) for reducing both pre-cursor and post-cursor intersymbol interference (ISI) from data received from a communication channel. One such equalizer comprises two independent stages that process the input signal in parallel. One stage subtracts a scaled version of the... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090092182 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving space block coding signal through iterative multi-user detection: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a space block coding signal through Iterative Multi-user Detection is provided. The apparatus includes a multi-user interference cancellation unit which cancels multi-user interference in a received signal and outputs a first signal and a second signal that are sequentially transmitted from two... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090092181 - Scaling equalizer coefficients after automatic gain controller gain adjustments: In one embodiment, a receiver comprises an automatic gain controller (AGC), an equalizer, a controller, and a register interface. The AGC makes gain adjustments to compensate for changes in the average amplitude of a received signal. The equalizer has a coefficient updater that calculates coefficients and a finite impulse response... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20090092185 - Portable device for processing multimedia signal and method using the same: A portable device for processing a multimedia signal is provided. The portable device includes: a signal receiver to receive a multimedia signal from a mobile terminal, the multimedia signal being received in the mobile terminal from a service providing server; a decoding-related information generation unit to generate decoding-related information which... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090092184 - Power saving decoder architecture: A method and system are provided for decoding coded video data by turning off or not loading at least one functional unit or functional subunit of the decoder while decoding a portion of the coded video data. A schedule may be created prior to substantive decoding and then the schedule... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090092183 - Video content monitoring device and methods thereof: A method of providing video content includes monitoring packets communicated between data processing devices in a network. The packets are monitored at a third data processing device in the network backbone. Based on the monitored packets, statistics are collected that indicate the popularity of video content items available via the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090092186 - Moving image encoding apparatus and method for controlling the same: The invention generates encoded data that properly conforms to pre-specified image quality and suppresses a large change in image quality. An encoding unit encodes pictures block by block according to a parameter. A distortion amount calculation unit calculates a picture distortion amount between a decoded picture and a picture before... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090092187 - Luma and chroma decoding using a common predictor: There are provided video encoders, video decoders, and corresponding methods. A video encoder for encoding video signal data for an image block includes an encoder for encoding all color components of the video signal data using a common predictor. A video decoder for decoding video signal data for an image... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090092188 - Method and apparatus for inter prediction encoding/decoding an image using sub-pixel motion estimation: A method of inter prediction encoding of an image, the method including: searching for a first reference block in a reference picture by using a current block, and estimating a first motion vector in a first pel unit in regards to the first reference block; estimating a second motion vector... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090092189 - Movement prediction method and movement prediction apparatus: Disclosed herein is a movement-prediction/compensation method for carrying out processing based on search layers to search for a movement vector by selecting one or more reference frame images for each of movement-compensated blocks obtained as a result of dividing a processed frame image existing among successive frame images. The method... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090092190 - Methods and apparatus for integrating external applications into an mpeg-4 scene: A method of decoding, composing and rendering a scene. First information is obtained, the first information including a part of a MPEG-4 BIFS scene description stream and at least one coded MPEG-4 media stream. The first information is decoded by invoking a BIFS scene decoder and one or more specific... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090092191 - Moving image encoding apparatus and method for controlling the same: The invention provides encoded moving image data having good image quality even in a scene having a high difficulty level. A unit counts a number of pictures to determine a break between scenes. A unit encodes block by block in an inputted picture. A unit calculates a block distortion between... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090092194 - Adaptive pilot design for mobile system: A method, and device implementing the method, for adaptively allocating pilot signals in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving channel data, including channel length (L) data, inter-carrier interference power (PICI) data, coherence time (CT) data, and a number of subcarriers (N). The method further includes selecting, when L... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090092196 - Data transmission via multi-path channels using orthogonal multi-frequency signals with differential phase shift keying modulation: A method and an apparatus relating to an OFDM data communications system where the sub-carriers are modulated using differential quadrature phase-shift keying (DQPSK). The multi-carrier transmitted signal is directly generated by means of summation of pre-computed sample points. As part of the multi-carrier signal generation, a signal for the guard... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090092195 - Method and system for adaptive peak to average power ratio reduction in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication networks: A method and system adaptively reduce a peak-to-average power ratio in a communication system. Energy is clipped from at least one peak of a modulated signal. The modulated signal includes a plurality of sub-carriers. At least one data sub-carrier is adaptively selected for peak-to-average power ratio reduction use based on... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090092193 - Multi carrier transmission device, multi carrier reception device, and communication method: Provided is a multi carrier transmission device capable of compensating the delay time and the imbalance and the orthogonal difference between the in-phase component and the orthogonal component of the amplitude at a low cost without increasing the circuit size. In this device, a coordinate conversion unit (103) performs coordinate... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20090092192 - Multi-frequency data transmission channel power allocation: A method of controlling a communication device that is operable to transmit digital data over a plurality of frequency channels. The method includes selecting an initial transmission power and a corresponding data rate for each channel. The method also includes identifying in a first channel a first ratio of a... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090092197 - Ofdm demodulation device and method: The present invention provides an OFDM demodulation device for demodulating an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal whose transmission unit is a transmission symbol produced by quadrature modulation in such a way that information is divided for a plurality of subcarriers in a predetermined band. The OFDM demodulation device includes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090092198 - Communication apparatus and radio communication system: A communication apparatus includes a grouping controlling unit hierarchically groups frequency channels so that the number of channels included in a group of a layer becomes smaller than the number of channels included in a group of a layer immediately above; and a propagation path information estimating unit that estimates... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090092200 - Delay profile generator: A delay profile generator that includes a delay profile generating component, a delay profile extracting component, an integrating component, a comparing component and a correcting component, is provided. The integrating component, in the delay profile extracted by the delay profile extracting component, integrates a signal component of a delay profile... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090092199 - Estimating frequency offset at a subscriber station receiver: A method and system of estimating frequency offset at a subscriber station is disclosed. One method includes the subscriber station receiving a composite signal, wherein the composite signal includes multi-carrier signals transmitted from a plurality of base stations. The subscriber station selects a first pair of multi-carrier symbols of the... Agent: Beceem Communications, Inc.

20090092201 - Rate-adaptive multiple input/multiple output (mimo) systems: A rate-adaptive method of communicating over a multipath wireless communication system uses multiple links such that each end of a link uses multiple transmit and receive antennas. A number of independent streams that are to be transmitted for each link is determined based on an overall system performance measure. In... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20090092202 - Method and apparatus for adjusting uplink data rate in a mobile communication system: A method and UE apparatus are provided for adjusting an uplink data rate by a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system. The method includes determining if a current state of a buffer is an empty state or a non-empty state; when the current buffer state is the non-empty... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090092203 - Adaptive self-quieter suppression for ofdm wireless communication systems: Various embodiments to provide cancellation techniques that can be used to address the self-quieter problem are described. For example, a receiver that includes a tone selector and a self-quieter suppressor is provided. The tone selector (202) determines and selects a self-quieter corrupted tone from a frequency domain signal that exhibits... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090092204 - Detection circuit and detection method of carrier offset: A carrier offset detection circuit is offered, which is provided to a demodulation circuit which demodulates a received signal subjected to FSK (Frequency Shift Keying) modulation, and which detects the offset of the carrier frequency between the transmitting side and the receiving side. A zero-crossing detection unit receives a digital... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090092205 - Table data generation device and method: A table data generation device includes: a setting data storage section that stores setting data of a receiver for receiving broadcast waves; a bit width specification section that specifies a bit width from a reference position of the setting data; a number-of-shifts specification section that specifies a number of shifts... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090092206 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method using plural communication channels having different bandwidths: A wireless communication apparatus includes a measuring unit, a matched filter, and a control unit. The measuring unit measures an electric power of a received signal. The matched filter is capable of operating as a first filter and a second filter for the received signal. The first and second filters... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090092207 - Automatic gain control apparatus: An automatic gain control apparatus that can prevent jumps in the gain coefficient when the gain coefficient is altered, due to a sharp change in the level of the received signal before and after the alteration, having a mean square circuit (11) for performing mean square processing on the received... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090092208 - Decoding of forward error correction codes in the presence of phase noise: A communication receiver includes a front end, which is arranged to receive a Radio Frequency (RF) signal, which includes modulated symbols carrying data that have been encoded by a block Forward Error Correction (FEC) code. The front end converts the RF signal to a sequence of soft received symbols, wherein... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090092209 - Combined channel coding and space-block coding in a multi-antenna arrangement: Enhanced performance is achieved by combining channel coding with the space-time coding principles. With K synchronized terminal units transmitting on N antennas to a base station having M≧K receive antennas, increased system capacity and improved performance are attained by using a concatenated coding scheme where the inner code is a... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20090092210 - System and method of real time synchronization through a communication system: A communication system, network, interface, and port architecture are provided for transferring data via a network. The network can be configured by connecting ports in a daisy chain arrangement to achieve a ring architecture or topology. The network transmits data according to a specific protocol. A first port transmits frames... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20090092211 - Method and apparatus for adjusting serial data signal: A method for adjusting a serial data signal having multiple sets of bits includes the following steps. First, one set of bits in the serial data signal is over-sampled to generate a first set of over-sampled bits. Next, every adjacent two bits of the first set of over-sampled bits are... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090092212 - Clock embedded differential data receiving system for ternary lines differential signaling: A clock embedded differential data receiving system for ternary lines differential signaling. The clock embedded differential data receiving system includes a monitoring portion which monitors voltage levels of first, second and third transfer signals to generate a clock signal, a first pre-data and a second pre-data, a data generating portion... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090092213 - Frequency hold mechanism in a clock and data recovery device: A system and method are provided for holding the frequency of a non-synchronous communication signal in a clock and data recovery (CDR) device frequency synthesizer. The method initially acquires the phase of a non-synchronous first communication signal having a first frequency, and divides a first synthesized signal by a selected... Agent: Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20090092214 - Clock circuit with clock transfer capability and method: An apparatus including a multiplexer configured to provide an output clock selected from a source clock, a destination clock, and a transition clock is provided. The apparatus further includes a phase difference calculation module configured to calculate a phase difference between the source clock and the destination clock and a... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090092215 - Data relay apparatus and semiconductor integrated circuit having the same: A data relay apparatus according to one embodiment described herein can include a phase detection unit that can detect a phase difference between a clock output from a transmitter and a clock output from a receiver, and generate a plurality of phase detection signals, a data relay control unit that... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090086791 - Method for data transmission and communication system: In one embodiment, a method for data transmission is provided comprising determining a set of frequency bands available for data transmission from a plurality of frequency bands; determining whether there is a frequency band of the plurality of frequency bands that lies between two frequency bands of the set of... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090086792 - Radio controlled model apparatus, controller for radio controlled model apparatus, and frequency hopping pattern selection method: A technique is provided that can avoid radio zone interference in a radio controlled model apparatus, which employs the frequency hopping system in the spread spectrum radio techniques. In the controller for maneuvering, for example, model airplanes, a process for detecting whether or not a radio zone is in an... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090086793 - Repeater circuit: A repeater circuit configured to duplicate or otherwise coordinate signal transitions between state conductors, such as for use in asynchronous communication systems. The repeater circuit may include a state node or other feature to facilitate enforcing or otherwise ordering transitioning of the state conductors.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20090086794 - System and method of data word flipping to prevent pathological conditions on high-speed serial video data interfaces: Systems and methods are provided for reducing pathological conditions in a serial video interface. A sequence of parallel data words that are to be transformed by a data-scrambling algorithm comprise an input signal. The bit order of one or more of the words in the sequence of parallel data words... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090086795 - Method and system for a low-complexity variable frequency oscillator using direct digital frequency synthesis: Aspects of a method and system for a low-complexity variable frequency oscillator using direct digital frequency synthesis may include generating one or more digital output signals via a Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer (DDFS) that may be clocked by a high frequency clock signal. The one or more generated digital output... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090086796 - Method and system for a high frequency signal repeater using a ddfs: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for a high frequency signal repeater using DDFS. Aspects of the method may comprise generating a first signal via a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS), frequency translating a received RF signal using the first signal, and transmitting... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090086797 - Data transmission system: A data transmission system, particularly for use in seismic data acquisition, transmits digital signals from remote units to a central control unit via a backbone network and root nodes. Data is transmitted wirelessly between the remote units and the root nodes by means of each remote unit having two transceivers,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090086800 - Adaptive fec codeword management: Adaptive FEC coding is used to adjust the codeword composition of FEC codewords in a communication system. A codeword composition ratio may be adjusted in response to variance of a measured transmission error value from a target transmission error value in the system. The codeword composition ratio may be any... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090086799 - Dual-band line interface circuit capable of multi-band communication: In an embodiment, a DSL communication device comprising a line interface circuit is disclosed. The line interface circuit includes a hybrid circuit to interface the communication device to a communication line, a lowpass transmit filter to pass signals in a first frequency band, and a highpass transmit filter to pass... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090086798 - Low power state for dsl system and devices: Embodiments related to a power-saving state in DSL systems and devices are described and depicted.... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20090086801 - Method for reliable injection of deterministic jitter for high speed transceiver simulation: A method and a corresponding system for characterizing the performance of a clock and data recovery circuit in a digital transceiver is presented. The method comprises phase modulating a jitter-free data signal by a testing signal having added data jitter and measuring the time the clock and data recovery system... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090086802 - Wireless communication apparatus: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a wireless communication apparatus for performing a first wireless communication with a first channel having a first bandwidth, and a second wireless communication with a second channel having a second bandwidth wider than the first bandwidth and having a frequency... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090086803 - Apparatus and method for detecting signals in a communication system using multiple antennas: An apparatus and method for detecting a signal in a communication system using multiple antennas are provided. The apparatus includes an optimal orderer for determining an order of signals that are subject to detection, a controller for controlling a parallel successive interference canceller so as to successively detect the signals... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090086804 - Automatic gain control stress measurement for digital carriers: The testing equipment of the present invention calculates a single “AGC stress” value, which provides an indication of the stability of the level of a digital carrier based on the change in gain required to stabilize the power of an incoming cable signal over time. Ideally the AGC stress value... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090086805 - Apparatus for, and method of, processing signals transmitted over a local area network: Systems for recovering communicated information in a communication system are disclosed and may include at least one digitizer for digitizing an analog received signal comprising the communicated information, thereby creating a digital received signal. The system may include at least one filter for bandwidth-limiting at least a portion of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090086806 - Time varying equalization: In some implementations, a signal is received at a device and a gain change is detected in a component of the device that affects the signal. A state of an equalizer is adjusted in response to the detected gain change to a first state that reduces transient effects introduced into... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090086808 - Equalization and decision-directed loops with trellis demodulation in high definition tv: Improved decision feedback equalizer and decision directed timing recovery systems and methods suitable for use in connection with a dual mode QAM/VSB receiver system are disclosed. A trellis decoder operates in conjunction with a decision feedback equalizer circuit on trellis coded 8-VSB modulated signals. The trellis decoder includes a 4-state... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090086807 - Methods and apparatus for determining threshold of one or more dfe transition latches based on incoming data eye: Methods and apparatus are provided for determining the threshold position of one or mote DFE latches using an evaluation of the incoming data eye. A threshold position is determined for one or more transition latches employed by a decision-feedback equalizer by obtaining a plurality of samples of a data eye... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090086809 - Method and system for on-line data-pattern compensated adaptive equalizer control: In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, a method is offered that includes providing a filter and an adaptive control element that is operable to communicate with the filter. The method also includes measuring, over a period, a data correlation matrix and an uncompensated error correlation vector... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090086810 - Method and system for static data-pattern compensated adaptive equalizer control: In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, a method is offered that includes characterizing a data correlation matrix for an idle pattern offline in a filter environment and, further, using a static adaptive control scheme with a static value of a data-pattern compensation matrix to achieve a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090086811 - Video encoding system and watermarking module for transmarking a video signal and method for use therewith: A watermarking module can be used in a video encoding system that processes a video signal. A watermark recovery module generates recovered watermark data based on watermark data from the video signal. A watermark generation module generates a watermarked video signal in accordance with the recovered watermark data.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090086812 - Video encoding system and watermarking module for watermarking a video signal and method for use therewith: A watermarking module can be used in a video encoding system that processes a video signal. A watermark data module generates original watermark data based on either non-watermark data that is based on the video signal and or that includes a codeword associated with a scrambling of content included in... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090086814 - Treating video information: Systems, methods, and techniques for treating video information are described. In one implementation, a method includes receiving video information, classifying one or more frames in the received video information as a scene, adjusting one or more coding parameters based on the classification of the frames, and coding the video information... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090086815 - Context adaptive position and amplitude coding of coefficients for video compression: A coding method, apparatus, and medium with software encoded thereon to implement a coding method. The coding method includes encoding the position of non-zero-valued coefficients in an ordered series of quantized transform coefficients of a block of image data, including encoding events using variable length coding using a plurality of... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20090086816 - Video compression and transmission techniques: Embodiments feature families of rate allocation and rate control methods that utilize advanced processing of past and future frame/field picture statistics and are designed to operate with one or more coding passes. At least two method families include: a family of methods for a rate allocation with picture look-ahead; and... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090086813 - Method and apparatus for image quality control in video data: In one embodiment of the invention, a method for controlling video image quality may include receiving digital video data into a buffer that is coupled to a video data encoder. The video data includes multiple tiles. One of the tiles is compressed at a first compression bit size and another... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090086818 - Frame buffer memory operating method used to decompress compressed moving pictures, and decoding apparatus adapted to frame buffer memory operating method: Provided are a buffer memory operating method used to decompress compressed moving pictures, in which a buffer memory used during decompression of compressed moving picture is efficiently operated to efficiently reduce the capacity of an actually used buffer memory, and a decoding apparatus adapted to the buffer memory operating method.... Agent: Jason Y. Pahng And Associates, LLC

20090086817 - Image encoding apparatus and image encoding method: An image capturing apparatus 100 first executes JPEG encoding on RAW data. On the basis of the compression ratio of JPEG image data obtained, the image capturing apparatus 100 selects a Huffman table to encode the RAW data. With the higher compression ratio of the JPEG data obtained, the image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090086819 - Mpeg-4 streaming system with adaptive error concealment: An MPEG-4 system with error concealment is provided for video service under the network with packet loss. The MPEG-4 system includes an encoder and a decoder. The encoder uses an intra-refreshment technique is used to make coded bitstream more robust against noise in order to stop error propagation. The rate-distortion... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090086821 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: A frame image of decoded image data in which an image stream generated by performing an orthogonal transformation and a lossy compression coding has been decoded is inputted so as to be stored in a frame memory for each block, and based on the stored frame image and a newly... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090086820 - Shared memory with contemporaneous access for use in video encoding and methods for use therewith: A motion compensation module includes a shared memory that stores one of a sequence of images. A motion search module generates a plurality of motion search motion vectors based on the one of the sequence of images stored in the shared memory. A motion refinement module generates a plurality of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090086822 - 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.

20090086823 - Apparatus and method for decoding multimedia content according to a control signal and system comprising the same: A system, an apparatus and a method for decoding a multimedia content according to a control signal are provided. The apparatus comprises a memory and a decoder. The memory stores the multimedia content. The apparatus decodes the multimedia content. The control signal determines a number so that the decoder decodes... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090086824 - Video decoding apparatus and systems: A video decoding apparatus for processing a video bitstream is provided. The video decoding apparatus includes a plurality of decoders. Each decoder, except for the first decoder of the plurality of decoders is configured to decode a part of the video bitstream according to the previous decoding result of a... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090086825 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving broadcast data for digital broadcast system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving broadcast data in a digital broadcast system is provided. The method includes broadcasting, at a broadcast station, a broadcast signal on a corresponding service channel according to a time slicing technique using at least two streams, receiving, at a broadcast receiver, the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090086827 - Method and apparatus for optimization of frame selection for flexible macroblock ordering (fmo) video encoding: There are provided a method and apparatus for optimizing frame selection for flexible macroblock ordering video encoding. A video encoder includes an encoder for encoding a group of pictures by selecting between a frame mode and at least one flexible macroblock ordering mode. The pictures in the group are allowed... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090086826 - Method and apparatus for video signal processing: A first video signal processor (103) receives a first encoded video signal from which a video unit (201) generates a second encoded video signal, where the second encoded video signal is a reduced data rate version of the first encoded video signal. An error encoder (203) generates error redundancy data... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090086828 - Mpeg-4 streaming system with adaptive error concealment: An MPEG-4 system with error concealment is provided for video service under the network with packet loss. The MPEG-4 system includes an encoder and a decoder. The encoder uses an intra-refreshment technique is used to make coded bitstream more robust against noise in order to stop error propagation. The rate-distortion... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090086829 - Method and apparatus for authoring a 24p audio/video data stream by supplementing it with additional 50i format data items: Movies are produced in 24 Hz frame frequency and progressive scanning format (denoted 24p) for projection in film theatres, adhering to a worldwide standard for 35 mm film. However, the major TV systems in the world use interlaced scanning and either 50 Hz field frequency (denoted 50i) or 60 Hz... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090086830 - Lvdt acquisition device with dual demodulation subsystem: The invention relates to position sensors of the linearly variable induction difference type. When cost constraints prevent the use of transformers with guaranteed phase-shift tolerance to achieve an accuracy objective, it is advantageous to provide an independent demodulation of the signals of the two windings. The error signal thus has... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090086831 - Two-wire communications bus system: A low-cost, two-wire, half-duplex high speed powered communications bus having a master/controller and one or more slave/sensor/interface units. The master/controller may have a current-limited power supply, and receive/transmit circuitry. Each slave/sensor/interface may have polarity protection and also have receive/transmit circuitry. The power supply may provide high/low voltage levels on the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090086835 - Apparatus and method for block interleaving using mixed radix system in mb-ofdm: A block interleaving apparatus for block interleaving M-bit input streams to be transferred with a modulus k using a mixed radix system in a multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system, including an array processor having an array including M cells in which the number of columns is k and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090086837 - Interfering stream identification in wireless communication systems: An exemplary embodiment in accordance with this invention is a method for determining the number of interfering streams. The method includes calculating statistical information based on one or more received OFDM signals. The number of interfering streams is estimated from the statistical information in this method. The OFDM signal(s) are... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090086834 - Multicarrier transmitting apparatus and multicarrier transmitting method: To narrow the dynamic range of multicarrier signals and prevent both the increment of cost and the degradation of power efficiency. A modulating part (101) modulates transport data. An S/P converting part (102) performs an S/P conversion of a modulated symbol and outputs the modulated symbols, the number of which... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20090086832 - Preamble techniques for communications networks: Techniques are disclosed involving preamble sequences. For instance, an apparatus includes a module to provide a preamble sequence having multiple values, where each of the values corresponds to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarrier. These multiple values may include multiple blocks of values based on a differentially encoded and... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20090086833 - Radio signal generator: A signal generator includes a memory for storing content information in the form of vectors including in-phase and quadrature elements of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing waveform, a processor for converting the vectors to a radio frequency signal, and a logic device for controlling the operation of the memory and... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP

20090086836 - Wireless transmission device: The invention provides a method and device for managing the use of antennas in a multiple antenna wireless transmission system for OFDM signals. The method includes defining a utility function which comprises a performance metric for transmission. Combinations of antenna and OFDM subcarriers are selected to optimise the utility function... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090086838 - Wireless transmitter: A wireless transmitter includes: a plurality of transmission antennas; and a phase rotating unit which adds phase rotation to signals which are respectively input to the plurality of transmission antennas, wherein the phase rotating units adds first phase rotation for controlling the maximum delay time between the plurality of transmission... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090086840 - Apparatus and method for transmitting feedback information in communication system: Disclosed is a system and method for transmitting feedback information in a communication system. A receiver calculates a minimum distance of each two symbol vectors among all symbol vectors which can be received through a kth subcarrier among a plurality of subcarriers, in which a channel state of the kth... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090086839 - Methods and devices for decoding and encoding data: A method for decoding an input data sequence is provided. The method comprises generating a plurality of test sequences, determining an order for the plurality of test sequences, such that each test sequence differs from its adjacent test sequences by a respective predefined number of bits, and carrying out a... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090086841 - Platform noise mitigation: In one embodiment of the invention, a Fourier transform unit convert a unsynchronized received through multiple antennas to a frequency domain. Also, a spectrum estimation unit determines a power spectrum for the unsynchronized data. A notch filter removes data within a frequency band from additional unsynchronized data based on the... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090086842 - Unified closed loop su/mu-mimo signaling and codebook design: A multi-resolution codebook is used to provide quantization for channel related information in a wireless network that supports both single-user MIMO and multi-user MIMO. The multi-resolution codebook may include a higher resolution “fine” codebook for use with MU-MIMO subscriber stations and a lower resolution “coarse” codebook for use with SU-MIMO... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele, LLC

20090086843 - Device, system and method of mitigating interference in a wireless network: System and method of locating an interferer and mitigating its effect for stations of a wireless local area network. Embodiments provide a protocol and mechanism to evaluate the interferer location relative to a wireless link and to take accurate actions to mitigate the interference effect for specific cases. A method... Agent: Empk & Shiloh ,llp

20090086848 - Apparatus and method for reducing peak-to-average power ratio in a wireless communication system: An apparatus is provided for reducing a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in a wireless communication system having multiple transmit antennas. A symbol generator generates symbols to be transmitted via the multiple transmit antennas, and a PAPR calculator calculates a PAPR value for each symbol. A detector detects a maximum PAPR... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090086846 - Channel architecture with multiple signal processing branches for a given physical channel: A communication system includes a physical communication channel. A signal is transmitted across the communication channel from a transmit end of the channel to a receive end of the channel. A plurality of processing branches process the signal at the receive end of the communication channel. This reduces complexity of... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090086845 - Device, system, and method of multi-level feedback: Device, system, and method of multi-level feedback. For example, an apparatus includes: an estimator to estimate a likelihood of correctly decoding an incoming encoded Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request packet of an incoming wireless communication signal by one or more decoders of the apparatus; and a transmitter to transmit a multiple-bit... Agent: Empk & Shiloh ,llp

20090086844 - Method and system for a programmable local oscillator generator utilizing a ddfs for extremely high frequencies: Methods and systems for a programmable LO generator utilizing a DDFS for extremely high frequencies are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include generating a first signal and a second signal using a base signal. The DDFS may generate the first signal, where the base signal may be divided down... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090086847 - Methods and systems for providing variable clock rates and data rates for a serdes: A method and apparatus for varying an output clock signal frequency to match the frequency of an output data signal frequency for a SERDES circuit while maintaining a constant input clock frequency is shown. According to this method and apparatus, a PMA rate signal may control the frequency of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090086849 - Method and apparatus of improved circular buffer rate matching for turbo-coded mimo-ofdm wireless systems: Methods and apparatus for determining the starting points of redundancy version transmissions in a circular rate matching operation. At least one block of information bits to be transmitted are encoded to generate a plurality of coded bits, which are then segmented into a plurality of sub-blocks of coded bits. Each... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090086850 - Method and system for a receiver with undersampling mixing using multiple clock phases: Methods and systems for a receiver with undersampling mixing using multiple clock phases are disclosed and may include undersampling a received wireless signal utilizing multiple undersamplers and clocking each of the undersamplers with a separate clock signal. Each of the clock signals may be at a sampling frequency but with... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090086852 - Data receiver device and data transmission/reception system: The data receiver device includes: a bit phase synchronizing circuit (10) for performing phase adjustment of a received data signal to set a predetermined phase relationship between the data signal and a corresponding clock signal; and a state detection circuit (20) for outputting a detection signal once detecting that the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090086851 - Method and system for quadrature local oscillator generator utilizing a ddfs for extremely high frequencies: Methods and systems for a quadrature local oscillator generator utilizing a DDFS for extremely high frequencies. Aspects of one method may include utilizing the DDFS to generate a first signal that may comprise an in-phase (I) component and a quadrature phase (Q) component. A base signal may be divided to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090086854 - Receiver: In a receiver to process a received signal including one or more carrier signals, an FFT processing section executes FFT processing on the received signal to obtain FFT processing results at, for example, four points. On the basis of the FFT processing results from the FFT processing section, a selecting... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090086853 - Wireless communication systems and methods using flexible length indicators: A wireless communication device includes a data receiving interface, a data processing device coupled with the data receiving interface, and a processing device coupled with the data receiving interface. The data receiving interface is configured to receive a first sub-group and a second sub-group of data for transmission. The first... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090086855 - Link adaptation based on generic cinr measurement according to log-likelihood ratio distribution: Techniques are provided to compute the carrier to interference-plus-noise ratio (CINR) in a wireless communication system using log-likelihood ratio (LLR) data generated from a received transmission. The LLR data are collected as they are sent from a detector to a forward error correction (FEC) decoder in a wireless communications device.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090086856 - Reception frequency control circuit: The present invention aims to provide a reception frequency control circuit that is small in mounting area and unaffected by disturbance where an FSK-modulated signal is demodulated. In the reception frequency control circuit, a reception signal processing unit converts an FSK-modulated digital signal to an intermediate frequency when the FSK-modulated... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090086858 - Digital demodulating apparatus, digital receiver, controlling method of the apparatus, computer program product, and recording medium recording thereon the product: A digital demodulating apparatus includes an intensity changing unit that changes the intensity of a received signal; a channel selecting unit that applies channel selection processing to the signal whose intensity has been changed by the intensity changing unit; a demodulating unit that applies demodulation processing to the signal to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090086859 - Receiving unit receiving digital television broadcasting: In a receiving unit, an AGC circuit controls the gain of a high frequency amplifier based on an output signal of a mixer, that is, an intermediate frequency signal obtained before an unnecessary frequency component is removed by a BPF. Therefore, deterioration in the distortion characteristic of the mixer can... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090086857 - Reduced voltage sublvds receiver: A rail-to-rail high speed subLVDS receiver demonstrates good jitter and duty cycle performance for high-speed signals at low power supply levels. A sample receiver includes a voltage shifter for shifting the voltage levels of a differential input signal so that a shifted differential input signal is produced. The shifted differential... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090086862 - Digital cross-polar interference cancellation: Cross-polar interference cancellation in a dual-polarization system is described. A terminal in a satellite communication system may receive a first communication signal in a first polarization and a second communication signal in a second polarization substantially orthogonal to the first polarization. The terminal may correlate in-phase or quadrature components of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090086863 - Interference detection and mitigation: Techniques for detecting and mitigating interference are described. A device (e.g., a cellular phone) senses interference levels and digitally reconstructs the expected interference in the received signal. The device may correlate the reconstructed interference with the received signal and determine interference in the received signal based on correlation results. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086864 - Interference detection and mitigation: Techniques for detecting and mitigating interference are described. A device (e.g., a cellular phone) senses interference levels and digitally reconstructs the expected interference in the received signal. The device may correlate the reconstructed interference with the received signal and determine interference in the received signal based on correlation results. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090086861 - Interference management utilizing power and attenuation profiles: 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

20090086860 - Receiver apparatus: A receiving apparatus includes a digital signal demodulating unit, including a desired-signal transmission-path estimating unit that performs transmission path response matrix estimation for a desired signal; an interface-signal transmission-path estimating unit that performs transmission path response matrix estimation for an interference signal; a combined-transmission-path matrix generating unit that combines the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090086866 - Device, system, and method of flicker noise mitigation: Device, system, and method of flicker noise mitigation. For example, an apparatus includes a digital adaptive filter to mitigate flicker noise from a received Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal, wherein the digital adaptive filter includes: a prediction filter to estimate a value of the flicker noise based on linear combination... Agent: Empk & Shiloh ,llp

20090086865 - Differential signal comparator: A differential signal comparator includes an input circuit operative to provide an absolute input current difference value that is associated with the absolute difference of differential input signal levels, and a reference circuit operative to provide an absolute reference current difference value that is associated with the absolute difference of... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20090086867 - Method and system for multi-point signal generation with phase synchronized local carriers: A method and system of applying modulated carrier signals to tree networks and processing signals tapped from the tree networks to generate output signals with phase-synchronized carriers are disclosed.... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon LLC

20090086868 - Clock data recovery circuit: A clock data recovery circuit which reproduces clock contained in data sequence from data sequence which is serially input includes a digital control oscillator outputting reproduced clock whose frequency is controlled according to a control signal. A phase comparator compares a phase of the data sequence and a phase of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090086869 - Method and system of receiving tag signal from rfid reader: Disclosed are a method and system for receiving a tag signal in a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader. The method includes generating an edge signal using a tag signal received from an RFID tag; extracting edge information from the generated edge signal, and generating an edge clock corresponding to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090086870 - Adaptive data alignment: An apparatus including a transmit circuit, a receive circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit may be configured to present a plurality of transmit data lanes in response to (i) a plurality of transmit data sources and (ii) a plurality of first skew control signals. The receive circuit may... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20090086871 - Apparatus for distributing a signal: An apparatus is provided that includes an injection locked oscillator and a transmitting device. The injection locked oscillator to receive a first clock signal and to provide a second clock signal by skewing the first clock signal. The transmitting device to receive an input signal and to receive the second... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP Intel Corporation

20090086872 - Method for binary clock and data recovery for fast acquisition and small tracking error: A novel method and system for clock and data recovery in high speed serial transceiver applications allowing for fast bit lock acquisition and small data tracking error is presented. The clock and data recovery method utilizes a variable bandwidth loop filter to generate a phase adjustment signal used by a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090086873 - Waveform signal generator with jitter or noise on a desired bit: Waveform data of selected bits having jitter or noise is generated wherein the waveform date represents a serial digital signal. A signal generator displays a jitter/noise setting area and a bit selection area on a display device where jitter or noise is set and the jitter or noise settings are... Agent: William K. Bucher Tektronix, Inc.

20090086874 - Apparatus and method of elastic buffer control: A method, system, and apparatus for synchronizing an asynchronous data transmission between a transmitter and a receiver are presented. For example, an elastic buffer can include a symbol storage coupled to receive transition data from a transmitter and to store the transition data in a plurality of addressable symbol storage... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090086875 - Digital spread spectrum method based on precise phase delta-sigma algorithm: A method and apparatus for generating a spread spectrum reference clock is presented. A method and apparatus is presented for receiving a spread spectrum parameter from a phase lock loop, wherein the spread spectrum parameter includes a multiple-level parameter comprising a plurality of phase signals; quantizing a spread spectrum profile... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090086876 - Start up circuit for delay locked loop: An initialization circuit in a delay locked loop ensures that after power up or other reset clock edges are received by a phase detector in the appropriate order for proper operation. After reset of the delay locked loop, the initialization circuit assures that at least one edge of a reference... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.