Pulse or digital communications inventions 08/09

20090213901 - Method for managing the operation of a wireless apparatus configured to exchange information with a millimeter-wave communication device, and corresponding apparatus: A wireless apparatus includes a millimeter-wave communication interface configured to exchange information within a millimeter-wave communication network, an UWB communication interface and control means or circuitry configured to activate the UWB interface for communicating location indication to the communication network according to an UWB communication standard. The location indication is... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20090213902 - Automatic frequency hopping and channel tracking system for auto-frequency-hopping digital wireless microphone: An automatic frequency hopping and channel tracking system for an auto-frequency-hopping digital wireless microphone includes a digital wireless microphone and a digital wireless receiving device. In the event of receiving from the digital wireless microphone a signal having an abnormal quality, the digital wireless receiving device not only automatically switches... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.a.

20090213903 - System and method for multiple input multiple output wireless transmission: Systems and methods for MIMO wireless transmission are provided. At the transmitter, a plurality of encoded packets are modulated, and the symbols are divided between several transmit antennas. The transmitter spreads some of the symbols of each packet using a respective subset of an available Walsh code space. A given... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20090213904 - Method and apparatus for orthogonally overlaying variable chip rate spread spectrum signals: A system and method for transmitting wideband signals via a radio communication system adapted for transmitting narrow-band signals is described. A base station is used to transmit and receive a plurality of relatively narrow-band and a plurality of relatively wideband signals. The electromagnetic spectrum available to the plurality of narrow-band... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090213905 - Use of orthogonal or near orthogonal codes in reverse link: An apparatus for use with a shared access communication channel is disclosed. The chipping rate of a first group of terminals is determined. Transmissions on the shared access communication channel are encoded using first pseudorandom noise (PN) code and a phase shift at the first chipping rate and an orthogonal... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20090213906 - Galileo/gps receiver with improved positioning accuracy: Embodiments related to global positioning are described and depicted.... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090213909 - Code power estimation for mimo signals: Methods and apparatus for estimating code-reuse interference associated with a received multi-stream multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signal are disclosed. An estimate for the data-to-pilot power ratio, ΓD/P, may be obtained as a by-product of parametric estimation of impairment covariance associated with the received MIMO signal. In an exemplary method, a parametric... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20090213910 - Code power estimation for mimo signals: Methods and apparatus for estimating code-reuse interference associated with a received multi-stream multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signal are disclosed. In an exemplary method, impairment covariance associated with the received multi-stream MIMO signal is measured, and first and second sets of samples for received traffic data symbols are collected, using first and... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20090213907 - Method and apparatus for block-based signal demodulation: Teachings presented herein combine the relative simplicity of equalization with the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) processing. These teachings are applied to the detection of symbols in a stream of symbol blocks. In one or more embodiments, block-based equalization, including feedforward filtering, suppresses inter-block interference and produces detection statistics for... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20090213908 - Method and apparatus for symbol detection via reduced complexity sequence estimation processing: Teachings presented herein offer the performance advantages of sequence estimation for received signal symbol detection, while simultaneously providing potentially significant reductions in computational overhead. Initial demodulation of a received signal identifies a reduced number of candidate symbol values for all or a subset of a sequence of symbols represented in... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20090213911 - Code tracking loop with automatic power normalization: The present invention is for a receiver incorporated into User Equipment (UE) or base stations of a code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system. The UE and base station are in communication with one of the plurality of base stations and receives a communication signal through the receiver. The communication... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c. Dept. Icc

20090213912 - Multipath mitigation gnss receiver: An improved GNSS or GPS receiver with a code-tracking loop comprising a plurality of correlators, arranged to extract a plurality of samples of the autocorrelation function of the C/A code, and a discriminator performing linear regression on both sides of the autocorrelation peak, to determine the autocorrelation peak position at... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090213914 - Capacitive isolation circuitry: An integrated circuit having voltage isolation capabilities includes a plurality of communications channels for transceiving data from the integrated circuit. Each of the communications channel includes capacitive isolation circuitry located in conductive layers of the integrated circuit for providing a high voltage isolation link. The capacitive isolation circuitry distributes a... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20090213913 - Internal loop-back architecture for parallel serializer/deserializer (serdes): An internal loop-back architecture for a parallel serializer/deserializer (SERDES) includes a transmitter macro including a plurality of transmit elements arranged in a parallel architecture, and a receiver macro including a plurality of receive elements arranged in a parallel architecture, wherein at least a portion of the transmit elements and a... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20090213915 - Method for the non-bitrate-dependent encoding of digital signals on a bus system: To provide a bus system having a plurality of stations that are coupled together by an arrangement of lines and each have a transceiver and a control unit, a microcontroller, or the like, and to specify a method of encoding a digital message on a bus system in which method... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090213916 - Method, apparatus and system for data transmission: A method, apparatus and system for data transmission include determining an idle data rate under a total data rate during data transmission; determining a corresponding parameter adjusting policy according to the idle data rate and a preset threshold; sending an instruction carrying the parameter adjusting policy to a far end... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20090213917 - Self-calibrating signal reconstruction system: An approach for calibrating a signal reconstruction system. A signal may be input to a low-pass filter. An output of the filter may be converted to a digital signal which goes to a processor which outputs a reconstruction of the signal to the filter. The reconstruction may be based on... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090213918 - Separating jitter components in a data stream: A method and corresponding device for measuring jitter in a data stream and separating the jitter into its various components is disclosed. The measurement device includes a sampling circuit operative to provide a sampled version of an input data stream in response to a sampling control signal; a comparison circuit... Agent: Peninsula Ip Group

20090213919 - Signal quality estimation for ofdma systems: Certain embodiments utilize raw signals to estimate channel quality, as contrasted to utilizing equalized signals or after channel estimation. For example, signal quality may be estimated by calculating powers of pilot sub-carriers and null sub-carriers of the raw signals. To mitigate channel effect, certain embodiments utilize first and/or second order... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090213920 - Method and apparatus for detecting high-mobility state of mobile terminal and related device: The invention provides a method of detecting high-mobility state of mobile terminal, comprising steps of: estimating a channel impulse response (CIR) based on received signal samples; performing channel equalization based on said received signal samples and the estimated channel impulse response; computing at least one characteristic value for a particular... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090213921 - Carrier recovery system and carrier recovery method: The invention provides carrier recovery systems and carrier recovery methods. The carrier recovery system comprises a compensation signal generator, a compensation device and a mode selector. The compensation signal generator generates a compensation signal based on a coherent demodulated signal. In a first mode, the compensate device is couple behind... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090213923 - Method and apparatus for channel detection: The invention proposes a method for joint detection and channel decoding of binary data employing a trellis-based detector where the trellis describes RLL encoding, NRZI preceding, the influence of the channel, and PR equalization. In order to improve performance for the case of exchanging soft information with an outer soft-in... Agent: Thomson Licensing Llc

20090213922 - Method and apparatus for efficient multi-symbol detection: Where two or more multi-valued digital data symbols are modulated so that they overlap after passing through a channel, forming a combined signal, a receiver receives the combined signal and forms detection statistics to attempt to recover the symbols. Where forming detection statistics does not completely separate the symbols, each... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20090213925 - Buffer control device and receiving apparatus: A buffer control device is provided with a nearly flow detecting section, a vertical cycle control section and a vertical synchronization signal generating section. The nearly flow detecting section compares the amount of data accumulated in a buffer and predetermined thresholds and detects the result of the comparison as nearly... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090213924 - Method and related device for converting transport stream into file: A method of converting format from a transport stream (TS) to a file for storing television program data carried by the transport stream includes steps of receiving a transport stream, performing filtering and depacketizing process for the transport stream to generate a plurality of elementary streams (ES) and presentation time... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090213927 - System and method for compressing video based on detected data rate of a communication channel: A system and method are described below for encoding interactive low-latency video using interframe coding. For example, one embodiment of a computer-implemented method for performing video compression comprises: detecting a maximum data rate of a communication channel between a server and a client; dynamically selecting a tile size for encoding... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090213930 - Fast macroblock delta qp decision: A system and method for encoding multimedia video is described. As video is encoded a quantization parameter is selected for each macroblock. As described herein, the quantization parameter for each macroblock may be selected by limiting the universe of all possible quantization parameters to a particular range of possible quantization... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090213928 - Transcoder: If the number of frames in a GOP of an input stream is not less than 15, the GOP is determined as a control unit time. If the number of frames in the GOP is less than 15, the following GOP is connected thereto until the number of frames becomes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090213929 - Transcoder: In a transcoder, a decoder decodes a stream and an encoder encodes the stream again. The encoder calculates the quantization step value by using an average period bit rate (ASn(M)) of a first stream or an average period bit rate (ACn(M)) of a second stream. Buffers store bit rates (Sn,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090213931 - 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.

20090213932 - Bidirectional predicted pictures or video object planes for efficient and flexible coding: A method is provided for decoding a bit stream representing an image that has been encoded The method includes the steps of: performing an entropy decoding of the bit stream to form a plurality of transform coefficients and a plurality of motion vectors; performing an inverse transformation on the plurality... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090213936 - Encoding device: An encoding method for encoding a sequence of image frames, the encoding method includes the steps of: selecting an image frame to be deleted from the plurality of image frames; detecting motion vectors between a pair of image frames that are either previous to and next to the selected image... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090213937 - Image processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium: A compensation allocation unit performs allocation compensation of a motion vector to a pixel to which a motion vector is not allocated by a victor allocation unit. A C/UC area determination unit compares magnitudes of a present DFD, a past DFD, and a future DFD based on a background vector... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090213934 - Inter-layer prediction method for video signal: The present invention relates to a method for conducting interlayer motion prediction in encoding or decoding of video signal. The present method sets motion information of an intra-mode macro block of a base layer with motion information of an inter-mode macro block that is vertically adjacent to the intra-mode macro... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090213935 - System and method for compressing video by allocating bits to image tiles based on detected intraframe motion or scene complexity: A system and method are described below for encoding interactive low-latency video using interframe coding. For example, one embodiment of a computer-implemented method for performing video compression comprises: logically subdividing each of a sequence of images into a plurality of tiles, each of the tiles having a defined position within... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090213933 - Texture sensitive temporal filter based on motion estimation: Architecture that employs texture sensitive temporal filtering to reuse motion estimation information in a realtime encoder. The temporal filter is applied for classified static areas. The architecture reuses the motion estimation results on motion vectors, cost estimates (e.g., sum of absolute difference (SAD)), and edge awareness texture information to apply... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090213926 - Method for up-sampling/down-sampling data of a video block: The present invention relates to a method for up-sampling/down-sampling data of a video block in a scalable video data encoding/decoding. The up-sampling method according to the present invention obtains a 2N×2N enlarged block by computing a converting matrix to data of a given N×N video block. The converting block has... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090213938 - Video decoder error handling: A video decoder performs a sequential error handling process to detect and conceal errors within a corrupted data segment of video data units. The decoder sequentially decodes a current data unit. Upon detecting an error, the decoder sets an error flag and resynchronizes decoding at the start of the next... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090213940 - Error resilient video transmission using instantaneous receiver feedback and channel quality adaptive packet retransmission: Systems and methods for delivering real-time video imagery to a receiver over a channel. A current video frame is captured and digitized. The digitized frame is divided into a plurality of macroblocks. For each macroblock an intra, inter or skip mode coding mode is determined. Based on instantaneous feedback received... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20090213939 - Video coding method and device: A video coding method, comprising the following steps: a) successive images (F) of a video sequence are coded to generate coding parameters, b) the coding parameters are included in an output stream (Φ) to be transmitted to a station (B) including a decoder (2), c) back channel information on reconstruction... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090213941 - Method and device for implementing data transmission: A method of implementing data transmission is provided, which comprises: A) comparing bit by bit data to be transmitted currently with previous transmitted data, and counting to obtain total number of different bits; and B) when it is determined that the total number of different bits is more than a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090213942 - Data communications: Data communication apparatus comprising transmission means adapted to transmit data as the ratio of pairs of frequencies between objects that are moving relative to one another. It is particularly applicable to acoustic data communications at ultrasound frequencies in air.... Agent: O''shea Getz P.c.

20090213948 - Adaptive two-dimensional channel interpolation: A method and apparatus for improving channel estimation within an OFDM communication system. Channel estimation in OFDM is usually performed with the aid of pilot symbols. The pilot symbols are typically spaced in time and frequency. The set of frequencies and times at which pilot symbols are inserted is referred... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090213947 - Block boundary detection for a wireless communication system: Method and apparatus for block boundary detection is described. A signal is received. The signal is quantized to provide a quantized signal to at least one correlator, the quantized signal being a sequence of samples. The sequence of samples and a reference template including totaling partial results from the at... Agent: Xilinx, Inc Attn: Legal Department

20090213952 - Method for deinterleaving ofdm signals and apparatus using the same: An apparatus for deinterleaving OFDM signals comprises a block deinterleaving memory, a computing module, a processed-tone buffer and a subcarrier rotator. The block deinterleaving memory is configured to store unprocessed symbols of the OFDM signals. The computing module is configured to access the block deinterleaving memory in accordance with the... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090213949 - Method for transmitting a multicarrier signal designed for limiting interference, signal, emitting device, receiving method and device and corresponding computer programs: A method is provided for transmitting a multi-carrier signal formed of a temporal succession of symbols comprised of a set of data elements. The method includes: calculating an interference affecting a set of at least two data elements which are to be protected and are spaced out two by two... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20090213951 - Method of suppressing carrier leak in ofdm transmission and radio transmitter using same method: In an OFDM type radio transmitter, an orthogonal modulator performs an orthogonal modulation of an I-component and a Q-component, an orthogonal component output circuit produces the I-component and the Q-component in accordance with set values, and a correction circuit sets the I-component and the Q-component to zero. The correction circuit... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20090213946 - Partial reconfiguration for a mimo-ofdm communication system: Partial reconfiguration of programmable logic for supporting a Multiple-input, Multiple-Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (“MIMO-OFDM”) communication system is described. A PHY block in a programmable device may be instantiated generally in part in programmable logic of the programmable device. Control information is obtained for a network node when deployed and/or... Agent: Xilinx, Inc Attn: Legal Department

20090213950 - Pilot signal transmission for an orthogonal frequency division wireless communication system: Transmission patterns for pilot symbols transmitted from a mobile station or base station are provided. The pattern allows for improved receipt of the pilot symbols transmitted. In addition, schemes for improving the ability to multiplex pilot symbols without interference and/or biasing from different mobile stations over the same frequencies and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090213944 - Receiver parametric covariance estimation for precoded mimo transmissions: A model-based technique for estimating signal impairments that can accommodate various transmitted signal configurations, including closed-loop transmit diversity signals and pre-coded MIMO signals, is disclosed. In an exemplary method, an impairment model is constructed for a received composite information signal comprising at least a first data stream transmitted from first... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20090213945 - Reduced complexity parametric covariance estimation for precoded mimo transmissions: A model-based technique for estimating impairment covariance associated with a MIMO signal is disclosed. In an exemplary method, an impairment model is constructed for a received composite information signal comprising at least a first data stream transmitted from first and second antennas according to a first antenna weighting vector. The... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20090213943 - Time and frequency domain based approaches for fine timing and frequency estimations in isdb-t and isdb-tsb receiver design: A method and apparatus for estimating timing and frequency offsets in an ISDB-T and ISDB-TSB receiver. In different embodiments, the method comprises estimating timing and frequency offsets by different estimation processes; assigning weights to the timing and frequency offsets according to the channel condition; and calculating timing and frequency offsets... Agent: Rahman Llc

20090213953 - Bit log likelihood ratio (llr) computation of a 32-qam system: A method and apparatus for computing and comparing the LLR of a 32-QAM mapping by splitting the mapping point to a most significant bit and four Least Significant Bits. Forming two groups based upon the characteristic of the most significant bit. Use the characteristics of an associated 16-QAM mapping to... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20090213954 - Tree position adaptive soft output m-algorithm receiver structures: A method and apparatus for tree position adaptive SOMA receiver structures are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a device for use in a wireless communication system comprises a receiver to receive information-bearing signals from the transmitter wirelessly transmitted using OFDM and bit interleaved coded modulation, where the receiver includes an... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

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20090213956 - Optimal tcm codec search method for dual stream systems, and encoder/decoder using the same: Provided is a method for searching for an optimal coder suitable to a dual stream transmission method of a DTV transceiving apparatus, and an encoder and a decoder employing the optimal coder searching method. The optimal coder searching method includes the steps of: a) determining a mixed pattern of normal... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090213957 - System and method for providing multicast and broadcast services: A method for providing a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) by transmitting a plurality of data frames in a wireless network. The method includes: generating a first MBS data information element (MBS-DATA-IE) in a first one of the data frames, the first MBS-DATA-IE including information relating to a logical channel... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090213959 - Transmitting apparatus and transmitting method, receiving apparatus and reciving method, transceiver apparatus,communication apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to a transmitting apparatus, a transmitting method, a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, a transceiver, a communication apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program in which high quality voice can be decoded. A cellular telephone 421-1 outputs coded voice data and also supplies uncoded... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090213958 - Transmitting apparatus and transmitting method, receiving apparatus and receiving method, transceiver apparatus, communication apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to a transmitting apparatus, a transmitting method, a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, a transceiver, a communication apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program in which high quality voice can be decoded. A cellular telephone 421-1 outputs coded voice data and also supplies uncoded... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090213960 - Transmitter: There are provided a BPF (15) for extracting an image frequency component from a modulating signal generated by modulating I and Q signals through a quadrature modulating portion (3), an energy detecting portion (16) for detecting an energy of the image frequency component, and an amplitude correcting portion (12) and... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090213961 - Method and apparatus for controlling transmission power in a communication system: In a communication system, a mobile terminal compares a first modulation/Forward Error Correction (FEC) rate level, which is a modulation/FEC rate level used in a previously transmitted signal, with a second modulation/FEC rate level, which is a modulation/FEC rate level to be used in a currently transmitted signal. If the... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20090213963 - Digital radio receiver: A digital radio receiver for receiving information on a piece of music that is identification information for specifying content of digital acoustic information, the identification information being broadcast together with the digital acoustic information, is provided. The digital radio receiver includes an internal memory configured to store the information on... Agent: Formmer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090213962 - Digital radio receiver and method of reproducing acoustic information: A digital radio receiver for receiving information on a piece of music that is identification information for specifying content of digital acoustic information, the identification information being broadcast together with the digital acoustic information is provided. The digital radio receiver includes an internal memory configured to store the information on... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090213964 - Radio detection device and method: A radio detection device includes two or more reception antennas, for detecting a detecting object by a mono-pulse method; the radio detection device including: a variable gain unit for discretely changing respective signal intensity of a difference signal and a sum signal of each reception signal received by the two... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090213965 - Mimo multiplexing communication system and a signal separation method: A disclosed receiver in a MIMO multiplexing communication system, in which plural signals are simultaneously transmitted from plural transmitting antenna branches using the same frequency, and the transmitted signals are retrieved by receiving signals at plural receiving antennas, separating the received signals and searching for proper symbol metrics for each... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090213967 - Power-saving method for viterbi decoder and bit processing circuit of wireless receiver: A power-saving method for Viterbi decoder and bit processing circuit of wireless receiver is provided. In response to various computational load of bit processing circuit and/or Viterbi decoder of a wireless receiver, the method is used for adjusting duty cycle of the bit processing circuit and/or the Viterbi decoder so... Agent: Virtual Law Partners LLP

20090213966 - System and method for generating soft output in hybrid mimo systems: A hybrid soft output MIMO detector uses a QR decomposition detector followed by a Markov chain Monte Carlo detector. The QRD-M generates initial candidate decision vectors, which are used as input for the Markov chain Monte Carlo detection to generate the soft output.... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090213968 - Method and apparatus to detect random access channel preamble: A method (and operation of a computer program) includes receiving a signal over a wireless channel; correlating the received signal with a reference sequence and providing a correlation output; processing the correlation output to detect a presence of a first predetermined preamble sequence using a main correlation peak and two... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20090213969 - Wireless communication device, equalizer, computer-readable medium storing program for obtaining weight coefficients in the equalizer, and process for obtaining weight coefficients in the equalizer: In an equalizer arranged in a wireless communication device: information on correlation in one or more first wireless signals is generated; a channel vector is generated on the basis of the one or more first wireless signals; an extended correlation matrix which contains a correlation matrix indicating the information on... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090213970 - Intermittent operative communication apparatus adaptively controlling the timing of waiting data reception and a method therefor: An intermittent operative communication apparatus can send data, received from a source communication device, to any receiver communication device at a predetermined interval and wait for receiving data at the predetermined interval. The communication apparatus has a selector for selecting one or multiple receiver communication devices as a reference communication... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20090213971 - Coherent single antenna interference cancellation for gsm/gprs/edge: A method for midamble estimation comprises the steps of receiving a burst of symbols, selecting a subset of the burst of symbols that comprises a first midamble symbol, calculating, for each symbol in the subset, a corresponding midamble estimation error, and determining the lowest calculated midamble estimation error to locate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090213972 - Apparatus and method to adjust a phase and frequency of a digital signal: An apparatus comprising at least two controllers each providing control information for controlling phase or frequency of a digital signal, a combiner for combining control information from the at least two controllers to combined control information and a phase rotator for adjusting, by using phase rotation, one or more of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20090213973 - Clock regeneration circuit: A clock regeneration circuit according to the present invention that generates a clock signal that is synchronized to an input signal, includes: a detection section which detects points at which the input signal transitions; a histogram generation section which associates a plurality of partial periods with the transition points, and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090213974 - Method for agile region and band conscious frequency planning for wireless transceivers: A technique for agile region and band conscious frequency planning for wireless transceivers in which a comparison frequency is selected for generating a local oscillator signal. The comparison frequency (Fcomp) is selected for a frequency band of a particular communication standard or protocol, in order not to introduce harmonic components... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090207886 - Apparatus and method for synthesizing and generating an ssc modulated signal: A system and method for synthesizing and generating the SSC modulated signal with precision and in a controlled manner is provided. In one embodiment the system may be integrated in an arbitrary waveform generator.... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20090207887 - Apparatus and method for transmitting feedback information in broadband wireless access system: An apparatus and method for transmitting feedback information are provided. In a method of operating a transmitter for transmitting feedback information in a broadband wireless access system, the method includes estimating a channel of a second path on the basis of information of a received downlink frame, obtaining a channel... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090207885 - Delay estimation apparatus and method: Delay estimation apparatus and method, comprising: a correlation step which a correlation function between a received signal and a supplied template waveform is generated, AD conversion step at which said correlation output generated at said correlation step is uniformly sampled into discrete samples; and arithmetic operation step at which a... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090207888 - Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus, reception method, and transmission system: It is desired to suitably carry out transmission processing and reception processing carried out when transmitting a multicarrier signal where specific subcarriers are omitted. Therefore, the present invention carries out transmission avoidance processing operable when transmitting a multicarrier signal to replace signals corresponding to subcarriers, in a plurality of subcarriers,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090207889 - Spread spectrum communication method adn system using very weak power, and high frequency radio apparatus: Provided is a high frequency radio apparatus capable of correcting a frequency of a carrier of the own apparatus in accordance with a frequency of a reception carrier when performing spread spectrum communication using very weak power. A carrier demodulating part demodulates a spread code received from a communication counterpart... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20090207890 - Diversity transmitter-receiver in cdma system using space-time code, and method thereof: A diversity transmitting/receiving apparatus and method is provided, which is implemented using space-time trellis codes (STTC) constructed from a Pseudo Noise (PN) sequence set in a Direct Sequence (DS) CDMA system. The transmitter comprises a PN sequence generator, a space-time encoder, first and second modulators, and first and second multiple... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090207891 - Multipath detection for received sps signal: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to detecting and/or estimating multipath signals. For an example, a signal comprising at least one binary offset carrier (BOC) modulation signal is received. The BOC modulation signal is modulated with a pseudorandom noise sequence comprising a plurality of chips, wherein each of said chips... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090207892 - Receiving device for spread spectrum communication: A receiving device for spread spectrum communication includes a phase determining unit and a data demodulating unit. The receiving device receives a signal spread and modulated with first spreading code. The phase determining unit calculates a cross correlation between the received signal and a second spreading code and determines a... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090207894 - Apparatus, methods, and computer program products providing improved communication in decentralized wireless networks: The exemplary embodiments of the invention enable self-organizing decentralized functionalities in wireless networks, such as ones having an arbitrary topology (e.g., cognitive radio networks), that utilize non-continuous communication, such as packet-based communication. In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes: making at least one locally available decision or... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090207895 - Data transceiver system and associated methods: A data transceiver system may include an error corrector. The error corrector may include a plurality of delay units, each delay unit being configured to delay a corresponding data signal among a plurality of data signals by a time in response to a corresponding delay code among a plurality of... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20090207893 - Hf converter for mobile devices: A high frequency (HF) converter for a mobile device, having an input device configured to receive a first signal including data in accordance with a standard, non-HF communication protocol or in accordance with an HF communication protocol; a converter device coupled to the input device, the converter device configured to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090207896 - Configurable load impedance for power amplifier predistortion calibration: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefor includes an integrated circuit radio transceiver operable to provide specified gain levels and transmit path filter responses to correspond with a selected power spectral density mask. Changes in gain may be provided solely digital gain changes or may include analog gain module... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090207897 - Measuring apparatus, test apparatus, recording medium, program and electronic device: There is provided a measuring apparatus for measuring a signal-to-noise ratio of a discrete waveform which is output from an AD converter in response to an input signal, where the signal-to-noise ratio indicates a ratio of a signal component of the input signal to noise generated by the AD converter.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090207899 - Equalizer training method using re-encoded bits and known training sequences: The present invention provides a multi-branch equalizer processing module operable to cancel interference associated with received radio frequency (RF) burst(s). This multi-branch equalizer processing module includes both a first equalizer processing branch and a second equalizer processing branch. The first equalizer processing branch is operable to be trained based upon... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090207898 - Method applied to an equalizer for reducing isi and related isi reduction apparatus: A method applied to an equalizer includes receiving an input data-stream having a training sequence component with a first number of symbols and a data component with a second number of symbols, wherein the first number plus the second number equals a third number; when a symbol number is not... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090207900 - Apparatus for stabilizing convergence of an adaptive line equalizer: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method and an apparatus for data decorrelation in a line equalizer adaptive system. The apparatus comprises an input and an output, forming a data path there between, wherein the input capable of receiving data to create received data and the output capable of sending... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090207901 - Delay circuit and method capable of performing online calibration: A delay circuit includes a first reference delay module, a second reference delay module and a first delay module. The first reference delay module delays a reference signal and generates a first reference delayed signal, and the second reference delay module delays the reference signal and generates a second reference... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090207905 - Communication processing device, data communication system, method, and computer program: An apparatus and a method for realizing a configuration for transmitting and outputting captured data of a video camera to a specific device via a network are provided. In a configuration for generating a transmission packet containing the captured data of the video camera and outputting the transmission packet via... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090207908 - Digital broadcast system and data processing method: A digital broadcast system and a data processing method are disclosed. A data processing method of a digital broadcast transmission system includes delaying a reference time of a program clock reference (PCR) based on a size of mobile service data, when processing a broadcasting signal including main service data and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090207907 - Image processing device, method, and program: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and a method and a program that enable an amount of code to be suppressed below a desired value with more reliability. An emergency mode determining section 142 determines that the amount of code of a next picture is likely to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090207909 - Method and apparatus for generating information signal to be recorded: A compressively-encoding-resultant video signal resulting from compressively encoding a video signal, a first compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal resulting from compressively encoding a first audio signal having a synchronized relation with the video signal, a reference clock information signal relating to synchronization between the compressively-encoding-resultant video signal and the first compressively-encoding-resultant audio... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20090207902 - Method and system for processing data: A method for processing data, including the recording of raw data, processing, particularly digitizing, compressing and/or encoding, the raw data, analysis, particularly performing a content analysis, of the raw data or the processed data, interpretation, particularly performing an event recognition, of the analysis results in order to generate a semantic... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090207903 - Method of making media files available for delivery to portable electronic devices: There is described a method of making media files, for example video clips available for delivery to portable electronic devices, for example mobile phones. The method comprises receiving media content as data input at an encoder and encoding the media content to generate a plurality of output files each having... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090207904 - Multi-view video coding method and device: There are provided method and apparatus for use in a multi-view video coding system. The apparatus includes an encoder for encoding at least two views corresponding to multi-view video content into a resultant bitstream, wherein the resultant bitstream is encoded to include view specific information. The view specific information indicates... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090207906 - Transmission and reception stream processing devices for processing stream coded with coding rate of 1/3, and methods thereof: An apparatus for processing a transport stream is provided. The apparatus includes a detector which detects data bits in a stream, an encoder which encodes the data bits detected by the detector and generates two encoding values for each data bit, and a stream constructor which constructs a transport stream... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090207910 - Multiplexing compressed signals: In digital video compression, the output bit-streams from respective encoding devices, each of which has a quantization parameter being varied between coarser and finer values in accordance with the nature of the material being encoded, are multiplexed. The allocation of bit rate amongst the respective encoding devices is effected by... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090207911 - Picture processing apparatus, picture processing method, picture processing method program and picture processing method program recording medium: Disclosed herein is a picture processing apparatus for carrying out decoding processing to produce picture data from a bit stream generated previously in processing performed typically by a coding apparatus to code the picture data by selection of setting of picture types from a frame structure of the picture data... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090207913 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image: Provided are methods and apparatuses for encoding an image and methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. The methods and apparatuses generate a compensated prediction block by compensating a prediction block of a current block by using a predetermined compensation value and encode a residual value that is a difference... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090207912 - Reducing key picture popping effects in video: Techniques and tools are described for reducing key picture popping effects. In some embodiments, an encoding system filters a video picture that is to be encoded as a key picture using intra-picture compression. The filtering reduces detail in the picture relative to other video pictures that are to be encoded... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090207914 - Method for direct mode encoding and decoding: Disclosed is a method of encoding a direct mode when coding moving images, the method includes finding a prediction and a cost for each of a plurality of direct modes including a backward-based temporal direct mode and a forward-based temporal direct mode with respect to a current block to be... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090207917 - Motion vector derivation method, moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method: A motion vector derivation unit includes a comparison unit for comparing a parameter TR1 for a reference vector with a predetermined value to determine whether it exceeds the predetermined value or not; a switching unit for switching selection between the maximum value of a pre-stored parameter TR and the parameter... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090207915 - Scalable motion search ranges in multiple resolution motion estimation for video compression: A method of performing motion search for video including providing at least one motion search offset range for multiple search range scale levels and resolution levels, monitoring at least one operating metric, selecting a search range scale level, and performing motion search for selected resolution levels using search windows determined... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20090207916 - System and method for allocating bitstream of scalable video coding: The present invention provides a system for allocating a bitstream of scalable video coding (SVC). The system includes an adapter and an extractor. The adapter is employed for receiving a bitstream produced by a video encoder and producing an extracting parameter of the bitstream according to the feature of a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090207918 - Method and apparatus for video transcoding: The present embodiments disclose methods and apparatus for transcoding video data. A method for transcoding video data may include: performing variable length decoding on an input bit stream; determining a bit stream part that can be transmitted transparently and a bit stream part that cannot be transmitted transparently according to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090207919 - Method and apparatus for weighted prediction for scalable video coding: There are provided scalable video encoder and decoders, and corresponding scalable video encoding and decoding methods. A scalable video encoder includes an encoder for encoding a block in an enhancement layer of a picture by applying a same weighting parameter to an enhancement layer reference picture as that applied to... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090207920 - Perceptual modeling of media signals for data hiding: The present invention relates generally to embedding auxiliary data and data hiding. One claim recites a method including: calculating with a processor or electronic circuitry characteristics of a media signal comprising audio or video; based at least in part on calculated characteristics of the media signal, providing a map of... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090207921 - Apparatus and method to communicate information within a data storage library: A method to communicate information within a data storage system comprising a plurality of enclosures, wherein the method defines and stores a first waveform comprising a frequency FB, a second waveform comprising a frequency F0 wherein that second waveform is decoded to mean a bit comprising a first value, and... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20090207922 - Power line communication apparatus, power line communication system, and registration processing method: A power line communication apparatus controls a transmission using a plurality of parameters. The power line communication apparatus includes: a registration processor which performs a registration process for achieving a state to be communicable with another power line communication apparatus through a power line by use of transmission data based... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090207923 - Time domain symbols: Methods and apparatus are described for time domain signals. A method includes creating a bipolar pulse whose high (up) and low (down) periods are separately and precisely controllable.... Agent: John Bruckner, P.C.

20090207929 - Communication method, and transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus using that communication method: A transmission method for transmitting an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal. The method includes composing a plurality of carrier groups each including one or more subcarriers and assigning transmission data for a plurality of transmission destination terminals, to the plurality of carrier groups, on a basis of one carrier group... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090207924 - Non-intrusive method and system for coupling powerline communications signals to a powerline network: A powerline system including non-intrusive coupling for powerline communications. The system has a powerline module couple to a data connection. In a specific embodiment, the powerline module is configured to process a first data signal in a first format to a second data signal in a second format, which is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090207926 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing using subsymbol processing: In one embodiment, a transmitter converts digital input data into combined-OFDM signals and a receiver recovers data from the transmitted combined-OFDM signals. For transmission, digital data is mapped into data symbols using a commonly known modulation technique, such as QAM or DQPSK. The data symbols are subsequently divided into two... Agent: Mendelsohn, Drucker, & Associates, P.C.

20090207927 - Receiving apparatus: There is provided a receiving apparatus (1) that comprises; a receiving unit (4) for receiving a frequency division multiplexing signal to output a receiving signal; a first demodulating unit (7) for demodulating a receiving signal based on 1 segment broadcasting and 3 segment broadcasting to output a first carrier; a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090207928 - Training symbol format for adaptively power loaded mimo: Training symbol formats are provided for use in a MIMO based wireless communication system that uses adaptive power loading. In at least one embodiment, a training symbol format is used that is capable of enhancing training symbol signal to noise ratio (SNR).... Agent: The Law Offices Of John C. Scott, LLC C/o Intellevele, LLC

20090207925 - Wireless communication system, ofdm communication apparatus and method thereof: A wireless communication system adapted for the IEEE 802.11 or IEEE 802.16 standard comprises a radio frequency (RF) receiver, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and an OFDM communication apparatus. The RF receiver receives a radio signal. The ADC converts the radio signal to a digital signal. The OFDM communication apparatus comprises... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090207930 - Methods and systems for space-time coding for distributed cooperative communicaton: Methods and systems for space-time coding for distributed cooperative communication.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20090207932 - Wireless communication apparatus with a plurality of antenna elements: A wireless communication apparatus comprising a memory for storing a group of coefficient values to be applied to processing of orthogonal modulation signals received by a plurality of antenna elements, a coefficient generation unit for detecting a phase shift value of reception timing of specific received signals on the basis... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090207931 - Wireless communication device and wireless communication method: A wireless communication device that transmits a wireless signal by carrying out linear precoding processing using a plurality of transmission antennas is provided with: a phase pattern control unit for selecting a phase pattern that reduces peak-to-average power ratio; a phase rotation unit for carrying out phase rotation on a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090207933 - Encoding/decoding of digital signals, especially in vector quantization with permutation codes: The invention relates to the encoding/decoding of digital signals, especially using permutation codes involving a calculation of combinatorial expressions. According to the invention, the combinatorial expressions are represented by prime factor power decompositions, and determined by a preliminary reading of pre-recorded representations of decompositions of selected integers.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090207934 - Encoding/decoding of digital signals, especially in vector quantization with permutation codes: The invention relates to the encoding/decoding of digital signals, especially using permutation codes involving a calculation of combinatorial expressions. According to the invention, the combinatorial expressions are represented by prime factor power decompositions, and determined by a preliminary reading of pre-recorded representations of decompositions of selected integers.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090207938 - Method and apparatus for distorting input signal of digital predistortion (dpd) power amplifier in wireless communication system: A predistortion apparatus of a Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) power amplifier in a wireless communication system is provided. A method for predistorting an input signal at the predistortion apparatus of the DPD power amplifier includes dividing one or more bits constituting the input signal into upper bits and lower bits; generating... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090207937 - Method and system for optimizing quantization for noisy channels: Methods are described for configuring a quantizer to achieve improved end-to-end distortion performance when transmitting encoded source data over a noisy channel. The codebook and partitioning are selected using an iterative process of determining an updated codebook and an updated partition space, where the updated codebook is based, in part,... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20090207936 - Real and complex spectral shaping for spectral masks improvements: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefor includes an integrated circuit radio transceiver operable to provide specified gain levels and transmit path filter responses to correspond with a selected power spectral density mask. Changes in gain may be provided solely digital gain changes or may include analog gain module... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090207935 - Transmitter pre-distortion across wide transmit power dynamic range: An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefor includes an integrated circuit radio transceiver operable to provide pre-distortion settings that correspond to specified analog transmit path gain levels. Further, a change in gain is provided solely through digital gain when the new gain is within a specified range. If the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090207940 - Predistortion calibration in a transceiver assembly: Systems and methods are provided for calibrating a digital predistorter in an integrated transceiver circuit. A digital transmitter path provides a signal from a digital input. The transmitter path includes a digital predistorter that predistorts the digital input to mitigate nonlinearities associated with a power amplifier. The integrated transceiver circuit... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090207939 - System and method for burst mode amplifier: Embodiments related to burst mode amplifying are described and depicted.... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090207941 - Delay-based modulation of rf communications signals: An apparatus for providing an angle modulated signal includes a tunable oscillator circuit, a variable time delay circuit, and an optional scaling and delay control apparatus. The tunable oscillator circuit generates an oscillatory signal having a predetermined frequency. The variable time delay circuit operates to delay the oscillatory signal in... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (panasonic)

20090207942 - Embedded multimedia system and related digital audio broadcasting demodulator: An embedded multimedia system for playing analog and digital audio broadcasting signals includes an antenna for receiving analog and digital audio broadcasting signals, an audio output device for outputting sound, an analog demodulator for demodulating analog audio broadcasting signals for the audio output device, and a digital demodulator for conducting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090207943 - Semiconductor circuit device: A semiconductor circuit device is provided which can attain more stable operations against noise in a data communication system without increasing the power consumption of an overall system, thereby improving the reliability of data communication. For a demodulation baseband signal (S11) obtained by performing digital processing on an output signal... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090207944 - Communications device and related method that detects symbol timing: A communications device includes a signal input for receiving signals such as a binary phase shift keyed (BPSK) communications signal having a repeated preamble bit or symbol pattern. A modem processes the communications signal and includes a demodulator and processor that generates an initial frequency offset estimate and phase error... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090207947 - Efficient diversity combining for wideband downlink: A communication system employing site diversity combing to increase link availability includes at least two receivers at receive sites within a single downlink beam separated by enough distance to provide decorrelation of weather phenomena—such as rain fade outages. A signal transmits digital symbols to all the receivers and may use... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090207946 - Grouping bits interleaving apparatus and method thereof: An grouping bits interleaver includes a grouping bits unit and a data storage unit. The grouping bits unit is used for storing N data bits of an input data and outputting an address signal. Wherein each data bit is stored according to a bit position. The data storage unit coupled... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090207945 - Wireless receiver: A wireless receiver having improved receiving characteristics is provided. The wireless receiver (151) is provided with an antenna (152) for receiving wireless signals including a modulation signal and a pilot signal having a frequency different from that of the modulation signal; a distributor (159) for distributing the received signal received... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090207948 - Receiving apparatus: For each of a plurality of control channels, a likelihood indicated by a state metric of each state at the last point which is obtained at the time of Viterbi decoding is obtained. This Viterbi decoding is not cut off and performed to convolutionally coded data of the corresponding control... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090207951 - Apparatus and method for processing signal using single correlator: An apparatus and method for processing a signal using a single correlator are provided. The apparatus may include a first storage unit storing satellite signal samples, a correlator receiving the satellite signal samples stored in the first storage unit in units of at least two satellite signal samples and performing... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090207950 - Modulation scheme estimation apparatus and method: A modulation scheme estimation apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a first signal, a generation unit generating a plurality of first phase amounts, an acquisition unit acquiring a plurality of multiplication signals by multiplying the first signal by each of the first phase amounts, an extraction unit extracting a plurality... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090207949 - Transmitter identification information signal detection apparatus and method: A transmitter identification information (TII) signal detection circuit is suitable for an orthogonal frequency division modulation system. A TII signal detection circuit receives a TII signal and conducts a cross-correlation calculation on the TII signal and a phase reference symbol (PRS) so as to obtain a present cross-correlation result, and... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090207952 - Automatic gain control circuit: There are provided an A/D converting circuit (10) for converting, into a digital signal, a broadband intermediate frequency signal which is output from a frequency converting circuit (5), and a DSP (11) for generating and outputting control data to control gains of an antenna damping circuit (3) and an LNA... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090207954 - Mimo slotted aloha (msa) system: A method including receiving at a synchronizing node a first reference frame from a first reference node at a first time and storing a first time value representing the first time, and calculating a timing estimator by subtracting a minimum time value, representing the distance from the synchronizing node to... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090207953 - Receiving level control apparatus and receiver: A receiving level control apparatus includes an amplifier to receive a signal and to amplify the signal based on a gain control signal, a memory to store an accumulated level of the amplified signal at every sampling period, and a gain control section to judge whether or not the accumulated... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090207955 - Adaptive digital filter, fm receiver, signal processing method, and program: The adaptive digital filter of the present invention includes: a filter unit that includes a plurality of multipliers (3360-336N-1) that are divided into groups of at least one multiplier and the other multipliers based on expected values of filter coefficients and that generates first signals by means of convolution operations... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090207956 - Receiver, integrated circuit, and reception method: Channel characteristic calculation unit 23 estimates channel characteristics based on SP signals included in received signals, symbol interpolation filter 24 is able to frequency-shift frequency transfer characteristics and filters output signals of the channel characteristic calculation unit 23. Filter control unit 27 estimates channel characteristics based on CP signals included... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090207957 - Clock recovery circuit: A clock recovery circuit capable of simultaneously satisfying all of a bit synchronization period, a clock wander tracking performance, and a high high-frequency jitter tolerance. The clock recovery circuit includes: a phase difference detecting circuit that detects a phase difference between an input data signal and a recovery clock; an... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090207959 - Method and device for downconverting the sampling frequency of a digital signal, for example in a non-integer frequency ratio: A method for converting a sampling frequency of a digital signal sampled at a first sampling frequency includes receiving digital signal input samples, and forming output samples corresponding to a second sampling frequency based on the digital signal input samples and an interpolation filter. The first sampling frequency may be... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090207958 - Method, system and computer program product for an even sampling spread over differing clock domain boundaries: The present invention relates to a method, computer program product and system for generating a sample signal from differing clock domain boundaries. The system comprises a cycle base component, a sample offset component being configured to receive a time-based sample pulse signal, and logic to generate a sample pulse. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090207960 - Frame pulse signal latch circuit and phase adjustment method: While a phase of an output clock signal is varied, an input frame pulse is latched based on the output clock signal. Then, by using an output frame pulse, which is a result of the latching, generation of a racing state, which is caused by the phase relation between the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090207961 - Phase synchronization circuit and receiver having the same: A phase synchronization circuit includes a controlled oscillator configured to generate a first oscillation signal and a second oscillation signal that have a common frequency but different phase controlled by a combination of a first control signal and a second control signal, a digital phase frequency detector configured to detect... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090201973 - Apparatus for transmitting data and additional information simultaneously within a wire-based communication system: An apparatus is provided for transmitting data signals and additional information signals having partially overlapping frequency bands simultaneously within a wire based communication system over the same wired medium using a spread spectrum technique for modulating the additional information signals.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20090201974 - Methods and apparatus for spread spectrum modulation and demodulation: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for spread spectrum modulation and demodulation using a special spread spectrum sequence, characterized in that Golay complementary codes are modulated onto orthogonal channels such that a corresponding complex complementary code is obtained. The signal spread by such complex complementary code... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090201975 - Degassing centrifugal apparatus with sensor: The present invention relates to a degassing centrifugal apparatus (10), such as a degassing centrifugal pump (10) for use in a pulp- or papermaking process. The degassing centrifugal apparatus (10) according to the present invention comprises a rotatable hollow rotor (20) connected to a stationary fluid inlet (14) at one... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090201976 - System and method for improving dsl performance: A system and method is described for determining a condition of a communication line, such as the absence of a filter device on a digital subscriber line (DSL). A first signal characterized by a high upstream power is activated over the line, and a first set of parameters associated with... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20090201977 - Best frame derivation in a wirless communications network: A communications node can receive a plurality of communication signals, each including a block of data estimates with respective quality metrics. Each block of data estimates can be derived from an original block of data sent over different wireless paths, or from a derived block of data estimates sent over... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201979 - Method and device for checking a subscriber line: In a method for checking a subscriber line with a first and a second electrical line, wherein each line is connected to an encoder/decoder via a subscriber line circuit, the first line is connected to ground, a resistance of the second line is increased, an audio signal is outputted from... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090201978 - System and method for processing secure transmissions: A method and apparatus for improving channel estimation within an OFDM communication system. Channel estimation in OFDM is usually performed with the aid of pilot symbols. The pilot symbols are typically spaced in time and frequency. The set of frequencies and times at which pilot symbols are inserted is referred... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20090201980 - Method and device for estimating a gaussian white noise power in a channel, and receiver: A method and device for estimating a Gaussian white noise power in a channel and a receiver are provided. The method includes performing a multi-path search on a received signal to find out paths of the signal; performing a noise estimation on one of the paths to acquire a total... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090201982 - Precision timing pulse width communications methodology: Systems and methods are described for pulse communications using precision timing. A method includes digitally pulse coding a data stream; and modulating a carrier signal using the digitally pulse coded data stream.... Agent: John Bruckner, P.C.

20090201981 - Transmission element having a segmented characteristics map: A transmission element having at least one input and at least one output is described, the transmission element delivering a functional relationship (t=F(R)) between the input quantity (R) applied to the input and the output quantity (t) that may be picked up at the output and the functional relationship (t=F(R))... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090201984 - Bandwidth asymmetric communication system: The present invention relates to a bandwidth asymmetric communication system comprising at least one terminal having an uplink transmission unit (1) for transmitting radio frequency OFDM signals at a radio frequency and an access point having an uplink receiving unit (4) for receiving said radio frequency OFDM signals, said OFDM... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090201983 - Method and apparatus for estimating high-band energy in a bandwidth extension system: A method (100) includes receiving (101) an input digital audio signal comprising a narrow-band signal. The input digital audio signal is processed (102) to generate a processed digital audio signal. An estimate of the high-band energy level corresponding to the input digital audio signal is determined (103). Modification of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090201985 - Splicing mpeg streams: The present invention relates to a method of assembling a first data stream (ds1) with a second data stream (ds2), each data stream comprising coded frames (I,P), each coded frame being associated with a relative time value, specific coded frames of a data stream being preceded by an absolute time... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090201986 - Method and arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium: For this, it is suggested that, for blocks of (video) pictures containing significant transform coefficients, coding of the transform coefficients takes place in such a way that, for each block in a scan process, the positions of significant transform coefficients in the block and subsequently, in a reverse scan order—starting... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090201987 - Method and apparatus for playing a mobile video program: The present application provides a method and apparatus for playing a mobile video program. The mobile video playing method and apparatus provided by the invention buffer the program content received in real time when there is a considerable movement state change. After the movement state becomes stable, playing will be... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090201988 - Systems and methods for video processing in network edge devices: The present invention provides systems and methods for video processing, such as transcoding, storage, quality testing, and the like, in network edge devices. The present invention embeds various video processing capabilities within a network to provide advantages, such as superior per-user video handling, reduced network bandwidth, increased service offerings, and... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20090201989 - Systems and methods to optimize entropy decoding: The present invention provides for an improved video compression and encoding that optimizes and enhances the overall speed and efficiency of processing video data. In one embodiment, the video codec transmits the output of an entropy decoder to a lossless compressor and memory before going through inverse discrete cosine transformation... Agent: Patentmetrix

20090201990 - Method and device for reordering and multiplexing multimedia packets from multimedia streams pertaining to interrelated sessions: A method for reordering and multiplexing multimedia packets from multimedia data streams (S0, S1, . . . SN) pertaining to interrelated sessions includes a step of searching within the packets of a stream having the highest frame rate amongst said multimedia streams, for a common timing variable (TS) of the... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090201991 - Method for intra prediction coding of image data: A method of performing an intra prediction coding with respect to a plurality of blocks included in an image frame is provided. The method of performing an intra prediction coding includes confirming whether a neighboring pixel that is referred to in an intra prediction of a block exists in the... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090201992 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding hopping default view for multiple cameras system: Provided is a multiple camera system, and more particularly, a method and apparatus for processing hopping default views in an apparatus for encoding/decoding video streams of multiple view positions. The encoding apparatus for the multiple camera system includes an encoder for receiving video signals of multiple view positions, and encoding... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090201993 - System, method, and apparatus for scalable memory access: Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for scalable memory access. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for requesting services. The system comprises one or more requesting node(s) for performing a function with real-time requirements, such as making requests, wherein the one or more requesting node(s) indicates whether... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090201994 - Method and arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium: For this, it is suggested that, for blocks of (video) pictures containing significant transform coefficients, coding of the transform coefficients takes place in such a way that, for each block in a scan process, the positions of significant transform coefficients in the block and subsequently, in a reverse scan order—starting... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090201995 - Method and arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium: For this, it is suggested that, for blocks of (video) pictures containing significant transform coefficients, coding of the transform coefficients takes place in such a way that, for each block in a scan process, the positions of significant transform coefficients in the block and subsequently, in a reverse scan order—starting... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090201996 - Method and arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium: For this, it is suggested that, for blocks of (video) pictures containing significant transform coefficients, coding of the transform coefficients takes place in such a way that, for each block in a scan process, the positions of significant transform coefficients in the block and subsequently, in a reverse scan order—starting... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090202000 - Apparatus for encoding and decoding header data in picture signal transmission: Control data subsequent to an extension start code is stored in an encoding apparatus when transmitted after each header data of a video sequence layer, a GOP layer, a picture layer and a slice layer. And in transmission of the next header data, the content of the control data subsequent... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090201999 - Complementing bitstream error and decoding: Among other things, techniques, systems and apparatus are described for complementing a bitstream error so that a hardware decoder can stably decrypt a bitstream. A method of complementing a bitstream error includes: receiving a bitstream; detecting an error in the received bitstream; and complementing the detected error, before decrypting the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090201997 - Digital television transmission and receiving apparatus and method using 1/4 rate coded robust data: Provided is a Vestigial Side Band Digital Television (DTV) transmitter/receiver based on Advanced Television System Committee A/53. The invention provides DTV transmitter/receiver having a dual stream structure through generation of robust data which has a transmission rate a fourth as fast as that of normal data, and a method thereof.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090201998 - Time-stamp addition apparatus, time-stamp addition method and time-stamp addition program: A time-stamp addition apparatus configured to add a time stamp to each individual one of a plurality of TS (Transport Stream) packets included in an MPEG2-TS (Moving Picture Experts Group 2 Transport Stream) to serve as a time stamp representing an input timing to supply the individual TS packet to... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090202001 - Image processing method and apparatus, image processing program, and storage medium which stores the program: An image processing method includes determining a first bandwidth based on original image data; computing a filter coefficient array for implementing frequency characteristics corresponding to a band limitation using the first bandwidth; generating first filtered image data by subjecting the original image data to a filtering process using the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090202002 - Reducing errors in data by synchronizing operations with noiseless periods of data transmission: Methods, systems, computer readable media and means for reducing errors in data caused by noise are provided. In some embodiments of the present invention, timing data is transferred from first circuitry to second circuitry. From the timing data, one or both of the first circuitry and the second circuitry detect... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090202003 - Compensation of ethernet transmit baseline wander: Compensation of transmit baseline wander in data transmission on a network. In one aspect, compensating for baseline wander includes receiving a signal to be transmitted by a transmitter, where the transmitter is operable with a higher-speed transmission standard requiring magnetics a first open circuit inductance. The signal is processed to... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090202004 - Analog multi-tone receiver: An analog multi-tone receiver includes an interface for receiving a data transmission signal containing N sub-channel signals corresponding to N active sub-channels. The receiver includes a plurality of samplers to sample, during each time interval of a sequence of time intervals, the received signal in parallel to produce a plurality... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20090202007 - Frequency dependent phase rotation prior to mapping in an ofdm transmitter: An input bit stream is phase rotated by reversing bit pairs and inverting bits. The manipulated bit stream is mapped to a symbol and the mapped symbol is converted to the time domain such that an output of the time domain conversion is an ordered set of N samples that... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090202005 - Method and apparatus for improved channel estimation for communications signal processing: Teachings presented herein present a “whitening” channel estimation method and apparatus that produce high-quality net channel estimates for processing a received signal, such as a received CDMA signal. Processing includes forming an initial least squares problem (for medium channel estimates) using known pilot values and corresponding pilot observations for the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090202006 - Multi-carrier transmitter: A multi-carrier transmitter and methods thereof are provided. For example, a multi-carrier transmitter comprises a processor operable to receive a plurality of baseband signals. Each of the plurality of baseband signals correspond to a separate data communication. A modulator is in communication with the processor. A non-linear device is in... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20090202010 - Sub-carrier alignment mechanism for ofdm multi-carrier systems: A method of aligning sub-carriers of radio signals of two adjacent frequency channels and devices therefor are described. The method comprises aligning a first plurality of sub-carriers of a first radio signal and a second plurality of sub-carriers of a second radio signal within an overlapped frequency region in-between the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090202012 - System and method for data scrambling to reduce the crest factor in an ofdm waveform: A method is provided for minimizing the peak power level in a combination of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) tones. The method is particularly effective when the information to be communicated is digital data consisting of long patterns of “1”s or “0”s. The digital data of the message is combined... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Zo Attn: Patent Docketing

20090202011 - Techniques to time vary pilot locations in wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a receiver capable of selecting optimal pilot locations and providing feedback of the pilot locations to a transmitter in communication with the receiver. The optimal pilot locations may be selected by locations that avoid strong interference or platform noise at... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090202008 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication device including a sending data amount determination unit, a data sending unit, a monitor function unit, a transmission control data producing unit, a transmission control data sending unit, a data reception unit, and an application I/F (interface) unit. The transmission control data sending unit includes a transmission... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090202013 - Wireless communication network and method for extended-range uplink communications: Embodiments of a wireless network and method for extended-range communications are generally described herein. In some embodiments, an RF bandwidth of an uplink communication channel is established for a plurality of subscriber units. A desired channel quality is also established for uplink communications from each subscriber unit to a base... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090202009 - Wireless communications apparatus: Allocation of subcarriers of a wireless communications channel to antennas for transmission of said subcarriers from a multi-antenna transmitter, comprises selecting, for each subcarrier, the antenna with the most effective transmission performance against a predetermined performance criterion; and determining if subcarriers are evenly distributed amongst said antennas. If even distribution... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090202014 - Adaptation techniques in mimo: A method of the multiple input multiple output feedback is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the multiple input multiple output feedback method includes a receiver receiving a reference signal from a base station and calculating a signal to interference and noise ratio from the received reference... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090202016 - Open-loop transmit diversity schemes with four transmit antennas: In a wireless communication system, SFBC-based (Space-Frequency Block-Code) transmission diversity schemes provide enhancement for multiple antennas, such as the illustrative four, in order to achieve better performance than SFBC-FSTD (SFBC-Frequency Switching Transmit Diversity) alone. SFBC-PFSTD (Precoded Frequency Switching Transmit), which is multiplying a precoding matrix to the SFBC-FSTD signals, opens... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090202015 - Transmitter having full-diversity and full-rate, a linear space-time code generating method for the transmitter, and a mimo system using same: A space-time code has a codeword matrix. The codeword matrix is a square matrix with dimension equal to the number of the transmit antennas, wherein a row of the codeword matrix represents combined signals transmitted by each transmit antenna and a column of the codeword matrix represents timeslots of the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090202017 - Distortion control device and method: This invention includes a waveform analyzing means (13) for calculating an estimated value of a back-off value required by a power amplifier (2), which amplifies a high-frequency signal generated from a baseband signal (I, Q) to a predetermined transmission power, by analyzing the waveform of the baseband signal (I, Q),... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090202019 - Rf polar transmitter and integrated circuit with programmable filter module and methods for use therewith: A radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes a transmitter processing module that generates a processed signal and a modulating signal based on outbound data. An up-conversion module up-converts the processed signal to generate an up-converted signal. A programmable filter module generates a first plurality of delayed signals from the up-converted signal... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090202018 - Synchronization techniques for polar transmitters: Various techniques involving polar modulation are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include a storage medium and a calibration module. The storage medium stores multiple adjustment settings. Each of these adjustment settings corresponds to an operating condition. The calibration module selects one of the stored adjustment settings that corresponds to... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20090202020 - Distributed antenna diversity transmission method: A Distributed Antenna System employs a downlink transmission method that requires limited channel information feedback and less coherency between signals than is required for information broadcast. Distributed antennas are treated as diversity antennas with a given power allocation. Each antenna can transmit to multiple UEs by transmitting a weighed sum... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090202021 - Frequency offset compensation for detecting random access channel prefix: An exemplary method of communicating includes shifting a constant-amplitude zero autocorrelation (CAZAC) root sequence to a shifted CAZAC sequence. The CAZAC root sequence is used by a source of a received communication. The shifted CAZAC sequence is used for detecting a preamble of the received communication.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C./alcatel-lucent

20090202022 - Split channel receiver with very low second order intermodulation: A high performance radio frequency receiver includes an isolated transconductance amplifier with large binary and stepped gain control range, controlled impedance, and enhanced blocker immunity, for amplifying and converting a radio frequency signal to multiple electrically isolated currents; a pulse generator for generating in-phase and quadrature pulses; a crossover correction... Agent: Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione Freescale

20090202023 - Method and apparatus of binarizing input signal, disc driver and recording medium: A method and an apparatus are provided for binarizing an input signal, which is capable of reliably correcting an offset of the input signal even when the input signal does not reach a reference level or has a single frequency, a disc driver and a recording medium. The binarizing method... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090202024 - Reducing apparatus and method, and receiving apparatus: An object of the invention is to allow receiving a radio wave signal in a comfortable manner by overcoming defects in technique and performance according to the related art in reducing a multipath noise by use of an adaptive digital filter. In a multipath noise reducing apparatus (20), an A/D... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090202025 - Mobile wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication apparatus and communication processing method: Both a pre-word (PW) and a sync word (SW) are used to establish a synchronization or only the sync word (SW) is used to establish a synchronization in accordance with an operational status related to the synchronization in a mobile wireless communication apparatus. For example, during an initial synchronization with... Agent: Eric Robinson

20090202028 - Method, article, and apparatus for dynamic phase delay compensator: An apparatus, method, and article to dynamically adjust a data signal using a regenerated clock signal in an emulator to increase communication speed between the emulator and the evaluation board is disclosed. In one embodiment, this is achieved by applying a reference clock signal at a predetermined frequency to a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090202026 - Method, network, apparatus and computer program for using qualifying circuits in clock and data recovery circuits: A method for performing CDR on a digital transmission, and an apparatus, system, and computer program that operate in accordance with the method. The method includes oversampling the digital transmission into oversampled data, detecting a frequency component of the oversampled data, qualifying a decision logic to select a sample of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202027 - Unidirectional sweep training for an interconnect: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a receiver having a delay lock loop (DLL) to receive a clock signal and to generate a plurality of clock phases therefrom, and an offset controller including a first register set for a first phase interpolator and a second register set for a... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090202029 - Optimized primary synchronization sequences for dedicated multimedia broadcast/ multicast service: A method optimizes a selection of primary synchronization channel (P-SCH) sequences from an available set of P-SCH indices for a dedicated Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS). The criteria for selecting P-SCH indices include coprimeness, frequency offset sensitivity, multipath sensitivity, cross-correlation property in the time domain, auto-correlation property in the time domain... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090202030 - Automated clock relationship detection: Automated clock relationship detection may quickly and reliably detect a clock relationship with minimal latency while reducing problems due to metastability occurring at a solitary instant or extended over multiple clock periods. Automated clock relationship detection between two clocks may comprise (a) a shift register synchronizer that reduces the possibility... Agent: Tracy Parris

20090202031 - Delay estimation for a timing advance loop: An apparatus includes a radio frequency receiver and a timing adjustment unit that contains at least two channel impulse response estimators. The at least two channel impulse response estimators include an on-time estimator and at least one of an early estimator and a late estimator. The apparatus also includes a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090201973 - Apparatus for transmitting data and additional information simultaneously within a wire-based communication system: An apparatus is provided for transmitting data signals and additional information signals having partially overlapping frequency bands simultaneously within a wire based communication system over the same wired medium using a spread spectrum technique for modulating the additional information signals.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20090201974 - Methods and apparatus for spread spectrum modulation and demodulation: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for spread spectrum modulation and demodulation using a special spread spectrum sequence, characterized in that Golay complementary codes are modulated onto orthogonal channels such that a corresponding complex complementary code is obtained. The signal spread by such complex complementary code... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090201975 - Degassing centrifugal apparatus with sensor: The present invention relates to a degassing centrifugal apparatus (10), such as a degassing centrifugal pump (10) for use in a pulp- or papermaking process. The degassing centrifugal apparatus (10) according to the present invention comprises a rotatable hollow rotor (20) connected to a stationary fluid inlet (14) at one... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090201976 - System and method for improving dsl performance: A system and method is described for determining a condition of a communication line, such as the absence of a filter device on a digital subscriber line (DSL). A first signal characterized by a high upstream power is activated over the line, and a first set of parameters associated with... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20090201977 - Best frame derivation in a wirless communications network: A communications node can receive a plurality of communication signals, each including a block of data estimates with respective quality metrics. Each block of data estimates can be derived from an original block of data sent over different wireless paths, or from a derived block of data estimates sent over... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090201979 - Method and device for checking a subscriber line: In a method for checking a subscriber line with a first and a second electrical line, wherein each line is connected to an encoder/decoder via a subscriber line circuit, the first line is connected to ground, a resistance of the second line is increased, an audio signal is outputted from... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090201978 - System and method for processing secure transmissions: A method and apparatus for improving channel estimation within an OFDM communication system. Channel estimation in OFDM is usually performed with the aid of pilot symbols. The pilot symbols are typically spaced in time and frequency. The set of frequencies and times at which pilot symbols are inserted is referred... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20090201980 - Method and device for estimating a gaussian white noise power in a channel, and receiver: A method and device for estimating a Gaussian white noise power in a channel and a receiver are provided. The method includes performing a multi-path search on a received signal to find out paths of the signal; performing a noise estimation on one of the paths to acquire a total... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090201982 - Precision timing pulse width communications methodology: Systems and methods are described for pulse communications using precision timing. A method includes digitally pulse coding a data stream; and modulating a carrier signal using the digitally pulse coded data stream.... Agent: John Bruckner, P.C.

20090201981 - Transmission element having a segmented characteristics map: A transmission element having at least one input and at least one output is described, the transmission element delivering a functional relationship (t=F(R)) between the input quantity (R) applied to the input and the output quantity (t) that may be picked up at the output and the functional relationship (t=F(R))... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090201984 - Bandwidth asymmetric communication system: The present invention relates to a bandwidth asymmetric communication system comprising at least one terminal having an uplink transmission unit (1) for transmitting radio frequency OFDM signals at a radio frequency and an access point having an uplink receiving unit (4) for receiving said radio frequency OFDM signals, said OFDM... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090201983 - Method and apparatus for estimating high-band energy in a bandwidth extension system: A method (100) includes receiving (101) an input digital audio signal comprising a narrow-band signal. The input digital audio signal is processed (102) to generate a processed digital audio signal. An estimate of the high-band energy level corresponding to the input digital audio signal is determined (103). Modification of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090201985 - Splicing mpeg streams: The present invention relates to a method of assembling a first data stream (ds1) with a second data stream (ds2), each data stream comprising coded frames (I,P), each coded frame being associated with a relative time value, specific coded frames of a data stream being preceded by an absolute time... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090201986 - Method and arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium: For this, it is suggested that, for blocks of (video) pictures containing significant transform coefficients, coding of the transform coefficients takes place in such a way that, for each block in a scan process, the positions of significant transform coefficients in the block and subsequently, in a reverse scan order—starting... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090201987 - Method and apparatus for playing a mobile video program: The present application provides a method and apparatus for playing a mobile video program. The mobile video playing method and apparatus provided by the invention buffer the program content received in real time when there is a considerable movement state change. After the movement state becomes stable, playing will be... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090201988 - Systems and methods for video processing in network edge devices: The present invention provides systems and methods for video processing, such as transcoding, storage, quality testing, and the like, in network edge devices. The present invention embeds various video processing capabilities within a network to provide advantages, such as superior per-user video handling, reduced network bandwidth, increased service offerings, and... Agent: Clements Bernard PLLC

20090201989 - Systems and methods to optimize entropy decoding: The present invention provides for an improved video compression and encoding that optimizes and enhances the overall speed and efficiency of processing video data. In one embodiment, the video codec transmits the output of an entropy decoder to a lossless compressor and memory before going through inverse discrete cosine transformation... Agent: Patentmetrix

20090201990 - Method and device for reordering and multiplexing multimedia packets from multimedia streams pertaining to interrelated sessions: A method for reordering and multiplexing multimedia packets from multimedia data streams (S0, S1, . . . SN) pertaining to interrelated sessions includes a step of searching within the packets of a stream having the highest frame rate amongst said multimedia streams, for a common timing variable (TS) of the... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090201991 - Method for intra prediction coding of image data: A method of performing an intra prediction coding with respect to a plurality of blocks included in an image frame is provided. The method of performing an intra prediction coding includes confirming whether a neighboring pixel that is referred to in an intra prediction of a block exists in the... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090201992 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding hopping default view for multiple cameras system: Provided is a multiple camera system, and more particularly, a method and apparatus for processing hopping default views in an apparatus for encoding/decoding video streams of multiple view positions. The encoding apparatus for the multiple camera system includes an encoder for receiving video signals of multiple view positions, and encoding... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090201993 - System, method, and apparatus for scalable memory access: Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for scalable memory access. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for requesting services. The system comprises one or more requesting node(s) for performing a function with real-time requirements, such as making requests, wherein the one or more requesting node(s) indicates whether... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090201994 - Method and arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium: For this, it is suggested that, for blocks of (video) pictures containing significant transform coefficients, coding of the transform coefficients takes place in such a way that, for each block in a scan process, the positions of significant transform coefficients in the block and subsequently, in a reverse scan order—starting... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090201995 - Method and arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium: For this, it is suggested that, for blocks of (video) pictures containing significant transform coefficients, coding of the transform coefficients takes place in such a way that, for each block in a scan process, the positions of significant transform coefficients in the block and subsequently, in a reverse scan order—starting... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090201996 - Method and arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium: For this, it is suggested that, for blocks of (video) pictures containing significant transform coefficients, coding of the transform coefficients takes place in such a way that, for each block in a scan process, the positions of significant transform coefficients in the block and subsequently, in a reverse scan order—starting... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090202000 - Apparatus for encoding and decoding header data in picture signal transmission: Control data subsequent to an extension start code is stored in an encoding apparatus when transmitted after each header data of a video sequence layer, a GOP layer, a picture layer and a slice layer. And in transmission of the next header data, the content of the control data subsequent... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090201999 - Complementing bitstream error and decoding: Among other things, techniques, systems and apparatus are described for complementing a bitstream error so that a hardware decoder can stably decrypt a bitstream. A method of complementing a bitstream error includes: receiving a bitstream; detecting an error in the received bitstream; and complementing the detected error, before decrypting the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090201997 - Digital television transmission and receiving apparatus and method using 1/4 rate coded robust data: Provided is a Vestigial Side Band Digital Television (DTV) transmitter/receiver based on Advanced Television System Committee A/53. The invention provides DTV transmitter/receiver having a dual stream structure through generation of robust data which has a transmission rate a fourth as fast as that of normal data, and a method thereof.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090201998 - Time-stamp addition apparatus, time-stamp addition method and time-stamp addition program: A time-stamp addition apparatus configured to add a time stamp to each individual one of a plurality of TS (Transport Stream) packets included in an MPEG2-TS (Moving Picture Experts Group 2 Transport Stream) to serve as a time stamp representing an input timing to supply the individual TS packet to... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090202001 - Image processing method and apparatus, image processing program, and storage medium which stores the program: An image processing method includes determining a first bandwidth based on original image data; computing a filter coefficient array for implementing frequency characteristics corresponding to a band limitation using the first bandwidth; generating first filtered image data by subjecting the original image data to a filtering process using the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090202002 - Reducing errors in data by synchronizing operations with noiseless periods of data transmission: Methods, systems, computer readable media and means for reducing errors in data caused by noise are provided. In some embodiments of the present invention, timing data is transferred from first circuitry to second circuitry. From the timing data, one or both of the first circuitry and the second circuitry detect... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090202003 - Compensation of ethernet transmit baseline wander: Compensation of transmit baseline wander in data transmission on a network. In one aspect, compensating for baseline wander includes receiving a signal to be transmitted by a transmitter, where the transmitter is operable with a higher-speed transmission standard requiring magnetics a first open circuit inductance. The signal is processed to... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090202004 - Analog multi-tone receiver: An analog multi-tone receiver includes an interface for receiving a data transmission signal containing N sub-channel signals corresponding to N active sub-channels. The receiver includes a plurality of samplers to sample, during each time interval of a sequence of time intervals, the received signal in parallel to produce a plurality... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20090202007 - Frequency dependent phase rotation prior to mapping in an ofdm transmitter: An input bit stream is phase rotated by reversing bit pairs and inverting bits. The manipulated bit stream is mapped to a symbol and the mapped symbol is converted to the time domain such that an output of the time domain conversion is an ordered set of N samples that... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090202005 - Method and apparatus for improved channel estimation for communications signal processing: Teachings presented herein present a “whitening” channel estimation method and apparatus that produce high-quality net channel estimates for processing a received signal, such as a received CDMA signal. Processing includes forming an initial least squares problem (for medium channel estimates) using known pilot values and corresponding pilot observations for the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090202006 - Multi-carrier transmitter: A multi-carrier transmitter and methods thereof are provided. For example, a multi-carrier transmitter comprises a processor operable to receive a plurality of baseband signals. Each of the plurality of baseband signals correspond to a separate data communication. A modulator is in communication with the processor. A non-linear device is in... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20090202010 - Sub-carrier alignment mechanism for ofdm multi-carrier systems: A method of aligning sub-carriers of radio signals of two adjacent frequency channels and devices therefor are described. The method comprises aligning a first plurality of sub-carriers of a first radio signal and a second plurality of sub-carriers of a second radio signal within an overlapped frequency region in-between the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090202012 - System and method for data scrambling to reduce the crest factor in an ofdm waveform: A method is provided for minimizing the peak power level in a combination of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) tones. The method is particularly effective when the information to be communicated is digital data consisting of long patterns of “1”s or “0”s. The digital data of the message is combined... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Zo Attn: Patent Docketing

20090202011 - Techniques to time vary pilot locations in wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a receiver capable of selecting optimal pilot locations and providing feedback of the pilot locations to a transmitter in communication with the receiver. The optimal pilot locations may be selected by locations that avoid strong interference or platform noise at... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090202008 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication device including a sending data amount determination unit, a data sending unit, a monitor function unit, a transmission control data producing unit, a transmission control data sending unit, a data reception unit, and an application I/F (interface) unit. The transmission control data sending unit includes a transmission... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090202013 - Wireless communication network and method for extended-range uplink communications: Embodiments of a wireless network and method for extended-range communications are generally described herein. In some embodiments, an RF bandwidth of an uplink communication channel is established for a plurality of subscriber units. A desired channel quality is also established for uplink communications from each subscriber unit to a base... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090202009 - Wireless communications apparatus: Allocation of subcarriers of a wireless communications channel to antennas for transmission of said subcarriers from a multi-antenna transmitter, comprises selecting, for each subcarrier, the antenna with the most effective transmission performance against a predetermined performance criterion; and determining if subcarriers are evenly distributed amongst said antennas. If even distribution... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090202014 - Adaptation techniques in mimo: A method of the multiple input multiple output feedback is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the multiple input multiple output feedback method includes a receiver receiving a reference signal from a base station and calculating a signal to interference and noise ratio from the received reference... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090202016 - Open-loop transmit diversity schemes with four transmit antennas: In a wireless communication system, SFBC-based (Space-Frequency Block-Code) transmission diversity schemes provide enhancement for multiple antennas, such as the illustrative four, in order to achieve better performance than SFBC-FSTD (SFBC-Frequency Switching Transmit Diversity) alone. SFBC-PFSTD (Precoded Frequency Switching Transmit), which is multiplying a precoding matrix to the SFBC-FSTD signals, opens... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090202015 - Transmitter having full-diversity and full-rate, a linear space-time code generating method for the transmitter, and a mimo system using same: A space-time code has a codeword matrix. The codeword matrix is a square matrix with dimension equal to the number of the transmit antennas, wherein a row of the codeword matrix represents combined signals transmitted by each transmit antenna and a column of the codeword matrix represents timeslots of the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090202017 - Distortion control device and method: This invention includes a waveform analyzing means (13) for calculating an estimated value of a back-off value required by a power amplifier (2), which amplifies a high-frequency signal generated from a baseband signal (I, Q) to a predetermined transmission power, by analyzing the waveform of the baseband signal (I, Q),... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090202019 - Rf polar transmitter and integrated circuit with programmable filter module and methods for use therewith: A radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes a transmitter processing module that generates a processed signal and a modulating signal based on outbound data. An up-conversion module up-converts the processed signal to generate an up-converted signal. A programmable filter module generates a first plurality of delayed signals from the up-converted signal... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090202018 - Synchronization techniques for polar transmitters: Various techniques involving polar modulation are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include a storage medium and a calibration module. The storage medium stores multiple adjustment settings. Each of these adjustment settings corresponds to an operating condition. The calibration module selects one of the stored adjustment settings that corresponds to... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20090202020 - Distributed antenna diversity transmission method: A Distributed Antenna System employs a downlink transmission method that requires limited channel information feedback and less coherency between signals than is required for information broadcast. Distributed antennas are treated as diversity antennas with a given power allocation. Each antenna can transmit to multiple UEs by transmitting a weighed sum... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090202021 - Frequency offset compensation for detecting random access channel prefix: An exemplary method of communicating includes shifting a constant-amplitude zero autocorrelation (CAZAC) root sequence to a shifted CAZAC sequence. The CAZAC root sequence is used by a source of a received communication. The shifted CAZAC sequence is used for detecting a preamble of the received communication.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C./alcatel-lucent

20090202022 - Split channel receiver with very low second order intermodulation: A high performance radio frequency receiver includes an isolated transconductance amplifier with large binary and stepped gain control range, controlled impedance, and enhanced blocker immunity, for amplifying and converting a radio frequency signal to multiple electrically isolated currents; a pulse generator for generating in-phase and quadrature pulses; a crossover correction... Agent: Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione Freescale

20090202023 - Method and apparatus of binarizing input signal, disc driver and recording medium: A method and an apparatus are provided for binarizing an input signal, which is capable of reliably correcting an offset of the input signal even when the input signal does not reach a reference level or has a single frequency, a disc driver and a recording medium. The binarizing method... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090202024 - Reducing apparatus and method, and receiving apparatus: An object of the invention is to allow receiving a radio wave signal in a comfortable manner by overcoming defects in technique and performance according to the related art in reducing a multipath noise by use of an adaptive digital filter. In a multipath noise reducing apparatus (20), an A/D... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090202025 - Mobile wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication apparatus and communication processing method: Both a pre-word (PW) and a sync word (SW) are used to establish a synchronization or only the sync word (SW) is used to establish a synchronization in accordance with an operational status related to the synchronization in a mobile wireless communication apparatus. For example, during an initial synchronization with... Agent: Eric Robinson

20090202028 - Method, article, and apparatus for dynamic phase delay compensator: An apparatus, method, and article to dynamically adjust a data signal using a regenerated clock signal in an emulator to increase communication speed between the emulator and the evaluation board is disclosed. In one embodiment, this is achieved by applying a reference clock signal at a predetermined frequency to a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090202026 - Method, network, apparatus and computer program for using qualifying circuits in clock and data recovery circuits: A method for performing CDR on a digital transmission, and an apparatus, system, and computer program that operate in accordance with the method. The method includes oversampling the digital transmission into oversampled data, detecting a frequency component of the oversampled data, qualifying a decision logic to select a sample of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202027 - Unidirectional sweep training for an interconnect: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a receiver having a delay lock loop (DLL) to receive a clock signal and to generate a plurality of clock phases therefrom, and an offset controller including a first register set for a first phase interpolator and a second register set for a... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090202029 - Optimized primary synchronization sequences for dedicated multimedia broadcast/ multicast service: A method optimizes a selection of primary synchronization channel (P-SCH) sequences from an available set of P-SCH indices for a dedicated Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS). The criteria for selecting P-SCH indices include coprimeness, frequency offset sensitivity, multipath sensitivity, cross-correlation property in the time domain, auto-correlation property in the time domain... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090202030 - Automated clock relationship detection: Automated clock relationship detection may quickly and reliably detect a clock relationship with minimal latency while reducing problems due to metastability occurring at a solitary instant or extended over multiple clock periods. Automated clock relationship detection between two clocks may comprise (a) a shift register synchronizer that reduces the possibility... Agent: Tracy Parris

20090202031 - Delay estimation for a timing advance loop: An apparatus includes a radio frequency receiver and a timing adjustment unit that contains at least two channel impulse response estimators. The at least two channel impulse response estimators include an on-time estimator and at least one of an early estimator and a late estimator. The apparatus also includes a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090196328 - Method and apparatus adapted for localized hopping ofdma and power efficient ofdma multiplexing: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver configured for OFDM transmissions in frequency-contiguous, hopping, sub-channels.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090196329 - Spreading codes for a satellite navigation system: One embodiment of the invention provides a method of creating a set of secondary spreading codes for use in a satellite navigation system comprising a constellation of satellites. Each satellite in the constellation employs a tiered spreading code comprising at least a primary code and a secondary code. Each satellite... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090196330 - Pre-phase error correction: A CDMA communication system includes a signal processor which encodes voice and nonvoice signals into data at various rates, e.g. data rates of 8 kbps, 16 kbps, 32 kbps, or 64 kbps as I and Q signals. The signal processor selects a specific data rate depending upon the type of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090196331 - Signal processing unit and wireless communication device: A signal processing unit and a wireless communication device are provided for making it possible to detect a frequency by means of a small scale operation circuit in a short time. The signal processing unit and the wireless communication device are comprised of a carrier data generating unit; a carrier... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090196332 - Cooperative communication system and method using the same: A cooperative communication system and method is provided. A cooperative communication relay station includes a signal receiving unit which receives a source signal from a source node and a multiple relaying signal relayed by a neighboring relay station, a signal generation unit which generates a first relay signal and a... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090196333 - Channel estimation for high data rate transmission using multiple control channels: For high rate data transmission, channel estimates may be computed using multiple control channels. An exemplary method comprises determining a transmission parameter for a data channel, generating first and second channel estimates derived respectively from first and second control channels, and selectively combining the first and second channel estimates to... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090196334 - System and method for in-phase/quadrature-phase (i/q) mismatch measurement and compensation: A system for determining in-phase and quadrature-phase mismatch in a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) communication architecture includes at least one transmitter coupled to at least one receiver and an in-phase (I) signal, quadrature-phase (Q) signal mismatch element configured to receive I and Q signal components over at least one communication channel,... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090196335 - Signal processing device and signal processing method utilized in communication system: The present invention provides a signal processing device and a signal processing method utilized in a communication system, wherein the communication system includes at least a channel. The signal processing device includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a first adding unit, a feed forward equalizing unit, a data slicing unit, a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090196336 - Signal processing device utilized in communication system: The present invention provides a signal processing device. The signal processing device includes a first feed forward equalizing unit, a first data slicing unit, a second feed forward equalizing unit, and a second data slicing unit. The first feed forward equalizing unit is utilized for performing a compensation operation according... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090196337 - Pulse width modulation circuits and methods: Noise reducing circuitry may be included in a pulse width modulation circuit. The pulse width modulation circuit may include a comparator adapted to receive an analog signal and a sawtooth signal and to compare such signals to generate a pulse width output. In general, the noise reducing circuitry may include... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP US Bank Center

20090196341 - Annotations for supporting trick mode operations: Systems and methods for generating annotations for trick mode operation in a digital home communication terminal (DHCT) are disclosed. One such method comprises ingesting a program. The program includes a series of picture sequences. The method also comprises storing the program on a local storage device and, as the program... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090196340 - Digital signal processing device, display device, and program: In at least one embodiment of the disclosure, a digital signal processing device is configured to receive a TMDS signal and a hot-plug signal via a digital signal cable. A TMDS signal determination section is configured to determine whether the TMDS signal has been received. A hot-plug signal determination section... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090196338 - Entropy coding efficiency enhancement utilizing energy distribution remapping: Architecture for enhancing the compression (e.g., luma, chroma) of a video signal and improving the perceptual quality of the video compression schemes. The architecture operates to reshape the normal multimodal energy distribution of the input video signal to a new energy distribution. In the context of luma, the algorithm maps... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090196339 - Transcoding apparatus and transcoding method: According to one embodiment, a transcoding apparatus includes an acquisition module configure to acquire one or more pieces of setting data each including a profile and information on a genre of video content made public on a network, the profile including information on a compression codec, bit rate, and resolution... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090196342 - Adaptive geometric partitioning for video encoding: There are provided methods and apparatus for adaptive geometric partitioning for video encoding and decoding. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding image data corresponding to pictures by adaptively partitioning at least portions of the pictures responsive to at least one parametric model. The at least one parametric model involves... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090196343 - Channel capacity estimation and prediction method and apparatus for rate adaptive wireless video: There is provided a channel capacity estimation method for adaptive video transmission, the method including: estimating a Bit Error Rate (BER) for a received video packet; and estimating channel capacity by using the estimated BER.... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090196345 - Format adaptable video transcoding: A method for providing adaptive video compression includes encoding a video stream in a first compressed format, storing the video stream in a storage device, retrieving the video stream from the storage device, decoding the video stream, encoding the video stream in a second compressed format, and storing the video... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090196344 - Method and apparatus for transcoding between hybrid video codec bitstreams: A method and apparatus for performing transcoding between bitstreams coded by hybrid video codecs which uses fewer resources than decoding/decompressing the original bitstream and recoding/recompressing it to the second format. According to a specific embodiment, the present method can exploits the similarity of the standard video compression algorithms to, where... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090196348 - Intermediate compression of reference frames for transcoding: A system (and a method) for compressing reference frames in a video transcoder. A transcoder receives a compressed input stream in a first compressed format and output a compressed output stream in a second compressed format. A decoder and an encoder in the transcoder use compressed reference frames. The reference... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090196347 - Method and apparatus for implementing reduced memory mode for high-definition television: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing an enhanced reduced memory mode (RMM) of decoding HDTV MPEG-2 video stream. In one instance, the RMM mode is adaptively enabled with up/down conversion by using the picture-type information. In another instance, the RMM mode is provided by performing anchor-frame compression/decompression by... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090196346 - Transition creation for encoded video in the transform domain: A system and method for calculating data representative of at least one intermediary transition image between a first image and a second image in the encoded domain is disclosed. Cinematic transitions can be created between encoded still images and frames from video sequences. For each corresponding location within the first... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090196349 - Method for estimating contour of video object: A method for estimating a boundary between a background and a user object in a video, in which the user object is segmented from the background is provided. The initial object contour is estimated in a first video frame for object segmentation, and color probability density functions are estimated for... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090196350 - Methods and devices of intra prediction encoding and decoding: Methods and devices of intra prediction encoding and decoding are described, so that the encoding performance of intra coding is better. A prediction encoding is performed on the same frame by using at least two intra prediction encoding modes, and information indicating the intra prediction encoding mode of each block... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090196351 - Video encoding/decoding apparatus and method for color image: A video encoding/decoding apparatus and method for color images include a first motion prediction unit that generates a first prediction residue image of an input image on a basis of a first motion prediction result of the input image. An image information detection unit sets a predetermined color component of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090196352 - Video decoder system and method with video enhancement using direct contrast enhancement in the spatial domain: Video decoding with video enhancement using direct contrast enhancement in the spatial domain including transforming the decoded intramacroblock output to a matrix of spatial domain coefficients; multiplying the spatial domain coefficients with the corresponding intramacroblock enhancement matrix elements of an intramacroblock enhancement matrix to provide enhanced spatial coefficients; transforming said... Agent: Iandiorio Teska & Coleman

20090196353 - Video compression method and apparatus: A video compression system may have first and second dual-port memory devices, a third memory device, and first and second processors that may provide enhanced processing, including motion estimation. The first processor may be configured to store in the second memory device first and second video frames and to transfer... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20090196354 - Method for scalably encoding and decoding video signal: In one embodiment, decoding of a video signal includes predicting at least a portion of a current image in a current layer based on at least a portion of a base image in a base layer and shift information for samples in the predicted current image.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090196355 - 2-bin parallel decoder for advanced video processing: A critical phase of video processing is the decoding of bit streams coming from standard based heavy compressed sources. Entropy coding can be effectively decoded by adopting parallelism to speed up the process. Reasonable assumptions make possible for example the multiple bits at a time processing for the Context-based Adaptive... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090196356 - Multi-stream decoder apparatus: A time management section (102) and a bitstream switching control section (103) are provided in a decoder control device (100), and at the end of a predetermined unit of decoding process, a decoder (110) notifies the switching control section (103) of the completion of the decoding process. The time management... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090196357 - Trick mode operations: Systems and methods for trick mode operation in a digital home communication terminal (DHCT) are disclosed. One such method comprises receiving a plurality of parameters describing trick mode operations for a stored program. The method also comprises selecting multiple picture sets, from the stored program, based at least in part... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090196358 - Method and apparatus for signal transmission: A signal transmission arrangement and a method for transmitting signals are disclosed.... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090196367 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving reference signal in a communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a reference signal in a communication system are provided, in which a transmitter determines first and second different transmit power values for first and second pilot tones residing in one of the substantially same time resource and the substantially same frequency resource among pilot... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090196360 - Lattice-reduction-aided mimo detectors: A Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovász (LLL)-based technique is utilized to reduce the complexity of a MIMO detector. Basis vectors can be pre-sorted, such as by V-BLAST ordering or sorted-QR ordering, prior to applying Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization (GSO) to further improve performance. Alternatively, a joint sorting and LLL reduction (JSAR) technique can be utilized such... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090196369 - Method and system for optimal bitloading in communication and data compression systems: This invention provides a method and system for determining the number of bits to assign to a frequency range in a signal. The present invention is capable of bit allocation, with B total bits, among a plurality of N frequency ranges in time a time O(N log N), which is... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20090196359 - Methods and systems to insert filler data in unallocated resource regions of a frame: In at least some embodiments, a system comprises a first device that prepares a frame for transmission and a second device in communication with the first device. The first device is configured to identify unallocated resource regions in the prepared frame and insert filler data in the unallocated resource regions.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090196361 - Non-binary source-to-channel symbol mappings with minimized distortion: System and methodologies for low-distortion index assignment for quantization are provided herein. Various aspects described herein utilize a graph theoretic approach for determining an index assignment mapping between a quantization codebook and a signal constellation by employing a variation of the subgraph isomorphism problem. The graph theoretic index assignment algorithms... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090196364 - Radio communication device, radio communication method, and program: A radio communication method stores a plurality MAC frames for each of a plurality of destinations. The method decides the longest transmission time of transmission times needed to transmit the plurality of MAC frames to each of the plurality of destinations within a fixed period. The method generates a plurality... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090196363 - Radio communications apparatus and communication method: A radio communications apparatus transmitting data using multiple antennas is disclosed that includes a data link layer control information generation part configured to generate multiple data link layer control information items from generated data link layer control information; a data unit generation part configured to generate multiple data units to... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090196368 - Radio transmission control method, radio receiver apparatus, and radio transmitter apparatus: Conventionally, if the number of transmission antennas is greater than that of reception antennas, different signals simultaneously transmitted from the transmission antennas cannot be separated from one another at the receiving end, resulting in a significant degradation of received-signal quality. A transmitter and a receiver each have a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090196362 - Transmission method and apparatus for allocating subchannel and forming stationary beam to maximize transmission efficiency in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing/multiple access based wireless communication system: Provided are a transmission method and apparatus for allocating a subchannel and forming a stationary beam to maximize transmission efficiency in an OFDMA based wireless communication system. The method includes determining the subchannel for the equipment of each user based on the channel state of the equipment of each user,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090196366 - Transmission of uplink control information with data in wireless networks: Within a wireless network, feedback information from one node to another node is necessary to support various functions. The first node receives an allocation of resources for data transmission. The first node generates cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits for a selected feedback control information type and encodes the selected feedback... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090196365 - Wireless communication apparatus, antenna calibration method and program: A wireless communication apparatus includes a loopback transfer function acquisition section that, when a first path including all paths from each branch of the first set to each branch of the second set via the antenna is formed, acquires a loopback transfer function of each path included in the first... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090196372 - Channel sounding and estimation strategies for antenna selection in mimo systems: Techniques and devices for antenna selection in a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system, in which communication is between a transmitter having a first plurality of radio-frequency (RF) chains coupled to a first plurality of antennas and a receiver having a second plurality of RF chains coupled to a second plurality of antennas,... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP (marvell)

20090196370 - Iterative interference cancellation: An exemplary method of communicating includes determining a first user channel estimate from a communication comprising first and second user reference sequences. The first user reference sequence is reconstructed using the determined first user channel estimate. The communication is revised based upon the reconstructed first user reference sequence. Then determining... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C./alcatel-lucent

20090196371 - Mimo antenna apparatus changing antenna elements based on transmission capacity: A controller of a MIMO antenna apparatus calculates a current transmission capacity based on signal levels detected by a signal level detector circuit. The controller calculates an estimated transmission capacity assuming that at least one of antenna elements currently connected to a MIMO modulator and demodulator circuit is changed to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090196373 - System for increasing rfid tag reader sensitivity: A system for increasing the sensitivity of a receiver in an RFID tag reader. The system includes a directional coupler which receives the signal transmitted by the reader and which receives a backscatter signal from the RFID tag. The output of the directional coupler includes a transmit reference signal and... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090196374 - Minimal dead time digitally compensated process transmitter: A process transmitter includes a sensor for producing an analog process signal as a function of a process parameter. The uncompensated analog process signal is digitized by an A/D converter and digitally compensated by a digital processor. The digitized signal from the analog-to-digital converter is also band pass filtered. The... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090196375 - Supply independent schmitt trigger rc oscillator: Embodiments of the present invention provide an oscillator circuit having a steady output frequency that is independent of the supplied voltage. This oscillator includes a Schmitt trigger circuit which may be implemented within an integrated circuit of a wireless terminal or other like portable electronic device. The Schmitt trigger circuit... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090196376 - Demodulation circuit of differential phase shift keying (dpsk) modulated signals: A demodulation circuit demodulates a differential phase shift keying (DPSK) modulated received signal. A phase difference data generator compares phase data representing a phase of the received signal input at every predetermined sampling time with previous phase data preceding by one symbol time to generate phase difference data representing a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090196377 - Correlation system and method for gnss receiver: A correlation system for a GNSS receiver uses an FFT engine to perform correlation and post-FFT operation. The FFT engine executes FFT operation to an input data stream so as to generate a frequency-domain correlation with frequency-domain C/A code and IFFT operation to the frequency-domain correlation result to generate post... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090196379 - Multiple-input multiple-output signal detectors based on relaxed lattice reduction: System and methodologies for reduced-complexity signal detection and decoding in a wireless communication system are provided herein. Systems and methodologies presented herein can utilize a relaxed form of the Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) lattice reduction algorithm to reduce the complexity of lattice reduction operations in the context of MIMO detection. Additional systems... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090196378 - Post correlation system for gnss receiver: A post correlation system for a GNSS receiver uses an FFT engine to perform post-FFT operation to obtain spectrum data. The system has a contender selector for sieving magnitude results of the spectrum data meeting some specific conditions for selected hypotheses. The sieved magnitudes results rather than all the magnitude... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090196382 - Equalizing structure and equalizing method: An equalizing structure and method for a wireless communication system receiving device, in which two or more transmit signals transmitted in parallel from one or more transmitters are received in received signal vectors representing two or more received data streams, the signals including information modulated onto carrier signals according to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090196381 - Information reproducing device: In an information reproducing device for performing maximum likelihood decoding using asynchronous sample data, data from the recording medium 101 is sampled by an A/D converter 103 at an asynchronous sampling clock generated by a clock generator 104, to obtain asynchronous sample data. A timing detector 106 detects a phase... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090196380 - Method for generating soft decision signal from hard decision signal in a receiver system: A receiver system, which generates a soft decision signal from a hard decision signal, includes a hard output receiver for determining a received bit to generate a hard decision signal. A hard input soft output receiver determines an estimated probability of symbol data corresponding to the received bit based on... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090196383 - Correlation apparatus and method for frequency synchronization in broadband wireless access communication system: A correlation apparatus and method for frequency synchronization are provided. A frequency synchronization method of a receiver in a broadband wireless access communication system includes acquiring a highest correlation value by conducting a differential correlation of a variable interval between a received signal and a reference signal and performing a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090196384 - Direct radio frequency (rf) sampling with recursive filtering method: A radio receiver 2000 with a sampling mixer 1100 for creating a discrete-time sample stream by directly sampling an RF current with history and rotating capacitors 1111 and 1112, wherein the accumulated charge on the rotating capacitors is read-out to produce a sample. The mixer provides immunity to noise glitches... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090196386 - System and method for blind identification of multichannel finite impulse response filters using an iterative structured total least-squares technique: A system for, and method of, blind identification of multichannel finite impulse response filters. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a decomposition generator configured to construct, from noisy symbols containing data, a block-Hankel structured matrix and a decomposition thereof, (2) an iterative matrix re-estimator coupled to the decomposition generator... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090196385 - Systems and methods for detecting a signal across multiple nyquist bands: Systems and methods for detecting a signal across multiple Nyquist bands. The systems include an analog to digital converter (ADC), a clock signal generator configured to output a sample clock signal to the ADC, and a processor configured to process sampled signals and control the clock signal generator. The processor... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090196387 - Instant-acquisition clock and data recovery systems and methods for serial communications links: Methods and systems for recovering clock and data in data streams communicated over serial communications links. An exemplary serial communications receiver system includes a line receiver configured to receive a data stream from a serial communications link and an instant-acquisition clock and data recovery circuit coupled to the line receiver.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (panasonic)

20090196388 - Signal transmission system and semiconductor integrated circuit device: Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit device including a transmitting circuit and a receiving coil inductively coupled to a transmitting coil. The transmitting circuit transmits data by supplying a current through the transmitting coil not at the time of transition of data but at every rising edge or falling edge... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090196389 - Signal processing method and circuit to convert analog signal to digital signal: A phase determination unit in a signal processing circuit generates sampling clocks with different phases in a clock generator and sequentially provides them to an analog-to-digital convertor. Then, the phase determination unit obtains differences between each adjacent two signal levels in each sampled digital signal by use of the sampling... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC