Pulse or digital communications inventions 09/09

20090238240 - Single-carrier burst structure for decision feedback equalization and tracking: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for employing a special format for transmitting data blocks which allows parallel equalizations at a receiver. By applying parallel equalization operations, a clock at the receiver can operate at a fraction of the input signal's data rate, which is more... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238241 - Frequency hopping pattern and arrangment for sounding reference signal: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program that includes forming frequency hopping position of the sounding reference signal is based on a hopping pattern. The hopping pattern of the sounding reference signal is configured to utilize a tree assignment for a frequency allocation of the sounding reference signal and... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090238242 - Transmitter and frequency hopping method of the same: Provided are a transmitter and a frequency hopping method thereof. The transmitter includes: a channel encoder outputting a bit stream of encoded information data; a symbol mapper outputting a symbol stream obtained by constellating the bit stream; a frequency allocation and hopping part determining a frequency to be allocated to... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090238243 - Random phase multiple access system with location tracking: A method of determining the location of a communication tag in a random phase multiple access communication network is disclosed. A ranging request signal that is spread using a first pseudo-noise code and offset with a first random timing offset is transmitted at a first time. A ranging response signal... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090238244 - Method for operating a rake receiver: A rake receiver and method for operating a rake receiver is provided including receiving a signal in a rake receiver having at least one finger, each of the at least one finger characterized by a channel phase and a channel frequency, removing a phase and a portion of the frequency... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090238245 - Despreading spread spectrum data: A method for de-spreading spread data includes receiving a data stream by multiple access communication where the received data stream is spread using a pseudo-noise (PN) code; multiplying a first portion of the received data stream including data from a first user by a first portion of a PN signal... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090238246 - Diversity receiver: A receiver, includes a plurality of antennas to receive radio signals from a plurality of transmission paths, and a plurality of sets of RAKE fingers to generate first signals. Each set of RAKE fingers is coupled to a respective one of the plurality of antennas, and a weighting factor generator... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20090238247 - Low-cost and low-complexity inner communication receiver for receive diversity: A communication receiver includes first and second antenna elements for receiving first and second signals respectively representative of first and second symbols encoded with a first or second channel coefficient and first and second delay lines for delaying the first and second signals respectively. A master rake module up-samples a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20090238248 - Spread spectrum with doppler optimization: A method of compensating for doppler phase errors includes receiving a signal at a receiver wherein the signal is spread using a pseudo-noise code, dividing the signal into a plurality of smaller coherent units and then compensating for induced doppler phase errors by analyzing the plurality of smaller coherent units.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090238251 - Apparatus for managing frequency use: A device includes a plurality of integrated circuits (ICs). An IC includes a millimeter wave (MMW) transceiver and a controller. The controller is operably coupled to the MMW transceiver and to: identify one or more other devices that have an intra-device MMW communication coverage area that overlaps with the intra-device... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090238249 - Configurable transceiver: A system is disclosed for operating a plurality of receiver paths and/or a plurality of transmitter paths in a single mode or multiple mode configuration.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090238250 - Reduced complexity frequency band and virtual antenna combination (vac) selection: A downlink Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) is estimated in two steps. Initially, one or more subsets of received reference symbols are selected. If the transmitter may transmit signals in one or more of two or more frequency bands, optimal frequency bands are selected based on a first subset of reference... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090238252 - Managing ssl fixtures over plc networks: Managing solid-state luminary (SSL) fixtures over power line carrier (PLC) networks is described herein. Devices provided in this description include SSL arrays, and converter circuitry coupled to drive the SSL arrays. More specifically, the converter circuitry is adapted to convert input voltage received from a power distribution network into a... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20090238253 - System and method for communicating information using time-and-frequency-bounded base functions: Systems and methods for efficiently conveying one or more broadband communication channels over a transmission medium. Communication is effected by transforming an incoming digital bit stream into a Time-and-Frequency-Bounded (TFB) information stream that includes a plurality of TFB packets. This transformation is accomplished through the use of a plurality of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090238254 - System and method for establishing a diagnostic transmission mode and communicating over the same: Upon detection of a trigger, such as the exceeding of an error threshold or the direction of a user, a diagnostic link system enters a diagnostic information transmission mode. This diagnostic information transmission mode allows for two modems to exchange diagnostic and/or test information that may not otherwise be exchangeable... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20090238255 - Estimation of error propagation probability to improve performance of decision-feedback based systems: A decision feedback-based communication system comprising a unit for computing an estimated Error Propagation Probability (EPP) for a plurality of received signals, and a unit for receiving the EPP estimation and improving detected signal quality based thereon. The system can be a coded system or an uncoded system.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090238256 - Cqi feedback structure: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a reporting allocation unit, an indicator interpretation unit and methods of operating a reporting allocation unit and an indicator interpretation unit. In one embodiment, the reporting allocation unit includes an indicator configuration module configured to provide reporting interval and offset values of corresponding rank... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090238257 - Lonely pulse compensation: An apparatus comprising a transmission line, a receiver circuit, and a high pass filter circuit coupled between the transmission line and a receiver circuit input. The receiver circuit is configured to receive a data signal over the transmission line at a first data rate. The high pass filter circuit is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090238258 - Switched mode power amplification: The invention concerns a method of amplifying a radio frequency signal, a switched mode power amplifying device and a radio transmission device comprising such a power amplifying device. The switched power amplifying device (10) comprises an envelope signal input (El), an arithmetic combining unit (SUB) between the envelope signal input... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090238259 - Method of rate control for video frame compression and encoder thereof: A method for encoding a video frame includes segmenting a video frame into a plurality of frame segments; compressing a frame segment according to a plurality of compression rates to generate a plurality of coded outputs; selecting an actual coded output from the plurality of coded outputs based on a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090238261 - Method, apparatus, and system for processing moving image: A moving image processing system includes an encoding apparatus encoding a moving image by encoding a picture order count (POC) while inserting a recovery point, and a decoding apparatus decoding the moving image encoded by the encoding apparatus. The encoding apparatus includes an insertion permission/rejection determining unit that determines whether... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090238260 - Transmitter and receiver for digital broadcasting: In order to alleviate stresses on a user, a transmitter comprises a channel coding section operable to encode input data stream according to a first modulation scheme, an additional information encode section operable to receive character data and additional information having a reserve area and including a transmission parameter relative... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090238262 - Recording streaming delta-encoded data: Apparatus having corresponding methods, computer-readable media, and data structures comprise an input circuit adapted to receive a stream of delta-encoded data; a record circuit adapted to store the stream of delta-encoded data in a stream file; a current frame circuit adapted to maintain a current frame of the data based... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090238265 - Decoding apparatus, decoding method, and program: Disclosed herein is a decoding apparatus including: a pixel group information storage section configured to include memory areas each of which stores, as pixel group information, information concerning a corresponding pixel group and is referred to with a horizontal address of the pixel group, and an additional memory area that... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090238267 - Methods and apparatuses for use in switching between streaming video bitstreams: Improved methods and apparatuses are provided for switching of streaming data bitstreams, such as, for example, used in video streaming and other related applications. Some desired functionalities provided herein include random access, fast forward and fast backward, error-resilience and bandwidth adaptation. The improved methods and apparatuses can be configured to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090238264 - System and method for real-time transcoding of digital video for fine granular scalability: A video transcoder (500) is presented for transcoding a previously coded digital video data stream into a layered stream consisting of a base layer having a lower data rate than the original source stream and an enhancement layer encoded using Fine-Granular Scalability (FGS) techniques. The video transcoder (500) comprises an... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090238266 - Transcoder: A category setting part sets a type of a decoded image based on characteristics of the decoded image which are fineness of the decoded image and an intensity of movement of the decoded image. A code amount setting part sets a target code amount of an output image based on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238271 - Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding using alternative converter accoding to the correlation of residual signal: Provided is an apparatus and method for encoding and decoding using alternative transform units according to the correlation of residual signals. The video encoding apparatus includes a first transforming unit for performing discrete cosine transform (DCT), first quantization, first inverse quantization, and inverse DCT on a block basis onto residual... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090238270 - Apparatus and method for modifying predicted values, and decoding system: An apparatus for modifying predicted values in a predicted image for input to a decoder starts by taking the most significant information bit plane from the predicted image and submitting it to the decoder to be decoded. Subsequent information bit planes are then taken in descending order and submitted to... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090238269 - Method and apparatus for decoupling frame number and/or picture order count (poc) for multi-view video encoding and decoding: There is disclosed and described a decoder and decoding method for decoding at least one picture corresponding to at least one of at least two views of multi-view video content from a bitstream, wherein in the bitstream at least one of coding order information and output order information for the... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090238268 - Method for video coding: A method for video coding is provided. The method comprises retrieving a video frame and at least one reference frame, determining a search window size according to the number of the at least one reference frame, performing prediction encoding on the video frame according to the number of the at... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090238273 - 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.

20090238275 - 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.

20090238272 - 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.

20090238274 - 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.

20090238276 - Method and apparatus for video coding using prediction data refinement: There are provided methods and apparatus for video coding using prediction data refinement. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding an image region of a picture. The encoder has a prediction refinement filter for refining at least one of an intra prediction and an inter prediction for the image region.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090238283 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding an image by dividing a prediction block of a current block into a plurality of regions, thereby compensating for average values of pixel values in the prediction block by each of the plurality of the regions, and a method and apparatus for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090238280 - Method and apparatus for video error concealment using reference frame selection rules: There are provided methods and apparatus for block-based error concealment. An apparatus includes an error concealment module for concealing a current block in a lost picture in a group of pictures by using a last available inter-coded picture in a previous group of pictures, when the lost picture is a... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090238282 - Method and device for generating an image data stream, method and device for reconstructing a current image from an image data stream, image data stream and storage medium carrying an image data stream: e

20090238279 - Motion-compensated prediction of inter-layer residuals: Techniques and tools are described for scalable video encoding and decoding. In some embodiments, an encoding tool encodes base layer video and outputs encoded base layer video in a base layer bit stream. The encoding tool encodes inter-layer residual video (representing differences between input video and reconstructed base layer video)... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090238277 - Processing video data at a target rate: A system comprising a processor and a compression module coupled to the processor. The compression module is adapted to perform motion estimation on video data using an algorithm, the motion estimation performed at a rate. If the processor determines a difference between the rate and a target rate, the processor... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090238281 - Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images: A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image sequence is a set of coded frame information of a plurality of frames of an image sequence; wherein the coded frame information includes: information related... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090238278 - Video compression using search techniques of long-term reference memory: Particular embodiments generally relate to video compression. In one embodiment, a store of reference frames is provided in memory. The reference frames may be classified based on a plurality of classifiers. The classifiers may correspond to features that are found in the reference frame. A frame to encode is then... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090238263 - Flexible field based energy efficient multimedia processor architecture and method: A programmable energy efficient codec system is provided for encoding and decoding a plurality of application environments. A camera Codec and control system for an HD camera is provided for encoding uncompressed HD-SDI video signals into an MPEG-2 transport stream. A stand-alone encoder decoder system is provided in a network... Agent: George R. Schultz Schultz & Associates, P.C.

20090238284 - Reducing differentials in visual media: Provided herein are processes, systems and devices for reducing differentials in visual media. Undesired differentials include undesired contrasts in brightness and/or color. Also described herein are signals, video frames and video streams that have been limited to produce a desired differential. Further described are methods for reducing triggers that can... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20090238285 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding: The present invention relates to a multimedia data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The encoding method includes generating a data area including a plurality of media data areas; generating a media information area including a plurality of track areas corresponding to the plurality of media data areas, respectively; and generating an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090238286 - Method and apparatus for unequal error protection in transmitting uncompressed video with various type over wideband high frequency wireless system: Disclosed are an Unequal Error Protection (UEP) apparatus and method thereof for transmitting various types of uncompressed video signals in a broadband high frequency wireless system. The UEP apparatus may include a UEP transmission controller to verify a bit separation point of separating a color depth and priority for each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090238287 - Method of determining a variable quantization step size for improving channel decoding,method and apparatus of performing channel decoding operation based on a variable quantization step size: A method of determining a variable quantization step size is disclosed. In the method of determining a variable quantization step size, a channel characteristic parameter is obtained in order to calculate a quantization step size (Δ) used in channel decoding. The quantization step size (Δ) is variably determined based on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090238288 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication system includes a synchronizing signal generator that generates a synchronizing signal based on a timing of an alternating waveform in a power line, a data communicating circuit that performs the data communication, and a communication controller that controls to acquire a transmitting right utilizing a timing of the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090238289 - Channel estimation in wireless systems with impulsive interference: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate detecting impulsive interference of pilot signals in wireless communications networks and accounting for such interference in estimating data channels to decode the pilot signals. Portions of a received pilot signal can be compared to other portions to create correlated subsets of similar portions.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238295 - Communicating data using wideband communications: This disclosure relates to varying load and modulation applied to each of multiple frequency subchannels based on anticipated attenuation experienced by those subchannels. Communicating data includes identifying a static component of a transmission medium for wideband communications having at least two subchannels determining a function of noise is attenuation versus... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090238291 - Communication apparatus, method, and tangible machine-readable medium thereof for processing ranging interference of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal: A communication apparatus, a method, and a tangible machine-readable medium thereof for processing ranging interference of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal. The communication apparatus comprises a receiving unit, a processing unit, and a mask generating unit. The receiving unit receives the OFDM signal having a plurality of OFDM... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090238296 - Multiple access system and method for 60 ghz wireless communications system: A control apparatus for use in wireless communications includes an antenna unit having antennas, the number of the antennas being equal to a maximum allowable number of connections in a specific frequency band; and a controller for receiving a connection request signal from each terminal attempting to connect to the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090238292 - Multiple-input multiple-output communication system control method and apparatus: A communication system control method, a communication system control apparatus and an apparatus for use in a communication system are provided. The communication system control apparatus includes an information collection unit to collect user set information about candidate user sets grouped by a plurality of base stations, and a scheduler... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090238293 - Ofdma based medium access control and frame structure design for industrial applications: A network includes a master and a set of slaves that communicate orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and time division multiple access (TDMA) symbols on sub-carriers. A master broadcasts to the set of slaves using downlinks and all of the sub-carriers, a broadcast polling packet including data packets for each slave... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090238294 - Transmission apparatus and transmission method: An transmission apparatus includes a pseudo data addition section configured to add pseudo data into transmission data for a free subcarrier of a radio frequency, an OFDM modulator subjecting the transmission data added with the pseudo data to OFDM modulation, a power amplifier amplifying power of a transmission signal of... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090238290 - Transmitting device, receiving device, transmitting method, receiving method and wireless communication system: Provided is a transmitting device which improves a data rate while maintaining channel estimation accuracy, or improves channel estimation accuracy while maintaining a data rate, in a MIMO-OFDM system. In the transmitting device, a transmitting antenna information adding section (104) adds transmitting antenna information to a pilot signal by performing... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090238299 - Detecting the number of transmit antennas in wireless communication systems: To detect the number of transmit antennas, a fast Fourier transform operation is performed on the received samples of the transmitted long training symbols of a preamble. Next, each of the Fourier transformed results is multiplied with the reference frequency-domain representation of the long training symbol so as to remove... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090238297 - Method for selecting subchannel mode and mimo communication system using the same: The invention relates to Method for Selecting Subchannel Mode and MIMO Communication System Using the Same. A method for self-adaptively selecting a code modulation sub-channel mode is suitably used in a MIMO communication system that comprises a base station and mobile terminals, wherein the method comprises the steps of: the... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090238298 - Method for transmitting and receiving precoded signal in mimo communication system: A method for transmitting and receiving a precoded signal in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communication system is provided. In the method, a preceding matrix is selected from a codebook including one or more preceding matrices of each rank, each of the preceding matrices including a unitary matrix modified by an... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090238300 - Multi-level signaling for low power, short channel applications: Apparatus are disclosed, such as those involving a transmitter circuit that is configured to generate multi-level signals based on a plurality of data digits. One such transmitter circuit includes a signal output and an encoder configured to provide control signals based at least partially on the plurality of data digits.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090238301 - Multilevel signal receiver: In the present multilevel signal receiver, an output signal of a comparator which judges a high-level of a multilevel signal and a signal obtained by inverting an output signal of a comparator which judges a low-level of the multilevel signal are input to an edge-triggered RS-FF, and an output signal... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090238302 - Method and apparatus for signal coding: A method and apparatus is disclosed for use in a communication system for encoding data to achieve more efficient coding rates and high data transmit rate, or a lower bit error rate. An encoder may receive a portion of the data to be encoded and process the portion of the... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20090238303 - Method and system for codebook-based closed-loop mimo using common pilots and analog feedback: A method and system that enables the usage of sounding-based feedback or analog feedback in a MIMO communication system with non-beamformed or broadcast pilot symbols is disclosed. The mobile station may employ a feedback channel to send a sounding waveform to a base station, a feedforward channel to receive from... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090238304 - Wireless communications apparatus: Precoding information prior to MIMO transmission is described, comprising determining a suitable preceding perturbation. The perturbation is determined by assembling a list of candidate perturbations in reduced lattice space, transforming these back into information lattice space and determining which candidate precoder perturbation is most suitable given a performance criterion.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238305 - Method, apparatus and system for high-speed transmission: Multi-carrier modulation systems constructed using a series of electrical carriers, modulating the data on the electrical carriers and combining the carriers to form a wideband signal. Multi-carrier modulation may be applied to existing channels, which may be of lower quality. An adaptive multi-carrier modulation transmitter may characterize an existing channel... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090238306 - Phase tracking circuit and radio receiver using the same: A phase tracking circuit includes a divider part dividing an input signal that includes data sub-carriers and pilot sub-carriers into groups so that each of the groups includes at least one of the pilot sub-carriers, and a correcting part correcting phases of data sub-carriers of the input signal included in... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090238307 - Digitally controlled phase interpolator circuit: Digitally controlled phase interpolator circuit. A phase selection control word undergoes decoding to generate a switch control word. The phase selection control word includes 2 quadrant indicating bits and phase interpolating bits for a 4 clock scheme (e.g., 4 clocks having phases 0°, 90°, 180°, and 270°). Such a phase... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090238308 - Ultra low-power transmission system: An ultra low-power transmission system for use with a battery-operated device. The ultra-low power transmission system comprises an encoded transmitter and an addressable ultra -low power receiver. The ultra low-power receiver comprises an RF front-end block for receiving and demodulating an incoming RF signal. The RF front-end block includes an... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090238309 - Data exchange between channels in a data acquisition system: An apparatus and method for inter-channel data exchange in multi-channel data acquisition systems is disclosed. A multi-channel data acquisition system may include a data exchange layer coupling two or more channels of the data acquisition system. Data may be transmitted via the data exchange layer between the channels, enabling data... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090238310 - Weight generation method for multi-antenna communication systems utilizing rf-based and baseband signal weighting and combining based upon minimum bit error rate: A method for processing communication signals is disclosed and may include, in a receiver and/or a baseband processor coupled to the receiver, the receiver comprising a plurality of antennas, generating a plurality of RF weighting values based on one or more output bit error rates of the receiver. A plurality... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090238311 - Reverse serial list viterbi decoding to improve frame error rate performance: A convolutionally encoded frame to be decoded includes a first portion of bits having additional error protection and another portion without additional error protection. The decoding of the frame involves reverse Viterbi decoding or Viterbi decoding on a reversed bit sequence followed by applying a serial list Viterbi algorithm to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090238312 - System and method for tuning a radio receiver: A system for tuning a radio receiver includes a radio receiver configured to provide a downconverted digital error signal, a digital synthesizer circuit configured to generate a first local oscillator control signal, a digital automatic frequency control (AFC) circuit configured to generate a second local oscillator control signal, wherein the... Agent: Michael J. Tempel Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha LLC

20090238314 - Diversity receiving device: It is a theme of the present invention to provide a diversity receiving device capable of reducing a power consumption to the utmost extent while keeping a predetermined received quality without measurement of an electric field strength and a fading pitch. A decision about whether or not the diversity reception... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090238313 - Stepped gain mixer: An amplified stepped gain mixer portion improves the signal-to-noise ratio of a receiver by using multiple gain states to improve linearity. The mixer portion includes an amplifier, a switch and two transistors. The amplifier output is coupled to the sources of the two transistors. An oscillating signal is present on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090238316 - Receivers and methods for controlling operation of receivers: A method for controlling operation of a receiver may include: generating an operation control signal based on a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) value of an Nth symbol, wherein N is a natural number, of a hopping pattern included in a preamble of a packet; and controlling whether an Nth symbol of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090238315 - Signal processing device and signal processing method: The present invention discloses a signal processing device and a signal processing method. The signal processing device includes a plurality of receiving devices, a storage module, a weighting module, and a processing module. Each of the receiving devices is capable of receiving an original signal stream, thus the plurality of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090238317 - Apparatus and method for transferring a signal from a fast clock domain to a slow clock domain: A circuit is provided for transferring a signal from a fast clock domain to a slow clock domain. The circuit includes a fast clock domain configured to receive an input signal and, responsively, transfer an intermediate signal. The circuit also a slow clock domain configured to receive the transferred intermediate... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090238318 - Mechanism for constructing an oversampled waveform for a set of signals received by a receiver: A mechanism is provided for constructing an oversampled waveform for a set of incoming signals received by a receiver. In one implementation, the oversampled waveform is constructed by way of cooperation between the receiver and a waveform construction mechanism (WCM). The receiver receives the incoming signals, samples a subset of... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090238319 - Modular, portable data processing terminal for use in a radio frequency communication network: Modular, portable data collection terminals are disclosed for use in mixed wireless and hard-wired RF communication networks, wherein various radio transmitter modules and associated antennas may be selectively added to a base terminal unit to solve networking problems associated with specific types of business environments. Modularity exists in both the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090238320 - Communication system, communication method, transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus: A communication system, communication method, transmitting apparatus, and receiving apparatus are disclosed herein. The communication system includes: a first clock correlating unit, adapted to correlate a clock to be transmitted with a clock of a data frame at a transmitter of a clock transparent-transmission network; and a second clock correlating... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090232188 - Retroreflecting transponder: retrodirectively re-transmitting second signals from the transmitting antennas of the antenna array of the satellite in the direction towards the transmitter in the form of a beam with the transmitter located substantially in the center of the beam wherein the second signal has a second frequency different from the first... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090232189 - Method, apparatus and computer program to efficiently acquire signals in a cognitive radio environment: Signal instances are detected from within a long period of a received radiofrequency RF signal envelope, grouped according to signal level, and periodicities are determined among the grouped signal instances. Periodicity of one of the groups is matched to a known periodicity, and a frequency domain is estimated at a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090232190 - Signal transmitting method, transmitting apparatus, and receiving apparatus used for the signal transmitting method: A disclosed signal transmitting method includes the steps of a) categorizing plural digital signals, obtained by performing A/D conversion on plural analog signals consecutively arranged in a time direction, into plural signal groups in an order starting from lower bits of the plural digital signals, b) performing code spreading on... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090232191 - Digital radio frequency tranceiver system and method: A transceiver architecture for wireless base stations wherein a broadband radio frequency signal is carried between at least one tower-mounted unit and a ground-based unit via optical fibers, or other non-distortive media, in either digital or analog format. Each tower-mounted unit (for both reception and transmission) has an antenna, analog... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090232192 - Method and transceiver system having a transmit clock signal phase that is phase-locked with a receive clock signal phase: A transceiver system is disclosed that includes a plurality of transceiver chips. Each transceiver chip includes one or more SERDES cores. Each SERDES core includes one or more SERDES lanes. Each SERDES lane includes a receive channel and a transmit channel. The transmit channel of each SERDES lane is phase-locked... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090232193 - Echo profile probe: In an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) communication network, a node transmits an echo profile probe to other nodes in the network. The echo profile probe is a message that allows characterization of the unique echo profile through the communication channel between each node pair. The echo profile is used... Agent: Entropic Communications, Inc.

20090232194 - Adaptive radio/modulation apparatus, receiver apparatus, wireless communication system, and wireless communication method: Adaptive modulation part (1) modulates a signal in a modulation scheme selected based on a modulation mode, switch (2) selects a radio scheme congenial to the modulation scheme in which the signal is modulated. When the selected radio scheme is single-carrier scheme, single-carrier generation part (3) generates a single-carrier signal.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090232195 - Clock data restoring device: The clock data restoration device 1 is a device which restores a clock signal and data on the basis of an input digital signal and comprises an equalizer section 10, a sampler section 20, a clock generation section 30, an equalizer control section 40, and a phase monitor section 50.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090232196 - Apparatus and method for decision feedback equalization: Disclosed is an apparatus including an odd data receiving unit that receives an input signal, an even data receiving unit that also receives the input signal, and a pattern filter. The odd data receiving unit samples a half-rate DFE equalized signal with an odd data timing clock to output data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090232197 - Pulse modulated wireless communication device: The transmission device includes a first transmission RF part for RF modulating the pulse signal generated at the timing of a clock signal so as to generate a clock RF signal and for outputting the clock RF signal to a synchronization signal channel; a transmission data generator for generating transmission... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090232199 - Encoding apparatus, decoding apparatus, encoding method, and decoding method: An encoding apparatus encodes image data using a picture order count (POC) that indicates a display order of a picture. The encoding apparatus includes a remainder calculating unit that calculates a remainder by dividing an absolute frame number counted from an instantaneous decoding refresh (IDR) picture by a divisor which... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232198 - Method and apparatus of coding/decoding image: An apparatus and a method of coding/decoding an image are provided. The apparatus includes: a low resolution image coding unit that codes a low resolution image corresponding to an input image using motion estimation and compensation; and a residual image coding unit that performs intra mode coding with respect to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232200 - Method of transmitting a pre-coded video signal over a communication network:

20090232201 - 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.

20090232205 - Arithmetic decoding apparatus and method: The decoding apparatus enabling high-speed arithmetic decoding in decoding data coded using CABAC is an arithmetic decoding apparatus which receives, as input, coded data obtained by converting multivalue information of syntax into binary data then performing Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding on the binary data, and which decodes the coded... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090232203 - Expert system and method for elastic encoding of video according to regions of interest: An elastic expert system for allocating bits according to application domain requirements and network resources. The elastic expert system observes the network resources and determines a state for allocating bits, the state relating to the application domain requirements. The elastic expert system can then allocate bits to a region-of-interest based... Agent: King & Spalding

20090232204 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding transform coefficients: A method of encoding transform coefficients and a transform coefficient encoding apparatus, and a method of decoding transform coefficients and a transform coefficient decoding apparatus are provided. The method of encoding the transform coefficients includes reading transform coefficients in a current block, determining whether a first transform coefficient having an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090232202 - Wireless video streaming using single layer coding and prioritized streaming: A method of communication includes providing single layer content coded video frames (101-111, 202, 203, 205-208, 210-219). The method also includes selectively assigning each of the video frames to one of a plurality of levels. In addition, the method includes selectively transmitting some or all of the video frames in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090232206 - Image prediction encoding device, image prediction decoding device, image prediction encoding method, image prediction decoding method, image prediction encoding program, and image prediction decoding program: An image predictive encoding device including an intra frame predictive signal generation method determination section that determines, for adjacent areas including regenerated pixel signals and adjacent to the target area, a predictive method derived on the basis of data corresponding to the adjacent areas as an R mode predictive method... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232208 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image: Provided are a method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding an image to improve the efficiency for predicting an image by reducing discontinuity between prediction blocks by performing filtering on a prediction picture. The method of encoding an image includes generating filtered prediction pixel values by performing filtering in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090232207 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image based on intra prediction: Provided are an intra prediction-based encoding method, and an apparatus for accomplishing the same. In the method, a linear prediction coefficient of a current block is calculated based on encoded blocks adjacent to the current block, a predicted block is generated by performing intra prediction on the current block by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090232209 - 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.

20090232210 - Advanced video coded pictures - reduced cost computation of an intra mode decision in the frequency domain: A method of intra mode prediction uses a block of pixels and their horizontal Hpos and vertical Vpos pixel positions and adjacent horizontal and vertical pixels within an input picture frame signal as inputs for a method for selecting a lowest Sum of Absolute Transformed Differences (SATD) intra mode among... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20090232211 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image based on intra prediction: Provided is an intra prediction-based encoding method, and an apparatus for accomplishing the same. In the method, an order of scanning sub blocks divided from a current block is determined based on an edge present in the current block; a predicted block is generated by performing intra prediction on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090232212 - Adaptive interpolation in image or video encoding: A method processes and transmits of data in which image data of an image in the transmitter are provided at a first resolution level and at a second resolution level, higher than the first resolution level. At least one interpolation parameter is fixed, for the determination of image data of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232216 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: The present application provides an image processing apparatus, including: a correlation value calculation section configured to determine a correlation value between a target block and a each of reference blocks; a section configured to determine a highest value from among the correlation values; a motion vector detection section configured to... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090232215 - Method and an apparatus for encoding or decoding a video signal: A method of processing a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes determining an intra prediction mode of a current block using a template region adjacent to the current block and obtaining a prediction value of the current block using the intra prediction mode of the current block. Accordingly,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090232217 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding an image, which can variably encode a residual of a current block that is predicted with a skip mode according to prediction modes of neighboring blocks, and a method and apparatus for decoding the encoded image. When both the prediction mode of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090232213 - Method and apparatus for super-resolution of images: A method to generate super-resolution images using a sequence of low resolution images is disclosed. The method includes generating an estimated high resolution image, motion estimating between the estimated high resolution image and comparison images from the sequence of low resolution images, motion-compensated back projecting, and motion-free back projecting that... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090232218 - Motion vector encoding device and decoding device: A prediction error generating unit generates a predictive vector from the motion vectors of a plurality of adjacent blocks, and obtains a difference from a target vector. A plurality of variable-length coding units respectively encode the output of the prediction error generating unit with different encoding methods. A determining unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232214 - Video coding and decoding: A decoder for video signals, such as MPEG, which uses motion-compensated bidirectional predictive coding, performs concealment of lost or corrupted portions of a picture. For this purpose, it estimates missing motion vectors by combining the two vectors which accompany a bidirectionally coded frame to create a substitute vector. An encoder... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090232219 - Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images: A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image sequence is a set of coded frame information of a plurality of frames of an image sequence; wherein the coded frame information includes: information related... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090232220 - System and method for reformatting digital broadcast multimedia for a mobile device: A system and a method reformat digital broadcast multimedia for a mobile device. The system and the method reformat and/or repackage audiovisual content into a format that may be rendered on the mobile device without the need for additional custom software on the mobile device. The system and the method... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20090232222 - Method for decoding a data stream and a receiver: In the case of a method for decoding a data stream a first decoding means (DR2) is provided which is configured to decode from a data stream in a first data stream format at least two units of user data, wherein for decoding the second unit of the at least... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090232221 - Video insertion information insertion in a compressed bitstream: Particular embodiments generally relate to video insertion information insertion in a compressed bitstream. In one embodiment, a compressed bitstream of data is received. Video insertion information to be added to the bitstream is then determined. One or more macroblocks out of a plurality of macroblocks are determined in the compressed... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090232223 - Moving image conversion method, moving image convesion apparatus, moving image conversion system, and server apparatus, and program: An apparatus and method are provided for enabling inhibition or reduction in the amount of processing to decode and to re-encode image data to be compatible with a transmission capacity upon delivery of converted images. Image data converter 205 converts and transfers an image of a conversion start frame in... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090232224 - Optimal rate allocation for a group of channels: The present invention relates generally to systems, methods, and computer program products for optimally allocating a fixed number of bits among a plurality of multi-media data channels. The optimal number of bits is determined by preprocessing each channel to calculate complexity data, and then the complexity data is used to... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20090232225 - Method and apparatus for analytical and empirical hybrid encoding distortion modeling: There are provided a method and apparatus for analytical and empirical hybrid encoding distortion modeling. An apparatus includes a distortion calculator for modeling video encoding distortion by dividing the video encoding distortion into a first portion and a second portion, calculating the first portion using empirical calculations, and calculating the... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090232226 - Local digital video distribution system for cable: An apparatus for use in a cable system comprises a port for receiving a downstream cable transmission; a demodulator for receiving an upstream signal for providing a demodulated signal; and a modulator for modulating the demodulated signal for providing a downstream signal for addition to the received downstream cable transmission.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090232228 - Constrained and controlled decoding after packet loss: A technique is described herein for reducing audible artifacts in an audio output signal generated by decoding a received frame in a series of frames representing an encoded audio signal in a predictive coding system. In accordance with the technique, it is determined if the received frame is one of... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090232227 - Pulse communication device, pulse transmitting device, pulse receiving device, pulse transmitting/receiving device, electronic apparatus, and pulse communication method: A pulse communication device includes a transmitting circuit including a base pulse generator adapted to generate a base pulse based on a base clock, and n (n is an integer equal to or greater than 1) data modulated pulse generators adapted to modulate a phase of the base pulse, which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090232234 - Bandwidth asymmetric communication system: The present invention relates to a communication system comprising a plurality of terminals each 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 concurrently receiving said radio frequency OFDM signals from at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090232236 - Base station and mobile station for ofdma cellular system: In a cellular radio communication system, a base station or a mobile station has a TA (Time Alignment)-range-out detection function, so that when a TA-range-out state that is unable to compensate with a guard interval is detected, the transmission condition of an uplink signal at the mobile station is changed... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090232229 - Device, system, and method of resource allocation in a wireless network: Device, system, and method of resource allocation in a wireless network. Embodiments include optimal space-frequency architectures for very high peak rates in wireless systems. For example, an apparatus for wireless communication in a power-limited, very wideband system includes a wireless communication device having a media access controller (MAC) and a... Agent: Shiloh Et Al.

20090232231 - Frequency estimation: For estimating a difference between a frequency of a base station and a locally generated frequency of a mobile equipment in a mobile communications network, wherein at least a signal in a plurality of signals transmitted from the base station and received by the mobile equipment comprises a plurality of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090232239 - Method and apparatus for transmitting a pilot in multi-antenna system: A method of transmitting a pilot method in a multi-antenna system is provided. The method comprises generating a preceding matrix including a preceding vector, the preceding vector being applied to each of data streams to be transmitted, performing preceding procedure for a pilot by using the preceding matrix, and transmitting... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090232230 - Method for ofdm and ofdma channel estimation: This invention discloses a method for OFDM and OFDMA channel estimation via phase-rotated polynomial interpolation and extrapolation (inter/extra-polation). For complexity reason, polynomial inter/extra-polation is an often considered method for channel estimation in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) systems, in which the simplest choice is linear... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090232238 - Method, apparatus and system for using guard tones in ofdm systems for increasing data rates and improving robustness: The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, and system for increasing data rates and improving robustness in a wireless communication system. The method comprises identifying a set of guard tones for wireless Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signals, encoding data for OFDM transmission, identifying a preferred puncture pattern to puncture... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232232 - Metric computation for lowering complexity of mimo detection algorithms: Included are embodiments of method for method for computing metrics. At least one embodiment includes searching a MIMO detection tree, the detection tree configuration being formed by a plurality of nodes and a plurality of leaves connected via a plurality of branches, the computational complexity associated with computing a node... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.L.P.

20090232233 - Mimo receiver apparatus and mimo transmitter apparatus: A MIMO receiver apparatus and a MIMO transmitter apparatus capable of reducing the feedback information amount to reduce the system traffics. A wireless communication apparatus (100) at a receiving end comprises a reception level determining part (130) that uses pilot signals transmitted from the antennas of a wireless communication apparatus... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090232237 - Modulating device and method, demodulating device and method, program, and recording medium: A modulating device configured to perform modulation with the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing method, includes: a modulating unit configured to modulate main information with the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing method; and a determining unit configured to determine a subcarrier pattern employed when modulating the main information by the modulating unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232240 - Multi-resolution beamforming in mimo systems: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods for beamforming that achieve beamforming optimality criterions. Some proposed beamforming techniques are based on antenna directions with multiple resolutions.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232235 - User scheduling method in multiple antenna system: A user scheduling method includes: determining a maximum temporary user set of a maximum capacity among temporary user sets obtained from combinations of M number of active users; and transmitting data to users belonging to the maximum temporary user set via multiple antennas by using a preceding matrix and a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090232241 - Low complexity optimal soft mimo receiver: A low-complexity optimal soft MIMO detector is provided for a general spatial multiplexing (SM) systems with two transmit and NR receive antennas. The computational complexity of the proposed scheme is independent from the operating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and grows linearly with the constellation order. It provides the optimal maximum likelihood... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20090232242 - Nested turbo code design for the costa problem: A method for the Costa problem includes turbo-like nested code. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a turbo-like trellis-coded quantization for source coding. The method also includes providing a turbo trellis-coded modulation for channel coding.... Agent: Tod T. Tumey

20090232247 - Intercell interference mitgation apparatus and method: There is provided an intercell interference mitigation apparatus for use in a terminal having a single reception antenna in a multi-cell downlink of an OFDMA system. The apparatus includes one or more parallel interference cancellers for canceling intercell interference by respreading soft decision values of cells other than a self... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090232245 - Multi-resolution beamforming based on codebooks in mimo systems: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods for beamforming that achieve beamforming optimality criterions. Some proposed beamforming techniques are based on antenna directions with multiple resolutions.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090232246 - Wireless communication device: A multiband OFDM_UWB transmitting and receiving apparatus is provided in Low-IF configuration to solve problems attributed to a direct-conversion transmitting and receiving apparatus. A Low-IF receiver performs sorting by rotating a sub-carrier after FFT to eliminate the need for frequency conversion using a second local signal and uses the same... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232244 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication method, transmission apparatus, and reception apparatus: The transmission apparatus performs orthogonalization processing to each of the signal sequence obtained by dividing each of the more than one transmission streams into more than one signal sequence based on the orthogonality of wireless resources. The signal sequence is then sent from multiple antennas. The reception apparatus performs the... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090232243 - Wireless transmitting apparatus, wireless receiving apparatus, wireless communication system, wireless transmitting method and wireless receiving method: To enable shared control information to be demodulated without requiring advance information on a MIMO block or non-MIMO block prior to demodulation of the shared control information of the block, and further enable the shared control information to be demodulated early. A wireless transmitting apparatus which performs wireless transmission in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090232248 - Data receiving device and semiconductor integrated circuit including such data receiving device: A data receiving device comprises amplifying circuit 41 that amplifies received duobinary data with a given gain into an output signal, offset canceler 56, 57 that cancel an offset of the output signal from amplifying circuit 41, data determiner 43, 44 that sample the output signal from amplifying circuit 41... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090232251 - Apparatus with tunable filter and related adjusting method: The present invention discloses a method for adjusting a tunable compensation filter within a communication device. The method includes the following steps: generating at least a detecting signal according to at least a pole of the tunable compensation filter; generating a transmitted signal according to the detecting signal; receiving the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090232250 - Communication system, receiver and reception method: A communication system includes: a transmitter adapted to transmit a synchronizing clock and serial data synchronous with the synchronizing clock over a line at low amplitude; and a receiver adapted to receive the serial data and synchronizing clock from the transmitter. The receiver includes an amplifier adapted to amplify the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090232249 - Peak suppressing apparatus, wireless transmitting apparatus, and window function generating apparatus: A peak suppressing apparatus for suppressing peak components of a signal using a window function includes a detecting unit that detects the peak components which are more than a given threshold value, a window width setting unit that sets a window width of the window function, and a window function... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090232252 - Method and apparatus for digital encoding with reduced memory requirement and complexity: Systems and methods may be provided for supporting encoding of digital communications, including space time block encoding (STBC). Example systems and methods may include receiving at least one input bit, wherein the at least one input bit is associated with a mapping on a Gray-coded constellation map, storing the received... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090232253 - Method and system for creating quadrature modulation signal constellations with arbitrary spectral efficiency: Methods, systems, transmitters, and receivers implement and use Quadrature Amplitude Modulation QAM2N modulation types and constellations, where N is a real number, e.g., 1.5; 1.33; 2.5; 3.5. The methods, systems, transmitters, and receivers use constellations with the number of points on the circle not equal to a power of two,... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090232254 - Detector using limited symbol candidate generation for mimo communication systems: A circuit detects symbols transmitted from multiple transmitting antennas to multiple receiving antennas. A distance block for an initial transmitting antenna in an ordering of the transmitting antennas determines a distance value for each symbol in a constellation. A selector block selects a limited number of candidates for the initial... Agent: Xilinx, Inc Attn: Legal Department

20090232255 - Qam symbol slicing method and apparatus: A method for slicing a symbol in a QAM digital demodulator, includes acquiring a digital integer value by sampling a symbol signal in an in-phase coordinate or a quadrature-phase coordinate; and extracting a symbol bit sequence in the in-phase coordinate or the quadrature-phase coordinate from a whole bit sequence of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232256 - Iterative decoding for layer coded ofdm communication systems: A modified classical Viterbi decoder which can take extrinsic information and output hard decisions. A modified Viterbi decoder is provided comprising a branch metric unit, the unit having a calculator; and a processor adapted to compute a revised branch metric by combining the initial branch metric and an additional weight... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090232257 - Method and system for impact mitigation of sudden carrier frequency shifts in ofdm receivers: This disclosure relates to a method and system for impact mitigation of sudden carrier frequency shifts in OFDM receivers that transforming a received complex digital baseband signal and decoding data from the transformed signal.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090232258 - Device and method for demodulating control signals: A device performs demodulation of control signals from multiple radio terminals, based on the correlations in the frequency domain between a predetermined code and the orthogonalized control signals and reference signals of the multiple radio terminals obtained by cyclic shifts of the predetermined code. The device includes: a demultiplexer which... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090232259 - Receiver and electronic apparatus: A receiver has a receiving unit including a PLL, a mixer, and a filter, and demodulating unit including a frequency error detector for detecting a frequency error in a signal from a filter. The PLL includes a local oscillator for supplying a local oscillation signal to a mixer, a variable... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090232260 - Leakage signal cancellation apparatus: A quadrature modulator divides a part of a transmitted signal to generate a cancel signal. A signal comparator compares the amplitude and phase of the cancel signal which is generated by the quadrature modulator with those of a received signal, and outputs signals corresponding to the comparison results to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232261 - Method for detecting a signal, detector and computer program product: A method for detecting a signal received via a communication channel, the communication channel being affected by noise, is described, wherein the received signal is processed according to a filtering step (202), the filtering step comprises multiplication of at least one component of the received signal with a filter coefficient... Agent: Crockett & Crockett, P.C.

20090232262 - Circuit for recovering an output clock from a source clock: An output clock recovery circuit (10) for recovering an output clock (14) from a source clock (12) and time stamp information (18A, 18B) includes a time stamp translator (22) and a phase-locked loop circuit (17) including a fraction processor (34). The time stamp translator (22) receives the time stamp information... Agent: Roeder & Broder LLP

20090232263 - Timing errors: A method of analysing a sampled signal that is supplied for decimation, wherein the decimation process produces a decimated version of the signal and wherein the method comprises determining an adjustment, if any is required, to the sampling instant of the signal prior to decimation that will cause the frequency... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090232265 - Clock data recovery circuit: A clock data recovery circuit that supplies stable reproduction clocks to the object respectively by shortening the time of bit synchronization with each received burst data signal regardless of jittering components included in the received burst data signal, includes an interpolator that generates a reference clock having the same frequency... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090232264 - Low complexity high performance tmcc acquisition in isdb-t and isdb-tsb receivers: A method of TMCC information acquisition in an ISDB-T/TSB receiver comprises detecting coarse frequency offset in the receiver to identify bins that have TMCC information; and acquiring TMCC and symbol number information from the identified bins. The detecting process may be conducted using different methods and the acquiring process may... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090232266 - Signal processing device: A signal processing device includes a phase shifting unit for supplying a second clock signal having a predetermined phase difference relative to a first clock signal, a head recognition bit adding unit for adding a head recognition bit to a predetermined position of data constituting a packet, an inputting unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090225809 - Method of differential space-time coding: P

20090225811 - Remote wireless activation and communication: A system and method of wireless communication. An activator comprises a first radio that transmits an activation message; a first microprocessor; a first memory component; and a first timer. A remote device comprises a second radio that periodically enters into an activation period of operation and a de-activation period of... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090225810 - Wireless communication device, wireless communication system, wireless communication method and program: A wireless communication device includes: a first transmission portion that transmits a radio signal using a plurality of frequency bands in accordance with a first frequency hopping pattern; a second transmission portion that transmits a radio signal using a plurality of frequency bands in accordance with a second frequency hopping... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090225812 - Method and system for detecting code sequences in ultra-wideband systems: A method and a system are provided for detecting a code sequence in an ultra-wideband system. An on-off keying (OOK) detector is used for detecting a code sequence. A soft despreader is used for despreading the energy of the code sequence to provide a plurality of multipath energies. A RAKE... Agent: Crockett & Crockett, P.C.

20090225813 - Weight vector calculation unit for beamforming using received and/or integrated signal without training signal: Disclosed is a weight vector computing unit using a symbol-rate, a chip-rate and/or a mixed-rate in a Smart Antenna System. The weight vector computing unit is useful in a wireless communication network having a reverse pilot channel. Further, by using such the weight vector computing unit, high-speed broadband communications are... Agent: Mannava & Kang, P.C.

20090225815 - Communication system with receivers employing generalized two-stage data estimation: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is configure to receive and sample wireless signals in a shared spectrum where the wireless signal comprise encoded symbols. The WTRU has a channel estimation device configured to process received signal samples to produce an estimate of a channel response of the received signals corresponding... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090225814 - Receiver with chip-level equalisation: The present invention relates to receiver apparatuses and methods of controlling weight adaptation in a receiver of a code multiplex telecommunications system with orthogonal spreading codes, wherein received discrete time signal samples are chip-level filtered by using a first equalising step. Additionally, the received discrete time signal samples are delayed... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090225816 - Parallel correlator implementation using hybrid correlation in spread-spectrum communication: An apparatus for processing spread spectrum signals is disclosed. The apparatus includes an intermediate frequency (IF) signal preprocessing unit, which includes a first set of multiply-accumulator (MAC) units and a second set of MAC units. The IF signal preprocessing unit generates a first and a second set of data streams... Agent: Wang Law Firm, Inc.

20090225817 - Systems and methods for high rate ofdm communications: Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communication parameters. The transmitter then stores these communication parameters... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20090225819 - Radio communication apparatus: The present invention provides a radio communication apparatus for use with a host system. The host system includes an electromagnetic body which acts as a ground plane or counterpoise for the radio communication apparatus. The apparatus comprises an electronics system coupled to the host system, a radio module including a... Agent: King & Spalding

20090225818 - Systems and method for orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing: Systems and methods for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are provided. In one embodiment, a multi-carrier modem comprises: a receiver configured to de-modulate symbols from at least one of a plurality of spectrally overlapping carrier signals to produce a receiver output; a transmitter configured to modulate symbols onto at least one... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090225820 - Closed loop power normalized timing recovery for 8 vsb modulated signals: A receiver timing error recovery loop expands the bandwidth of a received signal and determines the timing error based on the bandwidth expanded received signal.... Agent: Zenith Electronics LLC

20090225821 - Methods and apparatus to detect an imbalanced subscriber line in a digital subscriber line (dsl) system: Methods and apparatus to detect an imbalanced subscriber line in a digital subscriber line (DSL) system are disclosed. An example method comprises identifying a contiguous set of performance parameters in a plurality of performance parameters for respective ones of a plurality of DSL sub-carriers of a subscriber line associated with... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090225822 - System and methods for receiving ofdm symbols having timing and frequency offsets: Systems and methods for receiving an OFDM preamble without knowledge of channel characteristics are provided. An OFDM preamble signal with frequency shifted cyclic extensions is received. Taken together the cyclic extensions form a frequency shifted version of the OFDM preamble signal. Frequency offsets and timing offsets are estimated and corrected... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090225823 - Equalization apparatus, equalization method and receiver using the same: This invention relates to an equalization apparatus, an equalization method and a receiver using the same. Two equalizers are applied to the equalization apparatus to cover two clusters of a channel. The weights of the two equalizers are calculated by channel gains of the whole channel based on the minimum... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090225824 - Method for transmitting preamble in scalable bandwidth system: A method for transmitting a preamble in a scalable bandwidth system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a primary synchronization channel to which symbols are allocated at intervals of two or more subcarriers, through a specific bandwidth out of an entire system bandwidth at a start time point of a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090225825 - Encoder: A reference differential value calculation part calculates a reference differential value by subtracting an accumulated value of the target amounts of codes from an accumulated value of the amounts of generated codes from the first period to the (n−1) period. A comparison part compares a cumulative differential value obtained by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225827 - Method and apparatus for adaptive frame averaging: A method for adaptive frame averaging includes dividing a current frame image into a plurality of sub-blocks; obtaining a characteristic for each of the plurality of sub-blocks to obtain a characteristic image of the current frame image; determining a frame averaging coefficient for each of the plurality of sub-blocks based... Agent: Mindray C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20090225826 - 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

20090225828 - Video compression system and method for compensating for bandwidth limitations 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; transmitting a video stream comprising a series... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090225830 - Method and system for coding mode selection in video compression systems: A method and system are disclosed for selecting a mode to encode video data. The method comprises the steps of (a) transforming a source video frame into a set of coefficients, (b) partitioning said set of coefficients into a plurality of subsets of the coefficients on the basis of probability... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090225831 - Video encoder with multiple outputs having different attributes: A video encoder having multiple channels each capable of producing an independently controlled encoded output. In one embodiment, the video encoder has circuitry common to all of the channels and separate circuitry for each channel. The common circuitry can include a motion compensator, a transformer, and a local decoder. One... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090225829 - Video compression system and method for compensating for bandwidth limitations of a communication channel: A method of frame-layer rate control in a video encoder includes allocating a target characteristic for a current frame, performing a first encoding stage for encoding macroblocks of the current frame by utilizing a first quantization parameter to thereby generate a residual signal and an actual characteristic for the current... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090225832 - Error concealment technique for inter-coded sequences: Using different error concealment techniques for coded pictures that undergo display and those that undergo storage as a reference picture improves the quality of error concealment. A concealment technique optimized for use in real time will provide the best visual quality for pictures that undergo display whereas a concealment technique... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090225833 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding an image capable of improving compression efficiency of the image by compensating for a loss due to quantization of a residual block in the frequency domain, and a method and apparatus for decoding the image. The method of encoding an image includes:... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225834 - Method and apparatus for image intra prediction: A method and apparatus for intra prediction of an image having arbitrary directivity are provided. Arbitrary edge directions and amplitudes of the edges based are calculated on neighboring pixels of a prediction block. From the calculated edge directions, a number of intra prediction directions in an order of the amplitudes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225837 - 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.

20090225835 - 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.

20090225836 - 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.

20090225838 - 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.

20090225839 - 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.

20090225840 - 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.

20090225841 - 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.

20090225843 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an image to reduce residual energy by using spatial residual prediction of an inter-residual in an image codec system based on spatial and temporal prediction. The method includes generating a first residual signal corresponding to a difference between an original... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225842 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image by using filtered prediction block: A prediction block of a current block is created by performing intra prediction or inter prediction on the current block. The prediction block is filtered by using a predetermined filter. The current block is encoded based on the filtered prediction block. A compression rate of image encoding may be substantially... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225861 - Coding device and method, decoding device and method, recording medium, and program: An encoding apparatus and an encoding method, a decoding apparatus and a decoding method, a recording medium, and a program suitable for encoding image signals with a higher compression ratio for transmission or accumulation. In an arithmetic coding section, from among the syntax elements of input image compression information, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225862 - Coding device and method, decoding device and method, recording medium, and program: An encoding apparatus and an encoding method, a decoding apparatus and a decoding method, a recording medium, and a program suitable for encoding image signals with a higher compression ratio for transmission or accumulation. In an arithmetic coding section, from among the syntax elements of input image compression information, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225844 - Flexible reduced bandwidth compressed video decoder: A method of decoding a video bitstream is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) buffering the video bitstream in a main memory, the video bitstream comprising a first residual block based on a first motion compensated block, the first motion compensated block having been generated by a... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20090225846 - Inter-layer motion prediction method: The invention relates to a method for generating for at least one macroblock of a high resolution image at least one motion predictor from motion data associated to macroblock(s) of a low resolution image. The method comprises the following steps: —defining a virtual structure made up of non overlapping macroblocks,... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090225847 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an image by using consecutive motion estimation: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an image. The method of encoding an image includes generating a prediction block of a current block of a current image by performing continuous motion estimation, and encoding the current block based on the generated prediction block. The current block can be... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225853 - Method and system for rate reduction of video streams: A method for rate reduction of a video stream, the method includes: selecting a non-reference picture of a video stream; and replacing the non-reference picture by a duplicating picture that substantially consists of information that instruct a decoder to duplicate another picture that differs from the non-reference picture; wherein the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090225845 - Multi-directional motion estimation using parallel processors and pre-computed search-strategy offset tables: A motion estimator uses many parallel Arithmetic-Logic-Unit (ALU) processors to simultaneously perform searches in many directions from a starting point. Each processor follows a different path outward from the starting point, generating sum-of-absolute differences (SADs) for each point in the path. A best SAD for the path is kept, along... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20090225848 - Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images: A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image sequence is a set of coded frame information of a plurality of frames of an image sequence; wherein the coded frame information includes: information related... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090225849 - Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images: A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image sequence is a set of coded frame information of a plurality of frames of an image sequence; wherein the coded frame information includes: information related... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090225850 - Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images: A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image sequence is a set of coded frame information of a plurality of frames of an image sequence; wherein the coded frame information includes: information related... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090225851 - Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images: A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image sequence is a set of coded frame information of a plurality of frames of an image sequence; wherein the coded frame information includes: information related... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090225852 - Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images: A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image sequence is a set of coded frame information of a plurality of frames of an image sequence; wherein the coded frame information includes: information related... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090225855 - 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.

20090225856 - 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.

20090225857 - 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.

20090225859 - 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.

20090225860 - 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.

20090225854 - 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.

20090225858 - 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.

20090225864 - Method and system to improve the transport of compressed video data: A method comprises determining a plurality of time intervals Tp and Tn within a variable bit rate (VBR) representation of an image sequence. The time intervals Tp are those in which a number of blocks of information per unit time is greater than a baseline value. The time intervals Tn... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090225863 - Video compression system and method for reducing the effects of packet loss over a communciation channel: A system and method are described below for reducing the effects of packet loss in a video communication system. For example, one embodiment of a computer-implemented method comprises: logically subdividing each of a sequence of images of a video stream into a plurality of tiles, each of the tiles having... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090225865 - Decoding-processing apparatus and method: A decoding-processing apparatus (1) comprising: a context-calculating unit (2) operable to calculate the probability of symbols contained in incoming bitstreams; a parameter-generating unit (3) operable to generate parameters for use in the context-calculating unit (2); an arithmetic decoding-calculating unit (4) operable to decode the incoming bitstreams in accordance with the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090225866 - Method for decoding a video signal: A method for efficiently decoding a video signal is disclosed. The method for decoding a video signal based on fine granularity scalability (FGS) includes acquiring picture identification information indicating a reference picture of a current block, and decoding the current block using the reference picture. A base layer reference picture... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090225868 - Method of processing a signal and apparatus for processing a signal: A method and apparatus for processing a signal compressed in accordance with a specific alternative coding scheme are disclosed. In detail, a coding method for signal compression and signal restoration using a specific alternative coding scheme, and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding according to the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090225867 - Methods and apparatus for picture access: A method for picture access, includes: during a period of time, detecting utilization statuses of reference data, wherein the reference data is capable of being utilized for picture decoding; and according to the detected utilization statuses, determining whether/how to load at least a portion of reference data of a frame... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090225870 - Method and apparatus for decoding an enhanced video stream: A method of decoding an enhanced video stream composed of base layer video access units and enhancement layer video access units, each access unit comprising a plurality of syntax structures, includes passing the syntax structures of the base layer access units to a base layer buffer, passing syntax structures of... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090225869 - Video encoding apparatus, video decoding apparatus, and method: Provided are a scalable video encoding apparatus, a scalable video decoding apparatus, and method. The scalable video encoding apparatus includes a first encoding unit to generate a base layer bitstream, which is to be used for generating a reconstructed image having a second resolution, by encoding an original image having... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090225872 - Apparatus, systems and methods for providing enhancements to atsc networks using synchronous vestigial sideband (vsb) frame slicing: Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for signaling to a receiver an availability of a service and a deterministic mapping of a service content corresponding to the service. A modulator receives a digital signal and generates a data frame from the digital signal, where the data frame... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090225871 - Image encoding apparatus: This invention provides a technique of efficiently executing prediction error calculation processing while preventing any increase in the circuit scale. An encoding apparatus of this invention includes a determination unit determining the size of an encoding target pixel block, a plurality of predicted value calculation units, a first error calculation... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090225873 - Multiple transmitter system and method: Systems and methods of data transmission are disclosed. In an embodiment, at least two transmitters are selectively activated and at least one transmitter is deactivated at a serial interface to transmit data via at least two distinct lines.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090225878 - Adaptive forward-backward soft output m-algorithm receiver structures: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for forward-backward SOMA techniques. In one embodiment, the apparatus is a receiver comprising: an inner decoder structure having a soft output M-algorithm (SOMA) based multiple-in multiple-out (MIMO) joint demapper that uses a SOMA-based MIMO detection process to perform joint inner demapping over each... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090225883 - Analog beamforming to reduce interference in wimax networks: A base station transmits a set of sounding requests to a set of mobile station (MS) in a cell, using a set of beams, wherein there is one beam for each sounding request. Qualities of sounding signals transmitted by the set of MSs in response to receiving the sounding request... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090225880 - Control system and method having an adaptable orthogonal multiplexing modulation mechanism: A control system and a method having an adaptive orthogonal multiplexing modulation mechanism are provided. The control system includes a modulation control module for detecting input signals input to an input signal end and a plurality of modulation types of the orthogonal multiplexing modulation mechanism, selecting suitable modulation types among... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090225882 - Detecting method and detecting circuit: A detecting circuit for receiving an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal modulated by Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) and detecting a predetermined symbol in the OFDM signal is disclosed. The detecting circuit includes a correlation calculating part configured to obtain a correlation value between a first part of the... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090225879 - Method and apparatus for channel sounding in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system: An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system is provided that schedules a transmission of uplink sounding signals or channel quality feedback signals in sounding intervals, or sounding zones, that are outside of the sub-frames, thereby preserving sub-frame capacity for other overhead and data transmissions.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090225877 - Method and system for characterization of filter transfer functions in ofdm systems: Aspects of a method and system for characterization of filter transfer functions in OFDM systems may include receiving at a filter, a calibration signal which is generated from conversion of a digital input signal comprising N samples to an analog signal. The digital input signal may comprise one (1) full... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090225876 - Method for transmitting and receiving data in multiple-input multiple-output wireless local area network environment, and a system and apparatus for performing the method: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless local area network (WLAN) system includes a method for transmitting and receiving data using a MIMO decoding scheme. A method for receiving data includes receiving a preamble from one or more stations via a plurality of receiving antennas, estimating a wireless channel between the station... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090225881 - Method of communication using frame: A device and method for communicating by a mobile communication terminal in communication with a base station. The method according to an embodiment includes exchanging a frame of data with the base station. The frame of data includes a) a plurality of first subframes each having a first number of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090225884 - Multi-carrier signal transmitter and multi-carrier signal receiver: A multi-carrier signal transmission apparatus transmits a transmission stream including at least preamble information necessary for synchronizing a transmission signal and data information as a multi-carrier signal. A modulator generates a transmission symbol stream by modulating an arrangement of the preamble information and the data information. A symbol expanding portion... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090225874 - Multiantenna communication apparatus and multiantenna communication system: A multiantenna communication system comprises a determining part (116) that calculates correlation values each between the channel characteristics of the resource blocks in an STBC (Space Time Block Code) and determines a combination pattern exhibiting the highest correlation; a connection distributing part (103) that maps, into a time domain, a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090225885 - Ofdm signal transmission method and apparatus: An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal transmission apparatus which transmits OFDM signals by using a plurality of transmission antennas includes a subcarrier setting device which sets signals for subcarriers so as to use some of the subcarriers of the OFDM signals as pilot subcarriers to transmit pilot signals and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225875 - Wireless communication method, wireless transmitter and wireless receiver: A wireless communication method by which unnecessary retransmission request is suppressed and feedback information is reduced at the same time in a MIMO communication system. The wireless communication method is provided for transmitting signals by using a plurality of antennas (314), and has a step of applicably selecting the group... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090225886 - Digital broadcast transmitter/receiver having improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitter/receiver, and a signal processing method thereof, includes a randomizer randomizing a dual transport stream which includes a normal data packet and a robust data packet and into which stuff bytes are inserted, a stuff-byte exchanger replacing the stuff bytes of the randomized data with known data,... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090225888 - Method for uplink transmission in ofdm(a) system: A method for uplink transmission in an OFDMA system is provided. The subcarrier transmission method includes arranging 4 pilot REs at different positions of a frequency axis in a basic unit when the basic unit includes 4 subcarriers on the frequency axis and 6 OFDM(A) symbols in a time axis,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090225890 - Method of transmitting feedback information in a multi-input, multi-output (mimo) system: A method of transmitting feedback information in a Multi-Input, Multi-Output (MIMO) system is disclosed. In the method, a mobile station (MS) which determines to transmit feedback information and feedback type to a base station (BS) without solicitation from the BS, wherein the feedback type is transmission antenna type, and transmits... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090225887 - Multi-carrier data communication with repetition of some data at a frequency separation to provide an artificial cyclostationary signature: A cyclostationary signature is artificially created in a multi-carrier signal. In one embodiment, a multi-carrier Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal is used. The approach involves mapping a set of one or more of the sub-carriers onto a second set such that any data symbols transmitted on the first set... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090225889 - Novel partial channel precoding and successive interference cancellation for multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division modulation (mimo-ofdm) systems: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for improving the frame error rate performance of a multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division modulation (MIMO-OFDM) system with a limited-bandwidth feedback channel is disclosed. Successive interference cancellation (SIC) is used to improve MIMO-OFDM system performance gain with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) and convolutional codes (CC).... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20090225891 - Scattered pilot pattern and channel estimation method for mimo-ofdm systems: A method and apparatus are provided for reducing the number of pilot symbols within a MIMO-OFDM communication system, and for improving channel estimation within such a system. For each transmitting antenna in an OFDM transmitter, pilot symbols are encoded so as to be unique to the transmitting antenna. The encoded... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090225893 - Method and apparatus for dictionary construction for vsb channel modeling: A method for creating a dictionary for channel modeling is provided. The method comprising the steps of: providing a channel subject to modeling associated with a VSB system; over-sampling a predetermined segment; and using at least part of the over-sampled values as elements or words of the dictionary.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20090225892 - Method and apparatus for iteratively forming subspace from a dictionary for vsb channel modeling: In a VSB system, a method and receiver for channel modeling is provided. The method comprises the steps of: performing matching pursuit conducted locally with assistant information; and performing basis perturbation using the assistant information.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20090225896 - Digital transmission apparatus: A digital transmission apparatus having a base unit constructed in such a manner that n-bit digital signals transmitted from a plurality of (N) remote units are extended into (n+log2 N) bits in corresponding bit extending units, with respect to an addition result in an adding unit, an arithmetic operation of... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090225894 - Rate matching apparatus, wireless transmitting apparatus, wireless receiving apparatus, and rate matching method: A rate matching apparatus is capable of improving the bit error rate characteristic at a data receiving end. A rate matching part (106), which serves as a rate matching apparatus, generates, from a first encoded block corresponding to N symbols (where N is an integer equal to or greater than... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090225895 - Transmission architecture of transmitter: This invention provides a transmission architecture of transmitter which includes a forestage module, a pilot insertion, a scramble selector, and a backstage module. A frequency domain data symbol is transmitted by the forestage module. A pilot signal is inserted in the frequency domain data symbol by the pilot insertion, and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090225897 - Transmitter: The transmitter has a transmission modulator including first and second modulators, a phase comparator and a controller. First and second non-inverted local signals supplied to the modulators are set to have a predetermined phase difference. In a calibration action for reducing carrier leakage, the phase comparator is supplied with the... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090225899 - Compensation of diagonal isi in ofdm signals: A method and apparatus for compensating for ISI is described herein. A transmitter and receiver work together to develop pulse shaped OFDM symbols with reduced inter-channel ISI between pulse-shaped OFDM symbols transmitted on different sub-carriers at the same time, and inter-block ISI between pulse-shaped OFDM symbols transmitted on the same... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090225900 - Data transmitting circuit and transmitting method: A data transmitting circuit includes a reflection suppressive component generating circuit for generating a reflection suppressive component for suppressing the reflection caused by the discontinuity in the characteristic impedance on a transmission line, and a data output circuit for amplifying the reflection suppressive component and the data to be currently... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090225901 - Signal receiver apparatus and waveform shaping method: A signal receiver apparatus includes a waveform shaping data storage device storing waveform shaping data of a signal transmitted with a given timing from a signal transmitter device of a plurality of signal transmitter devices which are coupled to the signal receiver apparatus for each of the plurality of signal... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090225898 - Transmitter: Provided is a transmitter 1 for processing signals to be transmitted. The transmitter 1 reduces the peak power generated in a transmission signal, effectively, even in case a plurality of peaks exist, for example, in the transmission signal at positions (or times) close to each other. In the transmitter 1,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090225902 - Frequency selective transmit signal weighting for multiple antenna communication systems: A system and method for generating transmit weighting values for signal weighting that may be used in various transmitter and receiver structures is disclosed herein. The weighting values are determined as a function of frequency based upon a state of a communication channel and the transmission mode of the signal.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090225903 - Highly optimized digital iq transmitter chain: Circuitry separates a modulation signal into digital sign and magnitude signal components. The digital magnitude signal is converted to an analog magnitude signal. The analog magnitude signal is the mixed with an in-phase or quadrature carrier signal under the influence of the digital sign signal and routed to a driver... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090225904 - Demodulator of base station in orthogonal frequency division multiple access: A base station demodulator according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a vector index demodulator, and a channel value detector. The vector index demodulator demodulates CQI or ARQ ACK/NACK channels by multiplying QPSK modulation signals transmitted as m subcarriers in a tile by m conjugate complexes corresponding... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090225905 - Fsk receiver: A receiver includes a band-pass filter that limits a passband of an IF (Intermediate Frequency) signal, an FSK detector that detects the IF signal passing through the band-pass filter to generate a detection signal, and a control block that controls a modulation sensitivity of the FSK detector and a pass... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225907 - Decoding of bi-phase encoded data: A method for decoding bi-phase encoded data begins by interpreting a first bit boundary of a bit of the bi-phase encoded data to produce a first boundary value. The method continues by interpreting a second bit boundary of the bit of the bi-phase encoded data to produce a second boundary... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090225906 - Method for transmitting and decoding signals considering repeatedly transmitted information: Signal transmitting and decoding methods considering repeatedly transmitted information in transmitting informations in various types are disclosed. Both a first type information varying with a long period and a second type information varying with a short period are simultaneously transmitted by a same period. A receiving side receiving these informations... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090225909 - Corrleator for tracking satellite signal: A correlation apparatus for tracking a satellite signal includes a shifter, a multiplexer and an accumulator. The shifter generates generating a Prompt signal, a plurality of Early signals and a plurality of Late signals. The multiplexer outputs at least one of the plurality of Early signals and at least one... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090225908 - Pattern detection circuit, base station and mobile communication system using the same, and pattern detecting method: A pattern detection circuit for performing pattern detection on input signals from a communication terminal, includes a frequency domain transformer that transforms input signals into frequency domain signals; a frequency extractor that extracts frequency components of the frequency domain signals; and a pattern detector that performs the pattern detection on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225910 - Radio communication system, receiver, receiving method, transmitter, transmitting method, and device for and method of calculating delay times for multi-carrier transmission: Multi-carrier transmission is performed without inserting a repetitive signal into guard interval periods. A transmitter provides guard interval periods by using a null signal to save transmission power and prevent the deterioration of the SN ratio. Delayed waves at the head of each received symbol cause high-frequency waves to occur... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090225911 - Methods and apparatus to improve distortion performance and direct current (dc) offset cancellation in receivers: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are described for improving distortion performance and for direct current offset cancellation in receivers. In one example, a method of improving distortion in a receiver includes determining a direct current (DC) amplitude of an offset signal, generating the offset signal, and providing the offset... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090225912 - Receiver for echo and crosstalk cancellation and receiving method thereof: A receiver for echo and crosstalk cancellation includes a level decision module, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a response module. The level decision module determines plural levels and plural level magnitudes according to an estimated signal to generate a first digital signal. The DAC converts the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090225913 - Inter-carrier interference removal device and reception device using the same: An inter-carrier interface removal device can improve estimation accuracy of inter-carrier interference caused by Doppler shift in a received multi-carrier signal moving at a high speed, and a reception characteristic of the multi-carrier signal after removing the inter-carrier interference. The inter-carrier interference removal device includes: a channel estimation unit (101)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090225914 - Communication terminal apparatus, communication apparatus, and signal receiving method: A communication terminal apparatus receives a management signal at a bit rate A and a data signal at a bit rate B (B=A×M) through the same line. The communication terminal apparatus includes a signal regenerating unit, a management signal converting unit, a timing control unit, and a data signal obtaining... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090225915 - Skew tolerant communication between ratioed synchronous clocks: A data communications system is disclosed. The data communications system comprises two clock domains. Each of the clock domains are coupled to receive a source clock signal. The first clock domain includes a first clock signal and the second clock domain includes a second clock signal, each of the first... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20090225916 - Clock data restoration device: With the clock data restoration device 1, as a result of the processing of a loop which comprises the sampler section 10, detection section 20, timing determination section 30, and clock output section 40, the respective phases of the clock signal CKXA, clock signal CKXB, and clock signal CK are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090225917 - Phase interpolator and clock data recovery device: A phase interpolator according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first mixer group including two mixers which are provided with a clock “D0” having a delay equivalent to a phase difference of 0 degree with respect to a reference clock, and generate and output a clock “D0+2Dc”... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090225918 - Detection of frequency correction bursts and the like: In one embodiment, a frequency correction (FC) burst is detected in a complex signal received by a mobile station of a GSM/EDGE wireless communications network by applying the complex signal to one or more correlation paths of a burst detector within the mobile station. Each correlation path generates a correlation... Agent: Mendelsohn, Drucker, & Associates, P.C.

20090225919 - Methods and apparatus for operating a digital communications interface: Embodiments of the invention relate to integrated circuits comprising inputs for receiving an input signal and a plurality of clock signals having a predetermined phase relationship. The integrated circuit may include a plurality of track-and-hold devices and a plurality of slicer devices. Signal outputs of two track-and-hold devices may be... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Gero Mcclellan / Qimonda

20090219973 - Pulse modulation and demodulation in a multiband uwb communication system: In a wireless communications system, such as a multiband Ultra Wideband communications system, data is transmitted by means of the phases of pulses in multiple frequency bands. A signal is transmitted with a predetermined phase in at least one of the frequency bands for at least a part of the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090219975 - Ultra wide band device for detection and avoidance of ultra wide band signal: Example embodiments are directed to a method for detection and avoidance (DAA) of an ultra wide band (UWB) signal and a UWB terminal. The method includes: shifting a data signal by a desired frequency in a first direction; filtering the shifted data signal through a notch filter; and shifting the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090219974 - Varying device identities: A communication device comprises a memory for storing a device identity; a data transmitter for supporting communication links with other devices; and a communication controller, wherein the controller is configured to periodically vary the stored device identity and to cause the data transmitter to periodically transmit the stored device identity... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090219976 - Transmission of information to a gps device: A terrestrial system for transmitting non-GPS information for reception by a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, the system including a processor, a memory coupled to the processor and including computer-readable instructions configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive the non-GPS information, determine an available pseudo-random... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090219977 - Radio communication apparatus: A radio communication apparatus includes a mapping unit configured to map data to a burst data transmission region corresponding to radio resources; and a transmitter configured to transmit the data mapped to the burst data transmission region, where a reference signal used for canceling an interference wave is mapped to... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090219978 - Methods and apparatus for adaptive link partner transmitter equalization: Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptive link partner transmitter equalization. According to one aspect of the invention, a local transceiver adapts one ox more equalization parameters of a link partner by receiving a training frame over a channel between the link partner and the local transceiver, wherein the training... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090219979 - System and method for selectable mask for ldsl: The present invention overcomes various problems by defining two upstream masks (U1, U2) and two downstream masks (D1, D2) and using a mask selectable system for the long reach digital subscriber line (LDSL), in which a unique modem feature is activated during handshake to automatically check for physical layer status... Agent: Brooktree Broadband Holding, Inc

20090219980 - Feedback system and apparatus for video compensation: A system and apparatus for compensating cable losses in a video signal transmission system includes feedback circuits to determine the spectral attenuation of a received signal and to control an equalizer circuit to amplify selected frequencies of the received signal, and to determine the various times of arrival of two... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090219981 - Minimum mean square error equaliser with reduced complexity: The present invention relates to the field of communication devices, e.g. wireless communication devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to the field of signal equalisation, especially minimum mean square error equalisation. The present invention especially relates to an equaliser for a communication device, a method of equalising one or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090219982 - Selectively disabling interference cancellation based on channel dispersion estimation: A channel dispersion estimation algorithm(s) may be implemented within a channel length estimation module of a multi-branch equalizer processing module that disables a branch of the multi-branch equalizer processing module when the channel length or channel delay spread associated with received radio frequency (RF) bursts exceeds a predetermined threshold. The... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090219984 - Autoregressive moving average modeling for feedforward and feedback tomlinson-harashima precoder filters: Apparatus and methods provide a Tomlinson-Harashima precoder scheme in which a feedback filter may be constructed to match an approximated feedforward filter, where the feedforward filter is approximated using autoregressive moving average modeling.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090219983 - Data communication circuit with equalization control: An adaptive equalizer comprises an adjustable equalizer circuit that allows to enhance the frequency dependence of contents of the transmitted signals which suffer from losses in the connected transmission channel. A blind equalization tuning procedure is proposed that operates without knowledge about the characteristic of transmission channel. Phase positions of... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090219989 - Coding device and editing device: A coding device includes a coding unit (740) for encoding an input digital signal using code words contained in one of a plurality of variable length code word groups, and a multiplexer (701) for generating a stream by generating a parameter (such as idr_pic_id) describing specific information about the stream,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090219986 - Hierarchical video analysis-based real-time perceptual video coding: A system for encoding a video stream into a processed video signal that includes at least one image. The system includes a downscaling module, a partitioning module, a rate control module, and an encoder section. The downscaling module receives the video stream and produces a downscaled video stream. A partitioning... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090219987 - Method and device for generating a marked data flow, method and device for inserting a watermark into a marked data flow, and marked data flow: A method generates a marked data flow from an encoded data flow; at least one first data flow section of the encoded data flow is marked as a marked data flow section; and the marking of the marked data flow section indicates that the marked data flow section is suitable... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090219988 - Methods of encoding and decoding an image or a sequence of images, corresponding devices, computer program and signal: A method is provided of coding an image or a sequence of images, generating a data stream, each image being split into at least two images blocks, wherein each of which is associated a transformed block comprising a set of coefficients. The coefficients of a transformed block are distributed into... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090219985 - Systems and methods for processing multiple projections of video data in a single video file: Methods and systems for processing a plurality of video streams are disclosed. One example method includes encoding a first video stream corresponding to a first projection of a scene and encoding a second video stream corresponding to a second projection of the scene. Due to similarities in the spatially proximate... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090219991 - Bit rate estimation in data or video compression: To reduce the complexity of rate-distortion cost computation in AVC (MPEG4 Pat2/H.264), a bit rate estimation method is used to avoid entropy coding during Intra and Inter mode decision. The bit rate estimation method predicts the number of entropy coded bits based on the quantized transform coefficients, thus avoiding the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090219990 - Cross-layer optimization for scalable video multicast over ieee 802.11 wireless local area networks: A system and method for transmitting video signals to a plurality of receivers in a multicast session, including controlling and adapting coding, transmission and protection schemes of a plurality of layers of a network protocol stack are described.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090219992 - Compensating delay of channel state information between receiver and transmitter during adaptive video delivery: A method for controlling transmission of video data in a network, including: transmitting video data to a receiver via the network; receiving channel parameter information measured by the receiver; applying a predictive function to the channel parameter information to compensate for delay times in receiving the channel parameter information from... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090219993 - Resource allocation for frame-based controller: A method for resource allocation for video encoder to achieve optimal picture quality within a given resource budget. Making a video encoder utilize the computational complexity, bitrate and other resources in an optimal way while maintaining optimal quality is a complicated optimization problem. A subset of this resource allocation problem,... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20090219994 - Scalable video coding and decoding with sample bit depth and chroma high-pass residual layers: Techniques and tools are described for scalable video encoding and decoding. In some embodiments, an input frame is downsampled in terms of sample depth and chroma sampling rate, encoded, and output from the encoder as a base layer bitstream. The base layer bitstream is also reconstructed and upsampled to produce... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090219995 - 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.

20090219998 - 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.

20090219996 - 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.

20090219997 - 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.

20090219999 - 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.

20090220000 - 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 checks whether at least one of vertically-adjacent two macro blocks on a base layer is intra mode, and if only one of the two macro blocks is identified... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090220002 - System and method for compressing video based on detected intraframe motion: 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

20090220001 - Tile-based system and method for compressing video: 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

20090220003 - Method of compressing video data and a media player for implementing the method: A method of receiving video data comprising the steps of: receiving at least one chunk of video data comprising a number of sequential key video frames where the number is at least two and, constructing at least one delta frame between a nearest preceding key frame and a nearest subsequent... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090220004 - Error concealment for scalable video coding: A method of deriving replacement block information, such as a replacement motion vector, for a lost or damaged image block in scalable video coding comprises combining information about neighbouring block information in at least the current layer and the corresponding and/or neighbouring blocks in at least one other layer, to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090220005 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image by using multiple reference-based motion prediction: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding an image by using motion prediction and a method and apparatus for decoding an image by using motion prediction. The method of encoding an image by using motion prediction, the method includes: determining at least one candidate predictor set including at least... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090220006 - 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.

20090220007 - 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.

20090220008 - Inter-layer prediction method for video signal: The present invention relates to a method for conducting interlayer texture prediction in encoding or decoding of video signal. The present method constructs a pair of frame macro blocks from vertically-adjacent two field macro blocks of a base layer, selectively applies a de-blocking filter to the constructed pair of frame... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090220009 - Image decoding device and image decoding method: An image decoding device (1) comprises: an error detecting unit (10) operable to detect a decoding error in each unit area in one frame of an image; an error compensating area determining unit (11) operable to determine an error compensating area for which error compensation should be performed for the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090220010 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding of a video signal: A method of decoding a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes determining whether to store a first partial picture when the first partial picture and a first full picture are corresponding to a first temporal point and storing the first partial picture for decoding a second full picture... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090220012 - Signalling picture encoding schemes and associated picture properties: Systems and methods that provide a video stream, the video stream comprising a sequence of plural compressed pictures corresponding to a video program, the plural compressed pictures having plural sets of compressed pictures, each of the plural sets adhering to one or more picture interdependencies, properties, or a combination of... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090220011 - Video encoder and decoder for an improved zapping service for mobile video reception: The present invention relates to an improved zapping service for broadcasting digital video data to mobile receiving terminals, and in particular to a video encoder and a video decoder therefore. The zapping service contains still pictures (intra-coded frames) that are synchronized with a corresponding P-frame of a main video service.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090220013 - Low-cost connector apparatus and methods for use in high-speed data applications: Low-cost connector apparatus for passing electrical signals from one device over another via a cable. In one embodiment, the connector apparatus comprises a coaxial type connector that mates with a host device, such as via the motherboard thereof. In one variant, the connector further comprises a plurality of electrical components... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20090220014 - Base station, mobile station and method: A base station performs communication of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme with a mobile station by using any one of equal to or greater than two frequency bands. The base station includes means that transmits a synchronization channel and a control channel using a band that includes a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090220015 - Coarse carrier frequency offset estimation for cmmb mobile tv receiver: A method of estimating coarse frequency offset of received symbols based on a received frequency domain sample at a kth sub-carrier of a 53rd Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) data symbol in a jth time slot (TS) of a receiver in a China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) mobile television network... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090220016 - Interference reduction in a communication signal: The invention concerns the reduction of interference in a communication signal sent through a communication channel, where this interference is a performance limiting factor. The communication channel is any channel that can be described with memory elements. A Soft Input Soft Output receiver of a communication signal receives the communication... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20090220017 - Transmission apparatus and reception apparatus: A transmission apparatus used in a mobile communication system adopting a single carrier scheme in an uplink includes: multiplexing means configured to multiplex a pilot channel, a control channel, and a data channel; and transmission means configured to transmit a transmission symbol including at least the pilot channel and the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090220018 - Transmitter and method for digital multi-carrier transmission: The present invention relates to a transmitter and method employing a multi-carrier transmission method, especially utilizing real coefficient wavelet filter banks. The transmitter includes a preamble data generator, a modulator, and a ramp processor. The preamble data generator generates preamble bit data, and outputs the preamble data. The modulator modulates... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090220019 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data using a plurality of carriers: A data transmitting and receiving method of transmitting supplementary data in an OFDM communication system is disclosed. The method of transmitting and receiving the OFDM signal includes: mapping an input bit stream into at least one transfer symbol; changing at least one of amplitudes and phases of the transfer symbols... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090220020 - Optimal encoder and encoding method for dual stream system: Provided are a method of estimating an encoder for dual stream transmission, and an encoder using the same. The method includes the steps of: a) setting up the number of memories required for an encoder, a free distance condition for robust data, and a free distance condition for mixed stream... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090220022 - Device, method and computer program for transmitting an information signal comprising several transmit signals: A device for transmitting an information signal having several transmit signals has a modulator for generating a first and a second transmit signal. The first transmit signal is transmittable via a first spatial emitter, and the second transmit signal is transmittable via a second spatial emitter. The modulator has an... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090220023 - Method for transmitting signals in the system with multiful antennas: A wireless communication system and more particularly a method for signals in a system using a plurality of antennas are disclosed. In the method for multi-antenna-encoding data symbols to be transmitted through the plurality of antennas, at least two same data symbols multi-antenna-encoded are formed and transmitted repeatedly. Accordingly, it... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090220021 - Method for transmitting/receiving signal having spread training symbol in mobile communication system: A method for transmitting/receiving signals in a mobile communication system, a pilot configuration of a mobile communication system capable of transmitting much more data using a conventional pilot signal, a channel estimation method, and a receiving method are disclosed. A method for transmitting a signal equipped with a training symbol... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090220024 - Fm simulcast broadcast signal broadcast transmission system and receiver device: The invention relates to a FM simulcast broadcast signal, in which an analogue and digital signal are combined for a transmission in a transmission channel with limited bandwidth as a total signal (s), which has a first phase speed (vs), an auxiliary signal (hs) is prepared in the complex region... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Princeton

20090220026 - Digital broadcast transmitter/receiver having improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: A digital broadcast transmitter/receiver, and a signal processing method thereof, includes a randomizer randomizing a dual transport stream which includes a normal data packet and a robust data packet and into which stuff bytes are inserted, a stuff-byte exchanger replacing the stuff bytes of the randomized data with known data,... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090220025 - Transmission method, transmission circuit and transmission system: A transmission method for transmitting transmission data via a single line, includes: transmitting, as the transmission data, data that has one rising or falling transition of the amplitude of the data in each clock cycle of a clock and that carries a 2- or greater-bit value, making use of the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090220027 - Method for coding data symbols: Data symbols, transmitted by OFDM radio using at least two transmission antennae, are coded by a DSTBC coding and a DSTFBC coding. Two adjacent data symbols of a selected sub-carrier are provided for initializing a DSTFBC coding in a sub-carrier direction and are used for DSTFBC coding of similarly positioned... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090220028 - Calibrated pulsed serial link: Circuitry for decoding data from a pulsed signal received on a single line, the circuitry comprising receiving means for receiving a first edge and a second edge on the single line, the first and second edges being separated by a time period, the time period representing said data; decode circuitry... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090220029 - Clock recovery circuit and data receiving circuit: A clock recovery circuit has a boundary detection circuit detecting a boundary in an input signal in accordance with a first signal, and performs recovery of a clock by controlling the timing of the first signal in accordance with the detected boundary. The clock recovery circuit has a boundary detection... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090220030 - System and method for modulating a signal at an antenna: A Direct Spatial Antenna Modulation (DSAM) antenna structure makes use of the instantaneous electromagnetic field state of a radiating antenna structure to achieve direct modulation of a transmitted signal within the antenna. In contrast to existing amplitude and phase-only based digital modulation techniques, this innovative technique utilizes an inherent spatial... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20090220031 - Method for blind demodulation at higher orders of several linear waveform transmitters: Disclosed is a method of blind demodulation of signals arising from one or more transmitters, the signals including a mixture of symbols comprising at least one step of separating the transmitters by using the temporal independence of the symbol trains specific to a transmitter and the mutual independence of the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090220032 - Multi-stage combining weight calculation method and apparatus: Combining weights are calculated in multiple stages based on an overall system impairment covariance matrix and a grouping of signal processing delays. Computing the combining weights in multiple stages avoids having to invert the entire system impairment covariance matrix. Instead, smaller matrix inversions are performed. In one embodiment, a received... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090220034 - Layered receiver structure: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for receiving a layered transmission of data in a wireless communication system using an iterative layered receiver structure. In one embodiment, a receiver comprises a layer 1 demapper and a layer 1 outer decoder to iteratively decode layer 1 of the coded data,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090220033 - Method and apparatus for bit demultiplexing in a wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus of bit demultiplexing for a rate 1/3 convolutional encoder in a wireless communication system, the method comprising, receiving bits from the rate-1/3 convolutional encoder, demultiplexing the received bits by distributing the bits sequentially into 3 sequences denoted as V0, V1 and V2 such that the first... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090220035 - Apparatus for equalizing channel in frequency domain and method therefor: Provided is an apparatus for channel equalization in frequency domain, including: a channel estimation unit for estimating a channel on received signal from outside, a channel matched filter for changing channel characteristic of the channel estimated by the channel estimation unit and the received signal to channel characteristic to meet... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090220036 - Data interface and method of seeking synchronization: The present invention provides for method of seeking synchronization at a data interface between a transmitting element and a receiving element, and to related transmitting and receiving elements of the interface, in which the clock frequency of both elements is the same but which exhibit a phase difference, also known... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090220037 - Plural circuit selection using role reversing control inputs: Data is communicated through two separate circuits or circuit groups, each having clock and mode inputs, by sequentially reversing the role of the clock and mode inputs. The data communication circuits have data inputs, data outputs, a clock input for timing or synchronizing the data input and/or output communication, and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090220038 - Systems and methods for multiplexing multiphase clocks: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, circuits and methods that allow for switching between two or more multiphase clocks. As one example, a system for switching between multiphase clocks is disclosed. The system includes a multiphase clock multiplexer. The multiphase clock multiplexer receives a first multiphase clock and... Agent: Hamilton,desanctis & Cha (lsi)