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Pulse or digital communications April category listing, related patent applications 04/10

20100103980 - Robust low-frequency spread-spectrum navigation system: Methods and apparatus are described for a navigation system. A process includes providing a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; locking the plurality of transmitters to a common timing reference; transmitting a signal from each of the plurality of transmitters. An apparatus includes a plurality of transmitters... Agent: Ut-battelle/chicago/bhgl

20100103981 - Radio network list for vehicle control and real time position data: One embodiment of the present invention relates to systems and methods for providing vehicles including construction machines and work vessels at a work site including construction work sites and naval work sites with real time position data from survey units located at the construction work site. In particular, a method... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100103982 - Robust low-frequency spread-spectrum navigation system: Methods and apparatus are described for a navigation system. A process includes providing a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; locking the plurality of transmitters to a common timing reference; transmitting a signal from each of the plurality of transmitters. An apparatus includes a plurality of transmitters... Agent: Ut-battelle/chicago/bhgl

20100103984 - Frequency-division multiplexing transceiver apparatus, wave-number-division multiplexing transceiver apparatus and method thereof: A frequency-division multiplexing transmission apparatus for transmitting data in a frequency spectrum specific to both symbol and mobile station, is disclosed. The apparatus encodes transmission data, modulates the encoded data, compresses the time domains of each symbol of the modulated transmission-symbol sequence, repeats the symbols a specified number of times,... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100103983 - Root spreading code based assignment for hsdpa: A base station is described herein that uses a root spreading code based code assignment to transmit signals to a mobile station. The mobile station can then suppress intra-block interference by effectively using a joint detection technique or a non-linear equalization technique to detect the transmitted symbols.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100103985 - Method and apparatus for reducing multi-user processing in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus is disclosed for reducing multi-user processing at the receiver in wireless communication systems. Detected codes are grouped according to channel impulse response and a parent code is identified for each group of detected codes. A matrix A is constructed and joint detection is performed using the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100103986 - Receiver: With the objective of enhancing receiving performance of a receiver with respect to pulse signals spread by spread codes, the receiver comprises an RF front-end section which performs amplification, an AD converter section which AD-converts signals outputted from the RF front-end section, a baseband section which inversely spreads the output... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20100103987 - Method and apparatus for transferring signals in a wireless communication system: Data is transferred in a wireless communication system, such as a wireless spread spectrum communication system. A plurality of transmitting antennas are provided. Data is encoded to produce a plurality of data streams for each of the plurality of codes. The plurality of data streams are spread with the plurality... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100103988 - Device for receiving satellite signals including a phase loop with delay compensation: The general field of the invention is that of devices for receiving radio-navigation signals by satellite, said received signals being transmitted at a carrier frequency, said device including at least means for generating a local signal at a local frequency and a tracking device including a feedback loop called carrier... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100103989 - Robust low-frequency spread-spectrum navigation system: Methods and apparatus are described for a navigation system. A process includes providing a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; locking the plurality of transmitters to a common timing reference; transmitting a signal from each of the plurality of transmitters. An apparatus includes a plurality of transmitters... Agent: Ut-battelle/chicago/bhgl

20100103991 - Communication systems: A transmission method for use in a multi-hop wireless communication system is provided. Furthermore, the system has access to a time-frequency format for use in assigning available transmission frequency bandwidth during a discrete transmission interval. The format defines a plurality of transmission windows within such an interval, where each window... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100103990 - Synchronization methods for single-frequency simulcast mobile radio communication networks: What is described is a circuit arrangement and a method for synchronizing the communication signals between a repeater station (S) of a single-frequency simulcast radio communication network (N) and user terminals (T) with respect to a universal reference signal sent by a central station (M) of the network (N) communicating... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20100103992 - Systems and methods for ramping power amplifier output power: A power amplifier circuit including a first transistor, a second transistor, and a power control circuit. The first transistor includes a first input and a first output. The second transistor includes a second input coupled in series with the first output of the first transistor. The input circuit is coupled... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100103993 - Methods and arrangements in a digital subscriber line network: The present invention relates to method and arrangements for reducing crosstalk in a DSL system. This is achieved by providing the users in the network with a ghost line, i.e. a virtual line that should reflect the damage to be caused to the remaining users in the network, and that... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100103994 - Interface with variable data rate: A device includes a transmitter coupled to a node, where the node is to couple to a wired link. The transmitter has a plurality of modes of operation including a calibration mode in which a range of communication data rates over the wired link is determined in accordance with a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20100103995 - Apparatus and method for controlling universal ic card in complex terminal: A complex terminal includes an apparatus for controlling a Universal IC Card (UICC). The apparatus is configured to obtain a control information through a UICC initialization and provide a corresponding communication modem with the control information. A communication modem can request a communication authority based on the control information and... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100103996 - Managing tap positions in a digital delay line: This method of reading a plurality of chip sample values at tap positions (66, 68) in a digital delay line (64) having a starting point and an end point for delaying symbols of a signal (82) received in a receiver comprises: —reading the plurality of chip sample values in the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20100103997 - Mmse equaliser: A MMSE equaliser taking into account delays in the reception of signals from plural users. Time delays in reception of signals from plural users may be known or can be measured or estimated and can be used to for the basis for the operation of the equaliser. A low computational... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100103998 - Decision feedback equalization scheme with minimum correction delay: A decision feedback equalizer includes a correction circuit to correct a sampled value of an incoming bit based on intersymbol interference of at least one preceding bit, and to generate a received bit. The correction circuit includes a first multiplexer and a first pair of latches coupled thereto. The first... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20100104000 - Enhancement of transition region equalization in a decision feedback equalizer: A decision feedback equalizer includes an input path for receiving a bitstream with inter-symbol interference, and a feedback signal path is coupled to the input path for correcting a sampled value of an incoming bit of the bitstream based on inter-symbol interference of a preceding bit. The feedback signal path... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20100103999 - Partial response decision-feedback equalization with adaptation based on edge samples: A device (102) implements data reception with edge-based partial response decision feedback equalization. In an example embodiment, the device implements a tap weight adapter circuit (114) that sets the tap weights that are used for adjustment of a received data signal (104). The tap weight adapter circuit (119) sets the... Agent: Rambus Lerner, David, Et Al.

20100104001 - Receiver and receiving method for scalable bandwith: Provided are a receiver and a receiving method for a scalable bandwidth in a mobile station of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. The receiving method includes the steps of: (a) filtering a received RF signal; (b) oscillating a frequency according to a center frequency control signal to output... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100104002 - Media codec devices providing universality for encoded signal origination and decoded signal distribution: Media codec devices obtain and decode media signals and then distribute them to downstream devices. The media codec devices may obtain media signals from multiple service providers or other sources, including protected media signals. The media codec devices may be decoupled from the source of the media signals by maintaining... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20100104003 - System and method for securely transmitting video data: Exemplary embodiments provide a system and method for securely transmitting video data to an electronic display. The video data may be transmitted using a wired or wireless application. Raw video data is encoded as a plurality of JPEG frames. A plurality of packets are created which may contain one frame... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20100104004 - Video encoding for mobile devices: Techniques are described to encode video content for mobile devices. A video content that is to be transmitted to a mobile device is received and different scenes are determined for the video content. For each scene that is found in the video content, one or more analysis techniques are performed... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100104005 - Video scene matching on return from virtual rendering in a consumer digital video recording device: A method, system and computer program provide a mechanism for smoothing the transition back from a virtual (computer generated) scene to a related video stream. An event such as a user input or timeout is received triggering a return to display of the video stream from a virtual scene related... Agent: Mitch Harris (end) C/o Mitch Harris, Atty At Law

20100104007 - Method and device for video-stream frame rate adaptation, and field programmable gate array chip and video stream processing apparatus: This invention provides a method and device for video-stream frame rate adaptation. The method includes: allocating a buffer space for each of at least one video conference room respectively and dividing the buffer space into at least one segment, each segment of which is used for buffering a video frame;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100104012 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: A method of decoding a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes obtaining identification information indicating whether a coded picture of a current NAL unit is an inter-view picture group, obtaining interview reference information of the inter-view picture group, and constructing a reference picture list for inter-view prediction using... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100104009 - Methods and systems for improving network response during channel change: In response to a channel change command in a home network, to reduce latency a real time network bandwidth determination is made and if the determination indicates that bandwidth is sufficient to support only I-frame transmission, then only I-frames are sent temporarily from the source to the sink. Otherwise, I... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20100104011 - Moving picture coding method: A moving picture coding method for coding a moving picture includes: determining a luminance change (S201) in which whether or not there is a possibility that a luminance change equal to or greater than a predetermined amount has occurred between the coded picture used for a reference and a current... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100104010 - Real-time rate-control method for video encoder chip: The present invention discloses a real-time rate-control method for a video encoder chip, wherein a BU-based RC algorithm is realized in a pipeline architecture, and wherein the RC algorithm is divided into an UpdateQP part arranged before the IME stage and an UpdateModel part arranged behind the entropy stage. When... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20100104014 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: A method of decoding a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes obtaining identification information indicating whether a coded picture of a current NAL unit is an inter-view picture group, obtaining interview reference information of the inter-view picture group, and constructing a reference picture list for inter-view prediction using... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100104013 - Multiplexing control unit: Provided is a multiplexing control unit operable to execute multiplex (MUX) and demultiplex (DEMUX), and enhanced in its processing performance. The multiplexing control unit includes a transport stream (TS) buffer, a multiplex-processing part, a video buffer and an audio buffer. When supplied with coded video and audio data from video... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100104020 - Apparatus capable of performing both block-matching motion compensation and global motion compensation and method thereof: An interpolation unit receives an incoming video bit stream comprising a plurality of frames including first macroblocks encoded using block-matching motion compensation and second macroblocks encoded using global motion compensation. A translation unit converts global motion parameters included in a current frame of the incoming video bit stream into a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100104017 - Encoding of a plurality of information signals using a joint computing power: A device for encoding a plurality of information signals using a joint computing power includes a plurality of encoders for encoding a respectively different one of the information signals using the joint computing power, wherein each encoder is controllable via at least one respective encoding parameter with regard to its... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20100104019 - Method and apparatus for processing an image: A method and apparatus for processing an image. The method and apparatus may each perform the operations of extracting motion information of an input signal calculating true motion information, which indicates whether an object of interest moves and an area where the object of interest moved, from the motion information,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20100104015 - Method and apparatus for transrating compressed digital video: Apparatus and methods for transcoding one or more compressed video bitstreams. In one embodiment, the method comprises partially decoding an input video bitstream to produce a partially decoded intermediate video bitstream generated without performing a deblocking operation, extracting syntax pass-through information from the input video bitstream, and producing an output... Agent: Robert F. Gazdzinski, Esq. Gazdzinski & Associates, PC

20100104018 - System, method and computer-accessible medium for providing body signature recognition: Provided and described herein are, e.g., exemplary embodiments of systems, methods, procedures, devices, computer-accessible media, computing arrangements and processing arrangements in accordance with the present disclosure related to body signature recognition and acoustic speaker verification utilizing body language features. For example, certain exemplary embodiments can include a computer-accessible medium containing... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100104016 - Weighted prediction information calculation method, apparatus, and program, and video coding method, apparatus, and program: A weighting factor calculation unit (1903) calculates a weighting factor using characteristics respectively corresponding to a picture to be predicted and a selected reference picture in accordance with a weighting factor equation derived from a fade effect generation principle. For each picture, an intra-picture characteristic calculation unit (1901) calculates the... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100104008 - Method and system for performing two-dimensional transform on data value array with reduced power consumption: A method and system for performing a 2D transform is disclosed. The 2D transform may include a row transform and/or a column transform. When performing the row or column transform, it may be determined whether each of different subsets of the data values including a partition of a row or... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20100104006 - Real-time network video processing: One disclosed feature of the embodiments is a technique to decode a video frame. A GPU performs image encoding of a video frame computing quantized DCT coefficients representing a picture block in the video frame. The GPU is configured for parallel operations. An entropy encoder performs entropy encoding on the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100104022 - Method and apparatus for video processing using macroblock mode refinement: Apparatus and methods for processing (e.g., transrating) one or more compressed video bitstreams including mode refinement analysis. In one embodiment, a method of transrating a digital video picture having a plurality of input macroblocks, each input macroblock having at least first and second attributes (e.g., slice type, encoding mode, and... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, PC

20100104021 - Remote transmission and display of video data using standard h.264-based video codecs: Embodiments include implementing a remote display system (either wired or wireless) using a standard, non-custom codec. In this system, the decoder side can be fully implemented using an existing standard from a decode/display point of view and using a single stream type. The encoder side includes a pre-processing component that... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20100104023 - Compressing video frames: A method includes generating first difference frames and compressing the first difference frames to form compressed difference frames. The compressed difference frames are decompressed to form decompressed difference frames, and the decompressed difference frames are used in the generation of the first difference frames.... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20100104024 - Remediation of television signals using a network back-channel: A method for remediating broadcast digital television signals is disclosed. A television signal is buffered by a multimedia client, and analyzed for errors. If errors are detected, replacement data for the corrupted data are requested from a service provider using a network back-channel. The replacement data are obtained from the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20100104025 - Technique to enable efficient adaptive streaming and transcoding of video and other signals: A method is described for efficiently determining total end-to-end distortion of a pre-compressed data stream, such as video streams or other media streams, at the time of delivery over a lossy-network, and for providing adaptive error-resilient delivery schemes based on distortion estimates. The methods can be utilized with single or... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20100104026 - Method for processing a steam of multiplexed packets transporting multimedia data according to an mpeg-2 type format: so that these low bitrate streams (161, 162, . . . 16n) are transmitted in the intermediary network with a same low bitrate and a same alternation between, on one hand, the packets of data (1, 2, . . . 44) and, on the other hand, the synchronization packets (M1,... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100104027 - Adaptive preprocessing method using feature-extracted video maps: A method and apparatus for preprocessing a video signal prior to its being encoded. During preprocessing, features are extracted from the video signal into feature planes which are each adaptively filtered in response to estimations of feature activity. After feature extraction the signal which remains is referred to as a... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20100104030 - Communications device and communications method: A communications device 100, which performs data communication, includes an AC cycle sensor 30 which is connected to a power line 106 supplied with an a.c. voltage and generates a synchronous signal SS at timing of an a.c. voltage waveform AC of the power line 106; a data communicator 10... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100104028 - Current segmentation circuit for optimizing output waveform for high speed data transmission interface: The present invention provides a current segmentation circuit for optimizing output waveform from high speed data transmission interface, which comprises a four current sources controlled by four switches to segment current so as to control the rising and falling time of the high speed transmission data, and to match the... Agent: Zhen Zheng Lu

20100104029 - Independent link(s) over differential pairs using common-mode signaling: Methods and apparatuses for using single-ended common mode signaling, additional data can be transferred in backward, forward, and/or both directions over an existing differential pair connection without adding extra wire.... Agent: Silicon Image/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100104031 - System for electrical power supply and for transmitting data without electrical contact: The invention relates to an assembly comprising a power transmitter (E) and a power receiver (R) respectively comprising a primary coil (11) and a secondary coil (22), in which the transmitter and the receiver are of the electromagnetic induction type and allow on the one hand the powering without electrical... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100104034 - 8-transmit antenna reference signal design for downlink communications in a wireless system: Systems and methods are disclosed for mapping reference signals for antenna ports in a plurality of resource blocks among resource blocks in a subframe within an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system. This method includes selecting at least one predetermined resource elements for transmitting in the plurality of resource... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100104035 - Apparatus and method for clock synchronization in a multi-point ofdm/dmt digital communications system: A multi-point communications system is set forth herein. The communications system comprises a transmitter for transmitting OFDM/DMT symbols over a predetermined number of bins across a transmission medium. The OFDM/DMT symbols are generated using at least one timing signal. At least one of the predetermined number of bins includes a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100104032 - Codebook design method for multiple input multiple output system and method for using the codebook: A multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication method using a codebook is provided. The MIMO communication method may use one or more codebooks and the codebooks may change according to a transmission rank, a channel state of a user terminal, and/or a number of feedback bits.... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100104036 - Contention-based access channel design in mimo ofdm/ofdma systems: A contention-based multi-antenna access request transmission/receiving procedure in MIMO OFDM/OFDMA systems is provided to reduce access latency. A mobile station encodes and transmits an access request over a shared access channel using multiple transmitting antennas, while a base station receives and decodes a number of access requests using multiple receiving... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20100104033 - Method and apparatus for separable channel state feedback in a wireless communication system: Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate the generation and use of separable, hierarchical channel state feedback in a wireless communication system. As described herein, in the event that multiple network nodes cooperate to conduct downlink transmissions to a network user, channel state feedback as reported by the network... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100104037 - Method and device for interference suppression in user terminal: A user terminal [12] and method for suppressing interference associated with receiving data, via a wireless channel, from multiple antennas [14, 16] of a transmitter of interest [10]. The user terminal [12] includes an antenna [98] configured to receive an information carrying signal including at least two vectors transmitted from... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100104039 - Method and apparatus for processing data for transmission in a multi-channel communication system using selective channel inversion: Techniques to process data for transmission over a set of transmission channels selected from among all available transmission channels. In an aspect, the data processing includes coding data based on a common coding and modulation scheme to provide modulation symbols and pre-weighting the modulation symbols for each selected channel based... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100104038 - Multidimensional channel estimation without sounding signals: Techniques are provided herein to estimate parameters of a wireless communication channel. At each of a first plurality of antennas of a first wireless communication device, a transmission is received that is associated with each of one or more spatial streams transmitted via a second plurality of antennas of a... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100104040 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication method: On the transmitting side, a decision is made as to whether to add pilot symbols which are separate from basic pilot symbols, to frames, based on the propagation path state, and when symbols are added, control symbols comprising information relating to the additional pilot symbols are generated, and frames comprising... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100104042 - Communication system, transmission device, reception device, and communication method: There is provided a communication system capable of achieving a high usage efficiency of frequencies without the need for cooperation of multiplexed users. A communication system communicates over frequency channels set by dividing a frequency bandwidth assigned to the system allows interference between channels by overlapping the adjacent frequency channels... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100104041 - Transmission method, transmission system, transmission device and reception device: The DFT 12 converts a modulated digital signal into a spectrum of a frequency band. A use frequency band notification unit in a reception device notifies a transmission device 1 of a use frequency band. A deletion unit 141 in the transmission device 1 deletes a spectrum of a band... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100104043 - Power amplifier: A switched mode class-S power amplifier comprises a sigma-delta modulator with a digital input, a power switch connected to the output of the sigma-delta modulator providing the power amplifier output, and a feedback mechanism. The sigma-delta modulator has a high-pass transfer function and uses an offset switching frequency to remove... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20100104044 - Radio transmission device and radio reception device: Provided is a radio transmission device (100) which can flexibly cope with a request for assuring an error ratio feature during a high transmission rate, a request for increasing a cell coverage, or the like. The radio transmission device (100) includes a first subcarrier modulation unit (104) which forms a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100104045 - Iq mismatch correction circuit: An IQ mismatch correction circuit comprises: a correction circuit which performs a correction process to I-phase and Q-phase input signals by using one pair of first- or higher-order digital filters; two or more control circuits which independently generate two or more control variables to derive two or more coefficients of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100104049 - Dual-rate single band communication system: A system, method, and apparatus for a multiple data rate communication system is presented herein. The communication system receives data samples that are either sampled at a narrowband rate or a wideband rate and provides various functions and services, such as echo cancellation, DTMF detection and generation, and call discrimination.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100104047 - Multiple-antenna space multiplexing system using enhancement signal detection: The multiple-antenna space multiplexing system using enhancement signal detection comprising: a code modulation module for coding and modulating bit information; a signal transmission module for transmitting the modulated signals; a signal reception module for receiving the signals; a signal form transform module for transforming form of a channel matrix H... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100104046 - Receiver of binary offset carrier (boc) modulated signals: Binary Offset Carrier (BOC) is the agreed modulation for signals of next generation Global Navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Compared to current phase shift keying (PSK) modulation by a code, there is a further modulation by a sub-carrier. There is a known major difficulty with BOC called ‘false lock’ where early/late... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20100104048 - Time delay measurement: A method of processing first and second corresponding signals having a delay therebetween, at least the first signal being a binary signal having chip boundaries, comprises: introducing a plurality of different delays between the first and second signals, successive delay amounts differing from each other by less than the interval... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100104050 - System and method for enhanced symbol generation: According to some embodiments, an input symbol may be received, and a hard symbol may be generated from the input symbol. A probability associated with the hard symbol may be calculated along with a probability associated with a previous hard symbol. An enhanced symbol may then be determined as a... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20100104051 - Communication signal receiver for estimating an imaginary-part component of a complex data signal and method thereof: A communication signal receiver includes a feed-forward filter and a coefficient adjusting circuit. The feed-forward filter generates an estimated imaginary-part component signal according to a real-part component of a complex data signal by using tap coefficients of the feed-forward filter. The coefficient adjusting circuit adjusts the tap coefficients of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100104052 - Automatic gain control apparatus and method for compressed mode in mimo system: An automatic gain control apparatus and method for a compressed mode in a MIMO system are provided. The method includes determining power at a first frequency band using a first receiver, simultaneously determining power at a second frequency band using a second receiver in a compressed mode, if the second... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100104053 - Apparatus and method for estimating inter-carrier interference power and noise power in a channel: An estimation method is provided for use in a receiver of an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) system to estimate the ICI (inter-carrier interference) and the noise power of a channel. Two pilot signals respectively carried by two subcarriers are received from the channel wherein the two pilot signals are... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100104054 - Directional diversity receive system: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a directional diversity receive system. The system may comprise a plurality of antennas attached to and fixed with respect to a frame. The system may further comprise a steerable antenna attached to and moveable with respect to the frame. The system may be encapsulated by... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100104055 - Apparatus and method for digital up converting in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for digital up converting in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a Selectable Input Logic (SIL), a Scalable Clock Distribution Logic (SCDL), a filter logic, and a mixer logic. The SIL performs decimation at a decimation rate. The SCDL controls a clock frequency.... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100104056 - Controlling activation of electronic circuitry of data ports of a communication system: An apparatus and method of controlling activation of electronic circuitry of data ports of a communication system is disclosed. One method includes a first data port detecting a lack of data for transmission to a second data port. At least one of the first data port and a second data... Agent: Teranetics

20100104057 - Clock and data recovery with a data aligner: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first and second input streams comprising first and second input data bits, respectively. The method includes generating first and second recovered clocks based on the first and second input streams, respectively. The method includes retiming and demultiplexing the first and second input data... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100098134 - Method and apparatus for using a spread spectrum intermediate frequency channel within an electronic device: An input signal to a radio device is received and has its frequency spread prior to processing the signal to allow the performance benefits of a spread spectrum signal. After processing, the signal is despread by analog or digital processing to create an output signal. The spreading and despreading functions... Agent: BatemanIPLaw Group

20100098135 - Method and apparatus for avoiding interference between coexisting wireless systems: Apparatuses and methods for avoiding interference between wireless systems are described herein. One embodiment of the disclosure provides an apparatus for avoiding interference between at least one transmitter and at least one receiver within at least one wireless device. The apparatus comprises a first processing circuit configured to determine whether... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100098136 - Method and apparatus for performing signal correlation at multiple resolutions to mitigate multipath interference: A method and apparatus for selecting a signal processing resolution. A received signal is processed using a first resolution. When a multipath condition is detected, the signal is processed using a second resolution.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100098137 - Detection device of a spreading code and a timing, and a method thereof: An A/D converted and inputted signal is stored in a memory. A sliding correlator sequentially reads the signal stored in the memory and despreads this signal. A despreading timing is adjusted and then the candidate for a despreading code is outputted from a code generation circuit. The despreading code outputted... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100098139 - Crest factor reduction for ofdm communications systems by transmitting phase shifted resource blocks: In the disclosed system and method phase (and optionally amplitude) shifts are applied at an OFDM transmitter to resource blocks within a given slot to implement Crest Factor Reduction (CFR). The phase shifts may differ between resource blocks and are selected to reduce the peaks in the OFDM waveform. The... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100098141 - Implementing auto-configurable default polarity: The present invention relates to a system and method for implementing auto-configurable default polarity. More specifically, the present invention relates to a transceiver module comprising, for example, a single chip multi-sublayer PHY, where the single chip multi-sublayer PHY is adapted to implement auto-configurable default polarity. In one embodiment, the transceiver... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100098138 - Method and apparatus for improving energy efficiency of mobile devices through energy profiling based rate adaptation: Improved battery life for mobile wireless devices communicating using standard network protocols is obtained by measuring an energy profile of the transmitter circuitry with respect to transmission rate and transmission energy and adjusting operating conditions according to measured or deduced error rates. Additional energy savings are obtained reducing the total... Agent: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

20100098140 - Network communications device capable of promoting connection quality and method thereof: A network communications device is capable of promoting connection quality, and includes: a plurality of transmitting units for outputting a plurality of analog transmit-signals to another network communications device based on a plurality of digital transmit-signals; a plurality of receiving units for outputting a plurality of digital receive-signals based on... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20100098142 - System and method of providing telecommunications special services to a telecommunications customer: A system and method for providing telecommunications special services to customers of a communications service provider includes receiving first communications signals from customer premise equipment. The first communications signals may be processed using a special services card to generate second communications signal. The second communications signal may be communicated to... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100098143 - Method for analyzing random telegraph signal and threshold level determination method therefor: A method for analyzing a random telegraph signal according to the present invention includes the steps of: performing band-pass filter processing with respect to signal data; subsequently calculating a histogram; subsequently performing threshold determination processing; further performing, based on a result of the threshold determination, binarization processing with respect to... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20100098144 - Multiple input multiple output communication system and communication method of adaptably transforming codebook: A multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system including a base station and at least one terminal may adaptively transform a codebook. The terminal may calculate one or more correlation matrices based on one or more subchannel matrices included in a channel matrix. The terminal may feed back information for... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100098145 - Apparatus and method for channel estimation in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for reducing power consumption of a receiver of a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes an adaptive multi-tap segment channel estimator for determining a segment size according to a delay spread value for each channel tap, for determining a channel estimation frequency by determining... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100098146 - Channel estimation method and device in wireless communication system: Provided is a channel estimation method and device in a wireless communication system. A channel estimating device for estimating a channel based on a received signal generates an initial channel estimate by using a preamble extracted from the received signal, and determines whether there is a midamble between data symbols... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100098147 - Equalizer and method for performing equalization: An FFE/DFE equalizer is provided that uses unclocked FIR filters. At least one of the unclocked FIR filters has tunable delay cells that can be tuned to adjust their respective time delay time periods. Because the FIR filters of the FFE/DFE equalizer are unclocked, the complexity and die area associated... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20100098148 - Linear feedback shift calculation apparatus, communication apparatus, microprocessor, and data output method in a linear feedback calculation apparatus:

20100098149 - Systems and methods for multicarrier modulation using multi-tap frequency-domain equalizer and decision feedback: Through the use of feedback in determining frequency domain equalization, interference can be reduced. Specifically, the determined constellation point closest to the determined received point can be fed back to aid in determining one or more other closest constellation points.... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20100098150 - Techniques for asynchronous data recovery: A data recovery circuit includes a pulse width indicator circuit, an edge detection circuit and a first storage. The pulse width indicator circuit is configured to receive, at an input, a data stream and provide pulses, at respective outputs, that are indicative of respective data bits in the received data... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20100098151 - Method and apparatus for cached adaptive transforms for compressing data streams, computing similarity, and recognizing patterns: d

20100098152 - Method and system for conversion of digital video: A method for converting an encoded digital video signal from a decoded relatively lower frame rate to a decoded relatively higher frame rate, including the following steps: deriving, from the encoded video signal, at the relatively lower frame rate, a decoded high resolution component and a decoded low resolution component;... Agent: Martin Novack

20100098154 - Methods and apparatus for video usability information (vui) for scalable video coding (svc): There are provided methods and apparatus for video usability information (VUI) for scalable video coding (SVC). An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding video signal data into a bitstream. The encoder specifies video user information, excluding hypothetical reference decoder parameters, in the bitstream using a high level syntax element. The... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100098155 - Parallel cabac decoding using entropy slices: A method of video encoding is provided that includes performing context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) on a plurality of syntax element values in a slice to generate a plurality of entropy-encoded syntax element values, generating an entropy slice header to identify the plurality of entropy-encoded syntax element values as an... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100098153 - System and method to record encoded video data: A system includes a network interface to receive video packet data encoding video data from a remote server. The system includes a hardware decoder operable to decode a first type of encoded video data but not operable to decode a second type of encoded video data. The system also includes... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20100098157 - method and an apparatus for processing a video signal: A method of decoding a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes obtaining IC (Illumination Compensation) difference information of a neighbor block of a current block, when information associated with illumination compensation for the current block is not available in a bitstream, deriving IC difference information of the current... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100098158 - 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, L.L.P.

20100098159 - 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, L.L.P.

20100098160 - 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, L.L.P.

20100098156 - Weighted prediction based on vectorized entropy coding: This disclosure describes methods that control the selection of predictive coding techniques for enhancement layer video blocks based on characteristics of vectorized entropy coding for such enhancement layer video blocks. In accordance with this disclosure, the predictive techniques used for predictive-based video coding of enhancement layer video blocks are dependent... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100098163 - Image buffering techniques: A system, apparatus, method and article to perform buffering techniques are described. The apparatus may include a buffer having a fixed number of storage slots that store reconstructed picture representations received from an image processing module. Also, the apparatus may include a buffer status unit to store a multiple information... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20100098162 - System and method for bit-allocation in video coding: A system and method for region-of-interest-based bit-allocation scheme for video coding is provided. A method for encoding an image sequence of inter-frames and intra-frames includes grouping the inter-frames and the intra-frames in at least one group of pictures (GOP), and performing a frame-level bit-allocation to inter-frames and the intra-frames in... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100098161 - Video encoding apparatus and video encoding method: A video encoding apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes a clock generation unit generating a clock, an order unit ordering start timing of the encoding. The apparatus includes a first encoding unit encoding the inputted video to generate first compressed data having a predetermined first band, synchronizes a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100098165 - Dynamic motion vector analysis method: The proposed Dynamic Motion Vector Analysis method applies to the motion compensation module of a video decoder system. The method analyzes the motion-vectors of a given region of picture frame and outputs a set of regions to be fetched from the reference frames stored in the external memory. The size... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100098169 - Method and apparatus for motion estimation using compressed reference frame: An apparatus and a method for determining motion estimation with compressed frame, the method includes loading a macroblock of a current image into codec, transferring a compressed version of motion estimation search window data from previous frame to codec, and carrying out motion estimation to calculate motion vector for current... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100098170 - Transcoding device and transcoding method: A transcoding device includes a decoding unit that decodes both motion vectors of macroblocks and images from encoded images in a first encoding format; a first decoded image storing unit that stores therein the decoded motion vectors of macroblocks and the decoded images; a vector searching unit that searches for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100098166 - Video coding with compressed reference frames: A method and apparatus for video coding for reducing memory size and external memory access bandwidth in video coding, wherein the method compresses a reference frame prior to storing the reference frame to memory.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100098167 - 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, L.L.P.

20100098171 - 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, L.L.P.

20100098172 - 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, L.L.P.

20100098168 - 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, L.L.P.

20100098164 - Video signal processing method and apparatus thereof: A method of processing an interleaved video including a plurality of fields includes receiving a top field and a bottom field successively; selecting one of the top field and the bottom field as a selected field; and generating an interpolated field for replacing an unselected field of the top field... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100098173 - Image processing device and image processing method: To stop the decline of the quality of image associated with encoding. The present invention multiplies a decoding rescaling factor (RFr) possibly used in the decoding process by only a transformation matrix (D), which is scale change, to calculate a rescaling factor (RF), which is a plurality of division factors,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20100098174 - Video encoding method, video decoding method, video encoding apparatus, video decoding apparatus, video encoding program, and video decoding program: A video processing system 100 is provided with video encoding device 10 and video decoding device 20. The video encoding device 10 implements backward interframe prediction from a temporally subsequent frame and outputs information indicating that an option to eliminate use of a decoded image of the temporally subsequent frame... Agent: Ntt Docomo Inc/bhgl

20100098175 - Electric power transmission system for communications with noise elimination arrangement: An electric power transmission system for communications includes on/off switches; high-voltage power assemblies; groups of high-voltage devices each being powered by the high-voltage power assembly; a carrier waves communications network comprising a transformer and filter, a filter, and a carrier waves coupling device interconnecting the transformer and filter and the... Agent: Sam Chen

20100098176 - Method for efficient feedback of receiving channel conditions in adaptive video multicast and broadcast systems: A method and apparatus for providing channel condition feedback in a multicast network are described including estimating a indication of channel condition, determining a receiver class based on the estimated indication of channel condition, calculating a delay, delaying transmission of the estimated indication of channel condition for the calculated delay,... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100098179 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving orthogonal frequency division multiplex-based transmissions: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM)-based transmissions are disclosed. Control information may be transmitted at least one symbol prior to the corresponding data symbols so that a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) has time to determine which parts of the subcarriers need to be... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100098181 - Method and mobile communication station for communicating ofdm symbols using two or more antennas: A method and mobile communication station for communicating orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols uses two or more antennas. The antenna parameters are set for beamforming, a transmit power level is initially set, and subcarrier modulation assignments are selected after the antenna parameters and the transmit power level are set... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100098178 - Method and system of interleaving for a multiple-input multiple-output multi-band ofdm communication system: A multiple-input multiple-output multi-band OFDM transmission system (400) employs a data interleaving arrangement that is backwards compatible with specifications for a legacy interleaver. In one embodiment, an input data stream is parsed into two or more separate data streams by a round robin parser (310) and each of the separate... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100098180 - Method, apparatus and terminal device of symbol interleaving: A method and an apparatus of symbol interleaving are provided. A sequence S(i) is transformed to generate a symbol interleaving sequence. A numerical value of the sequence S(i) is corresponding to a serial number of a channel element (CE). The symbol interleaving sequence may also be obtained based on a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100098177 - Radio transmission device, control device, radio communication system, and communication method: A radio communication system converts a time domain signal into a plurality of frequency signals to be allocated onto a plurality of subcarriers to be transmitted. The radio communication system changes a method of allocating the plurality of frequency signals onto the plurality of subcarriers based on transmission power information.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100098182 - Method and/or ofdm device for sc-fdma data transmission: In a method and/or an OFDM device for SC-FDMA data transmission, a sequence of input data is transformed by means of a discrete transformation as transformed data signals of coded and modulated data signals on first frequency channels into a first frequency space over a first number of frequencies. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100098183 - Decoding system and method for digital communications: A Viterbi decoding system interprets bits in received QAM constellations as many-valued parameters rather than binary valued parameters. It performs the Viterbi algorithm using these many-valued parameters to provide results superior to hard decision decoding. Rather than applying a hard 0-1 function to the QAM data, the system uses a... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20100098187 - Diversity transmitter and diversity transmission method: The present invention concerns a diversity transmitter, comprising: transmit symbol input means (1) for inputting a symbol matrix (b) to be forwarded to a transmit processing means (2), said transmit processing means comprising supplying means (2a) for supplying columns of said symbol to a plurality of at least two branches,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100098184 - Transmission method for multiple antenna system: A transmission method for a multiple antenna system including a first device having M (>1) transmitting antennas and a second device having N (>1) receiving antennas is disclosed. The method includes determining whether there is a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission scheme satisfying a condition that it consumes less energy than... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20100098186 - Uwb amplifier: A wireless communication device comprises an integrated circuit comprising electronic circuitry for performing wireless control functions. An external circuit, separate from the integrated circuit, is provided for performing a predetermined stage of a wireless control function, the external circuit comprising at least one discrete component. The at least one discrete... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20100098185 - Wireless communications system, transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus: In a transmitter 2 of a communications system 1 where a wireless communication is made between the transmitter 2 and a receiver 3, an information bit generating unit generates information bits from data to be transmitted. A sub-block generating unit generates a sub-block including information bits in units. A coding... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100098188 - Impulse noise mitigation: Systems and methods to mitigate impulse noise are provided. A particular method includes providing a signal from a transmission source to a mitigator. The mitigator checks the signal for complex impulse noise comprising at least a first periodic impulse noise component correlated to a first portion of a sinusoid representing... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20100098190 - Transceiver having multistage channel filter in wireless communication system: A transceiver having a multistage channel filter for a wireless communication system is disclosed. The transceiver is composed of a transmitter unit including a multistage channel filter module to perform channel filtering on an input signal having a sampling rate corresponding to a channel bandwidth of the wireless communication system... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100098189 - Transmitter and receiver for a wireless access system, transmission method and reception method of the wireless access system, and a program for same: An arithmetic process of a quadratic formula that is contained in an exponent of a CAZAC sequence-defining expression is converted to an arithmetic process of a recursion formula to find the above-described exponent, the above-described exponent that was found is used to generate a CAZAC sequence, and the above-described CAZAC... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100098191 - Methods and systems for programmable digital up-conversion: Methods and apparatus are described herein that make use of complex tuning, the inherently repetitive nature of sampled signals, and programmable digital filtering to create a flexible digital up-conversion system that utilizes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with a fixed effective sample rate while still being adapted for tunability over a... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20100098192 - Bit log likelihood ration evaluation: A system and method are provided for generating bit log likelihood ratio (LLR) values for two-layered Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (QPSK) turbo decoding in a wireless communications user terminal (UT). The method includes receiving a two-layered QPSK signal with an energy ratio that is unknown, but typically defined as either k12... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100098193 - Apparatus and method for classifying modulations in multipath environments: A receiver supports a single carrier (SC) form of modulation and a multi-carrier form of modulation such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Upon receiving a signal, the receiver determines a maximum fluctuation range (MFR) as a function of at least a fourth-order cumulant of a received signal; and classifies... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100098194 - Method and apparatus for simplified expected symbol value computation and interference cancellation in communication signal processing: A computationally-simplified approach to expected symbol value determination is based on classifying soft bit information corresponding to symbols in a received communication signal as being reliable or unreliable, and computing expected symbol values for the symbols based on the classified soft bit information. Classification can be carried out by “quantizing”... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100098195 - Systems and methods for frequency offset correction in a digital radio broadcast receiver: Methods and systems for correcting a frequency error in a digital portion of a radio broadcast signal are disclosed. The methods and systems include the steps of receiving a radio broadcast signal having an analog portion and a digital portion, separating the analog portion of the radio broadcast signal and... Agent: Jones Day

20100098196 - Apparatus and method for automatically controlling gain in portable communication system: An apparatus and method for automatically controlling a gain in a portable communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a channel determiner for controlling a fading margin depending on the channel variation amount to control the limited total dynamic range of the ADC.... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100098197 - Method and apparatus for detection and cancellation of single-tone or multi-tone interference in communication systems: A method and system for canceling an interference signal are provided. In the method, a received signal is transformed from a time domain to a frequency domain at relative low precision to obtain an estimated frequency and an estimated amplitude of the interference signal. A reference signal is generated using... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100098198 - Recovery of data from a multi carrier signal: In an embodiment, a multi-carrier signal (e.g., an OFDM signal) is received over a channel. Indicators of interference and the channel response at a carrier frequency of the signal are determined, and compared. If the indicator of interference has a particular relationship to the indicator of the channel response, then... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100098199 - Post-filter, decoding device, and post-filter processing method: Provided is a decoding device which suppresses generation of an abnormal sound caused by a layer switch. The decoding device includes: a first layer decoding unit (202) which performs a decoding process on first layer encoded data so as to generate a first layer decoding signal; a second layer decoding... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100098201 - I/o link with configurable forwarded and derived clocks: An electronic communications receiver includes a derived clock signal circuit operable to receive a data signal and to derive a derived clock signal from the received data signal. A separate forwarded clock signal circuit is further operable to receive a forwarded clock signal, and a clock management circuit is operable... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100098200 - Method and apparatus for managing frequencies used by devices: The illustrative embodiments described herein are directed to a method and apparatus for managing frequencies used by devices. In one embodiment, the process detects a set of frequencies from a set of devices to form a set of assigned frequencies. The process may also detect a first frequency used by... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100098202 - Network connection apparatus and communication system and method applying the same: In a communication network, a network connection apparatus accepts timing information of a grand master to achieve timing synchronization. Next, the network connection apparatus requests slave nodes to be in timing synchronization with itself to achieve the timing synchronization. Even when the grand master is removed or crashed, when a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100098203 - Digital phase interpolation control for clock and data recovery circuit: This invention discloses a phase interpolation controller for a clock and data recovery circuit receiving an indication of a phase relationship between a first and a second signal, the phase interpolation controller comprises a plurality of serially coupled bi-directional shift-registers, wherein when the received indication indicates the first signal is... Agent: K&l Gates LLPIPDocketing

20100098204 - Systems and methods for regulating clock precision in distributed devices: Systems and methods for regulating clock precision are disclosed. One embodiment is a method including receiving a clock signal from an oscillator, maintaining a signal count based on the clock signal; receiving a message comprising timing information from a remote device, calculating a drift value based at least in part... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20100091818 - Dynamic channel evaluation in wireless communication device: A frequency hopping wireless communication device including a controller configured to evaluate channels received by the wireless receiver for interference and to identify channels subject to interference as being unavailable for use by the wireless communication device. The controller is also configured to re-evaluate channels identified as being unavailable for... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100091819 - Arrangement for synchronizing access points in wlan using direct-sequence spread spectrum signaling: An arrangement for providing synchronization between a number of overlapping area access points within a wireless LAN utilizes a Power over Ethernet (PoE) cable connection to transmit synchronization signals from a centralized hub/switch to each of the access points connected to the cable. The synchronization signal takes the form of... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Koba Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091820 - Position indicating process: A position indicating process includes the steps of receiving at least four radio signals emitted by different transmitter stations; determining a channel pulse response of the transmission channel for each of the received radio signals; estimating the direct signal path for each of the received radio signals based on the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100091821 - Wireless communications system with secondary synchronization code based on values in primary synchronization code: A wireless communication system. The system comprises transmitter circuitry (BST1), the transmitter circuitry comprising encoder circuitry (50) for transmitting a plurality of frames (FR). Each of the plurality of frames comprises a primary synchronization code (PCS) and a secondary synchronization code (SSC). The encoder circuitry comprises of circuitry (501) for... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100091822 - Adaptive known signal canceller: An adaptive known signal canceller comprising of a known signal canceller filter responsive to a known signal including a known portion of a transmitted signal, the known signal canceller filter operative to generate a filtered known signal, and a subtractor unit responsive to an input signal and operative to generate... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20100091823 - Two-hop relay for reducing distance vector routing information: In one embodiment, a method for using a two-hop relay includes receiving an update message for a distance vector routing protocol from a first neighbor. The update message is sent to a different neighbor. Often, it is first determined whether the receiving node is a relay node for the first... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20100091824 - Rfic with high power pa: A radio frequency (RF) front-end includes a plurality of power amplifier modules and a plurality of impedance matching circuits. Each of the plurality of impedance matching circuits includes an input connection and an output connection, wherein outputs of the plurality of power amplifier modules are coupled to corresponding input connections... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100091825 - Burst processing modem: A burst processing modem. Implementations may include a receive side including a channelizer adapted to process a plurality of channels and write a plurality of frames to a receive RAM array. A receive frame state machine may be adapted to generate a timing signal using a burst time plan for... Agent: Booth Udall, PLC

20100091826 - Techniques for improving channel estimation and tracking in a wireless communication system: A technique for performing channel tracking and/or channel estimation in a wireless communication device includes receiving a reference signal and one or more non-error propagation physical channel signals. In general, the one or more non-error propagation physical channel signals must be correctly decoded before a data channel can be decoded.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20100091827 - Adaptive frequency-domain reference noise canceller for multicarrier communications systems: A method and apparatus to align data blocks in a data signal and a reference signal to increase cross-correlation between the data signal and the reference signal as compared to the unaligned data and reference signals and cancel interference in the data signal in the frequency-domain under changing conditions and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100091828 - Digital phase feedback for determining phase distortion: A feedback loop is used to determine phase distortion created in a signal by directly extracting the phase distortion information from a feedback signal using original frequency modulation information.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100091829 - Optimised architecture for a downsampling fir filter: An apparatus for generating filtered and downsampled data comprises a calculation unit, a polyphase addition unit and a downsampling unit operable in a data decimation phase and a data preserving phase. The calculation unit is arranged to receive input data and is configured to generate a first data part during... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100091830 - Equalizer and method for configuring the equalizer: An equalizer includes a tapped delay line and an adder. The tapped delay line includes a plurality of taps cascaded to each other. The tapped delay line receives an input signal, a plurality of tap control signals, and a plurality of tap coefficients and generates a plurality of multiplied signals.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100091831 - Interference canceling matched filter (icmf) and related methods: An interference cancelling matched filter (ICMF) may include an antenna for receiving a signal burst including a training sequence therein, and an adaptive space-time filter connected to the antenna and having settable filter coefficients. The ICMF may further include a channel impulse response estimator for estimating a channel impulse response... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist - Rim

20100091832 - Pipelined decision-feedback unit in a reduced-state viterbi detector with local feedback: A pipelined decision feedback unit (DFU) is disclosed for use in reduced-state Viterbi detectors with local feedback. The disclosed pipelined decision feedback unit improves the maximum data rate that may be achieved by the reduced state Viterbi detector by the pipelined computation of partial intersymbol interfence-based estimates. A pipelined decision... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100091833 - Transmission device: A transmission device including a pulse generating section configured to generate a plurality of pulses using a signal of data and a signal obtained by delaying the signal of data, and to adjust the pulse width such that each of the plurality of pulses has a pulse width conforming to... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20100091834 - Systems and methods for telescopic data compression in sensor networks: Systems and methods for telescopic data compression in sensor networks are disclosed herein. An exemplary method of the disclosed subject matter for telescopically compressing data received from a plurality of sensors in a network adapted to detect a field includes broadcasting a first set of sampling positions to sensors, forming... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100091838 - Digital television transmitter/receiver and method of processing data in digital television transmitter/receiver: A digital television (DTV) transmitter and a method of coding data in the DTV transmitter are disclosed. A data formatter generates an enhanced data packet including the enhanced data and a known data sequence. A data randomizer randomizes the enhanced data packet. A RS encoder RS-codes the randomized data packet... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100091837 - Hypothetical reference decoder for scalable video coding: The present principles relate to a hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) for a Scalable Video Coding extension for a compression algorithm. One such implementation proposes to modify the H.264/AVC HRD for use with the SVC of AVC. That implementation defines HRD constraints for each interoperability point of SVC. One implementation in... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100091835 - Method and system for processing a media stream: Methods, systems and computer program products are described for processing a media stream. In one aspect, a method includes detecting, in a first node processing a first media stream, information in the first media stream instructing the first node to listen for a message to be received from a second... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20100091836 - On-the-spot deblocker in a decoding pipeline: A decoder pipeline may include a decoding (prior to deblocking) stage followed by a deblocking stage. A memory can be coupled to the decoder pipeline. A decoded first macroblock can be output from the decoding stage directly into the deblocking stage, bypassing the memory, if a decoded second macroblock depended... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20100091839 - Flexible redundancy coding: Various disclosed implementations allow a flexible amount of redundancy to be used in coding. In one general implementation, information is accessed for determining which of multiple encodings of at least a portion of a data object to send over a channel. A set of multiple encodings is determined for sending... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100091841 - System and method of optimized bit extraction for scalable video coding: A device for use with a frame generating portion that is arranged to receive picture data corresponding to a plurality of pictures and to generate encoded video data for transmission across a transmission channel having an available bandwidth. The frame generating portion can generate a frame for each of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100091842 - Coding rate conversion apparatus, coding rate conversion method, and integrated circuit: A plurality of macroblocks constituting coded data are inverse quantized using a first quantization matrix that is used when coding a picture, to obtain a plurality of sets of coefficient data. The first quantization matrix is converted to a second quantization matrix using a first conversion value and a second... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100091846 - Image prediction/encoding device, image prediction/encoding method, image prediction/encoding program, image prediction/decoding device, image prediction/decoding method, and image prediction decoding program: An objective is to provide an image predictive encoding device, image predictive encoding method, image predictive encoding program, image predictive decoding device, image predictive decoding method, and image predictive decoding program for selecting a plurality of candidate prediction signals, without increase in information amount. A weighting unit 234 and an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100091843 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: The method includes the steps of receiving the multiview video data stream including a random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture, obtaining identification information representing the multi-view video... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100091844 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: The method includes the steps of receiving the multiview video data stream including a random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture, obtaining initialization information of a reference picture... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100091845 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: The method includes the steps of receiving the multiview video data stream including a random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture, obtaining identification information representing the multi-view video... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100091850 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091852 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091853 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091847 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091848 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091849 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091851 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091854 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091855 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091856 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091858 - Method and an apparatus for processing a video signal: An apparatus for processing a video signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which the video signal from which redundancy of inter-view pictures is eliminated can be decoded. The present invention includes obtaining a block type of a first corresponding block within a first reference view included in a reference... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100091857 - Methods for coding digital media data with prediction information and prediction error information being respectively carried by different bit stream sections: A method for encoding digital media data includes deriving a portion of prediction information and a portion of prediction error information of the digital media data, and encoding the digital media data into a bit stream. The bit stream comprises a first bit stream section and a second bit stream... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100091862 - High-performance block-matching vlsi architecture with low memory bandwidth for power-efficient multimedia devices: A high-performance block-matching VLSI architecture with low memory bandwidth for power-efficient multimedia devices is disclosed. The architecture uses several current blocks with the same spatial address in different current frames to search the best matched blocks in the search window of the reference frame based on the best matching algorithm... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20100091863 - Low-power and high-throughput design of fast motion estimation vlsi architecture for multimedia system-on-chip design: A method of fast motion estimation in VLSI architecture with low-power and high-throughput for multimedia System-on-Chip design is disclosed. The method uses the data prediction and data reuse technique to find out the best matching block within the search range of the reference frame for the target block in the... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20100091861 - Method and apparatus for efficient image compression: The invention provides method and apparatus of video bit stream encoding. In non-intra type encoding, block pixel differences between a target block and the corresponding best match block is compared to other blocks' to determine whether a bit stream of a previously compressed block can be used to represent a... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung

20100091859 - Motion compensation apparatus and a motion compensation method: A motion compensation apparatus and a motion compensation method are provided. The motion compensation apparatus comprises: a memory, a motion vector generator, a deviation calculator, a determining module, a selector and a motion compensator. The memory stores a plurality of frame encode information and a plurality of decoded frames; the... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20100091864 - Moving-image-similarity determination device, encoding device, and feature calculating method: A moving-image similarity determination device includes an acquiring unit that acquires a frame included in moving image data obtained by encoding a moving image including a plurality of images, the frame corresponding to an individual image of the plurality of images; a calculating unit that calculates a feature value indicating... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100091860 - System and method for low-latency processing of intra-frame video pixel block prediction: A method and system for low-latency processing of intra-frame video pixel block prediction including: predicting a pixel block based on boundary pixels of left and upper neighbor blocks of said pixel block; subtracting said predicted pixel block from a source pixel block to generate a prediction error; forward transforming and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20100091867 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091868 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091869 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091870 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091871 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091872 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091873 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091877 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091865 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091866 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091874 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091875 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091876 - 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, L.L.P.

20100091840 - Video encoding method and video decoding method for enabling bit depth scalability: The invention presents a scalable solution to encode the whole 12-bit raw video once to generate one bitstream that contains an H.264/AVC compatible base layer and a scalable enhancement layer. If a color bit depth scalable decoder is available at the client end, both the base layer and the enhancement... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100091878 - A second deblocker in a decoding pipeline: A decoder may include a first stage that can be used to decode (prior to deblocking) an encoded frame of data. The decoder may also include a second stage that is downstream of the first stage. The second stage includes a first deblocker and a second deblocker that can be... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20100091879 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium: An apparatus includes a division unit which divides an original moving image into a plurality of uploading moving images, an uploading unit which uploads the plurality of uploading moving image onto an external apparatus in descending order of reproduction time sequence, an acquisition unit which acquires, from the external apparatus,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100091880 - Adaptive deblocking in a decoding pipeline: A decoder can include a first stage operable for decoding (prior to deblocking) an encoded frame, and second stage coupled downstream of the first stage. The second stage includes a first deblocker and a second deblocker that can be used to deblock decoded frames in parallel. Each decoded frame can... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20100091882 - Hypothetical reference decoder for multiview video coding: A method and apparatus to define a Hypothetical Reference Decoder (HRD) for Multiview Video Coding (MVC) defines constraints for each possible interoperability point. Each combination of M views denotes an interoperability point. The principles of the present invention also allow for constraints to be defined for a set of interoperable... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100091883 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: The method includes the steps of receiving the multiview video data stream including a random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture, obtaining identification information representing the multi-view video... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100091884 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: The method includes the steps of receiving the multiview video data stream including a random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture, obtaining initialization information of a reference picture... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100091885 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: The method includes the steps of receiving the multiview video data stream including a random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture, obtaining identification information representing the multi-view video... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100091886 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: The method includes the steps of receiving the multiview video data stream including a random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture, obtaining initialization information of a reference picture... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100091881 - Methods and apparatus for improved signaling using high level syntax for multi-view video coding and decoding: There are provided methods and apparatus for improved signaling using high level syntax for multi-view video coding and decoding. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding at least one picture for at least one view corresponding to multi-view video content in a resultant bitstream, wherein said encoder signals video coding... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100091887 - Method and system for secure distribution of audiovisual data encapsulated according to a plurality of transport protocols: wherein the protected audiovisual stream includes a set of modified transport packets that are different from the corresponding original transport packets at modification positions, and the modification positions are in the complementary stream, the modification positions being generated according to each transport protocol of the plurality of transport protocols of... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper LLP (us)

20100091888 - Multi-rate encoder with gop alignment: A multi-rate encoder includes one or more encoder sets. Each encoder set includes multiple encoders receiving a same video source stream. The encoder sets are configured to transmit multiple encoded streams of the same video source stream at different bit-rates. The streams are aligned and transmitted from the multi-rate encoder.... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100091889 - Method and apparatus to select a profile of a digital communication line: A method of selecting a profile of a digital communication line includes determining a first throughput value of the digital communication line, the first throughput value associated with a first profile and determined based at least in part on a count of code violations. The method includes determining a second... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20100091890 - Creating training sequences for space-time diversity arrangements: A training sequence is created for space-time diversity arrangement, having any training sequence length, while limiting the training sequence to a standard constellation. Given a number of channel unknowns that need to be estimated, L, a training sequence can be creates that yields minimum means squared estimation error for lengths... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20100091894 - Channel quality assessment method in ofdm(a) communications and a corresponding system: A method and apparatus for determining a channel quality indicator (CQI) to be used in link adaptation for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communications. In one embodiment of the invention, the CQI is based on a set of capacity values for subcarrier components in a received OFDM signal. In another... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100091895 - Interfering base stations recognition method and scheme for 802.16e systems: A method and apparatus for identifying the preamble for an unknown signal received in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communications. In one embodiment, the preamble is identified from a set of known preambles using a detection statistic based on a generalized likelihood ratio (GLR) method. In another embodiment, the GLR... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100091891 - Link quality metric based antenna selection for transceivers: A method and system for link quality metric based antenna selection for transceiver are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for selecting an antenna from multiple antennas associated with a receiver, includes receiving multi-carrier modulated signals via a currently active antenna of the receiver, and estimating a predicted packet error... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20100091892 - Method and apparatus for channel feedback by multiple description coding in a wireless communication system: A communication system comprises evolved base nodes (eNBs) communicating via an over-the-air (OTA) link with low mobility user equipment (UE). A network can utilize the eNBs for cooperative beam shaping for interference nulling based upon a number of factors UE (e.g., coordinated multi-point (COMP) optimization for feedback, quality of service... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091893 - Method and apparatus for channel feedback in a wireless communication system: A communication system comprises evolved base nodes (eNBs) communicating via an over-the-air (OTA) link with low mobility user equipment (UE). A network can utilize the eNBs for cooperative beam shaping for interference nulling based upon a number of factors UE (e.g., coordinated multi-point (COMP) optimization for feedback, quality of service... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091898 - Recovery of data from a multi carrier signal: In an embodiment, a multi-carrier signal (e.g., an OFDM signal) is received over a channel. First indicators of interference and channel response at a carrier frequency of the signal are determined and compared. If the first indicator of the interference has a relationship to the first indicator of the channel... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100091896 - Signal transmission system using multiple antenna and signal transmission method thereof: The present invention relates to a multiple antenna transmission system and a signal transmission method In the signal transmission method using multiple antennas, a plurality of subcarrier symbols are grouped as a plurality of groups including first and second tiles that are basic resource management units including two or more... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100091897 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication device, wireless communication method and computer program: There is provided a wireless communication system, including a first terminal equipped with N antennas, N being an integer of at least two, a second terminal equipped with M antennas, M being an integer of at least one, and a third terminal equipped with L antennas, L being an integer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100091899 - Communication system: A communication system that performs encoding and decoding for communication includes a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus. The transmitting apparatus includes a turbo encoding unit including a first encoding unit that encodes an input signal and generates a first parity bit by bit-based encoding and n (n=1, 2, 3,... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100091900 - Apparatus and method for ofdm modulated signal transmission with reduced peak-to-average power ratio: An apparatus and method for reducing peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) comprising forming a plurality of OFDM frequency domain subcarriers; mapping the plurality of OFDM frequency domain subcarriers into a plurality of subset subcarriers; converting the plurality of subset subcarriers into a plurality of time... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091901 - Method, apparatus and system for multiple-description coding and decoding: A method, apparatus and system for multiple-description coding (MDC) and multiple-description decoding (MDD) are provided in the present invention. The MDC method comprises the following steps: receiving signals, processing the signal according to the first multiple-description method to generate at least two first description signals, processing at least one of... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100091902 - Method of transmiting data to mitigate intrerence: A method of transmitting data using hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) is provided. The method includes transmitting an initial data, receiving a retransmission request for the initial data, generating a retransmission data by shifting the phase of the initial data on signal constellation and transmitting the retransmission data. Inter-cell interference... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100091903 - Sc-qostfbc codes for mimo transmitters: A SC-QOSTFBC (Single Carrier-Quasi Orthogonal Space Time Frequency Block Code) for 4 transmit antennas in the domain of wireless communication, and coding and decoding schemes useful in the context of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) or MISO (Multiple Input Single Output) communications especially used in conjunction of OFDM-like transmission schemes.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100091905 - Low overhead mimo scheme: Systems and methods are disclosed for use in a communications network that includes transmitting a set of known precodes on a plurality of subbands and storing a correlation of transmitted precodes with a time of transmission of the precodes. These systems and methods also include receiving a set of channel... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100091904 - Wireless communications apparatus: A block of information is processed before transmission thereof in a block transmission based communication. This comprises inserting a cyclic prefix and a cyclic suffix into the block of information before applying a time reversal based prefilter prior to transmission to the data after cyclic prefix and cyclic suffix insertion,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100091906 - Spatio-temporal processing for communication: A space-time signal processing system with advantageously reduced complexity. The system may take advantage of multiple transmitter antenna elements and/or multiple receiver antenna elements, or multiple polarizations of a single transmitter antenna element and/or single receiver antenna element. The system is not restricted to wireless contexts and may exploit any... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100091907 - method for transmitting information using sequence: A method for transmitting information using a sequence is disclosed. According to an embodiment, the method includes the steps of generating a sequence for transmitting data or control signals, performing phase modulation for indicating additional information on partial elements among a plurality of elements configuring the sequence, and transmitting the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100091908 - Apparatus and method for analyzing identification signal based on partial correlation: Provided is an apparatus and method for analyzing identification (ID) signals by converting radio frequency (RF) signals which are transmitted with an ID signal added thereto by a transmitting part, e.g., a plurality of transmitters or repeaters, into signals of a desired band; creating ID signals that are identical to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100091909 - Systems and methods for unequal error protection and soft decision calculations: A wireless communications device (200) is provided. The device includes a demodulator (210) configured for computing estimated bits for a modulated input signal 220 representing a the symbols associated with a frame, the estimated bits including estimated values for a frame of bits and at least one forward error correction... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20100091910 - Reception device and reception method: Provided is a reception device which can reduce a parallel interference canceller processing delay. The reception device (200) includes: a plurality of reception antennas (210A, 210B); an address generation unit (2332) which converts the write-in or read-out order of channel estimation values according to a predetermined rearrangement rule; a channel... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100091911 - Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program: A wireless communication apparatus is provided for receiving packets transmitted with delay amounts different for the respective transmission branches. The wireless communication apparatus includes a plurality of reception branches, a synchronous processing unit for detecting synchronous timing independently for the respective reception branches; and a signal processing unit for performing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100091913 - Apparatus and method for estimating phase error based on variable step size: Disclosed is a phase error estimating an apparatus and a method which provides improved convergence speed and tracking speed even in mobile channel environment by variably applying the step size for phase error estimation according to channel status. The apparatus for estimating a phase error includes: a posterior probability (APP)... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100091914 - Iterative decoding: This invention provides an iterative process to maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding. The iterative process uses an auxiliary function which is defined in terms of a complete data probability distribution. The auxiliary function is derived based on an expectation maximization (EM) algorithm. For a special case of trellis coded modulators,... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20100091912 - Methods and systems using norm approximation for maximum likelihood mimo decoding: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for approximate computation of l2 norms as a part of the maximum likelihood (ML) detection: tri-maxmin, maxsum and sortsum algorithms. The proposed approximation schemes show better accuracy than conventional approximation schemes—the abssum and maxmin algorithms, while the computational complexity is very similar.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091915 - Methods and systems for mimo preamble detection: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure allow for detection of a transmitted preamble sequence by processing a correlation of a received signal and a preamble hypothesis in a way that exploits the good correlation properties of the known set of preamble sequences. For certain embodiments, the highest peaks of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091916 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing synchronization: Embodiments are directed to first and second OFDM pilot symbols. The first and second pilot symbols may have first and second sets, respectively, of allowed, forbidden, and active carrier frequencies. The second sets of carrier frequencies may be formed by frequency shifting the respective first sets by a predetermined frequency,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100091917 - Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus: A digital broadcasting receiving apparatus has a signal level detecting circuit for performing gain control to maintain a power level of a received signal at a fixed level, for making a decision as to whether an automatic gain control level of the gain control is greater than a prestored threshold... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100091918 - Digital receiver, controlling method of the apparatus, computer program product, and recording medium recording thereon the product: Provided are: plural circuit components including a circuit component which constitutes a receiving unit receiving a signal sequence which is arranged so that a desired signal and a signal different from the desired signal are lined up in time series, the desired signal indicating desired data which includes at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100091919 - Joint use of multi-carrier and single-carrier multiplexing schemes for wireless communication: A communication system that facilitates transmissions in accordance with a single-carrier (SC) multiplexing scheme, a multi carrier (MC) multiplexing scheme or a combination thereof is disclosed. Based on various factors such as attributes associated with a UE (user equipment) or availability of resources, a base station can signal to the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100091920 - Improving receiver performance in a communication network: Methods and apparatus are described for improving receiver performance in a multicarrier communication network in which an encoded symbol (250) is transmitted over a transmission channel (20) in the communications system. A model of the transmission channel (20) is estimated (718, 760), said model characterising an effect of intercarrier interference... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100091921 - Fast powering-up of data commuication system: A data communication system has a transmitter with a first clock-generation circuit, and a receiver with a second clock generation circuit. At least a specific one of the clock-generation circuits is powered-down between consecutive data bursts. The system expedites the starting up of operational use of the system upon a... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100091923 - Circuit for a radio system, use and method for operation: A circuit and method of operation for a circuit of a radio system in which a system time is divided into symbols, in which a system clock generator is activated in an operating mode, so that the system time is determined from an output clock signal of the system clock... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100091922 - Sample rate converter: A sample rate converter circuit receives a first signal at a first sampling frequency and for outputs a second signal, representative of the first signal, having a second sampling frequency. The sample rate converter comprises: a buffer, for storing data samples received from said first signal; a first loop circuit,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100091924 - System and method for multilaterating a position of a target using mobile remote receiving units: A method of multilaterating the position of a target, including the steps of deploying a plurality of time synchronized receiving units in a network that allows the receiving units to communicate with a central processor; receiving a target signal from the target at each receiving unit; determining a time of... Agent: Burr & Brown

20100091925 - Triple loop clock and data recovery (cdr): In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a reference clock having a reference clock frequency and reference clock phase; generating an output clock having an output clock phase and output clock frequency that is a function of an analog control voltage setting and a frequency gain curve; fixing the analog... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100091926 - Phase correction circuit of encoder signal: A position detector has a peak detector for detecting peak values of an A1 signal and a B1 signal serving as output signals of an analog to digital (AD) converter, an offset/amplitude correction section for generating an A2 signal and a B2 signal by correcting offsets and amplitude errors using... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100091927 - Clock and data recovery (cdr) using phase interpolation: In one embodiment, a circuit includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) configured to generate k first clock signals that each have a first phase based on a charge-pump control voltage signal; one or more phase interpolators (PIs) configured to receive the k first clock signals and one or more first feedback... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100086008 - Mobile wireless communications device for modulations with memory: A mobile wireless communications device may include an antenna, and a transceiver coupled to the antenna. The transceiver may use a modulation having memory for a message in a frame structure including a data portion and a termination portion based upon the data portion. The termination portion may drive the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20100086009 - Spread-spectrum clock generator and spread-spectrum clock generating method: A spread-spectrum clock generator (SSCG) and a spread-spectrum clock generating method are provided. The SSCG includes a first spread-spectrum module, a second spread-spectrum module, and a waveform module. The first spread-spectrum module generates a first spread-spectrum clock signal by modulating the frequency of a first input clock signal with a... Agent: J C Patents

20100086010 - Cognitive radio communication device for performing spectrum sensing and data communication: A cognitive radio communication device including at least two radio frequency chains is provided. In order to perform a feature detection, the cognitive radio frequency device may reduce or eliminate a quiet time where a data communication is suspended using the at least two RF chains. While one RF chain... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100086012 - Calibration of wireless communication device: A wireless communication device includes an integrated circuit (IC) and an antenna system. The IC includes a baseband processing module, a network processing module, a calibration processing module, a receiver section and a transmitter section. The network processing module establishes a wireless communication protocol and operational parameters based on the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100086013 - Method and apparatus for reception in a multi-input-multi-output (mimo) orthogonal frequency domain modulation (ofdm) wireless communication system: An embodiment of the present invention includes a transceiver for use in a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Domain Multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system. The transceiver decodes and remodulates certain signal fields and uses the same to update the coefficients of a frequency equalizer thereby improving channel estimation and extending training.... Agent: Ipxlaw Group LLP

20100086011 - Transceiver apparatus, receiver and power saving method thereof: A transceiver apparatus, a receiver and a power saving method thereof are provided. The receiver includes an analog-to-digital converter, an equalizer, a slicer, a delay unit, a decoder, a select unit and a control unit. The analog-to-digital converter transforms a received signal into a digital signal. The equalizer adjusts the... Agent: J C Patents

20100086014 - Channel estimator and channel estimation method: A channel estimator and a channel estimation method are provided. The channel estimator comprises a storage module, for storing a plurality of channel responses of first pilot signals over a plurality of continuous pilot sub-channels, and a plurality of channel responses of second pilot signals over a scatter pilot sub-channel;... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100086015 - Test device and method of detecting an imbalance in a power level of a digital channel: The present invention provides a test device and a method enabling automatic detection of an imbalance in a power level of a digital channel. The test device includes an attenuator, a tuner, a demodulator, and an evaluation unit. According to the method, a plurality of channels are attenuated at a... Agent: Pequignot + Myers LLC

20100086016 - Method and apparatus for varying a dynamic range: A communications device comprises a receiver for receiving an input signal operably coupled to analogue to digital converter logic. The analogue to digital converter logic is operably coupled to control logic via a signal analyser arranged to analyse a converted received input signal, output from the analogue to digital converter... Agent: Larson Newman & Abel, LLP

20100086017 - Automatic calibration in high-speed serial interface receiver circuitry: Circuitry for receiving a serial data signal (e.g., a high-speed serial data signal) includes adjustable equalizer circuitry for producing an equalized version of the serial data signal. The equalizer circuitry may include controllably variable DC gain and controllably variable AC gain. The circuitry may further include eye height and eye... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20100086018 - Channel estimator and channel estimation method: The invention discloses a double-estimation channel estimator for calculating a plurality of accurate channel responses from a plurality of synchronization signals, comprising a first channel estimator, for calculating a plurality of first channel responses at all time points over all sub-channels according to a plurality of pilot signals and the... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100086019 - High-speed decoder for a multi-pair gigabit transceiver: A method and a system for providing an input signal from a multiple decision feedback equalizer to a decoder based on a tail value and a subset of coefficient values received from a decision-feedback equalizer. A set of pre-computed values based on the subset of coefficient values is generated. Each... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100086022 - Client-server architectures and methods for zoomable user interfaces: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for communicating and processing data in communication networks, e.g., cable networks and/or interactive television networks. Selective use of different data streams and encoding techniques enable sophisticated user interfaces to be generated on client devices having varying processing capabilities. MPEG encoding... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20100086020 - Content delivery system having an edge resource manager performing bandwidth reclamation: A method is provided for reclaiming bandwidth from an edge device. The method includes communicating a bandwidth query message to at least one session manager. The bandwidth query message specifies an amount of bandwidth that needs to be reclaimed from a single one of a plurality of edge devices in... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100086021 - Information transmission apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium: There is provided an information transmission apparatus which includes a reproduction information reception unit configured to receive reproduction information about reproduction of video data transmitted to a reception apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine a fragment size of the video data based on the reproduction information received by the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100086023 - Managing multiview streaming video data composed of frames: A system for managing multiview streaming video data composed of a plurality of frames includes an encoder configured to encode multiple representations of at least one frame of the plurality of frames corresponding to multiple views using different reference frames for each of the multiple representations. The system also includes... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100086024 - Streaming scalable video over fading wireless channels: A method and apparatus are provided for streaming scalable video over fading wireless channels. The method includes building a model relating to a relationship between an average data rate and an average peak signal-to-noise ratio for a video sequence encoded using scalable video coding and having a base layer and... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20100086025 - Quantization parameter selections for encoding of chroma and luma video blocks: This disclosure describes rules that may be applied during block-based video coding to ensure that quantization parameter selections for luma blocks will not adversely affect the quality of chroma blocks. In accordance with this disclosure, rate-controlled video encoding occurs in which quantization parameter changes in luma blocks are pre-evaluated to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086034 - method and an apparatus for processing a video signal: The present invention relates to a video signal decoding method for adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type to prediction of a macroblock in coding a video signal. The present invention includes obtaining a macroblock type, obtaining a sub-macroblock type when a macroblock includes a plurality of coded... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100086026 - Adaptive decimation filter: An initial decimation filter is applied to an original frame to generate a decimated frame. An optimized prediction filter is extracted from both the decimated frame and the original frame, while the initial decimation filter is held fixed. A predicted from is generated from the optimized prediction filter and the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100086027 - Efficient prediction mode selection: In generally, techniques are described for efficiently selecting a prediction mode by which to predict predictive video data from reference video data. In particular, an apparatus may include a memory that stores at least a first and second reference coded unit that each includes a first and second reference video... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086033 - Image prediction apparatus and method, image encoding apparatus, and image decoding apparatus: An image predicting apparatus used in an image encoding apparatus or decoding apparatus and performing encoding or decoding of an image while performing image prediction processing for each macroblock, the image predicting apparatus comprises: a characteristic amount image extracting unit extracting characteristic amount image data from predicted image data obtained... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100086035 - Method and an apparatus for processing a video signal: The present invention relates to a video signal decoding method for adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type to prediction of a macroblock in coding a video signal. The present invention includes obtaining a macroblock type, checking whether a macroblock includes a intra prediction coded sub-macroblock and a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100086036 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: determining an assignment modification value for modifying the inter-view reference index in the initialized reference picture list according to the difference value, modifying the initialized reference picture list for inter-view prediction using the determined assignment modification value, determining a prediction value of a macroblock in the random access picture based... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100086029 - Video coding with large macroblocks: Techniques are described for encoding and decoding digital video data using macroblocks that are larger than the macroblocks prescribed by conventional video encoding and decoding standards. For example, the techniques include encoding and decoding a video stream using macroblocks comprising greater than 16×16 pixels, for example, 64×64 pixels. In one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086030 - Video coding with large macroblocks: Techniques are described for encoding and decoding digital video data using macroblocks that are larger than the macroblocks prescribed by conventional video encoding and decoding standards. For example, the techniques include encoding and decoding a video stream using macroblocks comprising greater than 16×16 pixels, for example, 64×64 pixels. Each macroblock... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086031 - Video coding with large macroblocks: Techniques are described for encoding and decoding digital video data using macroblocks that are larger than the macroblocks prescribed by conventional video encoding and decoding standards. For example, the techniques include encoding and decoding a video stream using macroblocks comprising greater than 16×16 pixels, for example, 64×64 pixels. In one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086032 - Video coding with large macroblocks: Techniques are described for encoding and decoding digital video data using macroblocks that are larger than the macroblocks prescribed by conventional video encoding and decoding standards. For example, the techniques include encoding and decoding a video stream using macroblocks comprising greater than 16×16 pixels. In one example, an apparatus includes... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086028 - Video encoding and decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding apparatus includes a predictor to perform prediction for an input image signal to generate a prediction image signal, a subtractor to calculate a difference between the input image signal and the prediction image signal to generate a prediction residual signal, a transformer to transform the prediction residual... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100086041 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086046 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086037 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086038 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086039 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086040 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086042 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086043 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086044 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086045 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086047 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086050 - Mesh based frame processing and applications: A method of processing sequential frames of data comprises repeating the following steps for successive frames of data: acquiring at least a reference frame containing data points and a current frame of data points; identifying a set of anchor points in the reference frame; assigning to each anchor point in... Agent: Lambert Intellectual Property Law

20100086051 - Method and an apparatus for processing a video signal: A method of processing a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes determining whether a partition of a current macroblock according to a current macroblock type is coded in a skip mode, deriving a motion vector of the partition if the partition of the current macroblock is coded in... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100086052 - Method and an apparatus for processing a video signal: A method of processing a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes obtaining a current macroblock type, obtaining skip or direct mode indication information on a partition of the current macroblock according to the current macroblock type, deriving a motion vector of the partition according to the skip or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100086053 - Motion estimation device, motion estimation method, and motion estimation program: A motion estimation device executes motion estimation for a macroblock in a current picture, using pixel data of a reference picture in a multi-frame memory (504), including the following elements. A local memory (702) holds a part of the pixel data. The part is in a first range from which... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100086048 - System and method for video image processing: A system for processing video imaging information, corresponding electronic device, and method of processing video imaging information, are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the electronic device includes a coder capable of compressing the imaging information for transmission via a communications channel, the video imaging information pertaining to a plurality... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S C Intellectual Property Department

20100086049 - Video coding using transforms bigger than 4x4 and 8x8: In a video processing system, a method and system for applying transforms larger than 8×8 and non-rectangular transforms, and generating transform size syntax elements indicative of the transforms for video decoding are provided. The transform size syntax element may be generated by an encoder based on a prediction block size... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086054 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086055 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086056 - 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, L.L.P.

20100086057 - Method and apparatus for reducing bus traffic of a texture decoding module in a video decoder: Techniques for reducing bus traffic during texture decoding of a video bitstream are provided. In one configuration, a wireless communication device (e.g., cellular phone, etc.) comprises a processor configured to execute instructions operative to decode and separate in a bitstream macroblock (MB) information and residual packet data. The residual packet... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086058 - Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture: A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20100086059 - Compressed video format with partial picture representation: An encoder comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to (i) generate a cropped video signal in response to separating a video signal and (ii) generate overscan information describing a shape of an overscan region. The video signal conveys an image having a... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20100086060 - Mpeg field data-driven display: A system and method that support display of video fields using related data encoded in data structures. Each data structure is associated with one video field and contains all the information associated with the display of the video field. The data structure is encoded with the video field that is... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100086062 - Object archival systems and methods: Personal object based archival systems and methods are provided for processing and compressing video. By analyzing features unique to a user, such as face, family, and pet attributes associated with the user, an invariant model can be determined to create object model adapters personal to each user. These personalized video... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100086061 - Video signal processing apparatus and method thereof: A video signal processing method comprises the steps of: decoding the significant coefficient flag of a stream of video signals and constructing a stack of run coefficients at the same time; and sequentially outputting the run and level coefficients according to the stack of run coefficients and the stream of... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20100086063 - Quality metrics for coded video using just noticeable difference models: Systems and methods for applying a new quality metric for coding video are provided. The metric, based on the Just Noticeable Difference (JND) distortion visibility model, allows for efficient selection of coding techniques that limit perceptible distortion in the video while still taking into account parameters, such as desired bit... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100086064 - Hierarchical modulating method, hierarchical de-modulating method, transmitter performing hierarchical modulation and receiver performing hierarchical de-modulation: A modulation mapper selects respective data blocks (DBs) hierarchically and sequentially in a descending order of a transmission power ratio control by a gain multiplexer; decides, from a resource element group, unused REs to which modulation symbols can be allocated; and decides the allocation of modulation symbols in the REs.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100086066 - Adaptive loading for orthogonal frequency division multiplex (ofdm) communication systems: An orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) transmitter may adaptively load each sub-carrier, buffering less than an OFDM frame in order to reduce hardware requirements and latency. The transmitter may use feedback information from the receiver regarding the quality of the sub-carriers. In addition, combining repetition and puncturing to achieve a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086065 - Base station, mobile station, and communications method: A base station carrying out communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band is disclosed. The base station includes an allocation portion that allocates, for a mobile station performing peripheral cell search, a band... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100086071 - Bi-directional communication system, communication apparatus, and control method of communication apparatus: Each of two communication apparatuses in a bi-directional communication system transmits to a partner communication apparatus as an OFDM signal at a predetermined carrier frequency an OFDM symbol having a guard interval length determined in advance and an effective symbol length determined in advance; receives the OFDM signal that has... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100086069 - Communication device and communication system: A communication device performing communications by an OFDMA system. The communication device includes a zone-boosting-amount calculating unit that obtains a segment number calculated in a synchronization process, obtains a sub-channel corresponding to the segment number by referring to a predetermined relationship between sub-channels and segment numbers, and calculates an amount... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100086068 - Communication system, base station, terminal, and communication method: A communication system using an OFDM includes a data creation section for coding data to be transmitted and mapping the data, a null symbol insertion section for filling a null symbol into a no-data subchannel if the number of subchannels containing the mapped data is small for the band assignment,... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100086067 - Signal separating device and signal separating method: A signal separating device the computational complexity of which is reduced and the communication quality of which is improved. A channel matrix interchanging section (110) creates matrices defined by interchanging the elements of channel estimation matrices multiplied by symbol candidates relevant to the final stage. A QR separating/QH multiplying sections... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100086070 - User apparatus, base station apparatus, mobile communication system and communication control method: A user apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus in a mobile communication system includes: a plurality of antennas; a selection unit configured to select an antenna according to a frequency; and a reception unit configured to receive a signal using the antenna selected by the selection unit. The... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100086074 - Apparatus and method for sensing a multi-carrier signal using cyclostationarity: A Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) endpoint comprises a transceiver for communicating with a wireless network over one of a number of channels, and a DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcast-Terrestrial) signal detector for use in forming a supported channel list comprising those ones of the number of channels upon which a... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100086072 - Communication system and method of operation therefor: A Multiple In Multiple Out (MIMO) communication system comprises an air interface scheduler for allocating air interface resource to a plurality of user equipments transmitting to a MIMO receiver. A vector processor of the scheduler determines a receive equalizer vector for the MIMO receiver for each of a plurality of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100086075 - Parallel generation and matching of a deskew channel: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving input data bits at a collective data rate, the input data bits being grouped into a plurality of input data words, the input data bits of each of the input data words being received from n parallel input-data-bit streams, each of the n... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100086073 - System and method to implement concurrent orthogonal channels in an ultra-wide band wireless communications network: A system and method for media access control are disclosed. The method comprises providing concurrent orthogonal channels to access media using pulse division multiple access to define pulse positions, wherein the pulse division multiple access includes a time hopping sequence and an offset to distinguish the concurrent orthogonal channels. In... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086076 - Codes and preambles for single carrier and ofdm transmissions: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for generating a frame structure suitable for use in both single carrier (SC) and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission modes, while ensuring accurate channel estimation at a receiver.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086079 - Apparatus and method for providing digital broadcast information in mobile terminal: An apparatus and a method for providing digital broadcasting information in a mobile terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a channel list manager for setting a channel list according to an actual burst transmission order, and a controller for performing a process to sequentially search for channels of the set... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100086077 - Concurrent enablement of persistent information unit pacing: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, in which a logical path is established between a control unit and a channel over a fibre channel connection. Code for persistent information unit pacing is loaded into the control unit and the channel. An indicator is set in node descriptors... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20100086078 - Method and apparatus for efficient storage of training sequences for peak to average power constrained modulation formats: The present invention efficiently stores a training sequence in a communications system, where the training sequence exhibits certain desirable characteristics when used by a peak to average power constrained modulation format. In one embodiment, the invention includes selecting a set of one or more original ordered sequences such that the... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100086080 - Quasi-orthogonal space-time block encoder, decoder and methods for space-time encoding and decoding orthogonal frequency division multiplexed signals in a multiple-input multiple-output system: Embodiments of quasi-orthogonal space-time encoder, decoder and method for space-time encoding and decoding orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signals in a multiple-input multiple-output (MDMO) system are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a method of decoding received multicarrier signals comprises deriving objective functions... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/intel

20100086081 - Modulation device and demodulation device: Provided is a modulation device which generates a phase modulation signal and an amplitude modulation signal and can correct an I/Q orthogonal shift and reduce degradation of the ON/OFF ratio. In the device, a phase shifter (174) controls voltage applied to a capacitor in accordance with a control signal outputted... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100086082 - Radio communication terminal device, radio communication base station device, and radio communication method: Disclosed are a radio communication terminal device, a radio communication base station device, and a radio communication method which can prevent input of an interference wave peak into a detection window of a cyclic shift sequence allocated to a local cell and improve the channel estimation accuracy in a base... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100086084 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing demodulator: An OFDM demodulator which does not require a reference signal for synchronization of carriers and can reduce influence of phase rotation by a propagation path when carrier synchronization is made. The OFDM demodulator performs Fourier transform plural times in 2 or more different operation ranges for the same OFDM symbol,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100086083 - Receiving apparatus and receiving method: It is an object of the present invention to reduce deterioration of the receiving performance due to the inter-carrier interference after a discrete Fourier transform in a receiving apparatus with an OFDM signal. A frequency transform part transforms a frequency of a received signal to a desired frequency. A time... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100086085 - Method and system for estimating the speed of a mobile device in a network: A method for estimating the speed of a mobile device in a network is provided that includes selecting a correlation length from a plurality of possible correlation lengths. A correlation result is generated based on the selected correlation length. A speed estimate is generated for the mobile device based on... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20100086086 - Gain control in a communication channel: Methods and apparatuses for reducing DC offsets in a communication system are described. In a first aspect, a feedback loop circuit reduces DC offset in a wireless local area network (WLAN) receiver channel. The frequency response of the feedback loop circuit can be variable. In a second aspect, a circuit... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100086088 - Optimized finger assignment for improved multicarrier throughput: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate dynamically allocating demodulation resources of a wideband receiver to provide improved demodulation of simultaneously received signals. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and/or packet error rate (PER) can be measured for the plurality of carriers to determine which demodulators related to the carriers require more resources... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100086087 - Transmission enhancements for physical layer transmission: Aspects of the invention provide apparatuses, computer media, and methods for supporting the broadcast of signaling data over a network. Error detection and protection as well as modulation mechanisms enhance the flexibility and robustness of signaling data for digital video broadcasting. A first error detection code for a first portion... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100086090 - Clock-data recovery and method for binary signaling using low resolution adc: A binary signal detection based on low resolution ADC includes: a variable-gain amplifier for amplifying an input signal with a gain factor controlled by a gain setting to generate an amplified signal; an ADC for converting the amplified signal into a converter output in accordance with a timing provided by... Agent: Ipr Works, LLC

20100086089 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and communication system: Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit for generating a frequency division clock signal that approximates a desired clock signal without increasing a size thereof. The semiconductor integrated circuit masks, for each programmable cycle, a clock signal to be supplied to a transmission clock generation unit 100, thereby delaying a counting... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100086091 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing time of day of terminal in convergent network: Provided is a method and apparatus for synchronizing a time of day (TOD) in a convergent network, wherein the TOD is received from a time server connected in the convergent network and is provided to a terminal connected in a wired or wireless network, specifically a terminal connected in a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100086092 - Method of efficiently synchronizing to a desired timeslot in a time division multiple access communication system: The time required for the receiving device to synchronize to a desired timeslot is reduced. In operation, a transmitting device selects a synchronization pattern associated with the desired timeslot that is at least mutually exclusive from synchronization patterns associated with other timeslots on the same frequency in the system. Once... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100086094 - Delay-locked loop with dynamically biased charge pump: A delay-locked loop, including a phase detector configured to receive two signals, one of the signals being delayed relative to the other of the signals, the phase detector having an UP output and a DOWN output. The delay-locked loop also includes a charge pump system operatively coupled with the phase... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20100086093 - Wireless clock regeneration and synchronization: A method and apparatus are described for regenerating a local clock within a wireless module and synchronizing the local clock with a wireless host clock. For one embodiment, the wireless module generates a local clock, counts the cycles of the clock during a common timing reference period maintained wirelessly between... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100080264 - Image reading device: An image reading device including: a photoelectric conversion device that outputs an analog signal corresponding to an image read from a document; an A-D converter that converts the analog signal into a digital signal; a spread spectrum clock generation unit configured to generate a spread spectrum clock by executing frequency-modulation... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20100080265 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) communications device and method that incorporates low papr preamble and frequency hopping: A communications device includes communication data and a training sequence corresponding to a preamble. A modulation and mapping circuit modulates the communications data and training sequence into a plurality of multiple subcarriers that are orthogonal to each other to form an OFDM communications signal having modulated subcarriers carrying the communications... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20100080266 - Physical layer data unit format: In a wireless communication system wherein communication devices exchange information utilizing data units that conform to a first format, wherein the first format includes a short training field (STF) spread with a first spread code and a first cover code, a method is for generating a physical layer (PHY) data... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, LLP (marvell)

20100080267 - Interference suppressing ofdm system for wireless communications: An IS-OFDM system for point-to-point wireless communications that suppresses narrow-band interference comprises an IS-OFDM transmitter and an IS-OFDM receiver, wherein a transmitted signal comprises a plurality of subcarriers, and further wherein each subcarrier contains more than one and potentially all symbols transmitted in a given frame. The IS-OFDM transmitted signal... Agent: Thomas H. Jackson, Banner & Witcoff Ltd. 11th Floor

20100080268 - Crosscorrelation interference mitigating position estimation systems and methods therefor: Provided is a method that includes dynamically adjusting a GPS signature code to minimize the interference (e.g., the cross-correlation interference) experienced due to one or more other GPS signals. Further provided is a method that includes adjusting the complexity of an adaptive solution to reduce the time and processing power... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20100080269 - Method of transmitting reference signals for cooperative wireless communication system and method of allocating radio resources for relay-based wireless communication system: A method of transmitting reference signals in a wireless communication system for cooperative communication is provided. The wireless communication system defines a plurality of transmission patterns of the reference signals each having a different pattern, and each of a plurality of base stations and/or each of a base station and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100080271 - Method and system for a control scheme on power and common-mode voltage reduction for a transmitter: Provided is a method and system for controlling current characteristics in a transceiver having a transmitter. The transmitter includes a plurality of current cells. Each cell is configurable for operating in different modes. The method includes determining a first probability associated with transmitting data at a particular symbolic level and... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100080270 - Radio frequency indentification transceiver: A radio frequency identification transceiver is disclosed. The radio frequency identification transceiver includes: a transmitter path, including; a pulse shaper to tunably shape the pulse of a signal to be transmitted in different predefined frequency ranges; a modulator to modulate the shaped pulse to be transmitted into one of a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20100080272 - Platform communication protocol: A host chipset heartbeat may be utilized, in some embodiments, to handle interrupts from external devices on a power efficient basis. The availability of the host chipset heartbeat may be signaled to external devices and those external devices may time their activities to a period of time when not only... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20100080273 - Signal receiving device and frequency determining circuit: A signal receiving device is adapted for receiving a multi-bit signal-under-test that supports one of first and second base frequency types, and outputting a type indicator for indicating which one of the first and second base frequency types is supported by the signal-under-test. The signal receiving device includes a counter... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20100080274 - Jitter measurement apparatus, jitter calculator, jitter measurement method, program, recording medium, communication system and test apparatus: Provided is a jitter measurement apparatus that measures timing jitter of a signal under measurement having a prescribed repeating pattern, comprising a sampling section that coherently samples the signal under measurement within a prescribed measurement duration; a waveform reconfiguring section that rearranges ordinal ranks of data values sampled by the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100080275 - Training of the non-updated decision feedback equalizer for a 8-vsb receiver: A method for training of a non-updated decision feedback equalizer is provided. The method comprising the steps of: providing a sequence of frames adapted to be received by a receiver; provide a sequence of synchronization frames interposed between a predetermined number of frames; and using at least part of the... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20100080278 - Filter structure implementation relating to a linear system solution: A method used in a time domain equalizer is provided. A method comprising the steps of: providing a time domain equalizer comprising a feed forward equalizer and a feedback equalizer; and using a filter circuit or structured implementation to incorporate conjugate gradient iteration in order to calculate a set of... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20100080279 - Method and apparatus for reducing interference of a signal over a plurality of stages: An apparatus for reducing interference of a signal over a plurality of stages includes a processor configured to determine at least two equalizer taps based on at least one of a covariance and a channel impulse response of the signal. The processor is further configured to estimate at least one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080276 - Method for non-pilot tone data-aided carrier frequency tracking: A method comprising the steps of providing a slicer for slicing real values of an equalizer output; and cross correlating an equalizer input with an output of the slicer is provided.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20100080277 - Using conjugate gradient method to calculate filter coefficient for time domain equalizer: A method used in a time domain equalizer is provided. A method comprising the steps of: providing a time domain equalizer comprising a feed forward equalizer and a feedback equalizer; and using a conjugate gradient iteration in order to calculate a set of coefficients of the time domain equalizer.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20100080280 - Decision feedback equalizer with partial feedback equalizer in a variable sideband communications system: In a receiver of a multi-leveled variable sideband communications system, a method is provided that comprises the steps of: dividing the receiver into a real portion and a complex portion; and providing a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) processing data substantially in the real portion.... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20100080281 - Method to calculate the real decision feedback equalizer coefficients: A method used in a time domain equalizer is provided. The method comprising the steps of: providing a time domain equalizer comprising; and extracting a real part of an input or a derivative of the input to the time domain equalizer and using the only real part of the input... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20100080282 - Re-adaption of equalizer parameter to center a sample point in a baud-rate clock and data recovery receiver: An apparatus generally having a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to (i) generate an equalizer parameter in response to an input signal, the equalizer parameter causing a cancellation of post-cursor inter-symbol interference from a plurality of symbols in the input signal and (ii)... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20100080283 - Processing real-time video: Real-time video processing functionality may be provided using pre-processing and/or post-processing features to provide a video signal. Components of a real-time video processing system may operate to receive a real-time video signal. The real-time video signal may be downscaled based in part on the use of features of a pre-processing... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20100080286 - Compression-aware, video pre-processor working with standard video decompressors: Video data is pre-processed to improve its compressibility by standard MPEG compressors for superior transmission at low data rates to standard devices. The pre-processor divides the video images into components selecting subsets of the components based on a buffer signal from the standard compressor.... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20100080285 - Determining availability of video data units: An apparatus performs efficient coding techniques to more efficiently determine an availability of neighboring video data units determined for the current video data unit. The apparatus comprises an availability determination unit that maintains an availability counter. The availability determination unit determination unit increments the availability counter after each of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080284 - Resolving geometric relationships among video data units: An apparatus performs efficient coding techniques to more efficiently resolve geometric relationships between video data units and thereby determine neighboring video data units for a current video data unit. The apparatus comprises a geometric resolution unit that obtains video data defining a plurality of video data units, and determines, for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080287 - Adaptive video processing of an interactive environment: Embodiments are configured to provide interactive communication functionality including adaptive video processing functionality that can be used to process aspects of a video signal, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, components of a video conferencing system can operate to provide a video signal based in part... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20100080289 - Distributed video encoder and decoder and distributed video decoding method: A distributed video encoder and decoder and a distributed video decoding method using adaptive quantization are provided. Adaptive quantization is performed at the time of encoding and decoding so that limited resources and information can be efficiently used, and a predetermined bit which is previously defined is included in a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100080288 - Video compression coding method and apparatus: A first delay memory is input with an input image frame output from a ME (motion estimation) processor, and delays output to a first adder for carrying out a prediction residual generation process a predetermined time period. A second delay memory is input with an inter-prediction luminance image frame, and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100080290 - Fine-grained client-side control of scalable media delivery: Techniques and tools for adjusting quality and bit rate of multiple chunks of media delivered over a network are described. For example, each of the multiple chunks is encoded as multiple layers (e.g., a base layer and multiple embedded residual layers) for fine-grained scalability at different rate/quality points. A server... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20100080293 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: The method includes the steps of receiving the multiview video data stream including a random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture, obtaining identification information representing the multi-view video... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100080291 - Moving picture encoding apparatus and moving picture decoding apparatus: A prediction control unit determines whether to use intra-prediction method or a method of prediction based on reduced image in which a predicted image is generated using a locally decoded image of a block as an object of coding that has been coded and reduced, according to the amount of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100080292 - Video rate control for video coding standards: A method and device for improving rate controlling in video coding of sequences including a series of Inter frames separated by Intra frames, when a decoding delay is considered, comprise for each Inter frame of the series: computing a target frame size, computing a maximum buffer level related to a... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20100080294 - Moving image stream processing apparatus, moving image reproduction apparatus equipped with the same, method, and program: Disclosed is a moving image reproduction apparatus including a stream extraction unit that extracts a bit stream of a prescribed number of consecutive pictures including an intra-frame coded picture as an initial picture from a bit stream of a coded moving image, a stream analysis unit that analyzes the extracted... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100080299 - Frame frequency conversion apparatus, frame frequency conversion method, program for achieving the method, computer readable recording medium recording the program, motion vector detection apparatus, and prediction coefficient generation apparatus: A frame-frequency conversion apparatus includes: a motion estimation section inputting a first and a second frames of a low-frequency image signal and estimating a plurality of candidate vectors indicating motions between the frames; a first pixel generation section generating a predicted pixel of a predicted frame corresponding to the second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100080296 - Locating motion vectors for video data units: An apparatus performs efficient coding techniques to more efficiently locate motion vector data within neighboring video data units. The apparatus comprises a motion vector (MV) location unit that includes a look-up table (LUT), where the MV location unit obtains video data defining a plurality of video data units and processes... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080295 - Method and apparatus for scalable motion estimation: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for scalable motion estimation. One embodiment of a method for performing motion estimation includes setting a target complexity for a macroblock of a source frame and performing motion estimation for one or more partitions of the macroblock until the target... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100080298 - Refined weighting function and momentum-directed genetic search pattern algorithm: A weighting function (WF) is previously provided to model the number of search points of a pattern search. However, WF fails to properly describe the behavior of the genetic pattern search algorithms due to some over-simplifications in their models. Therefore, a refined weighting function (RWF) is provided to more accurately... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100080297 - Techniques to perform fast motion estimation: Techniques to perform fast motion estimation are described. An apparatus may comprise a motion estimator operative to receive as input a current frame and a reference frame from a digital video sequence. The motion estimator may generate and output a motion vector. The motion vector may represent a change in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100080300 - 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, L.L.P.

20100080301 - 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, L.L.P.

20100080302 - Perceptual mechanism for the selection of residues in video coders: A perceptual mechanism for residue selection in a video encoder may be provided. The mechanism may comprise a method, system, or device for receiving video frames comprising pluralities of pixels. For each video frame, a sensitivity threshold may be determined for each pixel of a previous video frame. The pixels... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20100080303 - Image decoding apparatus and image decoding method: An image decoding apparatus which receives a compressed image stream as an input signal and decodes the input signal, includes a plurality of decoders configured to decode the input signal by predetermined data unit, and a task controller configured to divide a decoding process for the input signal into a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100080304 - Slice ordering for video encoding: For encoding, a frame of video data can be segregated into macroblocks, which can be segregated into slices, which in turn can be segregated into slice groups. A macroblock identifier (ID) can be associated with each of the macroblocks. When at least one slice from each of the slice groups... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20100080305 - Devices and methods of digital video and/or audio reception and/or output having error detection and/or concealment circuitry and techniques: A device to output video and/or audio data (for example, corresponding to a selected channel which is one of a plurality of channels of a broadcast spectrum), the device comprising (i) baseband processor circuitry to demodulate a baseband signal into a data stream (for example, MPEG type data stream, such... Agent: Neil Steinberg

20100080306 - Communication system, communication device, communication terminal, and communication setting method: A communication device that can easily be added to a network is provided. Processing performed by the communication device for which manipulation for joining a communication network was performed includes the steps of the communication device sensing manipulation of a manipulation panel, performing network detection processing when there is a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100080307 - Random access preamble structure in extended cells environment: Provided is a method of forming a random access preamble structure for an extended cell radius in a cellular system, the method including: generating a cyclic prefix (CP), which is the sum of a maximum delay spread and the maximum round trip delay according to the extended cell; generating a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100080313 - Apparatus and method for supporting in-band venue-cast on a forward link only (flo) network using pilot interference cancellation: An apparatus and method for supporting in-band venue-cast comprising receiving a waveform with macro-cast contents introduced into a first symbol space in a superframe for wide area and local area services, at least one pilot signal introduced into a second symbol space in the superframe and venue-cast contents also introduced... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080309 - Low peak-to-average power ratio (papr) preamble for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) communications: A communications device includes communications data and a training sequence corresponding to a preamble. A modulation and mapping circuit modulates the communications data and training sequence into a plurality of multiple subcarriers that are orthogonal to each other to form an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communications signal having modulated... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20100080311 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) communications device and method that incorporates low papr preamble and receiver channel estimate circuit: A communications device includes a demapping and demodulation circuit that demaps and demodulates an OFDM communications signal as modulated subcarriers carrying communications data and modulated subcarriers carrying a training sequence forming a preamble that includes a long sync sequence for channel and frequency offset estimation having a extended guard interval... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20100080310 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) communications device and method that incorporates low papr preamble and variable number of ofdm subcarriers: A communications device includes communications data and a training sequence corresponding to a preamble. A modulation and mapping circuit modulates the communications data and training sequence into a plurality of multiple subcarriers that are orthogonal to each other to form an OFDM communication signal having modulated subcarriers carrying the communications... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20100080312 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) communications device and method that incorporates low papr preamble with circuit for measuring frequency response of the communications channel: A communications device includes a demapping and demodulation circuit and processes an OFDM communications signal that includes modulated subcarriers carrying communications data forming a data payload and modulated subcarriers carrying a training sequence forming a preamble. Those OFDM subcarriers carrying the training sequence have a sample for each subcarrier at... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20100080308 - Virtual multicarrier design for orthogonal frequency division ...: Embodiments of the present invention provide a virtual multicarrier design for orthogonal frequency division multiple access communications. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100080316 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, display apparatus and information processing program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a demodulation FFT processing section configured to carry out an FFT process on a demodulation-related signal extracted by making use of a demodulation FFT window from every symbol of a received OFDM signal and output the frequency-domain signal; a control FFT processing... Agent: Formmer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20100080315 - Mimo transmission mode selecting method and wireless communication equipment: In a radio communication apparatus, a MIMO system deciding section of a transmitter unit decides an object MIMO communication system with reference to a CQI value and a measured rate table while an AMC table controlling section selects an object MCS value according to the decided MIMO communication system and... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100080317 - Symbol mixing across multiple parallel channels: Symbol mixing across multiple input multiple output (MIMO) parallel channels is disclosed. Each data symbol is transmitted over an effective channel with a weighted sum of the singular values associated with all spatial channels. By averaging the singular values, there is less of a penalty associated with the choice of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100080314 - Reconfigurable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) chip supporting single weight diversity: A method and system for a reconfigurable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) chip supporting single weight diversity are provided. The reconfigurable OFDM chip may be configured to process signals such as IEEE 802.11, 802.16, and digital video broadcasting (DVB). The OFDM chip may generate channel weights to be applied to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100080318 - System and method for improved frequency estimation for high-speed communication: A system and method is provided for improved frequency error estimation in a high-frequency data communication system. In an embodiment, a method for providing improved frequency error estimation comprises performing encoding, interleaving and symbol mapping on original information bits to form a data stream of modulated information symbols; inserting pilot... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100080320 - Coding and modulation selecting method and wireless communication equipment: Disclosed herewith is a radio communication apparatus capable of selecting proper one of plural communication modes such as a MIMO communication system so as to obtain a higher communication rate within a range in which chain retransmission occurrence is prevented. The MIMO system deciding section of the transmitter unit decides... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100080322 - Digital modulation: s

20100080319 - High bandwidth modulation and transmission: This disclosure relates systems and methods for a high bandwidth modulation and transmission of communication signals.... Agent: Spryip, LLC Ifx

20100080321 - Method and apparatus for checking asynchronous transmission of control signals: In a method for asynchronously transmitting control signals from a transmitter end to at least one receiver via a plurality of control lines, control signals received via the individual control lines are logically combined with one another at the receiver end and the result of the logic combination is transmitted... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20100080323 - Methods and apparatus for partial interference reduction within wireless networks: Methods and apparatus that enable one or more wireless networks to minimize inter-cellular interference (ICI) at a receiver. In one embodiment, the network comprises an OFDM-based cellular network, and the method comprises utilizing a priori knowledge of non-data portions of signals from multiple base stations in order to schedule transmissions.... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20100080324 - Device and method for dc offset cancellation: A device and method for DC offset cancellation device are disclosed. The method includes keeping a high pass module at off state, converting an analog radio frequency signal to a digital baseband signal by a direct down conversion receiving module, detecting a DC offset value during the conversion by an... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100080325 - Method and system for independent i and q loop amplitude control for quadrature generators: Certain aspects of a method and system for independent in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) loop amplitude control for quadrature generators may include determining an amplitude voltage associated with an in-phase (I) component and a quadrature (Q) component of a generated signal. A DC reference voltage associated with the I component... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100080326 - Rds/rbds decoder with reliable values: A method is provided that contemplates including filtered decode values in an RDS/RBDS output signal. The filtered decode values are generated from reliable values. The reliable values are generated from corresponding received values from each of at least two groups of RDS/RBDS data in an RDS/RBDS input signal. The method... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, PLLC Attn: Silabs Matters

20100080327 - Method and device for automatic gain control: A method for automatic gain control used in a receiver of a multi-carrier telecommunication system, the method comprising: receiving an input signal digitalized by an A/D converter; determining distribution of the input signal; and controlling gain of a variable gain amplifier as a function of the determined distribution.... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100080328 - Receiver actions and implementations for efficient media handling: A receiver includes a detector for detecting a change in source of incoming media during an on-going communication session, and means to provide a reset signal in order to reset decoder states of a decoder in response to such a detected change before decoding new incoming media. In this way,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100080329 - Information processor and information processing method, display device, and program: Disclosed herein is an information processor, including: a receiving section configured to receive an OFDM signal transmitted in accordance with an OFDM system; a FFT arithmetically operating section configured to carry out FFT for a signal within a predetermined interval of the OFDM signal; a delay profile estimating section configured... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20100080330 - Receiving apparatus, receiving method, and program: Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including: first to third position determination sections configured to determine the start position of an FFT interval which serves as a signal interval targeted for FFT by an FFT section; a selection section configured to select one of those start positions of the FFT... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20100080331 - Method and apparatus for integrated clock mismatch compensation and packet loss concealment: An apparatus and method for processing data are disclosed. The apparatus may include a receiver clock, and a processing system configured to use the receiver clock to receive data from a transmitter, the data being generated with a transmitter clock in the transmitter, wherein the processing system is further configured... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100080332 - Clock-synchronous communication apparatus and communication system: In a clock-synchronous communication system, a clock pulse as a communication clock is outputted from a master device to a slave device so as to synchronize the master device and slave device. The transmitting side transmits a data to a data line with a first edge timing of the clock... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100080333 - Method and apparatus for processing radio frequency signals: A method and apparatus for processing a radio frequency (RF) signal is provided. The method includes generating a periodic square wave local oscillator (LO) signal of a first phase, a periodic square wave LO signal of a second phase, and a chopping signal. The method further includes coding the periodic... Agent: Motorola, Inc