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20100272150 - Receiving apparatus and receiving method of impulse-radio uwb wireless system: A receiving apparatus of an ultra-wideband wireless system includes an analog-to-digital converter for sampling an analog signal into a digital signal, a serial-to-parallel converter for converting serial data input to the analog-to-digital converter into M:N parallel data, a matched filter bank unit for match-filtering the N parallel data, a cross-correlator... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100272151 - Transceiver with plural space hopping phased array antennas and methods for use therewith: A wireless transceiver includes a plurality of phased array antennas, that transmit an outbound RF signal containing outbound data to remote transceivers and that receives an inbound RF signal containing inbound data from the remote RF transceivers, wherein the plurality of phased array antennas are each configurable based on a... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100272152 - Signal sequence generating method, control information generating apparatus and user equipment terminal: A signal sequence generating method of generating a signal sequence used by a user equipment terminal in a mobile communication system includes the steps of generating, by a base station, a predetermined hopping pattern; generating, by the base station, a hopping sequence by applying an offset to the predetermined hopping... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20100272153 - System and apparatus for detecting interference in radio bands: An apparatus and technique for measuring and coping with interfering signals in a wireless communications system. The apparatus and technique rapidly and regularly measures the signals present in the wireless communication system's band of operation. The apparatus and technique then makes this information available to all the transceivers on the... Agent: Lambert Intellectual Property Law

20100272154 - Spread-spectrum modulation and demodulation: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for modulating and demodulating a spread-spectrum data stream using multiple generalized Golay codes.... Agent: Steven Shattil

20100272155 - Code detection: A code transmitted in a wireless format is to be detected. A power level associated with the code is determined. The determined power level is compared with a plurality of thresholds. A test statistic is increased or decreased based on which of the thresholds that the determined power level falls... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100272156 - Human body communication system and communication method thereof: A human body communication system is provided. The human body communication system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter transmits a frame including a preamble, which is a Manchester-encoded pseudo noise (PN) code, to the human body. The receiver receives the frame from the human body, performs Manchester-decoding on... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20100272159 - Frequency selective digital transmission apparatus: A frequency selective digital transmission apparatus includes: a preamble transmission processing unit generating a preamble for frame synchronization and spreading the generated preamble with a predetermined spreading code; a header transmission processing unit configuring a header including data attribute information and spreading the header with a predetermined spreading code; a... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20100272157 - Spread spectrum encoding and decoding: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for generating spread-spectrum coded signals for transmission in a wireless communication system, and for efficient despreading at a receiver.... Agent: Steven Shattil

20100272158 - Spread-spectrum cods generation: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for generating Golay codes and generalized Golay codes in a wireless communication system, and for efficient spreading at a transmitter and despreading at a receiver.... Agent: Steven Shattil

20100272160 - Decoding data transmitted using space-time spreading in a wireless communication system: Examples are disclosed for determining a bit error rate (BER) associated with decoding data transmitted using space-time spreading (STS) in a wireless communication system.... Agent: OmikronIPLaw Group

20100272161 - Method and apparatus for performing frequency synchronization: A method and apparatus for performing frequency analysis of sub-epoch correlations to estimate an unknown frequency of a received signal is provided. The method includes forming a sequence of correlation values from a plurality of correlations performed over a period less than a repeating period of a code, and analyzing... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100272162 - Synchronous serial programmable interface: A synchronous serial programmable interface that programmably defines a plurality of frame definitions in which each frame definition provides signal timing for a corresponding frame used in serial data transfer. A sequencer module is used to provide a plurality of instructions, in which each instruction, when executed, obtains a frame... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100272163 - Wireless communication subsystem with a digital interface: Systems and methods are disclosed which provide wireless communication systems implementing subsystems adapted for flexible deployment configurations and to resist the introduction of interference. Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communication system configuration in which an ODU subsystem is coupled to an IDU subsystem using a fiber... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20100272164 - Method and apparatus for optimizing dynamic range in dmt modems: A digital subscriber line ‘XDSL’ communication system for optimizing dynamic range in digital multi-tone modulated (DMT) modems. The system comprises a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) and at least one modem. The DSLAM distributes a near end crosstalk (NEXT) model of anticipated disturbance from neighboring disturber subscriber lines. The... Agent: Ip Creators

20100272165 - Methods and systems for providing an asymmetric ethernet service: Methods and systems for providing asymmetric Ethernet service are disclosed. An example method to provide asymmetric Ethernet service to a subscriber includes communicating at least a first portion of a subscriber data communication via a first asymmetric Ethernet connection between a first asymmetric Ethernet modem at a point of service... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20100272166 - Signal analyzer and method for displaying frequency domain data: A signal analyzer provides frequency domain data at different time and frequency resolution. First type frequency domain data is derived from time domain data of a signal under test by first type frames and displayed as a spectrogram. A selecting box is displayed on the spectrogram for selecting the first... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20100272167 - Method and apparatus for simplifying a probabilistic rate adaptation procedure in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method for simplifying a probabilistic rate adaptation procedure in a wireless communication system, which comprises calculating a conditional probability density function of SNR of a transmitted signal by the probabilistic rate adaptation procedure, to generate an SNR estimation result, taking logarithm on the SNR estimation... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100272168 - receiver: A receiver for a telecommunications system in which a data signal is transmitted using a closed loop transmit diversity system and a pilot signal is transmitted using a space time transmit diversity system, the receiver comprising an equalizer for equalising a signal received by the receiver, wherein the equalizer is... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20100272169 - Compensating carrier frequency offsets in ofdm systems: In an OFDM system a plurality of subcarriers interferes with a considered subcarrier in case of carrier frequency offsets. A method and a corresponding receiver topology are disclosed for reducing the interference caused by frequency offsets of the subcarriers, wherein in a decision feedback equalizer the resources for computing the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100272170 - Image encoding apparatus, image encoding method and medium on which image encoding program is recorded: An image encoding apparatus configured to perform sub-band encoding, the apparatus includes: a plurality of encoding units configured to encode an image signal separated into a plurality of sections; a plurality of storage units configured to hold data encoded by the encoding units; and a control unit configured to determine... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100272172 - Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus: An image encoding apparatus (100) that encodes image data includes: an image encoding unit (110) that receives an input of the image data and image parameters and generates encoded image data by performing image encoding on the image data with reference to the image parameters and furthermore binarizing and arithmetically... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100272171 - Self-adapting code rate distribution method of video image macro-block level: A self-adapting code rate distribution method of video image macro-block level is provided. The method carries out analysis processing in units of macro blocks, a bit distribution model which combines bits number of a macro block level with the macro block energy is used, so that the bit distribution of... Agent: Byip, Ltd.

20100272173 - Method of content adaptive video encoding: A method of content adaptive encoding video is disclosed. The method comprises segmenting video content into segments based on predefined classifications or models. Examples of such classifications include action scenes, slow scenes, low or high detail scenes, and brightness of the scenes. Based on the segment classifications, each segment is... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20100272174 - Image decoding device, image coding device, image decoding method, image coding method, and program: An image decoding device is provided which is capable of decoding views coded using inter-view prediction even when decoding is not instantly completed. The image decoding device includes: a decoding processing unit (100) which decodes a second view coded with reference to a first view; and a buffer memory (900)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100272176 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100272177 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100272178 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100272179 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100272175 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100272180 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100272182 - Image flow knowledge assisted latency-free in-loop temporal filter: Digital image acquisition device such as CCD/CMOS sensors often introduces random temporal noise into digital video sequences. Temporal noise generally carries high frequency components in both the spatial and temporal domains and is also random in nature. Because of these properties, they are generally very expensive to encode and would... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100272181 - Image processing method and image information coding apparatus using the same: Disclosed herein is an image information coding method for performing a motion vector search based on hierarchical search in an image compression information device adapted to output image compression information, the image information coding method including the steps of, compressing a plurality of frame images at a predetermined compression ratio... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20100272183 - Inter-frame prediction coding method, device and system: Inter-frame prediction coding method, device and system are provided. The inter-frame prediction coding method includes: calculating distortions between a template area of current encoding block and each of M matching templates in L reference frames, to determine M offset vectors; acquiring M hypothesis prediction values of the encoding block to... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100272184 - System and method for real-time super-resolution: A method and system are presented for real time Super-Resolution image reconstruction. According to this technique, data indicative of a video frame sequence compressed by motion compensated compression technique is processed, and representations of one or more video objects (VOs) appearing in one or more frames of said video frame... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20100272185 - Method and device for encoding and decoding color enhancement layer for video: Enhanced dynamic range requires more than 8 bit representation for single color components of pixels. For this purpose, normal color resolution images and high color resolution images are available. Backward compatibility can be achieved by a layered approach using a color enhancement layer, and a conventional image as color base... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100272189 - Dtv transmitting system and receiving system and method of processing broadcast data: A digital television transmitting system includes a frame encoder, a block processor, a group formatter, and a multiplexer. The frame encoder forms an enhanced data frame and encodes the data frame for error correction and for error detection. The block processor further encodes the encoded data frame at a rate... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100272187 - Efficient video skimmer: Disclosed are a system, method, apparatus, and computer readable media containing instructions for displaying video files for rapid searching. In two different types of exemplary embodiments, a standalone video skimming system, and a video skimming system includes a server and a client system are disclosed, where the video file may... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100272188 - Method for scalably encoding and decoding video signal: In one embodiment, decoding of a video signal includes predicting at least a portion of a current image in a current layer based on at least a residual coded portion of a base image in a base layer and shift information for samples in the predicted current image.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100272186 - Transport stream processing system and related method thereof: A transport stream processing system capable of recording and playing back a transport stream carrying a plurality of transport stream packets is provided, and includes: a first memory unit storing a plurality of sets of control words; a packet identifier filter acquiring a set of control words according to a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100272190 - Scalable transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for improving availability of broadcasting service: Provided is a scalable transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for improving availability of a broadcasting service, which can allow a reception party to select an optimum video according to an attenuation degree of a broadcasting signal by scalably encoding video data and transmitting it by a different transmission scheme for each... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100272191 - Methods and apparatus for de-artifact filtering using multi-lattice sparsity-based filtering: Methods and apparatus are provided for de-artifact filtering using multi-lattice sparsity-based filtering. The apparatus includes a sparsity-based filter (600) for de-artifact filtering picture data for a picture. The picture data includes different sub-lattice samplings of the picture. Sparsity-based filtering thresholds for the filter are varied temporally.... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100272192 - Ofdm-lite architecture for homeplug: A device for communicating digital data over power lines includes a power line interface for transmitting data over at least one band of frequencies. An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation unit generates OFDM symbols using a set of tones for the frequency band. A preamble generation unit generates preamble... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100272193 - Data communication using 2d bar codes: A Two-Dimensional (2D) code receiver and transmitter, and methods for their operation in a 2D code communication system, are provided. The method for operating the 2D code receiver includes receiving a sequence of 2D codes from a 2D code transmitter having data encoded therein, wherein the 2D codes of the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100272194 - Channel estimation techniques for ofdm: An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) receiver comprises: a channel estimator receiving a signal that includes a plurality of symbols, each of the symbols including a plurality of pilots and a plurality of data subcarriers, wherein each symbol further includes at least one pilot subcarrier, the estimator using a first... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20100272202 - Data transmission device, data reception device, and wireless communications system: When an error correction decoding unit 26 of a data reception device 2 fails in error correction decoding of a codeword, an MIMO processing unit 15 of a data transmission device 1 deforms transmitted codewords according to a predetermined rule, and transmits the codewords, and the error correction decoding unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100272198 - Method of detecting transmission channel and related wireless communication system: A method and related system of transmission channel detection condition in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method includes receiving a symbol, performing a channel estimation operation to generate a channel estimation result according to the symbol, performing a cross correlation operation on the channel estimation result and an... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100272200 - Method of soft decision decoding and apparatus for soft decision decoding: A soft decision decoding method in a multiple-input multiple-output system which respectively receives two simultaneously transmitted data streams, a first transmitting symbol and a second transmitting symbol, in a first receiving signal and a second receiving signal is provided. The soft decision decoding method includes calculating common metrics corresponding to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100272197 - Ofdm system and data transmission method therefor: An OFDM system includes a frequency-time transformer configured to receive and transform input data to be transmitted to a time-domain sequence; a serial/parallel transformer configured to divide the time-domain sequence into plural sequences; a phase rotating module configured to perform phase rotation in respects to each of the divided time-domain... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20100272195 - Peak-to-average power ratio reduction with bounded error vector magnitude: Method and apparatus for signal processing to minimize the peak to average power ratio of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (“OFDM”) or Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (“OFDMA”) signal with bounded error vector magnitude for an integrated circuit are described. An Active Constellation Extension (“ACE”) iteration, using a constellation points... Agent: Xilinx, Inc Attn: Legal Department

20100272199 - Transmission device, reception device, and ofdm transmission method: SP signals to be transmitted from a first transmitting antenna 11 are arranged in the same pattern as SP signals to be transmitted from a second transmitting antenna 12. The SP signals to be transmitted from the second transmitting antenna 12 in one symbol are generated, such that the polarity... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100272196 - Using channel estimates associated with ofdm pilot symbols to estimate additional parameter: Channel estimates respectively associated with OFDM pilot symbols are used to estimate additional parameters such as change in channel phase over time, change in channel phase over frequency, and frequency selectivity.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100272201 - Wireless communication base station device, wireless communication mobile station device, and propagation path estimation method: A wireless communication base station device, whereby precision of propagation path estimation is improved by making possible determination of the contiguity of precoding strings contiguous in frequency regions. In this device, a pre-coding string contiguity determining portion (120) determines whether or not a plurality of pre-coding strings (?) which are... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100272203 - Single-carrier block transmission with trellis coded modulation (tcm), multi-level coded modulation (mlcm) and bit-interleaved mlcm (bimlcm): The system (900), transmitter (700), receiver (800.a 800.b), and method of the present invention provide a technique to code data bits into symbols using TCM, MLCM or BIMLCM before the symbols are placed in an SCBT block. Generally, TCM, MLCM, and BIMLCM do not have good performance over the frequency... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100272205 - Method for detecting signal, device for detecting signal, and receiving device: The present invention relates to a method for detecting a signal, a device for detecting a signal, and a receiving device. A method for detecting a signal according to the present invention is a method for detecting a signal from a receiving device in a communication system including a multi-output... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100272204 - Space-time-state block coded mimo communication system using reconfigurable antennas: Space-Time-State Block Coded MIMO communication system using reconfigurable antennas. One or more antennas are operates in accordance with a Space-Time-State Block Code (STS-BC) to effectuate channel coding of a signal being transmitted wirelessly between communication devices. In accordance with such an STS-BC, one or more antennas (being reconfigurable in nature)... Agent: Law Offices Of Daniel L. Dawes Dawes Patent Law Group

20100272206 - Transmitting/receiving apparatus and method thereof in codebook based multiple antenna system: A transmission/reception apparatus and a method thereof in a codebook-based multiple antenna system is provided. In a transmission method in a codebook-based Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system, control information is received from a receiver. A codeword is determined within an Open-Loop (OL)-MIMO codebook where a Closed-Loop (CL)-MIMO codebook is... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100272207 - Using spatial properties of mimo channels for enhanced channel estimation in mimo systems: An apparatus for estimating a channel response associated with a multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) system includes an antenna that receives multiple pilot symbols, each of the multiple pilot symbols transmitted from a different one of multiple transmit antennas of a transmitter in the MIMO system. The apparatus further includes a... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100272208 - Imbalance compensation for direct conversion communication systems: Most modern integrated circuit transceivers, especially wireless LAN, utilize a direct conversion radio architecture, which is highly advantageous from the perspectives of cost and flexibility, there exist several performance impairments, including gain and phase imbalances between the in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) of a transmitter or receiver. Disclosed herein is... Agent: Weide & Miller-skyworks

20100272210 - Method of transmitting data for digital broadcasting in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system includes mapping first data to first symbols on a signal constellation, mapping second data assisting the first data to second symbols on the signal constellation, modulating the first symbols and the second symbols, and transmitting the modulated first symbols and... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100272209 - Methods of joint coding in mobile communication system: A joint coding method in a mobile communication system is disclosed. To block-code kχ-bit first data requiring a received signal quality and k2˜bit second data requiring a different received signal quality, the present invention includes configuring a first block code generation matrix meeting a first minimum hamming distance, configuring a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100272212 - Multi-carrier transmission device and multi-carrier transmission method: There is provided a multi-carrier transmission device capable of improving a packet error ratio in a system where transmission data is repeatedly multi-carrier-transmitted. In this device, the transmission data is subjected to error correction encoding in an error correction encoding unit (102), modulation in a modulation unit (104), and repetition... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100272211 - Radio communication apparatus and method: A disclosed radio communication method includes precoding modulated information signal sequences to calculate transmit weight information, setting initial transmit power based on prior information including the calculated transmit weight information, generating an objective function of a user channel capacity for a constrained optimization problem based on the transmit weight information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100272213 - Radiofrequency transmission system: The invention relates to a radiofrequency transmission system comprising: means of producing at least one digital signal quantised on N bits; for each of said at least one digital signal, digital processing means including: Sigma-delta filters capable of producing, on the basis of a digital input signal quantised on N... Agent: Burr & Brown

20100272214 - Radiofrequency transmission system: The invention relates to a radiofrequency transmission system comprising: means of producing a complex digital signal quantised on N bits; means of transforming the complex digital signal into two complex digital signals with an identical and constant envelope that are phase-shifted with respect to one another; a digital processing pathway... Agent: Burr & Brown

20100272216 - Apparatus and methods for differential signal receiving: A differential signal receiver 106 implements intra-pair skew compensation for improving data transfer on a differential channel. In an embodiment, the receiver implements sampling by—multiple clocks with different phases such that the signals of the differential channel may be separately or individually time adjusted to account for skew between them... Agent: Mahamedi Paradice Kreisman LLP

20100272215 - Signaling with superimposed differential-mode and common-mode signals: A data receiver circuit (206) includes first and second interfaces (221) coupled to first and second respective transmission lines (204). The first and second respective transmission lines comprise a pair of transmission lines external to the data receiver circuit. The first and second interfaces receive a transmission signal from the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20100272217 - Power consumption control methods applied to communication systems, and related devices: A power consumption control method applied to a communication system adjusts the power consumption of a portion of circuit in the communication system according to a transmission distance between the communication system and another communication system. Another power consumption control method applied to a communication system adjusts the power consumption... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100272218 - Method and apparatus for coordinated mimo signal transmission among multiple cells in wireless ofdm systems: A FFR (fractional frequency reuse)-based network MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) transmission architecture in a cellular system that employs cell sectoring using directional antennas. Each cell is sectorized into three outer sectors using three directional antennas which transmit in three different directions using three different frequency subbands. The cell sectors are arranged... Agent: Chen Yoshimura LLP Attention Ying Chen

20100272219 - Method and device for automatic gain control: A method and apparatus for adjusting the gain of an amplifier (202) in a communication receiver comprising: estimating the power of a time domain signal (307); estimating the power distribution on one or more sub-carriers of a frequency domain signal (309) transformed from the time domain signal; and generating a... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100272220 - Multi-antenna receiver interference cancellation method and apparatus: A composite signal including a plurality of component signal streams is processed using QR-decomposition to detect symbols and calculate a decision metric for each of the signal streams (202). Soft serial interference cancellation is performed on the composite signal based on the symbols detected for different ones of the signal... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100272221 - Peak-to-average power reduction method: A method of reducing peak-to-average power in a hybrid signal is provided. The method determines peaks in power by defining a sample point by way of a digital vector and an analog vector. The digital and analog vectors are added together to generate a hybrid vector which is used to... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20100272222 - Pll modulation circuit, radio transmission device, and radio communication device: Provided are a PLL modulation circuit, a radio transmission device, and a radio communication device capable of maintaining a modulation accuracy for modulation of a wide band. The PLL modulation circuit (100) includes: a PLL unit (110), first modulation signal input means for inputting a first modulation signal to a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100265992 - Adaptative multi-carrier code division multiple access: A system for performing adaptative multi-carrier code division multiple access (AMC-CDMA) is provided. The system determines a channel performance metric for each of a plurality of carriers and then determines at least one AMC-CDMA parameter for each of the carriers based on the channel performance metric. Modulator circuitry then modulates... Agent: Peters Verny , L.L.P.

20100265990 - Method and system of wireless device discovery in a wireless network employing directional antennas: A wireless device (100) communicates in a wireless network, and executes a wireless device discovery process to discover other wireless devices (100) in the wireless network. In the wireless device discovery process, the wireless device (100) sets its antenna pattern to have an omnidirectional antenna pattern (202), and transmits a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100265991 - Receiving appartus, receiving method, phase tracking apparatus, and phase tracking method of pulse-based uwb wireless system: Provided are a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, a phase tracking apparatus, and a phase tracking method of a pulse-based UWB wireless system, which are capable of tracking and compensating phases of signals modulated with different modulation schemes in the same pulse-based UWB receiver system. The receiving apparatus of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100265993 - System and method for ultra wideband radio wireless network: A virtual wireless local area network system and method utilizing impulse radio wherein transmission rates (bit rates) can vary according to the impulse radio transmission quality (signal to noise ratio) and wherein the position of the user can be determined and said user can be directed to an area of... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20100265994 - Rake or g-rake receiver structure for downlink transmit diversity signals: In a RAKE or GRAKE receiver a combined set of weight factors are used for a first and a second symbol period. The output from the first and second symbol period is fed to a single mutual receiver.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100265995 - Time divided pilot channel detection processing in a wcdma terminal having a shared memory: A method for operating a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver of a wireless terminal. During a first time interval, an RF front end is enabled and the RF receiver receives and processes an RF signal, e.g., a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal, to produce a baseband signal and to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100265996 - Repeater and method for processing signal, and method for converting synchronous frequency thereof: A repeater having different input and output frequencies converts a signal received with the input frequency to a first intermediate frequency signal based on a local oscillating frequency for intermediate frequency conversion, and converts the first intermediate frequency signal to a second intermediate frequency signal by performing digital processing on... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100265997 - Repeater and method for processing signal, and method for converting frequency thereof: A repeater converts a frequency of a received signal based on a local oscillating frequency and transmits a transmitting signal of a frequency that is different from the frequency of the received signal. Here, the local oscillating frequency includes a local oscillating error that may be different in a plurality... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100265998 - Array antenna apparatus and micro wave transceiver module: In a transceiver module, a micro wave analog signal interface is provided between the transceiver module and an antenna element, and all the signal interfaces except a power supply are digital signal interfaces, and the interfaces are configured as one chip on a semiconductor. An internal reference signal generates a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100265999 - Communication system incorporating physical layer waveform structure: A wireless radio transceiver system configured to transmit and receive a communications signal waveform having a time division multiple access physical layer structure and which includes a sequence of orthogonal frequency division multiple access symbols. The transceiver provides transmit diversity through space-time coding and the use of orthogonal channel probes... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP R2013

20100266000 - Discrete spurious leakage cancellation for use in a cable modem: A novel apparatus for and method of discrete spurious frequency leakage cancellation for use in a cable modem. The spurious leakage cancellation mechanism is particularly suitable for use in cable modem systems adapted to implement the DOCSIS 2.0 specification which specifies both downstream and upstream channels. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100266001 - Method for transmitting data over voice channel: The present invention features a digital data communications system for transmitting a voice or digital data between a terminal mounted in a vehicle and an external server, including a MDOV modem configured to modulate the digital data to include frequency characteristics of vowel and consonant of the voice; and a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100266002 - Exploiting multiple antennas for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks: Spectrum sensing in wireless communications is provided to identify utilized and/or unutilized frequency bands reserved for primary users using a cyclostationary beamforming approach. An adaptive cross self-coherent restoral (ACS) algorithm can be utilized to extract signals of interest (SOI) at unique cycle frequencies related to primary and/or secondary users from... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100266003 - Method and apparatus for estimating clock deviations, for virtual synchronization of free-running clocks and for determining the position of a movable object: In a method for estimating a deviation between a free-running transmitter clock and a reference clock, at a receiver stationary with respect to a transmitter, a transmitter signal generated by the transmitter on the basis of the transmitter clock is received. On the basis of the reference clock, a time... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20100266004 - Detecting apparatus, calculating apparatus, measurement apparatus, detecting method, calculating method, transmission system, program, and recording medium: Provided is a detection apparatus that detects a phase alignment error between transmission signals transmitted on different channels, comprising a correlation calculating section that calculates a cross-spectrum between the transmission signals based on a result of a measurement of the transmission signals transmitted in the channels; a phase difference calculating... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100266005 - Railway positioning system: A railway positioning system provides an on-board speed measurement device (6) inducing eddy currents in the wayside structure at two spots along the travelling direction, measuring the variations of the magnetic field emitted by the wayside structure and determining position and speed by correlating the 2 measured signals known from... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20100266006 - Signaling system with selectively-inhibited adaptive equalization: An integrated circuit having a receiver that selectively inhibits incoming data from being used to update adaptively generated controls. Sampling circuitry generates a plurality of samples of an incoming signal. Control circuitry generates an inhibit signal in either a first state or a second state according to whether the plurality... Agent: Mahamedi Paradice Kreisman LLP

20100266007 - Dual pdfe system with forward-backward viterbi: The present invention provides a novel technique for improving the performance of equalizers by reducing the effects of error propagation in equalizers that use a Viterbi Decoder. Methods and systems are described that can improve the performance of equalizers by reducing the effects of error propagation in equalizers that use... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20100266010 - Coding method, decoding method, coding apparatus, decoding apparatus, program, and integrated circuit: A coding method includes: defining an access unit; and coding each of the pictures included in the access unit, for each access unit. The defining includes: determining a unit of coding for determining whether the pictures included in the access unit are to be uniformly coded on a per-field basis... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100266009 - Transcoding video data: Video data is transcoded on the fly to produce a progressive download viewed while the data is being received while streaming and/or may be downloaded and played later. An analyser analyses a portion of an input video data file to determine coded characteristics of encoded input video and determines an... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20100266012 - Decoding and presentation time stamps for mpeg-4 advanced video coding: A system, method, and apparatus for time stamping compressed video data is disclosed. A delay parameter is generated and can be encoded with the compressed video, representing the number of picture delay between the decoded sequence and the presented sequence. The presentation time stamp is associated with each of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100266011 - Moving picture prediction method, moving picture coding method and apparatus, and moving picture decoding method and apparatus: A moving picture prediction method for enabling a calculation amount and a storage capacity to be reduced in a prediction about a moving picture by scaling processing is provided. A method for predicting the value P of Time T from the value P0 of Time T0 and the value P1... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100266015 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266016 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266024 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266025 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266026 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266027 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266028 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266029 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266031 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266032 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266033 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266034 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266036 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266039 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266013 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266014 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266017 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266018 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266019 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266020 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266021 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266022 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266023 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266030 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266035 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266037 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266038 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266040 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus for motion compensation prediction: A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266041 - Adaptive motion estimation: Optimal error metric function for motion estimation is determined and used for video coding and/or video processing of images. To do so, an initial motion estimation using an initial error metric function can be performed. This can produce motion prediction errors. If the initial error metric function is not the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100266045 - Adaptive real-time video prediction mode method and computer-readable medium and processor for storage and execution thereof: A method of determining an adaptive early skip indication (ESI) threshold during block motion compensation encoding of digital video data is disclosed. The method includes setting an ESI threshold minimum value below which no degradation in the block motion compensation encoding occurs; setting an ESI threshold maximum value above which... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100266043 - Design of low power video compression chipset for protable application: A data reading method for motion estimation in a video processing chipset is provided. The video processing chipset is coupled to an external memory device, wherein a first frame is stored in the external memory device. In the data reading method, a second frame is first divided into M×N sub... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100266044 - Efficient data prediction and data reuse motion estimation engine for system-on-chip design: A data reading method for motion estimation in an embedded system is provided. The embedded system includes an external memory device and a video encoding device, wherein the external memory device stores a first frame, and the video encoding device has an internal memory. First, a second frame is divided... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100266042 - Method and an 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 included in an inter-view picture group, obtaining inter-view reference information of a non-inter-view picture group according to the identification information, obtaining a motion... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100266046 - Motion encoding and decoding: A method is provided for encoding a portion of a current image, including: an estimation of motion between the current image portion and a plurality of candidate image portions in order to form motion components, an evaluation of a performance criterion for each candidate image portion, and the selection of... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20100266008 - Computing even-sized discrete cosine transforms: In general, techniques are described for computing even-sized discrete cosine transforms (DCTs). For example, a coding device may implement these techniques. The coding device includes a DCT-II unit that first determines whether a DCT-II to perform is a multiple of two, and in response to determining that the DCT-II to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100266047 - Image coding apparatus and image coding method: An image coding apparatus includes a first coding unit that discretely selects quantization parameters of a first range to perform calculation of generated code amounts corresponding to the selected quantization parameters, a second coding unit that performs calculation of generated code amounts corresponding to quantization parameters of a second range,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20100266048 - Video encoding and decoding method and device, and video processing system: A video encoding and decoding method and device and a video processing system are provided. In the encoding method and device, ordinate and abscissa position information of each block in a searching area is established by selecting an appropriate origin of coordinates of the searching area; meanwhile, an offset of... Agent: Docket Clerk/htcl

20100266049 - Image decoding device: An image decoding apparatus pertaining to the present invention includes a plurality of decoders. The image decoding apparatus (i) divides image data to decode into a plurality of pieces of partial data, (ii) acquires attribute information pieces each affecting decoding processing time of a corresponding one of the plurality of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100266051 - Method for video enabled electronic commerce: A method is provided for conducting commerce over a network via vision-enabled content. First, content is encoded to convert it into vision-enabled content. Payment is received for vision-enabling the content. Also, a program to decode the vision-enabled content is provided. Finally, the vision-enabled content is sent to a user over... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20100266050 - Synchronizing video frames without hardware timestamps: A system and method for decoding multimedia video is described. Particularly, a system and method for determining the time of arrival of packets, without a hardware interface, is disclosed. As described herein, the time of arrival for each packet may be derived by extrapolating information from the arrival of a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100266052 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving enhanced media data in digital multimedia broadcasting system: A method and apparatus for processing enhanced media data in a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) system is provided. The apparatus for processing enhanced media data includes: a base layer processing unit configured to multiplex an elementary stream of a base layer and perform channel encoding for the multiplexed elementary stream... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100266053 - Wireless communication method, radio transmitter apparatus and radio receiver apparatus: A wireless communication method, a radio transmitter apparatus and a radio receiver apparatus wherein a signal sequence, which is used in a reception process using a first modulation scheme and can be generated from a signal sequence prepared for a reception process and used in a second modulation scheme, is... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100266057 - Group resource allocation techniques for ieee 802.16m: Group resource allocation techniques for IEEE 802.16m are generally presented. In this regard a method is introduced comprising generating a plurality of bitmaps to identify resource allocations and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) modes for a group of broadband wireless mobile stations, wherein each mobile station in the group is... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100266056 - Method and apparatus for scheduling multiple users in a multiple-input multiple-output system: A multi-user scheduling method and apparatus in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system are disclosed. The multi-user scheduling method includes calculating a valid channel norm based on statistical characteristics of a channel for every user terminal, selecting a user set that maximizes the sum of valid channel norms and that includes... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100266058 - Ofdm transmission apparatus, ofdm receiving apparatus and interleaving method: In order to provide a simpler interleaving operation of an OFDM operation than conventional techniques, an OFDM transmission apparatus which transmits transmission data after conducting OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) operation, includes an interleave portion which, in a step before a serial/parallel conversion for a carrier modulation, the transmission data... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100266054 - Quantization of channel state information in multiple antenna systems: The proposed algorithm is very flexible and can be used in a variety of system configurations, including varying number of receiver antennas and frequency selective channels. We implement the proposed algorithm on flat fading MIMO channels and show the influence of the feedback rate on system capacity. We demonstrate that,... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20100266055 - System and method for establishing a localized single frequency network: A method, wireless communication network, and transmitting device that detects that one or more carrier frequencies have crossed a threshold, selects one or more helping transmitting devices to transmit the detected carrier frequencies, transmits the data assigned to the detected carrier frequencies to the selected helping transmitting devices, wherein the... Agent: Viering, Jentschura & Partner

20100266059 - Radio communication apparatus capable of switching modulation schemes: A radio communication apparatus that is capable of switching modulation schemes. The radio communication apparatus includes a QPSK modulation signal generator, a QAM modulation signal generator, a transmission radio, and a common transmission power amplifier. The QPSK modulation signal generator modulates transmission data by a QPSK modulation scheme and outputs... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100266062 - Distributed maximal ratio combining receiver architecture: A wireless communication system in which each receiver is configured synchronize to a received waveform using only its local received signal without requiring any information about other receivers in the system. The local receiver is configured to remove frequency and/or phase error based on information encoded in the received waveform.... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP R2013

20100266061 - Method and device for pre-coding in multiple input multiple output system: A signal processing method in an MIMO multi-carrier system is disclosed comprising: receiving by a receiver signals of a plurality of sub-carriers transmitted from a transmitter; dividing the sub-carriers into a plurality of sub-carrier blocks according to the correlation between adjacent sub-carriers, each sub-carrier block containing K sub-carriers; selecting a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100266064 - Mimo wireless communication greenfield preamble formats: A method for multiple input multiple output wireless communication begins by determining protocols of wireless communication devices within a proximal region. The method continues by determining whether the protocols of the wireless communication devices within the proximal region are of a like protocol. The method continues by determining the number... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100266060 - Radio communication device and method for determining delay amount of cdd: A radio communication device capable of obtaining the frequency diversity effect when a CDD is used for the open-loop transmission. A CDD control information determination section (101) on the radio communication device determines the number of cyclic delay shift samples given to transmission data to be transmitted from each of... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100266063 - System, method and apparatus for mobile transmit diversity using symmetric phase difference: Communication is performed for a first communication device having a set of antenna elements. A quality-indication signal is received from a second communication device (e.g., a basestation). A complex weighting is calculated based on the quality-indication signal. A pre-transmission signal is modified based on the complex transmit diversity weighting to... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20100266065 - Radio communication system, reception device, and reception method: A reception device which receives a signal transmitted by a transmission device which changes at least one of a modulation scheme and a coding rate. The reception device includes an equalization unit which equalizes a received signal in frequency domain, a reliability calculation unit which calculates the reliability of a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100266066 - Power amplifier and radio wave transmitter having the same: A power amplifier (10) comprises: an A/D converter (11) for converting, to a time discrete signal, an envelope signal included in a high-frequency modulated signal and including only an amplitude modulated component of the high-frequency modulated signal; a switching amplifier (12) for amplifying the output signal of the A/D converter... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100266067 - Compensator unit and compensation method for i/q imbalance errors: A compensator unit compensates frequency-dependent imbalance between a sampled in-phase and a sampled quadrature phase signal. The compensator unit includes a delay channel (381) and a filter channel (382). The delay channel (381) delays an intermediate signal x(t), which is obtained by superposition of the sampled in-phase and quadrature phase... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266068 - Low-if terrestrial data receiver and related communication systems and methods: Low-IF terrestrial data receivers and related communication systems and methods are disclosed that provide efficient solutions for reception of data services in FM broadcast channels. In particular, systems and methods are provided for data service information modulated on a 67.65 kHz sub-carrier, for example, using QPSK modulation. Intermediate data service... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20100266069 - Iterative receiver and iterative decoder: An iterative receiver and an iterative decoder are provided. The iterative receiver includes: an external decoder to decode the detected received signal; an impurity adder to add an impurity to an output signal of the external decoder; an interleaver to perform interleaving between the internal detector and the external decoder;... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100266070 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device is provided, which comprises a first demodulation circuit, a second demodulation circuit, a first bias circuit, a second bias circuit, a comparator, an analog buffer circuit, and a pulse detection circuit. An input portion of the pulse detection circuit is electrically connected to an output portion of... Agent: Robinson Intellectual Property Law Office, P.C.

20100266073 - Accelerated turbo transceiver and method for mimo system: A reception apparatus including: a detection unit detecting extrinsic information based on a tentative symbol decision signal, a channel estimation signal, a noise variance estimation signal, and a received signal that are obtained from a previous iteration process; a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) aided channel decoding unit outputting an interleaved... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100266071 - Method and apparatus for generating soft bit values in reduced-state equalizers: A demodulator is provided that functions as a reduced-state equalizer and produces reliable soft bit values. According to an embodiment, soft bit values are generated for a sequence of transmitted symbols using a demodulator by updating an M-state trellis managed by the demodulator responsive to a transition from symbol time... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100266072 - Method and apparatus for receiving signal for mimo system: Provided is a method and apparatus for receiving a signal for a MIMO system. The receiving apparatus includes: a QR decomposer for calculating a unitary matrix Q, an upper triangle matrix R, and a vector size for a received signal; a multiple dimension detector for calculating a first LLR for... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20100266074 - Method for determining characteristics of signal and apparatus using the same: A method of determining characteristics of a signal and an apparatus using the method. The apparatus for determining characteristics of a signal includes: a level detector receiving sample values of a radio frequency (RF) signal and binary data obtained by binarizing the RF signal, generating selection signals based on the... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100266075 - Infrared signal decode circuit and infrared signal decode method: According to one embodiment, an infrared signal decode circuit includes: a comparator; a correlation signal generator generating a sum of a first detection signal and a second detection signal as a correlation signal, the first detection signal being obtained by performing an absolute value calculation on a first correlation signal,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20100266076 - Frequency offset acquisition method and apparatus thereof: A frequency offset acquisition method includes: receiving a specific sequence signal transmitted through a channel; shifting a frequency of the specific sequence signal at a plurality of different frequencies in frequency domain to thereby generate a plurality of shifted sequence signals respectively; and determining an estimated frequency offset value between... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100266077 - Methods and systems with simplified doppler spread classification: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure propose methods and systems for classifying the Doppler spread based on the output of the frequency-tracking loop (FTL) discriminator in WiMAX systems to improve the performance of the channel estimation. The Doppler spread may be classified as low, medium or high based on the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100266078 - Radio communication device, and reception quality estimation method: A radio base station 1100 comprises a frequency-domain/time-domain converter 1160 for converting transfer route estimation information again into a time domain signal series or a signal series in a time domain, and a time domain SNR estimator 1170 for calculating the signal power of a radio signal on the basis... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100266079 - Method and system for bit detection and synchronization: A bit synchronization method is proposed. The method includes buffering a plurality of samples from a signal stream, scanning the buffered samples for transitions and updating a zero-crossing histogram buffer upon detection of the transitions. The method further includes detecting at least two peaks simultaneously from the updated zero-crossing histogram... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20100266080 - Transmission device, receiving device and communication system: Provided are a transmission device, a receiving device, and a communication system having a simple configuration and capable of reliably executing the confirmation of a changed bit rate. The communication system 1 sends, to the receiving device 3, a serial data signal Sdata that is set as a constant value... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100266082 - Receiving apparatus and method with clock drift estimation and compensation: The present invention relates to a receiving apparatus 1 for receiving signals in a communication system, in which the signals are transmitted on the basis of frames, each frame comprising a data part comprising data blocks, wherein the data blocks are respectively separated by a guard sequence, said receiving apparatus... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100266081 - System and method for double rate clocking pulse generation with mistrack cancellation: A method for generating a dual rate clock circuit the method including coupling the output terminal of a first local clock buffer to the input of a second local clock buffer through at least one inverter circuit and driving the first local clock buffer with a base signal. The method... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP