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20120300810 - Chirp communications: A method of communicating a chirp signal from a transmitter suitable for receipt at a proximal receiver and a distal receiver, the chirp signal including a plurality of packets, each packet including at least one symbol, each symbol including one or more identical chirps, the method including: generating the chirp... Agent: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited

20120300811 - Zero delay frequency switching with dynamic frequency hopping for cognitive radio based dynamic spectrum access network systems: This invention relates to cognitive radio based wireless communications of dynamic spectrum access networks, and in particular to a method of addressing zero-delay frequency switching for cognitive dynamic frequency hopping. The method combines regular (periodic) channel maintenance with dynamic frequency hopping over a cluster of vacated channels that are initially... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20120300813 - Frequency hopping method for a radio device: A frequency hopping method for a radio device in which the signal to be transmitted is modulated onto an HF carrier and at least two of the following signal properties are varied in a pseudo-random manner during the transmission after one or more frequency hops: bandwidth, modulation type, and transmission... Agent: Eads Deutschland Gmbh

20120300812 - Paging channel prediction for bluetooth paging procedure: A Bluetooth paging procedure can implement a mechanism for predicting a Bluetooth paging channel in a paging channel hopping sequence. One or more Bluetooth paging channels, on which one or more page requests intended for a Bluetooth device were received, are determined from a plurality of Bluetooth communication channels. One... Agent: Atheros Communications, Inc.

20120300814 - Rf chirp signal propagation delay measurement: Distance between two radio frequency devices is estimated by receiving a plurality of spread spectrum chirp signals frequency offset from one another, and evaluating the received plurality of spread spectrum chirp signals for relative phase shifts between the plurality of spread spectrum chirp signals. A fine propagation time is derived... Agent: Digi International Inc.

20120300815 - Hybrid space system based on a constellation of low-orbit satellites working as space repeaters for improving the transmission and reception of geostationary signals: and one or more signal repetition element for the signals transmitted and/or received from the geostationary elements to the surface terminals these traveling repetition elements being on board satellites moving in a traveling orbit; the same frequency band is used for communications between the surface terminals and the traveling elements... Agent: Astrium Sas

20120300816 - Ofdm-based relay-assisted channel estimation method: An OFDM-based relay-assisted channel estimation method enables a composite channel (source-relay-destination) to be disintegrated into a source-to-relay channel and a relay-to-destination channel and separately estimated at the destination node in a relay-assisted way. A relay-amble signal is added to a sub-frame when the relay node is forwarding the amplified signals... Agent:

20120300818 - Self-calibration i/q imbalance reduction: A method for a self-calibrating reduction in inphase/quadrature imbalance is described. An inphase/quadrature amplitude imbalance is calculated. A correction to the inphase/quadrature amplitude imbalance is applied. An estimated inphase/quadrature phase imbalance is calculated. Calculating an estimated inphase/quadrature phase imbalance includes calculating a loopback phase. A correction to the estimated inphase/quadrature... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120300817 - Systems and methods for powering a network access device using customer premises equipment: A system in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure comprises an NAD positioned at an intermediate point between a network facility and one or more customer premises (CP). The NAD is coupled to CP transceivers located at the one or more customer premises via a plurality of... Agent:

20120300820 - High performance plc cluster system: A device comprises a power input for supplying an external AC power to the device via a power cord, a filter for filtering noise from the outside out of the supplied external AC power and for thereby generating a filtered AC power, at least one power socket for supplying the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120300819 - Selectively disabling or enabling multiple transmit channel mode operations for cable modems capable thereof: Methods and apparatuses for enabling or disabling MTC mode operations for a plurality of CPE devices in a MAC domain are provided. A system operator can control enabling MTC mode operations for certain CPE devices capable of MTC mode operations in a MAC domain by setting a control attribute in... Agent:

20120300821 - Adaptive channel tracking using peak fade depth estimation over a slot: Peak fade depth is measured (202) over a period of time, and a bandwidth of a channel filter (104) is then determined (206) according to the measured peak fade depth (202). In preferred embodiments the average peak fade depth over two or more time slots is used. In a specific... Agent: Harris Corporation

20120300823 - Method and apparatus for bandpass digital to analog converter: Systems and methods for providing a mechanism by which digital signals can be converted to analog signals with an efficient structure that reduces the number of filters required by providing a mechanism for cancelling images that would otherwise be generated By adjusting three parameters in the system, a selection can... Agent: Entropic Communications, Inc.

20120300822 - Methods and systems for distinguishing a signal of interest from interference signals: A method for distinguishing a signal of interest from one or more interference signals in a received analog signal comprises receiving an analog signal at a radio front end, and transmitting the received analog signal to an analog-to-digital converter to sample data in the received analog signal and output a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20120300824 - Peak power suppressing circuit and communication device having the same: The present invention relates to the peak power suppressing circuit 9 that performs a clipping process on an IQ baseband signal. The suppressing circuit 9 includes a power calculation section 13 that calculates an instantaneous power P of an IQ baseband signal, a pulse retention section 22 that retains a... Agent:

20120300825 - Signal generator, signal generating system, and signal generating method: To provide a signal generator, a signal generating system, and a signal generating method capable of repeatedly generating an arbitrary waveform and making the phases of the head and tail of the generated waveform continuous with each other, without changing the frequency of the waveform. A signal generator (10, 11,... Agent: Anritsu Corporation

20120300826 - Test apparatus and test method: A test apparatus that tests a device under test exchanging a data signal and a clock signal, the test apparatus comprising a test signal supplying section that supplies the device under test with a data signal and a clock signal, as a test signal; a data acquiring section that acquires... Agent: Advantest Corporation

20120300827 - Method and apparatus reporting channel quality indicator of communication system: The present invention provides a method and apparatus reporting a channel quality indicator of a communication system, including: detecting a first measurement reflecting a first communication quality of the communication system; providing a series of thresholds and mapping functions, each mapping functions in association with a bin defined by two... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20120300828 - Transmission system with isi channel and method of operating thereof: There is provided a transmission system and method of operating thereof. The method comprises: dividing a data sequence to be transmitted into a plurality of data blocks; encoding one or more data blocks with one or more linear systematic cyclic codes thus giving rise to encoded data blocks; transmitting said... Agent: Ramot At Tel Aviv University Ltd.

20120300829 - Adaptively switching equalization operations in a node of a wireless network: At a node of a wireless network, equalization operations performed on signals received from a transmitter are adaptively switched to be equalized by an iterative turbo receiver or a linear receiver. A theoretical expression of a post-equalization SINR of a capacity-achieving receiver is used to estimate the post-equalization SINR performance... Agent:

20120300830 - Equaliser for wireless receivers with normalised coefficients: A method, receiver and program for equalising a radio signal comprising a sequence of data samples multiplexed with a sequence of pilot samples. The method comprises; calculating equaliser coefficients by computing cross-correlations of the received signal and known pilot samples available at the receiver and auto-correlations of the received signal;... Agent: Icera Inc.

20120300831 - Methods for performing adaptive equalization and associated apparatus: A method for performing adaptive equalization includes: dynamically detecting current levels of a plurality of sets of pattern levels respectively corresponding to a plurality of data patterns, wherein each set of the sets of pattern levels includes a previous level, a current level, and a next level respectively corresponding to... Agent:

20120300832 - Apparatus and method for coding an information signal into a data stream, converting the data stream and decoding the data stream: More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated with a specific data packet type of a predetermined set of... Agent:

20120300833 - Apparatus and method for coding an information signal into a data stream, converting the data stream and decoding the data stream: More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated with a specific data packet type of a predetermined set of... Agent:

20120300834 - Method and system for efficient video transcoding using coding modes, motion vectors and residual information: An improved MPEG-4 to H.264 transcoding algorithm is provided, exploiting residual, coding mode and motion vector information from the MPEG-4 stream. The use of the relative sum of absolute residuals (RSAR) to classify macroblocks (MB) leads to small sets of coding modes (CM) to test, and significantly reduces the computational... Agent:

20120300835 - Pixel-by-pixel weighting for intra-frame coding: Techniques for improving the accuracy of prediction in intra-frame coding. A prediction mode can specify a pixel along a direction independently of other pixels along the same direction. In an embodiment, an encoder selects a prediction mode to best represent the image block. In an alternative embodiment, a decoder reconstructs... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120300836 - Video signal coding apparatus and video signal coding method: A video signal coding apparatus includes a coding unit which codes and re-codes a video signal and includes: a coding processing unit which codes, slice-by-slice, a current picture indicated by the video signal, to generate coded data; an integration unit which calculates a code-integrated value indicating a code amount of... Agent:

20120300839 - Acceleration of bypass binary symbol processing in video coding: A method for encoding a video sequence in a video encoder to generate a compressed video bit stream is provided that includes binarizing a plurality of syntax elements, wherein each binarized syntax element comprises a string of one or more binary symbols (bins), wherein a bin is one selected from... Agent:

20120300843 - Block-based interleaving: At least one implementation interleaves blocks from a stereo-image pair and enables intra-coding of the interleaved image using corresponding blocks as references. One particular implementation accesses a first image that includes multiple blocks, one of which is a first-image block. A second image is accessed that includes multiple blocks, one... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20120300842 - Decoding apparatus, decoding method, and program of same: An encoding apparatus for encoding progressive image data and interlace image data corresponding to this progressive image data, having a first encoding unit configured to encode picture data composing the interlace image data to generate first encoded data and decoding and recomposing the first encoded data to generate recomposed image... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120300840 - Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method, and image decoding method: A disparity vector detection unit retrieves a signal having a high correlation with an encoding target block and acquire the signal having the high correlation and a disparity vector which is a disparity in a screen of the encoding target block by using a local decoded image of a block... Agent: Jvc Kenwood Corporation

20120300838 - Low resolution intra prediction: A video decoder decodes video from a bit-stream including a low resolution predictor that predicts pixel values based upon both a low resolution reference image and an interpolated high resolution reference image at positions different from the low resolution reference image using low resolution motion data. A high resolution predictor... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20120300837 - Method and apparatus for using segmentation-based coding of prediction information: Disclosed herein is a method for encoding a video signal having at least one frame with a plurality of blocks. The method includes assigning at least some of the plurality of blocks to a segment, determining at least one prediction element for the segment using a processor, applying the at... Agent: Google Inc.

20120300841 - Multi-compatible low and high dynamic range and high bit-depth texture and video encoding system: A method of processing image data includes generating image data including luminance and chrominance data representing a selected object, separating the luminance and chrominance data, storing the separated luminance and chrominance data in corresponding separate spaces in memory, and separately compressing the stored luminance and chrominance data.... Agent:

20120300848 - Apparatus and method for generating an inter-prediction frame, and apparatus and method for interpolating a reference frame used therein: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for generating an inter-prediction frame, and an apparatus and a method for interpolating a reference frame used therein. The apparatus for interpolating the reference frame includes a directivity determiner for determining directivity of a quarter pixel located at the intersection of... Agent: Sk Telecom Co., Ltd.

20120300844 - Cascaded motion compensation: A video decoder decodes video from a bit-stream including a low resolution predictor that predicts pixel values based upon both a low resolution reference image and an interpolated high resolution reference image at positions different from the low resolution reference image using low resolution motion data. A high resolution predictor... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20120300849 - Encoder apparatus, decoder apparatus, and data structure: An encoding device of the present embodiment includes: an adaptive filter (100) configured to act on a reference image obtained by encoding and reconfiguring an input image; and a prediction image generating section (16a) for generating a first prediction image, the prediction image generating section (16a) generating a second filter... Agent:

20120300846 - Image coding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding method, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus: An image coding method bitstream includes: determining a maximum number of a merging candidate which is a combination of a prediction direction, a motion vector, and a reference picture index for use in coding of a current block; deriving a first merging candidate; determining whether or not a total number... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120300850 - Image encoding/decoding apparatus and method: Motion vector for input coding unit is generated, motion compensation is performed on the basis of generated motion vector to generate prediction signal, weight parameter is generated on prediction unit basis, weight parameter is applied to the prediction signal to generate prediction macro block, and residue value is generated on... Agent:

20120300847 - Method and apparatus for multiple description video coding: A method and apparatus for utilizing temporal prediction and motion compensated prediction to accomplish multiple description video coding is disclosed. An encoder receives a sequence of video frames and divides each frame into non-overlapping macroblocks. Each macroblock is then encoded using either an intraframe mode (I-mode) or a prediction mode... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p. (formerly Known As At&t Corp)

20120300845 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for image motion prediction: A video processing system, method and computer program storage device cooperate to provide a resource and performance efficient sub-pixel motion search operation. Using on the fly calculations it is possible to provide approximations of sub-pixel positions on one image with respect to another image in an image sequence. A sub-pixel... Agent: Tandberg Telecom As

20120300851 - Apparatus and method for coding an information signal into a data stream, converting the data stream and decoding the data stream: More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated with a specific data packet type of a predetermined set of... Agent:

20120300852 - Apparatus and method for coding an information signal into a data stream, converting the data stream and decoding the data stream: More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated with a specific data packet type of a predetermined set of... Agent:

20120300853 - Apparatus and method for coding an information signal into a data stream, converting the data stream and decoding the data stream: More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated with a specific data packet type of a predetermined set of... Agent:

20120300855 - Apparatus and method for coding an information signal into a data stream, converting the data stream and decoding the data stream: More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated with a specific data packet type of a predetermined set of... Agent:

20120300856 - Apparatus and method for coding an information signal into a data stream, converting the data stream and decoding the data stream: More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated with a specific data packet type of a predetermined set of... Agent:

20120300857 - Shared memory multi video channel display apparatus and methods: The invention includes a system and the associated method for decoding multiple video signals. The video signals may be component video, composite video or s-video signals each having multiple portions using a multimode video decoder. A selection stage may combine the multiple video signals and select some of their video... Agent:

20120300854 - Utilizing multi-dimensional resource allocation metrics for concurrent decoding of time-sensitive and non-time-sensitive content: A video reception device, comprising a single video decoder, may dynamically allocate media-processing resources based on QoS parameters associated with the received time-sensitive and non-time-sensitive video streams. The single video decoder is utilized to decode the content of the received time-sensitive and non-time-sensitive video streams for display. The QoS parameters... Agent:

20120300858 - Method and apparatus of switched amplification having improved efficiency: A signal coding technique for switching amplifiers includes quantizing the amplitude A(t) of an input signal to produce a time series Â(t) having M levels; modulating a clock signal in response to Â(t), thereby to produce a control signal; switching among at least three different power supply output levels in... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20120300859 - Precision timing in a data over cable service interface specification (docsis) system: An accurate non-Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (non-DOCSIS) clock signal is generated at the downstream output of a DOCSIS network. In one example method, a downstream DOCSIS Timing Protocol (DTP) client in the DOCSIS network is frequency synchronized to an upstream DTP server in the DOCSIS network. DOCSIS timing... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20120300860 - Transmission device, reception device, and communication system: Provided is a transmission device including a terminal connected electrically to a terminal of another device, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information through the terminal by performing load modulation according to contact between the terminal and the terminal of the other device.... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120300861 - Forward error correction (fec) m-bit symbol modulation: Forward error correction (FEC) m-bit symbol modulation. Any desired FEC, error correction code (ECC), and/or combination thereof generates coded bits for combination with either uncoded bits, separately generated coded bits, and/or combination thereof to generate a number of symbols that undergo mapping to a constellation whose respective constellation points have... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120300862 - Method and device for mono- and multi-antenna reception for alamouti-type links: Method and system for separating a plurality of users in a communication system including two transmitter antennas and N receiver antennas, said signals transmitted by said users containing symbols an, x( ) corresponding to the vector of the envelopes of the output signals of the 1 to N receiver antennas... Agent: Thales

20120300863 - Transmission device, reception device, communication system, and communication method: High transmission efficiency is realized by allowing extension to a number of ports greater than the conventional number of ports through efficient signaling. In a communication system, the highest number of ranks that is the number of spatial multiplex of transmission data transmitted to a terminal device from a base... Agent:

20120300865 - Channel estimate interpolation circuit and method: To more accurately generate a virtual waveform of channel estimate values outside a bandwidth upon their interpolation in OFDM system while preventing the circuit size from increasing, a converter (104) performs a linear interpolation between channel estimate values corresponding to reference signals arranged at both ends of a predetermined bandwidth... Agent: Nec Corporation

20120300864 - Channel estimation based on combined calibration coefficients: Calibration coefficients are combined to provide more robust calibration. In some implementations, calibration coefficients are generated by acquiring two or more sets of calibration coefficients that are associated with different periods of time, different receive devices, or some other condition. These different sets of calibration coefficients are then combined using... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120300866 - Simultaneous transmission of signals, such as orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexed (ofdm) signals, that include a same frequency: An embodiment of a transmitter includes detection, generating, and transmission stages. The detection stage is configured to detect a first signal having a first component that includes a frequency, and the generating stage is configured to generate a data component that includes approximately the frequency in response to the detection... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte, Ltd.

20120300868 - Method and system for mimo channel information feedback: The present invention discloses a method for Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) channel information feedback, and the method includes: a terminal selecting part of column vectors for MIMO system feedback from a codebook matrix W corresponding to a Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) and marking the selected part of column vectors... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120300867 - Model-based channel estimator for correlated fading channels and channel estimation method thereof: A model-based channel estimator for correlated fading channels adapted to a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, estimates a coefficient vector of a channel matrix for a given angle of departure (AoD) according to a plurality of received signals, a plurality of transmit pilots, a plurality of known model orders, and a... Agent:

20120300869 - Automatic frequency control circuit: The present invention realizes low power consumption at the time of an automatic frequency control circuit operation. An automatic frequency control circuit includes a mixing unit that generates a modulated signal from a reception signal according to a frequency of a local signal, a demodulation unit that demodulates the modulated... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20120300875 - Apparatus for and method of transmitting high efficiency variable power: An apparatus for transmitting a high efficiency variable power includes a pulse generating unit configured to generate a pulse signal comprising a pulse having a duration corresponding to an amount of power transmitted; a pulse stream generating unit configured to convert the pulse signal to a pulse stream having pulse... Agent: Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd.,

20120300873 - Forward error correction with extended effective block size: In an aspect, in general, a forward error correction algorithm (FEC) utilizes an FEC block structure in a manner that extends the effective error correction such that it can approach an “infinite” length to obtain benefits typical of very large FEC block size without the commensurate computation cost.... Agent: Pmc-sierra, Inc.

20120300872 - In-band data communication system using wireless power: Provided is data transmission and reception that transmits and receives data using a wireless power between wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver. An in-band data communication apparatus using a wireless power may include a modulating unit configured to modulate data by mixing a predetermined signal and pulse signal-type... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120300870 - Radio transmitter system and method: A radio transmitter system responsive to a binary signal drives a narrow bandwidth VLF or LF antenna. A generator derives a first variable frequency wave frequency coded based on bit values of a binary signal. An arbitrary impulse response signal processor responsive to the first wave derives a first output... Agent: Continental Electronics Corp.

20120300874 - Sounding packet format for long range wlan: In a method for generating a null data packet (NDP) sounding packet for transmission via a communication channel, a signal field and one or more long training fields are generated. The signal field and the long training fields are modulated using a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.... Agent:

20120300871 - Wireless device with extendable antenna: A wireless device has receiver circuits and/or transmitter circuits supporting at least two simultaneous independent transmit paths in the same frequency band, and a multiport antenna with N ports, for the available receiver or transmitter circuits. The multiport antenna has a compact mechanical state and an extended mechanical state, and... Agent:

20120300878 - Dynamic digital pre-distortion system: A Dynamic Digital Pre-Distortion (DDPD) system is disclosed to rapidly correct power amplifier (PA) non-linearity and memory effects. To perform pre-distortion, a DDPD engine predistorts an input signal in order to cancel PA nonlinearities as the signal is amplified by the PA. The DDPD engine is implemented as a composite... Agent: Microelectronics Technology, Inc.

20120300877 - Precoding method, transmitting device, and receiving device: A transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a... Agent:

20120300876 - Quadrature modulator, signal generating device, and quadrature modulation method: To provide a quadrature modulator, a signal generating device, and a quadrature modulation method capable of correcting a gain balance error, a zero offset error, and an orthogonality error that occur during quadrature modulation. The quadrature modulator 20 includes a quadrature modulation unit 22, a quadrature modulation error calculating unit... Agent: Anritsu Corporation

20120300879 - High bandwidth modulation and transmission: This disclosure relates systems and methods for a high bandwidth modulation and transmission of communication signals.... Agent:

20120300880 - Method and system for receiving radio stations: A system for receiving radio stations includes: at least one A/D converter in order to digitize the entire desired frequency band, for instance, an FM band, received via at least one antenna, and a demodulation unit for demodulating at least two signals of different transmitting frequencies of a radio station.... Agent:

20120300881 - Receiving apparatus: A receiving apparatus includes a correlation operation unit and a determination unit. The correlation operation unit is configured to perform a correlation operation with a known signal on a received signal including the known signal in a predetermined interval. The determination unit is configured to determine whether or not a... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120300883 - Demodulation circuit, demodulation method and receiving apparatus: A demodulation circuit includes a hard decision process unit and a soft decision process unit. The hard decision process unit is configured to perform a hard decision process using a demodulated signal, and the demodulated signal is a demodulated received signal. The soft decision process unit is configured to determine... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120300884 - Method and device for channel estimation in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: The present invention discloses a channel estimation method and device in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system. The method includes steps of: A. grouping physical resource blocks in the bandwidth of the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system; B. extracting at least one group from groups for channel estimation to acquire... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120300882 - Synchronization circuit and synchronization method: A synchronization circuit that synchronizes received data, includes: a determiner for determining whether or not data with a phase of a internal clock can be stably captured by the synchronization circuit, when the synchronization circuit accepts the data received from another device connected to the synchronization circuit with the phase... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120300886 - Methods for early termination of reception of a bit stream: A method of receiving a bitstream. The method includes receiving a sequence of bits of a bitstream, assigning a confidence level to each bit in the sequence of bits, maintaining a running confidence level of the sequence of bits as the bits are received, comparing the running confidence level to... Agent:

20120300885 - System and/or method for reducing ambiguities in received sps signals: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for resolving ambiguities associated with signals received from space vehicles (SVs) in a satellite navigation system.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120300887 - Harmonic reject receiver architecture and mixer: Receiver architectures and methods of processing harmonic rich input signals employing harmonic suppression mixers are disclosed herein. The disclosed receivers, mixers, and methods enable a receiver to achieve the advantages of switching mixers while greatly reducing the mixer response to the undesired harmonics. A harmonic mixer can include a plurality... Agent: Maxlinear, Inc.

20120300888 - Virtual weaver architecture filter: A virtual Weaver architecture filter is implemented using a sampling mixer that successively processes samples of the input signal in round-robin fashion and provides a sum of the samples as multiplied by coefficients emulating quadrature sinusoidal waveforms. A virtual rather than actual local oscillator is reliably implemented without mismatch. Filtering... Agent: Ess Technology, Inc

20120300889 - Method and a device for controlling frequency synchronization: A device for controlling frequency synchronization includes a processor for controlling a frequency-controlled clock signal on the basis of received timing messages so as to achieve frequency-locking between the frequency-controlled clock signal and a reference clock signal. For the purpose of finding such timing messages which have experienced similar transfer... Agent: Tellabs Oy

20120294333 - Cognitive radio sensing method and system: The cognitive radio system and method uses a wideband chirp signal. A cognitive radio base station broadcasts the low power reference wideband chirp signal with bandwidth covering the sensed spectrum. At the receiver, a Fast Fourier Transform is applied to the output of a chirp signal matched filter. The filter... Agent: King Abdulaziz University

20120294334 - Ultra-wide band communication apparatus and method: The present invention provides an ultra-wide band (UWB) system and method. In one embodiment, a transmitter of a low duty cycled ultra wide band (UWB) system includes a differential spreading encoder for encoding a phase of a bit sequence based on a reference bit sequence. The transmitter also includes a... Agent:

20120294335 - Method and system for inter-pcb communication utilizing a spatial multi-link repeater: Aspects of a method and system for inter-PCB communication utilizing a spatial multi-link repeater are provided. In this regard, a signal may be transmitted between printed circuit boards via one or more repeaters, wherein the repeaters may frequency shift received signals to generate repeated signals. Each of the repeated signals... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120294336 - Fractional frequency division or multiplication using an oversampled phase rotator: Circuits and systems for generating multiple frequencies are disclosed. In some embodiments, a circuit can include a first node, a second node, and a programmable phase rotator. The first node can receive a first signal having frequency f1, and the second node can output a second signal having frequency f2... Agent: Synopsys, Inc.

20120294338 - Phase-arrayed transceiver: A phased-array transceiver includes: a plurality of antennas; a plurality of transceiving elements respectively coupled to the plurality of antennas, at least one of the transceiving elements comprising a first transmitting circuit and a first receiving circuit; a signal processing block; and a first distributed network, coupled between the signal... Agent:

20120294339 - Rfid system with rf bus: A radio frequency identification (RF) system includes an RF reader, an RF tag, and a network connection module. The RF reader includes a reader radio frequency (RF) bus transceiver. The network connection module includes a network connection RF bus transceiver, wherein the reader RF bus transceiver exchanges at least one... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120294337 - Self-correlation receiver and transceiver including the same: Disclosed is a self-correlation receiver of a transceiver in which a transmitter shares an antenna with a receiver. The self-correlation receiver includes: a clamper which receives a received signal, limits the magnitude of the received signal within a predetermined range and outputs a clamping signal; and a mixer which receives... Agent:

20120294340 - Wireless communication system using surface acoustic wave (saw) second harmonic techniques: A system is for encoding information on a passive surface acoustic wave (SAW) device. The system includes a requesting unit configured to wirelessly transmit an impulse signal. The impulse signal is a signal that includes only a single pulse. A SAW device has an interdigital transducer (IDT) configured to physically... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120294341 - Hybrid circuit for very-high-speed digital subscriber line: A hybrid circuit for a Very-High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) blocks noise and includes a transceiving unit, a voltage transformation module, a direct current (DC) blocking capacitor, a receiving unit, and a transmitting unit. The voltage transformation module blocks noise generated as a result of transmission of an upstream signal... Agent: Askey Computer Corp.

20120294342 - Power line communication modem, power line communication system, power line communication method: A power line communication modem is provided, including a connection element configured to connect the power line communication modem to at least three wires of a power line network; a transmitter configured to transmit a first signal via a first combination of at least two wires of the at least... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120294344 - Apparatus and method for controlling communication: Apparatus and method for communication are provided. The solution comprises communicating on a synchronised shared channel having a frame structure comprising symbols; receiving from a network element a given number for each frame or sub frame, and during the given number of symbol periods in the beginning of a frame... Agent: Renesas Mobile Corporation

20120294347 - Communication unit with analog test unit: Various devices and techniques for testing an analog portion of communication devices are disclosed. Such devices may include a communication unit and an analog test unit. The analog test unit may be configured to test analog portions of the communication unit and communicate information regarding testing to an external test... Agent: Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.

20120294345 - High peak to average power ratio (papr) mitigation in high speed data networks using symbol mapping adjustment: Embodiments provide techniques for high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) event mitigation in high speed data networks, such as cable networks, for example. Embodiments are applicable to multi-carrier and single-carrier modulation systems. Embodiments operate by predicting or detecting the occurrence of a peaking event at the transmitter, and then... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120294346 - High peak to average power ratio (papr) mitigation in high speed data networks using symbol mapping adjustment: Embodiments provide techniques for high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) event mitigation in high speed data networks, such as cable networks, for example. Embodiments are applicable to multi-carrier and single-carrier modulation systems. Embodiments operate by predicting or detecting the occurrence of a peaking event at the transmitter, and then... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120294348 - Method and device for data processing in a digital subscriber line environment: A method and a device for data processing in a digital subscriber line environment. A virtual noise level for a digital subscriber line is determined based on measurement information of at least one network element connected to the digital subscriber line.... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20120294343 - Rf i/q modulator with sampling calibration system: A vector RF modulation system includes a sampling receiver that monitors modulator RF output and provides IF signals for a processor that calculates modulator calibration parameters.... Agent: Phase Matrix, Inc.

20120294349 - Interference-weighted communication signal processing systems and methods: A level of interference affecting signal components of received communication signals is estimated and used to weight the signal components. The signal components in a each of a number of groups of signal components are weighted based on respective interference estimates to thereby adjust signal components for coloured interference, which... Agent:

20120294350 - Signal processing in wireless communication receivers: A method, receiver and program for equalising digital samples of a radio signal received over a wireless communications channel. The method comprises: receiving digital samples of the radio signal; calculating equaliser coefficients in the frequency domain; transforming the equaliser coefficients from the frequency domain to the time domain; and equalising... Agent: Icera Inc.

20120294351 - Equalizer and communication system: An equalizer for compensating an input signal in a receiver of a communication system is disclosed. The equalizer includes a first transistor, having a gate for receiving a positive input voltage of the input signal; a second transistor, having a gate for receiving a negative input voltage of the input... Agent:

20120294352 - Multimedia transcoding method and system for mobile devices: Aspects of the present invention include method and systems or processing multimedia data exchanged between mobile devices. Initially, a transmitting mobile device attempts to send multimedia data formatted in a primary format even though a receiving mobile device cannot process the data. The multimedia data in the primary format is... Agent:

20120294353 - Apparatus and method of sample adaptive offset for luma and chroma components: A method and apparatus for processing reconstructed video using in-loop filter in a video coding system are disclosed. The method uses chroma in-loop filter indication to indicate whether chroma components are processed by in-loop filter when the luma in-loop filter indication indicates that in-loop filter processing is applied to the... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20120294354 - Coding device and method, decoding device and method, recording medium, and program: An encoding apparatus and an encoding method, a decoding apparatus and a decoding method, a recording medium, and a program suitable for encoding image signals with a higher compression ratio for transmission or accumulation. In an arithmetic coding section, from among the syntax elements of input image compression information, the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120294356 - Quantization control for variable bit depth: The quantization parameter QP is well-known in digital video compression as an indication of picture quality. Digital symbols representing a moving image are quantized with a quantizing step that is a function QSN of the quantization parameter QP, which function QSN has been normalized to the most significant bit of... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20120294355 - Video transcoding with dynamically modifiable spatial resolution: An apparatus and method are disclosed for transcoding a compressed video stream. In one embodiment, a compressed video stream is decoded. A spatial resolution of the decoded video stream can then be dynamically modified. The video stream with the modified spatial resolution can be re-encoded and transmitted over a network... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120294358 - Image processing device and method: An image processing device and method, enabling improvement in encoding efficiency. A plane approximation unit uses each of pixels values themselves of a block to be processed to obtain each of the parameters of a function representing a plane approximating the pixel values. A plane generating unit obtains pixel values... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120294357 - Methods, apparatuses and computer programs for video coding: There is disclosed apparatuses, methods and computer programs for video coding. The filtering process to be applied to intra predicted sample values is selected and adapted based on the characteristics of the sample prediction process. According to some embodiments an angularity information and pixel values for filtering by a filter... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120294359 - Region-based processing of predicted pixels: A method for decoding a compressed video data sequence containing one or more coded pixel blocks. The compressed video sequence is buffered. Prediction information for each of the coded pixel blocks is reviewed. One or more groups of coded pixel blocks are formed based on the reviewed prediction information such... Agent: Apple Inc.

20120294360 - Channel switch frame: Methods and apparatus to process multimedia data enabling faster channel acquisitions, improved error recovery and improved efficiency. An encoder device encodes a first portion of multimedia data using inter-coding to generate a first version, and encodes the first portion of multimedia data using intra-coding to generate a second version. A... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120294361 - Image coding apparatus: An image coding technique for suppressing degradation in image quality, in which the time and space where intra macroblocks appear are dispersed. A block count determination part determines the number of intra macroblocks to be allocated in each frame. A position determination part arranges the intra macroblocks at random positions... Agent: Megachips Corporation

20120294362 - Method and device for processing a video sequence: The present invention relates inter alia to a method for processing an encoded video sequence, said method comprising the steps of: —reconstructing the encoded video sequence and providing a plurality of neighboring pictures; —transforming each of said neighboring pictures or at least a coherent region of each neighboring picture into... Agent: Vestel Elektronik Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.s.

20120294363 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding images using a motion vector of a previous block as a motion vector for the current block: An encoding method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus for determining a motion vector of a current block based on a motion vector of at least one previously-encoded or previously-decoded block are provided. The decoding method includes: decoding information regarding a prediction direction from among a first direction,... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120294365 - Image and video encoding and decoding: A method and system for image and video encoding and decoding is disclosed. A plurality of macro-blocks of pixels are defined in the image to be encoded, for subsequent block-by-block encoding and decoding. A node-cell structure of pixels is individually defined for each macro-block. The node pixels are encoded first.... Agent:

20120294368 - Image processing apparatus and method as well as program: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method and a program which can reduce the bit amount included in a stream and a used region of a memory. In an image encoding apparatus 51, when an object slice is a B slice, the tap number of a... Agent: Sony Corpporation

20120294367 - Method and apparatus for low complexity video encoding and decoding: This disclosure describes unique video encoding and decoding processes compliant to one or more specific coding standards, such as the H.264/AVC standard, without sacrificing coding efficiency. A higher resolution input image is divided into a corresponding set of lower resolution sub-sampled images. The first image of each set is coded... Agent: Streaming Networks Pvt. Ltd.

20120294369 - Methods and apparatus for sampling-based super resolution video encoding and decoding: Methods and apparatus are provided for sampling-based super resolution video encoding and decoding. The encoding method receives high resolution pictures and generates low resolution pictures and metadata there from, the metadata for guiding post-decoding post-processing of the low resolution pictures and the metadata; and then encodes the low resolution pictures... Agent: Thomson Licensing A Corporation

20120294371 - Motion vector predictive encoding method, motion vector predictive decoding method, moving picture encoding apparatus, moving picture decoding apparatus, and programs thereof: In motion vector prediction encoding, the efficiency of motion vector prediction is improved and the efficiency of moving picture encoding is improved. A motion search is performed for a block to be encoded in a picture to be encoded using an encoded reference picture to calculate a motion vector. A... Agent: Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation

20120294372 - Motion vector predictive encoding method, motion vector predictive decoding method, moving picture encoding apparatus, moving picture decoding apparatus, and programs thereof: In motion vector prediction encoding, the efficiency of motion vector prediction is improved and the efficiency of moving picture encoding is improved. A motion search is performed for a block to be encoded in a picture to be encoded using an encoded reference picture to calculate a motion vector. A... Agent: Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation

20120294364 - Non-subsampled encoding techniques: Techniques for non-subsampled video encoding of R′G′B′ data using Y′, Cb and Cr data to generate compressed data wherein the Y′-plane comprises three separate color frames that are not interleaved, and recovering the data therefrom.... Agent: Nvidia Corporation

20120294370 - System and method for low complexity motion vector derivation: A system and method for performing candidate-based decoder-side motion vector determination (DMVD). Candidate motion vectors (MVs) may be rounded to the nearest whole or integer pixel. The rounded candidate MV having the best sum of absolute differences (SAD) may be identified. This may be used as the final MV. Alternatively,... Agent:

20120294366 - Video pre-encoding analyzing method for multiple bit rate encoding system: A method for encoding video for communication over a network includes receiving, at a first video encoder, video data that defines frames, generating; by the first video encoder, motion vectors that characterize motion between frames of the video data; and communicating, by the first video encoder, the video data and... Agent:

20120294373 - Moving image encoding method, moving image decoding method, moving image encoding device, and moving image decoding device: The moving image encoding method includes encoding macro-blocks included in a landscape picture frame of a moving image having a larger horizontal width in a horizontal direction than a vertical width in a vertical direction by an encoding device. In macro-block encoding, information of the encoded macro-blocks surrounding a macro-block... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20120294374 - Conditional replenishment for three-dimensional images with block-based spatial thresholding: A decoding architecture for decoding a multi-dimensional image for display in a light field display is provided. The multi-dimensional image is compressed in a plurality of blocks, with each block storing compressed light field data and a displacement range. A spatial thresholding module compares the displacement range in each block... Agent:

20120294375 - Digital broadcasting receiver: A digital signal of a broadcast program received in an antenna is demodulated by a tuner unit, a Demux unit demultiplexes the digital signal into a video digital signal and an audio digital signal, a video decoding unit decodes the video digital signal, and a video output unit outputs video... Agent: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.

20120294376 - Image decoding device and image encoding device, methods therefor, programs thereof, integrated circuit, and transcoding device: An image decoding device which increases decoding efficiency and can be easily implemented includes: a division unit dividing coded image data into first and second coded image data; a frame storage unit; first and second decoding units decoding, in parallel, the first and second coded image data; and an information... Agent:

20120294377 - Beacon selection in communication networks: Systems and methods for beacon selection in communication networks are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include performing, using a terminal device deployed in a communications network, receiving a beacon transmitted by a switch device... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120294379 - Adjustable transmitter power for high speed links with constant bit error rate: A method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting power of a transmitter is herein described. A transmitter transmits a pattern to a receiver at a differential voltage. The length of the pattern, in one embodiment, is selected to be a reasonable length training pattern, as not to incur an extremely long... Agent:

20120294378 - System and method for multi-power signaling device: There is provided a system and method for operating multi-power signaling device. There is provided a system comprising a memory, a transmitter, and a processor. The processor chooses a power level from a plurality of transmit power levels to be used as the strength for broadcasting the next signal to... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc.

20120294380 - Method for selecting user: Disclosed herein is a method for selecting a user. A method for selecting a user in a communication system including a base station having M antennas and K users having one receive antenna includes: (a) calculating channel orthogonality between each of the possible users and previously selected users; and (b)... Agent:

20120294381 - Multi-user multiple input multiple output wireless communications: A method implemented in a user equipment used in a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) wireless communications system is disclosed. The method includes receiving from a base station an indication of a first modulation type for the user equipment, receiving a first data signal for the user equipment, receiving... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20120294383 - Antenna selection for mimo decoding: A MIMO decoder is configured to obtain a channel matrix and generate a Hermitian transpose of the channel matrix. A product of the Hermitian transpose of the channel matrix and the channel matrix is generated to provide a first product having multiple diagonal elements. A partial matrix inversion of the... Agent:

20120294382 - Method and device for generating precoding matrix codebook: Generating precoding matrix codebooks for a communication system that includes: determining at least one correlation antenna group formed by antenna units with correlation of predefined degree among multiple antenna units in the communication system (S110); selecting at least one correlation antenna group from the determined correlation antenna groups, and processing... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120294384 - Cyclical obstruction communication system: Techniques for improving data rates at mobile terminals that are subject to periodic channel interruptions in a beyond-line-of-sight communication system are disclosed, including improved encoding and decoding systems that identify blockages and modify receiver operation during blockages to reduce data errors. In certain embodiments, encoding, symbol mapping, interleaving, and use... Agent: Viasat, Inc.

20120294387 - Extended bandwidth digital doherty transmitter: An extended bandwidth digital Doherty transmitter includes a baseband signal processing block including a digital predistortion unit. It also includes a digital signal distribution unit and a digital phase alignment unit, a signal up-conversion block, an RF power amplification block including the carrier amplifier and one or two peaking amplifiers;... Agent:

20120294385 - Interference alignment for channel-adaptive waveform modulation: Embodiments provide an apparatus and method for interference alignment for channel-adaptive waveform modulation. The method includes obtaining at least a part of a first matrix and a part of a second matrix for the impulse response function of a communication channel. The method further includes designing a set of one... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20120294386 - Pulse harmonic modulation systems and methods: The various embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to pulse harmonic modulation systems and methods. An embodiment of the present invention provides a pulse harmonic modulation method comprising transmitting a first data initiation pulse to an input of a first resonant circuit thereby creating an oscillating waveform at an... Agent:

20120294388 - Vector modulator: Disclosed is a vector modulator. The vector modulator can control the amplitude and phase of an input signal, by not using amplitude variable attenuators but using phase shifters. Further, the vector modulator has a simple configuration and enables an input signal to be exactly modulated. Furthermore, the vector modulator can... Agent: Ls Industrial Systems Co., Ltd.

20120294389 - Clock recovery apparatus and method thereof: A method of recovering a clock signal from a digital signal in a receiver includes generating a representation of an eye diagram from symbols of the digital signal, in which the symbols are sampled at a sample rate such that the representation of the eye diagram is generated by a... Agent: Thales Holdings Uk PLC

20120294391 - Control signal receiver and communication device having the same: A control signal receiver includes a converting circuit and a synchronization detection circuit. The converting circuit generates a complex control symbol stream including transmission configurations by converting an input signal. The synchronization detection circuit generates a first bit stream by applying a first determination criterion to the complex control symbol... Agent:

20120294390 - Method of selecting metrics and receiver using the same: A method and apparatus of selecting N metrics among M metrics is provided. The apparatus determines M metrics P(i), where i=1, . . . , M. Each P(i) is represented by B bits. The apparatus determines N metrics among M metrics. The complexity for configuring the circuit is decreased, and... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120294394 - Delay detector circuit and receiver apparatus: The present invention provides a delay detector circuit that delivers performance at low cost and can reduce power consumption, and a receiver apparatus that uses this delay detector circuit. The delay detector circuit according to the present invention performs a part of decoding processing for decoding data transmitted by a... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120294393 - Method for post detection improvement in mimo: A two-stage approach to MIMO detection improves receiver performance in a computationally tractable manner. A whitening joint detector processes a MIMO symbol stream. The whitening joint detector includes a pre-filter operative to suppress a first subset of the received MIMO streams as colored noise. The whitening joint detector further includes... Agent:

20120294392 - Short guard interval with green field preamble: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a single stream wireless communication with a greenfield preamble that uses a short guard interval are described. According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signal. The OFDM signal includes a greenfield... Agent:

20120294395 - Cancelling interference by determining modulation and coding information embedded in a received spatial stream: Data-directed interference cancellation involves detecting the modulation and coding embedded in an interfering spatial stream and using the detected modulation and coding for interference cancellation in conjunction with decoding another spatial stream. In an 802.11ac-based system, the modulation and coding scheme of a spatial stream is specified by a SIGB... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120294397 - Delay detector circuit and receiver apparatus: The present invention provides a delay detector circuit that delivers performance at low cost and can reduce power consumption, and a receiver apparatus that uses this delay detector circuit. The delay detector circuit according to the present invention performs a part of the decoding processing for decoding data transmitted by... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120294396 - Direct detection of wireless interferers in a communication device for multiple modulation types: Direct detection of wireless interferers in a communication device for multiple modulation types. One or more radios implemented within a communication device is/are operative to receive and process wireless communications. A wireless communication signal is processed to extract symbols there from. Various symbols groups are processed in accordance with correlation... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120294398 - Adaptive rf saturation detection in a wireless device implementing multiple wireless protocols: System and method for detecting radio frequency (RF) saturation in a wireless device configured to simultaneously receive first signals according to a first wireless protocol and second signals according to a second wireless protocol. Signals having components of both the first and second signals may be received at a shared... Agent:

20120294399 - Low-complexity diversity reception: A system may comprise a plurality of signal processing paths, a bin-wise combiner, an inverse transformation block, and a DAC. Each signal processing path may comprise a transformation block that is operable to transform a first time-domain digital signal to an associated frequency-domain signal having a plurality of subband signals.... Agent:

20120294400 - Method and system for multi-point signal generation with phase synchronized local carriers: A method and system of applying modulated carrier signals to tree networks and processing signals tapped from the tree networks to generate output signals with phase-synchronized carriers are disclosed.... Agent: Blue Danube Labs, Inc.

20120294401 - Method of calibrating signal skews in mipi and related transmission system: In calibration mode, a clock signal and a data signal are respectively transmitted via a clock lane and a data lane of an MIPI. A test clock signal is provided by adjusting the phase of the clock signal, and a test data signal is provided by adjusting the phase of... Agent:

20120294402 - Method and apparatus for implementing pulse synchronization: The present invention relates to the communication field and discloses a method and an apparatus for implementing pulse synchronization, so that the control on a single-chip multi-channel device can be simplified. A method for implementing pulse synchronization includes: when a cycle count value corresponding to a reference symbol port of... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120287964 - Method of providing a radar high range resolution profile: A method (10) of providing a radar high range resolution (HRR) profile of a target comprises: generating and transmitting a stepped-frequency waveform radar signal (12); sampling echo signals to generate at least one receiver sample for each frequency step (14); generating a Fourier transform (FT) of each receiver sample to... Agent: Bae Systems PLC

20120287965 - System and method for uplink multiple input multiple output transmission: Methods and apparatuses are provided for uplink MIMO transmissions in a wireless communication system. In particular, a primary stream (610) may be utilized to carry a primary data channel E-DPDCH (624), and a secondary stream (612) may be utilized to carry a secondary data channel S-E-DPDCH (620). Further, the primary... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120287966 - Code generating apparatus, reference signal generating apparatus, and methods thereof: A demodulation reference signal generator includes a non-correlation sequence generator to generate a non-correlation sequence for RS of a first resource block; a first spectrum spreading unit to spread spectrums of elements in the non-correlation sequence for RS to be mapped to a first frequency resource of the first resource... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120287967 - Pll circuit, communication device, and loopback test method of communication device: A controlling unit disposed in a PLL circuit controls a phase interpolator to gradually change a phase shift amount applied to a phase shift signal C_PS by a unit of basic delay amount Δ at a timing predetermined in accordance with a modulation profile of an SSC. Further, the controlling... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20120287968 - Interference cancellation repeater incorporating a non-linear element: A wireless repeater employing echo cancellation uses a non-linear element in digital baseband to compress the digital transmit signal waveform, thereby allowing distortions in the transmitter circuit as well as interference to be cancelled. In one embodiment, the repeater applies non-linear baseband compression to the digital transmit signal in the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120287973 - Flexible rate matching: Flexible rate matching. No constraints or restrictions are placed on a sending communication device when effectuating rate matching. The receiving communication device is able to accommodate received transmissions of essentially any size (e.g., up to an entire turbo codeword that includes all systematic bits and all parity bits). The receiving... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120287969 - Isolation and protection circuit for a receiver in a wireless communication device: A protection circuit protects a receiver from high-energy signals. In one exemplary embodiment, the protection circuit comprises a snapback transistor and a controller. The snapback transistor comprises a gate, a drain connected to an input of the receiver and a source connected to ground. The controller configured to connect the... Agent:

20120287970 - Method and apparatus for accommodating higher order modulation in wireless communication: A method and apparatus for reconfiguring a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are directed to receiving an active set update message indicating that a mode of operation allowing a certain modulation scheme is enabled or disabled and performing at least one of: performing a MAC reset procedure, updating a set of... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20120287971 - Method for emulating low frequency serial clock data recovery rf control bus operation using high frequency data: A system and method for emulating low frequency RF control bus operation using high frequency data is disclosed. In transmission path, the low frequency RFCB transmit data bytes are encoded and then up-sampled. The up-sampled data is then sent to hardware serializer for transmission. The resulting RF serial output stream... Agent: Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc.

20120287975 - Network device: A network device includes: a connector connected to a network; a receiving line connected to the connector; a transmitting line connected to the connector; a communication control unit configured to control communication with an external network device by receiving a signal from the network through the connector and the receiving... Agent:

20120287974 - Recovering data from a primary one of simultaneous signals, such as orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexed (ofdm) signals, that include a same frequency: An embodiment of a receiver includes signal- and data-recovery units. The signal-recovery unit is configured to recover a first component of a first signal that is received simultaneously with a second signal having a second component, the first and second components including approximately a frequency. And the data-recovery unit is... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte, Ltd.

20120287972 - System and method for communicating data in a passenger vehicle or other vehicle consist: A passenger vehicle consist includes a plurality of passenger vehicles and an electrical power transmission line interconnecting the plurality of passenger vehicles. A system for communicating data in the vehicle consist includes first unit on a first vehicle in the consist and a second unit on a second vehicle in... Agent: General Electric Company

20120287977 - Clock distribution architecture for dual integrated core engine transceiver for use in radio system: A method and apparatus of minimizing corruption of a reference clock to a RF circuitry in a radio system is disclosed. A DICE-T receives a reference clock in a Low Voltage Differential Signal (LVDS) format from a GVA. The DICE-T personality card converts the reference clock signal into an analog... Agent: Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc.

20120287978 - Communication unit, integrated circuit and method of diverse polarization: A method for processing at least one polarization type of at least one wireless signal by a communication unit operably couplable to an antenna arrangement that comprises at least two orthogonally polarized antenna elements. The method comprises processing at least one signal radiated by at least one first antenna element... Agent:

20120287976 - Network device relating to digital subscriber line: A network device relating to a digital subscriber line (DSL) such as an asymmetrical DSL (ADSL) or a very high bit rate DSL (VDSL) is provided. In the present invention, the capacitors equipped into the network device are separated and grouped into two independent groups. When the network device runs... Agent: Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd.

20120287983 - Methods and apparatus for pseudo asynchronous testing of receive path in serializer/deserializer devices: Methods and apparatus are provided for pseudo asynchronous testing of receive paths in serializer/deserializer (SerDes) devices. A SerDes device is tested by applying a source of serial data to a receive path of the SerDes device during a test mode. The receive path substantially aligns to incoming data using a... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20120287981 - Multiple input multiple output and beam-forming data transmission method and device: The present invention provides a method and system for transmitting Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) beam forming data. The method comprises: performing MIMO coding on data streams to obtain the coded data streams; obtaining weight values W=(Wi,j)Tx×S for beam forming of an antenna array of Tx×S of a transmitting end... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120287982 - Receiving apparatus, transmitting apparatus, reception method, and transmission method: A reception unit receives data from communication apparatuses. A transmission unit transmits data to the communication apparatuses. A control unit determines, in an adaptive way, which modulation and coding schemes to use to transmit and receive data. At a first stage, a modulation and coding scheme with a low transmission... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120287979 - Systems and methods for determining bitloading: A method can include calculating an indication of signal quality for a communications channel based on a message from a node over a communications channel of a network. The calculated indication of signal quality can be adjusted based on a prior indication of signal quality to provide an adjusted indication... Agent:

20120287980 - Time delay estimation: An amount of delay between a digital reference signal and a digital derived signal is measured, wherein the derived signal is derived from the reference signal. Measurement involves ascertaining a sign of a slope of the derived signal over a first time interval and producing a set of time-associated reference... Agent:

20120287984 - Power and bidirectional data transmission: Systems and methods for power and bidirectional data transmission using a plurality of wires. A multiphase digital signal is downlinked from a main unit to a remote unit over the plurality of wires and is converted to a DC power signal used to power the remote unit. Uplink data is... Agent: Alfred E. Mann Foundation For Scientific Research

20120287985 - Wireless power and data transmission system, power transmitting apparatus, and power receiving apparatus: A power transmitting apparatus is usable for wireless power and data transmission. The power transmitting apparatus includes a power transmitting section configured to transmit power and data to be transmitted as being converted into a pulse train; and a control section configured to control the power transmitting section such that... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120287987 - Coding of scene changes using picture dropping: A method for encoding a video sequence in a video encoder to generate a compressed bit stream is provided that includes coding a picture in the video sequence, detecting a scene change in the picture, and responsive to detecting the scene change, dropping the picture, signaling repetition of another picture... Agent:

20120287988 - Offset type and coefficients signaling method for sample adaptive offset: This disclosure describes techniques for performing sample adaptive offset signaling and coding in a video coding process. Techniques of the disclosure include both a merge-based and prediction-based signaling process for sample adaptive offset information (i.e., offset values and offset type). The techniques includes determining offset information for a current partition,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120287986 - System and method for providing adaptive media optimization: A method and system for providing adaptive media optimization are described. Aspects of the invention modify video encoding and network transmission settings to optimize the user viewing experience. The system and method sample video content to determine various content features of the video. The system and method use the identified... Agent: Google Inc.

20120287990 - Image processor: An image processor includes an encoder that performs encoding including quantization on an image signal and a controller that controls a quantization parameter for quantization. The controller determines a quantization parameter of a currently target macroblock as an increase or decrease from a reference value, and determines the increase or... Agent: Megachips Corporation

20120287989 - Inverse transformation using pruning for video coding: A method for decoding an encoded video bit stream in a video decoder is provided that includes determining a scan pattern type for a transform block to be decoded, decoding a column position X and a row position Y of a last non-zero coefficient in the transform block from the... Agent:

20120287991 - Method and apparatus for coding image information, method and apparatus for decoding image information, method and apparatus for coding and decoding image information, and system of coding and transmitting image information: A packetizing method for packetizing a bit stream in a packetizing apparatus. The packetizing method includes encoding, in an encoding unit in the multiplexing apparatus, a chroma component of image data using a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of a luma quantization parameter weighted by an addition operation... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120287992 - Method and apparatus for coding image information, method and apparatus for decoding image information, method and apparatus for coding and decoding image information, and system of coding and transmitting image information: A multiplexing method for multiplexing a bit stream in a multiplexing apparatus. The method includes encoding, in an encoding unit in the multiplexing apparatus, a chroma component of image data using a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of a luma quantization parameter weighted by an addition operation that... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120287994 - Filtering blockiness artifacts for video coding: In one example, an apparatus for coding video data includes a video coder configured to determine a first prediction mode for a first block of video data and a second prediction mode for a second block of video data, wherein the first block and the second block share a common... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120287998 - Image processing apparatus and method: A spline parameter generation unit 92 calculates N spline parameters of an N−1 degree polynomial for intra prediction by solving N simultaneous equations using adjacent pixel values of N lines from a line buffer 74. A predicted image generation unit 82 generates a predicted image by using the N spline... Agent:

20120287995 - Luma-based chroma intra-prediction for video coding: A method for luma-based chroma intra-prediction in a video encoder or a video decoder is provided that includes filtering reconstructed neighboring samples of a reconstructed down sampled luma block, computing parameters α and β of a linear model using the filtered, reconstructed neighboring samples of the reconstructed down sampled luma... Agent:

20120287993 - Management of slices: A slice (3) of a picture (1) is encoded by hierarchically splitting a largest coding unit, LCU, (10) of the picture (1) into multiple smaller coding units, CUs (20, 30, 40). A start of the slice (3) is defined to coincide with the border between a first CU (30, 40B)... Agent:

20120287997 - Moving picture coding method, and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus for performing inter-picture predictive coding for pictures constituting a moving picture is provided with a coding unit for performing predictive error coding for image data; a decoding unit for performing predictive error decoding for an output from the coding unit; a reference picture memory for... Agent:

20120287996 - Moving picture prediction method, moving picture coding method and apparatus, and moving picture decoding method and apparatus: An image decoding method is provided for generating a predictive pixel value of a current picture to be decoded, and decoding the current picture using the predictive pixel value. The method includes a first parameter calculation step of calculating a first parameter corresponding to a distance between the current picture... Agent:

20120288006 - Apparatus and method for image processing: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for image processing allows for achievement of improved prediction efficiency in weighted prediction of chrominance signals. Upon receiving reference image pixel values referred to by motion vector information from a motion compensator (82), a luminance weighted motion compensator (96) uses weight... Agent:

20120288008 - Coding device and method, decoding device and method, recording medium, and program: An encoding apparatus and an encoding method, a decoding apparatus and a decoding method, a recording medium, and a program suitable for encoding image signals with a higher compression ratio for transmission or accumulation. In an arithmetic coding section, from among the syntax elements of input image compression information, the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120288009 - Coding device and method, decoding device and method, recording medium, and program: An encoding apparatus and an encoding method, a decoding apparatus and a decoding method, a recording medium, and a program suitable for encoding image signals with a higher compression ratio for transmission or accumulation. In an arithmetic coding section, from among the syntax elements of input image compression information, the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120288010 - Coding device and method, decoding device and method, recording medium, and program: An encoding apparatus and an encoding method, a decoding apparatus and a decoding method, a recording medium, and a program suitable for encoding image signals with a higher compression ratio for transmission or accumulation. In an arithmetic coding section, from among the syntax elements of input image compression information, the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120288011 - Coding device and method, decoding device and method, recording medium, and program: An encoding apparatus and an encoding method, a decoding apparatus and a decoding method, a recording medium, and a program suitable for encoding image signals with a higher compression ratio for transmission or accumulation. In an arithmetic coding section, from among the syntax elements of input image compression information, the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120288000 - Design space exploration method of reconfigurable motion compensation architecture: A design space exploration method of a reconfigurable motion compensation architecture is disclosed. The method comprises: defining a predetermined application specification; extracting the community among plural motion compensation algorithms corresponding to plural video compression standards; analyzing the computation of the plural motion compensation algorithms basing on the community, thereby determining... Agent: National Cheng Kung University

20120288004 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of improving an efficiency due to motion prediction. Blocks B00, B10, . . . , and B33 in units of 4×4 pixels included in a macro block in units of 16×16 pixels are illustrated. Assuming... Agent:

20120288002 - Method and apparatus for compressing video using template matching and motion prediction: Provided is an apparatus and method for motion estimation using a template that is generated by applying an intra-prediction. A template including intra-prediction information of a current block may be generated, and an optimal predicted range may be retrieved by performing a template matching using the template.... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120288007 - Method and apparatus for encoding video using variable partitions for predictive encoding, and method and apparatus for decoding video using variable partitions for predictive encoding: A video encoding method and apparatus and a video decoding method and apparatus are provided. The video encoding method includes: prediction encoding in units of a coding unit as a data unit for encoding a picture, by using partitions determined based on a first partition mode and a partition level,... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120288005 - Motion vector correction device and method and video signal processing apparatus and method: A motion vector detector 2 detects, using pixel data in at least two real frames in an input video signal, a motion vector MV1 necessary for generating interpolated pixel data forming an interpolated frame to be inserted between the two real frames. A motion vector corrector 4 corrects the motion... Agent: Jvc Kenwood Corporation

20120288001 - Motion vector refining apparatus: A motion vector refining apparatus including a control unit, N filter units, and a mixer unit is provided. The control unit receives a motion estimation signal generated by a motion estimation unit and calculates a plurality of variation parameters according to a current motion vector, surrounding motion vectors, or a... Agent: Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd.

20120287999 - Syntax element prediction in error correction: Architecture that improves error robustness in video coding and decoding. In particular, this can apply to motion vector prediction (MVP) such as a temporal MVP (TMVP). Flags can be used to indicate the use or non-use of a feature, such as to indicate whether the current slice uses or does... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120288003 - Video coding using compressive sensing: Methods and apparatus are provided for video encoders and decoders using compressive sensing. The encoding method encodes an image block in a picture by generating a measurement vector for the image block, encoding the measurement vector, and reconstructing the image block by minimizing a signal sparsity of the image block... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20120288012 - Allocating media decoding resources according to priorities of media elements in received data: An electronic device receives a web page having multiple media elements. Respective priorities are assigned to the multiple media elements. The media decoding resources are allocated to the media elements according to the assigned priorities.... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120288014 - Error concealment for frame loss in multiple description coding: Systems and methodologies for concealing frame loss in a video transmission environment are provided herein. Multiple Description Coding (MDC) can be used as an Error Resilience technique for video coding. In case of transmission errors, Error Concealment can be combined with MDC to reconstruct a lost frame, such that the... Agent: Kiu Sha Management Limited Liability Corporation

20120288013 - Methods and systems for reference processing in image and video codecs: Multi-layer encoding and decoding systems and methods are provided. A processing module processes outputs of a first base or enhancement layer and sends the processed outputs to a second, enhancement layer. Operation of the processing module is controlled, so that the second layer can receive processed or unprocessed outputs of... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20120288015 - Data pruning for video compression using example-based super-resolution: Methods and apparatuses for data pruning for video compression using example-based super resolution are provided. A method and apparatus for encoding is provided in which patches of video are extracted from input video, grouped together using a clustering method, and representative patches are packed into patch frames. The original video... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20120288017 - Method for transmitting a signal from a transmitter to a receiver in a power line communication network, transmitter, receiver, power line communication modem and power line communication system: A method for transmitting a signal from a transmitter over a channel to a receiver on a Power Line Network, wherein said signal is OFDM-modulated on a set of sub-carriers, is proposed, wherein an OFDM tonemap and an eigenbeamforming encoding matrix are determined based on a channel estimation for each... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120288016 - Vehicle and communication device for vehicle: A PLC processing device includes: a filter; a first signal firm; a second signal line; and a PLC-ECU. The filter removes noise from a signal transmitted using a power line. The filter is provided on the first signal line. In contrast, the second signal line bypasses the filter. The PLC-ECU... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20120288018 - Efficient cartesian transmitter using signal combiner: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a transmitter having a baseband, a multiplexer, a digital-to-analog converter unit, and/or a Chireix combiner. The baseband transmits components of an in-phase signal and a quadrature-phase signal to the multiplexer. The multiplexer generates a first signal and/or a second signal which have a... Agent:

20120288020 - Receiving apparatus, transmitting apparatus, reception method, and transmission method: A reception unit receives data from communication apparatuses. A transmission unit transmits data to the communication apparatuses. A control unit determines, in an adaptive way, which modulation and coding schemes to use to transmit and receive data. At a first stage, a modulation and coding scheme with a low transmission... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120288019 - Wireless power and data transmission system, power transmitting apparatus, and power receiving apparatus: A power receiving apparatus is usable in a system for wirelessly transmitting power and is capable of transmitting data to a power transmitting apparatus. The power receiving apparatus includes a power receiving section configured to receive power transmitted from the power transmitting apparatus as being converted into a pulse train;... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120288021 - Secondary transmitter included in cognitive radio communication system and communication method of the secondary transmitter: Provided is a communication method of a secondary transmitter included in a multiple-antenna based multiple input multiple output (MIMO) cognitive radio communication system, the method including: estimating an interference channel between the secondary transmitter and a primary user in each of at least one first spectrum band that is being... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120288024 - Asymmetrical mimo wireless communications: A method for asymmetrical MIMO wireless communication begins by determining a number of transmission antennas for the asymmetrical MIMO wireless communication. The method continues by determining a number of reception antennas for the asymmetrical MIMO wireless communication. The method continues by, when the number of transmission antennas exceeds the number... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120288022 - Channel estimation for a very large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (mimo) system: A transmitter, receiver, and method for channel estimation for a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system in which the transmitter includes a multiplicity of transmit antennas spaced such that spacing between adjacent antennas provides a spatial correlation coefficient greater than a threshold level. The transmitter selects a subset of the multiplicity... Agent:

20120288023 - Increased capacity communications for ofdm-based wireless communications systems/methods/devices: Numerous embodiments are provided that may be used to provide enhanced capacity and/or Quality-of-Service for OFDM-based systems such as LTE and/or WiMAX. Various service/device modes and/or applications are also provided. According to embodiments of the invention, a transformation may be performed on a data vector by a transmitter, prior to... Agent: Eices Research, Inc.

20120288025 - Terminal and communication method thereof: A terminal and a communication method thereof whereby, even in a case of employing the asymmetric carrier aggregation system and further employing the MIMO transmission method for upstream channels, the error characteristic of control information can be prevented from being degraded. In the terminal (200), a transport signal forming unit... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120288026 - Methods and apparatuses for in-phase and quadrature-phase imbalance compensation: At least one example embodiments discloses a method of compensating for in-phase and quadrature (IQ) imbalance in a base station. The method includes generating, at the base station, compensation filter weights based on a plurality of IQ imbalanced training signals, the generating including, determining the compensation filter weights based on... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20120288027 - High speed signaling system with adaptive transmit pre-emphasis: A high-speed signaling system with adaptive transmit pre-emphasis. A transmit circuit has a plurality of output drivers to output a first signal onto a signal path. A receive circuit is coupled to receive the first signal via the signal path and configured to generate an indication of whether the first... Agent:

20120288028 - Digital pre-distortion with carrier cancellation: A non-linear power amplifier generates an amplified output signal based on a pre-distorted signal generated by a digital pre-distorter (DPD) based on an input signal. A feedback path generates a feedback signal based on the amplified output signal. The feedback signal is aligned with the input signal, or vice versa,... Agent: Andrew LLC

20120288029 - Transmitter, transmission method, receiver, reception method, program, and integrated circuit: A transmitter 100 includes an L1 signaling data coder 111. In the L1 signaling data coder 111, an L1 signaling data generator 1021 converts transmission parameters into L1-pre signaling data and L1-post signaling data and outputs the L1-pre signaling data and the L1-post signaling data, an energy dispersion unit 121... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120288030 - Distortion compensation device and distortion compensating method: A distortion compensation device which reduces a distortion of an amplifier which is added to an output signal of the amplifier, the distortion compensation device including: a plurality of distortion compensation coefficient storage circuits which stores a plurality of distortion compensation coefficients and outputs the distortion compensation coefficients according to... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120288032 - Methods and devices for receipt of imbalanced transmission signal: Communication systems may benefit from an HSPA MIMO receiver configured for receipt of an imbalanced transmit signal, as well as a method for operating the receiver. According to certain embodiments, a method can include receiving a multiple-input multiple-output system communication signal comprising at least one primary signal at a first... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120288031 - Providing signaling information in an electronic service guide: Apparatuses may perform and methods may include: receiving a digital broadcast signal that includes an Electronic Service Guide (ESG); extracting and assembling the ESG; extracting from the ESG signaling information which links one or more services in an upper level layer of a broadcast protocol to a physical layer of... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120288033 - Receiving apparatus for high frequency imaging system: A receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and an imaging apparatus and method, adapted to receive high frequency image signals. The apparatus includes two or more receiver channels, each receiver channel including an antenna pattern including plural antenna elements to receive high frequency image signals, a receiving mechanism to process the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120288035 - Base-band to radio frequency up-converter: A base band to frequency up-converter is described wherein the base band to frequency up-converter comprises a first input for receiving a first base band signal of first base band samples and a second input for receiving a second base band signal of second base band samples and an output... Agent:

20120288037 - Coarse bin frequency synchronization in a communication system: For frequency bin error estimation, multiple hypotheses are formed for different frequency bin errors, pilot offsets, or combinations of frequency bin error and pilot offset. For each hypothesis, received symbols are extracted from the proper subbands determined by the hypothesis. In one scheme, the extracted received symbols for each hypothesis... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120288034 - Method and system for performing complex sampling of signals by using two or more sampling channels and for calculating time delays between these channels: A method and system for performing complex sampling of signals by using two or more sampling channels and for calculating time delays between these channels. According to certain embodiments of the presently disclosed subject matter, the system and method are operable to enable a complex sampling of a signal in... Agent: Elta Systems Ltd.

20120288036 - Predicting values in sequence: Multiple data prediction strategies are received. Each data prediction strategy may predict a next data value in a sequence of data values with a corresponding confidence value. Rather than rely on a single prediction strategy, the predictions of each of the data prediction strategies are linearly combined to generate a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120288038 - Systems for processing differentiated hierarchical modulation used in radio frequency communications: The present invention employs hierarchical modulation to simultaneously transmit data over different modulation layers using a carrier RF signal. Each modulation layer may be of a higher or lower order than the other modulation layers. Certain embodiments of the present invention may transmit different information on the different modulation layers.... Agent:

20120288039 - Apparatus and method for soft demapping: Provided are a soft demapping apparatus and method that may cancel interference included in a rotated quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal, using at least one interference cancellation unit, and may perform one-dimensional (1D) soft demapping of the interference-cancelled rotated QAM signal.... Agent:

20120288041 - Method and apparatus for frequency tracking in a space time transmit diversity receiver: A system and method for obtaining a frequency error estimate representing the difference between a reference frequency and the frequency of a space-time transmit diversity signal is disclosed. The method includes taking the correlation of total sums, comprised of partial sums taken in defined first and second intervals, to represent... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120288040 - Method and device for implementing automatic frequency control: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for implementing automatic frequency control. The method comprises: calculating a correlation value of common pilot symbols in a reception signal of each path and a frequency offset value, calculating a combined frequency offset value according to the frequency offset value of each... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120288043 - Adaptive wireless communication receiver: The present invention relates to an adaptive, cost-performance efficient, power-saving apparatus for wireless communication systems, such as but not limited to Bluetooth (BT) receivers, and in particular to a packet-based receiver's decoding algorithm which can detect the presence or absence of the adjacent channel interference (ACI) before the scheduled starting... Agent: Issc Technologies Corp.

20120288042 - Method used for providing an adaptive receiving in wireless communication: The present invention relates to an adaptive, high cost-performance efficient, and power-saving receiving method used for wireless communication systems, such as but not limited to Bluetooth (BT) system, in particular to a method which can detect the presence or absence of the adjacent channel interference (ACI) before the scheduled starting... Agent: Issc Technologies Corp.

20120288044 - Phase / frequency synthesis using periodic sigma-delta modulated bit-stream techniques: A method and a circuit are provided for providing phase or frequency synthesis using sigma-delta modulation bit-stream techniques in which data is encoded utilizing sigma-delta modulation and then digital-to-time conversion (DTC) or digital-to-frequency conversion (DFC). In some embodiments this encoded data stream is further subjected to phase or frequency domain... Agent: The Royal Institution For The Advancement Of Learning/mcgill University

20120288045 - Signal receiving apparatus and method of controlling filters in signal receiving apparatus: A signal receiving device receives an incoming signal to obtain a frequency signal. The signal receiving device has a multi-filter device. The frequency signal is subjected to frequency selection processing by using the multi-filter device. The multi-filter device has a plurality of filters whose frequency characteristics are different from each... Agent: Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

20120288046 - Signal calibration method and client circuit and transmission system using the same: A signal calibration method for synchronizing a clock signal and at least one data signal in a transmission system is disclosed. The signal calibration method comprises detecting at least one transmission time difference between the clock signal and the at least one data signal transmitted in the transmission system, calculating... Agent:

20120281730 - Method and system for fast synchronization and data reception for frequency hopping wireless communication systems: Methods and systems for fast synchronization and data reception for frequency hopping wireless communication systems are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include receiving a plurality of RF signals corresponding to a plurality of hopping frequencies. The RF signals may be processed in parallel to determine a hopping sequence. For... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120281731 - Method and device for maintaining the performance quality of a communication system in the presence of narrow band interference: A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for analyzing a wide frequency band with respect to signal power levels in specified narrow frequency bands, detecting narrow band signal power levels received in the specified narrow frequency bands, determining an average composite wideband... Agent: Isco International, LLC

20120281732 - Integrated circuit for response signal spreading: A wireless communication apparatus capable of minimizing the degradation of the separation characteristic of response signals to be code-multiplexed. In the apparatus, a control part (209) controls both a ZC sequence to be used for the primary spread in a spreading part (214) and a Walsh sequence to be used... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120281733 - Communication device, noise removing method, and program: A communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication antenna that receives a transmission signal where a spectrum spread signal subjected to a spectrum spread is modulated; an intermediate frequency converting unit that converts the transmission signal received by the communication antenna into an intermediate... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120281734 - High sensitivity gps receiver: A high sensitivity GPS receiver includes an acquisition engine and a tracking engine. The acquisition engine processes GPS satellite data at data rate that is substantially equal to twice the coarse acquisition (CA) code chip rate. This data rate advantageously enables the acquisition engine to process GPS satellite data with... Agent: Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.

20120281735 - Satellite-based positioning system reception device comprising a function for detecting false lock-ons: A satellite-based positioning system reception device comprises a function for detecting false lock-ons based on a linear combination of complex signals arising from correlation pathways between a signal received from a satellite and a prompt local code and a plurality of local codes shifted by determined delays with respect to... Agent: Thales

20120281736 - Signals, system, method and apparatus: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method to produce a modulation signal comprising combining at least two modulation signals, for example, BOCs or derivatives thereof, having portions (chip or a number of chips) thereof with respective relative phases or states ({++,−−} and {+−,−+}) selected such that the average of... Agent: The Secretary Of State For Defence

20120281738 - Method and apparatus for vectored data transmission: In some embodiments, sequences of pilot signals on different communication channels of a communication convection are shifted with respect to each other. In other embodiments, crosstalk couplings are calculated based on intermediate vectors.... Agent: Lantiq Deutschland Gmbh

20120281739 - Processor for processing digital data with butterfly operator for the execution of an fft/ifft and telecommunication device: A processor for processing digital data includes at least one butterfly operator for executing an FFT/IFFT computation. This butterfly operator contains a first stage of complex multiplication and a second stage of complex addition and subtraction. Each of these two stages contains a plurality of addition/subtraction hardware modules and data... Agent: Commissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives

20120281741 - Ship based cellular and satellite communication: A ship based cellular and satellite transceiver receives, demodulates and processes data, voice and video signals from a satellite transmitter and provides the processed signals in cascade to a OFDM and to a CDMA modulator and transmitter for transmission to a ship based mobile unit. The OFDM signal is transmitted... Agent:

20120281740 - Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus and communication system: A transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus and communication system are disclosed, and great improvement in an S/N ratio, preventing an actual throughput from decreasing, and preventing the number of circuits for synchronizing spread spectrum signals from increasing can be expected at the receiving apparatus side. The transmitting apparatus includes a pulse... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120281737 - Wireless communications including distributed feedback architecture: An exemplary wireless communication device includes a plurality of amplifiers that each provide an output signal. A combiner combines the output signals into a combined signal. A pre-distortion processor is configured to provide signal correction for each of the amplifiers. The pre-distortion processor receives feedback comprising an indication of each... Agent:

20120281742 - Beamforming precoding matrix using non-uniform angles quantization: Beamforming precoding matrix using non-uniform angles quantization. Adaptively generated feedback information is provided between communication devices that communicate using more than one communication path, link, connection, etc. With respect to feeding back different types of information having different respective characteristics (e.g., different respective probability density functions), different and respective quantization... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120281743 - Method and system for rehoming a digital subscriber line access multiplexer: Rehoming a DLSAM between ports residing on a first switch includes establishing a physical loop-back circuit between a second port and a temporary input port of the first switch; establishing an ePVC between the input port and a first port, the first port coupled to a first connection; removing a... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20120281745 - Frequency drift estimation for low cost outdoor unit frequency conversions and system diagnostics: Systems and devices for controlling frequency drift in satellite broadcast systems. A receiver antenna system for a direct broadcast satellite signal communications system in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention comprises an oscillator, a mixer, coupled to the oscillator, for converting satellite signals at a first... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc.

20120281744 - Method and arrangement of delay calibration for ofdm system: A method and arrangement in a network entity of delay calibration for an OFDM system in a mobile communication system are disclosed. The delay calibration technique as disclosed includes estimating a time delay difference according to a phase difference between two adjacent sub-carriers, dividing the estimated time delay difference into... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20120281746 - Device and method for identification and cancellation of crosstalk: In order to allow cancellation of FEXT, where wire pairs of a bundle of transmission lines are non-reciprocally coupled, the device according to the present invention for cancellation for and identification of interfering signals in a communication system possess at least a cancellation circuit, which is connected downstream to dead... Agent: Broadband United Gmbh

20120281747 - Equalizer tap determination: A method includes performing an operation based on transformed channel data and transformed signal data to generate a transform representation of multiple taps. The transformed channel data and the transformed signal data correspond to data received at a receiver. An inverse transform of the transform representation is determined to generate... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120281748 - Rate control for cloud transcoding: A method implemented by an apparatus for video transcoding comprising receiving video data intended for encoding, splitting the video data into a plurality of segments of appropriate sizes to enable distributed encoding by a plurality of video transcoders, obtaining rate control information for each of the segments by calculating related... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20120281749 - Encoder, decoder, and data configuration: A moving image encoder (1) includes an encoding section (12) for encoding a symbol for the absolute value of each filter coefficient in a two-dimensional filter serving as an adaptive interpolation filter or an adaptive loop filter, the encoding section (12) encoding, in correspondence with the value of a symbol... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20120281750 - Method and system for coding mode selection in video compression systems: A method and system are disclosed for selecting a mode to encode video data. The method comprises the steps of (a) transforming a source video frame into a set of coefficients, (b) partitioning said set of coefficients into a plurality of subsets of the coefficients on the basis of probability... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120281751 - Multimedia coding and decoding with additional information capability: A multimedia coding and decoding system and method is presented that uses the specific prediction mode to signal supplemental information, e.g., metadata, while considering and providing trade offs between coding performance and metadata capacity. The prediction mode can be encoded according to a mode table that relates mode to bits... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20120281754 - Device and method for processing image: An image processing device and method in which a class classifying unit uses information from an orthogonal transform unit, a quantization unit, and a lossless encoding unit to classify an image into a class according to whether or not mosquito noise occurs for each macroblock, and supplies a classification result... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120281753 - Methods and apparatus for adaptive coupled pre-processing and post-processing filters for video encoding and decoding: Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptive coupled pre-processing and post-processing filters for video encoding and decoding. The apparatus and method encode input data for a picture into a resultant bitstream, wherein said video encoder comprises a pre-filter and a post-filter coupled to the pre-filter, wherein said pre-filter filters the... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20120281752 - Methods and apparatus for adaptive residual updating of template matching prediction for video encoding and decoding: Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptive residual updating of template matching prediction for video encoding and decoding. In one embodiment, an apparatus and method encodes picture data for at least a block in a picture using template matching prediction, wherein the template matching prediction involves selecting from among a... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20120281755 - Method and apparatus for encoding video, and method and apparatus for decoding video: Disclosed are method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an image which divides a current picture into blocks with various sizes and varies a number of intra prediction modes according to the sizes of the divided blocks.... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120281756 - Complexity change detection for video transmission system: A video transmission system includes an encoder and a decoder. As video data is encoded, the system uses temporal or spatial prediction to reduce the number of bits needed to encode frames. An increase in the complexity of the data results when motion vectors or patterns occurs. The complexity change... Agent:

20120281757 - Scene change detection for video transmission system: A video transmission system includes an encoder and a decoder. As video data is encoded, the system uses temporal or spatial prediction to reduce the number of bits needed to encode frames. An increase in the complexity of the data results when a scene change occurs. The scene change is... Agent:

20120281758 - Temporal image prediction: For frames sequentially functioning as a reference frame in a video sequence frame set, a motion estimate set is accessed. One motion estimate characterizes motion associated with pixels of each region of the reference frame in relation to regions of one frame of the set of frames, which is temporally... Agent:

20120281760 - Iterative grid-pattern motion search: Iterative grid-pattern motion search may be performed for each macroblock of a frame of video data. A first motion search is performed from an initial best search point on a set of search points in the prior frame corresponding to a sub-set of pels within the macroblock to determine a... Agent:

20120281764 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding motion vector: Provided are methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a motion vector. The method of encoding the motion vector includes: selecting, as a mode of encoding information about a motion vector predictor of the current block, a first mode in which information indicating the motion vector predictor from among at... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120281763 - Moving picture encoding method and decoding method: Moving picture decoding arrangements where the motion vector for the target block of decoding is calculated on a decoding side. A reference frame is selected dependent on whether candidate blocks adjacent to the target block of decoding have a motion vector for forward prediction or backward prediction. In calculating the... Agent:

20120281759 - Power efficient motion estimation techniques for video encoding: Adaptive control can use hierarchical motion estimation (HME) and/or multiple reference motion estimation (MRME) for the motion estimation of current encoding blocks. Both HME and MRME are allowed in the motion estimation to achieve a high coding gain. Control consists of slice level control and macro-block (MB) level control. A... Agent:

20120281761 - System and method for macroblock transcoding: An embodiment method of transcoding a macroblock coded in one of a Skip mode and a Direct mode includes recording a first reference frame index and a first motion vector corresponding to the macroblock during a decoding process and deriving a second reference frame index and a second motion vector... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20120281762 - System and method to process motion vectors of video data: Systems and methods to process motion vectors of video data are disclosed. According to an embodiment, an intra-block in a video frame of the video data is identified. At least a first set and a second set of inter-blocks that neighbor the identified intra-block are identified, where each inter-block in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120281765 - Motion compensating apparatus: Provided is a motion compensating apparatus that includes: a motion compensation position determining unit that determines, based on a motion vector, a position of pixels for which compensated pixels should be generated; a necessary pixel determining unit that determines pixels necessary for performing 6-tap filtering; a data transfer controlling unit... Agent:

20120281768 - Cabac macroblock rewind and end of slice creation to control slice size for video encoders: This invention is computer implemented method of encoding video data into a compressed form. Encoding each macroblock in a frame of video data stores Context based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) data in first and second CABAC engine registers. Each macroblock is classified into either a first type having recoverable... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120281767 - Low latency rate control system and method: An encoder within a video transmission system controls the bit allocation at a sub-frame level. A frame is divided into smaller blocks, known as rate control blocks. Rate control blocks are used as the basic unit for bit allocation. This bit allocation achieves the target bit rate desired by the... Agent:

20120281766 - On-demand intra-refresh for end-to end coded video transmission systems: A video transmission system includes an encoder and a decoder. Data may be lost during video encoding and transmission, which leads to errors in reconstructing the video images by the decoder. A return channel couples the encoder and decoder so that errors detected by the decoder are made available to... Agent:

20120281770 - Real-sense communication terminal and real-sense communication method using the same: A real-sense communication terminal may include: a sense communication sensor to sense information for a real-sense communication; a sense communication signal converting device to convert the sense information to a sense communication signal; a metadata processor to convert the sense communication signal to a metadata form of a transport stream;... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunicaions Research Institute

20120281769 - Video decoder with vector processor and methods for use therewith: A multi-format video decoder includes an entropy decoding device that generates entropy decoded (EDC) data from an encoded video signal. A multi-format video decoding device includes a memory module that stores format configuration data corresponding to a plurality of video coding formats. A plurality of vector processor units generate a... Agent: Vixs Systems, Inc.

20120281771 - Modulator, filter, method of controlling gain of filter, and code modulating method: A modulator being made small in size, low in costs, low in power consumption, small in heat generation and spurious signals. The modulator includes multipliers (101, 102) for code-modulating received transmission data (D(n), C(n)), and outputting the modulated data, a control channel gain factor signal generator (106) for generating a... Agent: Nec Corporation

20120281772 - Digital output power measurement in radio communication systems: Devices and methods related to devices capable to perform digital output power measurement besides attenuation control are provided. A device includes a digital signal processing unit, a transmitter and a feedback receiver. The digital signal processing unit is configured to control attenuation along a transmission path and a feedback path... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20120281773 - Method and system for best-m cqi feedback together with pmi feedback: Aspects of a method and system for best-M CQI feedback together with PMI feedback may include generating a plurality of feedback messages, which may be communicated from a mobile station to a base station, wherein at least one of the generated plurality of feedback messages may be associated with each... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120281775 - Method and arrangement in a cellular communications system: A method of controlling transmission output power in a cellular telecommunications network includes setting. a pre-defined power mask for at least one of a sub-frame and an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of a signal transmission. The power mask is defined by at least one parameter. The method further includes... Agent:

20120281774 - Method for transmitting control information and apparatus for the same: A method and apparatus for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting common control information including a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) indicator indicating single user-MIMO (SU-MIMO) or multi user-MIMO (MU-MIMO) to a receiver, generating first precoded dedicated control information by performing precoding... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120281776 - Precoding for time or frequency correlated mimo channels: A method implemented in a base station is disclosed. The method includes precoding data with a precoder, and transmitting the precoded data to a user equipment, and the precoder can be expressed as multiplication OV where V is a first matrix corresponding to a first indication of the precoder for... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20120281777 - Adaptive multi-channel transmitter linearization system using a shared feedback receiver: Pre-distortion techniques, devices and systems for a multi-channel transmitter are described. An adaptation time is provided for each of the transmit chains in the multi-channel transmitter. During each adaptation time an output of a transmit chain is coupled to a shared feedback receiver. The shared feedback receiver generates a feedback... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20120281778 - Dynamic interference alignment for partially connected quasi-static mimo interference channel: Systems, methods, and apparatus are described that employ specially designed interference patterns to build an in-band side channel without degrading the effective throughput of the main channel. Transmitter and receiver pairs implement a two-stage dynamic interference mitigation scheme based on the partial connections in limited dimension MIMO interference channels. The... Agent: The Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology

20120281781 - Method and system for transmitting data using collaborative multiple input multiple output beamforming: The present invention discloses a method and a system for transmitting data using the collaborative multiple input multiple output (MIMO) beamforming. The method comprises: selecting an MIMO mode according to channel quality information (CQI) (S502); performing the MIMO encoding on a data stream according to the selected MIMO mode, and... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120281779 - Methods and entities for modulation symbol transport: A method and entity for controlling the transmission and reception of modulation symbols over a communication network capable of MIMO operation is described. The transmission involves generating a block bundle consisting of at least two distinguishable blocks of modulation symbols, wherein each of the at least two distinguishable blocks of... Agent:

20120281780 - Partial interference alignment for k-user mimo interference channels: Systems, methods, and apparatus are described that employ a partial interference alignment scheme in conjunction with an interference detection scheme to mitigate interference in quasi-static multiple input multiple output (MIMO) channels. In an aspect, sets of transmitter and receiver pairs are determined based on feasibility of alignment of the transmitters... Agent: The Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology

20120281782 - Communication system, communication apparatus, and communication integrated circuit: A communication system includes a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus. The first communication apparatus generates and transmits communication data in accordance with a predetermined protocol. The second communication apparatus includes a power circuit section having a switching regulator, and is configured to receive the communication data transmitted... Agent: Megachips Corporation

20120281785 - Apparatus and method for producing a multi-pattern wireless frame: Multi-pattern transmission of frames. The method of operations comprises transmitting a first portion of a frame using a first radiation pattern. The frame comprises one or more preambles and a single data portion associated with the one or more preambles. Thereafter, an operation is conducted to switch the radiation pattern... Agent: Aruba Networks, Inc.

20120281784 - Correction of analog defects in parallel analog-to-digital converters, in particular for multi-standard, software-defined radio, and/or cognitive radio use: The present invention relates to signal processing in an analog-to-digital converter comprising a time-interleaved multi-channel architecture. According to the invention: digital filtering (H(z)) is applied in each channel, at least to estimate a converter offset error, and a compensation for the offset is applied on the basis of the estimated... Agent: Groupe Des Ecoles Des Telecommunications - Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Telecommunications

20120281783 - Method of transforming pre-coded signals for multiple-in-multiple-out wireless communication: The present invention provides a method of transforming pre-coded signals for transmission over an air interface in a MIMO wireless communication system. Embodiments of the method may include applying, at a transmitter, a transform matrix and a pre-coding matrix to a signal prior to transmitting the signal using a plurality... Agent: Alcatel-lucent U.s.a., Inc.

20120281786 - Compensating for a radio frequency amplifier: An analog radio frequency input and an analog feedback from an output of a radio frequency amplifier are digitized and down-converted. Pre-distortion coefficients are calculated based on the down-converted input and down-converted feedback and the down-converted input is filtered using the pre-distortion coefficients. The filter output is then up-converted to... Agent:

20120281787 - Method and system for i/q mismatch calibration and compensation for wideband communication receivers: Methods and systems for I/Q mismatch calibration and compensation for wideband communication receivers may comprise receiving a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels, downconverting the received plurality of received RF channels to baseband frequencies, determining and removing average in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) gain and phase mismatch of the downconverted... Agent:

20120281788 - Scalable architecture for satellite channel switch: A frequency translation module for a broadband multi-channel communication system may include an analog signal converter, a digital channel selection device, and a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter. The analog signal converter is configured to receive a plurality of analog signals, to select analog signals residing in a predefined frequency band, and... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120281789 - Characterizing channel response using data tone decision feedback: In addition, to pilot tones which may be existent within an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, one or more data tones within that same signal may be employed to assist with channel estimation (alternatively, detection). Once a data tone qualifies as a pseudo-pilot tone, it may be used with... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120281790 - Parallel decoder for multiple wireless standards: A method of parallel decoding for a plurality of communications standards generally including steps (A) to (C) is disclosed. Step (A) may receive a plurality of first words, at least two of the first words generally have a different length than each other. Step (B) may parse the first words... Agent:

20120281791 - Frequency correction circuit, radio receiving apparatus, and frequency correction method: A radio receiving apparatus according to the present invention receives a preamble signal through one frequency band and also detects a periodic symbol timing in a receiving period of a part of a symbol that composes the preamble signal. A frequency correction circuit includes a generating unit, a detecting unit,... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20120281792 - Method and system for generating timed events in a radio frame in an e-utra/lte ue receiver: A mobile device coupled to a common system clock receives a signal comprising a primary synchronization sequence (PSS) and a secondary synchronization sequence (SSS) in a radio frame. Sample counts are generated for timed events based on corresponding operating bandwidths. The timed events are detected at modulo sample counts of... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120281793 - Cordic based complex tuner with exact frequency resolution: Systems and methods are disclosed that include selecting a sampling frequency and a tuning resolution frequency. These systems and methods may further include determining a wordlength of the phase accumulator, a numeric representation of the phase range, and a reduced representable value of a phase accumulator. In addition, these systems... Agent:

20120281794 - Method and system for implementing a single weight spatial multiplexing (sm) mimo system: Certain aspects of the method may comprise generating at least one control signal that may be utilized to control at least a first of a plurality of received spatially multiplexed communication signals. An amplitude and/or phase of the first received spatially multiplexed communication signal may be adjusted via the generated... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120281796 - Snapshot processing of timing data: A method for providing timing recovery from a received digital data stream where the digital data stream is a series of consecutive data samples. The method separates the data stream into a series of consecutive observation periods where each observation period includes the same number of consecutive data samples. The... Agent: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

20120281795 - Universal timing recovery circuit: A timing recovery system that provides a timing estimate between a transmitter clock and a receiver clock. The system includes a down-converter that converts a received intermediate frequency signal in the receiver and down-converts, using Fs/4 down-conversion, the received signal into baseband in-phase and quadrature phase signals. The baseband in-phase... Agent: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

20120275490 - Multi-path radio transmission input/output devices, network, systems and methods with on demand, prioritized routing protocol: Devices, networks, systems and methods for coordinating communications on multi-path radio transmission mesh networks include delaying replies to route requests based on available path metrics to ensure the best available connection routes through the network can be understood and utilized.... Agent:

20120275492 - Method and device for maintaining the performance quality of a communication system in the presence of narrow band interference: A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for analyzing a wide frequency band with respect to signal power levels in specified narrow frequency bands, detecting narrow band signal power levels received in the specified narrow frequency bands, determining an average composite wideband... Agent: Isco International, LLC

20120275491 - Process for processing mimo data streams in a 3gpp hsdpa receiver, and receiver for doing the same: The invention also provides a process for processing the mimo data streams based on the separate performing, on one side, of a linear chip level Inter-Chip Interference (ICI) an and all Inter-Stream Interference (ISI) cancellation and, on the other side, spatial multi-stream detection.... Agent: St-ericsson (france) Sas

20120275498 - Configurable transceivers: A system is disclosed for operating a plurality of receiver paths and/or a plurality of transmitter paths in a single mode or multiple mode configuration.... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Gmbh

20120275495 - Controlling uplink multi-antenna transmissions in a telecommunication system: The disclosure relates to controlling uplink transmissions according to closed loop techniques such as closed loop uplink transmit diversity and uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). An exemplary method for use in a user equipment (61) configured for multi-antenna transmissions comprises a step of receiving (62), in a downlink channel, pre-coding vector... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20120275497 - Downlink channel parameters determination for a multiple-input-multiple-output (mimo) system: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing downlink channel parameters determination for downlink channels associated with a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent:

20120275493 - Low-power class d amplifier using multistate analog feedback loops: An audio amplifier system may include an audio CODEC/output (AOP) path featuring analog class-D amplifiers, and using Natural Sampling Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) to convert an analog input into a series of Rail-to-Rail pulses. The audio signal may be encoded in the average value of the PWM pulse train and... Agent: Smsc Holdings S.a.r.l.

20120275500 - Method and apparatus for acquiring a precoding matrix indicator and a precoding matrix: In the field of communication technologies, a method and an apparatus for acquiring a Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) and a Precoding Matrix (PM) are provided. The method includes: acquiring a reference PMI and a differential PMI according to a first non-differential codebook and a first diagonal differential codebook, where codewords... Agent:

20120275496 - Method and apparatus for reducing interference in space frequency block coding communication: A method and apparatus of reducing interference in space frequency block coding (SFBC) communication are disclosed. SFBC encoding is performed on at least one pair of symbols. The symbols are assigned to subcarriers in accordance with a frequency assignment pattern assigned to a cell. Different frequency assignment patterns are assigned... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20120275494 - Methods and apparatus for digital host-lock mode in a transceiver: Methods and apparatus are provided for implementing a digital host-lock mode in a transceiver. The transmitter portion of a transceiver is synchronized to a recovered clock generated by the receiver portion of the transceiver by applying a receiver input signal to a clock and data recovery system in the receiver... Agent:

20120275499 - Methods and apparatus for using multiple antennas having different polarization: A MIMO wireless communications device supports a dual polarized mode of antenna operation and a single polarized mode of antenna operation. Antenna mode selection is performed as a function of signal to noise ration information and/or rank information corresponding to a communications channel matrix. One of a communications device's processing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120275501 - Pluggable synchronization clocks, networks, systems and methods related thereto: A pluggable synchronization clock comprising: a pluggable transceiver and a system clock synchronization subsystem embodied within the pluggable transceiver. The system clock synchronization subsystem may be adapted to implement a packet based precision time protocol. The system clock synchronization subsystem may be further adapted to include a time stamp unit... Agent:

20120275502 - Apparatus for dynamically adjusting video decoding complexity, and associated method: An apparatus for dynamically adjusting video decoding complexity includes a decoding resolution control circuit and an adaptive spatial resolution decoder. The decoding resolution control circuit is arranged to dynamically determine whether at least one portion of a plurality of frames should be decoded in accordance with a specific resolution differing... Agent:

20120275505 - Forensic diagnostic capability including g.inp: There is a need for a forensic diagnostic capability to facilitate a greater understanding of why xDSL transceivers are subject to otherwise inexplicable service interruptions during Showtime (steady state data transmission mode). In certain exemplary embodiments, diagnostic data from a previous Showtime is stored and then communicated to another transceiver... Agent: Aware, Inc.

20120275506 - Method and apparatus for testing total isotropic sensitivity in multi-antenna mimo system: The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for testing (TIS) in a multi-antenna (MIMO) system. The apparatus includes a base station simulator, a multipath fading channel simulator and a darkroom including a measuring antenna and a device under test placed in the darkroom. During the testing, the base... Agent:

20120275503 - Method of tagging signals used for leakage detection and/or measurement in xdsl data transmission networks and apparatus for detection and/or measurement of leakage sources in xdsl data transmission networks: A method of tagging signals for leakage detection and measurement in xDSL data transmission networks which uses additional signals carrying the tagging information and transmitted in these networks. A narrowband tagging signal or signals are placed in unused parts of an xDSL signal frequency spectrum or in its proximity.... Agent: Kabelkom Sp. Z O.o.

20120275504 - Positioner: The invention relates to a positioner (10) for an actuator (12) comprising a processing unit (22) and an output unit (20) which can be connected to an actuating drive (15) of an actuator (12), as well as a measurement unit (24). The invention is characterized in that said positioner (10)... Agent: Samson Ag

20120275507 - Methods and apparatus for compensating for propagation delays in coordinated multi-point transmission: Systems and techniques for communication using coordinated multi-point transmission. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises at least one processor and a memory storing a set of computer instructions, configured. The processor is configured to cause the apparatus to determine a linear phase variation between at least first and second transmissions... Agent: Renesas Mobile Corporation

20120275508 - Constellation-multiplexed transmitter and receiver: A device of dynamic communication of information allows, on the average, non-integer bits per symbol transmission, using a compact code set or a partial response decoding receiver. A stream of selectable predetermined integer bits, e.g., k or k+1 data bits, is grouped into a selectable integer number of bit vectors... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120275509 - Region-of-interest encoding enhancements for variable-bitrate mezzanine compression: A specification defining allowable luma and chroma code-values is applied in a region-of-interest encoding method of a mezzanine compression process. The method may include analyzing an input image to determine regions or areas within each image frame that contain code-values that are near allowable limits as specified by the specification.... Agent:

20120275512 - Method, apparatus and system for use in multimedia signal encoding: The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, systems for use in encoding and/or formatting content, such as multimedia content. Some embodiments provide methods for use in encoding content. These methods receive source content, encode the source content producing encoded content, evaluate a first encoded segment of the encoded content relative to... Agent: Sonic Solutions LLC

20120275510 - Scaling signal quality with channel quality: A communication system, which may be applied to video communication, transmits a single stream that each of multiple multicast receivers decodes to a video quality commensurate with its channel quality. An advantage of one or more aspects relates to mobile receivers by avoiding the catastrophic glitches that occur today in... Agent: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

20120275511 - System and method for providing content aware video adaptation: A method and system for providing content aware media adaptation are described. Aspects of the invention adaptively down-sample a source video to optimize the encoding process of the source video. The system and method extract content characteristics from the source video by sampling the source video, and then classify the... Agent: Google Inc.

20120275514 - Treating video information: Systems, methods, and techniques for treating video information are described. In one implementation, a method includes receiving video information, classifying one or more frames in the received video information as a scene, adjusting one or more coding parameters based on the classification of the frames, and coding the video information... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20120275513 - Video encoding/decoding method and device: Disclosed are a video encoding/decoding method and device. The video encoding method may comprise the steps of: establishing an adaptive filter corresponding to the current image; comparing the adaptive filter established in this way with at least one existing adaptive filter contained in a filter list; establishing whether to add... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Instit

20120275517 - Dependency parameter set for scalable video coding: System and methods for video decoding include receiving at least one Dependency Parameter Set (DPS); and determining at least one inter-layer dependency based on the received DPS. Systems and methods for video encoding include selecting a layering structure; encoding at least one Dependency Parameter Set (DPS) including a representation of... Agent: Vidyo Inc.

20120275516 - Image decoding device, image coding device, methods thereof, programs thereof, integrated circuits thereof, and transcoding device: An image decoding device (C100) for increasing decoding efficiency and reducing the number of memory accesses includes: a division unit (C101) dividing a picture into first and second coded image data; and first and second decoding units (C103 and C104) decoding, in parallel, the first and second coded image data... Agent:

20120275515 - Video encoding device, video encoding method, and video encoding program: A video encoding device includes a re-encoding picture type judgment unit which judges whether a picture is to be taken as a reference picture or not in a subsequent re-encoding process. A prediction error generation unit generates a prediction error signal so that only a picture to be a reference... Agent: Nec Corporation

20120275519 - Adaptive weighting of reference pictures in video encoding: A video decoder, encoder, and corresponding methods for processing video data for an image block and a particular reference picture index to predict the image block are disclosed that utilize adaptive weighting of reference pictures to enhance video compression, where a decoder includes a reference picture weighting factor unit for... Agent: Thomson Licensing S.a.

20120275520 - Motion vector coding and decoding methods: A coding apparatus includes a motion vector coding unit that codes an inputted motion vector. A motion vector for each current block is coded based on a difference between the motion vector and a predicted vector obtained from motion vectors of coded neighboring blocks. The predicted vector is generated by... Agent:

20120275518 - Moving picture coding method, apparatus, program, and integrated circuit: A moving picture coding method in which the position of a current I-slice for a current picture is shifted in the vertical direction of the current picture, and which includes (i) performing inter coding on a first P-slice without using a motion vector (Sa1), and (ii) performing intra coding on... Agent:

20120275523 - Coding device and method, decoding device and method, recording medium, and program: An encoding apparatus and an encoding method, a decoding apparatus and a decoding method, a recording medium, and a program suitable for encoding image signals with a higher compression ratio for transmission or accumulation. In an arithmetic coding section, from among the syntax elements of input image compression information, the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120275522 - Method and apparatus for motion vector encoding/decoding using spatial division, and method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding using same: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for motion vector encoding/decoding using spatial division, and to a method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding using same, wherein the motion vector encoding method includes: aggregating predicted motion vector candidates of a current block into a plurality of groups; selecting representative... Agent: Sk Telecom Co., Ltd.

20120275521 - Representative motion flow extraction for effective video classification and retrieval: Technologies are generally described herein for extracting a representative motion flow from a video. Technologies are also generally described herein for retrieving a video utilizing the representative motion flow. The representative motion flow may be extracted utilizing a sliding window approach to generate interesting motion flows. The representative motion flow... Agent:

20120275524 - Systems and methods for processing shadows in compressed video images: Methods and systems are disclosed for processing compressed video images. A processor detects a candidate object region from the compressed video images. The candidate object region includes a moving object and a shadow associated with the moving object. For each data block in the candidate object region, the processor calculates... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20120275525 - System and method for compressing video data and alpha channel data using a single stream: A system and method provides video data and its corresponding alpha channel data using a single stream or file, compressed using the same format and decompression algorithm for each of the video data and the alpha channel data.... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20120275526 - Ethernet over power: The present disclosure relates to Ethernet-over-Power and provides communication to and from the powerline hardware, e.g. power sockets or light fittings, and through the powerline itself. In one aspect a Power and Data transmission terminal that is a MAC addressable power outlet, switch or transition point is provided, the Power... Agent:

20120275527 - Isolated communications interface: A method and interface for serial communication is provided. The interface includes a differential input/output having a first node and a second node. There are several input/output nodes arranged to receive serial interface signals. The interface includes a transmitter configured to drive a twisted pair cable at the differential input/output.... Agent: Linear Technology Corporation

20120275529 - Method for transmitting an information sequence: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20120275528 - Packet detector: There are several exemplary ways to more efficiently communicate an out-of-domain seed to a receiver—in a first technique, the seed can be indicated in the header portion or data portion of a packet. For example, the header portion of the packet could contain one or more bit fields that indicate... Agent: Aware, Inc.

20120275535 - codebook method for a multiple input multiple output wireless system: A method for wireless encoding includes encoding wireless multiple input and multiple output signals in accordance with a codebook being one of a discrete codebook restricting elements of codebook entries to be within a predetermined finite set of complex numbers and a constant amplitude codebook including each entry in its... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20120275536 - Codebook with nested structure: A multi-rank beamforming (MRBF) scheme in which the downlink channel is estimated and an optimal precoding matrix to be used by the MRBF transmitter is determined accordingly. The optimal precoding matrix is selected from a codebook of matrices having a recursive structure which allows for efficient computation of the optimal... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20120275532 - Method and device for layer mapping and method and device for generating layer mapping patterns: A device for mapping code words to layers in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system, and for generating layer mapping patterns that include a mapping step, wherein each code word of multiple code words is mapped by mapping different code words of the multiple code words to different layer pairs of... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120275531 - Method and device for selecting the antennas at the base station: In order to solve the technical problem in the prior art that different spatial correlation modes are applicable for the transmission antennas in the base station under different working modes is not considered, the present invention provides a method and device for selecting the antenna at the base station. Wherein,... Agent:

20120275533 - Method, apparatus and communication unit: A method, an apparatus and a communication unit for generating precoding feedback information in a multiple frequency radio transmission system are disclosed. A rank for precoding matrices, wherein the rank is constant over the multiple frequencies, is selected and a plurality of precoding matrices having the selected rank are selected.... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Gmbh

20120275534 - Mitigation of transmission errors of quantized channel state information feedback in multi antenna systems: Methods are disclosed for improving communications on feedback transmission channels, in which there is a possibility of bit errors. The basic solutions to counter those errors are: proper design of the CSI vector quantizer indexing (i.e., the bit representation of centroid indices) in order to minimize impact of index errors,... Agent: Tr Technologies Inc.

20120275530 - Open loop spatial processing: Methods and apparatus for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions are disclosed. A base station may precode wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU)-specific reference signals and data that are transmitted to a WTRU using a randomly selected precoder. The precoder may be selected based on a predefined precoder selection sequence or by the base... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20120275537 - System and method for sending and receiving a digital signal over a radio pathway: A constant-amplitude and continuous-phase modulation method for modulating digital data and for demodulating said modulated signal, said data taking the form of symbols a(n) that can take a number M of states at least equal to 2, the method including, in transmission, use of a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) for which... Agent: Thales

20120275541 - Apparatus and method for generating a data stream and apparatus and method for reading a data stream: When generating a data stream, text data, an escape-start-sequence, a first number of data units, an escape-continuation-sequence and a second number of data units are entered into a data stream. A base decoder displays only the text data and skips the data units referenced by the escape-start-sequence and the escape-continuation-sequence,... Agent: Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v.

20120275540 - Method and apparatus for subcarrier and antenna selection in mimo-ofdm system: A method and apparatus for radio resources control in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system are disclosed. A channel metric is calculated for each of a plurality of transmit antennas. Sub-carriers are allocated to each transmit antenna in accordance with the channel metric... Agent: Interdigital Technology Corporation

20120275538 - Method and system for utilizing givens rotation expressions for asymmetric beamforming matrices in explicit feedback information: Aspects of a method and system for utilizing Givens rotation expressions for asymmetric beamforming matrices in explicit feedback information are presented. In one aspect of the invention, Givens matrices may be utilized to reduce a quantity of information communicated in explicit feedback information via an uplink RF channel. The explicit... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120275542 - Method for transmitting an information sequence: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20120275539 - Ofdm transmitter with variable code block interleaver and method for ofdm communications with variable code block sizes: A multi-antenna transmitter is configured for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communications. The multi-antenna transmitter includes circuitry to receive an input bit sequence for code block segmentation including adding filler bits based on a selected code block size, a encoder to encode the bit sequence and an interleaver configurable to... Agent:

20120275543 - Selective peak power reduction: A communication system comprising signal processing circuitry and up-conversion circuitry. The signal processing circuitry is configured to: i) generate a first signal of a first modulation type and a second signal of a second modulation type; ii) combine the first and second signals to form a combined input signal; iii)... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120275545 - Distortion compensation apparatus and distortion compensation method: A distortion compensation apparatus for performing distortion compensation processing by applying the inverse properties of distortion properties of said power amplifier to a transmission signal to be input to a power amplifier, includes a plurality of distortion compensation coefficient storage units configured to store a plurality of distortion compensation coefficients... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120275544 - Envelope extraction with reduced bandwidth for power modulation: A system according to one embodiment includes a digital data modulator configured to generate encoded symbols; an envelope detector configured to receive the encoded symbols and to estimate transmission power information associated with the encoded symbols; a peak detector configured to receive the transmission power information, detect a peak transmission... Agent:

20120275546 - Multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detector: Multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detectors in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In a number of embodiments, the multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detector uses soft metrics based on the Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) of each symbol to provide information concerning the reliability of each detected symbol.... Agent: Mojix, Inc.

20120275547 - Iterative demapper: Demodulation and/or demapping of a signal (e.g., based on a constellation whose points have a corresponding mapping with associated labels) is performed such that each dimension is processed separately without accounting for influences from the other dimension. For example, the demapping process operates on each respective dimension separately and independently.... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120275548 - Method and apparatus for data quantization and packing with variable bit width and period: The various embodiments provide circuitry and methods for packing Log Likelihood Ratio (“LLR”) values into a buffer memory in a compressed format which reduces the amount of buffer memory required. Various embodiments use a type of quantization which reduces the bit width of the LLR values that are stored, with... Agent:

20120275549 - Systems and methods for wirelessly receiving data: In accordance with some embodiments, receivers for receiving a wireless data transmission are provided, the receivers comprising at least one amplifier that receives an RF input signal and produces at least one amplified signal; a mixer that mixes the at least one signal to produce a mixed signal; a filter... Agent:

20120275551 - Correlation computation method, device and system: An aspect of the invention is a signal processing method for correlation computation between received signal samples, code replica and carrier replica. The method is characterized in that the method comprises steps of: mapping (110) received signal samples into a range of unsigned integers; separating (120) bits of the mapped... Agent: Fastrax Ltd.

20120275550 - Method for detecting s-sch in cell searching and receiver using the same: Disclosed is a method for detecting S-SCH in cell searching including: detecting an m0 value corresponding to an even index in a secondary synchronization channel (S-SCH) signal having an even index; determining an m1 group defined by the m0 value; detecting an m1 value using correlation detection relation within the... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120275552 - Method and system for a reference signal (rs) timing loop for ofdm symbol synchronization and tracking: Aspects of a method and system for a reference signal (RS) timing loop for OFDM symbol synchronization and tracking may include tracking symbol timing in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal based on at least a reference symbol set. A receiver timing may be adjusted based on at least... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120275553 - Systems, devices and methods of synchronizing information across multiple heterogeneous networks: The various embodiments include methods, computers and communication systems that enable synchronizing information in a telecommunications system, which may include receiving a first message including communication information to be synchronized from a first domain, receiving a second message including information associated with a communication on a component in a second... Agent: Openet Telecom Ltd.

20120275554 - Base station synchronization: The invention relates to transmission and reception of clock synchronization data in a wireless communication system. According to the invention a device for transmitting clock synchronization data obtains at least one time reference of a wireless communication system clock, controls transmission of a frequency reference of the wireless communication system... Agent:

20120275555 - Methods and apparatus for trimming of cdr clock buffer using phase shift of transmit data: Methods and apparatus are provided for trimming one or more clock buffers in a clock and data recovery system in a receiver using a phase shift of the transmit data. At least one clock buffer is trimmed by synchronizing the clock and data recovery system to a transmit clock received... Agent: