Pulse or digital communications inventions

20100020850 - Method for estimating the time of arrival in ultra wideband systems: Method and device for estimating the time-of-arrival of a received signal y(t), said method comprising the step of: generating a plurality of frequency-domain samples from the received signal y(t); estimating a correlation matrix (Formula I) from said plurality of frequency-domain samples; from said correlation matrix (Formula I), calculating a signal... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100020851 - Transmitted reference signaling scheme: A signaling scheme employs transmitted reference pulses having varying phase. The phase of the reference pulses may be varied in a random manner or in accordance with a data stream. In some aspects a transmitter modulates the phase of the reference pulses to encode an additional data stream in a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100020852 - Channel measurements in aggregated-spectrum wireless systems: A communication terminal includes a receiver, a transmitter and control circuitry. The receiver is configured to receive an aggregated-spectrum downlink signal including two or more component carriers in respective spectral bands. The transmitter is configured to transmit an uplink signal to a serving base station that serves the communication terminal.... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20100020853 - Spread spectrum modulator and demodulator: A spread spectrum modulator converts input sequences composed of digital symbols into n≧2 spread-spectrum sequences. The spread spectrum modulator can generate spreading code and can combine the spreading code with the input sequences to produce the n spread spectrum sequences for transmission from n respective antennas of a radio transmitter.... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20100020855 - Control apparatus for and control method of equalizer, and wireless terminal having that control apparatus: A channel estimation value of each path timing is determined, a path timing, the channel estimation value of which is to be set to zero, is determined based on a reception power of each path timing and a predetermined power threshold (P0), and a channel estimation value of the detected... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100020854 - Method and apparatus for communication signal processing based on mixed parametric and non-parametric estimation of impairment correlations: According to the teachings presented herein, a method and apparatus for communication signal processing advantageously use a mix of parametric and non-parametric correlation estimation in communication signal processing. Non-parametric estimation generates an “overall” correlation estimate for a received communication signal, and parametric estimation generates a “component” correlation estimate. The component... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100020856 - Data detection for codes with non-uniform spreading factors: A plurality of communication signals is received. Each communication signal has an associated code. At least two of the communication signals has a different spreading factor. The associated codes have a scrambling code period. A total system response matrix has blocks. Each block has one dimension of a length M... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100020857 - Apparatus and method for wireless communication, and computer program: A wireless communication apparatus includes a plurality of antenna branches for transmitting and receiving a wireless communication signal, a calibration coefficient calculator for calculating a calibration coefficient for each frequency band, the calibration coefficient correcting an imbalance in phase and amplitude existing between the antenna branches, a coefficient storage memory... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100020858 - Signal transmission apparatus and method of controlling the apparatus: According to an aspect of the embodiment, According to an aspect of the invention, a signal transmission apparatus transmits a first signal to a transmission line. The apparatus measures a reflection characteristic of the transmission line based on a signal resulting from reflection of the first signal, and measures a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100020859 - Signal transmission apparatus and signal transmission control method: A signal transmission apparatus comprises a first signal transmission section configured to transmit a first signal for performing measurement of characteristics of a transmission line to the transmission line. A reflection characteristic measurement section is configured to measure a reflection characteristic of the transmission line. A pass characteristic measurement section... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20100020861 - Dfe margin test methods and circuits that decouple sample and feedback timing: Described are methods and circuits for margin testing digital receivers. These methods and circuits prevent margins from collapsing in response to erroneously received data, and can thus be used in receivers that employ historical data to reduce intersymbol interference (ISI). Some embodiments allows feedback timing to be adjusted independent of... Agent: Silicon Edge Law Group, LLP

20100020860 - Methods and apparatus for joint adaptation of transmitter transversal filter in communication devices: Methods and apparatus are provided for joint adaptation of filter values in two communicating devices, such as a link partner and a link device. The disclosed joint adaptation process initially adapts the filter coefficient values in a first of the two communicating devices until a predefined stopping criteria is satisfied.... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100020862 - Input control circuit for the summer of a decision feedback equalizer: This invention discloses a tap circuit in a summer of a decision feedback equalizer (DFE), the tap circuit comprises a differential pair of received signal lines, a current source having a magnitude being substantially proportional to a tap weight coupled between a first node and a ground, a plurality of... Agent: K&l Gates LLPIPDocketing

20100020863 - Determination of receive data values: Adverse effects associated with collisions in a wireless communication system are mitigated by defining one or more values for receive data. Here, data that is expected to be received during a data transmission may be set to a defined value. In some cases the defined value is a predefined value... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100020864 - Pulse transmitting device, pulse receiving device, pulse communication system, and pulse communication method: A pulse transmitting device is provided to avoid interference between pulses due to multipath influence even in a high speed pulse transmission that is typical of a UWB by making use of a relatively simple method and to improve receiving quality. In the device, a pulse adjusting unit (110) generates... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100020865 - Data stream comprising rtp packets, and method and device for encoding/decoding such data stream: In the case of packet loss during transmission over an error-prone transmission channel, some decoders may perform error concealment. In real-time systems, application decoders must handle the data loss alone and find out which data are missing. A special syntax within a packet-based framework is provided which is based on... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100020866 - Quality scalable coding: A more efficient way of addressing different bit-depths, or different bit-depths and chroma sampling format requirements is achieved by using a low bit-depth and/or low-chroma resolution representation for providing a respective base layer data stream representing this low bit-depth and/or low-chroma resolution representation as well as for providing a higher... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmermann , Stockeler & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20100020867 - Quality scalable video data stream: An apparatus for generating a quality-scalable video data stream includes a coder for coding a video signal using block-wise transformation to obtain transform blocks of transformation coefficient values for a picture of the video signal, a predetermined scan order with possible scan positions being defined among the transformation coefficient values... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20100020868 - Transitioning compression levels in a streaming image system: Systems and media for transitioning compression levels of a streaming image system include a machine-accessible medium of a storage device containing instructions for transitioning compression levels between image frames in a streaming image system. Embodiments may include receiving client information from a client of an interactive streaming image system, generating... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20100020869 - Coding rate conversion device and coding rate conversion method: A coding rate conversion device can easily avoid the possibility of a violation of the standard taking place when all of the coded blocks included in a macroblock are to be deleted, with a high degree of efficiency in rate conversion performed when an MPEG-2 coding rate is converted through... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100020872 - Intra prediction encoding control method and apparatus, program therefor, and storage medium which stores the program: An intra prediction encoding control method used in intra prediction encoding having a plurality of prediction modes and prediction block sizes, wherein the prediction mode and the prediction block size each can be switched when encoding is performed. The method includes a step of computing a flatness degree index which... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100020870 - Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal: The present invention provides a method of decoding a video signal. The method includes the steps of obtaining identification information indicating an assignment method of a reference index from the video signal, reordering reference pictures for inter-view prediction according to the identification information, and decoding the video signal using the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100020871 - Method and device for video coding and decoding: Embodiments of the present invention relate to video coding for multi-view video content. It provides a coding system enabling scalability for the multi-view video content. In one embodiment, a method is provided for encoding at least two views representative of a video scene, each of the at least two views... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100020873 - Moving picture coding method, and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus (10) for performing inter-picture predictive coding on pictures constituting a moving picture is provided with a coding unit (103) for performing predictive error coding on image data; a decoding unit (105) for performing predictive error decoding on an output from the coding unit (103); a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100020875 - Method and arrangement for video encoding: A method for encoding video data includes a step of selecting between inter-prediction and intra-prediction mode, whereby, if inter-prediction mode is selected, said method further includes a further step of sorting at least one type of inter-prediction macroblocks into different categories, in accordance with a predetermined criterion, and a step... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20100020874 - Scalable video decoder and controlling method for the same: A scalable video decoder and a controlling method thereof are provided. A method of controlling a scalable video decoder includes: determining whether a macro block mode of an upper layer is an interlayer prediction mode when decoding a scalable video; when the macro block mode of the upper layer is... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100020880 - Field programmable object array having image processing circuitry: A field programmable object array integrated circuit has video data compression capability. The integrated circuit comprises an array of programmable objects and a video compression co-processor communicatively coupled to the array of objects. The video compression co-processor comprises a set of search engines and a subpixel engine. The subpixel engine... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Pdx

20100020879 - Method for decoding a block of a video image: f

20100020876 - Method for modeling coding information of a video signal to compress/decompress the information: A method for context modeling of coding information of a video signal for compressing or decompressing the coding information is provided. An initial value of a function for probability coding of coding information of a video signal of an enhanced layer is determined based on coding information of a corresponding... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100020877 - Multiple reference frame motion estimation in video coding: Multiple reference frame motion estimation for video frame blocks is provided. A plurality of copies of a block list of a reference frame can be loaded into texture memory. Encoding of video blocks of the video frame can be ordered to allow concurrent encoding of the video blocks. Furthermore, motion... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100020878 - Transcoding for systems operating under plural video coding specifications: A system and method that computes a threshold based on an average sum of absolute residual (SAR) values and a standard deviation, each SAR corresponding to the sum of absolute values of the residual signal of a non-intra encoded macroblock in a frame of a first video stream encoded according... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20100020881 - Motion vector detecting device, motion vector detecting method, image encoding device, and program: A motion vector detecting device includes: a motion predicting and compensating circuit calculating cost values of a plurality of motion vectors, which is candidates of an optimal motion vector, using a cost function indicating an encoding efficiency with a first pixel precision every prediction mode and calculating the optimal motion... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100020882 - Barbell lifting for wavelet coding: A method for encoding motion-compensated video data includes generating, for a current frame, a high-pass wavelet coefficient based on a function of pixels in a temporally adjacent frame. The operations are repeated for multiple pixels in an array of pixels in the current frame to form an array of high-pass... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100020884 - Methods and apparatus for multi-view information conveyed in high level syntax: There are provided methods and apparatus for multi-view information conveyed in high level syntax. An encoding method and apparatus is disclosed for encoding multi-view video content in a resultant bitstream and multi-view coding information for the multi-view video content in at least one high level syntax element. A decoding method... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100020883 - Transcoder, transcoding method, decoder, and decoding method: The invention provides a transcoder and a transcoding method capable of quickly transcoding video data of different compressive encoding schemes without increasing the circuit scale. A transcoder including a decoder (1), a syntax conversion section (2), and an encoder (3) is used. The decoder (1) decodes video data compressively encoded... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20100020885 - Picture processing via a shared decoded picture pool: An information handling system (IHS) may include a processor with multiple compute elements that decode pictures from an encoded video bitstream. Each compute element may perform a different part or sequential stage of a picture decoding process to obtain decoded pictures. A memory includes a decoded picture buffer that associates... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20100020886 - Scalability techniques based on content information: Apparatus and methods of using content information for encoding multimedia data are described. A method of processing multimedia data includes classifying content of multimedia data, and encoding the multimedia data in a first data group and in a second data group based on the content classification. The first and second... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100020887 - Multiple time-base clock for processing multiple satellite signals: An integrated receiver with multiple, independently synchronized clock signals for multiple channel transport stream decoding and delivery substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. An integrated circuit that services two satellite programs must generate and distribute corresponding time domain clocks to the various components of the integrated... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100020888 - Communication system, communication method and information recording medium: In order to transmit and receive not less than a binary digital signal using a code table in which chaotic map is used and an independent component analysis, a transmitting device (121) and a receiving device (141) of a communication system (101) use the same chaos function T(•) and the... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC

20100020892 - Apparatus and method for generating symbol for multiple antennas: The present invention relates a symbol generation apparatus for multiple antennas having low receiving complexity and having flexibility with respect to an increase in the number of antennas. The symbol generation apparatus includes a plurality of space-time channel encoders respectively corresponding to a plurality of channels, and an inverse fast... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100020889 - Encoded signal arrangement method in multi-carrier communication and communication device: Freedom for relationship between division of a signal processing unit and a pilot signal is improved in a multi-carrier communication system such as OFDM. An encoded signal is divided into resource blocks and the signals are arranged independently of the arrangement of a pilot signal. The signal arranged at the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100020890 - Wireless communication system with multiple transmission antennas using pilot subcarrier allocation: A method of allocating pilot subcarriers in a resource block for a wideband wireless mobile communication system with multiple transmission antennas using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation is disclosed. In this method, pilot subcarriers are allocated to the resource block comprised of five (5) or seven (7) OFDM symbols... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100020891 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method, encoding apparatus and encoding method, and computer program: A wireless communication apparatus includes: plural antennas; a channel matrix acquiring unit acquiring a channel matrix for each sub-carrier; a channel matrix encoding unit encoding the acquired channel matrix of each sub-carrier, by decomposition from signals in fixed-point representation into data and amplitude parts with a predetermined bit width; and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100020893 - Radio communication apparatus and resending controlling method: A synthesized gain in a resending operation can be improved significantly by relatively simple control when resending control is applied upon executing of a transmission diversity using CDD. A radio communication apparatus equipped with a plurality of antennas and for performing communication by MIMO, includes a phase shift amount assigning... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20100020898 - Adjustable dual-band link: A communication system utilizing an adjustable link has at least a first data transmission circuit including at least a first communication link circuit. The first communication link circuit has a baseband circuit and at least a passband circuit. The baseband circuit corresponds to a baseband sub-channel and the passband circuit... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/rambus Inc.

20100020895 - Method and device for reducing signal peak value and transmitting device: A method and a device for reducing a signal peak value are adapted to solve a problem that overall performance of a system is significantly degraded caused by allocating a same weight to each sub-carrier so as to averagely distribute a peak clipping noise to each sub-carrier. The method includes:... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100020894 - Method for generating codeword in wireless communication system: A method for generating a codeword that is insensitive to variations of a channel and easily extensible is provided. The method includes obtaining a primary unit by taking a row vector from an N(E(N−1) simplex code and mapping a control signal to the codeword. The simplex code is obtained by... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100020896 - Scaled and rotated alamouti coding: The present invention relates to an encoder for encoding incoming symbols of an incoming data stream into channel symbols of a channel data stream for transmission over a transmission channel as well as to a corresponding decoder. To improve the error rate compared to a known Alamouti encoder, a scaled... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100020897 - System and method for reducing peak-to-average power ratio for multi-carrier communication systems: The present disclosure presents a predictive signal producing method that effectively levels transmitter output power in a multi-carrier communication system and results in approaching amplifier performance normally associated with constant carrier waveforms. Embodiments of the disclosed solution offers >10 dB reduction in the peak-to-average power required to support the transmission... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Dc

20100020900 - Digital pre-distortion technique using nonlinear filters: A method and computer program product for operating a linearizer for a circuit, including generating a set of coefficients via a characterizer; predistorting a signal input to the circuit responsive to the coefficients and generating a linearized output in response thereto; filtering the signal through a linear digital filter having... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20100020899 - Method and apparatus for improving digital predistortion correction with amplifier device biasing: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for using digital predistortion are disclosed. A transmitter 212 may transmits a transmission signal. A receiver 214 may monitor the transmission signal to execute digital predistortion of the transmission signal to compensate for distortion. A field programmable gate array or application specific integrated circuit... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100020901 - Method and apparatus for transmitting signal in communication system: When a plurality of sectors transmit the same signal in a communication system, the same signal is transmitted after a weight is applied to the same signal. At this time, defective reception of the same signal in a terminal may be reduced by setting a weight pattern differently according to... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100020902 - Termination techniques for multi-index continuous phase encoders for wireless networks: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a multiple modulation index continuous phase encoder (CPE) configured to perform continuous phase encoding on one or more received symbols and to output CPE encoded symbols, the CPE being configured to a known initial state... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20100020903 - Method and device for processing the dc offset of a radiofrequency reception subsystem: A method may compensate for direct current (DC) offset in a radio frequency reception device. The method may include partitioning an analog portion of the reception device into a plurality of zones, for each zone, calibrating initial DC offset compensation to be applied within an operating range of a respective... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20100020904 - Exploiting known padding data to improve block decode success rate: A method and system of decoding a convolutionally encoded data block having known padding bits. A Viterbi decoder is constrained to a state corresponding to k−1 padding bits immediately adjacent to data bits of the data block, where k is a constraint length of a convolution encoder used to encode... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20100020905 - Apparatus and methods for computing constant amplitude zero auto-correlation sequences: Apparatus and methods for calculating constant amplitude zero auto-correlation sequences are disclosed. One method includes calculating an argument of trigonometric functions used for calculating a constant amplitude zero auto-correlation sequence based at least on additive recursion of an input sequence root constant and without multiplication by a variable. A constant... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100020906 - Digital demodulating apparatus, digital receiver, controlling method of the apparatus, computer program product, and recording medium recording thereon the product: A digital demodulating apparatus includes: plural circuit components constituting a tuning unit which performs a tuning process on a received signal and an intensity changing unit which changes the intensity of the received signal; a demodulator which performs a demodulating process on the signal which has been subjected to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100020907 - Multiple antenna receiver system and method: A technique for processing received signals in multiple-antenna systems. Received signals from the different antennas may be amplified by a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) and time-multiplexed by a switch to form a single analog signal. The time-multiplexed analog signal is down-converted and processed using a single RF chain for each... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100020908 - Phy clock synchronization in a bpl network: A method and a communication modem for broadband communication over power transmission lines. The modem includes a coarse level synchronization mapping unit which maintains a regularly updated coarse level clock synchronization map of neighboring communication units with which it is likely to exchange communications; and a second level synchronization unit... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20100020909 - Synchronizing apparatus and method in packet network: Provided are a synchronizing apparatus and method for performing synchronization in a packet network. The synchronizing apparatus includes a sampling unit to measure a time difference using a plurality of time stamps included in a plurality of two-way message packets, an estimating unit to estimate a frequency offset by applying... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100020912 - Clock synchroniser: A clock synchroniser, for generating a local clock signal synchronised to a received clock signal, is described and claimed, along with a corresponding clock synchronisation method. The clock synchroniser incorporates a reference oscillator providing a reference signal, and a synthesiser circuit arranged to synthesise a local clock signal from the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100020911 - Phase compensated renormalizable dynamic phase locked loop: A variable bandwidth phase locked loop (PLL) includes renormalizable circuitry configured to allow a gain of the PLL to be changed without causing a disturbance, and a phase compensation circuit configured to adjust a final output phase of the PLL based on parameter changes supplied to the PLL.... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P. Cisco Systems, Inc.

20100020910 - Phase-locked loop system with a phase-error spreading circuit: A phase-locked loop (PLL) system including a phase-frequency detector for generating an up signal or a down signal based on a phase difference between a reference clock and a feedback clock is provided. The PLL system further includes a phase-error spreading circuit for generating phase-spread pulses based on a relationship... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20100014560 - Methods of synchronizing with first multipath component in ultra wideband receiver and ultra wideband receivers using the same: A synchronization method in a Ultra Wideband (UWB) receiver includes receiving a signal through a multipath channel, and synchronizing with a first multipath component of the received signal by computing a correlation value between the received signal and a template signal of the receiver in a predetermined search range. Since... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100014561 - Space-time coding method for a multi-antenna communication system of the uwb pulse type: a row of the matrix corresponding to a use of the transmission channel and a column of the matrix corresponding to a radiative element, the matrix C being defined to within a permutation of its rows and/or its columns and Ω carrying out a permutation operation on the PPM modulation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100014562 - Spectrum spreading signal demodulation method and apparatus: A spread spectrum signal demodulating method whereby spread-code synchronous acquisition and carrier synchronous acquisition are performed using FFT at high speed, wherein a received signal, of which the carrier wave is modulated with a signal obtained by spectrum-spreading data with a spread code, is subjected to the FFT and the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100014563 - Spectrum spreading signal demodulation method and apparatus: A spread spectrum signal demodulating method whereby spread-code synchronous acquisition and carrier synchronous acquisition are performed using FFT at high speed, wherein a received signal, of which the carrier wave is modulated with a signal obtained by spectrum-spreading data with a spread code, is subjected to the FFT and the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100014559 - System and method for communicating data using constant envelope orthogonal walsh modulation with channelization: A radio device includes a transmitter having a modulator for generating M-PAM communications symbols containing communications data. A Fast Walsh Transform circuit orthogonally encodes and band-spreads a communications symbol using the Fast Walsh Transform. A frequency modulation circuit frequency modulates the communications symbols wherein a constant envelope orthogonal Walsh modulated... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20100014558 - System and method for communicating data using constant radius orthogonal walsh modulation: A radio device includes a transmitter having a modulator for generating M-PAM communications symbols containing communications data. A Fast Walsh Transform circuit orthogonally encodes and band-spreads the communications symbols using the Fast Walsh Transform. A frequency modulation circuit frequency modulates the communications symbols wherein a constant radius orthogonal Walsh modulated... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20100014564 - Configurable frequency hopping system and methods: Disclosed is a method, system and apparatus for providing a configurable frequency hopping system that will accord with FCC mandated FHSS schemes while allowing different sensor and keypads types to communicate to a control panel or network node in the 902-928 Mhz frequency band on a single transceiver. More specifically... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20100014565 - Minimum mean squared error approach to interference cancellation and maximum likelihood decoding of space-time block codes: Block-encoded transmissions of a multi-antenna terminal unit are effectively detected in the presence of co-channel interfering transmissions when the base station has a plurality of antennas, and interference cancellation is combined with maximum likelihood decoding. More specifically, the signals received at the base station antennas are combined in a linear... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20100014567 - Automatic adjustment method for serial interface circuit and electronic device having serial interface circuit: An automatic adjustment method for a serial interface circuit and an electronic device having a serial interface circuit perform automatic adjustment to optimum values of the transmitter, under any connection conditions, and without causing rule violations of the serial interface protocol. Various setting values are used in a transmitter and... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100014568 - Digital signal transfer method and apparatus: The invention relates to a digital signal transfer method and apparatus in which a signals are transferred between first and second electrically isolated circuits. An announcement signal is transferred from the first circuit to the second circuit and a data signal is transferred from the first circuit to the second... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20100014566 - Method and apparatus for a 10gbase-t small form factor pluggable (sfp+) module: A 10GBase-T Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP+) module. The 10GBase-T SFP+ module has a 10GBase-T physical layer (PHY) module with a communication interface and an interface module with SFP+ high speed serial electrical interface (SFI). During receive operation, 10GBase-T data is received from a link partner via the communication interface.... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100014569 - Identifying an optimized test bit pattern for analyzing electrical communications channel topologies: Identifying an optimized test bit pattern for analyzing electrical communications channel topologies, including: ranking according to channel quality, from worst to best, a set of channel topologies for an electrical communications channel; and for each ranked channel topology beginning with the worst, carrying out the following steps in an iterative... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20100014570 - Test unit for testing the frequency characteristic of a transmitter: A test unit for testing the frequency characteristics of one or more components of a transmitter of modulated signals. The test unit includes a data source for generating a test pattern of data. A test unit output is connected to the data source and connectable to an input of one... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20100014571 - Assessing aircraft interference path loss employing discrete frequency stirring: A method for accessing aircraft interference path loss in an aircraft. A plurality of radio frequency signals that are stepped through a plurality of frequencies in a frequency range is transmitted from a plurality of locations within an interior of the aircraft. Radio frequency signals present at a receive antenna... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100014572 - Test device and method of detecting an imbalance in a power level of a channel: The present invention provides a test device and a method enabling automatic detection of an imbalance in a power level of a channel. The test device includes a tuner, a power-level measurement system, and an evaluation unit. According to the method, a test channel is selected from a plurality of... Agent: Pequignot + Myers LLC

20100014573 - Search engine for a receive equalizer: A search engine selects initial coefficients for a receive equalizer. The search engine may be incorporated into a communication receiver that includes a decision feedback equalizer and clock and data recovery circuit. Here, the search engine may initialize various adaptation loops that may control the operation of, for example, a... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Cpa Global

20100014574 - Digital amplifier: A digital amplifier amplifies an input signal from a tuner (107) which receives a broadcast wave of a set receiving frequency so as to suppress degradation of the high-band reproduction performance and lowering of the amplification efficiency. The digital amplifier includes: a band division unit (102) for dividing an input... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100014575 - Pulse width modulator: A switch-modulator (15) for a radio-frequency power amplifier, arranged to modulate the I-signal and the Q-signal of the complex components (I+j.Q) separately in an I-signal part (2a) and a Q-signal part (2b) in order to create a modulated I-signal pulse sequence and a modulated Q-signal pulse sequence, said modulation comprising... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100014576 - Band extending apparatus and method: A band extending apparatus (1) is provided with: first generating device (111, 112) for generating a baseband signal (XB(n)) by up-sampling an input signal (X(n)) and then transmitting it through a low-pass filter; a second generating device (21) for generating a high-frequency signal (XH(n)), by extracting a signal component on... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100014577 - Method and apparatus for fast nearest neighbor search for vector quantizers: A method comprises identifying a component k of a codevector from a codebook C having one or more codevectors, the component k introducing highest variance for an input vector; allowing ordering of codevectors in the codebook C; and searching for a best match vector for the input vector using ordered... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100014579 - Image processing apparatus, method and integrated circuit: An image processing method, and an apparatus and an integrated circuit for implementing the method are adapted for use in a liquid crystal display. The method includes the steps of: determining which blocks in a decoded current frame are noisy blocks; finding, in a processed reference frame, a most similar... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100014580 - Playback apparatus for performing application- synchronized playback: An integrated circuit stores a module that executes applications that play digital streams. When the module is executed, the integrated circuit generates package information by merging files recorded on a first recording medium and a second recording medium, in accordance with merge management information, detects a plurality of playable titles... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100014581 - System and method for arithmetic encoding and decoding: An arithmetic encoder is provided for converting an event sequence comprised of a plurality of events to an information sequence comprised of at least one information piece, and includes a core engine for receiving an event of the event sequence, and a probability estimate from a probability estimator, and generating... Agent: Ntt Docomo Inc/bhgl

20100014578 - Systems and methods for highly efficient video compression using selective retention of relevant visual detail: Systems and methods are presented for compressing digital video signals in a manner that prevents the creation of block artifacts and improves compression efficiency by the selective removal of data representing visually imperceptible or irrelevant detail. Bandwidth control is improved through prioritized removal of data exceeding permissible bandwidth limits. This... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20100014582 - Inverse quantization circuit, inverse quantization method and image reproducing apparatus: Provided are a versatile inverse quantization circuit which performs inverse quantization operable for various encoding systems by a single circuit, an inverse quantization method, and an image reproducing apparatus. A first multiplier generation unit (10) generates a first multiplier M1, a second multiplier generation unit (20) generates a second multiplier... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100014583 - Quantization control method and apparatus, program therefor, and storage medium which stores the program: A quantization control method used in a video encoding which encodes a video image and performs control for making an encoding bit rate approach a predetermined target bit rate. The quantization control method includes measuring a differential amount of code between a target amount of code and an amount of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100014585 - Method and system for encoding a video signal, encoded video signal, method and system for decoding a video signal: Some video compression standards use multiple temporal predictions. One or more of the oldest temporal predict ions are overwritten with another prediction. A prediction used in an enhancement encoder is in embodiment overwritten by a prediction produced in a base stream encoder.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100014584 - Methods circuits and systems for transmission and reconstruction of a video block: Disclosed is a method, circuit and system for transmission and reconstruction of a video block. A video stream may be composed of sequential video frames, and each video frame may be composed of one or more video blocks including a set of pixels. Prior to transmission of the data associated... Agent: Eitan Mehulal Law Group

20100014586 - Frame decimation through frame simplication: System and method of providing improved signal compression using frame decimation through frame simplification and generating an encoded bitstream of video frames therefrom are disclosed. The encoding method comprises zeroing a difference frame generated by an encoder by using a feedback loop that injects a reconstructed frame, generated by the... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20100014587 - Interpolation of video compression frames: Coding techniques for a video image compression system involve improving an image quality of a sequence of two or more bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames, where each of the frames includes multiple pixels. One method involves determining a brightness value of at least one pixel of each bi-directionally predicted intermediate frame... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100014589 - Moving picture coding method, and moving picture decoding method: A moving picture coding apparatus (10) for performing inter-picture predictive coding on pictures constituting a moving picture is provided with a coding unit (103) for performing predictive error coding on image data; a decoding unit (105) for performing predictive error decoding on an output from the coding unit (103); a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100014588 - Speculative start point selection for motion estimation iterative search: A speculative start point selection for motion estimation iterative search improves the efficiency and quality of the integer-pel motion estimation iterative search by speculatively selecting the start position of the iteration. The start position is selected by comparing the Sum of Absolute Differences (SAD) value of a 0 motion vector,... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20100014590 - Image data processing: Methods of spatial compression of image data using trees formed with logic gates are described. Data encoding is achieved using a five-level wavelet transform, such as the Haar or 2/10 transforms. A dual transform engine is used, the first engine being used for the first and second parts of the... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20100014591 - Block noise reducing apparatus: A calculation is made as to first and second differences in level represented by an input video signal at first and second inter-block boundaries adjoining opposite edges of every rectangular block respectively. A corrective value at every pixel in the rectangular block is calculated from a position of the pixel... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20100014592 - Decoding circuit, decoding method, and image reproducing apparatus: To perform, with a single circuit, decoding in association with various image encoding systems and improve universality. A coefficient selection processing section 11 selects a DC coefficient and an AC coefficient of an adjacent block adjacent to a decoding target block, a coefficient arithmetic processing section 12 applies arithmetic processing... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100014593 - Method and system of detecting signal presence from a video signal presented on a digital display device: A system for transmitting a modulated video signal to be presented on a digital display device, the video signal having a first frame and a second frame, the first frame and the second frame each comprised of a plurality of pixels, the system comprising a signal source for generating a... Agent: Polsinelli Shughart PC

20100014595 - Audio and/or video data processing device, communication or data network for transcoding audio and/or video data, and method for decoding audio and/or video data: The invention relates to an audio and/or video data processing device having at least one interface for making available audio and/or video data as coded data (dsi, dso*), and an audio-video decoder (AVD) that decodes the data (dsi, dso) coded with at least one code (k) to produce decoded data... Agent: O''shea Getz P.C.

20100014594 - Splicing of encrypted video/audio content: System and method for performing a splice operation on an encrypted or unencrypted MPEG-2 transport stream. A splice trigger is received at a pre-conditioning encoder. In response, the encoder generates, e.g., an SCTE-35 cue message that is intended to be received by a splicer. Also in response to the splice... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20100014596 - Systems and methods for improving the quality of compressed video signals by smoothing block artifacts: The present invention is directed to systems and methods in which, for a given amount of data required to represent a compressed video signal, the quality of the uncompressed displayed real-time video, as perceived by a typical human viewer, is improved. Systems and methods herein achieve this improvement by attenuating... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20100014597 - Efficient apparatus for fast video edge filtering: A method and apparatus are provided for video edge filtering in which a buffer stores pixels required for edge filtering from a plurality of macroblocks. An input tile buffering unit comprising a plurality of dual port tile buffers receives tile portions of each macroblock. These are transposed selectively and provided... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20100014598 - Active components on an internal cable to improve signal integrity: Disclosed is an internal cable system that communicates signals in an electronic device. The system uses a printed circuit board with active circuits that is connected to a standard communication cable. The printed circuit board is exposed to air flow from the cooling system of the electronic device for proper... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC Lsi Corporation

20100014599 - Apparatus and method for modifying transmissions on specified wireless channels to reduce interference with higher-priority transmitters: A method includes obtaining data to be transmitted wirelessly and detecting if any transmitting devices having a higher priority are currently using at least one of multiple wireless channels. The method also includes transmitting the data wirelessly over the multiple wireless channels in a first specified manner when no transmitting... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20100014602 - Determining symbol synchronization information for ofdm signals: The invention provides a method of detecting symbol synchronization information for an OFDM signal, the OFDM signal comprising at least one OFDM symbol and corresponding GI, the method comprising steps of: generating a correlated signal based on each OFDM symbol and its corresponding GI; processing the correlated signal to generate... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100014603 - Guard independent signal mapping: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate guard bandwidth independent mapping and de-mapping of bandwidth in a wireless communication system. Broadcast signals can be created as if all bandwidth were available, and guard bandwidth can be initialized over the utilized bandwidth such to puncture the data existing in the guard... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100014601 - Retransmission of data in a multiple input multiple output (mimo) system: A method for retransmission of data in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system, the method comprising space-time block code (STBC) encoding multiple data streams including one or more retransmission data streams using a STBC matrix, the STBC matrix multiplying at least one of the retransmission data streams with respective... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20100014605 - System for multiple use subchannels: Systems for multiple use subchannels are provided. In one embodiment, a bidirectional communication system comprises: a first remote unit for communicating with a host using OFDM, the host communicatively coupled to a plurality of remote units in a multipoint-to-point configuration. The first remote unit is configured to transmit up to... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20100014604 - Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, communication apparatus, and communication system: A transmission apparatus divides transmission data according to spatial streams and transmits divided transmission data in parallel in an MIMO communication system. A control unit selects a modulation scheme for each of the spatial streams and determines a data allocation method for each of the spatial streams based on a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100014600 - Window position optimization for pilot-aided ofdm system: A window position optimization for a pilot-aided OFDM system is disclosed. A method of reducing aliasing in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system, using window optimization and pilots comprises receiving an RF signal including a pilot, generating a channel frequency response estimate, interpolating the channel estimate to calculate a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Amd

20100014606 - Symbol detector and sphere decoding method: A symbol detector with a sphere decoding method implemented therein. A baseband signal is received to determine a maximum likelihood solution using the sphere decoding algorithm. A QR decomposer performs a QR decomposition process on a channel response matrix to generate a Q matrix and an R matrix. A matrix... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20100014607 - Ad converter, data receiver and data reception method: An AD converter includes a first amplitude circuit, a second amplitude circuit, and a determination circuit. A control signal line controls a first amplitude gain of the first amplitude circuit and a second amplitude gain of the second amplitude circuit.... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100014608 - Data transmitting and receiving method using phase shift based precoding and transceiver supporting the same: A method for performing a precoding based on a generalized phase shift or a precoding based on an extended phase shift in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system employing several sub-carriers, and a transceiver for supporting the same are disclosed. A phase-shift-based precoding matrix is generalized by multiplying a diagonal matrix... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100014609 - Distortion correction control apparatus and distortion correction control method: A distortion correction control apparatus is for compensating for a burst distortion in a transmission amplifier caused by a burst of an input signal of a transmission target. The apparatus includes a holding unit that stores a distortion correction coefficient having reverse characteristics to the burst distortion; a unit that... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100014611 - Method for deciding position of mapping symbols, and device and method for modulating binary signal: Disclosed is a binary signal modulator for minimizing deterioration of receiving performance caused by phase error. The binary signal modulator receives binary signals, and converts the binary signals into complex symbols according to a predetermined mapping relation. Here, the mapping relation is generated when a plurality of mapping symbols are... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100014610 - Spaceflight high data rate radiation hard ka-band modulator: A Ka-band transmitter. The transmitter is in a self-contained module that contains a radio frequency (RF) channel. A phase lock oscillator drives an RF signal path in the RF channel at a fundamental frequency. In-phase data (I-data) and Quadrature data (Q-data) difference signals are converted to single ended signals and... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20100014612 - Qam demodulation: A method of demodulating a signal on which is modulated, using a quadrature amplitude modulation scheme, a plurality of information symbols, the method including: determining at least one QAM detection threshold corresponding to one or more of said information symbols; and demodulating each information symbol on the basis of at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100014613 - Demodulation of a digitally frequency-modulated analog received signal by evaluation of the time intervals between the zero crossings: A detector for zero crossings and a counter which is connected to it are used to determine the time intervals between the zero crossings of the received signal or of an intermediate-frequency signal which is produced from the received signal, and for detection of the digital signal data. In this... Agent: Spryip, LLC Ifx

20100014614 - Digital radio systems: Apparatus comprising a pre-filter rake architecture with various features designed to, in at least some circumstances, to lessen the data processing burden associated with the architecture. In one embodiment, the pre-filter aspect can be disabled.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100014615 - Systems and methods for demodulating multiply-modulated communications signals: Embodiments of the present invention provide for an overall hardware and software approach to Mode-S demodulation, especially where the Mode-S signals (such as squitters) have been modulated with multiple modulation protocols. Various implementations utilize coherent phase detection, since coherently detecting phase transitions in a multiple modulated signal results in better... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20100014616 - Detection of wideband interference: A method of detecting interference in a received sample vector using hidden Markov modelling by first estimating noise variance, where estimating noise variance comprises the steps of receiving a sample vector of noise and interference, sorting the sample vector in the frequency domain by order of increasing magnitude to produce... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20100014617 - Method and apparatus for singular value decomposition of a channel matrix: A method and apparatus for decomposing a channel matrix in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A channel matrix H is generated for channels between transmit antennas and receive antennas. A Hermitian matrix A=HHH or A=HHH is created. A Jacobi process is cyclically performed on the matrix A to obtain... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100014618 - Receiving device: When performing switching control of reception modes trading off reception sensitivity against power consumption in a reception environment, the receiving apparatus and control method of the present invention perform state transition without a reception error occurring due to switching control with the aid of a reception mode in which an... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100014619 - Space time block coded transmit antenna diversity for wcdma: A mobile communication system is designed with an input circuit coupled to receive a first plurality of signals (rj(i+τj), i=0−N−1) during a first time (T0-T1) from an external source and coupled to receive a second plurality of signals (rj (i+τj), i=N−2N−1) during a second time (T1-T2) from the external source.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100014620 - Method and apparatus for high speed lvds communication: A method and system communicates payload data over a plurality of low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) channels (50). First device (100) transmits the payload data and synchronization information to the second device (150) over N LVDS channels (50), along with a word clock synchronized to the payload data. The second... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100014621 - Synchronization determining circuit, receiver including the synchronization determining circuit, and method of the receiver: A receiver includes; a recovery circuit for receiving an input signal, and generating a data signal and a recovery clock; a processing circuit for processing the data signal to generate a processed signal; and a synchronization determining circuit for determining a synchronization state of the recovery clock according to the... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20100008399 - Radio transmitter device: Transmitter device which includes at least: a) one delay line designed to output M signals which are delayed in relation to each other, where M is an integer greater than 1; b) a memory, designed to store at least M digital samples of a waveform, where each digital sample contains... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20100008400 - Receiving wireless signals with multiple diversity settings: Methods and systems of receiving wireless signals are disclosed. One method includes a receiver characterizing signal quality parameters of receive signals for a plurality of receive diversity settings. The receiver selects a first receive diversity setting for synchronizing the receiver with the receive signal based on the characterized signal quality... Agent: Tzero Technologies

20100008401 - System and method for receiving time-hopping ultra-wide bandwidths signals: A novel receiver structure is proposed for detecting a time-hopping νltrat-wide bandwidth signal in the presence of multiple access interference. The proposed structure achieves better bit error rate performance than the conventional matched receiver when operating in multiple access interference. When operating in a multiple access interference-plus-Gaussian-noise environment, the receiver... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20100008402 - Transmitter and synchronization channel forming method: Reduction in the detection accuracy of synchronization timing at the receiving end is prevented even if a GCL system changes in response to a GCL ID. A transmitter (100) has a GCL system generating section (101) for generating a GCL system signal, a scramble processing section (102) for scrambling the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100008404 - Space-time coding method for a multi-antenna system of the uwb pulse type: A space-time coding method for a UWB transmission system comprising at least two radiated elements. The method codes a block of information symbols S=(a1, a2 . . . , ap2)) belonging to an M-PPM modulation or M-PPM-M′-PAM composite modulating alphabet with M being even, into a sequence of vectors (si,j,Ωsi,j),... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100008403 - Space-time encoding method for a multi-antenna communication system of the uwb pulse type: The present invention relates to a space-time coding method for a UWB transmission system comprising at least two radiated elements. This method codes a block of information symbols S=(a1, a2 . . . , aP2)) belonging to a 2-PPM modulation or 2-PPM-M′-PAM composite modulation alphabet with M′≧2, into a sequence... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100008405 - Reconfigurable signal processing scheme: A method of ameliorating channel effects present in a signal received through a channel, wherein the signal conveys at least first and second information streams and the method comprises the steps of determining from the first stream activation of the second stream and processing the signal to ameliorate channel effects,... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100008407 - Communication apparatus and communication calibration method: There is provided a communication apparatus, including a transmission unit that transmits information by a plurality of systems and a reception unit that receives information by a plurality of systems, wherein the transmission unit includes a calibration information generation unit that generates calibration information transmitted for each the system and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100008408 - Geran transceiver and method for cooperative channel encoding across multiple geran tonal carriers: Embodiments of a GERAN transceiver for communicating in a global system for mobile communications (GSM) enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE) radio access network (GERAN) are described herein. The GERAN transceiver includes a codation module to split a turbo-encoded data block into a plurality of turbo-encoded data bursts and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100008406 - Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program: A wireless communication apparatus compensates for phase and amplitude imbalances existing among transmit and receive branches, while also preventing likelihood information and SNR estimation error produced by such imbalance compensation. In an apparatus having a plurality of transmit and receive antennas and respective branches for each antenna, a calibration processor... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100008410 - Continuous open loop control to closed loop control transition: This disclosure relates to a continuous open loop control to closed loop control transition.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100008409 - Method for clock jitter stress margining of high speed interfaces: A method for clock jitter stress margining of high speed interfaces including generating a jittered clock signal via a clock signal generator of a high speed interface controller card, inputting the jittered clock signal to a control input of a looped-back port of the high speed interface controller card, inputting... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20100008411 - Method and system for frame formats for mimo channel measurement exchange: A method and system for frame formats for MIMO channel measurement exchange is provided. Aspects of a method for communicating information in a communication system may comprise transmitting data via a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels utilizing a plurality of transmitting antenna, receiving feedback information via at least one... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100008412 - Control apparatus for and control method of equalizer, and wireless terminal havng that control apparatus: For the first wireless base station, a first correlation value based on a calculation result on channel estimation values having an identical signal timing and a calculation result on channel estimation values having different signal timings, and determines, for the second wireless base station, a second correlation value based on... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20100008413 - Equalizer characteristics optimizing method and transmission system: An equalizer characteristics optimizing method includes acquiring a recovery clock timing from a reception signal; acquiring a predetermined sampling clock timing with respect to the recovery clock timing; latching the reception signal at the recovery clock timing; latching the reception signal at the sampling clock timing; comparing logic values obtained... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100008414 - High-speed signaling systems and methods with adaptable, continuous-time equalization: A receiver includes a continuous-time equalizer, a decision-feedback equalizer (DFE), data and error sampling logic, and an adaptation engine. The receiver corrects for inter-symbol interference (ISI) associated with the most recent data symbol (first post cursor ISI) by establishing appropriate equalization settings for the continuous-time equalizer based upon a measure... Agent: Silicon Edge Law Group, LLP

20100008415 - Moving picture coding apparatus, method, program, and integrated circuit thereof: Accordingly, a transmitting apparatus (3) includes: a dividing unit (5) which divides an input sequence (DV1) into N (N≧2) divided sequences; N coding units which code the N divided sequences divided by the dividing unit (5); and a multiplexing unit (7) which multiplexes, into an output sequence (DS1), the N... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100008416 - Systems, methods, and media for providing selectable video using scalable video coding: Systems, methods, and media for providing selectable video using scalable video coding are provided. In some embodiments, systems for providing selectable video using scalable video coding are provided, the systems comprising: a scalable video coding capable encoder that receives a base content sequence and at least one added content sequence... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20100008417 - Video encoding techniques: Techniques are described that can be used to determine parameters of an adaptive Wiener filter to apply to a video region. The following parameters of the Wiener filter may be adjusted: coefficients, coefficient quantization, filter type, filter size, prediction mode, entropy encoding, and number of filter tables. The parameters associated... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100008418 - Method and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding video data using enhancement layer residual prediction for bit depth scalability: A scalable video bitstream may have an H.264/AVC compatible base layer and a scalable enhancement layer, where scalability refers to color bit depth. The H.264/AVC scalability extension SVC provides also other types of scalability, e.g. spatial scalability where the number of pixels in BL and EL are different. According to... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100008419 - Hierarchical bi-directional p frames: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and apparatuses for generating forward, backward or bi-directional P frames. Prior to encoding a sequence of video frames, P frames within the video sequence can be reordered to include causal and/or non-causal references to one or more reference frames. This allows any... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100008420 - Method and decoder for realizing random access in compressed code stream using multi-reference images: The present invention discloses a method for realizing random access in a compressed code stream using multi-reference images and a decoder. The method includes: receiving a bit stream carrying prediction reference characteristic indication information which is for respectively indicating prediction reference characteristics of forward prediction encoded image P frames and... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100008424 - Computer method and apparatus for processing image data: A method and apparatus for image data compression includes detecting a portion of an image signal that uses a disproportionate amount of bandwidth compared to other portions of the image signal. The detected portion of the image signal result in determined components of interest. Relative to certain variance, the method... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100008421 - Distributed transcoding: A method of delivering a video stream, including encoding a video stream into a first encoded stream and selecting encoding parameter values for subsequent transcoding the first encoded stream into a specific second encoded stream. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting the first encoded stream with the selected encoding parameter values... Agent: Robert G. Lev

20100008425 - Image quality evaluating method, image quality evaluating apparatus and image quality evaluating program: To estimate an image quality deterioration level at a high accuracy. An image quality deterioration level is estimated by judging whether image quality deterioration is suppressed or not by error concealment processing when decoding is not correctly performed, based on information obtained in decoding processing. When it is judged that... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20100008423 - Method and apparatus for periodic structure handling for motion compensation: A motion compensated picture rate converter for determining a dominant motion vector for a block appearing in two images includes a high-pass filter and a low-pass filter, transform calculators responsive to the filters for performing transforms on at least two images to produce a frequency-domain representation of the images, estimating... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20100008422 - Video encoding method and decoding method, apparatuses therefor, programs therefor, and storage media which store the programs: A video encoding method includes selecting a reference vector target frame and a reference frame from among already-encoded frames; encoding information for designating each frame; setting a reference vector for indicating an area in the reference vector target frame with respect to an encoding target area; encoding the reference vector;... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100008427 - Color gamut scalability techniques: Techniques are described that can be used to either compress or expand video. Color compression techniques are described that can be used to compress the wide color gamut content into lower color gamut for inclusion in a baseline layer. Color expansion techniques are described that convert lower color gamut data... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100008426 - Method, apparatus and system for converging images encoded using different standards: A method for transforming an image expressed in terms of a first image encoding to a second image encoding, includes converting a set of original scene exposure-factor values into corresponding first and second image encoding values. A transform is then derived between the first image encoding values and the second... Agent: Pedro P. Hernandez Patent Legal Staff

20100008428 - Multistandard video recorder: Methods and systems for processing video are disclosed. The method may include performing by one or more processors and/or circuits on a chip, receiving packetized data within an encoded video stream. An identifier may be determined within the received packetized data that defines one of a plurality of encoding types... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100008429 - System, method and computer readable medium for decoding block wise coded video: An apparatus and associated method are provided for decoding of block wise coded video pictures. Implementing a de-blocking filter algorithm or the like in a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) environment, especially for processors with 128-bit vector registers. Parallelism between the SIMD and the register size fits the macroblock size... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100008430 - Filtering video data using a plurality of filters: Systems and methods of filtering video data using a plurality of filters are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving and decoding a plurality of filters embedded in a video data bitstream at a video decoder. The method includes selecting, based on information included in the video data bitstream,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100008431 - Apparatus and method for channel state information feedback: A method for a mobile station to provide to a base station feedback of channel state information (CSI) regarding a plurality of communication channels between the mobile station and the base station. The method includes: estimating the CSI by calculating a plurality of channel responses each for one of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100008434 - Cellular network system: A method for providing a personalized bidirectional channel in broadcasting systems. In cellular broadcasting system the method contains the steps of: allocating a first group of subcarriers to broadcast transmission and a second group of subcarriers to personalized channels; reducing interference in the broadcast transmission by using equalizer; and reducing... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20100008433 - Method and apparatus for advanced inter-carrier interference cancellation in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) channels: A method of estimating a time variant Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) while eliminating Inter-carrier Interference (ICI) is disclosed, where the time variant channel matrix is estimated at channel taps using a Basis Expansion Model (BEM). The BEM method decomposes the time variant channel into a group of basis functions... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Amd

20100008437 - Method and system for pre-equalization in a single weight (sw) single channel (sc) multiple-input multiple-output (mimo) system: In wireless systems, a method and system for pre-equalization in a single weight (SW) single channel (SC) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system are provided. A first receive antenna and at least one additional receive antenna may receive a plurality of SC communication signals transmitted from at least two transmit antennas. Estimates... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100008435 - Method for transmitting ack/nack signal and method for establishing the signal transmission: A method for transmitting an ACK/NACK signal and a method for establishing the signal transmission are disclosed. A system for the method determines whether the ACK/NACK signal is repeatedly transmitted or not according to channel environments of a user, and transmits the ACK/NACK signal according to the determined result within... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100008432 - Methods and systems for reducing papr of an ofdm signal: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction of a transmission signal in a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system. The method may utilize a permutation of a time domain signal, and/or a permutation of a frequency domain... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100008436 - Physical layer frame format design for wideband wireless communications systems: Systems and methods are provided for processing a payload portion of a received signal in a single carrier mode or a multiple carrier mode based on a portion of the received signal. A single carrier signaling portion is received at a first rate, and whether the payload portion of the... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20100008438 - System and method for bit allocation and interleaving: A method for transmitting data represented by a plurality of coded bits includes: allocating the coded bits to a plurality of groups; rearranging, for a retransmission of the coded bits, ones of the coded bits allocated to a first one of the plurality of groups to a second one of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100008443 - Channel estimation of multi-carrier signal with selection of time or frequency domain interpolation according to frequency offest of continuous pilot: The invention relates to a method of estimating the transmission channel of a received multi-carrier signal (y) in a mobile environment, which method comprises identifying pilots (P1, P2, . . . , Pk) present on carriers of the received multi-carrier signal (y), which pilots (P1, P2, . . . ,... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100008440 - Link adaptation in wireless communications: A wireless communication system with link adaptation is provided. The wireless communication system may include a channel k-factor estimator estimating a Rician k-factor of a channel based on a signal received from a transmitter, a frequency band grouping unit determining a size of frequency band grouping based on the Rician... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100008444 - Method and apparatus to balance maximum information rate with quality of service in a mimo system: In a wireless MIMO communication system for N symbols of a frame of information, allocating N1 symbols to a stronger eigen sub-channel and N2 symbols to a weaker eigen sub-channel, where N1>N2; determining a probability of reception error when transmitting the N2 symbols through the weaker eigen sub-channel for an... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20100008442 - Method for limiting local bandwidth impairment using tone reservation: The present invention relates to a method of limiting local bandwidth impairment in a telecommunications system, wherein tone reservation is used to reduce peak power of a multi-carrier signal using successive processing stages. The present invention also relates to an apparatus for limiting local bandwidth impairment and to a base... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20100008441 - Multiantenna receiving device: A multiantenna receiving device is provided to make it possible to cope with both improvement in error rate characteristic and simplification in structure. The multiantenna receiving device is comprised of soft judgement output units (520_A, 522_A, 524_B, 526_B) for carrying out a soft judgement of a modulation signal in accordance... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100008439 - System and method for quasi-orthogonal space-time block coding: The present invention relates to a quasi-orthogonal space-time block coding system and method. The system does not become particularly complicated since the encoding rate is given as 1 and it is possible to decode the encoded signal by using a simple linear algorithm, and system performance is increased since there... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100008445 - Method and system for generating reference signals in a wireless communication system: A method of generating reference signals is provided. The method includes precoding a reference signal to generate a plurality of precoded reference signals. For each precoded reference signal, a signal based on the precoded reference signal is transmitted from a corresponding physical antenna.... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100008446 - Transceiver architecture with combined smart antenna calibration and digital predistortion: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for using digital predistortion are disclosed. A first transmitter 212 may send a first signal. A second transmitter 212 may send a second signal. A multipurpose calibration transceiver 902 may execute a first distortion observation of the first signal to be a basis for... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100008447 - Method and device for transmitting a plurality of data symbols: A method for transmitting a plurality of data symbols using a plurality of transmit antennas and a plurality of transmission resources is described, in which transmission symbols are generated and associated with the transmit antennas and transmission resources in such a way, such that if this association is represented in... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100008448 - Transmitting/receiving system and method of processing data in the transmitting/receiving system: A receiving system and a data processing method are disclosed. The receiving system includes a receiving unit, a demodulator, a first handler, a second handler, and a third handler. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal comprising fast information channel (FIC) data, transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, and mobile service... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100008449 - Frequency dependent i/q imbalance estimation: A receiver estimates I/Q imbalance in I and Q input signals using circuitry to separate different frequency components of the I and Q input signals, and estimation circuitry arranged to estimate I/Q imbalance at the different frequency bands. The separating of the bands may be carried out in the frequency... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20100008450 - Demodulation using blind constellation identification for communication signals: A receiver and a method to demodulate an unknown signal with an unknown linear modulation is described. The method of one of various embodiments comprises: sampling the unknown signal at a sampling rate to produce a sampled signal; applying carrier frequency offset estimation to the sampled signal to match the... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20100008453 - Antenna array pattern distortion mitigation: At least one feature provides a way to perform point-to-multipoint transmissions using adaptive or directional antennas while reducing antenna pattern distortion. Generally, rather than transmitting the same waveform to two or more receivers, an information-bearing signal is transformed into different decorrelated waveforms and each decorrelated waveform is transmitted to a... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100008452 - Method and apparatus for estimating doppler frequency in a mobile terminal: A method and apparatus for estimating a Doppler frequency in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes calculating two autocorrelation values for intervals of at least one sample from a channel estimation tap with a maximum power, and estimating a maximum Doppler frequency using the two autocorrelation values. The... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100008451 - Symbol detection in a mimo communication system: Circuits are provided for detecting symbols transmitted from multiple transmitting antennas to multiple receiving antennas. A circuit includes distance blocks, selectors, and an identifier block. Each distance-block includes at least one sub-block, and each sub-block inputs a candidate for a corresponding transmitting antenna. The sub-block determines partial distances for pairings... Agent: Xilinx, Inc Attn: Legal Department

20100008454 - Method for compensation of information losses in an ofdm-based multi-carrier communication signal caused by blanking out pulse-shaped interferences: A method for compensation of information losses caused by blanking out pulse-shaped interferences in a communication signal, wherein a receiver receives a modulated OFDM-based signal comprising an overlap of a sequence of a predetermined number of subcarrier signals whose frequencies differ by a constant amount and which have substantially no... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20100008455 - Monitoring of an antenna system: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for monitoring an antenna system comprising at least two antenna branches providing antenna diversity. At least a first signal branch measure and a second signal branch measure are repeatedly generated in response to a first signal branch and a second signal... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100008456 - Method and system for compensating asymmetrical delays: A method and a data-transmission system for transmitting data encoded in a signal between a transmitting user and a receiving user of the data-transmission system via a network structure of the data-transmission system. The data encoded in the signal are serially transmitted bit-by-bit in data frames having a defined structure.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100008457 - Method and computer program for identifying a transition in a phase-shift keying or frequency-shift keying signal: A system for identifying phase transitions in phase-shift keying signals and frequency transitions in frequency-shift keying signals broadly comprises a memory and a computing element capable of: selecting a portion of the signal to analyze, wherein the signal comprises a plurality of data samples; applying a transform to the signal... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20100008459 - Calibrating a phase detector and analog-to-digital converter offset and gain: The present invention includes apparatus and methods to calibrate a phase detector and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) offset and gain. In one such embodiment, an apparatus includes a phase detector to generate an error pulse and a reference pulse, a combiner to combine the pulses, and an ADC to receive... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20100008458 - Methods and apparatuses for estimating time delay and frequency offset in single frequency networks: In one method, an uplink signal carrying at least one block of transmitted samples is transmitted, and a distorted copy of the uplink signal is received as a downlink signal. A plurality of blocks of received samples are generated based on the received downlink signal, and a time delay and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100008460 - Synchronous de-skew with programmable latency for multi-lane high speed serial interface: A method and system for performing clock calibration and de-skew on a multi-lane high speed serial interface is presented. Each of a plurality of serial lane transceivers associated with an individual bit lane receives a first data frame, comprising a training sequence header pattern. Based on each of the first... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100002749 - Method of coding and decoding a pulse signal, in particular an uwb-ir signal, and corresponding devices: A method is for decoding a pulse signal modulated through a transmitted reference modulation scheme. The modulated pulse signal may include, repetitively, a reference pulse followed by an information pulse delayed with a delay. The method may include subtracting or adding from the modulated pulse signal, a version of the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20100002750 - Systems and methods for securing a digital communications link: The frequency of a digital data signal, such as a digital video signal, is intentionally varied or hopped before being sent over a network. This frequency hopping may be performed in accordance with a frequency hopping pattern shared with only intended receivers. The digital data signal may be further intentionally... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100002752 - Efficient multipath centroid tracking circuit for a code division multiple access (cdma) system: A method implemented in a communication device for tracking a spread spectrum signal having an associated code at a receiver is claimed. Components of the spread spectrum signal are despread using locally generated versions of the associated code, each component having a different code phase. A tracking error is determined... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100002751 - Multi-dimensional signal of reduced peak-to-rms ratio: A transmitter and a method are described herein that can generate a radio signal with a reduced ratio of peak amplitude to root-mean-square amplitude which helps to improve the transmit efficiency of the transmitter's power amplifier. In addition, a receiver is also described herein that can decode the radio signal.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100002753 - Method for transmitting data of a data stream via a communication medium in a communication system, as well as subscribers of a communication system, and a communication system for implementing the method: In a subscriber of a communication system for transmitting data of a data stream in time slots of recurring communication cycles, the communication system includes a communication medium, the subscriber, and at least one additional subscriber. The subscribers are connected to the communication medium for data transmission purposes. To allow... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100002754 - Transmitting spread signal in communication system: The present invention provides for transmitting a spread signal in a mobile communication system. The present invention includes spreading a signal using a plurality of spreading codes, wherein the plurality of spreading codes have a spreading factor, multiplexing the spread signal by code division multiplexing, transmitting the multiplexed signal via... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100002755 - Method and apparatus for a multi-tone modem: A multi-tone modem with shared and discrete components forming a transmit path and a receive path configured to couple to a wired communication medium to communicate at least one multi-tone modulated communication channel thereon. The modem includes a multi-tone modulator component and a configurable frequency up converter component. The multi-tone... Agent: Ip Creators

20100002756 - Method for decoding a composite radio signal and corresponding receiver: m

20100002757 - System and method for improved frequency/phase error tracking in high-speed high-frequency communication: A single carrier modulation scheme suitable for use in high frequency communication systems is provided that achieves improved residual frequency error and phase noise estimation. At a transmitter, cyclically orthogonal constant amplitude pilot signals are inserted at the beginning (or end) of a plurality of SCBT blocks of a block... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100002758 - 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: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20100002759 - Low bias estimation of small signal-to-noise ratio: A method implemented by a user equipment includes selecting a first estimate of a signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio, calculating a first amplitude and first noise variance, calculating a second amplitude and a second noise variance, calculating a second SNR, calculating a resolution value, adjusting the first SNR, and performing estimation iterations... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20100002760 - System and method for linear distortion estimation by way of equalizer coefficients: Provided is a method and system for estimating distortion in a communications channel including an adaptive equalizer. The method includes determining one or more adaptive filter coefficients associated with a signal passed through the equalizer. The method also includes estimating un-equalized channel distortion based upon the determined adaptive filter coefficients.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100002763 - Apparatus and method for digital item description and process using scene representation language: Provided are an apparatus and method for describing and processing digital items using a scene representation language. The apparatus includes a digital item method engine (DIME) unit for executing components based on component information included in the digital item; and a scene representation unit for expressing scenes of a plural... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100002762 - Method for reference picture management involving multiview video coding: A series of memory management operation commands are described for the memory management of decoded reference pictures that are stored within a memory (1110), a multiview video coding operation. The video coding operation will consider the view for which a picture is to be coded as compared against the view... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100002761 - Method for using a network abstract layer unit to signal an instantaneous decoding refresh during a video operation: A memory management technique is defined for memory management for a memory used for storing reference pictures associated with a multiview coded video picture system. Based upon information received with coded picture information of an instantaneous refresh decode picture, a determination is made to delete reference pictures associated with a... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100002764 - Method for encoding an extended-channel video data subset of a stereoscopic video data set, and a stereo video encoding apparatus for implementing the same: A method for generating candidate encoding modes for an extended-channel video data subset of a stereo video data set includes the steps of: generating, for each macroblock of each frame of the extended-channel video data subset, a forward time difference image feature parameter set with reference to pixel values of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100002767 - Dynamic image encoding device, dynamic image decoding device, dynamic image encoding method, dynamic image decoding method, dynamic image encoding program, and dynamic image decoding program: A device and method to perform encoding and decoding at a high compression rate even with a video of a mixture of pictures of different bandwidths. In a video encoding device, a predicted signal generator extracts spatial frequency components in a predetermined band from a predetermined extraction reference picture except... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100002765 - Image encoding apparatus and method: An image encoding apparatus includes a calculation unit for calculating complexity from pixel values of an input image, the complexity representing a code amount generated by prediction encoding each block included in a prediction target region of the input image, and an allocation unit for allocating a code amount to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100002766 - Video encoding/ decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100002768 - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus: A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100002774 - Memory device and device and method for detecting motion vector: This invention relates to a memory device and the like that are preferably applied to a case where motion vector is detected using a block matching. Pixel data of a first frame (a reference frame) is stored in a unit A of memory cell array portion 20a in straight binary... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100002772 - Method and device for restoring a video sequence: In order to restore a video sequence consisting of a plurality of images each comprising at least one block of pixels: the value of the similarity between a block of pixels to be restored in the current image and a plurality of blocks of a reference image is calculated (10);... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20100002773 - Motion-compensated temporal recursive filter: Motion compensation means for a time recursive filter includes a block motion estimation module (12) having an input video signal (1) and a input delayed output signal (6) of the time recursive filter. The block motion estimation module outputs block motion vectors (13) to at least one block splitting stage... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100002771 - Seamless wireless video transmission for multimedia applications: A method of temporal error concealment for generating the image data of the missing macro-blocks in the current frame by using the previous frame and the correct data of the current frame is disclosed. The method includes the steps: first using Optimal Regression Plane to estimate the space motion vectors... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20100002769 - System and method for encoding and decoding information in digital signal content: Systems and methods for embedding and extracting data in a digital signal content are disclosed. In the various embodiments, a system includes a processing unit configured to receive the digital signal content and the data, and an encoder configured to embed the data into the digital signal content. In other... Agent: Polsinelli Shughart PC

20100002770 - Video encoding by filter selection: A method and a device are described for selecting between multiple available filters in an encoder to provide a frame having a low error and distortion rate. For each full and sub pixel position, determining whether to use an alternative filter over the default filter during interpolation by estimating the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100002775 - Low-complexity and high-quality error concealment techniques for video sequence transmissions: A spatial error concealment (SEC) method for concealing a spatial image error of an encoded image frame caused by a damaged macroblock (MB) is provided. The SEC method selects a proper SEC algorithm by adaptively classifying a plurality of correct MBs adjacent to the damaged MB, so as to execute... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20100002776 - Method and apparatus for storing decoded moving pictures with a reduced memory requirement: A method for storing decoded moving pictures with a reduced memory requirement includes: decoding header information in a bitstream; storing a decoded moving picture as a buffered picture; determining a less important portion of the buffered picture; and performing a post-processing operation on the less important portion of the buffered... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20100002777 - Systems and methods for construction of time-frequency surfaces and detection of signals: Systems and methods for detecting and/or identifying signals that employ streaming processing to generate time-frequency surfaces by sampling a datastream according to a temporal structure that may be chosen as needed. The sampled datastream may be correlated with a set of templates that span the band of interest in a... Agent: O.keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders, L.L.P. Building C, Suite 200

20100002778 - Data transfer system: 2n data transfer signal lines are provided between transmitting and receiving sides of data on n signal lines in order to reduce power consumption required for a data transfer even if the number of bits of data to be transferred increases. The transmitting side has an encoder for outputting a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100002779 - Mechanism for the management of receivers/decoders connections: The present invention relates to a communication device, comprising modulation and demodulation means, connected to a communication network and to at least one receiver/decoder, comprising means of selecting among the following different possibilities, depending on the available bandwidth on the communication network, upon receipt of a request originating from said... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100002785 - Adaptive thresholding for ofdm channel estimation: An adaptive thresholding technique eliminates suboptimum threshold values by adjusting for varying channel conditions to eliminate interference where no channel energy is present, without discarding viable taps having useful channel energy. The adaptive thresholding technique adaptively optimizes receive threshold values for both wide and local area channels based only on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100002791 - Apparatus and method for operating valid bit in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for processing a valid bit operation in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes analyzing input data and generating valid bit information representing a start position of valid bits, generating operation data comprised of the valid bits and valid bit information by eliminating extra... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100002783 - Blind channel estimation for psk and d-psk modulated multicarrier communication systems: An apparatus and method is described that provide an efficient blind channel estimation approach for PSK and DPSK modulated multicarrier communication systems. With the requirement that the channel phase difference between any two adjacent carriers is smaller than one half of the minimum phase difference between two symbols of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100002790 - Higher order multiple input, multiple output extension: A method of multiple input multiple output downlink communications including mapping complex-valued modulation symbols onto one or more transmission layers by mapping complex-valued modulation symbols onto the layers and preceding the complex-valued modulation block of vectors and generating a block of vectors mapped onto at least four antenna ports. A... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100002789 - Increased capacity communications systems, methods and/or devices: Communications architectures, systems, devices and/or methods are disclosed that can increase capacity of conventional OFDM/OFDMA systems, devices, methods and/or protocols by as much as 100%. Conventional OFDM/OFDMA transmitter/receiver architectures, methods, systems and/or devices are improved upon via additional signal processing to provide the increased capacity and reduce non-linear distortion effects... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20100002788 - Interpolating method for an ofdm system and channel estimation method and apparatus: The present invention provides an interpolating method for an OFDM system, a channel estimation method and apparatus, in which each OFDM symbol has scattered pilots inserted, and the interpolating method comprising: the step of inserting at least one copy of the first scattered pilot in each OFDM symbol before the... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100002784 - Method for reducing peak-to-average power ratio in an ofdm transmission system: The Peak-to-Average Power Ratio in an OFDM transmission system is reduced based on a complementary parity coding in which the coding rules are derived from an appropriate auto-correlation property of transmitted symbol sequences.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100002782 - Radio communication system and radio communication method: In an OFDM cellular system, a power density of a phase reference signal of a time frame used in an initial synchronization process (time frame including a system information notification signal, or a time frame in the vicinity thereof), in a channel band for initial synchronization, is more increased than... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20100002780 - Signal component demultiplexing apparatus, filter apparatus, receiving apparatus, communication apparatus, and communication method: A communication apparatus, a signal component demultiplexing apparatus, and a filter apparatus to reduce a load of FFT processing in a receiver in multi-carrier communication. The receiving apparatus provides a signal component demultiplexing apparatus before an FFT circuit and extracts only the required symbol series. The signal component demultiplexing apparatus... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100002786 - Signal detecting method and receiver using the same: A signal detecting method and a receiver using the same are provided. The method includes the following steps. A receiving signal vector y is received through a number of channels, wherein the receiving signal vector y corresponds to a transmitting signal vector x transmitted by at least one of the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100002792 - System, apparatus and method for interleaving data bits or symbols: A data transmission system respectively encodes successive bits representing information to be transmitted. An interleaver receives the bits from the encoder and interleaves the bits. The interleaver includes a memory and a memory read write controller configured to write the bits to the memory in accordance with a diagonal write... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100002781 - Transmitter identification using a continuous wave tone: A methodology for transmitter identification for a single frequency network is provided using a single CW tone. The tone can be transmitted outside the transmitter's active band. It is possible to arrive at significant overlap between the tone coverage area and the coverage area of a neighboring transmitter without disturbing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100002787 - Wireless communication system with multiple transmission antennas using pilot subcarrier allocation: A method for allocating pilot subcarriers in a resource block for a wideband wireless mobile communication system having four (4) transmission antennas using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDMA) modulation is disclosed. In this method, pilot subcarriers are allocated in the resource block so that a group of consecutive data subcarriers... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100002795 - Low complexity high-speed communications transceiver: A communication system is disclosed that allows high data-rate transmission of data between components. N-bit parallel data is transmitted in K-frequency separated channels on the transmission medium so as to fully take advantage of the overall bandwidth of the transmission medium. As a result, a very high data-rate transmission can... Agent: Entropic Communications, Inc.

20100002793 - Method and apparatus for coding relating to a forward loop: A high data width accelerator, comprising computer instructions for calculating at least a portion of a trace-back during a trellis computation, wherein the calculation allows faster trace-back... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20100002794 - Method, medium and apparatus for quantization encoding and de-quantization decoding using trellis: Provided are a method and apparatus for quantization encoding and de-quantization decoding using a trellis. Unlike a trellis coded quantization (TCQ) index, by classifying quantization levels to which cosets are allocated and allocating indexes to the quantization levels so that a coset corresponding to a specific branch in a predetermined... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100002796 - Adaptive transmission method and system for wireless communication system: The present invention provides a wireless transmission method and system based on maximum multi-path delay estimation. A wireless transmission method based on an estimation of maximum multi-paths delay, comprising: a communication apparatus involved in wireless communication estimates the maximum multi-paths delay of a currently received frame; the communication apparatus performs... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100002798 - Maximum ratio transmission: e

20100002797 - System and method for quantization of channel state information: A system and method for quantization of channel state information is provided. A method for operating in a wireless communications system includes estimating a communications channel between a controller and a mobile device, thereby producing a channel estimate, parameterizing the channel estimate with principal angle vectors Θ and Φ, quantizing... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20100002799 - Cdm signal transmitter with modulators reduced in number and a method therefor: A code division multiplex signal transmitter includes an operational circuit, a modulator unit and a multiplexer. The operational circuit adds up input transmission data on channels to produce resultant added data and modulates pieces of bit transmission data which are indicative of the values of the respective bits of the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100002800 - Method and apparatus of transmitting reference signal for uplink transmission: A method and apparatus of transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes generating a precoded reference signal or a non-precoded reference signal in accordance with a rank, and transmitting the generated reference signal. Uplink transmission using multiple transmit antennas is supported through reference... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20100002802 - Ofdm transmitting and receiving systems and methods thereof: An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission system is provided which includes a data processing unit which generates a transmission signal using a plurality of tones including a reserved tone, a storage unit which stores Peak Reduction Kernel information according to the type of data symbol, and a compensation unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100002801 - Precoding in high-order mimo: A high-order Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmitter implementing a covariance-based precoding scheme that exploits transmit channel correlation and a method of operation thereof are provided. In one embodiment, covariance-based precoding is performed at the high-order MIMO transmitter based on feedback from a remote high-order MIMO receiver regarding a covariance-based precoding matrix. The... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20100002803 - Communication method and device: The present invention relates to the field of communication and transmission of signals. In particular, the present invention relates to a new communication and/or modulation method. The present invention also relates to improving channel occupancy. The present specification discloses the adoption of phase transitions/changes in a manner that indicates a... Agent: Winstead PC

20100002804 - Radio transmission device and radio transmission method: It is possible to provide a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method which can avoid degradation of a channel estimation accuracy using a reference signal formed by a ZC sequence even when the RS transmission band of a local cell is different from that of an adjacent cell.... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100002806 - Apparatus for receiving signals in ofdm communication system having multiple antennas and method thereof: Provided are an apparatus for receiving signals in an OFDM communication system using multiple transmission/reception antennas and a method thereof. The method includes modulating a predetermined part of a data stream based on a multi-dimensional reception procedure to generate a first modulated data stream; regenerating a symbol corresponding to the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100002805 - Signal decoding system and method: A signal decoding system includes a signal acquisition unit, and a decoding unit including a segmenting module and a decoding module; the signal acquisition unit is configured for receiving a data waveform and a clock waveform outputted from one or more electronic devices; the segmenting module is configured for dividing... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100002807 - Frequency demodulation with threshold extension: A frequency demodulator comprises a frequency discriminator configured to generate a frequency modulation signal from frequency modulated signal, circuitry for generating a phase modulation signal from the frequency modulation signal, and a click reduction signal processing (CRSP) circuit operable to remove noise enhancements from the phase modulation signal caused by... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (panasonic)

20100002809 - Phy sub-channel processing: Physical layer (PHY) sub-channel processing. A soft symbol decision stream is arranged into a number of sub-channels to reduce substantially the processing performed within a communication receiver on data that is not intended for that communication receiver. In other embodiments, a predetermined approach is employed to arrange the soft symbol... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20100002808 - Systems and methods for performing siso detection in a wimax environment: In accordance with some embodiments, a communication system is described that comprises a soft-output detector configured to receive a transmit signal and output reliability information regarding the received signal. In accordance with such embodiments, the detector comprises a symbol combiner configured to operate in both a repetition mode and a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100002810 - Adaptive optimization method and apparatus for average length: The invention provides an average length adaptive optimization method and apparatus. An adaptive optimization method for the average length used for phase recovery comprising: a residual phase difference calculation step, for receiving a current phase of a digital symbol obtained by phase recovery and a data modulation phase of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100002811 - Soft repetition code combiner using channel state information: Another embodiment is a method and apparatus to decode a signal using averaging. A channel estimator provides a channel estimate. A multiplier multiplies a quantized output of a demodulator with the channel estimate to produce N symbols of a signal corresponding to a carrier. A de-interleaver de-interleaves the N symbols.... Agent: Maxim/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100002812 - Multi-antenna wireless receiver chains with vector decoding: A receiver chain is provided for use in wireless data communication including a plurality of receive antennas and a vector Barker decoder or a CCK decoder. The vector Barker decoder operates on the plurality of received signals, preferably processed through a plurality of channel matched filters. The weightings of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100002813 - Soft scaling method and apparatus: A received signal of interest is processed by determining timing of interference spikes in the received signal of interest. Receivers can determine when certain types of interference spikes are expected to occur, e.g., based on when different users are scheduled to transmit data during an overlapping portion of the same... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100002814 - Receiver: A receiver for a telecommunications system, wherein the receiver is capable of using a plurality of available alternative receiver sub-systems and the receiver comprises selection means for selecting one of the plurality of receiver sub-systems for use in processing a received signal according to conditions of the propagation channel through... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20100002815 - Dynamic filtering for adjacent channel interference suppression: A method for adjacent channel interference suppression comprises the steps of receiving a composite signal including a signal of interest and possibly one or more adjacent channel interferers, measuring the signal of interest and the possibly one or more adjacent channel interferers, and adjusting a location of at least one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100002816 - Method and apparatus for multiple signal identification and finding the basis functions of the received signal: A method is disclosed to detect a broad class of signals in Gaussian noise using higher order statistics. The method detects a number of different signal types. The signals may be in the base-band or the pass-band, single-carrier or multi-carrier, frequency hopping or non-hopping, broad-pulse or narrow-pulse etc. In a... Agent: Bae Systems

20100002818 - Electronic apparatus, clock apparatus, and clock control apparatus: m

20100002817 - Method and apparatus for adaptive timing synchronization in a communication network: An adaptive timing synchronization process dynamically adapts timing synchronization parameters for both wide and local area channels based on channel estimates. Timing synchronization parameters are dynamically adapted according to C/I estimates calculated from WID/LID energies. The timing synchronization algorithm 102 takes as the primary input, the current channel estimate 110... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100002819 - Tracker circuit and method for automated test equipment systems: A digital data signal capture circuit for synchronization of received digital data signals includes a transition detector for determining a state transition of the received digital data signal. The transition detector samples the received digital data signal at a first time, a second time and a third time and determines... Agent: Balzan Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100002820 - Multistation communication apparatus: A multistation communication apparatus in which each of a plurality of primary stations (21) is connected to a plurality of secondary stations (91) by a communication channel for each primary station and the transmission from the primary stations (21) to the secondary stations (91) is performed by 1:1. The apparatus... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100002821 - Clock determination for a sensor: A method for determining a clock for a sensor signal which has a synchronization signal, which method involves a control unit measuring the period between a first edge and a second edge of the synchronization signal, wherein both edges are either rising or falling, and the control unit taking the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20100002822 - Phase comparator, phase comparison device, and clock data recovery system: A comparison period detecting unit (11) defines, as a comparison period, a period between a rising edge of a first clock signal and a rising edge of a second clock signal, and detects the presence or absence of transition of a data signal during the comparison period. A phase relationship... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP