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20120120988 - Repeater and self-excitation detecting method and system: The present invention relates to the communication field and provides method and system for detecting repeater self-excitation and the repeater using the method and system. The method includes detecting an output power of an up link; judging whether the detected output power of the up link exceeds a threshold of... Agent: Shenzhen Grentech Co., Ltd.

20120120991 - Base station antenna device embedded with transmission and receiving module: A base station antenna device containing a transmission and reception module is provided, which includes at least one antenna element configured to transmit and receive RF signals; the transmission and reception module configured to be connected to the antenna element and to form transmission and reception paths for the RF... Agent: Ace Technologies Corp.

20120120989 - Contactless communication device, contactless ic card, and mobile information terminal: There is included a detection unit for detecting a magnitude of a surplus of a direct current to a source voltage generated by a voltage generation unit generating the source voltage from the direct current obtained by rectifying a signal inputted from an antenna terminal. A data processing unit operating... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20120120990 - System for predistortion and post-distortion correction of both a receiver and transmitter during calibration: A post-distorter compensates for receiver nonlinearity in calibration mode. Linearized receiver-side output from the post-distorter is used to correctly compensate for transmitter-side nonlinearities in calibration mode. The post-distorter also compensates for receiver-side nonlinearities during normal receive mode. Thus, the post-distorter features dual modes of use, a calibration mode, wherein calibration... Agent: Vyycore Corporation

20120120992 - Lo generation and distribution in a multi-band transceiver: A VCO of a PLL outputs a first differential signal of frequency FVCO. A first divide-by-two circuit local to the VCO divides the first differential signal and outputs a first quadrature signal of frequency FVCO/2. Two of the component signals of the first quadrature signal are routed to a second... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120120994 - Automated appliance registration: A system for automatically registering an appliance, including a storage housed within an electrical appliance for storing identifying information about the electrical appliance and its purchase, and a communication card including a controller, an interface connector for connecting the communication card to the electrical appliance, a wireless cellular modem for... Agent:

20120120995 - Modem unit and mobile communication unit: A modem unit includes a first semiconductor die that includes a power management unit and an embedded flash memory. A mobile communication unit includes a modem unit residing on a first semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die also includes a power management unit and an embedded flash memory.... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Gmbh

20120120993 - Resynchronization method for recovering from sleep mode and apparatuses using the same: A wireless communications device connected to a service network with a synchronized timing pattern therebetween is provided. In the wireless communications device, a wireless modem is configured to enable wireless signal transceiving from and to the service network in a non-sleep mode and disable wireless signal transceiving from and to... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20120121000 - Digital communications test system for multiple input, multiple output (mimo) systems: A digital communications test system and method for testing a plurality of devices under test (DUTs) in which multiple sets of a single vector signal analyzer (VSA) and single vector signal generator (VSG) can be used together to perform error vector magnitude (EVM) measurements for one or more DUTs in... Agent: Litepoint Corporation

20120121001 - Digital communications test system for multiple input, multiple output (mimo) systems: A digital communications test system and method for testing a plurality of devices under test (DUTs) in which multiple sets of a single vector signal analyzer (VSA) and single vector signal generator (VSG) can be used together to perform error vector magnitude (EVM) measurements for one or more DUTs in... Agent: Litepoint Corporation

20120120998 - Dynamic allocation of transceivers and frequency channels in mimo systems: A communication system is provided that switches the communication of multi-antenna transmitter and receiver terminals between MIMO and frequency-bundle modes. In MIMO mode all transmitter and receiver antennas operate in the same frequency channel while in frequency-bundle mode each pair of one transmitter antenna and one receiver antenna is tuned... Agent:

20120120996 - Integrated circuit including pulse control logic having shared gating control: An integrated circuit with a pulse clock unit having shared gating control includes one or more logic blocks, each including a clock distribution network configured to distribute a clock signal. The integrated circuit also includes a clock unit coupled to the one or more logic blocks and configured to generate... Agent:

20120120997 - Methods and systems for precoder selection assisted by demodulation reference signals (dm-rs): Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for using demodulation reference signals (DM-RSs) to obtain channel state information (CSI) for precoder selection. A method includes: receiving a DM-RS in at least one subframe, determining the CSI from the DM-RS; and using the CSI to perform at least one... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20120120999 - Mobile wireless terminal, a method of measuring signal strength of a received signal, and a method of searching for a base station: A mobile wireless terminal includes a wireless receiving part configured to receive a wireless signal from a base station which belongs to a mobile communication system using a time-frequency conversion for baseband processing; a received signal processing part that includes a time-frequency converting circuit and is configured to process the... Agent: Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications Limited

20120121002 - Receiver and signal receiving method thereof: A signal receiving method of a receiver includes following steps. Multiple time-domain received signals are transformed into multiple frequency-domain received signals, and channel response matrices corresponding to the frequency-domain received signals are estimated. The frequency-domain received signals are STBC decoded and multiple original combination signals are obtained based on the... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20120121003 - Methods and apparatus for wirelessly communicating signals that include embedded synchronization/pilot sequences: An embodiment for wirelessly communicating a signal includes a transmitter combining a plurality of phase shifted input data signals with a plurality of synchronization/pilot sequences to produce a plurality of combined signals, performing frequency domain-to-time domain transformations of the combined signals to produce a plurality of candidate signals, determining peak-to-average... Agent: General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.

20120121005 - Concatenation-assisted symbol-level combining for mimo systems with harq and/or repetition coding: Systems and methods are provided for decoding signal vectors in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the receiver has received one or more signal vectors from the same transmitted vector. The receiver combines the received vectors by vector concatenation The concatenated vector may then be decoded using, for example, maximum-likelihood decoding.... Agent:

20120121004 - Differential equalizers with source degeneration and feedback circuits: An embodiment of an equalizer includes a voltage-to-current converter and a current-to-voltage converter. The voltage-to-current converter is configured to convert a differential input voltage to a differential current, and includes a differential amplifier with a first transistor and a second transistor, and a first source degeneration circuit coupled between the... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

20120121006 - Equalizer architecture for data communication: An update algorithm for equalizer coefficients in a communications system using phase correction symbols. Instead of using a traditional all symbols slicer update algorithm, the equalizer is updated during phase correction symbols for optimal performance in low signal-to-noise ratio conditions. In lower signal-to-noise ratio conditions, the equalizer uses a phase... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120121007 - System and method for effectively transferring electronic information: A system and method for effectively transferring electronic information includes a transmitter with an encoder that performs a parity encoding procedure. The encoder creates parity blocks for embedding in transmission packets. The parity blocks may be based upon data segments from one or more of the transmission packets. The system... Agent:

20120121008 - Memory access device and video processing system: Required-bandwidth obtaining units are provided in respective function blocks, and each output required-bandwidth information representing the required bandwidth of a corresponding function block based on the horizontal frequency and the number of effective pixels per period of a horizontal synchronization signal. A memory bus arbiter calculates the sum of the... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120121009 - Methods and apparatus for adaptive transform selecton for video encoding and decoding: Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptive transform selection for video encoding and decoding. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding at least a block in a picture using a transform. The transform used to encode the block is selected from a plurality of transforms. The plurality of transforms... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20120121012 - Image coding method and image decoding method: According to an embodiment, an image coding method includes a transforming and quantizing step of orthogonally transforming and quantizing each of a plurality of blocks as a unit within a target region of an input image to obtain coefficients; and a variable-length coding step of coding a plurality of coefficient... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120121010 - Methods for coding and decoding a block of picture data, devices for coding and decoding implementing said methods: c

20120121011 - Parallel context calculation in video coding: In one example, a method for coding video data includes identifying a scan path for scanning significance information associated with a quantized transform coefficient. The method also includes determining a context support neighborhood for entropy coding the significance information associated with the quantized transform coefficient, wherein the context support neighborhood... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120121013 - Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding: There is disclosed an apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding. The apparatus comprises a selector configured for selecting an encoding method from a set of encoding methods comprising at least a first encoding method and a second encoding method for encoding a block of pixels of... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120121016 - Predictive encoding and data decoding control: Decoding control apparatus for decoding predictive encoded data. A picture detector determines the fewest possible pictures which must be decoded first before decoding a picture which are to be displayed after an edit point. A start-point finder for finds the start point for decoding the fewest possible pictures determined by... Agent:

20120121015 - Processing multiview video: Decoding a multiview video signal comprises: receiving a bitstream comprising encodings of multiple views of the multiview video signal, each view comprising multiple pictures segmented into multiple segments; and obtaining a predictor for illumination compensation of a first segment with respect to a reference picture using an offset value for... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120121014 - Processing of multimedia data: The invention relates to techniques for processing media data at a receiver device in a packet-switched network. It is proposed to detect data packet losses in the media data, and to determine data frames, like P-frames or I-frames, within a group of successive frames, like the GOP structure, affected by... Agent:

20120121017 - Reference picture list construction for generalized p/b frames in video coding: This disclosure relates to techniques for indicating that a video frame is coded as a generalized P/B (GPB) frame in order to reduce a cost of coding and constructing a second reference picture list in video coding. For a GPB frame, which has identical reference picture lists, signaling and constructing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120121018 - Generating single-slice pictures using paralellel processors: A video encoding system generates (e.g., H.264) single-slice pictures using parallel processors. Each picture is divided horizontally into multiple segments, where each different parallel processor processes a different segment. Each parallel processor (other than the first parallel processor of the uppermost segment) only partially processes the macroblocks in the first... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20120121019 - Image processing device and method: A reference adjacent pixel determining unit 83 receives input of determination results from a reference adjacent determining unit 77 regarding whether or not reference adjacent pixels exist within the image frame of a reference frame. In the event that reference adjacent pixels exist within the image frame of the reference... Agent:

20120121020 - Motion image encoding apparatus, motion image decoding apparatus, motion image encoding method, motion image decoding method, motion image encoding program, and motion image decoding program: A motion image decoding apparatus for generating a prediction signal in blocks is provided with a low-resolution block decoder for generating a low-resolution block with a smaller number of pixels than that of a prediction block by decoding encoded data. The motion image decoding apparatus is further provided with an... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20120121021 - Prediction of a movement vector of a current image partition pointing to a reference zone that covers several reference image partitions and encoding and decoding using one such prediction: A method and apparatus are provided for predicting a movement vector of a current image partition in relation to a movement vector of a reference partition having the same form as the current image partition and belonging to a reference image (IN-1) which is different from the current image and... Agent: France Telecom

20120121022 - Systems and methods for compression, transmission and decompression of video codecs: Embodiments of this invention include computer-implemented mathematical methods to develop software and/or hardware implementations that use wavelet transforms (WT) to pre-process video frames that can then be compressed using a variety of codecs to produce compressed video frames. Such compressed video frames can then be transmitted, decompressed, post-processed using the... Agent:

20120121023 - System and method for multi-carrier multiplexing: A system for a multiplexing scheme for wideband signals in a communications system is provided. A codeblock of a multiplexed datastream is decoded. The codeblock includes a flag indicating whether the codeblock contains a timeplan, signifying a multiplexing structure of the datastream. A determination is made whether the flag indicates... Agent:

20120121024 - Method and apparatus for parallel entropy encoding and parallel entropy decoding based on decoding rate: Provided are an entropy encoding method, an entropy decoding method, an entropy encoding apparatus, and an entropy decoding apparatus. The entropy encoding method includes: generating bitstreams by dividing video data into a plurality of data groups, encoding each of the data groups so as to generate symbols, and performing entropy... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120121025 - Bitstream manipulation and verification of encoded digital media data: Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for manipulating bitstreams of digital media data compressed according to a compression standard. Also disclosed are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for evaluating compliance of an encoded bitstream of digital media data with a compression standard. In one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120121028 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a control format indicator channel for a relay backhaul link in a wireless communication system: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving a control format indicator channel for a relay backhaul link in a wireless communication system. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for transmitting a control format indicator channel for a relay backhaul link in... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120121026 - Method for transmitting information according to target encoding rate, base station and mobile station: A method for transmitting information according to a target encoding rate is provided according to the embodiments of the present invention, which includes: obtaining basic information bits and at least one incremental information bit from information encoded by a base station (BS) according to a target encoding rate; and sequentially... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120121027 - Spectrum sensing: A communication apparatus including at least one user data communication block configured to transport user data, the user data communication block comprising two or more logical sub blocks configured to process user data on different protocol layers, wherein at least one of said sub blocks is configured to perform spectrum... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120121029 - Near end cross talk reduction for a mimo system: A method and a device perform data processing in a network element of a MIMO system, wherein near end cross talk is reduced at a collaborative network element of the MIMO system. A frequency band is at least partially used for upstream and downstream traffic. Furthermore, an interference canceller and... Agent: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

20120121030 - Compressive wireless modulation: A projection code is applied to encode symbols as weighted arithmetic sums of approximately random subsets of binary source bits. Pairs of the symbols are combined to form constellation points, which are sequentially mapped through a constellation to modulate a data signal.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120121032 - Communication station and method for transmitting ofdm symbols with cyclic-delay diversity (cdd): A communication station uses a plurality of antennas for transmission of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols. The communication station includes an interleaver to interleave a block of encoded bits of an associated input bit stream for use in generating an output bit stream having a desired code rate. The... Agent:

20120121031 - Method and apparatus for demodulation of a reference signal: A method for wireless network communication is provided. The method comprises determining, by a transmitter including a quantity of antennas, a quantity of transmitted layers; mapping a quantity of data symbols to the antennas using a quantity of precoders; generating a quantity of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) antenna ports based... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20120121033 - Method and device for decoding of signals transmitted over fading channels with multiplicative noise: A method of generating a reliability indicator for decoding an encoded signal transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver via a wireless channel subject to fading. The method comprises: receiving symbols of the encoded signal; generating a reliability indicator for decoding at least some of the symbols selectively based on... Agent: Icera Inc.

20120121035 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method: A method of processing data in a transmitter includes separating ensembles including mobile service data; building a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame including the mobile service data, dividing the built RS frame into RS frame portions; encoding signaling data including fast information channel (FIC) data including cross layer information for mobile service... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120121034 - Transmission method, transmission apparatus, reception method and reception apparatus: All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and... Agent:

20120121037 - Apparatus and method of reducing noise for frequency modulated signals: Apparatus for reducing FM click noise on a demodulated FM signal, the apparatus comprising, filter means configured to produce a click detection signal according to the demodulated FM signal, click detection means configured to receive the click detection signal and produce a click occurrence signal, and click correction means configured... Agent: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited

20120121040 - Apparatus for transmitting and receiving data to provide high-speed data communication and method thereof: In the present invention, data generated from a source unit are distributed to at least one bandwidth; the data distributed to the respective bandwidths are encoded in order to perform an error correction; the encoded data are distributed to at least one antenna; a subcarrier is allocated to the data... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120121039 - Digital fast cordic for envelope tracking generation: Disclosed is a coordinate rotation digital computer (CORDIC) having a maximum value circuit that selects a larger of the first component or the second component. A minimum value circuit selects a minimum operand that is a smaller one of the first component or the second component. Also included are N... Agent: Rf Micro Devices, Inc.

20120121036 - Method and apparatus for clock spur suppression in direct-rf modulators: Methods and systems to reduce clock spurs produced by a direct-RF modular to acceptable levels using a digital predistortion compensation signal. The digital compensation signal may be used to generate a sine wave in the digital domain with adjustable phase and amplitude. The digital compensation signal may be added to... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20120121038 - Processing method and device for simulating and adding noise to digital signals: The invention relates to a method of synthesizing the color-changing noise, which comprises the following steps: collecting target digital signals or target digital signal traces to be subject to the noise-adding processing; generating white noise signals or white noise signal traces; performing a convolution operation on the target digital signals... Agent: China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation

20120121042 - Configuration controller for receiver: A configuration controller generates one or more control signals based on channel data. The channel data includes requirements data received via the stream of inbound data, wherein the requirements data includes at least one of: a quality of service requirement, and a signal latency limit. A receiver includes an RF... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120121041 - Serial data interface for software-defined radio system: A radio system comprises a front-end receiver for receiving a RF signal and converting the RF signal into a digital payload signal. The system further comprises a base-band processor for processing the digital payload signal, and a serial data interface over which the front-end communicates the digital payload signal and... Agent: Microtune (texas), L.p.

20120121043 - Ehf wireless communication receiver using beamforming with a scalable number of antenna paths: The invention relates to a EHF wireless communication receiver comprising a phased array radio arranged for receiving a beam of signals in a predetermined frequency band. The phased array radio comprises a plurality of antenna paths, each arranged for handling one of the incoming signals and forming a differential I/Q... Agent: Imec

20120121044 - Wireless communication terminal: A wireless communication terminal includes an antenna selecting unit that selects, for each packet, an antenna for use in receiving signals from among a plurality of a plurality of antennas; a packet-destination judging unit that judges whether a packet obtained by demodulating a signal received by the receiving antenna selected... Agent:

20120121047 - Communication signal decoding and soft demapping methods and systems: Symbol detection and soft dempapping methods and systems are provided. Individual subset symbol detection according to an embodiment of the invention involves identifying a search subset of a transmission symbol set for a transmission symbol. For each other transmission symbol in communication signals, multiple search subsets of the transmission symbol... Agent: Rockstar Bidco, Lp

20120121045 - Mimo receiving method: To provide a space multiplex signal detection circuit capable of obtaining an excellent error rate characteristic by suppressing an increase in the circuit scale if when a modulation multivalued number is particularly increased in the case of receiving a signal subjected to space multiplexing to detect the signal. SOLUTION: A... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20120121046 - Repetition coding for a wireless system: A system and method are disclosed for transmitting data over a wireless channel. In some embodiments, transmitting data includes receiving convolutionally encoded data and enhancing the transmission of the data by further repetition encoding the data.... Agent: Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.

20120121048 - Multi-antenna channel estimation method based on polyphase decomposition: A multi-antenna channel estimation method based on polyphase decomposition includes: receiving frequency domain received signals transformed using discrete fourier transformation (DFT) in pilot symbols; performing phase correction on the frequency domain received signals; performing polyphase decomposition on the frequency domain received signals which are corrected using phase correction and acquiring... Agent:

20120121049 - Initial phase estimator to accelerate carrier phase recovery: Methods for accelerating a fine carrier phase and frequency offset recovery algorithm in a receiver of a communication system are provided. More specifically, a method for estimating and compensating for an initial phase offset of a received signal provided. Computing an initial phase shift and compensating for it can reduce... Agent:

20120121050 - Method and apparatus for analog pulse pile-up rejection: A method and apparatus for pulse pile-up rejection are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a delay value application constituent configured to receive a threshold-crossing time value, and provide an adjustable value according to a delay value and the threshold-crossing time value; and a comparison constituent configured to receive a peak-occurrence time... Agent: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC

20120121051 - Receive timing manager: A novel receive timing manager is presented. The preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises an edge detection logic to detect the data transition points, a plurality of data flip-flops for storing data at different sample points, and a multiplexer to select the ideal sample point based on the transition... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120121052 - Phase selector capable of tolerating jitter and method thereof, and clock and data recovery circuit: A phase selector capable of tolerating jitters is applied in a clock and data recovery circuit. The phase selector includes a comparing module, a weighting circuit, and a predictor. The comparing module compares a phase-detecting signal and a phase-selecting signal corresponding to the last cycle so as to generate an... Agent:

20120114014 - Using precoding vector switching in uplink shared channel: Methods and apparatuses are provided that include providing transmit diversity for data channel transmissions. Different precoding vectors can be used over different slots of a given subframes to precode corresponding signals. The precoding vectors, in one example, can be orthogonal. In addition, using the different precoding vectors can be determined... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120114015 - Synchronized system configuration: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for receiving a timing signal at a first access point, wherein the timing signal is also received at a second access point. A first time is synchronized at the first access point with a second time at the second... Agent:

20120114017 - Apparatus and method for modulating data message by employing orthogonal variable spreading factor (ovsf) codes in mobile communication system: A method for converting source data to a channel-modulated signal having a plurality of pairs of in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) data in a mobile station, wherein the mobile station uses at least one channel, includes the steps of: a) encoding the source data to generate at least one data... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120114016 - Method for processing data: A method includes encoding data according to a space time transmit diversity scheme and spatial-multiplexing the encoded data.... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag

20120114018 - Configurable baseband in a gps receiver: Clock compensation for GPS receivers. A receiver in accordance with the present invention comprises a Radio Frequency (RF) portion, and a baseband portion, coupled to the RF portion, wherein the baseband portion comprises a crystal, an oscillator, coupled to the crystal, wherein the oscillator generates a clock signal based on... Agent: Qualcomm Atheros Technology Ltd.

20120114019 - Range extension techniques for a wireless local area network: Techniques for extending transmission range in a WLAN are described. In an aspect, a receiving station determines the frequency error between a transmitting station and the receiving station based on one or more initial packet transmissions and corrects this frequency error for subsequent packet transmissions received from the transmitting station.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120114020 - De-spreading method for noncoherent receiver and receiver applying the same: The present invention is directed to a de-spreading method for a noncoherent receiver including: obtaining an output signal from a matched filter of a noncoherent receiver, which is PSK modulated and is at least two times upsampled; performing a noncoherent demodulation step including performing a differential operation on an in-phase... Agent:

20120114021 - Method and apparatus for configuring a transmission mode for a backhaul link transmission: Provided is a method for configuring a transmission mode for a backhaul link transmission in a radio communication system including a relay station. The method comprises: a step in which a base station transmits, to the relay station, a relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) containing backhaul control information; and a... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120114022 - Multi-carrier satellite network supporting heterogeneous terminals: In a satellite communication system, comprising a hub and a plurality of heterogeneous terminals, the hub may split a bandwidth segment designated for a forward channel into at least two carriers, wherein some of the terminals may listen on a first carrier and some other terminals may listen on the... Agent: Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd.

20120114025 - Diversity receiver and transceiver: A diversity receiver comprises a plurality of receiving paths connected to a receiver circuit. Each of the receiving paths comprises an antenna receiving a signal, connected to a matching network connected to a receive amplifier. The receiver circuit is connected to a signal level comparison circuit for providing a relative... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

20120114024 - Quantization of channel state information in multiple antenna systems: A method of transmission over multiple wireless channels in a multiple antenna system includes storing channel modulation matrices at a transmitter; receiving quantized channel state information at the transmitter from plural receivers; selecting a transmission modulation matrix using the quantized channel state information from the stored channel modulation matrices; and... Agent: Wi-lan Inc.

20120114023 - Tracking data eye operating margin for steady state adaptation: In described embodiments, a transceiver includes an eye monitor and margin detector having one or more samplers with corresponding logic. One or more programmable provisioning parameters are defined based on a pre-defined minimum target operating margin for acceptable noise and jitter margins. For example, two programmable provisioning parameters, phase and... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20120114026 - Datalink system architecture using ots/cots modem for mimo multipath sensing networks: An apparatus interfaces a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)/off-the-shelf (OTS) modem for pulsed data communication using existing sensor aperture among radar platforms. The apparatus includes a demodulator for receiving a sequence of first pulse signals, at least one first pulse signal of the sequence of first pulse signals being modulated with an input... Agent:

20120114027 - Data processing terminal system and transmitting and receiving method using the same: An information processing terminal system includes an information processing terminal (6); and a transmitting and receiving unit (5) which is attached to the information processing terminal. The transmitting and receiving unit (5) converts a reception wave signal from a network into a reception analog baseband signal. The transmitting and receiving... Agent: Nec Corporation

20120114028 - Coordinated multi-point transmission using interference feedback: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for wirelessly receiving, by a user equipment (UE), interference signal from a first enhanced Node B (eNB) while the UE is communicating with a second eNB; generating interference feedback information that is associated with an interference channel between the first eNB and the UE; and... Agent:

20120114029 - Method and apparatus for measuring time delay in envelope elimination and restoration transmitter: Provided are a method and apparatus for measuring a time delay in an envelope elimination and restoration (EER) transmitter. A method of measuring a time delay in an EER transmitter includes receiving a modulated sinusoidal signal and distributing the modulated sinusoidal signal to be transmitted through transmission lines separated from... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120114030 - Power scaling for retransmissions in uplink mimo hybrid arq: A method includes obtaining a precoder for retransmission of one codeword responsive to known precoding matrix P of rank r and modulation and coding scheme MCS assignments used in an original transmission, and a desired retransmission rank r′; and scaling power in the retransmission responsive to at least two of... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20120114032 - Equalization in proximity communication: A device includes a semiconductor die having a surface, a plurality of proximity connectors proximate to the surface, and a circuit coupled to at least one of the plurality of proximity connectors. The semiconductor die is configured to communicate voltage-mode signals through capacitive coupling using one or more of the... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20120114031 - Ofdm signal demodulation method and device thereof: The present invention discloses an OFDM signal demodulation method and device thereof. The method comprises: adding a pre-obtained timing offset estimation value of an OFDM signal demodulation device to the initial position of an OFDM symbol of a received signal to obtain a window deviation value of the OFDM symbol;... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120114033 - Using multi-level pulse width modulated signal for real time noise cancellation: A mixed signal processing circuit includes an analog to PWM converting circuit and a finite impulse response (FIR) filter having a multiple output tapped delay line and a summing and integration circuit. The mixed signal processing circuit converts an input analog signal to a PWM signal, forms a multi-level PWM... Agent: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.

20120114034 - Method and apparatus of delta quantization parameter processing for high efficiency video coding: In the current high efficiency video coding development, each LCU has its own quantization parameter (QP) and the difference between a current QP and a reference QP is transmitted instead of the QP value itself. Since the LCU is much larger than the macroblock of AVC/H.264, using one delta QP... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20120114035 - Motion picture encoding device and motion picture encoding processing program: The minimum Sum of Absolute Differences obtained by a motion vector search roughly judges the magnitude of quantization error by whether or not exceeding a predetermined threshold value. When the quantization error is lower, whether or not visually noticeable noise exists in some of the pixels of the current macroblock... Agent: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

20120114037 - Compressing and decompressing multiple, layered, video streams employing multi-directional spatial encoding: A process for compressing and decompressing non-keyframes in sequential sets of contemporaneous video frames making up multiple video streams where the video frames in a set depict substantially the same scene from different viewpoints. Each set of contemporaneous video frames has a plurality frames designated as keyframes with the remaining... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20120114038 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video signal according to directional intra residual prediction: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a video signal according to directional intra-residual prediction. The video encoding method of the present invention includes calculating first residual data by performing directional intra-prediction on a first block of a base layer with reference to a second block of the base... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120114036 - Method and apparatus for multiview video coding: The present invention relates to method and apparatus for multiview video coding. In particular, the present invention describes a disparity compensated prediction to exploit the inter-view correlation in multiview video coding by providing stretching, compression, and shearing (SCSH) disparity compensation to approximate the actual disparity effects in addition to the... Agent: Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute Company Limited

20120114039 - Video coding methods and apparatus: In methods for encoding and decoding digital pictures certain prediction parameters may be omitted from the output on the encoder side or the input on the decoder side. An encoder can identify prediction parameter values that can be omitted by determining whether a decoder emulator can reproduce the prediction parameter... Agent: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

20120114042 - In loop contrast enhancement for improved motion estimation: The present invention relates to a motion estimation method comprising the steps of: providing first image data, providing second image data, block-matching a source block of the first image date with target blocks of the second image data to determine a motion vector corresponding to the position of the target... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120114043 - Method and apparatus for encoding video by motion prediction using arbitrary partition, and method and apparatus for decoding video by motion prediction using arbitrary partition: Disclosed is a method and apparatus of encoding a video, the method including: splitting video data into a maximum coding unit; encoding the video data of the maximum coding unit based on deeper coding units of hierarchical structures in which a coding unit of an upper depth is split as... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120114041 - Motion vector generation apparatus, motion vector generation method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium: A motion vector generation apparatus which generates a motion vector utilized to execute motion-compensated encoding based on comparison between a block to be encoded in an image to be encoded and a reference block in a reference image. The apparatus sequentially selects a candidate from a plurality of motion vector... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20120114040 - System and method for enhancing compression using skip macro block on a compressed video: A method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for skip macro block compression of a compressed video. The method includes, for at least one INTER frame, saving a set of macro blocks including at least one of a macro block having a motion vector greater than a predetermined motion vector threshold,... Agent:

20120114044 - Video frame encoding and decoding: A video frame arithmetical context adaptive encoding and decoding scheme is presented which is based on the finding, that, for sake of a better definition of neighborhood between blocks of picture samples, i.e. the neighboring block which the syntax element to be coded or decoded relates to and the current... Agent:

20120114045 - Video processing architecture: A method for video processing may include receiving video data units, and compressing the video data units to generate compressed video data units that have a variable size. The method may also include storing the compressed video data units contiguously in a memory in memory segments that have a fixed... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120114048 - Methods and apparatus for collaborative partition coding for region based filters: Methods and apparatus are provided for collaborative partition coding for region based filters. An apparatus includes a video encoder (100) for encoding image data for a plurality of regions in a picture. The video encoder (100) includes multiple filters for filtering the image data based on region partition information for... Agent:

20120114046 - Transcode video verifier device and method for verifying a quality of a transcoded video file: A transcode video verifier device and a method are described herein that verify a quality of a transcoded video file by comparing the transcoded video file with its original source video file.... Agent:

20120114047 - Wireless communication system for transmitting high resolution multimedia data and method thereof: t

20120114049 - Apparatus: An apparatus comprising a controller configured to divide a section of an encoded multimedia signal into at least two segments depending on a time based decoding criteria; a generator configured to determine an error correction code for each of the at least two time segments; and a distributor configured to... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120114050 - Comp operation in cellular communication networks: A supporting radio base station (100) comprises an IQ sample provider (110) for extracting, in a selected subset of the available frequency band (A) and/or from a selected subset of the available antennas (B), so-called complementary IQ samples based on received radio signals including a radio signal originating from an... Agent: Telfonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20120114052 - Methods that communicate via transferjet and nfc transmitter and receiver pairing: An electronic communication device includes a high-rate RF wireless transmitter circuit (e.g., a TransferJet transmitter circuit) and a low-rate magnetically coupled receiver circuit (e.g., a Near Field Communication receiver circuit). The high-rate RF wireless transmitter circuit transmits a block of data to another proximately located communication device via RF signals... Agent: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ab

20120114051 - Multi-dimensional rate adaptation in a communication system: Performing wireless transmission of data over a wireless communication medium. A first data structure may be maintained which includes data rate information for transmission using a first number of streams. A second data structure may be maintained which includes data rate information for transmission using a second number of streams.... Agent: Qualcomm Atheros.inc.

20120114053 - Determining a response of a rapidly varying ofdm communication channel using an observation scalar: In an embodiment, a channel estimator includes first and second stages. The first stage is configurable to generate an observation scalar for a communication path of a communication channel, and the second stage is configurable to generate channel-estimation coefficients in response to the first observation scalar. For example, such a... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20120114054 - Systems and methods for low-complexity max-log mimo detection: Embodiments provide novel systems and methods for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Max-Log detection. These systems and methods enable near-optimal performance with low complexity for a two-input two-output channel. Some embodiments comprise using a Max-Log detector to compute a set of log-likelihood ratio (LLR) values for a channel input by minimizing cost... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120114055 - Receiving apparatus and method for providing input bits of fast fourier transformer according to modulation: A technology is provided capable of improving the efficiency of an OFDM system by obtaining the performance in Bit Error Rate (BER) in a wireless communication using OFDM and determining the minimum FFT input bit that produces a SNR difference of 0.1 dB or below with respect to a theoretical... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120114056 - Method and apparatus for interference cancellation and detection using precoders: A method to achieve full diversity without sacrificing bandwidth and with a linear complexity in a wireless system includes the steps of orthogonally transmitting a plurality of signals utilizing multiple antennas using a corresponding plurality of precoders in a plurality of time slots, which precoders are designed using the channel... Agent: The Regents Of The University Of California

20120114059 - Method, apparatus and system for providing feedback to a transmit diversity device: A method and system for improving closed loop feedback in transmit diversity communication. In one embodiment of the invention, a predetermined variation of one or more transmit diversity parameters is performed at the transmit transmitter. The receiver compares the transmit diversity parameter values of the received signals to the predetermined... Agent:

20120114058 - Multiple-input multiple-output signal detectors based on relaxed lattice reduction: System and methodologies for reduced-complexity signal detection and decoding in a wireless communication system are provided herein. Systems and methodologies presented herein can utilize a relaxed form of the Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) lattice reduction algorithm to reduce the complexity of lattice reduction operations in the context of MIMO detection. Additional systems... Agent: Hui Long Fund Limited Liability Company

20120114057 - Wireless communication device, wireless communication system and information notifying method: A wireless communication device or an access point includes: a main unit; an external antenna unit; a throughput check module; and a notification controller, a notice applying circuit and a notice generating circuit. The main unit is for including a communication control circuit. The external antenna unit is for including... Agent: Buffalo Inc.

20120114061 - Communication system for recognizing type of noise source: Provided is a communication system that includes setting a detection threshold according to a distribution of at least one logic value of a transmission signal corresponding to an on-off keying (OOK) scheme or a frequency shift keying (FSK) scheme, and determining a type of noise source influencing a reception signal... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120114063 - Method, apparatus and system for eliminating aliasing noise in multi-carrier modulation system: A method, an apparatus and a system for eliminating aliasing noise in a multi-carrier modulation system are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a first power spectrum density template; acquiring information of in-band subcarriers whose aliasing noise is greater than background noise, and acquiring a difference between the aliasing noise and... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120114060 - Multiple-input, multiple-output communication system with reduced feedback: In MIMO systems, two or more transmit signals are transmitted from different antenna clusters having one or more transmit antennas each. A precoding circuit weight the transmit signals transmitted from each transmit antenna using a common set of frequency independent antenna weights for all antenna clusters. The antenna weights are... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20120114062 - Preprocessing method, base station, and system for cooperative communication: A preprocessing method for cooperative communication and a base station and a system for executing the method are provided. The method includes: obtaining a common base station group from a cooperative base station group of a user terminal, in which the common base station group includes a set of base... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120114065 - Cubic-metric based frequency selective precoding for uplink in mimo communication system: A method of wireless communication is disclosed which includes acquiring a first set of precoding matrices for a set of frequency bands and generating a second set of precoding matrices for the set of frequency bands based on the first set of precoding matrices. The second set of precoding matrices... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120114070 - Digital broadcasting system and data processing method in digital broadcasting system: A method of transmitting a broadcast signal includes performing Reed-Solomon (RS) frame encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on first mobile service data to form a primary RS frame and on second mobile service data to form a secondary RS frame; encoding on at least the first mobile service... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120114067 - Emphasis signal generation circuit and signal synthesis circuit: An emphasis signal generation circuit includes a phase shifter configured to delay a signal, an adder/subtractor configured to perform addition/subtraction of a first signal and a second signal at a predetermined ratio, the ratio being freely variable, and an amplitude adjuster configured to perform adjustment of an amplitude of a... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120114068 - Flip-flop including keeper circuit: A flip-flop includes a transmission circuit configured to transmit data to a transmission line in response to a clock signal and a complementary clock signal. The flip-flop further includes a keeper circuit configured to latch data of the transmission line in response to the clock signal and the complementary clock... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120114066 - Method and apparatus for weight factor matrix determination for beam forming: Disclosed is a weight factor matrix determining method for beamforming in a base station in order for inter-cell interference to be removed. The weight factor matrix determining method for beamforming which includes: determining a first transmission power for a first terminal being a target terminal and a second transmission power... Agent: Seah Networks Co., Ltd.

20120114071 - Method of resending digital signals: The invention relates to a method of resending at least one digital signal, comprising a step of reception by cable of the signal comprising signaling information, a step of resending of this signal at a resend frequency by an antenna, and also comprising a step of selecting the resend frequency... Agent:

20120114069 - Pilot pattern for observation scalar mimo-ofdm: In an embodiment, a transmitter includes first and second transmission paths. The first transmission path is configurable to generate first pilot clusters each including a respective first pilot subsymbol in a first cluster position, and the second transmission path is configurable to generate second pilot clusters each including a respective... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20120114064 - Reference signaling scheme using compressed feedforward codebooks for mu-mimo systems: A multi-user MIMO downlink beamforming system with limited feed forward (200) is provided to enable precoding matrix information to be efficiently provided to a subset of user equipment devices (201.i), where zero-forcing transmit beamformers (wi) are computed at the base station (210) and assembled into a precoding matrix (W). The... Agent:

20120114073 - Spectral shaping of multicarrier signals: m

20120114072 - Successive transmit beamforming methods for multiple-antenna orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) systems: An improvement in a method of transmit beamforming between a transmitter and a receiver in an OFDM wireless system having a plurality of subcarriers for a time varying fading channel comprises performing successive beamforming for each of the plurality of subcarriers using less than complete knowledge of the previous fading... Agent: The Regents Of The University Of California

20120114074 - 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: Harris Corporation

20120114075 - Transmission circuit: A transmission circuit (100) according to the present invention includes an RF-IC (110), an EM-IC (120), and a power amplifier (130). The EM-IC (120) includes a DC-DC converter (123), a transistor (124), a low-dropout regulator (121), and a regulator output selector switch (122). After an elapse of a predetermined time... Agent:

20120114076 - Variable phase shifter-attenuator: A phase shifter-attenuator system having: a controller for producing a digital word representative of a predetermined phase shift and attenuation provided to an input signal; and a phase shifter-attenuation section. The phase shifter-attenuation section includes: a phase rotator for providing one of a plurality combinations of phase shifts-attenuation states to... Agent: Raytheon Company

20120114078 - Method, system and apparatus for balanced frequency up-conversion of a baseband signal: A balanced transmitter up-converts a baseband signal directly from baseband-to-RF. The up-conversion process is sufficiently linear that no IF processing is required, even in communications applications that have stringent requirements on spectral growth. In operation, the balanced modulator sub-harmonically samples the baseband signal in a balanced and differential manner, resulting... Agent: Parkervision, Inc.

20120114077 - Variable dynamic range receiver: Embodiments of the present invention may provide a signal processing circuit that may comprises an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and an output restriction circuit. The output restriction circuit may reduce the accuracy of the digital output of the ADC when signal content exceeds a pre-determined spectrum mask in an undesirable band.... Agent: Analog Devices, Inc.

20120114081 - Architectures for universal or software radio: A system and technique for providing to flexible, programmable frequency estimators and spectrum analyzers that can operate over extremely large bandwidths and yet provide high spectral resolution are described. The acquisition time and hardware complexity of one technique scale as O(N), where N denotes the number of frequency bins acquired.... Agent: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

20120114080 - Determining responses of rapidly varying mimo-ofdm communication channels using observation scalars: In an embodiment, a channel estimator includes first, second, and third stages. The first stage is configurable to generate a first observation scalar for a first communication path of a first communication channel, and the second stage is configurable to generate a second observation scalar for a first communication path... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20120114079 - Radio architecture for an ultra low power receiver: An ultra low power radio receiver architecture based on phase locked loop is provided. Embodiments of an ultra low power radio receiver architecture based on phase locked loop can detect a complex modulated MSK signal with only a single path receiver chain. According to an embodiment of the present invention,... Agent: The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Texas System

20120114082 - Mobile wireless terminal device and base station search method: According to one embodiment, a mobile wireless terminal device includes a receiver detecting a beacon and a communication module detecting a base station identification. The receiver comprises an accumulation module accumulating levels of a sampling received wireless signal to obtain a reception profile, a correlation module detecting a shift amount... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120114083 - Method for generating modulated radio-frequency signal with high dynamic range: A method for generating a modulated RF signal with high dynamic range is disclosed, which electrically combines average output power adjustment and instantaneous output power adjustment to improve the dynamic range of output power of an RF signal. Compared to the single control mechanism in the traditional method for generating... Agent: National Taiwan University

20120114085 - Channel estimation method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for estimating a channel efficiently though pilot subcarrier signal transformation and noise reduction in the mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a time domain transformer for transforming received pilot subcarrier signals to time domain signals, a noise reducer for reducing noises of the time... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20120114084 - Methods and apparatus for low complexity soft-input soft-output group detection: Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose methods and apparatus for low complexity soft-in soft-out detection that divide a plurality of received symbols into a plurality of groups of symbols and performs preprocessing on the symbols in each group to suppress interference from other groups. The preprocessing may utilize a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120114086 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device includes: an interface chip including a read timing control circuit that outputs, in response to a command signal and a clock signal supplied from the outside, a plurality of read control signals that are each in synchronization with the clock signal and have different timings; and core... Agent:

20120114087 - Explicit skew interface for reducing crosstalk and simultaneous switching noise: Methods and apparatus are disclosed, such as those involving an inter-chip interface configured to receive and process electronic data. One such interface includes a receiver circuit that includes a clock tree configured to receive a clock signal at a clock tree input. The clock tree distributes a plurality of clock... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20120106596 - Adaptive pilot structure to assist channel estimation in spread spectrum systems: The present invention relates generally to methods for generating a dynamic pilot symbol structure in spread spectrum communication systems, and in particular to the use of pilot symbols by user equipment in channel estimation. In one form, the method includes, allocating basic pilot symbols at the beginning of each data... Agent:

20120106595 - Method and apparatus for optimizing power distribution between symbols: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a first pre-coding matrix for use on a portion of a set of resource blocks (RBs) is determined. At least one beamforming vector of the set of beamforming vectors is modified by applying a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120106597 - Collaborative data sharing for cdma interference subtraction: Implementations and techniques for collaborative data sharing for CDMA interference subtraction are generally disclosed.... Agent: Empire Technology Development LLC

20120106599 - Constellation rotation relay system and constellation rotation relay method: Provided is a constellation rotation relay system and constellation rotation relay method which can acquire full diversity gain by performing constellation rotation for a channel matrix in a relay network when configuring a virtual MIMO channel. The constellation rotation system includes a matrix creator for creating a symbol matrix by... Agent:

20120106598 - Signal processing method for terrestrial repeater: A signal processing technology for allowing a repeater to transmit a signal received from an external apparatus to a terminal is provided. In a satellite system, a signal transmitted from a satellite or transmitted to a satellite is subject to a low order modulation, and a terrestrial repeater performs a... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120106600 - Analog signal processor for nonlinear predistortion of radio-frequency signals: RF predistortion apparatus for making linear the output signal of non-linear components such as RF power amplifiers. The apparatus comprises an RF input line for carrying an RF signal connected to an envelop detector for finding the envelop of the RF signal, a power detector for finding the power of... Agent:

20120106603 - Method and system for beamforming in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (mimo) communication system using a codebook: A method and system for beamforming in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system using a codebook may include a processor in a node B that enables generation of an interference cancellation matrix (WR). The interference cancellation matrix, also referred to as a matched filter, may enable... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120106602 - Signaling in a medical implant based system: Signaling in a medical implant based system. A method includes transmitting bits modulated with a predefined sequence in a band of channels by a first medical transceiver. The method includes transmitting bits modulated with a first predefined sequence of a plurality of predefined sequences by a first medical transceiver. The... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120106601 - System and method for packet communication: A system and method for packet communication is disclosed. Echo in a received symbol stream may be reduced to produce an echo-reduced symbol stream. The echo-reduced symbol stream may be buffered according to a propagation delay of the received symbol stream to produce a deskewed symbol stream. The deskewed symbol... Agent:

20120106604 - System and method of communication using at least two modulation methods: A device may be capable of communicating using at least two type types of modulation methods. The device may include a transceiver capable of acting as a master according to a master/slave relationship in which communication from a slave to a master occurs in response to communication from the master... Agent: Summit Technology Systems, Lp

20120106605 - Detection and correction of impulse noise in communication channel crosstalk estimates: An access node of a communication system is configured to control crosstalk between channels of the system. A set of L distinct and linearly independent pilot signals is generated, with each pilot signal having length n, where n>L such that L−n linearly independent n-tuples are available for use in detection... Agent:

20120106606 - Method and device for reducing interference between a power line carrier signal and a vdsl type signal:

20120106608 - Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program: A signal processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a detection section configured such that based on a result of the error correction of a signal generated by a single carrier system, the detection section detects the presence or absence of spectrum inversion in the signal; and a selection section configured... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120106609 - System and method for channel classification: A system and method for classifying a channel with regard to delay spread in a wireless network applying orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. In one embodiment, a wireless receiver includes a channel classifier. The channel classifier is configured to compute a channel estimate corresponding to a channel traversed by a packet... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120106607 - Systems and methods for variable thresholding in a pattern detector: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for pattern identification. As an example, a pattern detection circuit is discussed that include: a distance calculation circuit operable to calculate a distance value corresponding to a difference between a first pattern and a second pattern; a threshold comparator circuit... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20120106610 - Transmitter apparatus, receiver apparatus, communication system, and communication method: A transmitter apparatus includes a reference signal transmitting unit that transmits a both of a first reference signal and a second reference signal differing from the first reference signal to a first receiver apparatus performing non-cooperative communication and to a second receiver apparatus performing cooperative communication, respectively. In addition, the... Agent:

20120106611 - Phase locking loop: A phase-locking loop (PLL) for use with orthogonal frequency division multiplexed signals. In one embodiment, a wireless receiver includes a PLL is configured to reduce phase and frequency divergence between the wireless receiver and a transmitter of a packet received by the wireless receiver. The PLL includes a loop bandwidth... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120106612 - Method of evaluating the profit of a substream of encoded video data, method of operating servers, servers, network and apparatus: There is disclosed in aspects of the invention a method of evaluating the profit of a substream of encoded video data, a method of operating servers, a network and an apparatus. In the method, a data portion is identified comprising at least some of the data in the substream being... Agent: Xyratex Technology Limited

20120106614 - System and method for channel interpolation: A system and method for channel interpolation in a wireless device. In one embodiment a wireless device includes a channel estimator. The channel estimator is configured to generate estimated channel coefficients for a wireless channel over which the wireless device receives a packet. The channel estimator includes an interpolation filter.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120106613 - Systems and methods for selecting reconfigurable antennas in mimo systems: A method allows reconfigurable multi-element antennas to select the antenna configuration in MIMO, SIMO and MISO communication system. This selection scheme uses spatial correlation, channel reciprocal condition number, delay spread and average Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) information to select the antenna radiation pattern at the receiver. Using this approach,... Agent: Drexel University

20120106615 - Multidimensional adaptively trained equalization: An embodiment of the invention is a technique to equalize received samples. An equalizer equalizes a multidimensional signal transmitted over a communication channel and having a dimensionality of four or higher. The equalizer is adaptively trained based on an optimality criterion.... Agent: Fundacion Tarpuy

20120106616 - Adaptive equalization in the presence of burst errors: Methods for providing adaptive equalization in the presence of a burst error are provided. If an equalization algorithm has converged and burst errors are present during a symbol interval, the equalizer coefficients remain unchanged during the symbol interval. If the burst error is no longer present during the next symbol... Agent:

20120106618 - Method for receiving frequency domain multiplexed signal and device for receiving frequency domain multiplexed signal: A frequency domain multiplexed signal receiving method which decodes received signals that are multiplexed in a frequency domain, includes: a digital signal acquisition step of acquiring digital signals from the received signals that are multiplexed in the frequency domain; an offset discrete Fourier transform step of applying an offset discrete... Agent: Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation

20120106617 - System and method for anticipatory receiver switching based on signal quality estimation: In various embodiments, a first and second complex multiplier may be configured to receive an input signal and provide a baseband I component signal and a baseband Q component signal, respectively. A first and second filter may be configured to filter the baseband I component signal and the baseband Q... Agent:

20120106619 - Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method and program: A signal processing apparatus includes a signal processing unit configured to carry out signal processing on a single-carrier signal and a multi-carrier signal by making use of a plurality of common filters shared by the single-carrier signal and the multi-carrier signal.... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120106620 - Method for transmitting numeric values from a detection unit to a control unit: A method for transmission of numeric values from a detection unit to a control unit including the steps of: applying to the numeric value considered at least one first and second coding algorithm to obtain a first and second code (NUM-BIT) in binary formats; storing the first and second codes,... Agent:

20120106621 - Chroma temporal rate reduction and high-quality pause system and method: A system and method are provided for compressing data. In use, luminescence data of a frame is updated at a first predetermined rate, while chrominance data of the frame is updated at a second predetermined rate that is less than the first predetermined rate. Moreover, pause information may be inserted... Agent: Droplet Technology, Inc.

20120106622 - Method and apparatus of slice grouping for high efficiency video coding: In the H.264/AVC standard, one of the new characteristics is the possibility of dividing an image in regions called slice groups. The use of slice groups provides various possible advantages such as prioritized transmission, error resilient transmission, and etc. The slice groups can be formed by flexible macroblock ordering (FMO),... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20120106623 - Adapting a video stream: Adapting characteristics of a video stream. A source video stream is received comprising instructions to employ at least one reference frame at a video adaptation device, wherein the source video stream is encoded. The source video stream is adapted, at the video adaptation device, such that the instructions are adapted... Agent:

20120106625 - Adapting video stream for error resilience: Adapting characteristics of a video stream. A video stream is received, at a video adaptation device, which employs a first reference frame. A determination is made, at a video adaptation device, to splice the video stream to employ a second reference frame in place of the first reference frame. The... Agent:

20120106624 - Method and apparatus of slice boundary filtering for high efficiency video coding: An apparatus and method for video coding having intra-slice deblocking, intra-slice adaptive loop filter, and intra-slice adaptive offset are disclosed. In a video coding system, a picture is often divided into slices and each slice is independently processed so that errors or missing data from one slice cannot propagate to... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20120106629 - Methods and apparatus for signaling intra prediction for large blocks for video encoders and decoders: Methods and apparatus are provided for signaling intra prediction for large blocks for video encoders and decoders. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding picture data for at least one large block in a picture by signaling intra prediction for the at least one large block. The intra prediction... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20120106628 - Methods and apparatus for video encoding and decoding binary sets using adaptive tree selection: Methods and apparatus are provided for encoding and decoding binary sets using adaptive tree selection. In one exemplary encoding method embodiment, picture data is encoded for a block in a picture; in which one of a plurality of trees structures is selected to code a binary set of data for... Agent:

20120106627 - Methods and apparatus for video encoding and decoding using adaptive geometric partitioning: Methods and apparatus are provided for video encoding and decoding using adaptive geometric partitioning. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding picture data for a region in a picture using adaptive geometric partitioning, wherein a subset of geometric partitions used to code the picture data for the region is determined... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20120106630 - Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding program, and image decoding program: A variable-length encoder that feeds a Coded Block Pattern (CBP) as an input symbol to variable-length code output part. Coded symbol memory supplies CBPs in neighboring blocks as coding map table reference information to coding map table provider. Coding map table provider determines a coding map table used in coding... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20120106631 - Image encoding/decoding apparatus and method using multi-dimensional integer transform: The present disclosure relates to a video encoding/decoding apparatus and method using a multi-dimensional integer transform. The video encoding method of the present disclosure includes: decomposing subblocks in units of a rectangular block and successively encoding rectangular block units to output a rectangularly encoded bitstream of each subblock; encoding the... Agent: Sk Telecom Co., Ltd.

20120106633 - Apparatus and method for image encoding/decoding considering impulse signal: An apparatus and method for video encoding/decoding considering impulse signal are disclosed. The method for video encoding includes generating a predicted block from predicting a current block and subtracting the predicted block from the current block to generate an M×N residual block, and encoding an A×B residual block containing residual... Agent: Sk Telecom Co., Ltd.

20120106635 - Encoder, encoding method, and program: An encoder including a code amount prediction unit predicting the amount of code of data to be encoded, the code amount prediction unit including a conversion unit converting input syntax elements to symbol data, and a measurement unit measuring the predicted amount of code of the data to be encoded... Agent:

20120106636 - Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus: The present disclosure relates to a video encoding/decoding method and provides a video encoding apparatus including: an intra-prediction mode determiner for determining an intra prediction mode of current block entitled an encoder prediction mode by using candidate intra-predictable mode set including intra-prediction mode candidates being selected from a whole and... Agent: Sk Telecom Co., Ltd.

20120106632 - Method and apparatus for error resilient long term referencing block refresh: A system and method for coding video data wherein a pixel block may be coded for refresh with reference to an LTR frame that was successfully transmitted, or has a high probability of having been successfully transmitted from the encoder to the decoder. Not all pixel blocks in the frame... Agent: Apple Inc.

20120106634 - Method and apparatus for processing multi-view video signal: Disclosed is a method of processing a video signal. the present invention includes obtaining inter-view reference flag information on a picture of a base view, if the picture of the base view is used for an inter-view prediction in accordance with the inter-view reference flag information, obtaining picture coding structure... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120106637 - Method and apparatus for encoding , and decoding image by using large transformation unit: Disclosed are an image encoding method and apparatus for encoding an image by grouping a plurality of adjacent prediction units into a transformation unit and transforming the plurality of adjacent prediction into a frequency domain, and an image decoding method and apparatus for decoding an image encoded by using the... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120106638 - Decoder-side motion derivation with motion vector predictors: Systems and devices for, and methods of, decoder-side motion derivation with motion vector predictors. A method embodiment includes (a) determining a starting motion vector predictor by a processor having addressable memory, where the memory comprises a set of two or more motion vector predictors; and where the determining of the... Agent:

20120106640 - Decoding side intra-prediction derivation for video coding: Decoding side intra-prediction derivation for video coding. Just decoded pixels within a given picture (image) (e.g., such as a given picture (image) within video data) are employed for decoding other pixels within that very same picture (image) using prediction vectors extending from the just decoded pixels to the pixels currently... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120106648 - Image processing device and video reproducing device: An image processing device and a video reproducing device capable of detecting the position of a character in a moving image even if pixels of the character have a luminance not higher than a luminance of pixels other than the pixels of the character are provided. A motion vector generation... Agent:

20120106643 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing system: Disclosed herein is an image processing device including: a generating section, a plurality of pieces of stream data with different display sizes being created in advance for each of a plurality of video contents, configured to generate stream data of one stream of a multiple video reproduced image for simultaneously... Agent:

20120106646 - Method for encoding and decoding images, encoding and decoding devices, corresponding data streams and computer program: A method and apparatus are provided for encoding an image sequence. The method includes the following steps, for at least one group of blocks of an image: determining, for each block, at least one parameter characteristic of said block; forming at least one cluster including the blocks having at least... Agent: France Telecom

20120106641 - Method for predicting a block of image data, decoding and coding devices implementing said method: m

20120106645 - Method, apparatus and device for obtaining motion information of video images and template: A method is provided. The method includes: determining one or more first candidate reference blocks that correspond to a current block in a first reference frame according to known motion information related to the current block; determining one or more second candidate reference blocks in a second reference frame; calculating... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

20120106642 - Motion estimation for a video transcoder: A video transcoder for converting an encoded input video bit-stream having one spatial resolution into an encoded output video bit-stream having a lower spatial resolution, wherein motion-vector dispersion observed at the higher spatial resolution is quantified and used to configure the motion-vector search at the lower spatial resolution. For example,... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20120106639 - Motion-compensated temporal filtering based on variable filter parameters: Systems and devices for, and methods of, motion-compensated temporal filtering based on variable filter parameters. A method embodiment includes (a) determining, by a processor having memory, a pixel-related residue image based on a set of differences between a current pixel intensity of a current frame and a corresponding pixel intensity... Agent:

20120106647 - Prediction of a movement vector of a current image partition having a different geometric shape or size from that of at least one adjacent reference image partition and encoding and decoding using one such prediction: The invention relates to a method for predicting a movement vector (MVp1) of a partition (P1) of a current image (IN) from a plurality of n reference movement vectors associated respectively with n reference partitions that have been previously encoded and decoded. For a spatial prediction of one such vector,... Agent: France Telecom

20120106644 - Reference frame for video encoding and decoding: A method for encoding is adapted to process a digital video signal composed of video frames into a bitstream. Each frame is divided into blocks and at least one block of a current frame is encoded by motion compensation using a block of a reference frame. The method comprises computing... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20120106649 - Joint coding of syntax elements for video coding: In one example, a video decoder is configured to determine whether a component of a transform unit of a coding unit of video data includes at least one non-zero coefficient based on a codeword for the transform unit, determine whether the transform unit is split into sub-transform units based on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120106626 - Efficient content compression and decompression system and method: A content compression/compression system and method are disclosed in which a pre-processing step is performed before any compression and a post-processing step is performed once a compressed piece of content is decompressed.... Agent: Pixsense Inc.

20120106650 - Method and system for block and dvc compression: Methods and systems are provided that combine Dambrackas Video Compression (DVC) with block video compression. When transmitting video frames that are changing, they determine which blocks have changed from frame to frame and transmit the information for the blocks that have changed. They apply DVC compression to the blocks that... Agent:

20120106652 - Apparatus and method for high efficiency video coding using flexible slice structure: An apparatus and method for video coding based on flexible slice structure are disclosed. In the recent high efficiency video coding (HEVC) development, the slice may contain multiple LCUs instead of macroblocks. The LCU size being considered is 64×64 pixels which is much larger than the macroblock size of 16×16... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20120106651 - Batch processing of media content: A system and method for processing media are provided. For example, a media player comprises a media source including a video data stream, a timer, and a video decoder including a video decoder buffer that is configured to store at most an m-second segment of the video data stream received... Agent: Cyberlink Corp.

20120106653 - Multimedia processing within a vehicular communication network: A head end unit for performing multimedia processing within a vehicle is capable in one embodiment of overlaying video graphics onto video streams to produce enhanced video streams. The head end unit is further for converting a high-resolution file to a low-resolution file for rendering on one or more low-resolution... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120106654 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing improved gray mapping: An apparatus for providing improved gray mapping may include a processor. The processor may be configured to divide gray value byte data into high priority portions and low priority portions distributed as constellation points in a constellation matrix and to provide separation between each of the constellation points by assigning... Agent:

20120106655 - Apparatus for transferring data between bodies undergoing rotation: An apparatus for transferring data between bodies undergoing rotation is provided. The bodies in question may be wind turbine components such as a turbine drive shaft and a stationary part of the turbine, such as nacelle gearbox. A data or control signal can therefore be transmitted between a rotating member,... Agent:

20120106656 - Use of powerlines for transmission of high frequency signals: Communication is provided which includes receiving a transmitted radio signal at a powerline wherein the powerline functions as a receiving antenna for the wirelessly transmitted radio signal. The powerline is coupled to an input of a radio receiver using a coupler to communicate the radio signal to the radio receiver.... Agent: Northern Microdesign, Inc.

20120106661 - Aperiodic channel quality information sending method: The present invention provides an aperiodic channel quality information sending method and a mobile terminal. The method comprises: a mobile terminal and network side pre-appointing one or more transmission modes which support the forming of dual flow beam, and aperiodic channel quality information CQI feedback mode(s) corresponding to the transmission... Agent:

20120106659 - Digital retro-directive communication system and method thereof: The present invention relates to a digital retro-directive system and method thereof for receiving incoming signals from a transmitting source by means of at least two antennas and transmitting outgoing signals back, substantially simultaneously, towards said transmitting source through said at least two antennas irrespective of the location of one... Agent:

20120106657 - Distributed antenna system with combination of both all digital transport and hybrid digital/analog tranpsort: A communication system includes master host unit, hybrid expansion unit, analog remote antenna unit, and digital remote antenna unit. Master host unit communicates analog signals with at least a first service provider interface using first bands of analog spectrum. Master host unit and hybrid expansion unit communicate first N-bit words... Agent: Adc Telecommunications, Inc.

20120106663 - Method for transmitting data: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide a method for transmitting a data frame between a battery management system (BMS) and an associated device. The battery management system is coupled to an associated device via a one-wire bi-directional communication line. The method includes obtaining a control right of the... Agent: O2micro, Inc.

20120106658 - Mixed-mode wireless device operation: Systems and methods to operate wireless devices are provided herein. In an exemplary system a first wireless device coupled to a consumer electronics device is operated in a sleep mode. It is determined whether there is a second device is operating in the same bandwidth spectrum as the first device.... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120106660 - Reception apparatus, reception method, demodulation apparatus, demodulation method, and program: Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception section configured to receive a signal modulated by a predetermined system defined by a predetermined standard; a decoding section configured to decode transmission parameters included in the received signal; an acquisition section configured to acquire from among sequentially decoded transmission parameters... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120106662 - Wireless communication apparatus, decoding processing method and wireless communication system: A wireless communication apparatus includes a demodulator that demodulates data on which coding processing is performed for each first block unit and channel coding processing included in the coding processing is performed for each second block unit smaller than the first block unit by a transmission side wireless communication apparatus,... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120106665 - Transmitting and receiving method, and radio apparatus utilizing the same: A processing unit transmits, from at least one of a plurality of antennas, data corresponding respectively to the plurality of antennas. A control unit generates request signals with which to let a second radio apparatus supply information on rates at the second radio apparatus. When transmitting the request signal, the... Agent: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

20120106664 - Variable symbol period assignment and detection: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dynamically selecting symbol periods for communications signals and recovering symbols from the communications signals. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a plurality of communications signals over a plurality of different communications channels and determining symbol... Agent: Hunt Technologies, LLC

20120106666 - Method for defining a search sequence for soft-decision sphere decoding algorithm: A low complexity method for determining a search sequence of nodes for an efficient soft-decision sphere decoding algorithm for use in receivers for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) communication signals is achieved by determining a first member of the search sequence by rounding a received symbol (z) to a first constellation... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Technology Dresden Gmbh

20120106668 - Method and system for an alternating channel delta quantizer for mimo pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback: l

20120106667 - Systems and methods of transmitter protection for wireless communications: Various embodiments provide for systems and methods for wireless communications that implement transmitter protection schemes using spatial combining. The protection scheme implemented by some embodiments provides for a number of benefits, including without limitation: hitless protection; constant power monitoring for each wireless channel being utilized; extra gain to wireless signals... Agent:

20120106669 - Dynamic encode setting adjustment: A player decodes and renders encoded digital data received from an encoder. During processing, the player periodically monitors dropped frames as well as time spent. If the dropped frames are below a minimum, the player determines to signal the encoder to increase bit rate or frame rate by consulting a... Agent: Sling Media Pvt Ltd

20120106670 - Method, server and customer terminal for digital content transmission: A server is provided. The serve includes a publishing module, a program module, a relationship module, and a transmission module. The publishing module publishes digital content. The program module stores programs for playing the digital content. The relationship module stores a relationship between the digital content, a plurality of pre-stored... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

20120106672 - Methods and adapters for use with electric devices to manage energy services: Methods and adapters for realizing energy services by a device via a grid connection point are disclosed. An adapter includes a detection unit for measuring a quantity of energy services realized by a mobile device; an identification unit for detecting the identifier of the grid connection point electrically connected to... Agent: The Aes Corporation

20120106673 - Odd interleaving only of an odd-even interleaver when half or less data subcarriers are active in a digital video broadcasting (dvb) system: A data processing apparatus is arranged to map input data symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed OFDM symbols. The predetermined number of sub-carrier signals is determined in accordance with one of a plurality of operating modes and the input data... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120106671 - Two power control loops for antenna switching transmit diversity: Two power control loops for antenna switching transmit diversity are realized by a user terminal including two antennas (110, 120), one power amplifier (140) for amplifying the signals to be transmitted from each of the antennas, and a switch (130) switching the transmission power of the power amplifier from one... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20120106675 - Digital broadcast system for transmitting/receiving digital broadcast data, and data processing method for use in the same: The present invention is directed to a digital broadcast system and a data processing method. A broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed is transmitted and received. Then, in a broadcasting receiver, mobile service data identification information indicating whether the mobile service data of... Agent:

20120106674 - Reception apparatus and transmission apparatus for supporting scalable bandwidth in carrier aggregation environment: Provided are a reception apparatus and transmission apparatus for supporting a scalable bandwidth in a carrier aggregation environment. The reception apparatus and transmission apparatus can link carrier aggregation technology and scalable bandwidth technology by supporting a scalable bandwidth having different bandwidths in size in a carrier aggregation environment, thereby enhancing... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120106676 - Transmitter linearized in response to signal magnitude derivative parameter and method therefor: A transmitter (50) includes a low power nonlinear predistorter (58) that inserts predistortion configured to compensate for a memoryless nonlinearity (146) corresponding to gain droop and another memoryless nonlinearity (148) corresponding to a video signal. When efforts are taken to reduce memory effects, such as configuring a network of components... Agent: Crestcom, Inc.

20120106677 - Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system: A method of transmitting a broadcast signal in a transmitter includes transmitting a transmission frame including a plurality of slots during which data groups of mobile data are transmitted, the mobile data being encoded through a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame and each row of a payload of the RS frame including... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120106678 - Method and apparatus to improve acquisition of a quadrature amplitude modulated (qam) signal having a frequency offset: A method and apparatus are described that result in an improved acquisition of a received communication signal containing a large frequency offset. The method and apparatus raises a derotated sequence of data to a power of an integer provide a sinusoidal spectral component. The method and apparatus determines a cross... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120106682 - Controlled transmission of data in a data transmission system: This disclosure relates to controlled transmission of data in a data transmission system. Data from data interface elements may be transmitted in a controlled manner during the guard intervals or cyclic expansions of received RF signals. The received RF signals may be initially analyzed by a receiver to gather its... Agent:

20120106680 - Crest factor reduction in multicarrier transmission schemes: A multicarrier transmission system uses a set of carriers spaced apart in frequency with a number of bits being assigned to each carrier. A transmitter has a mapper which maps a data signal to a parallel set of constellation values. A frequency domain-to-time domain transform stage converts the set of... Agent: St-ericsson Sa

20120106681 - Method for configuring a telecommunication system: The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and one receiving entity between which the same link transmits several transport channels with different qualities of service. The sending entity matches the rate between the different coded transport channels with separate qualities... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20120106679 - Systems and methods for handling data rate changes within a packet or frame: Systems and methods for handling data rate changes within a packet or frame are described. In an embodiment, a system may include a radio frequency (RF) circuit operable to receive a message having a plurality of segments, including a first segment that is modulated according to a first modulation data... Agent:

20120106683 - Method and apparatus for parallel turbo decoding in long term evolution system (lte): Provided are a method and an apparatus for parallel Turbo decoding in LTE, comprising: storing input check soft bits and a frame to be decoded, when storing said frame, dividing the frame into blocks, storing each block respectively as system soft bits; simultaneously performing component decoding once for several blocks... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120106684 - Method and arrangement for soft-decision sphere decoding: A method is provided for soft-decision sphere decoding for softbit computation which can be applied to all sphere decoding algorithms, in particular sphere decoding algorithms in any MIMO OFDM receiver implementations. Complexity reduction is achieved by using an approximate of linear Euclidean distances during the sphere decoding search. The method... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Technology Dresden Gmbh

20120106685 - Signal processing apparatus and related method for generating target estimated signal of specific signal component in input signal: A signal processing apparatus includes a signal generating block arranged to generate a target estimated signal of a specific signal component in an input signal. The signal generating block includes a reference signal generating circuit, a signal processing circuit, and a signal adjusting circuit. The reference signal generating circuit is... Agent:

20120106686 - Digital i/q imbalance compensation in a quadrature receiver: An apparatus and method reduce distortion in a processed signal. The apparatus includes a first receive path, a second receive path, a summation unit, and a compensation unit. The first receive path is configured to process a received analog signal into a first digital signal. The second receive path is... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120106687 - Calibration of multiple parallel data communications lines for high skew conditions: A parallel data link includes a redundant line. A bank of switches permits any arbitrary line of the link to be enabled or disabled for carrying functional data, each line being dynamically calibrated in turn by disabling the line and allowing other lines to carry the functional data. The switches... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120106688 - Data recovery architecture (cdr) for low-voltage differential signaling (lvds) video transceiver applications: The present invention discloses data recovery architecture (CDR) to improve a multi-link system's tolerance to delay mismatches (or skewing effect) in its different links. The architecture is entirely digital and usable in any multi-link transceiver implementation that makes use of a separate clock link and requires timing synchronization between the... Agent: Synopsys, Inc.

20120106689 - Clock and data recovery circuit: A clock and data recovery circuit is disclosed. The clock and data recovery circuit in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention uses a hybrid phase detector that is constituted by including a linear phase detector and a binary phase detector. Since the clock and data recovery circuit basically... Agent: Dongguk University Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation

20120099619 - Method for interference control by an ultra-wideband wireless communication system in a multi-user environment and a receiver for performing the same: An Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless communication system in a multi-user environment determines a threshold value to eliminate a signal pulse affected by a near-interference from among a plurality of signal pulses transmitted a number of times. A method for controlling an interference includes receiving the signal pulses, calculating a correlation value... Agent: Pantech Co., Ltd.

20120099620 - Clear-channel system and related applications: A wireless spread-spectrum communication system for transmitting data includes a plurality of end point transmitters and at least one receiver. The end point transmitters transmit data via a frequency-hopped spread-spectrum signal where the transmitting signal is sent without the benefit of frequency stabilization. The receiver is responsive to the frequency-hopping... Agent: Itron, Inc.

20120099621 - Scheduling different types of receivers in a radio base station: The invention relates to a method in a radio base station (110) of a radio 100 telecommunications network (100), wherein the radio base station (110) comprises at least two different types of receivers; a first type of receivers and a second type of receivers. The first type of receivers comprises... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20120099622 - Repeater circuit with multiplexer and state element functionality: A circuit implementing multiplexer, storage, and repeater functions is disclosed. The circuit includes first and second input stages having first and second data inputs, respectively. An output stage is configured to drive an output signal. The first input stage is configured to activate the output stage responsive to a first... Agent:

20120099623 - Satellite signal frequency translation and stacking: An outdoor satellite receiving unit (ODU) receives several independent satellite signals, selects two signals with a switch matrix, downconverts the two signals to a bandstacked signal with a high and a low band signal, and outputs the bandstacked signal on the same cable to receiver units. Several satellite signals can... Agent: R.f. Magic, Inc.

20120099624 - Communication device and method of reducing harmonics transmitted: A communication device includes a transmitting circuit that includes a quadrature modulator; a receiving circuit that operates as a quadrature demodulator that, when being in a data non-transferring period, starts when power is switched on and ends when receiving operation starts, switches a local oscillator signal to a harmonic receiving... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120099626 - Compressed data transceiver apparatus, data compressor device, compressed data receiver device and data compression method: To provide a data compression method that can achieve a high data compression ratio and does not require a buffer circuit or only requires a buffer circuit having a small storage capacity at a receiving side. A data compressor device has an adjustment and compression tool operable to switch a... Agent:

20120099625 - Tuner circuit with an inter-chip transmitter and method of providing an inter-chip link frame: A tuner circuit includes a digital signal processor to generate a digital data stream related to a radio frequency signal and a transceiver circuit coupled to the digital signal processor and configurable to generate an inter-chip communication frame including a start portion and a plurality of channels. The plurality of... Agent:

20120099629 - Communications wiring noise level monitor and alarm indicator: In an apparatus and method of testing the capacity of a network to support DSL services, a test device is coupled to a pair of wires (e.g., Tip-Ring) that support DSL services between ATU-C and ATU-R modems. In operation, the test device: samples for a DC line feed or potential... Agent: Tollgrade Communications, Inc

20120099627 - Interference mitigation for broadband over power line: Systems and methods to exchange data between a vehicle and a remote computer system, are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system to exchange data between a vehicle and a remote computer system comprises at least one power line adapted to couple to the vehicle, a local area network, a modem... Agent:

20120099628 - Symbol-level repetition coding in power line communications: Systems and methods for implementing symbol-level repetition coding in power line communications (PLC) are described. In some embodiments, these systems and methods may provide reliable communication in severe channel environments of PLC networks, at least in part, by changing the forward error correction (FEC) used by various devices operating within... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20120099632 - Method and arrangement for asynchronous rsrp measurement in an lte ue receiver: In 3GPP LTE, user equipment must be able to report reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement to the serving cell's base station. A low-complexity method for asynchronous RSRP measurement in an LTE user equipment receiver is provided which comprises frequency shifting the received signal so that the upper or lower... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Technology Dresden Gmbh

20120099631 - Pilot-based time offset estimation apparatus and method: The present invention provides a pilot-based timing offset estimation apparatus and method. The timing offset estimation apparatus includes: a pilot bit channel estimation module, configured to acquire pilot bit frequency-domain channel estimation values of target users through calculation on respective sub-carriers of the target users according to received frequency-domain demodulation... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120099630 - Programmable engine having a reconfigurable accelerator data path for testing and calibration of analog front ends in radio devices: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a radio device comprises an analog front end comprising a radio to transmit and/or receive radio-frequency signals, and a programmable engine coupled to the analog front end. The programmable engine is capable of being programmed to perform one or more tests on... Agent:

20120099633 - Data processing unit and signal receiver including the data processing unit: The data processing unit (15) for a receiver of signals carrying information (1) includes a clock and data recovery circuit (16) on the basis of a data signal (DOUT), and a processor circuit (17) connected to the clock and data recovery circuit. The clock and data recovery circuit is clocked... Agent: The Swatch Group Research And Development Ltd

20120099634 - Receiving device and method, demodulating device and method, and program: The present disclosure provides a receiving device including, a receiver configured to receive a signal that is transmitted via a propagation path and is modulated by a predetermined system prescribed by a predetermined standard, a demodulator configured to demodulate a received signal, an estimator configured to estimate a signal-to-noise ratio... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120099636 - Apparatus and method for interference cancellation in mimo wireless communication system: An apparatus and a method for interference cancellation in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system. The method for interference cancellation includes equalizing first reception signals received through two or more reception antennas to estimate transmission signals transmitted through two or more transmission antennas, generating two or more... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

20120099635 - Reception apparatus, reception method, and program: Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including a calculation section and a storage section. The calculation section calculates correlation values between a data sequence included in a known signal and a received signal at a given point in time. The storage section has at least an area sufficient for storing... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120099637 - Systems and methods for performing dynamic channel estimation: Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic channel estimation in a digital receiver by performing a dynamic equalization on an incoming signal to compensate for channel distortion; independently estimating one or more channel parameters for the dynamic equalization, wherein the one or more channel parameters track channel change; determining a... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20120099638 - Soft cancellation of inter-layer interference within a mimo codeword: A receiver for processing a received signal encoded with a codeword and mapped to two layers includes a plurality of equalizers for equalizing the received signal, a plurality of demodulators for demodulating a respective equalized signal, a decoder for decoding the demodulated signal by extracting soft bits from the demodulated... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ.)

20120099640 - Method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding: A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, the display time difference between a current... Agent:

20120099639 - Systems and methods for reducing the total number of bits required to be transferred over a communications link for an image: Systems (100) and methods (600) for reducing the total number of bits required to be transferred over a communications link for an image (400) captured by a camera (102). The methods involve receiving, from the camera, original color values for pixels of the image. A first pixel is selected by... Agent: Harris Corporation

20120099641 - Method and apparatus for adjusting video compression parameters for encoding source video based on a viewer's environment: A policy enforcement device performs a method for adjusting video compression parameters for encoding source video based on a viewer's environment. The method includes: receiving, from a video receiving device, a video stream identifier indicating a video stream and a source of the video stream, wherein the video receiving device... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20120099642 - Methods and apparatus for spatially varying residue coding: Methods and apparatus are provided for spatially varying residue coding. An apparatus includes a video encoder (300) for encoding picture data for at least a block in a picture by selecting a spatially varying encoding method for a residue corresponding to a difference between an original version of the block... Agent:

20120099643 - Method of multiplexing h.264 elementary streams without timing information coded: Embodiments of the present invention multiplex elementary streams without timing information coded to create a transport stream. In some embodiments, ‘n’ number of access units are constructed and pushed into a list one by one. Each access unit is capable of looking ahead to obtain information on timing for the... Agent: Tektronix International Sales Gmbh

20120099644 - Picture coding method, picture decoding method, picture coding apparatus, picture decoding apparatus, and program thereof: A picture coding method of the present invention codes a picture signal and a ratio of a number of luminance pixels and a number of chrominance pixels for the picture signal, and then one coding method out of at least two coding methods is selected depending on the ratio. Next,... Agent:

20120099646 - Adaptive scanning of transform coefficients for video coding: In an example, an apparatus for decoding video data includes a video decoder that is configured to determine a number of transform coefficients associated with a block of video data, and to determine whether the number of transform coefficients exceeds a predetermined threshold. The video decoder is also configured to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120099648 - Apparatus and method for decoding picture data: A coding apparatus for hierarchically (layering) coding top field data and bottom field data divided from each of a plurality of picture data composing a moving picture image has a first coding unit configured to encode one field data between two field data of the top field data and the... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120099645 - Method and apparatus for non-linear decoding of video frames of a video stream encoded using an intra macroblock refresh process: A video decoder system receives a user request for non-linear decoding of at least one video frame from a video stream encoded using an Intra macroblock refresh process. The request includes a first frame offset corresponding to a user requested first decoding frame within the video stream for commencing the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20120099647 - Method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding: A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, the display time difference between a current... Agent:

20120099649 - Method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding: A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, the display time difference between a current... Agent:

20120099650 - Method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding: A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, the display time difference between a current... Agent:

20120099652 - Method and apparatus for scalable motion vector coding: A method and apparatus for scalable coding of a motion vector generated during motion estimation, in which a generated motion vector field is separated into a base layer and an enhancement layer according to pixel accuracies to obtain a layered structure for a motion vector. In addition, the motion vector... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120099653 - Method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding: A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, the display time difference between a current... Agent:

20120099651 - Method to improve detection of motion with phase correlation: Phase correlation is an established method for computing motion which relies on the ability to find peaks in a computed phase correlation surface. Two methods to improve the ability to detect peaks in the phase correlation surface are described herein. The first method applies a theoretically-derived and spatially-varying gain to... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120099654 - Video decoding method: Video decoding device is disclosed. The video decoding device comprises a demultiplexer, a first decoder and a controller. The demultiplexer receives a Transport Stream to recover video Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) to determine a presentation time stamp (PTS) and a decoding time stamp (DTS) in a PES header of the... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20120099657 - Image decoding device, image coding device, image decoding method, image coding method, program, and integrated circuit: An image decoding device and an image coding device are each capable of using spatial dependence across a boundary between slices to smoothly execute parallel processing. The image decoding device includes: a first decoding unit (801) decoding a block in a first slice; a second decoding unit (802) decoding a... Agent:

20120099655 - Image encoder and method for encoding images: There is provided a method and a device for encoding a digital representation of an image into a single encoded image, comprising: generating at least two subsequent image data sequences each representing a portion of the digital representation of the image, inputting to an encoder (104) each of said subsequent... Agent: Scalado Ab

20120099656 - Transmitting system, receiving device, and a video transmission method: A stream transmitting system for transmitting a data stream, which has first layer including base data and second layer including data supplementing the base data, includes a transmitting device and a receiving device. The transmitting device includes: a transmission control unit for packetizing the data of the first layer and... Agent:

20120099658 - Method and apparatus for encoding video, and method and apparatus for decoding video: Disclosed is a method of encoding a video, the method including: splitting a current picture into at least one maximum coding unit; determining a coded depth to output a final encoding result according to at least one split region obtained by splitting a region of the maximum coding unit according... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120099659 - Method and apparatus for improving utilization of broadcast channel frame and method and apparatus for using padding portion: The present invention discloses a method for improving utilization of broadcast channel frames comprising determining whether auxiliary data exists in multiplexing data of a multiplexing frame upon generation of the multiplexing frame and encapsulating the auxiliary data in a filled portion of the multiplexing frame if yes. The present invention... Agent: Zte Corporation

20120099660 - Receiving system and method for processing digital broadcast signal in the receiving system: A transmitting system, a receiving system, and a method of processing broadcast signals are disclosed. The method for processing a broadcast signal in a broadcast receiver comprises receiving a DTV signal including a data group, the data group including mobile service data, segmented known data sequences, long known data sequences... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20120099662 - Communication protocol method and apparatus for a single wire device: The present invention is a noise tolerant communication protocol device and method where a clock signal input, triggers an internal delay clock in an integrated circuit. Data is presented to an input pin and sampled prior to the next external clock pulse based on the internal delay clock. A data... Agent: Atmel Corporation

20120099661 - Power line communications apparatus: Apparatus and system for communicating data via a power line. The apparatus comprises a transmitter comprising a modulator for generating a second digital signal based on input data; a digital buffer for amplifying the second digital signal to generate a third digital signal; a filter for filtering the third digital... Agent: Enphase Energy, Inc.

20120099664 - Method of multiple frame transmission in wireless communication system and transmitter: A method for multiple frame transmission in a wireless communication system and a transmitter are provided. The transmitter transmits a request to send (RTS) frame to a receiver. The RTS frame has a first bandwidth. The transmitter receives a clear to send (CTS) frame as a response of the RTS... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120099663 - Portable cellular base station configuration: A method and apparatus for configuring a portable first cellular base station to operate in a digital cellular telecommunications network includes: placing the first cellular base station in the digital cellular telecommunications network; detecting with a radio receiver at least one second operating cellular base station within the digital cellular... Agent: Raytheon Applies Signal Technology, Inc.

20120099665 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data processor maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory reads-out... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120099666 - Method and arrangement for adapting a signal in a wireless communications network: According to an aspect of the present invention, the power efficiency of a precoded OFDM signal is improved by a method in a network node 210, e.g. a mobile terminal, for adapting a signal for multi-antenna transmission. The network node 210 is comprised in a wireless communications network 200. In... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20120099667 - Transmitting high rate data within a mimo wlan: A method for transmitting high rate data within a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless local area network (WLAN) begins by determining a data transmission rate. The method continues by, when the data transmission rate is between a first data rate and a second data rate, enabling two transmission paths.... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20120099668 - Transmission method, transmitter, and receiver for multi antenna wireless communication system: A transmitter includes first generator to generate pilot source signal by modulating pilot sequence, second generator to generate data source signal with time length longer than that of pilot source signal by modulating data sequence, first cyclic shifter to perform cyclic shift of first shift amount to pilot source signal... Agent:

20120099669 - Dirty paper coding and reference signal design: A method of wireless communication includes receiving a signal comprising an encoded downlink reference signal (DL-RS) modified by an effective channel. The encoded DL-RS is encoded based on crosstalk interference. The method further includes estimating the effective channel.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20120099670 - Communications system supporting multiple sector sizes: In one embodiment, a configurable communications system accommodates a plurality of different transmission word sizes. In a transmit path, the system inserts a number of padding bits corresponding to missing user-data bits onto the end of an input data sequence to generate a set of data having N bits. The... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20120099671 - Digital-intensive signal processor: A digital-intensive signal processor including a signal converting module and a feedback module in a closed timing loop. The signal converting module converts a control signal to an output signal with phase/frequency related to the control signal. The feedback module detects the phase difference between a reference signal and a... Agent:

20120099672 - Media processing method, device and system: A streaming media processing method, device and system are disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention. The streaming media processing method includes: judging whether a transcoding is required according to the current bandwidth of a user terminal and a code rate of a pre-stored code stream, if yes, selecting... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20120099674 - Antenna configuration for co-operative beamforming: The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network, the network comprising at least a first cell and a second cell including respectively a first primary station having a first antenna array dedicated to the first cell and a second primary station having a second antenna array... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20120099673 - Methods and apparatuses for compensation of i/q imbalance: Methods for compensation of imbalance between I (In-phase) and Q (Quadrature) signal paths (12a, 12b, 605a, 605b) in a quadrature receiver (8) and a quadrature transmitter (600) are disclosed. In the receiver case, the imbalance is compensated for by means of post-distortion in the digital domain. In the transmitter case,... Agent:

20120099675 - Transmission circuit and communication device: Provided is a transmission circuit which allows smooth switching of the operation mode when switching the operation mode of the transmission circuit. A power amplifier 14 includes: a first input terminal to which a direct-current voltage or a voltage in accordance with an amplitude signal M is supplied; a second... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120099678 - Drift cancellation technique for use in clock-forwarding architectures: A circuit includes a frequency synthesizer, N phase mixers coupled to the frequency synthesizer, a plurality of receivers, and a calibration circuit. The frequency synthesizer is to receive a reference clock signal and is to output a primary clock signal. A respective phase mixer in the N phase mixers is... Agent:

20120099676 - Reception apparatus and method, demodulation apparatus and method, and program: A reception apparatus includes: a reception section configured to receive a signal modulated by one of a single-carrier scheme and a multi-carrier scheme that are specified by a predetermined standard; a single-carrier demodulation section configured to execute single-carrier demodulation based on the single-carrier scheme onto the signal; a multi-carrier demodulation... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120099677 - Signal receiving apparatus, signal receiving method and signal receiving program: A signal receiving apparatus includes: a processing unit configured to carry out Fourier transform on Fourier-transform data serving as a Fourier-transform object and carry out Fourier transform on inverse-Fourier-transform data serving as an inverse-Fourier-transform object; and a control unit configured to output pieces of data obtained as a result of... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120099680 - Combining soft decisions in a weather band radio: According to one aspect of the present invention, an apparatus is provided to enable weather band radio signals to be received and processed using a digital signal processor (DSP). The DSP can include functionality to implement both frequency modulation (FM) demodulation and weather band data demodulation, i.e., specific area encoding... Agent:

20120099679 - Receiving apparatus and receiving method: A receiving apparatus and reception method reduces degradation due to multipath interference without increasing the amount of computation even in a system that has a large number of subcarriers. A signal detector, using the symbol replica generated by symbol replica generator and the channel estimate which a channel estimator estimated... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20120099682 - Diversity reception device: A diversity reception device includes a power combiner to combine electric powers of OFDM signals, each OFDM signal being received by a first antenna and second antenna, a switch to change connections between branched output-ports of the first and second antennas, in mid-stream of effective symbol periods, the effective symbol... Agent: National Univ. Corp Shizuoka Univ.

20120099681 - Reception apparatus, reception method, and program: A reception apparatus is disclosed which includes: a detection section configured to detect the presence or absence of spectrum inversion in data transmitted by a multi-carrier transmission system based on whether a known signal can be decoded using that part of the transmitted data which has been transmitted by carriers... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120099683 - Demodulation device: There is provided a demodulation device including: a demodulation unit demodulating an input signal to thereby output a signal of IQ coordinates; and a first noise elimination circuit eliminating a noise in the signal of the IQ coordinates that is output from the demodulation unit, in which the first noise... Agent: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

20120099684 - Frequency interference detection and correction: A system for detecting and correcting for spurious frequencies that may coincide in a bandwidth of interest in an RF metrology system. The system can (1) utilize a deterministic scheme to detect an interference by a spurious frequency and correct the distortion effect or (2) utilize a mixed signal processing... Agent: Mks Instruments, Inc.

20120099685 - Broadband tuner for very wide signal conversion: An agile RF tuner circuit capable of converting a wide portion of RF signal into an IF signal suitable for analog-to-digital conversion. The circuit up converts a received RF signal to a high IF signal and then down converts the high IF signal to a low IF signal. Embodiments of... Agent: Zoran Corporation

20120099686 - Broadband tuner for very wide signal conversion: An agile RF tuner circuit capable of converting a wide portion of RF signal into an IF signal suitable for analog-to-digital conversion. The circuit up converts a received RF signal to a high IF signal and then down converts the high IF signal to a low IF signal. Embodiments of... Agent: Zoran Corporation

20120099687 - Method and system of synchronizing data to reference time signal with data resampling: A device receives a data signal and a reference timing signal provided from a first clock. The device includes a sample clock that operates independently from the first clock, wherein the sample clock outputs a sample clock signal that is asynchronous with the reference timing signal; a sampler for sampling... Agent: Agilent Technologies, Inc.

20120099688 - Oversampling circuit, serial communication apparatus and oversampling method: An oversampling circuit includes: a generation unit configured to generate multiphase serial data by delaying serial data by a predetermined time; and an oversampling unit configured to oversample the multiphase serial data by using multiphase clocks, wherein a phase difference of the multiphase serial data is set to be a... Agent: Ricoh Company, Ltd.

20120099689 - Detection of jitter in a communication network: The present invention is concerned with a method, a network entity and computer program for detecting occurrence of transmission resynchronizations in a network carrying packets subject to variable delays. The present invention is further concerned with adaptively varying the play out time of data packets. According to a method embodying... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)