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Electrical Computers: Arithmetic Processing And Calculating > Electrical Digital Calculating Computer > Particular Function Performed Particular Function PerformedParticular Function Performed patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.10/19/06 - 20060235914 - Method and apparatus for providing packed shift operations in a processor A method and apparatus for providing, in a processor, a shift operation on a packed data element having multiple values. The apparatus having multiple muxes, each of the multiple muxes having a first input, a second input, a select input and an output. Each of the multiple bits that represent ... 10/19/06 - 20060235913 - Software product for processing user interfaces of digital device and method for processing user interfaces Disclosed is a user interface processing software architecture of a digital device. The user interface processing software architecture of a digital device provides software that can effectively process complicated events created by various user interfaces or the like of a functionally complex digital device. To this end, the software architecture ... 10/19/06 - 20060235912 - Displaying variables stored in calculators A centralized view and management of stored variables for calculators and pieces of software emulating calculators is provided. Users can glance at the status bar and know what variables are stored. A single click then brings up a window within which a list of the stored variables and their values ... 10/19/06 - 20060235911 - Contemporaneous symbolic and numeric presentation A piece of software running on either a computer or a calculator for receiving a mathematical expression is described. The mathematical expression is evaluated to obtain its symbolic result. If the symbolic result can be resolved to its numeric result, the software executes to obtain the numeric result. The software ... 10/05/06 - 20060224645 - Bio-metric input mechanism A biometric keyboard or other input device, such as a keypad or touch screen, may be part of an input mechanism for inputting user information to a computing system. The mechanism may include biometric sensors associated with the buttons or keys of the input device. A mapping scheme may be ... 10/05/06 - 20060224644 - System(s), method(s), and apparatus for detecting end of slice groups in a bitstream Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for detecting end of slice groups in a video bitstream. In one embodiment, there is presented a circuit for extracting a data structure from one or more data words. The circuit comprises a multiplexer, a bit pointer, a first logic circuit, and a ... 09/21/06 - 20060212500 - Exponent encoder circuit and mask circuit In order to provide an exponent encoder circuit for obtaining an exponent constituted by a left shift amount for normalizing input data with code bits, there is provided a first logic circuit for inverting data portions other than code bits and shifting the code bits to least significant bit positions ... 09/21/06 - 20060212499 - Digital signal processing block having a wide multiplexer A digital signal processing block having: 1) a first digital signal processing element including: a first multiplexer of a first plurality of multiplexers, the first multiplexer selecting between a first data input and a first zero constant input; and a first arithmetic unit coupled to the first plurality of multiplexers, ... 09/21/06 - 20060212498 - Electric device having calculation anomaly diagnosis function An electric device having calculation anomaly diagnosis function includes: a microcomputer for executing a calculation routine repeatedly by a predetermined times; and a calculation anomaly diagnosis circuit for detecting calculation anomaly of the microcomputer. The microcomputer includes: a central processing unit; a memory; an input/output interface; and a bus. The ... 09/14/06 - 20060206549 - Video signal switching apparatus and control method therefor The present invention is directed to a video signal switching apparatus having editing function to select an arbitrary video signal from plural video signals or carry out synthesis thereof, which allows an operation unit to be of modular configuration every respective functions to electrically connect adjacent modules of panel modules ... 09/14/06 - 20060206548 - Comparator unit for comparing values of floating point operands A floating point comparator circuit for comparing a plurality of floating point operands includes a plurality of analysis circuits, one for each of the floating point operands, configured to determine a format of each of the floating point operands based upon floating point status information encoded within each of the ... 09/07/06 - 20060200510 - Precision cordic processor A CORDIC angle calculator for a baseband IC receiver incorporates a CORDIC algorithm calculating processor with an input scaling means receiving input data, scaling the input data and providing it to the CORDIC processor. An output scaling means receives output data from the CORDIC processor and rescales the output data ... 08/31/06 - 20060195496 - Digital signal processing circuit having a pattern detector circuit An integrated circuit for pattern detection including: an arithmetic logic unit coupled to a comparison circuit, where the arithmetic logic unit is programmed by an opcode; a selected pattern of a plurality of patterns selected by a first multiplexer, where the first multiplexer is coupled to the comparison circuit; and ... 08/24/06 - 20060190513 - Use of electrical power multiplication for power smoothing in power distribution A system for power smoothing in power distribution and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a power multiplying network is provided that comprises a multiply-connected, velocity inhibiting circuit constructed from a number of lumped-elements. The power multiplying network is coupled to a power distribution network. The power multiplying network is ... 08/24/06 - 20060190512 - Electrical power multiplication A power multiplier and method are provided. The power multiplier includes a power multiplying network that is a multiply-connected, velocity inhibiting circuit constructed from a number of lumped-elements. The power multiplier also includes a launching network, and a directional coupler that couples the launching network to the power multiplying network. ... 08/24/06 - 20060190511 - Electrical power multiplication A power multiplier and method are provided. The power multiplier includes a power multiplying network that is a multiply-connected, velocity inhibiting circuit constructed from a number of lumped-elements. The power multiplier also includes a launching network, and a directional coupler that couples the launching network to the power multiplying network. ... 08/17/06 - 20060184595 - Representative majority voter for bus invert coding In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus inluding a representative majority voter gate to analyze bit transitions of a pluraility of bits. The plurailuty of bits are analzed in groups. The representative majority voter gate generates an invert signal based on the analysis. The apparatus further inludes ... 08/17/06 - 20060184594 - Data processing apparatus and method for determining an initial estimate of a result value of a reciprocal operation The present invention provides a data processing apparatus and method for generating an initial estimate of a result value that would be produced by performing a reciprocal operation on an input value. The input value and the result value are either fixed point values or floating point values. The data ... 08/10/06 - 20060179089 - System and method for statistically separating and characterizing noise which is added to a signal of a machine or a system Method for finding the probability density function type and the variance properties of the noise component N of a raw signal S of a machine or a system, said raw signal S being combined of a pure signal component P and said noise component N, the method comprising: (a) defining ... 08/03/06 - 20060173942 - Method and system for prioritizing data values for robust data representation Methods, systems and data structures select prioritized robust data values from a plurality of available data values formed by a plurality of data bits, each capable of exhibiting a bit value. Available data values are arranged into a gray code format, and alternate values of gray code format are selected ... 08/03/06 - 20060173941 - Systems and methods for implementing logic in a processor Systems, methods and media for implementing logic in the arithmetic/logic unit of a processor are disclosed. More particularly, hardware is disclosed for computing logical operations with minimal hardware by organizing the execution unit such that the propagate and generate functions required for the adder can be used as a basis ... 07/20/06 - 20060161607 - Method and structure for cache aware transposition via rectangular subsections A method and structure for transposing a rectangular matrix A in a computer includes subdividing the rectangular matrix A into one or more square submatrices and executing an in-place transposition for each of the square submatrices Aij. ... 07/06/06 - 20060149801 - Method of encoding a signal into a bit stream The invention relates to a method of encoding an input signal into an output bit stream (BS). Said method comprises steps of applying (1) a transformation to a block of values (BV) in order to get a transformed block (T), scanning (2) the coefficients (C1-C1) of a transformed block (TB) ... 06/22/06 - 20060136535 - Method, system, and computer-readable medium for determining whether to reproduce chart images calculated from a workbook A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for determining whether to reproduce a chart image from the contents of a spreadsheet application workbook on a server. A calculation server calculates chart data for defining a chart image from workbook data retrieved from the spreadsheet application workbook, generates a representation ... 06/22/06 - 20060136534 - Method, system, and computer-readable medium for controlling the calculation of volatile functions in a spreadsheet A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for controlling the calculation of volatile functions in a workbook created in a spreadsheet application program such that the volatile function does not need to be recalculated each time a calculation request is received in the workbook. A volatile function may include ... 06/22/06 - 20060136533 - Electric apparatus and method for game An electric apparatus for a game includes a display unit, an operational unit, and an input unit. The display unit displays a mathematic expression including a plurality of parameters and corresponding values of the parameters. The operational unit calculates a correct answer of the mathematic expression. The input unit allows ... 06/22/06 - 20060136532 - Light reflection intensity calculation circuit A circuit for calculating a light reflected component with high accuracy. The circuit for calculating a reflected component of light reflected from an object having a rough surface comprises a means for storing the reflectance of an object in relation to the value φ or the value of cos φ, ... 06/08/06 - 20060123071 - Apparatus for processing signals from sensors incorporated in in-vehicle power train and system using the apparatus An apparatus is provided for processing a signal outputted by a sensor installed in a power train control system mounted in a vehicle, the signal indicating an operating state of the power train and formatted in a fixed-point type of data. The apparatus comprises an A/D (analog to digital) converter, ... 06/01/06 - 20060117077 - Method for identifying a subset of components of a system A method of identifying a subset of components of a system based on data obtained from the system using at least one training sample from the system, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a linear combination of components of the system and weightings of the linear combination of components, ... 05/25/06 - 20060112156 - Device for determining the rank of a sample, an apparatus for determining the rank of a plurality of samples, and the ith rank ordered filter A rank-determining device determines the rank of a particular sample value from a set of digital sample values by utilizing two different thresholders that are implemented by comparators. The rank of the sample value is decomposed by thresholding the sample value with all of the sample values in the set ... 05/18/06 - 20060106904 - Apparatus and methods for implementation of mathematical functions Apparatus and methods for implementation of mathematical functions apparatus providing both speed and accuracy. Disclosed are specific circuits and methods of operation thereof that may be used for the purpose of implementing an exponential function, a squaring function, and a cubic function, using the same basic circuit. By applying a ... 05/18/06 - 20060106903 - Arithmetic unit of arbitrary precision, operation method for processing data of arbitrary precision and electronic equipment An arithmetic unit of arbitrary-precision, including: a main processing unit, which splits up the first and the second arbitrary-precision values into N-bit (where N is a natural number) operands respectively in the-least-significant-bit-first order for computing with the arbitrary-precision data and consecutively outputting a series of pairs of the first and ... 05/18/06 - 20060106902 - Efficient computation for eigenvalue decomposition and singular value decomposition of matrices For eigenvalue decomposition, a first set of at least one variable is derived based on a first matrix being decomposed and using Coordinate Rotational Digital Computer (CORDIC) computation. A second set of at least one variable is derived based on the first matrix and using a look-up table. A second ... 05/18/06 - 20060106901 - Device and method for robust decoding of arithmetic codes The invention concerns a decoder (2) comprising a first input for receiving a coded flow of second binary elements (Yd). It comprises a second input for receiving channel properties (1c) designed to define probabilities of receiving second binary elements, upon transmitting first binary elements, a first module (12) defining a ... 05/11/06 - 20060101105 - Double shift mechanism and methods thereof In a processor, a concatenation of contents of two registers having a fixed number of one-bit data storage elements are shifted by a software-defined, controllable amount and the fixed number of bits are selected from the shifted concatenation as output. ... 05/04/06 - 20060095486 - Generation of rtl to carry out parallel arithmetic operations Computer-implemented method and system for generating an optimized description of an arithmetic function comprising at least two of an addition, a multiplication, and a rounding operation to be carried out on a plurality of data bits in a plurality of registers of an electronic circuit, the method comprising the steps: ... 05/04/06 - 20060095485 - System and method for permuting a vector In one embodiment, a method of permuting a vector comprises providing vector entries of the vector to an input stage of a permuting structure, wherein the permuting structure comprises a plurality of stages and interconnections for groups of vector entries between the plurality of plurality of stages such that any ... 05/04/06 - 20060095484 - Method and system for solving an optimization problem This invention provides a method and system for solving an optimization problem under a set of constraints. A set of solutions is evaluated under the set of constraints. Initial violation metrics and states are generated, based on at least one constraint corresponding to the solutions violating the constraints. A set ... 04/27/06 - 20060089956 - Classification unit and methods thereof A classification unit is to process an odd number of inputs in a single instruction cycle by comparing all distinct pairs of inputs and selecting one of the inputs based on the comparisons. ... 04/27/06 - 20060089955 - Two's complement circuit A operator is located between two converters that convert data between floating-point format and a predetermined format. The operator operates on predetermined format data, which consists of the same sign bit, the same exponent, and the two's complement of the mantissa of the corresponding floating-point data. When the operator is ... 03/23/06 - 20060064447 - Nutrition tracking method A portable device which utilizes a method for tracking consumption of food calories, carbohydrates, fats, or proteins using a cell phone, personal data assistant, or hand held device. The user can record food intake; calculate basal metabolic rate; daily caloric needs; monitor calories, carbohydrates, protein or fats; and provide current ... 03/23/06 - 20060064446 - Calculator with error notification function and its method A calculator with error notification function and its method are disclosed. At first, an equation is inputted into the calculator and temporarily stored, wherein the equation is composed of multiple operational units. Next, a comparison is applied between the equation and multiple operational rules in order to find and tag ... 03/23/06 - 20060064445 - System and method for specifying an immediate value in an instruction A data processing system uses a data processor instruction that forms an immediate value. The data processing instruction uses a first field as a portion of the immediate value. A second field of the data processing instruction determines a positional location of the portion of the immediate value within the ... 03/16/06 - 20060059217 - Mathematical expression buildup and builddown Systems and methods for manipulating mathematical expressions in a computer system. A system can include a builddown module programmed to builddown a mathematical expression from a two-dimensional format to a linear format, the builddown module being programmed to associate a special property of the two-dimensional format of the mathematical expression ... 03/16/06 - 20060059216 - Method for square root computation The present invention describes a method for square root computation, in which a shift-comparison operation is introduced into the computation process so as to obtain correction factors and adjusting factors. The bits of the correction factors are shifted to form estimation terms, and then the adjusting factors are used to ... 03/16/06 - 20060059215 - Cordic unit A CORDIC unit for the iterative approximation of a vector rotation through a rotary angle θ by a number of elementary rotations through elementary angles αi, including elementary rotation stages for respectively effecting an elementary rotation through an elementary angle αi as an iteration step in the iterative approximation. After ... 01/19/06 - 20060015547 - Efficient circuits for out-of-order microprocessors The poor scalability of existing superscalar processors has been of great concern to the computer engineering community. In particular, the critical-path delays of many components in existing implementations grow quadratically with the issue width and the window size. This patent presents a novel way to reimplement these components and reduce ... 01/12/06 - 20060010181 - Multi-dimensional transpose for distributed memory network A method, information processing system and computer readable medium for performing a transpose of a multidimensional matrix in a distributed memory network. The method includes storing a multidimensional matrix of side N in a distributed memory network comprising a plurality of nodes and distributing work associated with a calculation of ... 01/05/06 - 20060004898 - Circuit configuration for averaging The invention relates to a circuit configuration for determining the average value of an input signal (s), comprising a signal input (1) for receiving the input signal (s) and comprising a signal output (13) for outputting an output signal (g) that depicts the average value of the input signal (s). ... 12/22/05 - 20050283506 - Attenuator, data signal processor, method for acquiring attenuation of attenuator, recording medium, and computer data signal An address generator is supplied with a designated gain GT, and generates exponent data n and an address of mantissa A. The address of mantissa A is set based on an accuracy of the designated gain GT. A mantissa-coefficient acquiring unit is so structured as to acquire a mantissa-coefficient k ... 12/22/05 - 20050283505 - Distribution goodness-of-fit test device, consumable goods supply timing judgment device, image forming device, distribution goodness-of-fit test method and distribution goodness-of-fit test program A distribution goodness-of-fit test device for testing whether measured data matches an estimated probability distribution has a counting section determination unit, a counting unit and a goodness-of-fit test unit. The counting section determination unit determines according to the number of the measured data, widths of counting sections for counting the ... 12/08/05 - 20050273479 - Reformulation of the finite-difference time-domain algorithm for hardware-based accelerators A hardware-based acceleration platform for computational electromagnetic algorithms, specifically the finite-difference time-domain (“FDTD”) method, comprises reformulating the FDTD algorithm in order to make it more hardware friendly. This reformulation makes use of split fields at every node in the mesh, and combines total- and scattered-field formulations into a single, hybrid ... 12/08/05 - 20050273478 - Apparatus, system, and method for efficient and reliable computation of results for mathematical functions An apparatus, system, and method are provided for efficient computation of reliable results for mathematical functions. The apparatus may include an interface, a control module, and an error module. The interface receives a mathematical function call. The call includes a plurality of arguments for which a range of computable results ... 11/10/05 - 20050251541 - Multifunctional electronic device for a mechanical seal and control and management process realised by such device A multifunctional electronic device for checking and managing the operating and diagnostic conditions of a mechanical seal. A method of controlling and managing the operating and diagnostic conditions of a mechanical seal. ... 10/13/05 - 20050228838 - Processing technique for digital speckle photogrammetry An improved numerical technique is disclosed for processing digital photo-graphs for measuring surface strain by speckle photogrammetry. The data to be processed is obtained by recording two digital photographs of speckle patterns of the image of the surface of an object where one photograph is recorded before a stress is ... 09/29/05 - 20050216540 - Novel cordic circuit The CORDIC circuit of this invention comprises a buffer memory to record a plurality or a plurality of group of coordinate values; a phase selector to determine a rotation direction according to values recorded in said buffer memory; a rotation calculator to rotate an input coordinate for a predetermined angle ... 09/22/05 - 20050210088 - Calculating unit A calculating unit including a number of bit slices which is less than the number of positions of the operand to be processed. Each bit slice has a logic element and a communication bus between the logic element and the plurality of register cells. The register cells are connected in ... 09/22/05 - 20050210087 - Apparatus and method for scaling digital data information This invention provides a data processing apparatus for scaling a digital data source. The data processing apparatus includes a ratio transformation module and a scaling module. The ratio transformation module receives a ratio signal and generates a Look-up Table (LUT). The scaling module connected to the ratio transformation module receives ... 09/22/05 - 20050210086 - Data processing apparatus and method for computing an absolute difference between first and second data elements The present invention provides a data processing apparatus and method for computing an absolute difference between portions of first and second data elements. The data processing apparatus comprises processing logic operable to perform a data processing operation on first and second data elements, the processing logic comprising comparison logic operable ... 09/15/05 - 20050203978 - Analysis apparatus arranged to analyse data and detect change and related methods A method of analysing data comprising collecting at least one new data sample and using the new data sample and an existing ongoing weighted average based upon at least one earlier data sample to calculate new ongoing weighted average such that a respective weight applied to the at least one ... 09/15/05 - 20050203977 - Method and apparatus for reducing the crest factor of a signal A method and apparatus for reducing the crest factor of a signal uses a plurality of partial correction signals having respective predetermined frequencies. For each of the partial correction signals, the following steps are performed: (a) determining a time position of a maximum absolute amplitude of the signal; (b) calculating ... 09/08/05 - 20050198089 - Mixed-scaling-rotation cordic method with scaling-free rotational operations for vector rotation A method of mixed-scaling-rotation CORDIC (MSR-CORDIC) with scaling-free rotational operations is disclosed. An elementary angles set is extended by representing the elementary angles as the arctangent of the division of two single signed-power-of-two terms to an enhanced extended elementary angles set. A combination of elementary angles is found from the ... 09/01/05 - 20050193044 - Circuit for carrying out the add compare select operation with a functionality going beyond this A circuit is disclosed that is designed to carry out add compare select operations for determination of state metrics. The circuit is also designed to carry out a computation operation which goes beyond an add compare select operation for state metric determination, wherein the circuit is either configurable for this ... 08/25/05 - 20050187995 - Device, system and method for blind format detection Device, systems, and methods to detect unknown transmission formats are provided. Viterbi metric values may be calculated for a plurality of possible format parameters for a transmission format. Format metric values may be calculated for a plurality of the calculated Viterbi metric values, and the calculated format metric values may ... 08/18/05 - 20050182802 - Method of updating an authentication algorithm in a computer system The invention relates to a method of updating an authentication algorithm in at least one data processing device (CARD, SERV) which can store a subscriber identity (IMSI1) which is associated with an authentication algorithm (Algo1) in a memory element of said device (CARD, SERV). The inventive method comprises the following ... 08/11/05 - 20050177604 - Generation of a signal corresponding to value units in relation to a comparison of comparison values According to the invention a device has a calculation unit distributing value units into a first and a second group, setting a first counter value and performing comparison value dependent calculations. In these calculations it receives a selection of all value units in the first group or one value unit ... 08/04/05 - 20050171986 - Apparatus and method for reducing precision of data Methods and apparatus for reducing precision of an input signal, by comparing a portion of the input signal to a preselected threshold value, and determining a selectable bias responsive to the comparison. By combining a portion of the input signal with the selectable bias, a reduced precision signal, having minimized ... 07/21/05 - 20050160123 - Pipe reference and calculating device A pipe reference and calculating device pipe reference and calculating device includes a housing that can be held in a hand of a user. A processor is contained within the housing. A keypad is on the housing and is electrically connected to the processor. The keypad operates a plurality of ... 07/14/05 - 20050154771 - Boolean logic tree reduction circuit A method and apparatus are provided for performing a Boolean logic tree function on all bits of a multiple-bit binary input data word having a plurality of bit positions. Each bit has one of first and second complementary logic states. A modified data word is formed by packing all the ... 07/07/05 - 20050149590 - Method and system for performing permutations with bit permutation instructions The present invention provides permutation instructions which can be used in software executed in a programmable processor for solving permutation problems in cryptography, multimedia and other applications. PPERM and PPERM3R instructions are defined to perform permutations by a sequence of instructions with each sequence specifying the position in the source ... 06/30/05 - 20050144205 - Waveform display apparatus A waveform display apparatus which acquires data from a plurality of channels, and displays information relating to the acquired data in the form of a waveform based on the result of a mathematical operation performed in accordance with a user-entered mathematical expression, wherein at least one mathematical expression is entered ... 06/30/05 - 20050144204 - Apparatus and method for computing sha-1hash function An apparatus and method for computing a SHA-1 hash function value are provided. The apparatus includes a first register unit including a plurality of registers that store a first bit string of predetermined lengths for generation of a hash function value; a second register unit storing input data in units ... 06/30/05 - 20050144203 - Pattern matching Systems, apparatuses, and methods for searching for a match to a sequence of bits. The systems apparatuses, and methods include selecting a sequence of bits from a data stream, taking a function of the sequence of bits having a result that is a pattern that is represented by shorter string ... 06/23/05 - 20050138093 - Trigonometry calculator A trigonometry calculator is programmed with four selectable calculations of unknown parameters of any plane triangle having three known parameters. The calculations accept known parameters of SIDE SIDE ANGLE, SIDE ANGLE SIDE, SIDE SIDE SIDE, and ANGLE ANGLE SIDE and from such inputs calculate unknown angles and sides. The calculator ... 06/09/05 - 20050125468 - System and method of testing and evaluating mathematical functions The present invention provides a system and method for systematic random testing of single/double-precision, one/two-variable or scalar/vector mathematical functions against a known higher precision reference mathematical library or to the result of an arbitrary precision mathematical package. The systematic random testing of mathematical functions is performed across the entire floating-point ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |