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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7478084 | Remote-directed management of media content A remote media player and methods for managing content. The media player includes a storage component to store content files. A user interface allows the user to make content selections. The content selections are used with a content database to manage the relations... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7460847 | Handheld audio system with radio receiver and method for use therewith A radio receiver, optionally used in conjunction with a handheld audio system, includes a radio stage for processing a received radio signal into an audio signal. An audio stage produces an audio output, based on the audio signal. An overload monitor detects an over... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459955 | Integrated circuit temperature sensing method A method and system for sensing the temperature of an integrated circuit are presented. The method compares a first current that is proportional to a temperature reading of the integrated circuit to a reference current. While the first current is greater than the re... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7453288 | Clock translator and parallel to serial converter A system and method for using one or more clock signals is disclosed. The system includes a clock translator that has a first input to receive a first reference clock signal and a second input to receive a second reference clock signal. The clock translator also inc... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7430659 | System and method to initialize a multiple function device with a multi-part boot algorithm A method for “booting up” a multiple function device that involves first detecting the activation of the multiple function device. A 1st boot algorithm, retrieved from read-only memory, is executed to identify the location of a 2nd boot alg... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428603 | System and method for communicating with memory devices via plurality of state machines and a DMA controller The disclosure is directed to a device including a memory interface. The memory interface includes a data interface, a first state machine and a second state machine. The first state machine includes a first chip select interface and a first ready/busy interface. Th... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424588 | Use of multiple overlays to import programs from external memory An internal memory uses a resource identifier and an entry point to identify which functional program from an external memory is to be loaded into one of a plurality of overlay spaces established in the internal memory. In executing a program statement, the resource... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424056 | Method for motion estimation and bandwidth reduction in memory and device for performing the same A device and a method are disclosed for motion estimation and bandwidth reduction in a memory. The device includes a memory for storing a plurality of frame data, a controller connected to the memory, a first motion estimation processor for performing a coarse-tunin... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420866 | Method and system of operating mode detection A system and method of providing a voltage to a non-volatile memory is disclosed. The system includes an output pin to provide an output voltage to a non-volatile memory. The system also includes a memory to store a table. The table includes a plurality of operating... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7409623 | System and method of reading non-volatile computer memory The disclosure is directed to a method of reading a portion of a non-volatile computer memory including reading a first portion of a redundant memory area of a data sector of the non-volatile computer memory. The first portion of the redundant memory area includes d... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7402981 | Method and apparatus to perform battery charging using a DC-DC converter circuit A battery converter, which is used to convert battery voltage to an output voltage to power an integrated circuit in a battery-operated mode, is placed into a battery-charge mode to charge the battery when external power source is present to power the integrated cir... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401880 | Combination of A/D inputs with quadrature detection to give higher resolution positioning A system and method of determining paper system position and velocity are provided. The method includes receiving a first data triplet at a first time. The first data triplet includes data related to a first coarse digital position, a first channel X analog voltage ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397408 | System and method for scheduling access to an analog-to-digital converter and a microprocessor An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) system is disclosed and includes a programmable control register and a plurality of channels, each channel having an associated request bit within the programmable control register. The ADC system also includes a scheduler respon... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394987 | Programmable infrared data processor An Infrared (IR) receiver includes a programmable decoder having a normal mode of operation and a proprietary mode of operation. When the programmable decoder is in the normal mode of operation, the programmable decoder decodes frames of an IR data transmission to p... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395401 | System and methods for accessing solid-state memory devices The disclosure is directed to a method of determining memory parameters of a memory device. The method includes determining a communication protocol associated with the memory device, determining a page size of the memory device by using the communication protocol t... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394314 | Class-D amplifier with noise-immunity feedback A class-D amplifier includes a switching transistor section, a filter, an analog to digital converter, and a feedback module. The switching transistor section is operably coupled to convert a serial input into a switched output signal. The filter is operably coupled... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391347 | Radio receiver, system on a chip integrated circuit and methods for use therewith A system on a chip integrated circuit includes a first digital module a second digital module such that the first digital module and the second digital module are operably coupled to generate an output signal based on an input signal, based on the first digital cloc... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391346 | Switching amplifier system and method A switching amplifier system and method is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a pulse width modulation frame size is determined based on a sample rate of a digital input signal. Data associated with the first digital input signal is modified based on the pulse w... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7382111 | Overvoltage and backflow current protection for a battery charger An overvoltage and backflow current protection circuit is employed when charging a battery. A switching circuit controls bias to the protection circuit to switch between overvoltage protection and backflow current protection. ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379356 | Memory, integrated circuit and methods for adjusting a sense amp enable signal used therewith A memory includes at least one memory segment that includes an array of memory cells arranged in a plurality of columns, each of the plurality of columns having a corresponding bitline pair. An address decoder includes a row decoder and a column decoder that address... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378829 | Method and system for providing voltage A system and method to provide voltage to a device from the operating mode of an integrated circuit is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the disclosed system includes an integrated circuit having an input/output pin and a DC-DC converter circuit that is coupled... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376762 | Systems and methods for direct memory access A system and method for providing direct memory access is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a direct memory access module is disclosed that includes a memory, a first interface coupled to a processor, and a second interface coupled to a peripheral module. A fir... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372967 | Microphone bias circuit A microphone bias circuit includes a first integrated circuit (IC) pin, a second IC pin, a first resistor, and a variable supply voltage buffer. The first resistor is operably coupled to the first IC pin and a return voltage. The second IC pin is operably coupled to... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366577 | Programmable analog input/output integrated circuit system The programmable analog input/output integrated circuit system includes a plurality of integrated circuit pins, an analog input/output circuit, a control module, and a switching module. The analog input/output circuit is coupled to the plurality of pins and determin... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362810 | Post-filter for deblocking and deringing of video data An implementation of an MPEG-4 compliant post-filter for image data, which performs deblocking and deringing post-filtering on decoded video data. The post-filter comprises two independent processing units, one for horizontal deblocking and the other for vertical de... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359254 | Controller for controlling a source current to a memory cell, processing system and methods for use therewith A controller for controlling a source current of a memory cell for use in a static random access memory (SRAM) includes a bias generator for supplying a bias current to the memory cell. A read current generator controls the source current to the memory cell to a rea... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358814 | Differential amplifier and methods for use therewith A differential audio amplifier includes a differential input stage for producing an output voltage in response to a differential audio input signal. The differential input stage has a first bias voltage and a second basis voltage. A bias compensation module controls... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7323921 | Clock generator, system on a chip integrated circuit and methods for use therewith A system on a chip integrated circuit includes a first circuit module and N other circuit modules that are operable to produce at least one output signal based on at least one input signal. A reference oscillator for generating a base clock signal for the first circ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321261 | Full swing amplifying circuit and applications thereof An amplifying circuit includes an input chopping circuit, an amplifier, and an output chopping circuit. The input chopping circuit is operably coupled to chop an input signal at a chopping rate to produce a chopped input signal. The amplifier has a first input trans... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312538 | Method and apparatus for regulating multiple outputs of a single inductor DC to DC converter A method and apparatus for regulating multiple outputs of a single inductor DC to DC converter includes processing that begins by producing a regulation signal to regulate a 1st output of the multiple outputs based on at least one of the multiple outputs.... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309117 | Multi-valued raster elements as a technique to reduce the memory requirements and computation complexity of advanced ink jet systems A printing system comprising a set of nozzles for applying a color component, wherein each of the nozzles in the set is configured to apply a different effective color intensity; and a raster associated with the set of nozzles, the raster comprising a plurality of c... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302560 | Use of NAND flash for hidden memory blocks to store an operating system program A memory device has a plurality of memory blocks utilized to store data. One of the blocks is used as a hidden memory block to store an operating system program, instead of data. The hidden memory block is designated as a bad block so that data will not be written i... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301826 | Memory, processing system and methods for use therewith A memory includes a selected bitline coupled to the array of memory cells. A column voltage booster produces a boosted column enable signal. A column multiplexer passes a signal on the selected bitline as a sense amplifier input in response to the boosted column ena... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301492 | Controlled sampling module and method for use therewith A controlled sampling module samples an input signal from an input device and a reference signal. The controlled sampling module includes a plurality of sample capacitors, a switching network, and a switch control module for controlling the switching network. The sw... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7284080 | Memory bus assignment for functional devices in an audio/video signal processing system The invention provides a system and method for memory bus assignment for a plurality of functional devices. According to a preferred embodiment, the invention provides a system comprising a plurality of functional devices accessing a memory bus wherein the memory bu... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280154 | Interpolative interleaving of video images A video processing system is presented that interleaves video data. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, data from a first field is placed in a frame and is augmented with pixel values in adjacent alternate rows of the frame with pixel value... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278119 | Battery-optimized system-on-a-chip and applications thereof A battery-optimized system-on-a-chip includes multimedia module, a high-speed interface, a processing module, on-chip memory, and an on-chip DC-to-DC converter. The multimedia module operably coupled to produce rendered output data from input data received via the h... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262585 | Method and apparatus for bi-directional current limit in a dual-power source capable device A power supply system having a transistor, a linear regulator, a DC-DC converter, and a control circuit. The transistor has an input, a substrate, a first node, and a second node. The first node is operably coupled to a non-battery power source. A linear regulator i... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259480 | Conserving power of a system on a chip using an alternate power source A method for conversing battery power for a battery-optimized system-on-a-chip begins by sensing for presence of an alternate power source. The processing continues, when the presence of the alternate power source is detected, a first control loop of a first DC-to-D... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254244 | Pop and click reduction using DAC power up and power down processing An audio amplifier generates an output to a load, in which a digital-to-analog converter drives the amplifier during powering up and powering down the amplifier. The digital-to-analog converter controls the amplifier to ramp the voltage at the output at a predetermi... | 08/07/2007 |
