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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166510 | Method and apparatus for distributing video on demand loading A method and apparatus for distributing video-on-demand loading include processing that begins by receiving a concurrent additional request for accessing a video program (i.e., while the server associated with the video program is processing one request for access t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165210 | Video codec with shared interpolation filter and method for use therewith A video processing device operates in an encoding mode when a mode selection signal has a first value and operates in a decoding mode when the mode selection signal has a second value. The video processing device utilizes an interpolation filter to perform an encodi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8131995 | Processing feature revocation and reinvocation A method includes storing, at a storage location of a system, a first security value and utilizing, at the system, a first security certificate compatible with the first security value and incompatible with at least a second security value, wherein the first securit... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8107524 | Adaptive bandwidth footprint matching for multiple compressed video streams in a fixed bandwidth network A system and a method for simultaneous transmission of multiple media streams in a fixed bandwidth network are disclosed herein. The system is comprised of a central gateway media server and a plurality of client receiver units. The input media streams arrive from a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7991379 | RF transmitter and receiver front-end A radio frequency receiver front-end includes a low noise amplifier, a mixing stage, and a selectable channel filter. The low noise amplifier is operably coupled to amplify inbound RF signals to produce amplified inbound RF signals. The mixing stage is operably coup... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7920524 | Multimedia server with channel control module and methods for use therewith A multimedia server module includes a first transceiver module that modulates an encoded signal to produce a first radio frequency (RF) signal and that transmits the first RF signal to a client module over a first transceiver channel when the first transceiver modul... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7907212 | Multiple path audio video synchronization Audio video synchronization begins by receiving an audio-video signal via a first communication path. The processing continues by capturing a representation of an audio component of the audio-video signal, wherein the audio component was rendered audible via a secon... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7900264 | Multimedia client/server system with copy protection recovery and methods for use therewith A multimedia client/server system includes a multimedia server module that is coupleable to a plurality of multimedia sources that produce at least one multimedia signal. The multimedia server module includes an encoder module that asserts a protection present signa... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7836193 | Method and apparatus for providing graphical overlays in a multimedia system A method and apparatus for processing overlay data in a multimedia system include processing that begins when the server of the multimedia system selects a set of channels from a plurality of channels based on a set of channel select signals. The processing continue... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835461 | Low power radio transmitter using pulse transmissions A low power radio transmitter includes an intermediate frequency stage, signal-to-pulse conversion module, and a power amplifier. The intermediate frequency stage up-converts the frequency of a base-band digital signal into an N-bit signal at the intermediate freque... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7792182 | Method and apparatus for adjusting symbol timing and/or symbol positioning of a receive burst of data within a radio receiver A method and apparatus for adjusting symbol timing and/or symbol interval range of a receive burst of data within a radio receiver include processing that begins by receiving a radio frequency signal that includes bursts of data. The process then continues by determ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7774362 | Multimedia client/server system with secure access data sharing and methods for use therewith A multimedia client/server system, prior to transmitting multimedia data over an RF communication link, shares secure access data between the client module. The secure access data is used to securing communication between the server transceiver module and the client... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7739105 | System and method for processing audio frames In accordance with a specific implementation of the disclosure, a stream of audio frames is received and compressed using psycho-acoustical processing. The signal-to-mask ratio table generated by the psycho-acoustical algorithm is updated using only a portion of the... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7725807 | Error checking using a field of a frame A method for field error checking begins by decoding a predetermined pattern of a field of a frame to produce a decoded pattern. The method continues by determining, for the decoded pattern, a path metric distance of a predetermined state of a plurality of states of... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7714754 | Entropy decoder with pipelined processing and methods for use therewith An entropy decoding module includes a binary arithmetic coding module that generates a bin string by pipeline processing a bit stream, based on a clock signal and based on context model information. A binarization and context modeling module generates a stream of sy... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7707485 | System and method for dynamic transrating based on content Exemplary techniques for modifying multimedia data based on content are disclosed. One technique comprises determining whether a first portion of multimedia content of multimedia data has a first content characteristic and performing one or more content actions asso... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7675972 | System and method for multiple channel video transcoding A system and a method for transcoding multiple media channels is disclosed herein. The system includes a first processor to parse a media data stream having one or more media data channels and a vector processor to decompress, scale, and then compress the parsed med... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7668396 | Method and system for noise reduction in an image In a specific embodiment of the present disclosure, a source image is smoothed to create a smoothed image, and an edge detector is used to create an edge layer. A blending controller is used to control a blending between the source image and the smoothed image. The ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7667776 | Video display device, video encoder, noise level estimation module and methods for use therewith A noise level estimation module includes a pixel block selection module for selecting a plurality of selected pixel blocks over a set of K fields of a video signal, each of the plurality of selected pixel blocks containing a plurality of pixels having corresponding ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7634526 | Selectable quantization in an encoder A method for selectable quantization for use in an encoder for compressing video and/or audio data includes processing that begins by receiving discrete cosine transform data of an encoded signal. The processing continues by generating a plurality of quantization ma... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634290 | Adjusting transmit power of a wireless communication device A method for adjusting transmit power of a wireless communication device begins by determining requirements of a wireless communication between the wireless communication device and a receiving wireless communication device. The method continues by determining wheth... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7623540 | Method and apparatus for channel allocation in a wireless local area network (WLAN) The present invention provides a method for allocating channels in a wireless local area network (WLAN) among a plurality of clients. This method involves first assigning at least one client of the plurality of clients to a channel of a set of active channels. Next,... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7617515 | Method and apparatus for managing resources in a multimedia system A method and apparatus for managing resources within a multimedia system includes processing that begins by receiving a client request for a multimedia system service from one of a plurality of clients. The processing continues by determining whether the client's re... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613433 | Reducing local oscillation leakage in a radio frequency transmitter A method for reducing LO leakage in a radio frequency transmitter begins by producing analog outbound signals from digital outbound signals that represent transmit data. The processing continues by amplifying the analog outbound signals to produce amplified analog o... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7610017 | Increased data rate transmissions of a wireless communication A method for receiving high data rate wireless communication transmissions begins by receiving a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals in accordance with a wireless communication standardized data rate on a plurality of RF channels. The method continues by conve... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7602847 | Device and method for compression of a video stream A video processing device and method for a video system is provided. The device creates downscaled compressed video stream data from an original compressed video stream. The device accomplishes this and achieves a large saving in processor and memory bandwidth by re... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7596127 | System for allocating data in a communications system and method thereof Poor transmission reliability is identified in a data channel. Multiple frequency carriers are used to transmit different sets of data within the data channel. A frequency bin is assigned to each frequency carrier. The frequency bins are used to provide data to each... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7533271 | Method and apparatus for remote control and monitoring of a multimedia system A method and apparatus for remote control and/or monitoring of a multimedia system includes processing that begins when a hand held device transmits a remote control/monitoring request to a server. The processing continues once a communication path is established be... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7423990 | Dynamically adjusting data rate of wireless communications A method and apparatus for dynamic data rate adjustment of a wireless transport channel include processing that begins with one of a plurality of client modules within a wireless multimedia system monitors channel characteristics of a wireless transport channel. The... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421048 | System and method for multimedia delivery in a wireless environment A multimedia processing system and method thereof are provided. The system and method provide for synchronizing a first clock of a multimedia decoder of a first multimedia processing device to a second clock of a multimedia encoder of a second multimedia processing ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421046 | Method and apparatus for signal decoding in a diversity reception system with maximum ratio combining A method signal for decoding in a diversity reception system can include converting the received RF signal into a plurality of digital baseband signals; phase aligning the plurality of digital baseband signals to produce a plurality of phase aligned digital baseband... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418049 | Method and apparatus for decoding baseband orthogonal frequency division multiplex signals A method and apparatus for decoding baseband OFDM signals include processing that begins by slicing each sub-carrier signal of the OFDM signal into a plurality of error terms. The particular number of error terms generated for each sub-carrier signal depends on the ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7406598 | Method and system for secure content distribution A system on a chip (SOC) device is disclosed comprising external outputs, and external inputs. A first secure storage location is operably decoupled from all of the external outputs of the SOC device during a normal mode of operation. By being decoupled from all ext... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403564 | System and method for multiple channel video transcoding A system and a method for manipulating video data received over a media channels is disclosed herein. The method includes using an index table to reference stored video data, including motion vectors, so that they can be efficiently accessed by encoder and decoder p... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400869 | System and method for adaptive DC offset compensation in wireless transmissions A first direct current (DC) component of a first amplified representation of a received signal at an output of an amplifier set to a first gain setting is determined during a first expected idle period of a received signal. A second DC component of a second amplifie... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7356079 | Method and system for rate control during video transcoding A local system encodes previously decoded video data using a transcoding quantization value based on a source quantization value provided by a previous encoder as part of the retrieved video data. The transcoding quantization value can be determined additionally bas... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7327784 | Method and system for transcoding video data A first method of transcoding video data is disclosed that generates a motion vector for a macroblock encoded as a dual prime macro block that has a direct motion vector, and differential motion vector for its two fields respectively. Another method of transcoding i... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7310679 | Method and system for transmitting video content while preventing other transmissions in a contention-based network A plurality of wireless clients that can operate in a shared manner using a contention based protocol are placed into a contention free mode of operation that prevents the wireless clients from initiating a data transfer. Once the wireless clients are prevented from... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301900 | Method and apparatus for hub-based network access via a multimedia system A method and apparatus for a multimedia server to function as a hub based network server includes processing that begins by receiving packets from at least one of a plurality of clients. The processing continues by determining whether a network access application is... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7280588 | Correlation module for use in a radio receiver A correlation module includes a plurality of first functional modules, a plurality of second functional modules, a plurality of function adjust modules, a summation module, a correlation value register, and a correlation evaluation module. The plurality of first fun... | 10/09/2007 |
