Abyad; Mirna G. - US Patent Attorneys and Agents

Attorney: Abyad; Mirna G.

Number of patents: 30
Last date: April 26, 2011

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7932843	Parallel CABAC decoding for video decompression A method of video decoding is provided that includes receiving a data stream comprising a sequence of syntax elements that were compressed using context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC), such that the encoding of each bin of a bin string representative of a...	04/26/2011
7715575	Room impulse response Audio loudspeaker and headphone virtualizers and methods use room impulse responses with modified individual head-related transfer functions prior to superposition including middle truncation; and perform convolutions in the frequency domain with zero-padded section...	05/11/2010
7715573	Audio bandwidth expansion Bandwidth expansion for audio signals by frequency band translations plus adaptive gains to create higher frequencies; use of a common channel for both stereo channels limits computational complexity. Adaptive cut-off frequency determination by power spectrum curve ...	05/11/2010
7710969	Rapid I/O traffic system High speed networking systems such as PCI-Express and Serial Rapid I/O are based on the exchange of packets across switched networks of high speed serial links. Information in the headers of these packets indicate the kind of transaction they represent. Queuing all ...	05/04/2010
7676698	Apparatus and method for coupling a plurality of test access ports to external test and debug facility An interface unit is provided for selectively testing a plurality of processor/cores. The interface unit includes an interface test access port (TAP) unit operable to receive test commands, and a logic unit coupled to the interface TAP unit and operable to generate ...	03/09/2010
7676048	Graphic equalizers Graphic equalizer as a cascade of equalization filters with the gain of each individual filter compensated for the gain leakage from other filters. A linear approximation allows individual filter gains to be set to give desired frequency responses. ...	03/09/2010
7676043	Audio bandwidth expansion Bandwidth expansion for audio signals by frequency band translations plus adaptive gains to create higher frequencies; use of a common channel for both stereo channels limits computational complexity. Adaptive cut-off frequency determination by power spectrum curve ...	03/09/2010
7675551	Method and apparatus obtaining color values for a digital camera Digital camera color correction with a linear transformation having coefficients computed from an optimization with preservation of gray levels. This preserves white balance despite differing exposures for images from a target sensor and reference colors. ...	03/09/2010
7642830	Method and delay circuit with accurately controlled duty cycle A delay locked loop includes a storage element coupled to a data bus and produces a data synchronization signal. A phase detector receives a data clock signal and the data synchronization signal and produces a delay control signal. A first delay circuit produces a s...	01/05/2010
7620675	Image and audio transform methods Inverse discrete cosine transform (type-III DCT), used in video/image and audio coding, is implemented in the form of FFT to lower computational complexity. ...	11/17/2009
7606999	Merging branch information with sync points A method for merging branch information with sync points is disclosed herein. The method comprises determining whether a sync point is to be generated concurrent with a branch instruction and generating said sync point to include a program counter value and to indic...	10/20/2009
7606703	Layered celp system and method with varying perceptual filter or short-term postfilter strengths Layered code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech encoders have progressively weaker perceptual weighting filters for each of the successive enhancement layers and decoders have progressively weaker short-term postfilters for increased bit rates (increased number...	10/20/2009
7596725	Efficient trace triggering A system comprising a processor core adapted to execute software code and a trace logic coupled to the processor core and comprising a storage. The storage comprises at least one bit that indicates a condition and status information. The trace logic generates a trac...	09/29/2009
7596491	Layered CELP system and method Layered (embedded) code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech encoders/decoders with adaptive plus algebraic codebooks applied in each layer with fixed codebook pulses of one layer used in higher layers. Pulse weightings emphasize lower layer pulses relative to th...	09/29/2009
7583147	Buffer drive The present invention relates to a CMOS buffer circuit for liquid crystal display (LCD) drivers, which includes a single stage operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) with a differential of transistors for receiving a differential input voltage, a bias current ...	09/01/2009
7579541	Automatic page sequencing and other feedback action based on analysis of audio performance data Speech or musical performance is electronically analyzed using DSP techniques and is compared to a stored text script or musical score, to enable display of and automated sequencing through multiple pages of the stored script or score. The performer can modify timin...	08/25/2009
7577565	Adaptive voice playout in VOP Packetized CELP-encoded speech playout with frame truncation during silence and frame expansion method dependent upon voicing classification with voiced frame expansion maintaining phasealignment. ...	08/18/2009
7577248	Method and apparatus for echo cancellation, digit filter adaptation, automatic gain control and echo suppression utilizing block least mean squares Hands-free phones with voice activity detection using a comparison of frame power estimate with an adaptive frame noise power estimate, automatic gain control with fast adaptation and minimal speech distortion, echo cancellation updated in the frequency domain with ...	08/18/2009
7574278	Scheduling system and method A method and apparatus for scheduling in a wafer fab. The method comprising means for weighting inventories according to at least one of logpoints or reticle, and photolithography units, means for scheduling one of said inventories on one of said photolithography un...	08/11/2009
7573830	Integrated programmable device for safety critical applications An integrated programmable device has a plurality of signal inputs (P1, P2, P3) connected to respective ones of a plurality of switching elements (S1, S2, S3). Each switching element (S1, S2, S3) has an ...	08/11/2009
7561596	Systems and methods for multiplexing and demultiplexing multiple data sources The present disclosure describes systems and methods for multiplexing multiple data sources Some illustrative embodiments include a method for combining multiple data sources, including building one or more single-source data words by iteratively selecting a data so...	07/14/2009
7561433	Apparatus and method for a clip device for coupling a heat sink plate system with a burn-in board system In a burn-in test configuration wherein a chip board having a plurality of semiconductor chips engages a heat sink board having a plurality of heat sinks. When the boards are operationally engaged, each semiconductor chip has a heat sink spring-loaded against the se...	07/14/2009
7558987	Token-based trace system A system comprising a target hardware comprising multiple processor cores and an application. The system also comprises a host computer coupled to the target hardware by way of a connection and adapted to debug the application by receiving trace information via the ...	07/07/2009
7556442	Apparatus and method for a smart image-receptor unit In an optical image acquisition and information transmission system, the system components can be fabricated, according to a first implementation, in a stack positioned on a circuit board. According to a second implementation, the system components are fabricated on...	07/07/2009
7536017	Cross-talk cancellation Audio cross-talk cancellation by inverse HRTF matrix only for low frequencies; high frequencies rely upon the natural barrier of a listener's head. The low frequency cutoff is determined by a peak in the inverse matrix of the head-related transfer functions. ...	05/19/2009
7412003	Transcoders and methods Transcoding as from MPEG-2 SDTV to MPEG-4 CIF reuses motion vectors and downsamples in the frequency (DCT) domain with differing treatments of frame-DCT and field-DCT blocks, and alternatively uses de-interlacing IDCT with respect to the row dimension plus deferred ...	08/12/2008
7412002	Image preprocessing with selective lowpass filtering from motion compensation Preprocessing for motion-compensated video encoding such as MPEG includes lowpass filtering, temporal (310) and/or spatial (312), locally per pixel in response to motion vector analysis and prediction error (304) and temporal change (306)...	08/12/2008
7386444	Hybrid speech coding and system Hybrid linear predictive speech coding system with phase alignment predictive quantization zero phase alignment of speech prior to waveform coding aligns synthesized speech frames of a waveform coder with frames synthesized with a parametric coder. Inter-frame inter...	06/10/2008
7386170	Image object ranking Automatic vision system object indexing and image database query system using both path-dependent and path-independent features of moving objects within a sequence of images. Feature vectors of both average over frames of an object traversing the field of view plus ...	06/10/2008
7363604	Accurate noise modeling in digital designs A novel approach to cross-talk analysis takes effective account of the nature of cross-talk interference. This approach employs conservative assumptions regarding (1) the equivalent output resistance, and (2) the definition of noise immunity for the victim gate. Als...	04/22/2008

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