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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7260523 | Sub-band speech coding system An improved sub-band speech coding system is provided by subdividing signals into a lower an higher subband, downsampling the lower subband before coding and coding the higher subband without downsampling. The decoder includes decoding and upsampling of the lower su... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7231093 | Image code estimation Estimation of the code size of variable length encoding of quantized DCT coefficients by summation over histogram bins of products of number of bin members and a code size of an average run of zero coefficients coupled with a representative level from the bin. The e... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7222070 | Hybrid speech coding and system Linear predictive speech coding system with classification of frames and a hybrid coder using both waveform coding and parametric coding for different classes of frames. Phase alignment for a parametric coder aligns synthesized speech frames with adjacent waveform c... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7203373 | Image and video coding with redundant run-length-level-last codewords removed A method of run-length encoding for known block size, such as image/video compression with block transform, such as DCT, with end of block indication suppressed when the end of the block can be inferred from the prior coding symbols. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203237 | 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 ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202877 | Sprite rendering Computation of sprite position and size in JSR-184 with revised modelview matrix made with column vector lengths of original modelview matrix. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7185037 | Video block transform Integer transforms of 4×4 blocks of the type used in proposed H.26L but adapted to 16-bit arithmetic by shifts after matrix multiplications and integer approximation matrices absorbing scaling factors. ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184457 | Spread spectrum path estimation Spread spectrum rake receiver estimates number of paths within a chip interval and assigns corresponding fingers. Cross-correlation matrix eigenvalues or direct BER estimates for differing numbers of fingers determine whether one or two fingers assigned to the group... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184080 | Automatic white balancing via illuminant scoring Automatic white balancing and/or autoexposure as useful in a digital camera extracts color channel gains from comparisons of image colors with reference colors under various color temperature illuminants and/or extracts exposure settings from illuminance mean, illum... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181167 | High data rate closed loop MIMO scheme combining transmit diversity and data multiplexing Closed loop multiple-antenna wireless communications system with antenna weights determined by maximizing a composite channel signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio minimum. Multiplexed symbol streams over subsets of antennas enhance throughput. ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181073 | Image coding using embedded zerotree patterns and bitplanes An image coding method using wavelet decomposition and coding clusters of four-children coefficients bitplane-wise including value-bits for significance and refinement, and tree-bits for tree structure significance. ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180275 | DC-DC high frequency boost converter A DC-DC high frequency boost converter with a supply voltage input (110), a boosted voltage output (112), a series circuit of an inductor (114) and a rectifying device (116) connected in series between said supply voltage input (110 | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176815 | Video coding with CABAC Context-based adapative binary arithmetic coding (CABAC), as used in video standards such as H.264/AVC, with a renormalization of the interval low value plus range that includes partitioning of the bits of the low value to provide output bits plus low value update w... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176821 | Reduced area digital sigma-delta modulator A digital sigma-delta modulator requiring minimal die area and dissipating minimal power is formed with a plurality of integration stages coupled in tandem between an input node and an output node. The bit width of signals in the integration stages is progressively ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176726 | Integrated loss of signal detection with wide threshold range and precise hysteresis A loss-of-signal (LOS) detector includes a variable gain amplifier with an input receiving an input signal, a threshold comparator with a first input receiving a signal derived from an output of the variable gain amplifier, a second input receiving a reference level... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167522 | Video deblocking filter Decomposition of deblocking filters used in block-based video compression allows reduction of computational redundancies. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7151414 | Method and circuit for frequency synthesis using a low drift current controlled oscillator with wide output frequency range A method and circuit for frequency synthesis using a low drift current controlled oscillator configured to provide a wide output frequency and high accuracy are provided. An exemplary frequency synthesis circuit is configured for programmable control of a center fre... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149253 | Wireless communication A frequency division multiplexing wireless transmission on two or more antennas with the set of symbols on subcarriers of a burst transmitted by one antenna transformed into another set of symbols on the subcarriers for the corresponding burst transmitted by another... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139229 | Optical disk identification circuit The present invention offers an optical disk determination circuit that can improve the stability of the operation to detect the peak (pulse signal) of the received light signal, and that can improve the stability of the optical disk determination operation. When de... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139700 | Hybrid speech coding and system Linear predictive speech coding system with classification of frames and a hybrid coder using both waveform coding and parametric coding for different classes of frames. Phase alignment for a parametric coder aligns synthesized speech frames with adjacent waveform c... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7140016 | Media accelerator quality of service Integration of DSP running algorithms with general purpose processor running applications including plugin objects as proxies for the DSP algorithms and with quality of service including application controls of algorithm scheduling and algorithm events reported to t... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139854 | Pipelining access to serialization tokens on a bus Apparatus and methods are disclosed herein that provide reduced bus transaction latency on a bus architecture that includes at least one master coupled to a plurality of slaves. As disclosed herein, a device (e.g., a slave) may include bus logic and host logic coupl... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7135840 | DC/DC converter circuit and method for DC/DC conversion A DC/DC converter circuit including an inductance 10, two controllable switches 12, 14 and a controller 16 for controlling the switches 12, 14 is configured so that it is able to operate in two permanently alternating operating time phase... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135920 | Method and circuit for facilitating control of AC coupling in an amplifier circuit A method and circuit for facilitating control of the AC coupling for addressing input offset in an amplifier circuit are provided. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a control circuit comprises a pair of resistive networks coupled together through a capacit... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136810 | Wideband speech coding system and method A speech encoder/decoder for wideband speech with a partitioning of wideband into lowband and highband, convenient coding of the lowband, and LP excited by noise plus some periodicity for the highband. The embedded lowband may be extracted for a lower bit rate decod... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133435 | Interference cancellation system and method A method for reducing multiple access interference (MAI) in a code division multiple access (CDMA) spread spectrum receiver assigned a number of codes which also despreads the received signal with the remaining codes of the same spreading factor. For forward link tr... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130169 | Short circuit protection for a power isolation device and associated diode Short circuit protection is provided for an isolation component that has a parasitic diode as an inherent part of its construction. The isolation component may or may not be contained in an integrated circuit. In response to detecting a short circuit condition based... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126889 | Tracking error detector A circuit to improve the SN characteristic of a tracking error signal. This tracking error detection circuit is formed as a push-pull system utilizing a quadrant type photo-detector and provided with 4 gain control amplifiers 20, 22, 24, and 26, 4 bott... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123772 | Image compression by differences within a strip A method of image/video compression by analysis of variability of block DCT coefficients in a strip of (macro)blocks to decide on treatment of the blocks in the strip as either encoding each block or approximation of all blocks in the strip by the corresponding stri... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119845 | Image resizing system and method Image resizing through resampling by poly-phase filtering with a phase generation from input parameters but with lower resolution of the phase for filter selection. Field and frame mode selection creates initial offsets for alignment. A phase accumulator generates s... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116085 | DC-DC converter The objective of this invention is to reduce the current flowing through the inductance element in a step-up/step-down DC—DC converter and to control the ripple in the output voltage. In the DC—DC converter, four states, that is, the first state [1] of (M1 | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116261 | Method and apparatus for accurate inverse-linear voltage/current generator To make use of its full input voltage operating range, an analog-to-digital converter is configured with a switched-capacitor circuit to produce a digital output signal from an analog input signal that lies within a range of input signal voltage. The analog-to-digit... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113543 | Video encoding Motion compensation as for video compression with motion estimation with either frame mode or field mode by initial prediction of motion mode and when prediction error is small enough truncate motion estimation search. ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113499 | Wireless communication A wireless communication transmission channel estimation by initial data exchange to determine calibration factors to apply to tracked channel estimations from received transmissions. ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110782 | Cell search synchronization Cell search synchronization in spread spectrum communications systems using primary and second synchronization codes with symbol partitioning for shorter coherent combinations (despreading) which are combined non-coherently, and Fourier transform analysis automatica... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7109838 | System for integrating a toroidal inductor in a semiconductor device An inductor integrated in a semiconductor device comprises a first and second lower electrical trace, an upper electrical trace, aligned at a first end with a first end of the first lower electrical trace and at a second end with a second end of the second lower ele... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7105891 | Gate structure and method CMOS gate structure with metal gates having differing work functions by texture differences between NMOS and PMOS gates. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103095 | Spread spectrum code correlator Spread spectrum receiver with correlating coprocessor having common datapath for received signal correlations and code cross-correlations for efficient interference cancellation methods. ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7088274 | Difference amplifier for digital-to-analog converter An improved circuit is provided that buffers the output of a DAC while improving the bandwidth and linearity of the circuit. A DAC comprises an output signal of a switched DAC circuit coupled to an inverting node of an output buffer configured as a difference amplif... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7080386 | Architecture with digital signal processor plug-ins for general purpose processor media frameworks A plug-and-play architecture including an extension of a general purpose processor media framework for adjoining DSP processing power. ... | 07/18/2006 |
