Loomis; Timothy F. - US Patent Attorneys and Agents

Attorney: Loomis; Timothy F.

Number of patents: 82
Last date: May 01, 2012

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8171192	Hardware-assisted device configuration detection A method and apparatus for detecting the configuration of a device in a processing system are described. In one embodiment, a page size parameter associated with a memory device is identified. Further, one or more configuration parameters associated with the memory ...	05/01/2012
8150155	Multi-mode region-of-interest video object segmentation The disclosure is directed to techniques for automatic segmentation of a region-of-interest (ROI) video object from a video sequence. ROI object segmentation enables selected ROI or “foreground” objects of a video sequence that may be of interest to a viewer to ...	04/03/2012
8130726	Coarse bin frequency synchronization in a communication system For frequency bin error estimation, multiple hypotheses are formed for different frequency bin errors, pilot offsets, or combinations of frequency bin error and pilot offset. For each hypothesis, received symbols are extracted from the proper subbands determined by ...	03/06/2012
8099072	Frequency changer circuits In accordance with one aspect of the disclosure, apparatus are provided. A filter is provided to receive from an antenna a receive signal of a given type and a low noise amplifier is provided to amplify the received signal. A translator down translates the receive s...	01/17/2012
8089486	Tiled prefetched and cached depth buffer A 3D graphics pipeline includes a prefetch mechanism that feeds a cache of depth tiles. The prefetch mechanism may be predictive, using triangle geometry information from previous pipeline stages to pre-charge the cache, thereby allowing for an increase in memory ba...	01/03/2012
8081182	Depth buffer for rasterization pipeline By locating the depth buffer of a 3D graphics rasterization pipeline in a dedicated high speed memory, bandwidth on a main bus can be eliminated that would otherwise result from hidden surface removal (HSR) hardware contained in the pipeline. Also, by reordering of ...	12/20/2011
8078188	User selectable audio mixing This disclosure describes audio mixing techniques that allow a user to select between two different audio signals for output in a perceptual foreground of a combined output. As an example, the two different signals may comprise a music audio and a phone call audio. ...	12/13/2011
8068148	Automatic flicker correction in an image capture device The disclosure describes flicker detection and correction techniques to improve the quality of captured imagery, such as video or still images. In particular, this disclosure describes flicker correction techniques that compare different image frames to detect flick...	11/29/2011
8064110	Adaptive auto white balance An imaging system generates a gain for a component of an image format. The gain is at least partially dependent on the brightness of the light source illuminating a scene when an image of the scene was generated. The gain can be used to correct the component of the ...	11/22/2011
8045981	System search to detect for a wireless communication network in a crowded frequency band Techniques for efficiently performing system search to obtain service from a wireless system as quickly as possible are described. A terminal initially looks for service from a first (e.g., W-CDMA) system. The terminal identifies network(s) in the first system from ...	10/25/2011
8045021	Memory organizational scheme and controller architecture for image and video processing This disclosure describes an organizational scheme for memory that is useful for image processing. A memory controller architecture is also described, which takes advantage of the organizational scheme. The organizational scheme and controller architecture is partic...	10/25/2011
8041057	Mixing techniques for mixing audio This disclosure describes audio mixing techniques that intelligently combine two or more audio signals into an output signal. The techniques allow audio to be combined, yet create perceptual differentiation between the different audio signals. The result is that a u...	10/18/2011
8026910	Offline optimization pipeline for 3D content in embedded devices Apparatus are provided including assets defining 3D models, including 3D icons and scenes, and animations of the 3D models. An offline optimization engine is provided to process data to be acted upon by a graphics engine of a target embedded device. A graphics engin...	09/27/2011
8022960	Dynamic configurable texture cache for multi-texturing Techniques for dynamically configuring a texture cache are disclosed. During a texture mapping process of a three-dimensional (3D) graphics pipeline, if the batch is for single texture mapping, the texture cache is configured as a n-way set-associative texture cache...	09/20/2011
8019179	Hand jitter reduction for compensating for linear displacement The registration of images comprising generating a plurality of projections from a base frame and generating a plurality of projections from a movement frame. Comparing a set of projections from the base frame, with a second set of projections from the movement fram...	09/13/2011
8009963	Adaptive filtering to enhance video bit-rate control performance This disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques to improve the quality of captured imagery, such as video or still images. In particular, this disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques that filter each pixel as a function of a set of surrounding pix...	08/30/2011
8009745	Time tracking for a receiver with guard interval correlation Techniques for performing time tracking at a receiver are described. A first arriving path (FAP) and a last arriving path (LAP) are detected based on a channel impulse response estimate for a communication channel. The detected FAP and LAP may be correct or swapped....	08/30/2011
8009699	Efficient encoding of out of order data packets in a network An apparatus and system for encoding out of order data packets in a network are described. At a source unit, an out-of-order parameter is selected as the maximum out of order range value of data packets to be encoded with a minimum header size. A shifting parameter ...	08/30/2011
8009172	Graphics processing unit with shared arithmetic logic unit This disclosure describes a graphics processing unit (GPU) pipeline that uses one or more shared arithmetic logic units (ALUs). In order to facilitate such sharing of ALUs, the stages of the disclosed GPU pipeline may be rearranged relative to conventional GPU pipel...	08/30/2011
7986351	Luma adaptation for digital image processing Luma adaptation for digital image processing. Luminance signals are separated from sensor RGB signals representing an image. A transfer function is obtained from the luminance signals. Using the transfer function, the sensor RGB signals are adjusted to adapt the lum...	07/26/2011
7982733	Rendering 3D video images on a stereo-enabled display The rendering of 3D video images on a stereo-enabled display (e.g., stereoscopic or autostereoscopic display) is described. The process includes culling facets facing away from a viewer, defining foreground facets for Left and Right Views and common background facet...	07/19/2011
7903733	Adaptive filtering to enhance video encoder performance This disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques to improve the quality of captured imagery, such as video or still images. In particular, this disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques that filter each pixel as a function of a set of surrounding pix...	03/08/2011
7895250	Fixed point integer division techniques for AC/DC prediction in video coding devices The disclosure describes a method for performing a fixed point calculation of a floating point operation (A // B) in a coding device, wherein A // B represents integer division of A divided by B rounded to a nearest integer. The method may comprise selecting an entr...	02/22/2011
7885337	Efficient video slicing The disclosure is directed to a video slicing technique that promotes low complexity, bandwidth efficiency and error resiliency. A video encoder places an RM close to the beginning of each logical transmission unit (LTU) so that all but a very small end segment of e...	02/08/2011
7882238	Using bluetooth to establish ad-hoc connections between non-bluetooth wireless communication modules Using Bluetooth to provide the network management functions such as device discovery, service discovery, security negotiation, and connection establishment. Upon a Bluetooth connection being established between the Bluetooth-enabled devices an IP channel availabilit...	02/01/2011
7876819	Two pass rate control techniques for video coding using rate-distortion characteristics This disclosure describes rate control techniques that can improve video coding based on a “two-pass” approach. The first pass codes a video sequence using a first set of quantization parameters (QPs) for the purpose of estimating rate-distortion characteristics...	01/25/2011
7860334	Adaptive image filter for filtering image information This disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques to improve the quality of captured imagery, such as video or still images. In particular, this disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques that filter each pixel as a function of a set of surrounding pix...	12/28/2010
7852940	Scalable motion estimation for video encoding The disclosure is directed to scalable motion estimation techniques for video encoding. According to the motion estimation techniques, a motion vector search is scaled according to the computing resources available. For example, the extent of the search may be dynam...	12/14/2010
7840085	Electronic video image stabilization This disclosure describes electronic video image stabilization techniques for imaging and video devices. The techniques involve determining motion and spatial statistics for individual macroblocks of a frame, and determining a global motion vector for the frame base...	11/23/2010
7839804	Method and apparatus for performing call setup for a video call in 3G-324M For quick call setup, terminal A sends to terminal B stuffing sequences for the highest H.223 multiplexer level supported by terminal A and at least one proprietary sequence. The proprietary sequence indicates support for quick call setup and contains video and audi...	11/23/2010
7835637	Predictive focus value calculation for image capture devices Techniques are described for predictive focus value calculation within image capture devices. Image capture devices may include digital still cameras and digital video cameras. The techniques include performing an auto-focus process within an image capture device by...	11/16/2010
7800698	Weight adjustment in color correction Automatic weight adjustment (AWA) to derive an optimal color correction matrix may address unbalanced color reproduction performance among different illuminations and/or unbalanced color reproduction performance for specific memory colors. AWA may emphasize particul...	09/21/2010
7791605	Universal rasterization of graphic primitives A technique for universally rasterizing graphic primitives used in computer graphics is described. Configurations of the technique include determining three edges and a bounded region in a retrofitting bounding box. Each primitive has real and intrinsic edges. The p...	09/07/2010
7770040	Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of a co-processor by switching to low power dedicated memory in which image data is periodically updated To provide reduced power consumption of a co-processor, a low power dedicated memory is provided. During a low power state, a processing component of the co-processor is instructed to use the low power dedicated memory and a first memory device, normally used by the...	08/03/2010
7742746	Automatic volume and dynamic range adjustment for mobile audio devices A mobile audio device (for example, a cellular telephone, personal digital audio player, or MP3 player) performs Audio Dynamic Range Control (ADRC) and Automatic Volume Control (AVC) to increase the volume of sound emitted from a speaker of the mobile audio device s...	06/22/2010
7737985	Pixel cache for 3D graphics circuitry Apparatus are provided including device memory, hardware entities, a sub-image cell value cache, and a cache write operator. At least some of the hardware entities perform actions involving access to and use of the device memory. The hardware entities include 3D gra...	06/15/2010
7728904	Skin color prioritized automatic focus control via sensor-dependent skin color detection The disclosure is directed to techniques for automatic focus control. The automatic focus control techniques prioritize focus of a camera based on skin tone using a skin color detection approach which is intrinsically image sensor-dependent. Sensor-dependent skin co...	06/01/2010
7725516	Fast DCT algorithm for DSP with VLIW architecture A single stage computation method to perform a discrete cosine transform operation is provided. The discrete cosine transform operation is performed by executing a plurality of very large instruction words (VLIW) using a digital signal processor. The plurality of ve...	05/25/2010
7725022	Dynamic automatic exposure compensation for image capture devices Techniques are described for dynamic automatic exposure compensation within image capture devices. The techniques include dynamically adjusting a default target brightness for a scene to compensate an exposure value (EV) selected by an automatic exposure process. A ...	05/25/2010
7724972	Quality metric-biased region-of-interest coding for video telephony The disclosure is directed to techniques for region-of-interest (ROI) coding for video telephony (VT). The disclosed techniques include a technique for generation of a quality metric for ROI video, which jointly considers a user's degree of interest in the ROI, ROI ...	05/25/2010

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