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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117656 | Detecting surreptitious spyware Tools and techniques are provided for detecting a particular type of spyware. Network activities and user update activities are monitored automatically, and the results are analyzed to identify related processes which perform network transmissions without performing... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8090843 | Creating a public identity for an entity on a network A system is disclosed for establishing a public identity for an entity on a private network. In one embodiment, a first entity can initiate a request to create a binding of a public address to a private address for itself. The existence of this public address for th... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085955 | Electromagnetic lever diaphragm audio transducer A transducer including a frame and a panel disposed within the frame and coupled to the frame such that the panel may rotate relative to the frame about a rotational axis. The transducer includes an actuator positioned to engage the panel such that the panel rotates... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7995078 | Compound lenses for multi-source data presentation A method in a computer system for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original image for display on a display screen, the original image having one or more images relating to the region-of-interest, the method comprising: establishing a lens for ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7912016 | Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mob... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7848428 | System and method for reducing visible artifacts in video coding using multiple reference pictures In video compression systems, a system and method for reducing visible artifacts in video coding using multiple reference pictures are provided. A first GOP characterized by a “bbIbbBbbBbbB” structure and a second GOP characterized by “bbIbbQbbMbbQ” GOP stru... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847973 | Color mapping circuit A system and method that provide full color mapping of video images with minimal distortion to the image. A two-dimensional look up table may be used to map a certain number of colors, and for colors that are not represented by entries in the table, the four closest... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7876380 | System and method of transmission and reception of progressive content with isolated fields for conversion to interlaced display Systems and methods of coding progressive content with isolated fields for conversion to interlaced display are provided. Some systems and methods may find use in, for example, digital video compression systems and methods. Film material may be encoded as video mate... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7865744 | System and method for optimizing power consumption in a mobile environment The present invention relates to a system and method adapted to optimize power consumption in a communication system used in a Gigabit Ethernet environment. The method comprises determining at least one power mode of a host from a plurality of possible host power mo... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864839 | Method and system for rate control in a video encoder Described herein is a rate controller in a video system. The rate controller estimates a bit count, and controls three adaptive rate control loops. The master rate control loop is in control of the quantizer. The slave rate control loops control coarse motion estima... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852160 | NCO based timebase recovery system and method for A/V decoder Systems and methods are disclosed for recovering a clock or time reference for A/V systems. One method comprises receiving at least one input time reference generated using a first clock and generating, using a second clock asynchronous to the first clock, at least ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7851275 | Pixel of image sensor and method for fabricating the same A pixel of an image sensor includes a polysilicon layer, and an active region which needs to be electrically coupled with the polysilicon layer, wherein the polysilicon layer extends over a portion of the active region, such that the polysilicon layer and the active... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7850987 | Nutrient composition(s) and system(s) for individualized, responsive dosing regimens Individualized responsive dosing nutrient systems, compositions, methods of dosing, and processes of producing the same, which allow a consumer to generate individualistic biological responses/effects. More specifically, a nutrient system for generating individualiz... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7840197 | Highly linear and very low-noise down-conversion mixer for extracting weak signals in the presence of very strong unwanted signals A highly linear and very low-noise down-conversion mixer for extracting weak signals in the presence of very strong unwanted signals is disclosed. Aspects of an embodiment may include a source follower circuit in a transmitter front end of a mobile terminal. The sou... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7839454 | Post-processor design supporting non-flickering interlaced display Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for preventing and eliminating undesirable effects in displayed video. The method may include receiving video information and decoding the video information. The method may also include processing the number of illuminable ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7826718 | Method and apparatus to facilitate the efficient implementation of trick modes in a personal video recording system A method and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating efficient operation of trick modes in a personal video recording (PVR) system. Stream-navigation data from a data stream is captured and pre-processed to generate a frame-correlated NAV table comprising one entry... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826530 | Use of out of order encoding to improve video quality Described herein is a video encoder that includes a memory unit, a selector, and an encoding processor. The memory unit stores a plurality of pictures. The selector accesses the plurality of pictures in the memory unit. The selector initially accesses a first pictur... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826494 | System and method for handling audio jitters Presented herein are system(s) and method(s) for handling audio jitters. In one embodiment; there is presented a method for decoding an audio signal. The method comprises receiving a portion of the audio signal, the portions of the audio signal associated with a tim... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7825738 | Method and system for implementing a low power, high performance fractional-N PLL Aspects of a method and system for implementing a low power, high performance fractional-N PLL synthesizer are provided. The synthesizer comprises a reference generator/buffer, a charge pump, a divider, a VCO, a loop filter, and a phase-frequency detector (PFD). The... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7818540 | Vector processing system A vector processing system for executing vector instructions, each instruction defining multiple value pairs, an operation to be executed and a modifier, the vector processing system comprising a plurality of parallel processing units, each arranged to receive one o... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7817726 | System and method for automatic filter generation using sampled SINC function with windowed smoothing Methods and systems for processing a plurality of pixels, in a video system, are disclosed. Aspects of the method may comprise acquiring scaling factors associated with a plurality of output pixels and generating filter coefficients during the generation of the outp... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813431 | System, method, and apparatus for decoding flexibility ordered macroblocks Presented herein is a system and method for decoding flexibly ordered macroblocks. Slice groups are received, wherein the slice groups comprise non-contiguous macroblocks with respect to raster scan order. Each macroblock is associated with a particular context whic... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7801935 | System (s), method (s), and apparatus for converting unsigned fixed length codes (decoded from exponential golomb codes) to signed fixed length codes Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for converting unsigned fixed length codes to signed fixed length codes. In one embodiment, there is presented a circuit for converting an unsigned code to a signed code. The circuit comprises a multiplexer. T... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7793007 | Method and system for deglitching in a mobile multimedia processor In a multimedia system, a method and system for deglitching in a mobile multimedia processor are provided. A deglitching operation may be provided to reduce noise and compensate for strobe signal delays that may result in false bus cycles and other operating errors.... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7792502 | Method and system for measuring and optimizing integrated antenna performance Methods and systems for measuring and optimizing integrated antenna performance are disclosed and may include transmitting FM signals over a range of frequencies utilizing one or more antenna configurations. The FM transmitter may be calibrated based on a signal rec... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787539 | Decoding and presentation time stamps for MPEG-4 advanced video coding A system, method, and apparatus for time stamping compressed video data is disclosed. A delay parameter is generated and can be encoded with the compressed video, representing the number of picture delay between the decoded sequence and the presented sequence. The p... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7785619 | Pharmanutrient composition(s) and system(s) for individualized, responsive dosing regimens Individualized responsive dosing pharmanutrient systems, compositions, methods of dosing, and processes of producing the same, which allow a consumer to generate individualistic biological responses/effects. More specifically, a pharmanutrient system for generating ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7773836 | Integrated transceiver with lightpipe coupler Systems and methods for configuring an integrated transceiver are disclosed. In one embodiment, very small form factor transceivers can be configured to allow 10 G optical interconnects over distances up to 2 km. Transceiver circuitry can be integrated on a single d... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769198 | System, method, apparatus for repeating last line to scalar Presented herein are video decoding system(s), method(s), and apparatus for repeating a last line to a scalar or compositor or capture. A first parameter is provided to a first register indicating that a picture comprises a first number of lines, and a second parame... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769088 | Context adaptive binary arithmetic code decoding engine A CABAC decoding engine is devised to cover all aspects of decoding all CABAC-coded syntax elements for AVC. This CABAC decoding engine acts like a Co-processor to another Processor (CPU), which guides the decoding of the bit stream. The CABAC decoding engine or Co-... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769076 | Method and apparatus for performing frequency synchronization A method and apparatus for performing frequency analysis of sub-epoch correlations to estimate an unknown frequency of a received signal is provided. The method includes forming a sequence of correlation values from a plurality of correlations performed over a perio... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7752371 | System and method for interrupt abstraction A system and method that abstracts an interrupt from a group of interrupts, which may occur in a module, to call another module. Abstracting one interrupt from a group of interrupts allows the called module to deal with only one interrupt. The choice of the interrup... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7750978 | Audio/video separator An audio/video separator provides a high-performance and cost-effective solution to analog TV reception with only one A/D converter and a minimum of analog IF components. The apparatus may operate on a digitized TV signal and, when integrated with a digital video pr... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7746629 | Method and system for coupling a laptop or other portable or hand-held device to a docking system using an Ethernet interface Methods and systems for coupling a laptop or other portable or hand-held device to a docking system using an Ethernet Interface are disclosed and may comprise interfacing a portable computing device to a docking station using an Ethernet interface. Power may be appl... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7746354 | Graphics display system with anti-aliased text and graphics feature A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, a graphics input and an audio input simultaneously. The system may use anti-aliased text and graphi... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7739032 | Method and apparatus for generating and using a regional-terrain model A method and apparatus for computing position using a regional-terrain model is provided. The method includes obtaining from at least three satellites pseudorange measurements, computing a transitional position by using a default altitude with a large uncertainty, u... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738045 | Film-mode (3:2/2:2 Pulldown) detector, method and video device A film mode detector detects film mode of a series of fields of video by comparing pixels in a field adjacent the current field, with corresponding pixels directly above and directly below the pixels in an adjacent field. The number of pixels in the adjacent in time... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729452 | Method, apparatus and system for high-speed transmission on fiber optic channel Multi-carrier modulation fiber optic systems constructed using a series of electrical carriers, modulating the data on the electrical carriers and combining the carriers to form a wideband signal. The wideband signal can then be intensity modulated on a laser and co... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7727546 | Nutrient system for individualized responsive dosing regimens Individualized responsive dosing dietary supplement systems, compositions, methods of dosing, and processes of producing the same, which allow a consumer to generate individualistic biological responses/effects. More specifically, a dietary supplement system for gen... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7719920 | Synchronous global controller for enhanced pipelining The present invention relates to a system and method for processing the read and write operations in a memory architecture. The system processing the read and write operations includes at least one local memory block and a synchronously controlled global controller ... | 05/18/2010 |
