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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175261 | Systems and methods for adaptive echo cancellation An echo canceller comprises foreground and background filters. The background filter locates and confirms peaks, defines active regions centered about the confirmed peaks and updates coefficients of the foreground filter when the background filter is more effective ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175150 | Methods and/or apparatus for implementing rate distortion optimization in video compression An apparatus comprising a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit may be configured to determine one or more signal characteristics in a portion of an input video signal. The second circuit may be configured to select a multiplier valu... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174363 | Multi-transceiver RFID reader system with centralized control and frequency source Embodiments of the present invention provide RFID systems having a centralized frequency source and controller. The centralized frequency source generates a reference signal, having a frequency below the RF band of interest, which is transmitted to a plurality of re... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165017 | GMPLS fast re-route for OADM and AUX 10MBPS support Embodiments of the present invention provide a GMPLS fast re-route of packets within a network using a multicast address and a table comprising a list of alias IP addresses. According to various embodiments of the invention an alternate data path from a source node ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8149911 | Method and/or apparatus for multiple pass digital image stabilization An apparatus including a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate (i) a first series of sequential frames, (ii) a plurality of local motion vectors for each of said frames, (iii) one or more global motion vectors for each o... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149909 | Video encoding control using non-exclusive content categories In some embodiments, macroblock-level encoding parameters are assigned to weighted Linear combinations of corresponding content-category-level encoding parameters. A macroblock quantization parameter (QP) modulation is set to a weighted linear combination of content... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8135068 | Method and/or architecture for motion estimation using integrated information from camera ISP A camera comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to perform image signal processing using encoding related information. The second circuit may be configured to encode image data using image signal processing related infor... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135062 | Method and apparatus for QP modulation based on perceptual models for picture encoding A method for encoding a picture is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating at least one respective macroblock statistic from each of a plurality of macroblocks in the picture, (B) generating at least one global statistic from the picture... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126283 | Video encoding statistics extraction using non-exclusive content categories In some embodiments, content-category-level encoding statistical indicators (statistics) are assigned to weighted linear combinations of corresponding macroblock-level statistics. Content categories may identify potentially overlapping content types such as sky, wat... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125572 | System and method for automatic power-up and power-down of an output video circuit A system and method for configuring a video circuit into a low power consumption mode and a high power consumption mode. The system comprises an input signal detection circuit adapted to generate a first signal indicative of whether an input video signal is present ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124916 | Thermal processing of silicon wafers Apparatus and methods that minimize surface defect development in silicon wafers during thermal processing at relatively high temperatures at which silicon wafers are annealed and at less extreme temperature, or for other purposes. The apparatus and methods have uti... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8112441 | Systems and methods for data indexing and processing Systems and methods are disclosed that allow for indexing, processing, or both of information from physical media or electronic media, which may be received from a plurality of sources. In embodiments, a document file may be matched using pattern matching methods an... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111685 | Communication network with co-routed multi-channel traffic Embodiments of the present invention route a wavelength division multiplexed signal across multiple communication paths using skew characteristics of at least some of the communication paths. The network is a wavelength division multiplexed optical transport network... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098788 | System and method for automatic leakage control circuit for clock/data recovery and charge-pump phase locked loops An apparatus that includes a module for controlling the frequency of a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) as part of a phase locked loop (PLL), or clock and data recovery (CDR) when an input reference signal to the PLL or serial data to the CDR has ceased from bein... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098602 | System and method for transferring data over full-duplex differential serial link A data transmission technique where high speed data is transmitted differentially in a forward channel by way of a serial link, and relatively low speed data is differentially modulated onto the forward channel signal for transmission in a reverse channel via the li... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094716 | Method and apparatus of adaptive lambda estimation in Lagrangian rate-distortion optimization for video coding A method for hybrid video coding is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) calculating a bit rate based on a percentage of quantized zero coefficients resulting from encoding a plurality of components of a video signal, (B) calculating a distortio... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8068734 | Mapping a client signal into transport frames Embodiments of the present invention provide a systems, devices, and methods in which a client signal is divided into a plurality of channels, mapped within transport frames, and combined into a WDM transport signal. These embodiments include intra-nodal redundancy ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064771 | Active control loop for power control of optical channel groups A system, apparatus and method are described for deployment of a control loop between optical or electro-optical modules and a multiplexing module to provide a desired power profile of banded optical channel groups. The power output characteristics of the optical or... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064486 | Determination of channel latency within a round-trip path The present invention provides a system, apparatus, and method for determining latency differences in channels within a link at a single test site. In particular, the method allows for a single transmitting device to determine distinct latency differences on both tr... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055715 | Thread identification and classification System, methods and apparatus for analyzing electronic messages and grouping them into threads are described. In addition, the present invention may classify threads based on their relationship to other threads. ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049324 | Preventing access to stub traces on an integrated circuit package An integrated circuit (IC) package includes a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate and a plurality of package attachment terminals. The package attachment terminals are used to conduct electrical signals from a die that is attached and bonded onto the PCB substrate... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045005 | System and method for video transmission line fault detection A video circuit including a video amplifier adapted to generate an amplified output video signal from an input video signal; a short detection circuit adapted to generate a first signal indicative of whether there is a short present at an output of the video amplifi... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8031768 | System and method for performing optimized quantization via quantization re-scaling A method, system, and program product for quantizing discrete cosine transform coefficients, e.g., for MPEG compression, with minimal bit rate overhead and without using a quantization matrix. This is done by scaling a uniform quantization parameter for the entire d... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031448 | Input voltage clamp for a single-supply system A system, apparatus and a method are described that provide a voltage clamp for a single-supply system. In particular, a negative voltage clamp prevents a negative over-voltage in a system having only a positive independent voltage source. For example, certain analo... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030985 | System and method for compensating pulse generator for process and temperature variations An apparatus for generating a pulse having a pulse width substantially independent of process variation in resistive and capacitive values. The apparatus includes a PTAT current source to generate a first current to charge a capacitor to produce a first voltage; a Î... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8018051 | Thermally enhanced semiconductor package Disclosed are systems and methods for improving the thermal performance of integrated circuit packages. Aspects of the present invention include improved thermal package structures and methods for producing the same through the application of one or more thermal spr... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8004419 | Intrusion detection using a conductive material Tampering with an assembly that includes an integrated circuit is detected by measuring a change in at least one property of a conductive molding formed over at least a portion of the integrated circuit. For example, the conductive molding can be a mixture of resin ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7994840 | RMS detector with automatic gain control Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, devices and methods for detecting the RMS value of a signal. The RMS detector uses multiple variable-gain stages and internal gain control to generate an RMS output signal based on an arbitrary signal input. This... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983559 | Configurable multi-rate optical network port and processing modules Embodiments of the present invention provide an optical port that can be configured to support either high speed or low speed optical signals. In particular, these embodiments comprise a switch that defines a data-rate dependent path between the front-end optics of ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7962644 | Systems and methods for handling a plurality of communications A distributed communication center configured to handle a plurality of communications includes a user zone, a web zone, and a network zone. The user zone includes a plurality of remote terminals that enable communication center personnel and end users to remotely in... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953989 | Secure transaction microcontroller with tamper control circuitry A high security microcontroller (such as in a point of sale terminal) includes tamper control circuitry for detecting vulnerability conditions: a write to program memory before the sensitive financial information has been erased, a tamper detect condition, the enabl... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953147 | Iteration based method and/or apparatus for offline high quality encoding of multimedia content A method for encoding video, comprising the steps of (A) encoding a number of frames of a video signal using a first sub-set of encoding parameters, (B) analyzing the encoded frames to find and mark reference frames that are used more than a predetermined number of ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7923830 | Package-on-package secure module having anti-tamper mesh in the substrate of the upper package A package-on-package (POP) secure module includes a first ball grid array (BGA) package and a second BGA package. The first BGA includes an array of bond balls that is disposed on a side of a substrate member, and an array of lands that is disposed on the opposite s... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7898830 | System and method of controlling the soft start control voltage of switching regulator in response to output current sensing An apparatus, such as a Buck converter system, for generating an output voltage while at the same time monitoring whether an overload or over current condition occurs at the output, and protecting the system if the overload or over current condition occurs. The appa... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889642 | GMPLS fast re-route for OADM and AUX 10Mbps support Embodiments of the present invention provide a GMPLS fast re-route of packets within a network using a multicast address and a table comprising a list of alias IP addresses. According to various embodiments of the invention an alternate data path from a source node ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7868441 | Package on-package secure module having BGA mesh cap A package-on-package (POP) secure module includes a BGA mesh cap, a first BGA package, and a second BGA package. The first BGA package includes a first integrated circuit (for example, a microcontroller that includes tamper detect logic). The second BGA package incl... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7863943 | Sampling device and circuit having a single voltage supply In embodiments of the present invention a device, circuit, and method are described for sampling input signal voltages, which may include voltages below a negative supply voltage for the device or circuit, without requiring static current from the input. Various emb... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860844 | System and methods for data indexing and processing Systems and methods are disclosed that allow for indexing, processing, or both of information from physical media or electronic media, which may be received from a plurality of sources. In embodiments, a document file may be matched using pattern matching methods an... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859574 | Integrated camera image signal processor and video encoder An apparatus including a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to perform image signal processing using encoding related information. The second circuit may be configured to encode image data using image signal processing related in... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853773 | Program memory space expansion for particular processor instructions A system efficiently expands program memory without extensively modifying the remaining microcontroller architecture. An address bus of N+M bits addresses 2N memory locations in a regular portion of program memory and additional memory locations in an exp... | 12/14/2010 |
