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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120082204 | TWO-WIRE TRANSMITTER There is provided a two-wire transmitter which is connected to an external circuit by two transmission lines and which outputs a certain current signal to the external circuit using the external circuit as a power source. The two-wire transmitter includes: a sensor conf... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120002714 | Communication on a Pilot Wire Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating on a pilot wire between Electric Vehicle Service Equipment (EVSE) and an Electric Vehicle (EV). The EVSE and EV exchange a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal on the pilot wire to control charging operations of the EV.... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110310954 | PULSE WIDTH MODULATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM In a PWM communication system, a sensor unit transmits as reference pulses transmission signals, which exhibit duty cycles of 100% and 0%, respectively, prior to transmission of a transmission signal, which has data items compressed thereinto by a signal processing circ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110280299 | Pulse Width Modulation Synchronization of Switched Mode Power Converters The present disclosure is directed generally to switch mode power supplies operating in a master-slave configuration and provides a method of synchronizing the PWM outputs from the master and slave devices to avoid problems such, for example, as the generation of beat f... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110261875 | Multi-Edge Pulse Width Modulator with Non-Stationary Residue Assignment An improved method for generating pulse width modulated signals, e.g., for use in audio amplifiers, power amplifiers, etc. An input digital value is received and divided by a number N, producing a quotient and a residue. A plurality N of edge modulation values may then ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261874 | Communication Over Power Lines A method and apparatus for communicating over a power line. In one embodiment of the method, a first PWM waveform signal is generated, wherein a duty cycle of the first PWM waveform signal is proportional to an amplitude of a first analog signal. A first sinusoidal wave... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110243216 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A communication apparatus which receives output voltage of a direct current voltage converter, the communication apparatus includes: a modulating/demodulating circuit which demodulates a reception signal from a high-frequency transmitting/receiving circuit, modulates a ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110222595 | POWER LINE COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA SIGNAL WITH SPLITTING OF POWER TRANSMISSION INTERVAL A power line communication method is provided, which divides the entire interval for transmitting power and data signals into a power transmission interval and a data transmission interval, and carries one or a plurality of data signals at the data transmission interval... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110216818 | VARIABLE DUTY CYCLE GENERATION FOR OUT-PHASING AND PWM POWER AMPLIFIERS Power reduction in transmitters is very important. One method to realize reduction is to make use of switching power amplifiers (PA) that have a better efficiency. Switching PA concepts are only possible in combination with suitable modulation methods like pulse width m... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110170590 | POWER REGULATOR Method and system of power regulating, such as but not limited to attenuating signal power levels. The power regulating being suitable for use in any number of application, environments, and circuits, including but not limited to those associated with a universal garage... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110150065 | MULTIPLE-CHANNEL TRANSMISSION OVER A SINGLE-WIRE BUS A method for transmitting at least a synchronization and a data signal on a single-wire bus between a master device and at least one slave device, wherein a first transmission channel from the master device to the slave device modulates the periodic pulse width between ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110116537 | SIGNAL DISCRIMINATING METHOD OF ELINT RECEIVER Provided is a signal discriminating method of an electronic intelligence receiver. The method includes: detecting a start time and an end time of modulation on pulse (MOP) due to a direct path signal and a multi path signal from a received signal; and extracting at leas... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110103460 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING A COMPOSITE SIGNAL An embodiment of a communication system can generate a composite signal that includes two or more different signals, where the signals represent different types of data. A data signal having one or more pulses that represent digital data of a first type is provided. A c... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110103461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING VARIABLE PULSES FOR SYMBOLOGY A method and system for storing and transmitting data using variable pulse characteristics to represent ASCII or UNICODE characters, of the value of a string of data using a number base higher than 2. Pulse characteristics are modified to correspond to different data va... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110075723 | Thermal Feedback for Switch Mode Amplification A thermal sensor at the output of a switching amplifier senses heat dissipation at the output switch. If an overheating condition is sensed, gain of the digital input signal is lowered to reduce output power of the audio output signal.... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075721 | BROADCAST WAVE RECEIVING SYSTEM A controlling unit includes: a memory unit that stores information in which the multiple clock frequencies that satisfy conditions for predetermined reception interferences to apart of multiple carrier frequencies included in a band frequency of the broadcast wave are p... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075722 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND DATA SENDING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING APPARATUS A data transmission system including a device that delays a signal having a predetermined base frequency so as to generate a reference-phase signal having a reference phase, a delay signal more delayed than the reference signal by a unit of time, and an advance signal m... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110058601 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENVELOPE TRACKING POWER AMPLIFIER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM An apparatus and method for amplifying a Transmit (Tx) signal according to an Envelope Tacking (ET) scheme in a wireless communication system are provided. A transmitting end apparatus includes an envelope gain controller for controlling a gain of a digital baseband Tx ... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110026580 | ROTATING PULSE-WIDTH MODULATOR A driver for driving an LED uses PWM in a sequence of the periods. The driver has a modulo counter, that is reset after each period. The driver has a first adder for combining the count value with a quantity indicative of a shift of the LED's control pulse relative to t... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110019728 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ALTERING A PWM CARRIER POWER SPECTRUM In a particular embodiment, a circuit device includes an input to receive a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal and an output to send a modulated PWM signal. The circuit device further includes a pulse edge control circuit coupled between the input and the output. The pu... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110013689 | DIGITAL SIGNAL RECEIVER A digital signal receiver including: a signal edge detector configured to receive a signal including a code and detect an edge of the signal; a reference point detector configured to detect a reference point for pulse width detection from a rising time point or falling ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110007794 | TRANSMITTER The application refers to an apparatus comprising, a signal generator (102, 102a) configured to generate a signal, a first pulse width modulating unit (106) configured to modulate the signal, an amplifier unit (110) configured to amplify the ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100277104 | 1-WIRE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL AND INTERFACE CIRCUIT A 1-wire communication protocol and interface circuitry for communication between a host controller and a LED driver is provided. The 1-wire communication protocol is configured such that both PWM signals and DC current setting commands for programming the LED driver ma... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100278228 | APPARATUS METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR A TRANSMITTER An apparatus comprising a signal generator for generating a polar representation of a signal. The apparatus comprises further a first filtering unit configured to filter a low frequency part of the amplitude component of said signal and a second filtering unit configure... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100239103 | FASTER CADZOW DENOISING BASED ON PARTIAL EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for speeding up the Cadzow iterative denoising algorithm as a part of the Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI) processing and for decreasing its computational complexity.... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100214082 | TRANSMISSION OF POWER AND DATA WITH FREQUENCY MODULATION In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a circuit coupled to a line, where the circuit may power a device, and where the power is transmitted to the device over the line as a pulse-width modulated signal. The circuit may set a duty cycle of the pulse-width modulated si... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100208789 | VOLTAGE LEVEL CONVERTER WITH MIXED SIGNAL CONTROLLER According to an embodiment, a mixed signal controller includes a fine controller, a coarse controller and a digital controller. The fine controller is operable to output an analog modulation signal responsive to an analog control signal and a voltage signal input to the... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100172401 | ELECTRICAL PULSE DATA TRANSMISSION USING A LOOK-UP TABLE Input data is encoded using a look-up table and then transmitted over a conductive transmission medium as a series of electrical pulses. The look-up table includes data elements. The length of each pulse is calibrated to correspond to one of the data elements in the loo... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100156527 | SPREAD SPECTRUM PULSE WIDTH MODULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS A circuit includes a variable frequency generator circuit and a quantization circuit. The variable frequency generator circuit provides a discontinuous switching frequency signal. The variable frequency generator circuit varies the discontinuous switching frequency sign... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100129060 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD A digital broadcast receiving apparatus and a digital broadcast receiving method are provided. An oscillator changes a reference frequency of a system clock of the digital broadcast receiving apparatus using a PCRW, which is a program clock reference (PCR) of... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128775 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Disclosed are an apparatus and method for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system. The apparatus includes a controller for receiving power control information of a baseband signal, deciding an output mode, and providing an output mode signal, a signal c... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100098150 | Techniques for Asynchronous Data Recovery A data recovery circuit includes a pulse width indicator circuit, an edge detection circuit and a first storage. The pulse width indicator circuit is configured to receive, at an input, a data stream and provide pulses, at respective outputs, that are indicative of resp... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100091833 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE A transmission device including a pulse generating section configured to generate a plurality of pulses using a signal of data and a signal obtained by delaying the signal of data, and to adjust the pulse width such that each of the plurality of pulses has a pulse width... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100061442 | DIGITAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATOR A DPWM (1) has a delay lock loop (4) which receives an input clock signal and provides an out-of-phase delayed clock at the output of each of eight delay cells (35). A multiplexer (5) selects one of the delay cell outputs at any one time. Thi... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100054325 | Multi-Level Pulse Width Modulation Power Amplifier Method and Apparatus A baseband signal is processed by amplifying a first pulse width modulation radio frequency signal having a first non-negligible peak-to-peak amplitude and a second non-negligible peak-to-peak amplitude larger than the first non-negligible peak-to-peak amplitude. A seco... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100052873 | POWER SUPPLY EMPLOYING PULSE-WIDTH MODULATION AND DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER, POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME A power supply for supplying electric power comprises a power circuit which supplies L channels of electric power (L: positive integer), a control circuit board which outputs multiple types of control signals including a digital control signal and a PWM signal, a digita... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100040132 | Multiple Devices Communicating on a Single Communication Channel with a Consecutively Sequenced Signal The present invention provides apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for supporting communications for a plurality of transmitter-receiver pairs on a common frequency spectrum. A transmitting device transmits a consecutively sequenced signal sequentially con... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100014575 | Pulse Width Modulator A switch-modulator (15) for a radio-frequency power amplifier, arranged to modulate the I-signal and the Q-signal of the complex components (I+j.Q) separately in an I-signal part (2a) and a Q-signal part (2b) in order to create a modul... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100014574 | DIGITAL AMPLIFIER A digital amplifier amplifies an input signal from a tuner (107) which receives a broadcast wave of a set receiving frequency so as to suppress degradation of the high-band reproduction performance and lowering of the amplification efficiency. The digital amplifi... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090296805 | Pulse width modulation controller and pulse waveform control method A pulse width modulation (PWM) controller includes: a first counter for counting a reference clock signal, and thus outputting a first count value, a leading edge control signal generator for outputting a leading edge control signal on a basis of the first count value, ... | 12/03/2009 |
