Bizarre Patents
A forehead support apparatus for resting a standing users forehead against a wall above a bathroom commode or urinal or beneath a showerhead.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120069879 | CONFIGURABLE BASEBAND PROCESSING FOR RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A configurable transceiver includes an RF receiver section that generates at least one downconverted signal from a received RF signal. A receiver processing module processes at least one downconverted signal in a plurality of receiver stages to produce a stream of inbou... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051460 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION OR BROADCASTING SYSTEM USING LINEAR BLOCK CODE Provided is a method for transmitting data in a communication or broadcasting system using a linear block code by generating a codeword by encoding input information data bits, interleaving the codeword; outputting modulation signal-constituting bits by bit-mapping the ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120045021 | TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-ANTENNA RETRANSMISSION A transmission method for multi-antenna retransmission is provided, comprising steps of: generating the bits to be transmitted by respective antennas; mapping the bits to be transmitted by the respective antennas into symbols; and multiplying by a constant the vector co... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045020 | DIGITAL RF TRANSMITTER OPTIMIZED FOR LINEAR QUANTIZED IQ UP CONVERSION The digital RF transmitter includes a decoder for receiving the in phase (I) and quadrature (Q) digital baseband signals, a phase generator for generating eight waveforms at a carrier frequency where each phase is a multiple of 45 degrees, a first set of main amplifiers... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045220 | MULTI CHANNEL ENCODER, DEMODULATOR, MODULATOR AND DIGITAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR DIGITAL VIDEO INSERTION IN NETWORK EDGE APPLICATIONS A multi-channel encoder, demodulator, modulator and transmission system for digital video insertion in network edge applications includes a circuit comprising slots for receiving a plurality of plug-in demodulator and encoder cards, a transmission stream multiplexer in ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120027126 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONSTELLATION REARRANGEMENT IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM An apparatus and a method for operating a transmitter supporting constellation rearrangement for 256-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) in a broadband wireless access system are provided. The method include generating complex symbols according to a first version of a... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020435 | Constellation Mapping Method The present invention provides a constellation mapping method, and the method includes: flipping a plurality of bits in each modulation symbol unit to be mapped in part of or all of modulation symbol units to be mapped of a bit sequence to be mapped; and mapping each fl... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120008718 | Wireless Precoding Methods Various wireless precoding systems and methods are presented. In some embodiments, a wireless transmitter comprises an antenna precoding block, a transform block, and multiple transmit antennas. The antenna precoding block receives frequency coefficients from multiple d... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002753 | Method for Encoding Data Symbols with Implicitly Embedded Pilot Symbols in Resource Blocks for Wireless Networks A set of data symbols is selected from a set of modulation constellation, and a sample-mean of the set of data symbols is determined. Each data symbol is first shifted by the sample-mean to obtain a shifted data symbol, and then the shifted symbol is multiplied by a fir... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317788 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DATA COMMUNICATION PROGRAM A communication apparatus for executing half-duplex data communication conforming to V.34 recommendation including, a modulation-demodulation device modulating and demodulating data; a control device determining that the communication procedure shift to a recovery proce... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110305300 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and receiving signals and a corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of extracting PLP from data slices.... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110299628 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals and corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to an efficient layer 1 (L1) processing method for a transmitter and a receiver using data slices.... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110286535 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals and corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to an efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient transmitter and an efficient receiver using the effi... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110280339 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MODULATING THE INFORMATION OF TFCI A modulation method and device for modulating transfer format combination indicator TFCI information, the method including: dividing equally original TFCI information in a unit of 2 bits in a transmission time interval TTI; extending the resultant respective parts of th... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110261904 | Techniques for Data Transmission using High-Order Modulation Techniques for data transmission using high-order modulation are provided. According to one aspect, parameters of a transmission link are determined, and a multilevel coding scheme and a high-order modulation signal constellation are selected on the basis of the determi... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255623 | DATA TRANSMISSIONS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM EMPLOYING DIVERSITY AND CONSTELLATION REARRANGEMENT OF A 16 QAM SCHEME The invention relates to methods for transmitting and receiving a data bit stream in a communication system using 16-QAM constellations. Further, an apparatus for performing the methods is provided. To improve the bit-error rate performance of the communication using th... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249709 | DHT-Based OFDM Transmitter and Receiver A DHT-based OFDM transmitter and receiver use discrete Hartley transform to implement multicarrier transmission. A transmission terminal (or a receiving terminal) of a transmitter and receiver comprises two IDHT (or DHT) processors and a diagonal processing device. The ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110235751 | DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF, AND DATA RECEPTION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF The present invention discloses a data transmission device and method thereof, and a data reception device and method thereof. The data transmission method in the present invention includes the following steps: encoding information data to obtain mother codes; generatin... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110211520 | HANDLING DISCONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION INDICATION BITS Transmitter(s) (34), radio base station nodes (38) comprising transmitter(s), and methods of operating transmitter(s)/radio base station(s) involve handling discontinuous transmission indication bits, particularly when transmitting using a 16 QAM signal po... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110200086 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SWITCHING MODULATION SCHEMES A transmitting apparatus includes a modulation signal generating section that generates a modulation signal by modulating transmission data using one of a plurality of modulation schemes. The plurality of modulation schemes include a first modulation scheme, a second mo... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110188603 | Compact pulse shaping for QM-MSK and PAM/QAM transmission Compact pulse shape partial response (CPS PR) signaling is developed for trellis based signals like QM-MSK, and for PAM/QAM type signals to improve the performance to bandwidth tradeoff. Compact pulse shaped signals are partial response signals that employ a very short ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110182332 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH SPEED DATA TRANSMISSION MODULATION AND DEMODULATION A method and apparatus for communicating wirelessly comprising creating a plurality of sub-carrier signals by quadrature amplitude modulating data onto a plurality of sub-carrier frequencies spaced apart by a sub-carrier frequency spacing interval, frequency shifting th... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110182382 | DIGITAL AMPLITUDE MODULATION A transmitter using quadrature modulation includes a rectangular to polar converter for converting data symbols into a polar form, where each polar symbol has a magnitude signal and an angle signal. Digital phase modulation circuitry includes an all digital PLL circuit ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110170632 | Digital Up-Converter and N-Channel Modulator With Flexible Association of QAM Generation Resources to Narrowcast and Broadcast Frequencies Embodiments of a digital up-converter and an N-channel modulator are provided herein. The embodiments of the digital up-converter, in combination with the N-channel modulator, are capable of efficiently filling the spectrum of one or more RF signals with one or more typ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110158349 | RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND MODULATION METHOD A radio transmission device includes a modulation unit that maps a transmission bit sequence to a symbol corresponding to any one signal point by using a constellation in which a plurality of congruent equilateral triangles having a signal point as an apex are formed in... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110158348 | Dynamic tone grouping and encoding for multi-carrier quadrature amplitude modulation in OFDM A method of dynamic tone grouping (DTG) used by a transmitter in a wireless OFDM system is proposed. First, a sequence of coded and interleaved bits is de-multiplexed into a number of bit-streams. Each bit-stream is mapped into a sequence of QAM symbols, which are group... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110142113 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS The present invention provides a communication apparatus (RFIC) capable of performing a DC offset correction of an orthogonal modulation unit with a degree of accuracy higher than conventional. The orthogonal modulation unit of the RFIC includes first and second mixers,... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110142167 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS WITH BIT ARRANGEMENT METHOD A transmitting apparatus, that includes a means for generating bit sequences to adjust an occupation rate occupied with predetermined bits included in a first data block, which is obtained by encoding first data in a first encoding process, to be equal or closer to an o... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110129032 | Systems and Methods for Dual-Carrier Modulation Encoding and Decoding Systems and methods for dual-carrier modulation (DCM) encoding and decoding for communication systems. Some embodiments comprise a DCM encoder for applying a pre-transmission function to at least one 16-QAM input symbol and mapping resulting transformed symbols onto at ... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110116574 | Trellis coded modulation with periodically-reduced signal constellations An family of improved trellis coded signaling schemes is provided that by vary the signal constellation to a smaller constellation periodically according to a pre-selected pattern. A set of specific embodiments involving periodically-reduced 4-PAM/2-PAM trellis coded sc... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110096814 | METHODS FOR CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET DETECTION AND COMPENSATION AND TRANSMITTERS AND RECEIVERS UTILIZING THE SAME A transmitter includes an encoding module, an adaptive hierarchical signal mapping module and a transceiver module. The encoding module receives an input signal and encodes the input signal. The input signal includes data to be transmitted. The adaptive hierarchical sig... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110090988 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR QAM MODULATION USING DUAL POLAR MODULATION Apparatus and methods for QAM modulation are disclosed using dual polar modulation. QAM modulation of a signal is accomplished by translating a QAM signal into two phasors having the same or constant amplitude and then phase shifting one of the phasor by 180 degrees for... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110051844 | Programmable Hybrid Transmit Baseband Module A programmable hybrid transmit baseband module includes a wireless protocol conversion module, a set of modules, and a mode select module. The wireless protocol conversion module is operable to convert outbound data into a complex signal having an in-phase (I) signal co... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110038438 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING/RECEIVING DATA IN A CDMA MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A data transportation/reception apparatus and method in a mobile communication system. The data transportation apparatus and method divides transport data bits into bits having higher priority and bits having lower priority, maps the bits having higher priority to bit p... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110033011 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES RELATING TO MULTI-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSIONS WITH MIMO SCHEME A method of providing a multi-resolution transmission with a MIMO scheme may include employing a selected modulation scheme to generate a first data stream including basic information and a second data stream including both enhanced information and the basic information... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110026639 | SPATIAL MAPPING OF AN OFDM SIGNAL TO REDUCE ATTENUATION FROM AN INDIVIDUAL TRANSMIT ANTENNA IN A MIMO TRANSMITTER A method is provided for transmitting a digital signal. The method includes generating a plurality of spatial streams from a digital signal and transforming the spatial streams into a plurality of space-time streams. Each of the space-time streams are cycled in the freq... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026638 | POSITIVE COEFFICIENT WEIGHTED QUADRATURE MODULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS A differential positive coefficient weighted quadrature modulator is actuated responsive to quadrature clock signals and positive digital modulation signals input to the modulator. The modulator includes an I-channel positive coefficient weighted modulator (PCWM) and a ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110013726 | DIRECT MM-WAVE M-ARY QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION (QAM) MODULATOR OPERATING IN SATURATED POWER MODE In one embodiment, a circuit comprises a first pair of elements, a second pair of elements, a combiner, and a signal output. Each element in the first and second pair of elements comprises an amplitude-control input for receiving an amplitude-control bit, a phase-contro... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110007840 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND MODULATION METHOD A transmission device includes an RQAM modulating unit that has an S/P that divides a transmitting signal indicating information to be transmitted into a first signal and a second signal, a mapping unit that maps the first signal into a first in-phase component and a se... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100329315 | Transmitting Video Between Two Stations in a Wireless Network In accordance with some embodiments, a differential frame may be constructed, for example, by differencing frames or using an error prediction method. More frequently and less frequently used values of a differential frame are identified. Symbols with lower and higher t... | 12/30/2010 |
