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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120011182 | DECIMAL FLOATING-POINT SQUARE-ROOT UNIT USING NEWTON-RAPHSON ITERATIONS A system including: an input processing unit configured to: extract a significant and a bias exponent from the decimal floating-point radicand; and calculate a normalized significand; a square root unit configured to: calculate, using a FMA unit, a refined reciprocal sq... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110320512 | Decimal Floating Point Mechanism and Process of Multiplication without Resultant Leading Zero Detection A decimal multiplication mechanism for fixed and floating point computation in a computer having a coefficient mechanism without resulting leading zero detection (LZD) and process which assumes that the final product will be M+N digits in length and performs all calcula... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110231460 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FLOATING-POINT FUSED MULTIPLY ADD A fused multiply add (FMA) unit includes an alignment counter configured to calculate an alignment shift count, an aligner configured to align an addend input based on the alignment shift count and output an aligned addend, a multiplier configured to multiply a first mu... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110219052 | DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE Circuitry performing Discrete Fourier Transforms. The circuitry can be provided in a fixed logic device, or can be configured into a programmable integrated circuit device such as a programmable logic device. The circuitry includes a floating-point addition stage for ad... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110191129 | Random Number Generator Generating Random Numbers According to an Arbitrary Probability Density Function A method for generating a stream of random numbers which is representative of a probability distribution function, the method comprising receiving a set of K values xi (i=1, . . . K), thereby to define a range within which all of said values fall, and informa... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110153699 | 16-POINT TRANSFORM FOR MEDIA DATA CODING In general, techniques are described for implementing a 16-point inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) that is capable of applying multiple IDCTs of different sizes. For example, an apparatus comprising a 16-point inverse discrete cosine transform of type II (IDCT-II... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110072063 | Abstraction Apparatus for Processing Data An abstraction apparatus for processing data is provided. The abstraction apparatus implements an abstraction layer that supports a variety of physical objects (hardware). The abstraction apparatus only manages information related to data denormalization and/or denormal... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110040815 | Apparatus and method for performing fused multiply add floating point operation A data processing apparatus is arranged to perform a fused multiply add operation. The apparatus 100 has multiplying circuitry 110 configured to multiply operands B and C to generate a product B*C having a high order portion 160 and a low order port... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110010405 | Compression of non-dyadic sensor data organized within a non-dyadic hierarchy Sensor data is received from one or more sensors. The sensor data is organized within a hierarchy. The sensor data is organized within a hierarchy that is non-dyadic. A processor of a computing device generates a discrete wavelet transform, based on the sensor data and ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100306290 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL COMPRESSIVE SENSING A method and apparatus for spatio-temporal compressive sensing, which allows accurate reconstruction of missing values in any digital information represented in matrix or tensor form, is disclosed. The method of embodiments comprises three main components: (i) a method ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100299378 | SORTABLE FLOATING POINT NUMBERS The invention comprises methods for manipulating floating point numbers on a microprocessor where the numbers are sortable. That is, the numbers obey lexicographical ordering. Hence, the numbers may be quickly compared using bit-wise comparison functions such as memcmp(... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100205233 | REFLECTIONLESS FILTERS Reflectionless low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and band-stop filters, as well as a method for designing such filters is disclosed. The filters function by absorbing the stop-band portion of the spectrum rather than reflecting it back to the source, which has significant... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100205234 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SIGNAL USING CYCLO-STATIONARY CHARACTERISITICS A method and apparatus for detecting a signal using a cyclo-stationary characteristic value is provided. A method of detecting a signal using a cyclo-stationary characteristic value includes: calculating cyclo-stationary characteristic values with respect to a cyclic fr... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100174764 | REUSE OF ROUNDER FOR FIXED CONVERSION OF LOG INSTRUCTIONS A method for converting a signed fixed point number into a floating point number that includes reading an input number corresponding to a signed fixed point number to be converted, determining whether the input number is less than zero, setting a sign bit based upon whe... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100146023 | SHIFTER WITH ALL-ONE AND ALL-ZERO DETECTION A shifter that includes a plurality of shift stages positioned within the shifter, and receiving and shifting input data to generate a shifted result, and a detection circuit coupled at an input of a final shift stage of the plurality of shifters, in a final stage withi... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100005044 | Remote Detection and Measurement of Objects Provided are methods of using electromagnetic waves for detecting metal and/or dielectric objects. Methods include directing microwave and/or mm wave radiation in a predetermined direction using a transmission apparatus, including a transmission element; receiving radia... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090300087 | Computation processor, information processor, and computing method A computation processor outputs whether a carry-out is generated, by incrementing a result of computation by 1, during rounding of the result of the computation. The computation processor includes a computing unit that performs the computation; a shift amount calculatin... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090030713 | System and method of reviewing ownership of and encumbrances on intellectual property assets A review system and method gathers and analyzes data related to ownership of and encumbrances on intellectual property assets from relevant recordation locations. The system and method analyzes the data and interprets the data and the chain of ownership of intellectual ... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090023222 | Temperature-Adjusted Analyte Determination For Biosensor System A biosensor system determines analyte concentration from an output signal generated by an oxidation/reduction reaction of the analyte. The biosensor system adjusts a correlation for determining analyte concentrations from output signals at one temperature to determining... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090006512 | NORMAL-BASIS TO CANONICAL-BASIS TRANSFORMATION FOR BINARY GALOIS-FIELDS GF(2m) Basis conversion from normal form to canonical form is provided for both generic polynomials and special irreducible polynomials in the form of “all ones”, referred to as “all-ones-polynomials” (AOP). Generation and storing of large matrices is minimized by crea... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090006511 | POLYNOMIAL-BASIS TO NORMAL-BASIS TRANSFORMATION FOR BINARY GALOIS-FIELDS GF(2m) Basis conversion from polynomial-basis form to normal-basis form is provided for both generic polynomials and special irreducible polynomials in the form of “all ones”, referred to as “all-ones-polynomials” (AOP). Generation and storing of large matrices is mini... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080306715 | Detecting Method Over Network Intrusion A detecting method over network intrusion comprises: selecting a plurality of features contained within plural statistical data by a data-transforming module; normalizing a plurality of feature values of the selected features into the same scale to obtain a plurality of... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080215651 | Signal Separation Device, Signal Separation Method, Signal Separation Program and Recording Medium A frequency domain transforming section 2 transforms mixed signals observed by multiple sensors into mixed signals in the frequency domain, a complex vector generating section 3 generates a complex vector by using the frequency-domain mixed signals, a norm... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20070254369 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING DISEASE STATUS USING BIOMARKERS Methods and apparatus for identifying disease status according to various aspects of the present invention include analyzing the levels of one or more biomarkers such as riboflavin carrier protein (RCP). The methods and apparatus may process the biomarker data, for exam... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20050038839 | Method and system for evaluating a set of normalizing features and for iteratively refining a set of normalizing features A method and system for evaluating the quality of normalizing feature sets used in normalizing two or more data sets obtained from microarrays, and for iteratively normalizing two or more data sets. In a described implementation, a rank-consistency threshold employed in... | 02/17/2005 |
