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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| 8174415 | Broadcast AM receiver, FM receiver and/or FM transmitter with integrated stereo audio codec, headphone drivers and/or speaker drivers An apparatus includes processor and a control interface. The processor is adapted to in a first mode of operation, operate as part of one of a wireless receiver and a wireless transmitter and in a second mode of operation. The processor also processes a first audio ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169349 | Communication device and noise cancellation method A communication device and the method thereof are disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. The communication device includes a level determining module, an digital to analog converter and an analog to digital converter. The level determining module determi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164493 | High-resolution circular interpolation time-to-digital converter A time-to-digital converter includes a circular delay chain, a phase interpolator, and a time-to-digital (TDC) core. The circular delay chain receives a first input clock and generates a first set of multi-phase clocks by propagating the first input clock through de... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7928870 | Signal reading system A signal reader system having a processor for reconstructing a relatively high-frequency input signal to a low-pass filter from an output of the filter based on a characterization of the filter. The characterization may be adapted to compensate for filter output cha... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7903006 | Automatic power control system for optical disc drive and method thereof An automatic power control system, a down sampling circuit and a down sampling method. The automatic power control system is incorporated in an optical disc drive comprising a laser diode for receiving a control signal to generate a laser beam; and a photodetector f... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7884744 | Circuit arrangement, L[ocal] I[nterconnected] NE[twork] comprising such circuit arrangement as well as method for processing input signals of the LIN Circuit arrangement, LIN comprising such circuit arrangement as well as method for processing input signals of the LIN In order to further develop a circuit arrangement (100)—for processing at least one input signal (12) from at least one data bus ( | 02/08/2011 |
| 7773007 | Signal processing device and method, signal processing program, and recording medium where the program is recorded A signal processing device which outputs a discrete signal composed of a string of the sampling values and parameters m signal. The signal processing device includes a sampling circuit which samples an input signal and outputs a discrete signal, multiple function ge... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7764207 | Digital processor An object of the present invention is to reduce spurious generation due to a malfunction of an A/D converter in a device performing digital processing by converting an analog signal high in cyclic characteristics to a digital signal with the A/D converter. As... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7741981 | Dual-use comparator/op amp for use as both a successive-approximation ADC and DAC A re-configurable circuit acts as an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) and as a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). An array of binary-weighted capacitors stores an analog input. Switches connect different capacitors in the array to fixed voltages that cause charge-s... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7602320 | Systems and methods for companding ADC-DSP-DAC combinations Systems and methods for resizing a signal for use with a fixed-point DSP are provided. More specifically, a process called companding is used in conjunction with fixed-point devices to resize a signal to make use of the available range of these devices. In some embo... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7579969 | Systems and methods for creating and using a conditioning signal Systems and methods for creating and using a conditioning signal are provided. In some embodiments, systems for creating a conditioning signal providing information regarding an input signal are provided, wherein the systems comprise: a signal conditioning developer... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7576665 | System and method for receiving analog and digital input A system and a method are provided for receiving analog and digital audio input via a single audio input connector. The method includes receiving an input signal from a single audio input connector, splitting the received input signal into a first input signal and a... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7528751 | Systems, methods, and apparatuses for a long delay generation technique for spectrum-sensing of cognitive radios Embodiments of the invention may provide for a long delay generator for the spectrum sensing of cognitive radio systems. The long delay generator may include an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), memory element, and Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC). The memory elem... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7479907 | Multichannel time encoding and decoding of a signal Analog signals can be fully encoded as an asynchronous time sequence generated by a time encoding machine. With knowledge of the parameters of the time encoding machine, the asynchronous time sequence can be decoded using a non-linear time decoding machine. Such a s... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7474237 | Circuits and methods for using error correction in power amplification and signal conversion Circuits and methods for using error correction in power amplification and signal conversion are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, methods for using error correction in power amplification and signal conversion including converting an input signal into a digita... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7463172 | Signal processing device and method, signal processing program, and recording medium where the program is recorded A signal processing device which outputs a discrete signal composed of a string of the sampling values and parameters m signal. The signal processing device includes a sampling circuit which samples an input signal and outputs a discrete signal, multiple function ge... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7420488 | Apparatus and method for setting filter coefficient, and recording medium having a program recorded thereon Echo preventing circuit includes first and second FIR filters. The outputs of the first and second FIR filters are converted into first and second analog signals. An input/output terminal outputs the first analog signal or receives a third analog signal. An AD conve... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7405684 | Signal selecting circuit and recording medium having program recorded thereon A signal selecting circuit is disclosed which outputs a first and a second digital signals by converting a first and a second analog signals into digital signals, the first and the second analog signals being the same or different signals selected from a plurality o... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400278 | Echo prevention circuit, filter coefficient setting method, and recording medium with program recorded An echo prevention circuit includes a filter that receives a first digital signal and outputs second and third digital signals; first and second DA converter that convert the second and third digital signals into first and second analog signals respectively; a circu... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7391842 | Direct synthesis clock generation circuits and methods Clock signal generation circuitry includes input circuitry for receiving a frequency control input signal and a clock signal and generating a memory address therefrom, a memory for storing digital data indexed by the memory address and representing real and imaginar... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391347 | Radio receiver, system on a chip integrated circuit and methods for use therewith A system on a chip integrated circuit includes a first digital module a second digital module such that the first digital module and the second digital module are operably coupled to generate an output signal based on an input signal, based on the first digital cloc... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391814 | Gain control method and apparatus An analog/digital gain control device avoid some of the requirements associated with the nature of a closed-loop AGC circuits and which meets the remaining requirements without much difficulty uses an analog to digital conversion method that increases the number of ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7382303 | Non-perturbing power supply margin controller A power supply margin controller may alter the voltage of a control signal used to control the output voltage of a power supply. The controller may include a digital-to-analog converter having an input and an output, and a comparator having a first input coupled to ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7372382 | Voltage regulation using digital voltage control For one disclosed embodiment, error is sensed in a voltage at an output node. One or more analog signals are generated based on the sensed error. One or more generated analog signals are converted into one or more digital signals. The voltage at the output node is c... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369071 | Analog and digital signal mixer A mixer receiving a first analog signal and a first digital signal, corresponding to a succession, at a first frequency, of first messages each comprising a first number of bits, and providing a second analog signal, comprises an analog-to-digital converter of the f... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369074 | D/A converter for a digital signal after non-linear A/D conversion, audio signal processing circuit and liquid crystal display device including the same A D/A converter inputted with non-linear conversion digital data such as a digital signal encoded according to a μ-Law system or the like as it is to convert into an analog signal. A D/A converter is of resistor string type, in which a resistance value of each of r... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366021 | Method and apparatus for sensing flash memory using delta sigma modulation A simple method and device for accurately measuring flash memory cell current. The sensing scheme comprises an integrator, an analog to digital converter, and a digital to analog converter. The method comprises the acts of applying an input current and a feedback ou... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362781 | Wireless methods and devices employing steganography Wireless devices and methods employ steganography to convey auxiliary data in addition to audio information. An exemplary application is a battery-powered cell phone, having, e.g., a microphone, a speaker, a modulator, an antenna, and an RF amplifier. The steganogra... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362719 | Method and apparatus for cross-talk cancellation in frequency division multiplexed transmission systems A method and apparatus are disclosed for canceling cross-talk in a frequency-division multiplexed communication system. The disclosed frequency-division multiplexed communication system employs multiple carriers having overlapping channels and provides an improved c... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359528 | Monitoring of video or audio based on in-band and out-of-band data The presently claimed invention relates generally to monitoring and/or filtering video or audio data. In one implementation a method is provided including: obtaining data representing video or audio; analyzing the data representing video or audio for an in-band sign... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358875 | Echo preventing circuit and digital signal processing circuit An echo preventing circuit comprises a filter that is inputted with a first digital signal and outputs a second and a third digital signals; a first DA converter that converts the second digital signal into a first analog signal and outputs the first analog signal; ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359521 | Aliasing cancellation in audio effects algorithms A method for effecting aliasing cancellation in an audio effects algorithm using a delay modulated signal, derived from interpolation of a delay modulator at an instantaneous sampling frequency, including: determining the instantaneous sampling frequency 1/Tisf... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356186 | Digital representation of audio waveforms using peak shifting to provide increased dynamic range A system allows greater dynamic range in fixed-width sample representations of waveforms. Known properties of the waveform are used to determine an unlikely, or impossible, data condition to be used as an exception condition. Samples following the exception conditio... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355219 | Integrated circuit with reduced coupling noise In order for circuit blocks 1 to 3 composed by the CMOS process, and analog lines 5−1, 5−2, and 5−3 connected thereto not to overlap on the layout, the analog lines 5−1 and... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348914 | Method and systems to align outputs signals of an analog-to-digital converter Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide improved alignment of output signals of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of aligning digital signals appearing on signal paths o... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349532 | Picture and video message center system A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348905 | Device for treating audio signals, especially for treating audiophonatory disorders A device for digital treatment of audio signals, especially for treating patients with audiophonatory disorders. The device includes an analog audiofrequency signal input, an analog-digital encoder, an envelope detector, a digital limiter, a multiplier, a synthesize... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340955 | Capacitive acceleration sensor arrangement The present invention relates to measuring devices used in measuring acceleration, and, more specifically, to capacitive acceleration sensors. The improved sensor arrangement of the invention enables reliable and effective measuring of acceleration, in small capacit... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342522 | Digital audio player and playing method thereof The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for digital-mixing two sound sources, and performing both audio-outputting and encoding-storing of the digital-mixed sound sources. The digital audio player of the present invention includes: an analog-to-... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340070 | Voice-data processing circuit and voice-data processing method When selecting a specific input source that can be processed by only a second voice-data processing unit instead of an input source currently being processed by a first voice-data processing unit, a voice-data processing circuit selects and delivers an input source ... | 03/04/2008 |
