Bizarre Patents
Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7561074 | Method and system for generating high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) codewords using a TMDS encoder/decoder Systems and methods for processing information are disclosed. The method may include creating a first symbol from a codeword. One or more of a TERC4 symbol, a TMDS symbol and/or a guard band symbol may be generated from at least a portion of the first symbol, if the... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7538694 | Network device with improved storage density and access speed using compression techniques A network device, also referred to as the Compression Enhanced Network Processor (CENP), with embedded parallel (or fast serial) compression and/or decompression capability. The network device may be a network processor based multi-ported switch, bridge, router, hub... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7538697 | Heuristic modeling of adaptive compression escape sequence Techniques for improving encoding and decoding data are described herein. According to one embodiment, buffering an initial chunk of an input stream. A number of escape tokens that would be emitted at each stage of encoding at least buffered initial chunk is determi... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7538696 | System and method for Huffman decoding within a compression engine An apparatus to implement Huffman decoding in an INFLATE process in a compression engine. An embodiment of the apparatus includes a bit buffer, a set of comparators, and a lookup table. The bit buffer stores a portion of a compressed data stream. The set of comparat... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7538695 | System and method for deflate processing within a compression engine An apparatus to implement a deflate process in a compression engine. An embodiment of the apparatus includes a hash table, a dictionary, comparison logic, and encoding logic. The hash table is configured to hash a plurality of characters of an input data stream to p... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7532133 | Methods and apparatuses for generating and recovering 3D compression data A method of generating three-dimensional (3D) compression data, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including generating configuration information of the 3D compression data; generating a plurality of pieces of individual 3D compression data to be inc... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7525456 | Methods for adaptively selecting entropy encoding modes The presently preferred methods of the present invention take advantage of the syntax structure of H.264 and adaptively switch the entropy coding mode between CABAC and CAVLC. In those profiles of H.264 where CABAC is supported such as the Main profile and the High ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7511639 | Data compression for communication between two or more components in a system Briefly, within a computer or digital data processing system, embodiments describe a method, article and apparatus for compressing data is described, which may be used for communicating between two or more components connected to an interconnection medium (e.g., a b... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511638 | Data compression for communication between two or more components in a system Briefly, within a computer or digital data processing system, embodiments describe a method, article and apparatus for compressing data is described, which may be used for communicating between two or more components connected to an interconnection medium (e.g., a b... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7504969 | Locality-based stream segmentation for data deduplication Selecting a segment boundary comprises determining a segmentation window is determined and computing a plurality of values associated with candidate boundaries within the segmentation window. Selecting a segment boundary further comprises selecting one of the candid... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504970 | Data encoder A data encoder. The novel encoder includes a first circuit for generating a fundamental sequence coded data stream from an incoming input data stream, a second circuit for generating a k-split data stream from the incoming data stream, and a third circuit for combin... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7495586 | Method and device to provide arithmetic decoding of scalable BSAC audio data A method and device to arithmetically decode scalable bit sliced arithmetic coding (BSAC) audio data are provided. The arithmetic decoding method includes checking whether all side information of a last layer of the BSAC audio data is to be decoded, and performing B... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7486206 | Method for crosstalk reduction between tracks on a recording medium, recording device, playback device and recording medium In order to reduce the cross talk between data recorded in adjacent tracks on a record carrier the encoding of the data stream into code words is controlled using control points. The code words in a first track are altered by selecting that value of the control poin... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486207 | Method and device for changing an encoding mode of encoded data streams A method, a component, a system, and a computer program for changing an encoding mode of an encoded data stream from a first encoding mode to a second encoding mode are disclosed. The encoded data stream at the first encoding mode is represented by first encoding pa... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7468684 | Content integration platform with format and protocol conversion An interactive multimedia device that converts media content in real-time or near-real-time from a variety of input data formats to data formats accepted by a user's available output devices, and to output protocols that can communicate with the user's devices. The ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7460033 | Method for creating an in-memory physical dictionary for data compression Some aspects of the invention provide methods for creating an in-memory physical dictionary for data compression. To that end, in accordance with aspects of the present invention, a new heuristic is defined for converting each of the plurality of logical nodes into ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7456761 | Interspersed training among encoded blocks of data within a data frame A communications system, having a combination Reed-Solomon encoder and a Turbo-Code encoder Data frame configuration which may be changed to accommodate embedded submarkers of known value are embedded in with the data order to aid synchronization in the receiver sys... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7453378 | Method for encoding data A method of compressing ordered binary data, comprising the step of: (a) encoding and summarizing a frame of data to produce an initial super cooled set. The frame of data includes bits of data in a number that is an odd multiple of four. In one embodiment, the meth... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453377 | Apparatus and methods for searching a pattern in a compressed data A compressed pattern matching based on LZW compressed sequences with a simple bitmap-based realization of the Amir-Benson-Farach algorithm is provided. A suffix trie for a searched pattern is determined and a LZW trie is constructed for a compressed data. For each d... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450033 | Apparatus and method for receiving signal in a communication system An apparatus and method for receiving a signal in a signal reception apparatus of a communication system is provided. The signal reception method includes receiving a signal, and decoding the received signal using a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) decoding scheme ac... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7446679 | Compression and decompression of configuration data for programmable logic devices Various approaches are disclosed to provide improved compression and decompression of configuration data for use with programmable logic devices (PLDs). Uncompressed configuration data may comprise a plurality of rows. In accordance with one embodiment, a method of ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443318 | High speed context memory implementation for H.264 Disclosed is a context modeller (103) used in decoding data (202) encoded using Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding, said context modeler (103) comprising a Read Only Memory (1001) for storing uninitialized context model values, sai... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443321 | Compression of stream data using a hierarchically-indexed database The present invention, in particular embodiments, is directed to methods, apparatuses and systems that provide an efficient compression technique for data streams transmitted to storage devices or over networks to remote hosts. Local storage as well as network trans... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443877 | Method for coding a sequence of data bits, in particular for transmission via an air interface A method for coding a sequence of data bits (B1-B5), at least one of said bits having a logical on value or a logical off value. The data bits are organized in a sequence of time slot frames (Fr1-FR5). At least one time slot frame has a p... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439886 | Variable-length decoder, video decoder and image display system having the same, and variable-length decoding method A variable-length decoder includes a bitstream interface unit and a decoding unit. The bitstream interface unit generates a decoding bitstream for a current decoding process based on an unused decoding bitstream and an input bitstream. The unused bitstream includes ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439879 | Interface circuit and binary data transfer method An interface circuit capable of controlling a noise margin and a time margin for producing an output a binary data is realized. The circuit comprises a detecting unit for detecting a transition state of logic levels in received binary data corresponding to preceding... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439881 | Method and device for determining at least one multimedia data encoding parameter The invention concerns a method of determining at least one parameter for encoding multimedia digital data organized in elementary units of data intended to be encoded according to at least one encoding mode, wherein said method comprises the following steps:—dete... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439880 | Image coding device An image coding device is provided that includes an image coding unit which codes image data, a binarization unit which binarizes the coded data, an intermediate buffer, an accumulated amount measuring unit which measures an amount of data in the intermediate buffer... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436330 | High-speed data compression based on set associative cache mapping techniques A method is provided for compressing data from a stream of values using one or many distinct memory addresses as workspace, each memo address containing one or many values. The method works by reading two contiguous data values, of length K and N bits, from the stre... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436329 | Multiple technique entropy coding system and method A system, method and computer program product having optimal matching to a known or measured probability distribution encodes data without the use of an excessively large lookup table. An encoder constructed according to the present invention uses two or more differ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436328 | Video coding with start code emulation prevention A low-complexity method for prevention of H.264 start code emulation by bit-handling routines with additional functionality. The low-complexity is achieved by employing a start code pre-determination scheme, which saves bitstream handling complexity by about 50% and... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432832 | Information processing apparatus and information processing system For providing a user a plural number of trans-coding services with using a plural number of trans-coding services, at high speed, within a home network environment, an information processing apparatus is provided with a function of providing a list of formats, on wh... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432833 | Data compression system and methods Systems and methods for providing fast and efficient data compression using a combination of content independent data compression and content dependent data compression. In one aspect, a method for compressing data comprises the steps of: analyzing a data block of a... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433527 | Time series data dimensional compression apparatus A time series data dimensional compression apparatus performing dimensional compression for improving the efficiency of searching for time series data without losing the features of data. The compression is made to a determined dimension so that a larger volume of i... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428573 | Transaction accelerator for client-server communication systems In a network having transaction acceleration, for an accelerated transaction, a client directs a request to a client-side transaction handler that forwards the request to a server-side transaction handler, which in turn provides the request, or a representation ther... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425905 | Circuits, architectures, systems, methods, algorithms and software for conditional modulation coding Methods, algorithms, software, circuits, architectures, and systems for conditionally encoding information and processing conditionally encoded information. The present invention takes advantage of codes where most randomly selected data units fulfill the coding con... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423559 | Reproduction apparatus A reproduction apparatus includes a reproduction unit that reproduces plurality of information data encoded using mutually different encoding systems from a recording medium, a program storage unit that stores multiple kinds of decoding programs corresponding to the... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423562 | Effective decoding method of H.264/AVC context-based adaptive variable length coding An effective H.264/AVC CAVLC decoding method is disclosed. In accordance with the method a VLC code is classified into groups according to a correlation thereof, an arithmetic equation is defined for each of the groups, and a decoding is carried out according to the... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420482 | Method of encoding and playing back audiovisual or audio documents and device for implementing the method The invention can be used to play back an audiovisual or audio document received in a first encoding format within a local area network. A first device plays back the document in the received format, then a user decides to play back the document on a device having a... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420481 | Interspersed training among data A communications system, having a combination Reed-Solomon encoder and a Turbo-Code encoder Data frame configuration which may be changed to accommodate embedded submarkers of known value are embedded in with the data order to aid synchronization in the receiver sys... | 09/02/2008 |
