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| 7725513 | Minimum processor instruction for implementing weighted fair queuing and other priority queuing The present invention provides techniques for efficiently determining a minimum or maximum of a plurality of values and the index of the minimum using registers of a processor. The present invention also provides for various processor instructions for determining th... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7676530 | Duration minimum and maximum circuit for performance counter A circuit for tracking the minimum and maximum duration of an event of interest is described. The circuit is connected to a counter for counting a number of clock cycles that the event of interest is active and comprises logic for detecting deactivation of the event... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7574466 | Method for finding global extrema of a set of shorts distributed across an array of parallel processing elements A method for finding an extrema for an n-dimensional array having a plurality of processing elements, the method includes determining within each processing element a first dimensional extrema for a first dimension, wherein the first dimensional extrema is related t... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7552155 | Apparatus and method to find the maximum or minimum of a set of numbers An apparatus for determining a best number, representing a maximum or minimum of a set of numbers, includes a first comparator 3 having a latency of at least one clock cycle to compare a current number with a current best score and to output a corresponding f... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7454451 | Method for finding local extrema of a set of values for a parallel processing element A method for finding a local extrema for a single processing element having a set of values associated therewith includes separating the set of values into an odd set of values and an even set of values, determining a first extrema from the odd set of values, determ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7447720 | Method for finding global extrema of a set of bytes distributed across an array of parallel processing elements A method for finding an extrema for an n-dimensional array having a plurality of processing elements, the method includes determining within each of the processing elements a dimensional extrema for a first dimension of the n-dimensional array, wherein the dimension... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7420557 | Vertex processing when w=0 Vertices defining a graphics primitive may be processed in homogeneous space and projected into normalized device coordinate space by dividing each coordinate of a vertex by w. When the w coordinate for a vertex is equal to zero, the projected coordinates are set eq... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7365679 | Positioning apparatus, control method of positioning apparatus, control program for positioning apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium having control program for positioning apparatus recorded therein A positioning apparatus that measures a current position by using measurement basis codes carried on satellite waves from a plurality of positioning satellites includes: a first phase error information generating unit that generates first phase error information ind... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363466 | Microcomputer A built-in memory is divided into the following two types: first memories 5 and 7 and second memories 4 and 6, and made accessible in parallel by third buses XAB and XDB and second buses YAB and YDB respectively. Thereby, a CPU core 2 | 04/22/2008 |
| 7327581 | Circuit device A circuit device includes plural semiconductor circuit devices that are formed on independent substrates, respectively, and communicate with each other. Each of the semiconductor circuit devices includes: plural modules of an identical type, functions of which are s... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328227 | Low power vector summation apparatus An low power vector summation apparatus is provided for using 2's complement arithmetic without the high switching activity of the prior art. In particular, the invention operates to exploit the sign-extension property of a 2's complement number. A reduced represent... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319956 | Method and apparatus to perform speech reference enrollment based on input speech characteristics A speech reference enrollment method involves requesting a user speak a word; detecting a first utterance; requesting the user speak the word; detecting a second utterance; determining a first similarity between the first utterance and the second utterance; when the... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7260593 | Device for determining the rank of a sample, an apparatus for determining the rank of a plurality of samples, and the irank ordered filter A rank-determining device determines the rank of a particular sample value from a set of digital sample values by utilizing two different thresholders that are implemented by comparators. The rank of the sample value is decomposed by thresholding the sample value wi... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257248 | Non-contact measurement system and method A system and method for non-contact measurement of a complex part is provided. The method comprises acquiring an image of the complex part including imposed laser lines on the complex part using at least one imaging device, determining a span of interest of the comp... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7242808 | Method and apparatus for analysis of variables Various components of the present invention are collectively designated as Analysis of Variables Through Analog Representation (AVATAR). It is a method, processes, and apparatus for measurement and analysis of variables of different type and origin. AVATAR offers an... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233964 | Method and system for compositing three-dimensional graphics images using associative decision mechanism A method and system for compositing a plurality of three-dimensional Sub-Images by examining the Depth values of the Pixels corresponding to same spatial location in each Sub-Image and compositing the content of the Pixel having the greatest Depth value. The Depth v... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7228324 | Circuit for selectively providing maximum or minimum of a pair of floating point operands A floating point max/min circuit for determining the maximum or minimum of two floating point operands includes a first analysis circuit configured to determine a format of a first floating point operand of the two floating point operands based upon floating point s... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222146 | Method and apparatus for facilitating exception-free arithmetic in a computer system One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing exception-free arithmetic operations within a computer system. During execution of a computer program, the system receives an instruction to perform an arithmetic operation that in... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219111 | Numeric value search apparatus and numeric value search method The objective is to realize a numeric value search apparatus and numeric value search method capable of rapidly searching for a numeric value of a prescribed rank. The present invention is characterized in that it comprises the following: a storage unit which... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213128 | Storing and transferring SIMD saturation history flags and data size A method and apparatus for calculation and storage of Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data (SIMD) saturation history information pursuant to instruction execution. A coprocessor instruction has a format identifying a saturating operation, a first source having packed da... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206920 | Min/max value validation by repeated parallel comparison of the value with multiple elements of a set of data elements A method of locating a target value includes loading the target value into elements of a first register. The first register includes N elements (N>0). The method also includes indicating in elements of a second register, which includes N elements corresponding to th... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197486 | Optimization method with constraints and apparatus therefor In a method for determining a minimum value of an optimization function under constraints given by equations, a set of points which satisfy the constraints is regarded as a Riemannian manifold within a finite-dimensional real-vector space, the Riemannian manifold is... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194600 | Method and apparatus for processing data with a programmable gate array using fixed and programmable processors A method and apparatus for processing data within a programmable gate array comprise a first fixed logic processor and a second fixed logic processor that are embedded within the programmable gate array and detect a custom operation code. The processing continues wh... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193505 | Channel-to-channel compare A word recognizer for providing a channel-to-channel compare for an input digital signal divides channels of the input digital signal into equal-width input signal channel paths. One input signal channel path serves as a reference value for comparison with the other... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7167531 | System and method for shared decoding using a data replay scheme A system and method are described in which a decoder decodes data from a plurality of data streams. In one embodiment, the decoder is restored to the state it was in the last time it processed data from each data stream by re-decoding data stored in a replay buffer ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164723 | Modulation apparatus using mixed-radix fast fourier transform An FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) processor is disclosed which is a core block of an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) or DMT (Discrete Multi-tone) MODEM. The FFT processor simultaneously performs sequential input and output by applying an in-place alg... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161994 | System and method for shared decoding An apparatus is described comprising: a decoder which decodes a plurality of data streams, the decoder having a state associated with each of the data streams; and state restoration logic to restore the decoder's state upon switching from decoding one data stream to... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158891 | Method and system to build optimal models of 3-dimensional molecular structures The present invention relates to a method to build 3-dimensional models of molecular structures corresponding to the lowest value of the potential energy function from knowledge of their chemical structures. The system uses Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares to searc... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7096132 | Procedure for estimating a parameter of a local maxima or minima of a function A method of and system for estimating a parameter of a local maxima or minima of a function. An interpolated local maxima or minima is determined. An interpolation offset is then derived, comprising a deviation between locations of the interpolated and sampled local... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7072922 | Integrated circuit and process for identifying minimum or maximum input value among plural inputs Apparatus and process identifies a maximum or minimum value among a plurality of binary values on a plurality of a-bit wide wires in an integrated circuit module. An N-bit vector K is calculated based on n most significant bits of all a-bit binary signals, where N=2... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072928 | Device for determining the rank of a sample, an apparatus for determining the rank of a plurality of samples, and the irank ordered filter A rank-determining device determines the rank of a particular sample value from a set of digital sample values by utilizing two different thresholders that are implemented by comparators. The rank of the sample value is decomposed by thresholding the sample value wi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072921 | Device for determining the rank of a sample, an apparatus for determining the rank of a plurality of samples, and the ith rank ordered filter A rank-determining device determines the rank of a particular sample value from a set of digital sample values by utilizing two different thresholders that are implemented by comparators. The rank of the sample value is decomposed by thresholding the sample value wi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069423 | Microcomputer A built-in memory is divided into the following two types: first memories 5 and 7 and second memories 4 and 6, and made accessible in parallel by third buses XAB and XDB and second buses YAB and YDB respectively. Thereby, a CPU core 2 ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069288 | Floating point system with improved support of interval arithmetic Embodiments consistent with the principles of the present invention provide improved results, compared to IEEE Std. 754, for floating point operations used in interval arithmetic calculations. One embodiment consistent with the principles of the present invention pr... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062635 | Processor system and method providing data to selected sub-units in a processor functional unit A processor (50) operable in response to an instruction set comprising a plurality of instructions. The processor comprises a functional unit (52) comprising an integer number S of sub-units (541, 542, 54... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057546 | Binary priority encoder Apparatuses for binary priority encoding are described. A binary priority encoder (100, 100L) includes a data input bus (139), a first logic tree (110) coupled to receive data from the input bus (139), and a second logic tree (130)... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050647 | Median filter A median filter using an M×N window sorts M×N pixel data along each column in descending order to generate N data strings, each having M sorted pixel data. The N data strings are sequentially stored in a shift register. Data strings in different stages of the shif... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047160 | System and method for determining maintenance needs of complex electromechanical systems A system and method for monitoring performance of an electromechanical system include monitoring a plurality of predetermined system conditions, collecting monitored values of the plurality of predetermined system conditions over time, and calculating system mainten... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7035968 | Content addressable memory with range compare function A content addressable memory (CAM) device having a range compare function. A boundary value is stored within a plurality of CAM cells within the CAM device. A range compare operation is performed to determine whether a comparand is greater than the boundary value. A... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028065 | Applying term consistency to an inequality constrained interval global optimization problem One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that solves a global optimization problem specified by a function ƒ and a set of inequality constraints pi(x)≦0 (i=1, . . . , m), wherein ƒ and pi are scalar functions of a vector x=... | 04/11/2006 |
