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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166084 | Calibration of adjustable filters A filter controller. In one embodiment, the filter controller includes a first mechanism for providing an input signal to an adjustable filter. A second mechanism measures a response of the adjustable filter to the input signal and provides a second signal in respon... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7831645 | Digital resonant shelf filter A method and system for designing a discrete-time filter having a transfer function which approximates that of an analog shelf filter is disclosed. Prior art methods include applying the bilinear transform to the analog filter, which has the drawback of warping high... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7761494 | Receiving module and receiver having the same Provided are a receiving module and a receiver having the same. The receiving modules includes: a comparing and detecting means for comparing a current bit of a received signal having a continuous waveform to a previous bit thereof and detecting a difference between... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7702701 | Low-power random bit generator using thermal noise and method thereof A random bit generator and a method thereof are provided. The random bit generator includes an amplifier, a comparing circuit, an oscillator, a sampler, and a storage circuit. The amplifier amplifies a difference between input signals generated based on thermal nois... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7493353 | Stochastic processor, driving method thereof, and recognition process device using the same A stochastic processor of the present invention includes a fluctuation generator configured to output an analog quantity having a fluctuation, a fluctuation difference calculation means configured to output fluctuation difference data with an output of the fluctuati... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7426527 | Random number generator and method for generating a random number Random number generator having a transistor that generates an analog random telegraph signal (RTS) having a first or second signal state, a RTS detection unit for detecting the RTS generated by the transistor, a RTS sampling unit that supersamples the RTS detected b... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7365998 | Unregulated isolated DC/DC converter with ripple control An unregulated isolated DC/DC converter is configured to receive an input signal and to provide an output signal. A ripple control circuit is coupled to the unregulated isolated DC/DC converter, wherein the ripple control circuit is configured to reduce an amount of... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349932 | High performance FIR filter A filter includes a tap multiplication circuit and a tap digital-to-analog (“DAC”) unit coupled to the tap multiplication circuit. Further, a plurality of clocks are provided that control timing associated with the tap multiplication circuit and that permit one ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346593 | Autoregressive model learning device for time-series data and a device to detect outlier and change point using the same For sequentially input data string, the outliner and the change point are detected through calculation of the outlier score and the change point score by combining a time-series model learning device to learn the generation mechanism of the read data series as the t... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333585 | Radiation measurement device A radiation measurement device includes a radiation detector generating an analog signal containing pulse components, an A/D converter converting the analog signal into sampled data, an n-th power pulse discrimination unit calculating n-th power values of the sample... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327914 | Adaptive optical signal processing with multimode waveguides Optical signals are passed in an optical medium using an approach that facilitates the mitigation of interference. According to an example embodiment, a filtering-type approach is used with an optical signal conveyed in an optical fiber, such as a multimode fiber (M... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324040 | Method of automatically setting the gain of an interrogator receiver within a non-contacting identification system An attack is activated in a receiver amplifier of an interrogator whenever an amplified input signal exceeds an attack threshold voltage value Vatt, and the receiver amplifier at least during a waiting period, the length of which preferrably equals the double length... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321754 | Radio-frequency signal frequency conversion device for a low power RF receiver The radio-frequency signal frequency conversion device generates intermediate complex signals (IF) for a correlation stage of a low power RF receiver. In order to do this, the device includes a first selective pass-band filter for filtering radio-frequency signals p... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315402 | Image forming apparatus and method for selecting an optimal image space frequency for an output image An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device configured to form an output image using at least two or more image space frequencies and an image size acquisition device configured to recognize a size of the output image. A switching device is configure... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313181 | Calibration of scale factor in adaptive equalizers An adaptive equalizer finite impulse response (FIR) filter for high-speed communication channels with modest complexity, where the filter is iteratively updated during a training sequence by a circuit performing the update: h(t+1)= h(t)+μ[sgn{... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310604 | Statistical sound event modeling system and methods Complex sound events are created by generating multiple different kinds of simpler sounds with randomly varying repetition rates. The average repetition rate can also be variable. The values of sound parameters such as wave selection, pitch distribution, pan distrib... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302353 | Method for radiation spectroscopy using seeded localized averaging (“SLA”) and channel-address recycling A method, and apparatus for carrying it out, for processing pulses derived from a radiation detector, those pulses having already been resolved by a pulse-height analyzer into channels having respective addresses indicative of their respective heights. The method in... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302456 | Stochastic processor and stochastic computer using the same A stochastic processor and a stochastic computer comprises a fluctuation generator configured to generate and output analog quantity having fluctuation comprised of chaos of tent mapping, a mixer configured to output a fluctuation superposed signal with the analog q... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295949 | Energy efficient achievement of integrated circuit performance goals A system and method for meeting performance goals in an electronic system in an energy efficient manner. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise operating an electrical circuit at a current level of performance and a current level of energy efficiency ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295820 | Method and apparatus for DC offset control An automatic gain control (AGC) circuit has an automatic gain controlled amplifier connected in series with a DC blocking capacitor. A reference DC voltage is selectively applied to an input of the automatic gain controlled amplifier and to an output of the DC block... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293053 | Digital random generator based on an arithmetic compressor The proposed device enables the construction of a perfect random generator by combining any physical source, concerning which no assumptions of quality are made, with an extractor. The extractor is constituted by an arithmetic encoder and an output linear function e... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290154 | Probabilistic and introverted switching to conserve energy in a digital system A processor having binary switches is configured to operate at a predetermined probability value that the logical value of each switch is correct. A supply voltage is coupled to the binary switches. A randomized signal detector is configured to detect a randomized s... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286871 | Method and apparatus for reducing contamination of an electrical signal The method of reducing contamination of electrical signals recorded in the presence of repeated interference contamination comprises obtaining an electrical signal recorded in the presence of a contaminating signal, and detecting a timing signal that occurs at a fix... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284024 | Quantum noise random number generator A quantum noise random number generator system that employs quantum noise from an optical homodyne detection apparatus is disclosed. The system utilizes the quantum noise generated by splitting a laser light signal using a beamsplitter having four ports, one of whic... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269258 | Cryptographic key, encryption device, encryption/decryption device, cryptographic key management device, and decryption device A cryptographic key 1 constituted to be freely attachable and detachable to/from a personal computer 2 encrypting and decrypting data by use of a cipher key includes: a pseudo random number generator 14 for generating a pseudo random number of a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268825 | Digital synchronizing generator A sync generator (genlock) (10) for frequency and phase locking an incoming video signal to a system clock (12) includes a digitizer (16, 22) for digitizing the incoming video signal to yield a digitized color sub-carrier burst component. A nume... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268710 | Logic device for the transformation of the output of the RDC into series A-B pulses A logic device for the transformation of the output of the RDC into series A-B pulses according to the present invention comprises: a chip with its two minimal bits (LSB-LSB-1) simulating as the clock source of A-B pulses, a signal-processing pin (BUSY) which... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266575 | Random number generator which can generate a random number based on an uniform distribution A random number generator includes a random pulse generator, a scrambler and a counter. The random pulse generator generates a plurality of random pulses. The scrambler generates an initial value. The counter generates a random number code based on the initial value... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7254198 | Receiver system having analog pre-filter and digital equalizer A receiver system suitable for a local area network contains an analog pre-filter (207 or 619), an analog-to-digital converter (210), a digital equalizer (212), and a decoder (605). A symbol-information-carrying input analog signal... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247955 | PWM power supplies using controlled feedback timing and methods of operating same A closed loop power converter circuit of a UPS or other power supply includes a pulse width modulator circuit in a forward path of the closed loop power circuit. A compensation circuit provides pulse width commands to the pulse width modulator at a first rate. A fee... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245691 | Radiation tomographic imaging apparatus and imaging method using it A radiation tomographic imaging apparatus includes a scanning device for scanning a predefined region in a subject, a prescribing device for prescribing beforehand a position at which an image of said subject is to be produced at a higher priority in the scan region... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243736 | Method of controlling a well experiencing gas kicks A method of controlling a well experiencing gas kicks, which includes the step of increasing pressure above maximum allowable casing pressure to offset decreases in circulating pressure. The method includes calculating a difference between initial circulating pressu... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242776 | Method and apparatus for the generation and distribution of random bits A system (100) and method for the production and distribution of random bits is disclosed. The system uses a truly random source (102) to generate random data. The random data is sent to an input interface (104), which converts the random data t... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242327 | Decimating down converter and related methods A system of downconverting an intermediate frequency (IF) phase or frequency modulated signal to a digital baseband includes an N bit shift register circuit that receives a binary input as a 1-bit input sample data stream of an IF signal. A decimation circuit includ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7224305 | Analog-to-digital modulation A supplied analog signal is modulated by comparing the supplied analog signal with a noise signal. As a result of each comparison, an output signal is generated having a first value if the supplied analog signal is greater than the noise signal and generating an out... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7209936 | Frequency locked digitally tuned oscillator synthesizer A synthesizer is disclosed and is digitally tuned and locked in a measured frequency. The synthesizer uses both the dual voltage control oscillator, each operating over less than an octave, in combination with the microwave doublers to produce a multi-octave RF outp... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203017 | Timing recovery for data storage channels with buffered sectors A storage channel, e.g., for a disk drive system, may asynchronously sample and buffer an entire sector, and then process the buffered sector to recover timing information. The storage channel may operate in an open-loop and utilize an exhaustive search to determine... | 04/10/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7188131 | Random number generator A generator of random numbers by a flip-flop having a data input receiving a first signal at a first frequency comprised in a predetermined range and the instantaneous value of which is conditioned by a disturbing signal, and having a clock input receiving a second ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7180429 | Slow motion detection system Searching through a series of images such as video images for slowly-moving objects such as enemy snipers, using pattern matching, color matching, brightness matching, or the like. Multiple search speeds facilitate finding objects moving at different velocities thro... | 02/20/2007 |
