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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7420486 | Control of analog to digital conversion for analog I/O boards A system and method for converting analog signals to digital signals minimize the latency of the analog to digital conversion for real-time systems. The conversion system and method implements the hardware of an analog to digital converter input/output (I/O) board a... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7405679 | Techniques for 9B10B and 7B8B coding and decoding A technique for encoding 9-binary symbol (9B) source vectors into 10-binary symbol (10B) encoded vectors include the steps of obtaining a plurality of 9B source vectors, and encoding the 9B source vectors into a plurality of 10B encoded vectors according to an encod... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7369070 | Control of analog to digital conversion for analog I/O boards A system and method for converting analog signals to digital signals minimize the latency of the analog to digital conversion for real-time systems. The conversion system and method implements the hardware of an analog to digital converter input/output (I/O) board a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7327293 | Compression and data encoding for transmission over a character-based protocol ACARS systems and methods for compiling messages includes a processing device configured for mapping eight-bit characters in an eight-bit character stream into a six bit map to create a generally six-bit character stream. The processing device is further configured ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321321 | Decoding of a restricted m-of-n code A method for communication between a sender and a receiver, including receiving data in the form of an M-of-N code, where the M-of-N code includes a first component of length n1 and a second component of length n2; decoding data in which the fi... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7102553 | Signal transmission method and signal transmission device A signal transmission method and a signal transmission device capable of easily transmitting a signal with a small number of signal lines. A data signal of time slot count N+α with bit count N is longitudinal-lateral converted into a data signal of time slot count ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7098820 | Data recording method In a data arrangement of a CD-ROM format, data in which DSV control data cannot be placed due to a restriction on the format is followed by control data of two bytes. Main data in which any data cannot be placed is followed by a special control data sequence of two ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7069464 | Hybrid parallel/serial bus interface A hybrid serial/parallel bus interface has a data block demultiplexing device. The data block demultiplexing device has an input configured to receive a data block and demultiplexes the data block into a plurality of nibbles. For each nibble, a parallel to serial co... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6909385 | Method and apparatus for suppressing low frequency content in digital data A method of encoding digital information in order to suppress dc includes the steps of receiving a sequence of m message bits of a message word, and mapping the sequence of m message bits of the message word to a codeword, of length n bits, generated from the m mess... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6865234 | Pair-swap independent trellis decoder for a multi-pair gigabit transceiver A method and a system for compensating for a permutation of L pairs of cable such that the compensation is localized in a trellis decoder of a receiver. The L pairs of cable correspond to L dimensions of a trellis code associated with the trellis decoder. The trelli... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6842126 | Block coding system and method for data aggregation A method of coding data for communication within a network. The method includes receiving an 8b/10b source protocol data stream containing 10-bit code and translating the data stream into an 8-bit code by converting the 10-bit code into 8-bit data and an ordered set... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6700510 | Scalable physical coding sublayer (PCS) and 8B/10B encoder A scalable physical coding sublayer (PCS) can be adjusted to provide different combinations of communication channels and data widths. The PCS can use 8B/10B encoders having a disparity input connection and at least one disparity output connection. In one... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6664904 | Method and device for recovering RLL constrained data to be decoded A method for recovering a data required to have n consecutive and repetitive bits is disclosed. The data is obtained by converting a sample value sequence into a binary sequence according to a preset value and the data having n-1 consecutive first-level b... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6654562 | Optical transmission system and optical transmission device An optical transmission system and optical transmission devices in the optical transmission system that can achieve a high quality transmission using considerably simple arrangements are disclosed. At a transmitting-end optical transmission device, encodi... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6542104 | Method and apparatus for low power thermometer to binary coder An improved thermometer-to-binary coder in which the bits of the thermometer code are used to directly generate the binary code without using an intermediate one-hot code.... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6538585 | Distance-enhancing coding method The present invention pertains to a distance-enhancing coding method that can be applied to digital recording and digital communications. It improves the time-varying maximum transition run method used in a conventional distance-enhancing coding to avoid ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6504495 | Clipping data values in a data processing system A clipping and quantization technique is described for producing clipped numbers in a range of 0 to N-1 (from unclipped numbers in a range of -0.5N to (1.5N-1)), where N is 2m and m is the bit length of the desired clipped and quantized number.... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6486804 | METHOD OF CONVERTING A STREAM OF DATABITS OF A BINARY INFORMATION SIGNAL INTO A STREAM OF DATABITS OF A CONSTRAINED BINARY CHANNEL SIGNAL, DEVICE FOR ENCODING, SIGNAL COMPRISING A STREAM OF DATABITS OF A CONSTRAINED BINARY CHANNEL SIGNAL, RECORD CARRIER, METHOD FOR DECODING, DEVICE FOR DECODING A method of converting a stream of databits of a binary information signal into a stream of databits of a constrained binary channel signal, a device for encoding, a signal, a record carrier, a method for decoding, and a device for decoding. The signal is... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6476737 | Rate 64/65 (d=0, G=11/I=10) run length limited modulation code The present invention describes a system and method for encoding a sequence of 64 bit digital data words into a sequence of 65 bit codewords having constraints of (d=0, G=11/I=10) for recording upon a magnetic medium within a magnetic recording channel ar... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6476736 | Single interconnect, multi-bit interface Disclosed is transmission of a signal over a single interconnect between functional blocks of the IC. A scaled or encoded signal responsive to a first digital signal is generated by summing currents responsive to the first control signal. The summed curre... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6324213 | Asset tracking system employing reduced order GPS with compressed GPS satellite identification data Satellite identification data generated when using the Reduced Order GPS (ROGPS) system are compressed, allowing for shorter data transmission times, reduced transmitter energy and reduced satellite channel occupancy. An indexed list of all possible const... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6301264 | Asynchronous data conversion circuit A data conversion circuit and method are disclosed for converting an N-bit data stream to an M-bit data stream. A FIFO memory device having multiple N-bit memory locations receives as an input consecutive N-bit sets of data and stores each consecutively r... | 10/09/2001 |
| 5272461 | Coding circuit A coding circuit forming a 1-from-N code from an X-from-N code includes partial circuits in which each position of the X-from-N code forms an input value of a partial circuit. Each partial circuit is formed of three emitter-coupled transistor pairs, a cur... | 12/21/1993 |
| 4855742 | Method of transmitting n-bit information words, information transmission system for carrying out the method, and encoding device and decoding device for use in the information-transmission system An information-transmission system including an encoder for converting n-bit information words (D7, . . . , D0) into transmitted m-bit code words (C10, . . . , C0), and a decoder which reconverts the received code words (C'10, . . . , C'0) into informatio... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4829300 | Signal generation A method and apparatus for generating signals representing a plurality (p) of n bit words corresponding to respective input signals. The apparatus comprises a basic word generator (7) for generating first signals representing m basic words (A-D) whereby t... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4177455 | Electrically configurable high-low decoder An electrically configurable decoder including selectively configurable combinations of a plurality of basic decode circuits. The electrically configurable decoder includes a plurality of mode selection inputs, a plurality of address inputs, a plurality o... | 12/04/1979 |
