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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8436753 | System and method for efficiently translating media files between formats using a universal representation An apparatus and method are described for reading a file into a universal representation and translating from that universal representation into various file formats. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: reading compressed audio data from a f... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8427346 | Adaptive compression Technology for adaptive compression is described (“the technology”). The technology may identify two or more partitions of a data stream; optionally pre-process data in each partition; create one or more evaluation functions to evaluate a suitability for compres... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8401359 | Video receiving apparatus and video receiving method A video receiving apparatus having an input terminal to receive pixel-based video data transmitted with pixel clock synchronized with the video data is provided. The video receiving apparatus may include a separation unit, an information acquisition unit, and a dete... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8378859 | Memory compression technique with low latency per pixel In an embodiment, a compression unit is provided which may perform compression of images with low latency and relatively little hardware. Similarly, a decompression unit may be provided which may decompress the images with low latency and hardware. In an embodiment,... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8368567 | Codepage-independent binary encoding method A method of processing binary data for transmission from a first computing system to one or more other computing systems within a character-based data file is provided. The method comprises receiving, at the first computing system, a binary data string to be stored ... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8358227 | Multi-cell voltage secure data encoding in hybrid vehicles A method of encoding data related to voltages for each of a plurality of battery cells for transmission in a hybrid vehicle includes the steps of generating a plurality of voltage groups, and generating a validity measure for each of the plurality of voltage groups.... | 01/22/2013 |
| RE43923 | Method for organizing and compressing spatial data A method for organizing and compressing spatial data to enable fast, incremental downloads of spatial data over a network. The method comprises multiple steps for segmenting and reducing spatial data, and introduces a location-relevant naming system for storing and ... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8305243 | Systems and methods for compressing data and controlling data compression in borehole communication Systems and methods compress data and control data compression in borehole communication. The systems and methods convert original data collected by a sensor from a first domain into a second domain, wherein the original data is associated with one or more propertie... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8299944 | System and method for creating deduplicated copies of data storing non-lossy encodings of data directly in a content addressable store Systems and methods are disclosed for storing deduplicated images in which a portion of the image is stored in encoded form directly in a hash table, the method comprising: organizing unique content of each data object as a plurality of content segments and storing ... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8294602 | Coding method, decoding method, coder and decoder A coding method, a decoding method, a coder, and a decoder are disclosed herein. A coding method includes: obtaining the pulse distribution, on a track, of the pulses to be encoded on the track; determining a distribution identifier for identifying the pulse distrib... | 10/23/2012 |
| RE43741 | Systematic encoding and decoding of chain reaction codes A method of encoding data into a chain reaction code includes generating a set of input symbols from input data. Subsequently, one or more non-systematic output symbols is generated from the set of input symbols, each of the one or more non-systematic output symbols... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8264385 | Using error bucketing and baseline analysis for I18N testing Systems and methods to detect and analyze character set translation errors in an electronic document are provided. One method according to the invention includes detecting a first character string within the electronic document; converting the first character string... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8253607 | Encoding and decoding information Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for encoding and decoding information. In one aspect, methods of encoding information in an encoder include the actions of receiving a signal representing information ... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8253606 | Apparatus and a method for performing a fractional bit en- and decoding The invention relates to a fractional bit encoder (1) and a method for encoding a data stream into code word identifiers for a physical line encoder (13), wherein said fractional bit encoder (1) comprises a (1:K) demultiplexer (3) for a d... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8253605 | Decorrelation of data by using this data A device for processing data adapted for being converted between an analog format and a digital format, the device having a scrambling unit adapted for scrambling the data based on at least a part of the data to thereby decorrelate the data in the analog format with... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8232901 | Determining an alternative character string Method and apparatus for determining an alternative character string, in response to an invalid character string being received by a consumer application, wherein the invalid character string is derived from the selection of a series of keyboard keys in combination ... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8212693 | Bit-stream processing/transmitting and/or receiving/processing method, medium, and apparatus A method, medium, and apparatus hierarchically coding/decoding audio data, such as bit sliced arithmetic coding (BSAC), such that payloads of audio data and extension data can be grouped and interleaved according to priority so that some groups of the payloads are d... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8207874 | Wyner-Ziv coding based on TCQ and LDPC codes An encoder employs a trellis coded quantization (TCQ) unit and a compression unit. The TCQ uses a set of polynomials that have been selected to maximize granular gain. The TCQ unit operates on a block of samples from a source. The compression unit compresses bit pla... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8199034 | Method and apparatus for soft symbol determination A method for wireless communication is disclosed that includes selecting a plurality of probabilities for a symbol based on a bit-to-symbol mapping; calculating a conditional mean of the symbol based on the plurality of probabilities; and, generating a signal repres... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8199035 | Method, device, and system for data communication with preamble for reduced switching noise A data communication device or system includes a preamble unit and a data interface. The preamble unit generates or detects a first preamble having a first length for a first data line, and generates or detects a second preamble having a second length for a second d... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8193952 | Method and device for encoding elements It provides a method for encoding a set of elements by using components defining the structure of each of the set of elements, wherein each element comprises data structure information and at least one data value. The method comprises the steps of: selecting a curre... | 06/05/2012 |
| 8190584 | Utilizing recursive application of a reversible transform which involves lexicographic ordering An electronic device provides electronic access to a dataset representing meaningful information. The electronic device generates a first subset permutation based on a first subset of the dataset, and generates a second subset permutation based on a second subset of... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8159373 | Encoding and decoding information Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for encoding and decoding information. In one aspect, methods of encoding information in an encoder include the actions of receiving a signal representing information ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156432 | Detection of UTF-16 encoding in streaming XML data without a byte-order mark and related printers, systems, methods, and computer program products Provided are printers and other electronic devices, systems, methods, and computer program products that automatically detect and determine UTF-16 encoding schemes and endiannesss thereof in an incoming XML data steam for XML declarations without a UTF-16 byte-order... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149143 | Data encryption and decryption with a key by an N-state inverter modified switching function Methods and apparatus for implementing an n-state ripple-adder scheme coder with n≧2 using an n-state reversible switching function and a non-reversible n-state switching function acting upon a first and a second word of at least 2 n-state symbols are disclosed. C... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144037 | Blocking for combinatorial coding/decoding for electrical computers and digital data processing systems Embodiments described herein may include example embodiments of a method, article and apparatus for compressing data utilizing combinatorial coding which may be used for communicating between two or more components connected to an interconnection medium (e.g., a bus... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138954 | Method and system for efficient data transmission with server side de-duplication The invention provides a method and system for reducing redundant data blocks. The method includes reducing redundant data blocks by decoding a first data block from a first plurality of data blocks and a bitstream. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8111176 | Method for encoding vectors The present invention relates to a method for encoding a vector for transmission from a transmitter to a receiver, comprising a step of selecting a first vector in a predefined M-dimensional vector codebook, and at least one refinement step wherein an error vector b... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8077059 | Database adapter for relational datasets The invention is a database adapter providing improved methods for storing and retrieving relational data. Suitable source data is structured as a table with a fixed number of columns of predetermined types and a variable number of rows. The invention reduces the sp... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077061 | System for text acquisition, transformation and/or database load One embodiment of the present invention is a text acquisition system that includes: (a) a character stream application module; (b) a parallel property bit stream module; (c) an analysis module; (c) a character stream generator; and (d) a database. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077060 | Distributed threshold adjustment for high speed receivers According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a terminal configured to receive an analog input signal. In various embodiments, the apparatus may also include a multistage amplifier configured to amplify the analog input signal by an amount of gain. In so... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059016 | Data compression apparatus and method A data compression apparatus and method for improving data compression efficiency are provided. The data compression apparatus includes a searcher for calculating costs, by searching domain blocks arranged in forward direction in a search range, between a range bloc... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8044828 | Method and system for encoding communications between wireless and other devices A method for encoding a message communicated between devices, the message having at least one field, the method comprising: if the field is not optional and contains a value, writing the value to one or more data bytes in a byte buffer; and, if the field is optional... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040262 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding metadata Provided are a meta data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The meta data decoding method includes decoding a media signal containing a media object, and decoding meta data corresponding to the media object. During the decoding of the meta data signal, decoding... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035535 | Apparatus and method providing transformation for human touch force measurements An apparatus includes a force sensor configured to be activated by a user and a control unit connected to an output of the force sensor. The control unit is configurable to operate in response to receipt of an m-bit value representing a measurement from the force se... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026836 | Transmission of pathological data patterns A method and apparatus is presented for reducing or eliminating pathological data patterns from signals for transmission over optical communications systems. One embodiment includes a decoder/deserializer configured to receive an encoded serial digital signal, a dit... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018356 | Method of encoding/decoding data, method of detecting data, and method of recording/reproducing data According to an embodiment of the present invention, a data encoding method includes separating an input sequence into a plurality of n-bit blocks, wherein n is a natural number, and converting each of the n-bit blocks into a block code including M rows and N column... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009065 | System and method for encoding and decoding serial signals formed by a plurality of color lights The present invention is to provide a method for encoding and decoding serial signals formed by a plurality of color lights, which is applied to an encoding/decoding system comprising an encoding device and a decoding device, and comprises steps of generating a driv... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004429 | Data compression/decompression apparatus and method A data compression/decompression apparatus and method are provided for improving memory utilization. The data compression/decompression apparatus includes a compressor for calculating costs of domain blocks to a range block through forward searching in a search rang... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999705 | Unicode-compatible base-N range coding A character data set is compressed with a compression algorithm module of a computer system to generate one or more streams of encoded values. The compression module is configured to compress the character data set with an base-n range encoder to generate one or mor... | 08/16/2011 |
