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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7786903 | Combinatorial coding/decoding with specified occurrences 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 with specified occurrences which may be used for communicating between two or more components connected to an intercon... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7683809 | Advanced lossless bit coding A bit coding method modifies the bit-steam information in such a way as to provide a very high compression during lossless symbol coding and may be used as a preprocessor for Huffman and arithmetic encodings or on its own. A bit rearrangement scheme (BRS) improves t... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7656319 | Context-based encoding and decoding of signals A system for the context-based for the context-based encoding of an input signal includes a domain transform module and a context-based coding module. The domain transform module is operable to convert the input signal into a sequence of transform coefficients c[i].... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7633413 | Systems and processes for decoding a chain reaction code through inactivation A method for processing a chain reaction codes includes first selecting a source symbol which is associated an output symbol of degree two or higher (i.e., an output symbol which is itself associated with two or more input symbols), and subsequently deactivating the... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7421032 | Serial concatenation of interleaved convolutional codes forming turbo-like codes A serial concatenated coder includes an outer coder and an inner coder. The outer coder irregularly repeats bits in a data block according to a degree profile and scrambles the repeated bits. The scrambled and repeated bits are input to an inner coder, which has a r... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7411524 | Channel coding method with corresponding code and demodulation and decoding method and means A coding/decoding system and method are disclosed. Coding, as used herein, refers assigning values to cells. Information to be coded is processed stepwise in information pieces, with bitwise processing (single information bits as information pieces) as a special cas... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7366244 | Method and system for antenna interference cancellation A wireless communication system can comprise two or more antennas that interfere with one another via free space coupling, surface wave crosstalk, dielectric leakage, or other interference effect. The interference effect can produce an interference signal on one of ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7330562 | Watermarking in the time-frequency domain Methods and systems for time-frequency domain watermarking of media signals, such as audio and video signals. An encoding method divides the media signal into segments, transforms each segment into a time-frequency representation, and computes a time-frequency domai... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7304932 | Data recording medium, and data recording method and device A recording method for converting m-bit data into n-bit (where n>m) bit data whose run length is restricted and recoding the converted data on a recording medium, the recording method comprising the steps of when at least preceded data is data containing a special d... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292162 | Data coding system and method A data coding system that compresses data and enables data, e.g., prefix addresses, to be represented with significantly fewer memory cells when compared to conventional coding systems. ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7239981 | Systems and methods for gathering audience measurement data Systems and methods are provided for gathering audience measurement data relating to exposure of an audience member to audio data. Audio data is received in a user system and is then encoded with audience measurement data. The encoded audio data is reproduced by the... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7230549 | Method and system for synchronizing bit streams for PCI express devices A PCI Express device is provided. The PCI Express device includes a symbol lock module that includes a state machine for detecting a special character in a serial bit stream received from a serial/de-serializer, wherein the state machine receives a first special cha... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7219173 | System for video processing control and scheduling wherein commands are unaffected by signal interrupts and schedule commands are transmitted at precise time A method, apparatus, computer medium, and other embodiments for synchronizing control of one or more devices at predetermined times are described. A host scheduler loads a to-do list of predetermined events and corresponding time-tags into memory and broadcasts sche... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7206347 | Image coding method and image decoding method A picture encoding method of the present invention is a picture encoding method of predictively encoding an input picture with reference to pictures stored in a picture buffer, decoding the encoded input picture, judging whether or not the decoded picture is a pictu... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7174151 | Ensuring EAS performance in audio signal encoding An encoding system for encoding a first ancillary code in media data and monitoring for reception of a second ancillary code that has a higher priority than the first ancillary code, such that upon detection of the higher priority ancillary code the encoding system ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167518 | Bandwidth-efficient modulation in communication systems A transmitter of digital data includes a modulator with an input for a carrier signal and an input for a first stream of control symbols. The modulator modulates the carrier signal with a second stream of symbols produced by the modulator. Each symbol of the second ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7123676 | Method and system for antenna interference cancellation A wireless communication system can comprise two or more antennas that interfere with one another via free space coupling, surface wave crosstalk, dielectric leakage, or other interference effect. The interference effect can produce an interference signal on one of ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7098814 | Method and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding digital data Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding digital data. The method includes: mapping a plurality of samples constituting the digital data onto bit planes; and selectively encoding all of bit-sliced data of the bit planes from bit-sliced data comp... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7079057 | Context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding method and apparatus There are provided a context-based adaptive binary arithmetic decoding method and apparatus. The context-based adaptive binary arithmetic decoding apparatus includes: a context extractor extracting a plurality of contexts from a storage unit storing contexts each in... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7064684 | Sequence detection by multi-valued coding and creation of multi-code sequences Methods and apparatus for coding binary and multi-value sequences into higher value sequences are disclosed. Correlation methods for comparing lower-value sequences by first coding to higher value sequences and then calculating a correlation number are also disclose... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7054463 | Data encoding using frail watermarks Image, video, or audio data is encoded with both a frail and a robust watermark. The two watermarks respond differently to different forms of processing (e.g., copying the object may render the frail watermark unreadable), permitting an original object to be disting... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050603 | Watermark encoded video, and related methods Watermarks in video signals or the accompanying audio track are used to associate video objects in a video sequence with object specific actions or information. A video object refers to a spatial and temporal portion of a video signal that depicts a recognizable obj... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050388 | Method and system for crosstalk cancellation Signals propagating in one communication channel can generate crosstalk interference in another communication channel. A crosstalk cancellation device can process the signals causing the crosstalk interference and generate a crosstalk cancellation signal that can co... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050493 | Bandwidth-efficient modulation in communication systems A transmitter of digital data includes a modulator with an input for a carrier signal and an input for a first stream of control symbols. The modulator modulates the carrier signal with a second stream of symbols produced by the modulator. Each symbol of the second ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043160 | Method, system and signal for carrying overhead information in a transport network employing photonic switching nodes A communications signal which carries a purely digital wrapper signal and a method and system for generating it and extracting overhead information therefrom. The wrapper signal can be received by a high-performance format-specific receiver at the end of the network... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7027735 | Unequal pulse spacer For suppressing intra-channel four wave mixing in a time division multiplexing (TDM) system, where N synchronous data streams, each having a reduced data pulse width within a bit slot timing interval, from parallel to serial form, are converted for optically bit int... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6965682 | Data transmission by watermark proxy A media object sensed at one location is delivered at a second remote location, or an application associated with the object is made available at the second location. In some embodiments, the delivered object is of a higher quality than the sensed object. In other e... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6934370 | System and method for communicating audio data signals via an audio communications medium A system for communicating audio data signals comprises a source computer that performs an action, generates an event message corresponding to the action, converts the event message into an audio data signal, and communicates the audio data signal through its speake... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6920183 | Crosstalk equalization for input-output driver circuits Embodiments of the present invention mitigate crosstalk by equalizing transmit signals in a data dependent fashion. ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917691 | Substituting information based on watermark-enable linking OLE-like principles are implemented using watermark data in digital objects in order to effect object linking or embedding. In one embodiment, a photocopier scans an original paper document to produce image data. This image data is analyzed for the presence of water... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6917724 | Methods for opening file on computer via optical sensing By printing documents and other objects with machine readable indicia, such as steganographic digital watermarks or barcodes, a great variety of document management functions can be enabled. The indicia can be added as part of the printing process (after document da... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6900748 | Method and apparatus for binarization and arithmetic coding of a data value Binarization a data value comprises binarizing the minimum of the data value and a predetermined cut-off value in accordance with a first binarization scheme, in order to yield a primary prefix. If the data value is greater than the cut-off value, binarizing a diffe... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6845360 | Encoding multiple messages in audio data and detecting same Systems and methods are provided for encoding and decoding multiple messages in audio data. The messages each comprise a sequence of message symbols each comprising a combination of substantially single-frequency components. At least some of the message symbols in o... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6833798 | Method for coding a sequence of data bytes via an air interface A method and associated structures for coding a sequence of data bytes (BY1,BY2), in which two bits (B1, B2) of a data byte form a double bit (D1-D4). Each double bit is represented by a time slot frame (ZR1-ZR4 | 12/21/2004 |
| 6806817 | Means and method of data encoding and communication at rates above the channel bandwidth The present invention relates to a coding apparatus for encoding data represented by 8 bit input symbols into 12 bit output codes for serially transmitting the codes along a communication channel, the codes being represented in the channel by signals having a limite... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6762700 | NEO method and system for lossless compression and decompression A method and system for compression and decompression are described. The compression method is based on the non-increasing encoding order (hereafter: NEO) method. The NEO method uses variable encoding lengths to encode a set of data items. It determines the encoding... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6751303 | Data communication over telephone voice channel using DTMF interface A multifrequency tone generator sends data over a telephone voice channel. An alphanumeric character generator sequentially generates alphanumeric characters. Preferably, the character generator may be a keypad or keyboard. A plurality of tone generators have a summ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6593860 | Distributed on-demand media transcoding system and method A system and method for the on-demand transcoding of media content from a source type to a destination type is provided, wherein the system includes a plurality of transcoders for transcoding from a plurality of source types to a plurality of destination ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6570509 | Method and system for encoding to mitigate decoding errors in a receiver In a data transmitter having a data encoder, an encoder mode is detected. Thereafter, an excluded codeword output by the encoder operating in the encoder mode is identified. Next, a selected bit in the excluded codeword caused to have a predetermined valu... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6476735 | Method of encoding bits using a plurality of frequencies A digital encoding system for encoding a series of input bits into a plurality of frequencies, includes an encoder for generating a sampled representation of the frequencies corresponding to an input data sequence comprised of bits, and a decoder. The dec... | 11/05/2002 |
