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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7405770 | Adaptive equalization method and system for reducing noise and distortion in a sampled video signal An adaptive equalization method and system for reducing noise and distortion in a sampled video signal improves the quality of output video information in both consumer and professional applications. A multi-band equalizer applied to the sampled video information re... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7375741 | Circuit and method for eliminating image interfering with desired channel A circuit and a method for eliminating interference introduced from an image channel into a desired channel is described. The circuit includes a splitter and an adder. The splitter generates signals split from a received signal having frequency components within the... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369155 | Apparatus and method for rejecting co-channel interference signal Methods and television receivers for rejecting a co-channel interference signal from a first digital signal. A first digital signal is delayed to output a first delayed signal. In this method, an synthesized interference signal is generated based on the first digita... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365800 | Method for pre-processing image data A method for pre-processing image data, including steps of: receiving primary image data corresponding to an image or a sequence of images to be displayed; pre-processing the primary image data by applying a pre-distortion operation to the primary image data so as t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362957 | Reproducing apparatus A reproducing apparatus, in which a reproduced information signal is equalized by an equalizer, includes a detecting circuit for detecting a digital signal from the reproduced information signal, and a controller for controlling an equalizing characteristic of the e... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359474 | Clock recovery circuit and clock-recovering filter circuit There is provided a clock-recovering filter circuit for use in a clock recovery circuit that generates a recovery clock signal from input data from an external device and a reference clock signal. The filter circuit includes: a pulse-inserting circuit which inserts ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359511 | Encryption transmission system A video signal and an audio signal are time division multiplexed, encrypted, and transmitted. A transmission side time-compresses the audio signal, multiplexes, encrypts, and transmits the time-compressed audio signal in a blanking period of the video signal. Contro... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359437 | Encoding method and system for reducing inter-symbol interference effects in transmission over a serial link A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which encoded data (e.g., encoded video data and encoded auxiliary data) are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver. The serial link can but need not be a TMDS or TMDS-like l... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356311 | Wireless audio signal and control signal device and method thereof A signal transmission arrangement includes a signal transmitter and a signal receiver wirelessly communicating with the signal transmitter. The signal transmitter includes a hybrid signal device to hybridize the audio signal with the control signal to form a consoli... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352373 | Systems and methods for multi-dimensional dither structure creation and application Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for creation, modification and implementation of dither pattern structures. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349472 | Rate-distortion models for error resilient video transcoding A model stored in a memory accessible by a video transcoder includes a first rate-distortion function modeling a requantization of an input video. A second-rate distortion function models a resynchronization marker insertion rate for the transcoded video, and a thir... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346356 | Method and communication unit for use in a wideband wireless communications system A technique is used in a wideband wireless communication system (100). In some embodiments available channels are determined (310) and one is selected (315) for assignment to each of a set of communication units based on a relative frequency pat... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7324078 | Display apparatus and control method thereof offsetting a noise section contained in video signal A display apparatus including an offset value setting input part to specify an offset value for a DE signal determining an effective area of a video signal; and a DE signal generator to generate the DE signal depending on the offset value. With this configuration, t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312833 | Channel equalizing apparatus and method for digital television receiver Disclosed is a channel equalizing apparatus and method for a digital television receiver that performs channel equalization using equalizing algorithms. The channel equalizing apparatus includes a channel equalizing section for compensating for channel distortion us... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313208 | Pre-equalization for low-cost DTV translators A low cost DTV translator, which translates an incoming signal on channel A to an outgoing signal on channel B, includes a transmitter pre-equalizer whose taps are configured with tap values that pre-distort a signal so as to negate distortion caused by a high power... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310370 | Multi-layer video compression system with synthetic high frequencies Multi-layered motion or still video compression includes, in an encoder or encoding function aspect of the invention, separating the video signal into low-frequency and high-frequency components, processing the low-frequency components of the video signal to generat... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307665 | Method and system for generating reference signals with improved correlation characteristics for accurate time of arrival or position determination The present invention provides a method and system for generating reference signals that, when correlated with synchronization code signals or other components of broadcast TV signals, yield minimal sidelobes, produce large main peaks, and have minimal couplings to ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7274749 | Method and apparatus for the linearization of a radio frequency high-power amplifier The invention relates to a method for the linearization of a high-frequency high-capacity amplifier by means of adaptive digital predistortion of the input signals of the amplifier (5) by determining correctional values that are approximated from DESIRED send... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272174 | Upstream data transmission A process transmits digital data to an A/D converter via an analog channel. The process includes generating a sequence of output signals by precoding a sequence of input signal points to precompensate for ISI in the analog channel. In the precoding is matched to the... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268821 | Upconversion with noise constrained diagonal enhancement A method of interpolating a given output pixel value when upconverting interlaced video to progressive video includes the step of determining averages for vertically adjacent pixels, left diagonally adjacent pixels, and right diagonally adjacent pixels respectively ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7251270 | Systems and methods for fractional bit rate encoding in a communication system Systems and methods for encoding fractional bit rates in a communication system, such as a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) communication system, are provided. The systems and methods enable a first transceiver to specify to a second transceiver a desired fractional... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245675 | Upstream data transmission A process transmits digital data to an A/D converter via an analog channel. The process includes generating a sequence of output signals by preceding a sequence of input signal points to precompensate for ISI in the analog channel. In the preceding is matched to the... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7228077 | Channel gain control for an optical communications system utilizing frequency division multiplexing Attenuation caused by dispersion in an optical fiber communications system is compensated. A number of low-speed channels is to be transmitted across an optical fiber. Each low-speed channel is allocated a different frequency band for transmission. The attenuation c... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224838 | Method and apparatus for recovery of encoded data using central value The present invention provides a method for comprising data by determining a central value that is greater than the minimum value and less than the maximum value of the range of data. In one embodiment, the central value is chosen to be a value that substantially re... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218738 | Encryption and content control in a digital broadcast system A selective encryption encoder has a packet identifier that identifies packets of a specified packet type forming a part of a program. A packet duplicator duplicates the identified packets to produce first and second sets of the identified packets. A PMT (program ma... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209660 | Optical communications using heterodyne detection An optical communications system includes a receiver subsystem with at least two heterodyne receivers. The receiver subsystem receives a composite optical signal having two or more subbands of information and corresponding tones. An optical splitter splits the compo... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7154914 | Through-timing of data transmitted across an optical communications system utilizing frequency division multiplexing Data is transmitted across an optical fiber communications system by splitting an incoming tributary into multiple low-speed data channels, modulating each of these into a stream of symbols (e.g., by using QAM modulation) and then frequency division multiplexing a n... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7146103 | Optical communications using multiplexed single sideband transmission and heterodyne detection A transmitter subsystem generates an optical signal which contains multiple subbands of information. The subbands have different polarization. For example, in one approach, two or more optical transmitters generate optical signals which have different polarization. ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145946 | MPEG video drift reduction A drift reduction method and apparatus. Drift reduction is effected in an MPEG video transcoder by decoding dropped out pixels to form a drift reference frame. The quantization indices in the current macro-block are changed accordingly in a drift reduction process. ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142553 | Off-line broadband network interface A network interface is presented that receives packet data from a shared medium and accomplishes the signal processing required to convert the data packet to host computer formatted data separately from receiving the data packet. The network interface receives the d... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7106794 | System and method for Huffman shaping in a data communication system In a communication system, Huffman coding techniques are used to obtain shaping gains for an improvement in data transmission rates. More particularly, a novel method of Huffman shaping is described that achieves a shaping gain of greater than 1 dB. The shaping gain... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106907 | Adaptive error-resilient video encoding using multiple description motion compensation A method estimates bit rates for sets of coding parameters, based on characteristics of a channel, and an end-to-end distortion is estimated based on signal statistics of the video. A particular set of coding parameters that satisfies an available bit rate of the ch... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102687 | Image data conversion processing device and information processing device having the same An image data conversion processing device including an issue unit, plural line storing units, and a generating unit for converting to a television signal image data stored in plural kinds of developing formats in a storing unit. The image data comprises plural line... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099399 | Distortion-managed digital RF communications transmitter and method therefor A digital communications transmitter (100) includes a digital linear-and-nonlinear predistortion section (200) to compensate for linear and nonlinear distortion introduced by transmitter-analog components (120). A direct-digital-downconversion s... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098960 | Data slicer, data slicing method, and amplitude evaluation value setting method A data slicer 300 includes a slice level calculation unit 310 that determines whether a detected digital video signal is a CRI signal on the basis of the amplitude of the signal, and sets a reference slice level and upper and lower slice levels which a... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092579 | Calculating noise estimates of a digital image using gradient analysis A method of estimating the noise in a digital image for use in subsequent image processing, includes receiving a source digital image having a plurality of pixels; selecting a pixel of interest; providing a plurality of orientations for the pixel of interest; using ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7080312 | Data transformation for explicit transmission of control information The present invention provides a system and method for explicitly transmitting a block attribute in the data of a block. In one embodiment, a current block of data is randomized in accordance with an ID value from the current block and from at least one temporally a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079819 | RF transmitters with saturation detection and correction and methods therefor Methods in radio communications devices having a transmitter with an integral control loop, and in other integral control systems, including generating a first error signal (210) based upon an amplifier output signal and a corrected reference signal, generati... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7071908 | Digital backplane The present invention provides a various methods, systems and devices for controlling light modulating elements and/or spatial light modulators. In some embodiments of the present invention, a recursive feedback method is used to control light modulating elements an... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7042518 | Digitally controlled variable frequency HF emphasis circuit for use in video displays A sharpness filter processes a video signal that is to be displayed in a windowed environment. The windowed environment may contain windows that for displaying television images derived from video standards such as NTSC, PAL, and SECAM. Displaying windowed televisio... | 05/09/2006 |
