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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| 8188894 | Devices for conversion between serial and parallel data Serial-to-parallel and parallel-to-serial conversion devices may provide for efficient conversion of serial bit streams into parallel data units (and vice versa). In one implementation, a device may include delay circuits, each of which being configured to receive a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190200 | System and method for automatically scheduling radios on a mobile device Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically powering on and off one or more radios in a mobile device according to a schedule generated automatically for each of the one or more radios. To generate the schedules, each of the one or more radios are powered on... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8188903 | Ramp wave output circuit, analog/digital conversion circuit, and camera A ramp wave output circuit includes a ramp wave generation circuit generating a ramp wave, and a low-pass filter having a variable cutoff frequency, which receives the ramp wave. The low-pass filter operates at a first cutoff frequency for a predetermined time perio... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185136 | Mobile communication device capable of functioning in transmitter disabling state A mobile communication device, such as a cellular phone, for example, is capable of functioning in a transmitter disabling mode and is set to the transmitter disabling mode in automatic response to a power-on operation and then automatically changed to a transmitter... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179294 | Apparatus and method for the calibration of delta-sigma modulators The application relates to a calibration apparatus and calibration method for a tuneable resonator of a delta-sigma modulator of the continuous time, band pass type. The calibration apparatus comprises: a resonator driver capable of causing an oscillating behavior i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174428 | Compression of signals in base transceiver systems A signal compression method and apparatus for a base transceiver system (BTS) in a wireless communication network provides efficient transfer of compressed signal samples over serial data links in the system. For the uplink, an RF unit of the BTS compresses signal s... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174420 | Video encoding apparatus and method having output restriction function A video encoding apparatus receives a digital video data signal, converts the digital video data signal into an analog video signal and outputs the analog video signal to an externally connected image device. An encoding processor converts the digital video data sig... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174422 | Power-supply-noise cancelling circuit and solid-state imaging device A reference voltage generation circuit generates a reference voltage and outputs it to an amplifier reference voltage line. A power-supply-noise adding circuit adds power supply noise superimposed on a power supply to the reference voltage generated by the reference... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174419 | Analog-digital converter and corresponding system and method An analog-digital converter for converting an analog signal into a digital signal includes a first configuration register for configuring a first group of channels and a second configuration register for configuring a second group of channels. The conversion result ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174421 | Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus, includes: a plurality of processor means respectively including storage means for storing analog information and comparison means for comparing analog information stored in the storage means with an inputted reference analog valu... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170599 | Format based power control Power control methods and apparatus taught herein advantageously provide quick convergence to the signal quality target needed to achieve a given data error rate target, when changes in transport format use by a given transport channel require such convergence. Spec... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164501 | Method and system for time interleaved digital to analog conversion for a cable modem Provided is a transmitter in a communications system including a plurality of digital to analog converters. Also included is a plurality of clocks, each being communicably coupled to a corresponding one of the digital to analog converters. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165533 | Apparatus and method for beamforming based on generalized eigen-analysis in multiple input multiple output wireless communication system An apparatus and method for beamforming in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system are provided. A Base Station (BS) includes a calculator for generating relational expressions between beamforming vectors of Mobile Stations (MSs) using ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164318 | Digital control switching power supply unit A digital control switching power supply unit converts an input voltage into a desired output voltage using a digitally controlled pulse width modulation (PWM) signal according to a switching cycle. The power supply unit includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC)... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159378 | Analog-to-digital conversion method using RC time constant calibrator and analog-to-digital converter therefor An analog-to-digital conversion method using an RC time constant calibrator is provided. The method includes the operations of comparing a crossing time point at which a first reference signal and a second reference signal cross each other with a target time point a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8145166 | Enhanced programmable automatic level control An enhanced programmable automatic level control loop comprising an input for receiving an input RF signal; a level modulator, wherein the level modulator receives the input RF signal and a control signal and wherein the level modulator produces a first signal; a mi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140136 | Slide module and portable terminal having the same A portable terminal includes a first body, a second body, and a slide module slidably coupling the first body and the second body, the first body and the second body sliding with respect to each other via the slide module, wherein the slide module includes a first s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134485 | Device for converting analog signal into digital values and correcting the values An analog to digital converting device has a first converter nonlinearly converting an analog level into a first digital value every first sampling period, shorter than a second sampling period, with low precision, a second converter linearly converting the analog l... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125359 | Analog-to-digital converter According to an embodiment, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) including an ADC unit, a clock-phase control unit, a multiplexer, and a digital-output processing unit is provided. The digital-output processing unit inputs digital outputs of the ADC unit to either a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125364 | Data compression/decompression method A compression engine starts compressing data by a preset first compression rule, compresses the following data by a second compression rule when the characteristics of the data satisfy a predetermined switching condition, and returns to the first compression rule wh... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120425 | System and method for common mode translation System and method for common mode translation in continuous-time sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters. An embodiment includes a loop filter having an RC network coupled to a differential signal input, a Gm-C/Quantizer/DAC circuit (GQD) coupled to the loop filter... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120517 | Digital-analog conversion circuit and output data correction method of the same A digital-analog conversion circuit includes a correction unit that adds a correction bit to a lower-order bit of externally input first digital input data and outputs second digital input data, and a conversion unit that receives the second digital input data and o... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8106800 | Self-calibrating signal reconstruction system An approach for calibrating a signal reconstruction system. A signal may be input to a low-pass filter. An output of the filter may be converted to a digital signal which goes to a processor which outputs a reconstruction of the signal to the filter. The reconstruct... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106803 | Discharge digital-to-analog converter A digital-to-analog conversion circuit operates by selectively discharging members of a plurality of capacitors. Charging of the capacitors occurs during a reset period while digital-to-analog conversion occurs as the capacitors are discharged. Those capacitors that... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106799 | Data compression and decompression using parallel processing The present disclosure includes apparatus, systems and techniques relating to pipelined processing. In some implementations, a method performed by a data processing device includes storing data in a memory module. The method includes processing the stored data in ac... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102290 | Sigma-delta modulator The present invention relates to a sigma-delta modulator to convert an analog signal into a digital signal using an analog-to-digital converter slaved in a closed loop. The undecided bits at the output of the analog-to-digital converter are assigned the same values ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102293 | Digital direct conversion receiving apparatus and method A digital direct conversion receiving apparatus, including: a phase conversion unit to down-convert a Radio Frequency (RF) signal into a plurality of sample signals, and generate a certain phase difference among the plurality of sample signals when the RF signal is ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099134 | Visual manipulation of audio A mobile communication device displays, via a display, an audio waveform associated with a voicemail received by the mobile communication device, and receives selection and sustained contact with the audio waveform from a user associated with the mobile communicatio... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098247 | Systems and methods for geometric data compression and encryption Systems, methods, and physical computer-readable storage media for performing geometric data compression and geometric data decompression and/or geometric data encryption and geometric data decryption. A virtual geometric compression object is generated within a com... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094055 | Compact digital-to-analog converter A digital-to-analog converter is disclosed. An example digital-to-analog converter circuit includes a reference scaling circuit coupled to receive a first reference current. The reference scaling circuit is coupled to generate a second reference current in response ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089387 | Quantizing circuits with variable parameters Systems, methods, and devices for obtaining data from a data location. The method may include generating a first value by sensing a data location under a first condition and generating a second value by sensing the data location under a second condition. The method ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090320 | Strong signal tolerant OFDM receiver and receiving methods Circuits and methods are disclosed for compensating for received signal distortion caused by non-linearities in wideband receivers. An exemplary receiver includes a distortion waveform generator configured to approximate non-linear response characteristics of a down... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089382 | Sampling/quantization converters Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for converting a continuous-time, continuously variable signal into a sampled and quantized signal. According to one representative embodiment, an apparatus includes multiple quantization-noise-shapin... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085066 | xCP on 2 CSI A microprocessor control unit (MCU) is mounted on a printed circuit board. The MCU includes first and second clocked serial interface (CSI) circuits. The first CSI circuit is configured to serially transmit a first xCP packet to a first encoder circuit, which in tur... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085178 | Multiplying-adding return to zero digital to analog converter circuit and method A digital to analog converter (DAC) method and apparatus employs a multiplying-adding DAC, eliminating digital adder circuitry. Examples are given for multiplying a 3-bit binary number by a 2-bit binary number; however, there are no limitations to the bit-widths of ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8076954 | Memory control circuit, memory control method, and integrated circuit Each of a plurality of memories includes a terminating resistor for preventing signal reflection, and a memory control circuit includes an ODT control circuit for driving the terminating resistor of each memory, and a selector for selecting, from memories except for... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077063 | Method and system for determining bit stream zone statistics An input bit stream is received and zone statistics such as zones count, zones center bit positions, and zones lengths are determined, where a zone is a set of non-transitioning bits in the input bit stream. Beginning and ending bit positions for each zone are deter... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077068 | Quantizer, analogue-to-digital converter comprising such a quantizer, and ultra-wide band receiver integrating such a converter The invention relates to an N-bit asynchronous Quantizer including a 2N−1 signal amplifier stages (G12-G2N−12) arranged in series, the input of the first stage being capabl... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072360 | Simultaneous sampling analog to digital converter The invention is a novel scheme of performing an analog to digital conversion of simultaneous sampled analog inputs using multiple sample and hold circuits and a single successive approximation analog to digital converter (“SAR ADC”). Each of the analog inputs a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072362 | Modulator with loop-delay compensation A modulator is constructed with a loop-delay compensation. A delta-sigma modulator generates a quantization code, and a digital compensation filter receives the quantization code and outputs a digital code. The digital compensation filter then feeds the digital code... | 12/06/2011 |
