Abstract: One embodiment features an electrical circuit comprising: a high-voltage input configured to receive a high voltage into the electrical circuit; a low-voltage input configured to receive a low voltage into the electrical circuit; a thin-oxide circuit comprising a thin-oxide metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET); and a protection circuit configured to protect the thin-oxide circuit from the high voltage, wherein the protection circuit comprises a thick-oxide MOSFET clamp circuit, and an adaptive voltage reference circuit configured to provide an adaptive reference voltage, wherein the thick-oxide MOSFET clamp circuit is biased by the adaptive reference voltage.

Abstract: A method for operating a virtual whiteboard using a mobile phone device, comprises the steps of: generating the virtual whiteboard, wherein the mobile phone device is coupled to the virtual whiteboard to input data to the virtual whiteboard; connecting the mobile phone device to an external display device; displaying the virtual whiteboard on the external display device; and operating the virtual whiteboard using the mobile phone device; wherein markings on the virtual whiteboard correspond to spatial movements of the mobile phone device.

Abstract: Inverse transforms used in video and image compression/decompression, such as DCT/IDCT used in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, or the integer transforms used in H.264, are usually calculated with fast algorithms, which only take advantage of the symmetry existing in the transform matrix but ignores the peculiarities in the input data. While these kind of fast algorithms can apply to both forward and inverse transforms, they tend to be inefficient in calculating inverse transforms. In inverse transforms, most of the coefficients become zero after quantization, this invention takes advantage of this fact to further simplify the general fast algorithm and speed up the calculation.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for selecting the coarse frequency offset estimation in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system that may include: searching within a predefined subset for a set of frequency offset candidates; selectively searching outside the predefined subset for additional frequency offset candidates; and combining one or more ICDC method and CIR based method to select the coarse frequency offset.

Abstract: A method for operating a virtual whiteboard using a mobile phone device, comprises the steps of: generating the virtual whiteboard, wherein the mobile phone device is coupled to the virtual whiteboard to input data to the virtual whiteboard; connecting the mobile phone device to an external display device; displaying the virtual whiteboard on the external display device; and operating the virtual whiteboard using the mobile phone device; wherein markings on the virtual whiteboard correspond to spatial movements of the mobile phone device.

Abstract: A mobile phone device utilizing a first communications protocol and a second communications protocol, comprises: a first system having a general processor, a memory, a first communications system providing for the first communications protocol and utilizing a first communications protocol stack, and a first link; a second system having a dedicated communications accelerator providing for the second communications protocol and utilizing a second communications protocol stack, and a second link; wherein the first link and the second link are connected; and wherein the memory in the first system holds the first communications protocol stack and the second communications protocol stack.

Abstract: A mobile phone device comprises the following: a processor; a first display controller for driving an internal display of the mobile phone device; and a second display controller for driving an external display, wherein the external display is connectable to the second display controller via a connector.

Abstract: A method for providing a graphical user interface for an electronic device, wherein the electronic device having a display and a plurality of associated applications, comprising the steps: generating the appearance of a virtual three dimensional object having a plurality of panels, wherein the panels are positioned on the surface of the object; associating each of the panels to one of the applications; and displaying two or more of the panels of the object on the display, wherein the associated applications of the panels are displayed.

Abstract: A method for Doppler shift estimation for channel estimation of a received signal, comprising the steps of: calculating time domain correlations; providing a Hamming window over the calculated time domain correlations; calculating a power spectrum by using FFT; calculating an adaptive threshold based on a noise floor and an average power density calculated from the power spectrum; and estimating a Doppler shift based on the adaptive threshold.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for demodulating orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulated signals. In particular, this invention relates to methods for in-phase (I) and quadrature phase (Q) imbalance compensation in OFDM systems. For example, the present invention relates to methods for calculating an IQ imbalance compensated signal from a received signal, comprising the steps of: removing DC from the received signal; calculating an autocorrelation matrix of IQ signal vector of the received signal; estimating IQ imbalance compensation values, K1 and K2, as a function of an amplitude imbalance, g, and a phase imbalance, ?; and calculating an IQ compensated signal as a function of the estimated K1 and K2.

Abstract: This invention relates to methods for determining symbol timing shift for a received signal, comprising the steps of: demodulating a received signal; removing a phase reference sequence from the demodulated signal to generate a channel frequency response; converting said channel frequency response to the time domain to generate a channel impulse response; determining a detection threshold; determining a first path and a last path as a function of the detection threshold; and calculating a timing shift as a function of the first path and the last path.

Abstract: This invention relates to methods for determining coarse symbol timing and mode detection by using CP correlation-based techniques. In particular, this invention relates to methods for determining symbol timing, frame timing, and system mode for signal acquisition, comprising the steps of: detecting symbol timing and system mode based on cyclic prefix correlation; and determining a null symbol as a function of a pre-defined number of consecutive symbols and using said null symbol to determine frame timing.

Abstract: This invention provides methods for reducing the bit width of soft information, while maintaining a large dynamic range by applying compression and expansion. In particular, this invention provides methods for time de-interleaving of soft information, comprising the steps of: quantizing the soft information into a first soft information having a first pre-defined number of bits; compressing the first soft information into a second soft information having a second pre-defined number of bits; time de-interleaving the second soft information; and decompressing the time de-interleaved second soft information.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for coarse frequency offset estimation, where those methods may comprise the steps of: removing fading channel impact by calculating accumulated correlation values; removing CCI and phase rotation due to large sampling offset by calculating an accumulation metric as a function of the accumulated correlation values, CCI peak, and initial sampling offset, ?; and finding the coarse frequency offset as a function of the accumulation metric.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to reduce the effects of impulse noise in decoding a received OFDM signal by reducing the bit error number in burst error positions and by reducing the impulse noise contribution to channel estimation. In order to reduce the performance degradation due to impulse noise, it is important to find the position or the OFDM symbol where impulse noise occurs. The high noise variance gain can then be used for a Viterbi decoder to reduce the bit error number in burst error position, and also to reduce the contribution of the channel estimation by impulse noise in future channel estimations. Accordingly, the performance of the system can be greatly improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for TPS demodulation, frame boundary detection, and TPS decoding. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for finding a frame boundary in demodulating an OFDM signal, comprising the steps of: differentially demodulating each symbol to generate differentially demodulated symbol bits; and finding a sync word position when the scatter pilot position equals zero, wherein the sync word position is set as the frame boundary.

Abstract: Inverse transforms used in video and image compression/decompression, such as DCT/IDCT used in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, or the integer transforms used in H.264, are usually calculated with fast algorithms, which only take advantage of the symmetry existing in the transform matrix but ignores the peculiarities in the input data. While these kind of fast algorithms can apply to both forward and inverse transforms, they tend to be inefficient in calculating inverse transforms. In inverse transforms, most of the coefficients become zero after quantization, this invention takes advantage of this fact to further simplify the general fast algorithm and speed up the calculation.

Abstract: This invention describes methods for pre-computing neighboring locations for partitions in a video stream and for placing those pre-computed neighboring locations into a table for later retrieval and later use. The redundancy in the information of the pre-computed neighboring locations can be used to reduce the number entries in the table of neighboring locations, thus effectively reducing the amount of memory needed to store this table. Further, indexing schemes are used for non-MBAFF coded video streams and MBAFF coded video streams to further minimize memory usage.

Abstract: This invention relates to methods for the parallel deblocking of macroblocks of a compressed media frame, such as a frame from a compressed video stream, to smooth out artifacts and discontinuities caused by the compression of the media. These methods for parallel deblocking of a frame having a plurality of tiles wherein each tile having a data dependency on zero or more of said tiles, comprising the steps of: constructing a reference deblocking sequence for the processing of said tile as a function of the data dependency of each respective tile; calculating scheduling indices for said tiles as a function of said reference deblocking sequence; and deblocking said tiles in accordance with said scheduling indices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for synchronizing the transmission and the reception of a media stream over a network, such as the Internet, comprising of a receiver clock having an adjustable reset value, where the adjustable reset value may be a function of the reference time for a receiver clock and the reference time for a sender clock.