Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit including a digital circuit and an analog circuit which are integrated on a single semiconductor chip comprises a first electrostatic destruction protection circuit, connected to a digital circuit, for protecting the digital circuit from destruction caused by ESD therein by an influence of an input digital signal and a second electrostatic destruction protection circuit, connected to an analog circuit, for protecting the analog circuit from destruction caused by ESD therein by an influence of an input analog signal. A first grounding conductor connected to the first electrostatic destruction protection circuit and a second grounding conductor connected to the second electrostatic destruction protection circuit are connected to each other outside the semiconductor integrated circuit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a simplified and more user-friendly way for sorting entries in a list of a graphical user interface. This is achieved by a method which comprises the steps of displaying at least a part of the list (S11), selecting items out of the list and pasting the selected items into a second list in a defined order (S12), selecting a position in the first list, where the second list is to be inserted (S13), and inserting the items from the second list into the first list in their order in the second list, starting with the first item of the second list at the user-selected position of the first list (S14).

Abstract: The invention disclosed here is a method for an encoder to encode audiovisual information for transmission to the decoder without any prior knowledge of the computational capabilities of the decoder. A descriptor containing parameters that can be used to estimate the complexity of the decoding process is embedded in the system stream. The encoder also encodes the video information in such a manner that the decoder can choose to ignore some of the information and only decode a subset of the encoded information in order to reduce the computational requirements. This method allows more than one decoder to decode the same bitstream giving different resolutions depending on the computational capability of the decoder.

Abstract: The invention disclosed here is a method for an encoder to encode audiovisual information for transmission to the decoder without any prior knowledge of the computational capabilities of the decoder. A descriptor containing parameters that can be used to estimate the complexity of the decoding process is embedded in the system stream. The encoder also encodes the video information in such a manner that the decoder can choose to ignore some of the information and only decode a subset of the encoded information in order to reduce the computational requirements. This method allows more than one decoder to decode the same bitstream giving different resolutions depending on the computational capability of the decoder.