Patents by Inventor Kent Pedersen
Kent Pedersen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10275049Abstract: Signaling touch screen enabled devices is disclosed. A capacitive stylus has a body suitable for being hand held as a writing instrument. The body has a tip for interfacing with a capacitive touch screen display panel of a computer system. The stylus has an insulator disposed near its tip, which insulates capacitance of the stylus body. A switch selectively couples the tip to the remaining parts of the stylus body. A controller controls the switch. A mode selector on the body is responsive to being pressed to signal the controller for selecting one of multiple modes. The controller is configured to enter the selected mode responsive to the mode selector and is configured to control the switch unit to switch according to different signal patterns depending on a mode entered by the controller.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Nvidia CorporationInventors: Christen Kent Pedersen, Arman Toorians
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Patent number: 9823758Abstract: A computer system has a touch sensitive display screen within a housing and a touch sensor, which is coupled to a bus. A processor and a memory are coupled to the bus. The housing has a channel for receiving and storing a stylus. A sensor is disposed adjacent to the channel. The sensor interacts with the stylus through the Hall effect caused by a magnet within the stylus and is thus operable for detecting a presence or absence of the stylus without physical contact therewith. The memory has an application which, when executed on the processor, automatically performs one or more stylus related software functions upon a reported absence of the stylus from the channel. One of the software functions includes palm detection rejection with respect to data from the touch sensor. Another function includes display of a GUI displaying a listing of applications that are based on stylus data entry modes. Another function includes setting up OS modes designed for accurate operation of stylus data entry.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Nvidia CorporationInventors: Christen Kent Pedersen, Arman Toorians
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Publication number: 20140306909Abstract: A computer system has a touch sensitive display screen within a housing and a touch sensor, which is coupled to a bus. A processor and a memory are coupled to the bus. The housing has a channel for receiving and storing a stylus. A sensor is disposed adjacent to the channel. The sensor interacts with the stylus through the Hall effect caused by a magnet within the stylus and is thus operable for detecting a presence or absence of the stylus without physical contact therewith. The memory has an application which, when executed on the processor, automatically performs one or more stylus related software functions upon a reported absence of the stylus from the channel. One of the software functions includes palm detection rejection with respect to data from the touch sensor. Another function includes display of a GUI displaying a listing of applications that are based on stylus data entry modes. Another function includes setting up OS modes designed for accurate operation of stylus data entry.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Christen Kent PEDERSEN, Arman TOORIANS
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Publication number: 20140306928Abstract: Signaling touch screen enabled devices is disclosed. A capacitive stylus has a body suitable for being hand held as a writing instrument. The body has a tip for interfacing with a capacitive touch screen display panel of a computer system. The stylus has an insulator disposed near its tip, which insulates capacitance of the stylus body. A switch selectively couples the tip to the remaining parts of the stylus body. A controller controls the switch. A mode selector on the body is responsive to being pressed to signal the controller for selecting one of multiple modes. The controller is configured to enter the selected mode responsive to the mode selector and is configured to control the switch unit to switch according to different signal patterns depending on a mode entered by the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Christen Kent PEDERSEN, Arman TOORIANS
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Patent number: 7848304Abstract: Multiple transport channels (405, 406, 407) are multiplexed and transmitted in a single physical channel. A code (TFCI) is added to the transport channel data flows to indicate which processing schemes, from a set of available schemes, are being employed and the resultant blocks are interleaved. The depth of the interleaving is set in dependence on the transmission time intervals associated with the schemes in the set of processing schemes.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2002Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Tommy Kristensen Bysted, Kent Pedersen, Benoist Sebire
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Patent number: 7643448Abstract: In a flexible layer one (403) of a GERAN transmitter device, a TFCI, which indicates a particular combination of cyclic redundancy check, channel coding and rate matching, is generated by a TFCI generating process (412) using information from the medium access control layer. The TFCI is coded by a coding process (413), and inserted into the data stream by a TFCI insertion process (414). Each code has more bits than the corresponding TFCI, and identifies uniquely the TFCI. The coded TFCI is spread across the pre-interleaved block with portions placed in fixed positions in each burst. Interleaving is then performed by an interleaver (411). The coded TFCI used with a half-rate channel is the central segment of the coded TFCI used in the corresponding full-rate channel. The additional loss is so small as to be insignificant, but the FER performance is significantly improved, compared to using the full-rate codes, as a result of the increased payload of the content data bits.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2002Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Kent Pedersen, Benoist Sebire
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Patent number: 7308054Abstract: A device and a method for determining a reference level for automatic gain control of a radio frequency signal to be received, particularly having a varying strength, in which method frames of a logical general packet control channel are received, as well as frames which have been transmitted with a predetermined transmission power level and by using a predetermined way of controlling the transmission power level. In the invention, said reference level is determined on the basis of at least one frame of a received radio block, or on the basis of at least one preceding frame, or on the basis of both of these, wherein the reference level is corrected on the basis of the signal strength measured during their reception.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2002Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Jarkko Oksala, Jari Ruohonen, Kent Pedersen
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Publication number: 20060176976Abstract: In a flexible layer one (403) of a GERAN transmitter device, a TFCI, which indicates a particular combination of cyclic redundancy check, channel coding and rate matching, is generated by a TFCI generating process (412) using information from the medium access control layer. The TFCI is coded by a coding process (413), and inserted into the data stream by a TFCI insertion process (414). Each code has more bits than the corresponding TFCI, and identifies uniquely the TFCI. The coded TFCI is spread across the pre-interleaved block with portions placed in fixed positions in each burst. Interleaving is then performed by an interleaver (411). The coded TFCI used with a half-rate channel is the central segment of the coded TFCI used in the corresponding full-rate channel. The additional loss is so small as to be insignificant, but the FER performance is significantly improved, compared to using the full-rate codes, as a result of the increased payload of the content data bits.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2002Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Kent Pedersen, Benoist Sebire
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Publication number: 20060126591Abstract: Multiple transport channels (405, 406, 407) are multiplexed and transmitted in a single physical channel. A code (TFCI) is added to the transport channel data flows to indicate which processing schemes, from a set of available schemes, are being employed and the resultant blocks are interleaved. The depth of the interleaving is set in dependence on the transmission time intervals associated with the schemes in the set of processing schemes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2002Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventors: Tommy Bysted, Kent Pedersen, Benoist Sebire
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Patent number: 7036131Abstract: This disclosure provides a stand alone printing optical disc player/recorder for use in connection with CD's, DVD's, and Mini-Discs. In a particular embodiment the printing player/recorder has a combined player/recorder unit and an inkjet printer. Using a platter transport the printer player/recorder is capable of reading or writing information to a provided optical disc and then printing a label upon the optical disc without removing the disc from the system. The label printed may also be generated from the information read from or written to the optical disc itself thereby insuring a match between the label and the information encoded upon the optical disc. Associated methods of use are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2003Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Christen Kent Pedersen, Thomas Herman Szolyga
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Publication number: 20050170830Abstract: In order to effect link adaptation in a mobile communication network employing the parallel transmission of a plurality of transport channels, transport format combination commands and link quality reports are carried in transport channels which may be dedicated to these functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2004Publication date: August 4, 2005Inventors: Kent Pedersen, Benoist Sebire
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Publication number: 20040183903Abstract: A method and system for managing data in a system is disclosed. The method and system include the utilization of a programmable algorithm to periodically discard data in a memory component of a system. By utilizing a programmable algorithm to periodically discard data in the memory component of a system, data can be recorded over long periods of time at varying degrees of temporal and spatial resolution without the use of cumbersome video tapes and the like. Using the method and system in accordance with the present invention allows a user to select particularly useful data from the large amount of stored data and save it to a more permanent storage device. The method and system include receiving data from an input portion of the system, storing the data in a solid state memory portion of the system and utilizing a programmable algorithm to reduce the amount of the data stored in the solid state memory portion of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2003Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventor: Christen Kent Pedersen
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Publication number: 20040174777Abstract: This disclosure provides a stand alone printing optical disc player/recorder for use in connection with CD's, DVD's, and Mini-Discs. In a particular embodiment the printing player/recorder has a combined player/recorder unit and an inkjet printer. Using a platter transport the printer player/recorder is capable of reading or writing information to a provided optical disc and then printing a label upon the optical disc without removing the disc from the system. The label printed may also be generated from the information read from or written to the optical disc itself thereby insuring a match between the label and the information encoded upon the optical disc. Associated methods of use are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2003Publication date: September 9, 2004Inventors: Christen Kent Pedersen, Thomas Herman Szolyga
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Publication number: 20030123415Abstract: In a mobile communication system employing the concept of transport channels in a medium access control layer, each transport channel is processed in a respectively selected manner and a code identifying said selected manners is included in the physical layer signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2001Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: Tommy Kristensen Bysted, Kent Pedersen
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Publication number: 20030126539Abstract: In a mobile communication system employing the concept of transport channels in a medium access control layer, each transport channel is subject to a respective interleaving process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2001Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: Tommy Kristensen Bysted, Kent Pedersen
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Publication number: 20030123417Abstract: In a mobile communication system employing the concept of transport channels in a medium access control layer, each transport channel is processed selectively in a first respectively selected manner or a second respectively selected manner in dependence on the modulation method employed in said physical layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2001Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: Tommy Kristensen Bysted, Kent Pedersen
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Publication number: 20030125061Abstract: In a TDMA packet mobile communication system employing the concept of transport channels in a medium access control layer, an downlink access control signal, for identifying a destination mobile station, is inserted into each burst in a predetermined manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2001Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: Tommy Kristensen Bysted, Kent Pedersen
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Publication number: 20030123426Abstract: In a TDMA packet mobile communication system employing the concept of transport channels in a medium access control layer, an uplink access control signal, for identifying a mobile station which is permitted to transmit, is inserted into each burst in a predetermined manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2001Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: Tommy Kristensen Bysted, Kent Pedersen
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Publication number: 20020122513Abstract: A device and a method for determining a reference level for automatic gain control of a radio frequency signal to be received, particularly having a varying strength, in which method frames of a logical general packet control channel are received, as well as frames which have been transmitted with a predetermined transmission power level and by using a predetermined way of controlling the transmission power level. In the invention, said reference level is determined on the basis of at least one frame of a received radio block, or on the basis of at least one preceding frame, or on the basis of both of these, wherein the reference level is corrected on the basis of the signal strength measured during their reception.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2002Publication date: September 5, 2002Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: Jarkko Oksala, Jari Ruohonen, Kent Pedersen