Abstract: A mouse and pad assembly includes a pad member; and a mouse member, which is arranged on top of and connected to the pad member in such a way as to be angularly and linearly displaceable relative to the pad member; the mouse member has several buttons on an upper side thereof, and it has a sensor device facing the pad member for sensing movement of the mouse member relative to the pad member.

Abstract: A carrier recovery system includes an in-phase mixer for mixing an incoming signal with an in-phase reference signal to produce an in-phase baseband signal; a quadrature-phase mixer for mixing the incoming signal with a quadrature-phase reference signal to produce a quadrature-phase baseband signal; a DC detector for measuring a DC offset of the quadrature-phase baseband signal; and a frequency synthesizer for generating the in-phase reference signal and the quadrature-phase reference signal according to the DC offset measured by the DC detector. The quadrature-phase reference signal is the in-phase reference signal phase-delayed by ninety degrees. The DC offset of the quadrature-phase baseband signal is caused by a pilot tone of the VSB signal for a selected carrier in an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) digital television (DTV) receiver. By minimizing the DC offset, the carrier recover system locks the quadrature-phase reference signal and the in-phase reference signal to the selected channel.

Abstract: A digital television receiver includes a tuner for down-converting an incoming signal to produce a down-converted signal according to a local oscillator signal corresponding to a selected channel. A filter is coupled to the tuner for filtering the down-converted signal to produce an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. A carrier recovery unit is coupled to the filter for locking to a carrier frequency of the IF signal, and a pre-shift unit is coupled to the tuner. By shifting the local oscillator signal in a first direction by a predetermined first frequency shift in a first phase of carrier recovery, and then by shifting the local oscillator signal in a second direction by a second frequency shift in a second phase of carrier recovery, the pre-shift unit ensures a pilot tone of a selected channel is not filtered from the down-converted signal by the filter.

Abstract: An interference detecting circuit for use in an ATSC system and for detecting interference of an ATSC signal includes: a buffering module for delaying to output a first PN63 synchronization format data when receiving the first PN63 synchronization format data; a correlation arithmetic circuit coupled to the buffering module for receiving the ATSC signal and performing a correlation operation on a second PN63 synchronization format data and the delayed first PN63 synchronization format data to output a detection signal when receiving the second PN63 synchronization format data; and a determining circuit for determining whether performing interference rejection on the ATSC signal or not according to the result of the above-mentioned correlation operation.

Abstract: A synchronization signal detector includes: a first circuit configured to delay the data signal by a period of at least one data segment of the data signal to generate a delayed signal; a second circuit configured to produce a plurality of similarity signals according to the data signal and the delayed signal, each of the similarity signals representing the similarity between the data signal and the delayed signal, and a third circuit configured to determine the synchronization signal of the data signal according to the similarity signals. The present invention further provides a method corresponding to the signal detector.

Abstract: An interleaver and method of interleaving operate on data represented in a sequence of symbols to produce an interleaved sequence of symbols. The interleaver performs intra-block and inter-block permutations on the sequence of symbols. An encoder and method of encoding operate on data represented in a source sequence of symbols. The source sequence of symbols is encoded into a first sequence of codewords and interleaved using intra-block and inter-block permutations to produce a sequence of interleaved symbols. The sequence of interleaved symbols is encoded into a second sequence of codewords. A decoder and method of decoding operate on data represented in a sequence of received symbols. The sequence of received symbols comprises a formatted copy of the source sequence of symbols and the first and the second sequence of codewords.

Abstract: An interleaver and method of interleaving operate on data represented in a sequence of symbols to produce an interleaved sequence of symbols. The interleaver performs intra-block and inter-block permutations on the sequence of symbols. An encoder and method of encoding operate on data represented in a source sequence of symbols. The source sequence of symbols is encoded into a first sequence of codewords and interleaved using intra-block and inter-block permutations to produce a sequence of interleaved symbols. The sequence of interleaved symbols is encoded into a second sequence of codewords. A decoder and method of decoding operate on data represented in a sequence of received symbols. The sequence of received symbols comprises a formatted copy of the source sequence of symbols and the first and the second sequence of codewords.

Abstract: An interleaver and method of interleaving operate on data represented in a sequence of symbols to produce an interleaved sequence of symbols. The interleaver performs intra-block and inter-block permutations on the sequence of symbols. An encoder and method of encoding operate on data represented in a source sequence of symbols. The source sequence of symbols is encoded into a first sequence of codewords and interleaved using intra-block and inter-block permutations to produce a sequence of interleaved symbols. The sequence of interleaved symbols is encoded into a second sequence of codewords. A decoder and method of decoding operate on data represented in a sequence of received symbols. The sequence of received symbols comprises a formatted copy of the source sequence of symbols and the first and the second sequence of codewords.

Abstract: An interleaver and method of interleaving operate on data represented in a sequence of symbols to produce an interleaved sequence of symbols. The interleaver performs intra-block and inter-block permutations on the sequence of symbols. An encoder and method of encoding operate on data represented in a source sequence of symbols. The source sequence of symbols is encoded into a first sequence of codewords and interleaved using intra-block and inter-block permutations to produce a sequence of interleaved symbols. The sequence of interleaved symbols is encoded into a second sequence of codewords. A decoder and method of decoding operate on data represented in a sequence of received symbols. The sequence of received symbols comprises a formatted copy of the source sequence of symbols and the first and the second sequence of codewords.