Patents Issued in May 31, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070121693
    Abstract: A super-lattice structure is used for a portion of a laser device of a self-aligned structure to lower the resistance of the device by utilizing the extension of electric current in the layer, paying attention to the fact that the lateral conduction of high density doping in the super-lattice structure is effective for decreasing the resistance of the laser, in order to lower the operation voltage and increase the power in nitride type wide gap semiconductor devices in which crystals with high carrier density are difficult to obtain and the device resistance is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Shin'ichi Nakatsuka, Tsukuru Ohtoshi, Kazunori Shinoda, Akihisa Terano, Hitoshi Nakamura, Shigehisa Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20070121694
    Abstract: There is provided a novel surface emitting laser structure unnecessary to have multilayer mirrors in both of upper and lower sides of an active layer. A surface emitting laser comprises a two-dimensional periodic structure which is comprised of an active material having a gain in a specific wavelength band of electromagnetic waves, and a reflecting mirror arranged apart by a predetermined distance so as to face the above-mentioned two-dimensional periodic structure, and these are comprised so as to make laser oscillation possible. At that time, the above-mentioned two-dimensional periodic structure is formed of a two-dimensional photonic crystal which is comprised of a dielectric, and a resonator is comprised of a reflecting mirror pair formed by combination with the above-mentioned reflecting mirror to make laser oscillation generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohei Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20070121695
    Abstract: A Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor multi-layer film of a first conductive type formed on the substrate, an active layer, a second semiconductor multi-layer film of a second conductive type, an electrode pad electrically coupled to the second semiconductor multi-layer film, and a post structure formed on the substrate, the post structure comprising a light emitter, the post structure being continuously surrounded by a first groove, and a second groove being continuously formed outside of the first groove with respect to the post structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Yasuaki Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20070121696
    Abstract: In a submount main body (1) composed of a single crystal silicon, a mounting surface (4) on which a light-emitting device (11) is mounted is composed of a (100)-oriented surface and the inner surface of a through hole (3) which is formed by anisotropic etching is parallel to the (110)-oriented surface. The light-emitting portion of the light-emitting device (11) is arranged to face a device-side opening (31) which opens into the mounting surface (4) of the submount main body (1). Consequently, heat generated in the light-emitting device (11) can be discharged to the outside more efficiently than the case where the light-emitting portion is arranged to face a side opposite to the submount side. Specifically, light from the light-emitting device (11) is reflected by a reflective surface formed on the surface of the through hole (3), and highly efficiently transmitted outside of the submount main body (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yorishige Ishii
  • Publication number: 20070121697
    Abstract: A thermoacoustic tomographic method for imaging an object, wherein the object is thermally excited by a source and the acoustic waves from the object, which are caused by the thermal excitation, from different directions of the object are detected using at least one detector and an image of the object is reconstructed from the detected acoustic waves and the positional information, wherein the acoustic waves detected by the detector are integrated at least in one direction over a length of at least ?{square root over (8)}·d, where d denotes the maximum distance from a point of the object to be imaged to the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicants: Upper Austrian Research GmbH, Universitat Innsbruck
    Inventors: Peter Burgholzer, Markus Haltmeier, Otmar Scherzer
  • Publication number: 20070121698
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and processor are provided for thermal throttling control for testing of real-time software. At least one thermal control setting is received. A thermal management system is set to a test mode using the at least one thermal control settings, where the test mode indicates a thermal throttling control using the thermal control setting. The real-time software is executed under the test mode and a test is performed as to whether a real-time deadline associated with the real-time software is met under the test mode. At least one thermal control setting is recorded as a passing thermal control setting in response to the real-time software meeting the real-time deadline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: CHARLES JOHNS, MICHAEL WANG
  • Publication number: 20070121699
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and processor are provided for hysteresis in thermal throttling. A digital thermal sensor senses a temperature in the integrated circuit. A determination is made as to whether the sensed temperature is greater than or equal to a throttling temperature. A throttling mode is initiated in response to the sensed temperature meeting or exceeding the throttling temperature. The digital thermal sensor senses a new temperature. A determination is made as to whether the new sensed temperature is less than an end throttling temperature. The throttling mode is disabled in response to the new sensed temperature being less than the end throttling temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: CHARLES JOHNS, MICHAEL WANG
  • Publication number: 20070121700
    Abstract: A performance testing apparatus for a heat pipe includes an immovable portion having a cooling structure defined therein for cooling a heat pipe requiring to be tested. A movable portion is capable of moving relative to the immovable portion and has a cooling structure therein for cooling the heat pipe. A receiving structure is located between the immovable portion and the movable portion for receiving the heat pipe therein. At least one temperature sensor is attached to at least one of the immovable portion and the movable portion. The least one temperature sensor has a detecting section exposed in the receiving structure for thermally contacting the heat pipe in the receiving structure to detect a temperature of the heat pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: TAY-JIAN LIU, CHAO-NIEN TUNG, CHIH-HSIEN SUN, CHUEN-SHU HOU, CHENG-HUI LIN
  • Publication number: 20070121701
    Abstract: A sensor arrangement (1) for measuring a pressure and a temperature in a fluid is disclosed. The sensor arrangement (1) comprises a temperature sensitive electrical element (3) and a pressure sensing electrical element (6), the temperature sensitive electrical element (3) and pressure sensing electrical element (6) are both coupled to one side of a metallic membrane structure (4,16). The metallic membrane structure is arranged to pass on the temperature of the fluid which is at the other side of the membrane structure (4,16) to the temperature sensitive electrical element (3) and to pass on the pressure in the fluid to the pressure sensing electrical element (6). In this way a combined pressure and temperature sensor is obtained which is applicable in vehicle air-conditioning systems working with CO2 as refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Paulus Gennissen, Marc Borgers, Arie-Jan Kolling, Cris Zwollo, Roger Appelo, Werner Kleissen
  • Publication number: 20070121702
    Abstract: A container with a temperature indicator in or on the side wall or the bottom of the container, which is visible from outside the container, to convey the temperature of the contents in the container. A method for making such a container is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Wendy LaGuardia, Donald LaGuardia
  • Publication number: 20070121703
    Abstract: A temperature sensing assembly for a motor having an armature includes a Hall Effect sensor disposed adjacent the armature. The Hall Effect sensor senses rotation of the armature. The Hall Effect sensor includes an electrical output and generates a stepped output signal. The temperature sensing assembly also includes a thermistor connected to the electrical output in series therewith. The temperature sensing assembly also includes a pull-up resistor electrically connected to the thermistor, a voltage source and a signal output such that the stepped output signal changes depending on the temperature of the motor due to changes in the resistivity of the thermistor as is changes its resistivity as a function of temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: G. Oberheide, Bruce Cluney
  • Publication number: 20070121704
    Abstract: An arrangement for controlling a radiant heater of a hob in a first operating mode with a power controller, a changeover switch and a rod controller provides for the interruption of operation at temperatures of approximately 600° C. at a first switching point on the rod controller. In a second operating mode, a switch in the rod controller set to a different switching point is operated and interrupts the power supply at temperatures of approximately 80° C., so that the radiant heater makes it possible to keep food hot without boiling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: E.G.O. ELEKTRO-GERAETEBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Begero, Lutz Ose
  • Publication number: 20070121705
    Abstract: An ultra-wideband clear channel assessment system uses a double-window energy technique for energy detection, which indicates a clear or busy channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Catherine French, Ruoyang Lu, Hung Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20070121706
    Abstract: A spreading and/or despreading mechanism in which the inphase component and a quadrature component of a signal are to be transmitted by using a short code and a long code. The long code has an inphase component and a quadrature component that are different from each other. The spreading and despreading operations carry out a complex-to-complex operation between a combination of the inphase component and the quadrature component of the signal and a combination of the inphase component and the quadrature component of the long code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takehiro Nakamura, Junichiro Hagiwara, Etsuhiro Nakano, Koji Ohno, Seizo Onoe, Akihiro Higashi, Motoshi Tamura, Masatomo Nakano, Hiroshi Kawakami, Hiroki Morikawa
  • Publication number: 20070121707
    Abstract: A proposed spread spectrum signal receiver includes a radio front-end unit and a processing unit. The radio front-end unit, in turn, has an antenna, a digitizing circuit and a primary buffer unit. The antenna is adapted to receive radio signals (SHF) from a plurality of signal sources, and the digitizing circuit is adapted to downconvert and filter the received signals (SHF), and generate sample values (SBP-D) thereof. The primary buffer unit is adapted to temporarily store the sample values (SBP-D) from the digitizing circuit and allow the processing unit to read out a first set of stored sample values (SBP-D) contemporaneously with the storing of a second set of sample values (SBP-D) in the primary buffer unit. The processing unit is adapted to receive the sample values (SBP-D) from the primary buffer unit, and based thereon, produce position/time related data (DPT).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Jonas Thor, Per-Ludvig Normark
  • Publication number: 20070121708
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention pertain generally to methods and systems of processing a global positioning satellite (GPS) signal. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide an improved discriminator function that utilizes the early, prompt, and late correlator values. For example, the improved discriminator function may be normalized based on all three of the early, prompt, and late correlator values. The improved discriminator function behaves linearly across a prescribed region whose width depends on the separation between correlators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Robert Simpson
  • Publication number: 20070121709
    Abstract: A printer apparatus generates a fixed-length packet by appending a termination identifier for representing a termination point of sub-data. The printer apparatus transmits the packet to a unit. Upon receiving the packet, the unit detects burst error based upon the termination identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotaka ITTOGI
  • Publication number: 20070121710
    Abstract: A phase locked loop (PLL) includes a detector, a charge pump, a loop filter, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), a divider, and a frequency change module. The detector provides a phase difference based on a reference signal and a feedback signal. The charge pump provides a charge based on the phase difference. The loop filter provides a voltage based on the charge. The VCO provides an output signal based on the voltage received from the loop filter. The divider divides a frequency of the output signal by a value to provide the feedback signal. The frequency change module processes an input signal having a first frequency to provide a processed signal having a second frequency that is different from the first frequency. The frequency change module selects the input signal or the processed signal to provide as the reference signal to the detector. Changing the frequency of the reference signal can change a frequency of a spur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Hung-Ming Chien
  • Publication number: 20070121711
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a phase-locked loop (PLL) can be programmably controlled to add jitter to its PLL output clock. Such a PLL can be used to programmably inject jitter into the outgoing serial data signal generated by a serializer/de-serializer (serdes) that can be operated in an internal loopback mode, in which the outgoing serial data signal is internally looped back from the transmitter side of the serdes to the serdes receiver side. Jitter logic associated with the PLL can be operated in a register-based mode that does not rely on any externally generated jitter clock. Such register-based processing enables effective (1) internal loopback testing of unpackaged devices at the wafer stage as well as package devices at the package stage and (2) external loopback testing at the system level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Glen Offord, Phillip Johnson
  • Publication number: 20070121712
    Abstract: A remote testing device, including a cable modem circuit, requests an IP address from a remote cable modem termination system (CMTS) and receives back IP connection information including adaptive equalizer coefficients, which represent compensation and/or correction for transmission path noise. Using the equalizer coefficients, the remote testing device can determine a phase response, phase angles for each frequency increment over a channel bandwidth, and group delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: ACTERNA LLC
    Inventor: Koji Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20070121713
    Abstract: A pulse pattern generator (11) has a pulse generating unit (12) and a lowpass filter (14), and the pulse generating unit (12) includes an amplitude-value setting unit (13, 13a). The pulse generating unit (12) generates a pulse signal formed in a step-like wave in which at least one of rise and fall of a signal is changed in a step-like manner. The lowpass filter (14) smoothes the pulse signal generated by the pulse generating unit (11), and outputs a smoothed pulse signal. The amplitude-value setting unit (13, 13a) adjusts an amplitude value of a step-like wave that forms the pulse signal in order to set a shape of an eye waveform based on a setting value when an eye pattern of the output from the lowpass filter (14) is formed. The pulse pattern generator (11) can output the pulse signal having a desired pulse pattern having the predetermined eye closure from the lowpass filter (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070121714
    Abstract: A flexible timebase for eye diagrams uses a stable free running oscillator as a sample clock for equivalent time sampling of an input serial digital signal and of a reference signal, such as a sine wave, derived from a subdivided recovered clock of the input serial digital signal. The reference signal samples are provided to a digital phase-locked loop that provides the flexible timebase to an eye pattern generator. The eye pattern generator accumulates the input serial digital signal samples at times corresponding to the reference signal samples to produce the eye diagram. A linear phase detector in the digital phase locked loop converts the reference signal samples to a complex signal using a Hilbert transform and then to a linear ramp of phase values using a CORDIC algorithm with arctangent lookup table. A subtractor is then used to subtract the digital phase-locked loop feedback from the linear ramp to provide the input to the loop filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Daniel Baker, Barry McKibben, Michael Nakamura, Evan Albright, Scott Zink, Michael Overton
  • Publication number: 20070121715
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for crosstalk test in multi-subscriber communication line. The core of embodiments includes: first, transmitting a test signal in a selected line; then, receiving the signal in the line to be tested, and calculating the received signal according to the transmitted test signal; thus, determining whether there is crosstalk between the line to be tested and the selected line according to the calculation result, as well as the value of the crosstalk if the crosstalk exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Qingquan Shi
  • Publication number: 20070121716
    Abstract: A transmitter architecture includes an equalizer and a D/A converter, for high-speed transmission of data across a channel. The equalizer includes a two-tap MAC as part of an N-stage, two-way interleaved FIR filter. The two-tap MAC provides substantial power and area savings over conventional MAC-based FIR filter designs, and may be implemented in short or long communications channels. The D/A converter is decoupled from the equalizer. Its N-bit, binary-weighted driver includes matched unit current generation cells, all of which are fully utilized during each digital-to-analog conversion. The D/A converter remains unchanged, even when the characteristics of the equalizer are changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Mahalingam Nagarajan, Eduard Roytman
  • Publication number: 20070121717
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a segmented equalizer includes a plurality of feedforward equalizer segments, each feedforward equalizer segment responsive to delayed samples of an input signal {vn}, wherein n is the index of samples, and including a filter block for filtering the delayed samples by using coefficients which are updated based on a step size generated for each equalizer segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Ping Dong, Tao Yu
  • Publication number: 20070121718
    Abstract: A novel time-domain equalizer (TEQ) is provided for the receiver of a Discrete Multi-tone (DMT) system to shorten the length of the effective channel impulse response. The TEQ is based on a variant of the conventional decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) structure along with a training method for the TEQ settings. By using this DFE-based TEQ for DMT systems, the data symbols transmitted through the effective shortened channel would be more reliable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Chin-Liang WANG, Yuan-Shuo Chang
  • Publication number: 20070121719
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for combining advanced data partitioning and fine granularity scalability in the transmission of digital video signals. A partition unit 440 located in a base layer encoding unit 410 of a video encoder 400 partitions a base layer bit stream 310, 320 into a base layer first partition bit stream 310 and a base layer second partition bit stream 320. Each of the two base layer bit streams 310, 320 may be output directly or may be encoded before output. The two base layer bit streams 310, 320 may be encoded with a scalable encoder unit 442 or with a non-scalable encoder unit 444. Fine granularity scalability is improved by providing an extended base layer bit rate. The bit rate range for advanced data partitioning is also extended. The invention provides improved video coding efficiency, complexity scalability, and spatial scalability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICSS N.V.
    Inventors: Mihaela Van Der Schaar, Yingwei Chen
  • Publication number: 20070121720
    Abstract: An importance level determination unit receives: input from a camera of frames of moving images taken; input from a switch connected to a server which is operated manually by hand; and voice input from a microphone. Based on these it determines the importance level of each image frame. An encoder compresses and encodes the image frames obtained by the camera and generates moving picture streams. A packetizer packetizes the moving picture streams and gives them to a tag attachment unit. The tag attachment unit attaches the importance level set for the respective image frames to packet headers of the moving picture streams as a priority tag. A transmission unit transmits packets with a priority tag to a network which includes a router with a packet priority control function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Kenji Yamane, Michinari Kohno
  • Publication number: 20070121721
    Abstract: The invention is related to methods and apparatus that decode robustly encoded video bitstreams. One embodiment of a decoder can advantageously reconstruct a predictive-coded video object plane (P-VOP) from a standard motion vector and the previous frame; from a redundant motion vector and a frame prior to the previous frame; or from both. Advantageously, this permits the decoder to display a frame based on a reconstructed VOP in the presence of unfavorable environmental conditions, such as interference, delays, and the like, which could otherwise corrupt a previous frame that is used as a reference by a standard decoder, such as a standard MPEG-4 decoder. One embodiment is advantageously backwards compatible with standard MPEG-4 compliant bitstreams and retrieves redundant motion vector information from user data video packets. One embodiment includes at least one extra frame buffer or memory, which stores a reference frame corresponding to a redundant motion vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Chang-Su Kim, Ioannis Katsavounidis
  • Publication number: 20070121722
    Abstract: A method randomly accesses multiview videos. Multiview videos are acquired of a scene with corresponding cameras arranged at poses, such that there is view overlap between any pair of cameras. V-frames are generated from the multiview videos. The V-frames are encoded using only spatial prediction. Then, the V-frames are inserted periodically in an encoded bit stream to provide random temporal access to the multiview videos. Additional view dependency information enables the decoding of a reduced number of frames prior to accessing randomly a target frame for a specified view and time, and decoding the target frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Emin Martinian, Anthony Vetro, Jun Xin, Sehoon Yea, Huifang Sun
  • Publication number: 20070121723
    Abstract: A scalable video encoding method and apparatus based on a plurality of layers are provided. The video encoding method for encoding a video sequence having a plurality of layers includes coding a residual of a first block existing in a first layer among the plurality of layers; recording the coded residual of the first block on a non-discardable region of a bitstream, if a second block is coded using the first block, the second block existing in a second layer among the plurality of layers and corresponding to the first block; and recording the coded residual of the first block on a discardable region of the bitstream, if a second block is coded without using the first block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Manu Mathew, Kyo-hyuk Lee, Woo-Jin Han
  • Publication number: 20070121724
    Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to a video image display system that includes a motion estimation circuit (112), a front-end motion compensation circuit (110), and a video signal conversion circuit (134, 136). The motion estimation circuit generates motion vectors as a function of an incoming video signal, the front-end motion compensation circuit receives and processes the incoming video signal as a function of the motion vectors for general video display, and the video signal conversion circuit receives the processed video signal from the front-end motion compensation circuit and generates a display signal for a specific video display as a function of both the processed video signal and the motion vectors. In one implementation, a scaler (120) is implemented to scale the video signal for a particular display type, with components of the motion compensation being implemented for use with the scaler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Cornelis Van Zon, Sandeep Dalal, John Dean, Lilla Boroczky
  • Publication number: 20070121725
    Abstract: We describe a motion compensated frame interpolation apparatus and method that includes a motion vector interpolation module for an object and uncovered area to generate information for motion vectors that cross interpolated pixels in object and/or uncovered areas. A motion vector interpolation module for a covered area generates information for motion vectors that cross interpolated pixels in covered areas. A motion vector counter records a number of motion vectors that cross an interpolated pixel. A buffer for motion vector interpolation buffers the information for motion vectors that cross interpolated pixels in the object and/or uncovered areas and the covered areas. And a video data interpolation module generates video data of the interpolated pixels in object and/or uncovered areas and the covered areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: PIXELWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Yanxin Li
  • Publication number: 20070121726
    Abstract: A motion estimator and a method of estimating motion are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Ho-seop Lee, Jong-sul Min, Oh-jae Kwon, Myung-jac Kim, Hwa-seok Seong, Min-kyoung Cho
  • Publication number: 20070121727
    Abstract: A prediction error generating unit generates a predictive vector from the motion vectors of a plurality of adjacent blocks, and obtains a difference from a target vector. A plurality of variable-length coding units respectively encode the output of the prediction error generating unit with different encoding methods. A determining unit estimates the accuracy of the predictive vector generated by the prediction error generating unit based on the degrees of non-uniformity of the motion vectors of the plurality of adjacent blocks. A selecting unit selects one of the encoding results obtained by the plurality of variable-length coding units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akira Nakagawa, Taizo Anan, Eishi Morimatsu, Takashi Itoh
  • Publication number: 20070121728
    Abstract: A method of optimizing decoding of MPEG4 compliant coded signals is provided, comprising: disabling processing for non-main profile sections; performing reference frame padding; performing adaptive motion compensation. The method of decoding further including performing fast IDCT wherein an IDCT process is performed on profile signals but no IDCT is performed based on whether a 4×4 block may be all zero, or only DC transform coefficient is non-zero, and including CAVLC encoding of residual data. Reference frame padding comprises compensating for motion vectors extending beyond a reference frame by adding to at least the length and width of the reference frame. Adaptive motion compensation includes original block size compensation processing for chroma up to block sizes of 16×16.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Xiaohong Wang, Yunchuan Wang, Michael Her
  • Publication number: 20070121729
    Abstract: A method for reducing the memory requirements for decoding a bit stream is provided. The method initiates with receiving a video bit stream. Then, a frame of the bit stream is decoded into a discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain representation. Next, non-zero coefficients of the DCT domain representation are identified. Then, a hybrid data structure is assembled. The hybrid data structure includes a fixed size array and a variable size overflow vector. Next, the non-zero coefficients of the DCT domain representation are inserted into the hybrid data structure. A computer readable media, a printed circuit board and a device configured to decode video data are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Chen, Vasudev Bhaskaran
  • Publication number: 20070121730
    Abstract: A method of transferring sets of video line data and macroblock data, includes the steps of determining a macroblock period and a video line period longer than the macroblock period, dividing each set of video line data to be transferred within the video line period into two or more portions according to the difference between the determined macroblock period and video line period, aligning a burst transfer of each of the portions of the divided set of video line data and each set of macroblock data to the macroblock period, and initiating the burst transfer of the sets of video line data and macroblock data at macroblock period intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Patricia Chiang, Lucas Hui
  • Publication number: 20070121731
    Abstract: An image coding method includes dividing an input picture into a plurality of pixel block signals, performing intra prediction for extrapolating or interpolating a prediction pixel using reference pixels changed in number according to a distance between the prediction pixel and a reference pixel in plural prediction modes each representing a prediction direction, generating a predictive image signal by extrapolating or interpolating the prediction pixel, calculating a prediction error signal from the pixel block signal and the predictive image signal, selecting one prediction mode of the plural prediction modes using the prediction error signal, and performing entropy-coding using the prediction error signal based on the selected prediction mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Akiyuki Tanizawa, Takeshi Chujoh
  • Publication number: 20070121732
    Abstract: A water ring scanning apparatus configured to process an initial data set, such as a video frame, is disclosed. The water ring scanning apparatus is configured to write a portion of data from the initial data set into a data string. The initial data set is organized with at least one initial origin enveloped by a plurality of nested initial environs successively surrounding each other in the initial data set. The scanner is configured to write a portion of the data from the initial data set into the data string by starting at the RC grouping corresponding to the initial origin (initial water ring (0)) and by sequentially progressing outwardly from the family of RC groupings corresponding to the nearest nested initial environ (initial water ring (1)) towards the family of RC groupings corresponding to a furthest nested initial environ (initial water ring (n)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Gwang-Hoon PARK, Chie-Teuk AHN, Won-Sik CHEONG, Jin-Woong KIM, Kyu-Heon KIM, Myoung-Ho LEE, Yoon-Jin LEE, Young-Kwon LIM
  • Publication number: 20070121733
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a scaler architecture for image and/or video processing. One aspect relates to an apparatus comprising an image processing unit, a memory, and a coder. The memory is configured to store processed image data from the image processing unit. The coder is configured to retrieve the stored, processed image data from the memory. The coder comprises a scaler configured to upscale the retrieved image data from the memory. The coder is configured to encode the scaled image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Joseph Cheung, Ananthapadmanabhan Kandhadai, George Pan, Sumit Mohan
  • Publication number: 20070121734
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and method for reducing delay difference of differential transmission, a certain delay difference between waveforms of the P signal and N signal is generated through controlling delay adjustment to P signal or N signal of the differential signals and controlling delay adjustment value simultaneously, to compensate for the delay difference of differential transmission due to the channels. Therefore, the present invention can reduce the delay difference of differential transmission due to property discrepancy of board materials and delay inconsistency among pins of the connectors, and at same time simplify the scheme design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gongxian Jia, Lun Wang, Chunxing Huang
  • Publication number: 20070121735
    Abstract: A communication system using a length shift keying (LSK) modulation method provides a transmitter having a carrier signal generator for generating carrier signals, and a modulator for modulating lengths of the carrier signals from the carrier signal generator according to combinations of data bits, and a receiver having an integrator for calculating an energy value by integrating the carrier signal that corresponds to a data bit combination, and a data judgment unit for judging the data bit combination by comparing the energy value with a predetermined threshold value. Power is maintained without changing the bandwidth of a communication signal when the communication signal is modulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Jae-hyon Kim, Young-hwan Kim, Seong-soo Lee
  • Publication number: 20070121736
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing the crest factor of a data symbol to be transmitted in a multi-carrier data transmission system, in which the data symbol to be transmitted is a function of a multiplicity of signals provided within a predetermined data frame and each of these signals is allocated to a carrier, each carrier occupying in each case at least one frequency from a transmit data spectrum, at least one carrier being reserved which is not provided for the data transmission and the predetermined data frame exhibiting the data symbol and a prefix which is derived from a part of the data symbol, in which peak values within the prefix are also taken into consideration for reducing the crest factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Axel Clausen, Werner Henkel, Dietmar Straussnigg, Steffen Trautmann
  • Publication number: 20070121737
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus capable of improving overall throughput of a system by suppressing peaks using some frequencies in a communication band. In this apparatus, modulation section (102) adaptively modulates transmission data. Combination section (103) combines the waveform of the transmission data and an inverse replica and suppresses peaks equal to or higher than a threshold. When there are peaks equal to or higher than a threshold, inverse replica generation section (112) extracts the waveform of a peak equal to or higher than the threshold and generates an inverse replica which is the waveform having the inverse characteristic of the extracted waveform. Sub-band selection section (114) selects frequencies of subcarriers for which MCS having low transmission efficiency is selected and outputs the inverse replica within the range of the selected frequency to combination section (103).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Isamu Yoshii, Kenichi Miyoshi, Jun Cheng, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20070121738
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus capable of improving overall throughput of a system by suppressing peaks using some frequencies in a communication band. In this apparatus, modulation section (102) adaptively modulates transmission data. Combination section (103) combines the waveform of the transmission data and the waveform of an inverse replica and suppresses peaks equal to or higher than a threshold. When there are peaks equal to or higher than a threshold, inverse replica generation section (112) extracts the waveform of a peak equal to or higher than the threshold and generates an inverse replica which is the waveform having the inverse characteristic of the extracted waveform. Where MCS is set for each subcarrier, sub-band selection section (114) selects the frequency of a subcarrier having large margin in reception quality and outputs the inverse replica within the range of the selected frequency to combination section (103).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Isamu Yoshii, Kenichi Miyoshi, Jun Cheng, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20070121739
    Abstract: A technique for estimating the Doppler frequency of an input signal comprising a pilot signal. In one embodiment, the technique comprises: (a) accumulating a plurality of samples from the input signal over a specified time duration to derive a channel tap estimate; (b) obtaining a sequence of channel tap estimates by repeating step (a) until a specified number of channel tap estimates have been accumulated; (c) performing a Fourier transform of the sequence of channel tap estimates to obtain a complex sequence of values; (d) finding the smallest index value for which a power spectral distribution function of the complex sequence of values exceeds a specified threshold; and (e) obtaining an estimate of the Doppler frequency by dividing the smallest index value found in step (d) by the product of the specified number of channel tap estimates and the specified time duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Adriel Kind
  • Publication number: 20070121740
    Abstract: Processing data is disclosed. Information associated with a notch frequency spectrum is obtained. A notch signal level, associated with the notch frequency spectrum, is suppressed. A second frequency spectrum is determined based at least in part on the information associated with the notch frequency spectrum. Data associated with the second frequency spectrum is attenuated, where the notch signal level is based at least in part on the attenuated data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventor: Timothy Gallagher
  • Publication number: 20070121741
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal uses a channel impulse response to determine a sub-carrier frequency function for at least two different basis functions. For each of the at least two sub-carrier frequency functions, a performance measure is predicted using the associated frequency function. These predicted performance measures are then stored and compared. One of the at least two basis functions are selected based on the comparing. A signal to be transmitted is converted from the frequency to the time domain using the selected basis function, and then transmitted over multiple sub-carriers via a time radio-frequency channel. Adaptive modulation, coding, bit and/or power loading may also be used in conjunction with the adaptive basis functions. A transmitter, modulator, and computer program are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Clive Tang, Giridhar Mandyam
  • Publication number: 20070121742
    Abstract: A communication quality is improved or signal processing is simplified in a multi-carrier communication system such as OFDM. Information different in communication quality such as systematic bits and parity bits of turbo encoded code words is combined together, and information that requires a high communication quality such as the systematic bits is mapped to carriers having a frequency close to the carriers in which the pilot signal exists used as a reference phase of demodulation than the information such as the parity bits which does not require the high communication quality such as the systematic bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Satoshi Tamaki, Takashi Yano