Decimation/interpolation Patents (Class 708/313)
  • Patent number: 11906558
    Abstract: A spectrum analyzer having a memory function to adopt a digital-data-based frequency sweep scheme while achieving performance comparable to performance of a high-speed FFT spectrum analyzer, and a method of controlling the spectrum analyzer, in which the spectrum analyzer includes: an ADC for converting a BWP signal, which is at least one analog unit frequency band signal, into a digital data sample at a predetermined sample rate according to a span set by a user; a digital sweep part for sweeping the data sample passed through the ADC while digitally decimating the data sample through a decimation processing block having a two-stage cascaded structure, and processing the swept data sample to increase a frequency sweep speed; and a control unit for controlling the digital sweep part according to various items input, set, and selected by the user to perform spectrum analysis and output a spectrum analysis result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: INNOWIRELESS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Su Kwak, Kyoung Hwan Ju
  • Patent number: 11803168
    Abstract: A distributed control system may include a main processing unit, a distributed control module, and a controllable component. The distributed control module may be configured to receive a nominal command reference from the main processing unit, determine a series of cumulating command references based at least in part on the nominal command reference; and output a series of cumulating control commands to the controllable component. The series of cumulating control commands may be based at least in part on the series of cumulating command references.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Manxue Lu, Mitchell Donald Smith, Daniel Lee Immel, Jon Tomas Zumberge
  • Patent number: 11796565
    Abstract: A method of operating an atomic force microscope (AFM), using a denoising algorithm, real-time, during AFM data acquisition. Total Variation and Non-Local Means denoising are preferred. Real time images with minimized sensor noise needing no post-image acquisition processing to account for noise as described herein results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Bruker Nano, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Fonoberov, James Young, Jason Osborne, Sean Hand
  • Patent number: 11740269
    Abstract: A spectrum analyzer having a memory function to adopt a digital-data-based frequency sweep scheme while achieving performance comparable to performance of a high-speed FFT spectrum analyzer, and a method of controlling the spectrum analyzer, in which the spectrum analyzer includes: an ADC for converting a BWP signal, which is at least one analog unit frequency band signal, into a digital data sample at a predetermined sample rate according to a span set by a user; a digital sweep part for sweeping the data sample passed through the ADC while digitally decimating the data sample through a decimation processing block having a two-stage cascaded structure, and processing the swept data sample to increase a frequency sweep speed; and a control unit for controlling the digital sweep part according to various items input, set, and selected by the user to perform spectrum analysis and output a spectrum analysis result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: INNOWIRELESS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Su Kwak, Kyoung Hwan Ju
  • Patent number: 11710493
    Abstract: Encoding and decoding systems are described for the provision of high quality digital representations of audio signals with particular attention to the correct perceptual rendering of fast transients at modest sample rates. This is achieved by optimising downsampling and upsampling filters to minimise the length of the impulse response while adequately attenuating alias products that have been found perceptually harmful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: MQA LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Graham Craven, John Robert Stuart
  • Patent number: 11621781
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus enabled to selectively choose a baud rate for communication of optical data using a modem enabled to operate with an optical signal modulated at plurality of finely tuned baud rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Acacia Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonas Geyer
  • Patent number: 11514291
    Abstract: A novel and useful neural network (NN) processing core adapted to implement artificial neural networks (ANNs) and incorporating processing circuits having compute and local memory elements. The NN processor is constructed from self-contained computational units organized in a hierarchical architecture. The homogeneity enables simpler management and control of similar computational units, aggregated in multiple levels of hierarchy. Computational units are designed with minimal overhead as possible, where additional features and capabilities are aggregated at higher levels in the hierarchy. On-chip memory provides storage for content inherently required for basic operation at a particular hierarchy and is coupled with the computational resources in an optimal ratio. Lean control provides just enough signaling to manage only the operations required at a particular hierarchical level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: Avi Baum, Or Danon, Hadar Zeitlin, Daniel Ciubotariu, Rami Feig
  • Patent number: 11483654
    Abstract: This application relates to driver circuitry (200) for receiving a digital input signal (D) and outputting, at first and second output nodes (203p, 203n), first and second analogue driving signals respectively for driving a transducer (101), e.g. loudspeaker, in a bridge-tied-load configuration. The driver circuitry may particularly be suitable for driving low-impedance transducers. The driver circuitry has first and second digital-to-analogue converters (201p, 201n) configured to receive the digital input signal and the outputs of the first and second digital-to-analogue converters are coupled to the first and second output nodes respectively. A differential-output amplifier circuit (202) has outputs connected to the first and second output nodes and is configured to regulate the outputs of the digital-to-analogue converters at output nodes to provide the analogue driving signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Howlett, Sharjeel Riaz, John P. Lesso
  • Patent number: 11415606
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving the operation of a computer or other electronic device that utilizes root-mean-square (RMS) measurements, e.g., RMS current measurements, by reducing error in the RMS measurement. A series of measurement samples are received at a processor, which executes a noise-decorrelated RMS algorithm including: calculating a current-squared value for each measurement sample by multiplying the measurement sample by a prior measurement sample in the series (rather by simply squaring each measurement sample as in conventional techniques), summing the current-squared values, and calculating an RMS value based on the summed values. The processor may also execute a frequency-dependent magnitude correction filter to correct for frequency-dependent attenuation associated with the noise-decorrelated RMS algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventor: Daniel Arthur Staver
  • Patent number: 11366660
    Abstract: An API latency estimation system estimates latencies as a function of subcomponent parameters. The system may obtain first information indicative of at least a characteristic of data of a request provided to an API and second information indicative of at least a utilization of a first subcomponent of the API used to fulfill a subtask of a task of the request. An estimated latency for the first subcomponent to fulfill the subtask is determined at least in part by applying a latency estimation model for the API to at least the first information and the second information. If a comparison of the estimated latency to a measured latency for the first subcomponent to perform the subtask indicates a potential anomaly, then an indication of the potential anomaly may be outputted. The model may be updated with API request fulfillment data that is not anomalous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Anand Dhandhania
  • Patent number: 11368229
    Abstract: A method and structure for a coherent optical receiver device. Timing recovery (TR) is implemented after channel dispersion (i.e., chromatic dispersion (CD) and polarization mode dispersion (PMD)) compensation blocks. This architecture provides both improves performance and reduces power consumption of the device. Also, a TR loop is provided, enabling computing, by an error evaluation module, a first sampling phase error (SPE) and computing, by a timing phase information (TPI) module coupled to the error evaluation module, a second SPE from a plurality of CD equalizer taps PMD equalizer taps. The first and second SPE are combined into a total phase error (TPE) in a combining module, and the resulting TPE is filtered by a timing recovery (TR) filter coupled to an interpolated timing recovery (ITR) module and the combining module. The ITR module then synchronizes an input signal of the coherent optical receiver according to the TPE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mario R. Hueda, Oscar E. Agazzi
  • Patent number: 11290903
    Abstract: Approaches provide for determining spectral information for a communications signal, such as a wideband communications signal. For example, a communications signal (e.g., a wideband signal) is received at a set of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The output of the ADCs is divided into a set of segments. A center frequency for each segment is determined based on the segment bandwidth and a number of segments in the set. The segments can be filtered, buffered, and analyzed using at least one digital signal processing technique (e.g., Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) technique to generate a representation of the segments in the frequency domain. Thereafter, the spectrum of frequency components (i.e., the frequency-domain representation) of the segments can be used to determine the power spectral density of the communications signal for different resolutions based on a resolution mode of the system or other criteria of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SiTune Corporation
    Inventors: Mahdi Khoshgard, Marzieh Veyseh, Vahid M Toosi
  • Patent number: 11263293
    Abstract: Methods, structures and computer program products for digital sample rate conversion are presented. An input digital sample with a first frequency is converted to an output sample with a second frequency. A sample rate conversion circuit is provided which provides an enhanced transposed farrow structure that enables an optimised trade-off between noise levels and computational complexity. Each output sample is derived by convolution of a continuous time interpolation kernel with a continuous time step function representing the input sample stream. In a sample rate conversion structure, there is a trade-off between the quality and the computational complexity. The quality is defined as a ratio between the (wanted) signal power and the (unwanted) noise power. The computational complexity may be defined as the average number of arithmetic operations that are required to generate one output sample. A higher computational complexity will generally lead to a higher power consumption and larger footprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor B.V.
    Inventor: Wessel Lubberhuizen
  • Patent number: 11082054
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a time-interleaved ADC circuit. The time-interleaved ADC circuit comprises an input for an analog input signal, a first ADC bank comprising a first plurality of parallel time-multiplexed ADCs, wherein the first plurality of parallel time-multiplexed ADCs is configured to subsequently generate a first plurality of samples of the analog input signal during a first time interval, a first buffer amplifier coupled between the input and the first ADC bank. The time-interleaved ADC circuit further comprises a second ADC bank comprising a second plurality of parallel time-multiplexed ADCs, wherein the second plurality of parallel time-multiplexed ADCs is configured to subsequently generate a second plurality of samples of the analog input signal during a second time interval, wherein the first and the second time intervals are subsequent time intervals, a second buffer amplifier coupled between the input and the second ADC bank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Giacomo Cascio, Christian Lindholm, Albert Molina, Martin Clara
  • Patent number: 11055079
    Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing an application on a just-in-time basis can include selection of one of an application and a bundle of applications (“selected application”) by a user on a user interface of a portal application. An agent on the user device can obtain a use-policy for accessing a virtual disk corresponding to the selected application and launch the selected application. The virtual disk can be accessed with the agent according to the use-policy. The portal application can send a resource request to the agent for an update on a status of at least one of a virtual disk download and an application launch. The resource request can be one of a script request and an image request, and can be generated by the portal application based on an information package that incorporates the use-policy and is associated with an option selected through the PUI for the selected application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Vignesh Raja Jayaraman, Jairam Choudhary, Charansing Deore
  • Patent number: 11042956
    Abstract: In a monitoring apparatus, a first analysis unit and a second analysis unit analyze inputted data. A first reception unit receives data of a first data stream and outputs the data of the received first data stream to the first analysis unit. A second reception unit receives data of a second data stream and outputs the data of the received second data stream to the second analysis unit. When an updating request indicating updating of the first analysis unit has been received, a control unit instructs the second reception unit to perform a sampling process on the second data stream and output data after the sampling process, and also changes an output destination of the first reception unit so that the data of the first data stream is at least partially outputted to the second analysis unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kentaro Katayama
  • Patent number: 11032630
    Abstract: A system comprising a microphone arranged to capture sound from an environment, and an ultrasound emitter configured to emit an emitted ultrasound signal into an environment. The microphone is arranged to capture a received audio signal from the environment, comprising a component in the human audible range. The microphone is also arranged to capture a received ultrasound signal comprising reflections of the emitted ultrasound signal, or else the system comprises another, co-located microphone arranged to capture the received ultrasound signal. Either way, the system further comprises a controller implemented in software or hardware or a combination thereof, wherein the controller is configured to process the received audio signal in dependence on the received ultrasound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: XMOS Ltd
    Inventors: Andrew Stanford-Jason, Hendrik Lambertus Muller
  • Patent number: 11010136
    Abstract: A random bit stream generator which includes a pseudo-random bit stream generator and a multi-stage noise shaping (MASH) delta-sigma modulator is introduced. The pseudo-random bit stream generator may generate a first random bit stream according to a first clock signal. The MASH delta-sigma modulator is coupled to the first random bit stream generator to receive the first random bit stream and output a second random bit stream according to the first random bit stream and a second clock signal. A frequency of the second clock signal is greater than a frequency of the first clock signal, and the random bit stream has bell-shaped distribution. A method of generating a random bit stream having bell-shaped distribution adapted to a random bit stream generator is also introduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Che-Wei Yeh, Keko-Chun Liang, Yu-Hsiang Wang
  • Patent number: 10892740
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an input digital signal and applying the input digital signal to digital filter processing with a corner frequency to produce a filtered output digital signal. The digital filter processing includes a set of multiplication operations using a set of filter multiplication coefficients. The set of multiplication operations is performed by alternately using a first set of approximate multiplication coefficients and a second set of approximate multiplication coefficients different from the first set of approximate multiplication coefficients. The approximate multiplication coefficients in the first set of approximate multiplication coefficients and the second set of approximate multiplication coefficients approximate multiplication coefficients in the set of filter multiplication coefficients as a function of negative power-of-two values. The alternating of multiplication operations results in digital filter processing with average corner frequency approximating the corner frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Maiocchi, Ezio Galbiati, Michele Boscolo Berto
  • Patent number: 10848131
    Abstract: Systems and methods for low power lattice wave filters include an input operable to receive a digital input signal having a first sample rate, a first processing branch including a first delay element operable to receive the digital input signal and output a delayed digital input signal, a second processing branch including a first adder operable to receive the digital input signal and subtract a delayed feedback signal to produce a difference signal, a second adder operable to combine the delayed digital input signal and the difference signal to produce an output signal, and wherein the second processing branch further includes a feedback path including a second delay element operable to receive the output signal and output the delayed feedback signal. In a multistage topology, a register is disposed between each stage and clocked to reduce ripple power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jacky Li, Jens Kristian Poulsen, Hari Hariharan
  • Patent number: 10750284
    Abstract: Improved techniques for presenting sound effects at a portable media device are disclosed. The sound effects can be output as audio sounds to an internal speaker, an external speaker, or both. In addition, the audio sounds for the sound effects can be output together with other audio sounds pertaining to media assets (e.g., audio tracks being played). In one embodiment, the sound effects can serve to provide auditory feedback to a user of the portable media device. A user interface can facilitate a user's selection of sound effect usages, types or characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aram Lindahl, Joseph Mark Williams, Muthya K Girish
  • Patent number: 10735022
    Abstract: In method for processing a measured-value signal determined in an analog manner and a resolver system for implementing the method, the measured-value signal being supplied to a delta-sigma modulator, which makes a bit stream, particularly a one-bit data stream, available on the output side, in particular, whose moving average corresponds to the measured-value signal, the bit stream being supplied to a first digital filter, which converts the bit stream into a stream of digital intermediate words, that is a multibit data stream, the first digital filter having three serially arranged differentiators, the bit stream being clocked at a clock frequency fS, that is, at a clock-pulse period TS=1/fS, and therefore the stream of digital intermediate words being clocked, and thus updated, at a clock-pulse frequency fD, that is, at a clock-pulse period TD=1/fD, the output signal of the first digital filter being supplied to a second digital filter, the second digital filter having as its output data-word stream the dif
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hammel, Ulrich Neumayer
  • Patent number: 10644677
    Abstract: Aspect of the present disclosure provide for a circuit. In an example, the circuit comprises a multiplexer having a first input, a second input, a control input, and an output. The circuit further comprises a first register having an input coupled to the output of the multiplexer and an output. The circuit further comprises a second register having an input coupled to the output of the first register and an output. The circuit further comprises a subtractor having a first input coupled to the output of the multiplexer and a second input coupled to the output of the second register. The circuit further comprises a third register having an input coupled to the output of the subtractor and an output coupled to the first input of the multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Shawn Xianggang Yu
  • Patent number: 10615778
    Abstract: A crest factor reduction (CRF) circuit may include a scaler configured to receive the input signal and generate a scaled input signal. A clipping circuit may be configured to receive the input signal and generate a clipped input signal. A negator circuit may be configured to receive the clipped input signal and generate a negated clipped input signal. A first summer may be configured to sum the scaled input signal and the negated clipped input signal to generate a summed signal. A first digital filter may be configured to receive the summed signal and provide a first digital filter output. A second digital filter may be configured to receive the clipped input signal and provide a second digital filter output. A multiplexer may be configured to receive the first digital filter output and the second digital filter output and generate an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Camp
  • Patent number: 10581407
    Abstract: A Scalable Finite Impulse Response (“SFIR”) filter is disclosed. The SFIR filter includes a pre-processing section, a post-processing section, and a finite impulse response (“FIR”) Matrix. The FIR Matrix includes a plurality of filter taps and a plurality of signal paths in signal communication with each filter tap. The plurality of signal paths are arranged to allow re-configurable data throughput between the each filter tap and the pre-processing section and post-processing section are in signal communication with the FIR Matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Kristina M. Skinner, Tyler J. Thrane, Jason A. Ching
  • Patent number: 10558293
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a touch sensitive device includes touch interface having rows and columns and a signal generator for generating unique orthogonal signals on a plurality of the rows, respectively. A touch processor identifies touch on the touch interface by processing touch signals present on the columns, and outputting a stream of touch events. A decimator receives the stream of touch events including information as to a pressure of the touch event or the contact area of the touch event, selectively identifies one or more of the touch events in the stream, and outputs a modified stream of touch events for use by the touch sensitive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Daniel Wigdor, Clifton Forlines
  • Patent number: 10505447
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus can include: a power module configured to transfer an analog sensing signal corresponding to a current of an inductor and a voltage applied at both terminals of a capacitor, and to perform power conversion by driving a power semiconductor with a pulse-width modulation signal; and a controller configured to receive the analog sensing signal from the power module, to convert the analog sensing signal to a digital signal, to generate the pulse-width modulation signal, and to transfer the pulse-width modulation signal to the power module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: ShinHye Chun, Hyung Bin Ihm
  • Patent number: 10474732
    Abstract: Methods, structures and computer program products for digital sample rate conversion are presented. An input digital sample with a first frequency is converted to an output sample with a second frequency. A sample rate conversion circuit is provided which provides an enhanced transposed farrow structure that enables an optimised trade-off between noise levels and computational complexity. Each output sample is derived by convolution of a continuous time interpolation kernel with a continuous time step function representing the input sample stream. In a sample rate conversion structure, there is a trade-off between the quality and the computational complexity. The quality is defined as a ratio between the (wanted) signal power and the (unwanted) noise power. The computational complexity may be defined as the average number of arithmetic operations that are required to generate one output sample. A higher computational complexity will generally lead to a higher power consumption and larger footprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor B.V.
    Inventor: Wessel Lubberhuizen
  • Patent number: 10467795
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units; and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to determine a sub-graph of a network that can be executed in a frequency domain and apply computations in the sub-graph in the frequency domain. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Uzi Sarel, Ehud Cohen, Tomer Schwartz, Amitai Armon, Yahav Shadmiy, Itamar Ben-Ari, Amit Bleiweiss, Lev Faivishevsky, Tomer Bar-On, Yaniv Fais, Jacob Subag, Michael Behar, Guy Jacob, Gal Leibovich, Jeremie Dreyfuss
  • Patent number: 10454494
    Abstract: In method for processing a measured-value signal determined in an analog manner and a resolver system for implementing the method, the measured-value signal being supplied to a delta-sigma modulator, which makes a bit stream, particularly a one-bit data stream, available on the output side, in particular, whose moving average corresponds to the measured-value signal, the bit stream being supplied to a first digital filter, which converts the bit stream into a stream of digital intermediate words, that is a multibit data stream, the first digital filter having three serially arranged differentiators, the bit stream being clocked at a clock frequency fS, that is, at a clock-pulse period TS=1/fS, and therefore the stream of digital intermediate words being clocked, and thus updated, at a clock-pulse frequency fD, that is, at a clock-pulse period TD=1/fD, the output signal of the first digital filter being supplied to a second digital filter, the second digital filter having as its output data-word stream the dif
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hammel, Ulrich Neumayer
  • Patent number: 10338263
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method and apparatus for providing both a low-pass filter value and a high-pass filter value is presented. The combined filter receives an input value into a half-band finite impulse response (FIR) filter with an odd number of taps labeled 0 through N with corresponding filter coefficients labeled 0 through N where odd numbered filter coefficients are zero, the FIR filter providing a filter value. The median value from the FIR filter is digitally shifted to provide a half median value. The half median value is added to the filter value to provide the low-pass filter value and is subtracted from the filter value to provide the high-pass filter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Metrotech Corporation
    Inventors: John Mark Royle, Stephen John Petherick
  • Patent number: 10247621
    Abstract: In a high resolution temperature sensor, first and second MEMS resonators generate respective first and second clock signals and a locked-loop reference clock generator generates a reference clock signal having a frequency that is phase-locked to at least one of the first and second clock signals. A frequency-ratio engine within the MEMS temperature sensor oversamples at least one of the first and second clock signals with the reference clock signal to generate a ratio of the frequencies of the first and second clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SiTime Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron Partridge, Samira Zaliasl, Meisam Heidarpour Roshan, Sassan Tabatabaei
  • Patent number: 10243540
    Abstract: A digital filter includes: integration calculation units (10) that are cascade-connected, are fed time-division-multiplexed data, the time-division-multiplexed data being formed of pieces of data on M channels that are time-division multiplexed, the pieces of data on the respective channels being updated at a rate equal to a sampling frequency fs, operate in accordance with a clock having a frequency fs×M, and integrate the time-division-multiplexed data for every M samples; a frequency conversion unit (11) that operates in accordance with a clock having a frequency fD×M, decimates data at the sampling frequency fs input from the integration calculation unit (10) in the last stage at a sampling frequency fD, and delays data obtained as a result of decimation by (M?1) samples; and difference calculation units (12) that operate in accordance with the clock having the frequency fD×M, are cascade-connected to the output of the frequency conversion unit (11), and each subtract, from data input thereto, data M samp
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kajita
  • Patent number: 10133400
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a touch sensitive device includes touch interface having rows and columns and a signal generator for generating unique orthogonal signals on a plurality of the rows, respectively. A touch processor identifies touch on the touch interface by processing touch signals present on the columns, and outputting a stream of touch events. A decimator receives the stream of touch events including information as to a pressure of the touch event or the contact area of the touch event, selectively identifies one or more of the touch events in the stream, and outputs a modified stream of touch events for use by the touch sensitive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Daniel Wigdor, Clifton Forlines
  • Patent number: 10126339
    Abstract: Methods and devices for switching filters and medical apparatuses using the same are described. The method includes: detecting whether or not a frequency range of an input signal is changed from a first frequency range into a second frequency range; if changed, switching from a first filter to a second filter, and taking a sample value of the input signal at a current moment as an input value of the second filter at the current moment and sample values of the input signal at n moments before the current moment as input values of the second filter at the n moments, respectively, and taking output values of the first filter at m moments before the current moment as output values of the second filter at the m moments, to obtain an output value of the second filter at the current moment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pei Wang, Wenyu Ye, Shen Luo
  • Patent number: 10119997
    Abstract: A method for measuring waveform capture rate (WRC) of DSO based on average dead time measurement. First generating ramp signal or symmetric triangular wave signal as base signal, a trigger signal, the frequency which is higher than the nominal maximum waveform capture rate of the DSO under measurement; secondly, setting the parameters of DSO for measuring; then obtaining a plurality of test signals by delaying base signal K times with different delay time, for each test signal, inputting it the trigger signal simultaneously to DSO, calculating dead time between two adjacent captured waveforms according to their initial voltages, finally calculating waveform capture rate based on average dead times. The waveform capture rate obtained can effectively reflect the overall capturing capacity of DSO, more tellingly, the waveform capturing capacity of acquisition system of DSO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Qinchuan Zhang, Kuojun Yang, Lianping Guo, Hao Zeng, Jia Zhao, Jinpeng Song
  • Patent number: 10115410
    Abstract: Encoding and decoding systems are described for the provision of high quality digital representations of audio signals with particular attention to the correct perceptual rendering of fast transients at modest sample rates. This is achieved by optimizing downsampling and upsampling filters to minimize the length of the impulse response while adequately attenuating alias products that have been found perceptually harmful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Graham Craven, John Robert Stuart
  • Patent number: 10090866
    Abstract: A digital filter for interpolation or decimation and a device incorporating the digital filter is disclosed. The digital filter includes a filter block, a first transformation circuit coupled to the filter block and an input stream coupled to provide input values to a component selected from the filter block and the first transformation circuit. The filter block includes a pair of sub-filters having respective transformed coefficients, the respective transformed coefficients of a first sub-filter of the pair of sub-filters being symmetric and the respective transformed coefficients of a second sub-filter of the pair of sub-filters being anti-symmetric. The first transformation circuit is coupled to perform a first transformation; the filter block and the first transformation circuit together provide suppression of undesired spectral images in final outputs of the digital filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jaiganesh Balakrishnan, Suvam Nandi, Sundarrajan Rangachari
  • Patent number: 10050606
    Abstract: A polyphase decimation FIR filter apparatus including a modulo integrator circuit configured to integrate input samples and to provide integrated input samples; and a polyphase FIR filter circuit configured to process the integrated input samples, the polyphase FIR filter circuit including a plurality of multiplier accumulator circuits, each configured to accumulate products of coefficients and respective integrated signal samples, wherein each of the multiplier accumulator circuits receives a subset of FIR filter coefficients, wherein the FIR filter coefficients are derived as the nth difference of original filter coefficients, where n is a number of integrators in the integrator circuit, and wherein the FIR filter circuit is configured to perform computation operations with modulo arithmetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventors: Neha Bhargava, Ankur Bal
  • Patent number: 10038472
    Abstract: In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. The samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”) substantially to filter channel-injected noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Decawave Limited
    Inventors: Michael McLaughlin, Ciaran McElroy, Sinbad Wilmot, Tony Proudfoot
  • Patent number: 10026197
    Abstract: There is provided with a signal processing method. A filtering result is generated by performing spatial filtering on multi-dimensional data. Encoding result data is output by encoding the filtering result using a value at a pixel of interest of the filtering result and a value at a reference pixel located at a relative position with respect to the pixel of interest. The relative position of the reference pixel is decided in advance according to a characteristic of a spatial filter used in the spatial filtering step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakashima, Hiroshi Sato, Shunsuke Nakano
  • Patent number: 9990696
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a touch sensitive device includes a touch interface having conductors and a signal generator for generating signals on the conductors. A touch processor identifies touch on the touch interface by processing touch signals present on the conductors, and outputting a stream of touch events. A decimator receives the stream of touch events and outputs a modified stream of touch events for use by the touch sensitive device, the modified stream of touch events may include predicted or estimated usable touch events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa, Clifton Forlines, Daniel Wigdor, Steven Leonard Sanders
  • Patent number: 9977753
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided, which can supply efficiently plural pieces of data required for operation to an arithmetic unit processing plural pieces of data concurrently. The microcomputer includes a data transfer controller and a filter arithmetic unit. The data transfer controller transfers plural pieces of data from a source address area to a destination address area continuously, based on data transfer information, when a start request is received. The filter arithmetic unit performs operation using concurrently plural pieces of data received from the data transfer controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Mitsuishi, Seiji Ikari
  • Patent number: 9973171
    Abstract: A digital filter includes integrator circuits configured to operate based on a clock of a sampling frequency fS that is equal to a sampling frequency of input data and determine a sum of the input data on a sample-by-sample basis, a frequency converter circuit configured to perform decimation on data of the sampling frequency fS to reduce the sampling frequency fS to a sampling frequency fD=fS/N, one or more differentiator circuits configured to operate based on a clock of the sampling frequency fD and subtract data of an immediately preceding sample from the input data, a differentiator circuit for removal of 50 Hz configured to operate based on the clock of the sampling frequency fD and subtract, from the input data, data preceding the input data by a plurality of samples, and a differentiator circuit for removal of 60 Hz configured to operate based on a clock of the sampling frequency fD and subtract, from the input data, data preceding the input data by a plurality of samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Azbil Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kajita
  • Patent number: 9966932
    Abstract: An apparatus for parallel filtering, including a multi-granularity memory, a data cache device, a coefficient buffer broadcast device, a vector operation device and a command queue device. The multi-granularity memory is configured to store data to be filtered, filter coefficients and filtering result data. The data cache device is configured to cache, read and update the data to be filtered. The coefficient buffer broadcast device is configured to cache and broadcast the read filter coefficients. The command queue device is configured to store and output a queue of operation commands for the parallel filtering operation. The vector operation device is configured to perform a vector operation based on the data to be filtered and the output coefficient data, and write an operation result into the multi-granularity filtering result storage unit. A method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: BEIJING SMARTLOGIC TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Donglin Wang, Leizu Yin, Yongyong Yang, Shaolin Xie, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 9966933
    Abstract: A systolic FIR filter circuit includes a plurality of multipliers, a plurality of sample pre-adders, each respective one of the sample pre-adders connected to a sample input of a respective multiplier, and an output cascade adder chain including a respective output adder connected to a respective multiplier. The output cascade adder chain includes a selectable number of delays between adjacent output adders. An input sample chain has a first leg and a second leg. Each respective one of the sample pre-adders receives a respective input from the first leg and a respective input from the second leg. The input sample chain has, between adjacent sample points in at least one of the legs, a selectable number of sample delays related to the selectable number of output delays. Connections of inputs from the input sample chain to the sample pre-adders are adjusted to account for the selectable number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: ALTERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Volker Mauer, Martin Langhammer
  • Patent number: 9964430
    Abstract: An apparatus for analyzing the condition of a machine having a part rotatable with a speed of rotation, includes an input for receiving an analog measurement signal indicative of a vibration signal signature having a vibration frequency and a repetition frequency; an A/D converter for generating a digital measurement signal dependent on the analog measurement signal, the digital measurement signal having a first sample rate, which is at least twice the vibration frequency; an enveloper for generating an enveloped signal indicative of the repetition frequency; a decimator for generating a decimated first digital signal dependent on the enveloped signal such that the decimated first digital signal has a reduced sample rate; an enhancer having an input for receiving the decimated signal, wherein the enhancer operates in the time domain to perform discrete autocorrelation for the decimated first digital signal so as to generate an enhancer output signal sequence; and an analyzer for performing a condition moni
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: S.P.M. INSTRUMENT AB
    Inventor: Lars-Olov Elis Hedin
  • Patent number: 9865275
    Abstract: The document relates to modulated digital filter banks, as well as to methods and systems for the design of such filter banks. In particular, the document discloses a method comprising accessing a time-domain audio signal and applying a first filter bank to the time-domain audio signal, thereby producing a first plurality of subbands of frequency-domain audio data representative of at least a part of the audio signal. The filter bank comprises an decimated modulated filter bank obtained from an asymmetric prototype filter. The method further comprises applying a second filter bank to at least a first subband of the first plurality of subbands of frequency-domain audio data, thereby producing a second plurality of subbands of frequency-domain audio data representative of at least a part of the audio signal. The second modulated filter bank comprises an asymmetric modulated filter bank which includes no decimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Per Ekstrand, Nicholas Luke Appleton
  • Patent number: 9846920
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a touch sensitive device includes a touch interface having rows and columns and a signal generator for generating unique orthogonal signals on a plurality of the rows, respectively. A touch processor is identifies touch on the touch interface by processing touch signals present on the columns, and outputting a stream of touch events. A decimator receives the stream of touch events, selectively identifies one or more of the touch events in the stream, and outputs a modified stream of touch events for use by the touch sensitive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa, Clifton Forlines, Daniel Wigdor, Steven Leonard Sanders
  • Patent number: 9831970
    Abstract: A selectable bandwidth filter has an analysis filter bank and a synthesis filter bank having M paths. A masking vector is disposed between the analysis filter bank and the synthesis filter bank. The masking vector enables select ones and disables unselected ones of the M paths, so as to define an output signal bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Inventor: Fredric J. Harris