Decimation/interpolation Patents (Class 708/313)
  • Patent number: 8645443
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of desensitized digital filters with droop correction. The desensitized digital filter includes a first filter configured to receive an input signal, a decimator or upsampler, and a modified desensitized half-band filter. The first filter introduces droop into the passband of the desensitized digital filter. The desensitized half-band filter has a transfer function F(z)=K(1+z?1)G(z) wherein K?0 is a scale factor, that is modified to omit a (1+z?1) factor block. The modified desensitized half-band filter compensates for the passband droop introduced by the first filter. The first filter may be a sinc filter, CIC filter, or filter having similar properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Pentomics, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan N. Willson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8639061
    Abstract: An image adjusting method is adapted to an image adjusting circuit. The image adjusting method includes following steps. An image signal is received and up-sampled to generate a first up-sampled image signal and a second up-sampled image signal. The first up-sampled image signal includes interpolated pixels and original pixels. Values of the interpolated pixels and the original pixels are detected, and a weight value is outputted according to the detection result. Whether the values of the interpolated pixels are adjusted or not is determined based on the detection result. According to the weight value, the second up-sampled image signal and the adjusted first up-sampled image signal are mixed to output a mixed image signal. An image adjusting circuit is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Wei-Chi Su, Chih-Chia Kuo
  • Patent number: 8638888
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to an analog correlation unit comprising a plurality of parallel correlation components configured to operating according to an advanced switched-capacitor low pass filter principle that increases coding gain of the unit. Each correlation component comprises a sampling stage and a correlation stage. The sampling stage may comprise a switched capacitor configured to sample a received baseband signal to determine a value (e.g., polarity) of the baseband signal. The sampled baseband signal is provided to the correlation stages, which may respectively comprise a plurality of switched integrators configured to selectively receive and integrate the sampled baseband signal over time depending upon values (e.g., polarity) of the correlation code to generate voltage potential values. The analog correlation result is evaluated by a comparison of an adjustable threshold voltage with the difference between the output voltage potential values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Christian Hambeck, Stefan Mahlknecht, Thomas Herndl, Franz Darrer, Jakob Jongsma
  • Patent number: 8635261
    Abstract: A system includes a decimation module having an adjustable decimation rate and a filter module responsive to the decimation module. A digital phase lock loop is operable to control a decimation rate of the decimation module. The decimation module is a cascade integrator comb decimation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sigmatel, Inc.
    Inventor: Darrell Eugene Tinker
  • Patent number: 8631059
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments of methods or structures for reconstruction of uniform digital signal sample values from nonuniform digital signal sample values are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: The University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Shing Chow Chan, Kai Man Tsui
  • Publication number: 20140012888
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data filter tuning. As an example, a method for filter tuning is disclosed that includes: providing a tunable filter having an operation filter and a calibration filter; applying a low frequency test input to the operation filter in place of an input signal to yield a first filter output; calculating a low frequency magnitude value corresponding to the first filter output; applying a high frequency test input to the operation filter in place of an input signal to yield a second filter output; calculating a high frequency magnitude value corresponding to the second filter output; modifying a tuning factor of the calibration filter when a ratio of the high frequency magnitude value and the low frequency magnitude value is outside of a defined range; and storing the tuning factor of the calibration filter when the ratio of the high frequency magnitude value and the low frequency magnitude value is within the defined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: James A. Bailey, Robert K. Chen, Richard T. Kaul
  • Patent number: 8626809
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for digital up-down conversion using an Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filter are provided. The method for digital up-down conversion for frequency conversion in a mobile communication system using plural frequency converts, includes IIR-filtering, by a magnitude response IIR filter having the same magnitude response as in Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filtering, an input signal and a stable filter coefficient calculated according to a Levinson polynomial; and receiving, by the magnitude response IIR filter, the IIR filtered signal, and performing IIR filtering by a phase compensation IIR filter having a filter coefficient compensating for a non-linear phase to a linear phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Soongsil University
    Inventors: Jun-Seok Yang, Won-Cheol Lee, Hyung-Min Jang
  • Patent number: 8620981
    Abstract: A digital signal processing system comprising: an input terminal to receive an input signal that includes a distorted component and an undistorted component, the input signal having a sampling rate of R; and an adaptive self-linearization module coupled to the input terminal, to perform self-linearization based at least in part on the input signal to obtain an output signal that is substantially undistorted, wherein: the adaptive self-linearization module is to generate a replica distortion signal that is substantially similar to the distorted component, the generation being based at least in part on a target component having a sampling rate of R/L, L being an integer greater than 1; the adaptive self-linearization module includes a first digital signal processor (DSP) that is adapted to obtain a filter transfer function that approximates a system distortion transfer function, and a second DSP that is configured using configuration parameters of the first DSP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy G. Batruni
  • Patent number: 8611551
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide for low latency active noise cancellation, which alleviates the problems associated with analog filter circuitry. The present technology utilizes low latency digital signal processing techniques that overcome the high latency conventionally associated with conversion between the analog and digital domains. As a result, low latency active noise cancellation is performed utilizing digital filter circuitry which is not subject to the inaccuracies and drift of analog filter components. In doing so, the present technology provides robust, high quality active noise cancellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Audience, Inc.
    Inventors: Dana Massie, Jean Laroche
  • Patent number: 8606837
    Abstract: A digital signal processor for interpolating a gain (coefficient) to be applied to a digital signal, the processor including: first memory means for storing a target gain coefficient; second memory means for storing a current gain coefficient; response determining means for determining an output gain coefficient based on the target gain coefficient and the current gain coefficient; means for storing the output gain coefficient in the second memory means in place of the current gain coefficient, to be used as the current gain coefficient in subsequent operations. In this way, a gain coefficient interpolator can be implemented using hardware rather than the previous DSP software approach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Calrec Audio Ltd.
    Inventor: John Patrick Warrington
  • Patent number: 8606835
    Abstract: A method of determining interpolation coefficients (607, 609, 610, 611) of a symmetric interpolation kernel (608) is disclosed. The method comprises determining a first interpolation coefficient (611) from the symmetric interpolation kernel (608) and storing the first interpolation coefficient in a memory (506). The method then determines the value of an intermediate function (310) from symmetrically opposed segments (201, 204) of the kernel, and determines a subsequent interpolation coefficient dependent upon the first interpolation coefficient and the value of the intermediate function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nagita Mehrseresht, Alan Valev Tonisson
  • Patent number: 8606838
    Abstract: Disclosed is an efficient and configurable apparatus and method for sample rate conversion using interpolation. The apparatus and method employ a configuration file to change the conversion coefficients, sampling rate, and interpolation algorithm without having to recompile control software and/or reprogram the controlled device. In some embodiments, the interpolation employs polynomial interpolation, which may include Lagrange interpolation. In some embodiments, the interpolation method is selected to minimize the loop delay in teleoperation applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Richard J. Kenefic, David W. Shin, Saad Karim
  • Patent number: 8594343
    Abstract: There is provided a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing method which are capable of reproducing discrete data with a high-quality sound matching users' preferences. In a sound processing means 2, since an interpolation value reflecting a value of a variable parameter ? by which the value of a control sampling function c0(t) is multiplied can be calculated, an analog signal obtained through the interpolation performed in a sampling function sN(t) can be regulated in accordance with the variable parameter ? by changing the value of the variable parameter ?. In this way, by allowing the user to appropriately change the variable parameter ? in accordance with various conditions including music reproduction environments, sound sources, musical tones and so on, it becomes possible to reproduce high-quality-sound music in which its frequency characteristics of the analog signal have changed and a high quality desired by the user is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Kazuo Toraichi, Masakazu Higuchi, Yasuo Morooka, Mitsuaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8589461
    Abstract: A signal decimating system decimates an initial data signal having an initial data rate R to a final data signal having a final data rate R? in two stages, using a base decimation factor N and a decimation multiplier factor P. In the first stage, N FIR filters having coefficients corresponding to the final data rate R? condition the initial data signal using the final data rate coefficients and thereafter decimate the initial data signal, as conditioned, by a base decimation factor of N to generate an intermediate data signal having an intermediate data rate R?, where R ? = R N . In the second stage, a sub-sampling unit includes a switch that sub-samples the intermediate data signal at a sub-sampling rate P to generate a final data signal having a final data rate R?, where R ? = R ? P = R ( NxP ) .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Maria D'Souza, Tony San
  • Patent number: 8577324
    Abstract: The present invention receives simultaneously RF signal of different frequency band and processes the RF signal received, at this time a BPS receiver minimizes aliasing generated by RF signal. The present invention comprises a sampling process unit which samples a signal summing a first RF signal and a second RF signal of different frequency bands with time gap, a quantization process unit which generates a first stream signal and a second stream signal from signals sampled by the sampling process unit according respective time information in the signal summing the first RF signal and the second RF signal and a signal process unit which performs FIR filtering with reference to phase shift for a respect frequency band of the first stream signal and the second stream signal, separates the first RF signal and the second RF signal based on a result of the performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Changwon National University Industry Academy Cooperation Corps
    Inventors: Hyung Jung Kim, Jae Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 8572145
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing apparatus for compensating for a non-linear distortion of a digital signal, including: an analysis signal generating section that converts the digital signal into a analysis signal of a complex number, using a digital filter; and a compensation section that compensates for the analysis signal, using a compensation coefficient of a complex number corresponding to the non-linear distortion, where the digital filter divides data of the digital signal into “n” data sequences, assigns (n*L+k)th data of the digital signal to a k-th data sequence, performs filtering on each of the data sequences using a same filter coefficient, and combines each of the data sequences after the filtering, thereby generating an imaginary number portion of the analysis signal, where “n” is an integer equal to or greater than 2, L=0, 1, . . . , and k=1, 2, . . . , n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Asami
  • Patent number: 8554817
    Abstract: Data rate conversion devices and methods are provided. A method for converting a first digital signal having a first sampling rate into a second digital signal having a sampling rate close to a predetermined second sampling rate comprises the following operations: when the ratio of the first sampling rate to the second sampling rate is a repeating infinite decimal, calculate at least two calibrating coefficient values and output the calibrating coefficient values according to a predetermined rule; conduct overflow operation on the output calibrating coefficient; and interpolate the first digital signal using the output calibrating coefficient and the result of the overflow operation to obtain the second digital signal such that during any period of a certain length along time axis, sampling times of the second digital signal equals to sampling times of the second sampling rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Montage Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Hu, Yuanfei Nie, Meiwu Wu
  • Patent number: 8552900
    Abstract: A successive approximation register switched capacitor analog to digital converter utilizes a high frequency clock for controlling comparator reset switches and a clock distribution block to operate at lower sample rates. The successive approximation cycles are clocked with the high frequency clock so that the reset switches stay within the leakage limit irrespective of the sample rate but the end of conversion signal is delayed to mimic the slower sample rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Haydar Bilhan, Maher Mahmoud Sarraj
  • Patent number: 8542142
    Abstract: A digital equalizer with a reduced number of multipliers for correction of the frequency responses of an interleaved ADC is disclosed. An exemplary interleaved analog to digital converter with digital equalization includes a composite ADC including M time interleaved sub-ADC, a demultiplexer, samples repositioning unit, a first PreFIRs transformer, a second PreFIRs transformer, K double buffer FIR filters, a PostFIRs transformer, a samples sequence restoration unit, and a multiplexer, coupled in series and providing an equalized, frequency response-corrected output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Guzik Technical Enterprises
    Inventors: Anatoli B. Stein, Semen P. Volfbeyn, Valeriy Serebryanskiy
  • Patent number: 8539012
    Abstract: A filtering method approximates a target Finite Impulse Response (FIR) (or transversal) filter and reduces computational requirements by eliminating high pass filtering required by known multi-rate filters. An input signal is copied into two identical signals and processed in parallel by a full-rate path, and by a reduced-rate path. Parallel filters are computed and applied in each path, the reduced-rate signal is up-sampled, and the two signals summed. The high pass filter required by known multi-rate filters is eliminated and the low pass filter in the prior art is implicit in a down sampling. Linear phase FIR filters are used for down and up sampling, resulting in constant group delay. Added benefits include the option of zero added latency through the filtering and the constant group delay added to the target FIR. The user may choose criteria such as minimum resolution in each band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Audyssey Laboratories
    Inventor: Jeffrey Clark
  • Patent number: 8537043
    Abstract: A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes a resistor leg that is switchably connected to a first voltage reference via an n-channel MOSFET and to a second voltage reference via a p-channel MOSFET, and a generator circuit. The generator circuit further includes a first sub-circuit for generating a drive voltage (Vgn) and a second sub-circuit for a) offsetting the first drive voltage by an offset voltage to generate a second drive voltage, and b) supplying the second drive voltage to a gate of one of the first NMOS and the first PMOS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick McLachlan, Avinash Gutta, Fergus Downey
  • Patent number: 8526628
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide for low latency active noise cancellation, which alleviates the problems associated with analog filter circuitry. The present technology utilizes low latency digital signal processing techniques that overcome the high latency conventionally associated with conversion between the analog and digital domains. As a result, low latency active noise cancellation is performed utilizing digital filter circuitry which is not subject to the inaccuracies and drift of analog filter components. In doing so, the present technology provides robust, high quality active noise cancellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Audience, Inc.
    Inventors: Dana Massie, Jean Laroche
  • Patent number: 8509567
    Abstract: Methods and an apparatus are provided for interpolation of pixels in a pixel array having rows and columns of pixels. The apparatus includes a shift register array to shift pixel values of the pixel array, the shift register array including two or more shift registers; an interpolation filter array interconnected to the shift register array, the interpolation filter array including one or more interpolation filters; and a controller configured to provide pixel values in columns of the pixel array from the shift register array to respective interpolation filters in a first mode and configured to provide pixel values in rows of the pixel array from the shift register array to respective interpolation filters in a second mode. The controller may be configured to supply vertical sub-pixel values from the shift register array to the interpolation filters to generate diagonal sub-pixel values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Cox, Vladimir Botchev, Ke Ning, Wei Zhang, Marc Hoffman
  • Patent number: 8499019
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for electronic hardware resource management in video processing are provided. A hybrid filter is controllable to apply either Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filtering or Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filtering for vertical filtering of a video image during a resizing process. A scale factor by which the video image is to be resized in the resizing process is determined, and the hybrid filter is controlled to apply FIR filtering for the vertical filtering where the determined scale factor satisfies a first condition relative to a threshold value ST or to apply IIR filtering for the vertical filtering where the determined scale factor satisfies a second condition relative to the threshold value ST. The first and second conditions are different and exclusive, such that only one type of filtering is applied. This hybrid filtering approach uses each type of filtering to avoid defects of the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Ross Video Limited
    Inventors: Yu Liu, David Allan Ross, Kizito Gysbertus Antonius Van Asten
  • Patent number: 8489661
    Abstract: A signal processing system includes a digital sample rate converter to convert a signal sampled at a first sampling frequency into a corresponding signal sampled at a second sampling frequency. In at least one embodiment, the sample rate converter includes a digital sample rate conversion filter. The digital sample rate conversion filter includes a digital filter that models a continuous time filter such as a low pass RC filter and generates filtered samples. The digital sample rate conversion filter also includes an interpolation filter that determines samples between the digital filtered samples. A sample selector selects the samples generated by the interpolation filter at the second sampling frequency. In at least one embodiment, the sample selector determines when to generate interpolated samples and the amount of time offset from an adjacent sample generated by the digital filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventor: John L. Melanson
  • Patent number: 8473534
    Abstract: A method for use in a digital frequency synthesizer, the method comprising phase to amplitude conversion of an output value of a phase accumulator in said synthesizer, said conversion being carried out as an approximation (y) of a phase value (x) which corresponds to said output amplitude value, the method being characterized in that the approximation comprises a combination of a linear interpolation value and a second order sinusoidal value, the second order sinusoidal value being used as an error term to correct for errors in the linear interpolation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8452826
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide digital frequency channelization of a digitally sampled input stream having a first bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Raytheon Applied Signal Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerry R. Hinson
  • Patent number: 8441386
    Abstract: A SAR ADC includes a DAC including a first set of capacitors each having a first end connected to a common node, and a second end, and a first set of switches each connecting the second end of a respective one of the capacitors to a first reference voltage. The SAR ADC further includes a second set of capacitors each having a first end connected to the common node and a second end that receives an input to be converted when the common node is connected to ground. The SAR ADC further includes a second set of switches that selectively connect the second end of a first capacitor of the second set of capacitors to ground when the input is disconnected from the second ends of the second set of capacitors and when the common node is disconnected from ground during a first of a plurality of successive approximations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Ronald Francis Strode
  • Patent number: 8417749
    Abstract: Approaches for preparing a design of a digital multirate filter. In one approach, an objective function and an input and output characteristic are input for determining an effectiveness of a plurality of filters. The characteristic includes an overall rate change value that specifies a ratio of an input to an output sample rate. The overall rate change value is factored into a plurality of ordered sets, and the overall rate change value is a product of the factors in the ordered sets. Each of the filters corresponds to one of the ordered sets and includes a respective stage for each factor in the ordered set. One of the filters is selected based on respective values determined from evaluating an objective function for the filters, and the factor(s) in the ordered set that corresponds to the selected one of the filters is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher H. Dick
  • Patent number: 8417750
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cascaded scheme in which an RRC filter, a modified RRC filter or other digital filter is implemented at a relatively low data rate, such as twice the symbol or chip rate, or 2×. Interpolation filters are used to increase the data rate to a higher data rate, such as 8×. Decimation filters are used to reduce the data rate from a higher rate, such as 8×, to a lower rate, such as 2×. The coefficients of the digital filter may be adjusted to compensate for characteristics of other components across the entire filter chain. Most of the implementation complexity of the filter chain is consolidated into the relatively low rate (such as 2×) digital filter while interpolation or decimation filters can be implemented at very low cost. The compensation capability provided by the digital filter makes design of simple decimation or interpolation filters much easier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Aiguo Yan, Ayman Shabra
  • Publication number: 20130066934
    Abstract: To variably change the filter characteristic of a decimation filter in accordance with a sampling rate. A decimation filter 13 in a semiconductor device 1 sequentially inputs a signal sampled at a predetermined sampling rate fos, and calculates, for each input signal that is input within a predetermined period (a period for M+2N), a filter coefficient Cj for performing predetermined filtering processing in response to a trigger signal TR continuously applied, and furthermore sequentially multiplies the input signal by the calculated filter coefficient, accumulates a multiplication value within the predetermined period, and sequentially outputs the result. The predetermined period is made variable in accordance with a time interval at which the trigger signal is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke EDO, Seiji KAMADA
  • Patent number: 8385490
    Abstract: A discrete time filter includes a plurality of sampling cells and a first dummy sampling cell. Each of the sampling cells performs a current mode sampling operation based on current input to an input terminal in response to a corresponding one of a plurality of sampling clock signals and is reset in response to a corresponding one of the plurality of sampling clock signals and a first dummy sampling clocks. The first dummy sampling cell alternately performs with the first sampling cell the current mode sampling operation based on current input to the input terminal in response to the first dummy sampling clock signal and is alternately reset with the first sampling cell in response to the first sampling clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Ho Lee, Myoung Oh Ki, Sang Yoon Jeon, Heung Bae Lee
  • Patent number: 8380772
    Abstract: A multi-rate filter bank including an anti-aliasing filter, a plurality of multiplier block modules, a folding block, and a data composer is disclosed. The anti-aliasing filter receives an anti-aliasing input signal. The multiplier block modules receive an original signal and sequentially generate a plurality of processed signals. The multiplier block modules also receive a plurality of block input signals and a select signal. Each of the multiplier block modules is configured into a decimation block or an expanding anti-aliasing filter according to the select signal. The folding block receives the select signal and a folding input signal and generates a folding block output signal. The data composer receives and composes the folding block output signal and the outputs of the multiplexer block modules and the anti-aliasing filter and generates an anti-aliasing filter output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Kung-Piao Huang
  • Patent number: 8358229
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a method for use in a sigma-delta analog to digital converter, sigma-delta analog to digital converters and systems comprising sigma-delta analog to digital converters. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for use in a sigma-delta analog to digital converter (SD-ADC) comprising a modulator, a decimation filter, a decimation counter, and a decimator data output, wherein the method comprises receiving an external trigger signal and capturing a value of the decimation counter and a value of the decimator data output upon receiving the external trigger signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Jens Barrenscheen
  • Patent number: 8356063
    Abstract: A digital filter is provided for radio communication processing capable of dynamically modifying the characteristic and simultaneously processing a plurality of systems. In the digital filter, calculation core groups capable of modifying function are arranged and connected to one another by an input interface unit and an output interface unit. When the communication mode is modified, the number of calculation resources to be used and setting contents are decided according to the setting candidate of the filter characteristic required and the calculation resource empty state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuaki Abe, Kentaro Miyano, Akihiko Matsuoka, Tomoya Urushihara
  • Publication number: 20130007082
    Abstract: A digital radio signal is processed by converting an analog signal to a digital signal, decimating the digital signal using a CIC filter and supplying the decimated digital signal directly to an asynchronous sample rate converter (ASRC). The decimated signal is resampled in the ASRC and the ASRC output is supplied directly to a droop compensation filter to compensate the output of the ASRC. By carefully choosing the response of the CIC filter and the resample rate of the ASRC, aliased artifacts in the pass band can be kept below a threshold magnitude without the need for a channelization filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventor: Javier Elenes
  • Patent number: 8331583
    Abstract: A noise reducing apparatus includes: a voice signal inputting unit inputting an input voice signal; a noise occurrence period detecting unit detecting a noise occurrence period; a noise removing unit removing a noise for the noise occurrence period; a generation source signal acquiring unit acquiring a generation source signal with a time duration corresponding to a time duration corresponding to the noise occurrence period; a pitch calculating unit calculating a pitch of an input voice signal interval; an interval signal setting unit setting interval signals divided in each unit period interval; an interpolation signal generating unit generating an interpolation signal with the time duration corresponding to the noise occurrence period and alternately arranging the interval signal in a forward time direction and the interval signal in a backward time direction; and a combining unit combining the interpolation signal and the input voice signal, from which the noise is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8326640
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for multi-band amplitude estimation and gain control in an audio CODEC are provided. In this regard, an audio signal may be filtered and delayed to generate one or more sub-band signals, a gain may be applied to each sub-band signal to generate one or more level adjusted sub-band signals, and the one or more level adjusted signals may be added to a delayed version of the audio signal. The gain applied to a particular one of the one or more sub-band signals may be controlled based on a detected amplitude of a summed signal derived by summing the particular one of the one or more sub-band signals and a corresponding one of the one or more level-adjusted sub-band signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Hongwei Kong, Taiyi Cheng
  • Patent number: 8295388
    Abstract: Techniques for efficient upconversion can process complex input data, such as for example data in an inphase and quadrature form. Half sample interpolation filtering and delay can be performed, and the results can be combined in a quarter-rate upconverter. The quarter rate upconversion can allow one of the half-sample interpolating filtering and the delay to be performed on one of either the inphase and quadrature samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: L-3 Communications, Corp.
    Inventors: Ryan Hinton, Osama S. Haddadin, Justin Petersen
  • Patent number: 8296346
    Abstract: A channel-select decimation filter capable of operating in multiple bandwidth modes includes a first low pass filter stage, a variable gain stage, a subtraction module a second low pass filter stage and a down-sampling module. The first low pass filter stage includes a first programmable delay module for filtering input signals to produce first low pass filtered signals. The variable gain stage applies a programmable gain to the input signals to produce gained input signals. The subtraction module subtracts the first low pass filtered signals from the gain input signals to produce first stage signals. The second low pass filter stage includes a second programmable delay module for filtering the first stage signals to produce channel-selected signals. The first programmable delay module, second programmable delay module and programmable gain are programmed to implement one of the multiple bandwidth modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Henrik T. Jensen, Brima B. Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 8289195
    Abstract: A programmable logic device can be configured as a fractional rate resampling filter capable of performing downsampling prior to upsampling without modifying the overall filter response. Input data may be received at a first sample rate and may be downsampled to generate downsampled data. Portions of the downsampled data may be respectively output to different filtering paths. Each filtering path may include a cluster of filter components that corresponds to different subfilters of the overall filter response and may be operable to receive and process the different portions of the downsampled data. Outputs of each cluster may be combined to generate output data at a second sample rate. The resampling filter structure can reduce the number of multiplier circuits used by allowing time-division multiplexing among different filter components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaofei Dong, Hong Shan Neoh
  • Publication number: 20120254272
    Abstract: A method is provided for decimating a digital signal by a factor of M and matching it to a desired channel bandwidth. The method applies the digital signal input samples to a (M?1) stage tapped delay line, downsamples the input samples and the output samples of each tapped delay line stage by a factor of M, and applies each of the M downsampled sample value streams to M allpass IIR filters, respectively. The M allpass IIR filtered sample streams are then summed and scaled by a factor of 1/M. The result can then be filtered by a digital channel filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Mark Alan Sturza, Donald Leimer
  • Publication number: 20120246210
    Abstract: An asynchronous sample rate converter prevents the folding back of a signal in the passband of an input sample rate into the passband of the output sample by adaptively controlling the decimation rate. The ASRC includes an adaptive decimation rate controller that selectably controls a decimation filter based on the ratio of the input sampling rate to the output sampling rate. By adaptively controlling the decimation rate in the ASRC, a significant amount of area and power is saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Yang Pan, David Lamb
  • Patent number: 8271568
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses in which a first stage of a digital filter receives input data to be filtered, the first stage of a digital filter operating at a first clock; a second stage of the digital filter outputs filtered output data, the second stage of the digital filter operating on a second clock, wherein a ratio of a frequency of the first clock and a frequency of the second clock is a fractional number, and a frequency of the second clock is higher than a frequency of the first clock; the first stage receives an indication of a ratio of the first clock and the second clock; and the first stage receives an indication of a time offset between (1) a clock pulse of the second clock, which occurs between a first clock pulse and a second clock pulse of the first clock, and (2) the first clock pulse of the first clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Andreas Menkhoff
  • Patent number: 8253733
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) image generator and 3D image generation method scale a depth map or a two-dimensional (2D) image, perform a cross filtering to sharpen a blurred region on the depth map based on location information of the depth map and 2D image, and thus obtain a clearer depth map and provide a more graphical 3D image using the depth map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kim, Yong Ju Jung, Aron Baik, Du-Sik Park
  • Patent number: 8253610
    Abstract: Poly-phase filters are used to offer an efficient and low complexity solution to rate conversion. However, they suffer from inflexibility and are not easily reconfigured. A novel design for rate converters employ poly-phase filters but utilize interpolation between filter coefficients to add flexibility to rate conversion. This interpolation can be implemented as an interpolation of the poly-phase filter results. Additional approximations can be made to further reduce the amount of calculations required to implement a flexible rate converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Conexant Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ragnar H Jonsson, Vilhjalmur S Thorvaldsson, Trausti Thormundsson
  • Patent number: 8249208
    Abstract: A method for converting a sampling frequency of a digital signal sampled at a first sampling frequency includes receiving digital signal input samples, and forming output samples corresponding to a second sampling frequency based on the digital signal input samples and an interpolation filter. The first sampling frequency may be larger than the second sampling frequency. The method may further include delivering the output samples. Forming output samples includes, for each of the digital signal input samples, updating current values of N successive output samples with N contributions. The N contributions may be respectively calculated based on a value of a current input sample of the digital input samples weighted by values of N filter coefficients associated with the current input sample, N being fixed and identical for all the digital signal input samples regardless of a value of the conversion ratio between the first and second sampling frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Samuel Dubouloz, Antoine Hue
  • Publication number: 20120203812
    Abstract: A method of generating a signal having a converted sampling rate in a communication system is provided. The method includes selecting effective input samples among S number of input samples included in an input stream corresponding to an input sampling rate, generating a filter coefficient set including filter coefficients having a length of a second tap, the filter coefficients having the length of the second tap being generated by dividing a filter coefficient having a length of a first tap configuring a low-pass filter into the filter coefficients having the length of the second tap corresponding to a number of selected effective input samples, selecting filter coefficients corresponding to each of the effective input samples among the filter coefficients included in the filter coefficient set, and outputting output samples having an output sampling rate which is converted from the input sampling rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Joo-Hyun LEE, Sung-Kwon JO, Ha-Young YANG
  • Patent number: 8233537
    Abstract: This invention is useful in video compression standards support a rich set of intra prediction modes. This invention a unique table creation and lookup approach to software pipeline the prediction process for all pixels within a block. The table stores constant data and pointer data into a neighbor pixel table. Indexing into the table based upon the current intra prediction mode for each pixel of a block recalls constant data and other pixel data for calculation of an intra prediction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sunand Mittal, Ratna M. V. Reddy
  • Patent number: 8229987
    Abstract: A direct sampling circuit and a receiver which carry out discrete time analog processing with a high degree of design freedom and are provided with a filter property which is achievable to comply with the receipt of a broad band signal. A plurality of discrete time analog processing circuits (101) are connected in parallel with each other, a gm value and a capacitance of a capacitor in each circuit system are set independently based on a prescribed condition, and an output signal obtained from each circuit system is synthesized by means of a buffer capacitor (102), so that an equivalently high-dimensional IIR filter can be put into practice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Katsuaki Abe, Noriaki Saito, Kiyomichi Araki, Yohei Morishita