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<title><![CDATA[APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING COMPLEXITY OF MATCHED FILTER]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095278.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An apparatus for determining multipath correlations among a search range of input data, and a method thereof. The multipath searcher comprises a pseudo noise (PN) code generator, a correlator, and a data combiner. The PN code generator generates a first PN code corresponding to a first multipath component of the input data, postpones a first period based on the search range, then generates a second PN code corresponding to a second multipath component of the input data. The correlator is coupled to the PN code generator, and correlates the input data with the first PN code and the second PN code to produce a first correlation and a second correlation. The data combiner is coupled to the correlator, receives the first and the second correlations to determine a primary multipath component with a higher correlation thereto.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Systems and Methods for Ofdm Transmission and Reception]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095267.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A discrete cosine transform (DCT)-based orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system is provided with a zero-padding guard interval and MMSE reception. The performance of the DCT-OFDM system with the zero-padding guard interval scheme and the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) receiver over time-varying multipath Rayleigh fading channels is investigated. The results show that employing the proposed DCT-OFDM system rather than the conventional DFT-OFDM system can provide better bit error rate performance in practical systems, by as much as 6 dB in signal-to-noise ratio.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION APPARATUS AND DIGITAL RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095270.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A transmission apparatus includes a frame configuration determiner that determines a modulation system, from among a plurality of modulation systems, based on a communication situation. A first symbol generator modulates a digital transmission signal, according to the modulation system determined by the frame configuration determiner and generates a first symbol, the first symbol comprising a first quadrature baseband signal. A second symbol generator modulates a known digital transmission signal between a transmitting side and a receiving side and generates a second symbol, the second symbol comprising a second quadrature baseband signal.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method for Transmitting a Digital Data Stream, Transmitter, Method for Receiving a Digital Data Stream and Receiver]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095262.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for transmitting a digital signal is described, wherein the digital signal is to be transmitted by a plurality of antennas and a  2 -domain pre-transformation is carried out, i.e., in course of a pre-transformation modulation symbols assigned to subcarriers having different frequencies and assigned to subcarriers sent by different antennas are linearly combined.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Signal Separating Device and Signal Separating Method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095257.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A signal detection apparatus improving signal detection accuracy in a receiver for communications system complying with the MIMO scheme. The signal detection apparatus detects transmission signals sent from transmission antennas based on received signals received by receiving antennas. The apparatus includes: a first determination mechanism for determining symbol candidates of the transmission signals in sequence based on the QRM-MLD method using the received signals arranged in first order; a second determination mechanism for determining symbol candidates of the transmission signals in sequence based on the QRM-MLD method using the received signals arranged in second order that is different from the first order; and an output mechanism for outputting symbol candidates and likelihood of the transmission signals based on determination results of at least the first and the second determination mechanisms.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095224.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A semiconductor integrated circuit has first and second delay circuits that have n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) delay elements connected in series, respectively, and in which an identical input signal is inputted to delay elements at a first stage and output signals of delay elements at a kth (k is an integer satisfying a condition 1≦k≦n−1) stage are inputted to delay elements at a k+1th stage and a detection circuit that has n edge detecting units and a readout unit and in which a jth (j is an integer satisfying a condition 1≦j≦n) edge detecting unit is inputted with an output signal of a delay element at a jth stage of the first delay circuit and an output signal of a delay element at an n−j+1th stage of the second delay circuit, detects whether periods of rising or falling changes of the two signals overlap, and counts a number of times of the detection, and the readout unit reads out the counted number of times of the detection.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Embedded RF environmental evaluation tool to gauge RF transceivers performance need]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095221.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol subject matter for advanced metering infrastructure, adaptable to various international standards, while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as for operating in a residential electricity meter field. The present subject matter supports meters within an ANSI standard C12.22/C12.19 system while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as for operating in a residential electricity meter field, all to permit cell-based adaptive insertion of C12.22 meters within an open framework. Cell isolation is provided through quasi-orthogonal sequences in a frequency hopping network. Additional features relate to apparatus and methodology subject matters related to Embedded RF environmental evaluation tool features to gauge the performance need of RF transceivers.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Channel Sounding in Ofdma System]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095223.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for determining a downlink channel response in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) system. The method and apparatus uses the uplink quality indication channel for determining the downlink channel response, or uses round trip pilot relay channel sounding. The uplink quality indication channel may comprise modified mini-tiles. The subscriber station using round trip pilot relay channel sounding sends composite transponder pilots after receiving the DL pilots.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SCALING USING GAIN FACTORS FOR USE IN DATA DETECTION]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095216.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Data is estimated from a received vector comprising a plurality of communications. A received wireless signal is converted to a baseband signal, which is sampled to produce a received vector. Channel responses are estimated for the received communications. The noise variance is estimated. The noise variance is scaled by a scaling factor. Samples are processed using the estimated channel responses and the scaled noise variance to produce a spread data vector. The spread data vector is despread to recover the data of the received wireless signal.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[COHERENT DETECTION WITHOUT TRANSMISSION PREAMBLE]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095215.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A receiving system allows for the coherent detection of a spread-spectrum transmission at any point in time during the transmission, thereby avoiding the need to identify the start of the transmission during the transmission-detection process. An input buffer captures the transmissions on a communication channel using a moving time-window. A detector processes a time-slice from the input buffer and identifies all of the simultaneously transmitting transmitters during that time-slice. As each transmitter is identified, the demodulator traces back-in-time to identify where the message can first be detected in the input buffer. The transmission includes suitable characteristics to facilitate detection and demodulation of the message content, but need not contain a preamble to allow the detection process.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Multicarrier orthogonal spread-spectrum(MOSS) data communications]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095214.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Systems and methods are described for multicarrier orthogonal spread-spectrum (MOSS) data communication. A method includes individually spread-spectrum modulating at least two of a set of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed carriers, wherein the resulting individually spread-spectrum modulated at least two of a set of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed carriers are substantially mutually orthogonal with respect to both frequency division multiplexing and spread-spectrum modulation.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ADAPTIVE CONTROLLER FOR LINEARIZATION OF TRANSMITTER WITH IMPAIRMENTS]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095266.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An adaptive controller for linearization of transmitters using predistortion of the input signal has reduced sensitivity to impairments such as gain variation, phase noise or modulation/demodulation frequency instability by linearizing an adaptively normalized gain provided through a separate estimation and cancellation of linear gain variations. Values of a nonlinear and a linear gain blocks, cascaded with the linearized transmitter and called respectively a predistortion block and a gain regulation block, are independently adjusted by two different adaptive controllers. In one embodiment, four banks of real gain elements compose the predistortion block and realize an arbitrary step-wise approximation of a generalized 2×2 transmit gain matrix of nonlinear functions. In a further embodiment cancellation of a DC level bias multi-channel impairment is provided by an adaptively adjusted signal adder inserted in the transmit chain between the predistortion block and the linearized transmitter.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and System for Digital Tracking in Direct and Polar Modulation]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095269.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Aspects of a method and system for digital tracking in direct and polar modulation are presented. Aspects of the system may include at least one circuit within a phase locked loop (PLL) circuit that enables adaptive and digital control of an analog fractional N (Frac N) PLL during direct modulation of a signal or polar modulation of the signal.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[DATA TRANSMISSION WITH SPATIAL SPREADING IN A MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095282.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[For data transmission with spatial spreading, a transmitting entity ( 1 ) encodes and modulates each data packet to obtain a corresponding data symbol block, ( 2 ) multiplexes data symbol blocks onto NS data symbol streams for transmission on NS transmission channels of a MIMO channel, ( 3 ) spatially spreads the NS data symbol streams with steering matrices, and ( 4 ) spatially processes NS spread symbol streams for full-CSI transmission on NS eigenmodes or partial-CSI transmission on NS spatial channels of the MIMO channel. A receiving entity ( 1 ) obtains NR received symbol streams via NR receive antennas, ( 2 ) performs receiver spatial processing for full-CSI or partial-CSI transmission to obtain NS detected symbol streams, ( 3 ) spatially despreads the NS detected symbol streams with the same steering matrices used by the transmitting entity to obtain NS recovered symbol streams, and ( 4 ) demodulates and decodes each recovered symbol block to obtain a corresponding decoded data packet.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Characterization of a frequency response for a frequency translation device]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095271.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method of characterizing the frequency response of a frequency translation device over a wide IF bandwidth is based on a two-dimensional model to generate calibration data for a device at run-time. The model is a function of a center frequency and frequency offset for a plurality of center frequencies over a wide system bandwidth to produce a frequency response at each center frequency. The frequency responses at each center frequency are scaled and normalized relative to a reference frequency and stored.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Synchronizing Multiple Data Converters]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095285.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Synchronizing multiple-phase data converters by exchanging terminal count pulses via a bidirectional link. Multiple-phase data converters such as analog to digital converters (ADCs) or digital to analog converters (DACs) are synchronized to operate at the same phase by exchanging terminal count (TC) pulses and capturing counter state, representing a time offset from TC. Time offset and the symmetrical delay introduced by the link are used to solve for the delay introduced by the link and the off-set between devices. The offset information is used to align the devices. The process may be repeated to correct for drift.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Clock data recovery systems and methods for direct digital synthesizers]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095291.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A system and method for clock data recovery for programming direct digital synthesizers is disclosed. A counter is used to calculate a coarse measurement of the clock frequency of a received digital signal, and a tap delay line is used to calculate a fine measurement of the clock frequency of the received digital signal. The coarse and fine measurements are used to calculate a value for programming a direct digital synthesizer to produce a clock signal that is an approximate replica of the clock frequency of the received digital signal.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TECHNIQUES TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF JITTER ON COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PERFORMANCE]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095283.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Techniques are described that can be used to reduce noise attributable to jitter in a received signal. Multiple filters may be available. The number of available filters may correlate to a period of channel-related jitter in terms of clock cycles. One of the filters may be activated for a particular clock cycle. The activated filter may provide a noise reducing signal based on a reference signal and error identified in a received signal. A filter may be used to provide a signal to reduce noise attributable to error signals from interleaved jittered channels.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fast Fourier Transformation (Fft) With Adaption Of The Sampling Rate In Digital Radio Mondiale (Drm) Receivers]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095273.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method of processing received radio signals in a receiver operating according to the DRM standard, in which the signals are converted to the receiver's baseband frequency, sampled and then subject to Fourier transformation to resolve QAM constellation points, wherein the sample rate of the signal on which the Fourier transform is performed is an integral multiple of the desired frequency spacing in the transform output and the Fourier transformation is a Fast Fourier Transformation.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Base Station Device in Multi-Carrier Transmission, Mobile Station Device, and Cell Search Method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095287.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[There is provided a mobile station device capable of reducing processing of cell search. In this device, an FFT timing detection unit ( 603 ) detects a symbol timing and a frame timing detection unit ( 606 ) detects a frame timing by using the frame timing detection symbol. After a frame timing is detected, a code group detection unit ( 608 ) detects a code group and a scrambling code identification unit ( 610 ) identifies a scrambling code. That is, the frame timing detection process is separated from the code group detection process and after detecting the frame timing, a symbol timing multiplied by the code group sequence is identified so that the code group is detected only at the symbol timing.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[COMMUNICATION APPARATUS]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095253.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A communication apparatus has an A/D converter which converts an analog signal which was received, into a digital signal, a converter which converts a reception signal so as to enable handling of phase information, a carrier detector which detects presence or absence of the reception signal, a synchronous circuit which extract synchronization timing from the reception signal, an equalizer which corrects the reception signal so as to cancel influence of a transmission path, a transmission path estimator which estimates a state of a power line transmission path, and a judging unit which judges the reception signal, which was amended by the equalizer, by use of a threshold value.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PRE-CODING METHOD FOR MIMO SYSTEM AND APPARATUS USING THE METHOD]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095258.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A pre-coding method for a MIMO system and an apparatus using the same are described. In the method, a receiver determines a corresponding codebook from a multi-codebook including multiple codebooks according to a location of a resource block, selects a corresponding codeword index from the determined codebook and transmits the index to a transmitter; the transmitter determines the corresponding codebook from the multi-codebook including multiple codebooks according to the location of the resource block where transmission data is to be transmitted, selects a corresponding codeword from the determined codebook according to the codeword index and performs pre-coding for the transmission data with the selected codeword. The pre-coding is performed with the multi-codebook in the present invention, which increases a diversity of pre-coding matrixes, so dynamic fluctuation range of a equivalent channel is improved and thus the performance of multi-user scheduling is enhanced effectively.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method for Selecting Switched Beam Using Pilot Signal and System Thereof]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095251.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention relates to a system for selecting a switched beam for supplying a maximum received power to a subscriber station, and a method thereof. The number of switched beams used by a base station is limited, and a weight value vector for forming the switched beam is predefined. The subscriber station uses a pilot signal for discerning transmitting antennas to estimate channel values for the respective transmitting antennas, and uses the channel values and the predefined weight value vectors to determine a switched beam for supplying a maximum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The subscriber station notifies the base station of an identifier of a selected beam by using a feedback channel, and the base station uses the switched beam to transmit traffic data.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Transmission and detection of preamble signal in OFDM communication system]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095277.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A wireless communication method using wireless signals including a preamble, the method comprising: acquiring a first symbol of the preamble by searching a common waveform; progressively acquiring subsequent symbols of the preamble using information from previous symbols including the first symbol; and acquiring critical system configuration information embedded in the preamble using the first symbol and the subsequent symbols.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRE-DISTORTING A BASE-BAND DIGITAL SIGNAL]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095264.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A baseband signal predistortion processing device and method. Said device includes: a predistorter, for preserving and updating nonlinear filter parameter, carrying out power statistic of input signals, selecting corresponding nonlinear filter parameter according to the power statistical result and predistortion-processing baseband digital signals by use of said corresponding nonlinear filter parameter, and outputting the predistortion processed baseband digital signals; an adaptive parameter calculating unit, for calculating nonlinear filter parameter according to received feedback signals of radio-frequency channel and sampled signals of baseband digital signals, and transmitting the calculating result to the predistorter. Said method can not only solve the nonlinear problem of power amplifier, but also can select different non-linearity inverse model according to different input signal and power amplifier characteristic, and increase whole efficiency of base station transmitter.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scattered pilot location detector]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095255.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention provides a scattered pilot (SP) location detector capable of detecting patterns of SP symbols promptly without using a TMCC signal. The SP location detector comprises a multiplier which multiplies received signals generated by demodulating OFDM modulation signals in which pilot symbols are dispersively disposed in accordance with four types of patterns and which are transmitted periodically, by a pseudo-random number bit sequence, four arithmetic circuits which are respectively provided corresponding to the four types of patterns and which respectively extract pilot symbols corresponding to respective patterns from results of multiplication by the multiplier and calculate sums of phase differences between the extracted pilot symbols, followed by outputting absolute values thereof, and a pattern detection circuit which detects the corresponding arithmetic circuit maximum in the calculated absolute value from within the four arithmetic circuits.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[System, Multi-Stage Equalizer and Equalization Method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095225.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A system, a multi-stage equalizer and a method for generating an equalized signal in response to a received signal are provided. The multi-stage equalizer comprises a first DFE, and a second DFE. The first DFE generates a first signal in response to the received signal. The second DFE generates a second signal in response to the first signal, subtracts the second signal from a third signal to generate a fourth signal, and generates the equalized signal in response to the fourth signal, wherein the fourth signal is an unsliced signal. The method comprises steps of: providing a first DFE to generate a first signal in response to the received signal; providing a second DFE to generate a second signal in response to the first signal and to subtract the second signal from a third signal to generate a fourth signal; and generating the equalized signal in response to the fourth signal.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apparatus, method and computer-readable recording medium for setting signal correction-magnitude]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095219.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Equal-length group data obtained by grouping together slot pairs connected by a wiring pattern of equal length is stored in advance. Error rate is determined while changing a pre-emphasis (PE) setting value and an equalizer (EQ) setting value of a signal transmitted between a specified slot pair. The slot pairs belonging to the same equal-length group as the specified slot pair are selected based on the equal-length group data, and optimum PE and EQ setting values, determined based on the error rate, are set for the signals transmitted between the selected slot pairs.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FFT window spread generating method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095289.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention provides an FFT window spread generating method used in the modulation of an OFDM system. When OFDM-modulated received signals each having a time length greater than or equal to an effective symbol length are demodulated by FFT processing using a spread FFT window, the spread FFT window makes use of received signals each having the time length greater than or equal to the effective symbol length. Spreading windows spread before and/or after the effective symbol length are provided. Received signals lying within the spreading windows are added to their corresponding received signals lying within the effective symbol length and different in time position by the effective symbol length, and the amplitudes of the added received signals are reduced to half respectively, thereby generating the spread FFT window.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PEAK FACTOR REDUCTION UNIT AND BASEBAND SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095284.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A peak factor reduction unit that never allow peak factor reproduction even when interpolation is done in a succeeding stage. The unit detects a local maximum value of amplitude components from an input complex signal and supplies a complex signal that passes a band limiting baseband filter and an interpolation filter to a correction signal generation unit for generating a correction signal used for peak factor reduction and reduces a peak factor of the input complex signal with use of the correction signal generated from an interpolated complex signal.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SPREAD SPECTRUM SIGNAL PROCESSING]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095272.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention relates to processing of spread spectrum signals, where a continuous signal of a comparatively high frequency is received. This signal is sampled at a basic sampling rate whereby a resulting sequence of time discrete signal samples is produced, which are in turn quantised into a corresponding level-discrete sample value. A plurality of data words are formed, which each includes one or more consecutive sample values. Information obtained from these data words is correlated with at least one representation of a signal source specific code sequence, which has been pre-generated in the form of a code vector. The correlation step specifically involves correlating at least each vector in a sub-group of the code vectors with at least one vector that has been derived from the data word. Thereby resulting data is produced.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLOCK PHASE ALIGNMENT BETWEEN ACTIVE AND STANDBY CLOCK CARDS AND CLOCK CARD]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095292.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention discloses an apparatus and a method for clock phase alignment between active and standby clock cards. The apparatus includes: a Direct Digital Synthesizer (DDS) adapted for adjusting a clock phase of a clock card; a phase detection module adapted for detecting a phase difference between a clock of the clock card and that of a counterpart clock card; and a CPU adapted for calculating a value for the phase register within the DDS according to the detected phase difference. The method includes: if the clock card is in standby state, detecting a phase difference between a clock of the clock card and that of the counterpart clock card; and adjusting, by the DDS, a phase of the clock of the clock card to be aligned to that of the counterpart clock card, according to the detected phase difference. A clock card is further disclosed.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Statistical procedures for carrier frequency tracking]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095274.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for carrier frequency tracking of a received signal having a burst structure includes dividing each burst into a number of segments. The carrier frequency offset of a first segment within a burst is measured to obtain a first segment carrier frequency offset measurement value. The carrier frequency offset of a second segment within the burst is corrected by a second segment carrier frequency offset correction value based on the first segment carrier frequency offset measurement value.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Enhanced Bit Mapping for Digital Interface of a Wireless Communication Equipment in Multi-Time Slot and Multi-Mode Operation]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095248.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A control device (CD) is dedicated to the control of the transmission of coded values onto a digital interface (I) connecting a baseband device (BBD) and a baseband interface device (BAI), comprising at least a modulator (M) feeding a gain controller (GC), of a wireless communication equipment. The control device (CD) comprises a storing means (MM 1 ) for storing a coding table establishing a correspondence between symbols for the baseband interface device (BAI) and coding values to transmit to this radiofrequency device through the digital interface (I). Tie coding table comprises a first group of symbols comprising data words for feeding the modulator (M) and a second group of symbols comprising command words for controlling the operation of the modulator (M) and/or the gain controller (GC). The control device (CD) also comprises a control means (CRM) arranged, when it receives a symbol from the baseband device (BBD), to determine in the storing means (MM  1 ) the coded value corresponding to this symbol in order it could be transmitted to the baseband interface device (BAI) through the digital interface (I).]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and Apparatus for Selecting a Subset of Modeled Impairment Correlation Terms for Use in Received Signal Processing]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095279.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A subset of modeled impairment correlation terms are selected for use in received signal processing. According to one embodiment, a subset of modeled impairment correlation terms is selected and a composite impairment correlation term is determined based on the subset of modeled impairment correlation terms. The composite impairment correlation term may be determined by scaling the modeled impairment correlation terms included in the subset by respective model fitting parameters. The scaled modeled impairment correlation terms are then combined to form the composite impairment correlation term. The subset of modeled impairment correlation terms may be selected based on their respective model fitting parameters. In one embodiment, the modeled impairment terms having a model fitting parameter that satisfy a threshold are included in the subset while those that do not are excluded. The composite impairment correlation term may be used for received signal processing, e.g., demodulation or signal-to-interference estimation.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MIMO decoding]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095281.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a wireless MIMO system with interference cancellation, compensate for decision errors in the cancelled symbols by adjustments to the scaling of the soft estimates with additive interference-proportional to estimates of the decision error probability.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Link adaption for mobile ad hoc and mesh networks]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095222.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method of selecting linked metric measurements from at least one of open loop and closed loop measurements is disclosed. The method includes sending by a first node a first radio communication and receiving by a second node the first radio communication over a communication link. The method also includes estimating by a second node dynamics of the communication channel using at least one of the variance and mean deviation of linked metric measurements. The link metric measurements are at least one of symbol error rate (SER), packet error rate (PER), frame error rate (FER), bit error rate (BER), signal to noise ration (SNR), and received signal strength (RSS). The method also includes the use of the above link metric measurements by the second node as Open Loop metrics and the sending back of these metrics to the first node for use a Closed Loop metrics by the first node. The method also includes categorizing the dynamics of the communications channel into one of at least two groups based on the estimate. Further still, the method comprises selecting, based on the chosen group, the use of at least one of closed loop link adaption and open loop link adaption of communication link parameters.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method for the Synchronization of a Radio Receiver, and Adapted Receiver for the Implementation of Said Method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095288.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for the synchronization of a radio receiver, comprising an estimation of the moment when a pulse ( 11, 17 ) is received ( 11, 17 ), performed from the moment when a previous pulse was received. The estimated moment is compared with the real moment when the pulse ( 21, 27 ) is received in order to validate an association of pulses with values of a code recorded in the receiver ( 31, 37 ). A moment for the beginning of transmission of a symbol is thus deduced, enabling the receiver to be synchronized in relation to the transmitted radio pulse sequence.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Measurement System for Delay Between Two Signals Transmitted Via Two Transmission Paths]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095286.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[System for determining a time delay between a first and second different transmission path, whereby the first transmission path can be the path of a video signal and the second transmission path can be the path of a corresponding audio signal, the system comprising a sender and a receiver wherein said sender comprises the following functionalities: -a transmit function to transmit over a first transmission path a predetermined first signal, and a start function to start a timer at a first moment substantially simultaneously with the transmit function; -a wait function to wait for an acknowledgement of a reception of said second signal by said receiver, said acknowledgement being sent along a return transmission path that shows substantially no delay when compared to said time delay, -a stop function to stop upon reception of said acknowledgement, said timer at a second moment, -a calculation function to calculate said time delay as being a difference between said second moment and said first moment, -a storage function to store said time delay in a delay unit to delay a transmission of a second signal via said second transmission path and said receiver comprises the following functionalities: a receive function to receive said first signal, a check function to check whether said first signal equals a reference signal stored in a memory and if so, a send function to send said acknowledgement of said reception to said sender along said return transmission path.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Random Access Channel Design With Hybrid CDM And FDM Multiplexing Of Access]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095254.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method of establishing communications with a remote receiver ( 300 ) that receives data signals ( 612, 614 ) from other transmitters is disclosed. The method includes producing a preamble ( 602 ) and producing guard bands ( 800, 802 ) between the preamble and the data signals. The preamble is transmitted ( 111 ) to the remote receiver.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pre-coding for multiple-input-multiple-output communications]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095259.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Precoding codes for MIMO transmitters are generated using an asymptotically optimal decoding algorithm, such as a trellis-exploration algorithm similar to the Viterbi algorithm. A trellis may be constructed using a number of desired subchannels, at least one code length, and a number of code-chip parameters. A fitness function is derived from a mathematical relationship between codes, and may include some measure of correlation of the codes. The selected codes correspond to paths having optimal path metrics derived from the fitness function. Multiple iterations through the trellis may be performed to refine a selection of the codes.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ENCODING UPLINK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO DOWNLINK TRANSMISSIONS]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095252.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A portable device, such as a mobile terminal or user equipment, for encoding uplink acknowledgments to downlink transmissions. The portable device includes a receiver configured to receive a plurality of data blocks, such that each of the data blocks include an associated cyclic redundancy check (CRC), and a processor configured to determine received status for each of the data blocks by checking the CRC of each of the data blocks. The portable device further includes a transmitter for transmitting a response sequence which indicates the received status of all of the data blocks.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Radiation powered battery-free energy-burst source for wireless weather stations and home-climate systems]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095261.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The power of a complete picture of energy-weather information can be used for novel energy saving algorithms in home-climate systems. Exploiting the human biological clock, we recently proposed to optimize climate systems by allowing for a correlation between inside and outside temperatures, while preserving maximal comfort. Following our earlier disclosure on a Gas Energy Observatory, we here disclose a detailed description of a battery-free wireless weather station for reliable, long-term and maintenance-free measurements. It is solar powered. Combined with energy storage in high-voltage capacitors using recently introduced low-cost step-up and step-down DC-DC converters, a versatile energy burst-source is created. Energies of a few J per day suffice for measurement, data-collection and wireless data transmission in bursts to a central data-processing device inside a nearby home. Provided as a high-volume consumer product, residential weather data can be gathered over the internet for creating a climate observation system with unprecedented areal coverage and spatial resolution at no additional cost—serving modern climate research and studies on global warming.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION TECHNIQUE USING NON-LINEAR FILTERS]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095265.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A linearizer and method. In a most general embodiment, the inventive linearizer includes a characterizer coupled to an input to and an output from said circuit for generating a set of coefficients and a predistortion engine responsive to said coefficients for predistorting a signal input to said circuit such that said circuit generates a linearized output in response thereto. In a specific application, the circuit is a power amplifier into which a series of pulses are sent during an linearizer initialization mode of operation. In a specific implementation, the characterizer analyzes finite impulse responses of the amplifier in-response to the initialization pulses and calculates the coefficients for the feedback compensation filter in response thereto. In the preferred embodiment, the impulse responses are averaged with respect to a threshold to provide combined responses. In the illustrative embodiment, the combined responses are Fast Fourier Transformed, reciprocated and then inverse transformed. The data during normal operation is fed back to the data capture, corrected for distortion in the feedback path from the output of the amplifier, converted to basedband, synchronized and used to provide the coefficients for the predistortion linearization engine. As a result, in the best mode, each of the coefficients used in the predistortion linearization engine can be computed by solving the matrix equation HW=S for W, where W is a vector of the weights, S is a vector of predistortion linearization engine outputs, and H is a matrix of PA return path inputs as taught herein.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Circuit Arrangement for Suppressing Interfering Signals in the Receiving Branch of a Modem of a Household Appliance]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095220.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A circuit arrangement for suppressing interfering signals in the receiving branch of a modem containing a transmitting branch and the receiving branch, of a household appliance equipped with a transmitting device for transmitting and a receiving device for receiving data signals. When using a receiving circuit of the modem with an input circuit having a relatively high input impedance compared with the impedance of a useful signal source delivering data signals, to which data signals are supplied by the useful signal source having a relatively low impedance in comparison and in the presence of the interfering signal sources which deliver the interfering signals which have a relatively high impedance, an ohmic resistance is connected in parallel to the input circuit with a relatively low resistance compared to the input impedance.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OFDM channel estimation system and method components]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095256.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Channel estimation for high mobility OFDM channels is achieved by identifying a set of channel path delays from an OFDM symbol stream including carrier data, inter-channel interference noise and channel noise; determining the average channel impulse response for the identified set of channel path delays in each symbol; generating a path delay curvature for each channel path delay in each symbol based on stored average channel impulse responses for the identified channel path delays; estimating the carrier data in the symbols in the OFDM symbol stream in the presence of inter-channel interference noise and channel noise from the OFDM symbol steam and the average impulse responses for the identified channel path delays; reconstructing the inter-channel interference noise in response to the path delay curvature, the identified set of channel path delays and estimated carrier data to produce a symbol stream of carrier data and channel noise with suppressed inter-channel interference noise.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apparatus and method for estimating coarse carrier frequency offset for frequency synchronization in OFDM receiver]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095249.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An apparatus and method for estimating a coarse carrier frequency offset in an OFDM receiver are provided, in which an Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) unit performs FFT for a received signal over one symbol duration and outputs a previously known signal included in the FFT signal, a correlation value calculator evaluates autocorrelation values of the previously known signal for plural candidate offsets, an accumulator accumulates the autocorrelation values to the autocorrelation values evaluated over a previous symbol duration, and a maximum value selector selects first and second maximum values of the autocorrelation values. A threshold tester compares a ratio between the first and second maximum values with a predetermined threshold, and determines a candidate offset corresponding to the first maximum value as the coarse carrier frequency offset if the ratio is less than the threshold. Otherwise, the threshold tester instructs the FFT unit to receive a signal over a next symbol duration.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Compensation techniques for group delay effects in transmit beamforming radio communication]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095260.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a wireless communication device, transmit weights are iteratively processed to compensate for any group delay caused by receive synchronization in the receive device. A transmit matrix of weights is computed from signals transmitted by a second communication device and received at a plurality of antennas of the first communication device. The transmit matrix processing includes normalizing a transmit weight vector with respect to a mode of the transmit weight associated with one of the plurality of antennas.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Channel estimation system and method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095275.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Channel estimation for high mobility OFDM channels is achieved by identifying a set of channel path delays from an OFDM symbol stream including carrier data, inter-channel interference noise and channel noise; determining the average channel impulse response for the identified set of channel path delays in each symbol; storing the average channel impulse responses for the identified channel path delays; generating a path delay curvature for each channel path delay in each symbol based on stored average channel impulse responses for the identified channel path delays; estimating the carrier data in the symbols in the OFDM symbol stream in the presence of inter-channel interference noise and channel noise from the OFDM symbol steam and the average impulse responses for the identified channel path delays; reconstructing the inter-channel interference noise in response to the path delay curvature, the identified set of channel path delays and estimated carrier data; and subtracting the reconstructed inter-channel interference noise from the OFDM symbol stream to produce a symbol stream of carrier data and channel noise with suppressed inter-channel interference noise.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Receiver and method for compensating for frequency offset of receiving signal in multi-band OFDM scheme]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095250.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) receiver, and more particularly, a receiver and method for effectively compensating for a frequency offset of a received signal in a multiband OFDM scheme. The receiver for compensating for a frequency offset of a received signal in an OFDM scheme includes: a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) which generates a first compensation signal by processing an input signal in a time domain based on a first carrier frequency offset estimated in the time domain, and a second carrier frequency offset estimated in a frequency domain; a sampling frequency offset tracking (SFOT) unit which generates a second compensation signal by estimating a sampling frequency offset from frequency domain pilot symbols contained in the first compensation signal; and a carrier frequency offset tracking (CFOT) unit which estimates the second carrier frequency offset by using pilot symbols contained in the second compensation signal.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Methods And Apparatus For Interfacing A Plurality Of Encoded Serial Data Streams To A Serializer/Deserializer Circuit]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095218.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Methods and apparatus are provided for interfacing a plurality of encoded serial data streams, such as Serial Gigabit Media Independent Interface streams, to a serializer/deserializer circuit. A plurality of encoded serial data streams are transmitted by receiving the plurality of encoded serial data streams that have been encoded using an encoding scheme that provides a substantially uniform distribution of a first code and a second code; marking at least one of the encoded serial data streams (such as changing a first code to a predefined code); and combining at least two of the plurality of encoded serial data streams into a single data stream. A plurality of encoded serial data streams are received by receiving a single data stream comprised of the plurality of encoded serial data streams; detecting a mark in the single data stream; demultiplexing the single data stream into the plurality of encoded serial data streams based on the mark; and providing the demultiplexed plurality of encoded serial data streams to a decoder that decodes the plurality of encoded serial data streams using a decoding scheme that provides a substantially uniform distribution of a first code and a second code.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CORRELATION DETECTION METHOD, CORRELATION DETECTION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION DIVERSITY DETECTION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION DIVERSITY DETECTION CIRCUIT]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095217.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A correlation detection apparatus detects a correlation between a reception signal and a spreading code. A logic circuit is operated with a chip clock. The logic circuit generates the spreading code of an offset unit of ½ chip according to a combination value of chips next to each other in a spreading code sequence, the spreading code sequence taking values of “+1” and “−1.” The logic circuit includes a ⅔ value converter that outputs a “0” when chips next to each other are not similar, outputs a “+1” when chips next to each other are of a value “+1”, and outputs a “−1” when chips next to each other are of a value “−1.”]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING LOW-COMPLEXITY MULTI-VIEW VIDEO CODING]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095234.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A system and method for implementing low complexity multi-view video coding. According to various embodiments, single-loop decoding is applied to multi-view video coding. For N coded views, where only M of the N views are to be displayed, only those M views are required to be fully decoded and stored to a decoded picture buffer (DPB) when needed. Pictures of other views are only partially decoded or simply parsed and do not have to be stored into the DPB. Various embodiments also provide for an encoder that encodes multi-view video bitstreams in accordance with the single-loop decoding concept, as well as a decoder that utilizes single-loop decoding to decode and output on a subset of the encoded views from a multi-view bitstream.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Correlation value calculation method and correlator using the same]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095280.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Object:  Even in the case where a receiving signal including a long delayed path having an equivalent power are received, deterioration of the receiving characteristics caused by inter symbol interference is reduced by reducing the variation of the maximum correlation time location and stabilizing the FFT time synchronization. Solution: By correlation calculation method of the correaltor  20,  the receiving signal S 19  is inputted, three correlation values having different time locations from each other are calculated by the delay circuits  21 - 2 - 21 - 5,  the multiplying circuits  22 - 1 - 22 - 3,  and the integration circuit  23 - 1 - 23 - 3,  the three correlation values thereof are added by the adding circuit  24,  and the above adding result is outputted as one correlation value. Consequently, since a strong correlation appears in the midpoint between the main arriving path and the long-delayed path when the long-delayed path having the equivalent power to the main arriving path exists, jitter of the time synchronization thereof can be restrained.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING B-PICTURE SCENE CHANGES]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095232.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method and apparatus are provided for implementing B-picture scene changes. A prediction stage predicts a B-picture scene change based upon a sequence of statistical information in an encoder order and a reaction stage is responsive to the prediction stage for modifying a quantization scale of a rate control algorithm.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Discovery phase in a frequency hopping network]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095075.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol subject matter for advanced metering infrastructure, adaptable to various international standards, while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as for operating in a residential electricity meter field. The present subject matter supports meters within an ANSI standard C12.22/C12.19 system while economically supporting a 2-way mesh network solution in a wireless environment, such as for operating in a residential electricity meter field, all to permit cell-based adaptive insertion of C12.22 meters within an open framework. Particular present features relate to operation at the node level of a Discovery Phase in a frequency hopping network.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING REVERSE PLAY OF SD MPEG VIDEO]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095229.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[One or more methods and systems to efficiently process MPEG video in order to perform a reverse play or slow rewind function are presented. The method reduces system bandwidth required to implement the reverse play function when SD MPEG video is received by the MPEG decoder. Furthermore, the method maximizes the use of memory resources when one or more video frame buffers are implemented. The system comprises a first subsystem feeding one or more sequences of frames (e.g., feeding sessions) to a second subsystem. The first subsystem defines a set of parameters that is used to determine the one or more feeding sessions provided to the second subsystem. The second subsystem subsequently decodes the one or more feeding sessions using the set of parameters such that the video may be displayed.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CODING IMAGES REPRESENTING VIEWS OF THE SAME SCENE]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095231.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention concerns a method of coding a plurality of digital image signals in a bitstream, said signals each corresponding to a view of a scene, the said coding method comprising the use of a pre-determined predictive coding structure, the views being associated with input views in the coding structure. The coding method according to the invention comprises, for at least one pair of views of the scene, steps of determining a spatial intersection zone (E 44 ) and of calculating a value representing the similarity between the signals corresponding to said views (E 45 ), according to at least some of the signals contained in said spatial intersection zone. These steps are followed by a step of associating (E 46 ) at least one view with an input view of the predictive coding structure according to at least one calculated similarity value. The invention applies both to fixed image signals and to image sequences.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apparatus and method for determining adaptive encoding mode in H.264 encoder]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095242.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An apparatus for determining an encoding mode in an H.264 encoder is provided with a 16×16 macroblock number calculating unit and a threshold updating unit. The 16×16 macroblock number calculating unit calculates means of the number of 16×16 macroblocks. The threshold updating unit compares the number of 16×16 macroblocks of a frame, which is chosen to be currently encoded, with the mean of the number of 16×16 macroblocks among or within the frames, and updates a currently set threshold according to a result of comparing. Then, calculating unit checks the number of times by which the encoding mode is determined by the 16×16 macroblock in a frame whose encoding is currently completed, and the threshold updating unit compares the number of times with the currently set threshold to increase or decrease the threshold according to a result of the comparison.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[METHOD, RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER FOR ELIMINATING ERRORS IN H.264 COMPRESSED VIDEO TRANSMISSION]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095246.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The invention relates to a method for eliminating errors in compressed video transmission. A method for eliminating errors in H.264 compressed video transmission is disclosed, to eliminating errors in a simple and efficient manner. In the invention, an error information feedback mechanism is used in combination with error concealment and error propagation suppression to eliminate errors. An error is detected and statistics of error information, such as position of lost data, is obtained by sequence numbers of NALUs and information for carrying slices. An error information feedback channel is established in H.264 architecture by defining an extended SEI message. The error propagation is suppressed by segment-wise intra-coding in batches.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PICTURE OUTPUT INDICATIONS IN VIDEO CODING]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095228.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An explicit signaling element for controlling decoded picture output and applications when picture output is not desired. A signal element, such as a syntax element in a coded video bitstream, is used to indicate (1) whether a certain decoded picture is output; (2) whether a certain set of pictures are output, wherein the set of pictures may be explicitly signaled or implicitly derived; or (3) whether a certain portion of a picture is output. The signal element may be a part of the coded picture or access unit that it is associated with, or it may reside in a separate syntax structure from the coded picture or access unit, such as a sequence parameter set. The signal element can be used both by an encoder and a decoder in a video coding system, as well as a processing unit that produces a subset of a bitstream as output.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095233.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or is necessary for decoding of the access point following a given access point are recorded on the video information recording medium. Random access is possible even if the GOP interval is lengthened.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method And Device For Coding And Decoding]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095241.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In video coding image sequences, images are coded in a scaled manner to obtain video data which represents the image in multiple steps from a defined image resolution or image quality (e.g., according to the data rate), and the resolution is defined by the number of image pixels of each represented image. Coding is block-based, i.e., for a description of an approximate movement of parts of one of the images in the image sequence, at least one block structure is produced describing the movement. The block structure produced includes a block divided into partial blocks which are in turn divided into sub-blocks. A first block structure is produced temporally for at least one first resolution level and a second block structure is produced for a second resolution level. The first resolution level has a lower image pixel number and/or image quality than the second resolution level. The second block structure is compared to the first block structure such that differences in the block structure are determined, such that on the base of the properties of the structure differences, a modified second block structure is produced. The structure thereof represents one part of the second block structure. Subsequently, the modified block structure and the second block structure are compared based on at least one value which is proportional to the quality of the image and the block structure and the value thereof is directly proportional to an improved quality based on the coding of the bit sequence.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[De-blocking filtering method of image data and de-blocking filter]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095244.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Disclosed are a deblocking filtering method for image data and a deblocking filter. According to the deblocking filtering method for image data and the deblocking filter, when computation of BS values for each boundary based on one of horizontal and vertical directions from input image data is completed, it is possible to estimate BS values for each boundary based on a direction different from the currently selected direction by using the computed BS values. Further, deblocking filtering is performed based on corresponding directions according to the estimated values, so that the deblocking filtering can be completely performed with only a BS value of boundaries based on a selected one direction. Consequently, a BS value computation process necessarily required in a deblocking filtering process can be considerably reduced, and thus time required in the operation process of a deblocking filter can also be considerably reduced.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[GENERIC INDICATION OF ADAPTATION PATHS FOR SCALABLE MULTIMEDIA]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095230.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A file format structure for use with scalable video coding systems and methods, where a rate share operation box indicates which adaptation operation points for coded media are available in a file. The rate share operation box can include a characterization of the adaptation result for each adaptation operation point. In addition, the rate share operation box can include an identifier that indicates which algorithm was used in generating each adaptation operation point.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTRA-FRAME SPATIAL SCALABLE VIDEO CODING]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095235.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An apparatus and method are for intra-frame spatial scalable video encoding. The method codes a low resolution base layer video bitstream from low resolution base layer video using a single layer encoder, and codes an enhancement layer in which individual videos frames are represented by wavelet coefficients for an LL residual sub-band, an HL sub-band, an LH sub-band; and an HH sub-band. The LL residual sub-band is generated as a difference of an LL sub-band and a recovered version of the base layer video bitstream.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method for interpolating chrominance signal in video encoder and decoder]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095240.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Disclosed is a method for interpolating chrominance signals in a video encoder and a decoder. The method includes the steps of accessing a memory unit to load an integer pixel value with regard to a plurality of motion compensation blocks, searching for a location of a motion vector s to perform sub-pixel interpolation of chrominance signals regarding the blocks and performing  ¼  sub-pixel interpolation by row-based and column-based shifting when the motion vector indicates a  ¼  location pixel with regard to the blocks. Also disclosed is an apparatus for performing the interpolating method described and a computer program product which when loaded into a computer system performs the interpolating method described.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Transmitter, Receiver And Communication System]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095247.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A source device  10  transmits streaming data. In a packet receiver  22  of a sync device  20 , statistical data acquirer  23  calculates statistical data such as one-way delay time, packet loss ratio, reception rate and the like from the received streaming data and transmits it to the source device. The statistical information received by source device  20  is extracted by a packet receiver  15  and input to a channel band estimator  16 . The channel band estimator  16  gives encoder  11  instructions to provide optimal encoding based on the transmission delay. Upon this, the transmission delay is calculated by assuming the minimum value of the communication delay from the start of transmission as zero. Control is performed by determining the delay time and packet loss ratio in data transmission and considering, based on these, the channel quality and bandwidth margin, so as to provide the optimal transmission bit rate or encoding rate.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method And Apparatus For Identifying The Modulation Format Of A Received Signal]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095290.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method of identifying the modulation format of a received radio frequency (RF) signal from a plurality of modulation formats is described. The method comprises: (a) sampling the RF signal to generate sampled input data ( 520 ); (b) analysing at least first samples of the sampled input data to generate characteristic data ( 530 ); (c) comparing the characteristic data with stored information representing each of modulation formats to identify a most probable modulation format ( 550 ); and (d) outputting data representing the most probable modulation format ( 560 ). The modulation format can therefore be identified without requiring a sequential search until a match is found. In effect all of the modulation formats are being searched concurrently. This reduces the time required to identify the modulation format.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method for video frame rate conversion]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095239.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Methods and apparatus for video frame rate conversion are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, a basic interpolation motion vector for an interpolated frame is generated using a motion vector of a current frame. The motion vector of the current frame is compared with a motion vector of a previous frame. The basic interpolation motion vector is offset and corrected according to a comparison result. The interpolated frame is generated by performing motion compensation using at least one of the basic interpolation motion vector and the corrected basic interpolation motion vector.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHOICE OF A STEERING MATRIX (Q) FOR SOUNDING IN ANTENNA SELECTION]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095268.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Aspects of a method and system for choice of a steering matrix (Q) for sounding in antenna selection are presented. Aspects of the system may include a transmitting station that enables determination of values for a plurality of matrix elements, which are represented in a steering matrix (Q). The contents of the steering matrix may be determined based on the contents of a plurality of protocol data units (PDU). Each of the PDUs may comprise a sounding frame. One or more space-time signals may be generated based on the plurality of PDUs. One or more transmit chain signals may be generated by multiplying a vector representation, which comprises the one or more space-time signals, by the steering matrix. One or more transmit chain signals may be transmitted via transmitting antennas selected from a plurality of transmitting antennas.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[RATE AGILE RATE-ADAPTIVE DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095188.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Methods and apparatus for maintaining the maximum achievable data rate on a DSL line, up to and including a rate to which a user subscribes is described. Performance monitoring is conducted on the DSL line on an ongoing basis to determine noise margins in each direction. Each noise margin is compared against pre-determined decreasing/increasing thresholds to determine whether the line characteristics dictate a data rate change without loss of synchronization. The invention supports dynamic provisioning changes including application driven service level change requests, e.g., new bandwidth-on demand services. In some embodiments, a combination of existing and new embedded operations channel (EOC) messages are used to implement the modem data rate changes. New EOC messages may be implemented using some of the reserved and/or vendor proprietary Opcodes currently permitted. Modem assigned data rate changes are implemented without a disruption of service, e.g., without the need for re-initialization and/or re-synchronization.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[METHOD AND DEVICE TO PROVIDE ARITHMETIC DECODING OF SCALABLE BSAC AUDIO DATA]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095276.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method and device to arithmetically decode scalable bit sliced arithmetic coding (BSAC) audio data are provided. The arithmetic decoding method includes checking whether all side information of a last layer of the BSAC audio data is to be decoded, and performing BSAC smart decoding and terminating the decoding when all the side information of the last layer is not decoded, and terminating decoding of the last layer when all the side information of the last layer is decoded. The BSAC smart decoding includes checking whether a symbol to be decoded is determined regardless of data read after the truncated bitstream, continuing the decoding when decoding can be performed regardless of data read after the truncated bitstream, and determining that ambiguity occurs and terminating the decoding, when the symbol to be decoded is determined dependent on the data read after the truncated bitstream. Accordingly, byte level scalability can be provided in a MPEG- 4  BSAC decoder. Even though the bitstream is truncated, the decoding termination time can be known, and additional decoding with respect to a truncated portion of the bitstream can be performed.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[STFBC CODING/DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD IN AN OFDM MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095039.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A mobile communication system for modulating input data with a specific size into an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) symbol and transmitting the OFDM symbol through at least two different antennas. A replica generator generates replica data by cyclically-circulating the input data. An encoder generates a first antenna signal and a second antenna signal by encoding the input data and the replica data. A first IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) block generates a first OFDM symbol by performing IFFT on the first antenna signal, and a second IFFT block generates a second OFDM symbol by performing IFFT on the second antenna signal. A first antenna transmits the first OFDM symbol, and a second antenna transmits the second OFDM symbol.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR RF COMMUNICATIONS]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080096490.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An AFC-control D/A converter which controls a reference frequency oscillator is a voltage-potentiometer-type D/A converter containing three voltage followers. At least in the latter-stage voltage follower, an NMOS differential input circuit, a CMOS output circuit, and a bias circuit are supplied with an external power voltage. However, PMOS differential input circuit is supplied with an internal regulated power supply voltage generated by a reference voltage generator. Even if there is a shift in the pair nature of MP 1  and MP 2  of the differential PMOS, an increase of current of MP 3  of a PMOS current source due to the increase of the external power voltage is suppressed. Also an input offset voltage of the differential PMOS does not increase, and a change of an AFC control analog output signal can be reduced.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method And Apparatus Of Sharing Interactive Application]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095227.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention provides a method for generating a digital program having at least one interactive application, said interactive application is based of at least one data object, said method comprises: first, receiving setting on the sharing characteristic of said data object, then generating a corresponding interactive application according to said setting, finally, associating the generated interactive application with said digital program. The setting of said sharing characteristic includes “sharable” and “non-sharable”. The present invention adds a sharing characteristic parameter to each data object in an interactive application at the transmitting end, so that corresponding processing could be easily performed at the receiving end according to the sharing characteristic of each data object.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Systems and Methods of Improved Motion Estimation using a Graphics Processing Unit]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095237.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Disclosed is a graphics processing unit comprising an instruction decoder and sum-of-absolute-differences (SAD) accleration logic. The instruction decoder is configured to decode a SAD instruction into parameters describing an M×N and an n×n pixel block in U,V coordinates. The SAD accleration logic is configured to receive the parameters and compute SAD scores. Each SAD score corresponds to the n×n block and to one block contained within the M×N pixel block and horizontally offset within the n×n block. Also disclosed is a GPU comprising a host processor interface receiving video acceleration instructions and a video acceleration unit. The unit is responsive to the instructions and comprises SAD accleration logic configured to receive the parameters and compute SAD scores. Each SAD score corresponds to an n×n pixel block and to one block contained within an M×N block and horizontally offset within the n×n block. M, N, and n are integers.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[H.264 decoding method and device for detection of NAL-unit error]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095243.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Provided is an H.264 decoding method and device for detection of Network Abstract Layer (NAL) unit error. The method includes calculating a total macroblock count for one picture, calculating a difference between a previous frame count and a current frame count, whenever a NAL unit is received, counting a macroblock count whenever decoding the macroblock, until the one picture is made complete, setting information indicating that one erroneous picture is made complete when the counted macroblock count is less than the total macroblock count and reporting that the one erroneous picture is made complete when the difference is greater than “0”.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SIGNALLING OF MAXIMUM DYNAMIC RANGE OF INVERSE DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095245.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Techniques are described to signal a maximum dynamic range of inverse discrete cosine transform (“IDCT”) output values that may be produced when a set of encoded media data is decoded. In accordance with these techniques, an encoding device may generate a media file that includes encoded media data associated with a set of one or more video frames. The media file may also include a range indication element that indicates the maximum dynamic range of IDCT output values produced when the encoded media data is decoded. A decoding device that receives the media file may, prior to decoding the encoded media data, use the range indication element to determine whether to decode the encoded media data. For instance, the decoding device may not decode the encoded media data when the decoding device is not capable of producing IDCT output values in the indicated range of IDCT output values.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[REDUCING MEMORY USAGE IN NONCOHERENT SIGNAL PROCESSING]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080098056.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method for detecting a positioning signal includes (a) correlating a segment of a received positioning signal with a reference signal of a selected code phase and frequency to obtain a correlation value, (b) if the correlation value is less than a predetermined minimum, assigning the correlation value to the predetermined minimum, and (c) accumulating the correlation value in a sum of correlation values obtained using other segments of the received positioning signal. In addition, the correlation value may be reduced by a predetermined value, which is preferably an expected mean value for a noise component in the segment of the received positioning signal.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apparatus And Method For Optimising A Spread Spectrum Cellular Communication System]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080096596.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An optimisation apparatus ( 100 ) for optimising a spread spectrum cellular communication system comprises a measurement report processor ( 101 ) which collects measurement reports from remote units of the spread spectrum cellular communication system. The measurement report processor ( 101 ) is connected to a path loss processor ( 103 ) which determines relative path loss data for the remote units. The relative path loss data may comprise path loss data relative to a constant which is common for a plurality of neighbour cells of a remote unit. The path loss processor ( 103 ) is coupled to a model processor ( 105 ) which establishes a model of the cellular communication system in response to the relative path loss data. The model processor ( 105 ) is coupled to a performance data processor ( 109 ) which generates estimated performance data for the cellular communication system from the model. Estimated performance data may be generated for different parameter values and the optimum parameter value may be selected and applied to the cellular communication system.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Information Recording Medium Wherein Stream Convertible at High-Speed is Recorded, and Recording Apparatus and Recording Method Therefor]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095514.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An information recording medium capable of converting a stream including seamless connection, which is recorded in a constrained format allowing format conversion from a first format (MPEG-TS) to a second format (MPEG-PS), into a second stream, and an apparatus and method for recording information in the information recording medium. The constrained format is provided for enabling conversion from a first format (for example, MPEG transport stream) to a second format (for example, MPEG program stream). According to the constrained format, when the connection information of the playback portion indicates a seamless playback, the system stream immediately before a seamless connection point ends with a complete data management unit (Capsule).]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[IMAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS PROVIDING SMART SEARCH FOR MOTION AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095519.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An image playback apparatus for playing an input image data from at lest one camera includes: an input image encoding unit encoding the input image data and extracting a plurality of motion vectors corresponding to a plurality of frames of the encoded input image data; a storage unit storing the encoded input image data and motion vectors; and a playback unit playing a part of the frames that a motion is detected in a search desire region based on the motion vectors.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method And Apparatus For Selection Mechanism Between OFDM-MIMO And LFDM-SIMO]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095263.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate switching between various combinations of MIMO, SIMO, SISO and OFDM, LFDM and IFDM. According to various aspects, a method for a wireless communication network is provided that includes: receiving a first set of data information, wherein the first set of information comprising a first value, determining if the first value is above a threshold and transmitting an indication to switch to using a first transmission technique if determined that the first value is above the threshold.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[APPARATUS FOR PHASE NOISE SUPPRESSION FOR OFDM BASED WLANS]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095226.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been specified by IEEE 802.11a standard as the transmission technique for high-rate wireless local area networks (WLANs). Performance of an OFDM system, however, is heavily degraded by random Wiener phase noise, which causes both common phase error (CPE) and inter-carrier interference (ICI). A method and algorithm is disclosed for efficiently eliminating the effect of phase noise in OFDM based WLANs.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SCALABLE VIDEO CODING WITH FILTERING OF LOWER LAYERS]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095238.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A First Improvement is Described for Prediction of Motion Vectors to be Used in Prediction of video data for enhancement layer data. Arbitrary pixelblock partitioning between base layer data and enhancement layer data raises problems to identify base layer motion vectors to be used as prediction sources for enhancement layer motion vectors. The disclosed method develops enhancement layer motion vectors by scaling a base layer pixelblock partition map according to a size difference between the base layer video image and the enhancement layer video image, then identified scale base layer pixelblocks that are co-located with the enhancement layer pixelblocks for which motion vector prediction is to be performed. Motion vectors from the scaled co-located base layer pixelblocks are averaged, weighted according to a degree of overlap between the base layer pixelblocks and the enhancement layer pixelblock. Another improvement is obtained by filtering recovered base layer image data before being provided to an enhancement layer decoder. When a specified filter requires image data outside a prediction region available from a base layer decoder, the prediction region data may be supplemented with previously-decoded data from an enhancement layer at a border of the prediction region.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method for accessing memory in apparatus for processing moving pictures]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080095236.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A method and apparatus for accessing a memory for processing moving pictures, which loads data from a frame buffer of an external memory, and uses a motion prediction technique. The method includes the steps of: loading, from the frame buffer, pixels of a relevant block of 8×8 size and extra pixel data necessary for an inter prediction while performing the inter prediction of a block of an 8×8 size following division of a macroblock, storing the pixels of the relevant block size of 8×8 and the extra pixel data in an internal cache memory. The stored pixels of the relevant block size of 8×8 and the stored extra pixel data are used; and then the stored pixels of the relevant block size of 8×8 and the stored extra pixel data stored in the cache memory are re-used during an inter prediction of the relevant block size of 8×8 and sub-blocks.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method Of Converting A User Bitstream Into Coded Bitstream, Method For Detecting A Synchronization Pattern In A Signal, A Record Carried, A Signal, A Recording Device And A Playback Device All Using A Freely Insertable Synchronization Pattern]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080094986.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[This invention proposes synchronization patterns for RLL codes with a constraint. Instead of including the synchronization pattern in the pattern the pattern is chosen to have p leading bits and q trailing bits such that all channel code constraints are met by the last code word of the section preceding the synchronization pattern together with the p leading bits and by a first code word of the section following the synchronization pattern together with the q trailing bits of the synchronization pattern. This results in a freely insertable synchronization pattern that can be inserted after coding and removed before decoding resulting in an more efficient coder and decoder.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Detection and mitigation of temporary impairments in a communications channel]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20080098287.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting temporary high level impairments, such as noise or interference, for example, in a communications channel, and subsequently, mitigating the deleterious effects of the dynamic impairments. In one embodiment, the method not only performs dynamic characterization of channel fidelity against impairments, but also uses this dynamic characterization of the channel fidelity to adapt the receiver processing and to affect an improvement in the performance of the receiver. For example, in this embodiment, the method increases the accuracy of the estimation of the transmitted information, or similarly, increases the probability of making the correct estimates of the transmitted information, even in the presence of temporary severe levels of impairment. The channel fidelity history may also be stored and catalogued for use in, for example, future optimization of the transmit waveform.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 24, 2008</pubDate>
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