45th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 28 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110274118 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR READING DATA FROM A PROTOCOL STACK OF TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL/INTERNET PROTOCOL - A method and device for accessing data through a stack of Transmission Control Protocol and Internetwork Protocols (TCP/IP). The method includes: obtaining an identifier that designates a plurality of UDP data packets in the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) of the TCP/IP stack; obtaining a total length of UDP data packets to be accessed; obtaining data in the protocol stack according the total length of foregoing designated UDP data packets; copying the designated UDP data packets to a user state. The method uses the identifier to access a plurality of UDP data packets and use the length to determine the number of accessible UDP data packets whereby it can access a plurality of UDP data packet each time. Moreover, it reduces the frequency of system calls when accessing an equal number of UDP data packets and shortens the time of system calls. Therefore, it improves the network I/O capacity. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274119 | CONFIGURATION AND OPERATION OF INVERSE MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An inverse multiplexing communication path is established in at least one direction between nodes connected by a plurality of lower bandwidth bearing channels between the nodes, on which the content of a higher bandwidth signal is distributed and from which the original high bandwidth signal is recovered at the receiving node. During preliminary configuration, for example when selecting a subset of bearer channels from among a number of potential bearer channels, the bearer channels are chosen or are altered by signal processing to make the members of the subset perform similarly, thereby improving operations as compared to having the bearer channels bound to perform according to the performance of the least-performing member of the subset. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274120 | NETWORK DATA PACKET FRAMENTATION AND REASSEMBLY METHOD - The method determines whether a particular jumbo data packet benefits from fragmentation and reassembly management during communication through a network or networks. The method determines the best communication path, including path partners, between a sending information handling system (IHS) and a receiving IHS for the jumbo packet. A packet manager determines the maximum transmission unit (MTU) size for each path partner or switch in the communication path including the sending and receiving IHSs. The method provides transfer of the jumbo packets intact between those path partner switches of the communication path exhibiting MTU sized for jumbo or larger packet transfer. The method provides fragmentation of jumbo packets into multiple normal packets for transfer between switches exhibiting normal packet MTU sizes. The packet manager reassembles multiple normal packets back into jumbo packets for those network devices, including the receiving IHS, capable of managing jumbo packets. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274121 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING VIDEO STREAMS - A method, an apparatus, and a system for transporting video streams are disclosed herein to handle video streams of different coding mechanisms and different encapsulation mechanisms intelligently according to visual sensitivity. The method includes: assessing a video data packet to gain visual sensitivity identifier information of the video data packet; adding the visual sensitivity identifier information into the video data packet; and handling the video data packet according to the visual sensitivity identifier information while transporting the video data packet. The embodiments of the present invention are applicable to transporting of network video streams. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274122 | Highly Integrated Media Access Control - A supervisory communications device, such as a headend device within a communications network, monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote communications devices throughout a widely distributed network. The supervisory device allocates bandwidth on the upstream channels by sending MAP messages over its downstream channel. A highly integrated media access controller integrated circuit (MAC IC) operates within the headend to provide lower level processing on signals exchanged with the remote devices. The enhanced functionality of the MAC IC relieves the processing burden on the headend CPU and increases packet throughput. The enhanced functionality includes header suppression and expansion, DES encryption and decryption, fragment reassembly, concatenation, and DMA operations. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274123 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING TRANSMISSION RESOURCES - A method for wirelessly transmitting user data and at least a first type of control information using a plurality of transmission layers including encoding bits of a first type of control information to form one or more control codewords and encoding bits of user data to form one or more user data codewords. The method also includes generating a plurality of vector symbols based on the control codewords and the user data codewords. Each vector symbol includes a plurality of modulation symbols that are each associated with a transmission layer over which the associated modulation symbol will be transmitted. Generating the plurality of vector symbols includes interleaving bits of the one or more control codewords and bits of the one or more user data codewords so that the first type of control information is carried in modulation symbols associated with the same transmission layers in all the vector symbols transmitted during the subframe that carry the first type of control information. The method also includes transmitting the plurality of vector symbols to a receiver over a plurality of transmission layers. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274124 | Method and Device for Packet Network Synchronization - A method is described for synchronizing a clock of a client ( | 2011-11-10 |
20110274125 | OPTICAL MULTIPLEXER AND FIBER LASER - An object of the present invention is to provide an optical multiplexer and a fiber laser for obtaining high-output light of a single wavelength. The optical multiplexer according to the present invention is provided with input units | 2011-11-10 |
20110274126 | METHOD OF SWITCHING LASER EMISSION OF A SOLID STATE LASER BETWEEN DIFFERENT EMISSION WAVELENGTHS AND CORRESPONDING SOLID STATE LASER DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method of switching laser emission of a solid state laser between different emission wavelengths, said different emission wavelengths being based on different electronic transitions in a solid state laser medium ( | 2011-11-10 |
20110274127 | PULSE LASER, OPTICAL FREQUENCY STABILIZED LASER, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - The object is to measure the carrier envelope offset frequency of a mode-locked laser. Provided is a pulse laser that measures a carrier envelope offset frequency of a mode-locked laser, pulse laser comprising a mode-locked laser that generates an optical pulse; a band expanding section that expands an oscillated frequency range of the mode-locked laser; a harmonic generating section that generates a harmonic component of the mode-locked laser; a light transmitting section that inputs light to the harmonic generating section without changing relative timings of a predetermined frequency component of the mode-locked laser output from the band expanding section and a frequency component that is at least double the predetermined frequency component; a detecting section that detects a beat signal of the harmonic component and the component passed through the harmonic generating section by the mode-locked laser; and a calculating section that calculates a carrier envelope offset frequency and a repeating frequency based on the beat signal. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274128 | LASER BEAM WORKING MACHINE - A cylindrical lens ( | 2011-11-10 |
20110274129 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CYLINDRICAL OPTICAL COMPONENT OF QUARTZ GLASS AND OPTICALLY ACTIVE COMPONENT OBTAINED BY SAID METHOD - Cylindrical optical components of quartz glass are known, which have an inner zone made of an inner zone glass, which extends in the direction of the longitudinal axis and is surrounded by a jacket zone made of a jacket zone glass, the average pt wall thickness thereof varying at least over a part of its length in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the component. The aim of the invention is to provide a method that allows a simple and cost-effective production of such an optical component from quartz glass. A method is proposed according to the invention, comprising the following method steps: (a) providing a first parison made of an inner zone glass, which has a first contact surface on the end face, said contact surface having a conical external contour; (b) providing a second parison from the jacket zone glass; (c) embedding the contact surface with a conical external contour into the jacket zone glass and welding the contact surface to the jacket zone glass, thereby forming a composite parison which has a cone-shaped inner zone area of inner zone glass in a contact area, said inner zone area being surrounded by a jacket zone having the shape of an inner cone; and (d) elongation of the composite parison to form the optical component or a preproduct of the component. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274130 | SINGLE RIDGE N-P-N DIODE LASER - The present disclosure relates to a diode laser and a method for producing the same. In one embodiment, the diode laser, comprises a passive pedestal layer structure, an active ridge layer structure positioned over the passive pedestal layer structure, a p-contact contacting a top side of the active ridge layer structure, a first n-contact disposed on a first side of the active ridge layer structure, a second n-contact disposed on a second side of the active ridge layer structure and, an n-final-metal layer connecting the first n-contact metal and the second n-contact metal, wherein the n-final-metal layer is continuous over the active ridge layer structure. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274131 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE-EMITTING LASER ARRAY ELEMENT, SURFACE-EMITTING LASER DEVICE AND LIGHT SOURCE - Included are a plurality of surface-emitting laser elements each of which includes a substrate; a lower multilayer reflective mirror and an upper multilayer reflective mirror that are formed on the substrate and are formed from a periodic structure of a high-refractive index layer and a low-refractive index layer; an active layer provided between the lower multilayer reflective mirror and the upper multilayer reflective mirror; a lower contact layer positioned between the active layer and the lower multilayer reflective mirror, and is extended to an outer peripheral side of the upper multilayer reflective mirror; a lower electrode formed on a surface of a portion where the lower contact layer is extended; and an upper electrode for injecting a current to the active layer, wherein the surface-emitting laser elements are electrically connected in series to each other to form a series-connected element array. This allows provision of a two-dimensional surface-emitting laser array element capable of achieving high energy conversion efficiency with a simple structure and capable of high integration, and a surface-emitting laser device and a light source using the same. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274132 | GAS LASER OSCILLATOR - An oscillator housing includes a main body unit that is shaped into a frame and formed of a metallic material and a cover unit that is formed of a metallic material to cover openings of the main body unit, and has an outer wall that has an arc cross section perpendicular to the optical axis and extends in the optical axis direction and side walls that are connected to the both ends of the outer wall in the optical axis direction. When the cover unit is fixed to the main body unit with a fixing member, the outer wall having an arc shape is configured such that force is generated in the height direction towards the outside of the oscillator housing on the connecting portion of the cover unit with the main body unit. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274133 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED RING LASER GYROSCOPE DEVICES THROUGH MIX RATIO OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods for improved ring laser gyroscope devices through mix ratio optimization are provided. In one embodiment, a ring laser gyroscope device comprises: a laser block assembly having a cavity therein that defines a ring shaped laser beam path around the laser block assembly, the cavity containing a fill gas mixture comprising Helium and Neon, wherein the laser block assembly is characterized as having a Neon depletion life limiter; and a readout assembly optically coupled to the laser block assembly. The readout assembly outputs a laser intensity monitor (LIM) voltage that represents optical energy within the cavity. The fill gas mixture has a Helium to Neon ratio richer in Neon than a ratio that would produce a peak LIM voltage from the readout assembly. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274134 | SOLAR PUMPED LASER MICROTHRUSTER - A micro-thruster for controlling the positioning of a satellite includes a solar concentrator for collecting solar energy and producing concentrated solar energy. A solar panel is positioned to receive the concentrated solar energy and thereby produces electrical energy which in turn energizes a diode-pumped fiber optic laser. The energized laser thus produces laser light which is transmitted to ejector material affixed to a satellite. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274135 | Broadband Dispersion-Free Optical Filter Cavities Based on Dielectric Mirrors with Complementary Dispersion - A substantially dispersion-free optical filter cavity includes a first multilayer mirror and a second multilayer mirror, wherein each mirror includes layers of a less-refractive material and layers of a more-refractive material, the more-refractive material having a higher index of refraction than the less-refractive material. The mirrors are separated by a spacing, and the thickness of a plurality of the layers in the second multilayer mirror differ from corresponding layers in the first multilayer mirror to provide the cavity with complementary group-delay dispersion across the cavity with a phase difference within, e.g., ±0.015 rad across a range of wavelengths spanning at least, e.g., 50 nm. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274136 | Reduced Puffing Needle Coke From Coal Tar - A reduced puffing needle coke is formed, which includes a lesser amount of nitrogen within the coke so that carbon articles produced from such coke experience minimal expansion upon heating to graphitization temperatures. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274137 | Lateral hoist for electrode columns of electric arc melting furnaces - A device for moving electrode columns of electric arc melting furnaces, characterised by consisting essentially of a lever the central fulcrum of which is connected to the hook of the overhead crane by an articulated ring, on one side a coupling mechanism being inserted into a tube and intended for coupling to the electrode column, while on the other side a counterweight of predetermined weight balances the device during its movement. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274138 | MICROSENSOR PRODUCED IN MICROSYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE MEASUREMENT AND/OR DETECTION OF FOULING | 2011-11-10 |
20110274139 | Wireless Temperature Sensing Having No Electrical Connections and Sensing Method for Use Therewith - A wireless temperature sensor includes an electrical conductor and a dielectric material on the conductor. The conductor is electrically unconnected and is shaped for storage of an electric field and a magnetic field. In the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, the conductor resonates to generate harmonic electric and magnetic field responses, each of which has a frequency associated therewith. The material is selected such that it experiences changes in either dielectric or magnetic permeability attributes in the presence of a temperature change. Shifts from the sensor's baseline frequency response indicate that the material has experienced a temperature change. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274140 | THIN-FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A thin-film semiconductor device includes a temperature sensor formed of a thin-film semiconductor and sensing a temperature as current, and a current-voltage converter formed of a thin-film semiconductor and having temperature dependence in which its current-voltage characteristic is different from that of the temperature sensor. A temperature sensed by the temperature sensor is converted to a voltage by the current-voltage converter. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274141 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION - A method and apparatus of synchronizing pulsed wireless communication between a first transceiver and a second transceiver. It includes the steps of transmitting a pulse signal from a first transceiver to a second transceiver; transmitting a reflection signal from the second transceiver to the first transceiver if the transmitted pulse signal is received at the second transceiver within an active reception period of the second transceiver; and detecting the reflection pulse to determine synchronization between the first transceiver and the second transceiver. Embodiments of the invention also relate to an apparatus for carrying out the method. In one embodiment, the reflection signal is generated by a super-regenerative oscillator. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274142 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION RETRANSMISSION METHOD - To suppress deterioration of retransmission efficiency and retransmit a transmission signal efficiently even when the system bandwidth is extended, provided are a base station apparatus ( | 2011-11-10 |
20110274143 | SPREAD SPECTRUM CLOCK SIGNAL GENERATOR METHOD AND SYSTEM - A system and method for generating a spread spectrum clock signal with a constant ppm offset as a function of a repetition number. A phase interpolator can be configured in association with of a phase-locked loop circuit in order to provide a phase movement from a bit clock generated by the PLL circuit. A repetition number divider computes the repetition number for each time slot in a piece-wise SSC modulation profile. A noise shaping modulator can be employed for modulating a fractional part associated with the repetition number. A repetition counter and a phase accumulator receives an integer part of the repetition number and counts unit interval clock periods equal to a sum of integer and the sigma-delta modulated fractional parts of the repetition number. The phase accumulator can be incremented and/or decremented based on the sign of the spread spectrum direction. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274144 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING, CONTROLLING, AND COMBINING SIGNALS IN A FREQUENCY SELECTIVE MULTIPATH FADING CHANNEL - A maximum signal energy level among a plurality of individual distinct path signals in a wirelessly received signal cluster is detected. An early aggregate power level associated with at least a portion of the plurality of individual distinct path signals received at time instants preceding a first moment time, and a late aggregate power level associated with at least a portion of the plurality of individual distinct path signals received at time instants subsequent to the first moment time are computed. The first moment time, which corresponds to the detected maximum signal energy level, is adjusted based on the early aggregate power level and the late aggregate power level. At least a portion of the plurality of individual distinct path signals is received at a corresponding plurality of time instants within a duration comprising a delay spread of the wirelessly received signal cluster based on the adjusted first moment time. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274145 | INTERFACE MODULE FOR A UNIT OF AN ANTENNA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND ANTENNA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - An interface module ( | 2011-11-10 |
20110274146 | ANTENNA AND MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING THE SAME - A antenna for transmitting radio signals of a lower frequency and a higher frequency includes a driven element comprising two first radiating units for a lower frequency band and two radiating units for a higher frequency band, and a reflector element comprising a first reflecting unit for the lower frequency band and a second reflecting unit for the higher frequency band. The second radiating units are disposed at a side of the first radiating units and respectively coupled to a corresponding first radiating unit. The first reflecting unit is disposed at the other side of the first radiating units, and the second reflecting unit is disposed between the first radiating units and the first reflecting unit. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274147 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETRANSMISSION WITH ON-LINE RECONFIGURATION - Disclosed are various embodiments for performing retransmission with on-line reconfiguration. A data stream is encoded into first frames according to a framing configuration. A request is obtained for an on-line reconfiguration of the framing configuration from a receiver. The encoding of the data stream into the first frames is suspended in response to the request. One or more first frames are retransmitted to the receiver during a retransmission time period that commences relative to the suspending of the encoding of the data stream into the first frames. The encoding of the data stream into second frames is resumed according to a modified framing configuration consistent with the on-line reconfiguration. The second frames are transmitted to the receiver upon expiration of the retransmission time period. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274148 | Managing Upstream Transmission in a Network - A bandwidth allocation and monitoring method may divide available bandwidth on a shared communication medium into a plurality of discrete tones that can be individually allocated to modems on an as-needed basis. The effective modulation rate that a particular modem can use for each discrete tone can be monitored over time using a schedule of pilot tones transmitted from the modems on different tones at different times. The schedule may define representative pilot tones, in which case effective modulation rates for neighboring tones may be inferred from a determined effective modulation rate of a pilot tone. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274149 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR TIME SYNCHRONIZATION OF XDSL - The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a system for time synchronization of an xDigital Subscriber Line (xDSL). The method includes: transmitting, by a customer premises equipment (CPE), a first symbol to a central office (CO) equipment, and obtaining time Ts | 2011-11-10 |
20110274150 | LOGICAL TRIGGERING IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN - A frequency mask trigger capable of triggering based on a logical combination of two or more areas of a frequency mask transforms a frame of digital data representing an input signal into a frequency spectrum having a plurality of frequency bins, with each frequency bin having a power amplitude value. A frequency mask is defined having a plurality of reference power levels, one reference power level being associated with each frequency bin. Two or more areas of the frequency mask are defined, with each mask area corresponding to one or more of the frequency bins. A violation status is determined for each mask area by comparing all of the power amplitude values within each mask area to the associated reference power level. If any of the power amplitude values within the mask area violates the associated reference power level, then the entire mask area is deemed to be violated. A trigger signal is generated when a logical combination of the violation statuses of the mask areas is satisfied. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274151 | Upstream Adaptive Modulation in a Communications System - A system and method for providing upstream adaptive modulation. Burst parameters associated with a range of data interval usage codes (IUCs) are defined. Each of the data IUCs has a different modulation order and forward error correction (FEC). The SNR and codeword error rate for each satellite modem in the network are monitored. The data IUCs are dynamically assigned to different satellite modems within an upstream channel based on SNR and/or codeword error rate to enable each of the satellite modems in the upstream channel to achieve maximum bandwidth efficiency during upstream data transmissions. Bandwidth requests are received from the satellite modems and granted. The grant includes the assigned data IUC. The data bursts received in the upstream channel are each processed using the parameters from the assigned IUC for each of the satellite modems sending data in the upstream channel. When any of the satellite modems' SNR and/or codeword error rate changes, the data IUC for that satellite modem is changed accordingly. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274152 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus calculates a residual component by noting one of a given plurality of transmitted signals and by canceling a component corresponding to a candidate/candidates for the other/others of the plurality of transmitted signals from a signal corresponding to one of a plurality of received signals. The communication apparatus determines a candidate for the given transmitted signal by selecting a value closest to the residual component from among the values that the given transmitted signal can take, and obtains a plurality of candidate groups by changing that given transmitted signal, each candidate group being constructed as a collection of candidate sets each comprising a candidate for that given transmitted signal and a candidate/candidates for that other transmitted signal/signals. Then, the communication apparatus selects transmitted signal candidate sets that are common to the plurality of candidate groups and estimates the plurality of transmitted signals using the selected candidate sets. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274153 | FLEXIBLE TIMEBASE FOR EYE DIAGRAM - A flexible timebase for eye diagrams uses a stable free running oscillator as a sample clock for equivalent time sampling of an input serial digital signal and of a reference signal, such as a sine wave, derived from a subdivided recovered clock of the input serial digital signal. The reference signal samples are provided to a digital phase-locked loop that provides the flexible timebase to an eye pattern generator. The eye pattern generator accumulates the input serial digital signal samples at times corresponding to the reference signal samples to produce the eye diagram. A linear phase detector in the digital phase locked loop converts the reference signal samples to a complex signal using a Hilbert transform and then to a linear ramp of phase values using a CORDIC algorithm with arctangent lookup table. A subtractor is then used to subtract the digital phase-locked loop feedback from the linear ramp to provide the input to the loop filter. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274154 | Compensated Phase Detector for Generating One or More Clock Signals Using DFE Detected Data in a Receiver - A method and apparatus generating one or more clock signals in a receiver employing decision-feedback equalization (DFE). A received signal is sampled by a data clock and a transition clock, generating a data sample signal and a transition sample signal, respectively. A DFE correction is performed DFE circuitry on the data sample signal to generate DFE detected data bits. The transition sample signal is sliced using a weighted threshold value to generate corrected transition data. One or more phase updates of the data clock and the transition clocks are in response to the DFE detected data bits and the corrected transition data. The weighted threshold is calculated from at least one prior-received DFE detected data bit. In one embodiment, the DFE correction may also be dependent on an effective delay (λ) of the DFE circuit in relation to the received signal baud-period, T. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274155 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED VIDEO TRANSCODING - A method is described for streaming video data within a network, wherein the video data includes a sequence of frames. The method includes encoding the sequence of frames and generating a plurality of substreams from the encoded frames in this embodiment. Each of the plurality of substreams is assigned an identifier, and each substream includes a common encoded frame and a non-overlapping portion of the encoded sequence. The non-overlapping portion of the encoded sequence of each substream is selected from the encoded frames based on the identifier of the respective substream. The method also includes transmitting the plurality of substreams to a receiver in an embodiment. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274156 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIMEDIA STREAM - Systems and methods for transmitting a multimedia stream are disclosed. A transmitter encodes audio data, video data, and control information received from a source and transmits over a network the different types of data to a receiver coupled to a display. The systems and methods utilize different network queues for the different types of traffic in order to account for differences in quality of service (QoS) parameters. The systems and methods adaptively adjust encoding and transmission parameters based on monitoring changing conditions of the network. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274157 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR 3D VIDEO PRE-PROCESSING AND POST-PROCESSING - A 3-dimensional (3D) video transmitter may be operable to determine a modification process to be utilized for modifying an enhancement layer of a 3D video frame before encoding of the enhancement layer. The modification process may provide increased compression efficiency during the encoding. The enhancement layer may be modified utilizing the determined modification process. The modified enhancement layer may then be encoded by the 3D video transmitter. The 3D video transmitter may transmit the encoded base layer and the encoded enhancement layer as well as modification information associated with the modified enhancement layer to a 3D video receiver. The 3D video receiver may decode the transmitted encoded base layer and the transmitted encoded enhancement layer. The 3D video receiver may then modify the decoded enhancement layer, based on the transmitted modification information, so as to recover an original image of the enhancement layer of the 3D video frame. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274158 | Method and Apparatus of Adaptive Loop Filtering - In a block-based motion compensated system, coding noises may arise due to lossy operations such as quantization. Deblocking is often used to alleviate visibility of coding artifacts by applying filtering across block boundaries adaptively. In the recent HEVC development, adaptive loop filtering (ALF) is being adopted to process deblocked reconstruction frames. Adaptive loop filtering is applied to reconstructed video data across multiple frames to reduce visibility of coding artifacts in the temporal domain. In a HEVC system, conventional ALF can be selectively turned ON or OFF for each block in a frame or a slice. The advanced ALF disclosed here allows a choice of multiple filter sets that can be applied to the reconstructed video data adaptively. Furthermore, the advanced ALF adopts a new unit for the filtering process to apply so that more flexible and/or localized processing can be provided. Furthermore, the advanced ALF allows a decoder to derive respective information for applying the filtering process without side information. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274159 | ENCODING DEVICE AND METHOD, DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD, EDITION DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an encoding device and a method, a decoding device and a method, an editing device and a method, a storage medium, and a program which can perform encoding and decoding so that buffer failure does not occur. Information, such as a minimum bit rate, a minimum buffer size, and a minimum initial delay time, is contained in a random access point header contained in an accessible point in a bitstream. A bitstream analyzing unit | 2011-11-10 |
20110274160 | MOVING PICTURE CODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE CODING PROGRAM - A moving picture coding device is a moving picture coding device which codes a moving picture, and includes: a VBV modeling unit which simulates an occupancy amount of a coded data buffer (VBV buffer occupancy amount) at the time of decoding; and a bit rate control unit which determines a quantization width (quantization scale) according to a rate of change of the occupancy amount of the coded data buffer so that the occupancy amount of the coded data buffer increases. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274161 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided are an image processing apparatus and an image processing method. The image processing method includes: obtaining a reference block a having a first resolution and a differential block having the first resolution; transforming a resolution of a prediction block having the first resolution and a resolution of the differential block having the first resolution in order to generate a prediction block having a second resolution and a differential block having the second resolution, the prediction block having the first resolution and the differential block having the first resolution being generated based on a pixel value of the reference block having the first resolution; and synthesizing the generated prediction block having the second resolution and the generated differential block having the second resolution in order to generate a target block having the second resolution. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274162 | Coding Unit Quantization Parameters in Video Coding - A method is provided that includes receiving a coded largest coding unit in a video decoder, wherein the coded largest coding unit includes a coded coding unit structure and a plurality of coded quantization parameters, and decoding the coded largest coding unit based on the coded coding unit structure and the plurality of coded quantization parameters. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274163 | VIDEO CODING APPARATUS AND VIDEO CODING METHOD - A video coding apparatus includes: a change amount detection unit that detects, based on pixel data included in a target block to be coded, an amount of change indicating a displacement between a top field and a bottom field caused by a difference in image capture time between the top field and the bottom field which are consecutive; a quantization width determination unit that determines, as a quantization width used for the target block, a first quantization width when the amount of change is a first value, and a second quantization width when the amount of change is a second value that is larger than the first value, the second quantization width being smaller than the first quantization width; and a quantization unit that quantizes the target block using the quantization width determined by the quantization width determination unit. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274164 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFORM SELECTION IN VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING - There are provided methods and apparatus for transform selection in video coding. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding at least a block in a picture by selecting a transform to apply to a residue of the block from a set of two or more available transforms. The transform is selected based on at least one of an inter prediction mode used to predict at least one reference for the block, one or more values corresponding to a motion vector, a value of a residue of one or more previously encoded blocks, a value of prediction data for the block, one or more transform selections of one or more neighboring reconstructed blocks, and a quantization step applied to transform coefficients for the residue of the block. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274165 | PARAMETER SELECTION METHOD, PARAMETER SELECTION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided that a first segment is an earliest time segment included in a discrete time segment, and a second segment is a time segment subsequent to the first segment, a positive second-segment parameter that corresponds to a weakly monotonically increasing function value of an average amplitude of prediction residuals in a time segment including the second segment is used as a parameter for variable length coding of prediction residuals in the second segment. In addition, a value that corresponds to a weakly monotonically increasing function value of the sum of the second-segment parameter and a positive additional value that corresponds to an index representing the prediction effectiveness of time-series signals in the time segment including the second segment is used as a parameter for variable length coding of the prediction residual at a certain discrete time in the first segment. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274166 | Method And Apparatus For Processing Video Signals Using Boundary Intra Coding - A boundary intra coding flag is obtained according to a current macroblock type. When the boundary intra coding flag indicates that the current macroblock is coded in an intra prediction mode using boundary intra coding, boundary coding information is obtained, and a boundary in the current macroblock is induced based on the boundary coding information. Therefore, the regions divided by the boundary can be coded in the intra prediction mode. The accuracy of a predicted pixel value can be improved by performing the intra prediction for regions divided by the boundary. Accordingly, the residual data transmitted to a decoder can be reduced. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274167 | VIDEO CODING SYSTEM USING SUB-CHANNELS AND CONSTRAINED PREDICTION REFERENCES TO PROTECT AGAINST DATA TRANSMISSION ERRORS - A coding technique is disclosed in which frames of a video sequence are assigned to one of a plurality of sub-channels to be transmitted to a decoder. The frames are coded according to predictive coding techniques such that ordinarily prediction references of the frames in each sub-channel only reach the reference frames that occur within the same sub-channel. Thus, if transmission errors arise with respect to one sub-channel, decoding may occur for another sub-channel until the transmission error is detected and corrected. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274168 | INTRAPREDICTION ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An intraprediction encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. The intraprediction encoding method includes forming a flipped reference block by flipping pixels of a reference block used for intraprediction symmetrically with respect to a straight line of a predetermined direction passing through the center of the reference block, and performing intraprediction using the flipped reference block. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274169 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SPATIALLY ENCODING VIDEO DATA - A system, processor, and method are provided for spatially encoding a data block of digital video, such as an image frame, video stream, or other digital data. A processor may receive an uncompressed data block defining values for a set of pixels. A mode decision unit may determine a direction of pixel value change between the set of pixels and a set of adjacent pixels which belong to one or more previously encoded data blocks. The mode decision unit may compare the direction of pixel value change with each of a predefined plurality of different mode directions and may select the mode direction that most closely matches a direction of minimum pixel value change. A mode prediction unit may extrapolate values from the set of adjacent pixels in the selected mode direction. An encoder may use the extrapolated values to generate compressed data representing the uncompressed data block. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274170 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING RESIDUAL DATA FOR INTRA AND INTER FRAME ENCODING OF IMAGE OR VIDEO DATA - A system, processor, and method are provided for encoding a data block, for example, of digital data. A processor may, from among a plurality of intra frame encoding modes each having a different direction for extrapolating already encoded pixels adjacent to the block, select an intra coding mode having a direction that most closely matches a direction of minimum pixel value change of the block. The processor may compute a predicted intra frame encoding residual data for the block associated with the selected mode based on the difference between the direction of the selected intra frame encoding mode and the direction of minimum pixel value change of the block. The processor may compute inter frame encoding residual data and compare the intra and inter frame encoding residual data. The processor may compress the data block using the intra or inter frame encoding having the smaller residual data. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274171 | TRANSCODER, RECORDER, AND TRANSCODING METHOD - A transcoder for decoding a motion picture stream encoded by using a first coding scheme, which provides intraframe coding and interframe predictive coding, and encoding the decoded motion picture stream by using a second coding scheme, the transcoder including: at decoder for decoding an input motion picture stream and detecting sub-information indicating whether an intraframe coding scheme or an interframe predictive coding scheme is used; and an encoder for changing the frame to be referenced at the time of coding depending on whether the sub-information indicates the use of the intraframe coding scheme or the interframe predictive coding scheme. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274172 | IMAGE INFORMATION DECODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE INFORMATION DECODING METHOD FOR MOTION PREDICTION AND/OR COMPENSATION OF IMAGES - The present invention is directed to an image information encoding apparatus, used in receiving compressed image information through network media when processing of such compressed image information is performed on storage media. A picture sorting buffer delivers information of picture type of frame Picture_type to a picture type discrimination unit. The picture type discrimination unit transmits command to a motion prediction/compensation unit on the basis of that information. The motion prediction/compensation unit generates predictive picture by using filter coefficients having the number of taps lesser than that of P picture with respect to B picture for which operation quantity and the number of memory accesses are required to more degree as compared to P picture on the basis of that command. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274173 | Video compression and encoding method - A method of compressing video data having at least one frame having at least one block and each block having an array of pixels is provided. The method transforms the pixels of each block into coefficients and creates an optimal transmission order of the coefficients. The method also optimizes the speed of processing compressed video data by partitioning the data bitstream and coding each partition independently. The method also predicts fractional pixel motion by selecting an interpolation method for each given plurality or block of pixels depending upon at least one metric related to each given block and varies the method from block to block. The method also enhances error recovery for a current frame using a frame prior to the frame immediately before the current frame as the only reference frame for lessening quality loss during data transmission. Enhanced motion vector coding is also provided. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274174 | Method for coding a picture sequence, corresponding method for reconstruction and stream of coded data representative of said sequence - A method for reconstruction of a picture sequence coded in accordance with a coding method specifying a set of coding tools and/or their associated coding parameters is disclosed. The pictures being divided into coding entities. The method for reconstruction according to the invention comprises the following steps for each coding entity coded in INTER mode:
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20110274175 | MOTION VECTOR GENERATION APPARATUS AND MOTION VECTOR GENERATION METHOD - In a motion vector generation apparatus | 2011-11-10 |
20110274176 | PATHWAY INDEXING IN FLEXIBLE PARTITIONING - There is a processing of an incoming video signal into a compressed video bitstream. The processing includes determining indexed pathways of blocks in the incoming video signal. The processing also includes determining flexible partitioning of the blocks utilizing partitioning lines. The partitioning lines are based on index units in the determined indexed pathways. The processing also includes generating PIFP information associated with the determined flexible partitioning and encoding the generated PIFP information associated with the PIFP encoded video. Also, there is a processing of received PIFP encoded video utilizing received encoded PIFP information associated with the received PIFP encoded video. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274177 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO FRAME BY USING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PIXEL VALUES - A method and apparatus for processing a video frame is provided. The method includes dividing the video frame into pixel blocks each including a reference pixel; calculating difference values between the reference pixel and pixels neighboring the reference pixel; converting the calculated difference values into values that belong to a bit depth range; and performing entropy coding by using the converted difference values as symbols. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274178 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARALLEL DECODING OF VIDEO DATA UNITS - The present invention comprises a method for controlling a decoder, and a decoder for decoding a video data stream that comprises a plurality of video data units. The decoder comprises: a plurality of decoder units configured to carry out a plurality of decoding tasks on said video data units; a video data dispatcher configured to allocate each video data unit to a respective decoder unit in accordance with at least one decoding constraint; and a controller configured to: determine from the decoding constraints which decoding tasks may be performed on a current video data unit; control the allocation by the video data dispatcher of the current video data unit to a decoder unit based on the determination result; and perform the determining and controlling step for each video data unit such that a plurality of decoding tasks on a plurality of video data units are carried out in parallel. The performing of the decoding tasks in parallel has the advantage of decreasing the amount of time taken to decode the video data stream. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274179 | Grid Encoded Media Asset Data - Metadata can identify temporal segments of content associated with a media asset and can identify asset data types. In response to a request for a particular asset, a central office may identify a data type and a temporal segment based on metadata associated with the request. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274180 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING LAYERED CODED VIDEO - Transmitting and receiving a layered coded video, in which a picture of a base layer and a picture of at least one enhancement layer are separately encoded, the encoded pictures of the base layer and the encoded pictures of the at least one enhancement layer are arranged on a slice basis, the arranged pictures are packetized by adding a header to the rearranged pictures, and the packets are transmitted as a bit stream. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274181 | ENCODING DEVICE AND METHOD, DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD, EDITION DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an encoding device and a method, a decoding device and a method, an editing device and a method, a storage medium, and a program which can perform encoding and decoding so that buffer failure does not occur. Information, such as a minimum bit rate, a minimum buffer size, and a minimum initial delay time, is contained in a random access point header contained in an accessible point in a bitstream. A bitstream analyzing unit | 2011-11-10 |
20110274182 | MULTI-TIERED QUANTIZATION OF CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEMS - A multi-tiered CSI vector quantizer (VQ) is provided for time-correlated channels. The VQ operates by quantizing channel state information by reference to both the current channel state information and a prior channel state quantization. A system is also provided that uses multi-tiered CSI quantizers. Enhanced signaling between the transmitter and receivers is provided in order to facilitate the use of multi-tiered CSI quantizers. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274183 | ANTENNA SELECTION TRAINING PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS MEDICAL APPLICATIONS - In a medical imaging setting, wireless local devices such as probes and local coils are used. As environmental variables may change, signals from the main imaging machine from different locations around the imaging suite are transmitted and received. In determining which of a plurality of locations is best for receiving, a main machine antenna system ( | 2011-11-10 |
20110274184 | ESTIMATION OF THE IMPULSE RESPONSE OF A SYSTEM ON THE BASIS OF BINARY OBSERVATIONS - A method of identifying an electronic or electromechanical system includes: applying at least one noise signal (u) as input to the system, applying an output signal of the system to a one-bit analog digital converter, acquiring a signal at the output of the converter, carrying out an estimation of the output of the system with aid of performing an estimation (ĥ) of the impulse response of the system. The estimation (ĥ) of the impulse response includes: iterative calculation of a plurality of nh elements (J | 2011-11-10 |
20110274185 | Methods and Arrangements for Feeding Back Channel State Information - A method and an arrangement ( | 2011-11-10 |
20110274186 | PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO REDUCTION METHOD FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEMS BASED ON PATH FINDING - In a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system based on path finding, the method applied to the OFDM system uses an ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm and a PTS to reduce a PAPR value, and an area of a computing circuit. In a simulated result, the method can reduce the PAPR effectively, and can be executed by a lower level of complexity of the computation. To solve a large matrix of the PTS, an ant colony optimization algorithm is used for calculating phase rotation vectors of a better quality effectively to achieve the effects of improving the performance, overcoming the high level of complexity of the computing circuit, and reducing the large area of the computing circuit. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274187 | Method and a Channel Estimating Arrangement for Performing Channel Estimation - The invention relates to a method in a receiving communication node for performing channel estimation on a signal received over a channel from a transmitting communication node. The receiving and transmitting communication nodes are comprised in a radio communications network. The receiving communication node receives the signal from the transmitting communication node, filters the signal by applying matched filter to the received signal in a matched filter process resulting in an estimated channel, transforms the estimated channel from a frequency domain to a discrete cosine transform domain in a discrete cosine transformation process, truncates the transformed estimated channel by applying a sloped window truncation function of an adaptive length onto the transformed estimated channel, wherein the adaptive length in the discrete cosine transform domain is calculated based on channel state information, and transforms the truncated transformed estimated channel from the discrete cosine transform domain to the frequency domain in an inverse discrete cosine transformation process resulting in a channel estimate of the channel estimation. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274188 | METHOD AND PRECODER INFORMATION FEEDBACK IN MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method for two component feedback in wireless communication systems is disclosed, with a wireless communication device sending a first representation of a first matrix chosen from a first codebook, wherein the first matrix has at least two columns, the wireless communication device sending a second representation of a second matrix chosen from a second codebook, and the base station obtaining a precoder from the first representation and the second representation. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274189 | Structured Codebook for 4TX Multiple Antenna Systems - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive beamforming). A first embodiment provides the optimal approach with high complexity. An alternative embodiment provides successive beamforming for near optimal precoding selection with medium complexity. A low complexity method for precoder selection is also provided wherein a channel representative matrix for the set of parallel channels is determined and successive beamforming on the calculated channel representative is applied. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274190 | Methods to Transmit and Receive For Low Dimensions MIMO Systems - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive beamforming). A first embodiment provides the optimal approach with high complexity. An alternative embodiment provides successive beamforming for near optimal precoding selection with medium complexity. A low complexity method for precoder selection is also provided wherein a channel representative matrix for the set of parallel channels is determined and successive beamforming on the calculated channel representative is applied. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274191 | MULTI-STREAM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a multi-stream communication system comprising a transmitting node provided with a polyphase antenna and a receiving node provided with an antenna arrangement configured to receive multiple data streams. The polyphase antenna has at least one group of multiple antenna elements, each group having N antenna elements. The transmitting node is also provided with at least one radio chain and a switch for each radio chain arranged to cyclically connect each radio chain to the antenna elements in one of the groups. The switch is configured to operate with a switching frequency f | 2011-11-10 |
20110274192 | SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - In order to solve the technical problem that in the current real-time distributed systems such as multi-antenna MIMO system, the implementation of synchronization between distributed modules by means of software is of a large time overhead, the invention proposes a synchronization method and device for the real-time distributed system, the distributed module determines if the present module is able to operate synchronously, at a synchronization start time that is unified with the other distributed modules; sets the present module's operate indication signal in a logic circuit, based on the determining result; and decides whether the present module is to operate synchronously, following a rule unified with the other distributed modules, based on the present module's operate indication signal along with the operate indication signals in the logic circuit set by the other modules. The invention implements real-time synchronization between distributed modules by means of hardware logic circuit with small operation time overhead, and preferably it only needs several-bit logic circuit and several cascaded logic gates, the structure is concise, efficient, and easy to implement and extend. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274193 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SCRAMBLING CODES IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for generating a scrambling code in a radio communication system is disclosed. In particular, an apparatus and method for generating a scrambling code using a Gold-like sequence even when m is a multiple of 4 for a length 2 | 2011-11-10 |
20110274194 | QAM AND GMSK SYSTEMS - Transmit baseband filter and modulator for filtering and modulating a first bit rate signal into a Gaussian filtered modulated signal and a second transmit filter and modulator for filtering and modulating a second bit rate signal into a Quadrature Amplitude Modulated (QAM) signal. A first amplifier and first transmitter for nonlinearly amplifying and a second amplifier and second transmitter for linearly amplifying modulated signals. A diversity receiver and demodulator system for receiving and demodulating transmitted modulated signals. Processor, transmit baseband filter and modulator provides cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase Gaussian filtered Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK) modulated signal, spread spectrum Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) modulated signal. Transmit processor and filter provides time division multiplexed (TDM) Gaussian filtered baseband signal and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband modulated signal to a cellular network and to separate wireless network. Diversity receiver and demodulator provides demodulated cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase filtered signal, with receive filter mis-matched to transmit filter. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274195 | CONSTELLATION REARRANGEMENT FOR TRANSMIT DIVERSITY SCHEMES - A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system from a transmitter to a receiver, comprising the steps of modulating data at the transmitter using a first signal constellation pattern to obtain a first data symbol. The first data symbol is transmitted to the receiver using a first diversity branch. Further, the data is modulated at the transmitter using a second signal constellation pattern to obtain a second data symbol. Then, the second data symbol is transmitted to the receiver over a second diversity path. Finally, the received first and second data symbol are diversity combined at the receiver. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274196 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CODEBOOK DESIGN OF MIMO PRE-CODERS WITH FINITE RATE CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK - Channel state information in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) pre-coding system is quantized onto a codebook, which comprises one or more unitary matrices, using a cost function. Voronoi regions are computed from the codebook. The codebook may be updated based on the computed Voronoi regions. The channel state information may comprise a matrix V. The cost function f(A) is defined by the following relationship: | 2011-11-10 |
20110274197 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MIMO RELATED INFORMATION - The present invention provides a method for transmitting MIMO related information. The method includes: encoding MIMO related information of a user equipment (UE) by a base station, and transmitting downlink control signaling including a result of the encoding; receiving by the UE the downlink control signaling transmitted by the base station, obtaining the result of the encoding, and obtaining the MIMO related information of the UE by decoding the result of the encoding. By adopting the method, the base station is enabled to transmit MIMO related information required by the UE to the UE with small signaling overhead. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274198 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNALING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method of transmitting control information from a wireless communication terminal to an access network includes generating control information comprising a plurality of control bits. The method also includes encoding the control bits using a block code that outputs an encoded bit sequence comprising encoded bits b( | 2011-11-10 |
20110274199 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The method includes generating coded bits by encoding information bits, dividing the coded bits into a first bit-stream and a second bit-stream, generating a first data symbol by performing anti-gray mapping on the first bit-stream, generating a second data symbol by performing gray mapping on the second bit-stream, and transmitting the first data symbol and the second data symbol. Reliability of bits can be improved in the first bit-stream and the second bit-stream by using different mapping schemes. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274200 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DATA IN A MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEM USING MULTI-CARRIER - A method for transmitting/receiving data in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication system is disclosed. The data transmission method includes determining a precoding matrix to be a part of a phase-shift-based precoding matrix, determining a first diagonal matrix for phase shift to be a part of the phase-shift-based precoding matrix, determining a unitary matrix to be a part of the phase-shift-based precoding matrix, precoding a transmission symbol for each resource using the phase-shift-based precoding matrix to produce precoded data, and transmitting the precoded data, wherein the phase-shift-based precoding matrix is determined by the product of the precoding matrix, a Hermitian matrix of the unitary matrix, the first diagonal matrix, and the unitary matrix. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274201 | DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OVER AN EXTREMELY HIGH RADIOFREQUENCY BAND - Disclosed is a method, circuit and system for wireless communication, including communication in an extremely high radio frequency range. There is provided a transmitter, such as an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (“OFDM”) based transmitter, which may transmit data in a frequency band residing within the range of 5 GHZ to 300 GHZ using transmission symbols. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274202 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANNEL CODING IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for channel coding by a transmitter in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining a degree of coded bits of a Luby-Transform (LT) code based on a coding rate of a pre-code and the number of coded bits of the LT code, selecting at least one associated bit used for coding of the coded bits of the LT code from among information bits of the LT code, depending on the determined degree, and generating the coded bits of the LT code by applying a coding function to the selected associated bits. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274203 | Codebook With Nested Structure - A multi-rank beamforming (MRBF) scheme in which the downlink channel is estimated and an optimal precoding matrix to be used by the MRBF transmitter is determined accordingly. The optimal precoding matrix is selected from a codebook of matrices having a recursive structure which allows for efficient computation of the optimal precoding matrix and corresponding Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR). The codebook also enjoys a small storage footprint. Due to the computational efficiency and modest memory requirements, the optimal precoding determination can be made at user equipment (UE) and communicated to a transmitting base station over a limited uplink channel for implementation over the downlink channel. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274204 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL - The present invention relates to method of transmitting and receiving signals and a corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to an efficient layer 1 (L1) processing method for a transmitter and a receiver using data slices. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274205 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN DOWNLINK MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT SYSTEM - Provided is a method for transmitting a reference signal (RS) in a downlink multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system which supports a first user equipment (UE) for supporting N transmission antennas from among a total of M transmitting antennas and a second UE for supporting M transmitting antennas (wherein, M>N). The method comprises the steps of: generating a subframe for simultaneously supporting the first UE and the second UE at a base station; transmitting the subframe; and mapping a common reference signal (CRS) for antenna port 0 to antenna port N−1, mapping a CRS for antenna port N to antenna port M−1, and controlling a power level of a CRS for antenna port 0 to antenna port N−1 and a power level of CRS for antenna port N to antenna port M−1, independently from one another, at the subframe. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274206 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RF SIGNAL COMBINING AND ADAPTIVE BIT LOADING FOR DATA RATE MAXIMIZATION IN MULTI-ANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A system and method for generating weight values based on maximum data rate for weighting elements included within signal weighting and combining arrangements used in various multi-antenna transmitter and receiver structures is disclosed herein. Weighting values for a given signal combining arrangement are set so as to maximize an output data rate of the applicable multi-antenna system in the presence of adaptive bit loading of the subcarriers of a transmitted signal. The disclosed techniques may be employed to maximize a data rate of a multi-antenna communication system by using adaptive bit loading and RF and baseband weighting schemes. In this case a search is conducted over various combinations of RF and baseband weights in order to find the weight combination which, when adaptive bit loading is also employed, maximizes the data rate. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274207 | Enhancing MIMO Transmission - A multi-rank beamforming (MRBF) scheme in which the downlink channel is estimated and an optimal precoding matrix to be used by the MRBF transmitter is determined accordingly. The optimal precoding matrix is selected from a codebook of matrices having a recursive structure which allows for efficient computation of the optimal precoding matrix and corresponding Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR). The codebook also enjoys a small storage footprint. Due to the computational efficiency and modest memory requirements, the optimal precoding determination can be made at user equipment (UE) and communicated to a transmitting base station over a limited uplink channel for implementation over the downlink channel. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274208 | Feedback Generator For Codebook With Nested Structure - A multi-rank beamforming (MRBF) scheme in which the downlink channel is estimated and an optimal precoding matrix to be used by the MRBF transmitter is determined accordingly. The optimal precoding matrix is selected from a codebook of matrices having a recursive structure which allows for efficient computation of the optimal precoding matrix and corresponding Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR). The codebook also enjoys a small storage footprint. Due to the computational efficiency and modest memory requirements, the optimal precoding determination can be made at user equipment (UE) and communicated to a transmitting base station over a limited uplink channel for implementation over the downlink channel. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274209 | CODEBOOK BASED PRECODING METHODS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive beamforming). A first embodiment provides the optimal approach with high complexity. An alternative embodiment provides successive beamforming for near optimal precoding selection with medium complexity. A low complexity method for precoder selection is also provided wherein a channel representative matrix for the set of parallel channels is determined and successive beamforming on the calculated channel representative is applied. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274210 | TIME ALIGNMENT ALGORITHM FOR TRANSMITTERS WITH EER/ET AMPLIFIERS AND OTHERS - An apparatus and method for aligning input and feedback signals in a transmission circuit are provided. The method includes capturing an input signal and a feedback signal, determining a first time delay between the input signal and the feedback signal, determining a second time delay between the input signal and the feedback signal, the determination of the second time delay having a higher resolution than the determination of the first time delay, and applying the first time delay and the second time delay to temporally align the input signal with the feedback signal. Use of the present invention provides an improved resolution of time alignment while reducing the overall complexity and cost of the transmission circuit. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274211 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL - The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals and corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to an efficient L | 2011-11-10 |
20110274212 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN A DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM RELATING THERETO - The present invention is directed to a transmitter and method for transmitting data in a digital communication system, the method comprising generating an original symbol by mapping the bits of the original bit sequence using a modulation constellation, generating at least one counter part symbol from the original symbol or from at least one counter part bit sequence generated from the original bit sequence where a combination of the original symbol and the at least one counter part symbol forms a quasi pilot symbol. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274213 | RECEPTION DEVICE AND APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - Data transfer is realized to support a high-speed and complex driving control of the driving element. A driving device includes a driving unit configured to supply a driving element with a pulse signal that determines a driving period to drive the driving element, an input unit configured to receive, in synchronization with a trigger signal, a data signal containing first information, second information, a first flag and a second flag that determine a waveform of the pulse signal, a first setting unit configured to set in the driving unit the first information that is input to the input unit, a retaining unit configured to read and retain the second information on the basis of the first flag, and a second setting unit configured to set in the driving unit the second information that is retained in the retaining unit on the basis of the second flag. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274214 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORE AND REPLAY FUNCTIONS IN A DIGITAL RADIO BROADCASTING RECEIVER - A method for receiving and processing a digital radio broadcasting signal includes: receiving a digital radio broadcasting signal comprised of two or more multicast contents, playing a first one of the multicast contents, and concurrently storing a second one of the multicast contents. A receiver that implements the method is also provided. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274215 | Method and Apparatus for Training the Reference Voltage Level and Data Sample Timing in a Receiver - Methods and apparatuses for calculating the location of an optimal sampling point for a receiver system are disclosed. In brief, a first method comprises determining a maximum voltage margin and a maximum timing margin of a received signal, and from these margins, determining an optimal sampling point, which includes a reference voltage level (Vref) and a relative sample phase. The location of the optimal sampling point is based on the locations of the sampling point of the maximum voltage margin and the sampling point of the maximum timing margin. A second method comprises establishing an initial sampling point, and then successively refining each of the voltage and timing components of the sampling point until an optimal sampling point is reached. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274216 | CONTINUOUS PHASE MODULATION FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS - A new coded continuous phase modulation (CPM) scheme is proposed to enhance physical layer performance of the current DVB-RCS standard for a satellite communication system. The proposed CPM scheme uses a phase pulse design and combination of modulation parameters to shape the power spectrum of CPM signal in order to improve resilience to adjacent channel interference (ACI). Additionally, it improves error rate performance at both high and low frame error rates using low complexity binary convolutional codes and S-random bit interleaving. Phase response using the proposed CPM scheme is a weighted average of the conventional rectangular and raised-cosine responses and provides optimum response to minimize frame error rate for a given data rate. | 2011-11-10 |
20110274217 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEINTERLEAVING SIGNALS - There are provided method and system for deinterleaving signals. The method comprises: (a) recording plural signal reception events, wherein each signal reception event is associated with a received signal at a receiver, and represented by a space-time coordinate having a space component based on a location of the receiver and a time component based on an arrival time of the received signal; (b) selecting a subset of signal reception events from the recorded signal reception events, wherein the number of signal reception events in the subset is based on the dimension of the space component; and (c) determining whether the signal reception events in the selected subset satisfy a predetermined condition, and if the determination is in the affirmative, associating the signal reception events in the selected subset with an emission of an emitter. | 2011-11-10 |