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20140369613 | ADAPTIVE FILTERING MECHANISM TO REMOVE ENCODING ARTIFACTS IN VIDEO DATA - A method includes determining, through a processor and/or a hardware engine, edge pixels and flat pixels of a video frame of a video sequence during decoding thereof or post-processing associated with the decoding based on a predetermined threshold, and quantifying spatial correlation of pixels of the video frame around edges thereof to estimate strength of ringing artifacts and spatial and temporal persistence thereof across the video frame and across video frames of the video sequence. The method also includes adaptively and spatially filtering the pixels around the edges of the video frame, adaptively and temporally filtering the video frame, and blending an output of the adaptive spatial filtering and the adaptive temporal filtering to generate an output with suppressed ringing artifacts, spatial and temporal persistence thereof and artifacts resulting from the cumulative effect of compression therein. | 12-18-2014 |
20150030257 | LOW-COMPLEXITY BILATERAL FILTER (BF) IMPLEMENTATION IN A DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - A method includes implementing, through a processor communicatively coupled to a memory and/or a hardware block, a Bilateral Filter (BF) including a spatial filter component and a range filter component, and implementing the spatial filter component with a low-complexity function to allow for focus on the range filter component. The method also includes determining, through the processor, filter tap value(s) related to the range filter component as a function of radiometric distance between a pixel of a video frame and/or an image and other pixels thereof based on a pre-computed corpus of data related to execution of an application in accordance with a filtering requirement of the pixel by the application. Further, the method includes constraining, through the processor, the filter tap value(s) to a form i×base based on the BF implementation. i is an integer and base is a floating point base. | 01-29-2015 |
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20110231640 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRIORITY INITIALIZATION OF A SECOND PROCESSOR - Methods and systems provide for activating a second processor by a first processor in a dual processor device early within an initialization routine to enable the second processor to help complete initialization operations. The first processor may prepare a second processor chip for start up, configure the second chip's pins, program the second processor, download a firmware image on the second processor, and initiate operations on the second processor. By performing this initialization early within the initialization routine, the second processor can assist in the initialization routine. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231858 | BURST ACCESS PROTOCOL - Methods and systems provide a burst access protocol that enables efficient transfer of data between a first and a second processor via a data interface whose access set up time could present a communication bottleneck. Data, indices, and/or instructions are transmitted in a static table from the first processor and stored in memory accessible to the second processor. Later, the first processor transmit to the second processor a dynamic table which specifies particular data, indices and/or instructions within the static table that are to be implemented by the second processor. The second processor uses the dynamic table to implement the identified particular subset of data, indices and/or instructions. By transmitting the bulk of data, indices and/or instructions to the second processor in a large static table, the burst access protocol enables efficient use of data interfaces which can transmit large amounts of information, but require relatively long access setup times. | 09-22-2011 |
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20090019460 | APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) FOR HANDLING ERRORS IN PACKETS RECEIVED BY A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVER - Packets of information may be received in accordance with a protocol stack having a first portion ( | 01-15-2009 |
20090019461 | APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) FOR RESTORING A DEFAULT SCAN LIST IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVER - A signal may be received in accordance with a protocol stack having a first portion ( | 01-15-2009 |
20100227608 | Apparatus and Method for Automatic Mobile Device Crash Notification - An apparatus and method for automatic mobile device crash notification to a wireless network comprising setting configuration parameters for automatic notification if a crash occurs, detecting at least one stalled condition to determine if the crash occurred, gathering crash data, establishing a reverse link data call to the wireless network, and transferring the crash data to the wireless network. | 09-09-2010 |
20120221384 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR ORGANIZING AND DISTRIBUTING APPS - Methods and apparatus for distributing processor-executable apps are disclosed. The method includes receiving an app from a developer, categorizing the app so as to associate the app with a particular category, combining the app with other apps that are associated with the particular category so as to create a collection of apps that are associated with the particular category, offering access to the collection of apps in return for compensation, and compensating the developer responsive to receiving the app. | 08-30-2012 |
20120254746 | TRANSFERRING DATA BY TOUCH BETWEEN TOUCH-SCREEN DEVICES - A very intuitive and simple set of touch-screen input steps along with the processing of those input steps allows a user to appear to gather shareable files with his fingers on one touch-screen apparatus, lift the files from the touch-screen and drop the shareable files on a touch screen of a second, co-located touch-screen apparatus. The touch-screen apparatus initiating the transfer of files is preset with sharing parameters to manage the transfer of files to a local or remote server. One or more touch-screen apparatus accepting the transfer of files is preset with acceptance parameters to manage the transfer of files from the server to the accepting touch-screen apparatus. Once the files are at the server, multiple touch-screen apparatus may be used to request shareable files from the server. | 10-04-2012 |
20130052954 | DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES - A first mobile computing device comprising a first mobile computing device touch screen, one or more files, one or more sensors adapted to detect a first location of a second mobile computing device relative to the first mobile computing device upon the second mobile computing device being located proximally to the one or more sensors, and one or more first mobile computing device applications, wherein, the one or more first mobile computing device applications, communicatively receives the first location of the second mobile computing device from the one or more sensors, and communicatively transfers the one or more files to the second mobile computing device upon at least one of, touching the first mobile computing device touch screen with a touching device and sliding the touching device towards the first location of the second mobile computing device, and moving the second mobile computing device from the first location to a second location. | 02-28-2013 |
20130084797 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION-DEVICE-CONTROLLED OPERATIONS - Methods and mobile devices for performing operations responsive to user actions are disclosed. The method includes prompting a user of a mobile device to make a particular action that is detectable by the mobile device, and prompting the user to select a particular operation that the user desires to have effectuated when the particular action is subsequently carried out. In addition, an indicator of the particular action is stored on the mobile device in connection with an indicator of the particular operation to associate the particular action with the particular operation. And after registration, when the particular action is sensed with the mobile device, the particular operation is effectuated. | 04-04-2013 |
20130151335 | WIRELESS SMART SHOPPING FRAMEWORK - A wireless smart shopping framework is disclosed. An operator of a retail premises provides displays of products in a product display portion of a retail premises to enable shoppers to view features of the products, but the products are stored in an inventory portion of the retail premises that is separate from the product display portion of the retail premises. Shoppers browse the product display portion of the retail premises and scan product identifying information (e.g., by taking pictures of the displayed products). The operator receives, via a wireless receiver, the product-identifying information for selected products from the wireless mobile communication device, and gathers the selected products from the inventory portion. When the shopper is done shopping, the selected products are moved to a checkout location and payment is received for the selected products. | 06-13-2013 |
20130191397 | LOCATION BASED APPS RANKING FOR MOBILE WIRELESS COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATING DEVICES - Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for presenting applications to a user, via a mobile wireless communication device (user equipment), that are selected and ranked based on context information describing a location and type of motion of the user equipment, and/or a time that the ranking request was made, compared to context information describing the applications. | 07-25-2013 |
20130210407 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH IMPROVED NETWORK CONNECTIVITY - Methods and systems for applying power to a mobile device responsive to user actions are disclosed. An exemplary method includes detecting, while a mobile device is powered down, actions made by a user in connection with the user handling the mobile device without pressing a power button of the mobile device. A prediction is then made that the user is about to power up the mobile device based upon particular actions made by the user. And before the user presses the power button, power is applied to processing and network communication components of the mobile device so that if the user presses the power button, the processing and network communication components are already powered; thus reducing an amount of time it takes for the mobile device to access a network with the mobile device. | 08-15-2013 |
20130298138 | PRIVACY APPLICATION AND METHOD - A computing device comprising an operating system comprising one or more operating system features, a plurality of applications and a background service. A first of the plurality of applications is adapted to create one or more privacy groups and associate a remainder of the plurality of applications with at least one of the one or more privacy groups. The background service is adapted to (i) communicate with the first of the plurality of applications and the one or more operating system features, and (ii) associate at least one of the remainder of the plurality of applications and one of the one or more privacy groups with the one or more operating system features. | 11-07-2013 |
20140025993 | FRAMEWORK FOR TESTING AND EVALUATING MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A framework and associated systems and methods for testing mobile communication devices are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving user-action data from each of a plurality of user-action-capture devices. The user-action data received from the user-action-capture devices includes data that characterizes a plurality of user actions that were performed on the user-action-capture devices. The user-action data is consolidated into generic representations of the user actions to create a superset of generally-applicable-user-action data, and each generic representation of a user action in the superset represents two or more similar user actions. The generally-applicable-user-action data is then used to test mobile communication devices that are different than the user-action-capture devices. | 01-23-2014 |
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20140002739 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING POWER USAGE DURING VIDEO PRESENTATION ON A DISPLAY | 01-02-2014 |
20140053262 | Secure Display for Secure Transactions - A platform may use a central processing unit to run an operating system. Independently of the operating system, in the central processing unit, a hardware controller, such as a manageability engine, may be used to control which window is on the top of the Z-order and thereby control which window is displayed to the user. As a result, in some embodiments, the hardware controller can prevent an interloper or malware from interjecting an illegitimate window over a legitimate window that the user actually desired to access. In addition, a hardware indicator may be provided to assure the user when an accessed website is legitimate. | 02-20-2014 |
20150085187 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BURST MODE VIDEO PROCESSING WITH INBAND LINK POWER MANAGEMENT - An electronic device, method, and at least one machine readable medium for burst mode processing of video data with inband link power management are provided herein. The method includes receiving a pixel stream, transferring the received stream as currently-available frame-formatted video data to a sink in burst at high data rate, and entering a reduced-power operating state until transfer of additional currently-available video data is enabled. The method may include issuing inband command signals to cause the link to enter into and exit from the reduced-power link operating states. | 03-26-2015 |