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| 20080242313 | LOW DUTY CYCLE DEVICE PROTOCOL - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for establishing communication between a low duty cycle device and other devices through a wireless communication network. In one particular implementation, the low duty cycle device may awaken from a hibernating state in synchronization with transmission of messages. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090021408 | ADAPTIVE DYNAMIC RANGE CONTROL - Apparatus and method for processing signals. A sigma-delta modulator is used. An adaptive dynamic range controller is configured to adaptively adjust the dynamic range of a signal output from the sigma-delta modulator. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090079486 | SIGNAL GENERATOR WITH SIGNAL TRACKING - Frequency and phase of an output signal is adjusted to track an input signal. A control signal is adjusted to control a frequency of an oscillating signal from which the output signal is derived. In some aspects the frequency of the oscillating signal is adjusted by reconfiguration of reactive circuits coupled to an oscillator circuit. Phase of the output signal may be adjusted based on comparison of the oscillating signal with an adjustable threshold. For example, the adjustable threshold may comprise an adjustable bias signal for a transistor circuit whereby the oscillating signal is provided as an input to the transistor circuit and the output of the transistor circuit provides the output signal. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090080101 | SIGNAL GENERATOR WITH ADJUSTABLE FREQUENCY - Frequency of an oscillating signal is temporarily adjusted to adjust frequency and/or phase of an output signal. For example, the frequency of the oscillating signal may be adjusted for a very short period of time to adjust the phase of the output signal. In addition, the frequency of the oscillating signal may be temporarily adjusted in a repeated manner to adjust the effective frequency of the output signal. In some aspects the frequency of the oscillating signal is adjusted by reconfiguration of reactive circuits associated with an oscillator circuit. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090080568 | SIGNAL GENERATOR WITH ADJUSTABLE PHASE - Phase of an output signal is based on comparison of an oscillating signal with an adjustable threshold. Here, adjustment of the threshold results in a corresponding adjustment of the phase of the output signal. For example, the adjustable threshold may comprise an adjustable bias signal for a transistor circuit whereby the oscillating signal is provided as an input to the transistor circuit and the output of the transistor circuit provides the output signal. In some aspects these phase adjustment techniques may be employed to provide one or more tunable multiphase clocks. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090251208 | LOW POWER SLICER-BASED DEMODULATOR FOR PPM - An apparatus and method for communications is disclosed. The apparatus includes a slicer configured to generate samples of a signal carrying information, and a demodulator having a digital integrator configured to integrate the samples, the demodulator being further configured to recover from the integrated samples data representative of the information carried by the signal. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090270030 | MULTI-LEVEL DUTY CYCLING - A duty cycle scheme for wireless communication employs three or more duty cycle levels. In some aspects, a wireless device may continually scan for signals in an active state associated with a first duty cycle, periodically scan for signals during a periodic state associated with a second duty cycle, and periodically scan for signals during a standby state associated with a third duty cycle. Here, the second duty cycle may be lower than the first duty cycle and the third duty cycle may be lower than the second duty cycle. In some aspects the timing of different states may be correlated. In some aspects each wireless in a system may independently control its duty cycle states. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090278606 | AGC FOR SLICER-BASED LOW POWER DEMODULATOR - An apparatus and method for performing automatic gain control in a receiver are disclosed. The apparatus may include an amplifier, and the gain control may be based on an output from the amplifier during a time period in which a target signal is not present at the output of the amplifier. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100020851 | TRANSMITTED REFERENCE SIGNALING SCHEME - A signaling scheme employs transmitted reference pulses having varying phase. The phase of the reference pulses may be varied in a random manner or in accordance with a data stream. In some aspects a transmitter modulates the phase of the reference pulses to encode an additional data stream in a transmitted reference signal. In some aspects these techniques are employed in a heterogeneous network including coherent and non-coherent receivers. In some aspects these techniques may be employed in an ultra-wide band system. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100104133 | Pre-Processed Information Embedding System - Auxiliary information ( | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100172409 | LOW-COMPLEXITY TRANSFORMS FOR DATA COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION - This disclosure describes the use of non-dyadic discrete cosine transform (DCT) sizes for performing a DCT. Similarly, this disclosure describes the use of non-dyadic inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) sizes for performing an IDCT. Using non-dyadic transform sizes may be less computationally expensive compared to using conventional dyadic transform sizes. Aspects of this disclosure may be useful in any device or system that performs a DCT or IDCT. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100212020 | PRE-PROCESSED INFORMATION EMBEDDING SYSTEM - Auxiliary information ( | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100315696 | ANALOG INTERFEROMETRIC MODULATOR - Methods and devices for calibrating and controlling the actuation of an analog interferometric modulator configured to have a plurality of actuation states. Devices and methods for calibrating an analog interferometric modulator to respond in linear relation to an applied voltage. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110075724 | ENCODING PARAMETERS WITH UNIT SUM - In general, techniques are described for encoding parameters with unit sum. In one example, an apparatus comprising a control unit implements these parameter encoding techniques. The control unit determines parameters that sum to a constant or unit sum. The control unit includes a parameter coding unit that segments a space that contains the plurality of parameters into a set of portions. The parameter coding unit assigns a different one of a plurality of codewords to each of the portions, selects one of the set of portions that contains a point defined by the plurality of parameters, and codes the plurality of parameters using one of the plurality of codewords assigned to the selected one of the plurality of portions. Rather than code only a subset of these parameters, the parameter coding unit codes all of the parameters with the result of potentially reducing quantization error. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110080203 | DELAY LINE CALIBRATION - A tunable delay line is calibrated to maintain the delay of the delay line at a desired value or within a desired range of values. In some aspects a signal is passed through a delay line multiple times so that the cumulative delay of the signal through the delay line (e.g., as indicated by a count) may be calculated over a period of time. The count is compared with an expected count and, based on this comparison, the delay of the delay line is adjusted as necessary. In some aspects the signal may comprise a digital signal. In some aspects a delay through a delay line may be calculated based on analysis of amplitude changes in a signal caused by a phase shift imparted on the signal by the delay line. In some aspects a delay line is incorporated into a transmitted reference system to generate and/or process transmitted reference signals. | 04-07-2011 |
