| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090010328 | PATTERN DETECTION MODULE, VIDEO ENCODING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH - A system for encoding a video stream into a processed video signal that includes at least one image, includes a pattern detection module for detecting a pattern of interest in the at least one image and identifying a region that contains the pattern of interest when the pattern of interest is detected. An encoder section, generates the processed video signal and wherein, when the pattern of interest is detected, a higher quantization is assigned to the region than to portions of the at least one image outside the region. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090010341 | PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO WEIGHTING MODULE, VIDEO ENCODING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH - A peak signal to noise ratio weighting module can be uses in a video encoder for encoding a video stream into a processed video signal including, the video stream including at least one image, the video encoder generating a encoded image from the at least one image. The peak signal to noise ratio weighting module includes an edge detection module that generates an edge detection signal from the encoded image. A peak signal to noise ratio module generates a weighted peak signal to noise ratio signal based on the at least one image, the encoded image and the edge detection signal. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090097543 | PATTERN DETECTION MODULE WITH REGION DETECTION, VIDEO ENCODING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH - A system for encoding a video stream into a processed video signal that includes at least one image, includes a pattern detection module for detecting a pattern of interest in the at least one image and identifying a region that contains the pattern of interest when the pattern of interest is detected, based on an analysis of the image in a plurality of domains. An encoder section, generates the processed video signal and wherein, when the pattern of interest is detected, a higher quality, such as a higher bit allocation or higher computational processing, is assigned to the region than to portions of the at least one image outside the region. | 04-16-2009 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090068972 | Methods And Apparatus For Controlling A Gain State Of A Wireless Receiver Operating In An Idle Mode - The settling time of a wireless receiver is reduced by providing a previously utilized gain control state value to an amplifier of a receiver front end during a warm-up portion of a wake-up period of the wireless receiver which follows a sleep period. One illustrative method includes the steps of receiving a notification signal which indicates that the wireless receiver is to be placed in a sleep mode, reading a gain control state value from a gain controller based on receiving the notification signal, storing the gain control state value in memory, providing the stored gain control state value from the memory to the wireless receiver during a warm-up period of a second wake-up period following the first wake-up period, and providing a gain control state value from the gain controller to the wireless receiver based on a signal level of a currently received signal of the wireless receiver after the warm-up period. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090124252 | METHOD OF USING SNR TO REDUCE FACTORY TEST TIME - The application relates to wireless networks and more particularly to a method of reducing factory test time of receiver sensitivity in a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) wireless device. Under TIA/EIA/-98E, the radio frequency (RF) sensitivity of a CDMA wireless receiver is the minimum received power, measured at the mobile station antenna connector, at which the frame error rate (FER) does not exceed 0.5% with 95% confidence. In order to reduce the test time of FER test method, the relation between correlated energy (or Ec/Io) and FER is determined using simulated traffic and the correlated energy (or Ec/Io) measurement is then used as the test parameter on like models to achieve the same or superior test confidence with significantly reduced test time. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090135956 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRECISE OPEN LOOP TUNING OF REFERENCE FREQUENCY WITHIN A WIRELESS DEVICE - A communications subsystem for a wireless device for correcting errors in a reference frequency signal. The communications subsystem comprises a frequency generator for generating the reference frequency signal and a closed loop reference frequency correction module that generates a reference frequency adjustment signal for correcting the reference frequency signal when the communications subsystem operates in closed loop mode. The subsystem further includes an open loop frequency correction means that that samples values of the reference frequency adjustment signal during the closed loop mode and generates a frequency correction signal for correcting the reference frequency signal when the communications subsystem operates in a mode other than closed loop mode. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090245419 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING POWER AMPLIFIER EFFICIENCY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVING HIGH PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIOS - A power management system and method for a wireless communication device generates an average desired transmit power signal based on at least one of a received signal strength indicator signal and a power control instruction signal from a base station. A power supply level adjustment signal is generated based on the data parameters of an outgoing data stream and at least one environmental information signal. A combination of the power supply level adjustment signal and the average desired transmit power or a gain control signal and an altered version of the power supply level adjustment signal is used to generate a variable power supply signal that is provided to an output amplifier block for sufficiently generating outgoing wireless device radio signals while reducing power loss in the output amplifier block. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100291887 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING POWER AMPLIFIER EFFICIENCY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVING HIGH PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIOS - A power management system and method for a wireless communication device generates an average desired transmit power signal based on at least one of a received signal strength indicator signal and a power control instruction signal from a base station. A power supply level adjustment signal is generated based on the data parameters of an outgoing data stream and at least one environmental information signal. A combination of the power supply level adjustment signal and the average desired transmit power or a gain control signal and an altered version of the power supply level adjustment signal is used to generate a variable power supply signal that is provided to an output amplifier block for sufficiently generating outgoing wireless device radio signals while reducing power loss in the output amplifier block. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110149917 | Method and Apparatus for Compensating Code Channel Power in a Transmitter - It has now been found that in some transmitter implementations which transmit multiple code channels, for example CDMA transmitters, the observed power for each code channel at the output relative to the other code channels is dependent upon the total transmit power due to non-linearities in the transmitter. Methods and apparatus are provided which use pre-set digital gains or digital gain adjustments to compensate for the non-linearities as a function of total transmit power such that at the output, the desired relative powers are observed. | 06-23-2011 |