| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100216521 | Method and Apparatus for Dynamic Battery Management Control in a Mobile Communication Device - In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for downloading battery data to a mobile communication device. A system for downloading battery data to a mobile communication device may include a mobile communication device and a data server. The mobile communication device may be configured to monitor a battery operating condition and to receive a battery profile, the battery profile including battery data for use by the mobile communication device to calculate battery status information. The data server may be used for storing battery data, the data server being configured to receive the battery operating condition from the mobile communication device and, based on the battery operating condition, send the battery profile to the mobile communication device. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100221628 | ATTACHMENT FOR A FUEL TANK OF A FUEL CELL POWERED SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC PORTABLE DEVICE EQUIPPED THEREWITH - An attachment for a fuel tank of a fuel cell powered system is described. The attachment thermally conducts heat generated from an electronic component to the fuel tank. The attachment further affixes to the electronic component by a securing portion. In one aspect, the attachment is comprised in a fuel cell powered electronic device. In another aspect, the attachment is integral to the fuel tank. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100310947 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FUEL CELL OPERATING CONDITIONS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The disclosure is directed at a method and apparatus for controlling fuel cell operating characteristics. In certain situations, the operating efficiency of fuel cells is degraded to external conditions. Providing a method and apparatus to control operating conditions for the fuel cell assists in improving the operating efficiency. This can be achieved by controlling certain environmental conditions, such as temperature and relatively humidity, in the area surrounding the fuel cell. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110014515 | LOW MAGNETIC INTERFERENCE BATTERY - A low magnetic interference battery is provided, the battery insertable into a mobile communication device, the mobile communication device comprising a radio interconnected with a microphone and a receiver. The battery comprises a battery portion enabled to provide electrical power to the radio, the battery portion emitting a magnetic field when in operation. The battery further comprises a sealing portion for sealing the battery portion therein such that the battery portion is protected from moisture, the sealing portion comprising a magnetic shield portion arranged relative to the battery portion such that magnetic flux from the battery portion is routed away from the receiver when the battery is in operation in the mobile communication device. | 01-20-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080253668 | METHOD OF DECODING ENTROPY-ENCODED DATA - A method of decoding data that is encoded with a set of prefix codes begins by receiving the data at a computing device, and then compiling native machine code from the prefix code set for execution by a processing unit of the computing device. The machine code implements a binary tree of prefix codes that corresponds to the prefix code set. The data is decoded by traversing the prefix code tree, which is effected by executing the machine code with the processing unit. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20090220163 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DECODING ENCODED IMAGES AND REDUCING THE SIZE OF SAID IMAGES - A method and system for reducing the number of mathematical operations required in the JPEG decoding process without substantially impacting the quality of the image displayed is disclosed. Embodiments provide an efficient JPEG decoding process for the purposes of displaying an image on a display smaller than the source image, for example, the screen of a handheld device. According to one aspect of the invention, this is accomplished by reducing the amount of processing required for dequantization and inverse DCT (IDCT) by effectively reducing the size of the image in the quantized, DCT domain prior to dequantization and IDCT. This can be done, for example, by discarding unnecessary DCT index rows and columns prior to dequantization and IDCT. In one embodiment, columns from the right, and rows from the bottom are discarded such that only the top left portion of the block of quantized, and DCT coefficients are processed. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20100138225 | OPTIMIZATION OF MP3 ENCODING WITH COMPLETE DECODER COMPATIBILITY - An iterative rate-distortion optimization algorithm for MPEG I/II Layer-3 (MP3) encoding based on the method of Lagrangian multipliers. Generally, an iterative method is performed such that a global quantization step size is determined while scale factors are fixed, and thereafter the scale factors are determined while the global quantization step size is fixed. This is repeated until a calculated rate-distortion cost is within a predetermined threshold. The methods are demonstrated to be computationally efficient and the resulting bit stream is fully standard compatible. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100217605 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PERFORMING A FAST MODIFIED DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM OF AN INPUT SEQUENCE - An improved fast N-point MDCT process and encoder/decoder is disclosed. The N-point MDCT may be realized through an N/2-point DCT algorithm. The N/2 DCT transform matrix is directly factored and the factored DCT transform matrices are used to develop a set of equations for realizing the N-point MDCT coefficients from an input sequence. The factoring of the DCT transform matrix may include expressing the DCT transform as a multiplication of matrices and exploiting mirror images within the matrices. It may further include simplifying at least one of the matrices by eliminating a variable based on trigonometric identity | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110125506 | RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION FOR ADVANCED AUDIO CODING - A method for optimization of rate-distortion for Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). The method provides for the identification of quantized spectral coefficient sequences for optimization of rate-distortion. The method also provides joint optimization of scale factors, Huffman codebooks and quantized spectral coefficient sequences for minimization of a rate-distortion cost. The method provides an iterative rate-distortion optimization algorithm for AAC encoding. In each iteration, the method first finds the optimal scale factors and quantized spectral coefficients when Huffman codebooks are fixed, then updates Huffman codebooks and quantized spectral coefficients given the optimized scale factors. The iterations may be applied until a predetermined threshold is attained. | 05-26-2011 |