43rd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 34 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130279502 | SWITCH HAVING DEDICATED STACKING LINK - A first switch includes a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions causing the processor, after execution of the instructions by the processor, to establish a first stacking link between a first stacking port of the first switch and a first stacking port of a second switch, establish a second stacking link between a second stacking port of the first switch and a first stacking port of a third switch, and dedicate the first stacking link to a first class of traffic between the first switch and the second switch. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279503 | Next Hop Computation Functions for Equal Cost Multi-Path Packet Switching Networks - Next hop computation functions for use in a per-node ECMP path determination algorithm are provided, which increase traffic spreading between network resources in an equal cost multi-path packet switch network. In one embodiment, packets are mapped to output ports by causing each ECMP node on the network to implement an entropy preserving mapping function keyed with unique key material. The unique key material enables each node to instantiate a respective mapping function from a common function prototype such that a given input will map to a different output on different nodes. Where an output set of the mapping function is larger than the number of candidate output ports, a compression function is used to convert the keyed output of the mapping function to the candidate set of ECMP ports. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279504 | EFFICIENT CONTROL PACKET REPLICATION IN DATA PLANE - A method for replicating a control packet in a forwarding plane of a network element, the control packet being destined for a plurality of subscriber end stations. The forwarding plane receives the control packet from a control plane and detects a replication indicator associated with the control packet. The forwarding plane determines the plurality of subscriber end stations as each of the plurality of subscriber end stations is associated with the control packet. The forwarding plane then replicates the control packet for each of the plurality of subscriber end stations and distributes the replicated control packets to the plurality of subscriber end stations. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279505 | INTERNET PROTOCOL BROADCASTING - Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for improving utilization of a communications system through various atom-based techniques for enhancing the viewing experience for Internet protocol content. Some embodiments exploit atom-based processing to determine which content atoms to broadcast (e.g., multicast) over which channels to which subscribers. Other embodiments make atom-based filtering, caching, and/or other determinations at the user terminal. For example, low-level (e.g., physical layer) filtering may be used to limit the amount of user-layer processing needed, and to facilitate delivery of content to those users most likely to desire that content. Still other embodiments allow users to create customized channels of cached content for viewing as a shared channel. Embodiments include techniques for addressing synchronization of channel content and viewing, and social networking, for subscribers to the shared channel. The shared channels may be further used to facilitate social networking among subscribers. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279506 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ROUTING APPLICATION TRAFFIC - Methods and systems for routing application traffic to an operable system manager are provided. In particular, an arbiter application is provided to identify a currently active system manager. The arbiter application provides an address for the active system manager to a routing node. Applications send communications to the active system manager by associating such communications with a virtual system manager address. Such communications are delivered to the routing node, which associates the actual address for the currently active system manager with the communication. The communications are then delivered to the active system manager using the actual address. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279507 | FRAME TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, FRAME TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND FRAME TRANSMISSION METHOD - A frame transmission system includes: a first frame transmission apparatus configured to transmit a message frame containing an medium access control (MAC) destination address in an intended user MAC frame, and containing both MAC header information and header information of an upper layer in a user MAC frame; and a second frame transmission apparatus configured to identify one output destination physical link based on the MAC header information and the header information of the upper layer acquired from the message frame, when an output destination with regard to the MAC destination address in the message frame constitutes a link aggregation group including a plurality of physical links, and generate a reply frame containing information on the identified output destination physical link and a MAC address of the second frame transmission apparatus in order to return the reply frame to the first frame transmission apparatus. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279508 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus that couples to a core network in a network system including a first access network coupled to the core network via a first relay, and a second access network coupled to the core network via a second relay, the communication apparatus including: a processor to store, when a first packet is transmitted to a first destination address included in a first address range and not included in a second address range, cache information regarding the second address range to a memory, the first address range being assigned to the first access network and the second address range being assigned to the second access network and being included in the first address range, and a transmitter to transmit, when a second packet for a second address included in the second address range is generated, the second packer to the second apparatus based on the cache information. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279509 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND FORWARDING DATA - A method and apparatus adapted to prevent Head-Of-Line blocking by forwarding dummy packets to queues which have not received data for a predetermined period of time. This prevention of HOL may be on an input where data is forwarded to each of a number of FIFOs or an output where data is de-queued from FIFOs. The dummy packets may be provided with a time stamp derived from a recently queued or de-queued packet. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279510 | ARCHITECTURE FOR ROUTING DATA OF A CUSTOMER NETWORK OVER PROVIDER'S NETWORK IN PROVIDER BACKBONE BRIDGES - Embodiments of the disclosure are related to routing or switching data of a customer network over a provider's network in Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) to another customer network such that the traffic in the communication channel between the two customer networks is reduced and thus prevents packet loss. The architecture model for routing or switching data of a customer network over a provider's network is a B-component bridge used in backbone networks which performs Σ | 2013-10-24 |
20130279511 | METHOD FOR OPERATING MULTI-DOMAIN PROVIDER ETHERNET NETWORKS - A method of enabling extension of a network service of a first domain to a remote customer site hosted by an Access Gateway (AG) in a Provider Ethernet domain. In the first domain, the remote customer site is represented as being hosted by a border gateway (BG) connected to the Provider Ethernet domain, such that subscriber packets associated with the network service are forwarded to or from the remote customer site via the BG. In the Provider Ethernet domain, a trunk connection is instantiated through the Provider Ethernet domain between the host AG and the BG. A trunk cross-connection function is installed in the host AG, for transferring subscriber packets associated with the network service between a respective attachment virtual circuit (AVC) through which the remote customer site is connected to the host AG and an extended AVC tunnelled through the trunk connection. A common service instance identifier (I-SID) is used to identify both the AVC between the host AG and the remote customer site and the extended AVC between the host AG and the BG. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279512 | PROFRAMMABLE WIRELESS INTEGRATED TRANSCEIVER LIGHT HOUSING ENCLOSURE - A lighting housing for installation in a building having a source of electrical power, including a support structure; a junction box coupled to the support structure and to the source of electrical power; a lighting enclosure coupled to the support structure and mechanically and electrically supporting an electric light powered from the source of electrical power received through the junction box; and an RF mesh network transceiver, coupled to the support structure and powered from the junction box, for participation in a mesh network. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279513 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PSEUDO-LINK CREATION - Systems, methods and apparatus for pseudo-link creation. In some embodiments, a network device operates in a network comprising a first switch device and a second switch device. The switch device may receive a control message from the first switch device and selectively forward the control message to the second switch device so as to create a pseudo-link between the first switch device and the second switch device. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279514 | USING PATH COMPUTATION ELEMENT COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL (PCEP) AS A SIGNALLING PROTOCOL DURING DYNAMIC SERVICE PROVISION IN NETWORKS - The subject matter described herein includes using a path computation element communication protocol (PCEP) as a signaling protocol during dynamic service provisioning in networks. According to one aspect of the subject matter described herein, a network uses a hard state point-to-point protocol as a signaling protocol during dynamic service provisioning in a control plane of the network. In one implementation, the point-to-point protocol is a path computation element communication protocol (PCEP). | 2013-10-24 |
20130279515 | Overlapping Priority Contention Windows for G3 Power Line Communications Networks - Embodiments of methods and systems for overlapping priority contention windows in G3-PLC networks are presented. In one embodiment, a Normal Priority Contention Window (NPCW) is allowed to overlap with a High Priority Contention Window (HPCW). The minimum contention window for the normal priority frames (i.e., NPCW) is equal to or longer than the contention window for high priority frames (i.e., HPCW). By making the NPCW longer than the HPCW, the high priority frames will have a better chance than normal priority frames to get access to the channel on transmission reattempts. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279516 | Method and Device for Improving Robustness of Context Update Message in Robust Header Compression - A method and system for improving robustness of context update messages in robust header compression are disclosed in the present document, wherein, the method includes: when sending the context update message, a compressor performing check processing on important fields in the context update message, generating a check code, and sending the check code and the context update message out together; and after receiving the context update message and the check code of the important fields in the context update message, a decompressor firstly performing checking on the important fields in the context update message, if the checking is passed, continuing to execute decompression processing, and if the checking is failed, discarding the context update message. With the present document, the probability of mistaking other compression packets for IR/IR-DYN messages due to bit errors of packet format fields can be reduced, and the correctness of packet format identification can be improved. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279517 | Line Interface Unit With Feedback Control - A Line Interface Unit (LIU) can communicate a number of electromagnetic waveforms consistently fitting into a variety of specific waveform masks, such as masks defined by ITU-T G.703. The LIU includes a transmit part that includes a feedback controller that facilitates the LIU outputting electromagnetic waveforms consistently fitting into the specific waveform masks. The feedback controller can compensate for changes in environmental conditions, such as supply voltage, line profile, line impedance per protocol, doping gradient, and temperature. Also, this feedback controller allows for avoiding constant hardware modifications to the LIU for adjusting to different protocols or masks. It also can enable the LIU to instantiate a great number of times, such as twenty-one times on the same die, where the transmit part performs the feedback controller independently for each instantiation. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279518 | System and Apparatus for Router Advertisement Options for Configuring Networks to Support IPv6 to IPv4 Multicast Translation - A network element (NE) comprising a processor configured to cause the NE to act as a default router for an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) to Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) translation entity, and configure the IGMP to MLD translation entity with a multicast translation prefix by including the multicast translation prefix in a router advertisement (RA) message sent to the IGMP to MLD translation entity. Also disclosed is a method comprising configuring an IGMP to MLD translation entity by transmitting a RA message to the IGMP to MLD translation entity, wherein the RA message comprises at least one multicast translation prefix. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279519 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MESSAGE TRANSMISSION - A method for message transmission comprises: receiving a forward message sent from an internal network device to an external network; transmitting the forward message after replacing the source address of the forward message with a public network IP address; receiving a reverse message sent from the external network to the internal network device; and transmitting the reverse message after replacing the destination public network IP address of the reverse message, which is sent from the external network to the internal network device, with a private network IP address of the internal network device. With the method, the NAT device can support more users, and thus the number of NAT devices is reduced and synchronization can be achieved between the internal network device and the NAT device when the NAT device aging occurs. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279520 | HIERARCHICAL RATE COLOR MARKER - One embodiment provides a system that facilitates bandwidth-profile enforcement. During operation, the system indicates a packet's compliance with a bandwidth profile based at least on available high-compliance tokens and medium-compliance tokens. The system further accounts for overflow tokens from a respective class of service (CoS) and distribute an overflow token to another CoS priority level based on the overflow token's CoS information. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279521 | Policy and/or Charging Control - The present invention relates to the implementation of policy and/or charging control for an IP Connectivity Access Network session established for a user, that enables the user to select one of several Quality or Service levels, and an associated charging rate, that can be provided to the user for an identified traffic type that is being sent over the IP-CAN session. A set of Policy and Charging Control rules that apply the selected QoS level and the associated charging rate are then generated and applied to traffic of the identified type that is sent over the IP-CAN session. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279522 | DECOMPRESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A decompressing method and apparatus and belong to the field of communications. The method includes: receiving a compressed data packet and decompressing a sequence number compression code of the compressed data packet; obtaining a new reference sequence number according to time of receiving the compressed data packet, a buffered reference sequence number, reference time, and a unit sequence number time interval when a sequence number of the data packet fails to be decompressed because of successive packet losses; and re-decompressing the sequence number compression code of the data packet according to the new reference sequence number to obtain the sequence number of the data packet, where the reference sequence number is a sequence number of a last successfully decompressed data packet and the buffered reference time is time of receiving a compressed data packet, and the data packet is the last successfully decompressed data packet. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279523 | 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. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279524 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING REDUNDANT TRAFFIC IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A capability is provided for reducing or even eliminating redundant traffic in cellular wireless networks. A method is provided for encoding a target packet in a manner for reducing redundancy of information in the target packet. The method includes identifying a region of the target packet that matches a region of a stored packet, removing, from the target packet, the identified region of the target packet from the target packet, and inserting, within the target packet, an encoding key comprising a hash of the stored packet. A method is provided for reconstructing a packet from an encoded packet that is encoded in a manner for reducing redundancy of information in a network. The method includes identifying an encoding key within the encoded packet, wherein the encoding key comprises a hash of a stored packet, retrieving the stored packet using the hash of the stored packet, removing the encoding key from the encoded packet, and inserting information from the stored packet within the encoded packet. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279525 | Ring Based Precise Time Data Network Clock Phase Adjustments - Clock phase errors are detected and adjusted in a network with loop back connections for clock signals. In one embodiment, a method is performed in a ring network with slave clock nodes. A timing packet is sent from the master clock node to a first slave clock node of the ring. A timing packet is received from a last slave clock node of the ring. A phase alignment offset is determined by comparing a recovered time from the received timing packet with the time of the master clock node local clock and a phase correction value is determined for the slave clock nodes based on the determined phase alignment offset. A phase correction packet including the phase correction value is then sent from the master clock node to at least one of the slave clock nodes. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279526 | LASER APPARATUS - A laser apparatus may include a first laser light source configured to emit light with a first wavelength, a second laser light source including a titanium-sapphire laser device and a plurality of wavelength conversion elements and being configured to emit light with a second wavelength being one-fourth of a wavelength of light emitted from the titanium-sapphire laser device, and a wavelength conversion element configured in such a manner that the light with the first wavelength and the light with the second wavelength are incident thereon to emit light with a wavelength of about 193 nm corresponding to a sub frequency of the light with the first wavelength and the light with the second wavelength. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279527 | Laser Marking of Polymer Materials - A system and method for efficiently laser marking a polymer target material, and more particularly a transparent polymer target material, is presented. The system includes a visually transparent polymer target material comprising a surface and a near 2 μm fiber laser, the fiber laser having a peak power equal to or greater than 10 kW, a pulse repetition rate equal to or greater than 1 kHz, and an average power equal to or less than 20 W. In certain embodiments, the fiber laser may be a Q-switched fiber laser having a pulse width equal to or less than 200 ns or a mode-locked fiber laser having a pulse width equal to or less than 100 ps. The method includes producing, using the fiber laser, a mark that is not transparent to visible wavelengths on the surface of the polymer target material without damaging it. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279528 | OPTICALLY LOCKED HIGH ENERGY OPO-OPA - Systems and methods for producing high-energy, pico-second laser pulses are disclosed. Systems and methods include using a modelocked laser source to drive an OPO (optical parametric oscillator) and an OPA (optical parametric amplifier) such that the OPA and OPO self-synchronize without the use of separate synchronization components and produce high-energy output without requiring pulse stretchers or pulse compressors, making the laser system viable for portability and vehicle mounting from both cost and durability standpoints. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279529 | COMPACT HIGH ENERGY MID WAVE OPCPA LASER - Systems and methods of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification for laser pulses are provided. Techniques and components include replacing pulse stretcher and/or pulse compressors with chirped volume Bragg gratings (CVBGs) to reduce size, weight, cost, and environmental sensitivity of the laser system. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279530 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE - A semiconductor laser bar | 2013-10-24 |
20130279531 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING A VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER (VCSEL) AND A PROTECTION DIODE INTEGRATED THEREIN AND HAVING REDUCED CAPACITANCE TO ALLOW THE VCSEL TO ACHIEVE HIGH OPERATING SPEEDS - A semiconductor device is provided that has a VCSEL and a protection diode integrated therein and that has an additional intrinsic layer. The inclusion of the additional intrinsic layer increases the width of the depletion region of the protection diode, which reduces the amount of capacitance that is introduced by the protection diode. Reducing the amount of capacitance that is introduced by the protection diode allows the VCSEL to operate at higher speeds. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279532 | ENERGY EFFICIENT HIGH-TEMPERATURE REFINING - An energy-efficient device for refining a glass melt to produce a glass and/or a glass ceramic is provided. The device includes a refining crucible defined at least by lateral walls with a metallic lining as a melt contact surface, so that a melt refining volume is defined by a base surface, a top surface and a circumferential surface; at least one heating device that conductively heats the lining by an electric current in the lining, so that the melt is heated through the lining, the heating device and the lining are connected to one another by a feeding device. The feeding device establishes contact with the lining so that an electric current runs from the top surface to the base surface or from the base surface to the top surface, at least in sections of the lining. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279533 | MELTING FURNACE INCLUDING WIRE-DISCHARGE ION PLASMA ELECTRON EMITTER - An apparatus for melting an electrically conductive metallic material includes a vacuum chamber and a hearth disposed in the vacuum chamber. At least one wire-discharge ion plasma electron emitter is disposed in or adjacent the vacuum chamber and is positioned to direct a wide-area field of electrons into the vacuum chamber, wherein the wide-area electron field has sufficient energy to heat the electrically conductive metallic material to its melting temperature. The apparatus may further include at least one of a mold and an atomizing apparatus which is in communication with the vacuum chamber and is positioned to receive molten material from the hearth. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279534 | Graphite Electrodes - A graphite electrode exhibits oxidation resistance by modifying the outer radial surface characteristics. The outer radial surface may be modified by providing a textured portion which improves water flow while minimizing water absorbtion. Alternately, a layer of flexible graphite or plurality of particles of exfoliated graphite may be disposed on the outer radial surface of the electrode body. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279535 | Method and Device for Closed-Loop Control of the Electrode Gap in a Vacuum Arc Furnace - The invention relates to a method as well as a device for closed-loop control of the electrode gap in a vacuum arc furnace ( | 2013-10-24 |
20130279536 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION OF FUEL CELL - Disclosed is a device for measuring a temperature distribution of a fuel cell includes: a base member formed to come into contact with at least a portion of a fuel cell and having at least one accommodating portion; a heat transfer tube accommodated in the accommodating portion; and a thermocouple inserted into a hollow of the heat transfer tube and measuring a temperature of heat transmitted through the heat transfer tube. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279537 | DISPLAY PANEL TEMPERATURE SENSING APPARATUS - A display panel temperature sensing apparatus, in an embodiment, includes a display panel, at least one temperature-sensing component, at least one passive device, and an oscillation circuit. The at least one temperature-sensing component is disposed on the display panel. The at least one passive device is coupled to the at least one temperature-sensing component to form a resistance-capacitance (RC) structure. The oscillation circuit is coupled to the RC structure and an output terminal of the oscillation circuit outputs a temperature-sensing signal. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279538 | Thermal Sensor Having a Coupling Layer, and a Thermal Imaging System Including the Same - A thermal sensor includes a first semi-transparent electrode; a second electrode; a thermally sensitive element positioned between the first and second electrodes; and a coupling layer positioned between the first electrode and the thermally sensitive element, wherein the thermally sensitive element is in electrical communication with the first electrode via the coupling layer and is in electrical communication with the second electrode. An optional second coupling layer may be positioned between the second electrode and the thermally sensitive element, wherein the thermally sensitive element is in electrical communication with the second electrode via the second coupling layer. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279539 | BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE MEASUREMENT DEVICE - Biological sample measurement device includes biological sample measuring instrument, and temperature information supply instrument which supplies temperature information regarding a measurement environment to biological sample measuring instrument and has holding portion of biological sample measuring instrument on the upper surface thereof. Biological sample measuring instrument has main body case, measurement unit provided inside main body case, a control unit connected to the measurement unit, and temperature information reception unit connected to the control unit. Holder has temperature sensor, and temperature information transmission unit which is connected to temperature sensor and transmits the temperature information to temperature information reception unit. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279540 | ON-DEMAND PAIR-WISE FREQUENCY-HOPPING SYNCHRONIZATION - In one embodiment, a device receives and stores a broadcast schedule, and may determine whether a neighbor unicast listening schedule is available for a neighboring device. If so, the device may transmit a data frame to the neighboring device pursuant to the neighbor unicast listening schedule. If a neighbor unicast listening schedule is not available, the device may transmit the data frame to the neighboring device pursuant to a broadcast schedule. Once the data frame is received by the neighboring device, pursuant to the neighbor unicast listening schedule or the broadcast schedule, an acknowledgement may be received from the neighboring device, which may include an updated neighbor unicast listening schedule for that neighboring device. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279541 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Frequency Synchronization - A method and apparatus for performing frequency analysis of sub-epoch correlations to estimate an unknown frequency of a received signal is provided. The method includes forming a sequence of correlation values from a plurality of correlations performed over a period less than a repeating period of a code, and analyzing the sequence of correlation values to estimate the frequency that is used to receive a signal comprising the code. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279542 | SPREADING CODE PRODUCING APPARATUS - This invention relates to spreading code producing apparatus, which comprises: two phase shifters for spreading code which receive bits for determining spreading codes and phase information and producing spreading codes; and multiplexers which receive two spreading codes produced said two phase shifters for spreading code, receive bits through separate way which defines outputting order of the received two spreading codes and produce spreading codes with same length as said received two spreading codes. Therefore, many information using few spreading codes can be transmitted so that data transmission rate can be raised. Furthermore, communication service with high speed can be performed among communication devices using human body communication etc. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279543 | NAVIGATION SIGNAL TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, LOCATION INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING NAVIGATION SIGNAL, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION - A navigation signal transmitting apparatus and a location information providing apparatus are provided for reducing time of positioning with a positioning signal from an indoor positioning transmitter. When an information providing server recognizes a transmitter ID of a transmitter from a mobile phone, the server makes reference refers to database associated with the transmitter ID, and reads SVG map information associated with the ID (including information for displaying a map and information of a correspondence relation between the transmitter ID and the location of the transmitter on the map). When the server transmits data of the SVG map information to a base station, the base station wirelessly emits the data of the SVG map information. When the mobile phone detects arrival of the data, the mobile phone can obtain the location of the transmitter from the data in accordance with a browsing operation of a user of the phone. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279544 | APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE HOPPING AND ORTHOGONAL COVERING CODES TO UPLINK REFERENCE SIGNALS - Methods and User Equipment (UE) apparatuses are provided for transmitting Reference Signals (RSs). A method includes receiving a cell-specific sequence-hopping parameter; receiving a UE-specific sequence-hopping parameter; determining a reference signal sequence based on the UE-specific sequence-hopping parameter; and transmitting the reference signal based on the determined reference signal sequence. Sequence hopping does not apply to the reference signal sequence if the cell-specific sequence-hopping parameter indicates that the sequence hopping is enabled and the UE-specific sequence-hopping parameter indicates that the sequence hopping is disabled. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279545 | Systems, Methods and Transceivers or Wireless Communications Over Discontinguous Spectrum Segments - Methods of transmitting a plurality of communications signals over a plurality of discontiguous bandwidth segments in a frequency band include defining a plurality (N | 2013-10-24 |
20130279546 | MAINS-SYNCHRONOUS POWER-LINE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A transmitter transmits an outbound message signal via the power distribution system. The transmitter includes a spreader for spreading the spectrum of the communications signal before transmitting the outbound message signal. A receiver despreads the spectrum of the received digitized signal and digitally demodulates the received despread signal to generate the message. The transmitted signal is orthogonal to a source of interference on the power distribution system. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279547 | Blind Detection of Modulation Configuration for Interfering Signals - Techniques are disclosed for determining which channelization codes are used for an interfering HS-PDSCH transmission without knowing whether a neighboring UE targeted by that transmission has had its 64QAM capability activated by higher layer signaling. The average amplitude is measured for each of several possible groups of channelization codes for each of one or more nearby UEs that might be the targets of interfering HS-PDSCH messages. Testing whether the amplitude is approximately the same across the codes in a possible combination of channelization codes yields a metric value that indicates whether that particular combination of codes is likely to be transmitted to a given UE. A second metric that detects the most likely modulation for possible groups of channelization codes is also calculated. The metrics are combined to determine which combination of channelization codes and modulation scheme is most likely being used for addressing the neighboring UE. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279548 | DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFT KEYING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A variation on conventional DPSK binary modulation schemes is provided. One modulation scheme uses 3π/8 differential binary phase shift keying (3π/8-DBPSK) where one symbol is transmitted by phase change of 3π/8 radians and the other symbol is transmitted by phase change of −5π/8 radians. Alternatively, this can be thought of as adding a constant 3π/8 radians to the symbol angle for every bit modulated by conventional DBPSK. In another example, assume a first and second symbols, k−1 and k, respectively, are sent. Where k is the same symbol as k−1, a phase rotation of 3π/8 radians from the k | 2013-10-24 |
20130279549 | COMMUNICATION INTERFACE FOR GALVANIC ISOLATION - In one or more embodiments, a system is provided for communicating between different voltage domains using N+1 capacitive-coupled conductive lines to provide N communication channels. For instance, bi-directional communication (e.g., a first communication in a first direction and a second communication path in the opposite direction) may be provided using three capacitive-coupled signal paths. Two of the signal paths are used as single-ended (i.e., non-differential) signal paths. The third signal path is used to suppress voltage disturbances between two voltage domains. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279550 | CAPACITIVE ISOLATED VOLTAGE DOMAINS - In one embodiment, a method of communicating data values over a three conductor interface is provided. Different data values are transmitted by generating and transmitting three respective signals to a receiver using three conductors. The first signal is maintained as a set voltage level. The second signal is alternated between a high voltage and a low voltage according to a carrier frequency. The third signal is alternated between the high and low voltages and is out of phased with the second signal. To transmit a first data value, the first signal is generated on a first conductor, the second signal is generated on a second conductor, and the third signal is generated on a third conductor. To transmit a second data value, the second signal is generated on the first conductor, the first signal is generated on the second conductor, and the third signal is generated on the third conductor. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A SINGLE CHIP HAVING A MULTIPLE SUB-LAYER PHY - A system and method are disclosed for supporting 10 Gigabit digital serial communications. Many of the functional components and sublayers of a 10 Gigabit digital serial communications transceiver module are integrated into a single IC chip using the same CMOS technology throughout the single chip. The single chip includes a PMD transmit/receive CMOS sublayer, a PMD PCS CMOS sublayer, a XGXS PCS CMOS sublayer, and a XAUI transmit/receive CMOS sublayer. The single chip supports both 10 Gigabit Ethernet operation and 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel operation. The single chip interfaces to a MAC, an optical PMD, and non-volatile memory. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279552 | NOISE REDUCTION BETWEEN PROXIMATE NETWORKS - Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide noise reduction between proximate networks by minimizing interference from nearby network communication. A processing module determines a performance condition of a network and communicates with one or more nodes at a nearby network based on the performance condition of the network. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279553 | LIGHTING CONTROL PROTOCOL - A digital lighting control network protocol with forward and backward frames, each of the frames including an error check code. A no-acknowledgment (NAK) signal is sent from a receiving node to a transmitting node responsive to the error check code. An interface circuit of the receiving node may include an energy storage section to store at least some energy from the network while receiving digital signals, and an output section to transmit digital signals to the network using the stored energy. The interface circuit may also include a high voltage buffer circuit. The transmitting node may send forward frames to receiving nodes based on device type. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279554 | Apparatus and Method for Correcting Phase Error - An apparatus for correcting a phase error is provided. The apparatus includes an error estimating module and a correcting module. The error estimating module receives a phase-shift keying signal, and calculates a phase error according to the phase-shift keying signal, a plurality of known candidate signals and Bayesian estimation. The correcting module corrects the phase-shift keying signal according to the phase error. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279555 | Method and Apparatus for Blind Detection of Secondary Pilot Signal in A Wireless Communication System - In one aspect, the present invention provides for blindly detecting the presence of one or more secondary pilot signals that are not being used to serve a communication apparatus, such as a User Equipment (UE). Among its several advantages, the approach to blind detection taught herein provides robust detection performance, yet it requires relatively few receiver resources. The contemplated apparatus, in at least one example embodiment, uses its blind detection of secondary pilot signal(s) to trigger suppression of secondary pilot interference, for improved reception performance. In a particular, non-limiting example, the apparatus operates in an HSDPA-MIMO network in a non-MIMO mode and blindly detects secondary pilot signal energy associated with the supporting network providing MIMO service to nearby equipment. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279556 | RECEIVER - A receiver comprising: one or more variable gain elements; an automatic gain control (AGC) for controlling a gain of one or more of the one or more the variable gain elements; and a frame detector configured to detect the presence of a frame in a signal received by the receiver and to output a signal to the AGC on detection of a data frame, wherein the AGC is configured to estimate a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the received signal on receiving an input signal from the frame detector, to calculate a SNR margin between the estimated SNR and a target SNR and to adjust the gain of one or more of the one or more variable gain elements to maintain a positive SNR margin such that in the event of interference with the received signal the one or more variable gain elements do not saturate. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279557 | Interference Cancellation with Time-Varying Interference and/or Distortion - A communications receiver includes a noise analyzer to characterize the composition of the interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communications signal in the presence of one or more time-varying conditions. The noise analyzer may provide a selection signal indicating the composition of the interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communications signal in the presence of one or more time-varying conditions to be used by the communications receiver. In an exemplary embodiment, the communications receiver selects at least one set of filter coefficients to compensate for the interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communications signal in the presence of a particular time-varying interference and/or distortion condition. In another exemplary embodiment, the communications receiver selects a corresponding interference cancellation filter hank to compensate for the interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communications signal in the presence of the particular time-varying interference and/or distortion condition. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279558 | REDUCED LATENCY CHANNEL-ESTIMATION - Receiving an OFDM signal having a series of OFDM symbols, each having sub-carriers, each modulated by at least one data bit encoded with error-correcting code. The receiver has a first error-correcting decoder to decode sequentially data bits of a received first OFDM symbol; a re-encoder to receive decoded bits and re-encode a leading portion of the decoded bits; a mapper to receive the re-encoded leading portion of bits, map these bits to a corresponding subset of the sub-carriers, and thereby estimate a modulation symbol applied to each sub-carrier, by the transmitter; a channel estimator to produce a channel estimate by comparing sub-carrier modulation symbols with corresponding sub-carriers received by the receiver; and an equalizer to process the received signal to remove distortions from the transmission channel, using the channel estimate. The re-encoder begins re-encoding the leading portion of the bits before a trailing portion has been decoded. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279559 | Method and Apparatus for Soft Symbol Processing in a Communication Receiver - In one aspect, the present invention improves Turbo equalization and/or soft interference cancellation processing in communication receivers by providing an efficient and accurate technique to compute the second moment of a received symbol, e.g., an interfering symbol, as a function of the expected bit values of only those bits in the symbol that are magnitude-controlling bits according to a defined modulation constellation. Advantageously, the expected bit values in at least one embodiment are computed using a LUT that maps bit LLRs to corresponding hyperbolic tangent function values. Further, the expected symbol value is computed as a linear function of terms comprising the expected bit values and the soft symbol variance is efficiently computed from the second moment and the expected symbol value squared. This simplified processing reduces receiver complexity, particularly in the context of modulation constellations having non-constant magnitudes, and thus saves power and/or improves design economics. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279560 | Asymmetric Multi-Channel Adaptive Equalizer - An apparatus is disclosed to compensate for non-linear effects resulting from the transmitter, the receiver, and/or the communication channel in a communication system. A receiver of the communication system contains an image cancellation module that compensates for images generated during the modulation and/or demodulation process. The image cancellation module includes a fine carrier correction loop to correct for frequency offsets between the transmitter and receiver. The image cancellation module includes a coarse acquisition mode and a decision directed mode. The decision directed mode allows for a larger signal-to-noise ratio for the receiver when compared against the coarse acquisition mode. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279561 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIME REVERSAL DATA COMMUNICATIONS ON PIPES USING GUIDED ELASTIC WAVES - Embedded piezoelectric sensors in large civil structures for structural health monitoring applications require data communication capabilities to effectively transmit information regarding the structure's integrity between sensor nodes and to the central processing unit. Conventional communication modalities include electromagnetic waves or acoustical waves. While guided elastic waves can propagate over long distances on solid structures, their multi-modal and dispersive characteristics make it difficult to interpret the channel responses and to transfer useful information along pipes. Time reversal is an adaptive transmission method that can improve the spatiotemporal wave focusing. The present disclosure presents the basic principles of a time reversal based pulse position modulation (TR-PPM) method and demonstrates TR-PPM data communication by simulation. The present disclosure also experimentally demonstrates data communication with TR-PPM on pipes. Simulated and experimental results demonstrate that TR-PPM for data communications can be achieved successfully using guided elastic waves. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279562 | Shift-Invariant Digital Sampling Rate Conversion System - There is described a method of making a linear periodically time varying system shift-invariant, comprising the following steps implemented for each input signal the sampling rate of which has to be converted: —generating a set of polyphase components based on the input signal, —feeding the generated set of polyphase components to the system, and —generating an output signal by performing interleaving, shifting and addition on signals output by the system corresponding to the generated set of polyphase components processed by the system. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279563 | DETECTION OF VIDEO FEATURE BASED ON VARIANCE METRIC - A metric representing the sum of variances for pixel blocks of a region of an image are used to identify the presence a video feature of the image, and a transcoding is performed responsive to identifying the presence of the video feature. The identified video feature can include, but is not limited to, a scene change, the presence of a black border region or a caption region, or the complexity of the image. The transcoding operation can include, but is not limited to, coding the image as an Intra-frame, omitting the content corresponding to the black border region or the caption region from the transcoded image or allocating a relatively lower bit budget for the black border region or a relatively higher bit budget to the caption region during transcoding of the image, or setting the bit budget for rate control during transcoding. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279564 | VIDEO CODING WITH ENHANCED SUPPORT FOR STREAM ADAPTATION AND SPLICING - Various techniques for enhanced support of stream adaptation and splicing based on clean random access (CRA) pictures are described. Instead of using a flag in the slice header to indicate that a broken link picture is present, a distinct network abstraction layer (NAL) unit type can be used to indicate the presence of a broken link picture. In some implementations, a first distinct NAL unit type may be used to indicate the presence of a broken link picture with leading pictures, while a second distinct NAL unit type indicates the presence of a broken link picture without leading pictures. In some implementations, a third distinct NAL unit type may be used to indicate the presence of a broken link picture with decodable leading pictures. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279565 | VIDEO CODING - Methods and apparatus for video coding are disclosed, particularly for use in relation to video compression. Many commercially available video encoders support constant bit-rate encoding but not constant quality encoding. Aspects of the present invention are concerned with methods and apparatus for video coding, the methods involving the determination of bit-rates at which a constant bit-rate encoder may be operated such that segments of video can be chosen from files encoded at the bit-rates so-determined in order to produce an output bitstream in which the quality is nearly constant. Bit-stream segments may be chosen from a low bit-rate bitstream for easy-to-compress scenes, and from a high bit-rate bitstream for hard-to-compress scenes. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279566 | SYSTEM, COMPONENTS AND METHOD FOR PARAMETRIC MOTION VECTOR PREDICTION FOR HYBRID VIDEO CODING - Parametric Motion Vector Prediction (PMVP) methodologies and components and systems for performing those methodologies are provided to more effectively and efficiently encode video content that includes complex motion such as zoom or rotation. By substituting the PMVP for a collocated MVP used in HEVC in order to reduce the amount of bit rate increase required when including the PMVP analysis in the bit stream. Further, compression of the motion vectors is provided in a three stage approach based on transformation, quantization and difference coding. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279567 | FRAME LEVEL RATE CONTROL USING MOTION ESTIMATED DISTORTIONS - Described herein are techniques related to frame-level quantization parameter (QP) adjustment in video encoding. In particular, a method of implementing a bit rate control (BRC) algorithm is described to dynamically control the QP during the video encoding. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279568 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image coding method includes: obtaining a pixel signal of a current region to be processed; calculating offset information including at least one of a location from which the offset information for the current region is obtained, a total number of blocks which share the offset information, a pattern of partitioning the current region, a pixel classification method for classifying pixels into categories, a category index number of band offset, or an offset value; applying offset to the current region using the offset information, the offset being applied with adjustment to the offset value when a predetermined condition is satisfied; coding the offset information; outputting an offset-applied signal generated by the applying of offset; and controlling the applying of offset. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279569 | Binarization Scheme for Intra Prediction Residuals and Improved Intra Prediction in Lossless Coding in HEVC - A method comprising adaptively updating a value of a Exponential-Golomb (EG) parameter according to a value of at least one encoded prediction residual value, and encoding a prediction residual value in a lossless mode using an EG code using the value of the EG parameter. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279570 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH PATTERN DETECTION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A system for processing a video signal into a processed video signal includes a pattern recognition module for detecting a pattern of interest in the image sequence based on coding feedback data and generating pattern recognition data in response thereto. A video codec generates the processed video signal and generates the coding feedback data in conjunction with the processing of the image sequence. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279571 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH STREAM INDEXING DATA AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A system for searching a video library includes a memory that stores a searchable index that includes search features corresponding to videos contained in the video library. A video processing system decodes, encodes or transcodes a video signal and that further generates search features of the video signal. A search module identifies at least one matching video of the video library by comparing the search features of the video signal to corresponding search features of the searchable index. The search features can include at least one shot-level search feature and at least one frame level feature. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279572 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH TEXT RECOGNITION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A system for processing a video signal into a processed video signal includes a pattern recognition module for detecting a region of text in the image sequence based on coding feedback data and generating pattern recognition data in response thereto. A video codec generates the processed video signal and generates the coding feedback data in conjunction with the processing of the image sequence. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279573 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH HUMAN ACTION DETECTION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A system for processing a video signal into a processed video signal includes a pattern recognition module for detecting a region of human action in the image sequence based on coding feedback data and generating pattern recognition data in response thereto. A video codec generates the processed video signal and generates the coding feedback data in conjunction with the processing of the image sequence. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279574 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE BASED ON SEGMENTS - Encoding and decoding an image may be performed by setting a plurality of segments of a second color component block based on pixel values of a first color component block. The plurality of segments may be predicted by using different context pixels, and the second color component block may be encoded and decoded based on the predicted plurality of segments. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279575 | MARKING REFERENCE PICTURES IN VIDEO SEQUENCES HAVING BROKEN LINK PICTURES - Systems, methods, and devices for processing video data are disclosed. Some examples determine that a current picture is a broken-link access (BLA) picture. These examples may also mark a reference picture in a picture storage buffer as unused for reference. In some examples, this may be done prior to decoding the BLA picture. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279576 | VIEW DEPENDENCY IN MULTI-VIEW CODING AND 3D CODING - This disclosure described techniques for coding layer dependencies for a block of video data. According to these techniques, a video encoder generates layer dependencies associated with a given layer. The video encoder also generates a type of prediction associated with one or more of the layer dependencies. In some examples, the video encoder generates a first syntax element to signal layer dependencies and a second syntax element to signal a type of prediction associated with one or more of the layer dependencies. A video decoder may obtain the layer dependencies associated with a given layer and the type of prediction associated with one or more of the layer dependencies. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279577 | PICTURE CODING SUPPORTING BLOCK MERGING AND SKIP MODE - A coding efficiency increase is achieved by using a common signalization within the bitstream with regard to activation of merging and activation of the skip mode. One possible state of one or more syntax elements within the bitstream may signalize for a current sample set of a picture that the sample set is to be merged and has no prediction residual encoded and inserted into the bitstream. A common flag may signalize whether the coding parameters associated with a current sample set are to be set according to a merge candidate or to be retrieved from the bitstream, and whether the current sample set of the picture is to be reconstructed based on a prediction signal depending on the coding parameters associated with the current sample set, without any residual data, or to be reconstructed by refining the prediction signal depending on the coding parameters associated with the current sample set by means of residual data within the bitstream. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279578 | MOVING IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND MOVING IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS - An apparatus to decode an encoded bit stream obtained by dividing the moving image into a plurality of rectangular regions includes a rectangular region size determination unit for determining a variable size of the regions in a sequence (a set of continuous frames) based on region size information multiplexed in the encoded bit stream. The apparatus includes a decoding unit for decoding coding mode information multiplexed in the encoded bit stream for each of the regions, and a decoding unit for decoding pixel values in each of the regions based on the coding mode information. The coding mode information includes (1) prediction type information selected from information indicating either inter or intra prediction coding, and (2) intra prediction block size information indicating a size of a unit region for the intra prediction coding indicated by the prediction type information. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279579 | VIDEO-INFORMATION ENCODING METHOD AND VIDEO-INFORMATION DECODING METHOD - A video-information encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus with a guarantee of a fixed processing time. By limiting the amount of data to be input into/output from a CABAC encoding unit and decoding unit on a unit-of-encoding basis, such as one picture, slice, macroblock or block, and by encoding uncompressed video data, it is possible to provide a video-information encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus with a guarantee of a fixed processing time. Thereby, an apparatus with a guarantee of the processing time can be mounted. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279580 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE BY USING ROTATIONAL TRANSFORM - An image encoding method includes generating a first frequency coefficient matrix by transforming a predetermined block to a frequency domain; determining whether the first frequency coefficient matrix includes coefficients whose absolute values are greater than a predetermined value; generating a second frequency coefficient matrix by selectively partially switching at least one of rows and columns of the first frequency coefficient matrix according to an angle parameter based on a determination result; and selectively encoding the second frequency coefficient matrix based on the determination result. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279581 | MOTION ESTIMATION METHODS FOR RESIDUAL PREDICTION - Systems, apparatus and methods are described including determining a first value by reducing a bit-length of a reference pixel value and adding a first predetermined value to the result and determining a second value by subtracting a residual pixel value from a current pixel value to generate a difference value, reducing a bit-length of the difference value and adding the first predetermined value to the result. The range of the second value may then be clipped by setting the second value to zero when the second value is equal to or less than a second predetermined value and setting the second value to a third predetermined value when the second value is equal to or greater than a fourth predetermined value. The first value and the second value may then be used for inter-layer residual prediction in Scalable Video Coding (SVC) systems. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279582 | MOVING IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, MOVING IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, MOVING IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND MOVING IMAGE DECODING METHOD - When a coding mode selected by an encoding controlling part | 2013-10-24 |
20130279583 | Intra Prediction in Lossless Coding in HEVC - A method comprising computing predicted values for a plurality of border pixels in a prediction unit (PU) using corresponding left, upper, and upper left adjacent neighboring pixels in the PU, and computing predicted values for a second plurality of pixels in the PU using sample based angular prediction (SAP), wherein the second plurality of pixels comprises all other pixels in the PU besides the plurality of border pixels. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279584 | MOTION COMPENSATION FILTERING IN AN IMAGE SYSTEM - Coding techniques for a video image compression system involve improving an image quality of a sequence of two or more bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames, where each of the frames includes multiple pixels. One method involves determining a brightness value of at least one pixel of each bi-directionally predicted intermediate frame in the sequence as an equal average of brightness values of pixels in non-bidirectionally predicted frames bracketing the sequence of bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames. The brightness values of the pixels in at least one of the non-bidirectionally predicted frames is converted from a non-linear representation. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279585 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING FRAME TYPES - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for detecting frame types. The method includes: detecting play time of each frame; and if the play time of a current frame is less than the maximum play time of received frames, determining the current frame as a bi-directional predicted frame, B-frame. In the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention, the frame types are determined according to a coding sequence of various frames and comparison between data amounts of various frames received earlier and later, without decoding a payload. Therefore the impact of a reduction factor is eliminated and the frame types can be detected more accurately. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279586 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an image processing device including a motion vector determination section for partitioning a block set in an image into a plurality of partitions using a boundary having an inclination, and determining a motion vector for each partition, and a boundary information generation section for generating boundary information specifying a plurality of points of intersection of a perimeter of the block and the boundary. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279587 | LOSSY COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE FOR VIDEO ENCODER BANDWIDTH REDUCTION USING COMPRESSION ERROR DATA - A method, system and apparatus of lossy compression technique for video encoder bandwidth reduction using compression error data are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes storing an error data from a compression of an original reference data in an off-chip memory, accessing the error data during a motion compensation operation, and performing the motion compensation operation by applying the error data through an algorithm (e.g., determined by the method of storing the error data). The method may include generating a predicted frame in the motion compensation operation using a motion vector and an on-chip video data. In addition, the method may include determining the error data as a difference between a compressed reference data (e.g., is created by compressing the original reference data) and an original reference data (e.g., reconstructed from a prior predicted frame and a decompressed encoder data). | 2013-10-24 |
20130279588 | Using Depth Information to Assist Motion Compensation-Based Video Coding - An apparatus comprising a plurality of ports, and a processor coupled to the ports and configured to receive a plurality of video frames from any of the ports, wherein the video frames comprise an object and a background, and wherein the video frames comprise a plurality of color pixels for the object and the background, receive a plurality of depth frames from any of the ports, wherein the depth frames comprise the object and the background, and wherein the depth frames comprise an indication of an object depth relative to a background depth, and encode the video frames using the indication of the object depth relative to the background depth. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279589 | MANAGING MULTI-REFERENCE PICTURE BUFFERS FOR VIDEO DATA CODING - Encoding and decoding is accomplished herein using a multi-reference picture buffer. Reference frames are assigned to reference picture buffers when used for encoding and are identified with picture IDs unique relative to other picture IDs currently associated with the reference picture buffers. The maximum picture number used as the picture ID can be based on a number of reference picture buffers available to encode and decode the frames plus a value based on an expected error rate. The picture IDs can be assigned based on a least recently used policy. When a reference frame is no longer needed for encoding and decoding, a picture ID number associated with the reference frame can be released for re-assignment to a new reference frame. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279590 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing circuit and an image processing method are provided. The image processing circuit comprises a full search engine and a frame rate conversion (FRC) engine. The full search engine executes a full search to generate a sum of sum of absolute difference (SAD) distribution according to the reference image and the current image. The FRC engine analyzes a scene characteristic from the current image according to SAD distribution. The FRC engine adjusts at least one of the control parameters according to the scene characteristic. The FRC engine generates an interpolated image according to the reference image, the current image and the control parameters. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279591 | MACROBLOCK PARTITIONING AND MOTION ESTIMATION USING OBJECT ANALYSIS FOR VIDEO COMPRESSION - A method and device for encoding video including determining objects within a frame at least partially based on movement characteristics of underlying pixels and partitioning the frame into blocks by considering a plurality of partitioning options, such partitioning favoring options that result in different objects being placed in different blocks. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279592 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT VIDEO TRANSCODING - A method and system for an efficient transcoding of a sequence of input images in a first format to a sequence of output images in a second format are described. The method utilizes the encoding block mode, the motion vectors and the residual information extracted during the decoding of the input image that are effectively reused to select an optimal transcoding block mode and to perform selective refinement of motion vectors. A corresponding system for video transcoding is also provided. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279593 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING MOTION VECTOR - Provided are methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a motion vector. The method of encoding the motion vector includes: selecting, as a mode of encoding information about a motion vector predictor of the current block, a first mode in which information indicating the motion vector predictor from among at least one motion vector predictor is encoded or a second mode in which information indicating generation of the motion vector predictor based on blocks or pixels included in a previously encoded area adjacent to the current block is encoded; determining the motion vector predictor of the current block according to the selected mode and encoding the information about the motion vector predictor of the current block; and encoding a difference vector between the motion vector of the current block and the motion vector predictor of the current block. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING MOTION VECTOR - Provided are methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a motion vector. The method of encoding the motion vector includes: selecting, as a mode of encoding information about a motion vector predictor of the current block, a first mode in which information indicating the motion vector predictor from among at least one motion vector predictor is encoded or a second mode in which information indicating generation of the motion vector predictor based on blocks or pixels included in a previously encoded area adjacent to the current block is encoded; determining the motion vector predictor of the current block according to the selected mode and encoding the information about the motion vector predictor of the current block; and encoding a difference vector between the motion vector of the current block and the motion vector predictor of the current block. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279595 | METHOD FOR INDUCING A MERGE CANDIDATE BLOCK AND DEVICE USING SAME - The present invention relates to a method for inducing a merge candidate block and a device using same. An image decoding method involves decoding motion estimation region (MER) related information; determining whether or not a predicted target block and a spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER; and determining the spatial merge candidate block to be an unavailable merge candidate block when the predicted target block and the spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER. Accordingly, by parallely performing the method for inducing a merge candidate, parallel processing is enabled and the computation amount and implementation complexity are reduced. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279596 | VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING WITH IMPROVED ERROR RESILIENCE - A method of encoding a sequence of digital images into a bitstream comprises generating for an image portion to encode a set of motion information predictors having controlled diversity and selecting a motion information predictor for the image portion to encode from the generated set of motion information predictors. Generating the set comprises: generating first motion information predictors; identifying one or more first motion information predictors as seed predictors; generating one or more second motion information predictors based on the seed predictor(s); and forming said set of motion information predictors from the first and/or second motion information predictors. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279597 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR BITSTREAM BITSTUFFING - Examples of methods and apparatuses for inserting and removing stuffing data in a bitstream described. An encoding system may include an encoder configured to receive a video signal and stuffing data. The encoder may be configured encode the video signal in accordance with an encoding methodology and provide a bitstream based on the encoded video signal and the stuffing data. The stuffing data may include random and/or encrypted data. A decoder may receive a bitstream and remove stuffing data from the bitstream. The decoder may include a padding removal apparatus that may include a slice detection block and a bitstream editor. The slice detection block may be configured to determine locations of stuffing data in a bitstream and provide the locations to the bitstream editor using control signals. The bitstream editor may be configured to remove the stuffing data based on the control signals. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279598 | Method and Apparatus For Video Compression of Stationary Scenes - The present system provides a method and apparatus for video compression of stationary scenes. These scenes may be taken by a fixed or temporarily fixed camera, such as, for example, a security camera. In theory, a stationary scene has a static background upon which objects move. However, due to environmental conditions, such as sun position, lighting changes, wind and weather, clouds, fog, and the like, the background is not consistently static. The system provides a dynamic and adaptive Scene Model to allow the subtraction of the static portions of a scene under a plurality of conditions, providing the bandwidth and storage capacity to record moving objects with higher fidelity at lower storage cost than prior art systems. In an alternate embodiment, the system uses Perceptual Filtering as a preliminary step to coding, significantly reducing the amount of data to be compressed at high fidelity. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279599 | DECODED PICTURE BUFFER PROCESSING FOR RANDOM ACCESS POINT PICTURES IN VIDEO SEQUENCES - Systems, methods, and devices for processing video data are disclosed. Some examples receive a slice of a current picture to be decoded for a sequence of video data. These examples may also receive, in a slice header of the slice, at least one entropy coded syntax element and at least one non-entropy coded syntax element, wherein the non-entropy coded syntax element is before the entropy coded syntax element in the slice header and indicates whether pictures prior to the current picture in decoding order are to be emptied from a decode picture buffer without being output. They may decode the slice based on the non-entropy coded syntax element. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279600 | IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS - An image decoding method of decoding encoded data per unit included in units that are included in a picture is provided. The image decoding method obtains, from an encoded bitstream including the encoded data, a first flag indicating whether or not a removal time of the encoded data from a buffer for storing the encoded data is set per unit. The image decoding method further obtains, from the encoded bitstream, a second flag indicating whether an interval between removal times of the units is constant or arbitrary when the removal times are set per unit. The image decoding method removes the encoded data from the buffer per unit and at a constant or arbitrary interval according to the second flag, and decodes the removed encoded data. | 2013-10-24 |
20130279601 | IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING METHOD - A decoding method decodes a base stream generated by encoding a first image signal of a first view and a dependent stream generated by encoding a second image signal of a second view. The method includes detecting, on the basis of a dependent delimiter indicating a picture boundary between pictures in the dependent stream, the picture boundary in the dependent stream configured by inserting the dependent delimiter at the beginning of a picture in the dependent stream. Further, the method includes decoding the base stream and the dependent stream on the basis of the detected picture boundary in the dependent stream. | 2013-10-24 |