OPTICAL MICROPHONE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BODY CONDUCTED SOUND SIGNALS
Granted: March 13, 2014
Application Number:
20140072146
A method and an optical microphone that may include a transmitter; and a sensor; wherein the transmitter is arranged, when facing an external auditory canal of a user, to direct optical signals towards an area of the external auditory canal; wherein the sensor is arranged to generate sensing signals that are indicative of reflected radiation that reflected from the external auditory canal; wherein the reflected radiation conveys information about body conducted signals that propagate…
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIERARCHICAL ADAPTIVE FILTER
Granted: November 21, 2013
Application Number:
20130308771
A method and apparatus for filtering a reference signal by a series of taps having coefficients, comprising dividing the taps into at least one layer of a plurality of groups, each group comprising a plurality of taps, as a first layer, forming a plurality of coefficients arranged in at least one group, as at least one subsequent layer and forwarding multiply-accumulate results of each group in each layer sequentially to the at least one group in the at least one subsequent layer to…
DEMAPPER FOR A MULTIPLE-INPUT, MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYMBOL RECEIVER
Granted: November 21, 2013
Application Number:
20130308729
A method, implementable on a multiple-input, multiple-output symbol receiver, includes selecting a hypothesis for a second symbol value U2 from among the set of fixed constellation points, calculating a hypothesis for a first symbol value U1 from the resultant selected U2 value, and generating a first half of counter-hypotheses from interim results of calculating the hypotheses values.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIGNALING BY BIT MANIPULATION IN COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS
Granted: October 10, 2013
Application Number:
20130265921
In a communication environment configured to transfer data from a transmitting end to a receiving end according to a wireless device communication protocol, said wireless device communication protocol is configured with a field comprising a first content, a method for signaling, comprising: replacing the first content of the field with a second content, the second content is a result of a bit manipulation on said first content of the field; transmitting said second content of the field,…
HIGH POWER HIGH ISOLATION LOW CURRENT CMOS RF SWITCH
Granted: September 26, 2013
Application Number:
20130252562
A novel and useful RF switch that comprises four transistors configured to have four operating states, wherein at any time at most one transistor is in ‘on’ state. The switch is an on-chip switch and is constructed in using CMOS processes and technology. The switch is optionally a double pole, double throw (DPDT) switch. The switch can be used in numerous mobile devices such as a cellular phone or in the handset or base station of a cordless phone. The switch optionally selects…
POWER AMPLIFIER WITH AN ADAPTIVE BIAS
Granted: September 26, 2013
Application Number:
20130249634
An electronic circuit, including, a power amplifier adapted to amplify an RF signal and provide it as output from the integrated circuit; a power source that is adapted to provide an unregulated voltage to the power amplifier; a regulator adapted to provide a regulated bias voltage; a subtracter that is adapted to accept a voltage proportional to the unregulated voltage and subtract it from the bias voltage to provide a reference voltage to the power amplifier; wherein the power…
RF SWITCH IMPLEMENTATION IN CMOS PROCESS
Granted: September 19, 2013
Application Number:
20130244595
A dual pole dual through switch for switching between at least four states. The switch comprises four transistors such as N-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor transistors, such that at each state at most one transistor is in “on” state, and the others are in “off” state. Each transistor has its own control circuit, which provides zero or negative voltage to the drain of the transistor, positive voltage to the source of the transistor, and control alternating voltage to the gate of…
NON-SYNCHRONIZED ADPCM WITH DISCONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION
Granted: September 5, 2013
Application Number:
20130230111
A method for coordinating an encoder and a decoder in a wireless communication system employing discontinuous transmission, the method comprising performing a syncless reset command on the encoder and the decoder, in order to bring the encoder and decoder into stable and compatible states. The syncless reset command can be implemented by setting the variables of the encoder and decoder into predetermined values, or by performing a normal reset command followed by encoding or decoding a…
DETECTING A CONNECTION TYPE OF A PIN
Granted: August 29, 2013
Application Number:
20130221990
The subject matter discloses an apparatus configured for detecting type of a connection of an electrical module to an electrical node of an electrical circuit, the apparatus comprising a pulse generator configured for generating a first pulse; and a sampling circuit configured for applying a reaction of the electrical circuit on the first pulse to provide a sampled pulse and for detecting the type of connection from the sampled pulse. The electrical module comprising a capacitor or an…
FAST AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL
Granted: August 1, 2013
Application Number:
20130195230
A device and method of fast automatic gain control in quadrature receivers are disclosed. The AGC activity between the I and Q branches is split where in one branch the receive chain is in a certain gain state and in the other branch the receive chain is in another possible gain state, resulting in a significant shortening of the AGC duration of any IQ receiver.
INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCLUDING A DIFFERENTIAL POWER AMPLIFIER WITH A SINGLE ENDED OUTPUT AND AN INTEGRATED BALUN
Granted: May 23, 2013
Application Number:
20130127010
An integrated circuit, including, a die with an electronic circuit embedded thereon; wherein the electronic circuit includes a differential power amplifier and pads to electronically interface with the electronic circuit; a packaging encasing the die with contact pins to connect between the integrated circuit and external elements; wires connecting between the pads and the contact pins; a converter that includes capacitors and inductors to combine the outputs from the differential power…
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING FLASH WRITE
Granted: May 9, 2013
Application Number:
20130117496
A method for managing flash memory operations in a flash memory, comprising; assigning a state code to said flash memory operations; updating a state code flag with the assigned state code upon completion of each of said flash memory operations; wherein the assignment of said state codes is selected in a way that each of said updating a state code flag is performed by changing of one bit of the state code flag from one to zero.
METHOD AND APPRATUS FOR ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD
Granted: January 17, 2013
Application Number:
20130016825
A method for AES comprising performing AES on a provided state of data elements at the original locations of the data elements in the provided state without moving the data elements in the state, and an apparatus for performing the same.
LOW POWER LOW-DROPOUT LINEAR VOLTAGE REGULATOR
Granted: January 17, 2013
Application Number:
20130015828
An integrated circuit, including: a low dropout regulator configured to output regulated power to a device that can be in standard mode drawing power from the regulator or in idle mode during which it substantially does not draw power from the regulator; a capacitor in parallel to the regulator's output configured to be charged when the regulator is enabled and to provide power instead of the regulator when the regulator is disabled; a control configured to disable and enable the…
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTING A TELEPHONY COMPONENT TO OPERATE IN A DIFFERENT TELEPHONY
Granted: October 18, 2012
Application Number:
20120264411
A method for modifying an application framework devised for network-based telephony to operate in a local telephony, comprising adapting the application framework to interact with a communication device operable cooperatively with a local base, and emulating a functionally of the network related to the application framework according to an operation of the local base, at least partially, and an apparatus for using the modified application framework.
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DUAL NETWORK WITH A SHARED BASE
Granted: August 9, 2012
Application Number:
20120202484
An apparatus for enabling operation of a LDC network within a DECT system having a modified protocol, comprising an A-field with an identity of a FP shared by both the DECT system and the LDC network, B-fields with unique sync patterns for the DECT system and the LDC network, respectively; and separate dummy bearers for transmission by the FP for the DECT system and the LDC network, respectively, and a method for using the same.
REMOTE CONTROL OF TRANSMITTER-SIDE RATE ADAPTATION
Granted: November 24, 2011
Application Number:
20110286340
In general, this disclosure is directed to techniques for remotely controlling a transmitter-side rate adaptation algorithm. According to one aspect, a method includes detecting, with a receiver device, that a packet received from a transmitter is corrupted. The method further includes sending, with the receiver device, a positive acknowledgement for the packet to the transmitter in response to at least detecting that the packet is corrupted. According to another aspect, a method…
METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR IMAGE MANIPULATION
Granted: September 29, 2011
Application Number:
20110234636
A method and integrated circuit for manipulating two dimensional images. The method and integrated circuit use an on-chip memory buffer comprising four memory elements, and accessed as a rectangle of 4 times an integer number of bytes by a number of lines depending on the image resolution. Each block of the source image is copied from the DRAM into the on-chip memory buffer, and a destination block is determined within the destination image. The destination block is populated by…
Method and Mobile Device for Automatic Activation of Applications
Granted: September 22, 2011
Application Number:
20110230209
A mobile device and method for automatically activating an application, based on the location of the mobile device. A user of the mobile device associates a location with an application or a profile to be activated at the particular location. The location can be either absolute, or relative to a second device such as a charger or a docking station. When the mobile device is connected to or in proximity to the absolute location or the second device, the current status or profile of the…
COMFORT NOISE GENERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM
Granted: September 22, 2011
Application Number:
20110228946
A method for Comfort Noise Generation (CNG) comprising the steps of recording information of Background Noise (BGN); generating white noise samples; and generating Comfort Noise (CN) by applying coefficients that are extracted from said information of BGN on White Noise (WN) samples.
