Abstract:
A method for long impulse response digital filtering of an input data stream, by use of a digital filtering system. Where the input data stream is divided into zero-input signals and zero-state signals. One of the zero-input signals and a corresponding impulse response of the digital filtering system is converted lo the frequency domain to determine a respective zero-input response of the digital filtering system. One of the zero-state signals is convolved with a corresponding impulse response of the digital filtering system to determine a respective zero-state response of the digital filtering system, wherein at least part of the zero-input signal precedes the zero-stale signal. The zero-state response of the digital filtering system is added to the zero-input response or the digital filtering system to determine the response of the digital filtering system. Apparatus for effecting this method is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A method of programming cells in a nonvolatile memory is based upon a Global Verify operation and a Byte-by-byte Verify operation. The cells of a destination page of the nonvolatile memory are programmed, and logic values stored in the programmed cells of a source page of the same memory are verified that they have been correctly copied into corresponding cells of the destination page. The method carries out the fast but inadequate-at-times Global Verify operation, and if the Global Verify operation fails for a certain number of attempts, the Byte-by-byte Verify operation is carried out, which is slower but accurate.
Abstract:
A slew rate control circuit includes a receiver for receiving input signals and an output generator for generating output signals based on the input signals. The slew rate control circuit also includes an electrical interconnection coupling an output of the receiver and an input of the output generator. In addition, the slew rate control circuit includes a voltage clamp for clamping a voltage on the electrical interconnection between two known voltage reference levels. The voltage clamp may include a first current source for providing driving capacity to a driver circuit to prevent the voltage on the electrical interconnection from falling below one known voltage reference level. The voltage clamp may also include a second current source and a third current source for providing sinking capacity to the driver circuit to prevent the voltage on the electrical interconnection from rising above the other known voltage reference level.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides an addressable light emitting diodes (LED) architecture that is able to control a plurality of LEDs individually. The present disclosure further provides a method of controlling the operation of at least one chain of serially connected LEDs.
Abstract:
An address counter for a nonvolatile memory device includes a cascade of cells. Each cell includes an address counting flip-flop that is updated to a value of every newly counted address bit, or latches a column address bit value input by an external user of the memory device during ALE cycles for addressing a start memory location on a selected page. Each cell further includes an additional address loading flip-flop for loading the column address bit value input during ALE cycles for addressing the start memory location on the selected page during the ALE cycles. A logic circuit updates the address counting flip flop to the address bit value during a read confirm cycle in a read sequence, and during a first data input cycle in a program sequence.
Abstract:
A Yule-Walker based, low-complexity voice activity detector (VAD) is disclosed. An input signal is typically noisy speech (i.e., corrupted with, for example, babble noise). In one embodiment, a first initialization stage of the VAD computes an occurrence of a silent period within the input signal and the AR parameters. The VAD could accordingly compute a tentative adaptive threshold and output hypothesis H1 (which means speech is present) during this stage. During the second initialization stage, the VAD generally builds a database of associated values and computes the adaptive threshold accordingly. The second initialization stage could also output tentative VAD decisions based on the tentative threshold computed in the first initialization stage. Finally, the VAD periodically retrains or updates AR parameters, threshold values and/or the database and outputs VAD decisions accordingly.
Abstract:
The electrical isolation circuit of the present disclosure includes a switch coupled between the DC power source and the electrical application and a comparator for controlling the switch by receiving inputs from the DC power source and the electrical application. The comparator causes the switch to switch ON when the DC power source has a higher voltage than the electrical application allowing the normal operation of the electrical application. However, when the electrical application has a higher voltage than the DC power source, the comparator causes the switch to switch OFF thereby preventing flow of current from the electrical application to the DC power source.
Abstract:
A method for stereo audio perceptual encoding of an input signal includes masking threshold estimation and bit allocation. The masking threshold estimation and bit allocation are performed once every two encoding processes. Another method for stereo audio perceptual encoding of an input signal includes performing a time-to-frequency transformation, performing a quantization, performing a bitstream formatting to produce an output stream, and performing a psychoacoustics analysis. The psychoacoustics analysis includes masking threshold estimation on a first of every two successive frames of the input signal.
Abstract:
A method for adaptive pre-filtering is disclosed, comprising the steps of: extracting tuning parameters from video encoding process; processing these tuning parameters to generate control parameters representative of the properties of the video data processed; coupling the control parameters to filter response; generating filter coefficients on selected filter response; and filtering the video data with the filter coefficients before video encoding. The filtering of video data is thus adapted to at least one or more tuning parameters of the video data and the encoding process. The filtering decreases the complexity of encoding by attenuation of high frequency, effectively decreasing the quantization step and reducing compression artifacts.
Abstract:
A method of color saturation compensation in a video signal is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: processing a luminance signal component of the video signal; determining whether the processing of the luminance signal results in a change in chrominance saturation; if the step of determining reveals that the chrominance saturation has changed, applying a chrominance compensation signal to the chrominance signals to counteract the effects of chrominance saturation, wherein the step of applying a compensation signal include the steps of: generating a compensation signal which is dependent on hue and luminance ratio (output luminance signal/input luminance signal). Apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed.