International Business Machines Corporation

Stmicroelectronics Gmbh

Infineon Technologies Ag

Infineon Technologies North America Corp.

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Lsi Corporation

Mitel Semiconductor Americas Inc.

Marvell International Limited

Avago Technologies General IP (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited

Infineon Technolgies Na Corp.

Razmik Karabed

William G Bliss

Paul H Siegel

Hakan C Ozdemir

James Wilson Rae

Shaohua Yang

Richard David Barndt

Jonathan James Ashley

Wu Chang

Andrei Vityaev

Victor A Krachkovsky

Hemant K Thapar

Stephen James Franck

Nersi Nazari

Heinrich J Stockmanns

Vincent Brendan Ashe

Fan Zhang

Kaichi Zhang

Lisa Fredrickson

Kuhong Jeong

Heiner Stockmanns

Martin Aureliano Hassner

Roger William Wood

Zhiwei Wu

Andrew Popplewell

Neil R Davie

Gerhard P Fettweis

Matthias Driller

Zhijun Zhao

Thomas D Howell

Lyle J Fredrickson

Ebad Ahmed

Ali Najafi

Fritz Mistlberger

Farhang Heydari

Raphael Mehrbians

Dominik Margraf

Isaiah A Carew

James W Rae

A backup-camera-system-based, on-demand video player includes at least one video signal input port, driver interface means operable to receive from a driver information about the driver's selection of a video signal input port from the at least one video signal input port, and a controller operable to receive the information from the driver interface means, determining the video signal input port selected by the driver, making a connection between the video signal input port to a back-camera input port of a backup camera system, and sending a reverse gear engaged signal to a reverse gear port of the backup camera system. The drive accesses a video signal connected to the selected video signal port on a display monitor of the backup camera system.

Backup-camera-system-based, on-demand video player

A view friendly monitor system provides a monitor and a sequence of views that are regions of interest. The monitor can display a region of the camera view; the system is configured such that the displayed region of the camera view is a region of interest to the user. The displayed portion of the camera view changes to match the changing interests of the user. For example, a user that is interested to see a view in a direction beyond a certain edge of the monitor would move her head generally in an opposite direction. To see farther outside the edge, she needs to move her head farther in the opposite direction. In response to her head movement, the view friendly monitor system would change the region of interest based on the direction and the length of her head movement and display the new region of interest on the monitor.

View friendly monitor systems

The present invention relates to systems for protecting against sun's damaging rays, and against unwanted onlookers like drones. The systems comprise a drone and a covering member attached to the drone. In one aspect, a Flight Control System, FCS, flies the drone in a selected spot. In one embodiment, the covering member acts like an overhead covering, and a measuring device provides the FCS information for flying the drone on a holding position over a stationary user. In another embodiment, a measuring device enables the FCS to fly the drone over a non-stationary user and to tracking him. Further, the FCS adjusts the drone position with respect to the position of either the sun or a detected drone in the sky. In another embodiment, a radio control, transmitter receiver, pair is used to communicate user's requests to the FCS. One request may be to turn on the motors.

Shadow casting drone

Embodiments are related to systems and methods for data storage, and more particularly to systems and methods for storing and accessing data from a flash memory.

Systems and methods for efficient flash memory access

A data encoder includes an encoding logic circuit configured to encode input data to apply run length limiting using state splitting of a code trellis, and a lookup table configured to apply a block-enumerable map on an un-split version of the code trellis, wherein entries in the lookup table are compressed.

State-split based encoder and decoder with table compression

A system and method for correcting errors in an ECC block using soft-decision data. In an embodiment, a soft-decision ECC decoding method, uses 'soft' data indicative of how reliable bits of data are when read out. Such a method may use an update module for receiving and manipulating the soft-decision data and iteratively change bits or groups of bits based upon an ordering of the reliability factors. Then a calculator module may determine the total number of errors still remaining after each iteration. Determining just the total number of errors instead of the actual locations is far less computationally intensive, and therefore, many combination of potential flip-bit combination may be analyzed quickly to determine if any combination might reduce the total number of errors enough to be handled by the conventional hard-decision ECC decoding method.

Non-polynomial processing unit for soft-decision error correction coding

A storage system includes a storage medium operable to maintain a data set, a read/write head assembly operable to write the data set to the storage medium and to read the data set from the storage medium, a multi-level enumerative encoder operable to encode the data set before it is written to the storage medium as encoded data, wherein the enumerative encoder applies an enumeration using a plurality of level-dependent bases, and a decoder operable to decode the data set after it is read from the storage medium.

Multi-level enumerative encoder and decoder

A system and method for encoding a stream of bits with a run-length limited high-rate reverse order encoding schema. According to one embodiment, an RLL encoding block includes a receiver having a precoder operable to receive a stream of N-bits having symbols of M-bits in length, a histogram operable to identify an index symbol of M-bits that does not occur within the received stream of N-bits. It is this index symbol that may be used as the key to encoding a block of symbols so as to ensure unique decodability when RLL decoding. Finally, an encoder operable to perform an exclusive-or operation on each symbol with the next symbol stored in the stream. Such an encoding system only adds one symbol of M bits in length to a block of N bits and still results in a stream of bits sufficient to support high-rate requirements and strict timing loop control.

High-rate reverse-order run-length-limited code

A method of generating a hardware encoder includes generating a first directed graph characterizing a constraint set for a constrained system, identifying a scaling factor for an approximate eigenvector for the first directed graph, applying the scaling factor to the approximate eigenvector for the first directed graph to yield a scaled approximate eigenvector, partitioning arcs between each pair of states in the first directed graph, performing a state splitting operation on the first directed graph according to the partitioning of the arcs to yield a second directed graph, and generating the hardware encoder based on the second directed graph.

Encoder and decoder generation by state-splitting of directed graph

A system is described for constructing maximum transition run modulation code based upon a multi-level run-length limited finite state machine. A processor is configured to receive information from a hard disk drive via a read channel and recover data from the hard disk drive using maximum transition run modulation code. A memory has computer executable instructions configured for execution by the processor to model a magnetic recording channel as a partial response channel, model a source of information to the magnetic recording channel to provide an optimized Markov source, and construct a maximum transition run modulation code to mimic the optimized Markov source based upon a finite state machine having a limited transition run length and a multi-level periodic structure.

Multi-level run-length limited finite state machine for magnetic recording channel

Techniques are described for constructing maximum transition run (MTR) modulation code based upon a multi-level (ML) run-length limited (RLL) finite state machine (FSM) that implements different sets of penalties. A processor is configured to receive information from a hard disk drive (HDD) via a read channel and recover data from the HDD using MTR modulation code. A memory has computer executable instructions configured for execution by the processor to model a magnetic recording channel as a partial response channel, model a source of information to the magnetic recording channel to provide an optimized Markov source, and construct an MTR modulation code to mimic the optimized Markov source based upon an FSM having a limited transition run length and a multi-level periodic structure. The FSM provides at least two different sets of penalties in a period.

Multi-level run-length limited finite state machine with multi-penalty

Systems and methods relating generally to processing information, and more particularly without limitation to systems and methods for encoding data sets.

Systems and methods for run length limited encoding

Various embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses and methods for encoding and decoding data.

Low latency enumeration endec

A system and method for correcting errors in an ECC block using erasure-identification data when generating an error-locator polynomial. In an embodiment, a ECC decoding method, uses 'erasure' data indicative of bits of data that are unable to be deciphered by a decoder. Such a method may use an Berlekamp-Massey algorithm that receives two polynomials as inputs; a first polynomial indicative of erasure location in the stream of bits and a syndrome polynomial indicative of all bits as initially determined. The Berlekamp-Massey algorithm may use the erasure identification information to more easily decipher the overall codeword when faced with a error-filled codeword.

Error-locator-polynomial generation with erasure support

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