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Analog Devices,inc.

Mediaring.com Ltd.

Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.

Dynapel Systems, Inc.

Mediaring Ltd

Steven Donald Edelson

Ede Phang Ng

Gary J Frattarola

Klaus Diepold

Wee Sin Tam

Poh Yoke Lai

Ede-Phang Ng

Loh Eng Choon

George L Heron

Larence Bodony

Stewart Bailey

Dave Ta-Wu Liao

Marc Norvig

Dave Liao

Shafir Ahmad Hj Mastan

Lawrence Bodony

The invention presents a chipset for a mobile wallet system in a communication terminal having a SIM socket and a RFID antenna. The chipset includes a wallet module and a controller module. The wallet module has a contactless interface port coupled to the RFID antenna and a wallet memory for storing wallet applications. The controller module, connected to the SIM socket of the communication terminal, has a controller memory stored with SIM function software, mobile wallet application software and software to control the wallet module. The controller module is powered through the SIM socket, and the wallet module is powered through the SIM socket and the RFID antenna.

Chipset for mobile wallet system

A subscriber identity module (SIM) card includes: a printed circuit board; a circuit provided on the printed circuit board and capable of executing SIM and RFID functions; a set of circuit contacts provided on the printed circuit board, electrically connected to the circuit via conductive paths, and conforming to a SIM specification; a set of antenna contacts provided on the printed circuit board and electrically connected to the circuit via conductive paths; and a protective plate fixed to the printed circuit board and conforming to standard dimensions of the SIM card. An assembly of the SIM card and a RFID antenna is also disclosed.

Assembly of SIM card and RFID antenna

In a system for displaying medical images, medical images are generated from views internally within a body by means of x-rays, CAT scan, or MRI. The images are spaced in time or are views of spaced slices through tissue or through an organ within a body. The spacing between the images is such that the display of the images as a motion picture would result in the motion being depicted as jerky in the motion picture. A video processor generates dense motion vector fields between adjacent frames of the original set of images and, from the dense motion vector fields, generates interpolated images between the images of the original set. The interpolated images are assembled into a motion picture set of images, which are displayed by a video display device.

Medical image display system

A system and method for managing the transfer of data from a server to a client over an integrated voice and data network limits the bandwidth used for sending non-voice data, such as advertising data, from a server to the client. The limit on the transmission of non-voice data ensures that enough bandwidth is available for the transmission of voice data. The system and method comprise at least one server and at least one client which are communicatively coupled over an integrated voice and data network. A transfer data rate input is sent by a client to a server. The server determines the transfer data rate for non-voice data based on the transfer data rate input. The server then sends the data, preferably non-voice data, to the client at the transfer data rate. The present invention may also comprise an intercept layer and a bandwidth management control module. The intercept layer receives the data from the server, and the bandwidth management control module, which is communicatively coupled to the intercept layer and a voice application, examines the data packets and manages the sending of an acknowledge packet to the server indicating that the data has been received. The bandwidth management control module may delay the sending of the acknowledge packet to decrease the transfer of data from the server to the client. Additionally, the bandwidth management control module may change the window size of the acknowledge packet to indicate to the server to limit the size of the data sent to the window size.

Bandwidth protection for voice over IP

In an Internet telephony system, personal computers are interconnected by means of the Internet to transmit and receive voice sounds detected by microphones connected to the personal computers. Each personal computer is provided with a capability to adjust the sensitivity of the microphone at the remote personal computer. By means of the same control, each personal computer can also adjust the gain of the local speaker.

User control system for internet phone quality

A system for determining an individual phone rate for a user from an originating device to a destination device comprises a user calling pattern information module, a destination gateway provider module, a margin multiplier calculator module, and an individual rate calculator module. The user calling pattern information module stores information about the user such as the destinations the user calls or desires to call frequently and the percentage of time the user calls or plans to call the frequently called destinations. Such information may be inputted directly from the user or may be determined from the user's historical billing records. The destination gateway provider information module stores information relating to the cost and profit margin of the provider servicing the connection to the destination device. For example, the destination gateway provider may store such information as the fixed cost for establishing a connection to the destination device as well as the normal margin for a call to the destination device. The margin multiplier calculator module determines a margin multiplier for a call by the user to the destination device. The individual rate calculator module uses the margin multiplier, the destination gateway provider information, and the user calling pattern information to determine a call rate to the destination for the user. In one embodiment, the call rate to the destination is determined by multiplying the margin multiplier with the normal margin for the call to the destination and adding the result to the fixed cost of the call to the destination.

Dynamic individual phone rates

The present invention includes a method or Internet phone for automatically dialing up a phone call connection across an Internet connection. Initially the caller manually dials a recipient's telephone number, and once the telephone call connection is made, the caller party's Internet phone automatically starts a dialing routine which notifies the recipient party's Internet phone that a phone call connection over an Internet connection is desired. The dialing may be a differential ringing sequence, a differential timing sequence or a single ringing interval. Upon the dialing routine being detected by the recipient party's Internet phone, the parties end the telephone connection and proceed to make separate connections to the Internet, including a connection to a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). The caller party and recipient party Internet phones submit information related to their respective Internet protocol address and telephone numbers. The caller party additionally submits information related to the recipient Internet phone's telephone number. Then the Internet connection for the intended phone call is automatically completed. Alternatively, the differential dialing routine can be performed by a knocking server on the Internet, and a directory server on the Internet can match callers and recipients by their respective telephone numbers. Additionally, the knocking server permits caller equipment to be without dialing capabilities as these are now at the knocking server.

Method and apparatus for making a phone call connection over an internet connection

In the motion picture display system, successive frames of a motion picture are compared to determine the dense motion vector fields representing the change of position of image elements in the images represented by the frames. Interpolated frames are generated by scaling the vectors of the dense motion vector fields to a fraction of their original magnitudes and moving image elements in the corresponding frames to positions in the interpolated frames in accordance with the dense motion vector fields. The invention is used to eliminate jerky motion in low frame rate motion pictures and also to provide slow motion in high frame rate motion pictures.

Motion picture enhancing system

In a pixel based display system, zoom logic is added to the data stream of a RAMDAC. In the zoom logic, horizontal lines of image data are stored in locations spaced apart in an intermediate frame buffer. The horizontal scan lines are read into a single line buffer and then the data is read from the single line buffer to generate an enlarged display image. Digital filtering may be employed to generate interpolated values for pixels between the original values in the zoomed image.

Filter RAMDAC with hardware 11/2-D zoom function

In a pixel display system, a plug-to-plug compatible pixel decoder palette is provided which is responsive to a predetermined sequence of commands on an I/O data channel to switch the mode of operation of the pixel decoder palette. The pixel coder palette comprises a random access memory used as a look-up table to store colors to be displayed and the I/O channel is used to store new colors in or read colors out from the random access memory. The different modes of operation of the pixel decoder palette involve operating on intensity values represented by 6-bit bytes and 8-bit bytes and involve continuous edge graphics wherein pixels bridging boundaries between objects are displayed as mixes of the colors on each side of the boundary.

Mode switching system for a pixel based display unit

In a pixel based color display system, a pixel responsive control is provided for high speed loading of new colors in the random access memory of the system used as a look-up table. In the system, pixel words representing addresses in a random access memory in which colors to be displayed are stored are applied in sequence to the random access memory to cause the colors to be read out in sequence to generate red, green and blue video signals representing the colors read out from the random access memory. The pixel responsive control responds to a predetermined pixel word in the stream of pixel words applied to the address port of the random access memory to cause a new color to be stored in a selected storage location of the random access memory. The new color and the address in which the new color is to be stored is specified in the pixel words immediately following the predetermined pixel word.

Dynamic palette loading opcode system for pixel based display

In a pixel based color display system, aliasing is minimized by controlling the colors in pixels, bridging boundaries of objects of the image to be blends of the colors on each side of the boundary. Blends are controlled in accordance with pixel words containing mix values. Provision is made for drawing lines one pixel line with aliasing minimized in the boundaries of the lines wherein the same mix value controls the blend in adjacent pixels bridging the leading and trailing edge of a diagonal line.

Antialiased pixel based display system for lines and solids

An encoder (12) in an image-display system converts explicitly represented pixel values from an image source (14) into mix-run-encoded representations thereof and stores them into the locations of a display memory (16). A display mechanism (18) draws the resultant stored data from the display memory and interprets them in accordance with a mix-run-encoding scheme of a type previously used for anti-aliasing purposes. As a consequence, the system is able to provide a wide range of color shades with only modest-sized display and palette memories (16 and 36).

Apparatus for mix-run encoding of image data

Smoothing information consisting of a mix value which indicates what percentage of the new color is to be displayed in a given pixel is stored in a pixel-plane memory. The value for the percentage for the old color is derived by subtracting the indicated percentage from 100%. Three methods for encoding the mix value for a pixel are disclosed. The first method allocates specific bits for color and mix values. The second method encodes either mixing or color values in each pixel word. The subsequent pixel word is checked before deciding the proper treatment of a given pixel. The third method encodes either a color value or multiple mix values in each pixel word. The mix information is then displayed as a set of sub-pixels.

Method and apparatus for providing anti-aliased edges in pixel-mapped

In a display system for generating a display of graphic objects over a video camera picture, the graphic objects to be displayed are represented by transition specifications stored in a memory. The transition specifications contain data identifying the horizontal position at the start of each transition between the camera picture and the graphic object, the width of the transition, the brightness in the graphic object, and a weight step value corresponding to the inverse of the width of the transition. As the electron beam of a cathode ray tube display device traverses a transition, a weighting value is continuously computed by changing the weighting value from the beginning value on one side to the final value on the other side in steps equal to weight step size. The computed weighting value is used to control the mixing of the video camera picture signal and a video signal representing the graphic objects in the transitions between the video camera picture and the graphic objects.

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Steven Donald Edelson