All The Claims

1. A method of varying a decode resolution of a video signal during decoding, the method comprising:
decoding, using a processor, a first portion of a video signal at a first resolution to generate a first portion of an output signal;
caching, during said decoding the first portion of the video signal, reference pictures associated with the video signal that have been decoded at the first resolution, the cached reference pictures to be used for decoding subsequent pictures at the first resolution;
determining, during said decoding the first portion of the video signal, a second resolution, different from the first resolution, at which a second portion of the video signal is to be decoded;
identifying, using the processor in response to said determining the second resolution, a reference picture from the first portion of the video signal that is required to decode the second portion of the video signal;
instead of re-decoding the identified reference picture at the second resolution, generating, by the processor, an instance of the identified reference picture at the second resolution at least in part by adjusting a cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution; and
decoding, using the processor and at least in part based on the instance of the identified reference picture that has been generated at the second resolution, the second portion of the video signal at the second resolution to generate a second portion of the output signal.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining comprises selecting the second resolution from a plurality of predetermined decoding resolutions.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein said determining the second resolution comprises automatically selecting in response to detecting a predetermined condition.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the predetermined condition is associated with a change in the availability of one or more system resources that occurred during said decoding the first portion of the video signal.
5. The method of claim 2, wherein said selecting the second resolution is performed in response to an input received from a user during said decoding the first portion of the video signal.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein said adjusting further comprises down-sampling the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution in at least one of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein said adjusting further comprises up-sampling the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution in at least one of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein said up-sampling further comprises:
duplicating image information representing a row or a column associated with the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution; and
inserting the duplicated image information into the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution to generate an up-sampled instance of the identified reference picture at the second resolution.
9. The method of claim 7, wherein said up-sampling further comprises:
interpolating image information representing a row or a column associated with the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution from a plurality of rows or columns of the cached instance of the identified reference picture; and
inserting the interpolated image information into the cached instance of the identified reference picture to generate an up-sampled instance of the identified reference picture at the second resolution.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein said adjusting further comprises:
identifying a resolution associated with the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution; and
determining a factor by which the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution can be adjusted to generate the instance of the identified reference picture at the second resolution.
11. A system for varying a decode resolution of a video signal during decoding, the system comprising processor electronics configured to perform operations comprising:
decoding a first portion of a video signal at a first resolution to generate a first portion of an output signal;
caching, during said decoding the first portion of the video signal, reference pictures associated with the video signal that have been decoded at the first resolution, the cached reference pictures to be used for decoding subsequent pictures at the first resolution;
determining, during said decoding the first portion of the video signal, a second resolution, different from the first resolution, at which a second portion of the video signal is to be decoded;
identifying, in response to said determining the second resolution, a reference picture from the first portion of the video signal that is required to decode the second portion of the video signal;
instead of re-decoding the identified reference picture at the second resolution, generating an instance of the identified reference picture at the second resolution at least in part by adjusting a cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution; and
decoding, and at least in part based on the instance of the identified reference picture that has been generated at the second resolution, the second portion of the video signal at the second resolution to generate a second portion of the output signal.
12. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor electronics are configured to perform operations including selecting the second resolution from a plurality of predetermined decoding resolutions.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein the processor electronics are further configured to perform operations including automatically selecting the second resolution in response to detection of a predetermined condition.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein the predetermined condition is associated with a change in the availability of one or more system resources that occurred during said decoding the first portion of the video signal.
15. The system of claim 12, wherein the processor electronics are further configured to perform operations including selecting the second resolution in response to an input received from a user during said decoding the first portion of the video signal.
16. The system of claim 11, wherein the adjusting comprises down-sampling the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution in at least one of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction.
17. The system of claim 11, wherein the adjusting comprises up-sampling the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution in at least one of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction.
18. The system of claim 17, wherein the up-sampling comprises:
duplicating image information representing a row or a column associated with the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution; and
inserting the duplicated image information into the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution to generate an up-sampled instance of the identified reference picture at the second resolution.
19. The system of claim 17, wherein the up-sampling comprises:
interpolating image information representing a row or a column associated with the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution from a plurality of rows or columns of the cached instance of the identified reference picture; and
inserting the interpolated image information into the cached instance of the identified reference picture to generate an up-sampled instance of the identified reference picture at the second resolution.
20. The system of claim 11, wherein the adjusting comprises:
identifying a resolution associated with the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution; and
determining a factor by which the cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution can be adjusted to generate the instance of the identified reference picture at the second resolution.
21. A method of varying a decode resolution of a video signal during playback, the method comprising:
displaying a first portion of a video signal including pictures decoded in accordance with a first resolution;
caching, during said displaying the first portion of the video signal, reference pictures associated with the video signal that have been decoded at the first resolution, the cached reference pictures to be used for decoding subsequent pictures at the first resolution;
detecting, during said displaying the first portion of the video signal, an occurrence of a predetermined condition;
determining in response to the detected occurrence of the predetermined condition a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is different from the first resolution, at which a second portion of the video signal is to be decoded;
identifying, using a processor in response to said determining the second resolution, a reference picture from the first portion of the video signal that is required to decode the second portion of the video signal;
instead of re-decoding the identified reference picture at the second resolution, generating, by the processor, an instance of the identified reference picture at the second resolution at least in part by adjusting a cached instance of the identified reference picture that has been decoded at the first resolution; and
displaying the second portion of the video signal in accordance with the second resolution such that the second portion of the video signal includes pictures decoded at least in part based on the instance of the identified reference picture that has been generated the second resolution.
22. The method of claim 21, wherein said detecting the occurrence of the predetermined condition comprises determining that availability of a system resource has decreased below a level sufficient to decode the video signal at the first resolution in real time.
23. The method of claim 21, further comprising:
determining a third resolution, wherein the third resolution can differ from the first resolution and the second resolution; and
decoding and displaying a second video signal in accordance with the third resolution, wherein at least a portion of the first video signal and a portion of the second video signal are decoded and displayed simultaneously.
24. The method of claim 1, further comprising caching, during said decoding the second portion of the video signal, other reference pictures associated with the video signal that have been decoded at the second resolution, the cached other reference pictures to be used for decoding subsequent pictures decoded at the second resolution.
25. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor electronics are further configured to perform operations including caching, during said decoding the second portion of the video signal, other reference pictures associated with the video signal that have been decoded at the second resolution, the cached other reference pictures to be used for decoding subsequent pictures decoded at the second resolution.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed is:

1. A cigarette filter, comprising: filter sections including filter materials individually wrapped with plug wrap paper; forming paper for wrapping the filter sections integrally; and tipping paper covering the forming paper so as to connect the filter sections to a cigarette section to form a cigarette,
wherein activated charcoal and an inorganic mineral-based porous material carrying ferrous sulfateL-ascorbic acid are contained as adsorbents in at least one of the filter materials and a space between the filter materials.
2. The cigarette filter according to claim 1, wherein the plug wrap paper or the forming paper contains the activated charcoal and the inorganic mineral-based porous material carrying ferrous sulfateL-ascorbic acid as the adsorbents.
3. The cigarette filter according to claim 1, wherein two filter materials are provided, and a mixture of the activated charcoal and the inorganic mineral-based porous material carrying ferrous sulfateL-ascorbic acid is loaded in the space between the two filter materials.
4. The cigarette filter according to claim 1, wherein two filter materials are provided, and a mixture of the activated charcoal and the inorganic mineral-based porous material carrying ferrous sulfateL-ascorbic acid is dispersed in one of the filter materials.
5. The cigarette filter according to claim 1, wherein three filter materials are provided, and the activated charcoal and the inorganic mineral-based porous material carrying ferrous sulfateL-ascorbic acid are individually loaded in the two spaces between the three filter materials.
6. The cigarette filter according to claim 1, wherein three filter materials are provided, and the activated charcoal is dispersed in one filter material and the inorganic mineral-based porous material carrying ferrous sulfateL-ascorbic acid is dispersed in another filter material.
7. The cigarette filter according to claim 1, wherein silicaalumina is also contained as an adsorbent in addition to the activated charcoal and the inorganic mineral-based porous material carrying ferrous sulfateL-ascorbic acid.
8. A cigarette filter, comprising a cigarette holder body including filter materials arranged therein, wherein activated charcoal and an inorganic mineral-based porous material carrying ferrous sulfateL-ascorbic acid are contained as adsorbents in at least one of the filter materials and a space between the filter materials.

1. An integrated circuit device having adaptive electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and noise signal rejection, comprising:
an external connection adapted for connection to a data bus;
a data bus interface coupled to the external connection;
a circuit function coupled to the data bus interface;
an ESD protection circuit coupled to the external connection and a common of the integrated circuit device;
an ESD enhancement capacitor coupled to the external connection;
an ESD capacitor control, wherein the ESD capacitance control couples the ESD enhancement capacitor into the ESD protection circuit when an input of the ESD capacitor control is at a first voltage, and decouples the ESD enhancement capacitor from the ESD protection circuit when the input of the ESD capacitor control is at a second voltage;
a high pass filter coupled to the external connection, wherein the high pass filter passes high frequency noise signals but not low frequency data signals; and
a signal amplitude detector coupled to the high pass filter, wherein when the high frequency noise signals are present on the external connection the signal amplitude detector applies the second voltage to the ESD capacitor control, and when there are substantially no high frequency noise signals are on the external connection the signal amplitude detector applies the first voltage to the ESD capacitor control.
2. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the data bus interface is a data bus receiver.
3. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the data bus interface is a data bus driver.
4. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the data bus interface is a data bus driver and receiver.
5. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the high frequency noise signals are direct power injection (DPI) signals.
6. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the high frequency noise signals are electromagnetic interference (EMI) signals.
7. The integrated circuit device o f claim 1, wherein the ESD protection circuit comprises a first metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device.
8. The integrated circuit device of claim 7, wherein the first MOS device is configured having a substantially grounded gate.
9. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the ESD capacitor control comprises a second metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device having a gate coupled to the an output of the signal amplitude detector.
10. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the signal amplitude detector delays the second voltage after detecting the high frequency noise signals on the external connection.
11. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the signal amplitude detector comprises a signal detection diode and a low pass filter.
12. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the circuit function is a digital logic function.
13. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the circuit function is an analog circuit function.
14. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the circuit function is a mixed signal circuit function.
15. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the ESD capacitor control comprises a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device and a low value resistor, the ESD enhancement capacitor is connected to the low value resistor, wherein the MOS device decouples the low value resistor and the ESD enhancement capacitor from the ESD protection circuit when the input of the ESD capacitor control is at the second voltage.
16. The integrated circuit device of claim 15, the ESD enhancement capacitor is decoupled from the ESD protection circuit when the MOS device couples the low value resistor and ESD enhancement capacitor to the common of the integrated circuit device.
17. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the ESD capacitor control comprises a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device, a bipolar transistor and a low value resistor, the ESD enhancement capacitor is connected to the low value resistor, wherein the bipolar transistor decouples the low value resistor and the ESD enhancement capacitor from the ESD protection circuit when the input of the ESD capacitor control is at the second voltage.
18. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, further comprising a diode coupled between the external connection and the ESD enhancement capacitor and the ESD capacitor control.
19. The integrated circuit device of claim 18, wherein the diode is a vertical PNP device formed during fabrication of the integrated circuit device.
20. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the data bus is a Local Interconnect Network (LIN) bus.
21. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the data bus is a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method for distributing a requested torque to one or two drive axles of a vehicle, wherein the requested torque depends on a driver’s request, wherein for the first drive axle a first maximum value for a torque is calculated as a function of an adhesion limit of the first drive axle, wherein for the second drive axle a second maximum value for a torque is calculated as a function of an adhesion limit of the second drive axle, wherein at least a first portion of the requested torque is transmitted to the first drive axle, wherein the first portion does not exceed the first maximum value, wherein a second portion of the requested torque is fed to the second drive axle if the first portion does not correspond to the requested torque, and wherein the second portion does not exceed the second maximum value, wherein the requested torque is divided into the first portion and the second portion as a function of at least one parameter.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the parameter depends on efficient energy consumption.
3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the parameter depends on an adhesion behavior of the drive axles.
4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the parameter depends on driving stability of the vehicle.
5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein two drives are used to make available the torque for the two drive axles, wherein in each case one drive is assigned to one drive axle, and wherein the parameter depends on an operating parameter of the drive.
6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein an energy source is provided for a drive, wherein the parameter depends on an operating state of the energy source.
7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the drive has an electric motor, wherein the energy source is a battery, and wherein the operating parameter is a state of charge of the battery.
8. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first drive is an internal combustion engine and the second drive is an electric motor, wherein the internal combustion engine only drives the first drive axle, and the electric motor only drives the second drive axle.
9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the maximum values of the torques are calculated in real time.
10. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein minimum values for the first portion and the second portion are calculated as a function of a parameter, and wherein at least the minimum value of the torque is respectively applied to the first and second drive axles as long as the minimum value does not exceed the maximum value.
11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the minimum values are calculated in real time.
12. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when the first portion approximates to the first maximum value, the second portion is increased using a transition function of the distance of the first portion from the maximum value.
13. A computing unit which is designed to carry out the method as claimed in claim 1.
14. A computer program which is designed to carry out the method as claimed in claim 1 when it is run on a computing unit.