A remote-control signal receiver includes an input apparatus to input remote-control signals consisting of data trains repeated at a predetermined frequency, a data incorporating apparatus by which the remote control data derived from the remote-control signal is incorporated into a micro-computer by using the input apparatus, a setting apparatus by which the blank period between the data trains of the remote-control signal incorporated by using the input apparatus is set, and a limiting apparatus to limit the data incorporation period.

A method for modulating a radio signal has the steps of: predetermining a first time interval so as to define a data word; generating a synchronization pulse, the synchronization pulse initiating a single data word having a length of the predetermined first time interval; and generating a single data pulse within the data word after a second time interval with respect to the synchronization pulse, the length of the second time interval defining at least one character. Defining at least one character by a single data pulse after a second time interval with respect to the synchronization pulse enhances an energy efficiency of the transmitted radio signal while mitigating a duty cycle thereof.

An infrared communication system for transmitting a digital bit stream by telemetry in the presence of background radiation wherein each bit in the data stream is represented by a signature set of pulses designating either a binary one or a binary zero. A receiver detecting an infrared signal filters the signal to detect the signature sets of pulses generated by the transmitter. The pulses are transmitted according to a specific communications protocol.

A high speed serializer-deserializer (SerDes) that passes significantly more data through a channel for a given analog bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio. This SerDes technique involves converting a plurality of bits to be transferred to positions of edges of a waveform that is transmitted over at least one transmission wire from a source to a destination. The plurality of bits are converted to edges in order to position edges such that more than k inter-edge spacings are possible over a range of spacings between T and kT, where k is a real number greater than 1 and T is the minimum spacing between consecutive edges. An edge position translation scheme that maps patterns in a stream of input bits to a corresponding spacing between a rising edge and a falling edge of the waveform, or between a falling edge and a rising edge of the waveform. The bits are recovered at the destination by detecting the edges in the received waveform at the destination and driving a stream of binary numbers representing time intervals between detected consecutive edges (inter-edge spacings). The stream of binary numbers is decoded according to the edge position translation scheme to recover corresponding bits.