09th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130051309 | Relaying in a Communication System - A method and apparatus for relaying communications between a mobile device and a network access node is disclosed. In the method a connection is established between a first relay node of a group of relay nodes and the network access node to serve the mobile device. The mobile device is served by the first relay node and at least one second relay node of the group in wireless connection with the mobile device such that the mobile device remains connected to the network access node via at least one of the first and second relay nodes when one of the first and second relay nodes changes. To maintain the relayed communications for the mobile device after the change in the relay nodes control information is communicated by at least one of said relay nodes on an interface between relevant relay nodes in the group. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051310 | METHOD FOR TRANSCEIVING SIGNALS BETWEEN A BASE STATION AND A RELAY NODE IN A MULTIUSER MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a method in which a base station transmits signals to a relay node in a multiuser multi-antenna (MIMO) wireless communication system. More particularly, the method comprises the following steps: allocating one or more antenna ports to one or more relay nodes, respectively; mapping each of a plurality of downlink grant signals for said one or more relay nodes to a preset resource domain from among resource domains corresponding to one of the allocated antenna ports; mapping uplink grant signals or data signals for said one or more relay nodes to the resource domains corresponding to the allocated antenna ports; and transmitting the mapped signals to said one or more relay nodes. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051313 | MULTIPLEXING MULTIPLE MOBILE SERVICES ON A SINGLE MOBILE ACCESS POINT NAME - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for multiplexing multiple mobile services on a single mobile access point name (APN). A method includes, in a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network, examining Internet Protocol (IP) packets that traverse a mobile GN link of a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN), and applying a combination of packet protocols coupled with a carrier defined set of work flow rules to route the IP packets to their next destination and earmark billing CDRs for mediation and correlation by back office IT systems residing with a carrier in the mobile network. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051314 | DATA GATHERING FOR A NODE - Methods and systems are disclosed including a mobile device configured for initiating a communication session with a transceiver interface of a node that comprises a network interface. The node may be queried via the communication session for a status report associated with an error, and an instruction may be communicated to the node via the communication session instructing the node to perform an operation. Communication may be established with the wireless access point via the wireless network after communication of the instruction. The transceiver interface may be configured to communicate via a second network to address issues in the wide area network. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051321 | MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING (MDC) FOR CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE SIGNALS (CSI-RS) - Aspects of the present disclosure include a wireless system to reduce quantization error due to codebook-based PMI reporting by precoding channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) via a base station. The eNodeB varies the properties for a CSI-RS transmission in a known pattern and receives varying reports from the UE. The eNodeB can reconstruct the PMI with improved accuracy by combining multiple consecutive reports. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051322 | MULTI-POINT PUCCH ATTACHMENT - Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to periodic over-the-air channel state information (CSI) reporting to serving cells and one or more non-serving cells via a control channel multi-point attachment. The channel state information report may be transmitted based on information indicating how to transmit the channel state information report to the non-serving cell. The information indicating how to transmit the channel state information report may be provided by the serving eNodeB. The information may include a periodicity, offset parameters, timing advance commands, power control commands, and/or an aperiodic report request. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051327 | Server in Charge of Control Plane Within Mobile Communication Network and Method for Controlling Service in Server - According to the present description, data of a user can be detoured (offloaded) to a wired network such as a public communication network even through a Home (e)NodeB. In addition, when the data of the user is detoured (offloaded) to the wired network such as the public communication network even through the Home (e)NodeB, a local IP access (LIPA) service can be selectively supported according to the user or a UE. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051328 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A MULTI-BAND ACCESS POINT TO ASSOCIATE WITH A MULTI-BAND MOBILE STATION - A method and apparatus may be used for selecting one of a plurality of multi-band APs to associate with a multi-band WTRU. The multi-band APs may broadcast frequency band information regarding multiple frequency bands on which the multi-band AP is configured to operate. The multi-band WTRU may select a multi-band AP to associate with and a frequency band to use to communicate with the selected multi-band AP based on the frequency band information. The multi-band AP may transmit frequency band information from the that indicates that a characteristic, (e.g., throughput, path loss, load, capacity, backhaul), of the selected frequency band and disassociate with the multi-band WTRU or to continue to associate with the multi-band WTRU via a different frequency band. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051329 | RADIO EQUIPMENT AND RADIO BASE STATION - A useful technique for configuring radio equipment as networking radio equipment is provided. Networking radio equipment | 2013-02-28 |
20130051330 | Automatic Resource Allocation For ARQ Feedback - A method (S | 2013-02-28 |
20130051331 | DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF NETWORK RESOURCES FOR PROVISIONING SERVICES TO USER DEVICES - A device may receive, from a base station, information that identifies traffic conditions within the base station; and may assign one or more different frequency bands to each of one or more applications being provisioned, by the base station, to one or more user devices based on the information that identifies the traffic conditions within the base station. The device may also generate allocation information that identifies how the different frequency bands are allocated to each of the applications; and transmit, via the base station, the allocation information to the user devices, where transmitting the allocation information allows a user device to identify a frequency band with which to obtain an application. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051332 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODIFYING CALL ADMISSION CONTROL THRESHOLDS - Embodiments of the claimed subject matter provide a method and apparatus for modifying call admission control thresholds. One embodiment of a method includes modifying one or more call admission control thresholds provided to base stations by a radio access network in response to a mismatch between a wireless access capacity of the base stations and a backhaul capacity between the base stations and the radio access network. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051337 | RADIO BASE STATION AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio base station (eNB) according to the present invention includes: a management unit ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK DATA ASSOCIATED WITH MTC DEVICE TRIGGER FUNCTION - A method and apparatus for small packet transmission in response to machine type communication (MTC) device trigger indication are provided. For uplink (UL) transmission of small packet from MTC device in idle state, a tracking area update (TAU) complete non-access stratum (NAS) message is used to protect integrity and confidentiality of UL small packet transmission without attach/service request procedure during idle state. For downlink (DL) transmission of small packet from MTC device in idle state, a TAU accept NAS message is used to protect integrity & confidentiality of DL small packet reception without attach/service request procedure during idle state. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051339 | COMMUNICATION METHOD USING A CARRIER AGGREGATION AND APPARATUS THEREFORE - The present invention is directed to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus of controlling uplink transmission at a user equipment in a wireless communication system, wherein the user equipment is connected to multiple component carriers, which includes receiving configuration information for transmitting an uplink signal from a base station; and identifying a time for transmitting the uplink signal to the base station on a corresponding uplink component carrier in use of the configuration information, wherein if the corresponding uplink component carrier is in a non-available state at the time for transmitting the uplink signal, the uplink signal is not transmitted. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051340 | THE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING SIGNALS TO SUBCARRIERS IN MIMO WIRELESS NETWORK - A method for mapping signals to subcarriers in a sending means of a MIMO-based wireless telecommunication network and an apparatus for the same. It is characterized in that, controlling the mapping of the signals in an input signal sequence to the subcarriers, so that the signals sent by different antennas at the same time correspond to nonadjacent signals in the input signal sequence. With the aid of the present invention, burst error due to deep fading channel can be effectively avoided, and diversity gains can be also improved. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051341 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - To perform control of PUSCH retransmission efficiently in a wireless communication system where a mobile station apparatus and a base station apparatus communicate with each other using a plurality of downlink component carriers. In a mobile station apparatus which communicates with a base station apparatus using a plurality of downlink component carriers and a plurality of uplink component carriers, in case that the downlink component carrier corresponding to the uplink component carrier is set not to be used for downlink communication, the mobile station apparatus flushes HARQ buffers of the uplink component carrier associated with the downlink component carrier set not to be used for downlink communication. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051342 | Communication method, mobile station apparatus, base station apparatus and mobile communication system - To provide a mobile communication system and a communication method for enabling HARQ control information to be transmitted and received using radio resources efficiently in case that a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus communicate with each other in a wider frequency band using component carriers in a composite manner, in the communication method in the mobile station apparatus that transmits, to the base station apparatus, the HARQ control information for a plurality of downlink transport blocks transmitted on a plurality of downlink component carriers using a first physical uplink control channel resource, in case that the mobile station apparatus detects a single physical downlink control channel in a common search space in a certain subframe, the mobile station apparatus transmits the HARQ control information to the base station apparatus, using a second physical uplink control channel resource different from the first physical uplink control channel resource. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051349 | INFORMATION REPORTING METHOD, BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT - A information reporting method, base station and user equipment is provided in this invention. The method comprises sending the MAC layer carrier activation signaling to the UE, for activating a first CC of the UE, the MAC layer carrier activation signaling comprising CQI instruction information, for instructing the UE to report aperiodic CQI information of a second CC of the UE, so that the UE triggers to report aperiodic CQI information of the second CC of the UE upon receiving the MAC layer carrier activation signaling. With the information reporting method, base station and user equipment provided in an embodiment of this invention, the problem of slower report of CQI information of activated CCs can be addressed. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051350 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MAC PROTOCOL DATA UNIT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for generating a Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes reconstructing at least one MAC Service Data Unit (MSDU) according to scheduling information of the MAC layer and generating at least one MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) data portion, adding control information to each MPDU data portion and generating at least one MPDU payload, the control information comprising MSDU information constituting each MPDU data portion, adding a General MAC Header (GMH) to each MPDU payload and generating at least one MPDU, the GMH including length information on the MPDU and Connection IDentifier (CID) information, and transmitting the MPDU to a receive end. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051357 | BASE STATION, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION METHOD - Base station capable of suppressing interference of a large cell having high transmission power with a small cell having low transmission power and wherein frequency block division loss is low. Macrocell base station has: a frequency resource information generation unit, which calculates average value of allocated frequency resources, determines the calculated frequency resource average value on the basis of a resource allocation recurrence threshold, and generates frequency resource information from the result of the determination; an information control unit which notifies the frequency resource information to a femtocell; and first and second signal generation units which generate and output first report information which is cell information normally sent to a wireless communication terminal, and second report information which limits area that can be notified. Femtocell base station has an information control unit which, upon receiving the second report information, acquires the frequency resource information notified from the macrocell base station. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051358 | Channel Sensing in Uplink Transmission - A solution for uplink transmission in a cellular communication system is disclosed. The same uplink time-frequency resource are scheduled to at least two terminal devices, and sensing periods of unequal lengths are allocated to the at least two terminal devices. The sensing period defines a duration a terminal device senses the uplink time-frequency resource for a conflicting transmission before transmitting in the uplink time-frequency resource. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051359 | Method and Arrangement for Transmission of Data Packets - The invention relates to a method and arrangement for improving predictability of inter-cell interference in wireless communication systems. A first network radio entity ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051360 | SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM EMPLOYING A COMBINATION OF TIME SLOTS AND ORTHOGONAL CODES - A satellite communication system for communicating between a plurality of user terminals is disclosed having at least one satellite which provides multiple beams, a plurality of user terminals that communicate with each other via satellites of said constellation, at least one gateway connected to a public switched telephone network and communicating with at least one user terminal over the satellite communication system wherein each of said user terminals within a given frequency band is distinguished from another of the user terminals employing a combination of time slots and orthogonal codes implemented in a forward and return link. Each of the user terminals is equipped to initiate or receive or terminate packet data messages. Each of said user terminals is handed off from one beam of a satellite to another beam of said satellite. The hand off is predicated on signal strength determined at said plurality of user terminals. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051361 | WIRELESS BASE STATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless base station includes a first receiving section which receives data from a plurality of terminals positioned within a wireless area in which data communication with a processing section on a network is performed by the wireless base station via a core network, a multiplexing controller which shares, with the processing section, first identification information allocated to a group and second identification information allocated to each of a plurality of member terminals constituting the group, and controls to determine whether a terminal serving as a source of the received data is a member terminal belonging to the group, based on the second identification information, and to multiplex, of the received data from the plurality of terminals, data from the terminal determined to be the member terminal belonging to the group, based on the first identification information, and a first sending section sends the multiplexed data to the core network. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051362 | SELECTING A TARGET CELL FOR CS FALLBACK - Described embodiments provide a method of effectively selecting a target cell to hand over user equipment from a LTE network to a non-LTE network when the user equipment requests a CS service. A LTE cell may determine a CS fallback hysteresis parameter in advance. The LTE cell may receive signal quality measurements of at least two candidate non-LTE cells from the user equipment. The LTE cell may select one target cell among the at least two candidate non-LTE cells based on the CS fallback hysteresis parameter and the received signal quality measurements of the at least two candidate non-LTE cells. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051367 | Support for Continuity of Tunnel Communications for Mobile Nodes Having Multiple Care of Addressing - The present invention solves communication disruption problems during the hand-off transition period by using a pre-handoff registration of a new foreign agent on behalf of the mobile node The pre-handoff registration message should: (1) identify itself as a pre-hand off registration message, (2) indicate direction of traffic for the pre-handoff registration time period, and (3) specify a lifetime or time period when the pre-handoff registration request will continue to be considered valid The local mobility anchor will accept traffic using the pre-handoff registration care-of address depending on the directionality indicator, but the communication traffic to or from the mobile node will not be disrupted during the transition period. Because the care-of address for the mobile node on the new foreign network can be used to direct communication traffic to or from the mobile node during this transition time period, no disruption of service will be encountered. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051368 | Method for Handover from Circuit Switched Domain to Packet Switched Domain, Device, and Communications System - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for a handover from a circuit switched domain to a packet switched domain, a device, and a communications system. One of CS to PS handover methods includes receiving, by a target mobility management entity, a CS to PS handover request message that corresponds to a first UE and is from an MSC; triggering setup of a dedicated VoIP bearer that corresponds to the first UE and is between an SGW and an MGW; sending a handover request message to a target access network to instruct the target access network to prepare a handover resource for the first UE; and sending a CS to PS handover response message corresponding to the first UE to the MSC. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051369 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING CONTROL INFORMATION AND DATA, AND FOR TRANSMITTING THE MULTIPLEXED CONTROL INFORMATION AND DATA IN A MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system. A method for multiplexing uplink control information and uplink data and for transmitting the multiplexed uplink control information and uplink data according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: encoding a first transmission block and a second transmission block to generate a first codeword and a second codeword; mapping the first codeword and the second codeword to one or more layers, respectively; and transmitting, via one or more antenna ports, each layer to which the first codeword and the second codeword are mapped, wherein the uplink control information is multiplexed only to either the first transmission block or to the second transmission block. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051370 | METHOD FOR USING A BASE STATION TO SELECTIVELY UTILIZE B AND D CHANNELS TO SUPPORT A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATIONS - A method for using a wireless digital base station to receive, process and transmit a plurality of communications having independent data rates establishing a first communication channel having a first data communication rate to support a first communication; determining the data rate required to support the first communication; selecting one or more transmission channels, from a plurality of available transmission channels, required to support said required data rate; and transmitting the first communication using one or more selected transmission channels. The plurality of available transmission channels includes at least one B or D channel. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051373 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CELL SEARCH IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals are provided for facilitating a cell search in a wireless communication system supporting various types of multicarrier transmission. A carrier type indication signal indicating a type of carrier supported by the base station is generated. The carrier type indication signal is transmitted with synchronization signals, to one or more terminals in a cell of the base station. A type of a carrier supported by a base station is determined based on a carrier type indication signal transmitted by the base station. A cell search procedure is performed to access the base station according to the type of the carrier supported by the base station. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051374 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED FLEXIBLE TIMESLOT ASSIGNMENT - A mobile station in a communications system includes hardware and software stored on a tangible computer readable medium that, during operation, cause the mobile station to indicate one or more multislot classes for the mobile station to a device on a network. Parameters applicable to enhanced flexible timeslot assignment operation are determined based on the parameters of the one or more indicated multislot classes. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051375 | PASSIVE RF DEVICES THAT COMMUNICATE USING A WIRELESS NETWORK PROTOCOL - Passive RF devices are disclosed that communicate using a wireless network protocol. The device includes an antenna operable to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from a RF source that transmits the RF signal based on a wireless network protocol. The device further includes circuitry operable to derive power from the RF signal. With the power derived from the RF signal, the circuitry is further operable to read data from a memory, to encode the data based on the wireless network protocol, and to modulate the RF signal to include the encoded data. The antenna is further operable to transmit the modulated RF signal based on the wireless network protocol for reception by the RF source or another passive RF device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051376 | HYBRID BROADCAST PACKET REPLICATION FOR VIRTUAL LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - A system for hybrid broadcast packet replication for virtual local area networks includes a switch operable to receive a packet with an associated VLAN identifier and replicate the packet. A VLAN bit mask is included in the switch to filter the target destinations for the sending the replicated packets. The mask has a first level that provides to the switch an indication of a VLAN group where a radio of an AP has an associated client device. The mask has a second level where the mask provides to the switch an indication of a WLAN where a radio of an AP has an associated client device. The mask can have a third level where the mask provides to the switch an indication of a list of VLANs in use by each WLAN. The switch can then send those replicated packets filtered through the mask on to target devices of the identified VLAN. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051387 | ADAPTIVE MULTICASTING - Methods and apparatuses for adaptively multicasting information from a server to a multicast group are provided. A multicast transmission along one or more paths of the transmission is changed as network conditions warrant. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051388 | Methods and Apparatus for Multicast Transmission - Exemplary embodiments are concerned with method of controlling transmission of a set of transmissions from a source device to at least one destination device according to a multicast transmission scheme, the set of transmissions including random linear network coded packets that are to be multicast by the source device to the destination devices. These embodiments differ from this conventional approach in that the number of packets that are encoded for multicast transmission or the rate of transmission thereof is configured using feedback from the destination devices regarding their progress in decoding a previously multicast set of transmissions. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051397 | CREDIT FLOW CONTROL SCHEME IN A ROUTER WITH FLEXIBLE LINK WIDTHS UTILIZING MINIMAL STORAGE - A method includes receiving flits forwarded from an upstream router into a first input virtual channel (VC) associated with an input port. The flits are associated with packets originated from a first Intellectual Property (IP) core and forwarded to a second IP core. The flits are stored in a VC storage associated with the first input VC. The method further includes performing link width conversion based on a width of the flits being different from a width of an output port. Link width conversion includes accumulation of the flits when the width of the output port is wider and unpacking of the flits when the width of the output port is narrower. Credits are generated based on the flits being forwarded from the first input VC to the output port. The credits are sent to the upstream router to enable receiving more flits from the upstream router. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051398 | REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM, REMOTE CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR REMOTE CONTROL - In a switching node, a low-load and high-speed control is performed without using a CPU and a network protocol, such as TCP/IP, which have been conventionally used for control from a remote control server, to realize a high-end and high-speed network service by making use of the high-speed CPU processing capacity of a remote control server. Specifically, a forwarding engine incorporates a PCI express, a PCI express LAN conversion bridge and a circuit which can access to a local bus control interface from the PCI express on the switching node. The external control server incorporates an extended network service interface driver for managing a plurality of switching nodes. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051401 | PROTOCOL LINK LAYER - A link is a software abstraction that represents a direct connection between two CoCo nodes. The link layer detects the presence of neighboring devices and establishes links to them. A protocol abstraction layer converts data frames that arrive on network interfaces into packet objects used by the COCO Protocol Suite. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051402 | Poe Communication Bus, Interface, and Protocol Between Poe Subsystem And Phy or Switch Subsystems - Provided is a communications interface system. The communications interface system includes one or more protocol modules configured to include interface protocols that facilitate communication between a switching subsystem, a physical layer subsystem, and a Power over Ethernet subsystem. The protocol modules are connectable to a communications bus. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051403 | Method and Apparatus for Dynamically Allocating Upstream Bandwidth in Passive Optical Networks - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates dynamic allocation of upstream bandwidth in a passive optical network which includes a central node and at least one remote node. Each remote node is coupled to at least one logical entity, which corresponds to a device or a user, that transmits upstream data to the central node and receives downstream data from the central node. The central node is coupled to an external network outside of the passive optical network through a shared out-going uplink. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CARRYING A WIRELESS BASED SIGNAL OVER WIRING - A device, network and method wherein a standard wireless modem is coupled to wiring for carrying a wireless baseband signal that may be OFDM based, and may be directly generated by the wireless IF modem, or extracted from the modem RF signal. The wiring may be a building utility wiring, such as telephone, AC power or CATV wiring. The baseband signal is carried simultaneously with the utility service signal over the utility wiring using Frequency Division Multiplexing. The device may be enclosed with a data unit, a standalone dedicated enclosure, within an outlet or as a plug-in outlet adapter. Data units may couple the device by a wiring port such as standard data connector, or via wireless connection. The device may be locally powered or via a power signal carried over the wiring. This abstract is not intended to limit or construe the scope of the claims. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051405 | DIGITAL BROADCAST TRANSMITTER, DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER, AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AND PROCESSING STREAMS THEREOF - Provided are a digital broadcast transmitter, a digital broadcast receiver, a method for processing a stream of the transmitter, and a method for processing a stream of the receiver. The method of processing the stream of the transmitter includes: arranging second mobile data according to a predetermined mode within a stream that includes a first region allocated for first mobile data and a second region allocated for normal data; configuring the stream in which the normal data and the second mobile data are arranged; and encoding and interleaving the stream to output the stream as a transport stream. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051406 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REQUESTER VIRTUAL CUT THROUGH - A method for transmitting a message includes a communication adapter receiving, from a transmitting device, a request to send the message. The method further includes modifying a maximum transfer unit (MTU) to obtain a modified MTU, transmitting, from the communication adapter to a receiving system, a first sub-unit of the message using the modified MTU, iteratively increasing the MTU for transmitting intermediate sub-units of the message until an MTU limit is reached, and transmitting, to the receiving system, the intermediate sub-units of the message. The intermediate sub-units are transmitted after the first sub-unit and before a second sub-unit. The method further includes transmitting, from the communication adapter to the receiving system, the second sub-unit to the receiving system using a full path MTU. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051407 | Inter-Packet Gap Network Clock Synchronization - A network component comprising a processor configured to receive a data stream from an upstream node, wherein the data stream comprises a plurality of Ethernet packets and a synchronization request comprising a timestamp, synchronize a clock with the timestamp, and transmit a response to the upstream node, wherein the data stream has the same bandwidth as a second data stream that does not have the synchronization request and the timestamp. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051408 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING A DIGITAL SIGNAL IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM, AND A CORRESPONDING PROGRAM PRODUCT AND RELAY DEVICE - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting frames of N>2 symbols for use in a distributed system having at least two transmitter nodes. The method includes circularly permutating a frame of N symbols; multiplying m first permutated symbols by a phase coefficient (φ≠1, for 02013-02-28 | |
20130051413 | INTERNALLY COOLED, THERMALLY CLOSED MODULAR LASER PACKAGE SYSTEM - An internal laser module may be capable of providing a similar high performance as that provided by traditional internally cooled laser modules, but with improved cost efficiency and manufacturability. In the internally cooled laser module, a laser subassembly, such as a coaxial semiconductor laser, may be mounted on a thermoelectric cooler cooler-base with several other components enclosed in a properly designed case. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051414 | Compression Mount for Semiconductor Devices, and Method - A mount for semiconductor laser devices comprises thermally conductive anode and cathode blocks on either side of a semiconductor laser device such as a laser diode. Interposed between at least the anode block and the anode of the semiconductor laser device is a sheet of conformable material with high thermal conductivity such as pyrolytic highly-oriented graphite. In some embodiments, a second sheet of such thermally conductive conformable material is interposed between the cathode of the semiconductor laser device and the cathode block. The semiconductor laser device can be either a single laser diode or a diode bar having a plurality of emitters. A thermally conductive, but electrically insulating, spacer of essentially the same thickness as the laser diode or bar surrounds the diode or bar to prevent mechanical damage while still permitting the conformable material to be maintained in a compressed state. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051415 | HIGH-EFFICIENCY, DUAL CURRENT SINK LASER DIODE DRIVER - Provided are assemblies and processes for activating light emitting devices. A first current sink is in electrical communication with a common source through a current node and configured to draw a first current through the current node in response to a respective control signal. A second current sink is also provided in electrical communication with the current node and in parallel with the first current sink, also configured to draw a second current through the current node in response to a respective control signal. An aggregate current is drawn through the array, determined as a combination of the first and second currents. A commanded current from the first current sink can be shunted around the second array and the second current sink, providing a capability to series both the first and second laser diode light-emitting arrays, while simultaneously drawing different current amplitudes through each array from a common potential source. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051416 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BALANCING COMBINED RF POWER- SUPPLIES FOR DRIVING A CO2 GAS-DISCHARGE LASER - Radio-frequency (RF) power supply apparatus for supplying RF power to discharge electrodes of a gas-discharge laser includes a plurality of amplifier modules each having an RF output. A power combining arrangement is provided for combining the amplifier module RF-outputs into a single combined RF-output connected to the discharge electrodes. A DC power supply is connectable to or disconnectable from each of the transistor amplifier modules, separately, to allow current drawn by any of the amplifier modules to be monitored by a single current sensor. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051419 | HCG REFLECTION ENHANCEMENT IN DIVERSE REFRACTIVE INDEX MATERIAL - Enhanced reflectivity High-Contrast Gratings are described which operate in different medium. An HCG is described with a deep/buried metallization layer separated at a distance of least three to four grating thicknesses from the grating. Reflective bandwidth of the HCG is substantially increased, such as by a factor or five, by inclusion of the deep/buried metallization layer. An HCG is described which provides high reflectivity, even when embedded into materials of a moderate to high index of refraction, such as semiconductor material. Vertical cavity surface emitting laser embodiments are described which utilize these reflectivity enhancements, and preferably utilize HCG reflectors for top and/or bottom mirrors. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051420 | THREE-TERMINAL VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER (VCSEL) AND A METHOD FOR OPERATING A THREE-TERMINAL VCSEL - A three-terminal VCSEL is provided that has a reduced fall time that allows the VCSEL to be operated at higher speeds. Methods of operating the three-terminal VCSEL are also provided. The VCSEL can be operated at higher speeds without decreasing the optical output of the VCSEL when it is in the logical HIGH state. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051429 | ELECTRONIC PART, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE FOR ELECTRONIC PART AND DIGITAL THERMOMETER - The present invention provides (A) an electronic part including a metal part combined with a non-metal part so as to cover the non-metal part, which electronic part can be assembled (i) with excellent workability, (ii) without requiring a high-temperature condition, and (iii) in a short period of time and (B) a method for manufacturing the electronic part. An electronic part ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051430 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A SET OF FREQUENCIES THAT CAN BE USED FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION BETWEEN RADIO TRANSCEIVERS OF A NETWORK OPERATING WITH FREQUENCY HOPPING - The invention relates to a method for determining a set of frequencies that can be used in a frequency plane for transmitting information between at least two transceivers of a network operating with frequency hopping, which includes a step of initially determining an initial set of frequencies that can be used, each one of which has a magnitude lower than a threshold, at least one step ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051433 | Chirp Receiver - A method of synchronising the frequency and timing of a receiver with a synchronisation chirp signal from a transmitter, comprising: receiving the synchronisation chirp signal, the synchronisation chirp signal comprising a sequence of symbols, the sequence of symbols including at least a first symbol having a first gradient g | 2013-02-28 |
20130051434 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MITIGATING SEVERE MULTIPATH INTERFERENCE FOR GEOLOCATION & NAVIGATION - A system and method for mitigating multipath interference of signals in environments to determine the line of sight signal propagation. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051437 | FREQUENCY TUNING CIRCUIT, PHASE-LOCKED LOOP CIRCUIT, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a register outputs a first control code in first and second operation modes, saves the first control code as a third control code at an end of the first operation mode, and outputs the third control code at a beginning of a third operation mode. In the first operation mode, a digital-to-analog converter supplies a control signal with a control voltage to a voltage controlled oscillator. In the second operation mode, the control signal is supplied to a buffer amplifier, the amplifier drives a bandlimiting filter, and the filter generates the control voltage. In the third operation mode, the control signal is supplied to the filter, and the filter generates the control voltage. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051438 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT SUPPORTING ANTENNA DIVERSITY - A wireless communication circuit is disclosed including: a transceiver for transmitting and receiving signals; and a control circuit coupled with the transceiver for controlling a switching circuit to switch the transceiver to a first antenna set for a first time period and then to switch the transceiver to a second antenna set for a second time period in a test period. If a throughput statistic of the first antenna set with respect to the test period is greater than that of the second antenna set, the control circuit configures the switching circuit to switch the transceiver to the first antenna set after the test period. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051439 | FREQUENCY CALIBRATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROGRAMMABLE OSCILLATOR - A frequency calibration method for a programmable oscillator includes the steps of: counting an oversampling number of an oversampling signal and estimating an accumulated bit number of a USB data stream according to the oversampling signal; calculating a difference between the oversampling number and M times of the accumulated bit number when the accumulated bit number is larger than a predetermined value; and determining a frequency calibration step of the oversampling signal according to the difference. The present invention further provides a frequency calibration device for a programmable oscillator. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051440 | CONFIGURABLE BASEBAND PROCESSING FOR RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A configurable transceiver includes an RF receiver section that generates at least one downconverted signal from a received RF signal. A receiver processing module processes at least one downconverted signal in a plurality of receiver stages to produce a stream of inbound data, wherein the receiver processing module is configurable in response to a control signal to selectively bypass at least one of the plurality of receiver processing stages. A transmitter processing module processes outbound data in a plurality of transmitter stages to produce at least one baseband signal, wherein the receiver processing module is configurable in response to the control signal to selectively bypass at least one of the plurality of transmitter processing stages. An RF transmitter section generates at least one RF signal from the at least one baseband signal. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051441 | System and Method for Improving Channel Efficiency in a Wireless Link - System and method for improving channel efficiency in a wireless link between an access-point transceiver and a first transceiver. The first transceiver may have a first data throughput rate that is lower than the maximum possible data throughput rate of the wireless link. The first transceiver may include a first receive buffer. An indication of the first data throughput rate and a size of the first receive buffer may be received and stored by the access-point transceiver. A first size of a first data packet for transmission to the first transceiver may be determined by the access-point transceiver based on one or more of the first data throughput rate and/or the size of the first receive buffer. The first data packet of the first size may be transmitted to the first transceiver by the access-point transceiver at a data rate that is higher than the first data throughput rate. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051442 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING EQUALIZATION COEFFICIENTS OF ADAPTIVE PRE-EQUALIZERS - A method and apparatus for updating equalization coefficients of an adaptive pre-equalizer of a network element are provided. The method includes monitoring a communications channel to measure distortion of a communications signal received from the network element and detecting whether a transient impairment is present in the communication signal. When a transient impairment is not detected to be present, a pre-equalization coefficient update is transmitted to the network element. However, when a transient impairment is detected to be present, at least selected ones of the pre-equalization coefficients are scaled before the update is transmitted to the network element or the update is withheld from being transmitted to the network element. An apparatus is also disclosed. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051451 | Device and Method For Processing Digital Images Captured by a Binary Image Sensor - A method for processing image data comprises determining a set of parameters based on a binary digital image) such that said set of parameters comprises information about the density of white and/or black pixels of a first group of pixels of said binary digital image), and information about the density of white and/or black pixels of a second group of pixels of said binary digital image. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051452 | VIDEO ENCODING ENHANCEMENTS - Techniques for implementing video encoding enhancements may increase video encoding efficiency. One of the techniques may involve the use of an exception value and a maximum index value in inter-prediction coding lookup table to enhance the combined coding of an inter-prediction direction and a reference frame index for a coding unit. Another of the techniques may include adaptively ordering the encoding of a split flag value and a skip flag value for a coding unit. An additional technique may include providing a uniform approach to adaptively combined code the coded block flag (CBF) values for transform or coding units of images that are used with the Residue Quad-tree (RQT) information to represent residue information. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051453 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRAINED TRANSFORMS FOR VIDEO CODING AND DECODING HAVING TRANSFORM SELECTION - Methods and apparatus are provided for constrained transforms for video coding and decoding having transform selection. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding at least a block in a picture by selecting a particular transform from at least a first transform and a second transform that is different than the first transform, and applying the particular transform to a residue of the block. Transform coefficients for the second transform are selected responsive to a deblocking filter that is present in the video encoder. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051454 | Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) Parameter Signaling - A method for sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering and SAO parameter signaling in a video encoder is provided that includes determining SAO parameters for largest coding units (LCUs) of a reconstructed picture, wherein the SAO parameters include an indicator of an SAO filter type and a plurality of SAO offsets, applying SAO filtering to the reconstructed picture according to the SAO parameters, and entropy encoding LCU specific SAO information for each LCU of the reconstructed picture in an encoded video bit stream, wherein the entropy encoded LCU specific SAO information for the LCUs is interleaved with entropy encoded data for the LCUs in the encoded video bit stream. Determining SAO parameters may include determining the LCU specific SAO information to be entropy encoded for each LCU according to an SAO prediction protocol. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051455 | Flexible Region Based Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) and Adaptive Loop Filter (ALF) - A method for in-loop filtering in a video encoder is provided that includes determining filter parameters for each filtering region of a plurality of filtering regions of a reconstructed picture, applying in-loop filtering to each filtering region according to the filter parameters determined for the filtering region, and signaling the filter parameters for each filtering region in an encoded video bit stream, wherein the filter parameters for each filtering region are signaled after encoded data of a final largest coding unit (LCU) in the filtering region, wherein the in-loop filtering is selected from a group consisting of adaptive loop filtering and sample adaptive offset filtering. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051456 | VIDEO ENCODING CONTROL METHOD, VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS AND VIDEO ENCODING PROGRAM - In a video encoding control method of the present invention, each picture is encoded in units of encoding-order picture groups such as GOPs, and when CPB underflow has occurred, an encoding parameter such as a quantization parameter and filter strength of a pre-filter is changed in such a manner that a generated bit rate is reduced, and an encoding-order picture group that is being encoded is re-encoded from its first picture using the changed encoding parameter. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051465 | REFERENCE DATA BUFFER FOR INTRA-PREDICTION OF DIGITAL VIDEO - Encoding or decoding digital video frames in intra-prediction mode by selecting column reference data locations for blocks adjacent a current block from a column reference data buffer storing column reference data samples for no more than two macro blocks of the frame. In some cases, the column reference data buffer may include a storage size for samples of a first column of data of blocks of one macro block of luminance samples. Encoding and decoding may also include selecting row reference data locations for blocks adjacent a current block from a row reference data buffer storing row reference data samples for at least one row of macro blocks of the frame. In some cases, the row reference data buffer may include storage for samples of a first row of data of fourteen successive blocks spanning two rows. The concept can be applied to various video processing components and standards. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051466 | METHOD FOR VIDEO CODING - A method for video coding is provided. The method includes retrieving a video frame, determining a maximal number of reference frames for the video frame, determining a search window size according to the maximal number of reference frames, and performing prediction encoding on the video frame according to the maximal number of reference frames and the search window size. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051469 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A VIDEO SIGNAL - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a video signal. The method for processing a video signal according to the present invention determines the type of a block in accordance with the information which indicates whether to partition or merge the current block, acquires predicted values of each sub-block using restored peripheral pixels for each sub-block, and restores the current block using the acquired values. Here, pixels used for acquiring predicted values may include restored pixels for other sub-blocks contained in the current block, and the type of sub-blocks can be taken into account in a prediction mode for acquiring predicted values. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051470 | MOTION COMPENSATED FRAME GENERATING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A motion vector detector detects a motion vector, and outputs a block matching error value. An entire scroll determiner generates an entire scroll degree. Based on the block matching error value, a reliability generator generates reliability data indicating reliability of the motion vector. A reliability adjuster adjusts the reliability data so that a value of the reliability data is larger as the entire scroll degree is a value in which the degree at which the image scrolls entirely is larger, and outputs adjusted reliability data. Based on the adjusted reliability data, the interpolation pixel generator generates respective interpolation pixels composing a motion compensated frame. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051471 | IMAGE FRAME INTERPOLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image frame interpolation method and apparatus for determining an object and a background according to a degree of similarity between corresponding areas of a first image frame and a second image frame used for interpolation in every predetermined data unit of a third image frame interpolated between the first image frame and the second image frame and interpolating an object area of the third image frame by using object areas existing in original image frames. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051472 | Quality Scalable Video Data Stream - An apparatus for generating a quality-scalable video data stream includes a coder for coding a video signal using block-wise transformation to obtain transform blocks of transformation coefficient values for a picture of the video signal, a predetermined scan order with possible scan positions being defined among the transformation coefficient values within the transform blocks so that in each transform block, for each possible scan position, at least one of the transformation coefficient values within the respective transform block belongs to the respective possible scan position; and a generator for forming, for each of a plurality of quality layers, a video sub-data stream containing scan range information indicating a sub-set of the possible scan positions, and transform coefficient information on transformation coefficient values belonging to the sub-set of possible scan positions such that the sub-set of each quality layer includes at least one possible scan position not included by the sub-set of any other of the plurality of quality layers. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051477 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An image processing device that encodes image data including: an encoding unit which, with a small region line including, arrayed in the horizontal direction, small regions obtained by dividing large regions arrayed in the vertical direction of an image, performs encoding of image data of the large region, advancing the encoding order of small regions in the same order as a scan order, and advancing the encoding order of small region lines in an order different from the scan order; and a control unit that controls the encoding unit to encode in accordance with a state of a left small region situated at a left periphery of a small region to be processed, and a state of a lower small region situated at a lower periphery of the small region to be processed. The device suppresses deterioration in encoding efficiency due to high speed image encoding. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051478 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR VIDEO DECODING - Techniques and tools described herein help manage memory efficiently during video decoding, especially when multiple video clips are concurrently decoded. For example, with clip-adaptive memory usage, a decoder determines first memory usage settings expected to be sufficient for decoding of a video clip. The decoder also determines second memory usage settings known to be sufficient for decoding of the clip. During decoding, memory usage is initially set according to the first settings. Memory usage is adaptively increased during decoding, subject to theoretical limits in the second settings. With adaptive early release of side information, the decoder can release side information memory for a picture earlier than the decoder releases image plane memory for the picture. The decoder can also adapt memory usage for decoded transform coefficients depending on whether the coefficients are for intra-coded blocks or inter-coded blocks, and also exploit the relative sparseness of non-zero coefficient values. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051479 | METHOD FOR PAYLOAD FORMATTING AND DEFORMATTING FOR BURST LOSS RECOVERY - Disclosed are payload formatting and deformatting methods for burst data loss recovery. The payload formatting method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: generating an XOR operation packet by performing an XOR operation on the basis of a base layer packet and any one of enhancement layer packets of a group of pictures (GoP), the GoP including the base layer packet and the enhancement layer packets; and adding the XOR operation packet to the GoP. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051480 | De-Blocking Filtering Control - A block-specific filter decision value is calculated for a pixel block ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051495 | INTERACTIVE DIGITAL DUTY CYCLE COMPENSATION CIRCUIT FOR RECEIVER - A receiver circuit. A receiving stage is coupled to a first supply voltage and an input signal, and operative to generate a first intermediate signal from the input signal based on the first supply voltage. A compensation stage is coupled to a second supply voltage and the first intermediate signal, and operative to generate a second intermediate signal by adjusting duty cycle of the first intermediate signal upon detecting changes in the first supply voltage to compensate for the changes in the first supply voltage. An outputting stage is coupled to the second supply voltage and operative to generate an output signal based on the second supply voltage upon receiving the second intermediate signal. A voltage of the output signal is adjusted to a level of the second supply voltage and the output signal has a 50% duty cycle. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051496 | SINGLE-PHASE DOWN-CONVERTER FOR TRANSLATING IMAGE INTERFERENCE TO GUARD BANDS AND MULTI-MODE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RECEIVER INCLUDING SINGLE-PHASE DOWN-CONVERSION RECEIVING CIRCUIT AND DUAL-PHASE DOWN-CONVERSION RECEIVING CIRCUIT - A single-phase down-converter includes a mixer and a local oscillator (LO) signal generator. The mixer is arranged to generate a mixer output signal by mixing a radio frequency (RF) signal and an LO signal. The LO signal generator is coupled to the mixer, and arranged to generate the LO signal with a frequency shifted from an RF carrier frequency by a specific intermediate frequency, wherein when image interference exists, the specific intermediate frequency makes the image interference translated to guard band(s) of channel(s). | 2013-02-28 |
20130051497 | Method and Apparatus for Implementing Slice-Level Adjustment - In one embodiment, a receiver may receive a signal from a transmitter. The receiver may include a first sampler that may sample the signal when the value of the signal is zero. The receiver may further include a second sampler that may sample the signal halfway between a time when the first sampler samples the signal and the next time when the first sampler samples the signal to produce a set of sampled values. The receiver may be further operable to determine that a sampled value in the set of sampled values is a logic 1 if the sampled value is greater than the value of a reference voltage and that the sampled value is a logic 0 if the sampled value is less than the value of the reference voltage. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051498 | INSTANTANEOUS PHASOR DETERMINATION FOR POLY-PHASE ELECTRICAL GRIDS - In one embodiment, three substantially simultaneous phase waveforms may be converted into a first quadrature signal and a zero sequence signal. For each phase waveform, a power system digital frequency may be determined through analysis of the first quadrature signal (e.g., and at least one additional prior quadrature signal) while eliminating waveform phase angles from the analysis. Subsequently, demodulation of the first quadrature signal and zero sequence signal based on the power system digital frequency results in a positive sequence phasor, a negative sequence phasor, and a zero sequence phasor. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051503 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING A POSITIVE CORRELATION - A device and method are disclosed for reducing the power consumption of a wireless radio device in establishing a wireless connection by predicting a probability of a positive correlation. The wireless radio device may power up a radio receiver of a connectable device to receive a portion of a sync word from a requesting device, determine a correlation value based on the received portion of the sync word and an expected sync word and if the correlation value is less than a threshold value, power down the radio receiver of the connectable device. Additionally, if the correlation value is greater than a threshold value, the entire sync word may be received from the requesting device and a correlation value may be determined based on the entire sync word and the expected sync word. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051504 | COMPENSATING DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND COMPENSATING FOR SAMPLING CLOCK OFFSET - A compensating device for detecting and compensating for a sampling clock offset in a receiver. An SCO detector includes multiple calculation paths and a controller. Each calculation path receives a time domain signal and a hypothetic offset, calculates correlation coefficients between the time domain signal and a delayed version of the time domain signal according to a predetermined delay and the hypothetic offset, calculates correlation coefficient sums according to the correlation coefficients, and extracts a maximum correlation coefficient sum for the hypothetic offset from the correlation coefficient sums. The controller is coupled to the calculation paths for providing different hypothetic offsets to each calculation path and detects the SCO according to the maximum correlation coefficient sums obtained from the calculation paths. An SCO compensator receives the SCO and compensating for the SCO on a signal generated in a signal processing path of a receiver. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051509 | Initial Core of Nuclear Reactor and Method of Loading Fuel Assemblies of Nuclear Reactor - In an initial core of a nuclear reactor, a plurality of water regions having a square cross section for occupying a cross sectional area capable of disposing four fuel assemblies are formed. No fuel assemblies are loaded in these water regions. In the initial core, each fuel assembly is supported by fuel supports. A pressure loss of a first orifice installed in a cooling water supply passage formed in first fuel supports disposed in a central portion of the initial core is larger than that of a second orifice installed in a cooling water supply passage formed in second fuel supports disposed in a peripheral portion surrounding the central portion. Each water region is formed right above a part of the first fuel supports disposed in the central portion. The control rod operation in the nuclear reactor can be simplified by action of cooling water in the water regions. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051510 | CONTROL ROD FOR A NUCLEAR POWER LIGHT WATER REACTOR - The invention concerns a control rod configured for a nuclear power light water reactor of the BWR or PWR kind. The control rod contains absorber material. At least 50%, with respect to weight, of the absorber material that is in the control rod is in the form of hafnium hydride. The invention also concerns the use of such a control rod during operation in a nuclear power light water reactor of the BWR or PWR kind. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051513 | REACTOR COMPONENT - Reactor component adapted to be used in fission reactors comprising a core ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051514 | RADIOGRAPHIC DEVICE - A radiographic device includes grid frequency component eliminating processing means for eliminating a grid frequency component from an original image detected by a radiation detecting device; wherein said means includes a BPF and an HPF for producing a band-pass grid image and a high-pass grid image from an original image through band-pass and high-pass extraction; a subtracting device for taking the difference between these two grid images; an LPF for producing a difference grid image comprising the grid frequency components not completely extracted by the band-pass, through performing a low-pass processed on the difference image in a direction that is parallel to the grid pattern; an adding device for producing a band-pass+difference grid image by adding the difference grid image to the band-pass grid image; and a subtracting device for subtracting the band-pass+difference grid image from the original image. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051515 | CRASER DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A craser device, imaging system utilizing a craser device, and a method of imaging. The craser device includes a gain medium with excited gain medium atoms that emit x-ray and/or gamma-ray photons, a transmission medium abutting the gain medium, and a reflecting mirror comprising one or more lower refractive index layers and abutting the transmission medium. The transmission medium has a higher refractive index than the gain medium and at least one of the materials in the reflecting mirror. The x-ray and/or gamma-ray photons are confined to the transmission medium via total internal reflection and interact multiple times with the excited gain medium atoms through evanescent waves producing amplified stimulated emission leading to formation of a high intensity incoherent or coherent x-ray and/or gamma-ray beam. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051516 | NOISE SUPPRESSION FOR LOW X-RAY DOSE CONE-BEAM IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION - Embodiments of methods and/or apparatus for 3-D volume image reconstruction of a subject, executed at least in part on a computer for use with a digital radiographic apparatus can obtain image data for 2-D projection images over a range of scan angles. For each of the plurality of projection images, an enhanced projection image can be generated. In embodiments of imaging apparatus, CBCT systems, and methods for operating the same can, through a de-noising application based on a different corresponding object, maintain image reconstruction characteristics (e.g., for a prescribed CBCT examination) while reducing exposure dose, reducing noise or increase a SNR while an exposure setting is unchanged. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051517 | MEDICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING APPARATUS - The invention relates to a medical computed tomography apparatus which includes a support construction ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051518 | MEDICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING APPARATUS - The invention relates to a medical computed tomography imaging apparatus which includes a support construction ( | 2013-02-28 |
20130051519 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUPER RESOLUTION SCANNING FOR CBCT SYSTEM AND CONE-BEAM IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION - Embodiments of methods and/or apparatus for 3-D volume image reconstruction of a subject, executed at least in part on a computer for use with a digital radiographic apparatus can obtain image data for 2-D projection images over a range of scan angles. For each of the plurality of projection images, an enhanced projection image can be generated. In one embodiment, through the application of a resolution increasing interpolator, a prescribed CBCT routine scanning mode with preset binning can increase a spatial resolution, Nyquist frequency or MTF. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051520 | COMPRESSION PLATE FOR TOMOSYNTHESIS - A compression plate for tomosynthesis images using an X-ray apparatus designed to take the tomosynthesis images is provided. The compression plate includes an upper area. The width of the upper area is dimensioned such that, for all X-ray images taken during tomosynthesis of a female breast compressed by the compression plate, X-rays substantially penetrate the compression plate. The compression plate also includes a lower area. An average width of the lower area is smaller than an average width of the upper area. The lower area includes a surface of smaller width than the width of the upper area for the compression of the female breast. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051535 | CARBON COMPOSITE SUPPORT STRUCTURE - A support structure for x-ray windows including carbon composite ribs, comprising carbon fibers in a matrix. The support structure can comprise a support frame defining a perimeter and an aperture, a plurality of ribs comprising a carbon composite material extending across the aperture of the support frame and carried by the support frame, and openings between the plurality of ribs. A film can be disposed over, carried by, and span the plurality of ribs and disposed over and span the openings. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051536 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CLUSTERING LINES OF A WIRELINE NETWORK IN A NUMBER OF VIRTUAL BINDERS - A method and a device for clustering lines of a wireline network in a number of virtual binders includes obtaining a noise value samples pertaining to different lines of the wireline network at substantially coinciding sampling moments, detecting corresponding features in these series, determining degrees of correlation between these features, and assigning the lines to one or more virtual binders on the basis of their mutual degrees of correlation. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051537 | CAMPAIGN MANAGER - A process identifies multiple campaign activation points associated with a voice-based menu hierarchy such that the voice-based menu hierarchy is accessed by multiple callers. The process continues by identifying a campaign associated with the voice-based menu hierarchy and determining a campaign value associated with the campaign. Additionally, the process determines an opt-in rate associated with the campaign and determines a likelihood that callers will reach each campaign activation point. A score associated with the campaign is then calculated for each campaign activation point. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051538 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE MESSAGES TO TELEVISION USERS - Methods and apparatus to provide messages to television users are disclosed. An example method includes determining an identifier associated with a television device in response to detecting a request for a list of voicemail message information, querying a database to determine a voicemail mailbox associated with the identifier, initiating a terminal session in accordance with a remote desktop protocol for the television device, and sending the list of voicemail message information to the television device via the terminal session | 2013-02-28 |
20130051541 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PERFORMING FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A communication apparatus capable of executing facsimile transmission in any of real-time Internet mode and VoIP-based virtual voice mode and capable of switching voice communication to facsimile communication of the real-time Internet mode which is higher in communication speed than the virtual voice mode. In a case where voice communication is switched to facsimile communication, the facsimile transmission is executed in T.38 mode, if it is determined based on destination information stored in a storage unit of the communication apparatus that a communication destination with which the voice communication is being performed is capable of performing facsimile communication in T.38 mode. | 2013-02-28 |
20130051542 | Social Caller ID with Reverse Look-Up - Methods and systems directed to a social caller ID application that performs a reverse look up on an incoming communication to determine a specific member of a social networking system associated with the incoming communication, and, based on the social relationship between the detected member and the recipient of the communication, display particular information to the recipient. In this manner, a user is provided a caller ID system that leverages information stored remotely on a social network. | 2013-02-28 |