| 21st week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 32 |
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| 20110122900 | LASER - An ultrashort-pulse laser that has a resonator that includes a laser gain medium, dispersion compensation optics, and a deformable optical element adapted to change its shape and consequently one or more characteristics of pulses output from the cavity. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122901 | HIGH POWER HIGH PULSE REPETITION RATE GAS DISCHARGE LASER SYSTEM - A method of line narrowing for a narrow band DUV high power high repetition rate gas discharge laser producing output laser light pulse beam pulses in bursts of pulses includes selecting at least one center wavelength for each pulse determined at least in part by the angle of incidence of the laser light pulse beam containing the respective pulse on a dispersive surface of a dispersive wavelength selection optic; changing the curvature of the dispersive surface in a first manner that includes imparting a catenary curvature to the dispersive surface; and changing the curvature of the dispersive surface in a second manner that includes imparting a cylindrical curvature to the dispersive surface. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122902 | LASER OSCILLATOR AND FILTERING METHOD - Provided is a fiber laser including a mode filter for selectively attenuating, among modes included in laser light propagating through a multi-mode fiber, any mode other than a radially polarized mode. Among the modes included in the laser light propagating through the multi-mode fiber, the fiber laser causes the radially polarized mode to resonate, so as to emit radially polarized laser light. The mode filter includes a long-period fiber grating obtained by writing, to a multi-mode fiber capable of guiding the radially polarized mode, a grating for selectively attenuating any waveguide mode other than the radially polarized mode. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122903 | Wide-Band Wavelength-Variable Laser Device - In a laser apparatus including an excitation light source and a resonator in which a laser medium is disposed between optical paths of a first mirror reflecting light in a desired wavelength band and a second mirror and a first wavelength selecting means is disposed between optical paths of the laser medium and the second mirror, there is provided a wavelength-variable laser apparatus capable of continuously varying the laser oscillation wavelength by using at least a Pr | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122904 | Methods And Systems For Frequency Stabilisation Of Multiple Lasers - A system and method for stabilising a plurality of output frequencies (wavelengths) of a plurality of lasers ( | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122905 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ASSEMBLY AND PACKAGING SYSTEM - A system for self-aligning assembly and packaging of semiconductor lasers allows reduction of time, cost and testing expenses for high power density systems. A laser package mounting system, such as a modified TO-can (transistor outline can), has modifications that increase heat transfer from the active laser to a heat exchanger or other heat sink. A prefabricated heat exchanger assembly mounts both a laser package and one or more lenses. Direct mounting of a fan assembly to the package further minimizes assembly steps. Components may be physically and optically aligned during assembly by clocking and other indexing means, so that the entire system is self-aligned and focused by the assembly process without requiring post-assembly adjustment. This system can lower costs and thereby enable the use of high powered semiconductor lasers in low cost, high volume production, such as consumer items. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122906 | HIGH PRECISION WAVELENGTH MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF A TUNABLE LASER - A tunable laser wavelength measurement system includes an interferometric wavelength tracking system that uses a combination of interferometric and wavelength reference measurements to directly measure the laser output wavelength, The measurement exhibits the following desirable error signal characteristics: directional information, continuity, low latency, absolute information, high accuracy, high precision, and little or no drift, A tunable laser wavelength control system additionally incorporates electronics to compare the measured laser wavelength to a desired wavelength or wavelength function, and to generate a feedback control signal to control the wavelength of the laser output based on the comparison. In one non-limiting example implementation, the desired wavelength function is repetitive. The difference between the desired wavelength function and the interferometrically-measured wavelength function is taken, and a successive approximation technique is employed to calculate and adjust a repetitive controlling signal to obtain the desired wavelength function. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122907 | Edge Emitting Semiconductor Laser Having a Phase Structure - An edge emitting semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor body, which has a waveguide region. The waveguide region has an active layer for generating laser radiation. The active layer is arranged between a first waveguide layer and a second waveguide layer. The waveguide region is arranged between a first cladding layer and a second cladding layer. The semiconductor body has a main region and at least one phase structure region in which is formed a phase structure for the selection of lateral modes of the laser radiation emitted by the active layer. The phase structure region is arranged outside the waveguide region or formed by a region in which a dopant is introduced or an intermixing structure is produced. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122908 | SURFACE EMITTING DEVICE - Each of a lower reflective layer and an upper reflective layer are formed at a corresponding one of the ends of an optical cavity in the thickness direction. A main active layer is formed in the optical cavity between the lower and upper reflective layers. The optical cavity includes an auxiliary active layer in the vicinity of at least one of the lower reflective layer and a second auxiliary active layer in the vicinity of the upper reflective layer. The auxiliary active layer is located at antinodes of a standing wave where the amplitude of light is large, without increasing the physical length L or optical length Lo between the lower reflective layer and the upper reflective layer. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122909 | ADHESIVE PROTECTIVE COATING WITH SUPRESSED REFLECTIVITY - The disclosure is directed to a thin-film for use in below 300 nm laser systems that can be applied to a variety of substrate types. The thin film consists of a blocking layer of a selected material and a matching structure, the matching structure consisting of 1-7 layers of a selected material. The blocking layer serves to minimize or eliminate the transmission of below 300 nm laser light into an adhesive that is used to bond the substrate to a holder. The matching layer(s) minimize internal reflectance of below 300 nm laser light from the blocking layer back into the substrate. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122910 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same - The present invention provides a semiconductor device realizing reduced occurrence of a defect such as a crack at the time of adhering elements to each other. The semiconductor device includes a first element and a second element adhered to each other. At least one of the first and second elements has a pressure relaxation layer on the side facing the other of the first and second elements, and the pressure relaxation layer includes a semiconductor part having a projection/recess part including a projection projected toward the other element, and a resin part filled in a recess in the projection/recess part. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122911 | Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Laser - A surface-emitting semiconductor laser is described, with a semiconductor chip ( | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122912 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS FOR MM-WAVE ROF SYSTEMS - Optical transmitters for radio over fiber systems are disclosed. More particularly, the optical transmitters include optically-injection-locked vertical cavity surface-emitting laser devices (OIL VCSELS). The transmitters include a master laser, at least one slave laser injection-locked by the master laser, and an equalizer/filter unit that enables the ratio of the carrier power to the sideband power in the output signal of the transmitter to be varied and optimized independently of the injection ratio of the transmitter. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122913 | THERMAL ANALYSIS DEVICE - A thermal analysis device comprising a replaceable sensor that can be contacted via a contact element of an electrical contacting means, a heating element and a cooling element. The contact element(s) is thermally connected with the heating element and can be heated essentially independently of the operating state of the cooling element even when no sensor is mounted to the device. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122914 | METHOD FOR DETECTING PERFORMANCES OF HEAT DISSIPATION MODULES - A corresponding relation between heat resistance values of first heat dissipation modules under a non-uniform heat source and heat resistance values of the first heat dissipation modules under a uniform heat source is described through a linear equation. Therefore, before second heat dissipation modules are tested, a calculation is performed with the linear equation, such that a target heat resistance value of the first heat dissipation modules arranged on the non-uniform heat source is corresponding to a standard heat resistance value of the first heat dissipation modules arranged on the uniform heat source. Afterwards, it is predicted whether the second heat dissipation modules arranged on the non-uniform heat source satisfy a test standard or not by using a test heat resistance value acquired by testing the second heat dissipation modules arranged on the uniform heat source. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122915 | METHOD FOR TESTING HEAT PIPES - A method for testing heat pipes includes the following steps. A plurality of bar-shaped heat pipes having the same size is provided, and the heat pipes are deformed. The deformed heat pipes are placed in a temperature regulator, such that a temperature of the heat pipes is periodically changed between a first temperature and a second temperature. The heat pipes are then taken out of the temperature regulator. One end of each heat pipe is maintained at a third temperature by a thermostatic device, and a heat pipe temperature difference of two opposite ends of the heat pipe is measured. The heat pipes having the heat pipe temperature difference greater than a standard temperature difference in the heat pipes are marked. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122916 | METHOD TO MEASURE THE CHARACTERISTICS IN AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENT - A method of generating a function that correlates semiconductor temperature with semiconductor lifetime including applying resonant frequency laser illumination to the semiconductor. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122917 | PHYSICAL QUANTITY DETECTING APPARATUS - A physical quantity detecting apparatus includes a plurality of physical quantity conversion circuits, an output selection circuit and a signal conversion circuit. Each of the plurality of physical quantity conversion circuits converts a physical quantity to be detected into a voltage corresponding to the physical quantity and outputs the voltage. The output selection circuit is electrically connected to the plurality of physical quantity conversion circuits to select a maximum voltage from among the voltages outputted from the plurality of physical quantity conversion circuits. The signal conversion circuit is electrically connected to the output selection circuit to convert the voltage outputted from the output selection circuit into a pulse signal having a pulse width or frequency corresponding to the voltage and output the pulse signal. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122918 | TEMPERATURE AND LOW WATER MONITORING FOR BOILER SYSTEMS - A dual functionality temperature control measurement and low water cut-off measurement system is taught within a single tapping to a boiler. This dual functionality combines a low water cut-off and temperature sensor into one control utilizing a sensing element suitable for use in a single existing tapping for a boiler. Independent of low water functionality, the temperature sensor is also capable of monitoring temperature as a replacement probe in an existing temperature sensor-only well. A conductive member provides a compression fit inside the probe well for thermistors, while simultaneously providing conduction with the well interior for a low water cutoff signal in a two-conductor well. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122919 | SYNCHRONISING A RECEIVER TO A SIGNAL HAVING KNOWN STRUCTURE - Apparatus for locating a specific point in a received signal of cyclical nature, the apparatus comprising correlating means ( | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122920 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DATA AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH DEVICE - A method and a device are provided for processing first data, wherein said first data are distributed, in particular temporally spread over and/or on top of second data. In addition, a communication system comprising such device is suggested. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122921 | LOW POWER, HIGH RESOLUTION TIMING GENERATOR FOR ULTRA-WIDE BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A data communication method is provided, comprising: processing high-speed digital data for communication to produce processed data; generating short impulse wavelets; constructing a digitally modulated ultra wideband signal from the short impulse wavelets in response to bits of the processed data, wherein the digitally modulated ultra wideband signal comprises a series of the short impulse wavelets, and the value of each bit of the processed data is digitally modulated onto the shape of at least one of the short impulse wavelets of the series, to produce a series of digitally shape modulated impulse wavelets; and transmitting the digitally modulated ultra wideband signal, including the series of digitally shape modulated impulse wavelets, via an antenna. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122922 | TIMESLOT HOPPING FOR TRANSMITTING CALL DATA - The invention relates to a method for transmitting call data in a digital wireless communication network, said call data being transmitted over at least one radio frequency channel in a sequence of timeslots. Call data are transmitted in the network using timeslot hopping in which the call data of each user of the network are transmitted with a different timeslot hopping sequence. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122923 | PREAMBLE DETECTION APPARATUS, PREAMBLE DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A preamble detection apparatus includes: a correlation maximum value detection threshold generation unit that determines a correlation maximum value detection threshold on the basis of a correlation peak value; a correlation maximum value detection determination unit that detects one of correlation results, which exceeds the correlation maximum value detection threshold, as a correlation maximum value; a correlation peak detection unit that updates the correlation peak value to the detected correlation maximum value when the correlation maximum value is detected; and a control unit that sets a period, where a correlation peak caused by an LO spurious component may occur, to a first period, sets a period, centering on a position where a distance from a correlation peak position is an integer multiple of a frequency hopping cycle, to a second period, and monitors presence or absence of a correlation result that exceeds the correlation maximum value detection threshold in the first and second periods, while not applying an erroneous detection threshold to the first period. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122924 | RAPID ACQUISITION METHOD FOR IMPULSE ULTRA-WIDEBAND SIGNALS - A method is provided that determines a delay and phase of an ultra-wide band signal in a communication system using a single correlator. A pulse search is executed that includes correlating a signal template with a UWB signal and sampling a preamble of the UWB signal at various time positions until a pulse in the signal template matches a pulse in the preamble. A chip boundary at which the pulse in the preamble is detected is identified using the signal template. A code search is executed for determining the correct phase of the received signal. The code search utilizes a plurality of phases having a same time-hopping sequence as the received signal. Each pulse of the phases is positioned at the determined chip boundary within each respective chip pulse position. Chips pulse positions of the phases are compared with the chip pulse positions of the UWB signal for determining a phase match. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122925 | Method for Selecting Transmission Signal Power Level and Transmitter Device Implementing Same - Disclosed is a method for generating a pulsed transmission signal. The method includes the steps of generating a plurality of transmission bursts by encoding data with a predetermined spreading code, each of the bursts including a train of pulses defining a burst length of the burst; and sizing the transmission bursts to a peak power level within a predetermined limit, thereby forming the transmission signal. The sizing of the transmission bursts includes the step of modifying the amplitude of the pulses of the burst on the basis of a predetermined relationship between the burst length and the peak/average transmission power level. Also disclosed is a transmitter device implementing the method. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122926 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PSEUDO NOISE CODE - An apparatus and method of generating a pseudo noise (PN) code is provided. The apparatus for generating the PN code includes: a memory device unit including a plurality of memory devices; an exclusive-OR (XOR) operation unit receiving output values of at least two memory devices among output values of the plurality of memory devices to output an XOR operation value with respect to the received output values; and a PN code generation unit generating the PN code based on an output value of the XOR operation unit. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122927 | Blind Spreading Factor Detection for WCDMA - In a blind spreading factor detecting receiver, the amplitude of a desired signal term is decoupled from the spreading factor hypothesis for that signal. Furthermore, the amplitude of the desired signal and the variance of an associated impairment term are estimated, and the estimates used to form a spreading factor hypothesis. Additionally, in one or more embodiments, a suboptimal detector does not rely on estimates of the amplitude of the desired signal or variance of the impairment term. Rather, the detector relies on scaled values that are partially despread using an initial spreading factor not greater than the smallest possible spreading factor used by the signal of interest, and combined using combining weights from a Rake or G-Rake processor, wherein the scaling factor is chosen to yield a unity ratio between the signal amplitude and noise variance after scaling. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122928 | HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNAL HUB - The present invention concerns a system for high frequency signal transmission in power line networks and also concerns signal hubs and repeaters to be used in such systems. The primary aim of the invention is to provide a communication system of a general type wherein the isolation between high frequency input and output signals is maintained. The hubs and repeaters are designed to be easily installed in the network. Radio and wireless links at subscriber nodes are also parts of the system. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122929 | Serialization of multi-band sequence keying for ultra wideband receiver architecture with reduced complexity and power consumption - By partially serializing the transmission of a sequence keyed UWB symbol (FIG. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122930 | OFDM peak-to-average power ratio reduction method - The OFDM peak-to-average power ratio reduction apparatus and method provides a compressive sensing algorithm that estimates the sparsity pattern of a sparse vector by a limited number of measurements. When the positions of the clipped peaks are known beforehand by, e.g., a genie-augmented receiver, then the algorithm optimally performs amplitude estimation utilizing a least squares estimation technique. When the cardinality of the peak-reducing signal is known at the receiver at initialization, the receiver optimizes the estimated peak-reducing signal by using least squares. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122931 | RECEIVE DIVERSITY SYSTEMS - A diversity receiver and a method of recovering symbols in a diversity receiver system comprises receiving first and second signals at first and second antenna elements. The first signal comprises first and second consecutive symbols modified by a first channel coefficient and the second signal comprises the first and second symbols modified by a second channel coefficient. The first and second signals are delayed and the first and second channel coefficients are estimated by applying the delayed first and second signals to a master Rake finger having first and second outputs for the estimated the first and second channel coefficients. A complex conjugate of the estimated second channel coefficient is produced. First and second composite signals are produced from the delayed first and second signals using a slave Rake finger by decoding the respective delayed first and second signals, producing a complex conjugate of the second composite signal, interleaving the first composite signal and the complex conjugate of the second composite signal and providing an interleaved signal output, and applying said interleaved signal output, the estimated first channel coefficient and the complex conjugate of the estimated second channel coefficient to a space time transmit diversity derotator for the recovery of the first and second symbols. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122932 | High data rate milllimeter wave radio on a chip - A millimeter wave radio transceiver having all or substantially all of its components fabricated on a single chip or chipset of a small number of semiconductor chips. The chip or chipsets when mass produced is expected to make the price of millimeter wave radios comparable to many of the lower-priced microwave radios available today from low-cost foreign suppliers. Transceivers of the present invention operate in the range of about 1 Gbps to more than 10 Gbps. The transceiver of a preferred embodiment is designed to receive binary input data at an input data rate in 10.3125 Gbps and to transmit at a transmit data rate in of 10.3125 Gbps utilizing encoded three-bit data symbols on a millimeter carrier wave at a millimeter wave nominal carrier frequency in excess of 70 GHz. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122933 | Apparatus and Method for Cooperative Relaying in Wireless Systems Using an Extended Channel Reservation - In a relay scheme, a wireless source apparatus, a wireless destination apparatus and a wireless relay apparatus cooperate for handling transmission failures by space/time diverse channels. In the case of the successful direct transmission, reduced or no additional overhead for the relay selection is incurred. Thus, for a good SNR between source and destination, the inventive protocol has similar performance as a standard approach. In the case of a transmission failure e.g., due to small scale fading, a transmission via a different communication path implementing spatial diversity via a selected relay is supported. The device is to only activate the overhearing of signals in case of weak signal quality between sender and receiver. This selection of relay devices is done by demand only. A specific protocol for the reservation of the wireless medium for the entire cooperative communication has been specified. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122934 | RECEIVING APPARATUS - A receiving apparatus has counters | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122935 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE - A method for detecting radio frequency interference (RFI) is provided. The method includes the following steps. Parameters of at least two pairs of digital subscriber lines (DSLs) are acquired. Sub-carriers having RFI in each pair of the at least two pairs of DSLs are detected according to the parameters. The number of line pairs having RFI on the same sub-carrier in the DSLs is counted, and if the number of the line pairs occurring RFI on the sub-carrier is greater than a preset threshold, or if a ratio of the number of the line pairs occurring RFI on the sub-carrier to a line pair number of the at least two pairs of DSLs is greater than a preset threshold, it is determined that RFI exists at a frequency corresponding to the sub-carrier. A device and a system for detecting RFI are further provided. Therefore, RFI frequency existing in xDSL can be detected. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122936 | INTEGRATED TESTING CIRCUITRY FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY RECEIVER INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - An integrated circuit comprises a receiver and an oscillator circuit. The receiver has a first input port for receiving a first oscillatory input signal, a second input port for receiving a second oscillatory input signal, and an output port for delivering an oscillatory output signal which is a function of both the first input signal and the second input signal. The oscillator circuit has a first output port for delivering a first oscillatory signal, and a second output port for delivering a second oscillatory signal. The first output port of the oscillator circuit is coupled to the HF port, and the second output port of the oscillator circuit is coupled to the LO port. The integrated circuit may be designed such that the HF port may be disconnected from the first output port of the oscillator circuit without affecting the operability of the receiver. An apparatus for testing the proper functioning of an integrated circuit as described above and a method of producing a receiver are also disclosed. The method may facilitate testing a receiver die during production. In particular it may avoid the need for feeding high-frequency signals from an external apparatus to the die. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122937 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SNR MEASUREMENT AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH DEVICE - A method and a device enable signal-to-noise (SNR) measurement. The system includes the following steps: (i) at least one first network component transmits bursts to at least one second network component, wherein each burst comprises several sub-carriers or tones; and (ii) a third network component performs an SNR measurement for the bursts. In addition, a communication system with such a device is described. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122938 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A communication device including: mapping frequency domain signals including phase information onto, of a band of subcarriers for transmitting the frequency domain signals, a band in which a twiddle factor for shifting the band of the subcarriers to a specified band is an integer power of an imaginary unit; performing inverse fast fourier transform on the subcarriers on which the frequency domain signals are mapped, to transform the subcarriers into time domain signals; increasing the number of samples by up-sampling the time domain signals; and executing, when the twiddle factor is an integer power of the imaginary unit, interchange processing for interchanging a real number component and an imaginary number component of each of the samples up-sampled or sign-reversal processing for reversing a sign of the real number component or the imaginary number component to shift the band of the frequency-domain-mapped subcarriers to the specified band. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122939 | MULTIPLE BIT RATE ENCODING BY SEGMENTS - A method performed by one or more processors for segmenting and encoding media content over a network. The media content is first partitioned into an ordered sequence of media segments. Each of the media segments is then encoded (i) at a first bit rate to generate a respective one of a first set of data segments, and (ii) at a second bit rate to generate a respective one of a second set of data segments, wherein data segments of the first set may be used interchangeably with data segments of the second set to facilitate continuous playback of the media content. A request for the media content is then received from another device in the network. In response, a respective one of the first set of data segments or the second set of data segments is selectively transmitted, for each of the media segments, based at least in part on a network bandwidth of the first device. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122940 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VC-1 TO MPEG-2 VIDEO TRANSCODING - A method for transcoding from a VC-1 format to an MPEG-2 format is disclosed. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) decoding an input video stream in the VC-1 format to generate a picture; (B) determining a first mode indicator for the picture; and (C) coding the picture into an output video stream in the MPEG-2 format using one of (i) an MPEG-2 field mode coding and (ii) an MPEG-2 frame mode coding as determined from the first mode indicator. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122941 | VIDEO DECODING SYSTEM SUPPORTING MULTIPLE STANDARDS - System and method for decoding digital video data. The decoding system employs hardware accelerators that assist a core processor in performing selected decoding tasks. The hardware accelerators are configurable to support a plurality of existing and future encoding/decoding formats. The accelerators are configurable to support substantially any existing or future encoding/decoding formats that fall into the general class of DCT-based, entropy decoded, block-motion-compensated compression algorithms. The hardware accelerators illustratively comprise a programmable entropy decoder, an inverse quantization module, a inverse discrete cosine transform module, a pixel filter, a motion compensation module and a de-blocking filter. The hardware accelerators function in a decoding pipeline wherein at any given stage in the pipeline, while a given function is being performed on a given macroblock, the next macroblock in the data stream is being worked on by the previous function in the pipeline. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122942 | TECHNIQUES FOR PERCEPTUAL ENCODING OF VIDEO FRAMES - In a video encoder, pixel values of a macro-block are processed to determine an activity measure indicative of the type of content in the macro-block. Several techniques are employed for determining the activity measure of a macro-block. In an embodiment, a default quantization scale for quantizing a macro-block is modified based on the activity measure of the macro-block. In another embodiment, the macro-block is classified into one of multiple classes based on its activity measure. The default quantization scale for quantizing the macro-block is modified based on the classification of the macro-block. In yet another embodiment, an encoding mode to be used for encoding a macro-block is also determined on the basis of the class of the macro-block. Several of the techniques exploit the fact that the human visual system (HVS) has different sensitivities in perceiving a (rendered) macro-block or video frame, depending on the type of macro-block content. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122943 | MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD AND MOVING PICTURE CODING DEVICE - A moving picture coding device according to the present invention includes: a QP deriving unit ( | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122944 | PARALLEL DECODING FOR SCALABLE VIDEO CODING - A method for decoding a stream encoded using a scalable video coding and including a plurality of layers of frames divided into a plurality of blocks, decodes block-wise in parallel the layers of the stream. A target block in an enhancement layer is decoded as soon as the block data required for its decoding are available from the reference layer. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122945 | METHODS FOR ERROR CONCEALMENT DUE TO ENHANCEMENT LAYER PACKET LOSS IN SCALABLE VIDEO CODING (SVC) DECODING - Methods for concealing Scalable Video Coding (SVC) decoding errors. Lost pictures in the target layer are replaced with up-sampled pictures from a lower layer, such as the base layer. In multiloop decoding applications, lost pictures in the target layer are replaced with corresponding up-sampled pictures from the lower layer. Subsequent target layer pictures in the same Group of Pictures (GOP) are either replaced with corresponding upsampled pictures from the lower layer, or they are decoded with up-sampled pictures from the lower layer used as reference pictures. For single-loop decoding, the bit stream of each layer is buffered, for each GOP, and inspected for errors. If an error is detected in the target layer, the pictures of the highest level layer without an error are decoded and up-sampled and used as the output pictures for the current GOP. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122946 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY ALLOWING ACCESS TO A SHARED MEMORY - An electronic system, an integrated circuit and a method for display are disclosed. The electronic system contains a first device, a memory and a video/audio compression/decompression device such as a decoder/encoder. The electronic system is configured to allow the first device and the video/audio compression/decompression device to share the memory. The electronic system may be included in a computer in which case the memory is a main memory. Memory access is accomplished by one or more memory interfaces, direct coupling of the memory to a bus, or direct coupling of the first device and decoder/encoder to a bus. An arbiter selectively provides access for the first device and/or the decoder/encoder to the memory based on priority. The arbiter may be monolithically integrated into a memory interface. The decoder may be a video decoder configured to comply with the MPEG-2 standard. The memory may store predicted images obtained from a preceding image. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122947 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING INTRA-IMAGE PREDICTIVE DECODING WITH VARIOIUS COLOR SPACES AND COLOR SIGNAL RESOLUTIONS - The present invention is directed to an image information decoding apparatus adapted for performing intra-image decoding based on resolution of color components and color space of an input image signal. An intra prediction unit serves to adaptively change block size in generating a prediction image based on a chroma format signal indicating whether resolution of color components is one of 4:2:0 format, 4:2:2 format, and 4:4:4 format, and a color space signal indicating whether color space is one of YCbCr, RGB, and XYZ. An inverse orthogonal transform unit and an inverse quantization unit serve to also change orthogonal transform technique and quantization technique in accordance with the chroma format signal and the color space signal. A decoding unit decodes the chroma format signal and the color space signal to generate a prediction image corresponding to the chroma format signal and the color space signal. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122948 | VIDEO SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS, VIDEO SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, VIDEO SIGNAL GENERATION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING THE PROGRAM - A video signal generation apparatus for decoding a bit stream to generate a video signal, includes: a writing unit configured to write a flag value indicating whether a decoding target block has been coded by intra-coding or inter-coding in a specified bit position on one bit plane having a size the same as that of the decoding target block, to write information indicating a coding division form of the decoding target block in a specified common area on the one bit plane, and to write the coding information in a specified switch interpretation area on the one bit plane according to a data format conforming to the intra-coding if the decoding target block has been coded by intra-coding, and to write the coding information in the specified switch interpretation area according to a data format conforming to the inter-coding if the decoding target block has been coded by inter-coding; and a generation unit configured to generate a video signal by superimposing the one bit plane on a decoded image of the decoding target block. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122949 | Image transmission method, image receiving method, image transmission device, image receiving device, and image transmission system - An image transmission method includes a step of inputting a plurality of different source moving images sequentially. The image transmission method also includes a step of creating a main image for each frame from one of the plurality of different source images. The image transmission method also includes a step of creating a secondary image for each frame from a differential image that expresses the difference between the source moving image from which the main image was created and another source moving image in a different frame. The image transmission method also includes a step of creating an integrated image by combining the main image and the secondary image. The image transmission method also includes a step of transmitting the integrated image to a receiving side. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122950 | VIDEO DECODER AND METHOD FOR MOTION COMPENSATION FOR OUT-OF-BOUNDARY PIXELS - Methods and systems for decoding motion compensated video. In the decoding process a virtual predicted block is defined within memory to hold the pixel values of a reference block used in motion compensation with respect to a macroblock being reconstructed. If the reference block includes out-of-boundary pixels from the reference frame, the corresponding pixels within the virtual predicted block are padded using the boundary values of the reference frame. This avoids the need to pad the entire reference frame. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122951 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A frame rate conversion apparatus compares a first frame image and a second frame image, detects a motion vector for each of blocks obtained by dividing a frame image into blocks, detects a scroll vector which indicates a uniform motion in an entire frame image based on the detected motion vector, and determines whether frame interpolation using the scroll vector is possible or not for each block in the first frame image, based on a correlation value in block matching of the block in the first frame image with an area obtained by shifting the block in the second frame image by an amount of the scroll vector, and a correlation value in block matching of the block in the first frame image with an area obtained by shifting the block in the second frame image by an amount of the motion vector. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122952 | MOTION ESTIMATION DEVICE - A motion estimation device configured to estimate motion for blocks included in an input picture using a reference picture includes an internal reference memory configured to store the reference picture transferred from outside the motion estimation device; a motion estimator configured to estimate motion information for a target block that is a block of the input picture and where motion is to be estimated, using pixel data of the reference picture stored in the internal reference memory; a motion compensator configured to perform motion compensation for the target block using the motion information estimated by the motion estimator; and a reference memory manager configured to control the internal reference memory. The reference memory manager is configured to control the internal reference memory to store a luminance reference picture and a color-difference reference picture as the reference picture. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122953 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method that allow the generation of a high-accuracy prediction image without increasing the processing load. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122954 | Decoding Interdependent Frames of a Video Display - A module may provide codec-independent services including determining frame display order, frame dependency sets, and queuing the dependency frames in advance so as to enable display of a video. The module enables a video to be played forwards or backwards at a variety of playback speeds from any position within the video. In one implementation, a device communicatively coupled to a plurality of decoders accesses a video that includes a plurality of frames. One or more of the frames are decodable by one or more of the communicatively coupled decoders. The device identifies a frame in the video that is to be displayed, and determines a plurality of dependency frames in the video upon which decoding of the frame to be displayed depends. The device provides an indication that one or more associated dependency frames are to be decoded. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122955 | DEBLOCKING FILTER - The invention is related to decoding of block wise coded video pictures. The determination of using de-blocking filtering between coded blocks is based on alternative characteristics compared to the characteristics used in H.264/AVC. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122956 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING A RESERVED AND/OR OUT OF BAND CHANNEL FOR MAINTAINING A NETWORK CONNECTION - Aspects of a method and system for utilization of an reserved and/or out of band channel for maintaining a network connection are provided. In this regard, information relating to training of one or more link partners communicatively coupled to an Ethernet link may be exchanged via a reserved and/or out of band channel on the Ethernet link. The reserved and/or out of band channel may be an auxiliary channel as specified by the IEEE802.1AN standard. The reserved and/or out of band channel may be utilized for scheduling training of one or more of the link partners, determining which of the link partners require training, synchronizing training of the link partners, training the link partners based on changes in environmental conditions. The training may comprise configuring an echo canceller a far-end crosstalk canceller, and/or a near-end crosstalk canceller. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122957 | ADAPTIVE MODULATION SCHEME AND DATA RATE CONTROL METHOD - A radio communication system includes a first radio station for dividing codewords into communication units and transmitting the divided codewords by modulating them in every communication unit, and a second radio station for coupling and decoding signals obtained by demodulating the communication units. The radio stations have common information of first bits, equal to maximum bits per symbol of the communication units, and an encoding type list. The first station modulates and transmits the communication units with a modulation type with second bits. The second radio station receives the communication units modulated by the first radio station, demodulates the communication units with a modulation type with third bits, combines and decodes the demodulated signals with encoding types in the encoding type list, and obtains a result of the decoding, as reception information, by an encoding type in which no error is detected in the result of decoding. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122958 | POWER LOADING TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING IN MIMO-OFDM WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method is disclosed for tuning a beamformed signal in wireless communications including a plurality of sub-carriers and a plurality of eigenbeams. The method includes adjusting a total gain of each of the plurality of sub-carriers and eigenbeams, and applying the adjusted total gain to each of the sub-carriers and each of the eigenbeams. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122959 | OFDM MODULATION/DEMODULATION METHOD, OFDM MODULATION DEVICE, OFDM DEMODULATION DEVICE, AND OFDM MODULATION/DEMODULATION SYSTEM - An OFDM modulation/demodulation method in a transmission system that transmits data from a transmission source to a transmitting destination through OFDM modulation/demodulation is provided, which includes an extension step (step S | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122960 | Method for Processing Digital Signals, and Transmission/Reception System Implementing Said Method - The present invention relates to a method for processing digital signals and to a transmission/reception system implementing said method; the present invention is based on the use of LDPC codes, in particular the LDPC code of the DVB-S2 standard, in combination with a QAM modulation, in particular the 1024QAM and 4096QAM modulations; in transmission, a bit permutation (Demux) is carried out prior to the QAM constellation mapping function; in reception, the bit permutation is carried out after the QAM constellation demapping function. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122961 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE ADOPTED FOR MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A communication device adopted for a multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system and a method thereof are provided. The MIMO-OFDM system comprises the communication device and a corresponding communication device, and they communicate with each other. The communication device comprises a transceiving module, a singular value decomposition (SVD) operation module, and an interpolation operation module. The transceiving module receives a channel state information (CSI) from the corresponding communication device, wherein the CSI comprises CSIs of a plurality of selected subcarriers. For each of the selected subcarriers, the SVD module performs an SVD decomposition operation on the channel matrix representing the CSI of the selected subcarrier to obtain a decomposed result, wherein the decomposed result comprises a beamforming matrix, an SVD matrix, and a decoding matrix. The interpolation operation module performs interpolations on the beamforming matrices of the selected subcarriers to derive beamforming matrices of the unselected subcarriers. The interpolation operation module performs interpolations on the decoding matrixes of the selected subcarriers to derive obtain decoding matrices of the unselected subcarriers. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122962 | PHASE DIFFERENCE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system and method are described for detecting and controlling the phase difference introduced to radio signals by transmission branches of a transmission system in a mobile communication network. Periodically a calibration signal is generated at an input of the transmission branches during a phase calibration mode. The phase difference introduced by the two transmission branches is detected by detecting the phase difference between the calibration signal, which has at least partly passed through the first transmission branch and the calibration signal, which has at least partly passed through the second transmission branch. The phase difference between the radio signals is controlled based on the detected phase difference. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122963 | CODEBOOK RESTRUCTURE, DIFFERENTIAL ENCODING/DECODING, AND SCHEDULING - There is disclosed a method for feedback of channel information characterizing a wireless transmission between a base station and a mobile station over a communications channel. The method involves: receiving a primary identifier identifying a cluster associated with a channel response generated by a mobile station; receiving a differential identifier identifying channel response member within the cluster identified by the primary identifier; locating in a codebook of predetermined channel responses a predetermined channel response identified by said primary identifier and said differential identifier, the predetermined channel responses in the codebook being grouped in a plurality of clusters in accordance with a correlation criterion, each cluster including a plurality of predetermined channel response members; and generating a control signal for controlling transmissions to the mobile station in accordance with said located predetermined channel response. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122964 | Binary Arithmetic Coding Device - An object of the present invention is to provide a binary arithmetic coding device that allows real-time processing with a higher image quality. At a timing at which a ternary data string for a target bit is outputted, an updated coding range width and an updated range width of less probability are outputted. For that reason, while a binary conversion unit ( | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122965 | Offset Phase-Locked Loop Transmitter and Method Thereof - An offset phase-locked loop (PLL) transmitter comprises a clock generator that generates a first clock signal; a detector that detects a phase difference between an input data signal and a feedback data signal to generate a control signal; a controlled oscillator, coupled to the detector, that generates an output data signal according to the control signal; a mixer, coupled to the controlled oscillator and the clock generator, that mixes the output data signal according to the first clock signal to generate the feedback data signal; and a control circuit, coupled to the detector and the controlled oscillator, that adjusts the operating frequency curve of the controlled oscillator by one of a first step distance and a second step distance smaller than the first step distance such that the control signal is substantially equal to a predetermined value. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122966 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ACCESS AND ADDRESS HIGH-SPEED INTERFACE CONVERTER DEVICES - High-speed transceiver devices, such as GBIC-type transceivers, are accessed and addressed. Identification information (including manufacturer name, model, compliance codes) is placed in data fields of the transceivers. An algorithm checks each port in each module of a host system to determine if a transceiver is present. If a particular transceiver is present, then algorithms store the port address of the transceiver in memory and enable the transceiver to be read from or written to. Reading from the transceiver includes reading the identification information, and writing to the transceiver includes writing the identification information. If a transceiver is initially determined not to be present or if the reading/writing/enabling processes fail, then a recovery process determines if the transceiver was present the last time it was checked. If it was present the last time, then the process continues to try to recover the transceiver data—otherwise, the port is marked as empty. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122967 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MULTIPLE WIRELESS UNITS - A method and device for operating a wireless network comprising at least two user equipments, each comprising a transmitter and a receiver. A beacon frame is sent by a master user equipment at a transmit channel derivable from a user code. The beacon frame comprises a network code. Any user equipment may calculate a data channel by an algorithm using the user code and the network code. The user equipment may be an active user, which is permitted to send data over said data channel, or a passive user equipment, which only receives transmitted data at said data channel. Several active users may transmit simultaneously. Such active users are entered on a list at the beacon frame and is designated each a transmit channel. A passive user may become an active user, for example by pushing a button, whereupon the passive user is entered on the list of active user and at the same time takes over the task to send the beacon frame, i.e. becomes a master user. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122968 | Method and Apparatus for using Factorized Precoding - According to one or more aspects, the teachings herein improve user equipment (UE) Channel State Information (CSI) feedback, by letting the precoder part of a CSI feedback report comprise factorized precoder feedback. In one or more such embodiments, the factorized precoder feedback corresponds to at least two precoder matrices, including a recommended “conversion” precoder matrix and a recommended “tuning” precoder matrix. The recommended conversion precoder matrix restricts the number of channel dimensions considered by the recommended tuning precoder matrix and, in turn, the recommended tuning precoder matrix matches the recommended precoder matrix to an effective channel that is defined in part by said recommended conversion precoder matrix. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122969 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECEPTION METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmission apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises a serial/parallel (S/P) converter for converting an input bit stream into a plurality of symbols each including 3 bits, a differential modulator for generating differential encoded symbols by applying π/4 phase rotation to each of the symbols, up-samplers for up-sampling the differential encoded symbols, filters for filtering the up-sampled symbols, digital/analog (D/A) converters for converting the filtered symbols into analog signals, and a quadrature modulator for performing quadrature modulation on the converted analog signals. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122970 | DUAL PRUPOSE MODULATOR - The present invention provides a single modulator capable of transmitting an input according to a first and a second modulation technique. The first modulation technique represents changes in the input using a first set of carrier waveform parameters, such as phase variations, whereas the second modulation technique represents changes in the input using a second set of carrier waveform parameters, such as alternative phase variations. The present invention performs both modulation techniques by expressing the 10 second set of carrier waveform parameters as a subset of the first set of carrier waveform parameters. In a preferred embodiment, the first and second modulation techniques comprise the π/2-offset 2PSK (a good approximation of differential GMSK) and 3π/8-offset 8PSK (also known as EDGE) modulation techniques. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122971 | Method for transmitting/receiving feedback information in a multi-antenna system supporting multiple users, and feedback system supporting the same - A method for transmitting/receiving feedback information in a multi-antenna system using a closed-loop scheme supporting multiple users, and a feedback system supporting the same. Multiple feedback protocol scenarios are predefined on the basis of communication environments affecting feedback information configurations. The feedback information is transmitted in a feedback protocol scenario determined by a communication environment. The feedback information is constructed with information required by the communication environment. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122972 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS OPERATION OF MULTIPLE MODEMS USING A SINGLE TRANSCEIVER - Systems and methods for simultaneously communicating over multiple air interfaces using a single transceiver are described herein. An input is received at a transceiver. The input has a first signal encoded using a first radio technology and a second signal encoded using a second radio technology. The input is converted from an analog domain to a digital domain. The input is separated into the first signal and the second signal in the digital domain. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122973 | SYNTHESIZER AND RECEIVER USING THE SAME - A frequency synthesizer receives a frequency compensation signal and a reference oscillation signal from an outside, and outputs first and second signals to an outside. The reference oscillation signal has a varying frequency. The frequency synthesizer includes an oscillator for generating the first signal based on the reference oscillation signal, and a frequency divider/multiplier for outputting the second signal by frequency-dividing or frequency-multiplying the first signal. The varying frequency of the first signal is compensated by the frequency compensation signal. This frequency synthesizer suppresses frequency variations of the first and second signals even if the reference oscillation signal has a large frequency variation. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122974 | Signal Processing Device and Method - A processing device ( | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122975 | ELECTRONIC TUNER AND HIGH FREQUENCY RECEIVING DEVICE USING THE SAME - Demodulator includes reception quality evaluation circuit for evaluating the quality of a received signal by comparison with a first reference value, and outputting an evaluation signal; and driving circuit receiving the evaluation signal. If reception quality evaluation circuit evaluates that the quality of the received signal is acceptable, power supply from driving circuit to DC offset control loop is stopped. This offers a high-frequency receiver that reduces power consumption. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122976 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING WHETHER A TRANSMITTED DATA SIGNAL COMPRISING A CYCLIC PREFIX IS PRESENT IN A RECEIVED SIGNAL - A method for determining whether a transmission signal comprising a cyclic prefix is present in a received signal is described which includes determining a plurality of received signal values from the received signal; forming a plurality of different pairs of the received signal values based on a predefined periodicity of the cyclic prefix; determining a correlation term value for each of the plurality of pairs of the received signal values; and determining whether a data signal is present in the received signal based on a combination of the correlation term values. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122977 | SELF-COMPENSATING DRIFT-FREE HIGH-FREQUENCY PHASE DETECTOR CIRCUIT - The present invention relates to a phase detector circuit ( | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122978 | SERIAL PERIPHERAL INTERFACE HAVING A REDUCED NUMBER OF CONNECTING LINES - An electronic communication system including at least one first communication unit and one second communication unit which are connected to one another by means of at least one first data line. The communication system has a data transmission protocol according to which, in at least one first data transmission mode for synchronized data transmission, the first communication unit transmits a data request signal or a clock signal to the second communication unit via the first data line at least once and the second communication unit transmits a data signal to the first communication unit via the first data line in response to the data request signal or the clock signal. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122979 | Apparatus and methods for estimating and compensating sampling clock offset - An apparatus for sampling clock recovery (SCO) and methods for estimating and compensating SCO are provided. The apparatus comprises a symbol timing adjustment module for shifting forward or backward symbol timing of the transmitted OFDM symbols; a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) processor for performing DFT to an output from the symbol timing adjustment module; a channel estimator for undertaking a channel frequency response estimation based on a channel estimation sequence; a SCO phase rotator for receiving and performing phase shift on the transmitted OFDM symbols of a frame header and a frame payload; an SCO estimation stage for undertaking an SCO estimation based on a pilot-subcarrier-related output of the SCO phase rotator and the CFR estimation; and an SCO compensation distributor for dividing the SCO estimation into integer and fractional portions and then distributing them into the symbol timing adjustment module and the SCO phase rotator, respectively. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122980 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONISING STATIONS WITHIN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND STATIONS FOR USE THEREIN - A system for synchronising stations in a communications network comprising: at least one airborne or space-based vehicle; and at least two stations, each station having receiver means in data communication with the at least one airborne or space-based vehicle and control means in data communication with the receiver means and in control communication with a communication means. When each receiver means receives a synchronisation signal from the at least one airborne or space-based vehicle each receiver means forwards the synchronisation signal to its respective control means. The respective control means processes the synchronisation signal to determine the operational frequency required by its respective communication means to maintain or establish communication with the other station. The respective control means also operates to control its respective communication means to change to the determined operational frequency. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122981 | SYNCHRONIZING CLOCKS ACROSS A COMMUNICATION LINK - Apparatus, system and method for synchronizing one or more clocks across a communication link. A slave clock may be synchronized to a master clock by means of a synchronization signal sent from the master to the slave clock side of the link. The synchronization signal may be an expected signal pattern sent at intervals expected by the slave side. The slave clock may correlate received signals with a representation of the expected synchronization signal to produce a correlation sample sequence at a first sample rate which is related as n times the slave clock rate. The synchronization signal receipt time indicated by the correlation sample sequence may be refined by interpolating the correlation sample sequence around a best correlation sample to locate a best interpolation at an interpolation resolution smaller than the sample resolution. The best interpolation may in turn be further refined by estimating between interpolator outputs adjacent to the best interpolation output. The synchronization signal receipt time thus determined is compared to the expected time based upon the slave clock, which is adjusted until the times match. After initialization, all slave clock errors are preferably accumulated to prevent long-term slip between the slave and master clocks. Formerly independent master and slave clocks synchronized across the communication link constitute a noncommon clock which may be compared on each side of the link to secondary independent clocks, and the secondary independent clocks may then be separately synchronized by adjusting one to have the same difference from its local noncommon clock as the secondary clock on the other side of the link has from its local noncommon clock. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122982 | BANDWIDTH SYNCHRONIZATION CIRCUIT AND BANDWIDTH SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD - Example embodiments are directed to a bandwidth synchronization circuit and a bandwidth synchronization method. The bandwidth synchronization circuit includes an upsizer and a syncdown unit. The upsizer includes a sync packer and a sync unpacker operating according to a first clock. The syncdown unit is connected to the upsizer and performs a syncdown operation on data of the upsizer in response to a second clock of a frequency lower than a frequency of the first clock. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122983 | FREQUENCY LOCKED FEEDBACK LOOP FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A method and systems for a frequency locked feedback loop for wireless communications are provided. The method includes applying dither modulation from a harmonic modulator to modulated data at a transmit source, and mixing the dither modulation at a dither modulation frequency with the modulated data at a wireless carrier frequency to produce a modulated signal. The method also includes filtering and splitting the modulated signal using a bandpass filter to produce a wireless output signal and a feedback signal. The method further includes determining a frequency error in the feedback signal as a function of alignment of the wireless carrier frequency to a target frequency in a frequency response of the bandpass filter. The method additionally includes adjusting the wireless carrier frequency in response to the frequency error to establish a frequency lock between the wireless carrier frequency and the target frequency. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122984 | ENERGY GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A practical technique for inducing and controlling the fusion of nuclei within a solid lattice. A reactor includes a loading source to provide the light nuclei which are to be fused, a lattice which can absorb the light nuclei, a source of phonon energy, and a control mechanism to start and stop stimulation of phonon energy and/or the loading of reactants. The lattice transmits phonon energy sufficient to affect electron-nucleus collapse. By controlling the stimulation of phonon energy and controlling the loading of light nuclei into the lattice, energy released by the fusion reactions is allowed to dissipate before it builds to the point that it causes destruction of the reaction lattice. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122985 | RECYCLED FUEL ASSEMBLY STORAGE BASKET AND RECYCLED FUEL ASSEMBLY STORAGE CONTAINER - A plurality of first plate members | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122986 | METHOD OF INHIBITING ADHESION OF RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE AND APPARATUS INHIBITED FROM SUFFERING ADHESION THEREOF - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for suppressing adhesion of a radioactive substance, capable of suppressing adhesion of the radioactive substance onto the surface of a metallic material forming a structural member in a nuclear plant. On the surface of the metallic material forming the structural member in a nuclear power generation plant, e.g., a surface | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122987 | Replaceable Accessory for a Small Electrical Appliance and Method of Monitoring the Usage of the Accessory - The invention is directed to an accessory for a small electrical appliance, such as a brush attachment for an electric toothbrush or a shaving component for an electric shaving apparatus, including a data memory and a transponder. The accessory furthermore includes an electronic circuitry which modifies a value stored in the data memory each time it receives a corresponding signal. Also described is a method of determining the end of the period of use of the accessory. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122988 | Semiconductor device and shift register circuit - A dual-gate transistor formed of two transistors connected in series between a first power terminal and a first node is used as a charging circuit for charging a gate node (first node) of a transistor intended to pull up an output terminal of a unit shift register. The dual-gate transistor is configured such that the connection node (second node) between the two transistors constituting the dual-gate transistor is pulled down to the L level by the capacitive coupling between the gate and second node in accordance with the change of the gate from the H level to the L level. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122989 | DETECTION SYSTEM, DR IMAGING APPARATUS AND CT IMAGING APPARATUS - Disclosed is detection system for detection an object being conveyed along a convey path, the detection system comprises a DR imaging apparatus and a CT imaging apparatus which is provided at the downstream or upstream of the DR imaging apparatus along the convey path, wherein an average speed at which the object passes the DR imaging apparatus is higher than an average speed at which the object passes the CT imaging apparatus. The present invention also relates to a DR imaging apparatus for forming an image of an object by scanning the object, the object being conveyed along a convey path, the DR imaging apparatus comprising: an X-ray source; a detector for detecting passing of the object; a digital image processing unit; and a DR trigger module for data acquisition, wherein during the object passes the DR imaging apparatus, the DR trigger module triggers the DR imaging apparatus to perform data acquisition every time the object passes the DR imaging apparatus a predetermined distance A along the convey path. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122990 | METHODS APPARATUS ASSEMBLIES AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING A CT SCANNER - Disclosed is a Computer Tomography (CT) system including a gantry having first and second semicircular support elements which are concentric with one another. Each of the first and second semicircular support elements has a missing sector and at least one of the missing sectors may be of an angle of 180 degrees or less. A controller may be adapted to regulate relative rotational positions between said first and second support elements. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122991 | PINHOLE DETECTION SYSTEM OF FUEL CELL - The present invention features a pinhole detection system of a fuel cell that preferably includes a stage on which a fuel cell element unit is disposed to be detected, a drive portion that is configured to move the stage so as to rotate the fuel cell element unit, a X-ray source that is disposed at one side of the stage to apply X-ray to the fuel cell element unit that rotates, an image detector that detects X-ray penetrating the fuel cell element unit, and a computer tomography that reconstructs tormogram that is detected by the image detector to a three dimension. Preferably, the fuel cell element unit is rotated on the stage, X-ray is applied to the rotating unit to gain the tomogram thereof, and the tomogram is reconstructed to be a three-dimensional image through a computerized tomography (CT scanning) such that the pinhole formed within the unit can be effectively detected. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122992 | X-RAY SOURCE AND X-RAY SYSTEM - An x-ray source has multiple electron sources spaced apart from each other along a longitudinal direction that is defined as being parallel to the rotation axis of a rotating anode which is common to all of the electron sources. Each electron source emits electrons that strike the anode at respective strike points that are spatially separated from each other along the longitudinal direction, to produce respective emission centers, from which x-rays are emitted, each emission center being associated with respective ones of the x-ray sources. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122993 | X-RAY MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - An X-ray measurement apparatus includes an X-ray source configured to emit an X-ray to irradiate a specimen with the X-ray, a collimator configured to shape a beam of the X-ray emitted from the X-ray source into a sliced fan-shaped beam x-ray, a flux shield configured to block a part of a flux of the fan-shaped beam X-ray so as to suppress beam hardening while adjusting an energy intensity distribution of the flux, the flux shield being placed between the collimator and the specimen, and an X-ray detector configured to detect a dose transmitted through the specimen. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122994 | X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention provides systems and methods for x-ray imaging. In some embodiments, an aperture, or a plurality thereof, are configured to have image transfer functions lacking a zero within a usable spatial frequency range. In further embodiments, the image transfer function is determined according to the shape of the aperture and the usable spatial frequency range is deter mined according to a usable signal to noise ratio. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122995 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING - Systems and methods for remote diagnostic imaging. The systems include a diagnostic imaging kiosk. The kiosk includes, for example, a first housing module and a second housing module. The first housing module is configured to house, among other things, a diagnostic imaging system (e.g., an X-ray system). The second housing module is configured to house electronics associated with the operation, control, and networking of the kiosk. The electronics include, for example, a primary controller, an X-ray controller, an X-ray generator, an internal display controller, an external display controller, one or more routers, and a digital radiology module. The kiosk is configured to communicatively connect to a remote technician's workstation, and a remote technician at the workstation is able to remotely control the kiosk through a packet-switched network. The control of the kiosk includes controlling access to the kiosk, the position of a diagnostic imaging unit, the capture of diagnostic images, the display of information to a patient, etc. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122996 | VOLTAGE MODULATED X-RAY TUBE - A system comprises a radiation source ( | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122997 | NON-VOXEL-BASED BROAD-BEAM (NVBB) ALGORITHM FOR INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY DOSE CALCULATION AND PLAN OPTIMIZATION - A method of calculating a dose distribution for a patient for use in a radiation therapy treatment plan. The method includes acquiring an image of a volume within the patient, defining a radiation source, and defining a reference plane oriented between the radiation source and the patient. The method also includes generating a radiation therapy treatment plan, wherein the plan includes a plurality of rays that extend between the radiation source and the patient volume, and calculating a three-dimensional dose volume for the patient volume from the plurality of rays that intersect the reference plane without first having to independently calculate a dose distribution on each of the plurality of rays. The method can also include displaying the three-dimensional dose volume. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122998 | COMBINED ASG, CATHODE, AND CARRIER FOR A PHOTON DETECTOR - The present application relates to a combined anti-scatter grid, cathode, and carrier for a photon detector used in spectral CT imaging. The photon detector of the present application may include a cathode having at least one outwardly extending plate and at least one base plate, a substrate having at least one anode, and a converter material, such as for example, Cadmium Zinc Telluride (“CZT”) or Cadmium Telluride. The at least one outwardly extending plate of the cathode may extend above the other detector components to act as an anti-scatter grid for the detector. Further, the at least one outwardly extending plate of the cathode may extend below the other detector components and be fixed to the at least one base plate of the detector. The converter material may be attached to at least one side of the at least one outwardly extending plate of the cathode. | 2011-05-26 |
| 20110122999 | GRID AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A GRID FOR SELECTIVE TRANSMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, PARTICULARLY X-RAY RADIATION | 2011-05-26 |
