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20100035226 | COMPUTERIZED EDUCATION DEVICE, MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS TO SUPPORT DISTANCE LEARNING - A computerized education device, a multimedia production device and associated methods in accordance with the present invention provide students with an adaptive and proactive interaction learning environment. The computerized education device allows students to log in and take tests and comprises a computer-based learning platform, a content database, a student database and a processor. The multimedia production device has multiple-user and multiple-tasking capabilities to produce multimedia materials and comprises a managing server and multiple stations. A FLASH component conversion method generates a Flash component without expensive creation work and comprises acts of retrieving content, sampling, generating a small web format file, generating a data model and generating a FLASH quiz. The interacting method changes difficulty of content based on responses of students and comprises acts of qualifying, entertaining and compiling statistics. | 02-11-2010 |
20100062410 | COMPUTERIZED TESTING DEVICE WITH A NETWORK EDITING INTERFACE - The computerized testing device with a network editing interface in accordance with the present invention allows a teacher to generate customized quizzes or teaching materials for students logging into the computerized testing device to take tests through a network. The computerized testing device comprises an examination managing module, a content database, a testing module and a recording module. The network editing interface allows teachers to generate quizzes or teaching materials, and comprises a quiz database, a template database, a teacher database and a network editing interface. | 03-11-2010 |
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20120112898 | PROGRAMMABLE TIRE-CONDITION SENSOR HAVING A FLEXIBLE SHELL, ITS INSTALLATION METHOD AND A TIRE CARRYING SAME - A programmable tire-condition sensor includes a control module, which includes a circuit board carrying a battery, a power switch, a processor, a memory, a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, an acceleration sensor, a voltage sensor, a transmission interface unit and a connection port, and a flexible shell that has a surface area greater than the circuit board, an uplifted area on the middle, an opening, a switch accommodation hole for accommodating the power switch and a connection port accommodation hole for accommodating the connection port. A vehicle tire is also disclosed having installed therein the programmable tire-condition sensor, and a method is still also disclosed for installing the programmable tire-condition sensor in a vehicle tire. | 05-10-2012 |
20120218096 | BLANK TIRE PRESSURE MONITORING DEVICE AND ITS SETUP METHOD - A blank tire pressure monitoring device includes a housing having an air valve at one end and connection terminals at an opposite end, a circuit board mounted in the housing and carrying a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, an acceleration sensor, an analog-digital converter electrically connected with the pressure sensor, the temperature sensor and the acceleration sensor, a general purpose I/O terminal unit electrically connected with the connection terminals of the housing; an embedded microcontroller module electrically connected with the general purpose I/O terminal unit and the analog-digital converter and having built therein a flash memory, a microcontroller core and a special-function register controller, a LF receiver electrically connected to the embedded microcontroller module, and a transmitter electrically connected to the embedded microcontroller module; and a method is still also disclosed for setting up a blank tire pressure monitoring device. | 08-30-2012 |
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20120299300 | TURBINE GENERATOR SYSTEM - A turbine generator system is operable to provide electric power to an electric network connected thereto, and includes a turbine generator apparatus and an output module. The turbine generator apparatus includes a turbine rotor provided with a plurality of blades and rotatable to output a mechanical torque, and a generator coupled to the turbine rotor and to be driven by the mechanical torque to generate driving electric power having a system frequency. The output module is electrically connected to the turbine generator apparatus for converting the driving electric power into output electric power to be provided to the electric network. The generator includes a mechanical filter that is operable, when the turbine generator system has a fault, to resonate in a specified frequency that is based on the system frequency to make the blades of the turbine rotor less sensitive to electromagnetic torque disturbance attributed to the fault. | 11-29-2012 |
20130010898 | OFDM BEAMFORMER, AND A SIGNAL RECEIVING SYSTEM INCORPORATING THE SAME - An OFDM beamformer of a signal receiving system receives multiple frequency-domain sample signal vectors each transformed from arrival signals received by a corresponding antenna element of an antenna array, and includes: multiple signal splitters each splitting a corresponding frequency-domain sample signal vector into a data signal subvector and a pilot signal subvector based on predetermined position information; a weight generator generating an estimated auto-correlation matrix and an estimated cross-correlation vector based on the data signal subvectors, the pilot signal subvectors, and a reference pilot signal vector associated with a desired user, and generating an optimal weight vector based on the estimated auto-correlation matrix and the estimated cross-correlation vector; and a combining unit combining, based on the optimal weight vector, serial data signals converted from each data signal vector by a corresponding parallel-to-serial converter to generate an estimated data symbol output corresponding to the desired user. | 01-10-2013 |
20130011022 | Method and Computer Program Product for Extracting Feature Vectors from a Palm Image - A method for extracting feature vectors from a palm image includes the steps of: determining a palm contour in the palm image, and labeling pixels on the palm contour as contour pixels in order along the palm contour; determining a rotation angle of the palm contour relative to a coordinate system; obtaining corrected contour pixels to offset the rotation angle; determining a plurality of feature points from the corrected contour pixels; obtaining a plurality of sub-images from the palm image with reference to the feature points, one of the sub-images corresponding to a palm center and another one of the sub-images corresponding to a corresponding palm finger; and determining the feature vectors with reference to the sub-images, each of the feature vectors corresponding to a corresponding one of the sub-images. | 01-10-2013 |
20130028310 | EVALUATION DEVICE FOR PROVIDING A TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM WITH TRANSCEIVING PERFORMANCE INFORMATION THEREOF - An evaluation device provides a transceiver system with performance information. The transceiver system models channels between a transmitter and a receiver thereof using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device includes a setting module, a computing module and an output module. The computing module is operable, based upon the fading parameter, an average SNR of the channels, a number of transmit antennas and a number of receive antennas, to estimate an average output SNR, a bit error rate and an outage probability related to signals received by the receiver. The output module is operable to provide the transceiver system with the average SNR and the estimated information as the performance information. | 01-31-2013 |
20130188672 | Evaluation device and method for providing a transceiver system with performance information thereof - An evaluation device is configured to provide a transceiver system with performance information thereof. The transceiver system models a channel between a transmitter and a receiver thereof using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device includes a setting module operable to set an average signal-to-noise rate (SNR) for the channel between the transmitter and the receiver, a computing module operable to estimate a symbol error rate related to a signal received by the receiver from the transmitter based upon the fading parameter and the average SNR, and an output module operable to provide the average SNR and the symbol error rate as the performance information of the transceiver system. | 07-25-2013 |
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20120194892 | LIGHT EXTRACTING DEVICE AND LIGHT EXTRACTING METHOD - A light extracting device includes a dual light generating unit and a first order Bragg grating unit. The dual light generating unit is for receiving an input optical signal and a control signal, and for generating from the input optical signal first and second optical signals that have a phase difference there between. The phase difference is associated with the control signal. The first order Bragg grating unit is for receiving the first and second optical signals from the dual light generating unit, and for causing optical interference to occur between the first and second optical signals within a predetermined wavelength range to result in first and second output optical signals. | 08-02-2012 |
20130287408 | OPTICAL RADIATION SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE AND TRANCEIVING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF GENERATING AN OPTICAL RADIATION SIGNAL - A method of generating an optical radiation signal is to be implemented by an optical radiation signal generating device including a dual beam generating unit for receiving an original optical input signal, and a second-order fiber Bragg grating (FBG). The dual-beam generating unit is configured to generate, from the original optical input signal, first and second optical input signals having a phase difference therebetween. The second-order FBG is configured to receive the first and second optical input signals, and to radiate an optical radiation signal by interference between the first and second optical input signals. | 10-31-2013 |
20150358081 | OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - An optical fiber communication method includes the steps of: providing an optical fiber that includes a core, and a second-order Bragg grating structure formed on the core; and emitting a data-carrying optical signal to an outer peripheral surface of the optical fiber that corresponds to the second-order Bragg grating structure in a radial direction of the optical fiber, so that the data-carrying optical signal is coupled into the core of the optical fiber via the second-order Bragg grating structure for transmission therein. | 12-10-2015 |
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20120174801 | TEPPANYAKI PLATFORM - A teppanyaki platform comprises a platen, a stir-frying area disposed on the platen for stir-frying food, an eating area disposed around a periphery of the stir-frying area for users to dine, and a preparing area disposed between the stir-frying area and the eating area. By means of the separation brought about by the preparing area, the raw food and the cooked food would not be concurrently disposed on the stir-frying area, so that the raw food does not mix with the cooked food, and the dining hygiene is ensured. The arrangement of the preparing area and the eating area disposed in different horizontals renders the eating area and the stir-frying area more distinguishable for consumers to avoid mistakenly taking the raw food from the stir-frying area, so that the dining safety is increased, and the convenience of cleaning the dining plates is promoted. | 07-12-2012 |
20120247345 | TEPPANYAKI ASSEMBLY - A teppanyaki assembly comprises a platform including a cooking plane, an air pump installed in the platform, and an air filter connected to the air pump. The air filter has a housing with an air room defined therein connecting to an air channel of the air pump and a filter screen slantwise disposed within the air room for increasing an area available for filtering air and oil fumes, thereby facilitating an increase of transient air flow, a decrease of wind resistance, and an efficient oil fumes interception to prevent the problem of air pollution. An additional arrangement of a cleaning door on the housing also allows the filter screen to be promptly taken out for following washing and maintaining proceedings, which increases the using convenience. | 10-04-2012 |
20120247451 | TEPPANYAKI ASSEMBLY AVAILABLE FOR SUCKING AIR BY MULTIPLE ANGLES - A teppanyaki assembly available for sucking air by multiple angles comprises a platform including a cooking plane, and an air pump installed in the platform and including an air guider as well as an air channel. Wherein, the air guider has a housing disposed on the cooking plane and a regulator pivoted to the housing. Tuning the regulator allows an air entrance on the regulator to confront an external opening on the housing by different degrees so as to pump air with divergent angles and filter air properly. Besides, an air extracting effect could be favorably controlled in accordance with different food. | 10-04-2012 |
20130042853 | COOKING ASSEMBLY THAT SAVES ENERGY, REDUCES NOISE, AND CIRCULARLY REMOVES FUMES - A cooking assembly that saves energy, reduces noise, and circularly removes fumes comprises a venting outlet disposed opposite to an absorbing inlet of an absorbing device. The air expelled from the venting outlet permits guiding fumes and smells generated during cooking into an absorbing scope of the absorbing inlet, thereby offering a recurring air curtain over a cooking platen. The cooking assembly keeps heating energy but takes away the cooking fumes and smells from the cooking platen via a consistent and recurring operation to clarify the air. The recurring air curtain avoids wasting air conditioning energy and prevents from leaking the air polluted by fumes out, which allows the cooking assembly to omit an extra outdoor discharging pipe but attain a fresh and tranquil dining atmosphere, and decrease the energy consumption of the facility for being friendly to the environment. | 02-21-2013 |
20130333686 | ASSEMBLY FOR COOKING WITH A SAFETY DEVICE - An assembly for cooking has a safety device installed on an air guider. The safety device comprises a sensor detecting a wind flow from the air guider and a processing unit comparing a sensed flow value of the wind flow with a predetermined flow value and determining the flowing condition of the air guider and executing a controlling action. When oil sludge obstructs an opening of the air guider to cause the flow value of cooking fumes to be lower than the predetermined value, the processing unit stops an air pump of the air guider or activates an alarm unit to warn operators to clean the air guider, thereby maintaining an efficient inhaling effect of the air guider. The processing unit can concurrently promote a rotation speed of the air pump to keep inhaling an amount of cooking fumes for avoiding scattering the cooking fumes in dining spaces. | 12-19-2013 |
20150059582 | GREEN CASCADE-TYPE DEVICE FOR INTERCEPTING AND FILTERING OIL FUMES - A cascade-type device for intercepting and filtering oil fumes comprises an exhausting space formed between a housing and a filter and a cascading space formed between the filter and an external plate. A wind entrance communicated with the cascading space is formed between a lower portion of the external plate and the housing. The housing accommodates rinsing liquid whose height is higher than a bottom edge of the external plate. A negative pressure formed in the exhausting and the cascading space while drawing air allows the rinsing liquid blown by a wind pressure to hit the filter and generate water bloom for combining oil molecules of oil fumes. When the oil fumes further pass the filter, the oil molecules are adhered to the filter again and then scoured off by the water bloom, thereby attaining a dual-filtering effect and an automatic cleanliness of the filter and the housing. | 03-05-2015 |
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20090251487 | System and method for adaptive color space conversion - A method and system for adaptive color space conversion includes a color space converter, a brightness adaptive controller and a soft clipper. The color space converter receives a first color space format signal and converts the first color space format signal into a second color space format signal. The brightness adaptive controller is connected to the color space converter in order to produce a gain and an offset based on a brightness value. The soft clipper is connected to the color space converter and the brightness adaptive controller in order to clip the second color space format signal based on the gain and the offset to thereby produce a corrected second color space format signal. | 10-08-2009 |
20090295999 | System of edge direction detection for comb filter - A system of edge direction detection for comb filter includes a buffer, first and second filters, first and second oblique detectors, and a comparator. The buffer receives and stores a composite signal. The first filter performs filtering operation on the composite signal to produce a first filter signal. The second filter performs filtering operation on the composite signal to produce a second filter signal. The first oblique detector detects an oblique in the first filter signal to produce a first oblique indication signal and a first oblique direction signal and output a first minimum oblique difference. The second oblique detector detects an oblique in the second filter signal to produce a second oblique indication signal and a second oblique direction signal and output a second minimum oblique difference. The comparator compares the first and second oblique indication signals and the first and second oblique direction signals to produce edge information. | 12-03-2009 |
20100060796 | Color reconstruction system and method for a secam television signal - A color reconstruction system for an SECAM television signal includes a luminance and chrominance separator and color decoder, first and secons line buffer blocks, a vertical similarity calculator and a reconstructor. The luminance and chrominance separator and color decoder receives and filters an SECAM television signal with a luminance and a chrominance to produce a luminance signal and a chrominance signal. The first line buffer block temporarily stores the luminance signal. The second line buffer block temporarily stores the color difference signal. The vertical similarity calculator produces an upper similarity coefficient and a lower similarity coefficient based on the luminance signals produced by the luminance and chrominance separator and color decoder and temporarily stored in the first line buffer block respectively. The reconstructor depends on the upper and lower similarity coefficients to adjust the chrominance signal temporarily stored in the second line buffer block to produce a reconstructed chrominance signal. | 03-11-2010 |
20100215265 | Image processing device and method for reducing color artifact - An image processing device and method is provided to reduce color artifact. A smooth unit performs a smooth operation on color signal corresponding to a pixel and adjacent pixels to generate smooth color signal. A level shifter performs a level-shifting on the smooth color signal to obtain level-shifted color signal. A color strength unit calculates a color strength indicator based on the color signal. A gray level decision unit is connected to the color strength unit for deciding whether the pixel is in a gray level region or not based on the color strength indicators of the pixel and adjacent pixels to generate a gray level indicator. An adjustment unit adjusts the smooth color signal and the level-shifted color signal based on the gray level indicator to generate an output color signal. | 08-26-2010 |
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20120120993 | Resynchronization Method for Recovering from Sleep Mode and Apparatuses Using the Same - A wireless communications device connected to a service network with a synchronized timing pattern therebetween is provided. In the wireless communications device, a wireless modem is configured to enable wireless signal transceiving from and to the service network in a non-sleep mode and disable wireless signal transceiving from and to the service network in a sleep mode. Also in the wireless communications device, a synchronization module is configured to initialize a first counter with a current time in the synchronized timing pattern in response to a first signal triggering the wireless modem to enter the sleep mode from the non-sleep mode, and enable counting of the first counter in a low-rate clock for the sleep mode. The synchronization module further provides the counted value of the first counter to the wireless modem to resynchronize with the service network in response to a second signal triggering the wireless modem to recover from the sleep mode to the non-sleep mode. | 05-17-2012 |
20140314008 | METHODS FOR MITIGATING INTERFERENCE IN A COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS UTILIZING THE SAME - A communications apparatus includes at least two cellular system radio transceivers capable of simultaneously performing transmitting/receiving radio activities in two cellular networks and a control entity. The control entity is coupled to the cellular system radio transceivers, collects radio activity information of the cellular system radio transceivers, determines whether interference will occur or is occurring and which cellular system radio transceiver is an aggressor transceiver and which cellular system radio transceiver is a victim transceiver when the interference occurs according to the radio activity information, and further determines control information according to the radio activity information for controlling the aggressor transceiver or the victim transceiver to mitigate the interference. The aggressor transceiver is the cellular system radio transceiver having the transmitting radio activity that will interfere or interferes with the receiving radio activity of the victim transceiver. | 10-23-2014 |
20150257110 | METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION POWER SHAPING AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS UTILIZING THE SAME - A communications apparatus. The RF signal processing device is capable of supporting carrier aggregation and configured to process RF signals. The baseband signal processing device is configured to process baseband signals. The processor is configured to control operations of the RF signal processing device and the baseband signal processing device. The processor further receives a power control signal from a peer communications apparatus, obtains an assigned transmission power which is assigned by the peer communications apparatus for the communications apparatus to transmit a reference signal according to information carried in the power control signal, determines a spectral efficiency estimation value of the communications apparatus and directs the RF signal processing device to transmit the reference signal with a reduced transmission power which is smaller than the assigned transmission power when the spectral efficiency estimation value is smaller than a predetermined threshold. | 09-10-2015 |