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20130106179 | CONTROL UNIT FOR OPERATING A SAFETY SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A SAFETY SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | 05-02-2013 |
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20140375327 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A VOLTAGE SUPPLY FOR A VEHICLE SYSTEM - A device for monitoring a voltage supply for a vehicle system includes a self-diagnostic function which evaluates a logic state of the comparison signal which is output by a comparison device as a function of an input signal, and checks whether a reset signal which corresponds to the output comparison signal is generatable. The self-diagnostic function recognizes a malfunction of the comparison device when the evaluated logic state of the comparison signal does not match an expected logic state. The self-diagnostic function recognizes a malfunction of the reset device when the checked logic state of the reset signal does not match an expected logic state. | 12-25-2014 |
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20150123634 | INTEGRATED REGULATOR, IN PARTICULAR VOLTAGE REGULATOR, AND CONTROLLER FOR PASSENGER PROTECTION MEANS, WITH CONFIGURABLE OUTPUT VOLTAGE OF THE CONTROLLER - An integrated regulator, in particular a voltage regulator, for a personal protection arrangement in a vehicle, includes a regulating element that converts an input signal into an output signal having a defined value, and a control application circuit that applies control to the regulating element to generate the output signal having the defined value. The control application circuit outputs the output signal via the regulating element with at least two different selectable values as a function of a specifying signal, such that for selection of the value of the output signal, a configuration circuit receives at least one configuration signal and, as a function of a configuration ascertained in the context of evaluation, selects one of at least two different specifying signals and applies it to the control application circuit to output the output signal having the selected value. | 05-07-2015 |
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20090102237 | Vehicle Body for a Motor Vehicle - A vehicle body for a commercial, vehicle includes a driver's cab mounted at least indirectly on a vehicle frame. The driver's cab is movable by a frontal impact force acting on the driver's cab in the vehicle longitudinal direction from an initial position to a deflected position, and the center of gravity of the driver's cab is arranged higher in the deflected position than in the initial position. | 04-23-2009 |
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20090286641 | PUMP DRIVE OF AN AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - A pump drive of an automatic transmission with a hydrodynamic torque converter driven by a drive motor and with an oil pump driven by a pump wheel of the torque converter. The pump wheel of the torque converter is connected to a converter hub that extends from the pump wheel in the direction opposite the drive motor and is mounted radially by way of a converter hub bearing in or on a wall of the automatic transmission fixed with respect to the transmission housing and radially encloses a section of a pump drive shaft of the oil pump. The pump drive shaft is radially centered in the converter hub and, on its side facing toward the drive motor, is connected to the converter hub by a driving profile. | 11-19-2009 |
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20140251750 | Transmission Parking Lock - A transmission parking lock has an actuating rod that is essentially translationally displaceable, which bears an actuating element, and with a locking lever that is essentially rotationally displaceable, bears a locking element For inserting the transmission parking lock through the displacement of the actuating rod, the locking lever is pivotable from a resting position of the same into a locked position in such a manner that the locking element engages in a recess of a gear wheel ( | 09-11-2014 |
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20130170391 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING QUALITY OF AUDIO AND VIDEO BIT STREAM TRANSMISSIONS OVER A TRANSMISSION CHAIN - A method for measuring quality of packetized audio and video transmission over a transmission chain includes: providing one or more measurement detectors along the transmission chain; detecting, by the one or more measurement detectors, loss of bit stream packets at one or more measurement points; determining the unique identifier for each detected lost packet; sending, by the one or more measurement detectors, a list of lost packet identifiers to a central monitoring system; constructing, by the central monitoring system, a simulated stream for each measurement point based on a stored error-free stream and the received lost packet identifiers; and evaluating the simulated stream for deriving a quality score for each measurement point. | 07-04-2013 |
20130208813 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF A VIDEO SIGNAL DURING ENCODING OR COMPRESSING OF THE VIDEO SIGNAL - A method for assessing the quality of a video signal during encoding or compressing of the video signal includes: estimating the quality (Qcod) of the video signal using one or more parameters; and using at least one additional parameter to adjust the estimated video signal quality, wherein the at least one additional parameter includes the key-frame rate (kfr) of the video signal as a Group of Pictures (GOP)-length-related parameter. Adjustment of the estimated video signal quality is in accordance with the following equation: | 08-15-2013 |
20130208814 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TEMPORAL SYNCHRONISATION BETWEEN THE VIDEO BIT STREAM AND THE OUTPUT VIDEO SEQUENCE - A method for temporally synchronising an input bit stream of a video decoder with a processed video sequence decoded by an external video decoder includes the steps of: capturing the input bit stream and supplying it to a bit stream analyzer; parsing and analyzing the captured input bit stream by the bit stream analyzer; decoding the input bit stream and providing reconstructed images N | 08-15-2013 |
20130219443 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE TYPE OF THE GROUP OF PICTURE STRUCTURE OF A PLURALITY OF VIDEO FRAMES IN A VIDEO STREAM - A method for estimating the type of the GoP structure of a plurality of video frames in a video stream by estimating their frame types includes: capturing frame sizes in bytes of every video frame subsequent to an initial I-frame to obtain an array of frame sizes by exploiting features of a transport layer carrying the video stream; converting, after a number of frames, the array of frame sizes into an array of zeros and ones; matching the binarized array of frame sizes to a number of predefined short basic binary patterns, said predefined binary patterns depicting all GoP structures to be considered; converting the result of said matching to form a single score value; and determining the particular pattern of the number of predefined patterns of binaries having the best score value, according to a predefined metric. | 08-22-2013 |
20130265445 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF A VIDEO SIGNAL DURING ENCODING AND TRANSMISSION OF THE VIDEO SIGNAL - A method for assessing the quality of a transmitted video signal sequence at the receiver side includes the steps of: capturing the received input video bit stream prior to decoding and supplying it to a video bit stream analyzer; extracting, during a measurement time window, one or more features from the captured packet headers by the bit stream analyzer, without analyzing or decoding the packet payload; computing from the one or more features, a single parameter, xwpSEQ, representing an estimate of the spatio-temporal extent of the signal degradation due to packet-loss; supplying the determined parameter to a quality estimation module; and calculating, by the quality estimation module, a quality measure due to packet loss (Q | 10-10-2013 |
20130271668 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBJECTIVE VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON CONTINUOUS ESTIMATES OF PACKET LOSS VISIBILITY - A method for assessing the quality of a transmitted video signal sequence at a receiver side includes: capturing the input video bit stream; extracting at least one feature or a set of features; determining the continuous probability of visibility for each packet loss event which occurred within a specific time interval; and employing the continuous probability of packet loss visibility as a weighting factor of the at least one feature or set of features extracted from the video bit stream to calculate an estimate of the overall quality, Q, of the transmitted video sequence. | 10-17-2013 |
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20100250813 | Safety-oriented Automation System Having Automatic Address Recovery - An industrial automation system for controlling the operating means of a technical process. The system includes fail-safe modules for interchanging process data with the operating means, i.e., actuating and measurement signals, stations having slots for modules, which slots are inter-connected by a backplane bus, a central processing unit at least for processing process signals from the technical process, and a field bus for transmitting data between the central processing unit and the stations. In accordance with the invention, the address relationship for the addressing of a fail-safe module by the central processing unit over the field bus for data processing purposes is permanently stored in a first memory in the respective module and is additionally permanently backed-up in the associated station. As a result, it is advantageously possible to safely and automatically recover the address relationships of fail-safe modules due to address relationships which have already been recognized as valid, such as during planning, being backed-up in a permanent, power-failure-safe manner at the station level. In addition, it is possible, when a module is exchanged, for a new module to reload the correct address relationships of the old module, which is no longer present, from the back-up means in the station. | 09-30-2010 |