17th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110096802 | HIGH POWER RADIATION SOURCE WITH ACTIVE-MEDIA HOUSING - A high power source of electro-magnetic radiation having a multi-purpose housing is disclosed. The multi-purpose housing includes an interior filled with a material forming at least a light source and further comprising a reflector which can envelope a laser rod surrounded by light sources for providing light excitation to the laser rod. A material defining outer surfaces of the light sources extends out to and defines outer surfaces of the reflector. A high-reflectivity coating is disposed over an outer surface of the reflector, as is a protective coating. Also disposed over an outer surface of the reflector can be an optional heat sink, with cooling being performed by an optional arrangement of forced-air traveling over the heat sink. The light sources may be light source pumps, and the high-reflectivity coating may be formed to envelop the reflector. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096803 | ASYMMETRIC DBR PAIRS COMBINED WITH PERIODIC AND MODULATION DOPING TO MAXIMIZE CONDUCTION AND REFLECTIVITY, AND MINIMIZE ABSORPTION - An optical device for improving conduction and reflectivity and minimizing absorption. The optical device includes a first mirror comprising a first plurality of mirror periods designed to reflect an optical field at a predetermined wavelength, where the optical field has peaks and nulls. Each of the plurality of mirror periods includes a first layer of having a high carrier mobility, a second layer having lower carrier mobility, and a first compositional ramp between the first and second layers. The thicknesses of the first and second layers for at least a portion of the first plurality of mirror periods are established such that the nulls of the optical field occur within the first layer and not within the compositional ramp. At least the portion of the first layers within the first plurality of mirror periods include elevated doping concentrations at locations of the nulls of the optical field. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096804 | OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An optical semiconductor device includes a waveguide having one or more first segments having a region that includes a diffractive grating and another region combined to the region, one or more second segments having a region that includes a diffractive grating and another region combined to the region and a plurality of third segments having a region the includes a diffractive grating and another region combined to the region, a length of the second segment being different from that of the first segment, a length of the third segment being shown as L | 2011-04-28 |
20110096805 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A nitride semiconductor laser device is formed by growing a group III nitride semiconductor multilayer structure on a substrate. The group III nitride semiconductor multilayer structure has a laser resonator including an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type semiconductor layer and a light emitting layer held between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer. The laser resonator is arranged to be offset from the center with respect to a device width direction orthogonal to a resonator direction toward one side edge of the device. A wire bonding region having a width of not less than twice the diameter of an electrode wire to be bonded to the device is formed between the laser resonator and the other side edge of the device. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096806 | Semiconductor light emitting device - The present invention provides a semiconductor light emitting device realizing increased light detection precision by a simple manufacture process. One or more second oxidation layers are provided between an active layer and a semiconductor light detecting element in addition to a first oxidation layer for narrowing current. Since natural emission light includes many divergence components, the natural emission light is reflected and scattered by the second oxidation layer, and propagation of the natural emission light to the semiconductor light detecting element side is suppressed. The detection level of the natural emission light by the semiconductor light detecting element decreases, and light detection precision increases. The first and second oxidation layers are formed by a single oxidizing process so that the manufacturing process is simplified. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096807 | DEPOSITION SENSOR BASED ON DIFFERENTIAL HEAT TRANSFER RESISTANCE - A system and method are disclosed wherein differential heat transfer resistances are used to effectively and efficiently detect the early onset of deposit accumulation in industrial fluid processes and fluid transport vehicles. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096808 | Temperature detecting device for motion guide apparatus - A motion guide device includes a ball nut attached onto a shaft and having helical grooves for receiving a number of ball bearing elements, and having a compartment form receiving a temperature detecting device which detects a temperature of the ball nut for preventing the ball nut from overheating, an indicating device is coupled to the temperature detecting device for generating an indicating signal when the temperature detecting device has sensed or detected that the temperature of the ball nut or the screw shaft is higher than the predetermined temperature or value, and the user may then stop working to find out what problems have been happened and thus to prevent the motion guide device from overheating. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096809 | MULTIPLE SENSOR THERMAL MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A device includes a current source circuit to separately provide a first current and a second current and a thermal detection device coupleable to the output of the current source circuit. The device further includes a voltage detection circuit to provide a first indicator of a first voltage representative of a voltage at the thermal detection device in response to the second current and a second indicator of a second voltage representative of a voltage difference between the voltage at the thermal detection device in response to the second current and a voltage at the voltage detection device in response to the first current. The device further includes a temperature detection circuit to provide an over-temperature indicator based on the first indicator and the second indicator, wherein an operation of a circuit component of the device can be adjusted based on the over-temperature indicator. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096810 | Data-Block Spread Spectrum Communications System - A spectrum spread communication method includes a step of generating a data block formed by a plurality of M bits of transmission data in the CDMA communication method, a step of modulating an orthogonal sinusoidal wave by the repeated series of the data block to generate a spread symbol, a step of transmitting the symbol, a step of performing reverse spread of the reception input by using the orthogonal sinusoidal wave, thereby completely isolating the multi-user component including the multi rate. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096811 | Method and an apparatus for adaptively learning a sparse impulse response of a continuous channel - A method for adaptively learning a sparse impulse response ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096812 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIVERSITY PROCESSING UTILIZING A PROGRAMMABLE INTERFACE SUPPRESSION MODULE - Aspects of a method and system for diversity processing utilizing a programmable interface suppression module may include one or more circuits that are operable to program an interference suppression module based on one or more interference cancellation parameters. A plurality of weighting factor values may be computed based on the one or more interference suppression parameters and a received plurality of multipath signals. A plurality of estimated signals may be generated based on the plurality of weighting factor values. A plurality of updated estimated signals may be generated based on the plurality of estimated signals. A plurality of interference suppressed signals may be generated based on the plurality of updated estimated signals. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096813 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION BETWEEN MULTIPATH SIGNALS UTILIZING A PROGRAMMABLE INTERFACE SUPPRESSION MODULE - Aspects of a method and system for interference suppression between multipath signals utilizing a programmable interface suppression module may include one or more processors and/or circuits that are operable to program an interference suppression module based on one or more interference cancellation parameters. A plurality of weighting factor values may be determined based on the one or more interference suppression parameters and a received plurality of multipath signals. A plurality of estimated signals may be generated based on the plurality of weighting factor values. A plurality of updated estimated signals may be generated based on the plurality of estimated signals. A plurality of interference suppressed signals may be generated based on the plurality of updated estimated signals and/or a plurality of updated residual signals. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096814 | METHODS FOR CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET DETECTION AND COMPENSATION AND TRANSMITTERS AND RECEIVERS UTILIZING THE SAME - A transmitter includes an encoding module, an adaptive hierarchical signal mapping module and a transceiver module. The encoding module receives an input signal and encodes the input signal. The input signal includes data to be transmitted. The adaptive hierarchical signal mapping module modulates the encoded signal according to one or more hierarchical level distance ratios to obtain modulated symbols. The hierarchical level distance ratio defines distances between the modulated symbols. The transceiver module generates a radio frequency signal according to the modulated symbols and transmits the radio frequency signal to an air interface. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096815 | POWER CONTROL FOR DEVICES HAVING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS - Power control for devices having multiple transmit antennas are disclosed, including power control methods for Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) and Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) transmissions for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The PUCCH and SRS power control methods include selecting a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) mode and changing the power of the PUCCH or SRS transmission based on the selected MIMO mode. Another power control method estimates an antenna gain imbalance (AGI) for a WTRU having at least two transmit antennas. The AGI is based on measuring a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) on each transmit antenna. Each transmit antenna is then scaled by an AGI scaling factor based on the estimated AGI. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096816 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An embodiment of the time-variant channel estimation in an OFDM transmission system envisages the operations of: a) determining the received signal vector Y | 2011-04-28 |
20110096817 | Wirefree Intercom Having Error Free Transmission System And Process - A wireless intercom having a microcontroller that is programmed to place the intercom into a power saving sleep mode unless actively receiving or transmitting signals. The microcontroller of the intercom is interconnected to a transceiver for sending and receiving digital data packets, and to a codec for converting the digital packets to analog sound signals, and vice versa. The intercom receives digital transmission of data over a first channel and then corrects any errors in the digital data using a retransmission of the digital data over a second channel that is sufficiently spaced apart from the first channel to avoid the possibility of interference affecting both the first and second channels. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096818 | MULTICARRIER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - This invention provides a multi-carrier system that can separate multi-carrier certainly by improving channel response characteristics between a transmitter and a receiver, in a MIMO system increasing receiving antennas by using a fractional sampling in a receiver. The transmitter delays and transmits a part of plural transmitting signals for a time decided from a magnification of a fractional sampling and a pulse length of a transmitting signal, or a time decided with channel response characteristics from the transmitter that the receiver measured. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096819 | ESTIMATING SYSTEM AND TRAFFIC DATA IN A DOCSIS SYSTEM - Methods for computing system data (e.g., the number of CMs per DS-SG or US-SG) and traffic data (e.g., the number of online CMs, the number of active CMs, the percentage of time a CM is online, the percentage of time a CM is active, and the concurrency of CMs) in a DOCSIS system are disclosed. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096820 | Modulation Evaluation System - A modulation evaluation system associated with frequency modulations periods of a phase-locked loop is described. The system includes a first accumulator for accumulating clock edges a window of the frequency modulation periods; a second accumulator coupled to the first accumulator and operative for accumulating clock edges during whole periods of the frequency modulation periods; a dynamic enable control coupled to a first input associated with the first accumulator and a second input associated with the second accumulator, wherein the dynamic enable control selectively transmits a first enable signal that controls when the first accumulator accumulates clock edges and a second enable signal controls when the second accumulator accumulates clock edges, and accumulating clock edges enable modulation evaluation during production. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096821 | DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS TEST SYSTEM FOR MULTIPLE INPUT, MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS - A digital communications test system and method for testing a plurality of devices under test (DUTs) in which multiple sets of a single vector signal analyzer (VSA) and single vector signal generator (VSG) can be used together to perform error vector magnitude (EVM) measurements for one or more DUTs in parallel, including one or more of composite, switched and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) EVM measurements. This allows N pairs of a VSA and VSG to test N DUTs with NxN MIMO in substantially the sane time as a single VSA and VSG pair can test a single DUT, thereby allowing a substantial increase in testing throughput as compared to that possible with only a single VSA and VSG set. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096822 | NETWORK EQUIPMENT - A network player is connected to a server, in which a contents data having a bit rate parameter is recorded, via a network. The network player stores the contents data which is currently received from the server in a buffer memory, measures a data transfer rate of the currently received contents data based on an increase and decrease of the data amount stored in the buffer memory, and repeats the measurement until a predetermined period of time passes. After the predetermined period of time, the network player determines the current data transfer rate by calculating an average value of the plural data transfer rates measured in the predetermined period of time. Then, the network player informs that the data transfer rate is not fast enough by turning on a red lamp when the current data transfer rate is slower than the bit rate. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096823 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - To realize prompt and efficient data communication by dynamically changing the optimum MCS and PC. A base station ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096824 | MULTI-PAIR GIGABIT ETHERNET TRANSCEIVER HAVING A SINGLE-STATE DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZER - Various systems and methods providing high speed decoding, enhanced power reduction and clock domain partitioning for a multi-pair gigabit Ethernet transceiver are disclosed. ISI compensation is partitioned into two stages; a first stage compensates ISI components induced by characteristics of a transmitter's partial response pulse shaping filter in a demodulator, a second stage compensates ISI components induced by characteristics of a multi-pair transmission channel in a Viterbi decoder. High speed decoding is accomplished by reducing the DFE depth by providing an input signal from a multiple decision feedback equalizer to the Viterbi based on a tail value and a subset of coefficient values received from a unit depth decision-feedback equalizer. Power reduction is accomplished by adaptively truncating active taps in the NEXT, FEXT and echo cancellation filters, or by disabling decoder circuitry portions, as channel response characteristics allow. A receive clock signal is generated such that it is synchronous in frequency with analog sampling clock signals and has a particular phase offset with respect to one of the sampling clock signals. This phase offset is adjusted such that system performance degradation due to coupling of switching noise from the digital sections to the analog sections is substantially minimized. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096825 | Fractional-Rate Decision Feedback Equalization Useful in a Data Transmission System - Decision feedback equalization (DFE) circuits are disclosed for use with fractional-rate clocks of lesser frequency than the data signal. For example, a one-half-rate clocked DFE circuit utilizes two input data paths, which are respectively activated on rising and falling edges of an associated half-rate clock. Each of the input data paths has a pair of comparators with differing reference voltage levels. The comparators in each input data path output to a multiplexer, which picks between the two comparator outputs depending on the logic level of the previously received bit. The output of each input data path is sent as a control input to the multiplexer of the other data path. Thus, the results from previously-detected bits affect which comparator's output is passed to the output of the circuit, even though the synchronizing clock is half the frequency of the data. A quarter-rate DFE circuit is also disclosed which operates similarly. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096826 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO ACCORDING TO INDIVIDUAL PARSING OR DECODING IN DATA UNIT LEVEL, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO FOR INDIVIDUAL PARSING OR DECODING IN DATA UNIT LEVEL - A video decoding method including: extracting, from a bitstream of an encoded video, at least one of information indicating independent parsing of a data unit and information indicating independent decoding of a data unit; extracting encoded video data and information about a coded depth and an encoding mode according to maximum coding units by parsing the bitstream based on the information indicating independent parsing of the data unit; and decoding at least one coding unit according to a coded depth of each maximum coding unit of the encoded video data, based on the information indicating independent decoding in the data unit and the information about the coded depth and the encoding mode according to maximum coding units. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096827 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The method includes receiving a data processing method includes receiving a broadcast signal in which main service data and mobile service data are multiplexed, acquiring transmission-parameter-channel signaling information including transmission parameter information of the mobile service data, and fast-information-channel signaling information, acquiring binding information describing a relationship between at least one ensemble transferring the mobile service data and a first virtual channel contained in the at least one ensemble by decoding the fast-information-channel, and acquiring status information of the first virtual channel, displaying content data contained in the mobile service data according to the binding information and the status information of the first virtual channel. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096828 | ENHANCED BLOCK-REQUEST STREAMING USING SCALABLE ENCODING - A block-request streaming system provides for improvements in the user experience and bandwidth efficiency of such systems, typically using an ingestion system that generates data in a form to be served by a conventional file server (HTTP, FTP, or the like), wherein the ingestion system intakes content and prepares it as files or data elements to be served by the file server. A client device can be adapted to take advantage of the ingestion process as well as including improvements that make for a better presentation independent of the ingestion process. The files or data elements are organized as blocks that are transmitted and decoded as a unit, and the system is configured to provide and consume scalable blocks such that the quality of the presentation increases as more of the block is downloaded. Encoding and decoding blocks with multiple independent scalability layers can be done as well. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096829 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO, BASED ON HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF CODING UNIT - An apparatus and method for encoding video data and an apparatus and method for decoding video data are provided. The encoding method includes: splitting a current picture into at least one maximum coding unit; determining a coded depth to output an encoding result by encoding at least one split region of the at least one maximum coding unit according to operating mode of coding tool, respectively, based on a relationship among a depth of at least one coding unit of the at least one maximum coding unit, a coding tool, and an operating mode, wherein the at least one split region is generated by hierarchically splitting the at least one maximum coding unit according to depths; and outputting a bitstream including encoded video data of the coded depth, information regarding a coded depth of at least one maximum coding unit, information regarding an encoding mode, and information regarding the relationship. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096830 | Encoder that Optimizes Bit Allocation for Information Sub-Parts - A encoder/decoder architecture ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096831 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND IMAGING SYSTEM - An image encoding device for generating a plurality of portions of encoded data from the same input image data, includes a moving image encoding processor configured to compress/encode image data, an amount-of-encoded-data detector configured to detect the amount of first encoded data generated, a conversion table configured to determine a multiplier to be multiplied by a quantization parameter based on the detected amount of the first encoded data so that the moving image encoding processor generates second and subsequent encoded data, and an amount-of-encoded-data controller configured to determine a quantization parameter for obtaining target amounts of the second and subsequent encoded data, based on the determined multiplier. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096832 | DEPTH MAP GENERATION TECHNIQUES FOR CONVERSION OF 2D VIDEO DATA TO 3D VIDEO DATA - This disclosure describes techniques for generating depth maps for video units, such as video frames or slices video frames. The techniques may be performed by a video encoder in order to convert two-dimensional (2D) video to three-dimensional (3D) video. The techniques may alternatively be performed by a video decoder in order to convert received 2D video to 3D video. The techniques may use a combination of motion and color considerations in the depth map generation process. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096833 | SOFTWARE VIDEO DECODER DISPLAY BUFFER UNDERFLOW PREDICTION AND RECOVERY - Prediction of and recovery from display buffer underflow are described. A first time delay for displaying a first group of one or more frames of a video picture stream located in an output frame buffer is calculated. A second time delay for displaying a second group of one or more frames in the picture stream is calculated. The second group directly follows the first group in the output buffer and is currently decoded by a decoder, but not yet deposited into the output frame buffer. A third time delay for decoding a third group of one or more frames in the picture stream is calculated. The third group directly follows the second group and is not yet decoded by the decoder. The decoder switches to or remains in a fast decoding mode if the sum of the first and second time delays is less than the third time delay. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING RESIDUAL BLOCK, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING RESIDUAL BLOCK - Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a residual block are provided. The method of encoding the residual block includes: generating a prediction block of a current block; generating a residual block based on a difference between the prediction block and the current block; generating a transformation residual block by transforming the residual block to a frequency domain; splitting the transformation residual block into frequency band units; and encoding effective coefficient flags indicating frequency band units, of the frequency band units, in which nonzero effective transformation coefficients exist. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096835 | CODING METHOD, ERROR DETECTING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, CODING APPARATUS, ERROR DETECTING APPARATUS, AND DECODING APPARATUS - Provided is a coding method that allows reduction of a code amount necessary for coding reference indexes and improvement in the coding efficiency. The coding method according to the present invention is a method of coding a random accessible picture using inter-view reference, and includes: writing, into a slice header of the random accessible picture, a reference list modification syntax for modifying a reference picture list so that an inter-view reference picture is placed at the beginning of the reference picture list (S | 2011-04-28 |
20110096836 | PACKET LOSS ANALYSIS - A test sequence ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096837 | INTERPOLATION OF VIDEO COMPRESSION FRAMES - Coding techniques for a video image compression system involve improving an image quality of a sequence of two or more bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames, where each of the frames includes multiple pixels. One method involves determining a brightness value of at least one pixel of each bi-directionally predicted intermediate frame in the sequence as an equal average of brightness values of pixels in non-bidirectionally predicted frames bracketing the sequence of bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames. The brightness values of the pixels in at least one of the non-bidirectionally predicted frames is converted from a non-linear representation. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096838 | INTERPOLATION OF VIDEO COMPRESSION FRAMES - Coding techniques for a video image compression system involve improving an image quality of a sequence of two or more bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames, where each of the frames includes multiple pixels. One method involves determining a brightness value of at least one pixel of each bi-directionally predicted intermediate frame in the sequence as an equal average of brightness values of pixels in non-bidirectionally predicted frames bracketing the sequence of bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames. The brightness values of the pixels in at least one of the non-bidirectionally predicted frames is converted from a non-linear representation. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096839 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING AND DECORING WITH REDUCED BIT-DEPTH UPDATE MODE AND REDUCED CHROMA SAMPLING UPDATE MODE - Methods and apparatus are provided for video coding and decoding with reduced bit-depth update mode and reduced chroma sampling update mode. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding at least a portion of a picture using at least one of a reduced bit-depth update mode and a reduced chroma sampling update mode that respectively reduces at least one of a bit-depth and a chroma sampling of a residue signal corresponding to the portion. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096840 | VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS, VIDEO ENCODING PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM OF THE SAME - A motion detection portion of a video encoding apparatus conducts motion detection on each of frame macroblocks and field macroblocks to calculate motion vectors and respective detection cost. A motion vector evaluation value calculation portion calculates an evaluation value of the size of motion vectors. A motion vector threshold determination portion compares the evaluation value of the size of motion vectors to a predetermined threshold to determine whether the target area is a moving area or a still area. If the target area is a moving area, it is determined whether frame or field macroblock mode is to be used by comparing the detection costs. If the target area is a still area, it is determined whether frame or field macroblock mode is to be used in accordance with the size of the sum of absolute values of differences between neighboring pixels in a vertical direction regarding the frame macroblock and field macroblock. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096841 | VIDEO CODING AND DECODING METHODS WITH HIERARCHICAL TEMPORAL FILTERING STRUCTURE, AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A method and apparatus for video coding and decoding with hierarchical temporal filtering structure are disclosed. A video encoding method in a temporal level having a hierarchical temporal filtering structure, includes generating prediction frames from two or more reference frames that temporally precede the current frame; generating a residual frame by subtracting the prediction frames from the current frame; and encoding and transmitting the residual frame. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096842 | VIDEO DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD - A video decoding method includes receiving video data and transforming the video data from a Huffman tree to at least one full tree and at least one one-side tree. One microcode corresponding to the video coding standard that has encoded the received video data is read where a format of the read microcode is determined. The method further includes reading video data from the transformed video data according to the consuming length of the read microcode if the format of the read microcode is a leaf, and decoding the read video data according to the decoding field of the read microcode to output a decoding result. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096843 | FIELD/FRAME ADAPTIVE CODING AND DECODING METHOD WITH FIELD/FRAME INDEX AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A moving picture coding method for coding a picture when switching between frame coding and field coding adaptively on a block-by-block basis. The method including determining the maximum number of reference indices for field coding for specifying fields which are to be referred to at the time of field coding, using the maximum number of reference indices for frame coding for specifying frames which are to be referred to at the time of frame coding, and assigning to fields the reference indices for field coding for specifying fields which are to be referred to at the time of field coding, within a range of the determined maximum number thereof, using the reference indices for frame coding for specifying frames which are to be referred to at the time of frame coding. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096844 | Method for implementing rich video on mobile terminals - A communication method comprising the display, on a communication mobile terminal ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096845 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DECOUPLED STREAMS FOR CLOCK RECOVERY AND DECODING - A receiver may be operable to determine a clock reference (CR) such as a MPEG program clock reference (PCR) associated with a first program CR packet identifier (PID), recover a locked oscillator and a system time clock (STC) from the clock reference associated with the first program CR packet identifier (PID) and process content associated with a second program utilizing the recovered locked oscillator and the system time clock. The receiver may be operable to insert the content associated with the second program on the content associated with the first program CR PID. The receiver may be operable to receive the content associated with the second program from a source that is local to the receiver such as a hard disk or a flash drive or from a source that is remote with respect to the receiver. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096846 | ADVERTISEMENT INSERTION FOR VIDEO - Methods for performing ad insertion prior to performing statistical multiplexing on one or more digital video streams including programs are disclosed. Select coded frames of a program and an advertisement are decoded and re-encoded at a predetermine bit rate to obtain a revised program representing the original program with the advertisement inserted at a select time. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096847 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PARSING BITSTREAM - Disclosed is an apparatus and method for parsing a bitstream. The apparatus may include an input port analyzer to analyze an input port indicating a source of data in a description, a data receiver to receive the data via the analyzed input port, and a parsing controller to control a parsing process based on the data received via the input port. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096848 | "Supply-Less" HDMI Source Terminated Output Stage With Tuned Wide-Range Programmable Termination - A “supply-less” transmitter output stage is provided for a transmitter. This transmitter output stage can include a tunable source termination and a reference voltage generator. The tunable source termination can be coupled between a differential pair of the transmitter. The reference voltage generator can advantageously generate reference voltages from a far-end termination. These reference voltages provide a way of translating the internal supply voltage level to the pad voltage level to enable/disable the tunable source termination. Also, it provides a way to minimize leakage and minimize the junction stress of switching transistors in the tunable source termination as well as the transmitter. The dependency between the reference voltages and the far-end termination voltage makes this design more portable to other supply voltages and other technologies specifications other than HDMI. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096849 | OPTIMIZED SELECTION OF TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL RESPECTING THRESHOLDS - In the method for management of data transmissions in a network, switching means are provided, by means of which a change can be carried out between a first data transmission type and a second data transmission type, as alternative data transmission types between a transmitter and a receiver. The change is carried out on the basis of at least one respectively predetermined criterion. The first data transmission type corresponds to a transport protocol based on rate-based overload control. The second data transmission type corresponds to a transport protocol based on RTT-based overload control. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096850 | DATA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - A data communication apparatus and method that permits communication between two devices without having to perform a complicated initial connection procedure. A communication unit conducts data transmission/reception with an external data communication apparatus, and a controller controls the communication unit to operate in one of a network mode or a broadcast mode. The network mode conducts network communication via connection through an initial connection procedure with the external data communication apparatus and the broadcast mode receives or transmits data to/from the external data communication apparatus according to a predetermined broadcast method. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096851 | CODEBOOK GENERATING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A CODEBOOK FOR MULTI-POLARIZED MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS - A communication apparatus and method include: selecting, as a precoding matrix, one of pre-stored at least one matrix W | 2011-04-28 |
20110096852 | RADIO RECEPTION DEVICE, RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND FEEDBACK METHOD - Provided are a radio reception device, a radio transmission device, and a feedback method which can uniformly guarantee the feedback accuracy of an average CQI even when the transmission band width is different. A channel estimation unit ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096853 | Channel estimation in communications - A time averaging filter for channel estimation is described. Different time averaging is used for different taps or tones of a communication system. Two methods are suggested for determining the time-averaging filter for channel estimation for the communication systems without prior knowledge of SNR, channel Doppler and fading statistics. The first method includes a bank of different filters, each tuned for optimality in a certain range of SNR and Doppler. For each tone in the frequency domain (or tap in the time domain), the first method selects a filter among the set of filters that minimizes a certain computed metric. The second method directly computes, at each tone (or tap), the “best” filter in a least-squares sense, using empirically determined second-order statistics. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096854 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM UTILIZING ORTHOGONAL LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATED WAVEFORMS - An orthogonal linear frequency modulation (OLFM) communications system where orthogonal sub-sweeps experience the same channel condition and subsequent SNR allowing for uniform power allocation and data modulation per sub-sweep and an efficient exchange of modulation parameters for more optimized communications. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096855 | POLARIZATION DIVISION MULTIPLEXED OPTICAL ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER - Provided is a polarization division multiplexed optical OFDM transmitter. The polarization division multiplexed optical OFDM transmitter includes a data demultiplexer, a training symbol generation unit and an optical up-converter and polarization division multiplexing unit. The data demultiplexer divides a transmission signal into a plurality of groups. The training symbol generation unit allocates a plurality of training symbols for each OFDM data which is included in the respective multiplexed groups, and allocates repetitive data in a time domain for the respective training symbols for data of 0 to periodically appear for the respective training symbols in a frequency domain. The optical up-converter and polarization division multiplexing unit performs optical frequency band conversion and polarization division multiplexing on an output of the training symbol generation unit to output a polarization division multiplexed optical OFDM signal corresponding to a plurality of polarization components. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096856 | OFDM TRANSMITTER AND METHOD FOR MULTI-USER MIMO TRANSMISSIONS - An orthogonal-frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) transmitter is configured to transmit a data unit in accordance with a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique over a wideband channel comprising a 20 MHz channel and another channel using a plurality of spatially diverse antennas. The transmitter is further configured to include in the data unit, a parameter indicating a modulation and coding scheme and a parameter indicating number of spatial streams. Each of the spatial streams is encoded and beamformed for receipt by one or more different receiving stations. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096857 | QUALITY CONTROL SCHEME FOR MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM) SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for optimizing the system capacity of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system that uses with Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas. In a receiver, a target quality of service (QoS) metric and reference data rate are set. The target QoS metric may be set to a predetermined value and/or may be adjusted dynamically with respect to packet error rate (PER) by a slow outer-loop control processor. The QoS of received signals are compared to the target QoS. Depending on the comparison, the receiver generates a channel quality indicator (CQI) which is sent to the transmitter. The CQI is a one or two bit indicator which indicates to the transmitter to disable, adjust or maintain data transmission rates of particular sub-carriers, groups of sub-carriers per transmit antenna, or groups of sub-carriers across all transmit antennas. At the transmitter, the transmitted data rate is disabled, adjusted or maintained. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096858 | MIMO DECODING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for decoding Spatial-Multiplexing MIMO in a system with 2 transmit (Tx) antennas, comprising: A. The baseband signal model is written using vector-notation, wherein, in the case of a system with 2 Tx antennas, the equation can be written with separated channel-matrix columns; B. For all M possibilities of the first symbol vector-element component s | 2011-04-28 |
20110096859 | METHOD FOR FEEDBACK AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A CODEBOOK IN MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM - A feedback method for a multi-antenna system is disclosed. The feedback method for use in the multi-antenna system can reduce an amount of transmission (Tx) feedback information associated with a precoding matrix (i.e., a codebook). For example, a single codebook may include precoding matrixes associated with several ranks. A basic matrix constructing the precoding matrix is extended to a frequency axis, such that it can be used as a Cyclic Delay Diversity (CDD) structure. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096860 | Multi-Antenna Communication Systems Utilizing RF-Based and Baseband Signal Weighting and Combining - A receiver operatively coupled to an antenna structure capable of receiving a first plurality of RF signals is disclosed herein. The receiver includes an RF processing network operative to perform weighting and combining operations within the RF domain using the first plurality of RF signals so as to produce a second plurality of RF signals. Also provided is a downconverter configured to downconvert the second plurality of RF signals into a second plurality of down-converted signals. In alternate implementations certain of the weighting and combining operations are performed at baseband and the remainder effected within the RF domain. A transmitter of corresponding architecture is also disclosed. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096861 | LOW COMPLEXITY METHOD AND APPARATUS TO APPEND A CYCLIC EXTENSION TO A CONTINUOUS PHASE MODULATION (CPM) SIGNAL - The present invention provides a new and unique method and apparatus for cyclically extending a continuous phase modulation (CPM) block, which features transmitting each information symbol and its antipodal counterpart in any order within a data portion of the continuous phase modulation block. The continuous phase modulation block includes a sequence of N/2 M-ary information symbols that are spread over N symbol intervals, and the cyclic extension includes the first G M-ary symbols sent in the data portion of the block being appended to the continuous phase modulation block. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096862 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - Even when a CCFI error has arisen, there is prevented occurrence of a packet error, which would otherwise be caused during the first receiving operation for reasons of erroneous storage of data into a buffer, and data are prevented from being synthesized while deviated during retransmission. A transmission Circular Buffer sequentially reads encode word data to be transmitted in reverse order from end to top like D | 2011-04-28 |
20110096863 | WIRELESS TRANSMITTER FOR HIGH MOBILITY AND HIGH THROUGHPUT AND MODE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A wireless transmitter which performs reconfiguration for high mobility and high throughput includes: an operation mode decision unit configured to decide an operation mode depending on mobility, a required data rate, and wireless link performance; a clock generation unit configured to generate a plurality of clock signals; a selection unit configured to select necessary clock signals among the plurality of clock signals generated by the clock generation unit according to the operation mode decided by the operation mode decision unit; and at least one or more digital modulation units configured to modulate transmitted data by adjusting a signal bandwidth of a frequency domain and a transmission time of a time domain using the clock signals selected by the selection unit. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096864 | PROGRAMMABLE DIGITAL CLOCK CONTROL SCHEME TO MINIMIZE SPUR EFFECT ON A RECEIVER - A device includes an analog front end for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal. The analog front end contains a local oscillator that is tuned to a local oscillation frequency for down-converting the received RF signal to a first intermediate frequency (IF) signal. An analog-to-digital converter module converts the first IF signal to a digital baseband signal. The device also includes a digital processing unit for processing the baseband signal. The digital processing unit generates multiple clock signals from a reference oscillator having digitally adjustable reference frequency. The reference frequency and the multiple clock signals may interfere with the local oscillator and generate several frequency spurs that may fall within the bandwidth of the received RF signal. In a preferred embodiment, the digital processing unit adjusts the reference frequency by a certain amount so that the spurs do not fall within the RF signal bandwidth. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096865 | Digital predistortion transmitter - There is a need for effectively compensating distortion when a predistortion transmitter is subject to not only a memory effect due to nonlinearity of an amplifier, but also a modulator's DC offset, IQ unbalance, or local quadrature error. A predistortor to be used is a polynomial predistortor including a polynomial basis generation portion and an inner product calculation portion. The polynomial basis generation portion delays a real part and an imaginary part of a complex input signal Sx=Ix+jQx for up to M samples to generate 2(M+1) signals, duplicately combines these signals to generate monomials having maximum degree N, and outputs, as a basis vector, all or part of the monomials depending or needs. The inner product calculation portion performs an inner product calculation using a coefficient vector, i.e., a set of complex numbers sized equally to the basis vector to find a polynomial value and outputs the value as a complex signal. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096866 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR COMMUNICATING A DATA BLOCK IN A MULTI CARRIER MODULATION COMMUNICATION SCHEME TOGETHER WITH AN IDENTIFICATION SEQUENCE SUPERIMPOSED THEREON - Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating communication of a data block communicated in an OFDM-based, communication system. Side-information required to be transmitted by many PAPR reduction schemes in OFDM is carried and transmitted by sending orthogonal binary sequences superimposed on the OFDM data sequence carrying the information to be transmitted. In one embodiment, a selected scrambling sequence is multiplied with an input data block to yield a desired Peak-To-Average Power Ratio. An identification sequence one-to-one corresponding to the scrambling sequence is superimposed on the resultant sequence and transmitted together. In the receiving station, the identification sequence is determined through correlation operations. This also determines the scrambling sequence. The effects of both sequences are finally removed from the information-carrying data sequence. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096867 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Pilot Signals in OFDM Frames - In a telecommunication network, pilot signals are provided in OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) frames to enable the SC-FDMA (the single-carrier frequency division multiple access) concept to work with the OFDMA concept in uplink substantially harmonically, wherein each OFDM frame includes a predetermined plurality of OFDM symbols, and at least one pilot signal is placed in addition to other data and/or signals within at least one existing OFDM symbol of said predetermined plurality of OFDM symbols. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096868 | TRANSMISSION OF A PIECE OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ACROSS A NETWORK TO A TELECOMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method is provided for transmitting at least one piece of multimedia content to at least one telecommunication terminal, comprising: a step of sending, by a transmitting device, a request to establish a communication link-up between the transmitting device and the terminal, said sending step being carried out after an instance of one event from a predetermined set of events, said terminal to be notified of said request; and a step of transmitting said piece of multimedia content across said link-up in the form of a telephone and/or television flow, said stage of transmission to be carried out after detecting the actual establishment of said link-up. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096869 | SIGNAL CONVERTER, WIRELESS SIGNAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS SIGNAL RECEPTION SYSTEM - A signal converter | 2011-04-28 |
20110096870 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VECTORED DATA TRANSMISSION - An apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit data via a plurality of communication channels of a communication connection. The transmitter is further configured to transmit a same sequence for vector training on each of the communication channels. The sequences for at least two of the communication channels are shifted with respect to each other. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096871 | Data transmission method - A data transmission method is disclosed, and the method comprises: encoding binary data to be transmitted with encoding principle as follows: encoding binary data x1 in the manner of no jumping at middle phase; encoding binary data x2 in the manner of jumping at middle phase; and after encoding two binary data x1 consecutively with high level of no jumping at middle phase, encoding the immediate following binary data x1 with low level of no jumping at middle phase; encoding binary data x1 with high level of no jumping at middle phase, wherein the binary data x1 follows binary data x1 encoded by using low level of no jumping at middle phase; and encoding binary data x1 immediately following binary data x2 by using high level of no jumping at middle phase; modulating the encoded data; and transmitting the modulated signal. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096872 | CORRELATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A correlation device and method is provided. According to the present invention, the correlation device comprises a first signal path for receiving a received signal; at least one second signal path for receiving the received signal and eliminating effect of a subcarrier component of the received signal; and a correlation unit couple to the first signal path and each second signal path, for selecting an output of one of the first and second signal paths to execute signal correlation. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096873 | METHOD FOR POST DETECTION IMPROVEMENT IN MIMO - A two-stage approach to MIMO detection improves receiver performance in a computationally tractable manner. A whitening joint detector processes a MIMO symbol stream. The whitening joint detector includes a pre-filter operative to suppress a first subset of the received MIMO streams as colored noise. The whitening joint detector further includes a primary joint detector operative to process a second subset of the MIMO streams and to output a preliminary solution obtained by minimizing a whitening joint detection metric. A secondary detector then operates in the vicinity of the primary joint detector preliminary solution. The secondary detector improves the preliminary solution by comparison to a full joint detection metric. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096874 | WIDEBAND PERSONAL-RADIO RECORDER - Methods and apparatuses for concurrently recording multiple radio channels. A recorder includes a wideband tuner having a complex mixer for converting a received wideband RF signal to a complex signal that is then digitized. A digital front end module applies a number of complex down-mixers to the digital complex signal to generate the multiple radio channels in the baseband. Each one of the multiple radio channels in the baseband is further filtered, decimated and demodulated. A digital signal processing unit encodes each demodulated channel according to an audio compression format and stores the then encoded audio content to a storage unit. An RBDS decoder parses radio data service information associated with the stored audio content. The radio data service information is stored in a first section of the storage unit while the encoded audio content is stored in a second section of the storage unit. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096875 | Adaptive Digital Baseband Receiver - An adaptive digital baseband receiver is described in which operating parameters of the receiver, such as bit-widths and operating frequencies, are determined that achieve a target bit-error-ratio (BER) as a function of received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and interference levels in a wireless channel and enable the receiver to consume a minimum amount of power. Over consumption of power may be avoided due to a functional relationship between optimal resolution and input signal conditions. In exemplary embodiments, the adaptive digital receiver is provided that adjusts bit-widths and operating frequency at power efficient levels while meeting a target BER. Simulations can be used to determine a relation between bit-width, operating frequency, and input signal conditions, for example. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096876 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A PHASE ERROR OF A SIGNAL - A method for receiving a signal having a succession of symbols, transmitted by a digital modulation, each symbol transmitted having a phase and an amplitude belonging to a set of values in finite number, the method includes evaluating a phase error (PHE) on a received symbol (S), resulting from a signal transmission noise, correcting the phase of the received symbol according to the phase error evaluated, demodulating the symbol corrected in phase, and modeling the transmission noise by a Gaussian component not correlated with the signal received and defined by a power and an interference component defined by an amplitude and which phase is substantially uniformly distributed, the phase error of the received symbol evaluated on the basis of the power of Gaussian component and the amplitude of the interference component. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096877 | WIRELESS RECEIVER AND FEEDBACK METHOD - Disclosed is a wireless receiver and feedback method for reducing the amount of CQI feedback in a MIMO channel. A channel estimation unit ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096878 | Delta-Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter, Radio Receiver, Communication Apparatus, Method, and Computer Program - A delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is disclosed. The ADC comprises a forward path structure; a feedback structure; and a first subtraction element arranged to receive an input signal to the delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter and a feedback signal from the feedback structure and output a difference signal, which is a difference between the input signal and the feedback signal, to the forward path structure, wherein the forward path structure comprises a quantizer arranged to convert an analog input signal to a digital representation; a forward path filter arranged to input the difference signal and provide an output signal to the quantizer, and the feedback structure comprises a first and a second branch, wherein the first branch comprises a first digital-to-analog converter arranged to provide output signals to the subtraction element; and a first feedback filter having a gain to frequency characteristic such that frequencies that are desired in the analog-to-digital conversion, compared to undesired frequencies, are attenuated in the feedback structure, and the second branch comprises a second digital-to-analog converter, wherein the first and second branches are fed by the digital representation and the outputs of the first and second branches are merged in a second subtraction element arranged to output a signal, which is a difference between the signals from the first and second branches, to the first subtraction element. A radio receiver, communication apparatus, method for analog-to-digital conversion, and computer program for implementing the method are also disclosed. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096879 | FILTER PROCESSING DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The present invention provides a technique for changing the number of taps in filter processing without the need for execution of branch processing. A filter processing device comprises: an arithmetic circuit that performs arithmetic processing for filtering operation; an internal register that retains data to be subjected to arithmetic processing in the arithmetic circuit and that receives the result of arithmetic processing from the arithmetic circuit as data to be written back thereto; and a data generator that generates data to be fed to the arithmetic circuit through use of the data retained in the internal register. Further, in the filter processing device, there is disposed a tap number control circuit that is capable of controlling the number of taps in filter processing according to a tap control signal applied thereto. In this configuration, no branch processing is required for controlling the number of taps by the use of the tap number control circuit. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096880 | Lossless Transfer Of Events Across Clock Domains - Transfer circuits ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096881 | Method and Device for Clock Data Recovery - A method for the recovery of a clock signal from a data signal, wherein the edges of the data signal and the clock signal are each presented by an ordered sequence of timing points, comprising determining missing edges in the sequence of data-signal edges, inserting new data-signal edges (D | 2011-04-28 |
20110096882 | Method and apparatus for deskewing data transmissions - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for addressing the issue of clock skew in a data signal while making efficient use of space on an integrated chip (IC) by utilising a physical delay line controlled by a state machine in conjunction with pre-requisite chip architecture. The pre-requisite chip architecture samples the incoming data signal in response to a clocking signal input from the physical delay line; the physical delay line responds to commands from the state machine to increment the delay of the physical delay line to produce samples which describe the incoming data signal and delineate its data valid window. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096883 | SYMBOL SYNCHRONIZATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PASSIVE RFID READER - Provided is a symbol synchronization apparatus and method of a passive REID reader. The symbol synchronization apparatus includes: an edge clock detector generating edge clocks by detecting phase inversion positions of a received signal; a preamble detector detecting a preamble section by analyzing the generation times of the edge clocks; a symbol decision time extractor extracting a symbol decision time by averaging distances between the edge clocks consecutively generated in the preamble section, when the preamble section is detected; and a symbol decider deciding a symbol by analyzing the magnitude of the received signal, when the time reaches the symbol decision time. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096884 | System and method for implementing a phase detector to support a data transmission procedure - A system and method for effectively supporting a data transmission procedure includes a phase-locked loop with a phase detector that compares a clock signal and input data to generate a phase error signal for adjusting the clock signal that is generated from a voltage-controlled oscillator. The phase detector includes a positive-edge detector circuit that generates an edge detection signal P to indicate whether data transitions are present in the input data. The phase detector also includes a lead/lag indicator circuit that generates a lead/lag indicator signal T to indicate whether the clock signal is early or late with respect to the input data. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096885 | PLASMA DRIVEN NEUTRON/GAMMA GENERATOR - An apparatus for the generation of neutron/gamma rays is described including a chamber which defines an ion source, said apparatus including an RF antenna positioned outside of or within the chamber. Positioned within the chamber is a target material. One or more sets of confining magnets are also provided to create a cross B magnetic field directly above the target. To generate neutrons/gamma rays, the appropriate source gas is first introduced into the chamber, the RF antenna energized and a plasma formed. A series of high voltage pulses are then applied to the target. A plasma sheath, which serves as an accelerating gap, is formed upon application of the high voltage pulse to the target. Depending upon the selected combination of source gas and target material, either neutrons or gamma rays are generated, which may be used for cargo inspection, and the like. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096886 | Method and System for Detecting Special Nuclear Materials - A method and system for detecting special nuclear materials are disclosed. Said method and system detect the special nuclear materials by making use of the photofission characteristic and thermal neutron induced fission characteristic thereof. In one preferred embodiment, the high density and/or high atomic number region in the object to be detected is also detected first as a suspicious region. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096887 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MEDICAL ISOTOPES - A hybrid nuclear reactor that is operable to produce a medical isotope includes an ion source operable to produce an ion beam from a gas, a target chamber including a target that interacts with the ion beam to produce neutrons, and an activation cell positioned proximate the target chamber and including a parent material that interacts with the neutrons to produce the medical isotope via a fission reaction. An attenuator is positioned proximate the activation cell and selected to maintain the fission reaction at a subcritical level, a reflector is positioned proximate the target chamber and selected to reflect neutrons toward the activation cell, and a moderator substantially surrounds the activation cell, the attenuator, and the reflector. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096888 | APPARATUS FOR ULTRASONIC INSPECTION OF REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL - An object of the present invention is to provide an inspection apparatus for inspecting weld zones in a reactor pressure vessel, the inspection apparatus comprising: an ultrasonic probe | 2011-04-28 |
20110096889 | INDEXING DEVICE INSTALLATION UNIT - Maintainability of a traversing in-core probe is improved without any hindrance to passage and the like in an access tunnel in which an indexing device of a TIP system is installed. An indexing device installation unit provided in the TIP system includes: a base on which an indexing device of a traversing in-core probe used in a nuclear reactor is mounted; a holding part holding the base in a suspended state in an access tunnel formed in a nuclear reactor containment vessel; and a lift mechanism moving up and down the base held by the holding part together with the indexing device. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096890 | MODULAR RADIAL NEUTRON REFLECTOR - A lower internals nuclear reactor structure having a tubular core barrel with an upper and lower open end, coaxially supported therein. A reflector having an outside curvature that substantially matches the curvature of the inside surface of the core barrel and substantially contacts the inside surface substantially over an axial length of the core, is fixedly connected to the inside surface of the core barrel at a plurality of axial and circumferential locations to be substantially supported by the inside surface of the core barrel. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096891 | Dynamic Power Noise Event Counter - An apparatus and method for detecting noise in a power supply voltage. A circuit may include a voltage generation unit coupled to receive a power supply voltage, and a detection unit. The voltage generation unit may generate first and second voltages using the power supply voltage, and may vary the relationship therebetween responsive to fluctuations in the power supply voltage. A detection unit may detect the variations in the relationship between the first and second voltages that result from fluctuations in the power supply voltage. Responsive to detecting the variations, the detection unit may generate pulses to be provided to a counter. The counter may update a count value responsive to receiving pulses. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096892 | SPECTRAL CT - An imaging system includes a radiation source ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096893 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING SPECIFIC CYCLE PHASES OF A BEATING HEART IN A PATIENT WITHIN THE SCOPE OF A CT EXAMINATION AND CT SYSTEM - A method and a CT system are disclosed for predicting specific cardiac cycle phases within the scope of a CT examination, wherein signal profiles of the heart are continuously recorded during the examination over a plurality of cardiac cycles, wherein times of successive cycle positions with the same characteristics are determined with the aid of the signal profiles and the successive cycle lengths of the cardiac cycles are determined with the aid of the determined times, wherein typical patterns in successive cycle lengths over a first number of past and successive cardiac cycles are sought after and a current or future cycle length is determined by recording cycle patterns in a second, smaller number of cycle lengths including their typical successive cycle length within the first number of current past cycle lengths, and predicting, using probabilistic methods, the cycle length that follows the last determined cycle pattern on the basis of the cycle patterns currently determined during the CT examination. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096894 | X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray tube, first detector, second detector, arm, sliding mechanism, tilting mechanism, and control unit. The X-ray tube includes an anode to generate X-rays upon receiving electrons. The first detector has the first pixel size. The second detector has the second pixel size smaller than the first pixel size. The arm pivotally supports the X-ray tube, first detector, and second detector. The sliding mechanism slidably supports the first and second detectors so as to irradiate one of the first and second detectors with the X-rays generated by the X-ray tube. The tilting mechanism tiltably supports the X-ray tube to change the size of an effective X-ray focal spot on the anode. The control unit controls the sliding of the first and second detectors by the sliding mechanism upon interlocking with the tilting of the X-ray tube by the tilting mechanism. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096895 | COLLIMATOR MODULE, X-RAY DETECTOR, X-RAY CT DEVICE, AND ASSEMBLING METHOD OF COLLIMATOR MODULE - A collimator module ( | 2011-04-28 |
20110096896 | METHOD FOR THE TOMOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENT OF MECHANICAL WORKPIECES - In a method for measuring mechanical workpieces by tomography, a workpiece and radiation penetrating the workpiece are moved relative to one another step-by-step. A two-dimensional image of the workpiece is generated in an imaging plane from the interaction of the workpiece and the radiation in each movement position of the workpiece. In addition, a three-dimensional representation of the workpiece is computed from the two-dimensional images. From at least two two-dimensional images showing a regular actual structure existing within the workpiece, points at a high-contrast transition are registered. A three-dimensional equivalent body is determined from the position of the points, and said equivalent body is compared to a predefined nominal structure. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096897 | RADIATION TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - Radiation tomography apparatus of this invention has a shield that shields entering of radiation flying from outside of the gantry. The shield is formed of shielding pieces. Consequently, there is no need for manufacturing the shield in a large and expensive furnace. Accordingly, the radiation tomography apparatus may be provided that is easily manufactured and achieves suppressed cost. Moreover, with the radiation tomography apparatus of this invention, maintenance may be performed through removal of the shielding pieces without removing the entire shield. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096898 | X-RAY DIFFRACTION AND FLUORESCENCE - An instrument capable of both X-ray diffraction, XRD, and X-ray fluorescence measurements, XRF, arranges an X-ray source | 2011-04-28 |
20110096900 | Electrode Inspection Device for Battery and Method of the Same - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for inspecting the electrodes of a battery, which inspects the arrangement state of anodes and cathodes in the battery in a non-destructive manner (using X-rays). The apparatus radiates X-ray beams onto a battery in which a plurality of plate-shaped anodes and a plurality of plate-shaped cathodes are alternately stacked and inspects an arrangement state of the anodes and the cathodes. The apparatus includes a first X-ray source part for radiating a first X-ray beam onto the battery. A first detector detects the first X-ray beam having transmitted through the battery. A control unit receives an image of the battery output from the first detector, calculates a step difference between each anode and each cathode, and then inspects an arrangement state of the anode and the cathode. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096901 | Security System for Screening People - The present invention is directed towards an X-ray people screening system capable of rapidly screening people for detection of metals, low Z materials (plastics, ceramics and illicit drugs) and other contraband which might be concealed beneath the person's clothing or on the person's body. In an exemplary embodiment, the scanning system has two scanning modules that are placed in parallel, yet opposing positions relative to each other. The two modules are spaced to allow a subject, such as a person, to stand and pass between the two scanning modules. The first module and second module each include a radiation source (such as X-ray radiation) and a detector array. The subject under inspection stands between the two modules such that a front side of the subject faces one module and the back side of the subject faces the other module. | 2011-04-28 |
20110096902 | HEATING APPARATUS FOR X-RAY INSPECTION - In a heating apparatus for X-ray inspection which heats at least one surface of a sample ( | 2011-04-28 |