| 27th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 37 |
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| 20140185640 | Enhanced Optical Gain and Lasing in Indirect Gap Semiconductor Thin Films and Nanostructures - Structures and methodologies to obtain lasing in indirect gap semiconductors such as Ge and Si are provided and involves excitonic transitions in the active layer comprising of at least one indirect gap layer. Excitonic density is increased at a given injection current level by increasing their binding energy by the use of quantum wells, wires, and dots with and without strain. Excitons are formed by holes and electrons in two different layers that are either adjacent or separated by a thin barrier layer, where at least one layer confining electrons and holes is comprised of indirect gap semiconductor such as Si and Ge, resulting in high optical gain and lasing using optical and electrical injection pumping. In other embodiment, structures are described where excitons formed in an active layer confining electrons in the direct gap layer and holes in the indirect gap layer; where layers are adjacent or separated by a thin barrier layer. The carrier injection structures are configured as p-n junctions and metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors. The optical cavity is realized to confine photons. In the case of MOS structures, electrons from the inversion layer, formed under the gate at voltages above threshold, are injected into one or more layers comprising of quantum wells (2-d), quantum wires (1-d) and quantum dots (0-d) structures. The confinement of photons emitted upon electron-hole recombination produces lasing in active layer comprising of dots/wells. Bipolar transistor structures can also be configured as lasers. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185641 | OPTICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An optical semiconductor device of one embodiment includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; an active layer provided on the first semiconductor layer and has a ring- or disk-like shape; a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type that is provided on the active layer and has a ring- or disk-like shape; a first electrode provided on the first semiconductor layer; and a second electrode provided on the second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer includes a first region having a ring- or disk-like shape, and a second region provided around the outer circumference of the first region and has a smaller thickness than the first region. The first electrode is provided on the second region, and a groove or holes are provided in a portion of the second region located between the first region and the first electrode. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185642 | Catalytic Generation of Metastable Singlet Oxygen - Singlet oxygen metastables can be formed. A catalytic coating is formed on an interior surface of a flow reactor, and an oxygen containing species is flowed into the flow reactor to produce singlet oxygen metastables by a chemical reaction in the presence of the catalytic coating. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185643 | PULSED BIAS CURRENT FOR GAIN SWITCHED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS FOR AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION REDUCTION - Gain switched laser diode pulses are used as seed pulses for optical pulse generation. ASE is reduced by applying a prebias to the laser diodes at an amplitude less than that associated with a laser diode threshold. An electrical seed pulse having an amplitude larger than that associated with laser threshold is applied within about 10-100 ns of the prebias pulse. The resulting laser diode pulse can be amplified in a pumped, rare earth doped optical fiber, with reduced ASE. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185644 | SPATIALLY STABLE HIGH BRIGHTNESS FIBER - Optical fibers that provide stable output beam sizes have core refractive indices that decrease non-monotonically from a core center to a core/cladding interface. A maximum refractive index of the core is situated at a radius of between about ½ and ¾ of the core radius so that a core center has a depressed refractive index. Such fibers are included in diode pumped solid state lasers to deliver pump laser power to a laser medium. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185645 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE AND MELTING PLANT HAVING AN ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE OPERATED ACCORDING TO SAID METHOD - In a method for operating an electric arc furnace operated with an alternating voltage, a structure-borne sound signal occurring on a wall of the electric arc furnace is detected, from which structure-borne sound signal a parameter characterizing the flicker properties of the electric arc furnace is calculated. At least one process variable of the electric arc furnace is controlled on the basis of the calculated parameter. An electric arc furnace operated according to the method is used in and for a melting plant. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185646 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND/OR METHODS FOR MANAGING A THERMOCOUPLE MODULE - Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, which can comprise a thermocouple input module. The thermocouple input module can be adapted to determine one or more calibration factors. The thermocouple input module can be adapted to store the calibration factors. The thermocouple input module can be adapted to apply the calibration factors to an incoming thermocouple voltage value to obtain an adjusted thermocouple voltage value. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185647 | DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE FOR TEMPERATURE SENSOR - A diagnostic device for a temperature sensor is provided in a power transfer device that transfers drive power generated by a drive power source in a vehicle. The diagnostic device includes: a warm-up state determining unit to determine whether the drive power source is in a predetermined warm-up completion state; and a low temperature offset malfunction determining unit to determine a low temperature offset malfunction in the temperature sensor when the warm-up state determining unit determines that the warm-up completion state is established, and the detected value from the temperature sensor is lower than a predetermined low temperature threshold. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185648 | PILE SENSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - A system for monitoring the forming of a solid object having a sensor string positionable in a forming structure before the curing process and a communication line extending along a string axis between a first and second end. The string further including a plurality of sensors joined to the communication line between the ends and each sensor being mounted at a set position on the line. Each sensor having a sensor body and a sensor housing and the sensor body including an electrical connecter to electrically join an electrical structure to the communication line at the set position. The electrical structure including a temperature sensor configured to monitor temperature near the set position and further including an electronic identification code corresponding to the set position of the sensor along the axis. The system further including a transmitting device for selectively communicating the temperature and identification code. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING SUBSTRATES AT BELOW DEW POINT TEMPERATURES - Disclosed systems and methods for testing a device under test (DUT) with a probe system are selected to test a DUT at a temperature below the dew point of the ambient environment surrounding the probe system. Probe systems include a measurement chamber configured to isolate a cool, dry testing environment and a measurement chamber door configured to selectively isolate the internal volume of the measurement chamber. When a DUT, that is or is included on a substrate, is tested at a low temperature, systems and methods are selected to heat the substrate in a dry environment, at least partially isolated from the measurement chamber, to at least a temperature above the dew point and/or the frost point of the ambient environment. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185650 | ALLOYED POSITION DETERMINING METHOD, ALLOYED POSITION DETERMINING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - [Object] To determine an alloyed position more precisely even in processes in which induction heating is used in a previous section of alloying, which have been becoming more common in recent years, and a steel sheet is alloyed by being gradually cooled in a heat holding zone. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185651 | MERCURY FREE THERMOMETER - A liquid-in-stem thermometer includes a bulb configured to contain a thermometric fluid and a tube in fluid communication with the bulb. The tube has an inner surface. The liquid-in-stem thermometer further includes a layer of fluoropropyltrimethoxysilane. The layer of fluoropropyltrimethoxysilane is disposed on the inner surface of the tube. The thermometric fluid is saline water. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185652 | HOLDER REPLACING MEMBER AND HOLDER ASSEMBLY INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed are a holder replacing member and a holder assembly including the same. The holder replacing member includes: a pipe-shaped conductive case; a first insulating body disposed on an inner surface of a leading end of the conductive case; a first contact pin and a second contact pin located in a hollow portion of the conductive case to be electrically connected to probes, respectively; a second insulating body electrically isolating the first contact pin, the second contact pin, and the conductive case from one another; and a female screw member coupled to an outer peripheral surface of a rear end of the conductive case to be rotated independently of the conductive case and having a female screw on an inner peripheral surface thereof. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING AN IDLE SPECTRUM - The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for obtaining an idle spectrum. The method includes: obtaining, by a central management unit, configuration information of a transmitter of an authorized system, and obtaining geographic location information of candidate sense nodes; selecting, by the central management unit, sense nodes from the candidate sense nodes according to the configuration information and the geographic location information, and informing the selected sense nodes to perform spectrum sensing; and receiving, by the central management unit, sensing results of the selected sense nodes, and obtaining information of an idle spectrum according to the sensing results. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185654 | ORTHOGONAL FREEQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING-CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM - An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-code division multiple access (CDMA) system is disclosed. The system includes a transmitter and a receiver. At the transmitter, a spreading and subcarrier mapping unit spreads an input data symbol with a complex quadratic sequence code to generate a plurality of chips and maps each chip to one of a plurality of subcarriers. An inverse discrete Fourier transform is performed on the chips mapped to the subcarriers and a cyclic prefix (CP) is inserted to an OFDM frame. A parallel-to-serial converter converts the time-domain data into a serial data stream for transmission. At the receiver, a serial-to-parallel converter converts received data into multiple received data streams and the CP is removed from the received data. A discrete Fourier transform is performed on the received data streams and equalization is performed. A despreader despreads an output of the equalizer to recover the transmitted data. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185655 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING A REFERENCE CLOCK OF A GPS RECEIVER - An approach is provided for correcting a reference clock of a GPS receiver. The approach involves determining one or more frequency offset values. The approach also involves determining one or more codes associated with one or more satellites. The approach further involves determining a second code associated with the one or more satellites. The approach additionally involves determining one or more delay values between the second code and the one or more first codes. The approach also involves determining one or more proportional values based on the one or more delay values and a determined correlation. The approach further involves determining one or more correlation peak values and determining one or more estimated frequency offset error values based on the one or more correlation peak values. The approach additionally involves causing a calibrated reference clock frequency value to change to a recalibrated reference clock frequency value based on the estimated frequency offset error values. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185656 | TECHNIQUES TO ACCOMMODATE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF DEVICES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - An apparatus, a method and a machine-readable storage medium to accommodate both high function and low cost wireless devices in a wireless network. An exemplary apparatus includes a receiver to wirelessly receive a first packet comprising first and second shifting pilot signals amidst first data symbols transmitted via multiple subcarriers in symbol sets; a transmitter to wireless transmit a second packet; and logic to track a phase shift using the first and second shifting pilot signals, to configure the receiver to compensate for the shift in phase, to refrain from using reception of the first and second shifting pilot signals to update an initial channel estimate derived from a preamble of the first packet, and to transmit third and fourth shifting pilot signals amidst second data symbols of the second packet. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185657 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING SOFT-DECISION REED-SOLOMON DECODING TO IMPROVE CABLE MODEM AND CABLE GATEWAY PERFORMANCE - A system and method are provided for implementing a soft Reed-Solomon (RS) decoding scheme, technique or algorithm to improve physical layer performance in cable modems and cable gateways. At 1024-QAM, a receiver is provided in which a signal to noise ratio is reduced by at least about 1 dB relaxing design considerations and specifications for other components in the system including for the tuner. A soft-RS-symbol generation scheme is provided to enable soft-input RC decoding in a forward error correction (FEC) module connected to a QAM demodulator. The RS decoding scheme is implemented without significantly complicating hardware or processing overhead. A typical receiver hardware requirement in an FEC module to implement the disclosed scheme may be comparatively modest, e.g., on an order of approximately 50K gates. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185658 | SERDES DATA SAMPLING GEAR SHIFTER - A SerDes data sampling controller that includes a gear shifting data sampling clock that zeroes the data sampling skew at the center of the unit interval during the CDR phase lock stage, and then skews the data sample timing away from the center of the unit interval as the DFE coefficients adapt during the data transfer stage. This allows the controller to implement the best (unskewed) data sample timing during the CDR phase locking stage, and then skew the data sample timing after the DFE coefficients have adapted to provide the best (skewed) data sample timing for data bit sampling during the data transfer stage. The data sampling gear shifter may apply a variable skew value to the transition sampling or quadrature (Q) data sampling clock differentially varying the quadrature (Q) transition sampling clock from the inphase (I) data sampling clock. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185659 | Communication System Capable of Measuring Crosstalk in Legacy Line - A DSL transmitter and receiver are disclosed that are capable of accurately measuring crosstalk in G.vector-compliant DSL lines resulting from a legacy line. During crosstalk measurement, the legacy line can be placed in a showtime mode. Once in showtime mode, a data signal designated for the legacy line is reduced in power spectrum density and/or spectrum to reduce its effects on crosstalk measurements. An O-P-Vector-1 signal is then superposed on the reduced data signal, and the resulting test signal is transmitted over the legacy line while sync signals are transmitted over neighboring G.vector lines. The receiver can then accurately measure the crosstalk on the neighboring lines, and report back to the transceiver for adjustments. A similar configuration can be performed in a diagnostic mode of the legacy line. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185660 | WIRELESS RECEPTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CHANNEL EFFECT THEREOF - A wireless reception system includes a reception module, a preliminary estimation module, an equalization module and a selection module. The reception module receives a reference signal and at least one input signal transmitted via a multipath environment. The reference signal is associated with a known signal unaffected by the multipath environment. The preliminary estimation module generates a plurality of candidate channel effects according to the at least one input signal. The equalization module performs equalization on the reference signal according to the candidate channel effects to generate a plurality of equalization results. From the equalization results, the selection module selects an optimal equalization result that is most similar to the known signal, and selects the candidate channel effect corresponding to the optimal equalization result to represent the multipath environment. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185661 | HIGH SPEED RECEIVERS CIRCUITS AND METHODS - The present invention provides GPA embodiments. In some embodiments, a GPA stage with a negative capacitance unit is provided. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185662 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR PHASE TRACKING FOR MULTI-MODE OPERATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Logic may comprise a single phase tracking implementation for all bandwidths of operation and the logic may adaptively change pre-defined and stored track parameters if the receiving packet is 1 MHz bandwidth. Logic may detect a packet and long training fields before performing a 1 MHz classification. Logic may auto-detect 1 MHz bandwidth transmissions by a property of the long training field sequences. Logic may auto-detect 1 MHz bandwidth transmissions by detecting a Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) modulated first signal field symbol rather than the Quadrature Binary Phase Shift Keying (QBPSK) associated with the 2 MHz or greater bandwidth transmissions. Logic may perform an algorithm to determine an estimated phase correction value for a given orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol and several embodiments integrate this value with an intercept multiplier that may be 0.2 for 1 MHz transmissions and, e.g., 0.5 for 2 MHz or greater bandwidth communication. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185663 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, COMMUNICATION UNIT AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED AMPLITUDE RESOLUTION OF AN RF-DAC - An integrated circuit includes: a digitally-controlled power generation stage for converting an input signal to a radio frequency (RF) carrier, the digitally-controlled power generation stage including a plurality of selectable switching devices capable of adjusting an envelope of the RF carrier; and a pulse width modulator (PWM) generator arranged to generate a PWM control signal according to a fractional word and operably coupleable to the plurality of selectable switching devices of the digitally-controlled power generation stage; wherein the PWM generator inputs the PWM control signal to a subset of the plurality of the selectable switching devices such that a PWM signal adjusts the envelope of the RF carrier output from the digitally-controlled power generation stage. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185664 | INTER-LAYER PREDICTION USING SAMPLE-ADAPTIVE ADJUSTMENTS FOR BIT DEPTH SCALABLE VIDEO CODING - An apparatus for coding video data according to certain aspects includes a memory unit and a processor in communication with the memory unit. The memory unit stores video data. The video data may include a base layer comprising samples with a lower bit depth and an enhancement layer comprising samples with a higher bit depth. The processor predicts the values of samples in the enhancement layer based on the values of samples in the base layer. The prediction performed by the processor includes applying a preliminary mapping to the base layer samples to obtain preliminary predictions, and then applying adaptive adjustments to the preliminary predictions to obtain refined predictions. Parameters used for the adaptive adjustments may depend on the values and distribution of base layer samples. The processor may encode or decode the video data. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185665 | HIGH-FREQUENCY-PASS SAMPLE ADAPTIVE OFFSET IN VIDEO CODING - This disclosure presents techniques for sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering that focus on filtering the changed region of a picture or layer (e.g., the high frequency component of video blocks of a picture or layer). In general, the techniques of this disclosure may be referred to as High-Frequency-Pass SAO (HSAO) filtering. In one example, a method for coding video data comprises obtaining a decoded block of video data, separating the decoded block of video data into a low-frequency component and a high-frequency component, applying an SAO filter to the high-frequency component to generate a SAO filtered high-frequency component, and combining the SAO filtered high-frequency component and the low-frequency component to generate a filtered decoded block of video data. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185666 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOVING IMAGE ENCODING AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOVING IMAGE DECODING - According to certain embodiment, there is provided a moving image encoding apparatus in which a first encoding unit performs a first encoding process on an input image to generate first encoded data and to perform a first decoding process on the first encoded data to generate a first decoded image, a difference calculating unit generates a difference image between the input image and the first decoded image, a first pixel range converting unit converts pixel values of the difference image to be within a first specific range to generate a first converted image, a second encoding unit performs a second encoding process on the first converted image to generate second encoded data, the second encoding process being different from the first encoding process and the first specific range is a range including a range of pixel values that can be encoded by the second encoding unit. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185667 | EFFICIENT RE-TRANSCODING OF KEY-FRAME-ALIGNED UNENCRYPTED ASSETS - Systems and methods are provided for re-transcoding portions of a digital media file while maintaining key-frame alignment across a set of digital media files having the same content. Instead of re-transcoding the entire set of digital media files if a portion of a single video fails quality, the disclosed systems and methods allow only the failing portion of the video to be re-transcoded. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185668 | METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE ENTROPY CODING OF TREE STRUCTURES - In 3D mesh coding, the geometry data is compressed by spatial tree based approaches. Bitstreams that result from the traversal of a tree structure of spatial tree based approaches for encoding 3D mesh models have systematically special redundancies, which is exploited for further improving the mesh model compression. A method for encoding a bitstream comprises steps of defining at least a first and a second symbol group of binary symbols, with S1 being a subset of S2, determining within the bitstream first portions, second portions and third portions, wherein first portions have Th1 or more consecutive S1 symbols and second portions have Th2 or more consecutive S2 symbols, encoding the bitstream, wherein first portions, second portions and third portions are encoded using different codes, and encoding values indicating the boundary positions between the first, second and third portions in the bitstream. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185669 | INTER-LAYER CODING UNIT QUADTREE PATTERN PREDICTION - Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations for inter-layer coding unit quadtree pattern prediction. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185670 | PROGRESSIVE REFINEMENT WITH TEMPORAL SCALABILITY SUPPORT IN VIDEO CODING - An example method of decoding video data includes receiving information indicating a picture order count (POC) value of a last picture of a plurality of pictures in a progressive refinement segment in an encoded bitstream, and decoding at least some of the pictures in the progressive refinement segment according to a progressive refinement operation based on the received information. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185671 | VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a video decoding method supporting a plurality of layers including: decoding a first layer which is referred by a target block of a second layer to be decoded; determining a size of the target block of the second layer which uses information on the first layer; and performing prediction for the target block by using the information on the first layer according to a determined result. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185672 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING APPARATUS - An image encoding method includes: generating a first bitstream by encoding an input image, and a first decoded image by encoding and decoding the input image; and generating a second bitstream by encoding the input image using the first decoded image, and a second decoded image by encoding and decoding the input image; wherein the second decoded image has resolution or image quality higher than resolution or image quality of the first decoded image, the generating of a second bitstream and a second decoded image includes generating a prediction block for a current block by intra prediction, and in the generating of a prediction block, the prediction block is generated using (i) pixels included in the second decoded image as top and left reference pixels for the current block, and (ii) pixels included in the first decoded image as right and bottom reference pixels for the current block. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185673 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING - This document discloses a method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding which support multiple layers. The method for image decoding comprises analyzing a video parameter set (VPS) extension for layer dependency on a current layer, analyzing slices for layer dependency on a current slice by determining whether not to apply layer dependency to the current slice or to apply new layer dependency to the current slice, the new layer dependency determining within a range of layer dependency analyzed from the VPS extension, and constructing a reference picture list about the current layer based on at least one of layer dependency analyzed from the VPS extension and layer dependency analyzed from the slice. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185674 | Methods and Systems for Inter-Layer Image Prediction Signaling - Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for predicting high dynamic range (HDR) image blocks with block-specific prediction data, where the systems and methods may comprise low dynamic range (LDR) image data and HDR image data for a target image block, where a scaled, offset LDR image block may be combined with HDR residual image block to form an HDR image block corresponding to the target image block. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185675 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING USING PREDICTABILITY OF INTRA-PREDICTION MODE - An apparatus and a method for video encoding/decoding using predictability of an intra-prediction mode are disclosed. The apparatus for encoding a video of the present disclosure includes: an intra-prediction mode determiner for determining an encoder prediction mode which is an intra-prediction mode of a current block of the video; an encoder for encoding a residual block generated by subtracting, from the current block, a predicted block generated by predicting the current block according to the encoder prediction mode; a mode information generator for generating mode information according to whether or not a video decoding apparatus is able to predict the encoder prediction mode; and an encoded data generator for generating encoded data including the encoded residual block and the mode information. The present disclosure can enhance compression in video encoding/decoding by using intra-prediction to predict the video with a minimum necessary bit rate. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185676 | LINE-BASED COMPRESSION FOR DIGITAL IMAGE DATA - A method of compressing digital image data is provided that includes selecting an entropy code for encoding a line of pixels in the digital image data, wherein the entropy code is selected from a plurality of variable length entropy codes, using spatial prediction to compute a pixel predictor and a pixel residual for a pixel in the line of pixels, and selectively encoding the pixel residual using one of the entropy code or run mode encoding. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185677 | ENCODING APPARATUS AND DECODING APPARATUS - An encoding apparatus having a direct mode as a prediction mode, when a pixel with opposite parity from a top field to a bottom field, for example, is referred to for obtaining a reference vector in the direct mode, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from a value of the obtained reference vector. The encoding apparatus, when a pixel with opposite parity is referred to for obtaining a first and a second direct vector by temporally scaling the corrected reference vector, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from values of the obtained direct vectors. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185678 | HEURISTIC DETECTION OF POTENTIAL DIGITAL MEDIA ARTIFACTS AND DEFECTS IN DIGITAL MEDIA ASSETS - A method, comprises monitoring a encoding process of a source video file performed by an encoder; obtaining an encoding decision parameter used to encode a picture of the source video file during the encoding process; comparing the encoding decision parameter to a threshold; based on the step of comparing, identifying the picture as a candidate picture for a visual defect or coding error; and storing a timestamp of the candidate picture. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185679 | PERFORMANCE AND BANDWIDTH EFFICIENT FRACTIONAL MOTION ESTIMATION - Described herein are techniques related to motion estimation for video encoding. In particular, integer estimation is performed on a reference video frame, and a best size macro block is determined. A fractional estimation is performed on that best size macro block. Based on the fractional estimation, a determination is made if an improvement occurs over the macro block from the integer estimation. If such an improvement occurs, then all sub shapes of the best size macro block from the integer search/estimation are updated. Furthermore, the new sub macro block is chosen as the final macro block to be used for video encoding. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185680 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE AND MULTIVIEW/3D CODING OF VIDEO INFORMATION - An apparatus configured to code (e.g., encode or decode) video information includes a memory unit and a processor in communication with the memory unit. The memory unit is configured to store video information associated with a base layer and an enhancement layer. The processor is configured to up-sample a base layer reference block by using an up-sampling filter when the base and enhancement layers have different resolutions; perform motion compensation interpolation by filtering the up-sampled base layer reference block; determine base layer residual information based on the filtered up-sampled base layer reference block; determine weighted base layer residual information by applying a weighting factor to the base layer residual information; and determine an enhancement layer block based on the weighted base layer residual information. The processor may encode or decode the video information. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185681 | Hierarchical Inter-Layer Prediction in Multi-Loop Scalable Video Coding - A method for encoding a video sequence in a scalable video encoder to generate a scalable bitstream is provided that includes encoding the video sequence in a first layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a first sub-bitstream, encoding the video sequence in a second layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a second sub-bitstream, wherein portions of the video sequence being encoded in the second layer encoder are predicted using reference portions of the video sequence encoded in the first layer encoder, combining the first sub-bitstream and the second sub-bitstream in the scalable bitstream, and signaling an indication of a highest temporal level of the first sub-bitstream comprising at least one of the reference portions in the scalable bitstream. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185682 | MOTION VECTOR PREDICTION FOR VIDEO CODING - In one example, a device for coding video data includes a video coder configured to determine a first target reference index representing a reference picture to which a candidate motion vector predictor for a current motion vector refers, determine, for the candidate motion vector predictor and during temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP) of the current motion vector, a value for an additional target reference index that is equal to a predetermined value, and code the current motion vector based at least in part on the value of the additional reference index. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185683 | VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS AND A VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS - A video encoding apparatus is a video encoding apparatus for subjecting a video image to motion compensated prediction coding, comprising an acquisition module to acquire available blocks of blocks having motion vectors from encoded blocks adjacent to a to-be-encoded block and number of the available blocks, an acquisition/selection module to select one selection block from the encoded available blocks, a selection information encoder to encode selection information specifying the selection block using a code table corresponding to the number of available blocks, and an image encoder to subject the to-be-encoded block to motion compensated prediction coding using a motion vector of the selection block. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185684 | VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS AND VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS - A video encoding apparatus is a video encoding apparatus for subjecting a video image to motion compensated prediction coding, comprising an acquisition module to acquire available blocks of blocks having motion vectors from encoded blocks adjacent to a to-be-encoded block and number of the available blocks, an acquisition/selection module to select one selection block from the encoded available blocks, a selection information encoder to encode selection information specifying the selection block using a code table corresponding to the number of available blocks, and an image encoder to subject the to-be-encoded block to motion compensated prediction coding using a motion vector of the selection block. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185685 | VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS AND A VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS - A video encoding apparatus is a video encoding apparatus for subjecting a video image to motion compensated prediction coding, comprising an acquisition module to acquire available blocks of blocks having motion vectors from encoded blocks adjacent to a to-be-encoded block and number of the available blocks, an acquisition/selection module to select one selection block from the encoded available blocks, a selection information encoder to encode selection information specifying the selection block using a code table corresponding to the number of available blocks, and an image encoder to subject the to-be-encoded block to motion compensated prediction coding using a motion vector of the selection block. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185686 | Motion Vector Processing - The embodiments relates to motion vector prediction and decoding for multi-view video content from multiple camera views ( | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185687 | SIMULTANEOUS AND LOOPLESS VECTOR CALCULATION OF ALL RUN-LEVEL PAIRS IN VIDEO COMPRESSION - A method and a decoding or coding device for calculating at least one of run and level representations of respective quantized transform coefficients representing pixel values in a block of a video picture inserted in a coefficient array is disclosed. The method and the decoding or coding device are adjusted to generate a bitmask of the quantized transform coefficients, respectively perform a look up of the 8 least significant bits and the 8 most significant bits of the bitmask in a look up table, patch the looked up lower part and upper part bytemap values and insert the bytes of the first bytemap array from index position 8 minus the number of non-zeros in the 8 least significant bits of the bitmask. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185688 | CODING SYSTEM TRANSFORM APPARATUS, CODING SYSTEM TRANSFORM METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A coding system transform apparatus includes a decoding unit configured to decode a first coded stream coded by a first coding system using a first coding parameter to acquire a decoded image, a coding unit configured to code the decoded image acquired by the decoding unit by a second coding system using a second coding parameter, and a parameter determination unit configured to determine the second coding parameter based on the first coding parameter, wherein the parameter determination unit includes a first size determination unit configured to determine a maximum block size of a second coding block size included in the second coding parameter among a plurality of coding block sizes possible in the second coding system to be a block size that is the same as a first coding block size included in the first coding parameter. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185689 | LOW COMPLEX DEBLOCKING FILTER DECISIONS - The present disclosure relates to deblocking filtering, which may be advantageously applied for block-wise encoding and decoding of images or video signals. In particular, the present disclosure relates to an improved memory management in an automated decision on whether to apply or skip deblocking filtering for a block and to selection of the deblocking filter. The decision is performed on the basis of a segmentation of blocks in such a manner that memory usage is optimized. Preferably, the selection of appropriate deblocking filters is improved so as to reduce computational expense. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185690 | MULTIMEDIA DATA STREAM FORMAT, METADATA GENERATOR, ENCODING METHOD, ENCODING SYSTEM, DECODING METHOD, AND DECODING SYSTEM - By determining multimedia positioning frames, by generating a metadata according to address information of the multimedia positioning frames and the number of multimedia frames following each of the multimedia frames, and by relocating the multimedia frames following each of the multimedia frames, a data storage amount of the metadata can be reduced. Further, when a user wishes to view a specific multimedia frame of a specific time point, the specific multimedia at the specific time point can be decoded and played without having to complete download of all multimedia frames preceding the specific time point. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185691 | Signaling Decoded Picture Buffer Size in Multi-Loop Scalable Video Coding - A method for encoding a video sequence in a scalable video encoder to generate a scalable bitstream is provided that includes encoding the video sequence in a first layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a first sub-bitstream, encoding the video sequence in a second layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a second sub-bitstream, wherein portions of the video sequence being encoded in the second layer encoder are predicted using reference portions of the video sequence encoded in the first layer encoder, combining the first sub-bitstream and the second sub-bitstream to generate the scalable bitstream, and signaling in the scalable bitstream an indication of a maximum decoded picture buffer (DPB) size needed for decoding the second sub-bitstream and the first sub-bitstream when the second sub-bitstream is a target sub-bitstream for decoding. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185692 | METHOD OF MULTIPLEXING H.264 ELEMENTARY STREAMS WITHOUT TIMING INFORMATION CODED - Embodiments of the present invention multiplex elementary streams without timing information coded to create a transport stream. In some embodiments, ‘n’ number of access units are constructed and pushed into a list one by one. Each access unit is capable of looking ahead to obtain information on timing for the next access unit. A header is constructed by calculating timing information from the topmost access unit of the list. Said header is written in the transport stream and the remaining bytes of the transport stream are filled with data from the said elementary stream. Thus the transport stream is constructed. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185693 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ADAPTIVELY FILTERING VIDEO SIGNALS - Methods and apparatuses for adaptively filtering video content are disclosed herein. An apparatus may include a filter configured to receive a video signal. The filter may further be configured to perform an up-conversion on a plurality of frames of the video signal to provide a plurality of up-converted frames. The filter may further be configured to filter the plurality of up-converted frames to provide a plurality of filtered frames and to perform a down-conversion operation on the plurality of filtered frames to provide a filtered video signal. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185694 | SIGNAL RECEIVING DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND SIGNAL RECEIVING METHOD - A signal receiving device obtains information data based on a plurality of signals received at a plurality of antennas. The signal receiving device is divided into a first receiving unit and a second receiving unit. The first receiving unit carries out certain part of an entire receiving process, and the second receiving unit carries out the remaining part of the receiving process. The first receiving unit demodulates and synthesizes the received signals and decodes the synthesized signal to recover received information data. The first receiving unit modulates the received information data to obtain a modulation signal and transmits the modulation signal to the second receiving unit via a transmission cable. The second receiving unit recovers the received information data by demodulating the modulation signal received via the transmission cable, and obtains the information data by decoding the recovered information data. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185695 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR COMMUNICATIONS IN LOW POWER WIRELESS NETWORKS - Embodiments may comprise an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system operating in the 1 GHz and lower frequency bands. In many embodiments, the physical layer logic may implement repetition logic to repeat portions of the data streams to increase the ability of a receiving device to detect and decode the data streams. In some embodiments, the repetition logic may comprise a preamble repeater to repeat the training and/or signal fields. In further embodiments, the repetition logic may comprise a payload repeater to repeat the payload one or more times. Other embodiments comprise a receiving device comprising a correlator to correlate the repeated preamble symbols to detect a communication from a transmitting device. The receiving device may also comprise correction logic to correct data streams from the communications signal based upon repetitions of the payload in the data streams. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185696 | PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER REDUCTION METHOD - A method of reducing peak-to-average power in a hybrid signal is provided. The method determines peaks in power by defining a sample point by way of a digital vector and an analog vector. The digital and analog vectors are added together to generate a hybrid vector which is used to compare the sample point to the maximum desired peak threshold. An error vector is used to correct the sample point to a desired power level. Once the sample point has been corrected it can be added back to the analog signal and transmitted. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185697 | Method and Device for Data Transmission - Disclosed in the present invention is a method for data transmission. The method comprises the following steps: receiving coded bit streams; mapping said coded bit streams to every spatial stream. A device for implementing stream mapping, a device for implementing rate matching and a transmitter are also disclosed in the present invention. With the method and device in the present invention, compared with the current stream mapping method, the mapping is more uniform with higher gain in high order modulation and multi-streams circumstance in a closed-loop model. And the system performance of a radio communication system could be further improved. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185698 | METHOD FOR PRECODING USING A BLOCK DIAGONAL MATRIX - An objective problem of the invention is to provide a mechanism for improving the performance of a radio access network. According to a first aspect of the present invention, the object is achieved by a method in a first node for adapting a multi-antenna transmission to a second node over an effective channel. The first node and the second node are comprised in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of obtaining at least one symbol stream and determining a precoding matrix having a block diagonal structure. The method comprises the further steps of precoding the at least one symbol stream with the determined precoding matrix, and transmitting the at least one precoded symbol stream over the effective channel to the second node. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185699 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND SYSTEM, TRANSMITTER, AND RECEIVER - A data transmission method and system, transmitter and receiver. The method includes: mapping, by a transmitter, a plurality of data streams to a plurality of antennas of the transmitter by using precoding matrices and transmitting the plurality of data streams to a receiver via the plurality of antennas, wherein the transmitter selects the precoding matrices by taking a resource block as a granularity. With the embodiments of the present invention, the transmitter may transmit data streams to the receiver by using the precoding matrices W, and selects the precoding matrices W by taking a resource block (RB) as a granularity, so as to support DM-RS demodulation, and the receiver is not needed to perform PMI feedback, which is also applicable to a scenario where user feedback is not supported or PMI feedback is inaccurate, thereby achieving open-loop spatial multiplexing CoMP transmission. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185700 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LINEAR PRECODING IN MULTI-USER MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEM - The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies and discloses a method and an apparatus for linear precoding in a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output system, which can reduce computational complexity, improve system efficiency, and enhance system robustness by using a linear precoding technology in the case of imperfect CSI. According to the solutions provided in embodiments of the present invention, a first matrix is determined according to channel information of the system; an equivalent-channel matrix is acquired according to the first matrix; the equivalent-channel matrix is decomposed, and a second matrix is obtained through computation; a precoding matrix is obtained according to the first matrix and the second matrix, so that a power balance is achieved between spatial streams of each user after two signals to be concurrently transmitted are processed by using the precoding matrix. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185701 | Power Control in Linear Precoder Design for MIMO DSL Transmission - An apparatus configured to couple to a plurality of subscriber lines comprising a plurality of transmitters configured to couple to a plurality of physical channels and at least one virtual channel, wherein the number of physical channels equals the number of subscriber lines, a processor configured to compute a precoder matrix to minimize an error value, wherein the error value accounts for an error on each channel subject to a constraint on power for each channel, and a precoder coupled to the processor and configured to use the precoder matrix to jointly process a plurality of data signals to generate a plurality transmit signals for the plurality of physical channels and the at least one virtual channel. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185702 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MULTIPLE ACCESS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK USING DCT-OFDM - The present invention provides an advantageous transmitter apparatus and associated method, for generating a Single-Carrier Discrete Cosine Transform (SC-DCT) OFDM signal for transmission. These transmit-side innovations include circuit configuration and signal processing methods for mapping K | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185703 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - In performing SVD-MIMO transmission, a set-up procedure is simplified while assuring a satisfactory decoding capability with a reduced number of antennas. A transmitter estimates channel information based on reference signals sent from a receiver, determines a transmit antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the channel information, calculates a weight to be assigned to each of components of a multiplexed signal, and sends, to the receiver, training signals for respective signal components, the training signals being weighted by the calculated weights. On the other hand, the receiver determines a receive antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the received training signals. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185704 | Hitless Modulation Changes in Double Capacity Links Using Adaptive Coding Modulation (ACM) - An outdoor communication unit (ODU) for implementation within a dual channel microwave backhaul system, is provided. The ODU includes an radio frequency (RF) module, having digital capabilities, which is configured to utilize the digital capabilities to perform adaptive adjustments to correct errors in data in a digital domain, a conversion block configured to convert the data between an analog domain and the digital domain, and a processing module configured to adaptively adjust a characteristic of the data and a characteristic of a dual channel wireless link, and to facilitate a transmission of the data over the dual channel wireless link by performing mathematical manipulation techniques. In particular, the characteristic of the data and of the dual channel wireless link are adaptively adjusted, according to a detected condition, using a hitless adaptive coding modulation (ACM) technique to optimize the transmission of the data over the dual channel wireless link | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185705 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA - A digital broadcasting system including a transmitting system and a receiving system, and a method of processing data are disclosed. A method of processing data of a transmitting system includes sequentially grouping N number of columns (Kc) configured of A number of enhanced data bytes having information included therein, thereby creating a frame having a size of N (rows)*Kc (columns), wherein N and A are integers, encoding the created frame, and multiplexing and transmitting enhanced data included in the encoded frame and main data. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting and receiving encoded data. A codeword is generated by encoding an information word. Some parity bits are punctured in the generated codeword. A frame including the punctured codeword is transmitted. Additional parity bits for decoding the information word are transmitted in one or more other frames. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185707 | Circuit arrangement for compensating for a damping occurring in an antenna line between a mobile radio terminal and an antenna - A circuit arrangement ( | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185708 | Single-Bit Direct Modulation Transmitter - Single-bit transmitter modulator having a digital pulse shaping filter configured to shape data pulses of an inphase signal and quadrature signal; an upsampling filter configured to increase the sample rate of the inphase signal and quadrature signal; a sigma-delta modulator providing a one-bit inphase output signal and a one-bit quadrature output signal; an inphase low-order analog low pass filter coupling the one-bit inphase output signal to an inphase channel input of a quadrature modulator, and a quadrature low-order analog low pass filter coupling the one-bit quadrature output signal to a quadrature channel input of a quadrature modulator; and, wherein the quadrature modulator is connected to a carrier signal generator and is configured to generate an inphase and quadrature modulated carrier. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185709 | TRANSMITTER PRECODING FOR OPTIMIZING POSITIONING PERFORMANCE - Described herein are techniques related to transmitter precoding for optimizing positioning performance. The techniques are directed to transmitting a plurality of preambles in a plurality of directions with different precoding for each transmission. The receiver analyzes the channels from the preamble and estimates the time of arrival (ToA) of the line-of-sight (LoS) component. Based on the best estimation of the earliest ToA, the receiver may determine the LoS distance between the receiver and the transmitter. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185710 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING TRAFFIC INFORMATION USING RADIO TRAFFIC BROADCASTING - An apparatus and a method that provide traffic information using radio traffic broadcasting that provides corresponding traffic information to a driver when the driver requests the corresponding traffic information, without requiring a separate digital modulation module, by recording radio traffic broadcasting in a streaming scheme. In addition, corresponding traffic broadcasting is extracted and stored in a file form when a street name, a land mark, a location name, or the like, on a destination path set by the driver is recognized as an audio in the recorded radio traffic broadcasting. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185711 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE AGC - A wideband phase detector configured to receive an intermediate frequency (IF) signal having a plurality of information signals at predetermined carrier frequencies and to generate a carrier indication signal used to control one or more attenuators to equalize the signal levels of the information signals thereby enabling a multichannel receiver to process the two information signals in a parallel fashion using a common analog front-end and analog to digital conversion circuit. The circuit may include an attenuation controller configured to provide control signals to the one or more attenuators to attenuate one or more corresponding information signals based on an average of the carrier indication signal. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185712 | DEMODULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND BASEBAND CHIP IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides a demodulation method and apparatus, a decoding method and apparatus and a baseband chip in a communication system. The decoding method includes: when demodulated data in a buffer space is enough to foam a second predetermined number of CB data, reading the demodulated data to form the second predetermined number of CB data from the buffer space; decoding the second predetermined number of CB data. The buffer space includes a plurality of buffer regions corresponding to different CWs. Each of buffer regions store the demodulated data belonging to the CW, reading the demodulated data to form the second predetermined number of CB data in the buffer space includes reading the demodulated data belonging to the CW in the buffer region corresponding to the CW. The present disclosure saves memory space of the baseband chip. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185713 | OFDM RECEIVER AND OFDM COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - There is provided an OFDM receiver including, a wireless communications unit receiving a transmission signal including wireless data information and pilot information, a signal dividing unit dividing the transmission signal into a plurality of division signals and obtaining frequency offsets for the respective division signals based on the pilot information included in the transmission signal, and a demodulating unit demodulating the transmission signal based on the division signals and the frequency offsets. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185714 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication apparatus including: an antenna configured to receive a radio frame including first symbols to which reference signals are mapped and second symbols to which data is mapped, and a processor configured to determine a number of third symbols, the third symbols being used for demodulating each of the second symbols, and to select, for each of the second symbols, the third symbols from among the first symbols in accordance with the number. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185715 | Systems and Methods for Performing Demodulation and Modulation on Software Defined Radios - A system and method are provided for extracting and demodulating one or more channels in a radio signal. The method includes receiving a first radio signal using a radio frequency front end, translating a first band of frequencies of the first radio signal to a second band of frequencies to generate a second radio signal, digitizing the second radio signal to generate a digital signal, extracting one or more additional band of frequencies of the digital signal, each additional band of frequencies corresponding to a channel, and demodulating one or more channels to generate a respective demodulated signal. In another aspect, a system and method are provided for modulating and combining one or more channels into a radio signal. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185716 | Mimo Receiver Using Lattic Reduction and K-Best Detection - A detection process for a receiver of a wireless communication system based on Multiple-Input Multiple-Output antennas (n | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185717 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FRAME SYNC DETECTION - An apparatus includes: first to N−1-th correlation-calculation units correlation-calculating a signal at a position corresponding to an n-th reference cell of a reference symbol in a received symbol and a signal at a position corresponding to an n+1-th reference cell of the reference symbol in the received symbol; a first calculation unit multiplying a result of phase correlation calculation of the n-th reference cell and the n+1-th reference cell by the calculation result of the correlation-calculation units and thereafter, summing up all of the multiplication results to calculate a first sum total; a second calculation unit multiplying a result of phase correlation calculation of an N−n−2-th reference cell and an N−n−1-th reference cell by the calculation result of the correlation-calculation units and summing up all of the multiplying results to calculate a second sum total; and a decider detecting a larger value between the first and the second sum total. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING THE QUADRATURE COMPONENT OF A COMPLEX SIGNAL FROM THE IN-PHASE COMPONENT AFTER BASEBAND DIGITIZING USING A COMPLEX TRANSFORM - A method and apparatus for a receiver system in a receiver that includes at least two front end branches, each branch having its own intermediate frequency (IF) mixer to shift a received signal to an IF. When receiving multiple independent signals, the signals are digitized and the receiver performs a digital complex transform on each signal to obtain the corresponding quadrature component. When receiving a single signal the signal is routed to two mixers that are 90 degrees out of phase to obtain the quadrature signal components in the analog section of the receiver. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185719 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCRETE GAIN CONTROL IN HYBRID MIMO/RF BEAMFORMING - A system for selectively and discretely amplifying or attenuating antennas in a hybrid multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radio distribution network (RDN) receiving system is provided herein. The system includes a MIMO receiving system comprising a MIMO baseband module having N branches; an RDN connected to the MIMO receiving system, the RDN comprising at least one beamformer fed by two or more antennas, so that a total number of antennas in the system is M, wherein M is greater than N, wherein each one of the beamformers include a passive combiner configured to combine signals coming from the antennas coupled to a respective beamformer into a combined signal, wherein the at least one beamformer is further configured to selectively amplify or attenuate in discrete steps, one or more of the signals coming from the M antennas, based on qualitative metrics measured by the MIMO baseband module. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185720 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEMODULATING DOWNLINK CHANNEL IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND BASEBAND CHIP - The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for demodulating a downlink channel in a communication system, and a baseband chip. The demodulation method may include: obtaining RE data corresponding to the downlink channel successively from an OFDM symbol; demodulating the RE data to obtain demodulated data; filling the demodulated data to a corresponding position in a downlink channel buffer; and proceeding to obtain RE data corresponding to the downlink channel successively from a next OFDM symbol if a sequence number of the OFDM symbol does not reach a predetermined number. The present disclosure saves buffer space of the baseband chip in a UE. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185721 | STATE PREDICTION PROCESS AND METHODOLOGY - A system and method for optimizing the performance for MIMO are provided, the system including multiple antennas, including at least one modal antenna, wherein each of the at least one modal antenna has multiple modes corresponding to multiple radiation patterns, and a processor coupled to the multiple antennas and configured to select a mode among the multiple modes to optimize signal quality for each time interval based on a CQI by considering envelop correlation effects. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185722 | System and Method for Optimizing Use of Channel State Information - The present invention relates to a combiner, channel identifier, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM receiver and method for optimizing use of channel state information of a received signal. The method comprises analyzing a received signal in a time domain and extracting from the received signal characteristics of a communication channel. The method furthermore comprises determining a dynamic indicator of channel station information accuracy based on the characteristics of the received signal. Additionally, the method comprises applying a weight to the channel state information according to the dynamic indicator. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185723 | Signal Delay Estimator with Absolute Delay Amount and Direction Estimation - A signal delay estimator includes an adjustable delay element for delaying a first signal to obtain a delayed first signal, a delay amount estimator for estimating a delay amount between the delayed first signal and a second signal that is similar and delayed relative to the first signal, and a leading signal determiner for determining whether the delayed first signal leads the second signal or vice versa, and for generating a corresponding binary signal. A selective inverter is provided for selectively inverting the delay amount depending on the binary signal. The signal delay estimator also includes a feedback element to the adjustable delay element for controlling a delay based on an output of the selective inverter. Another exemplary signal delay estimator includes a closed control loop with an adjustable delay element and separate first and second processing paths for absolute delay amount and delay direction, respectively. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185724 | SEQUENCE GENERATING METHOD FOR EFFICIENT DETECTION AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNALS USING THE SAME - A sequence generation method for allowing a reception end to effectively detect a sequence used for a specific channel of an OFDM communication system, and a signal transmission/reception method using the same are disclosed. During the sequence generation, an index is selected from among the index set having the conjugate symmetry property between indexes, and a specific part corresponding to the frequency “0” is omitted from a transmitted signal. In addition, a reception end can calculate a cross-correlation value between a received (Rx) signal and each sequence using only one cross-correlation calculation based on the conjugate symmetry property. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185725 | DRIFT TRACKING FEEDBACK FOR COMMUNICATION CHANNELS - A communication channel includes a first component having a transmitter coupled to a normal signal source, and a second component having a receiver coupled to a normal signal destination. A communication link couples the first and second components. Calibration logic provides for setting an operation value for a parameter of the communication channel, such as by executing an exhaustive calibration sequence at initialization of the link. A tracking circuit, including a monitoring function, tracks drift in the parameter by monitoring a feedback signal that has a characteristic that correlates with drift in the communication channel, and updates, or indicates the need for updating of, the operation value of the parameter in response to the monitoring function. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185726 | FREQUENCY SWEEP SIGNAL GENERATOR, FREQUENCY COMPONENT ANALYSIS APPARATUS, RADIO APPARATUS, AND FREQUENCY SWEEP SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD - A frequency sweep signal generator in which the frequency error is small even when the control values and the oscillating frequencies have a non-linear relation. The frequency sweep signal generator includes a variable frequency oscillator that changes an oscillating frequency according to a change of an input control value, and a first controller that generates a first control value so that the oscillating frequency within a predetermined frequency sweeping range is output. The first controller controls an increment of the first control value to be output to the variable frequency oscillator per unit time so that, when a change of the oscillating frequency with respect to the increment of the first control value is non-linear, the oscillating frequency is changed linearly with respect to a passage of time. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185727 | POWER MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A NUCLEAR REACTOR - According to an embodiment, a power monitoring system for a nuclear reactor comprises at least a first system and second system. The first system and the second system respectively comprise a plurality of APRM units, a plurality of FLOW units, and a plurality of OPRM units. The APRM units respectively generate an LPRM signal that indicates the local output of neutrons by the reactor core, and generate an APRM signal indicating the average output of the reactor core, based on the LPRM signal. The FLOW units respectively generate a FLOW signal indicating the flow rate of reactor coolant. The OPRM units respectively are supplied with the LPRM signal and the APRM signal from at least two aforementioned APRM units and are supplied with the FLOW signal from at least one aforementioned FLOW unit; and, based on the supplied LPRM signals, APRM signals and FLOW signals, generate a trip signal for shutting down the reactor. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185728 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPOSING OF ONE OR MORE RADIOACTIVE COMPONENTS FROM NUCLEAR REACTORS OF NUCLEAR PLANTS - A system for disposing of one or more radioactive components from a nuclear reactor may include a first receptacle configured to receive the one or more radioactive components, a frame configured to support the first receptacle in the nuclear reactor, and a device configured to separate the one or more radioactive components into two or more portions during lowering of the one or more radioactive components into the first receptacle. A method for disposing of one or more radioactive components from a nuclear reactor may include assembling a system for disposing of the one or more radioactive components, and moving the assembled system to an area of a reactor core. A method for disposing of one or more radioactive components from a nuclear reactor may include assembling a system for disposing of the one or more radioactive components in an area of a reactor core. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185729 | CONTAINMENT VENT SYSTEM WITH PASSIVE MODE FOR BOILING WATER REACTORS (BWRS), AND METHOD THEREOF - A system and a method for a passive containment vent system for a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR). The system is capable of venting and scrubbing a gaseous discharge from the primary containment of the BWR over a prolonged period of time leading up to or following a serious plant accident, without the need for monitoring by on-site plant personnel. External electrical power is not required (following initial activation of the system) in order to operate the containment vent system. The system may protect the integrity of primary containment during and following the serious plant accident. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185730 | URANIUM DIOXIDE NUCLEAR FUEL PELLET HAVING CERAMIC MICROCELLS AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF - A uranium dioxide nuclear fuel pellet has about 50 to about 400 μM (with respect to a 3-dimentional size) microcells formed of a ceramic material having a chemical attraction with fission products generated in the nuclear fuel pellet to absorb and trap the fission products, such that the extraction of the fission product may be retrained in a normal operation condition and that the performance of the nuclear fuel may be enhanced by mitigating PCI. In addition, highly radioactive fission products including Cs and I having a large generation amount or a long half-life enough to affect the environments can be trapped in the pellet in an accident condition, without being released outside. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185731 | URANIUM DIOXIDE NUCLEAR FUEL PELLET HAVING METALLIC MICROCELLS AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF - A uranium dioxide nuclear fuel pellet includes metallic microcells having a high protection capacity for fission products and a high thermal conductivity simultaneously arranged in the nuclear fuel pellet to trap fission products, such that extraction of fission products may be restrained in a normal operation condition and that the temperature of a nuclear fuel may be lowered to enhance the performance of the nuclear fuel, only to restrain extraction of radioactive fission products toward the environment in an accident condition to enhance a stability of the nuclear fuel pellet, and a fabricating method thereof. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185732 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A FRET RESISTANT FUEL ROD FOR A LIGHT WATER REACTOR (LWR) NUCLEAR FUEL BUNDLE - A method and apparatus for a fret resistant fuel rod for a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) nuclear fuel bundle. An applied material entrained with fret resistant particles is melted or otherwise fused to a melted, thin layer of the fuel rod cladding. The applied material is made of a material that is chemically compatible with the fuel rod cladding, allowing the fret resistant particles to be captured in the thin layer of re-solidified cladding material to produce an effective and resilient fret resistant layer on an outer layer of the cladding. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185733 | NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENT - Disclosed embodiments include fuel assemblies, methods of making a fuel element, and methods of using a fuel element. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185734 | FUEL ASSEMBLY - Disclosed embodiments include fuel ducts, fuel assemblies, methods of making fuel ducts, methods of making a fuel assembly, and methods of using a fuel assembly. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185735 | Fuel Assembly - In a fuel assembly, a plurality of fuel rods are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 10 columns in the cross section of the fuel assembly. A flow resistance member is disposed in a central portion in the cross section at upper end portions of partial length fuel rods which are a part of the fuel rods. In the flow resistance member, resistance members are each disposed between ferrules arranged in an array of 6 rows and 6 columns in the diagonal direction of the flow resistance member. Resistance members are each disposed between the ferrules in a peripheral portion of the flow resistance member. By disposing the resistance members, the pressure loss in an inner region in the cross section of the fuel assembly is increased, and the flow rate of a gas-liquid two-phase flow in an outer region surrounding the inner region is increased. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185736 | DIGITAL FRACTIONAL FREQUENCY DIVIDER - A digital fractional frequency divider for fractionally dividing a digital frequency signal can include a plurality of clock division counter modules, a plurality of sampling modules, and a summing module. The plurality of clock division counter modules can each receive an input clock signal that is phase-shifted from a remaining plurality of input clock signals. Each clock division counter module can generate a long periodic pulse from the received input clock signal. Each sampling module can couple to an output of one of the plurality of clock division counter modules and can generate a short periodic pulse from the long periodic pulse. The summing module can sum the plurality of short periodic pulses to generate a fractional frequency clock signal. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185737 | SHIFT REGISTER - A shift register includes a plurality of stages each for outputting k composite pulses each including an A-scan pulse and a B-scan pulse. At least one stage includes k A-sub-stages each for controlling a voltage at an A-set node and a voltage at least one A-reset node in response to an external A-control signal and generating an A-carry pulse based on the voltage at the A-set node, the voltage at the at least one A-reset node and any one A-clock pulse, a B-sub-stage for controlling a voltage at a B-set node and a voltage at least one B-reset node in response to an external B-control signal and generating a B-carry pulse, and a scan output controller for generating k A-scan pulses and k B-scan pulses and outputting one of the A-scan pulses and one of the B-scan pulses corresponding to each other as one composite pulse. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185738 | X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS AND X-RAY IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an X-ray imaging apparatus. The X-ray imaging apparatus includes at least one X-ray emitter which is configured to irradiate an object with X-rays at a plurality of X-ray emission positions, an X-ray detector which is configured to detect X-rays which are emitted by the X-ray emitter and to convert the detected X-rays into an electric signal, and an image processor which is configured to acquire a plurality of original X-ray images which respectively correspond to the X-ray emission positions from the generated electric signal and to estimate a virtual X-ray image which is acquirable at an X-ray emission position located between at least two of the plurality of X-ray emission positions, based on at least two of the original X-ray images. | 2014-07-03 |
| 20140185739 | CATHODE CONTROL MULTI-CATHODE DISTRIBUTED X-RAY APPARATUS AND CT DEVICE HAVING SAID APPARATUS - This invention relates to an apparatus producing distributed X-ray, and in particular to a cathode control multi-cathode distributed X-ray apparatus, which produces X-ray that changes focal position in a predetermined order by arranging multiple independent hot cathodes and controlling cathodes in an X-ray source device, and a CT device having said X-ray apparatus. | 2014-07-03 |
