40th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 43 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130259164 | ENHANCED METRICS FOR DEMODULATION AND SOFT INFORMATION GENERATION IN THE PRESENCE OF A NON-CONSTANT ENVELOPE MODULATED INTERFERER - Systems and methods utilize enhanced metrics for demodulation and/or soft bit information generation in the presence of a non-constant envelope modulated interfering signal. In one embodiment, a receiver includes a downconverter and a demodulator. The downconverter receives a radio frequency signal comprising a desired signal, noise, and a non-constant envelope modulated interfering signal, and downconverts the radio frequency signal to provide a downconverted signal. The demodulator demodulates the downconverted signal based on a demodulation metric that models the non-constant envelope modulated interfering signal as a stationary non-Gaussian random process with a probability distribution derived from a modulation constellation of a modulation used for the non-constant envelope modulated interfering signal. In one embodiment, the demodulator outputs demodulated symbols. In another embodiment, the demodulator outputs soft bit information. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259165 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN AN OFDM SIGNAL AND A RADAR SIGNAL - A radar detector determines whether an input signal is an orthogonally frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal or a radar signal by applying at least first and second bandpass filtering operations having substantially non-overlapping passbands to the input signal, each filtering operation having a passband of width substantially less than a relatively large instantaneous bandwidth characteristic of an OFDM signal and substantially greater than a relatively small instantaneous bandwidth characteristic of a radar signal. The detector multiplies power levels of output signals of the first and second filtering operations to form a power product signal and compares the power level of the power product signal with a threshold level and providing an indicating signal in a first state if the power level of the power product signal exceeds the threshold level and otherwise providing said indicating signal in a second state. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259166 | DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, DATA RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - Disclosed herein are a data transmission apparatus, a data reception apparatus, and a data transmission method. The data transmission apparatus, the data reception apparatus, and the data transmission method are capable of simplifying the circuit structure of a decoder because an assumption of the time related to a request signal and a data signal is not necessary and an additional logic for generating a clock signal for the decoder is not necessary by using a Finite State Machine (FSM) logic without storing a state via a delay device. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259167 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ENVELOPE USING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAMPLING SIGNALS - A method and an apparatus for detecting an envelope using a difference between sampling signals are provided. The method includes generating sampling sets based on sampling signals of a modulated signal, and determining a sampling set from the sampling sets. The method further includes determining an envelope component value associated with a sampling signal among sampling signals included in the determined sampling set, based on a difference between the sampling signals included in the determined sampling set, and a difference between sampling signals included in each of the sampling sets other than the determined sampling set. The method further includes detecting an envelope of the modulated signal based on the envelope component value. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259168 | MINIMUM MEAN SQUARED ERROR APPROACH TO INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION AND MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DECODING OF SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES - Block-encoded transmissions of a multi-antenna terminal unit are effectively detected in the presence of co-channel interfering transmissions when the base station has a plurality of antennas, and interference cancellation is combined with maximum likelihood decoding. More specifically, the signals received at the base station antennas are combined in a linear combination that relates to the channel coefficients between the various transmitting terminal units and the base antennas. By selecting proper coefficients for the linear combination and choosing probable transmitted signals that minimize a minimum mean squared error function, the signals of the various terminal units are canceled when detecting the signal of a particular unit. In another embodiment of the invention, the basic approach is used to obtain an initial estimate of the signals transmitted by one terminal unit, and the contribution of those signals is removed from the received signals prior to detecting the signals of other terminal units. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259169 | RECEIVER WITH HYBRID RECEPTION ESTIMATION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A receiver includes an antenna array that generates received signals from a first remote transmitter and a second remote transmitter, the antenna array having a beam pattern that is controllable based a control signal. A plurality of receiver sections process the received signals to generate down-converted signals. A receiver processing module, generates the control signal to control the beam pattern to a first pattern during a first time period for reception from the first remote transmitter, generates a first reception estimate based on the down-converted signals during the first time period, generates the control signal to control the beam pattern to a second pattern during a second time period for reception from the second remote transmitter, generates a second reception estimate based on the down-converted signals during the second time period, and generates inbound data based on the first reception estimate and the second reception estimate. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259170 | MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD DECODER IN A MEMORY CONTROLLER FOR SYNCHRONIZATION - Described herein are apparatus, system, and method for data synchronization via a maximum-likelihood decoder in a memory controller. The method comprises receiving a constrained codeword from a non-volatile memory (NVM) via a channel, the constrained codeword including an appended bit-stream; and decoding the received constrained codeword by reconstructing the appended bit-stream and invoking a synchronization procedure that applies a maximum-likelihood (ML) estimator to estimate locations of any insertion, deletion, or error in the reconstructed appended bit-stream. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259171 | METHOD FOR SPECTRUM SENSING OF MULTI-CARRIER SIGNALS WITH EQUIDISTANT SUB-CARRIERS - A multi carrier signal is typically comprised of many equidistant sub-carriers. This results in periodicity of spectrum within the bandwidth of such a multi-carrier signal. An unknown multi-carrier signal with equidistant sub-carriers can thus be sensed together with its sub-carrier spacing by finding a discernable local maximum in the cepstrum (Fourier transform of the log spectrum) of the multi-carrier signal. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259172 | Receiver with Variable Gain Control Transimpedance Amplifier - According to one embodiment, a compact low-power receiver comprises first and second analog circuits connected by a digitally controlled interface circuit. The first analog circuit has a first direct-current (DC) offset and a first common mode voltage at an output, and the second analog circuit has a second DC offset and a second common mode voltage at an input. The digitally controlled interface circuit connects the output to the input, and is configured to match the first and second DC offsets and to match the first and second common mode voltages. In one embodiment, the first analog circuit is a variable gain control transimpedance amplifier (TIA) implemented using a current mode buffer, the second analog circuit is a second-order adjustable low-pass filter, whereby a three-pole adjustable low-pass filter in the compact low-power receiver is effectively produced. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259173 | RECEIVER-SIDE ESTIMATION OF AND COMPENSATION FOR SIGNAL IMPAIRMENTS - A receiver receives a repeating or periodic signal and, based on the signal, estimates a carrier frequency offset for the receiver. Based on the signal and the estimated carrier offset, an I/O mismatch for the receiver is estimated and compensation for the estimated I/O mismatch is performed. After compensating for the estimated receiver I/O mismatch, the carrier frequency offset is re-estimated. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259174 | Method and System for Pilot-Based Time Domain Phase Noise Mitigation for Coherent Receiver - A method for phase noise mitigation for a coherent receiver in either an OFDM or single carrier based transmission system including applying a frequency offset and coarse phase noise compensation based on a radio frequency RF tone or using a phase lock loop PLL m-th power procedure, responsive to a signal from a digital signal processed transmission with an added pilots signal over an optical system, applying fine phase noise compensation based on comparison of the pilots signal in a time domain, removing the pilots, and demodulating the remaining pilotless signal. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259175 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A COMMON-MODE REFERENCE SIGNAL - A method and apparatus to generate a common-mode reference signal. A common-mode current is received at a common-mode current sensing circuit. The common-mode current is sampled at a node between the common-mode current sensing circuit and a shunt resistor. The resulting voltage across the shunt resistor from the applied common-mode current is used as a common-mode reference signal. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259176 | Channel Estimation Filter Normalization - Disclosed are various embodiments providing processing circuitry for selecting a channel estimation filter from a plurality of channel estimation filters based on a channel quality metric, the selected channel estimation filter being associated with an intrinsic coefficient. The processing circuitry may then determine a scaled coefficient, the scale coefficient being based on scaling the intrinsic coefficient with respect to a bit size constraint, the bit size constraint being determined by a bit length of a multiplication circuitry operand. Moreover, the processing circuitry may generate an output based on the scaled coefficient and an input signal. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259177 | DATA RECOVERY CIRCUIT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - In a data recovery circuit, a sampling circuit is configured to sample data using a plurality of sampling clock signals having different phases relative to one another and to output a plurality of sampled data. A recovery data generation circuit is configured to perform a logic operation on the plurality of sampled data and to generate a plurality of intermediate recovery data according to a result of the logic operation. A recovery circuit is configured to check the plurality of intermediate recovery data for existence of an error and to output intermediate recovery data that is error-free, among the plurality of intermediate recovery data, as recovery data. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259178 | ADAPTIVE OPTIMUM CDR BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION BY USING A KALMAN GAIN EXTRACTOR - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a clock and data recovery (CDR) apparatus with adaptive optimum CDR bandwidth estimation by using a Kalman gain extractor. The Kalman gain extractor includes an off chip digital processor which receives a phase update information from the CDR outputs an estimated optimum Kalman gain obtained by extracting the standard deviation of step sizes of the accumulation jitter from the power spectral density (PSD) of the phase update information, and a on chip digital loop filter consists of a cyclic accumulator which accumulates the phase detector's output, a gain multiplier and a phase interpolator (or DCO) controller. The off chip digital processor includes a storage register, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) processor and an optimum Kalman gain estimator. The storage register stores the phase update information, from which the FFT processor extracts the PSD of the absolute input jitter. The optimum Kalman gain estimator calculates the optimum gain from the PSD of the accumulation jitter. The off chip digital processor may further include a gain calibrator to compensate for the variations in the transition density. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259179 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING NUCLEAR FUSION USING CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS - Gently heating a pyroelectric crystal in a deuterated atmosphere can generate fusion under desktop conditions. The electrostatic field of the crystal is used to generate and accelerate a deuteron beam (>100 keV and >4 nA), which, upon striking a deuterated target, produces a neutron flux over 400 times the background level. The presence of neutrons within the target is confirmed by pulse shape analysis and proton recoil spectroscopy. Several elements of the system may be modified, including the configuration of the crystal or crystals, the composition of the surrounding environment and the target, the use of multiple probe tips, and the composition of the probe tip. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259180 | TARGET WINDOWS FOR ISOTOPE SYSTEMS - Target windows for isotope production systems are provided. One target window includes a plurality of foil members in a stacked arrangement. The foil members have sides, and wherein the side of a least one of the foil members engages the side of at least one of the other foil members. Additionally, at least two of the foil members are formed from different materials. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259181 | Device for Generating a High Temperature Gradient in a Nuclear Fuel Sample - An assembly comprising a sample and a device for generating a high temperature gradient in said sample, comprises: a chamber inside which said sample is placed; a resistor passing through said sample; first induction means at the periphery of the chamber to create an electromagnetic field; second induction means connected to said resistor and capable of picking up said electromagnetic field so as to create an induced current circulating in said resistor. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259182 | TRAVELING REACTOR POWER MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLING RETRACTING A TRAVELING PROBE - A traveling reactor power monitoring system includes a traveling reactor power monitoring system including a drive control unit configured to move a traveling probe in a guide tube by rotating a motor, and a proximity switch that generates a 1st preventing retraction signal when the travelling probe is detected by the proximity switch to exist at a predefined stop range in a shielding vessel. The drive control unit stops retracting the travelling probe when the 1st preventing retraction signal is generated by the proximity switch, and wipes out the 1st preventing retraction signal by detecting that the probe exists outside the predefined stop range on the basis of a probe information as a substitute for the 1st preventing retracting signal output by the proximity switch. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259183 | PASSIVE COOLING AND DEPRESSURIZATION SYSTEM AND PRESSURIZED WATER NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - A passive cooling and depressurization system for a pressurized water nuclear plant is provided with a cooling water pool, a steam supply piping, a heat exchanger, a steam supply valve, a coolant return pipe and an outlet valve. The steam supply piping extends from the gas phase of the pressurizer. The heat exchanger exchanges heat between water stored in the cooling water pool and steam flowing through the steam supply piping. The steam supply valve is equipped on the steam supply piping. The coolant return pipe extends from the heat exchanger to a liquid phase of the reactor pressure boundary. The outlet valve is equipped on the coolant return pipe. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259184 | CONTAINMENT VESSEL AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - A containment vessel has an inner shell covering a reactor pressure vessel and an outer shell forming an outer well which is a gas-tight space covering the horizontal outer periphery of the inner shell. The inner shell has a first cylindrical side wall surrounding the horizontal periphery of the reactor pressure vessel, a containment vessel head which covers the upper part of the reactor pressure vessel, and a first top slab connecting in a gas-tight manner the periphery of the containment vessel head and the upper end of the first cylindrical side wall. The outer shell has a second cylindrical side wall surrounding the outer periphery of the first cylindrical side wall, and also has a second to slab connecting in a gas-tight manner the vicinity of the upper end of the second cylindrical side wall and the first cylindrical side wall. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259185 | RADIOACTIVE DEBRIS TRAP - A radioactive debris trap to be installed in a steam generator for removing debris in the primary flow of a nuclear power plant's primary heat transport system. The debris trap includes an outer cylinder and a coaxial inner cylinder both having a top end and a bottom end. A top plate connects the top ends of the outer and inner cylinders. A bottom plate which encloses the trap is connected to the bottom end of the outer cylinder. There is a gap between the bottom end of the inner cylinder and the bottom plate through which primary flow enters a settling chamber located in an annular gap between the outer and inner cylinders. Several small holes are located at the top end of the outer cylinder through which liquid exits the debris trap. A means for fixedly connecting the debris trap to the steam generator is provided on the outer surface of the outer cylinder. Also included is a means for removing the radioactive debris trap from the steam generator without exposing personnel to excessive radiation. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259186 | NUCLEAR ENERGY, METAL FUEL, H2 / O2 FROM H2O, WITH MHD POWER AND PROPULSION FOR ONE MONTH ASTRONAUT ROCKET VOYAGES TO MARS - Disclosed is an interplanetary rocket propulsion to Mars and the Moons of the nearer outer Planets by means of 6000° K temperature, 100 atmosphere pressure, power generation and propulsion systems that utilize a gas cooled nuclear reactor and metal powder combustion, in combination with water wherein dissociation into oxygen to react with certain metals to form on board retained metal oxides, and to heat the hydrogen from dissociated water as well as on-board liquid hydrogen that is seeded with an alkali metal for use in a linear, Faraday magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator that is coaxial with a MHD accelerator for propulsion, wherein water and probable metal sources on planetary bodies would provide rocket fueling by metal oxide reprocessing to metal and for manned permanent life support bases, and for search of high value minerals, gold, silver, aluminum, rare minerals, diamonds, for transport with their lesser gravity back to Earth. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259187 | CARBON DIOXIDE PRODUCTION - Apparatus for the production of carbon dioxide from limestone includes a nuclear reactor ( | 2013-10-03 |
20130259188 | REVERSE CONICAL LOWER END PLUG FOR AN ANNULAR NUCLEAR FUEL ROD - A lower end plug for an annular nuclear fuel rod includes a support with a great slenderness ratio, a coolant inflow part with an inner inflow space and a plurality of inflow holes in a wall thereof so as to interact with the inflow space, coupled to a lower end of the annular nuclear fuel rod at an upper end thereof, and extending from an upper end of the support in a reverse conical shape such that the inflow space interact with an inner channel of the annular nuclear fuel rod, and a coupler extending from a lower end of the support and coupled with a handing tool of the annular nuclear fuel rod. Thus, although a bottoming phenomenon of the annular nuclear fuel rod occurs, the coolant can be supplied to the inner channel of the annular nuclear fuel rod through the inflow holes of the lower end plug. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259189 | X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes a rotating frame rotatably supporting an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector detecting X-rays transmitted through an object on a top, a plan storage unit storing a plan for sequentially executing scans to acquire projection data sets with rotation of the rotating frame, a scan information storage unit storing scan information including projection data sets, and a scan control unit determining positions of the rotating frame and the top based on the plan and the scan information when the plan is interrupted and resuming at least one of the plurality of scans in the plan. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259190 | Method And System For Estimating Properties Of Porous Media Such As Fine Pore Or Tight Rocks - A method for estimating properties of porous media, such as fine pore or tight rocks, is provided. The method comprises digital image scanning of sequential sub-samples of porous media at progressively higher resolution to systematically identify sub-sections of interest within the original sample and then estimate properties of the porous media. The resulting properties of the porous media then can be optionally upscaled to further estimate the properties of larger volumes of the porous media such as rock facies or subterranean reservoirs. A system operable for conducting the method also is provided. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259191 | POST-PATIENT DYNAMIC FILTER FOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) - An imaging system includes a radiation source ( | 2013-10-03 |
20130259192 | Method and System for Controlling X-Ray Focal Spot Characteristics for Tomosynthesis and Mammography Imaging - An x-ray tube is described that includes components for increasing x-ray image clarity in the presence of a moving x-ray source by modifying focal spot characteristics, including focal spot size and focal spot position. In a first arrangement a static focal spot is moved in a direction contrary to the movement of the x-ray source so that an effective focal spot position is essentially fixed in space relative to one of the imaged object and/or detector during a tomosynthesis exposure. In a second arrangement, the size of the static focal spot is increased, and the resulting increase in tube current reduces the exposure time and concomitant blur effect. The methods may be used alone or in combination; for example an x-ray tube with a larger, moveable static focal spot will result in a system that fully utilizes the x-ray tube generator, provides a high quality image with reduced blur and, due to the decrease in exposure time, may scan the patient more quickly. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259193 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BREAST IMAGING - An apparatus for imaging a breast of a patient has a gantry with a radiation source and a sensor, the source and sensor rotatable in an arcuate orbit about a central axis and within a plane of revolution, wherein the arcuate orbit spans more than 180 degrees and less than 360 degrees, and wherein the gantry has a gantry cover that is disposed to be in contact with at least the chest wall of the patient. The gantry cover has a central opening about the central axis for insertion of the breast that is to be imaged and a peripheral cutout portion that defines the end-points of the arcuate orbit and that provides a space for positioning a portion of the patient's anatomy. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259194 | HYBRID SLOT-SCANNING GRATING-BASED DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING - Embodiments of methods and apparatus are disclosed for obtaining a phase-contrast digital mammography system and methods for same that can include an x-ray source for radiographic imaging; a beam shaping assembly including a filter or a tunable monochromator, a collimator, a source grating, an x-ray grating interferometer including a phase grating, and an analyzer grating; and an x-ray detector; where the source grating, the phase grating, and the analyzer grating are aligned in such a way that the grating bars of these gratings are parallel to each other. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259195 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING AND DISPLAYING AN X-RAY IMAGE - Systems and methods for obtaining and displaying a collimated X-ray image are described. The methods can include providing an X-ray device having an X-ray source, a square or rectangular X-ray detector, and a collimator. The collimator can be sized and shaped to collimate an X-ray beam from the X-ray source that exposes a receptor region on the detector. The collimator can allow the X-ray image received by the X-ray detector to have any suitable shape that allows a relatively large view of the image to be displayed and rotated on the display device without changing the shape or size of the image as it rotated. In some instances, the collimator provides the image with superellipse shapes or cornerless shapes having four substantially straight edges with a 90 degree corner missing between at least two edges that run substantially perpendicular to each other. Other embodiments are described. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259196 | RADIATION IMAGING SYSTEM AND RADIATION IMAGE DETECTOR - An X-ray imaging system has two types of electronic cassettes and one type of IP cassette. Upon entering a body portion to be imaged, an input and output controller retrieves from an imaging condition table of the IP cassette an imaging condition corresponding to the body portion as a reference imaging condition. An imaging condition calculator multiplies reference exposure time of the reference imaging condition by a sensitivity coefficient of each electronic cassette, to calculate an imaging condition to be applied in using each electronic cassette. An input and output controller displays the imaging conditions of the electronic cassettes and the IP cassette and choice buttons for choosing one of the electronic cassettes and the IP cassette in a list form on a monitor. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259197 | ELECTRON GUN, X-RAY GENERATOR AND X-RAY MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - An electron gun having: a cathode for emitting electrons; a first Wehnelt electrode equipped with a first aperture through which electrons are allowed to pass; and a second Wehnelt electrode that is equipped with a second aperture disposed at a predetermined position with respect to the cathode and the first aperture, and that is furnished at a position closer to the cathode than the first Wehnelt electrode, wherein: the cathode and the second Wehnelt electrode are included within a single assembly constituting a unitary body; and the assembly is detachably attached to the first Wehnelt electrode. Replacement of the cathode can be performed by detaching the cathode unit from the first Wehnelt electrode, and then ejecting the cathode unit out from the Wehnelt cover. The emitter of the cathode can thereby be reliably positioned with respect to the second aperture. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259198 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRON RADIOTHERAPY - A radiotherapy system is disclosed. The radiotherapy system comprises an electron beam generator for generating an electron beam and a magnetic field generator for generating a magnetic field. In some embodiments of the present invention, the system further comprises a controller for controlling the electron beam and the magnetic field generators such that the electron beam is dynamically shifted and the magnetic field is dynamically redirected synchronously with the shifting. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259199 | X-RAY MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A portable, for example, a hand-held-type, X-ray measurement apparatus, wherein the vibration or hand-shaking of the X-ray measurement apparatus is detected by a vibration-detection sensor such as a distance sensor, a gyro sensor, or the like, and a measurement value for the X-ray intensity obtained using a two-dimensional X-ray detector is corrected on the basis of a variation quantity obtained using the vibration-detection sensor. The correction may be a correction related to an X-ray source, a correction related to an X-ray detector, a correction calculated using the CPU of a computer and a software program, or the like. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259200 | X-RAY TOPOGRAPHY APPARATUS - Provided is an X-ray topography apparatus capable of separating a desired characteristic X-ray which enters a sample from an X-ray which is radiated from an X-ray source, and increasing an irradiation region of the desired characteristic X-ray. The X-ray topography apparatus includes: the X-ray source for radiating the X-ray from a fine focal point, the X-ray containing a predetermined characteristic X-ray; an optical system including a multilayer mirror with a graded multilayer spacing which corresponds to the predetermined characteristic X-ray, the optical system being configured to cause the X-ray reflected on the multilayer mirror to enter the sample; and an X-ray detector for detecting a diffracted X-ray. The multilayer mirror includes a curved reflective surface having a parabolic cross section, and the fine focal point of the X-ray source is provided onto a focal point of the curved reflective surface. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259201 | Apparatus and method for supporting a liquid sample for measuring scattering of electromagnetic radiation - An apparatus for supporting a liquid sample for measuring an intensity of X-ray radiation scattered by the liquid sample is configured such as to allow the X-ray radiation to impinge along a first direction ( | 2013-10-03 |
20130259202 | CONTACTLESS COMMUNICATION SIGNAL TRANSFER - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are described herein for transferring communication information between a stationary unit and a movable (e.g., rotating) unit, or between two movable units without contact between the units. A transmitter is configured to translate digital information into an analog signal which may be fed to an input coupler positioned within a channel of an electrically conductive member (e.g., on a first unit, such as a stationary unit). The current of the signal induces a signal in an output coupler (e.g., on a second unit, such as a movable unit). Voltage characteristics of the induced signal (e.g., which substantially correspond to voltage characteristics of the signal fed into the input coupler) may subsequently be used to reconstruct the digital data at a receiver. In this manner, information can be communicated between two non-contacting units. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259203 | RADIATION IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM AND CONSOLE - A radiation image capturing system and a console are described. The radiation image capturing system includes a radiation image capturing apparatus and a console. The console holds in advance a relationship between a number of the scanning line from which readout of the image data is started and an offset amount superimposed on the image data to be read out. When the preview image is displayed, the console modifies the relationship so that the starting point is moved to a position of the scanning line from which the radiation image capturing apparatus actually starts the readout, calculates the offset amount for each of the scanning lines, and displays the preview image based on a value obtained by subtracting the offset amount from the corresponding preview image data. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259204 | X-RAY GENERATOR DEVICE - An x-ray generator device includes a housing at least partially holding a specific fluid pressure, with an arm positioned to be able to strike a strike plate within the housing. The housing contains an x-ray window. The arm is magnetically actuated in at least one direction by a magnetic field generator outside of the housing. A striking portion of the lever arm and/or the strike plate may be a polymeric material with embedded metal or metal alloys. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259205 | ANODE DISK ELEMENT WITH REFRACTORY INTERLAYER AND VPS FOCAL TRACK | 2013-10-03 |
20130259206 | Shielding Electrode for an X-Ray Generator - An x-ray generator includes a voltage source and a voltage divider network coupled thereto, a housing, and an insulator carried within the housing. An emitter cathode is carried within the housing and emits electrons and undesirable conductive particles. In addition, there is a shielding electrode carried within the housing downstream of the emitter cathode and coupled to the voltage divider network. A target is carried within the housing downstream of the at least one shielding electrode. The voltage divider is configured so that the emitter cathode and the shielding electrode have a voltage difference therebetween such that an electric field generated in the housing accelerates electrons emitted by the emitter cathode to toward the target. The shielding electrode is shaped to capture the undesirable conductive particles emitted by the emitter cathode that would otherwise strike the insulator. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259207 | TARGET FOR X-RAY GENERATOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND X-RAY GENERATOR - There is provided a target for an X-ray generator, including: a holder part made of an electrically conductive material and having an opening part; a diamond plate air-tightly joined to the holder part so as to close the opening part; a thin film target provided on a surface of the diamond plate, with its outer peripheral part extending to the holder part to be electrically connected to the holder part, wherein the holder part is configured to be electrically connected to a power supply of the X-ray generator, and the diamond plate is incorporated into the X-ray generator with one side disposed in a vacuum atmosphere where the thin film target is formed, and an opposite side thereto disposed at a side where the diamond plate is brought into thermal contact with a refrigerant and cooled. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259208 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS - A radiographic imaging apparatus using a flexible radiation detector electrically detects radiation that was transmitted through an object to be imaged, converts the detected radiation into radiographic image information, and has a housing box that incorporates the radiation detector in an attachable and detachable manner. The housing box includes a supporting member that supports the radiation detector as a mechanical reinforcement for keeping the radiation detector flat even when under a load, and an exterior housing that contains the radiation detector and the supporting member. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259209 | X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM - An X-ray diagnostic system is provided that is capable of fitting the vertical position of the X-ray tube to each mode of photography without being affected by the height of the ceiling. The X-rays irradiated from the X-ray tube and transmitted through the subject are detected, and photographed images are captured based on the detected X-rays; the system comprises a supporting member, an arm member, and a height adjuster; the supporting member is provided on the ceiling of a room, formed in a pillar shape, and configured in such a way that the entire length is vertically extended and shortened. The arm member has a base end section connected to the lower end portion of the supporting member and a tip section on which the X-ray tube is mounted. The height adjuster adjusts the vertical position of the X-ray tube by moving the tip section of the arm member relative to the supporting member. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259210 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING REDUCED CROSSTALK ESTIMATION COMPLEXITY - A DSL transmitter and receiver are disclosed that efficiently estimate crosstalk interference. When transmitting over a DSL cable, each of the lines of the cable cause interference in the signals traveling though the other lines in the form of crosstalk. In order to reduce the complexity of the crosstalk estimation calculations, the transmitter sends a measurement signal whose matrix includes a plurality of sub-matrices that include less than all of the signal slots and are modulated with QAM +1s or −1s. Meanwhile, the remaining signal slots are modified with QAM | 2013-10-03 |
20130259211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINGERPRINTING DATASETS - Systems and methods for the matching of datasets, such as input audio segments, with known datasets in a database are disclosed. In an illustrative embodiment, the use of the presently disclosed systems and methods is described in conjunction with recognizing known network message recordings encountered during an outbound telephone call. The methodologies include creation of a ternary fingerprint bitmap to make the comparison process more efficient. Also disclosed are automated methodologies for creating the database of known datasets from a larger collection of datasets. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259212 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Processing User Communications - A computer-implemented system and method for processing user communications is provided. Instructions are received within a call center from a user via a vehicle calling system. A determination as to whether the instructions are correctly received is confirmed by processing the instructions, by providing results of the processed instructions to the user, and by receiving confirmation that the results are correct. The instructions are converted from speech to text upon the confirmation and are subsequently provided to an agent. A communication is received from the agent in response to the instructions and the communication is provided to the user via the vehicle calling system. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259213 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NEW COMMUNICATION SERVICES OVER EXISTING WIRING - Various embodiments of the invention provide apparatus for providing a next-generation communication system over existing wiring. In one form the apparatus includes an input to receive broadband signals carrying next-generation communication data, a processor to extract the next-generation communication data from the broadband signals and a converter to convert the next-generation communication data into analogue telephone signals. The apparatus is arranged to output the analogue telephone signals at the input of the apparatus. Also described is a related method of providing a next-generation communication system over existing wiring. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259214 | CONTROLLING SIMULTANEOUS EXECUTION OF MULTIPLE TELECOM CAMPAIGNS - Methods and arrangements for managing execution of multiple campaigns. At least two campaigns are directed to a target. A monitor is associated with the target, and the at least two campaigns are delivered to the monitor, wherein at least one campaign is in a run mode and at least one campaign is in a wait mode. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259215 | DISCOVERING AND USING PHONE NUMBER LOCATION INFORMATION - A telephone number identification system (“TNIS”) and techniques for facilitating telephonic communications (including but not limited to audible communications, text messages, video communications, and multimedia communications) between calling parties and called parties operating electronic devices configured for telephonic communication via telephone numbers are described. The TNIS operates in any client-side electronic device associated with or including a phone, identifying the formats of incoming or outgoing telephone numbers, which are associated with particular countries and include geographic area identifiers and subscriber numbers. The geographic area identifiers are used to identify one or more possible geographic locations associated with the calling or called parties, one or more possible time zones, and/or estimate the cost of telephonic communications between calling and called parties. Calling and called parties are informed of identified information via user interfaces, and decide whether to establish the telephonic communications via telephony networks and/or other communication networks. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259216 | Social interaction system between anonymous users - This invention relates to the field of data and voice communication. In particular, the invention relates to a system for making connections between two or more anonymous subscribers in order to initiate communication and exchange. The invention also relates to a method of using such system, preferably by means of internet interface and a communication based exchange. A system for making connections between two or more subscribers, preferably anonymously, is provided that can be used to replace impersonal and detached software generated services currently available on a telephony fixed line network, a cellular network, a VoIP network or a combination of these networks. While the described system is not limited to a particular purpose, it can be used by two or more subscribers to initiate a voice communication with the goal of (1) reminding, (2) waking-up, (3) dating, (4) socializing, (5) greetings, (6) congratulating, (7) note taking, etc. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259217 | Systems And Methods For Managing The Status Of Participants Of A Tele-Networking Meeting - Systems and methods for managing the status of participants of a tele-networking meeting are disclosed. During a tele-networking meeting, a network device may monitor the talk time of each participant of the meeting. If a participant's talk time exceeds the target talk time, the network device may prompt the chair, and the chair may take action. Action may include managing a participant's status by muting, disconnecting, or spinning the participant off into a subconference. Additionally, during a tele-networking meeting, a chair may also create a subconference on network device. Thus, the chair may be able to spin off participants of a tele-networking meeting into a subconference controlled by a subchair. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259218 | Telephone Number Sharing Configuration - A system and a method are disclosed for providing telephone number sharing services to subscribers over public switched telephone network or data network. The disclosed system maintains a bank of reusable caller identifiers (IDs). The system receives call details of a call from a subscriber of the system. The call details include a caller identifier (ID) preference of the subscriber and a called number corresponding to the called party. The system stores the call details in a database. The system determines whether the call from the subscriber is a first call to the called number. In response to the call being the first call to the called number, the system assigns a call ID from the bank of reusable caller IDs that satisfies the reusable caller ID preference of the subscriber, and connects the call to the called number along with the caller ID. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259219 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTIMEDIA RING BACK TONE SERVICE - A method, system and apparatus for implementing a Multimedia Ring Back Tone (MRBT) service are provided. The method includes: receiving a call request originated by a calling terminal; parsing a tone playing policy specifying whether to play a caller tone or a callee tone or whether to filter a tone; performing caller tone media negotiation or callee tone media negotiation, or performing no tone negotiation according to the parsing result; and playing the caller tone or the callee tone to the caller, or playing no tone. With the technical solution of the present invention, the caller tone service can be implemented in the IMS domain. Whether a caller tone or a callee tone is played to the caller is determined according to a preset policy. Furthermore, the tone filtering service is also implemented. This gives a user freedom in experiencing the MRBT service. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259220 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTIMEDIA RING BACK TONE SERVICE - A method, system and apparatus for implementing a Multimedia Ring Back Tone (MRBT) service are provided. The method includes: receiving a call request originated by a calling terminal; parsing a tone playing policy specifying whether to play a caller tone or a callee tone or whether to filter a tone; performing caller tone media negotiation or callee tone media negotiation, or performing no tone negotiation according to the parsing result; and playing the caller tone or the callee tone to the caller, or playing no tone. With the technical solution of the present invention, the caller tone service can be implemented in the IMS domain. Whether a caller tone or a callee tone is played to the caller is determined according to a preset policy. Furthermore, the tone filtering service is also implemented. This gives a user freedom in experiencing the MRBT service. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259221 | TELEPHONE AND VOICE ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR TELEPHONE - A telephone includes: a housing; a voice output device that is placed inside the housing and produces voice; a contact detection unit that detects a position of an object that contacts the housing; a position offset calculation unit that calculates a distance between the contact position of the object detected by the contact detection unit and the voice output device; and a voice adjustment unit that adjusts the voice produced from the voice output device, depending on the distance. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259222 | SPLITTER WALL PLATES FOR DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE (DSL) COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO USE THE SAME - Splitter wall plates for digital subscriber line (DSL) communication systems and methods to use the same are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a splitter to separate a digital subscriber line (DSL) signal from a plain old telephone signal (POTS) signal, and a switch to selectively couple a VoIP signal received via a first jack or the POTS signal to a second jack. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259223 | Telephone Interface Unit And A Method Of Configuring Headset System To Telephone Device - A self configuring headset system comprising an interface unit, a method of setting up a headset system to a telephone device using and interface unit and a telephone interface unit is provided. The telephone interface unit is configured to automatically set up a headset system to a telephone device, the headset system comprising a headset and the telephone interface unit, the telephone interface unit comprising a switching unit configured to switch at least a headset transmit signal line and a headset receive signal line to a telephone transmit signal line and a telephone receive signal line, respectively, and a processor being pre-programmed with one or more telephone device permutation settings, wherein the processor is configured to receive, from the telephone device, telephone configuration information on the basis of which a specific permutation setting is selected among the one or more pre-programmed permutation settings, the processor being configured to control the switching unit according to the specific permutation setting. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259224 | METHOD OF GENERATING A RANDOM PERMUTATION, RANDOM PERMUTATION GENERATING DEVICE, AND ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - Generating a random permutation by arranging a sequence N numbers in a matrix, performing random arrangement operations on the rows of the matrix to generate an intermediary matrix, performing random arrangement operations on the columns of the intermediary matrix to generate a second intermediary matrix, and arranging the N numbers of the second intermediary matrix as a rearranged sequence of the N numbers. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259225 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCRYPTING DATA - A method and system for encrypting data. An initialization is generated. Ciphertext is generated from plaintext by applying the initialization vector and an encryption key to the plaintext. The initialization vector is combined with the ciphertext to generate encrypted data, by using an embedding rule to perform the combining. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259226 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CORRELATION PROTECTED PROCESSING OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC OPERATIONS - A method and an apparatus that generate a plurality of elements randomly as a split representation of an input used to provide an output data cryptographically representing an input data are described. The input may correspond to a result of a combination operation on the elements. Cryptographic operations may be performed on the input data and the elements to generate a plurality of data elements without providing data correlated with the key. The combination operation may be performed on the data elements for the output data. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259227 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information-processing device is coupled to an external device and a server. The information-processing device includes a device key storage configured to store a device key; and an MKB processor configured to generate a media key from the device key and a media key block. The information-processing device also includes a shared key generator configured to generate a shared key from the media key and secret information transmitted from the server. The shared key is shared by the information-processing device and the external device. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259228 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTHENTICATING VIDEO CONTENT - A method for authenticating video content includes: receiving a digital signature, an unsecured video fingerprint, and an unsecured video content from a transmitting node at a receiving node in a communication network; determining if the digital signature is consistent with the unsecured video fingerprint at the receiving node to verify the unsecured video fingerprint; and determining if the unsecured video fingerprint is consistent with the unsecured video content at the receiving node to verify the unsecured video content in a manner that tolerates a predetermined measure of loss in the unsecured video content. If the unsecured video fingerprint and the unsecured video content are verified, the unsecured video content is authenticated for subsequent use at the receiving node. A receiving node associated with the method includes an input module, a fingerprint verification module, a content verification module, and a controller module. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259229 | USER MANAGED NUMBER PRIVACY AND CALL ACCESSIBILITY - A system and method for maintaining privacy of a user's telephone number is disclosed. The method provides a means by which a user A may prefer to exchange her contact number with another user B. The contact number is encrypted by user A and passed on to the mobile phone of user B. In the phonebook of user B, the contact number of user A is stored in encrypted format. Further, when user B initiates a call to user A, the encrypted number is sent to the network. At the MSC of user B, the number is decrypted and a call is established with user A. When user A calls user B, user A's number is encrypted at user B's MSC. This is transmitted to user B, where it is compared with the already encrypted number in the phonebook. The matching name of user A is then displayed. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259230 | Bluetooth Low Energy Privacy - Disclosed are various embodiments of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) modules and methods implemented therein. An embodiment of the disclosure generates in a BLE central device an identity resolving key (IRK) associated with a BLE peripheral device. The IRK is transmitted to the BLE peripheral. A resolvable private address (RPA) is generated in the BLE central device that corresponds to the IRK. Packets transmitted in an advertising channel use the RPA for transmissions to the BLE peripheral. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259231 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR BASE STATION ASSISTED PEER DISCOVERY THROUGH AGGREGATION OF EXPRESSIONS - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a UE is equipped to generate an expression associated with a wireless device for use in a peer discovery signal, generate an expression set from the expression, a first temporal frequency, and a first time duration, and transmit the generated expression set to a base station to allow the base station to broadcast each of the expressions included in the expression set at the first temporal frequency over the first time duration. Another method, apparatus, and computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a base station is equipped to receive an expression set from a wireless device, process the received expression set to determine each of one or more instances of an expression, and transmit each of the one or more instances of the expression. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259232 | METHOD FOR PAIRING A MOBILE TELEPHONE WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE AND LOCKING/UNLOCKING SET - The invention relates to a method for pairing a mobile telephone with a motor vehicle, said paired mobile telephone being used to lock/unlock and/or start said motor vehicle by means of at least part of an authentication code. Said method is characterised in that the mobile telephone ( | 2013-10-03 |
20130259233 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND KEY MANAGING METHOD - According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a key storage unit configured to store therein a cryptographic key; a receiving unit configured to receive a message; an analyzing unit configured to analyze whether the message includes an access request for the cryptographic key; a generating unit configured to, when the message includes the access request, generate request information used to request an access to the cryptographic key requested by the access request; and an access controller configured to control the access to the cryptographic key based on the request information. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259234 | ROLE-BASED DISTRIBUTED KEY MANAGEMENT - Implementations for providing role-based distributed key management (DKM) replication are described. A server node receives a request from a requester node to perform a DKM create or update function. The server node determines the role of the requester node based on a public key of the requester node. The server node determines whether the role of the requester node indicates that the requester node is authorized to request the DKM create or update function. If the requester node's role is authorized to request the DKM create or update function, then the server node performs the requested function. The DKM create or update function may involve a replication function. Public key and trust chains may be derived from physical cryptographic processors, such as TPMs. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259235 | KEY AGREEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS WITH ACTIVE ADVERSARIES - A network and related methods for transmitting processes in a network secretly and securely is described. The network use keys, through path-key establishment and a key pool bootstrapping, to ensure that packets are transmitted and received properly and secretly in the presence of one or more adversarial nodes. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259236 | AUDIO APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONVERTING AUDIO SIGNAL THEREOF - An audio apparatus and a method of converting an audio signal are provided. The method includes: receiving a first audio signal including a plurality of channels; comparing audio signals of the plurality of channels to estimate a source position of the first audio signal; localizing a source of the first audio signal toward a three-dimensional (3D) position having an elevation component based on the estimated source position; converting the first audio signal into a second audio signal including the plurality of channels and at least one channel having, based on the localized source, a different elevation from the plurality of channels; and outputting the second audio signal. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259237 | HEARING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A hearing assistance system and method for wireless RF audio signal transmission from at least one audio signal source to ear level receivers, wherein a close-to-natural hearing impression is to be achieved. At least one parameter of the RF signal as received from a transmission unit at a respective receiver unit to create left ear RF signal measurement data and right ear RF signal measurement data, respectively. The angular localization of each transmission unit is obtained by comparing, for each transmission unit, the left ear RF signal measurement data and the right ear RF signal measurement data. The audio signals are processed and distributed according to the estimated angular localization of each transmission unit in a manner so that the angular localization impression of the audio signals from each transmission unit as perceived by the user corresponds to the estimated angular localization of the respective transmission unit. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259238 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR GESTURAL MANIPULATION OF A SOUND FIELD - Gesture-responsive modification of a generated sound field is described. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259239 | HEARING APPARATUS FOR BINAURAL SUPPLY AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A BINAURAL SUPPLY - A hearing apparatus for a binaural supply contains a first earhook to be worn on one ear, having a plurality of microphones, and a first signal processing device which is configured to generate a local earpiece signal for an earpiece of the first earhook from microphone signals of the microphones by use of multichannel signal processing of each of the microphone signals. A beam forming device and a transmission device are additionally provided in the first earhook. The beam forming device is configured to generate a directional output signal from the microphone signals by signal processing which has fewer channels than that of the first signal processing device, and wherein the transmission device is set up to transmit the directional output signal as an electrical or electromagnetic signal from the first earhook. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259240 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING OCCURRENCE OF WHEEZE - A device for detecting occurrence of wheeze in a lung sound includes an acoustic processing unit, a filtering unit, and an identifying unit. The acoustic processing unit is for obtaining a lung sound and for generating a raw sound signal accordingly. The filtering unit is for filtering the raw sound signal to obtain a filtered signal. The filtered signal has a plurality of sections with respect to the time domain. The identifying unit is for computing an energy value of each of the sections of the filtered signal, and for determining that a wheeze occurs when the energy values of a part of the sections are larger than a predetermined value and duration of the part of the sections is longer than a predetermined observation time. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259241 | SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL LIMITING - Limiting the sound pressure level presented to the listener's ears by one or more headphones, using processing capabilities of a personal media device. Headphones, coupled to audio signals from a personal media device, include a sensor to measure the sound pressure level presented to the listener's ears, and provide that measure to the personal media device. The personal media device, optionally aided by one or more analog circuits, adjusts the audio signal so that the sound pressure level is maintained within a recommended range. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259242 | CONTROL OF A MICROPHONE - A microphone circuit has a clip detection circuit which detects when an analogue to digital converter output has reached a threshold. A variable attenuator is controlled based on the clip detection circuit output. The feedback is thus based on the ADC output level, and the processing of this signal can be implemented without requiring baseband processing of the signal—it can simply be based on a state of the ADC output. An overrule function is also provided so that the clip detection AGC control can be inhibited or controlled differently. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259243 | SOUND ACQUISITION VIA THE EXTRACTION OF GEOMETRICAL INFORMATION FROM DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATES - An apparatus for generating an audio output signal to simulate a recording of a virtual microphone at a configurable virtual position in an environment includes a sound events position estimator and an information computation module. The former is adapted to estimate a sound source position indicating a position of a sound source in the environment, wherein the sound events position estimator is adapted to estimate the sound source position based on first and second direction information provided by first and second real spatial microphones, respectively, located at first and second real microphone positions in the environment, respectively. The information computation module is adapted to generate the audio output signal based on a first recorded audio input signal, on the first real microphone position, on the virtual position of the virtual microphone, and on the sound source position. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259244 | HEARING DEVICE WITH AN INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT - A new hearing device is provided with an inertial measurement unit for determination of yaw of the orientation of a user's head, when the hearing device is worn in its intended operational position on the user's head. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259245 | CONTROL METHOD OF SOUND PRODUCING, SOUND PRODUCING APPARATUS, AND PORTABLE APPARATUS - A control method of sound producing, sound producing apparatus, and portable apparatus are provided. The control method of sound producing is for a portable device, including the following steps. (a) A first detected parameter indicating a detected excursion of a speaker of the portable device is generated. (b) A second audio signal is generated based on a first audio signal, wherein the second audio signal is generated selectively by compensation according to at least the first detected parameter. (c) A gain value is determined according to at least the first detected parameter and a third audio signal is generated based on the second audio signal according to the gain value. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259246 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERFACING EARPHONE - An apparatus and method for interfacing with an earphone are provided. The method includes checking if the earphone is uninstalled promptly after the connection of the earphone is sensed in an external port and if it is sensed that the earphone is uninstalled, continuing to apply a voltage to a MIC_BIAS terminal. The generation of a noise of the MIC_BIAS terminal caused by applying of a periodic voltage resulted from loose insertion of the earphone is prevented. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259247 | AUDIO CONTROL SYSTEM - Technologies are generally described for a system for controlling an audio signal based on a proximity of, e.g., a user's hand to at least one component of an audio control system. In some examples, an audio control system may include a filter configured to provide an echo signal and a control decision unit configured to provide a control signal based on the echo signal. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259248 | ACTIVE ACOUSTIC NOISE REDUCTION TECHNIQUE - An acoustical noise reduction system which comprises a primary acoustic to electric transducer, digital signal processor (DSP), an electric to acoustic transducer, and a secondary acoustic to electric transducer is disclosed in the present invention. The active noise reduction system is located close to the noise source with the sound being sensed by a primary transducer before the noise enters the active noise reduction area. The system functions to generate an anti-noise cancellation sound wave with an acoustic propagation speed of approximately 330 m/sec and an electromagnetic propagation speed of approximately 3×10̂8 m/sec. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259249 | ACTIVE VIBRATION NOISE CONTROL APPARATUS - An ANC apparatus using so-called adaptive control is provided with a cancellation sound output means which outputs front wheel cancellation sound that cancels front wheel vibration noise due to front wheel vibration at a position to be silenced on the basis of a front wheel reference signal, and outputs rear wheel cancellation sound that cancels rear wheel vibration noise due to predicted rear wheel vibration at the position to be silenced on the basis of a rear wheel reference signal, and a turning state detection means which detects a turning state of a vehicle. When a difference in travel trajectory between a front wheel and a rear wheel is detected on the basis of the turning state, the cancellation sound output means suppresses the output of the rear wheel cancellation sound. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259250 | PRE-SHAPING SERIES FILTER FOR ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION ADAPTIVE FILTER - A feed forward active noise cancellation (ANC) system for use in a portable audio device has an adaptive digital filter and a reference microphone. A non-adaptive pre-shaping digital filter has an input coupled to the reference microphone and is in series with, and in front of, the adaptive filter. The pre-shaping filter is minimum phase and presents at least 2 dB more gain over a low audio frequency band than over a high audio frequency band. This may help compensate for low frequency band difficulties, and may thereby extend ANC bandwidth at the low end without a worsening impact on the high end. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259251 | INSTABILITY DETECTION AND AVOIDANCE IN A FEEDBACK SYSTEM - In an aspect, in general, a feedback based active noise reduction system is configured to detect actual or potential instability by detecting characteristics of the system related to potential or actual unstable behavior (e.g., oscillation) and adapt system characteristics to mitigate such instability. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259252 | ACTIVE VIBRATION OR NOISE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM - Provided is an active vibration or noise suppression system capable of converging vibration or noise more quickly. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259253 | CONTROLLERS FOR ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEMS - A method for obtaining coefficients for a non-adaptive controller for use in an active noise control system, the method comprising capturing experimental data from a target system to characterise the plant of the target system; and implementing an adaptive algorithm to compute the coefficients in dependence on the experimental data. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259254 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A DIRECTIONAL SOUND FIELD - A system may be used to drive an array of loudspeakers to produce a sound field that includes a source component, whose energy is concentrated along a first direction relative to the array, and a masking component that is based on an estimated intensity of the source component in a second direction that is different from the first direction. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259255 | EXTENSIBLE SMART HEADPHONE SYSTEM - A headphone system executing application programs on a media device to perform enhanced functions without burdening the headphones, including a headphone connector which receives signals from the media device, identifies command signals, and makes responses thereto. The system identifies the features of the headphones and what functions can be applied thereto, and performs those functions. The system includes one headphone cup for each ear, each including an embedded speaker and microphone. The microphones provide signals regarding sound present at the listener's ears, which are combined and input to the media device. The programs analyze signals from the microphones and apply signal processing techniques to outgoing signals. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259256 | Headphone With Integrated Receiver - A portable headset device worn in an as-used position on the head of a user, which has an RF Receiver, configured to receive media in the form of electronic audio and video RF transmission, from local TV and Satellite broadcasts, and communicate an audio feed to speakers on the headset and concurrently communicate a video feed to an electronic device having a display for a concurrent viewing a depiction of the video feed relating to the audio feed being listened to on speakers of said headset. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259257 | CORDED AUDIO DEVICE WITH WIRELESS DATA EXCHANGE - Disclosed is a corded audio device comprising a first housing; a first speaker for converting an electronic signal into sound, the first speaker being accommodated in the first housing; a cord with a connector for connection to and receiving an audio signal from a media player, the cord being connected to the first speaker; and a radio unit comprising a radio transmitter for sending control information to the media player, the control information comprising identification data of the audio device. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259258 | Vehicle Loudspeaker Module - An audio module for use in a vehicle cabin. An elongated substantially sealed enclosure has two ends in the lengthwise direction. A first acoustic driver is mounted in the enclosure near one end of the enclosure for radiating acoustic energy from the end of the enclosure. A second acoustic driver is mounted in the enclosure near a second end of the enclosure for radiating acoustic energy from the second end of the enclosure. The audio module includes a bass augmenting device for radiating low frequency acoustic energy from the enclosure. The audio module is constructed and arranged to be pre-assembled so that the audio module can be installed in the vehicle as a single assembly. The audio module is configured to be mounted to the vehicle so that the lengthwise direction is substantially vertical with the first end of the enclosure higher than the second end of the enclosure. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259259 | ENGINE HARMONIC ENHANCEMENT CONTROL - In a general aspect, a system includes a controller which generates a control parameter based on a signal representative of a load on an engine. One or more engine harmonic signals are generated based on the control parameter. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259260 | LIGHTWEIGHT AUDIO SYSTEM FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPILCATIONS AND METHOD - A lightweight radio/CD player for vehicular application is virtually “fastenerless” and includes a case and frontal interface formed of polymer based material that is molded to provide details to accept audio devices such as playback mechanisms (if desired) and radio receivers, as well as the circuit boards required for electrical control and display. The case and frontal interface are of composite structure, including an insert molded electrically conductive wire mesh screen that has been pre-formed to contour with the molding operation. The wire mesh provides EMC, RFI, BCI and ESD shielding and grounding of the circuit boards via exposed wire mesh pads and adjacent ground clips. The PCB architecture is bifurcated into a first board carrying common circuit components in a surface mount configuration suitable for high volume production, and a second board carrying application specific circuit components in a wave soldered stick mount configuration. The major components and subassemblies are self-fixturing during the final assembly process, eliminating the need for dedicated tools, fixtures and assembly equipment. The major components and subassemblies self-interconnect by integral guide and connection features effecting “slide lock” and “snap lock” self-interconnection. The radio architecture includes improved push buttons employing 4-bar living hinge linkage and front loaded decorative trim buttons. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259261 | VEHICLE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM - A vehicle entertainment system ( | 2013-10-03 |
20130259262 | SOUND RECORDING DEVICE - A sound recording device of the present disclosure is can be connected with an external sound pickup device. The sound recording device includes a connector having a plurality of terminals to which the external sound pickup device can be connected, and a determiner that determines a type of the external sound pickup device when the external sound pickup device is connected to the connector, based on a correlation between signals of specific terminals out of the plurality of terminals. | 2013-10-03 |
20130259263 | Removal of Wind Noise from Communication Signals - A special purpose machine measures and modulates communication signals that are parsed into frames. Frames of signals modulated and measured to have certain qualities are deemed to be the result of wind noise. Frames of wind noise are cancelled from further use within a communication system. | 2013-10-03 |