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20120299647 | PA ENVELOPE POWER SUPPLY UNDERSHOOT COMPENSATION - A power amplifier (PA) envelope power supply, which provides an envelope power supply signal to radio frequency (RF) PA circuitry, and a process to prevent undershoot of the PA envelope power supply is disclosed. The process includes determining if an envelope control signal to the PA envelope power supply has a step change from a high magnitude to a low magnitude that exceeds a step change limit. Such a step change may cause undershoot of the PA envelope power supply. As such, if the step change exceeds the step change limit, the envelope control signal is modified to use an intermediate magnitude for period of time. Otherwise, if the step change does not exceed the step change limit, the envelope control signal is not modified. | 11-29-2012 |
20120299660 | SELECTING PA BIAS LEVELS OF RF PA CIRCUITRY DURING A MULTISLOT BURST - Power amplifier (PA) control circuitry and PA bias circuitry are disclosed. During one slot of a multislot transmit burst from radio frequency (RF) PA circuitry, the PA control circuitry selects one PA bias level of the RF PA circuitry and the RF PA circuitry has one output power level. The RF PA circuitry has a next output power level during an adjacent next slot of the multislot transmit burst. If the one output power level exceeds the next output power level by more than a power drop limit, then the PA control circuitry maintains the one PA bias level during the adjacent next slot. If the one output power level significantly exceeds the next output power level, but by less than the power drop limit, then the PA control circuitry selects a next PA bias level, which is less than the one PA bias level, during the adjacent next slot. | 11-29-2012 |
20120299661 | PA BIAS POWER SUPPLY UNDERSHOOT COMPENSATION - A charge pump of a power amplifier (PA) bias power supply and a process to prevent undershoot disruption of a bias power supply signal of the PA bias power supply are disclosed. The charge pump operates in one of multiple bias supply pump operating modes, which include at least a bias supply pump-up operating mode and a bias supply bypass operating mode. The process prevents selection of the bias supply pump-up operating mode from the bias supply bypass operating mode before charge pump circuitry in the charge pump is capable of providing adequate voltage to prevent undershoot disruption of the bias power supply signal. | 11-29-2012 |
20150276239 | ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEM RETROFITTABLE WITH MULTIPLE TYPES OF BOILER-BASED HEATING SYSTEMS - A control system may include a thermostat device and boiler control device. The thermostat device may be configured to receive electrical power from second wiring terminals and provide control signals to boiler control device using a second radio when wires are not present in first wiring terminals. The thermostat device may also be configured to receive electrical power from the first wiring terminals and provide the coded control signals to the boiler control device through the first wiring terminals when wires are present in the first wiring terminals. The boiler control device may be configured to receive the control signals from the thermostat device using a third radio and selectively couple the third wiring terminals to fifth wiring terminals to selectively control activation of the boiler-based heating system when wires are not present in fourth wiring terminals. | 10-01-2015 |
20160043827 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION JAMMING IN A NETWORK - An electronic device may include a processor and a network interface that may include a first radio and a second radio. The processor may be configured to perform wireless communication jamming attack detection by occasionally performing clear channel verification utilizing the network interface to determine whether a threshold number of devices' channels are incapacitated in a wireless network within a threshold amount of time and/or by sending a heartbeat signal from the first radio and determining whether the second radio received the heartbeat signal. | 02-11-2016 |
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20150141828 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC METHOD - According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a transceiver part, a signal processing part and an image generation part. The transceiver part controls an ultrasonic probe to perform a first and second scans. The first scan transmits a first ultrasonic wave and an ultrasonic wave, obtained by modulating an amplitude of the first ultrasonic wave, to scanning lines distributed three dimensionally, and receives first reflected waves. The second scan transmits a second ultrasonic wave to scanning lines distributed two dimensionally during the first scan, and receives second reflective waves. The transceiver part obtains first and second reception signals based on the first and second reflected waves. The signal processing part generates composite signals by combining the first reception signals. The image generation part generates three dimensional ultrasonic image data based on the composite signals, and two dimensional ultrasonic image data based on the second reception signals. | 05-21-2015 |
20150223778 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a controller, a processor, and an image generator. The controller selects at least one transducer element in a reception aperture formed of a transducer element group arranged in a predetermined direction, based on at least a deflection angle of an ultrasonic wave transmitted to a subject. The processor performs processing on at least one reception signal of a plurality of reception signals generated in the reception aperture such that a signal intensity of a reception signal generated in the at least one transducer element selected by the controller is reduced to be lower than a signal intensity of reception signals generated in transducer elements other than the at least one transducer element, to output the reception signal of the reception aperture. The image generator generates ultrasonic image data, based on the reception signal of the reception aperture. | 08-13-2015 |
20150320396 | ULTRASONOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC IMAGING METHOD - An ultrasonography apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a calculating unit, a multiplying unit, and a generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires a plurality of reception signals that are generated by assigning various kinds of weights on multiple reflected wave signals to which a delay according to a position in a reception aperture is given, and by adding the weighted signals for respective kinds of the weights. The calculating unit calculates a coefficient corresponding to each of positions on a scan line of the reception signals, based on any one of a signal and pixel value of each of positions based on at least one reception signal. The multiplying unit multiplies any one of the values of each of positions based on at least one different reception signal from said reception signal(s) by the coefficient to acquire output data. The generating unit generates ultrasonic image data based on the data. | 11-12-2015 |
20150320398 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes reception circuitry, signal processing circuitry, and generating circuitry. The reception circuitry outputs a plurality of reception signals corresponding to respective reception scanning lines for each transmission and reception of an ultrasonic wave by an ultrasonic probe. The signal processing circuitry executes a weighting process and a phase correction process according to the position of each reception scanning line on at least one of the reception signals and a plurality of signals based on the reception signals, generates the processed signals for each reception scanning line, and outputs a plurality of composite signals using the processed signals generated based on the transmission and reception of the ultrasonic waves before and after changing the sound field of the transmitted ultrasonic wave, and before and after changing the position of the reception scanning lines. The generating circuitry generates a piece of image data based on the composite signals. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324957 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A signal processing apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry and control circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of IQ signals obtained by performing a plurality of processing with different conditions on reflected wave signals generated at a transducer element included in an ultrasound probe. The processing circuitry generates a compound signal compounded by non-linear processing of the IQ signals. The control circuitry causes a display to display image data based on the compound signal. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327840 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND CORRECTION METHOD - An ultrasonic diagnostic device includes transmission circuitry, reception circuitry, and signal processing circuitry. The transmission circuitry causes an ultrasonic probe including a plurality of elements to transmit plane waves at a plurality of different deflection angles. The reception circuitry generates reception signal groups based on reflection waves that the individual elements included in the probe receive in response to the transmission of the plane waves. The signal processing circuitry acquires a plurality of complex images corresponding to the respective deflection angles and estimates wavefront distortion at the time of transmission using the complex pixel values of the complex images, and performs correction processing on the reception signal groups based on the wavefront distortion at the time of the transmission to generate image data based on the complex pixel values of the complex images for the respective deflection angles that are acquired from the reception signal groups after the correction processing. | 11-19-2015 |