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| 20090127509 | CROSS-LINKED ENCAPSULATED PHOSPHORSCENT MOLECULES - There is provided herein cross-linked, phosphorescent micro- and nanoparticles and applications of those particles. The invention uses halogen-containing polymers and co-polymers (HCPs) as an encapsulation matrix for organic and organometallic phosphorescent compounds to form micro- or nanoparticles. The phosphorescence of these encapsulated phosphorescent particles is substantially unaffected by phosphorescence quenchers such as oxygen and water molecules at ambient conditions. The invention provides methods of making cross-linked phosphorescent particles. HCPs may be directly cross-linked through linking moieties that are a part of the polymer, or cross-linked through other separate bridging or cross-linking materials Cross-linked particles are more stable than the non-cross-linked counterparts and more resistant to temperature, surfactants, and organic solvents. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090137172 | COLORANT MEDIA AND ARTICLES HAVING PHOTO-STABLE AND SURFACE-FUNCTIONALIZABLE COLORANT PARTICLES - A composition and method for encapsulating colorant molecules in polymeric particles are described. Colorant molecules, such as dye, are doped or embedded in a particle, at least in part, composed of a halogen-containing polymeric matrix that can effectively isolate the dye molecules from reaction with photo-oxidizing or reducing agents. The isolated colorant molecule is protected from photo-bleaching and other color degradation, and show superior photo-stability. The encapsulating polymer matrix can be cross-linked and can have a variety of surface functional groups, which may be adapted to help achieve either strong ionic or covalent binding to desired substrates. Also described are methods for producing protective particles, and ink mediums for applying the particles to substrates. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20110097820 | Swab-Based Diagnostic Systems - A diagnostic test system for detecting the presence or absence of an analyte within a test sample is provided. For instance, the system may include a swab and a detection unit. The detection unit includes a first component that is capable of receiving the swab, the first component defining an insertion chamber within which a fluid is capable of being retained. The detection unit also includes a second component that defines a detection chamber within which an assay for detecting the presence or absence of the analyte is capable of being contained. The first component is rotatable relative to the second component from an inactive position to an active position. In the inactive position, the fluid remains substantially contained within the insertion chamber. In the active position, the fluid may flow from the insertion chamber to the detection chamber and contact the assay. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110160687 | NONWOVEN COMPOSITE INCLUDING AN APERTURED ELASTIC FILM AND METHOD OF MAKING - An elastic nonwoven composite that contains an elastic film laminated to one or more nonwoven web materials is provided. The composite is formed by passing an extrusion-coated film/nonwoven laminate through a nip to create apertures through both the film and the nonwoven. The apertures are of a size sufficient to provide a desired level of texture, softness, hand feel, and/or aesthetic appeal to the composite without having a significant adverse effect on its elastic properties. Apertures are accomplished in the present invention by selectively controlling certain parameters of the lamination process, such as film content, element pattern, degree of film tension, temperature and pressure conditions, and so forth. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120148796 | Nonwoven Composite Including an Apertured Elastic Film and Method of Making - An elastic nonwoven composite that contains an elastic film laminated to one or more nonwoven web materials is provided. The composite is formed by passing an extrusion-coated film/nonwoven laminate through a nip to create apertures through both the film and the nonwoven. The apertures are of a size sufficient to provide a desired level of texture, softness, hand feel, and/or aesthetic appeal to the composite without having a significant adverse effect on its elastic properties. Apertures are accomplished in the present invention by selectively controlling certain parameters of the lamination process, such as film content, element pattern, degree of film tension, temperature and pressure conditions, and so forth. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120157952 | ARTICLE WITH HEAT-ACTIVATABLE EXPANDABLE STRUCTURES - An absorbent article has a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, a first major surface which forms a body-facing surface of the absorbent article, and a second major surface disposed distally from the first major surface which forms a garment-facing surface of the absorbent article. The article includes an absorbent core positioned between the first major surface and the second major surface. The article also includes at least one heat-activatable expandable structure. The at least one heat-activatable expandable structure is disposed on or below the first major surface. Application of heat to the heat-activatable expandable structure causes the heat-activatable expandable barrier structure to form distinctive designs, barriers and/or channels. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20130245134 | Degradable Therapeutic Delivery Device - A biodegradable biodelivery device is disclosed. The biodelivery device is formed from a polymer comprising the reaction product of a polyol and a polyacid. When exposed to water, the polymer degrades through hydrolysis. Of particular advantage, the polymer can be formed so as to be elastic and flexible. In one embodiment, the polymer is formed into a vaginal insert. As the polymer degrades, the polymer releases acid to a vaginal environment for decreasing the pH of the environment. | 09-19-2013 |
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| 20110013523 | INTERFERENCE-OVERLOAD-INDICATOR GENERATING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF GENERATING INTERFERENCE OVERLOAD INDICATOR - The present invention reduces a signaling size of an interference overload indicator. A base station includes an interference-overload-indicator generation control sub-system ( | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110013582 | INTERFERENCE-OVERLOAD-INDICATOR GENERATING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF GENERATING INTERFERENCE OVERLOAD INDICATOR - The present invention provides an interference-overload-indicator generating device, a method of generating an interference overload indicator, an interference-overload-indicator generation controller, a method of controlling interference-overload-indicator generation, and a method of indicating interference overload, and a base station utilizing these methods, each of which is used in an uplink FDMA cellular communication system. The base station includes an interference-overload-indicator generation control sub-system ( | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110019648 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL STATE, BASE STATION, AND USER EQUIPMENT - The present invention provides: a method for switching an RRC state; an eNB; and a UE. The eNB ( | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110034198 | DETERMINING METHOD FOR USE IN INFORMATION FEEDBACK, BASE STATION, USER EQUIPMENT, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The present invention provides a subband determining method, a base station, user equipment, and a communications system, each of which is used for information feedback. The base station of the present invention finds the subband size on the basis of a system bandwidth and divides the system bandwidth into subbands. The base station further (i) selects some subbands to form a subband set and assign the subband set to user equipment (UE) and (ii) notifies the user equipment (UE) of information about the subband set. The user equipment (UE) in turn finds its corresponding subband size and the number of subbands for use in feedback on the basis of the size of the assigned subband set. The user equipment (UE) further (i) divides the subband set into its corresponding subbands on the basis of a result found and (ii) feeds back information about a predetermined number of subbands to the base station. The base station carries out optimization of its transmitter on the basis of the information, fed back from the user equipment (UE), so as to not only secure a quality of service of a wireless cell, but also improve system efficiency. This method allows feedback to be carried out for downlink information with ease and high efficiency. This in turn reduces load for uplink wireless transmissions and improves feedback precision so as to save wireless resources and improve system efficiency. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110134875 | METHOD FOR COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATIONS AMONG BASE STATIONS - A method for cooperative communications among base stations according to the present invention includes: a first step in which a serving base station determines whether a user device is in an mode of cooperative communications among the base stations; a second step in which the serving base station uses a downlink control signal to make configuration for the user device; a third step in which the user device obtains (i) system information regarding the serving base station and a cooperative communication base station indicated by configuration information received and (ii) channel state information; a fourth step in which the user device feeds back channel state information regarding downlink channels between the user device and the serving base station and between the user device and the cooperative communication base station; a fifth step in which the serving base station carries out resource scheduling and backhaul communications in accordance with the channel state information thus fed back; and a sixth step in which the user device receives an allocation instruction to allocate downlink resources. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110136495 | BASE STATION, USER DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BASE STATION, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING USER DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A base station ( | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110164549 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - This invention provides a mobile communication system, including: a base station device; and a mobile station device, the mobile communication system having a predetermined total bandwidth made of a set of a plurality of downlink component carriers, the base station device and the mobile station device processing each downlink physical layer provided for a respective one of the plurality of downlink component carriers, and the set of the plurality of downlink component carriers including (i) a downlink component carrier employing a subframe structure according to which some symbols at the beginning of a subframe include control information and (ii) a downlink component carrier employing a subframe structure according to which some symbols at the beginning of a subframe do not include control information. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110206154 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND PRECODING METHOD - The present invention provides a precoding method for use in a wireless communications system. According to the precoding method of the present invention, a serving base station and cooperative communication base stations employ an identical precoding matrix so as to weight transmission signals and then transmit them. The weighting stands for multiplication of results of overall precoding or each layer precoding process by weight values at the serving base station and the cooperative communication base stations. A user device corresponding to the serving base station and the cooperative communication base stations receives a signal which is obtained by an operation in which the serving base station and the cooperative communication base stations perform an identical precoding process and additively combine results of overall precoding or each layer precoding process with one another. The user device feeds back information which includes (i) precoding matrix information for the serving base station and the cooperative communication base stations, (ii) weight vector information for either overall precoding or layer precoding, and (iii) a quantized value of channel quality. This feedback information is thus advantageous in that its signaling information amount is small. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110274026 | METHOD FOR ALLOWING TRANSPARENT TRANSMISSION AND NON-TRANSPARENT TRANSMISSION OF RELAY NODE TO COEXIST - The present invention provides a method for allowing transparent transmission and non-transparent transmission of a relay node to coexist. That is, a frequency-division multiplex system is employed so that a transparent transmission mode is used in one operating carrier frequency bandwidth whereas a non-transparent transmission mode is used in another operating carrier frequency bandwidth. In addition, according to the frequency-division multiplex system, the transparent transmission mode is used for a plurality of subframes whereas the non-transparent transmission mode is used for another plurality of subframes. The method for allowing transparent transmission and non-transparent transmission of a relay node to coexist makes it possible to effectively reduce a cost of a system. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120004014 | CHANNEL RECONSTRUCTION METHOD, BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT - The present invention discloses a channel reconstruction method for a downlink multi-antenna-multi-base-station with inconsistent antenna configuration. Firstly, a serving base station configures a user equipment. If antenna configuration of the multi-antenna-multi-base-station system is inconsistent, virtual antennas are introduced to a base station with fewer antennas in the system. A user equipment selects and feeds back indices of the virtual antennas and reconstructs channels of the multi-antenna-multi-base-station system to generate a consistent antenna configuration. Finally, the multi-antenna-multi-base-station system transmits a signal to the user equipment by adopting a transmission pre-processing scheme of the consistent antenna configuration. The present invention provides also a serving base station, a cooperative base station and a user equipment for realizing the channel reconstruction method. The present invention has advantages of large application range, simple implementation and better performance. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120015662 | RELAY COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - The present invention provides a relay collaborative cellular mobile communication system and a communication method of the system. In the method, all relay stations or a base station and relay stations in a cell (i) measure all uplink signals such as uplink reference signals and random-access signals from user devices for obtaining reception qualities of uplink signals of the user devices at the sites and (ii) feed back measurement results to the base station. The base station determines a transmission route of a user device based on the measurement results. A site in a transmission route processes schedule control information and then transmits the information to the user device for performing, based on lumped scheduling of the base station, a downlink reception, an uplink transmission, an uplink retransmission, or a downlink retransmission. In an uplink HARQ mechanism, the site in the transmission route receives an uplink signal from the user device, feeds back an ACK to the user device, and transmits a processed uplink signal to the base station, or feeds back an NACK or an ACK to the base station. The base station judges, based on results of decoding and detecting transmitted data or feedback results from the sites in the transmission route, whether or not the current uplink transmission is successful or whether to adjust the uplink retransmission. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120087333 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT - A mobile communication system where a base station and a user equipment communicates on multiple aggregated carriers is disclosed. In the mobile communication system, the base station notifies to the user equipment information which is relevant to inclusion of an information field indicating scheduling carrier in downlink control information format by using radio resource control signaling, and the user equipment receives, from the base station, downlink control information in the downlink control information format according to the information which is relevant to inclusion of the information field indicating scheduling carrier. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20150049692 | CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT - A Channel State Information (CSI) feedback method and a user equipment (UE) are provided. The CSI feedback method comprises: selecting a communication resource by which non-coherent Joint Transmission (JT) is performed, wherein the non-coherent JT achieves a performance target by using the selected communication resource; and feeding back, to a Base Station (BS) participating in the non-coherent JT, an indication of the selected communication resource as enhanced CSI. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150215926 | METHOD FOR COMPONENT CARRIER CONFIGURATION, BASE STATION AND USER EQUIPMENT - A method for component carrier configuration is provided. The method includes: generating, by a Base Station (BS), secondary cell (SCell) configuration information and transmitting it to a User Equipment (UE); transmitting, by the BS, an SCell activation request for the UE to a micro BS and receiving from the micro BS an SCell activation response to the SCell activation request; and transmitting, by the BS, SCell activation information to the UE if the received SCell activation response indicates that the SCell activation request is accepted by the micro BS. The SCell configuration information contains group numbers and indices of SCells associated with the BS and the micro BS, respectively, and indicates a secondary primary cell (S-PCell) associated with the micro BS. The present invention also provides a BS and a UE. With the method for component carrier configuration and the corresponding BS and UE according to the present invention, the channel state information of the UE can be fed back on an uplink working of the micro cell base station. | 07-30-2015 |
| 20150244438 | METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING PRE-CODING MATRIX AND FEEDING BACK INDEX VALUE AND RELATED COMMUNICATION DEVICES - The disclosure provides a method for constructing a three-dimensional (3D) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) pre-coding matrix, a method for feeding back index values of a 3D MIMO pre-coding matrix and related communication devices. The method for constructing a 3D MIMO pre-coding matrix comprises: constructing a first component matrix in a block diagonal form, wherein a diagonal sub-matrix of the first component matrix is a 3D beamforming sub-precoder for a two-dimensional (2D) antenna array; constructing a second component matrix which comprises phase weighting factors as matrix elements, wherein the phase weighting factors characterize coherent combination of signals from the 2D antenna array; and constructing the 3D MIMO pre-coding matrix according to the constructed first and second component matrixes. The method for feeding back index values of a 3D MIMO pre-coding matrix comprises: estimating a MIMO channel; and according to a result of the channel estimation, selecting and feeding back a first index value, a second index value and a third index value. | 08-27-2015 |
| 20150334738 | METHOD AND BASE STATION FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK SCHEDULING INFORMATION - The present invention provides a method and a base station each for transmitting uplink scheduling information. The method includes the steps of: for an uplink subframe to be scheduled in accordance with the uplink scheduling information, selecting, from a downlink subframe candidate group, a downlink subframe usable for transmission of the uplink scheduling information, the downlink subframe candidate group including (1) a first downlink subframe corresponding to the uplink subframe in accordance with a predetermined scheduling timing and (2) one or more second downlink subframes each not corresponding to the uplink subframe in accordance with the predetermined scheduling timing; and transmitting the uplink scheduling information in the selected downlink subframe. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20160000559 | HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS | 01-07-2016 |
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| 20100259298 | LOW-QUIESCENT-CURRENT BUFFER - An embodiment of an input-buffer circuit may include an input stage with an inverter having an input operable to receive a signal to be translated. The input stage may include a limiting circuit coupled to the input stage for arresting quiescent current. Additional embodiments of an input-buffer circuit formed according to the subject matter disclosed herein may include feedback transistors suited to provide additional current to the input stage and a hysteresis circuit suited to provide hysteresis current to the input stage when an input signal has a high-frequency change rate. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100327195 | LOW-POWER OPTOCOUPLER - An embodiment of an optocoupler may provide electrical isolation between signals on a driver side and signals on a receiver side of the optocoupler by generating light signals via a fiber-optic link to the receiver. One embodiment includes driver circuit that may receive an input signal (or a series of input signals) having a specific clock cycle. Instead of driving a light source, such as a light-emitting diode, for the entire duration in which an input signal may be at a high logic level, the LED may be driven with only a pulse to indicate any transitions from high-to-low or from low-to-high. In another embodiment, a receiver circuit may then interpret pulses of differing widths to reconstruct a series of logical signal from only its pulse transitions. By limiting the amount of time in which the LED is on, yet still conveying all underlying data in the input signal, the optocoupler reduces the overall power needed during operation. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110128362 | DUAL-CAMERA FACE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND METHOD - A dual-camera face recognition device and method are disclosed. The device includes: a first camera, for capturing a face image; a second camera, arranged at a different position from the first camera, for capturing a face image; a face recognition processing unit, for receiving and recognizing the face image captured by the first camera and obtaining a first candidate set, and for receiving and recognizing the face image captured by the second camera and obtaining a second candidate set. The face recognition processing unit is also adapted to select from the first candidate set and the second candidate set a candidate object whose similarity complies with a predetermined rule as a recognition result. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20120274369 | POWER-ON-RESET CIRCUIT AND RESET METHOD - Apparatus and methods for a power-on-reset (POR) circuit are provided. In an example, a (POR) circuit can include a self-bias module configured to provide a reference voltage, a feedback module configured to provide a feedback voltage, a comparison module configured to compare the feedback voltage to the reference voltage and to provide an output signal, an inverter configured to couple the output of the comparison module to an enable input of the self-bias module, and a switch module coupled to the inverter, wherein the switch module and the inverter are configured to disabled the self bias module when the feedback voltage exceeds the reference voltage. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20130027089 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MULTIPLE SUPPLY VOLTAGES - An apparatus comprises a supply voltage divider, a state machine, two comparators and a threshold selector. The supply voltage divider divides a V | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130038111 | Automobile neck pillow - An automobile neck pillow relates to an automobile seat articles technology field, which adopts a key technology truly adapted to human mechanical physiological curves and makes a multiple choice about materials of a core body and an elongated housing and a scientific measurement about shapes and sizes thereof to make the core body and the elongated housing match with each other, wherein the core body is soaked in medical liquids of health care to provide health care and healing to the neck, the core body is attached with a bamboo charcoal fiber cushion, an infra-red cloth, or a negative oxygen ion cloth while integrally being sprayed with perfume, and a brace provided in the elongated housing is mounted between a seat and a head cushion by a longitudinal fixation, a transverse fixation, a combination of longitudinal and transverse fixation, a head-sleeving fixation, or an integral fixation with the head cushion. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130154709 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OUTPUT CONTROL - The present disclosure provides an output control circuit including a signal feedback circuit and an enable control circuit, wherein the signal feedback circuit is configured to compare an output voltage with a set output voltage threshold and to output a disable signal to an enable control circuit when the output voltage arrives at the set output voltage threshold, and wherein the enable control circuit is configured to stop an operation of a translation circuit, upon reception of the disable signal from the signal feedback circuit. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130222309 | MOTOR DRIVE CIRCUIT - This document discusses, among other things, apparatus and methods for a motor drive, such as a haptic motor drive. In an example, a motor drive can include a low dropout (LDO) regulator configured to receive a supply voltage and to provide a regulated voltage, a power switch circuit configured to receive the supply voltage and to receive the regulated voltage from the LDO regulator, and a level shift circuit configured to receive power from the power switch circuit, to receive an input signal, and to provide an output signal to a a voltage difference generating circuit based on the input signal and the power from the power switch circuit. In certain states of the motor drive, the power switch circuit can couple either the regulated voltage or the supply voltage to the level shift circuit. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130234774 | LEVEL SWITCHING CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RAIL-TO-RAIL ENABLING SIGNAL - This document discusses, among other things, methods for controlling a Rail-to-Rail enabling signal, including providing a first signal of an input signal of a control circuit to a level switching circuit, performing, by the level switching circuit, enabling control according to a high level and a low level of the first signal, and outputting, by the level switching circuit, a disabling signal in case of a failure of a power supply coupled to the level switching circuit. The document also discusses a circuit for controlling a Rail-to-Rail enabling signal and a level switching circuit configured to output a disabling signal properly to provide an accurate enabling control signal for equipment operated under control of an enabling control in case of the failure of the power supply. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130255496 | Ionic Liquid Solvent and Gas Purification Method Using the Same - An ionic liquid solvent and gas purification method using the same are provided. The ionic liquid solvent consists of a main absorbent, a regulator for the main absorbent, an auxiliary absorbent, an activator, an antioxidant and water. The ionic liquid involves a low synthetic cost, low viscosity and high absorption capacity, and can be easily regenerated and recycled. The method, compared with traditional processes, has advantages such as a greater absorption capability and lower operation cost. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130285730 | CLAMP CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR CLAMPING VOLTAGE - The disclosure provides a clamp circuit and a method for clamping voltage. The clamp circuit includes: a first switch control unit, connected with the high-potential terminal of the first stage output of a comparator and configured to clamp the voltage of the high-potential terminal to V | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130307517 | LOW-VOLTAGE BAND-GAP VOLTAGE REFERENCE CIRCUIT - The present application discusses low voltage band-gap voltage reference circuit and methods. In an example the circuit can include a current mirror, an operational amplifier adopting an N-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (NMOS) input pair structure, a band-gap output circuit, an adaptive adjustment circuit; and two branches of Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT). The current mirror can be configured to receive an output signal of the operational amplifier and to provide a current to the two branches of BJT. The operational amplifier can be configured to differentially input voltages at the upper ends of the two branches of BJT, to generate the output signal to the current mirror, and to equalize the voltages at the upper ends of the two branches of BJT using a deep negative feedback. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20140002139 | MAXIMUM VOLTAGE SELECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD AND SUB-SELECTION CIRCUIT | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140021979 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR OVERCURRENT DETECTION OF POWER SWITCH - An overcurrent detection circuit for a power switch comprises a sampling circuit and a comparing circuit. The sampling circuit is configured to perform current sampling on the power switch using a sampling Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) and an amplifier, convert a sample current into a sample voltage and transmit the sample voltage to the comparing circuit, and clamp operating voltages of the comparing circuit and of an output circuit of the amplifier by a serially connected clamping MOSFET. The comparing circuit is configured to compare the sample voltage with a reference voltage and to output a result of overcurrent detection. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140104003 | OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT AND METHOD IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - The disclosure provides an operational amplifier circuit, in which a power supply of an amplifying circuit is coupled to a first voltage clamping circuit, and the first voltage clamping circuit clamps a supply voltage of the amplifying circuit when the supply voltage exceeds a normal-operation allowable voltage of the amplifying circuit. The disclosure also provides a method for implementing the operational amplifier circuit. According to the disclosure, the operational circuit may be avoided from subject to an excessive supply voltage, which may damage devices in the amplifying circuit of the operational amplifier. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140167830 | DELAY TIME ADJUSTING CIRCUIT, METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A delay time adjusting circuit is described, in which a reference signal circuit generates at least one reference signal to an A/D conversion circuit, an input signal circuit generates an input signal to the A/D conversion circuit, the A/D conversion circuit compares the input signal with the at least one reference signal to output a digital signal to a digital logic chip, and the digital logic chip determines a delay time based on the digital signal. In this way, the delay time can be determined digitally, and an adjusting accuracy of the delay time can be increased; and also, the delay time can be adjusted through changing the level of the input signal, thus reducing circuit losses and costs | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140218115 | CURRENT COMPENSATION CIRCUIT, METHOD AND OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER - Disclosed is a current compensation circuit. During calibration of a compensation current, a digital control circuit delivers a digital signal with values varying over time to a current compensation array, the current compensation array outputs different amounts of compensation current based on the digital signal with values varying over time, the digital control circuit latches a value of the digital signal, which results in a best compensation current, based on influences of the different amounts of compensation current on a parameter to be calibrated, to complete the calibration. Upon and after completion of the calibration, the digital control circuit continuously delivers the digital signal with the latched value to the current compensation array, and the current compensation array outputs the best compensation current based on the digital signal with the latched value. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140354261 | METHOD, CIRCUIT AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR DETECTING RESONANCE FREQUENCY - A method, circuit, and integrated circuit for detecting resonance frequency is disclosed in which a first operational amplifier circuit receives an input signal and provides an output signal for a resonance circuit to store energy, a zero crossing comparator circuit samples a discharge current of the resonance circuit and transforms the sampled current into a sampled voltage and outputs a square signal to a digital signal processor based on the sampled voltage, and the digital signal processor obtains a resonance frequency based on the square signal. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140376141 | OVERCURRENT PROTECTION METHOD, CIRCUIT AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Disclosed is an overcurrent protection method and circuit and an integrated circuit. The overcurrent protection circuit includes an output circuit, an overcurrent sampling circuit and an overcurrent protection loop circuit. The overcurrent sampling circuit is configured to perform overcurrent sampling on the output circuit, and to pass the sampled current to the overcurrent protection loop circuit, and the overcurrent protection loop circuit is configured to perform direct current level shifting on the sampled current to result in a control current, and to provide a negative feedback to the output current of the output circuit based on the control current. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150035598 | COMMON-MODE FEEDBACK DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIER - The present invention discloses a common-mode feedback differential amplifier circuit, a common-mode feedback differential amplification method, and an integrated circuit. In an example, a common-mode feedback (CMFB) loop conducts voltage division on a first common-mode signal to generate a second common-mode signal and a third common-mode signal, a differential amplifier sets a voltage of the signal with the higher voltage between the second common-mode signal and the third common-mode signal equal to a voltage of a first input terminal or a second input terminal, and the CMFB loop controls the differential amplifier to output an output signal with the minimum voltage equal to the voltage of the first common-mode signal. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150068289 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING LUBRICANT OF AN ENGINE - The present invention relates to a system and method for monitoring lubricant of an engine. The system for monitoring lubricant of an engine comprises: a lubricant sensor, which measures lubricant quantity of the engine; a data acquisition unit, which collects the lubricant quantity of the engine from the lubricant sensor at a fixed time interval; and a message generation unit, which generates lubricant quantity monitoring messages according to the lubricant quantity of the engine collected by the data acquisition unit. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150068293 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MONITORING THE MALFUNCTION OF APU TURBINE VANE FRACTURE AND ROTOR SHAFT JAM - The present invention relates to a method and device for monitoring APU turbine vane fracture and rotor shaft jam. The method for monitoring APU turbine vane fracture and rotor shaft jam comprises: acquiring APU messages at multiple time points within a period; obtaining the operation parameters of the APU according to the APU messages, the operation parameters including at least the start time STA; calculating the average value AVG and the deviation index δ of the start time STA within the period; and determining the circumstance of the turbine vane fracture and rotation shaft jam of APU is in stable phase, decline phase or malfunction phase according to the deviation index δ. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150073648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ADDITION OF ENGINE LUBRICANT - The present invention relates to a method for detecting addition of engine lubricant, comprising: determining whether the difference value between the lubricant quantity at a first timing and that at a second timing is greater than a first threshold value; delaying a period and determining whether the difference value between the lubricant quantity at a third timing and that at a fourth timing is greater than a second threshold value in response to that the difference value between the lubricant quantity at the first timing and that at the second timing is greater than the first threshold value; and detecting the lubricant increment in response to that the difference value between the lubricant quantity at the third timing and that at the fourth timing is greater than the second threshold value. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150084895 | LOAD DRIVING METHOD, LOAD DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND APPLICATION DEVICES THEREOF - The present invention discloses a load driving circuit, comprising a voltage differential generation circuit and a common mode voltage generation circuit; wherein the voltage differential generation circuit is configured to generate a driving voltage for driving a load; and the common mode voltage generation circuit is configured to: when the voltage differential generation circuit generates the driving voltage for driving the load, regulate the voltages output by a first output terminal and a second output terminal of the voltage differential generation circuit to the same voltage value. The present invention also provides a load driving method and application devices thereof. With the technical solutions according to the present invention, a central value of a voltage output by the first output terminal and a voltage output by the second output terminal of the voltage differential generation circuit is effectively regulated. In this way, when a duty cycle of an input signal is within a range of 0 to 100%, the driving voltage generated by the voltage differential generation circuit is in a linear relation with the duty cycle of the input signal, thereby ensuring fidelity of an output signal. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150203211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AN AIRCRAFT JITTER - The present invention relates to a system and method for detecting an aircraft jitter. The aircraft jitter detection system comprises: a jitter detection apparatus, which detects accelerations of pitch and yaw of the aircraft; a data acquisition apparatus, which obtains accelerations in two directions detected by the jitter detection apparatus; and a jitter determination apparatus, which extracts frequency spectrum and energy information of the jitter according to the accelerations in two directions obtained by the data acquisition apparatus, and determines whether the aircraft jitters. | 07-23-2015 |
| 20150236503 | ELECTRO-STATIC DISCHARGE FILTERING CIRCUIT AND METHOD, RESET CIRCUIT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - This document discusses, among other things, an electro-static discharge (EDS) filtering circuit and method, a reset circuit, and an electronic device. The ESD filtering circuit comprises a first current dividing circuit and a second current dividing circuit which respectively share a current of a first power source signal and aggregate the shared currents to form a second power source signal upon filtering, wherein a voltage drop of the first current dividing circuit is constant and the second current dividing circuit is a pure resistor element circuit. | 08-20-2015 |
| 20150236699 | INPUT BUFFER CIRCUIT, METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - This document discusses, among other things, an input buffer circuit, an input buffer method, and an integrated circuit, the input buffer circuit raising, using a potential raising device, a potential of a first reference ground to a potential of a second reference ground of an input stage, and improving a trigger voltage of the input stage. After the input stage is triggered and outputs a first buffer signal, an output stage transforms the potential of the second reference ground of the first buffer signal back to the potential of the first reference ground, and outputs a second buffer signal. | 08-20-2015 |
| 20150270833 | CLAMP CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR CLAMPING VOLTAGE - The disclosure provides a clamp circuit and a method for clamping voltage. The clamp circuit includes: a first switch control unit, connected with the high-potential terminal of the first stage output of a comparator and configured to clamp the voltage of the high-potential terminal to V | 09-24-2015 |
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| 20090310697 | MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) TRANSMITTER AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmitter | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100086081 | MODULATION DEVICE AND DEMODULATION DEVICE - Provided is a modulation device which generates a phase modulation signal and an amplitude modulation signal and can correct an I/Q orthogonal shift and reduce degradation of the ON/OFF ratio. In the device, a phase shifter ( | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100278124 | ADAPTIVE BEACON COORDINATION IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK USING SIGNAL FORMATS - An adaptive beacon coordination method in a communication network using signal formats mutually incompatible. A coordination device broadcasts a first beacon in a first signal format and a second beacon in a second signal format in a superframe. The first and second beacons are used to send medium access information to a client device having the first signal format and a client device having the second signal format, respectively. When there are three or more signal formats in a network, the coordination device can broadcast three or more beacons. The number of beacons can be adapted to various superframes according to the functions of all the client devices in the network. If all the client devices support a signal format, the coordination device broadcasts only a single beacon in the signal format. After a predetermined number of superframes, the coordination device again starts to broadcast beacons so that new client devices having different respective signal formats can join the network. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110255461 | TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR SENDING CONTROL MESSAGES - Disclosed are transmission apparatus and a method for sending control information in which the processing time and power consumption at the reception side are reduced by improving the efficiency of reception processing at the reception side. At a base station ( | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110261894 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a MIMO system using a cross-polarized antenna structure, even if no ideal XPD can be obtained, the interference between different polarized waves can be reduced to allow an effective precoding to be executed. When a MIMO communication is performed between a transmitter ( | 10-27-2011 |
| 20130021981 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, COORDINATED MOBILE STATION, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND RECEPTION METHOD - A base station (BS) which communicates with a plurality of mobile stations (MSs) is configured so as to comprise a control signal generation unit which generates control signals showing information on the allocation of resources for each of the plurality of mobile stations (MSs), and a transmission unit which transmits the control signals to the plurality of mobile stations (MSs). A control signal for a given mobile station (MS) includes information relating to another mobile station (MS). | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130163522 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST TRANSMISSION METHOD - By reducing the overlap between HARQ subpackets transmitted by means of a transmitting MS and a cooperative MS, the disclosed method is capable of increasing gains in HARQ IR signal synthesis. The method transmits a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a cooperative communication system formed so as to comprise a transmitting mobile station (MS) and a cooperative MS, and involves creating individual HARQ subpackets transmitted by means of the transmitting MS and the cooperative MS such that said subpackets are arranged in mutually opposite directions in a circular buffer. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20140219381 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a MIMO system using a cross-polarized antenna structure, even if no ideal XPD can be obtained, the interference between different polarized waves can be reduced to allow an effective precoding to be executed. When a MIMO communication is performed between a transmitter and a receiver each using a cross-polarized antenna structure, a channel estimating and precoding selection section of the receiver performs a channel estimation of MIMO channels from the transmitter to the receiver, decides a precoding matrix of a projection matrix for mutually orthogonalizing or substantially orthogonalizing the channel response matrixes for respective different polarized waves, and feeds the determined precoding matrix back to the transmitter. In the transmitter, a precoding processing section applies the precoding matrix to the spatial stream corresponding to one of the polarized waves to perform a precoding, thereby allowing the transmitter to transmit the polarized waves with the orthogonality therebetween maintained. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140253929 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR 3D SURFACE MEASUREMENT - An apparatus for 3D surface measurement of a target surface, the apparatus comprising: a first projector configured to project a fringe pattern onto the target surface; a second projector configured to project a fringe pattern onto the target surface; a first camera configured to capture the fringe patterns projected by the first projector and the second projector; a second camera configured to capture the fringe patterns projected by the first projector and the second projector; and a computer configured to perform fringe pattern processing of the fringe patterns captured by the first camera and the second camera and to perform data stitching and merging to obtain a 3D surface reconstruction. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20150103939 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a MIMO system using a cross-polarized antenna structure, even if no ideal XPD can be obtained, the interference between different polarized waves can be reduced to allow an effective precoding to be executed. When a MIMO communication is performed between a transmitter and a receiver each using a cross-polarized antenna structure, a channel estimating and precoding selection section of the receiver performs a channel estimation of MIMO channels from the transmitter to the receiver, decides a precoding matrix of a projection matrix for mutually orthogonalizing or substantially orthogonalizing the channel response matrixes for respective different polarized waves, and feeds the determined precoding matrix back to the transmitter. In the transmitter, a precoding processing section applies the precoding matrix to the spatial stream corresponding to one of the polarized waves to perform a precoding, thereby allowing the transmitter to transmit the polarized waves with the orthogonality therebetween maintained. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150365156 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL STATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A communication control station device controls whether or not spatial sharing is applied between a first communication period and a second communication period. An operation determining section determines whether a first communication operation or a second communication operation out of communication operations is executed in each of the first communication period and the second communication period. The first communication operation requires lower transmission power than the second communication operation. A message generator generates messages requesting a first group of communication terminal devices communicating in the first communication period and a second group of communication terminal devices communicating in the second communication period to perform predetermined measurement in accordance with the determined communication operations. A scheduler allocates a schedule of the spatial sharing on the basis of results of measurement by the first group of communication terminal devices or the second group of communication terminal devices. | 12-17-2015 |
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| 20120281654 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION, AND BASE STATION, USER EQUIPMENT AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT THEREIN - A communication method for sounding reference signal transmission is provided. A communication method of a user equipment in a mobile communication system in which a base station apparatus schedules a physical uplink shared channel in an uplink component carrier by using a downlink control information format, the method comprising: receiving, from the base station apparatus, the downlink control information format including first information which instructs to transmit sounding reference signal and second information which indicates the uplink component carrier in which the physical uplink shared channel is scheduled by the downlink control information format, transmitting, to the base station apparatus, sounding reference signal on the uplink component carrier indicated by the second information in case that the first information is detected. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20130034073 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT, AND BASE STATION, USER EQUIPMENT AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT THEREIN - A communication system in which a base station apparatus and a user equipment communicate on multiple component carriers comprising primary component carrier and non-primary component carrier, the base station apparatus, transmits, to the user equipment, four indices for physical uplink control channel resource using higher layer signaling, transmits, to the user equipment, an index indicator using transmission power control command for physical uplink control channel field, the user equipment, determines an index among the four indices according to the index indicator, transmits, to the base station apparatus, HARQ-ACK/NACK using physical uplink control channel resource the index, wherein the transmission power control command for physical uplink control channel field is included in a downlink control information format, which is used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel on the non-primary component carrier. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130077595 | USER EQUIPMENT, BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHODS FOR UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION - A user equipment for performing effective coding scheme of uplink control information transmission is provided. The user equipment transmits, to a base station apparatus, channel state information for multiple downlink component carriers, the user equipment comprising: a determining unit for determining, the number of coded symbol for the channel state information for multiple downlink component carriers, using the number of bits, which is obtained by concatenating channel state information bits for each downlink component carrier and attaching Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) bits to the concatenated channel state information bits for each downlink component carrier. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130094368 | TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A terminal device includes communication means for carrying out communication with a base station device, and generation means for generating a rank indicator specifying a preferred rank, first partial precoder information and second partial precoder information specifying a preferred precoder, and a reception quality indicator specifying a preferred transmission rate. In a first feedback mode in which reception quality information is reported periodically to the base station device, the communication means reports the second partial precoder information and the reception quality indicator at first timing, and reports the rank indicator and the first partial precoder information at second timing different from the first timing. In a second feedback mode in which the reception quality information is reported aperiodically to the base station device, the communication means reports the rank indicator, the first partial precoder information, the second partial precoder information, and the reception quality indicator at the same timing. | 04-18-2013 |
