Patents Assigned to NXP SEMICONDUCTORS NETHERLANDS B.V.
  • Patent number: 8694274
    Abstract: In summary, the invention relates to a device, a system, a method and a computer program for spectrum sensing. A detection procedure for detecting a signal of interest or an event by using a plurality of sensing devices capable of communicating with a central unit is proposed. The sensing devices can compute soft detection metrics and communicate this information to a central unit, where the information may be used to make a final detection decision using a certain specified rule. The signaling overhead of the proposed approach can be of the same order as that of a hard signaling approach. However, the proposed approach may achieve a better detection performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignees: Koninklijke Philips N.V., NXP Semiconductor Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Ashish Vijay Pandharipande, Hongming Yang, Johan Paul Marie Gerard Linnartz
  • Publication number: 20110022342
    Abstract: In summary, the invention relates to a device, a system, a method and a computer program for spectrum sensing. A detection procedure for detecting a signal of interest or an event by using a plurality of sensing devices capable of communicating with a central unit is proposed. The sensing devices can compute soft detection metrics and communicate this information to a central unit, where the information may be used to make a final detection decision using a certain specified rule. The signaling overhead of the proposed approach can be of the same order as that of a hard signaling approach. However, the proposed approach may achieve a better detection performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicants: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V., NXP SEMICONDUCTORS NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Ashish Vijay Pandharipande, Hongming Yang, Johan Paul Marie Gerard Linnartz
  • Publication number: 20110002540
    Abstract: A color image is enhanced in the following fashion. A saturation detector (SDT) detects a degree of color saturation (LC, CC) that occurs in an image area (SP). A filter arrangement (DE1, DE2, DE3) filters at least one spatial detail in the image area to a degree that depends on the degree of color saturation. This allows an improvement of perceptual quality of color images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicants: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V., NXP SEMICONDUCTORS NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventor: Gerard De Haan