Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to systems of enhancing contrast of LED lighting, including two subsystems. A light-transmitting subsystem can include an LED light source, a first reference oscillator to receive a reference signal broadcast from a remote source, and a synchronous modulation and power system to cause a stream of modulated light-signal pulses to be emitted from the LED light source in synchronous correlation with the reference signal. A light-receiving subsystem can include a light imager to synchronously receive the stream of modulated light-signal pulses, a second reference oscillator to receive the reference signal broadcast from the remote source, and a synchronous demultiplexing system to convert the stream of modulated light-signal pulses to a stream of synchronous digital images in synchronous correlation with the reference signal. A demodulation image processor can be used to process and generate enhanced contrast display imagery.

Abstract: Some embodiments include a high voltage waveform generator comprising: a generator inductor; a high voltage nanosecond pulser having one or more solid state switches electrically and/or inductively coupled with the generator inductor, the high voltage nanosecond pulser configured to produce a pulse burst having a burst period, the pulse burst comprising a plurality of pulses having different pulse widths; and a load electrically and/or inductively coupled with the high voltage nanosecond pulser, the generator inductor, and the generator capacitor, the voltage across the load having an output pulse with a pulse width substantially equal to the burst period and the voltage across the load varying in a manner that is substantially proportional with the pulse widths of the plurality of pulses.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel included in a scanning antenna includes: a TFT substrate including a first dielectric substrate, a TFT supported on the first dielectric substrate, a gate bus line, a source bus line, a patch electrode, and a first alignment film covering the patch electrode; a slot substrate including a second dielectric substrate, a slot electrode formed on a first main surface of the second dielectric substrate and including a slot arranged corresponding to the patch electrode, and a second alignment film covering the slot electrode; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate and containing a liquid crystal molecule having an isothiocyanate group. The patch electrodes and the slot electrode are each formed of a Cu layer or an Al layer, and the first alignment film and the second alignment film each include a compound having an atomic group forming a coordinate bond with Cu or Al.

Abstract: A vehicle taillight assembly is provided that includes a housing having a light transmissive lens, a brake light located in the housing, a strobe light located in the housing and a controller activating the strobe light to strobe when the brake light is activated. The strobe light may also be activated when a turn signal light or reverse light is activated. The strobe light has a light source illuminating light onto a light pipe.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a PUF apparatus and method for generating a persistent, random number. The generated number is random in that each particular instance of PUF apparatus should generate a randomly different number to all other instances of PUF apparatus, and is persistent in that each particular instance of the PUF apparatus should repeatedly generate the same number, within acceptable error correction tolerances. The persistent, random number is determined by selecting one or more PUF cells, each comprising a matched pair of transistors that are of identical design, and comparing an on-state characteristic of the pair (e.g., turn-on threshold voltage or gate-source voltage). The difference in on-state characteristic of each selected pair of transistors is caused by random manufacturing differences between the transistors. This causes the randomness between each different instance of PUF apparatus, and should be relatively stable over time to provide persistence of the generated number.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus including an LED circuit including a plurality of serially connected stages configured to receive a modulated rectified voltage, each of the stages including a first path including a first resistor and a first LED connected in series, and a second path connected to the first path in parallel and including a second LED configured to emit light having a color temperature different from that emitted from the first LED, and a driving current controller configured to adjust an intensity of light output from the LED circuit by adjusting currents applied to driving nodes connected to the stages, depending on a dimming signal associated with a dimming level of the rectified voltage, in which a threshold voltage of the first LED is lower than that of the second LED.

Abstract: An AC/DC converter and conversion method are provided, in which an AC input is rectified and shaped by a waveform shaping capacitor. A current source circuit is used to provide the output current to the output load which has a parallel bulk capacitor. The current source circuit is switched on and off with timing which is dependent on the phase of the AC input signal. This enables a relatively high power factor, for example between 0.7 and 0.9, with low cost circuitry with few components.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a modulator system adapted to generate high voltage pulses suitable for supply across a high voltage load having a thermionic cathode, such as a magnetron. The modulator system comprises a high voltage DC PSU connected to a switching mechanism adapted to generate high voltage pulses from the high voltage DC PSU for application to a thermionic cathode of a high voltage load. The modulator system further comprises an isolation transformer; a heater PSU adapted to be connected to a cathode heater through the isolation transformer and to provide an AC current thereto.

Abstract: A circuit for translating a voltage of a digital signal from a first voltage level of a first voltage domain to a second voltage level of a second voltage domain is disclosed. The circuit includes a configurable circuit to be coupled between the first voltage domain and the second voltage domain. The configurable circuit includes a plurality of parallel data paths, wherein the configurable circuit is configured to enable only one of the plurality of data paths at a given time. A first path in the plurality of parallel data paths is configured to be enabled when the first voltage level is greater than the second voltage level and a second path in the plurality of parallel data paths is configured to be enabled when the first voltage level is lesser than the second voltage level.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a vertical transport logic circuit cell. The vertical transport logic cell includes a first logic gate and at least a second logic gate. The first logic gate includes at least one input terminal and at least one output terminal. The second logic gate includes at least one input terminal and at least one output terminal. One of the input terminal and the output terminal of the first logic gate shares a pitch of the vertical transport logic circuit cell with one of the input terminal and the output terminal of the second logic gate. The first and second logic gates can include the same type or different types of logic functions.

Abstract: Multi-chip systems and structures for modular scaling are described. In some embodiments an interfacing bar is utilized to couple adjacent chips. For example, a communication bar may utilized to coupled logic chips, and memory bar may be utilized to couple multiple memory chips to a logic chip.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention has a decreased antenna resistance so as to conform to the EMV specification. An NFC antenna includes: a mesh antenna pattern line (10) being transparent and formed in a netlike form in a display region (R1); and a non-mesh antenna pattern line (13) being formed in a form having no mesh in a non-display region (R2).

Abstract: A control assembly for an indicator light, (wherein the indicator light structured to emit light in more than two output modes) includes a locator assembly structured to determine the astronomic data for the indicator light, a selector assembly structured to select an output mode of the indicator light, and an output assembly structured to control the output modes of the indicator light. The locator assembly is in electronic communication with the selector assembly. The locator assembly communicates astronomic data for the indicator light to the selector assembly. The selector assembly selects an output mode of the indicator light based on the astronomic data for the indicator light.

Abstract: A method of providing power input to a flexible printed circuit. The method involves the step of bisecting a flexible printed circuit into a first conductive area adapted for power input and a second conductive area adapted for ground connection. In accordance with this teaching, power input is provided to electrical components attached to the flexible printed circuit via first conductive area and second conductive area, rather than through individual control lines.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to enhance the functionality of an integrated circuit. Such an integrated circuit may include a primary circuitry and an embedded programmable logic programmable to adjust the functionality of the primary circuitry. Specifically, the embedded programmable logic may be programmed to adjust the functionality of the primary circuitry to complement and/or support the functionality of another integrated circuit. Accordingly, the embedded programmable logic may be programmed with functions such as data/address manipulation functions, configuration/testing functions, computational functions, or the like.

Abstract: An optical device includes a photonically controlled Josephson Junction and a Faraday rotator cell magnetized by the Josephson Junction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a drive device for an illuminating load, an illumination device, a lighting system and a method for controlling the lighting system, wherein the drive device is connected between the illuminating load and a power adapter device for power supply, wherein the drive device comprises a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to adjust the impedance of the drive device according to an electric output signal measured from the illuminating load so as to accordingly adjust the output voltage of the power adapter device and thereby to adjust the electric output signal for the illuminating load.

Abstract: Techniques are described for ground-intermediating buffering that can effectively use the reference grounds of the circuit domains on either side of a buffer stage to generate one or more intermediated grounds for one or more signal buffers. For example, one of the reference grounds has a first amount of ground noise, the other of the reference grounds has a second amount of ground noise that is greater than or less than the first amount, and the intermediated grounds are generated to have respective amounts of ground noise that are between the first and second amounts. The ground intermediating buffer can perform signal buffering with respect to the intermediated ground(s), thereby reducing ground noise coupling across the circuit domains through both the signal and ground paths of the buffer stage.

Abstract: A method of producing an electron emitting device includes: step A of providing an aluminum substrate or providing an aluminum layer supported by a substrate; step B of anodizing a surface of the aluminum substrate or a surface of the aluminum layer to form a porous alumina layer having a plurality of pores; step C of applying Ag nanoparticles in the plurality of pores to allow the Ag nanoparticles to be supported in the plurality of pores; step D of, after step C, applying a dielectric layer-forming solution onto substantially the entire surface of the aluminum substrate or the aluminum layer, the dielectric layer-forming solution containing, in an amount of not less than 7 mass % but less than 20 mass %, a polymerization product having siloxane bonds; step E of, after step D, at least reducing a solvent contained in the dielectric layer-forming solution to form the dielectric layer; and step F of forming an electrode on the dielectric layer.

Abstract: In an illumination apparatus arranged on a vehicle, image data of a plurality of pixels of an imaging region in front of the vehicle is created and an image processor calculates a luminance of each of the pixels on the basis of the image data. A controller is configured to calculate an average luminance of each of partial regions of the imaging region on the basis of the luminance of each of the pixels, to determine whether it is necessary to perform luminance adjustment for each of the partial regions, and to perform luminance adjustment for the partial region on the basis of a result of the determination. An illuminating unit having a plurality of light sources illuminates the partial region while allowing each light source to be adjusted so as to have a predetermined light quantity on the basis of the result of the luminance adjustment.