Abstract: The present invention provides a safety control system for a vehicle with controls located on the vehicle steering wheel. The controls maybe arranged in a cluster on one or both sides of the upper half of the steering wheel. The controls can be located in areas of the steering wheel including the spokes, the rim or a special flange extended from the rim or the spoke of the steering wheel and are easily recognizable and accessible by the driver while the driver is looking ahead from a normal driving position with the driver's eyes focused on the road and maintaining the driver's hands on the steering wheel. The controls can be further enhanced by varied coloring, shape, size, and texture to make them easily identifiable. The controls can be used to access and control vehicle systems or portable telematics devices in multi modal process in conjunction with thumb gesture interpretation or speech recognition.

Abstract: There are provided a communication excitation distribution calculating unit (11) that calculates an excitation distribution W1(t) of a communication beam using an excitation phase distribution S that directs a main lobe of the communication beam in a communication direction; an interference excitation distribution calculating unit (14) that calculates an excitation distribution W2(t) of an interference beam using an excitation phase distribution D that forms a null of an antenna pattern in the communication direction; and an excitation distribution combining unit (20) that combines the excitation distribution W1(t) of the communication beam and the excitation distribution W2(t) of the interference beam. An amplitude/phase controlling unit (30) controls amplitudes and phases of carrier signals to be provided to element antennas (3-1) to (3-K), in accordance with the combined excitation distribution obtained by the excitation distribution combining unit (20).

Abstract: A communication apparatus for performing intermittent communication with a service providing first apparatus and a service using second apparatus, respectively, using a communication method complying with a Bluetooth standard, acquires a first frequency as a communication frequency in the intermittent communication with the first apparatus and a second frequency as a communication frequency in the intermittent communication with the second apparatus, and transmits, to the second apparatus, a request to change the second frequency to a communication frequency determined based on the first frequency.

Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for coupling wireless devices. In one aspect, a method includes: (1) initiating, at a camera device, a connection utility configured to enable the camera device to communicatively couple to a second electronic device via a wireless network; (2) capturing an image via the camera device; (3) obtaining information to facilitate connection to the second electronic device based at least in part on the captured image; and (4) establishing a wireless connection utilizing the obtained information.

Abstract: Described herein are power amplifier (PA) architectures that improve PA performance (e.g., efficiency, linearity, etc.) over an extended range of the operating power levels of the PA. These architectures can be implemented on a single chip to provide a single-chip standalone PA solution. This improvement comes with little additional complexity, little additional current consumption, and/or little additional chip area. The architectures utilize a dynamic biasing technique using positive envelope feedback based at least in part on an instantaneous envelope signal at an output of a power amplifier.

Abstract: A communication apparatus capable of communication by a predetermined wireless connection method, decides which of the communication apparatus and a communication partner apparatus operates as an access point and which operates as a client, connects to the communication partner apparatus by the predetermined wireless connection method, based on the decision, determines whether a connection to the communication partner apparatus is disconnected, performs reactivation processing for causing the communication apparatus to enter a state in which communication by the predetermined wireless connection method is possible. The communication apparatus, if it is decided that the communication apparatus operates as the client and it is determined that the connection is disconnected, performs the reactivation processing.

Abstract: There is provided a distortion cancellation device including a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to, acquire a transmission signal to be wirelessly transmitted, acquire a reception signal to which an intermodulation signal generated due to the transmission signal wirelessly transmitted is added, generate a replica signal of the intermodulation signal from the transmission signal, detect an arrival time of the intermodulation signal, based on a correlation operation using a sample of a signal sequence of the replica signal and a sample of the acquired reception signal, the signal sequence having a duration corresponding to a detection range, and cancel the intermodulation signal in the reception signal, based on the detected arrival time.

Abstract: Offsetting unwanted downlink interference signals in an uplink path in a distributed antenna system (DAS) is disclosed. In this regard, in one example, an interference signal offset circuit is provided in an RAU to offset interference products leaked from a downlink path to an uplink path. An offset signal generation circuit is configured to generate at least one uplink interference offset signal based on the interference products leaked from the downlink path. A signal summing circuit is configured to combine the at least one uplink interference offset signal with an uplink signal received on the uplink path, thus offsetting the interference products in the uplink signal. By providing the interference signal offset circuit in the RAU to offset the interference products on the uplink path, it is possible to provide more implementation flexibility for the RAU without degrading the uplink signal.

Abstract: A composite filter apparatus includes a common terminal, a transmission-side terminal, a reception-side terminal, a transmission filter, and a reception filter with a pass band higher than the pass band of the transmission filter. The transmission filter is connected between the common terminal and the transmission-side terminal and the reception filter is connected between the common terminal and the reception-side terminal. An inductor is provided between the common terminal and the reception filter in a path between the common terminal and the reception-side terminal. The resonant frequency of a parallel-arm resonator closest to the common terminal in the reception filter is lower than a high end frequency of the pass band of the transmission filter and is lower than the resonant frequencies of the other parallel-arm resonators in the reception filter.

Abstract: Balun circuit which is configured in an on-chip design, and multi-port antenna switch circuit comprising such a balun circuit. The balun circuit has a transceiver loop (3), as well as a first antenna loop (1) and at least one further antenna loop (2). The first antenna loop (1), the at least one further antenna loop (2), and the transceiver loop (3) are coaxially positioned in one layer of the on-chip design. The multi-port antenna switch circuit further has a first switch (T1) connected between a ground terminal (A1GND) of the first antenna loop (1) and a first antenna external connection pad (Pg1), and a second switch (T2) connected between a ground terminal (A2GND) of the at least one further antenna loop (2) and at least one further antenna external connection pad (Pg2).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a smart card information querying method, including: sending a terminal configuration request to a server, so that the server determines, according to the terminal configuration request, whether a terminal configuration file cached in a terminal needs to be updated, wherein the terminal configuration file is configured based on a geographical area indicated by a smart card and is used for querying smart card information; receiving an update file delivered by the server, when the server determines that the terminal configuration file cached in the terminal needs to be updated; updating the terminal configuration file cached locally according to the update file delivered by the server; and when a connection is established to the smart card in a short-distance communications mode, querying card information of the smart card according to the updated terminal configuration file.

Abstract: A switch module includes a switch circuit and a filter. The switch circuit includes two or more selection terminals, a common terminal provided for the two or more selection terminals, and first and second bypass terminals. The filter is connected between the first and second bypass terminals and reduces harmonics of a radio-frequency signal which passes through the filter. The switch circuit is selectively switched between a first connection mode and a second connection mode. In the first connection mode, the common terminal is connected to any of the two or more selection terminals. In the second connection mode, the common terminal is connected to the first bypass terminal and the second bypass terminal is connected to any of the two or more selection terminals.

Abstract: A battery operated portable communication device provides converged functionality while avoiding resets to the device. Composite logic circuitry formed of at least one comparator and a logic interface controls current limiting to a primary load formed of high power land mobile radio (LMR) devices and programming to secondary loads formed of non-LMR peripherals. At least one current limit control signal is used to control current to the primary load under high current mode operations. Another control signal provides an interruption alert to a slave processor for controlled programming of the secondary loads during the high current operations of the primary load. Current to the primary load is restored while the secondary load is interrupted. Operation of secondary load processes is resumed when the primary load ceases high power operation.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a control unit that performs, in a case where a change processing is executed, control such that identification information for identifying an information processing apparatus authenticated as a specific apparatus by authentication processing executed before execution of the change processing is not displayed on a display screen.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer program readable by a computer of a portable device connectable to an image input device and image output device and including a memory storing external programs activated by the computer program, the computer program causes the portable device to perform: receiving a user operation on a first screen including first objects corresponding to the external programs; determining the designated program when the first object is designated; when the designated program has a first function of executing processing for the input data, instructing the image input device to execute an input operation and performing first post-processing; and when the designated program has the second function of enabling a user to designate the output data, performing pre-processing and controlling the image output device to execute output operation for the output data.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a card storage mobile phone case including: a case main body including a front surface, on which a mobile phone storing part, in which attachment/detachment of a mobile phone is performed in a form of surrounding a rear surface and side surfaces of the mobile phone, is formed, and a rear surface which is provided with a card mounting part having a card mounting surface, and including a hinge structure in a lower portion of the rear surface; a main body cover fitted and coupled to the rear surface of the case main body in a state of surrounding the rear surface of the case main body, and including a card string region in which a bottom part of a front surface the main body cover is spaced a predetermined distance apart from a card mounting surface of the card mounding part of the case main body so as to store a card, and an opening which is provided on a lower portion of the main body cover and through which the card is stored and taken out; and an opening/closing cover includ

Abstract: In a measuring system in which a wireless terminal that is a measurement target is rotated centering around the standard point O at each rotation angle of the wireless terminal, and thus a reception performance is acquired, when the reception performance is obtained, a power of a measurement signal that is supplied to the measurement antenna is corrected for a propagation loss error and a gain error that occur in association with rotation of the wireless terminal, angle correction for an angle error that occurs in association with the rotation of the wireless terminal is performed on the reception performance at each rotation angle, which is acquired with the measure signal having the corrected power, and thus the reception performance in a case where it is assumed that a terminal antenna of the wireless terminal is rotated at a position of a standard points is obtained.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device involves providing a semiconductor substrate, forming an oxide layer in the semiconductor substrate, forming a transistor device over the oxide layer, removing at least part of a backside of the semiconductor substrate, applying a sacrificial material below the oxide layer, covering the sacrificial material with an interface material, and removing at least a portion of the sacrificial material to form a cavity at least partially covered by the interface layer.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device involves providing a transistor device, forming one or more electrical connections to the transistor device, forming one or more dielectric layers over at least a portion of the electrical connections, applying an interface material over at least a portion of the one or more dielectric layers, removing at least a portion of the interface material to form a trench, and covering at least a portion of the interface material and the trench with a substrate layer to form a cavity.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a wireless module configured to execute communication with a communication terminal; a host system including a communication controller configured to control the communication with the communication terminal executed by the wireless module; an updater configured to update information used for the communication, at predetermined updating timings; and an operation status controller configured to control an operation state. The communication apparatus further includes a sub-system configured to send, to the operation status controller, a report indicating that an updating time period has elapsed from the updating timing of the information. The operation status controller causes the host system to return to a regular mode, upon receiving the report indicating that the updating time period has elapsed while the host system is in an energy saving mode.