Abstract: The present invention suggests an apparatus for detecting the operation status of a fluorescent light source. The apparatus comprises an antenna for receiving and sending electromagnetic waves. The apparatus further comprises a modulation frequency correlator and a signal generator for generating an indication signal. According to a second aspect the present invention proposes a method for detecting the operation status of a fluorescent light source. The method comprises the steps of: receiving an electromagnetic wave; detecting a modulation of the received electromagnetic wave; correlating the modulation frequency of the received electromagnetic wave with a predetermined frequency; generating an indication signal if a correlation between the modulation frequency and the predetermined frequency is detected.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system for shear wave measurement transmits push pulses in the form of a sheet of energy. The sheet of energy produces a shear wavefront which is a plane wave, which does not suffer from the 1/R radial dissipation of push pulse force as does a conventional push pulse generated along a single push pulse vector. The sheet of energy can be planar, curved, or in some other two or three dimensional shape. A curved sheet of energy can produce a shear wave source which focuses into a thin line, which increases the resolution and sensitivity of the measuring techniques used to detect the shear wave effect.

Abstract: The weighted-average-based position (244) in the temporal domain is computed based on the sampling of shear wave displacement (226) along the propagation path. The weighting is, for example, by displacement observed at times (230) corresponding to sampling and represents the time of arrival of the shear wave at the shear-wave propagation path location being sampled. In some embodiments, the computed shear-wave times of arrival at respective locations are functionally related to known inter-location distances (250) to derive shear-wave group velocity. The derived velocity can serve as input into known algorithms for estimating shear elasticity of the medium, such as body tissue, for purposes of clinical diagnosis and therapy assessment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a terminal for the broadband transmission of video, audio or data signals in a domestic environment. It applies more specifically in the scope of terminals operating according to the standard IEEE 802.11n and employing simultaneously several frequency channels in a predetermined band of frequencies, for example the 5 GHz WiFi band. The terminal comprises M antennas, a MIMO device able to generate MIMO signals in said predetermined frequency band from baseband signals or conversely, said MEMO device being able to process N MIMO signals simultaneously, and a switching device to connect the MIMO device to the M antennas.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-sector radiating device intended to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic signals, comprising at least, arranged on a plane substrate: a first set of antennas, with: a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, arranged in the opposite manner to the first antenna, a fourth antenna, arranged in the opposite manner to the second antenna, the antennas being longitudinal radiation slot type antennas, said antennas each presenting a bisector, wherein the radiating device comprises a switching circuit capable of activating one or more of the antennas, and notably all the antennas of the first set of antennas, -and in that the bisectors of the opposed antennas on the substrate are not combined.

Abstract: This invention concerns a repeater for radio frequency signals having a channel filter and an active filter connected to the channel filter output. The active filter covers the channels adjacent to the channel filter and includes an amplifier and; two bandpass filters in parallel connected as a negative feedback loop around the amplifier. The first bandpass filter covers the lower adjacent channels and the second bandpass filter covers the higher adjacent channels. The invention notably applies to the development of domestic repeaters for mobile terminals meeting the DVB-H digital television standard.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for receiving signals in a MIMO system comprising: m signal receiver channels, where m is greater than 1; an antenna system constituted either by n directive antennae n>m, each antenna being able to receive signals in one of its own angular sectors, the angular sectors of the n antennae essentially not overlapping each other and together thrilling a total angular sector of 360 degrees, or a multi-sector antenna with n angular sectors n>m the n angular sectors essentially not overlapping each other and having a distinct access; and switching means to associate with each signal receiver channel an antenna from among the n antennae according to a switching schema selected by control means, the switching schema being selected from a plurality of switching schemas of a switching matrix according to a criterion representing the quality of the reception of the signals by said signal receiver channels.

Abstract: The invention concerns a system of antennas on the same support. Each antenna is connected to a first port for the emission/reception in a first frequency band, and to a second port for the emission/reception in a second frequency band. The invention consists in a specific dimensioning of the support, such that the difference of the perimetric lengths separating the median points is a function of the half wavelength ?/2 modulo k ?, k positive integer, where ? is the wavelength corresponding to a working frequency fr.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system produces an image of shear wave velocities by transmitting push pulses to generate shear waves. A plurality of tracking lines are transmitted and echoes received by a focusing beamformer adjacent to the location of the push pulses. The tracking lines are sampled in a time-interleaved manner. The echo data acquired along each tracking line is processed to determine the time of peak tissue displacement caused by the shear waves at points along the tracking line, and the times of peaks at adjacent tracking lines compared to compute a local shear wave velocity. The resultant map of shear wave velocity values is color-coded and displayed over an anatomical image of the region of interest.

Abstract: A multi-antenna system feed device and a terminal including such a device is suggested. The device includes at least: a set of Wilkinson combiners, a branch of a combiner feeding an antenna, with the branches connected as inputs to a feed point; a set of switches connected between the antennas and the combiners with each switch switching a combiner branch to its corresponding antenna with the antenna being connected to the line when the switch is closed; A branch feeding an antenna, for instance, will be common to two consecutive combiners of the system. The suggested multi-antenna system feed device applies in particular to the extension of multi-antenna or sector antenna systems, used especially in devices with Multiple Inputs/Outputs of the MiMo type and more specifically to mesh network architectures.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless transmission system for signals intended more specifically for a domestic environment. It includes a central terminal comprising at least m transmission channels and n directive transmission antennas intended to transmit first signals at least one client terminal having at least one reception channel connected to a reception antenna in order to receive the first signals said central terminal and said client terminal communicating in a transmission channel having a predetermined frequency band, and an estimation device able to generate an item of information representative of the reception quality of first signals in at least one point of a predetermined geographic zone associated with the client terminal and a return channel in order to transmit said at least one item of information to the control means of the central terminal.

Abstract: The channel filter includes at a least one basic bandpass filter centred on the frequency of the channel, in series with two cascade-connected reflective filters whose bandwidths are located either side of the basic bandpass filter encompassing the channels adjacent to the channel. A reflective filter can include a 90° directional coupler combined with a bandpass filter designed to ensure transfer matched to the load impedance of the coupler with the input of the bandpass filter connected to a directional coupler output port, the input of the directive filter being formed by input port of the coupler and the output of the directive filter being formed by a port recovering the bandpass filter reflection coefficient. The invention applies in particular to the implementation of the DVB-T and DVB-H standards aimed at receiving digital television programs from fixed or mobile multistandard terminals such as mobile telephones, PDAs or other multimedia receivers.

Abstract: In one aspect, an ultrasound receive beamformer (212) is configured for one-way only beamforming (112) of transmissive ultrasound using one-way delays. The receive beamforming in some embodiments is used to track, in real time, a catheter, needle or other surgical tool within an image of a region of interest. The tool can have embedded at its tip a small ultrasound transmitter or receiver for transmitting or receiving the transmissive ultrasound. Optionally, additional transducers are fixed along the tool to provide the orientation of the tool.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a high rejection stop band filter and a diplexer using such filters. The stop band filter comprises on a substrate with a ground plane, a transmission line extending between an input and an output and comprises several resonators formed of “stubs” in printed open circuit embedded into the transmission line, the resonators being positioned in parallel together and interconnected in series in the same direction or head to tail. The filters are particularly useful in mobile devices operating in two concurrent frequency bands.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system transmits a plurality of focused beams normal to the plane of a transducer aperture and receives multiple receive lines in response to each transmitted beam. Sub-apertures of the transducer aperture are defined by apodization and signals of the sub-apertures are aligned and combined to produce signals exhibiting the effect of transmit steering at different angles with respect to the sub-apertures. The steered signals are detected and the detected signals relating to common points in an image field are combined. The combined detected signals are used to produce an ultrasound image with reduced speckle.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system produces an image with an extended focal range and reduced speckle by transmitting a plurality of beams spaced along an array for multiline reception. The receive multilines of a plurality of transmit beams are spatially aligned with phase adjustment between the respective receive multilines to effect signal alignment, detected and combined. The combined multilines produce the effect of an extended transmit focus so that an image produced using the combined multilines exhibits an extended focal range. Speckle is reduced by nonlinearly combining received multilines produced by different transmit apertures.

Abstract: A measuring device for a telescopic handling arm, in which the telescopic handling arm includes at least two elements (1, 2) that are mounted to slide relative to each other, includes measuring elements for measuring the extension of the telescopic arm. The device further includes calculation elements (4) for calculating the extension of the movable portion (2) of the telescopic arm using the hydraulic characteristics of a hydraulic telescoping actuator (3), and the device further includes adjuster elements for adjusting the calculated movements via a signal transmitted by at least one element (5, 6) for contactless identification of the position of the movable portion (2) of the telescopic arm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a diversity antennas system comprising at least two antennas of the dipole type each formed by a first and a second conductive arm, supplied differentially wherein the two antennas comprise a common arm called first arm forming at least one cover for an electronic card and each one a second arm mounted in rotation at one extremity of the first arm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a band rejection filter. The band rejection filter includes a first signal transmission channel called a direct channel and a second signal transmission channel called a secondary channel. The direct channel and the secondary channel being designed to introduce at a first rejection frequency a phase difference of 180° between the signal circulating via the direct channel and the signal circulating via the secondary channel. Additionally, the secondary channel includes a filtering element for which the cut-off frequency is different from the first rejection frequency in a way to create a second rejection frequency.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multiple-port dual-band antenna system and the associated interface formed by DPDT or SPDT switches, that can be integrated on one and the same multi-layer structure.