Abstract: The present invention typically features integrative configurability for transportation/storage, and disintegrative configurability for operation. Two half-cases are coupled to obtain a case. A case is uncoupled to obtain two half-cases. Each half-case houses a solar panel (pivotably connected to the half-case) and a U-bar (pivotably connected to the solar panel). The solar panel is pivoted away from the half-case's interior to the angle-of-inclination desired for collecting solar energy. The U-bar is pivoted away from the solar panel's back to securely fit into one of plural parallel slots provided across the half-case's interior, the U-bar thereby holding the solar panel in place at the desired angle-of-inclination. The half-cases are laid flat individually to collect solar energy. A half-case is “compacted” by pivoting the U-bar proximate the solar panel's back and pivoting the solar panel proximate the half-case's interior.

Abstract: The present invention typically features integrative configurability for transportation/storage, and disintegrative configurability for operation. Two half-cases are coupled to obtain a case. A case is uncoupled to obtain two half-cases. Each half-case houses a solar panel (pivotably connected to the half-case) and a U-bar (pivotably connected to the solar panel). The solar panel is pivoted away from the half-case's interior to the angle-of-inclination desired for collecting solar energy. The U-bar is pivoted away from the solar panel's back to securely fit into one of plural parallel slots provided across the half-case's interior, the U-bar thereby holding the solar panel in place at the desired angle-of-inclination. The half-cases are laid flat individually to collect solar energy. A half-case is “compacted” by pivoting the U-bar proximate the solar panel's back and pivoting the solar panel proximate the half-case's interior.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication device comprising switching means in a packet switched networks, preferably in professional video production and broadcast environments. The present invention more particularly concerns a communication device in a packet-switched communication network, comprising means for: receiving streams provided by various sources; transmitting one or several streams selected from the set of incoming ones; comprising means for switching from a given set of incoming streams to a different set of outgoing streams, said switching being based on time based information and information concerning the structure of the manipulated streams. The present invention also concerns a method of switching in a packet-switched communication network comprising a plurality of sources of data, a communication device and at least one destination device.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of the synchronization of data delivery onto equipments connected over a packet switching network, in particular when the equipments are devoted to video and audio data or Auxiliary data linked to processing and are connected over a local area network for forming a video/audio production studio. More precisely the invention concerns a data inserter device for inserting a timestamp in packets, and a delay compensating device for extracting said timestamp and compensating the delivery delay and in particular the jitter, the network delay and the packet generation duration or any additional user delay.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the synchronizing of equipment, and more precisely to the transporting of synchronization signals via a communication network with a view to inter-synchronizing the equipment. The invention concerns a reference station able to deliver packets in a packet switching network to communication devices connected to the network. According to the invention, the reference station comprises means for inserting at least a temporal offset in said packets, wherein said temporal offset describes data delivery duration on a pre-determined path of said network. The invention relates also to a sending communication device and to a receiving communication device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device able to receive packets circulating in a packet-switching network. The packets include information on a synchronization signal. The device is configured for producing first and second pulses synchronous with the synchronization signal. The first and second pulses have different periods, which are integer value multiples of the synchronization signal period.

Abstract: A system and method for idea submission, idea ranking and idea incubating are provided that allow regular members of the public to submit ideas, allows those submitted ideas to be ranked and reviewed by a community and that incubates the best ideas and secures protection and potential monetization of the best ideas and it is to this end that the disclosure is directed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication device comprising switching means in a packet switched networks, preferably in professional video production and broadcast environments. The present invention more particularly concerns a communication device in a packet-switched communication network, comprising means for: receiving streams provided by various sources; transmitting one or several streams selected from the set of incoming ones; comprising means for switching from a given set of incoming streams to a different set of outgoing streams, said switching being based on time based information and information concerning the structure of the manipulated streams. The present invention also concerns a method of switching in a packet-switched communication network comprising a plurality of sources of data, a communication device and at least one destination device.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of the synchronization of data delivery onto equipments connected over a packet switching network, in particular when the equipments are devoted to video and audio data or Auxiliary data linked to processing and are connected over a local area network for forming a video/audio production studio. More precisely the invention concerns a data inserter device for inserting a timestamp in packets, and a delay compensating device for extracting said timestamp and compensating the delivery delay and in particular the jitter, the network delay and the packet generation duration or any additional user delay.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the synchronizing of equipment, and more precisely to the transporting of synchronization signals via a communication network with a view to inter-synchronizing the equipment. The invention concerns a reference station able to deliver packets in a packet switching network to communication devices connected to the network. According to the invention, the reference station comprises means for inserting at least a temporal offset in said packets, wherein said temporal offset describes data delivery duration on a pre-determined path of said network. The invention relates also to a sending communication device and to a receiving communication device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device able to receive packets circulating in a packet communication network, said device comprising: the means to receive packets from said network, said packets comprising samples coming from a sampling of a counting ramp having a range EX according to a sampling clock, said counting ramp being timed by a clock with a period of T_VID, said means extracting said samples from received packets, the means to regenerate counting ramps with a range EX, the means (PLL) receiving the samples and also delivering local samples of counting ramps realised according to sampling clock and a reconstituted clock with a period T_VID, the counting ramps being timed by the clock, the means to produce counting ramps timed by the clock and having a range EX_I where EX=m.

Abstract: The process is characterized in that the pilot signals (10) generated upstream of the device (11) whose non-linearity it is desired to measure pass through a known non-linear device (15) delivering intermodulation products of known characteristics and in that at least one of the known intermodulation products is harnessed in order to modulate, with the aid of synchronous detection circuits (17), at least one of the signals relating to the components of the intermodulation products of the device to be measured.The applications pertain to the analog transmission of television signals over optical fibers.

Abstract: Optical emitting head including a laser and an external optical modulator. The modulating signal is modulated by an electrical signal proportional to 1-e, e being the noise power superimposed onto the laser signal, before being applied to the optical modulator. The invention is suitable for fibre optical transmission applications.

Abstract: An amplification circuit comprising a device for compensating for its input current. The amplification circuit includes an amplifier and a capacitor located on the input side of the amplifier. The input-current compensation device consists of a current generator, generating a current Ig, a switch and a device for measuring the average current charging or discharging the capacitor during the time that the switch is open. The current Ig is such that: Average current=Ia-Ig, where Ia is the input current of the amplifier. The value of the average current is close to zero. The value of the current Ig which the current generator must output, so as to make the average current close to zero, is calculated using the device for measuring the average current. The invention particularly applies to a circuit for restoring the DC component of a video signal.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatic gain control in a receiver. The input signal to the receiver includes both a DC component and a signal component. Filters are used to separate the two components. The DC component modulates a pilot signal and is then added to the signal component. The combined signal is then amplified to produce an output signal. The output is also filtered and subjected to a synchronous detector to produce a gain control level for the amplifier. The synchronous detector utilizes the filtered output signal to modulate the same pilot signal which is then compared to a reference voltage.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayer type composite structure that withstands shocks and is formed by an alternation of layers made of a first material and a second material, the first material having a higher coefficient of thermal diffusivity than the second material. The distribution of the layers and their thickness are such that, in the thickness of the structure, there are zones formed by an alternation of layers of the first material and of the second material, these zones being separated from one another by a thick layer made of the second material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-layer capacitor. It has internal electrodes extending over a part at least of each layer and connected electrically and thermally alternately to one or other of two terminals extending over a junction edge of the capacitor and over a part at least of a lateral edge adjacent said junction edge. To each of the terminals is soldered an electrical connection adapted to provide also heat drainage. Such a structure improves the drainage of the heat dissipated in the capacitor during operation under high reactive power or at high frequency.