Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus for and method of making and using portable display kiosks. The invention is designed and fabricated to be highly collapsible for transport yet readily deployable for use. The invention is substantially preassembled in transport requiring only unfolding and the attachment of a backplate and counter top, none of which requires tools or any other ancillary items.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining current structural information describing a current structure of a process control system and retrieving from a checkpoint file stored structural information describing a previous structure of the process control system. If the current structural information matches the stored structural information, current configuration and operational information of a controller in the process control system is conformed to previous configuration and operational information stored in the checkpoint file.

Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided for adaptively modulating or combining a first signal with a second signal. A series of values of the first signal are taken and sequentially stored in a shift register. The maximum absolute value of the oldest N values (where N is an integer) stored in the shift register is then determined. Before, during or after that determination, the maximum absolute value of the remaining (newer) series of values of the shift register is also determined. The lesser of those two maximum absolute values is then determined. This lesser maximum absolute value is then multiplied by a gain factor representing the desired gain to produce a scale factor. The gain factor can be a preset constant, or can be based on the steady-state ratio of the power of the second signal to the power of the first signal. The second signal is then multiplied by the scale factor to produce a scaled signal.

Abstract: A novel code division multiple access (CDMA) system and apparatus is provided which permits a plurality of encoded modulated data messages to be transmitted simultaneously on the same channel in one frequency band as a composite CDMA signal. An identification signal is generated and spread by a spreading signal having a duty cycle less than fifty percent to produce a combined signal which is transmitted to a receiver having a tapped delay with a plurality of taps each of which produce a replica of the received combined signal delayed by an odd multiple of the duty cycle of the spreading signal. Each of the replica signals is multiplied by a predetermined weighted value to produce weighted delayed signals and a controller responsive to the received combined signal, is employed for controlling individual weighted delayed signals which are then combined to suppress the spreading signal leaving the identification signal.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the presence of a target in an n-dimensional array of digital data samples comprises: 1) a reading module, which reads the samples from the data array in overlapping groups; 2) a quantizing module, coupled to the reading module, which quantizes each of the overlapping groups of data samples and which generates an index that identifies the quantized group; and 3) a comparing module, coupled to the quantizing module, which compares indexes from the quantizing module to multiple reference indexes, each of which represents a quantized group of data samples that identify a distinctive feature of the target.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for compressing unfocused synthetic aperture radar (SAR) phase history pixel data by coupling the complex inphase phase history data output from the SAR to a first converter/compressor which produces compressed scalar log amplitude data and scalar phase pixel data. The output from the first converter/compressor is applied to a series to parallel converting means for converting plural scaler pixel data into vector data representative of a plurality of pixels. The output of the series to parallel conversion means is coupled to a second converter/compressor for converting the plural scalar pixel data into compressed encoded data representative of a plurality of pixels of unfocused SAR phase history data which is transmitted as compressed unfocused phase history data.