Abstract: Contact-making device and method for connecting an electric conductor, in particular a wire-like and/or thread-like electric conductor which is arranged in a textile material, electrically to an electronic component. The device includes a substrate material, and at least one contact, which is formed on the substrate material, to connect the electric conductor electrically to the electronic component, the contact comprising a movable section and an immovable section. The movable section is formed such that, during the electrical connection operation, it is arranged substantially on a surface side opposite the immovable section.

Abstract: Method for electrically connecting an electrical conductor to an electronic component including the steps of providing a textile material in which at least one flexible, wire-like and/or thread-like electrical conductor is arranged, providing the electrical conductor relative to an electrically conductive contact point of the electronic component, and electrically connecting the conductor to the contact point comprising the steps of electrically connecting an at least partly electrically conductive auxiliary contact to the conductor, and electrically connecting the auxiliary contact to the contact point, wherein the auxiliary contact is a metal lamina.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for electrically connecting an electric conductor to an electronic component including the steps of providing a textile material, in which at least, one flexible, wire-like and/or thread-like electric conductor is arranged, severing the electric conductor at a point to be connected, arranging a contact-making device of the component on at least one surface side of the textile material at the point on the conductor to be connected, and connecting the conductor electrically to the contact-making device.

Abstract: A smart label device having at least one textile backing, at least one flexible wire-like and/or thread-like electrical conductor, which is arranged on or in the textile backing and has at least one connection point for an electronic component, and at least one electronic component, which is electrically connected to the connection point of the conductor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bag comprising at least one integrated communication interface, which is used to electrically interconnect a plurality of electric devices contained in said bag, in such a way that data can be transferred between the electric devices.

Abstract: A method of route calculation in an vehicle navigation device is described, whereby a route from a starting location or a current location to a destination location is calculated, so that in the case of a deficiency in the vehicle or a deficiency impairing the driver of the vehicle, the route to an alternate destination location which preferably has the facilities necessary to eliminate the deficiency is calculated instead of the original destination location.

Abstract: In the ruthenium complexes of the general formula A or B, 1

Abstract: Sensor elements are arranged in a hexagonal grid. A processor element in the form of a primitive automaton is assigned to each of the sensor elements in the grid. The processor elements are set up to perform algorithms which enable lines of a fingerprint to be simplified such that characteristic minutiae of the fingerprint (endings and branchings of the lines) can be extracted. The processor elements are embodied using CMOS/Neuron MOS threshold value logic or using CMOS/NMOS pass transistor logic. The image grid can be read out via read-out circuits as a matrix.

Abstract: A circuit emulation method with garbage removal is used to convert a circuit-switched network for packet-switched transmissions while reusing as much of the existing circuit-switched infrastructure as possible. The garbage removal function removes unnecessary information from a packet before it can be transported, which increases the transport efficiency and decreases the transport delay.

Abstract: A method for analyzing fingerprint images includes picking up a sequence of images at very short time intervals, while a finger is being placed onto an electronic fingerprint sensor. A criterion for recognizing a live finger is extracted from variations in the images. The images are defined as a pixel raster having different gray values, with the aid of which the pixels are assigned binary values of zero or one. Significant changes in the values are detected and compared, with the aid of distinctive numbers or the like, to known typical changes that occur regularly in a particular image class.

Abstract: Visual display arrangement and method for ascertaining the local position of a visual display unit within a visual display arrangement having a multiplicity of visual display units.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for synchronizing the transmitting side and the receiving side in an IP network that uses a stream encryption algorithm are disclosed. A sequence number is introduced into the payload of each packet at the transmitting side and transmitted with the packets. Upon receipt at the receiving side, the sequence number is extracted from the payload and used to synchronize the receiving side to the transmitting side. An error detection mechanism is used to detect when the synchronization is lost and a recovery procedure is initiated. The length of the sequence number is made sufficiently long to cope with any jitter variations in the IP network. This sequence number length is dynamically adjustable based on the amount of jitter detected in the network.

Abstract: The sensor is provided for the capacitive acquisition of images, in particular fingerprint images. The capacitors assigned to each pixel are supplemented by reference electrodes which are capacitively coupled to one another with coupling capacitances. Parallel acquisition of the image with the measuring electrodes and the additional reference electrodes yields, on the one hand, an image subdivided in accordance with the grid, and, on the other hand, local averaging resulting from the capacitive coupling is performed, which is used as a local reference value.

Abstract: An associative memory contains cells that are formed of a series circuit of an ordinary PMOS transistor with a PMOS transistor with a floating gate. The ordinary PMOS transistor receives of an input vector and the gate of the second PMOS transistor is connected to a learning input. For the associative access, a second vector can be applied to the drain terminal of the second PMOS transistor and, upon readout, the current flow through the respective series circuit is evaluated column-by-column by current evaluator circuits.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for improving speech quality for signals divided into a frame structure. Speech information in a signal is detected, and a lost or corrupted transmitted frame is detected. The lost or corrupted frame is replaced by a suitable frame if a number of frames represented e.g., by a counter value, exceeds a predetermined value. The counter value may be changed, depending on whether the system is in a comfort noise generation state or in a muting period. The frame may be replaced by a frame representing mainly background noise, generated at the transmitting end during speech pauses or at the receiving end, or such a frame and a correctly received frame. The predetermined value may be the length of a muting period or may be the number of lost or corrupted frames preceding a speech frame. A first of the correctly received speech frames that follows a number of lost or corrupted frames may also be replaced. The output frames gradually approach pure speech frames.

Abstract: A method for protecting the transmission of network independent clocking and status information over an air interface between a mobile station and base transceiver station is disclosed. The method involves defining a parallel logical channel between the mobile station and base transceiver station to carry network independent clocking and status information. The network independent clocking and status information are removed from the data stream of the traffic channel and transmitted on the parallel channel over the air interface. Alternatively, a buffer may be used in conjunction with or singly to process the data stream of the traffic channel to delete or insert bits or characters to minimize or eliminate the need for network independent clocking information.

Abstract: A synchronization frame is first formatted and transmitted in accordance with the Global System for Mobile (GSM) 08.60 specification. After an initial synchronization procedure is accomplished between a transcoder/rate adaptor unit (TRAU) and a particular base transceiver station (BTS) serving a mobile station, a modified GSM 08.60 frame is thereafter used to transport greater user data payload across the established communications link. The modified frame replaces the synchronization bits included in the GSM 08.60 formatted data frame with user data to increase data payload from the conventional 13.5 Kbit/s to a more desirable 14.4 Kbit/s without altering the standardized 16 Kbit/s transmission rate supported by the IWF and the BTS.