Patents Issued in September 6, 2007
-
Publication number: 20070205923Abstract: In an information transmitting device, a variable capacitor which is charged to have a predetermined voltage discharges through a predetermined resistor. Until the voltage becomes lower than a predetermined threshold voltage, the number of AC signals having a predetermined frequency is counted. Accordingly, first continuous amount information of a binary code corresponding to a writing pressure is obtained and is converted to a Gray code, which is regarded as second continuous amount information. A resonant circuit is opened or shorted in accordance with ‘0’ or ‘1’ in the second continuous amount information, so as to transmit the second continuous amount information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventor: Masaki Matsubara
-
Publication number: 20070205924Abstract: A computer readable medium encoded with a computer program for performing streaming of character-based data from a storage system is provided. The computer program comprises code for fetching a block of data from the storage system, wherein the character-based data includes the block of the data; converting a portion of the block of the data into a part of a character; retaining a remaining part of the block, if any, the remaining part of the block of the data corresponding to a portion of the character and a portion of an additional character; and converting the remaining part of the block of the data into one of the portion of the character and the portion of the additional character in a next conversion responsive to the next conversion including the character or the additional character.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Anshul DAWRA, Bilung Lee, Paul Ostler
-
Publication number: 20070205925Abstract: ACARS systems and methods for compiling messages includes a processing device configured for mapping eight-bit characters in an eight-bit character stream into a six bit map to create a generally six-bit character stream. The processing device is further configured for encoding the generally six-bit character stream into an eight-bit character stream. Optionally, the processing device includes a look-up table configured to retrieve substituted six-bit characters in response to the presence of the eight-bit character received at a processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventor: Eric Foster
-
Publication number: 20070205926Abstract: An interface circuit capable of controlling a noise margin and a time margin for producing an output a binary data is realized. The circuit comprises a detecting unit for detecting a transition state of logic levels in received binary data corresponding to preceding two clock signals, an output signal producing unit for producing an output binary data based on the received binary data by using a reference voltage and by latching the binary data using the clock signal, a reference voltage control unit for controlling the reference voltage, and a clock phase control unit for controlling a phase of the clock signal. The noise margin can be controlled by changing the reference voltage in accordance with the detected transition state, and the time margin can be controlled by changing the clock phase in accordance with the detected transition state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Naoki Kobayashi
-
Publication number: 20070205927Abstract: In a bit stream syntax containing compressed video slice data for compressed video data of a slice structure, a slice header for compressed video slice data has attached thereto a slice start code, a register reset flag indicating whether a register value, which designates a status of a codeword occurring in an arithmetic coding process, should be reset in the next transmission unit, an initial register value which indicates a register value to be used to start arithmetic coding/decoding to build/decompose the next transmission unit, only when the register reset flag indicates that the register should not be reset.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Shunichi Sekiguchi, Yoshihisa Yamada, Kohtaro Asai
-
Publication number: 20070205928Abstract: A coding and/or decoding system includes: a code-word table for storing therein a plurality of code words, which are capable of being decoded both in forward and backward directions and which are formed so that delimiters of the code words are capable of being identified by a predetermined weight of the code words, so that the code words correspond to different source symbols; an encoder for selecting code words corresponding to inputted source symbols from the code-word table; and a synchronization interval setting part for preparing coded data every predetermined interval using the code words selected by the encoder and for inserting stuffing codes capable of being decoded in the backward direction. Thus, it is possible to decrease useless bit patterns to enhance the coding efficiency by smaller amounts of calculation and storage, and to decode variable length codes both in the forward and backward directions even if the synchronization interval is set every interval using the stuffing bits.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Takeshi CHUJOH, Toshiaki Watanabe, Yoshihiro Kikuchi, Takeshi Nagai
-
Publication number: 20070205929Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods of improving processing in a decoder in a multimedia transmission system. Multimedia data may include one or more of motion video, audio, still images, or any other suitable type of audio-visual data. One embodiment includes a system and method of parsing fixed and variable length codes from a bit-wise stream of multi-media data by maintaining and reading the data in a processor aligned (e.g., word aligned) way. Another embodiment includes a system and method of decoding variable length codes, particular as received from such a variable length code using multiple levels of decoding tables to speed up decoder table lookup.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Vijayalakshmi Raveendran, Peisong Chen, Tao Tian
-
Publication number: 20070205930Abstract: Disclosed is a method of improving the immunity to interference of an integrated circuit (16) having error signals transferred between a microprocessor chip or multiple processor ?C (1) and an additional component (2). For the transfer, a minimum pulse length that is independent of the clock frequency of the microprocessor or the microprocessors is defined, starting from which a signal on an error line having a defined pulse length is interpreted as an error. Also disclosed is an integrated circuit, which is designed so that the above method is implemented. The circuit has a microprocessor chip or multiple processor microcontroller (1) or microprocessor module and an additional component (2) having separately arranged power elements. The circuit also has pulse extending devices and/or signal delaying devices for the output of error pulses (6, 6?) one after the other through at least one error line (3, 4).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2005Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO., OHGInventors: Woflgang Fey, Micha Heinz, Adrian Traskov, Frank Michel
-
Publication number: 20070205931Abstract: An all-digital phase locked loop system for generating an oscillator output signal under control of a digital reference input. The system comprises a digitally controlled oscillator, a digital loop filter for generating a multiple bit digital control signal for the digitally controlled oscillator, a sigma-delta modulator for generating an additional 1-bit digital control signal for the digitally controlled oscillator, a digital divider dividing the oscillator output signal and providing a digital divided signal, and a digital adder with a first, additive input to which the digital reference input is applied and a second, subtractive input to which the digital divided signal is applied. The digital adder provides a digital output, the most significant bits of which are applied to an input of the digital loop filter and the least significant bits of which are applied to an input of the sigma-delta modulator. In the preferred embodiment, the sigma-delta modulator is of a two-stage MASH configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Frank Vanselow, Chung Chan
-
Publication number: 20070205932Abstract: An echo prevention circuit comprises a filter that is inputted with a first digital signal, the filter outputting second and third digital signals; a first DA converter that converts the second digital signal into a first analog signal and outputs the first analog signal; a second DA converter that converts the third digital signal into a second analog signal and outputs the second analog signal; an input/output terminal that outputs the first analog signal or that is inputted with a third analog signal; a subtracting circuit that outputs a fourth analog signal acquired by subtracting the second analog signal from a signal generated by combining the first analog signal and the third analog signal; an amplification circuit that amplifies the signal output from the subtracting circuit and outputs the amplified signal; an AD converter that converts the signal output from the amplification circuit into a digital signal and outputs the digital signal; a response signal acquiring unit that inputs a first signal toType: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeo Inoue, Hideki Ohashi, Yoshitaka Onaya
-
Publication number: 20070205933Abstract: A loss of performance of slicer adaptation at high capacities due to the mismatch between the exact bits used in the computation of the RDS for the DC-control on the one hand and the often erroneous threshold decisions that are preliminarily made based on the HF waveform on the other hand, is resolved by performing a new method of DC-control at the encoder: the RDS is modified such that it is not based on the exact channel bits, but on the threshold decisions from a synthetic HF signal waveform that is generated based on a nominal MTF (modulation transfer function) or its IRF (impulse response function) of the channel. In this way, the impact of the erroneous threshold decisions in the receiver are already taken into account at the encoder, and the slicer control is no longer negatively affected thereby.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2005Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.Inventors: Willem Coene, Bin Yin
-
Publication number: 20070205934Abstract: The invention relates to an equalized time interleaved analogue digital conversion device. The analogue digital conversion device comprises a number N of analogue digital converters distributed in N channels. Each analogue digital converter has a sampling frequency N times lower than the required sampling frequency. The digital signal is built up from samples output from each channel. The device comprises a reference channel comprising an analogue digital converter generating samples of the analogue signal. Each filter comprises an equalizer filter. The filter received a digital signal output by the analogue digital converter of the channel on which it is placed. The filter also receives an error signal and outputs a filtered digital signal s(n) corrected for errors deduced from the error signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: THALESInventor: Philippe Buisson
-
Publication number: 20070205935Abstract: A digital driver for display devices which can prevent the delay of digital data and the extended transition time of the digital data, and thus can make good display, and a display device including the above-mentioned digital driver are disclosed. The digital driver according to the present invention is constituted in such a manner that, by successively inputting digital data to a shift register, the digital data are shifted in the shift register, and the resulting output is sent out to latch circuits. Since the digital data are directly inputted to the shift register, the distance over which the data lines are laid around can be shortened, the increase in load due to the laying-around of the data lines which has so far been a problem can be prevented, and the delay of the digital data and the extended transition time of the digital data can be prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Jun Koyama, Yutaka Shionoiri
-
Publication number: 20070205936Abstract: A method and apparatus to remove human features utilizing at least one transmitter transmitting a signal between 200 MHz and 1 THz, the signal having at least one characteristic of elliptical polarization, and at least one receiver receiving the reflection of the signal from the transmitter. A plurality of such receivers and transmitters are arranged together in an array which is in turn mounted to a scanner, allowing the array to be passed adjacent to the surface of the item being imaged while the transmitter is transmitting electromagnetic radiation. The array is passed adjacent to the surface of the item, such as a human being, that is being imaged. The portions of the received signals wherein the polarity of the characteristic has been reversed and those portions of the received signal wherein the polarity of the characteristic has not been reversed are identified. An image of the item from those portions of the received signal wherein the polarity of the characteristic was reversed is then created.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2005Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Douglas McMakin, David Sheen, Thomas Hall
-
Publication number: 20070205937Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus that provides detection, characterization, and intuitive dissemination of targets. This disclosure combines improvements to ultra-wideband (UWB) sensing and machine target characterization with a means to convey data in a format that is quickly and readily understood by practitioners of the technology. The invention is well suited for Situational Awareness (SA) support in areas that are occluded by rain, fog, dust, darkness, distance, foliage, building walls, and any material that can be penetrated by ultra-wideband RF signals. Sense Through The Wall (STTW) performance parameters including target range, stand-off distance, and probability of detection are improved herein by combining a dynamically positioned sliding windowing function with orthogonal feature vectors that include but are not limited to time amplitude decay, spectral composition, and propagation time position in the return signal data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: REALTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Scott Randall Thompson, Bernt A Askildsen, Anthony Gervasi
-
Publication number: 20070205938Abstract: An object detection system, in particular for a motor vehicle, has multiple object detectors and/or operating modes with which different detection ranges and/or detection zones are detected. In this case, an object detector is preferably a radar sensor which has a relatively large detection range with a relatively small angular detection zone in a first operating mode and has a detection range that is small relative to the first with an enlarged angular detection zone in a second operating mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2001Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Uwe Zimmermann, Achim Pruksch, Werner Uhler
-
Publication number: 20070205939Abstract: An apparatus and a method for sharing a temperature compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) of a mobile terminal using a global positioning system (GPS). A communication system processor performs a process for a mobile communication system, computes a frequency variation according to a frequency change and outputs a value corresponding to the computed frequency variation to a system TCXO and a GPS processor. The GPS processor receives and processes a GPS signal, receives the value of the computed frequency variation from the communication system processor, and performs an operation for frequency compensation according to the value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS., LTD.Inventor: Hyung-Jin Bae
-
Publication number: 20070205940Abstract: A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver and associated method capable of tracking weak GNSS signals from a plurality of GNSS satellites. In a preferred embodiment, code and carrier tracking loops are initially closed around the code phase, carrier frequency, and data bit edge estimates handed over from an acquisition mode. In subsequent tracking, early, prompt, and late copies of the code replica are correlated with the incoming signal. The prompt correlations are coherently integrated over an extended updating interval for data bit edge and sign estimation as well as for carrier phase and frequency error discrimination whereas the early and late correlations are used for code error discrimination. Code delay and carrier phase and frequency errors are used to update the code and carrier tracking loop filters. Together with data bits, they form observables of a GNSS signal's time and frequency parameters for timing and position fixing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Chun Yang, Shaowei Han
-
Publication number: 20070205941Abstract: A mobile communications device uses a method for determining position that involves a positioning filter, such as a Kalman filter, which is initialized with measurements from reference stations such as satellite vehicles and/or base stations which may be acquired during different epochs. Accordingly, the positioning filter may be used for position estimation without the need to first acquire at least three different signals during the same measurement epoch.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Wyatt Riley, John Blackmer, Dominic Farmer, Rayman Pon
-
Publication number: 20070205942Abstract: In a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, rather than storing both GPS satellite ephemeredes and almanacs to the GPS receiver's on-chip non-volatile memory, storing into the non-volatile memory only the more recent ephemeris or almanac data for each satellite. When an ephemeris expires, the parameters in the ephemeris are converted into corresponding parameters of an almanac. The ephemeris or almanac is used to determine whether a given satellite is visible to the GPS receiver. A method of the present invention allows efficient use of the memory space in the non-volatile memory. A study by the inventors shows that differences in positions and velocities of satellites estimated using aged ephemeris and almanac data associated with the same week number are insignificant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Gang Xie, Rahul Vohra, Xiang Yuan
-
Publication number: 20070205943Abstract: A method and apparatus for adaptive beam-steering are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing adaptive beam steering using multiple transmit and receive antennas, including iteratively performing a pair of training sequences, wherein the pair of training sequences includes estimating a transmitter antenna-array weight vector and a receiver antenna-array weight vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Karim Nassiri-Toussi, Jeffrey Gilbert, Chuen-Shen Shung, Dmitry Cherniavsky
-
Publication number: 20070205944Abstract: A method for performing Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) that eliminates the need for a common time base or clock calibration and a system for implementing the method. The method relies on a packet transmitted from a reference wireless device (first wireless device) with a known propagation delay between the first wireless device and a second device, which serves as a common reference point for all TDOA estimates. When a packet is received from a wireless device by the first wireless device and the second wireless device, the time difference of arrival is computed based on when the signal was received by the first device and the second device, using the known propagation delay to compensate for differences in clocks and frequencies between the first wireless device and the second wireless device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventor: Daniel Lyons
-
Publication number: 20070205945Abstract: A patch antenna having a plurality of structures, referred to herein as comb structures, is disclosed that results in an antenna having a reduced overall patch size and weight as well as a broader the angular response pattern of the antenna. In a first embodiment, comb structures are attached to one of the surface of the patch or the surface of the ground plane. In a second embodiment, the comb structures are attached to both the patch and the ground plane in a manner such that the structures interleave with each other. The structures may be pins or ribs that are electrically connected to the ground plane and/or the patch, or may be any other suitable configuration depending upon the polarization of the signal to be transmitted or received.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2005Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Dmitry Tatarnikov, Andrey Astakhov, Pavel Shamatulsky, Igor Soutiaguine, Anton Stepanenko
-
Publication number: 20070205946Abstract: A passive repeater includes: a connecting transmission circuit having first and second opposing ends and made of a flexible material for substantially conforming to a portion of a structure, the structure having first and second opposing sides; first and second antenna elements respectively coupled to the first and second opposing ends of the connecting transmission element; and first and second affixing elements respectively coupled to the first and second antenna elements for attaching the first and second antenna elements to the first and second opposing sides of the structure, wherein the first and second antenna elements are operable to transfer a signal from the first opposing side of the structure to the second opposing side of the structure via the connecting transmission circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Nicholas Buris, Richard Rachwalski, William Turney
-
Publication number: 20070205947Abstract: A planar antenna assembly comprises a Planar Inverted F Antenna mounted on a printed circuit board (PP) and comprising i) a radiating element (RE1, RE2) comprising first (RE1) and second (RE2) parts approximately perpendicular one to the other and being respectively located in a first plan facing and parallel to a ground plane mounted on a face of the printed circuit board (PP) and in a second plane perpendicular to said ground plane, ii) a feed tab (FT) extending from said second part (RE2) to said printed circuit board (PP), and iii) a main slot (SO1) having a chosen length and comprising a linear part (LP) defined in the second part (RE2) at a chosen location between lateral sides of the radiating element (RE1, RE2) and a meandered part (MP) extending the linear part (LP) into the first part (RE1).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2005Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventor: Kevin Boyle
-
Multiband Antenna Using Whip Having Independent Power Feeding In Wireless Telecommunication Terminal
Publication number: 20070205948Abstract: Provided is a multi-band antenna using a whip having independent power feeding in a wireless telecommunication terminal. The multi-band antenna of a wireless telecommunication terminal includes a first feed point for feeding an electric signal provided from an electric signal provider; a second feed point for feeding an electric signal provided from the electric signal provider; a plurality of radiators for radiating the electric signal fed from the first feed point into an electromagnetic wave signal; and a whip radiator for radiating the electric signal fed from the second feed point into an electromagnetic wave signal in order to increase the radiant efficiency of the electromagnetic wave signal radiated from a plurality of radiator and extend a bandwidth.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2004Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: ACE TechnologyInventors: Jin-Woo Lee, Sang-Hyuk Mun -
Publication number: 20070205949Abstract: An antenna apparatus has a first antenna element and a second antenna element branched from one power feed point. The first antenna element and the second antenna element, which have different lengths, are arranged nearly in a loop as a whole with a predetermined clearance provided between distal ends thereof. The first antenna element and the second antenna element are arranged in such a way that the end faces of the distal ends thereof do not face each other with a lengthwise direction of the end face of the distal end of the first antenna element being approximately orthogonal to a lengthwise direction of the end face of the distal end of the second antenna element. Therefore, the antenna apparatus can suppress electric coupling of a plurality of antenna elements which transmit and/or receive radio waves of different frequency bands.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryouichi Enoshima, Takayuki Shimizu
-
Publication number: 20070205950Abstract: An antenna assembly includes a plurality of antennas for use in wireless communication. A ganging member is provided for ganging the plurality of antennas in a substantially fixed relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: John McConnell, John Stack, John Nantz, Jeffrey Battistella
-
Publication number: 20070205951Abstract: A high impedance bicone antenna system supporting ultra wideband operation. The antenna may comprise a reduced aperture size and reduced half-angles of the conductive cones forming the antenna. Reduction in cone angles may increase the impedance of the cones. An impedance matching mechanism for interfacing to the high impedance bicone may be positioned within one of the cones by a dielectric material. The impedance matching mechanism may be a flat conductive taper functioning as an impedance matching transmission line between an external feed line and the antenna. The conductive taper may function as a center conductor of a coaxial feed mechanism where the inside of the cone around the taper serves as the outside conductor, or return, of the tapered feed. The geometry of the cones may be modified to provide one or more end segments that are substantially cylindrical.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: EMS Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Donald Black, John Voss, Terence Newbury
-
Publication number: 20070205952Abstract: An antenna for receiving and/or transmitting electromagnetic signals is disclosed. The antenna includes a ground plane with a length and having a vertical axis along the length, and a dipole radiating element projects outwardly from a surface of the ground plane. The radiating element includes a feed section, and a ground section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Gang Yi Deng, John J. Dickson
-
Publication number: 20070205953Abstract: A document which includes a cover, one or more internal pages, a radiofrequency microcontroller, an antenna electrically connected to the radiofrequency microcontroller, an electromagnetic shield capable of partially disrupting wireless communication with the radiofrequency microcontroller when the document is closed, and not disrupting the wireless communication when the document is opened is described. The electromagnetic shield included in the document is implemented using metal, conductive plastic, conductive ink or magnetic ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2005Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: AXALTO SAInventors: Bart Bombay, Neville Pattinson, Ksheerabdhi Krishna, Yves Reignoux, Severine Cheramy, Joseph Leibenguth, Denis Groeninck, Jean-Pierre Lafon
-
Publication number: 20070205954Abstract: An antenna feeding network including at least one antenna feeding line, each antenna feeding line including a coaxial line having a central inner conductor and a surrounding outer conductor. The outer conductor (4) is made of an elongated tubular compartment (5) having an elongated opening (6) along one side of the compartment (5), and that the inner conductor (3) is suspended within the tubular compartment (5) by dielectric support elements (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2005Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Gregor Lenart, Jens Malmgren
-
Publication number: 20070205955Abstract: An antenna array includes four closely spaced, linearly arranged antenna columns. At least two of the columns, e.g., the center two columns, are dual-polarized. Spacing between neighboring columns is about ½?, where ? is the free space wavelength at the network carrier frequency. Each column includes a first vertical linear array of radiating elements or groups of elements (sub-arrays) connected to a port. The dual-polarized columns each further include a second linear array of radiating elements oriented at a different polarization than the first array. (For example, horizontal/vertical or slant 45°.) Array ports are connected with four RF feed cables using duplexers in such a way so as to provide two different antenna configurations for forward link and reverse link frequencies, namely, a four-column closely spaced beam-forming array at the forward link and a two-column dual-polarized array at the reverse link for 4-branch diversity reception.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Ilya Korisch, Robert Soni, Kam Wu
-
Publication number: 20070205956Abstract: An electronic substrate including: a base substrate having an active face and a rear face; and a plurality of inductor elements formed on or above the active face, or formed on or above the rear face.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventor: Nobuaki Hashimoto
-
Publication number: 20070205957Abstract: A folding frame for mounting an antenna on an upstanding support structure including first and second support arms pivotally secured to an upper mounting bracket and third and fourth support arms which are pivotally secured to a lower mounting bracket with the upper and lower mounting brackets being secured to the support structure. Support members are pivotally secured to the outer ends of the support arms and are pivotally connected together so that the frame may be pivotally moved from a folded position to a non-folding position. When the frame is in its folded position, it is easily shipped on a pallet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventor: Brandon Chapman
-
Publication number: 20070205958Abstract: The present disclosure provides a satellite dish cover comprising a main body portion having a front side, a back side and an outer edge, and a securing element for securing said satellite dish cover to the concave face of a satellite dish. The securing element requires no manual adjustment in order to be secured to a satellite dish. The satellite dish cover may further comprise a design element, a color or a texture to increase the aesthetic appeal of the satellite dish cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventor: Joseph Reid
-
Publication number: 20070205959Abstract: At least two antennas are selected from a plurality of antennas which consist of at least two antennas having polarization characteristics or directivities different from one another, and which are arranged such that spatial fading correlations between the antennas are low, and a multiple input multiple output communication is conducted by using the selected antennas.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Yuuta Nakaya, Ichirou Ida, Atsushi Honda
-
Publication number: 20070205960Abstract: An attachment/detachment mechanism for an antenna is configured to avoid damage to the antenna when an excessively large force is applied to the antenna, regardless of the direction. A rotational L-shaped connector of an antenna section of the antenna is connected to an antenna housing disposed on a main electronic device unit. A fitting groove is formed on a male fitting cylinder on the rotational L-shaped connector side, and an O-ring is fitted to the groove. An engagement projection formed on an inner wall of a female fitting cylinder on the antenna housing frictionally engages with the O-ring. This configuration allows rotation and attachment/detachment of the antenna section relative to the antenna housing. A contact member is attached to the fitting cylinder to contact a contact spring 31 that presses the O-ring against the engagement projection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: SMK CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Fujikawa, Keiichi Ogura
-
Publication number: 20070205961Abstract: A broadband omni-directional bicone antenna. The antenna can comprise conductive surfaces of conical voids provided within a solid dielectric structure. The outside surface of the solid structure can support a radio frequency (RF) lens geometry operable for beam forming. The beam forming can modify the elevation pattern of the electromagnetic radiation from the bicone antenna. The solid dielectric structure may be machined or molded from a single piece of material. The conical voids provided within the solid structure can be metallized to provide conductive bicone radiators. The outer surface beam shaping lenses can be zoned or continuous and can provide elevation patterns with increased gain, cosecant squared falloff, or various other patterns. The beam shaping lens may be formed from any low-loss dielectric. Alternatively, the lens may be formed from a less dense material such as dielectric foam that can support radial conductive beam forming vanes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: EMS Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Donald Black, Terence Newbury, Alan Jones, R. Parr, Bayne Bunce
-
Publication number: 20070205962Abstract: A display system includes a number of display blocks and a control device. At least one of the display blocks includes a shell structured to define an open region, a controller with a wireless transceiver structured to receive control information, and an output device structured to be turned on and off by the controller in response to the control information, wherein at least one of the controller and the output device is located within the open region. The control device has a wireless transceiver structured to communicate the control information to the wireless transceiver of the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventor: Ronald Thompson
-
Publication number: 20070205963Abstract: A method of providing visual information to a human viewer includes the steps of defining a range of distances from a surface and a range of viewing angles with respect to the surface, determining the location and viewing angle of a human viewer with respect to the surface, and providing a virtual image to the human viewer via a visual display device worn by the human viewer when the location and viewing angle of the human viewer with respect to the surface is determined to be within the defined range of distances and viewing angles, such that the virtual image is perceived to be defined on the surface by the human viewer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Gregory Piccionelli, Michael Gerardi
-
Publication number: 20070205964Abstract: A plasma display panel (PDP) display device is provided, which can reduce the power consumption in the PDP display device without lowering of the display luminance of the PDP and has excellent reliability in suppressing rise of temperature. The PDP display device has a PDP (1) having a plurality of electrodes, a drive circuit (2) for supplying a driving waveform to the electrode, a power supply circuit (3) for supplying a power to the drive circuit, and a power control circuit (4) for adjusting an output power which can be supplied to an electrode of a plasma display panel by controlling a stop period of the power supply circuit based on emission state of the plasma display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2005Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Toshikazu Nagaki
-
Publication number: 20070205965Abstract: A method of driving a plasma display panel (PDP) by stably performing sustain and reset discharges. The PDP includes first and second electrode lines, and third electrode lines extending to cross the first and second electrode lines, wherein discharge cells are defined where the first, second and third electrode lines cross, the first electrode lines include first type electrode lines and second type electrode lines that are alternately arranged, and the discharge cells include first and second discharge cell groups respectively defined by the first and second type electrode lines. The method includes: performing a first address operation for addressing the first discharge cell group; performing a first sustain operation in the discharge cells addressed in the first address operation; performing a second address operation for addressing the second discharge cell group; and performing a second sustain operation in the discharge cells addressed in the first and second address operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventor: Joo-Yul Lee
-
Publication number: 20070205966Abstract: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel including a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, a scan driver for applying a first pulse, which rises to a first voltage at a predetermined slope, to the scan electrode during a reset period, and a sustain driver for applying a second pulse to the sustain electrode during the reset period for applying the first pulse to the scan electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: LG ElectronicsInventors: Kyung Choi, Yu Park
-
Publication number: 20070205967Abstract: A plasma display device and a driving method according to the present invention erase more wall charges formed on electrodes by controlling a voltage applied to a sustain electrode and a scan electrode during a falling period of a reset period of the next subfield as the number of sustain discharge pulses applied to the scan electrode and the sustain electrode during a sustain period of a previous subfield increases. Different waveforms may be used during the falling period of the reset period for different subfields, to vary a number of wall charges that may be erased.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Tae-Hyun Kim, Joo-Yul Lee, Byeong-Seon Min
-
Publication number: 20070205968Abstract: An OLED display, an OLED panel and a driving device are disclosed. Wherein, the OLED display includes the OLED and the driving device. The OLED panel has a plurality of display pixels, every display pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, and each of the sub-pixels respectively corresponds to a different color. The driving device includes a plurality of current mirrors for correspondingly receiving one of a plurality of data currents and for generating driving currents sent to the corresponding sub-pixels, respectively. Each the current mirror includes a plurality of transistors and generates a different driving current to drive the corresponding sub-pixels according to the ratios between the channel widths and channel lengths of the transistors in the current mirror.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventor: Pei-Ming Chen
-
Publication number: 20070205969Abstract: A direct-view display includes an array of MEMS light modulators and a control matrix formed on a transparent substrate, where each light modulator can be driven into at least two states, and a controller for controlling the states of each light modulator in the array. The control matrix transmits data and actuation voltages to the array. The controller includes an input, a processor, a memory, and an output. The input receives image data encoding an image frame for display. The processor derives a plurality of sub-frame data sets from the image data, where each sub-frame data set indicates desired states of light modulators in multiple rows and multiple columns of the array. The memory stores the plurality of sub-frame data sets. The output outputs the plurality of sub-frame data sets according to an output sequence to drive light modulators into the states indicated in the sub-frame data sets.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: Pixtronix, IncorporatedInventors: Nesbitt Hagood, Jignesh Gandhi, Abraham McAllister, Rainer Malzbender, Stephen Lewis
-
Publication number: 20070205970Abstract: A power-saving device for a driving circuit of a liquid crystal display panel is provided. The device comprises a first switch, a first capacitor, a second switch, a second capacitor, a third switch, an output buffer and a common electrode or a data line. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are coupled to the common electrode or the data line through the first switch and the second switch respectively. The output buffer is coupled to the common electrode or the data line through the third switch. The output buffer charges or discharges a ground-referenced equivalent capacitor of the data line or the common electrode. The device uses the switches to conduct positive and negative electric charges to the capacitors so that charges produced during the charging and discharging in the driving circuits of the common electrodes and data line can be stored and recycled to avoid unnecessary power waste.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Wing-Kai Tang, Ming-Chieh Lin, Wen-Shian Shie
-
Publication number: 20070205971Abstract: A display drive integrated circuit is for driving a display panel. The display drive integrated circuit includes a division rate output unit which outputs as a division rate corresponding to a quotient obtained by dividing by M a total number of clock cycles of a dot clock signal corresponding to a clock cycle of a horizontal synchronization signal, where M is a natural number, and a system clock generating unit which generates a system clock signal by dividing the dot clock signal using the division rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Jong-kon Bae, Kyu-young Chung
-
Publication number: 20070205972Abstract: An active matrix display apparatus includes an active matrix display panel comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix in a row direction and a column direction, each pixel being constituted by a plurality of subpixels; and a drive circuit for applying a voltage to each of the subpixels so that a polarity of the voltage is inverted at a predetermined period in each of a row direction and a column direction. The plurality of subpixels are arranged in the row direction at a period different from half of the predetermined period of polarity inversion of the voltage in the row direction, thus providing flicker-less color display device even when general driver ICs for dot inversion drive are used.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2005Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasufumi Asao, Hideo Mori, Yutaka Inaba