Abstract: A media device generates a digital fingerprint of perceptual features of a segment of a work. The segment is less than an entirety of the work and includes at least one of audio or video media content. The media device sends a query to a lookup server for data associated with the work, the query including said digital fingerprint. The media device receives the data associated with said work from said lookup server in response to said query, wherein the data was identified based on a comparison of the digital fingerprint to a collection of digital fingerprints of known works. The media device then processes the received data.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high-accuracy electrostatic capacitance type physical quantity sensor and angular velocity sensor configured so as to be capable of suppressing noise derived from internal noise while maintaining resistance to externally-incoming noise. A detection element 10 has a movable mass 18 supported displaceably by a physical quantity given from the outside, and a detection electrode Ef. A shield wire 16 is disposed around wirings connected to the input of a capacitance detection circuit 30 and is connected to a dc potential of low impedance. A value Cin of an input capacitance relative to a fixed potential of low impedance at a portion at which the detection element 10 is connected with the capacitance detection circuit 30 is set to fall within a range of 1.5 pF<Cin<20 pF.

Abstract: Test methods and components are disclosed for testing resistances of helical coils formed in magnetic recording heads. Helical coils in magnetic recording heads include a bottom coil structure, a top coil structure, and connecting structures that electrically connect the top and bottom coil structures. A test component is fabricated on the wafer along with the magnetic recording heads. The test component includes a bottom coil structure connected in series, and includes a top coil structure connected in series which is electrically disconnected from the bottom coil structure. Resistances of the top and bottom coil structures are measured in the test component. A total resistance of a helical coil is also measured. The resistance of the connecting structures in the helical coil may then be determined based on the resistance of the bottom coil structure, the resistance of the top coil structure, and the total resistance of the helical coil.

Abstract: A method for verifying a device under test includes inputting a control command, compiling the control command to a corresponding data-bus command, and simulating the result generated by the device under test after executing the data-bus command and comparing the result with an expected value. The method allows the tester to input readable hardware control commands with various methods, rather than to perform a simulation test by inputting unreadable data-bus control commands.

Abstract: A method for indexing magnetic disks by using a scanning probe is disclosed. A magnetic disk includes several essentially concentric magnetic tracks. The magnetic disk is attached to a rotating spindle. A number of data tracks is then written in a specific circular arc at an inner radial position of the magnetic disk. The beginning or the end of the written data tracks is defined to be in a co-incident or in a defined relation to an index or trigger signal defined by the rotating spindle. The rotating spindle is stopped from rotation, and a scanning probe microscope is moved radially at a fixed rotating angle to a second radial position. A tip of the scanning probe microscope is moved towards a surface of the magnetic disk. At least one scan line is recorded and analyzed in order to determine if a magnetic track is imaged by the tip of the scanning probe microscope.

Abstract: Electrostatic imaging apparatus comprises a plurality of electrostatic radiators and a signal generator for driving the radiators to produce an electrostatic field having characteristics modifiable by the presence of an object within the field. The field characteristics are detected and processed to produce output signals representative of a surface profile of the object.

Abstract: According to a method and apparatus for displaying data on a display screen, such as the screen of a digital storage oscilloscope, in a ROLL mode and prior to a trigger event, newly acquired data is continuously newly displayed at a given point on the screen as the oldest displayed data is rolled off the screen at a first side. This is continued even during a REFRESH mode until a trigger event occurs, at which time the displayed data is frozen on the screen and newly acquired data is written across the screen toward a second side of the screen, so that at the time the newly acquired data is written to the second end of the screen, data is observable which represents a certain period before the trigger event and after the trigger event.

Abstract: A system for transmitting traces of an oscilloscope (16) to a remote locan. A transmitter circuit (18) digitizes and transmits the traces to the remote location. A receiver circuit (24) at the remote location receives the transmitted signals and delivers these signals to a destination oscilloscope (26). At the transmitting location, the vertical output signal of the oscilloscope is amplified and fed to an analog-to-digital converter. The digitized output signal of the converter and the oscilloscope's timebase gate signal are stored in a memory circuit and subsequently transmitted to the remote location via a first modem (20). At the remote location, the receiver circuit (24) comprises a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART) interfacing with a second modem (22), a memory circuit for storing the transmitted signals, and associated circuitry for restoring the oscilloscope signal's amplitude.

Abstract: A monitoring system and apparatus is employed to duplicate unique environmental conditions at a first location so that sensitive electronic devices can be tested at a second location. Initially an environment recorder is plugged into the AC line at the first location. Line voltage characteristics including transients are then captured on tape. The environment recorder has the ability to record and respond only to unusual environmental conditions. The tape of the environment recorder is subsequently removed to a second location, typically the manufacturer's laboratory, where it is played back through the same or another environmental recorder into a reproduction line driver. Output voltages produced by the reproduction line driver exactly mimic the environmental conditions at the first location. The duplicated output is fed into the sensitive electronic device which might be a computer or other sensitive instrument to see how it responds to the simulated electronic conditions from the first location.

Abstract: Method and means for evaluating the quality of audio and/or video transfer characteristics of a device upon which, or through which, audio and/or video information is contained, or passes, respectively. Both method and apparatus concern the evaluation of the quality of information transfer in the recording and playing back of a recording medium or in the transferring of audio and/or video information through an information handling device referred to as a throughput device. Unit evaluation is accomplished by establishing an input signal of known content, measuring selected parameters of selected parts of the input signal, feeding the input signal to the unit under test, measuring the parameters of parts of the output signal from the unit under test corresponding to the same selected parts of the input signal, and comparing the selected parameters of the input signal with the corresponding parameters of the output signal.

Abstract: A signal processing system employing charge transfer devices for fast-in slow-out operation is disclosed. A push-pull input analog signal is applied to two charge transfer devices, and the clock pulses applied thereto are shifted one-half clock cycle with respect to one another. The output signals from the two charge transfer devices are differentially summed, and thereby providing cancellation of dark current and clock related noise in the charge transfer device, and doubled sample rate.

Abstract: A digital oscilloscope is provided with a position control circuit which permits positioning of a signal both before and after digitizing. A track and hold circuit is coupled to the position control potentiometer to generate a reference voltage which tracks the position voltage in a waveform acquisition mode, and which is held at a fixed level in a display mode while the position voltage, which is applied to the acquisition preamp, is variable adjustable. A summation circuit subtracts the reference voltage from the position voltage to provide an altered positioning voltage for the display amplifier which is zero in the acquisition mode and variable in the display mode.

Abstract: In a system for quality control evaluation of energized electrical power sources, a waveform analysis apparatus and method is employed permitting greatly increased capability for the detection, measurement and evaluation of the signal characteristics, especially the noise signal, of the tested units. A high-speed magnetic tape recorder stores the output signal of the unit under test. A high-speed AC-to-DC converter receives the output noise signal and inputs it to a fast-responding, track-and-hold peak detector. The peak level output signal of the peak detector may be displayed for any desired time interval and the peak detector reset resulting in discrete time interval printouts of peak noise output. Noise levels of interest may be rapidly located and a complete display of the power source output signals during that time interval of interest obtained from the magnetic tape recorder allowing detailed waveform analysis.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the intensity of current produced in an elongated electrical conductive member by a lightning strike for determining the intensity of the lightning strike. The apparatus includes an elongated strip of magnetic material that is carried within an elongated tubular housing. A predetermined electrical signal is recorded along the length of said elongated strip of magnetic material. One end of the magnetic material is positioned closely adjacent the electrically conductive member so that the magnetic field produced by current flowing through said electrically conductive member disturbs a portion of the recorded electrical signal directly proportional to the intensity of the lightning strike.