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A novel apparatus and method for a fully digital quadrature architecture for a complex modulator. The complex modulator can substitute for existing prior art analog quadrature modulator structures and those based on a digital polar architecture (r, θ). The modulator effectively operates as a complex digital-to-analog converter where the digital inputs are given in Cartesian form, namely I and Q representing the complex number I+jQ, while the output is a modulated RF signal having a corresponding amplitude and phase shift. The phase shift being with respect to a reference phase dictated by the local oscillator, which is also input to the converter / modulator. Several embodiments are provided including modulators incorporating dual I and Q transistor arrays, a single shared I / Q transistor array, modulators with single ended and differential outputs and modulators with single and dual polarity clock and I / Q data signals.

The nature of the current invention is an archery device that uses what I claim as Reverse Draw Technology. In essance, what this is, is pulling the launch string of a bow or crossbow in the opposite direction that it is pulled in all prior art. Pulling the launch string into the curve of the opposing limbs, instead of away from them, allows for a longer power stroke, thus increasing performance and allowing, if so chosen, a lower draw weight, which translates to less noise at the same arrow speed. Arrow speed is determined by the force required to pull the launch string from an at rest position to the ready to fire position, and the distance the string is pulled. This distance is called the power stroke. By increasing the power stroke and decreasing the drawing force, comparable arrow speed is achieved with much less noise and effort on the part of the archer.

A read-write processing apparatus communicates with an RFID tag provided with a semiconductor memory to exchange commands and responses through antenna coils. A condition under which only a carrier wave is transmitted is set prior to a communication with the RFID tag and a level from a reception signal obtained under this condition is extracted as noise level. The extracted noise level is displayed or outputted to an output host apparatus.

A cost-efficient digital CATV network to improve signal quality, provide reliability, and offer the ability to meet demands for interactive services is described. Analog or digital video downstream channels are converted to a digital format by a digital headend transmitter. Relatively costly error-encoding for digital video channels is also part of the digital headend transmitter. Downstream analog and digital video channels in the digital format are transmitted using time-division multiplex technology from a headend to nodes using standard network protocols, such as SONET. Standard network protocols provide error-monitoring and status indication of transmit data, thus ensuring high signal quality and reliability. Time-division multiplexing facilitates easy adding or dropping of information to a transmit path. Flexibility to add or drop information is critical in providing interactive services. Data from interactive services can be added or dropped at points of presence throughout the digital CATV network. Subscribers to the digital CATV network can communicate with each other. A digital node transmitter receives the analog or digital video channels in digital format and converts the analog or digital video channels into an analog format. The digital node transmitter also frequency-division multiplexes multiple analog or digital video channels into one analog broadband signal for broadcast to subscribers' homes.

An interference signal cancellation device comprises a signal splitter, a delay element and a signal combiner. The signal splitter distributes a disturbed signal to a first signal path and a second signal path. The delay element is situated in at least one of the first signal path and the second signal path for introducing a relative delay between a first signal in the first signal path and a second signal in the second signal path. The signal combiner combines the first signal and the second signal. An interference signal within the disturbed signal is substantially reduced within the signal combiner. A method for interference signal cancellation is also proposed. Furthermore, a computer program product with instructions for the manufacture and a computer program product enabling a processor to carry out the method for interference signal cancellation are also proposed.

Systems and methods for estimating IQ imbalance in a communication system are provided. In various embodiments, a device is configured to perform a self-characterization. The self-characterization is performed over an RF loopback circuit. In some embodiments, a probe is transmitted over the RF loopback circuit. The probe uses a frequency offset such that an image related to one IQ imbalance is separated from an image related to another IQ imbalance. An imbalance estimate is calculated based on processing of the probe.

A cine imaging filter and method of use that includes a denoising image-filter based on the Karhunen-Loeve transform along the temporal direction to take advantage of the high temporal correlation among images. The cine imaging filter may further include the application of a simple formula describing the quantitative noise reduction capabilities of the KLT filter as a function of eigenimage cutoff. Additionally, the filter may validate its accuracy in numerical simulation and in in-vivo real time cine images. Furthermore, exemplary embodiments of the cine imaging filter may employ a technique to automatically select the optimal eigenimage cutoff to maximize noise reduction with minimal effect on image information.

A valve with an internal member is disclosed which allows exhaled carbon dioxide to escape from a breathing circuit when the circuit gas pressure drops below a threshold pressure. The valve operates by occluding one or more ports under a relatively high pressure and opening the one or more ports under a relatively low pressure. The internal member is attached to the body of the valve at two or more locations on the internal member. The internal member moves in a direction perpendicular to the gas flow through the valve.

A cine imaging filter and method of use that includes a denoising image-filter based on the Karhunen-Loeve transform along the temporal direction to take advantage of the high temporal correlation among images. The cine imaging filter may further include the application of a simple formula describing the quantitative noise reduction capabilities of the KLT filter as a function of eigenimage cutoff. Additionally, the filter may validate its accuracy in numerical simulation and in in-vivo real time cine images. Furthermore, exemplary embodiments of the cine imaging filter may employ a technique to automatically select the optimal eigenimage cutoff to maximize noise reduction with minimal effect on image information.

A receiver recovers data from Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, the OFDM symbols including sub-carrier symbols carrying data symbols and sub-carrier signals carrying pilot symbols. The receiver includes a Fourier transform processor arranged in operation to receive a time domain digital version of the OFDM symbols and to form a frequency domain version of the OFDM symbols, from which the pilot symbol sub-carriers and the data symbol bearing sub-carriers can be recovered, and a detector arranged in operation to recover the data symbols from the data bearing sub-carriers of the OFDM symbols. The receiver includes a noise estimator arranged in operation to generate a long term estimate of noise power in the frequency domain version of the OFDM symbols at a plurality of frequencies, by accumulating an average noise power at the plurality of frequencies from a plurality of the OFDM symbols, and for generating an estimate of a current level of the noise power in the frequency domain version of a current one of the OFDM symbols at the plurality of frequencies. An impulsive noise detector detects the presence of an impulse of noise in the current OFDM symbol, by comparing the noise power in the current OFDM symbol with the long term noise power at the plurality of frequencies, and to generate an impulse noise flag to indicate that the current OFDM symbol is affected by an impulse of noise if the comparison indicates the presence of an impulse of noise. Impulsive noise in the time domain will generate an increase in noise level across the frequency bandwidth of the OFDM symbols. If all frequencies experience an increase then an impulse of noise can be detected. Thereafter the detector can conceal the effect of the impulse noise on the recovering of the data symbols from the data bearing sub-carriers, for example by adapting channel state information for use in de-mapping modulated symbols into data symbols.

A control system for an exhaust valve and a method of actively controlling an exhaust valve includes monitoring at least a first engine characteristic, a second engine characteristic, and at least one additional noise determining characteristic. An exhaust valve position is then adjusted based on the first engine characteristic, the second engine characteristic, and the at least one additional noise determining characteristic to improve fuel economy without adversely affecting noise levels.

Disclosed is a multichip package or system-in package which the logic chip includes a selector circuit which, by transmitting a test mode select signal or a test mode select command to the logic chip, enables access from a logic signal pin connected to the logic chip, to a memory control signal to each of the “m” number of memory chips; and the memory control signal, when viewed from the logic chip, is connected using a one-for-one wiring scheme or a one-for-up-to-m branch wiring scheme, between the selector circuit and each of the “m” number of memory chips. This multichip package or system-in package is low in noise and high in operational reliability.

A perpendicular recording type, magnetic recording medium having a soft magnetic layer and a magnetic recording / reproducing apparatus including such a magnetic recording medium are provided. The magnetic recording medium allows the recording magnetic field to be efficiently applied to a track for recording while restricting the extent of the recording magnetic field. The magnetic recording medium has a soft magnetic layer and a recording layer formed in this order on a substrate. The soft magnetic layer has its part on the opposite side to the substrate formed in a concavo-convex pattern. The recording layer is oriented to have magnetic anisotropy in the direction perpendicular to the surface. A fixing layer for fixing the magnetic anisotropy of the soft magnetic layer in a predetermined direction parallel to the surface is provided between the recording layer and the soft magnetic layer.

A method for processing a sound signal y in which redundancy, consisting mainly of almost repetitions of signal profiles, is detected and correlations between the signal profiles are determined within segments of the sound signal. Correlated signal components are allocated to a power component and uncorrelated signal components to a noise component of the sound signal. The correlations between the signal profiles are determined by methods of nonlinear noise reduction in deterministic systems in reconstructed vector spaces based on the time domain.

The present invention is directed to an acoustic vector sensor, specifically an underwater acoustic vector sensor. The acoustic vector sensor contains three piezoelectric sensors orthogonally mounted inside a rigid housing, where each of the piezoelectric sensors measures acoustic energy from one of the three different, orthogonal, axial directions (X, Y, and Z). The piezoelectric sensor contains a proof mass, a base, and a piezoelectric crystal sandwiched therebetween. The bonding surfaces of the proof mass and the base are preferably castellated; and the piezoelectric crystal is preferably a shear mode (d15) relaxor single crystal.

A system and method control intake air of an internal combustion engine. The engine has at least one combustion chamber provided with intake valves together with an intake manifold provided with a throttle valve. The opening and closure timings of the intake valves are adjustable entirely independently by electromagnetic drivers from the crankshaft position to control the amount of intake air supplied to the combustion chamber. The system and method provide a response adjustment to variable valve timing and throttle valve position controls of the intake valves for unthrottled intake air control.

The invention relates to a bypass turbomachine comprising a gas turbine engine provided with a fan disposed on a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, and an annular nacelle surrounding the engine so as to define a cold stream flow channel, the nacelle having an upstream end surrounding the fan of the engine and a stationary downstream end forming a gas exhaust nozzle, the nozzle having a throat section that corresponds to its smallest cross-section. The turbomachine further comprises means for taking in air from the cold stream flow channel upstream from the nozzle throat section, and means for injecting the taken-in air downstream from the nozzle throat section so as to open the throat section artificially.

The invention provides a finished automobile sound transmission loss testing method based on reciprocity. The finished automobile sound transmission loss testing method comprises the steps that a medium-high-frequency sound source and a low-frequency sound source are arranged in an automobile; the periphery of the finished automobile is divided into a plurality of areas, an automobile forecabin serves as an area, and a plurality of microphones are arranged in the areas respectively; the average sound pressure levels of each area are acquired when the medium-high-frequency sound source and the low-frequency sound source in the automobile are in different frequency ranges, the sound pressure levels of noise produced by the medium-high-frequency sound source in the automobile in the different frequency ranges are subtracted from the average sound pressure levels of the areas, the sound pressure levels of noise produced by the low-frequency sound source in the automobile in the different frequency ranges are subtracted from the average sound pressure levels of the areas, the sound reduction index of the areas in the different frequency ranges of the medium-high frequency and the low frequency are obtained, and accordingly the sound transmission losses of the areas in the different frequency ranges of the medium-high frequency and the low frequency are obtained respectively. The testing method can scientifically and strictly evaluate the sealing performance of the finished automobile.

An automated impact testing system provides reliable measurements of spray patterns of high-impact nozzles. The impact testing system includes a load cell mounted on a transport for controlled movements in two directions. The load cell includes a sensing pin extending through an aperture in a protective housing of the load cell. A special relationship between the dimensions of the sensing pin and the aperture allows the load cell to produce error-free impact measurement data.

The present invention provides a cross-flow type drying apparatus for a pet, that is capable of quickly performing drying by blowing air uniformly on the entire body of a pet and simultaneously facilitating drying by reducing the amount of stress that a pet is subjected to. The cross-flow type drying apparatus includes: a main body case defining an outlet and an inlet and including a heating member installed within; a cross-flow fan installed in a longitudinal direction within the main body case to rotate; and a stand coupled to enable the main body case to pivot to a predetermined angle. This configuration can reduce drying time and easily perform drying the pet, and can lower manufacturing cost to reduce the financial burden placed on a user.

A signal transmission system for transmitting an UP LINK signal received by an antenna shared by at least a first radio communication system and a second radio communication system to at least a radio base station of the first radio communication system is provided. In the signal transmission system, the first radio communication system is affected by a spurious signal of a radio communication system other than the first radio communication system, and the signal transmission system includes: a determination part for determining whether a signal level of a signal, included in the UP LINK signal, from at least the second radio communication system exceeds a permissible level; and a level adjustment part for adjusting a power level of the UP LINK signal so as to output an adjusted signal according to the determination result, and sending the adjusted signal to the radio base station.

A perpendicular magnetic recording disk is provided. The perpendicular magnetic recording disk includes an underlayer between a substrate and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer for inducing perpendicular orientation of the perpendicular magnetic recording layer, the perpendicular magnetic recording layer having a thickness in the range where the ratio of perpendicular coercivity Hc to maximum perpendicular coercivity Ho decreases with reduced thickness of the perpendicular magnetic recording layer.

The present invention relates to an encoding frequency-hopping high-resolution distance-measuring speed-measuring method and radar. In particular, it is applicable to automobile anti-collision radar and police speed-measuring radar, and can be substituted for infrared alarm to make all-weather real-time safety supervisory control for large-range sensitive area. Said invention also provides the concrete steps of said distance-measuring and speed-measuring method, and can make several radars have strong anti-interference power when they are simultaneously worked.

An oral appliance for the treatment of sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, in a user is presented. The oral appliance may include a mouthpiece configured to receive a user's dentition. The mouthpiece may include an oxygen sensor, a pressure sensor, an airflow sensor, an actigraphy sensor, a noise detector, and at least one stimulator for providing stimulation to a user's tongue in the event of decreased oxygen saturation levels, increased pressure applied to occlusal surfaces of the user's dentition, decreased actual airflow levels and / or increased noise levels. The mouthpiece may further include a microprocessor that receives data from the oxygen sensor, pressure sensor, airflow sensor, actigraphy sensor and noise detector, and activates the at least one stimulator.

Disclosed is a silencer system configured to allow for thermal growth thereof while attenuating noise created by expansion of high-pressure fluid flowing therethrough. The silencer system comprises a tubular inner sleeve, a tubular flexible bellows, a tubular vent stack and a muffler disc. The inner sleeve has a sleeve inlet and a sleeve outlet. The inner sleeve is concentrically disposed in spaced relation within the bellows which is concentrically disposed in spaced relation within the vent stack. The bellows is configured to allow for axial and lateral movement of the inner sleeve relative to the vent stack when fluid passes through the silencer system to minimize excessive deflective forces and bending moments on the silencer system. The muffler disc is oriented relative to the sleeve outlet such that the high-pressure fluid impinges the muffler disc prior to creating shockwaves which may otherwise result in the production of high noise levels.

The present invention obtains a desired cooling effect in a fan motor as well as suppresses any increase in the noise level in a centrifugal fan that sucks in air from the rotary shaft direction and blows out air in a direction that intersects the rotary shaft, and in an air conditioner provided therewith. The centrifugal fan of the air conditioner comprises a fan motor, a hub, a plurality of blades, and an air guide. The hub has cooling air holes, and is coupled to and rotationally driven by a shaft of the fan motor. The air guide guides a portion of the blown out air to the vicinity of the fan motor, cools the fan motor, and then guides the air flow so that the revolving direction velocity decreases when that air is blown out from the cooling air holes to the side of the hub opposite the fan motor.

The present invention provides systems and methods for the spectroscopic determination of the physical characteristics of the tissue under observation by an autofluorescence or other endoscope without the requirement of contacting the tissue directly. The optical probe contained in the endoscope itself is passive and may be either built into the endoscope or positioned in a biopsy channel of same. The spectroscopic information, combined with other information provided by the endoscope such as total fluorescence, improves the sensitivity and specificity of the identification of precancerous or cancerous lesions.

A method is shown for operating an internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber with a piston, the internal combustion engine capable of injecting fuel into the combustion chamber multiple times during a cycle, the method comprising: performing a first fuel injection after approximately −25 crank angle degrees after top dead center and before approximately 15 crank angle degrees after top dead center; and performing a second fuel injection at least 5 degrees after the start of the first fuel injection and less than approximately 25 crank angle degrees after the start of the first fuel injection.