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A contactless power transfer system, including a coil configured to supply or receive power contactlessly via magnetic coupling, a bridge circuit having two direct current (DC) terminals and two alternating current (AC) terminals, and a smoothing capacitor connected between the DC terminals. A load is connectable to either end of the smoothing capacitor. One of the AC terminals is connected to one end of the coil via a first capacitor. The other of the AC terminals is connected to the other end of the coil. The bridge circuit includes two serially-connected circuits each having upper and lower arms, each arm having a semiconductor switch and a diode in reverse parallel connection. A second capacitor is connected in parallel to the semiconductor switch of an upper arm, or of a lower arm, or to two semiconductor switches respectively of an upper arm and of a lower arms, of the bridge circuit.

A power factor correction circuit includes a first rectifier to rectify an AC voltage, a series circuit connected to an output of the first rectifier and including a step-up reactor and a switching element, a rectifying-smoothing circuit connected to both ends of the switching element and including a second rectifier and a smoothing capacitor, an input voltage detector to detect an output voltage of the first rectifier, an output voltage detector to detect a voltage across the smoothing capacitor, an error amplifier to amplify an error between the output voltage signal and a reference voltage, and a controller to determine an ON / OFF duty ratio of the switching element according to the amplified error signal and a result of a calculation carried out on the input voltage signal and output voltage signal.

The invention discloses a shift register, a gate drive circuit unit, a gate drive circuit and a display. The gate drive circuit comprises the gate drive circuit units in multi-level cascade, each gate drive circuit unit comprises shift registers in multi-level cascade, the plurality of shift registers share a pull-down module, and consequently the number of transistors in the circuit is decreased, and circuit yield is increased. The gate drive circuit can be used for driving a display panel; due to reduction of the transistors in the circuit, size of the circuit is reduced, and manufacturing of a narrow-frame display is benefited; in addition, cost is reduced, circuit yield is increased, and display stability is improved.

The invention provides a pressure induction detection device, a touch display screen and electronic equipment. The pressure induction detection device comprises a pressure sensor array located in the touch display screen. Each row of the pressure sensor array forms a half-bridge circuit. When a touch input signal exists on the touch display screen, the first half-bridge circuit and the second half-bridge circuit corresponding to the touch position of the touch input signal in the pressure sensor array output the signal, the deformation quantity generated when a first pressure sensor unit in the first half-bridge circuit is pressed is smaller than the deformation quantity generated when a second pressure sensor in the first half-bridge circuit is pressed, and the deformation quantity generated when a first pressure sensor in the second half-bridge circuit is larger than the deformation quantity generated when a second pressure sensor in the second half-bridge circuit is pressed. Accordingly, the pressure induction detection device can effectively improve the sensitivity and precision of pressure induction detection.

A structure and method for demodulating two-level differential amplitude-shift-keying signals using simple adding operations are provided. Threshold values are dynamically adjusted according to the channel response. By comparing the threshold values and the differential amplitude values, it can be found whether the amplitude of the received signal is changed. Furthermore, it no needs to know the changed value of received signal amplitudes and the differential two-level amplitude-shift-keying signals can be demodulated by just detecting whether the amplitude of the received signal is changed. By this idea, the complexity of the receiver implementation is simplified and the demodulator can get better performance.

A manufacturing method of circuit structure embedded with heat-dissipation block including the following steps is provided. A core board including a first dielectric layer and two first conductive layers located on two opposite sides of the first dielectric layer is provided. A through hole penetrated the core board is formed. A heat-dissipation block is disposed into the through hole. Two inner-layer circuits are formed on two opposite sides of the core board. At least one build-up structure is bonded on the core board, wherein the build-up structure includes a second dielectric layer and a second conductive layer, and the second dielectric layer is located between the second conductive layer and the core board. A cavity is formed on a predetermined region of the build-up structure, and the cavity is communicated with the corresponding inner-layer circuit. Another manufacturing method of circuit structure embedded with heat-dissipation block is also provided.

A channel estimating technique is applied to an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication system which receives a plurality of OFDM symbols. In one aspect, a channel estimating method includes performing Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) with a second number of sampling points and a phase shift on each of preliminarily estimated frequency-domain channel responses including a first number of response values corresponding to each of the OFDM symbols, so as to obtain a first time-domain channel impulse response corresponding to each of the OFDM symbols, where the first number is lager than the second number. The method also generates a plurality of frequency-domain channel responses corresponding to the OFDM symbols according to the time-domain channel impulse responses.

An LED driving circuit is provided for driving an LED module, comprising a transistor switch and a feedback controller. The transistor switch has a control terminal, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The first terminal is coupled to the LED module and the control terminal receives a control signal for controlling a current passing through the transistor switch. The feedback controller receives a reference voltage and a current detecting signal indicative of the magnitude of the current and generates the control signal accordingly. The feedback controller is connected to a driving power source with level higher than the level of the first terminal of the transistor switch. Hence, the maximum level of an adjustable range of the control signal is higher than the first terminal of the transistor switch.

A semiconductor element 100 including an MISFET according to the present invention is characterized by having diode characteristics in a reverse direction through an epitaxial channel layer 50. The semiconductor element 100 includes a semiconductor layer 20 of a first conductivity type, a body region 30 of a second conductivity type, source and drain regions 40 and 75 of the first conductivity type, an epitaxial channel layer 50 in contact with the body region, source and drain electrodes 45 and 70, a gate insulating film 60, and a gate electrode 65. If the voltage applied to the gate electrode of the MISFET is smaller than a threshold voltage, the semiconductor element 100 functions as a diode in which current flows from the source electrode 45 to the drain electrode 70 through the epitaxial channel layer 50. The absolute value of the turn-on voltage of this diode is smaller than that of the turn-on voltage of a body diode that is formed of the body region and the first silicon carbide semiconductor layer.

An embodiment of the invention provides a filtering device and a power supply system. The filtering device is connected between an external power supply and equipment and comprises a feedback-type active common-mode filter and a feedforward-type active common-mode filter. The feedback-type active common-mode filter comprises a common-mode noise detection device and a first filtering circuit. The feedforward-type active common-mode filter comprises the common-mode noise detection device and a second filtering circuit. The first filtering circuit is connected between the common-mode noise detection device and the equipment and is used for carrying out feedback-type filtering on a first common-mode noise signal to obtain a second common-mode noise signal; the common-mode noise detection device is connected between the first filtering circuit and the second filtering circuit and is used for detecting the second common-mode noise signal and providing the second common-mode noise signal to the second filtering circuit; and the second filtering circuit is connected between the external power supply and the common-mode noise detection device and is used for carrying out feedforward-type filtering on the second common-mode noise signal. The filtering device and power supply system can effectively improve filtering efficiency of the common-mode noises to some extent.

A scan driving circuit includes a shift register unit and a logic circuit unit. The start of a start pulse of an output signal STp+1 of a p+1'th shift register is situated between the start and end of a start pulse of the output signal STp of a p'th shift register, and one each of a first enable signal through a Q'th enable signal exist in sequence between the start of the start pulse of the output signal STp and the start of the start pulse of the output signal STp+1. The operations of a (p′, q)'th NAND circuit are restricted based on period identifying signals, such that the NAND circuit generates scanning signals based only on a portion of the output signal STP corresponding to the first start pulse, the signal obtained by inverting the output signal STp+1, and the q'th enable signal ENq.

A mobile device includes frequency synthesizer circuitry for generating a channel frequency at a multiple of a reference frequency. The reference frequency is generated by a free-running crystal oscillator, without frequency stabilization circuitry. Variations in the output of the crystal oscillator are compensated by adjusting the multiplication factor of the frequency synthesizer.

In order to further develop a circuit arrangement (100) as well as a method for generating at least one drive signal for at least one synchronous rectification switch of at least one flyback converter in such way that an improved and simpler thermal management can be combined with a significant cost reduction as well as with a higher efficiency, it is proposed to generate the drive signal for said synchronous rectification switch as a function of at least one oscillating signal controlling the synchronous rectification switch, of at least one constant delay time, of at least one variable delay time, and of at least one Boolean OR function.

A display processor integrated circuit includes a display processor portion and an on-chip programmable logic portion. The programmable logic portion can be configured to implement custom video and / or image enhancement functions. The display processor portion performs block-based motion detection. If no motion is detected for a given block of pixels, then interline gaps in the block are filled using temporal interpolation. If motion is detected, then interline gaps are filled using spatial interpolation. To maintain accuracy without unduly increasing computational complexity, a less complex high angle spatial interpolation method is employed where a low angle tilt condition is not detected. A more computationally intensive low angle spatial interpolation method can therefore be employed in low angle tilt conditions. Integrated circuit cost is reduced by employing pipelining to write parts of segment buffers at the same time that other parts are being read to perform the interpolation process.

A low-frequency PWM-modulated signal and a high-frequency, unmodulated signal for generating a high-frequency PWM-modulated signal is employed directly for driving an output stage of a device for noise suppression. The low-frequency signal and the high-frequency signal is advantageously provided by a microcontroller which already has an AD converter on the input side. The microcontroller furthermore already makes a PWM output signal with a high bit width available which has the high resolution necessary for driving the loudspeaker.

A semiconductor element 100 including an MISFET according to the present invention is characterized by having diode characteristics in a reverse direction through an epitaxial channel layer 50. The semiconductor element 100 includes a semiconductor layer 20 of a first conductivity type, a body region 30 of a second conductivity type, source and drain regions 40 and 75 of the first conductivity type, an epitaxial channel layer 50 in contact with the body region, source and drain electrodes 45 and 70, a gate insulating film 60, and a gate electrode 65. If the voltage applied to the gate electrode of the MISFET is smaller than a threshold voltage, the semiconductor element 100 functions as a diode in which current flows from the source electrode 45 to the drain electrode 70 through the epitaxial channel layer 50. The absolute value of the turn-on voltage of this diode is smaller than that of the turn-on voltage of a body diode that is formed of the body region and the first silicon carbide semiconductor layer.

A LED current-controlling circuit includes a first magnetic amplifier, a first current detecting circuit, a first magnetic amplifier controller and a first diode. The first magnetic amplifier is connected to an input terminal of the LED current-controlling circuit and the first LED string. The first current detecting circuit is connected to the first LED string in series for detecting the first current flowing through the first LED string. The first magnetic amplifier controller is used for controlling on / off statuses of the first magnetic amplifier. The first diode is connected to an output terminal of the first magnetic amplifier, the first LED string and the first magnetic amplifier controller. The first magnetic amplifier controller controls on / off statuses of the first magnetic amplifier according to the magnitude of the first current, thereby maintaining the first current at a specified DC current level.

A display processor integrated circuit includes a display processor portion and an on-chip programmable logic portion. The programmable logic portion can be configured to implement custom video and / or image enhancement functions. The display processor portion performs block-based motion detection. If no motion is detected for a given block of pixels, then interline gaps in the block are filled using temporal interpolation. If motion is detected, then interline gaps are filled using spatial interpolation. To maintain accuracy without unduly increasing computational complexity, a less complex high angle spatial interpolation method is employed where a low angle tilt condition is not detected. A more computationally intensive low angle spatial interpolation method can therefore be employed in low angle tilt conditions. Integrated circuit cost is reduced by employing pipelining to write parts of segment buffers at the same time that other parts are being read to perform the interpolation process.

A manufacturing method of a circuit substrate includes the following steps. The peripheries of two metal layers are bonded to form a sealed area. At least a through hole passing through the sealed area is formed. Two insulating layers are formed on the two metal layers. Two conductive layers are formed on the two insulating layers. The two insulating layers and the two conductive layers are laminated to the two metal layers bonded to each other, wherein the metal layers are embedded between the two insulating layers, and the two insulating layers fill into the through hole. The sealed area of the two metal layers is separated to form two separated circuit substrates. Therefore, the thinner substrate can be operated in the following steps, such as patterning process or plating process. In addition, the method may be extended to manufacture the circuit substrate with odd-numbered layer or even-numbered layer.

The present invention discloses a power supply circuit for multi-path light-emitting diode (LED) loads. The two ports of the second diode are connected in parallel with the first switch tube, and the two ports of the forth diode are connected in parallel with the second switch tube. The conduction mode of the second and forth diodes is controlled by controlling the switch status of the first and second switch tubes. When the system is on a normal state, the first and second switch tubes are both switched off. When the load output of any path needs to be turned off, the corresponding switch tube should be controlled to switch on, which makes the diode connected in parallel with the switch tube short-circuited. The present invention can avoid a strong impulse current produced in filtering capacitor when the load of any path is directly short-circuited. Therefore, the present invention can reduce the current stress in circuits, improve the reliability of circuits, and reduce the cost.

A LED current-controlling circuit includes a first magnetic amplifier, a first current detecting circuit, a first magnetic amplifier controller and a first diode. The first magnetic amplifier is connected to an input terminal of the LED current-controlling circuit and the first LED string. The first current detecting circuit is connected to the first LED string in series for detecting the first current flowing through the first LED string. The first magnetic amplifier controller is used for controlling on / off statuses of the first magnetic amplifier. The first diode is connected to an output terminal of the first magnetic amplifier, the first LED string and the first magnetic amplifier controller. The first magnetic amplifier controller controls on / off statuses of the first magnetic amplifier according to the magnitude of the first current, thereby maintaining the first current at a specified DC current level.

A power supply circuit for plasma generation by which a large quantity of generated plasma can be smoothly obtained without increasing the sizes of an apparatus, a plasma generating apparatus, a plasma processing apparatus which can process a large quantity of objects to be processed at a low cost by using the plasma generating apparatus, and plasma processed objects having target quantities are realized. An electric discharge generating electrode is composed of two or more first electrodes and one or more second electrodes. An LC series circuit is provided by connecting a capacitor C and a coil L in series between one of outputs of an alternating high voltage generating circuit which generates an alternating high voltage to be applied between the electrodes of electric discharge generating electrode, and the first electrode. When electricity is discharged in one of the electrode pair, voltage drop is suppressed by the coil even when the electric discharge of capacitor progresses, and since electric discharge from the other electrode pair is induced without being disturbed, a large quantity of plasma can be smoothly generated by common use of the alternating high voltage generating circuit.

A power supplying apparatus includes a rectifier and a first electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter. The rectifier receives and rectifies an alternating current (AC) input power for generating a direct current (DC) power. The first EMI filter receives the DC power through a first power input terminal and a first reference input terminal thereof. The first EMI filter filters the DC power for generating a DC output power between a first power output terminal and a first reference output terminal thereof. The first EMI filter includes an inductor module, a first X capacitor, and a first Y capacitor.

A driving circuit of a backlight module is provided. The driving circuit has a dimming unit used for transmitting signals, wherein the dimming unit can adjust a current flowing through a light-emitting diode (LED) according a pulse width modulation signal and an enable signal, so as to adjust a light-emitting intensity of the LED. In the present invention, fewer devices are used to implement the dimming unit, and a transmission gate is replaced by a N-type transistor and a P-type transistor, such that a chip area and a circuit cost of the driving circuit are reduced.

A scan driving circuit and a display device, the display device including display elements two-dimensionally disposed in a matrix; scanning lines, initialization control lines, and display control lines extending in a first direction; and data lines extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The scan driving circuit includes a shift register portion and a logic circuit portion, and generates scan signals and initialization signals, both based on two or more enable signals, and control signals. The scan driving circuit is configured such that changing the width of a start pulse (and thereby the ratio of a light emitting period to a non-light emitting period) does not affect the scan signals or the initialization signals.

The present invention relates to an inverter device including an upper arm switching circuit, a lower arm switching circuit, a control unit that controls the upper arm switching circuit and the lower arm switching circuit, a plurality of voltage-driven switching elements forming the upper arm switching circuit, a plurality of current-driven switching elements forming the lower arm switching circuit, and a bootstrap circuit that applies a driving voltage to the switching elements of the upper arm switching circuit and the lower arm switching circuit. With this configuration, the circuit loss is reduced and thus efficiency is improved.

A first electronic apparatus capable of pairing with a second electronic apparatus for wireless communication includes a light sensor and a processing circuit. The light sensor is used for detecting light emitted by the second electronic apparatus. The processing circuit is coupled the light sensor and used for decoding the detected light to generate decoded pairing data. The first and second electronic apparatuses pair successfully according to the decoded pairing data. The light carrying the pairing data is generated by the second electronic apparatus based on at least one of brightness variation(s), color variation(s), and pattern variation(s).

A digital signal reproducing apparatus includes an analog to digital converter for sampling and quantizing a signal read from an optical recording medium in accordance with a reproduced clock having a frequency which is one-half of a channel bit frequency and outputting an obtained digital RF signal, an offset compensation circuit for reducing an offset component in an amplitude direction from the digital RF signal, and a simplified interpolation filter for reconstructing a signal indicating a predetermined pattern recorded in the optical recording medium from the output signal of the offset compensation circuit and outputting the reconstructed signal. A control operation is performed to reduce the magnitudes of respective values shown by first phase error information on a section with the predetermined pattern and by second phase error information on a section other than the section with the predetermined pattern.

In high-speed mobile environments, the channel is time-varying within an OFDM symbol. This time-varying characteristic will destroy the orthogonality among subcarriers. Thus, the intercarrier interference (ICI) will occur and the system performance will be degraded. An ICI mitigation method for high-speed mobile OFDM systems is proposed, which explores the special structure of the ICI channel matrix and applies the Newton's iterative matrix inversion method. With our formulation, fast Fourier transform (FFT) can be used to reduce the computational complexity. The object of canceling the ICI can be accomplished without the need of any extra circuit.

The invention relates to a method for burning single-chip programs, in particular to a method for performing burning by using a built-in FLASH program memory of a singlechip. The invention provides amethod for simulating EEPROM by using the built-in FLASH program memory of the singlechip, which not only can use the FLASH program memory of the singlechip to perform burning but also causes no influence on the normal working procedure, and comprises the singlechip, the EEPROM, an input / output port and a power supply, wherein the power supply, the input / output port and the EEPROM are connected with the singlechip, and the singlechip is connected with a power supply power failure detection circuit. Because of using the FLASH program memory of the singlechip to perform information storage, themethod for simulating the data storage of the EEPROM by using the built-in FLASH program memory of the singlechip effectively not only reduces the circuit cost, and but also saves the I / O of the singlechip.