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Electric rotary current machine that includes a casing and a stator fitted within the casing. The stator has at least one stator winding. At least two mechanically separate rotors are rotatably mountable within the casing and have a same axis of rotation. In this way, each rotor has electromagnetic interaction with the stator when the stator is electromagnetically active. The rotor speeds are the same or different. A motor control is arranged to control a supply to at least one of said at least one stator winding by superposition of at least two rotary field components, one for each rotor.

A floating point unit capable of executing multiple instructions in a single clock cycle using a central window and a register map is disclosed. The floating point unit comprises: a plurality of translation units, a future file, a central window, a plurality of functional units, a result queue, and a plurality of physical registers. The floating point unit receives speculative instructions, decodes them, and then stores them in the central window. Speculative top of stack values are generated for each instruction during decoding. Top of stack relative operands are computed to physical registers using a register map. Register stack exchange operations are performed during decoding. Instructions are then stored in the central window, which selects the oldest stored instructions to be issued to each functional pipeline and issues them. Conversion units convert the instruction's operands to an internal format, and normalization units detect and normalize any denormal operands. Finally, the functional pipelines execute the instructions.

A versatile communications (comms) apparatus to provide a means to measure the audio (earphone) output of an electronic device (e.g. a music player in a smartphone), and/or to provide a means for wireless communications between a first electronic device (e.g. a smartphone) and a second electronic device (e.g. a hearing aid, pacemaker, etc). In some embodiments, the comms apparatus does not need power and in other embodiments, its power may be harvested from the first electronic device, or drawn from a battery that may be recharged by harvesting means or charged directly. The first electronic device typically includes an audio (earphone) output, a microphone input (with a voltage bias), a long-range communications transceiver (e.g. GSM), and where pertinent, a short-range transceiver (e.g. Bluetooth) and is internet enabled. In one embodiment, the comms apparatus provides a means where the audio output (earphone) of the electronic device is sampled by its microphone input, or by electronics in the comms apparatus. In other embodiments, the comms apparatus is an intermediary communications device between the first electronic device and the second electronic device. The communications therein may be simplex and/or duplex, via either the audio output (earphone), microphone input, short-range transceiver, and/or a combination thereof. The communications data (via the comms apparatus) may be transmitted elsewhere, including via the internet by means of the internet enabled electronic device.

A packet buffer management method and system are provided which enable maximum utilization of the hardware resources of the buffer memory, and which are optimum for the number of preset physical ports in use or for the number of service class (CoS) areas. In the buffer memory management method in a packet transmission/reception device, for storing a received packet in the buffer memory and controlling writing and reading of packets to and from the above buffer memory, the control methods are set in units of the service class contained in the header portion of received packets, and areas allocated to each service class in the buffer memory storing received packets are modified according to the set number of the above service classes.

A low VOC, HAPs free, substantially non-aqueous slurry for use as a rheology modifier in aqueous systems including but not limited to latex paints. The slurry comprises a particulate water-swelling polymer such as hydroxyethyl cellulose, mineral oil carrier liquid, a non-ionic surfactant, a particulate thickening agent, a defoamer, and optionally an amine component.

The invention provides a vehicle constant speed cruise control method. The method comprises the following steps of: transmitting a constant speed cruise request to VCU by a driver by virtue of a button when a vehicle needs to perform constant speed cruise while driving, acquiring the current accelerator pedal position information, brake pedal position information, information whether complete vehicle is in an operating state or not and gear switch position information by VCU, and judging whether the constant speed cruise request transmitted to the VCU by the driver is valid, wherein the constant speed cruise is not performed if the current vehicle state does not meet the set conditions of the constant speed cruise; recording the current vehicle information as a target speed and a target rotating speed of the constant speed cruise by the VCU if the current vehicle state meets the set conditions of the constant speed cruise; and starting the constant speed cruise according to the acquired target speed by the VCU after the driver transmits a command of starting the constant speed cruise to the VCU by the button. According to the vehicle constant speed cruise control method provided by the invention, the fuel injection amount does not need to be accurately controlled like the traditional fuel vehicle, and the torque and rotating speed output of the motor can be accurately controlled by a torque or rotating speed request of the complete controller.

An equalization filter coefficient determinator continuously or quasi-continuously fades between a plurality of different equalizer settings in dependence on one or more setting parameters, to obtain a current set of equalization filter target coefficients describing a current equalizer setting. A number of setting parameters is smaller than a number of equalization filter target coefficients of current set of equalization filter target coefficients.

An equalization filter coefficient determinator linearly combines a plurality of equalization filter target coefficient set components in dependence on one or more setting parameters.

An equalization filter coefficient determinator obtains the current set of equalization filter target coefficients in dependence on position information obtained using a two-dimensional or three-dimensional user input device.

An apparatus includes a user interface, an equalization filter coefficient determinator and an equalizer. An equalization filter coefficient processor may provide sets of basis equalization filter target coefficients. A system may use an equalization filter coefficient processor and an equalization filter coefficient determinator.

A system for controlling functions of a vehicle by speech is disclosed. The system includes a mobile terminal of a network, speech processor for converting recorded speech into digital characters, and a vehicle-based interface. The mobile network terminal includes a microphone for recording a user's speech, and a terminal interface for communication with the vehicle-based interface. The vehicle-based interface is connected to a subsystem of the vehicle for controlling it based on messages received from the mobile network terminal. The mobile network terminal is adapted to process a string of digital characters derived from the user's speech into a message and to transmit said message to the vehicle-based interface.

Disclosed is an antenna controller of a digital television receiver and a controlling method thereof including an antenna receiving channel signals of digital television broadcasting and having a directionality dependent on a control signal, a signal processing part tuning a wanted channel signal from the channel signals and processing the tuned channel signal as a wanted form, a detection part detecting state signals of the channel signal outputted from the signal processing part, a memory, when every new state signal is detected, storing the detected new state signal sorted with previously-detected state signals, a control part producing the control signal corresponding to an optimal direction of the antenna by comparing the new state signal to the previous state signals, and an interface part providing the antenna with the control signal, thereby enabling to increase the integration of the receiver.

A fiber optic plug assembly of a fiber optic connector assembly is provided and generally includes a fiber optic plug mounted upon an end of a fiber optic cable; a pre-molded boot placed over the fiber optic plug and the fiber optic cable; and a crimp band mated over the pre-molded boot to secure the boot to the fiber optic cable; wherein the fiber optic plug assembly is operable to mate to a fiber optic receptacle. The plug assembly eliminates the need for an overmolded boot. Further, the present invention eliminates the need to perform a heat shrink between the buffer tube and crimp body through the internal O-ring. The plug assembly meets the standards of GR-3120-CORE while at the same time providing a simpler hardware package that can be assembled with ordinary connectorization tools.

A floating point unit capable of executing multiple instructions in a single clock cycle using a central window and a register map is disclosed. The floating point unit comprises: a plurality of translation units, a future file, a central window, a plurality of functional units, a result queue, and a plurality of physical registers. The floating point unit receives speculative instructions, decodes them, and then stores them in the central window. Speculative top of stack values are generated for each instruction during decoding. Top of stack relative operands are computed to physical registers using a register map. Register stack exchange operations are performed during decoding. Instructions are then stored in the central window, which selects the oldest stored instructions to be issued to each functional pipeline and issues them. Conversion units convert the instruction's operands to an internal format, and normalization units detect and normalize any denormal operands. Finally, the functional pipelines execute the instructions.

A display device of the invention includes horizontal lines, longitudinal lines, electron emission elements, and a scanning circuit which performs the selection of the horizontal lines. The scanning circuit includes a non-selection voltage switch, a correction selection voltage switch, and an output voltage detection switch for the selected horizontal line for every horizontal line. The display device also includes a differential amplifier which is connected to a correction selection voltage input line, a horizontal line selection voltage line, and a correction selection voltage output line for every plurality of horizontal lines. The invention can suppress a voltage drop of the horizontal lines and, at the same time, can suppress the brightness irregularities of the display device.

A quadratic permutation polynomial (QPP) interleaver is described for turbo coding and decoding. The QPP interleaver has the form:

Π(n)=f₁n+f₂n² mod K,

where the QPP coefficients f₁ and f₂. are designed to provide good error performance for a given block length K.

Monitoring device is composed of resistance divider circuit, multiway switch circuit, difference operational amplification circuit, A/D conversion circuit, single chip and CAN communication circuit connected in sequence and communication interface to main controller of fuel cell. The device is capable of monitoring voltages of 59 single cells in fuel cell pile. Combining multiple disclosed monitoring devices with communication between main controller and each equipment realized through CAN network can monitor more cells. Features are: small size, low cost, easy of expansion, high measuring accuracy (maximum absolute error less than 0.08V) and quick measuring speed (time for measuring 59 single cell is less than 0.05 second).

A method and apparatus for conducting the rapid pyrolysis of peptides, proteins, polymers, and biological materials. The method can be carried out at atmospheric pressures and takes only about 5 to 30 seconds. The samples are cleaved at the C-terminus of aspartic acid. The apparatus employs a probe on which the sample is heated and digested components analyzed.

The invention discloses a table tennis action recognition method and system based on posture segmentation and key point features. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining a video of shooting a ball receiving and serving action of a table tennis player during training; segmenting a video frame image only containing the arm region from the video; skeleton joint point estimation of the armarea is carried out on the video frame images only containing the arm area, and acquiring arm skeleton key point information in each video frame image; according to the skeleton key point informationin each video frame image, obtaining spatial structure features and time sequence features of skeleton key points in each frame; recognizing and classifying the ball receiving and serving actions ofthe athlete according to the spatial structure characteristics and the time sequence characteristics of the skeleton key points. According to the method, the spatial-temporal relationship of the ballreceiving and serving actions is analyzed, the spatial-temporal characteristics are established, and the action recognition accuracy is improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of avionics, and specifically relates to an FPGA-based ARINC818 bus analysis and test apparatus; the analysis and test apparatus is mainly applied to an avionics digital video transmission system and capable of realizing simulation testing and debugging analysis on ARINC818 bus equipment. Compared with the prior art, the FPGA-based ARINC818 bus analysis and test apparatus has the following advantages: (1) the FPGA-based ARINC818 bus analysis and test apparatus can output FC (fiber channel) video stream meeting the ARINC818 standard according to an interface control protocol,and the FC video stream is used as a test source of ARINC818 bus receiving products; (2) the FPGA-based ARINC818 bus analysis and test apparatus can receive and store the ARINC818 video stream in the FC for realizing protocol conformity analysis on video transmission products of the ARINC818 bus interface; and (3) the FPGA-based ARINC818 bus analysis and test apparatus can realize the substantialization of main logics through protocol processing by the field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Therefore, the FPGA-based ARINC818 bus analysis and test apparatus has the characteristics of simple hardware, high integration level, low cost, high expandability and the like.

A hybrid-type storage system having both SAN and NAS interfaces can be implemented by simple hardware capable of carrying out a SAN function independently of a NAS function and a NAS load. To be more specific, a controller of the storage system comprises a NAS controller for accepting an I/O command issued for a file unit and a SAN controller for accepting an I/O command issued for a block unit. The NAS controller converts an I/O command issued for a file unit into an I/O command issued for a block unit, and transfers the I/O command issued for a block unit to the SAN controller. The SAN controller makes an access to data stored in a disk apparatus in accordance with an I/O command received from the SAN or from the NAS controller as a command issued for a block unit. The NAS and SAN controllers are capable of operating independently of each other.

The invention discloses a terminal device for a track record. The terminal device comprises a sensing module, an intelligent processing module and a display module, wherein the intelligent processing module is connected with the sensing module; the sensing module is used for sensing a moving track of the terminal device; the intelligent processing module is used for starting the sensing module and generating a track record of the terminal device according to the moving track sensed by the sensing module; and the display module is used for displaying the track record. According to the terminal device provided by the invention, the sensing module is used for realizing an automatic track recording and positioning function; the positioning function is realized without utilizing a GPS (Global Positioning System) signal sent back by a satellite or any other wireless mobile network; accurate positioning is supplied to a user; the hardware is simple; the cost is low; the real-time control is more easily realized; and no any blind spot area exists.

A method and apparatus for conducting the rapid pyrolysis of peptides, proteins, polymers, and biological materials. The method can be carried out at atmospheric pressures and takes only about 5 to 30 seconds. The samples are cleaved at the C-terminus of aspartic acid. The apparatus employs a probe on which the sample is heated and digested components analyzed.

A network remote control method comprises a butt joint step and a remote control step. The butt joint step comprises the stages that after wireless communication modules in controlled ends are started, communication connection of the wireless communication modules and the controlled ends is established through the method that authentication identification is input; the authentication identification is sent to the controlled ends through a remote control end, unique identification codes of the controlled ends are sent to the remote control end through the controlled ends; the unique identification codes of the controlled ends are stored by the remote control end; communication connection of the internal wireless communication modules and the remote control end is broken through the controlled ends, the controlled ends are connected to a remote server through an external network, and the unique identification codes and the authentication identification are stored into the remote server. The remote control step comprises the stages that the controlled ends are in communication connection with the remote server through the unique identification codes and the authentication identification; the remote control end is in wireless connection with the remote server and controls the corresponding controlled ends through the stored unique identification codes. According to the method, control connection between the remote control end and the controlled ends is achieved through the unique identification codes, namely the authentication identification, so that different controlled ends are controlled by the same remote control end, and the number of remote control units is reduced.

The invention discloses a modulation method and a modulation controller for a modular multi-level converter. The modulation method comprises the following steps: calculating the number njp of first sub-modules and the number of njn second sub-modules needing to be input by an upper bridge arm and a lower bridge arm respectively at each current moment according to an output voltage command value of the modular multi-level converter; selecting one of the sub-modules of the upper bridge arm to perform PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation); selecting one of the sub-modules of the lower bridge arm to perform PWM; inputting njp sub-modules of the upper bridge arm in each phase and njn-1 sub-modules of the lower bridge arm; keeping the sub-module performing PWM of the upper bridge arm and the sub-modules performing PWM of the lower bridge arm in an output complementation working state. On the basis of the modulation method and the modulation controller, efficient and accurate voltage output can be realized on a medium-voltage electric energy converting occasion with a small quantity of levels, thereby effectively improving the working performance of the modular multi-level converter.