1491 results about "Beam direction" patented technology

Apparatuses and methods for maintaining an optimal beam direction in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for operating a receiving node in a wireless communication system includes, determining a first transmission beam is determined as a preferred transmission beam using a plurality of reference signals transmitted by a transmitting node, generating preferred transmission beam information, transmitting the preferred transmission beam information to the transmitting node, receiving transmissions from the transmitting node via the first transmission beam, and determining whether a change of a transmission beam is necessary. When the change of the transmission beam is determined to be necessary, generating a beam change request and transmitting the beam change request to the transmitting node.

To retain a beam direction of beamforming in a wireless communication system, an apparatus for the beamforming includes a detector for measuring change of at least one of a movement and a motion of the apparatus; and a processor for determining a beam control parameter for aligning a beam direction with a counterpart apparatus by compensating for the change of the beam direction according to at least one of the movement and the motion.

The present invention provides radiation detectors and methods, including radiation detection devices having beam-oriented scintillators capable of high-performance, high resolution imaging, methods of fabricating scintillators, and methods of radiation detection. A radiation detection device includes a beam-oriented pixellated scintillator disposed on a substrate, the scintillator having a first pixel having a first pixel axis and a second pixel having a second pixel axis, wherein the first and second axes are at an angle relative to each other, and wherein each axis is substantially parallel to a predetermined beam direction for illuminating the corresponding pixel.

A channel response matrix is obtained by performing a training process between a transmitter 401 and a receiver 402 to obtain optimal signal phases of the antenna array. Next, a singular-value decomposition (SVD) process is performed to decompose the channel response matrix into a correlation matrix and eigenvalues. Next, a diagonal matrix having square roots of the eigenvalues as its components is obtained. Next, all but one of diagonal components included in the diagonal matrix are replaced with zeros, and optimal setting of the amplitudes and phases of signals to be applied to the antenna array (antenna weight vector) for use in wireless communication between the transmitter and the receiver is obtained based on a channel response matrix that is reconstructed by using the component-replaced diagonal matrix. In this way, when wireless communication is implemented by performing beam forming, the time necessary to find and set a beam direction can be reduced.

An antenna comprising an IMD element, and one or more parasitic and active tuning elements is disclosed. The IMD element, when used in combination with the active tuning and parasitic elements, allows antenna operation at multiple resonant frequencies. In addition, the direction of antenna radiation pattern may be arbitrarily rotated in accordance with the parasitic and active tuning elements.

According to one embodiment, an apparatus for beamforming includes a detector for measuring at least one change of movement and rotation of an apparatus; and a calculator for determining a beamforming parameter for aligning a beam direction with another apparatus by compensating for the change of the beam direction according to at least one of the movement and the rotation.

An automated system and method of geometric 3D point location. The invention teaches a system design for translating a CAD model into real spatial locations at a construction site, interior environment, or other workspace. Specified points are materialized by intersecting two visible pencil light beams there, each beam under the control of its own robotic ray-steering beam source. Practicability requires each beam source to know its precise location and rotational orientation in the CAD-based coordinate system. As an enabling sub-invention, therefore, an automated system and method for self-location and self-orientation of a polar-angle-sensing device is specified, based on its observation of three (3) known reference points. Two such devices, under the control of a handheld unit downloaded with the CAD model or pointlist, are sufficient to orchestrate the arbitrary point location of the invention, by the following method: Three CAD-specified reference points are optically defined by emplacing a spot retroreflector at each. The user then situates the two beam source devices at unspecified locations and orientations. The user then trains each beam source on each reference point, enabling the beam source to compute its location and orientation, using the algorithm of the sub-invention. The user then may select a CAD-specified design point using the handheld controller, and in response, the handheld instructs the two beam sources to radiate toward the currently selected point P. Each beam source independently transforms P into a direction vector from self, applies a 3×3 matrix rotator that corrects for its arbitrary rotational orientation, and instructs its robotics to assume the resultant beam direction. In consummation of the inventive thread, the pair of light beams form an intersection at the specified point P, giving the worker visual cues to precisely position materials there. This design posits significant ease-of-use advantages over construction point location using a single-beam total station. The invention locates the point effortlessly and with dispatch compared to the total station method of iterative manual search maneuvering a prism into place. Speed enables building features on top of point location, such as metered plumb and edge traversal, and graphical point selection. The invention eliminates the need for a receiving device to occupy space at the specified point, leaving it free to be occupied by building materials. The invention's beam intersection creates a pattern of instantaneous visual feedback signifying correct emplacement of such building materials. Unlike surveying instruments, the invention's freedom to situate its two ray-steering devices at arbitrary locations and orientations, and its reliance instead on the staking of 3 reference points, eliminates the need for specialized surveying skill to set up and operate the system, widening access to builders, engineers, and craftspeople.

A communication system is described. The system includes: at least one gateway able to provide broadband connectivity, a set of ground terminals, and a set of aerial platforms, where at least one aerial platform is able to communicate with at least one gateway using radio frequencies, each aerial platform is able to communicate with ground terminals using radio frequencies, and each aerial platform is able to communicate with each other aerial platform using radio frequencies. An automated method for determining a beam direction for communication among UAVs includes: dividing a space around the UAV into multiple sub-regions, and, iteratively: selecting a sub-region from among the multiple sub-regions; pointing a signal toward the sub-region; and determining whether a signal is received from another UAV, until all sub-regions from among the multiple sub-regions have been selected.

The invention discloses a multi-speaker speech separation method and system. The method comprises the following steps : acquiring mixed voice signals, obtaining multichannel multi-speaker mixed voicesignals, and scanning the multi-channel multi-speaker mixed voice signals to obtain MUSIC energy spectra; obtaining S peak values from the MUSIC energy spectra, wherein each peak value corresponds toa beam direction; respectively enhancing S beams to obtain mixed voice in S directions; performing short-time Fourier transform on the mixed voice corresponding to each direction to obtain short-timeFourier amplitude spectra of the S target speaker voice, and respectively inputting the short-time Fourier amplitude spectra into a depth neural network to estimate a phase sensing mask correspondingto each target speaker; and performing element-by-element multiplication between the phase sensing mask of each target speaker and amplitude spectra of the corresponding mixed speech to obtain the amplitude spectrum of the target speaker, and the time domain signal of the target speaker is recovered by inverse short-time Fourier transform using the phase spectrum of the corresponding mixed speech.

An antenna array system comprising a plurality of antenna elements organized in an array and configured to form a non-planar shaped antenna array surface. The antenna array system further comprises switching circuitry configured to switch each of the plurality of antenna elements on or off based on control signals. In one embodiment, the antenna array system is configured such that the antenna beam direction can be steered in a first direction by switching on a first set of antenna elements, and the antenna beam direction can be steered in a second direction by switching on a second set of antenna elements. In one embodiment, the second set of antenna elements can include one or more antenna elements from the first set of antenna elements, or the second set of antenna elements may not include any antenna elements from the first set.

A vapor-depositing mask is disposed adjacent a surface of a substrate disposed in a vacuum chamber, vapor-depositing beams containing an organic EL material are generated by a vapor-depositing beam generator, the vapor-depositing beams pass through openings in the vapor-depositing mask, and the organic EL material is vapor-deposited in a predetermined region on the surface of the substrate. The vapor-depositing beams are guided through a plurality of vapor-depositing beam passing pipes provided in the vapor-depositing beam generator. Alternatively, the vapor-depositing beams generated by the vapor-depositing beam generator are guided through a vapor-depositing beam direction adjusting board having a plurality of vapor-depositing beam passing holes. This enhances directional uniformity of the vapor-depositing beams, thereby enabling making each film thickness of organic EL material layers uniform and thus enhancing precision of forming patterns of the layers.

A displacement measurement method for achieving, at each position of interest, high accuracy measurement of a displacement, a velocity and a strain in an actually generated beam direction by measuring the beam direction angle from ultrasound echo data. The method includes the steps of: generating an ultrasound echo data frame through scanning an object in a lateral direction with an ultrasound steered beam having one steering angle; calculating both a beam direction and a frequency in the beam direction based on an azimuth angle φ=tan⁻¹(fy/fx), a polar angle θ=cos⁻¹[fz/(fx²+fy²+fz²)^1/2], and a frequency (fx²+fy²+fz²)^1/2 in the case where first spectral moments calculated from local ultrasound echo data at plural different temporal phases are expressed by a three-dimensional frequency vector (fx, fy, fz); and calculating a displacement component in the beam direction at each position of interest generated between plural different temporal phases.

Methods and instruments for suppression of multiple scattering noise and extraction of nonlinear scattering components with measurement or imaging of a region of an object with elastic waves, where elastic wave pulse complexes are transmitted towards said region where said pulse complexes are composed of a high frequency (HF) and a low frequency (LF) pulse with the same or overlapping beam directions and where the HF pulse is so close to the LF pulse that it observes the modification of the object by the LF pulse at least for a part of the image depth. The frequency and/or amplitude and/or phase of said LF pulse relative to said HF pulse varies for transmitted pulse complexes in order to nonlinearly manipulate the object elasticity observed by the HF pulse along at least parts of its propagation, and where received HF signals are picked up by transducers from one or both of scattered and transmitted components of the transmitted HF pulses. Said received HF signals are processed to form measurement or image signals for display, and where in the process of forming said measurement or image signals said received HF signals are one or both of delay corrected with correction delay in the fast time (depth-time), and pulse distortion corrected in the fast time, and combined in slow time to form noise suppressed HF signals or nonlinear scattering HF signals that are used for further processing to form measurement or image signals. The methods are applicable to elastic waves where the material elasticity is nonlinear in relation to the material deformation.

The invention discloses a wave beam alignment method, device and system for a millimeter wave communication system. The wave beam alignment device is provided with a high-gain narrow-wave-beam directional antenna and a low-gain wide-wave-beam directional antenna, and comprises a link establishment module and a wave beam alignment module, wherein the link establishment module for establishing a control signaling link with an opposite terminal through the low-gain wide-wave-beam directional antenna, and the wave beam alignment module is used for interacting channel quality information in the different narrow-wave-beam directions with the opposite terminal through the control signaling link and performing wave beam alignment of the high-gain narrow-wave-beam directional antenna with the opposite terminal. If the device serves as a transmitting device, the opposite terminal serves as a receiving device; or if the device serves as the receiving device, the opposite terminal serves as the transmitting device. The system comprises the transmitting device and the receiving device. The wave beam alignment method, device and system can ensure continuity of a link between the transmitting device and the receiving device during wave beam direction scanning, meanwhile the total scanning times is decreased from N2 to 2N, and the time for establishing data transmission connection is greatly shortened.

The invention discloses a large-scale MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) antenna array far field calibration system. The calibration accuracy of a wave beam direction error caused by an array element position error and an amplitude phase error in an antenna array under test can be effectively increased by the calibration system. The calibration system is implemented by the following technical scheme: a server control device controls the relative position between the antenna array under test and a beacon antenna, and changes a wave beam incident angle from a transmitting beacon antenna to areceiving antenna array under test or a wave beam departure angle from a transmitting antenna array under test to a receiving beacon antenna; a phased array wave control device controls all phase shifters, attenuators, switches and digital weighting of a feed network of the antenna array under test; a data transmitting and acquiring device controls digital signals transmitted by the transmitting antenna array under test and the transmitting beacon antenna, and acquires digital signals received by the receiving antenna array under test and the receiving beacon antenna; and the array element positioning error and the amplitude phase error of the antenna array under test are calculated on the basis of a digital domain signal processing algorithm, and a calibration result of the antenna arrayunder test is output.