38 results about "Partial AV block" patented technology

The present invention relates to a low density parity check (LDPC) encoding method and an apparatus thereof. In the LDPC encoding method, a matrix multiplication corresponding to ET−1 and T−1 is eliminated according to a structural characteristic in an encoding process. Accordingly, shift weights that are not −1 among shift weights corresponding to partial blocks A, B, and C of a parity check matrix are used to perform an encoding operation, and a cyclic shift operation of an information unit block is performed in parallel so that a first parity block and a second parity block may be simultaneously generated.

The invention relates to the field of video compression and, more specifically, to a video encoding method applied to an input sequence of frames in which each frame is subdivided into blocks of arbitrary size. This method comprises, for at least a part of the blocks of the current frame, the steps of: generating on a block basis motion-compensated frames obtained from each current original frame and a previous reconstructed frame; generating the said motion-compensated frames residual signals; using a matching pursuit algorithm for decomposing each of the generated residual signals into coded dictionary functions called atoms, the other blocks of the current frame being processed by means of other coding techniques; coding said atoms and the motion vectors determined during the motion compensation step, for generating an output coded bitstream; said method being such that any atom acts only on one block B at a time, said block-restriction leading to the fact that the reconstruction of a residual signal f is obtained from a dictionary that is composed of basis functions gγnæBrestricted to the block B corresponding to the indexing parameter γn, according to the following 2D spatial domain operation: gγnæB(i,j)=gγn(i,j) if pixel (i,j)εB; gγnæB(i,j)=0 otherwise (i.e. (i,j)∉B).

Described are techniques for managing a sequential stream in a data storage system. A front-end component receives a plurality of data operations for a plurality of data portions and determines that the plurality of data portions are associated with a sequential stream. Each of the plurality of data portions of the sequential stream is associated with a sequential stream identifier, and a position indicator uniquely identifying a position of said each data portion in said sequential stream. Each of the plurality of data portions that is prefetched is associated with a remaining prefetched identifier and included in a prefetched chunk of data portions. The front-end component uses information about said sequential stream in connection with managing said sequential stream. The information includes the sequential stream identifier, one or more position indicators, and one or more remaining prefetched identifiers.

A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device and a memory controller is provided. The nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of blocks. The memory controller is configured to detect, upon receiving a power-on signal, a partial block among the plurality of blocks. The partial block includes a first page incompletely programmed due to sudden power-off occurred to the storage device. The memory controller determines whether or not to perform a dummy program operation on the partial block, and programs a second page of the partial bock with dummy data. The first page is different from the second page.

A method and system for protecting a memory having a plurality of blocks from modification is disclosed. The method and system include providing a plurality of one time programmable (OTP) cells and OTP cell logic coupled with the OTP cells. An OTP cell of the plurality of OTP cells corresponds to a portion of a block of the plurality of blocks. The OTP cell allows modification of the portion of the block when the OTP cell is in a first state and permanently prevents modification of the portion of the block when the OTP cell is in a second state. The OTP cell logic uses the plurality of OTP cells to select the portion of the block as corresponding to the OTP cell. This portion of the block is write protected when the OTP cell is placed in the second state.

The invention provides a method and system for increasing the lifespan of a flash memory device by selectively erasing sub-blocks of a memory block. Each physical memory block of the flash memory device is dividable into at least two logical sub-blocks, where each of the at least two logical sub-blocks is erasable. Therefore, only the data of the logical sub-block is erased and reprogrammed whileunmodified data in the other logical sub-block avoids unnecessary program / erase cycles. The logical sub-blocks to be erased are dynamically configurable in size and location within the block. A wear leveling algorithm is used for distributing data throughout the physical and logical sub-blocks of the memory array to maximize the lifespan of the physical blocks during programming and data modification operations.

A file server has a data compression facility and also a snapshot copy facility or a data de-duplication facility that shares data blocks among files. Compression of the file data on a file system block basis leads to a problem of partially used file system data blocks when the data blocks are shared among files. This problem is solved by partial block allocation so that file system data blocks are shared among files that do not share identical data. Block pointers in the file mapping metadata point to virtual blocks representing the compressed data blocks, and associated virtual block metadata identifies portions of file system data blocks that store the compressed data. For example, a portion of a file system data block is identified by a sector bitmap, and the virtual block metadata also includes a reference count to indicate sharing of a compressed data block among files.

A method for managing a memory apparatus including at least one non-volatile (NV) memory element includes: recording usage information of at least one block during accessing pages of the block; and determining whether to erase a portion of the blocks according to the usage information. For example, the usage information includes a valid page count table for recording valid page counts of the blocks, respectively; and the ranking of a field of the valid page count table represents a physical block address, and the content of the field represents an associated valid page count. In another example, the usage information includes an invalid page count table for recording invalid page counts of the blocks, respectively; and the ranking of a field of the invalid page count table represents a physical block address, and the content of the field represents an associated invalid page count.

To provide an instrument for fabricating a prepared slide of a tissue section and a sectioning method capable of easily changing a direction of a cut face relative to a cut blade while observing the cut face of an embedding block and capable of increasing an efficiency of a rough cutting operation by specifying a section face by an inconsiderable burden regardless of skill of an operator, an instrument for fabricating a prepared slide of a tissue section includes a cut blade moving along one imaginary plane, a collimated on axis illuminating system having an optical axis in parallel with Z axis orthogonal to the one imaginary plane, an observing system having an image taking portion arranged with an image taking element, not illustrated, having an image taking axis the same as the optical axis and a display portion for displaying an image based on an image taking data acquired by the image taking portion, a base portion including a support base (support portion) for mounting an embedding block, a pivoting mechanism for pivoting the support base around respective axes of X, Y axes, and a straight advancing mechanism for moving the support base in a direction of Z axis, and a joy stick (pivoting operating portion) for operating the pivoting mechanism.

To provide a display device capable of displaying a moving picture with high definition and at high speed. An image display system includes: an image display unit; and a control unit. The control unit has: a block discrimination circuit portion; an image processing portion; a storage portion; and a synchronizing signal generation portion. The block discrimination circuit portion discriminates a moving picture or a still picture to process the image information in accordance with the discriminated result, in which the number of gradations for the image information processed when the discriminated result is the moving picture is lower than when the discriminated result is the still picture. Thereby, the high definition image display and the high speed moving picture display can be effected by reducing the information with lower degree of recognition.

A non-volatile memory system utilizes partial block erasing during program operations to mitigate the effects of programming pass voltage disturbances. A programming request is received that is associated with a group of word lines from a block, such as all or a portion of the word lines. The system erases and soft programs the block prior to beginning programming. The system programs a subset of the word lines of the block for the programming request. After programming the subset of word lines, the system pauses the programming operation and performs an erase operation for the unprogrammed word lines of the block. The already programmed word lines and one or more optional buffer word lines may be inhibited from erasing during the erase operation. After erasing the unprogrammed word lines, the system completes the programming request by programming the remaining user data in the unprogrammed region of the block.

A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cell array blocks each including a plurality of partial blocks, a plurality of global word lines, and odd-numbered and even-numbered sub word lines corresponding to each of the plurality of the global word lines, the odd-numbered sub word lines of each of odd-numbered partial blocks among the plurality of the partial blocks, respectively, connected to the odd-numbered sub word lines of each of the previous neighboring partial blocks, the even-numbered sub word lines of each of the odd-numbered partial blocks among the plurality of the partial blocks, respectively, connected to the even-numbered sub word lines of each of the next neighboring partial blocks, the odd-numbered sub word lines of each of even-numbered partial blocks among the plurality of the partial blocks, respectively, connected to the odd-numbered sub word lines of each of the next neighboring partial blocks, the even-numbered sub word lines of each of the even-numbered partial blocks among the plurality of the partial blocks, respectively, connected to the even-numbered sub word lines of each of the previous neighboring partial blocks; and a control means for selecting sub word lines of a corresponding partial block and sub word lines of a neighboring partial block connected to the sub word lines of the corresponding partial block when the corresponding partial block is selected in response to externally applied row and column address.

A method for encoding image signal, according to the present invention, can: encode a partial block coefficient flag indicating whether a coefficient of a current partial block is a non-zero coefficient; encode a first flag indicating whether an absolute value of the coefficient is greater than 1, encode a second flag indicating whether the absolute value of the coefficient is greater than 2; encode the residual coefficients, which have not been encoded, on the basis of the first flag or the second flag in the current partial block; and encode a code for the coefficient of the current partial block.

A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device and a memory controller is provided. The nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of blocks. The memory controller is configured to detect, upon receiving a power-on signal, a partial block among the plurality of blocks. The partial block includes a first page incompletely programmed due to sudden power-off occurred to the storage device. The memory controller determines whether or not to perform a dummy program operation on the partial block, and programs a second page of the partial bock with dummy data. The first page is different from the second page.

Embodiments may include receiving a protected version of content that includes multiple encryption chains each including encrypted blocks of content. The protected version of content may include one or more initialization vectors for decrypting the encrypted blocks of content and discard information that specifies non-content portions of one or more data blocks to be discarded after decryption. Embodiments may also include performing chained decryption on the multiple encryption chains using the initialization vectors specified by the decryption information. The chained decryption may result in a sequence of decrypted data blocks. Embodiments may also include, based on the discard information, locating and removing the non-content portions of one or more data blocks in the sequence of decrypted data blocks. Embodiments may also include generating the protected version of content. Embodiments may also include performing any of the aforesaid techniques on one or more computers.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for efficient adaptive parallel data clustering for loading data into a table by generating a hint-key for each of one or more records in the input data stream, ordering the one or more records in a first-level clustering agent to generate one or more record lists ordered by hint-key. The apparatus, system, and method simultaneously processes one or more record lists in a second-level clustering agent, outputs the one or more records of the one or more record lists clustered by the hint-key of the one or more records, stores, in a partial block cache, a plurality of partial blocks that are output by the second-level clustering agent, and stores, in a partial page cache, a plurality of last partial pages of the partial blocks that have been victimized from the partial block cache.

A method and system for protecting a memory having a plurality of blocks from modification is disclosed. The method and system include providing a plurality of one time programmable (OTP) cells and OTP cell logic coupled with the OTP cells. An OTP cell of the plurality of OTP cells corresponds to a portion of a block of the plurality of blocks. The OTP cell allows modification of the portion of the block when the OTP cell is in a first state and permanently prevents modification of the portion of the block when the OTP cell is in a second state. The OTP cell logic uses the plurality of OTP cells to select the portion of the block as corresponding to the OTP cell. This portion of the block is write protected when the OTP cell is placed in the second state.

Methods, systems and apparatus for performing a biological process are provided, wherein the method comprises implementation of at least one unit operation, and wherein the unit operation is defined according to a standardised element structure, the element structure comprising a plurality of functional section blocks, and wherein the section blocks comprise at least one of the group consisting of: imports; parameters; data; physical inputs; requirements; setup; and execution steps.

A system and associated method load an input data stream into a multi-dimensional clustering (MDC) table or other structure containing data clustered along one or more dimensions, by assembling blocks of data in a partial block cache in which each partial block is associated with a distinct logical cell. A minimum threshold number of partial blocks may be maintained. Partial blocks may be spilled from the partial block cache to make room for new logical cells. Last partial pages of spilled partial blocks may be stored in a partial page cache to limit I / O if the cell associated with a spilled block is encountered later in the input data stream. Buffers may be reassigned from the partial block cache to the partial page cache if the latter is filled. Parallelism may be employed for efficiency during sorting of input data subsets and during storage of blocks to secondary storage.

A method for the dynamic management at a read-write memory which permits the storage and removal of objects of different sizes. The method comprises subdividing the read-write memory into memory blocks of a defined size and associating a memory management system with the read-write memory that stores objects according to at least two different methods or storage, either as a contiguous block composed or partial blocks, or as a block composed of distributedly arranged partial blocks. The choice of the respective storage method is based conditions given in advance, depending on the size of the free memory in relation to the size of the objects, such that, when the free memory is larger or equal to the size of the object that is to be stored, the object is stored contiguously, otherwise the object in stored distributedly.

The invention provides a stator of single phase direct current motor for fan, a single phase direct current motor and a fan. The stator of single phase direct current motor for fan comprises multiple tooth segments each of which comprises tooth block and pole piece which connects in radial inner side of the tooth block, multiple tooth segments being successively arranged into a ring in the circumferential direction, multiple yoke components which can form a ring by connecting end to end in the circumferential direction (wherein multiple yoke segments include multiple first yoke segments which connect correspondingly with multiple tooth segments and second yoke components which are located between two adjacent first yoke components), single phase windings which are separately winded on multiple tooth blocks and contain first terminal and second terminal suitable to connect with external power. Design pursuant to the segmenting structure of stator in the example of the present invention offers convenience in winding and improves efficiency.

Disclosed herein is a recliner for a vehicle seat including an external gear bracket having an external gear, an internal gear bracket having an internal gear, a socket provided with a socket protrusion and an operation protrusion, a cam sleeve configured to surround a central protrusion, and a pair of wedge blocks configured to surround of an outer peripheral surface the central protrusion, wherein a protrusion portion is formed from the cam sleeve toward each of the wedge blocks and a groove portion in which the protrusion portion is moved during operation of the wedge block is formed at an end portion of the wedge block. Accordingly, it may possible to obtain uniform actuation force by configuring the recliner such that a gap is always present between the pressed wedge block and the bush.

Disclosed herein is a recliner for a vehicle seat including an external gear bracket having an external gear, an internal gear bracket having an internal gear, a socket provided with a socket protrusion and an operation protrusion, a cam sleeve configured to surround a central protrusion, and a pair of wedge blocks configured to surround of an outer peripheral surface the central protrusion, wherein a protrusion portion is formed from the cam sleeve toward each of the wedge blocks and a groove portion in which the protrusion portion is moved during operation of the wedge block is formed at an end portion of the wedge block. Accordingly, it may possible to obtain uniform actuation force by configuring the recliner such that a gap is always present between the pressed wedge block and the bush.

A method for managing a memory apparatus including at least one non-volatile (NV) memory element includes: recording usage information of at least one block during accessing pages of the block; and determining whether to erase a portion of the blocks according to the usage information. For example, the usage information includes a valid page count table for recording valid page counts of the blocks, respectively; and the ranking of a field of the valid page count table represents a physical block address, and the content of the field represents an associated valid page count. In another example, the usage information includes an invalid page count table for recording invalid page counts of the blocks, respectively; and the ranking of a field of the invalid page count table represents a physical block address, and the content of the field represents an associated invalid page count.

An encoding method and device are provided for a series of data packets transmitted in the framework of a combined streaming and downloading application by a two-stage error protection process and only one unidirectional transmission channel. A partial block of successive data packets is protected against some transmission errors occurring during streaming with the aid of a first error protection process while all data packets are protected against the transmission errors that can remain after streaming is completed with the aid of a second error protection process. In a decoding process, a series of data packets that are encoded according to the encoding are decoded.

The invention relates to a heat exchanger, particularly a radiator for a heating or air conditioning unit in motor vehicles, which cools a coolant. Said heat exchanger (1) is penetrated by air, comprises collector pipes (S1, S2, S2, S4) and several essentially horizontally disposed pipes (5), and is divided into several partial blocks (T1, T2, T3, T4). The surfaces of the inventive partial blocks are selected according to the dimensions of structural space-related zones having different air temperatures inside the assembly space of the heat exchanger, the partial block which is first penetrated by the coolant being arranged within a structural space-related zone having a higher air temperature, preferably within the zone having the highest air temperature.

A file server has a data compression facility and also a snapshot copy facility or a data de-duplication facility that shares data blocks among files. Compression of the file data on a file system block basis leads to a problem of partially used file system data blocks when the data blocks are shared among files. This problem is solved by partial block allocation so that file system data blocks are shared among files that do not share identical data. Block pointers in the file mapping metadata point to virtual blocks representing the compressed data blocks, and associated virtual block metadata identifies portions of file system data blocks that store the compressed data. For example, a portion of a file system data block is identified by a sector bitmap, and the virtual block metadata also includes a reference count to indicate sharing of a compressed data block among files.

Tire (1) comprising a directional tread (2) comprising a plurality of blocks (5), all or some of the blocks (5) comprising a median sipe (10) of length S, the tread being made up of a first rubber composition based on a diene elastomer, a reinforcing inorganic filler and a plasticizing system, wherein the first rubber composition has a glass transition temperature of between −40° C. and −15° C. and a shear modulus G* measured at 60° C. of between 0.5 MPa and 1.1 MPa, the tire comprising an intermediate layer that is situated under the tread and is in contact with a radially inner face of this tread, the intermediate layer comprising a second rubber composition having: hysteresis losses (P60) of between 9 and 20; anda Shore A hardness of between 60 and 68.