1648 results about "Relay systems" patented technology

A system for capturing super wide-angle panoramic images. In particular, a two-reflector system is disclosed which is substantially self-correcting in which optical aberrations are substantially eliminated, such as field curvature, astigmatism and the like. Moreover, the super wide-angle panoramic imaging apparatus of the invention captures a super-wide field of view from a substantially single reference viewpoint. The invention provides a substantially compact viewpoint, while also having a substantially flat and stigmatic image plane, in the context of a super wide-angle panoramic system. Devices and methods for capturing panoramic images of super wide-angle scenes are provided. In a particular embodiment of the invention, two reflectors are provided (e.g., one a hyperboloidal mirror, the other a concave ellipsoidal or spherical mirror), a relay system (e.g., optics such as a mirror, a lens, a pinhole and the like) and an image sensor (e.g., an electronic photo-sensor, a film and the like).

An apparatus and method of processing handover of a mobile relay station (MRS) in a cellular communication system using a multihop relay scheme is provided. The handover processing method includes transmitting, by the MRS, a handover request message containing child node information to a serving BS when handover is required; making, by the serving BS, an adjacent node list by collecting handover-related information from adjacent nodes to which the MRS is able to be handed over when the handover request message is received; transmitting, by the serving BS, a handover response message containing the adjacent node list to the MRS; and determining, by the MRS, a handover target node based on information contained in the handover response message and transmitting a handover indication message containing the target node to the serving BS. By suggesting the handover method of the MRS in the multihop relay system, it is possible to provide uninterrupted communication to the MRS and its child node in the service area of the MRS.

A network data monitoring device provides for the flexible, programmable port-to-multi-port steering of data packet traffic between network port pairs, with tap data streams being directed to any of a plurality of monitor ports. The network data monitoring device is constructed utilizing one or more switching integrated circuits programmed to disable layer-2 routing and impose port-to-multiport data packet steering. Physical layer protocol encoding/decoding circuits enable connectivity to physical network media connectors though a system of fail-safe relays. A system controller, preferably implemented by a microprocessor, is connected to all switching integrated circuits and relays for configuration, status and control. Hardware-based logic selectively in complement to the switching integrated circuits provides for the programmable filtering, modification and programmable steering of data packets through the device.

Embodiments include a ground scout having an ability to identify the location of rows of crops and the end of the rows so that it can navigate, but in other embodiments, the ground scout can also rely more on an aerial drone to navigate, to act as a communication relay system, and so on. A buddy system including a ground scout and an air scout (e.g. drone) communicate their findings with each other.

An inter-network relay unit is provided that is capable of simultaneously achieving guaranteed minimum bandwidth and priority control (including relay priority, discard priority, delay priority, etc.). A rate controller outputs relatively high priority packets from priority queues as guaranteed traffic based on guaranteed bandwidth for each link. Relatively low priority packets left in the priority queues are marked for preferential discard and output as best-effort traffic by an aging timer. When an output port is congested, an output queue portion discards only the marked packets. Thus, traffic having a plurality of relay priorities can use the guaranteed minimum bandwidth effectively and the guaranteed minimum bandwidth can be secured, irrespective of change in traffic volume for each relay priority level.

The network relay device of the invention carries out data transmission to and from an opposite device to relay data in a network. The network relay device includes: multiple ports connecting with corresponding multiple ports of the opposite device via multiple links; and a link aggregation control module that aggregates the multiple links to establish a link aggregation, which is regarded as one logic link, and carries out transmission of a control frame signal including a synchronization bit, as well as data transmission, at each port via the link aggregation. In response to detection of occurrence of a trouble in at least one of the aggregated multiple links, the link aggregation control module causes a port that connects with a normal link without the trouble among the multiple ports to stop the data transmission and send the control frame signal including the synchronization bit set equal to a first value. Here the first value functions to stop the data transmission at a corresponding port of the opposite device connecting with the normal link.

Provided is an apparatus and method for determining a data transmission rate in consideration of the queue length of a Relay Station RS in a multi-hop relay system. A Base Station BS apparatus of the multi-hop relay system includes a receiver and a calculator. The receiver receives channel condition information and queue length information for a Mobile Station MS from an RS. The calculator of the BS apparatus determines a data transmission rate between the BS and the RS for data of the MS using the channel condition information and the queue length information.

A packet relay system in which each node calculates a link cost of each adjacent node based on an arrival rate of a packet from each adjacent node, acquires an accumulated value of a link cost calculated by each node in a range of nodes from a sink node for each adjacent node, calculates, for each adjacent node, a path cost of the one adjacent node by adding the link cost calculated to the accumulated value, and relays a data packet to one adjacent node selected from among nodes adjacent to the node based on a path cost of each adjacent node. This enables establishment of an upstream path to a sink node without increasing the amount of communication in a network.

Provided are a method and apparatus for using and relaying multi-hop frames over mobile multi-hop relay (MMR) systems. According to the present invention, a base station in a MMR network determines the number and temporal length of unit frames to be included in a super frame, allocates channel periods for transmitting data having a communication request to uplink and downlink data channels of each unit frame, generates frame control information to be the same for each unit frame and transmits each piece of the frame control information for each unit frame together with downlink data to be transmitted. A relay station according to the present invention recognizes frame control information of a received unit frame, reorganizes the frame control information of the received unit frame in order to allow a base station and neighboring relay stations to transmit the same frame control information from a subsequent unit frame, transmits the reorganized frame control information through the subsequent unit frame to the neighboring relay stations, thereby preventing interference between the base station and the relay stations and waste of channels of the unit frame which is caused by retransmitting the frame control information.

A training method and apparatus to train a call assistant to operate a telephone relay system for the hearing impaired that uses a re-voicing technique to produce near real-time transcription of a telephone conversation for display on a caption telephone or other device. The invention simulates an actual relay call as realistically as possible and produces a report on the skill of the particular call assistant being trained.

An apparatus, a method and a relay system for removing self-interference (SI). If a relay transmitting end transmits relay-reference signals (R-RS) through a region where a base station does not transmit signals, based on a protocol predetermined with the base station, a relay receiving end obtains SI channel values from signals transmitted by the relay transmitting end and received through a self-interference channel with use of the R-RS, removes the SI from transmitting signals of an uplink or an downlink based on the SI channel values, and relays the SI removed transmitting signals.

The invention relates to a relay transfer method which comprises the following steps: a base station sends a first relay information element to a relay station, and the resource location belonging to the relay station is indicated; the relay station receives a service data, and the received service data which is required to be relayed is relayed and transferred through a relay area according to the indication of the base station. The invention also provides a relay mode switch method, a relay sensing method, a relay system, and a relay device. The relay station of the invention can perform the relay transfer of the service data through the relay area according to the indication of the base station, and adjust the transfer frequency, and the relay reliability can be improved. In addition, the relay station of the invention can switch the current relay mode according to the indication of the base station. The relay station of the invention also can sense the peripheral wireless environment, inform the base station when the self coverage area is judged to be interfered, and adjust the sending frequency to adapt the change of the wireless environment.

A digital, wireless PC/PCS modem is disclosed for incorporation with personal home computers, laptop units, hand-held computer units, and cellular phones for providing wireless communication via satellite transmission. The invention is a device that combines a personal computer (PC) modem with a satellite link and relay system for computers. This will allow the user to establish a communications link with Internet(TM) access, access to direct dial telephones, faxing on demand, hyperterminal access for remote computer link-up, video, and voice applications. Utilizing existing software and hardware, this invention uses digital satellite technology and combines it with a PC modem for access to various communication links including phone links, without a phone line. In order to accomplish this, the laptop has a type II PCMCIA card slot for receiving the PC modem. An antenna is attached to the plug-in cellular phone card for the modem using a swivel joint assembly.

A system and method for a deaf party to communicate in a sign language by way of a video computing device to relay center having a sign language interpreter. A relay system receives a sign language input from the deaf party. Then, a spoken message is relayed to the hearing party that corresponds to the received sign language input. The relay system may also receive a spoken message from the hearing party. Then a sign language message is relayed to the deaf party corresponding to the spoken message via relay communication link.

The invention provides a TD-LTE (Time Division-Long Term Evolution) frequency offset estimation method for a relay system and relates to services or facilities suitable for a wireless communication network. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining positions of synchronizing signals and information about cell ID (Identity) number and cell group ID number inside a cell identification group from receiving signals at a relay end, so as to obtain a synchronizing signal sequence received by a relay; secondly, generating a local PSS (Primary Synchronization Signal) and an SSS (Secondary Synchronization Signal) according to the obtained relay-end cell ID number and cell group ID number relay end; thirdly, carrying out an integer-frequency-offset estimation process by using the PPS received at the relay end and the obtained relay locally-generated PSS; and finally, carrying out integer-frequency-offset adjustment on the receiving signals of the PSS/SSS at the relay end by using the obtained result epsilon I of the integer-frequency-offset estimation, and carrying out fine-frequency-offset estimation process by using a corresponding algorithm. Therefore, the problem of the frequency offset estimation at the relay end can be solved, and the sending frequencies of the signals received at the relay end and the signals at a base station end are synchronous.

A relay selection method giving consideration to channel conditions and traffic states in multi-user cooperative communication is characterized by introducing a traffic arrival model which can embody traffic burstiness and self-similar characteristic to each user of the network, then comprehensively considering the different QoS requirements of each user traffic, and selecting the direct transmission mode when the channel conditions meet the threshold of signal to noise ratio corresponding to the minimal transmission rate requirement according to the current real-time channel condition and the traffic state; and based on the principles of proportional fairness and user satisfaction, selecting a cooperative partner as the relay user to participate in cooperative transmission when the channel conditions are less than the threshold of signal to noise ratio corresponding to the minimal transmission rate requirement and the cache region at the relay end is not full according to the multi-optimization objective of relay selection, so as to reduce the outage probability of the source user and the influence on the traffic transmission of the relay user, improve the traffic transmission performance of the source user, minimize the influence on the traffic transmission performance of the cooperative user, ensure the different QoS requirements of the user traffics and improve the communication reliability of the cooperative relay system.

The line imaging system includes a laser, first and second cylindrical optical systems with a first spatial filter disposed therebetween, a knife-edge aperture, a cylindrical relay system, and a cylindrical focusing lens. The first spatial filter is configured to truncate a line focus within the central lobe to form a first light beam. The second cylindrical lens system is arranged in the far field and is configured to perform spatial filtering to pass central intensity lobes of the first light beam while blocking outlying intensity lobes. The resultant twice-filtered light beam is has a relatively flat-top intensity distribution associated with the long direction of the line image so that subsequent truncation by the knife-edge aperture transmits more light than conventional line imaging systems. A laser annealing system that employs the line imaging system is also disclosed.