400 results about "Sense mode" patented technology

In one implementation, a method is disclosed in which a lock sensing mode is entered for a robotic surgical instrument. In the lock sensing mode, the degrees of freedom of movement in the robotic surgical instrument are switchably reduced. Further in the lock sensing mode, one or more end effectors of the robotic surgical instrument are switchably clamped together in the robotic surgical instrument. An increased level of torque may also be applied to the end effectors to increase a gripping force applied by the one or more end effectors in response to the reduced degrees of freedom of movement in the robotic surgical instrument.

The present invention relates to an organic light emitting diode display device capable of sensing driving current of each pixel with a simple configuration to compensate for a luminance deviation between pixels and a pixel current sensing method thereof. The organic light emitting diode display device includes a display panel including 2N (N being a natural number) pixels that share a reference line though which a reference signal is supplied and are respectively connected to 2N data lines through which data signals are applied, and a data driver for driving the 2N pixels sharing the reference line in a time division manner through the data lines, sensing currents of the time-division-driven 2N pixels as voltages through the shared reference line and outputting the sensed currents, in a sensing mode.

Angular rate sensor for detecting rotation about first, second and third mutually perpendicular input axes having a plurality of generally planar proof masses coupled together for linear drive-mode oscillation along multi-directional drive axes in a plane formed by the first and second input axes. The masses are mounted on a generally planar sense frame for linear movements relative to the sense frame in drive-mode and for rotation together with the sense frame in sense modes. The sense frame is mounted for rotation with the masses in sense modes about the first, second, and third input axes independent of each other, in response to Coriolis forces produced by rotation of the masses about the first, second, and third input axes respectively. And capacitance sensors responsive to the rotational movements of the masses and the sense frame in sense modes are employed for monitoring rate of rotation.

A vibratory rate z-axis gyroscope is characterized by drive-mode and sense-mode quality factors and rate sensitivity and is fabricated with at least two decoupled vibratory tines, a levered drive-mode mechanism coupled between the tines to structurally force anti-phase drive-mode motion of the tines at a predetermined drive frequency, to eliminate spurious frequency modes of the anti-phase drive-mode motion of the tines lower than the predetermined drive frequency and to provide synchronization of drive- and sense-mode motion of the tines, and a sense-mode mechanism coupled between the tines arranged and configured to provide a linearly coupled, dynamically balanced anti-phase sense-mode motion of the tines to minimize substrate energy dissipation and to enhance the sense-mode quality factor and rate sensitivity.

The invention discloses a charging and battery replacing monitoring system and method based on internet of things. The system comprises terminal information acquisition equipment, charging and battery replacing monitoring equipment and area monitoring equipment, wherein the terminal information acquisition equipment is used for carrying out identity identification, state information acquisition and dynamic positioning on terminal equipment by utilizing an information sensing mode, transmitting identity identification information to the charging and battery replacing monitoring equipment through a wireless network, and transmitting the state information and the positioning information to the area monitoring equipment through the wireless network; the charging and battery replacing monitoring equipment is used for receiving the identity identification information of the terminal equipment, monitoring the working state of a charging and battery replacing station, metering and charging the charging and battery replacing process, and transmitting the state information of the charging and battery replacing station, the metering and charging information and the identity identification information to the area monitoring equipment; and the area monitoring equipment is used for monitoring the terminal equipment and the charging and battery replacing station in a jurisdiction area and making a statistics on the metering and charging information. Through the system and the method disclosed by the invention, concentrated monitoring and management on the terminal equipment and the charging and battery replacing station can be carried out.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a touch screen having a sensing array with a plurality of sensors and a display panel having a displaying area; and a processor. The sensing area of the sensing array is smaller than or equal to the displaying area. The processor determines whether a user's finger touches an icon displayed on the display panel, wherein the icon corresponds to an application. When the processor determines that the user's finger touches the icon, the electronic device controls a first sensing area of the sensing array corresponding to a first displaying area of the icon to enter a fingerprint sensing mode to capture a fingerprint image of the user's finger for fingerprint recognition. When the processor determines that fingerprint recognition is approved, the processor activates the application corresponding to the icon.

A data read circuit and method for use in a semiconductor memory device that has a memory cell array are provided. The circuit includes a selector for selecting a unit cell within the memory cell array in response to an address signal; a clamping unit for supplying a clamp voltage having a level for a read operation to a bit line of the selected unit cell in response to a clamp control signal; a precharge unit for precharging a sensing node to a voltage having a power source level in response to a control signal of a first state in a precharge mode, and compensating through the sensing node for a reduced quantity of current at the bit line in response to a control signal of a second state in a data sensing mode; and a sense amplifier unit for comparing a level of the sensing node with a reference level, and for sensing data stored in the selected unit cell.

An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels having an organic light emitting diode and a pixel circuit; a gate driver to supply the plurality of pixels with a scan signal, a sensing signal, and a driving voltage; a data driver to supply data voltages and a reference voltage to the plurality of pixels in a driving mode, and sense voltages charged into the plurality of pixels in a sensing mode; a discharging driving unit to initialize voltages of a plurality of sensing power lines when the display device switches from the driving mode to the sensing mode; a timing controller to control the gate driver, the data driver, and the discharging driving unit to operate in and switch between the driving mode and the sensing mode; and a memory to store compensation data for the plurality of pixels.

An angular rate sensor having two generally planar proof masses, a drive axis in the plane of the masses, and an input axis perpendicular to the drive axis. The masses are suspended from a sensing frame and constrained for anti-phase movement along the drive axis in drive-mode. The sensing frame is mounted for torsional movement in sense-mode about the input axis in response to Coriolis forces produced by rotation of the masses about the input axis, with sensors responsive to the torsional movement of the sensing frame and the masses about the input axis for monitoring rate of rotation.

Disclosed in the present specification is a method for driving a display device capable of scanning an image, the display device comprising: a display module including a plurality of unit pixels arranged in a display area in which an image is displayed; and a contact sensor module forming a sensing area, which overlaps with the display area, and including at least one contact sensor respectively corresponding to the unit pixels, and the method comprising: a sensing mode identification step of identifying a sensing mode of the display device; a contact sensor selection step of selecting contact sensors to be activated, according to the identified sensing mode; and a contact sensor activation and sensing step of activating the selected contact sensors and receiving sensing signals from the activated contact sensors.

Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, which are respectively formed in a plurality of pixel areas defined by crossings of a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines, a plurality of sensing lines, and a plurality of second gate voltage lines connected to the plurality of pixels, a panel driver to drive the display panel in a display mode or a sensing mode, to sense a threshold voltage of at least one transistor to generate a sensing data in the sensing mode, and generate a second gate voltage data in the display mode, and a voltage supply unit to generate a second gate electrode voltage corresponding to the second gate voltage data, and apply a second gate electrode voltage to a second gate electrode of the transistor.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method, a system, a central node and a sensing node for determining an idle frequency band. The method for determining the idle frequency band comprises the following steps of: sensing a to-be-detected frequency band at a special sensing time slot and determining a candidate frequency band according to a sensing result of the special sensing time slot; transmitting a sensing and scheduling instruction to the sensing node and scheduling the sensing node to sense the candidate frequency band at a common sensing time slot; and receiving the sensing result reported by the sensing node and determining the idle frequency band according to the sensing result reported by the sensing node. Through the embodiment of the invention, signaling expenditure of the central node and the sensing node in a multi-point cooperative frequency spectrum sensing mode is reduced, and the total power consumption of the sensing node is reduced.

An organic light emitting display device including a display panel including a first pixel connected with a first data line and first and second scan lines, a second pixel connected with a second data line and the first and second scan lines, and a reference line connected in common with the first and second pixels; a source driver configured to operate first and second sensing modes for sensing driving characteristic values of the first and second pixels through the reference line; and a scan driver configured to drive the first and second scan lines so as to drive only the first pixel for the first sensing mode or only the second pixel for the second sensing mode.

A tire status monitoring system monitors tire conditions, such as tire pressure, temperature, etc., thereby improving automobile safety. The tire status monitoring system provides transmitters, mounted within the vehicle tires, for transmitting tire conditions. A receiver is installed in the vehicle, for analyzing the tire condition data received from each transmitter. The transmitter includes a pressure sensor for sensing air pressure, a temperature sensor for sensing temperature in the tire; a drive detecting sensor for sensing driving velocity; a radio transmission module for modulating the input data into a radio frequency signal to transmit the modulated signal; and a control device for identifying the operation mode by the pressure, temperature and driving velocityinput from the sensors in sensing mode. The control device controls the radio transmission module so that the sensed data can be transmitted at a predetermined period according to the identified operation mode.

Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device which is capable of rapidly sensing a characteristic variation in a pixel including an organic light emitting diode and a driving transistor. The organic light emitting display device may include a display panel including a pixel formed adjacent to each crossing area of gate and data lines, and a sensing line provided in parallel to the data line and connected with the pixel. The device includes a data driver provided with a sensing data generator for sensing a characteristic variation of the pixel through the sensing line and generating sensing data based on the characteristic variation of the pixel for a sensing mode. The sensing data generator generates the sensing data for the pixel by converting current flowing from the pixel to the sensing line into voltage, and converting the voltage to a digital representation using an analog-to-digital conversion method.

The invention discloses a time-varying channel estimation method for a millimeter wave multi-user MIMO system. Based on the sparse characteristics of a millimeter wave channel in an angle domain, a channel estimation method based on compressed sensing is adopted. The method comprises the following steps: (1) modeling a time-varying millimeter wave channel; (2) quantitatively expressing the millimeter wave channel; (3) modeling a time-varying millimeter wave channel estimation problem as a compressed sensing mode; (4) recovering the estimated number of paths, angles of arrival and angles of departure by using a modified block orthogonal matching pursuit (R-BOMP) algorithm; (5) designing an analog precoding matrix and a digital precoding matrix based on the estimated number of paths and angles of arrival; (6) designing an analog merge vector based on the estimated number of paths and angles of departure; and (7) solving a millimeter wave channel matrix based on the number of paths, the angles of arrival and the angles of departure that are estimated as well as the analog precoding matrix, the digital precoding matrix and the analog merge vector that are designed. By adopting the time-varying channel estimation method disclosed by the invention, the accuracy and spectrum efficiency of the millimeter wave channel estimation can be improved.