207 results about "Vertical shift" patented technology

A position-measuring device is for measuring the position of two objects that are movable relative to one another. The device includes a measuring graduation, which is connected to one of the two objects, as well as at least one scanning system for scanning the measuring graduation, which is connected to the other of the two objects. The scanning system is arranged to permit a simultaneous determination of the position values along at least one lateral and along one vertical shift direction of the objects.

Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking system on short edges having a displaceable tongue that is displaced in one direction into a tongue groove during vertical displacement of two panels.

A method and system for surround sound beam-forming using vertically displaced drivers provides a low cost alternative to present external surround array systems. A pair of vertically displaced speaker drivers is supplied with surround and main channel information in a controlled phase relationship with respect to each driver such that the surround channel information is propagated in a directivity pattern substantially differing from that of the main channel information. The main channel information is generally directed at a listening area, while the surround channel information is directed away from the listening area and is substantially attenuated in the direction of the listening area, so that the surround channel information is heard as a diffuse reflected field. An electronic network provides for control of the surround channel phase relationship and combining of main and surround signals for providing inputs to individual power amplifiers for each driver.

A guided transport unit and methods of guiding the transport unit for moving a superstructure in precise angular movements over a surface are disclosed. The guided transport unit comprises a skid pad, a vertical displacing member engaged with the skid pad, a base operatively associated with the vertical displacing member, and a directional actuator. The base includes a planar element for engaging the surface over which the superstructure is transported, and a carrier for moving the vertical displacing member and skid pad relative to the surface. The directional actuator controls and secures the relationship among the vertical displacing member, the base, and the skid pad for positioning the base in a predetermined direction to engage the surface, setting the carrier to move each skid pad in a predetermined direction across the planar element of the base, and repositioning the base in another direction for movement of the guided transport unit.

A solid-state camera device having a matrix of pixels arranged in rows and columns, wherein a subset of pixels of the entire pixel matrix can be read for display and confirmation of photographic conditions to reduce power consumption and decrease time to display the image. In electronic cameras light is focused on the camera device having pixels and the light energy is used to provide an electric signal from each pixel in proportion to the incident light to provide an image signal. The image signal may be displayed on an attached display such as a liquid crystal display. Because most display have fewer pixels than the camera device, the display can not display image information from each camera device pixel. To thin the number of pixels provided to the display, at least one of a vertical shift register or horizontal shift register includes a selector circuit whereby the respective shift register may select a group of rows or columns, respectively, and the selector circuit can select a single row or column, respectively, from the group. Control signals control the operation of the shift registers and selector circuit(s) and permit selection of desired thinning schemes to optimize the display of image information for best display of colors or minimum energy consumption, as desired.

The present invention provides a 16×16-sliding window using vector register file with zero overhead for horizontal or vertical shifts to incorporate motion estimation into SIMD vector processor architecture. SIMD processor's vector load mechanism, vector register file with shifting of elements capability, and 16×16 parallel SAD calculation hardware and instruction are used. Vertical shifts of all sixteen-vector registers occur in a ripple-through fashion when the end vector register is loaded. The parallel SAD calculation hardware can calculate one 16-by-16-block match per clock cycle in a pipelined fashion. In addition, hardware for best-match SAD value comparisons and maintaining their pixel location reduces the software overhead. Block matching for less than 16 by 16 block areas is supported using a mask register to mask selected elements, thereby reducing search area to any block size less than 16 by 16.

There is provided an imaging device which eliminates complexity in reading an image in low resolution and reading an image in high resolution and realizes prevention of decrease in frame rate. The device includes a pixel region including a plurality of pixel elements and imaging an incident light of an object as an image and a reading unit for thinning out a pixel element from the pixel region to read a thinned out image in low resolution and reading a partial image in resolution higher than the thinned out image from a partial region of the pixel region (a horizontal shift register and a vertical shift register), wherein the reading unit reads the thinned out image and the partial image from mutually different pixel elements and reads the thinned out image and the partial image as different imaging frames.

The present invention is directed to an apparatus, method and software product for enhancing the dynamic range of a CCD sensor without substantially increasing the noise. Initially, the area of a N×M pixel CCD sensor array is subdivided into two regions, a large region having (M−a) pixels in each column for outputting large-amplitude signals with low noise and a smaller region having a pixels in each column for outputting small-amplitude signals with improved dynamic range. At integration time, the CCD is read out one region's rows at a time into the horizontal shift registers by shifting the pixel charges in either a or M−a vertical shifts. The charges in the horizontal shift registers are then shifted out of the horizontal shift registers in N horizontal shifts. Next, the remaining pixels in the region of the CCD are read out into the horizontal shift registers by shifting the pixel charges in the other of a or M−a vertical shifts. Those charges are then shifted out of the horizontal shift registers in N horizontal shifts. In a spectrographic application, the data from the two regions is read out in the form of a large-amplitude channel from the larger region's rows and a small-amplitude channel from the smaller region's rows.

A method for reading out charge from an interlined CCD having a plurality of photo-sensing regions and a plurality of vertical shift registers, and each photosensitive region is mated respectively to a CCD of a vertical shift register and a color filter having a repeating pattern of two rows in which each row includes at least two colors that forms a plurality of 5 line sub-arrays sequentially numbered in the space domain; and the color filter spanning the photo-sensing regions, the method includes sequentially or substantially simultaneously reading out lines 1, 3 and 5 into the vertical shift register that keeps the colors separated; summing the charge in lines 1, 3 and 5; sequentially or substantially simultaneously reading out lines 2 and 4 into the vertical shift register that keeps the colors separated; summing the charge in lines 2 and 4; transferring one or more rows of the summed charge into a first horizontal charge-coupled device; transferring alternate charges in the first horizontal charge-coupled device into a second horizontal charge-coupled device; summing sets of two charges in the first horizontal charge-coupled device; summing sets of two charges in the second horizontal charge-coupled device; and reading out the charge in both the first and second horizontal shift register with a half-resolution clocking sequence.

A solid-state imaging device includes unit cells, arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, each having a photodiode for photoelectrically converting incident light to store signal charges, a readout transistor Td for reading out the signal charges and amplifying transistor Tb for amplifying signals readout at a detection node, a plurality of vertical shift registers for generating signal charge readout pulses ESi, DRi, ROi and a voltage switching circuit for setting a voltage VDR of the readout pulse DRi for dynamic range control lower than voltages of both a readout pulse ESi for an electronic shutter and a usual readout pulse ROi. The solid-state imaging device provides excellent images without clipping from a small signal region to large signal region.

A hemming machine of the type having a base, a nest for supporting a sheet metal part to be hemmed, and at least one die is disclosed in which the nest supporting the part to be hemmed is vertically displaced against the dies in order to form the hem. The improvement includes at least three elongated and external shafts wherein each shaft has one end rotatably mounted to the base so that the shafts are spaced apart and parallel with each other. A nut threadably engages each shaft, and these nuts are swivelly secured to the nest which permits a small amount of angular and radial deflection of the nut and shafts during movement of the nest from its lower to its upper position. An electric servo-motor is associated with each threaded shaft to rotatably drive the shafts substantially in unison with each other during the travel approach phase, and then allows in final a slight disynchronization of them, to insure an equalization of the hemming effort applied on each edge of the part, in both pre-hemming and hemming operations.

A method for reducing dark current within an image sensor includes applying, at a first time period, a first set of voltages to the phases of gate electrodes of vertical shift registers sufficient to accumulate holes of the vertical shift register, beneath each gate electrode and applying, at a second time period, a second voltage to a first set of the gate electrodes while simultaneously applying a more positive voltage to a second set of gate electrodes, the second voltage being of sufficient potential so holes that were accumulated beneath the second set of gate electrodes during the first time are collected and stored beneath the first set of gate electrodes during the second time period. Moreover, the method applies, at a third time period, a third voltage to the second set of gate electrodes while simultaneously applying a more positive voltage to the first set of gate electrodes, such that the previously accumulated holes beneath the first set of gate electrodes are transferred beneath the second set of gate electrodes; and returns the first and second sets of gate electrode voltages to their levels at the first time period.

A method for reading out charge from an interlined CCD having a plurality of photo-sensing regions and a plurality of vertical shift registers, and each photosensitive region is mated respectively to a CCD of a vertical shift register and a color filter having a repeating pattern of two rows in which each row includes at least two colors spanning the photo-sensing regions, the method includes reading out one row from each of the two row pattern; summing the same color from each row in the vertical shift register to reduce the resolution by one half; without transferring charge out of the vertical shift register, repeating the reading and summing steps for the remaining row; and reading out the charge in the vertical shift registers in a manner in which different colors are not summed together.

The present invention discloses a large tonnage entire hole box beam for transporting and a method for construction, and comprises the transportation of the box beam and the erecting of the box beam. The transportation construction of the box beam mainly comprises the steps of beam transportation preparation, beam loading, beam transportation etc., and the erecting of the box beam comprises the erection of the bridge vertical over hole, beam feeding and beam hoisting for vertical shift. The method effectively solves a plurality of construction problems that the auxiliary operation time of the prior transportation construction and the prior erecting construction is long, the auxiliary equipment is more, the variable cross-beam erection and the parallel operation are not available, etc., and thus the present invention proposes a scientific construction method with short auxiliary operation time, less auxiliary equipment, and capability of parallel operation; meanwhile, the method can meet the variable cross-beam erection of a front hole beam and a tail hole beam. The method has high construction efficiency, convenient shift among the bridges and strong adaptability, and the present invention is not only suitable for the construction of the outsize bridge having a plurality of consecutive holes, but also can be well adapted to the bridge group construction with middle size and small size bridges dispersed in a bridge which only has a few box beams.

There is provided a vibration generation device, including: a housing including an inner space; a direction conversion member mounted in the housing to be disposed within the inner space; a piezoelectric actuator including a piezoelectric element fixed to the direction conversion member and horizontally deformed; and a vibrator fixed to the direction conversion member and disposed within the inner space and vertically displaced due to horizontal deformation of the piezoelectric actuator.

There is provided an imaging device which eliminates complexity in reading an image in low resolution and reading an image in high resolution and realizes prevention of decrease in frame rate. The device includes a pixel region including a plurality of pixel elements and imaging an incident light of an object as an image and a reading unit for thinning out a pixel element from the pixel region to read a thinned out image in low resolution and reading a partial image in resolution higher than the thinned out image from a partial region of the pixel region (a horizontal shift register and a vertical shift register), wherein the reading unit reads the thinned out image and the partial image from mutually different pixel elements and reads the thinned out image and the partial image as different imaging frames.

When a video signal is double-speed processed by the first device, a slight vertical deflection process is performed for redundant similar scan lines by the second device, and any slight deflection in the second device is controlled by the first device to thereby enable setting so as to always display images with excellent resolution. More particularly, a discrimination signal is generated by the first device to designate interlaced scanning and flag a need for vertical scan-line deflection, and such discrimination signal is provided to the second device such that the second device can always appropriately determine the need for vertical scan-line deflection. Through monitoring for the discrimination signal, an image display apparatus is capable of preventing vertical resolution from being deteriorated when video signals possibly requiring vertical line-shifting are inputted from an external source. Further, an image display apparatus is capable of preventing the vertical resolution from being deteriorated when images of video signals having different systems are displayed within different areas on a same screen.

The invention belongs to the technical field of reinforced concrete building testing, and particularly relates to a beam-end loading test device of a beam-column joint. The beam-end loading test device comprises an external frame fixing device, a specimen loading device and a data collection system, wherein a beam-column joint specimen is arranged on the specimen loading device; and a hydraulic oil source is controlled through a controller to adjust the vertical shift motion of a vertical actuator, so that the beam-column joint specimen is arranged in an unloaded condition. The method comprises the steps of designing parameters through a computer, controlling a jack and the vertical actuator to apply loads to the beam-column joint specimen through the controller; carrying out loading test according to the requirements until the specimen is destroyed; and collecting vertical force P(t) on the beam-column joint specimen and generated vertical displacement S(t) in the test process by a multi-channel strain collection instrument, drawing a hysteretic curve of the beam-column joint specimen and analyzing the hysteretic performance. By adopting a beam-end loading mode, the shear conditions of a beam-end plastic hinge and a core area can be researched while the earthquake action is simulated, and the beam-end loading test device is of great significance.

The invention discloses a mechanism for adjusting a printing spray head module of an inkjet printer. The mechanism comprises a support, a back mounting plate and a spray head module mounting plate, wherein the support is provided with a plain shaft; the plain shaft is provided with a horizontal shift mechanism and a driving mechanism; the horizontal shift mechanism and the driving mechanism can move along the plain shaft; the back mounting plate is arranged on the horizontal shift mechanism, can move left and right together with the horizontal shift mechanism along the plain shaft, and is provided with a vertical shift mechanism and an XY axis deflection mechanism; the XY axis deflection mechanism can deflect relative to an X axis and a Y axis; the vertical shift mechanism is connected with the XY axis deflection mechanism, can move up and down and can deflect along with the XY axis deflection mechanism; the spray head module mounting plate is connected and locked with the vertical shift mechanism through a connecting and locking mechanism and can move up and down along with the vertical shift mechanism; and a spray head module can deflect relative to a Z axis through a Z axis deflection mechanism. The mechanism for adjusting the printing spray head module has a simple structure, can adjust the printing spray head module at five degrees of freedom, ensures that a spray head and a print medium are completely parallel with each other during printing, and is completely vertical to the motion direction of the print medium to improve the inkjet printing quality.

A method for treating a tar sands formation includes providing heated fluid to a first section of the hydrocarbon layer while providing heat to a second section of a hydrocarbon layer in the formation from a plurality of heaters located in the formation. The second section is vertically displaced from the first section. Heat is allowed to transfer from the heaters and heated water to at least a portion of the formation. Fluids are allowed to gravity drain to a third section of the hydrocarbon formation. Fluids are produced from the formation through at least one production well that is located in the third section of the formation.

A system for forging a rack bar from a blank pipe. A blank pipe 1 is held between dies 2 and 3. Stockers 7L and 7R are arranged on respective sides of the die set. In the stockers 7L and 7R, left-handed shuttles 6L1, 6L2, 6L3, . . . 6Ln and right-handed shuttles 6R1, 6R2, 6R3 . . . 6Rn are stored. First, a left-handed presser rod 5L inserts the shuttles 6L1 to the blank pipe from the left-handed stocker 7L. Then, a right-handed presser rod 5R inserts the shuttles 6R1 to the blank pipe from the right-handed stocker 7R, causing the shuttles 6L1 to be entrained and returned to the left-handed stocker 7L. Vertical shift movement is alternately executed between the left-handed and right-handed stockers 7L and 7R, so that a shuttle of step-likely increased working height is selected for executing a working process.

A variable capacitance element includes a coplanar line or signal conduction and a movable body, which are vertically displaced through a supporting bar and which are provided on a substrate. A movable electrode is provided between a first driving electrode and second and third driving electrodes which are movable electrodes. Voltage is applied between the movable electrodes, such that one of the movable electrodes is pressed against the coplanar line through a dielectric film. Thus, high frequency signals conducting through the coplanar line are shut off. When voltage is applied between the other electrodes, the movable electrode and the dielectric film are moved apart from the coplanar line. Thus, high frequency signals are conducted through the coplanar line.

The invention provides an automatic test system and method of an oscilloscope, and belongs to the technical field of measuring instruments. The automatic test method of an oscilloscope includes the steps: based on a LabVIEW platform, self-manufacturing a set of oscilloscope automatic test software being able to control a digital oscilloscope to automatically set measurement parameters; automatically releasing the acquisition stopping state after single time of triggering, and realizing continuous automatic acquisition of signals; and automatically storing acquired data in a PC, thus solving the problem that the digital oscilloscope is not enough in the storage depth, and realizing long time of measurement and recording of signals in an unattended operation condition; according to a test demand, realizing automatic measurement of the preset test sequence; and according to the change of the signal, automatically adjusting the measurement shift (horizontal time base and vertical shift), and realizing adaptive measurement of unknown signals.

The invention is a forehead cold light source shooting microscope or magnifier. It belongs to optical instrument field. The invention includes forehead armet, armet perimeter adjusting mechanism, armet embedding degree adjusting mechanism, microscope vertical shift adjusting mechanism, microscope angle adjusting mechanism, forehead illuminating mechanism, and monocular / binocular microscope or amplifier with adjustable pupilla distance. The forehead armet and the armet embedding degree adjusting mechanism are integral, the armet perimeter adjusting mechanism and the forehead armet are connected, the microscope vertical shift adjusting mechanism base is riveted with the forehead armet, the microscope vertical shift adjusting mechanism is connected with the microscope angle adjusting mechanism, the forehead illuminating system light source is embedded in the head of the monocular / binocular microscope or amplifier. The light source uses new source brightening diode cold light source, electricity saving, and the effect is better; the amplifier position can be adjusted in left, right, up and down.

Systems for displaying images are provided. An embodiment of such a system has a dynamic shift register. The dynamic shift register includes a sampling unit, a holding unit, and a first logic circuit. The sampling unit, which is coupled to an incoming signal and a first input terminal of the dynamic shift register, samples the incoming signal according to a first input signal received by the first input terminal to generate a sampled value. The holding unit, which is coupled to the sampling unit, is utilized to hold the sampled value. The first logic circuit, which is coupled to the holding unit and an output terminal of the dynamic shift register, generates an output signal according to the sampled value and a second input signal inputted into the first logic circuit.

The invention relates to a touch control display substrate, comprising a substrate, a plurality of common electrode blocks arranged at interval, a plurality of wires, a vertical shift circuit, and a control IC circuit. The vertical shift circuit comprises a plurality of vertical shift circuit units in cascade connection. Each vertical shift circuit unit is connected with the wires corresponding to a row of the common electrode blocks. The vertical shift circuit unit is used to output touch control drive signals to corresponding row of common electrode blocks in sequence. The control IC circuit is used to output touch control drive signals to the vertical shift circuit. The common electrode blocks are divided into n common electrode block groups according to row directions. The control IC circuit is used to apply scanning pulse signals in different frequency to different common electrode block groups in different touch control scanning time periods, so as to compensate different load cased by different distances between different common electrode blocks and the control IC circuit, and improve accuracy of touch control effect detection of different common electrode blocks.

A MEMS vertical displacement device for vertically displacing and tilting a vertically displaceable platform. The vertically displaceable platform may be displaced using a plurality of recurve actuators configured to provide vertical displacement without horizontal movement. The vertically displaceable platform may be tilted about two axes to yield tilting that is advantageous in numerous applications. The recurve actuators may be thermal, piezoelectric or formed from other appropriate materials.