461 results about "Weight Unit" patented technology

A system and method for data detection in a wireless communication system wherein the system comprises a receiver for receiving spatial-subspace data transmitted over a plurality of spatial-subspace channels of a sub-carrier which may comprise at least one of coded and uncoded spatial-subspace channels. The receiver comprises a receiver weighting unit for providing receive-weighed spatial-subspace data and a data estimation unit for performing an iterative processing method on the receive-weighted spatial-subspace data to estimate output data related to the input data symbol stream. The-iterative processing method comprises successively processing data on each of the plurality of spatial-subspace channels in the receive-weighted spatial-subspace data.

A weight-adjustable dumbbell includes a dumbbell shell unit, a weight unit, and an insert pin unit. The dumbbell shell unit includes a shell body confining a receiving space, and a weight selector rod connected to the shell body, extending into the receiving space, and formed with through holes registered with insert holes in the shell body. The weight unit is extended removably into the receiving space via an open bottom of the shell body, and includes a base member provided with two positioning posts, and weight pieces stacked on the base member. Each weight piece is formed with a rod hole for extension of the weight selector rod, and two post holes for extension of the positioning posts. The insert pin unit includes an insert pin inserted removably into a selected insert hole and extending removably through a corresponding through hole in the weight selector rod.

The present invention relates to a vehicle communication system comprising a plurality of microphones adapted to detect speech signals of different vehicle passengers, a mixer combining the audio signal components of the different microphones to a resulting speech output signal, a weighting unit determining the weighting of the audio signal components for the resulting speech output signal, where the weighting unit determines the weighting of the signal components based upon non-acoustical information about the presence of a vehicle passenger.

An adjustable dumbbell featuring a handle containing an internal selection mechanism within series of nested weight units. The selection device is operated by a single action, in this case by turning a knob, which extends or retracts bars contained in the handle to attach a desired number of weight units to the handle.

A control circuit controls the inverter circuit in one of the non-master-slave inverters connected in parallel in a power system. The control circuit includes: a target parameter controller for generating a compensation value for adjusting a target parameter to the target value; a cooperative correction value generator for generating a correction value for cooperating with another of the inverters; a PWM signal generator for generating a PWM signal based on a correction compensation value obtained by adding the correction value to the compensation value; a weighting unit for weighting the correction compensation value; and a communication unit for communicating with other inverters. The communication unit transmits the weighted correction compensation value to the other inverters. The cooperative correction value generator generates the correction value using an operation result based on the weighted correction compensation value and a reception compensation value received by the communication unit from the other inverters.

A liquid low concentration sodium-containing silicate solution as electrolyte for lead-acid storage batteries and its applications, is prepared by mixing a silica gel containing 40˜60 wt % SiO₂, the weight units of such a silica gel are 5˜15; add 15-25 weight units water and stir until the concentration of the mixture is 0.65˜0.85 ⁰Be′ measured by a Baum densimeter, adjusting the pH value of this mixture to 1-4 using inorganic acid and magnetizing the mixture under 1000-6000 Gauss magnetic field for 5-10 minutes, stir the magnetized mixture until the viscosity of the mixture is less than 0.02 poise and finally obtain a liquid low concentration sodium-containing silicate solution. The electrolyte can be used as electrolyte or activation solution for common or special lead-acid storage batteries.

A first directivity parameter to provide a narrow directivity and a second directivity parameter to provide a wide directivity are preset for a directivity control apparatus to control the directivity of an array loudspeaker system. The directivity control apparatus selects either the first directivity parameter or the second directivity parameter in accordance with an instruction that is entered through an operating unit to select the directional characteristic of a loudspeaker array. Then, based on the selected directivity parameter, the directivity control apparatus generates delay control information, to be supplied to a delay circuit, and generates gain control information, to be supplied to a weighting unit.

An image processing apparatus that generates a combined image by combining plural image data acquired as a result of digitizing plural images acquired by shooting with different quantities of exposure, includes a weighting unit that adds weight to adjust proportion of combination of the image data, to at least one of the plural image data. The weighting unit includes a luminance data generating unit that combines data related to luminance of the plural image data and thus generates combined luminance data, and a weight deciding unit that decides the weight added to the image data in accordance with the combined luminance data generated by the luminance data generating unit.

It is possible to provide an image prediction/encoding device, an image prediction/encoding method, an image prediction/encoding program, an image prediction/decoding device, an image prediction/decoding method, and an image prediction/decoding program which can select a plurality of candidate prediction signals without increasing an information amount. A weighting device (234) and an adder (235)perform a process (averaging, for example) of pixel signals extracted by a prediction adjacent region acquisition device (232) by using a predetermined synthesis method so as to generate a comparative signal for an adjacent pixel signal for each of combinations. A comparison/selection device (236) selects a combination having a high correlation between a comparison signal generated by the weighting device (234) and an adjacent pixel signal acquired by an object adjacent region acquisition unit (233). A prediction region acquisition unit (204), a weighting unit (205), and an adder (206) generate a candidate prediction signal and process it by using the predetermined synthesis method so as to generate a prediction signal.

The invention relates to a polyvinyl chloride pressure tube with high impact resistance. The pressure tube comprises 100 portions of PVC resin, 1.5 to 4.0 portions of thermal stabilizing agent, 0.4 to 1.2 portions of lubricant, 6 to 12 portions of impact modifier, 0 to 5 portions of filler and 2 to 3 portions of colorant according to weight unit. Compared with a common PVC-U tube material, the polyvinyl chloride pressure tube keeps high strength of the PVC-U tube material and greatly improves toughness and impact resistance of the tube material.

A camera includes: an image-capturing element that captures a subject image through a photographic lens having a focusing lens; an evaluation value calculation unit that calculates focus evaluation values at a plurality of lens positions assumed by the focusing lens based upon an image-capturing signal output by the image-capturing element; a weighting unit that weights the focus evaluation values calculated by the evaluation value calculation unit in correspondence to the lens positions of the focusing lens assumed when the focus evaluation values are calculated respectively; and a focusing operation unit that performs a focusing operation for the photographic lens based upon the weighted focus evaluation values.

An analog neural computing medium, neuron and neural networks are disclosed. The neural computing medium includes a phase change material that has the ability to cumulatively respond to multiple input signals. Input signals induce transformations among a plurality of accumulation states of the disclosed neural computing medium. The accumulation states are characterized by a high electrical resistance. Upon cumulative receipt of energy from one or more input signals that equals or exceeds a threshold value, the neural computing medium fires by transforming to a low resistance state. The disclosed neural computing medium may also be configured to perform a weighting function whereby it weights incoming signals. The disclosed neurons may also include activation units for further transforming signals transmitted by the accumulation units according to a mathematical operation. The artificial neurons, weighting units, accumulation units and activation units may be connected to form artificial neural networks.

A light input-adjustable window shade includes a supporting member having first and second ends respectively coupled to a positioning seat and a level fixing device. The level fixing device includes a housing and a transmission unit mounted in the housing. The transmission unit includes a rotational shaft extending beyond the housing. A first end of a spool is rotatably mounted to the positioning seat. A second end of the spool is coupled to the rotational shaft of the level fixing device. A first periphery of a shade body is fixed to and coiled around the spool. The shade body is wound around a rod of a weighting unit. A second periphery of the shade body is fixed to a coupling portion of the supporting member.

The invention provides a brake block for a high-speed train and a preparation method thereof, which belongs to the technical field of powdery metallurgical materials and is used for solving the problem of unstable friction factor of a semimetal-based composite brake block. The improved brake block is made from the following powdery raw materials according to parts by weight: 25 to 55 parts of copper powder, 5 to 20 parts of nickel powder, 4 to 12 parts of iron powder, 1 to 4 parts of manganese powder, 1 to 9 parts of chromium powder, 5 to 20 parts of graphite, 5 to 10 parts of carborundum, 1 to 8 parts of tungsten powder, 3 to 6 parts of titanium pigment, 3 to 10 parts of silicon dioxide, 1 to 4 parts of titanium powder, and 1 to 5 parts of aluminum powder. The raw materials are technically pure, and the grain size is 200 meshes or less. The brake block is made from metal-based composite raw materials, the raw material of the substrate is copper alloy with high thermal conductivity and good plasticity. With the reasonable adoption of other materials and optimized proportioning thereof, the made brake block has the following characteristics: 1. base body with good thermal shock resistance and no crazing, 2. stable change of friction factors under the condition of friction temperature rise, and 3. low attrition rate and long service life.

An audio encoding apparatus that allows a decoded signal exhibiting an excellent sound quality to be obtained on a decoding side. In the audio encoding apparatus (1000A), a time-frequency transform unit (1001) uses a time-frequency transform, such as a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) or a modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT), to transform a time domain signal (S(n)) to a frequency domain signal (spectrum factor) (S(f)). A psychoacoustic model analyzing unit (1002) performs a psychoacoustic model analysis of the frequency domain signal (S(f)), thereby obtaining a masking curve. An acoustic sense weighting unit (1003) estimates, based on the masking curve, an importance degree of acoustic sense, and determines and applies the weighting factors of respective spectrum factors to the respective spectrum factors. An encoding unit (1004) encodes the frequency domain signal (S(f)) as weighted in terms of the acoustic sense. A multiplexing unit (1005) multiplexes and transmits the encoded parameters.

The invention discloses a RFID reader intelligent antenna system comprising an antenna array composed of a plurality of antenna elements, an adjustable two-way weighting unit, a merging/dividing unit, a single-pole M-throw radio frequency switch, an A/D down conversion unit, a D/A up conversion unit, a circular device and a DSP signal processor having a demodulating/decoding unit, an encoding/modulating unit, a tag detecting unit and a selection control unit. According to the invention, on one hand, the beam transmitted from the elements are merged to enhance the radio frequency energy in the determined direction or inhibit the radiation energy in other directions; on the other hand, the beam can scan in a sector zone by regulating and merging the parameters and controlling the beam direction, thereby the identification range of the reader is expanded.

An unmanned aircraft includes a camera, a laser ranging system and a driving unit. The laser ranging system measures a distance to an object in the field of view of the camera. The driving unit rotates the field of view. Thus, it is possible to acquire relative position data of the object around the unmanned aircraft with a small and light-weight unit.

Disclosed is a feed forward clock and data recovery unit for recovering a received serial data bit stream having a feed forward phase tracking unit for tracking of a sampling time to the center of a unit interval of the received data bit stream. The feed forward phase tracking unit can include a sampling phase generation unit, an oversampling unit, a serial-to-parallel-conversion unit, a binary phase detection unit, a loop filter, a finite state machine, a binary rotator, and a data recognition unit for recovery of the received data stream which includes a number of parallel data recognition FIR-Filters. Further, each data recognition FIR-Filter can include a weighting unit for weighting data samples of the deserialized data stream, a summing unit for summing up the weighted data samples, and a comparator unit for comparing the summed up data samples with a threshold value.

The invention puts forward a finite-element reconstruction method for space weighting of auto-fluorescence imaging. The method uses a diffuse optical tomography (DOT) technique to precisely reconstruct optical parameters of main biological tissue. The method limits a possible real light-source region, and divides a whole reconstruction region into a light-source possible region and a light-source impossible region so as to improve the numerical stability and effectiveness of reconstruction problems and reduce the ill-conditioned property of BLT reconstruction problems. In order to avoid famous 'Inverse Crime' problems, the method adopts a Monte Carlo (MC) random method to simulate the process of transmitting light in the biological tissue. Then the invention puts forward a finite-element method based on a space-weighting unit and adopts a tolerant algorithm for linear constrained optimization problems to reconstruct light-source information.

A wireless communication apparatus comprises an array antenna configured to receive a signal at multiple antenna elements; a DoA estimation unit configured to estimate directions of arrival of multiple paths contained in the received signal; an angle spread estimation unit configured to estimate an angle spread of the multiple paths; a first weighting calculation unit configured to estimate a common set of weighting factors for all the paths; a second weighting calculation unit configured to estimate an individual set of weighting factors for each of the multiple paths based on the estimated directions of arrival of the paths; a weighting unit configured to weight the received signal by multiplying the received signal by one of the common set of weighting factors or individual set of weighting factor; and a demodulator configured to demodulate the weighted signal.