Abstract:

An entire radio transceiver can be completely integrated into one IC chip. In order to integrate the IF filters on the chip, a heterodyne architecture with a low IF is used. A single, directly modulated VCO is used for both up-conversion during transmission, and down-conversion during reception. Bond-wires are used as resonators in the oscillator tank for the VCO. A TDD scheme is used in the air interface to eliminate cross-talk or leakage. A Gaussian-shaped binary FSK modulation scheme is used to provide a number of other implementation advantages.

Description:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Technical Field of the Invention

The present invention relates in general to the wireless communications field and, in particular, to a short-range radio transceiver fabricated on an integrated circuit chip.

2. Description of Related Art

The high level of circuit integration possible with modern technology has allowed manufacturers of hand-held communications equipment (e.g., cellular phones) to substantially reduce the size of their products. As a general rule, these smaller products consume less power and ultimately become cheaper to produce.

In the past, there have been a number of attempts to fabricate an entire radio transmitter/receiver (transceiver) on a single integrated circuit (IC) chip. Generally, these attempts have been unsuccessful, and only parts of such radios have been placed on a single chip. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,428,835 to Okanobu discloses a receiver circuit formed on a single semiconductor chip. The primary reason for this lack of total integration can be found in the radio system specifications.

Most standard air interface specifications for radio communications systems set forth high requirements with respect to frequency accuracy, adjacent channel interference, modulation performance, etc. However, existing on-chip signal processing techniques have no ...

LED circuit

Abstract:

A system and method for processing signals in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method may include transmitting a wireless signal from a transmitter, and receiving at the transmitter, feedback information from a receiver that receives the transmitted wireless signal. The received feedback information may include one or more of a plurality of weight values corresponding to a maximum signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) value that is determined from a plurality of SINR values. The receiver may generate the plurality of SINR values from the received transmitted wireless signal based on the corresponding plurality of weight values. The feedback information that includes the one or more of the plurality of weight values may be received by the transmitter via one or more uplink communication channels. The at least one uplink communication channel may include a high-speed dedicated physical control channel (HS-DPCCH).

Description:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

Certain embodiments of the invention relate to the processing of wireless communication signals. More specifically, certain embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus to improve closed loop transmit diversity modes performance via interference suppression in a WCDMA network equipped with a RAKE receiver.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Mobile communications has changed the way people communicate and mobile phones have been transformed from a luxury item to an essential part of every day life. The use of mobile phones is today dictated by social situations, rather than hampered by location or technology. While voice connections fulfill the basic need to communicate, and mobile voice connections continue to filter even further into the fabric of every day life, the mobile Internet is the next step in the mobile communication revolution. The mobile Internet is poised to become a common source of everyday in ...

Element substrate and light emitting device

Abstract:

A wireless interface module interfaces a machine control system, such as a vending machine controller, with one of plural wireless networks through one of plural removably coupled wireless transceivers. Communication between geographically distributed vending machines and a desired wireless network is supported by coupling a transceiver associated with the desired network to the wireless interface module. This advantageously provides flexibility in selecting from one of plural wireless networks for a distributed vending machine so that communication between the control system and a distal operating center is supported over a preferred wireless network through a standardized wireless interface module incorporated in the vending machine by changing the wireless transceiver removably coupled to the wireless interface module.

Description:

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates in general to the field of remote data acquisition and transmission, and more particularly, to a method and system for interfacing a machine control system and a wireless network for communicating information such as for monitoring and controlling distributed machines, such as vending machines.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Although industrial and commercial equipment manufacturers have developed new and innovative equipment for managing, monitoring and controlling remotely-distributed industrial equipment and machine controllers, significant difficulties remain in the seamless integration of available wireless technology into industrial equipment. For instance, remotely distributed vending machines are sometimes interfaced with a central data and control center to monitor and control inventory. Wireless communications are one possible way of transmitting vending machine information from remote locations. However, fragmented communication networks provide a challenge for incorporating wireless communication into ...

Method for powering a control circuit for a gas discharge lamp during pre-heating of said lamp, and a device for performing said method

Abstract:

An antenna system is provided having switched directional antennas. The antenna system includes a first antenna for receiving signals within a first directional coverage zone, and a second antenna for receiving signals within a second directional coverage zone. According to one embodiment, the first and second antennas are located on a vehicle. The system has a device to detect orientation of the vehicle. The system further includes a receiver having control circuitry for controlling selection of the signals received from the first and second antennas based on orientation of the vehicle, location of one or more sources, and antenna coverage zones for the first and second antennas.

Description:

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention generally relates to antennas and, more particularly, to a vehicle mounted antenna system and method of selectively communicating signals with remote transmission sources, such as satellites.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Automotive vehicles are commonly equipped with various signal communication devices such as audio radios for receiving broadcast radio frequency (RF) signals, processing the RF signals, and broadcasting audio information to passengers in the vehicle. Satellite digital audio radio (SDAR) services have become available that offer digital radio service covering a large geographic area, such as North America. Currently, a couple of satellite-based digital audio radio services are available in North America. These SDAR services are referred to as Sirius satellite radio which employs three satellites in elliptical orbit and XM satellite radio which employs two satellites in geo-stationary orbit. Both services receive uplinked programming which, in turn, is rebroadcast directly to digital radios that subscribe to the service. Each subscriber to the SDAR service generally includes a digital radio having a receiver and one or more antennas for receiving ...

Resetting an electronic ballast in the event of fault

Abstract:

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a rotatable intermediary transfer member; and a transfer unit, configured and positioned to form a transfer nip between the intermediary transfer member and the image bearing member, for transferring the toner image from the image bearing member onto a surface of the intermediary transfer member. The transfer unit includes a sheet member on which the intermediary transfer member is slidable, and includes an elastic member for urging the sheet member toward the intermediary transfer member at a position of the transfer nip. The sheet member is provided with a reinforcing portion, having a linear expansion coefficient different from that of the sheet member, in an area in which the elastic member urges the sheet member.

Description:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION AND RELATED ART

The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus, utilizing an electrophotographic recording method, such as a laser printer or a copying machine.

The image forming apparatus, utilizing the electrophotographic recording method, such as the copying machine or the printer includes a transfer unit to which a transfer voltage is to be applied by a transfer voltage applying unit such as a high voltage source circuit. This transfer unit provides a transfer (electric) charge of an opposite polarity to a charge polarity of a toner image to the toner image borne on, e.g., a photosensitive drum through a belt member such as a transfer conveyer belt for carrying a transfer material or an intermediary transfer belt. As a result, the toner image on the photosensitive drum is electrostatically transferred onto the transfer material or a surface of the intermediary transfer belt.

As the transfer unit, a sheet-like transfer device using a sheet such as a thin plate-like member or the like is employed. U.S. Pat. No. 5,594,538 discloses the shee ...

Method and apparatus for collector sweeping control of an electron beam

Abstract:

A developing device is provided that facilitates developing agent delivery upward. A cartridge includes a developing roller, a supply roller, and a container disposed below the supply roller. The container can have an upper portion formed with an opening having upper and lower edges. A conveying member can be rotatably disposed in and in rotational contact with an inner surface of the container for delivering the developing agent upward. The developing agent container can include a first wall portion for receiving developing agent through the opening. The first wall portion extends from the lower edge in a downstream direction with respect to a rotational direction of the conveying member toward a bottommost portion of the supply roller. The container also includes a second wall portion extending from the upper edge in an upstream direction. The conveying member can be in simultaneous sliding contact with the first and second wall portions.

Description:

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2008-117979 filed Apr. 30, 2008. The entire content of the priority application is incorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a developing device and an image forming apparatus provided with the developing device.

BACKGROUND

A tandem type image forming apparatus is known in which a plurality of photosensitive drums is arrayed in line in a horizontal direction. Laid-open Japanese Patent Application publication No. 2003-29532 discloses such an image forming apparatus provided with a toner container in which a toner chamber containing a toner as a developing agent is disposed below a photosensitive drum.

In such a conventional image forming apparatus, stabilized toner supply to the photosensitive drum may be difficult to achieve, since the toner in the toner chamber must be ...

Alkali-free aluminoborosilicate glasses for lighting means with external or internal contacting

Abstract:

An image forming apparatus includes: a process unit including a photosensitive element; an exposure member exposing the photosensitive element to light to form an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive element; a main body casing accommodating the process unit and the exposure member; and a developer cartridge supplying developer to the process unit. The developer cartridge is attachable to and removable from the process unit. In this image forming apparatus, the exposure member is positioned between the photosensitive element and the developer cartridge so as to be attached and movable between a first position in which the photosensitive element is exposed to light by the exposure member and a second position in which the exposure member is away from the photosensitive element. Further, the developer cartridge has a pressing portion for pressing the exposure member toward the first position with the developer cartridge being attached to the main body casing.

Description:

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the foreign priority benefit under Title 35, United States Code, В§119(a)-(d) of Japanese Patent Application No. 2007-144765 filed on May 31, 2007 in the Japan Patent Office, the disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus equipped with an exposure member, which is movable toward and away from a photosensitive element.

Generally, in a known image forming apparatus, a photosensitive drum (photosensitive element) is electrically charged and this electrically charged photosensitive drum is then irradiated with light so that the electric potential of the irradiated area lowers to form an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive drum. Thereafter, developer is supplied onto this latent image to form a developer image, which ...

Discharge bulb for vehicle

Abstract:

A fixing device includes a fixing belt, exercitation coils for induction-heating the fixing belt, power supplies that supply high-frequency power to the excitation coils, an output power detecting circuit that detects output electric energy of the power supplies, a power control circuit that controls the output electric energy of the power supplies, and temperature sensors that detect the temperature of a surface portion of the fixing belt. When electric energy applied to the excitation coils during the power fall reaches minimum power set in advance larger than 0 W, the power control circuit maintains the minimum power while the temperature detected by the temperature sensors is within a predetermined control temperature range and controls output power of the induction heating power supplies to shift from the minimum power to 0 W when the detected temperature deviates from the predetermined control temperature range.

Description:

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus, and, more particularly to temperature control for a fixing device of the image forming apparatus.

BACKGROUND

In an image forming apparatus such as a copying machine or a printer employing an electro photographic process, a toner image formed on a photoconductive drum is transferred onto a transfer member such as a transfer belt. Thereafter, the transferred toner image is melted by a fixing device including a pressing roller, a fixing roller and a fixing belt suspended around the fixing roller, and is fixed on a recording medium such as a sheet.

As a method of heating and melting a toner in the fixing device, for example, an induction heating system (an IH system) for feeding a high-frequency current to an induction coil, causing an induction current (an eddy-current) in a fixing roller or a fixing belt, causing the fixing roller or the fixing belt to generate heat is put to prac ...

High-pressure discharge lamp

Abstract:

A liquid developer collecting system includes a developing roller cleaning unit that collects liquid developer on a developing roller; a developer storage unit that stores the liquid developer collected by the developing roller cleaning unit; and a concentration control unit that stores the liquid developer fed from the developer storage unit and controls the concentration of the liquid developer.

Description:

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the benefit of priority under 35 USC 119 of Japanese patent application no. 2007-277541, filed on Oct. 25, 2007, and Japanese patent application no. 2008-130607, filed on May 19, 2008, which are incorporated herein by reference.

BACKGROUND

1. Technical Field

The present invention relates to a plurality of photosensitive bodies, a plurality of developing devices that use liquid developer containing non-volatile solvent as carrier to develop electrostatic latent images formed on the respective photosensitive bodies, a transfer body that sequentially transfers toner images developed by transfer units corresponding to the plural photosensitive bodies and stacks the toner images, a liquid developer collecting system that controls concentration of liquid developer collected from the developing devices and reuses the liquid developer, and also relates to an image forming apparatus including these components.

2. Related Art

Various types of wet-type image forming apparatus that develop a latent image using high-viscosity liquid developer containing toner formed by solid components and dispersed in liquid solvent to visualize an electrostatic latent image have been proposed. The liquid developer used in a typical wet-type image forming apparatus contains solid components (toner particles) suspended in electricity-insulation organic solvent (carrier) such as silicon oil, mineral oil and edible oil. The particl ...

Glass composition and display panel using the same

Abstract:

A simplified optical receiver architecture capable of tracking and demultiplexing polarization-multiplexed signals, dynamically compensating for PMD using a variety of polarization controller technologies, and reducing the number of delay line demodulators by two for both DPSK and DQPSK modulation is illustrated. Once polarization is stabilized at the first stage of the cascaded system of the present invention, subsequent stages can be simplified and cost reduced.

Description:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates generally to optical receivers, and more particularly, to systems and methods for a simplified optical receiver architecture capable of tracking and demultiplexing polarization-multiplexed signals, dynamically compensating for Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) using a variety of polarization controller technologies, and reducing the number of delay line demodulators by two for both Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) and Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK) modulation.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Conventional fiber optic communication systems are well-developed for transmitting high-data rate signals, such as 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps signals. However, these high data rates are being pushed towards ever increasing speeds due to rapid growth in networks. For example, current standards bodies (e.g., IEEE) are considering data rates of 100 Gbps, which would require ever higher transmission rates (i.e., approximately 112 Gbps), once forward error correction (FEC) and framing (e.g., G.709) overheads are considered. Other standards bodies, such as ITU-T, are considering data rates of 120 Gbps, again requiring even higher transmission rates (i.e., approximately 130 Gbps). Such high data rates are beyond the limit of conventional electronics and optics. For example, conventional systems utilize a direct binary modulation scheme. Disadvantageously, direct bin ...

Black paste and plasma display panel and method for preparation thereof

Abstract:

A signal equalizer for compensating impairments of an optical signal received through a link of a high speed optical communications network. At least one set of compensation vectors are computed for compensating at least two distinct types of impairments. A frequency domain processor is coupled to receive respective raw multi-bit in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) sample streams of each received polarization of the optical signal. The frequency domain processor operates to digitally process the multi-bit sample streams, using the compensation vectors, to generate multi-bit estimates of symbols modulated onto each transmitted polarization of the optical signal. The frequency domain processor exhibits respective different responses to each one of the at least two distinct types of impairments.

Description:

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This is the first application filed in respect of the present invention.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to high-speed optical communications networks, and in particular to a signal equalizer in a coherent optical receiver.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Optical signals received through conventional optical links are typically distorted by significant amounts of chromatic dispersion (CD) and polarization dependent impairments such as Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD), polarization angle changes and polarization dependent loss (PDL). Chromatic dispersion (CD) on the order of 30,000 ps/nm, and polarization rotation transients at rates of 105 Hz are commonly encountered. Various methods and systems intended to address some of these limitations are known in the art.

FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a representative coherent optical receiver capable of implementing the methods of Applicant"s co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/294,613 filed Dec. 6, 2005 and entitled “Polarization Compensation In A Coherent Opti ...

Plasma display panel

Abstract:

While continuously providing a service in an existing optical communication system, a service at another communication speed is realized at low cost. For this reason, a station-side optical network terminal apparatus is configured so that to one light-emitting unit connected are a first processing unit that performs a process to output an optical signal at one communication speed by the light-emitting unit and a second processing unit that performs a process to output an optical signal at another communication speed by the light-emitting unit.

Description:

This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from Japanese patent application No. 2006-231306, filed on Aug. 28, 2006, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention pertains to a station-side optical network terminal apparatus, a subscriber-side optical network terminal apparatus, and an optical communication system such as a PON (Passive Optical Network) to perform transmission/reception of information at a high speed by communication using light as a transmission medium.

2. Description of Related Art

In recent years, with popularization of multimedia service such as video service or internet access, installation of an optical communication system which performs communication connection to a subscriber device by FTTB (Fiber to the Building), FTTH (Fiber to the Home), or the like using light as a transmission medium is advanced.

FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a general PON. In an optical communication system serving as a related art of the present invention as shown in FIG. 1, an optical signal from a station-side optical network apparatus OLT (Optical Line Terminal) is passively split and coupled by an optical star coupler serving as a 1-to-multi connection optical split coupler and connecte ...

Plasma display panel and method for manufacture of the same

Abstract:

An image pickup apparatus capable of obtaining a satisfactory picked up image, even if a light emission device cannot emit the requested light amount. When notified that at least one of slave flash devices is unable to emit a set amount of light, a master flash device recalculates amounts of light emission of the flash devices based on a possible light emission amount of a flash device having a maximum deficiency of light amount relative to a set light emission amount, thereby maintaining light amount ratios at the time of multiple flash photographing.

Description:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a technique for controlling an amount of light emitted from a light emission device of an image pickup apparatus.

2. Description of the Related Art

Conventionally, there has been known a technique for controlling amounts of light emitted from flash devices during photographing using a master flash device directly coupled to a camera and at least one slave flash device disposed apart from the master flash device (see, Japanese Laid-open Patent Publication No. 2000-89307).

In this technique, unidirectional communication from the master flash device to the slave flash device is used for control of light emission.

Therefore, even if the slave flash device cannot emit the amount of light requested by the master flash device at multiple flash photographing, the master flash device cannot recognize that fact. As a result, photographing cannot be performed at light amount ratios between the flash devices set by the user, making it difficult to obtain a picked-up image intended by the user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides an image pickup apparatus capable of obtaining a satisfactory picked up image even if a light emission device cannot emit the requested amount of light, and provides a light emi ...

Organic light-emitting device and display apparatus using the same

Abstract:

A drop sensor detects a drop of a device. When the drop of the device is detected, a sub CPU allows a counter to count a drop time. When the device drops for a predetermined time or more, the sub CPU controls a regulator so that the regulator forcibly disconnects an electric power to be supplied to a hard disc, and writes a drop occurrence flag into a nonvolatile memory. When the power supply is again turned on, a main CPU allows a display section to display information indicating that the power supply is disconnected due to the drop of the device.

Description:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a portable recording/reproducing device that records or reproduces information about a video signal, an audio signal or the like. The invention particularly relates to the recording/reproducing device that are capable of avoiding or reducing various malfunctions occurred in the device when the device is dropped.

2. Description of the Related Art

Since hard disc drives, which are one kind of magnetic disc devices, have a comparatively susceptibility to external impacts, the use of the hard disc drives as recording media of portable electronic devices is avoided. In recent years, however, as hard discs are miniaturized and have larger capacity, the hard discs are designed so as to relive the external impacts. For this reason, the hard discs can be used as recording media of various recording/reproducing devices such as portable music players and camcorders.

Users possibly drop portable recording/reproducing devices by accident. When the hard disc drives is dropped, a magnetic head thereof bump against a magnetic disc surface so that recording data and moreover the hard disc itself are possibly damaged. Therefore, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-263853 discloses that when a drop sensor detects a drop of a devi ...

Light emitting device with anodized metallization

Abstract:

Related arts have failed to realize a data recording/reproducing apparatus having the ability to, while video-audio data is being recorded in a first recording medium, notify a user of the number of second recording media to which the recorded video-audio data is equivalent. For breaking through the situation, a data recording/reproducing apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a module which monitors an amount of video-audio data recorded in a first recording medium, and a module which displays an equivalent of the amount of recorded video-audio data in terms of the capacity of a second recording medium.

Description:

CLAIM OF PRIORITY

The present application claims priority from Japanese application serial No. JP 2006-243536, filed on Sep. 8, 2006, the content of which is hereby incorporated by reference into this application.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a data recording apparatus, or more particularly, to a data recording apparatus that records data in a plurality of recording media.

2. Description of the Related Art

As a data recording apparatus that records data in a plurality of recording media, there is, for example, an apparatus disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2005-182864.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2005-182864 has disclosed a recording/reproducing apparatus having the ability to copy data from a first recording medium to a second recording medium.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In recent years, a video camera adopting a disk medium represented by a digital versatile disk (DVD) has made its debut as a recording medium. The recognition of the DVD camera has deepened because there is no concern about overwriting and it is easy to reproduce or retrieve recorded video-audio data. The market for the DVD camera is ...

Organic electro-luminescence display having an inverted trapeziform patterned separator structure

Abstract:

A fiber optic cable connection assembly includes an enclosure housing and a fiber optic cable. The enclosure housing defines a chamber and a fiber handling region disposed in the chamber. The fiber optic cable has a lengthwise cable axis and including a plurality of cable optical fibers, a jacket surrounding the cable optical fibers and a strength member extending through the jacket. The cable includes an arcuately bent cable segment disposed in the chamber. The bent cable segment defines a cable plane and an interior region within the arc of the bent cable segment. At least one of the cable optical fibers extends fully through the enclosure housing uncut. The strength member extends fully through the enclosure housing uncut. The fiber handling region is disposed in the interior region. At least one of the cable optical fibers is removed from the bent cable segment and routed into the fiber handling region where at least a portion of the removed cable optical fiber is stored and/or spliced to another optical fiber.

Description:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to communication cable termination systems and, more particularly, to optical fiber termination systems and methods for terminating the same.

An extensive infrastructure supporting telecommunication has been developed, traditionally based upon copper wire connections between individual subscribers and telecommunications company network distribution points. More recently, much of the telecommunications network infrastructure is being extended or replaced with an optical fiber based communications network infrastructure. The carrying capacity and communication rate capabilities of such equipment may exceed that provided by conventional copper wired systems.

As such, fiber optic cables are widely used for telecommunications applications where high information capacity, noise immunity and other advantages of opt ...

White and color photoexcitation light emitting sheet and method for the fabrication thereof

Abstract:

An integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor chip including a front surface and a back surface; a via extending from the back surface of the semiconductor chip into the semiconductor chip, wherein the via is light transparent; and a photon detector in the semiconductor chip and exposed to the via.

Description:

TECHNICAL FIELD

This invention relates generally to optical signals for an integrated circuit, and more particularly to semiconductor chips having built-in circuits for converting optical clock signals to electrical clock signals.

BACKGROUND

Clock signals are essential to the operation of modern integrated circuits, in which the operations are synchronized by clock signals, which often contains a repeated pattern of “1010.” To speed up the integrated circuits, the clock signals have to be speed up. Currently, the clock signals have the frequencies in giga hertz (GHz) ranges. It is expected that by year 2010, the clock signals will be in the range of about 15 to 20 GHz. In this range, the electrical signal begins to merge with optical signals.

With the increase in the frequencies of clock signals, more heat is generated by the clock signal circuits, for example, flip-flops. Significantly greater power consumption and more severe heat-dissipating problems are hence resulted. With the increased heating and increased frequencies, glitches and jitters also become more severe, hence preventing the further increase in the frequencies of clock signals. Various methods (U.S. Patent Publication Nos. 2005/0145783, 2005/0223683, and 2003/0094699) have been explored to introduce optical clock signals into semiconductor chips, and converting the optical clock signals in the semiconductor chips to electrical clock signals. In these methods, photon detectors are used to convert the optical clock signals to the electrical clock signals.

The conventional methods, howeve ...

Display apparatus

Abstract:

A method for digitally magnifying images applied to an electronic device includes the steps of: reading in a preview image inputted into the electronic device; executing a 2-fold image magnifying process to the preview image; executing a fuzziness removing process to the preview image; segmenting the preview image into a background area and a text area, executing a correspondingly text strengthening process to the text area; and determining if the preview image is magnified up to a predetermined amplification factor; if yes, outputting the preview image after being magnified to a display screen for displaying the preview image; and otherwise, going back to re-execute the 2-fold image magnifying process to the magnified preview image, and then executing the fuzziness removing process and the text strengthening process, in order to generate the preview image magnified about 4-fold or more.

Description:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a method for magnifying images, and more particularly to a method for digitally magnifying images applied to an electronic device having an image capturing element so as to efficiently remove the unclear and shaking problems of images, which are captured and digitally magnified by the electronic device, caused by high-speed moving and vibrating of the image capturing element, to lower the interference of random noise signals, and to provide more stable and clearer images.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Presently, with the advance of medical technologies and the improvement of life qualities, human life spans are increasingly elongated, resulting in serious problems relating to aging society. Especially, with the increase of age, when one reaches such as 40 years old or more, the presbyopic problem will be gradually apparent. Thus, a magnifier or a pair of presbyopic glasses (i.e. reading glasses) is an essentially important tool for him t ...

Electro-luminescent display device

Abstract:

A video processing system may implement a video scaling algorithm using interpolation based on polyphase filtering. A video or graphics scaler may be utilized to scale luma, chroma, and/or alpha information in a video image. The scaler may comprise a first polyphase sub-filtering with zero phase shift that generates an in-phase filtered output from an input video image and a second polyphase sub-filtering that generates an out-of-phase filtered output from the input video image. The video scaler may also comprise an interpolator that may generate a scaled video image based on the generated in-phase and out-of-phase filtered outputs and a scaling factor. The scaling factor may be determined based on an input video size (M) and a desired output video size (N). The interpolation of the generated in-phase and out-of-phase filtered outputs in the video scaler may be implemented by utilizing a Farrow structure.

Description:

FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT

[Not Applicable]

MICROFICHE/COPYRIGHT REFERENCE

[Not Applicable]

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

Certain embodiments of the invention relate to video processing. More specifically, certain embodiments of the invention relate to a system and method for implementing graphics and a video scaling algorithm using interpolation based on symmetrical polyphase filtering.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

In video applications there may be a large number of video and/or graphic display formats that may be supported by many different vendors. These different video display formats may differ, at least in part, in their horizontal resolution, vertical resolution, and/or aspect ratio, for example. The selection of a particular video display format may depend on user and/or vendor specification. The use of a particular video display format may also be determined by standard specifications, for example. In order to enable system co ...

Display device and method for manufacturing thereof