Abstract:
An NFC enabled listening device (2) is capable of communication with an NFC enabled reading device in any of several NFC technologies, exemplified by NFC-A, NFC-B, NFC-F and NFC-V. To facilitate selection of the optimum communication technology, and to minimise time and energy consumption, the NFC enabled listening device (2) is provided with a plurality of control modules (4a-4d) each configured to decode only one of the several NFC technologies.
Abstract:
There is described a method for establishing an NFC connection between a subscriber identity module (SIM) and an NFC device (RDR). The subscriber identity module (SIM) is connected to a telecommunications system (CELL_P) through contacts (VCC, RST, CLK, D+, GND, SWP, IO, D-) of the telecommunications system (CELL_P). The telecommunications system (CELL_P) comprises a chipset (CHP) and an NFC circuit (NFCC). The method comprises measuring the level of charge of a battery (BATT) powering the telecommunications system (CELL_P) with a battery gauge. Based on the measurement, the method selects the source for supplying power to the subscriber identity module (SIM) and configures the wiring of the subscriber identity module (SIM). The disclosure also relates, in particular, to a telecommunications system, to a computer program, and to a storage medium.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for connecting an auxiliary charger IC (52) to a mobile platform chipset (52) so that charger connection (64) wakes-up the power management unit (50), operating system or charging software as soon as there is enough battery power for operating system to run the charging software. The apparatus comprises: a power management unit (50) powered by the battery (24); and an auxiliary charge controller (52) powered by the battery (22) or by power from any one or more of the charging power sources (64); the method comprising the steps of: the auxiliary charge controller (52) generating a first wake signal (56, 58) upon detection of a charging voltage at any one or more of the charging power sources; the power management unit (50) booting or waking the operating system upon detection of the wake signal; and determining whether the operating system has woken or booted correctly; characterised by: upon determining a boot or wake failure of the operating system, the auxiliary charge controller (52) generating a second, periodic wake signal (50, 58, 56) until it is determined that the operating system has booted or woken correctly.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for code activation, and a computer program and a storage medium thereof. A combined channel impulse response for each code is calculated based on a channelization code, a scrambling code and a channel impulse response corresponding to the code; a statistical result of the correlations between each interference code and all user codes is obtained; an active interference code number is determined; the determined number of interference codes, are activated, wherein a selection of which interference codes to activate is based on the statistical result. In some embodiments of this invention, the interference codes having a close correlation with the user codes may be selected to be activated, thereby the performance of joint detection is improved. In some embodiments of this invention, the complexity of the subsequent joint detection will be remarkably reduced on the premise of ensuring the performance of the joint detection.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a voltage level shifting device (100; 200) for driving a capacitive load (C L ). The level shifting device comprises: - a first line set at a first reference voltage (GND); - a second line set at a second reference voltage (VDD1) greater than the first reference voltage (GND); - a third line set at a third reference voltage (VDD2) greater than the second reference voltage (VDD1). The device comprises an input terminal (N1) for receiving a first input signal (V IN ) switchable between a first logic state corresponding to the first reference voltage (GND) and a second logic state corresponding to the second reference voltage (VDD1), and an output terminal (102; 202) for supplying an output signal (V OUT ) switchable between a first logic state corresponding to the third reference voltage (VDD2) and a second logic state corresponding to a fourth reference voltage (VDD2-K) obtained by reducing the third reference voltage (VDD2) of a predetermined operative voltage (K).
Abstract:
This invention generally relates to rolling shutter effects rectification and stabilisation of video sequences. The proposed solution simulates motion estimation on rolling shutter corrected images by altering the motion vector field based on a rolling-shutter correction parameter. By doing so it is taken advantage of the fact that the motion vector field obtained from motion estimation of images rectified in rolling shutter is equivalent to the rectified motion vector field of the subject application. This way the proposed apparatus is able to perform both rolling shutter correction and video stabilization algorithms based on original images while in the sequential implementation of prior art, original images are used for the rolling shutter algorithm and rolling shutter corrected images are used in video stabilisation.
Abstract:
A method of scheduling a first type of data for transmission on a first radio bearer is disclosed. The method is suitable for a transmitter of a wireless communication device. The first radio bearer is a signaling radio bearer adapted to carry the first type of data and a second type of data, where the second type of data comprises at least one of Non-Access Stratum (NAS) messages and Radio Resource Control (RRC) messages. The method comprises assigning a first priority to the first type of data and assigning a second priority to the second type of data (wherein the first priority is lower than the second priority), placing data of the first and second type in a transmission queue based on the first and second priorities, and transmitting data of the first and second type in accordance with the transmission queue. Corresponding computer program product, arrangement and wireless communication device are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A method of conditioning a first signal transmitted between a first and a second near field communication, NFC, device, the method comprising: determining a transfer function representative of a distortion arising from transfer of a signal from the first NFC device to the second NFC device; determining a pre-distortion function from the transfer function; and applying the pre-distortion function to the first signal, wherein the pre-distortion function at least partially compensates for the determined transfer function.
Abstract:
A method of self-test for a near-field communication (NFC) radio frequency (RF) front-end unit comprising one antenna driver and at least one unit from a group comprising one reader and one card emulator, the RF front-end unit being connected to a digital front-end unit, wherein the antenna driver and the unit are interconnected through a first connection line via their respective first input-output interface and are also interconnected through a second connection line via their respective second input-output interface, the digital front-end unit being connected to the second connection line, the method comprising: - activating the antenna driver and the unit based on control signals; - generating a first signal onto the first connection line by modulating a respective first bitstream; - retrieving a second bitstream from the second connection line, by demodulating the first signal; and, - determining an outcome of the self-test by monitoring the demodulated signal.
Abstract:
It is proposed a method for receiving and demodulating an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal received through a transmission channel (TC) by a receiver (RCV), comprising demultiplexing said signal to generate time symbols (y 1 (n)) and performing a time-to-frequency conversion of these time symbols to generate frequency bins (Y 1 (k)) corresponding to received symbols, the received symbols comprising preamble symbols. The method comprises: - Determining an estimated carrier frequency offset on the basis of frequency bins corresponding to used subcarriers of the preamble symbols; - Applying said estimated carrier frequency offset to the time symbols so as to correct the carrier frequency of these received symbols.