Abstract:
An audio system comprises an audio source terminal 11 and a audio playback terminal 13, connected to each another by a wireless data link 14. The source terminal 11 comprises a source computer 15, and a cellular modem 17. The playback terminal 13 comprises a playback computer 19 having an internal processor 23 and an audio processor 24. Connected to the processor 23 is a cellular modem 21, an audio transducer 25, and a user control 27. Data relating to audio components, representing different services, is stored at the source terminal 11 where it is spatially processed and transmitted to the playback terminal. At the same time, each individual audio component is transmitted at a lower bit-rate than the spatially processed data, to the audio source terminal 11, whereafter it is spatially processed. Although the low bit-rate transmission causes a loss of audio quality, the positional data remains unaffected. Accordingly, when played, the combination of a high quality signal with low three-dimensional audio positional accuracy, and a set of low quality signals with high three-dimensional audio positional accuracy, results in restoration of the human perception of three-dimensional position to the degraded three-dimensional audio signal.
Abstract:
An interactive audio system comprises an audio source terminal 11 and a audio playback terminal 13 connected to each another by a wireless data link 14. The playback terminal 13, in this case, is in the form of a mobile telephone receiver. The source terminal 1 comprises a source computer 5 provided at some fixed network core. Connected to the playback terminal 13 is an audio transducer 15, and a user control device 17. The wireless data link 14 is established over a network connection which is set-up using an existing cellular telecommunications network (as are used in mobile telephony systems). In use, the source terminal 11 acts as a device by which the playback terminal 13 can access particular services. The presentation of available services is not performed using visual data displayed at the remote terminal, but instead, audible sound is used to present services. The services are represented by audio components which are transmitted from the audio source terminal 11 over the data link 14. A user is able to select an audio component as a focus component by using the user control device 17. The focus component is transmitted at a higher bit-rate than the non focus components so as to maintain the required bandwidth of the data link at a suitable level.
Abstract:
An information technology network comprises a plurality of printers and at least one computing entity which serves as a print manager. The print manager is adapted to process print jobs by distributing the ripping process between two or more different printers, and then returning disparately ripped data to a single printer for physical marking of documents with indicia in accordance with the ripped data.
Abstract:
A headless computer entity comprises a RAID array data storage device. The headless computer entity contains a management application, capable of configuring said RAID data storage device from a blank unformatted condition into a plurality of RAID volumes, and maintaining said RAID data storage device when in operation under error conditions, and reconfiguring said RAID data storage device under conditions of replacement of a physical data storage component of said RAID array.
Abstract:
The invention relates to Internet Key Exchange (IKE). IKE Main Mode generally takes a substantial and significant amount of time in which to implement and, where IKE is implemented in software, Main Mode cannot be given until full system start up has occurred, operation systems loaded etc. The method of the present invention proposes an accelerated form of IKE in which IKE Main Mode is carried out in hardware in parallel to system start up so that, once a system has started up and come fully on-line, the results of IKE Main Mode are already available and the IKE daemon may proceed directly with one or more Quick Modes.
Abstract:
100110018-1 A method for a user to program an electronic system not having a QWERTY keypad. A user-generated electronic mail message is originated via a remote keypad. The electronic mail message includes user-selected preference data, and is communicated to an electronic mail destination. The user-selected preference data is automatically extracted from the electronic mail message, transmitted to the electronic system, and used to configure the electronic system.
Abstract:
A data reader arranged to produce an output signal on reading a data signal (1), processing circuitry (5) being arranged to produce said output signal, said processing circuitry (5) including at least a first (14) and a second (23) feedback loop, each of the feedback loops (14,23) being arranged to produce a feedback signal, said first feedback loop (14) having a first characteristic and said second feedback loop (23) having a second characteristic, the processing circuitry (5) being arranged to apply more weight to the feedback signal of the feedback loop (14,23) having the appropriate characteristic to control processing of said data signal (1) at a particular instance. The data reader is suitable for any device that is arranged to receive data but is envisaged to have application in tape drives, hard disk drives, mobile telephones, IRDA links, etc.
Abstract:
A printing media cartridge for a drum-type hard copy apparatus has printing media supply within the drum. Printable sheet lengths of printing medium are extracted from the interior of the drum through a slot such that individual prints can be produced using the drum outer surface as a platen. Removing a print from the platen extracts the next sheet length from within the drum which is then automatically wrapped back onto the drum's outer surface and aligned for the next print cycle. Printer control encoding is provided with the cartridge.
Abstract:
An inkjet print cartridge is provided for removable installation in a carriage which typically holds a plurality of print cartridges of different color printing liquids. In order to minimize overall size of the printer and its carriage, a handle is pivotally mounted on a crown of the print cartridge to move from a down recessed position during normal printing and servicing operations to an upraised position for gripping while removing the printhead from a carriage chute. The handle forms a loop to facilitate gripping with the fingers and thumb, and in its preferred form is bendable in order to provide flexible yielding upon application of undesirable lateral or torsional forces during a removal procedure.
Abstract:
A solid-state memory including an array of magnetic storage cells and a set of conductors. The process steps that pattern the conductors also patterns the magnetic layers in the magnetic storage cells thereby avoiding the need to employ precise alignment between pattern masks.