摘要:
Methods and systems for locating a portable device in an enclosure having a location defining a virtual wall are provided. The system includes first and second infrared (IR) transmitters directed to opposite sides of the virtual wall. Each of the transmitters is configured to selectively transmit an interfering IR signal (IIS) and a data signal including a corresponding transmitter location ID.
摘要:
An RFID system with a plurality of tags and base stations where transmission of information to a specific tag is carried out by one of the base stations, where said one of the base stations is selected based on received signal power of the tag relative to the plurality of the base stations.
摘要:
A content navigation method that may be used with a storage device that holds multiple content objects includes a controller, at least one search switch and at least one control switch. Each of the content objects has a corresponding name which includes at least one character from an alphabet. The controller determines a set of names of the stored content that corresponds to the activation of the search switch, displays at least one name the set of names and, responsive to the control switch, selects the content object corresponding to the displayed name. The search switches may include multiple search switches, each associated with a predetermined set of letters from the alphabet. Alternatively, each switch may have an corresponding display and may be associated with a dynamically determined set of letters based on their frequency of occurrence in the names.
摘要:
A base station that uses an antenna assembly and associated signal processing where the antenna assembly includes at least one directional antenna, developing information from which a determination is made regarding the direction from which a received signal is coming. By employing a plurality of such base stations the location of a transmitting tag is ascertained.
摘要:
A method for correcting the phase and amplitude imbalance of a quadrature modulated RF signal requires that errors be induced in both amplitude, &rgr;, and in phase &phgr; in at least three different combinations in order to determine the appropriate correction value for amplitude and phase offsets &Dgr; and &thgr;e. According to a first embodiment the same &rgr; and &phgr; offsets applied in three different combinations to determine the necessary &Dgr; and &thgr;e corrections. According to a second embodiment, a fourth measurement is made in order to determine an unknown control scale factor for balance adjustments.
摘要:
Inspection of a surface (14) on a circuit board (10) to detect for defects, such as misinserted leads (18--18) or missing or mis-sized components (20'--20'), is accomplished by directing beams of light (34--34) towards the surface along a first angular direction. The intensity of the light reflected along a second direction from each of a plurality of successive thin strips (40--40) running across the surface (14) is sensed by a linescan camera (36) which moves relative to the circuit board. The output signals produced by the linescan camera, as the linescan camera moves across the circuit board, are processed to obtain image data representative of each of the strips. Only the image data representative of predetermined regions (75--75) within each strip where defects may occur are retained. The retained image data are then analyzed to determine if defects are present.
摘要:
An object is zoomed upon selection. A scaling factor is calculated for zooming the object based on current viewing properties of a document and properties of the object as well as the current size of the application window and device. The scaling factor to zoom the object is calculated such that after the object is zoomed, viewing the object is similar to a viewing experience for the rest of the document. Text of the document may be displayed to increase the readability of the document. For example, the text may be displayed such that each line of displayed text averages out to a predetermined number of characters (e.g. 50-75 characters) per line. A display size and width of an average character are determined and used to calculate how many columns of text to display within the display. When the zoom level of the text changes, the text is redisplayed.
摘要:
An RFID system with a plurality of tags and base stations where transmission of information to a specific tag is carried out by one of the base stations, where said one of the base stations is selected based on location of the tag relative to the plurality of the base stations; illustratively, by the base stations that is closest to the tag.
摘要:
A circuit board, for use with a high speed backplane, includes transmitter and receiver with circuitry for correcting for multipath signal errors. A training sequence that is often a pseudo-random signal is transmitted by the transmitter on a first circuit board to a receiver located on a second circuit board. The receiver on the second circuit board includes an analog-to-digital signal converter, an equalizer, and a binary digital-to-analog reconverter for receiving the training sequence. The equalizer preferably comprises a series of connected registers having taps in between, a plurality of individual weighting means attached to each of the taps, and a summing means connected to the weighting means. A training sequence is transmitted from the first circuit board to the receiver on the second circuit board, enabling the receiver to adaptively determine a set of weighting means coefficients for correcting the multipath errors in subsequent signals. Coefficients for the weighting means are then adjusted from the output of the summing means. The method and system described can substantially reduce the cost of backplane fabrication and enhance the performance of the overall system.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to an illumination source (10) for illuminating an object (11) with light (16) of substantially constant intensity. The illumination source includes an electric light bulb (12) which is supplied with voltage from an adjustable- voltage power supply (14). The voltage supplied by the power supply (14) varies in accordance with the intensity of the light (16) radiated from the bulb (12), as sensed by a photodiode (24). The photodiode (24) is separated from the bulb by a length of lightguide fiber (26) into which light from the bulb is coupled by a glass rod (28). The fiber (26) and the rod (28) allow the photodiode (24) to be supplied with light from the bulb (12), yet to be thermally insulated therefrom, so as to avoid thermal run-away of the diode.