Abstract:
An acoustic antenna for computer workstation, used for video conferencing that comprises a plurality of microphones connected to a summator circuit. The microphones are distributed in a layout so as to form a substantially straight line and are each spaced with respect to a reference microphone placed in the vicinity of the vertical axis of symmetry of the screen of the workstation according to a specified law. The layout exhibits a substantially cylindrical directivity pattern whose axis of revolution is formed by the straight line.
Abstract:
In an analysis-by-synthesis speech coder employing a short-term perceptual weighting filter with transfer function W(z)=A(z/.gamma..sub.1)/A(z/.gamma..sub.2), the values of the spectral expansion coefficients .gamma..sub.1 and .gamma..sub.2 are adapted dynamically on the basis of spectral parameters obtained during short-term linear prediction analysis. The spectral parameters serving in this adaptation may in particular comprise parameters representative of the overall slope of the spectrum of the speech signal, and parameters representative of the resonant character of the short-term synthesis filter.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a multi-wavelength filter that is insensitive to polarization, comprising a bundle of optical waveguides made on a common substrate and organized in such a manner that the wavelength response of the filter depends on the phase shifting to which the light propagating in the waveguides is subject. The filter also comprises polarization rotators placed on the path of the light in such a manner that in each of the optical waveguides the light paths for the TE and TM polarization modes are of equal length. The polarization rotators are of the type comprising means for loading each optical waveguide and for creating asymmetry in the effective refractive index thereof.
Abstract:
A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser component operating at a wavelength lying in the range 1.3 .mu.m to 1.55 .mu.m, the component comprising a layer of active material having an injection zone of width that is smaller than the width of the component, said zone emitting radiation when an electrical current is injected therein, the component also comprising an amplifying medium for amplifying the radiation and two mirrors that are reflective at the emission wavelength and disposed respectively above and below the amplifying medium. The amplifying medium includes a circular barrier extending facing the active material, said barrier opposing the passage of current and defining a current-passing channel in its center facing the injection zone, said channel being of a width that is smaller than the width of the injection zone.
Abstract:
The demodulator is for processing a signal having a carrier modulated by (0, .pi.) phase shifts and sampled at a rate that is at least twice the frequency of the carrier co. It comprises, in cascade: a first multiplier for squaring successive samples e(t), a phase locked loop adjusted to the frequency of the carrier, thereby performing programmable digital filtering; a divider for dividing the frequency by two, reconstituting the carrier from the output of the phase locked loop; a second multiplier receiving the sampled input signal and the output signal from the divider and an output lowpass digital filter. A phase adjustment circuit is placed upstream of one of the inputs of the second multiplier.
Abstract:
A process and a device for creating comfort noise for discontinuous speech transmission in which, following the end of each detected active period, a silence descriptor frame is generated as a set of parameters describing the comfort noise. For every successive current inactive frame, the frequency spectrum is analysed and then compared with a reference spectrum stored previously. Upon identity of the reference frequency spectrum and the current frame spectrum, no new silence descriptor frame is transmitted. Upon absence of identity of these spectra, a new silence descriptor frame is transmitted.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a modular assembly comprising at least two modules to be assembled together and to be electrically interconnected when assembled for the purpose of conveying a microwave signal from an electronic circuit of one of the modules to an electronic circuit of the other module, said electronic circuits being disposed in respective packages. One of said electronic circuits includes at least one opto-electronic component that is optically connected to at least one optical fiber. Both packages are adapted to receive a microwave feedthrough having a central conductor whose axial ends come into contact with conductive tracks belonging to each of said electronic circuits, respectively.
Abstract:
The linear predictive analysis method is used in order to determine the spectral parameters representing the spectral envelope of the audiofrequency signal. This method comprises q successive prediction stages, q being an integer greater than 1. At each prediction stage p(1.ltoreq.p.ltoreq.q), parameters are determined representing a predefined number Mp of linear prediction coefficients a.sub.1.sup.p, . . . , a.sub.Mp.sup.p of an input signal of the said stage. The audiofrequency signal to be analysed constitutes the input signal of the first stage. The input signal of a stage p+1 consists of the input signal of the stage p filtered with a filter with transfer function ##EQU1##
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for electrical insulation of conductive or semiconductor materials of a substrate, characterized in that it comprises at least the following steps: (a) at least one so-called conformal layer of insulating oxide is deposited on the predetermined regions of the substrate to be insulated; (b) a layer of planarizing oxide precursor is deposited on the predetermined regions by chemical reaction in plasma phase of a tetraalkylsilicate and of hydrogen peroxide; (c) at least one layer of insulating oxide is deposited on the predetermined regions; and (d) a conversion annealing operation is carried out. It also relates to the semiconductor devices and integrated-circuit elements having insulated narrow cavities.
Abstract:
A smart card having a counter zone associated with a first reference zone, and a balance zone associated with a second reference zone. The counter zone has at least two levels of counters, each having at least two bits. The counter zone is operable in accordance with the abacus principle. The first reference zone has at least one register with at least two bits and is operable to display the proper erasing of the counters. The second reference zone has at least two fields. Bits of a balance are written simultaneously in the balance zone and in the second reference zone. The balance zone and the second reference zone each include one validation bit making it possible to know if the balance is fully written.