摘要:
The present invention provides a novel Geometric Harmonic Modulation (GHM) system. The GHM system operates in two modes, a preamble mode and a traffic mode. During the preamble mode, n+1 frequencies are each offset by a predetermined phase offset in a transmit unit and passed through a channel to a receive unit. The set of phase offsets is used as the spreading code in the transmit unit, and also acts as an `address` of receive units to transmit to. The receive unit monitors preamble signals to determine the phase offsets. When it recognizes a set of phase offsets, or `address`, which pertains to itself, the receive unit stores the phase offsets and uses these phase offsets to despread and decode the appended message. After the preamble mode is finished, the transmit unit enters the traffic mode and requests the message to be transmitted from the message source. A traffic carrier waveform is created by multiplying tones, each having its specific phase offset. Both analog or binary message are provided by a switching device in interleaved fashion to an appropriate modulator which encode the messages in the traffic carrier waveform. The receive unit detects a preamble carrier and recovers the particular preamble phase offsets to be used as the despreading `key`. The receive unit then senses then separates the binary from analog message signals and employs the phase offsets in despreading the received signal to recover the transmitted analog and binary messages in an interleaved fashion.
摘要:
A highly fault tolerant method of radio communication of information in the form of a message packet employs a distributed network of transmitter/receivers `transceivers` each having a unique identification ("ID") number. An initiating transceiver creates a message packet having the ID of a transceiver intended to receive the message packet. It then broadcasts the message packet to transceivers within its transmission range. Each transceiver which receives the message packet checks to see if there are errors and sends an acknowledgement if no errors. The transceivers determine valid message packets by determining if the message has not expired, if it has not been seen before and there were no errors in the received message packet. The transceiver also determines if the transceiver ID in the message packet match its own transceiver ID, and if it does, is the message has been successfully transmitted to its intended transceiver. If the message packet is valid and the transceiver IDs do not match, the transceiver broadcasts the message to other local transceivers until a predetermined number of acknowledgements are received, or until the message expires. The transceivers which receive the message packet repeat the process.
摘要:
Apparatus for detecting defective conditions associated with a set of railway vehicle wheels and with a railtrack upon which a given railway vehicle travels comprises a rotation measurement unit for generating data indicative of rotational rate of the set of wheels; a motion sensor, such as an accelerometer or vibration sensor, for generating data indicative of motion along a vertical axis relative to the railtrack; and a data processor coupled to the motion sensor and to the rotation measurement unit for receiving the rotational rate and motion data. The data processor is designed for detecting, based on the received rotational rate and motion data, a defective condition associated with the wheel set and for detecting, based on the received motion data, a defective condition associated with the railtrack. The apparatus can be operatively combined with a mobile tracking unit for a vehicle tracking system.
摘要:
An optical communications system includes apparatus for interferometric signaling in which light signals are propagated from a first location so as to form at least one predetermined interference pattern at a second location remote from the first location and then the received light signals are demodulated at the second location. The apparatus includes a substantially coherent light source and a plurality of adjacent, substantially coplanar optical modulators in the path of the emitted light.
摘要:
A method, apparatus and system are provided for recognizing broadcast segments, such as commercials, in real time by continuous pattern recognition without resorting to cues or codes in the broadcast signal. Each broadcast frame is parametized to yield a digital word and a signature is constructed for segments to be recognized by selecting, in accordance with a set of predefined rules, a number of words from among random locations throughout the segment and storing them along with offset information indicating their relative locations. As a broadcast signal is monitored, it is parametized in the same way and the library of signatures is compared against each digital word and words offset therefrom by the stored offset amounts. A data reduction technique minimizes the number of comparisons required while still maintaining a large database.
摘要:
Systems are provided for efficiently managing the effects of a change to a transportation system's state. One example system comprises a plurality of distributed data input and data output terminals, the distributed data input terminal configured to automatically generate data related to a first aspect of transportation system operation, at least one of a distributed database and a synchronized database configured to store data, a plurality of distributed computational engines configured to receive data from at least one database, and based on the data received, automatically manage operations of a second, different aspect of the transportation system operations, and a communications network linking the data input terminals, the data output terminals, the databases, and the computational engines, wherein the change to the transportation system's state is initiated by the data generated at the distributed input terminals.
摘要:
A method for operating a train having at least one locomotive vehicle, the method including controlling operation of the train via a first crew member located on-board the locomotive unit, providing information that may be required for operation of the train to a second crew member located remote from the first crew member, and using the information to enable the second crew member to assist the first crew member in the controlling of the train.
摘要:
An enhanced cryptographic system of high security for a ciphering of a block of data bits under control of a cryptographic key and for generating a one way transformation of a block of data bits with said cryptographic system being based upon the traditional DES but utilizing a variable permutation after the S box substitution function. Said variable permutation is able to be realized in an FPGA implementing the variable permutation via a switching network such as an Omega or Bennes-Waksman network with the switching network control elements under control of the cryptographic key and with an electable mode compatible with the traditional single DES and TDEA and their various modes and with a further capability for a privacy mode within a set of holders of common cryptographic key via a sub key selection mask. A method and process for efficient interruption and resumption of the cryptographic operation are also described.
摘要:
A traffic carrier waveform W.sub.n (.PHI.,R;t) being the product of a number of tones is employed in transmitting blocks of information from a transmit unit to a receive unit. The tones are geometrically increasing multiples of a frequency of a fundamental tone. Each tone incorporates a tone phase. The selection of these tone phases uniquely identifies each transmitted signal. The tone phases also is used as a `key` in converting a message signal into a direct wide spectrum signal for communication. To insure that third parties do not decode the transmitted message, the tone phases are transformed to seed phases by a method known to both the transmit and receive units, but not to third parties. The seed phases are then transmitted by intermittent preamble carrier waveform to the receive unit which transforms these into the tone phases and decodes the message signal. The seed phases may be dynamically changed according to a sequence known or generated by both the transmit unit and receive unit. In another embodiment, the tone phases may also be prestored in both the transmit and receive unit, and there is no need to calculate and transmit seed phases.
摘要:
The present invention provides a novel Geometric Harmonic Modulation (GHM) system. The GHM system operates in two modes, a preamble mode and a traffic mode. During the preamble mode, n+1 frequencies are each offset by a predetermined phase offset in the transmit unit and passed through a channel to a receive unit. The set of phase offsets is used as the spreading code in the transmit unit, and also acts as an `address` of receive units to transmit to. The receive unit monitors preamble signals to determine the phase offsets. When it recognizes a set of phase offsets, or `address`, which pertains to itself, the receive unit stores the phase offsets and uses these phase offsets to despread and decode the appended message. After the preamble mode is finished, the GHM modulator enters the traffic mode and requests the message to be transmitted from the message source. A traffic carrier waveform is created by multiplying tones, each having its specific phase offset. An analog or binary message is encoded by modulating the traffic carrier waveform. The receive unit detects a preamble carrier and recovers the particular preamble phase offsets to be used as the despreading `key`. The receive unit then employs the phase offsets in despreading the received signal to recover the transmitted message.