Abstract:
An electronic device, with a plurality of logic stages for functional collaboration, is provided with selection means for selectively operating the plurality of stages to form either a sequential logic circuit or a combinatorial logic circuit. This enables conversion of sequential logic circuitry into combinatorial logic circuitry for the purpose of effective I.sub.DDQ -testing.
Abstract:
A digital image (J.sub.o) processing method for automatic extraction of strip-shaped objects, includes a skeletonization operation with steps for forming smoothed images (J.sub.i) at several scales (.sigma..sub.i), and, in each smoothed image (J.sub.i), extracting boundaries of objects, extracting potential median pixels (.OMEGA..sub.iP) associated with the center (.OMEGA..sub.i) of a circle of radius (R.sub.i) proportional (k) to the scale (.sigma..sub.i), tangent to boundaries at a pair of distinct pixels (E.sub.1, E.sub.2), and associated with a measure of dependability regarding alignment of the center (.OMEGA..sub.i) and pixels of the pair, extracting median pixels .OMEGA..sub.iM, and constructing skeletons of objects by tracking in the digital image (J.sub.MED) formed by the extracted median pixels. The step of extracting median pixels .OMEGA..sub.im includes a first selection of potential median pixels of the same locations which have the maximum measure of dependability, and a second selection of remaining potential median pixels which locally have a maximum intensity in the direction of alignment .
Abstract:
To improve the perceived audio signal, it is known to use a harmonics generator to create the illusion that the perceived audio includes lower frequency signal parts than really available. In addition to improving the perceived so called ultra bass signals (for example 20-70 Hz) also the signals in the frequency band between the ultra bass signal and the normal audio signal are improved.
Abstract:
In a telecommunication system, more particularly for the range of ISDN technology, which includes a switching device (1), a telecommunication terminal unit (19) coupled to the switching device (1) via a first number of bus lines (3, 4, 5, 6), and (9, 10, 11, 12) for providing phantom power supply to the telecommunication terminal unit (19) via the first number of bus lines (3, 4, 5, 6), user communication means including actuation switches (28) and indicator lamps (29) are coupled to the telecommunication terminal unit (19) via a second number of bus lines (14, 115, 16, 17). This enables simplified telecommunication with minimum circuitry and cost. Power is supplied to the communication means (28, 29) by the telecommunication terminal via the second number of bus lines (14, 15, 16, 17).
Abstract:
For measuring the frequency bandwidth of a signal-processing circuit with minimal external influences, a measuring circuit for a signal-processing circuit (1), arranged on an integrated circuit, for processing at least a picture signal is characterized in that measuring pulses are applied to the signal-processing circuit (1), in that the measuring circuit changes the charge of a capacitance (10) arranged in the measuring circuit, dependent on the time shift experienced by the measuring pulses in the signal-processing circuit (1), in that the measuring circuit switches the measuring capacitance (10) before each measuring process to a reference potential for a short time by means of an electronic switch (8), and in that the measuring circuit is arranged on the same integrated circuit as the signal-processing circuit (1) and is activated only during a measuring process.
Abstract:
An identification transponder comprising an identification code generator (10) embodied as an integrated circuit predominantly comprising organic materials. The integrated circuit may be provided on an anti-theft sticker (5) accommodating an LC resonant circuit (3, 4).
Abstract:
An image relay arrangement (20) for use with a curved CRT faceplate (11) to relay a picture to a position in front of the faceplate comprises a first, imaging, microlens array (22), a second, field, microlens array (23) and a third, re-imaging, microlens array (24) which are spaced from one another and have corresponding microlens elements (25, 26, 27). At least one of the first and third arrays is curved with its spacing from the adjacent array varying over its area related to the faceplate curvature. Through this arrangement, the picture at the curved faceplate can be imaged onto a plane where, for example, a lenticular screen is located enabling autostereoscopic displays to be produced.
Abstract:
An electronic watermarking scheme is proposed that can significantly increase the security of copy protection mechanisms. The watermarking methods works at high level in the hierarchy of the (MPEG) source signal. This ensures that the watermark is easily detectable, but difficult to erase without significant transcoding effort. Such transcoding is considered a difficult and expensive task that may furthermore lead to loss of quality or increase in bit rate.
Abstract:
A communication system includes a data exchange interface which is coupled via an internal bus to a microprocessor and a DMA unit. For controlling the data exchange, the interface transmits control signals either to a microprocessor or a DMA unit. The control signals are acknowledged each time. For realizing an efficient data exchange via the interface, the interface is an I.sup.2 C bus interface with minimum load of the microprocessor, and transmits a first group of control signals by a first control line to the DMA unit and a second group of control signals by a second control line to the microprocessor. By respective settings of the interface, a selectable part of the control circuitry may be transferred from the microprocessor to the DMA unit. The total number and type of control signals (interrupts) which correspond each to a specific mode of the interface may be retained.
Abstract:
In speech recognition, a reliability measure can be determined by using various sentence hypotheses with a decreasing acoustic similarity. However, if a databank inquiry is to be derived from such a speech signal, often only individual words or even a single word from the utterance are required as data for such a databank access. Such a data, for example, the time, may be contained in the speech utterance in various ways. In accordance with the invention, a reliability measure for such a data rather than for a given word is determined, in which the same data may be constituted by various words. Thus, these various words are treated equally for determining the reliability measure.