Abstract:
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to render an edge effect for an object. An object is obtained in a computer-generated rendering having vector geometry. An interior geometry is created for a fill of the object. Contour geometry is created for an outline stroke that covers an edge of the object. A proximity to the edge of the object is calculated for each pixel of the object and each pixel of the contour geometry. An effect is then rendered based on the proximities.
Abstract:
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to modify an appearance style of a computer generated rendering. A computer generated rendering consisting of vector geometry is obtained. A closed second geometry is created in the computer generated rendering. The closed second geometry is then converted to a domain. An appearance style for an active region of the domain is identified and applied to all vector geometry in the active region on a per-pixel basis.
Abstract:
A small office/home office base transceiver station (SOHO BTS) server capable of managing interference by correlating pilot strength measurements sent by mobile devices and directing the attenuation settings for each transmit path. An array of antennas coupled to an array of transmit paths are selectively activated one at a time. When a transmit path is activated, the SOHO BTS server sets the associated variable attenuator to its maximum level. The SOHO BTS server detects whether a radio environment report or and a pilot strength measurement message (PSMM) containing information about a mobile station's pilot strength is present. When the pilot strength is greater than a predetermined value, the SOHO BTS server increases the setting on the attenuator. Otherwise, the SOHO BTS server decreases the attenuator setting until such pilot strength information is available or if the lowest attenuator setting has been set. The other transmit paths are also tested accordingly.
Abstract:
A mobile terminal comprising a local display for displaying multimedia data. The mobile terminal receives multimedia data via a first wireless interface and transmits the received multimedia data to an external display via a second wireless interface. The mobile terminal transmits the received multimedia data to the external display if the mobile terminal determines the quality of the external display is superior to the quality of the local display.
Abstract:
A demodulator for demodulating S orthogonal modulation codes, each code comprising M binary bits representing an N-bit data symbol, where M=2N. The demodulator comprises a Logic 00 detector for comparing pairs of binary bits to 00 and outputting [+1,+1] if a match occurs or [−1,−1] otherwise; S accumulators; and a Logic 00 switch array comprising S switches, where a Kth switch couples an output of the Logic 00 detector to a first input of a Kth S accumulator. The demodulator also comprises a storage array for storing S code masks, each code mask comprising M/2 code mask bits and each M/2 code mask bit associated with a corresponding sequential pair of M binary bits; and control circuitry for synchronously applying the M/2 code mask bits in a Kth code mask as a control signal to the Kth switch in the Logic 00 switch array.
Abstract:
A mobile station for canceling interference caused by a dominant interferer signal in a 1xEV-DV wireless network. The mobile station comprises an RF down-converter for outputting a down-converted signal, r(n); a first PN demodulator for multiplying the down-converted r(n) signal by a first PN code sequence to produce a first demodulated output signal; W Walsh code demodulators that multiply the first demodulated output signal by a selected set of W Walsh codes to produce W raw user signals; W subtractors that subtract a selected estimated interference signal from one of the W raw user signals to produce W estimated user signals; and a detector that outputs a detected user signal for each of the W estimated user signals that exceeds a first threshold value. The mobile station further comprises an interference estimator that receives W detected user signals from the first detector and outputs W estimated interference signals to the W subtractors.
Abstract:
A small office/home office base transceiver station including an ultra-wideband transceiver that transmits pulses on directional antenna array elements and monitoring for reflections. Directions from which a large number of reflections are detected are presumed to correspond to the interior of the building within which the base transceiver station is located, while directions from which few or no reflections are detected are presumed to correspond to outside walls. Transmit power gain for directional antenna array elements used for communications are then set to reduce transmission of power in directions that might result in interference with adjacent base transceiver stations.
Abstract:
A sensor profile based data aggregation method for aggregating data in a sensor network, which includes a plurality of sensor nodes, is provided. This method includes steps of determining types of sensors included in the sensor nodes, and generating a sensor profile that includes information on each type of the sensors. The information includes a filtering criterion and aggregation operators defined for the each type of the sensors. Once the sensor profile is created, the profile is parsed into a header file, and the header file is compiled with other sub-modules to generate a sensor profile based aggregation module. The sensor profile based aggregation module is installed in each of the sensor nodes. Whenever, sensor data is received in the sensor node, the data is filtered according to the filtering criterion defined in the sensor profile, and data aggregation is simultaneously with given operators.
Abstract:
A small office/home office base transceiver station includes an acoustic sensor array. Directions from which acoustic signals are detected are presumed to correspond to the interior of the building within which the base transceiver station is located, and with human activity within that interior, while directions from which few or no acoustic signals are detected are presumed to correspond to proximate outside walls. Transmit power gain for directional antenna array elements used for communications are then set to reduce transmission of power in directions that might result in interference with adjacent base transceiver stations.
Abstract:
A method of dynamically allocating sub-carriers for communication in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex network is provided. The method includes monitoring network conditions and allocating sub-carriers for the base station to a set of downlink sub-carriers or to a set of uplink sub-carriers based on the network conditions.