Abstract:
A phone appliance and method of use are provided where the phone appliance can be used to make VoIP communications calls. In a preferred embodiment, the phone appliance includes an RF connection for connecting to a computer or other computing device for facilitating the placement of the VoIP communications calls. The phone appliance further includes a display or portal for depicting advertisements provided by various advertisers. The advertisements provided can be used to defray all or part of the cost associated with making VoIP communications calls. The portal can also be used to communicate with businesses for ordering products. such as ordering a pizza, and to perform various services, such as purchasing stocks. In an exemplary system, the phone appliance is used to transmit to a control center information related to the user of the phone appliance, such as interests and buying habits, and queries for receiving additional information for various advertised products and services. The control center transmits the queries to the appropriate vendors for providing the user with additional information. Other functions and features are provided to the phone appliance, such as being able to download e-mail messages stored within or received by the computer.
Abstract:
A method automatically sets initially-estimated rotational frequency for a motor frequency measuring system based on pulse signals output from an encoder. Initially, a counter is reset to zero, and a count threshold and an initially-estimated rotational frequency are set. The possible motor frequencies are divided into multiple frequency ranges with specific starting frequencies. A pulse width threshold is set according to the initially-estimated rotational frequency. A new motor frequency is calculated by the count threshold and a corresponding elapsed time. The initially-estimated rotational frequency is set to be a frequency in a frequency range higher than the new motor frequency. Therefore, the initially-estimated rotational frequency can be adaptively set according to an updated frequency measurement. Moreover, the count threshold can be monotonously increased with the updated frequency measurement to enhance measurement accuracy.
Abstract:
A sectional rack for storage includes glass plates and straight rods to form a multilayer and hollow sectional rack. Each glass plate includes a conical base separately on upper and lower ends of edges and corners of the glass plate, and a flat bottom surface of each base includes two lateral indents, a recession between two lateral indents for clamping two transversal edge frames and the glass plates, and a hollow bolt installed into a recession between two bases for tightly fixing the two bases. The straight rod is passed into the recession of the base and screwed and fixed by a long bolt. The transversal edge frame of each glass plate stops objects from rolling and moving, so as to achieve the effects of changing the traditional way of assembling a sectional rack, enhancing the stability of the assembly, and preventing objects from falling out from the rack.