公开(公告)号：US20170346340A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-30

申请号：US15169482

申请日：2016-05-31

Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC. ,  STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.

Inventor： Andrea Lorenzo VITALI ,  Michael GALIZZI

IPC: H02J50/12 ,  H02J7/02

CPC classification number: H02J50/12 ,  H02J7/0054 ,  H02J7/025 ,  H02J2007/0059

Abstract: A wireless power transmitting/receiving device includes a power transmitting/receiving element, a plurality of switches, a current sensor and a controller. Each of the plurality of switches has a control terminal and a conduction terminal, with the conduction terminal being coupled to the power transmitting/receiving element. The current sensor senses a current through the power transmitting/receiving element, and the controller is configured to control the plurality of switches based on the sensed current.

公开(公告)号：US20150280648A1

公开(公告)日：2015-10-01

申请号：US14640682

申请日：2015-03-06

Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.

Inventor： Andrea Lorenzo VITALI

IPC: H03D7/14 ,  H03M1/12

CPC classification number: H03M1/12 ,  G01D3/024 ,  H03M1/1205 ,  H04N5/23258 ,  H04N5/2355 ,  H04R3/005 ,  H04S2400/09

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to multichannel transducer devices and methods of operation thereof. One example device includes at least two acquisition modules that have different sensitives and a signal processing stage that generates a blended signal representative of a lower gain signal mapped onto a higher gain signal. One example method of operation includes receiving a first signal from a first sensor having a first sensitivity, receiving a second signal from a second sensor having a second sensitivity that is different from the first sensitivity, generating a blended signal by mapping the second signal to the first signal, outputting the first signal while the first signal is below a first threshold and above a second threshold, and outputting the blended signal when the first signal is above the first threshold and when the first signal is below the second threshold.

Abstract translation: 本公开涉及多通道换能器装置及其操作方法。 一个示例性装置包括具有不同敏感度的至少两个采集模块和产生表示映射到较高增益信号的较低增益信号的混合信号的信号处理级。 一种示例性操作方法包括从具有第一灵敏度的第一传感器接收第一信号，从具有与第一灵敏度不同的第二灵敏度的第二传感器接收第二信号，通过将第二信号映射到 第一信号，当第一信号低于第一阈值并高于第二阈值时输出第一信号，并且当第一信号高于第一阈值时以及当第一信号低于第二阈值时输出混合信号。

公开(公告)号：US20140289363A1

公开(公告)日：2014-09-25

申请号：US14222770

申请日：2014-03-24

Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.

Inventor： Alexandro SENTINELLI ,  Andrea Lorenzo VITALI ,  Allan TASCHINI

IPC: H04L29/08

CPC classification number: H04L67/10 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/0041 ,  H04L67/108

Abstract: In an embodiment, information contents, such as, e.g., media contents arranged in pieces including blocks of bits, is distributed over a network including plural terminals at least one of which acts as a source of the pieces of information distributed. Various terminals in the network are configured to act as peer terminals with at least one first peer terminal sending the information to one or more second peer terminals. A set of blocks of a corresponding piece of information is received at the first peer terminal and the corresponding piece of information is reconstructed from the set of blocks received. The pieces of information distributed over the network are fountain encoded by XOR-ing the blocks in a piece, so that a received piece is reconstructable from a combination of a corresponding set of linearly independent XOR-ed blocks. The first peer terminal may start sending to the second peer terminal(s) blocks it is receiving before the corresponding piece of information is reconstructed and possibly subjected to integrity check at the first terminal. Fountain encoding the pieces of information is by means of plural sets of linearly independent XOR-ed blocks. A same piece of information is distributed to a plurality of peer terminals by sending thereto different sets of linearly independent XOR-ed blocks, thus avoiding undue redundancy in the information further propagated to other peers.

Abstract translation: 在一个实施例中，信息内容，例如，诸如包括位块的片段的媒体内容，分布在包括多个终端的网络上，其中至少一个终端充当分发的信息的源。 网络中的各个终端被配置为充当与至少一个第一对等终端向对一个或多个第二对等终端发送信息的对等终端。 在第一对等端接收一组对应的信息块，并从所接收的一组块重构对应的信息段。 分布在网络上的信息通过对块中的块进行异或进行编码，从而可以从对应的一组线性独立的XOR编辑块的组合重建接收的片段。 第一对等终端可以在相应的信息片段被重建并且可能在第一终端进行完整性检查之前开始发送到它正在接收的第二对等端子块。 编码信息的喷泉是通过多组线性独立的XOR-ed块。 通过向多个对等终端发送不同的线性独立XOR-ed块集，将相同的信息分发到多个对等终端，从而避免进一步传播到其他对等体的信息中的过度冗余。

公开(公告)号：US20170184415A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-29

申请号：US15456396

申请日：2017-03-10

Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.

Inventor： Andrea Lorenzo VITALI

IPC: G01D3/024 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/235 ,  H04R3/00

CPC classification number: H03M1/12 ,  G01D3/024 ,  H03M1/1205 ,  H04N5/23258 ,  H04N5/2355 ,  H04R3/005 ,  H04S2400/09

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to multichannel transducer devices and methods of operation thereof. One example device includes at least two acquisition modules that have different sensitives and a signal processing stage that generates a blended signal representative of a lower gain signal mapped onto a higher gain signal. One example method of operation includes receiving a first signal from a first sensor having a first sensitivity, receiving a second signal from a second sensor having a second sensitivity that is different from the first sensitivity, generating a blended signal by mapping the second signal to the first signal, outputting the first signal while the first signal is below a first threshold and above a second threshold, and outputting the blended signal when the first signal is above the first threshold and when the first signal is below the second threshold.

公开(公告)号：US20130198151A1

公开(公告)日：2013-08-01

申请号：US13748057

申请日：2013-01-23

Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.

Inventor： Alexandro SENTINELLI ,  Andrea Lorenzo VITALI

IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract: An embodiment relates to distributing media over a peer-to-peer network by employing a digital fountain coding. Accordingly, the file is separated into file portions and the portions are combined to obtain encoded portions which are then transmitted. A file portion may form a part of a plurality of the encoded and transmitted file portions. The portions may be pieces and/or blocks of the file, wherein a piece includes a plurality of blocks. An embodiment further provides mechanisms for efficient block-request-transmission approaches in which the initial requests for blocks in the file are transmitted and additional requests for some random blocks are transmitted. The additional requests may be transmitted after each piece or after the entire file blocks have been requested, or both.

Abstract translation: 实施例涉及通过采用数字喷泉编码在对等网络上分发媒体。 因此，将文件分离成文件部分，并且将这些部分组合以获得随后被发送的编码部分。 文件部分可以形成多个编码和发送的文件部分的一部分。 这些部分可以是文件的片和/或块，其中片包括多个块。 实施例还提供了用于有效的块请求传输方法的机制，其中发送文件中的块的初始请求并发送对一些随机块的附加请求。 附加请求可以在每个片段之后或在请求完整的文件块之后或两者之间传送。