Abstract:
A surge protector circuit and method of protecting electronic equipment which do not load down a circuit at high frequencies and do not degrade a signal in high speed data transmission. A gas tube (2) is connected in parallel with low capacitance diodes (52, 54, 58, 60, 62, 66) and an avalanche semiconductor device (56, 64), such as a TVS. The diodes and the avalanche semiconductor clamp the voltage transient and allow the slower gas tube more time to fire, discharging the surge. The addition of the low capacitance diodes in series with the avalanche semiconductor, reduces the line-to-line and line-to-ground capacitances of the surge protector and keeps the surge protector circuit from loading down the rest of the circuit and degrading the signal.
Abstract:
A data network telephony system (99) includes a router (410) connected to a DNT-capable data network (500) and a wireless transceiver (400) and adapted to operate the transceiver (400) by a two-way narrow-band, multiple-channel, real-time duplex radio protocol, and a plurality of portable computer-enhanced communicator units (100, 200, 300 and 600), including microphone and speaker apparatus (105 and 106), each adapted to communicate with the router (410) by the two-way real-time duplex radio protocol and to process DNT calls.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an acoustic echo suppressor and a non-linear processor for an echo canceller in a 4-wire data transmission network. An echo canceller is typically controlled by comparing the power levels (PWRIN, PSIN) of the near-end and far-end signals (RIN, SIN). The transfer function of an acoustic echo path is usually very non-uniform. According to the invention, the spectrum of the far-end signal (RIN) is treated, before the signal power level is calculated, with a weighted filter (21), which models the effect of the transfer function of acoustic echo. As a result, the double talk dynamics is improved, since high-energy vowels of far-end speech, which normally cause low-energy vowels of near-end speech to be clipped in an echo suppressor, will be attenuated.