Abstract:
A selective call radio (10), including a housing (12), has a display (18) and touchpad (22) of the same size. The display is mounted to a surface on one side of the housing, and the touchpad is mounted to another surface on an opposite side of the housing, directly opposite the display. A screen surface of the display and a touch surface of the touchpad are parallel and have a same number of edges. Sliding of a user's fingertip on the touchpad in a right-to-left direction causes movement of a pointer (26) in a left-to-right direction, and vice versa. Movement on the touchpad causes movement in an identical amount on the display.
Abstract:
A temperature-indicating field effect transistor (100) includes a transistor die (101) including a drain (103), a source (105), and a gate (107). A temperature measurement device (109, 111) is thermally coupled to the transistor die (101) and electrically coupled to the gate (107). A transistor package (113) encapsulates the transistor die (101) and the temperature measurement device (109, 111). The transistor package (113) has three externally accessible terminals including a first terminal (115) connected to the drain (103), a second terminal (117) connected to the source (105), and an input terminal (119) coupled to the temperature measurement device (109, 111).
Abstract:
A modified trimmed mean filtering method and apparatus for a misfire detection includes acquiring a time-continuous series of acceleration data samples (601) representative of acceleration behavior of a reciprocating engine. And, providing a filtered acceleration data sample (607) dependent on an average acceleration magnitude of a portion of the acceleration data samples bounded within a range of amplitudes and, preferably, a time-centered acceleration data sample (606) of the fixed length time-continuous series of acceleration data samples. A misfire condition can be indicated (409) dependent on a magnitude of the filtered acceleration data sample.
Abstract:
A communication system (10) for coupling a selective call transceiver (18) to a widely distributed information source (24) comprises a server (22) coupled to the widely distributed information source. The server contains agents for retrieving information customized for a given selective call transceiver. The system further includes a paging terminal (20) coupled to the server for allowing the selective call transceiver to request information from the server. The system also includes a transmitter for transmitting the predetermined information retrieved from the widely distributed information source to the selective call transceiver.
Abstract:
A capacitor (14) is disposed in, for example, a ferrite shell (12). A winding (20) is formed around the shell, thereby providing an inductive component. Additional windings may be provided to form a transformer. In combining the two components into a unitary package, a space savings is realized, and assembly efficiency is increased.
Abstract:
Power control in a spread-spectrum communication system takes place by determining origination power of a traffic channel based on a number of active demodulators and pilot channel signal quality (610). Once origination transmit power is determined and call origination takes place, the transmit power is reduced at a first rate when a time is less than a time for all active demodulators to be established (615), otherwise the transmit power is reduced at a second rate (621). After all active demodulators have been acquired power control takes place by receiving a Power Measurement Report Message (PMRM) or a Pilot Strength Measurement Message (PSMM), determining a signal quality metric existing at the remote unit based on the PMRM or PSMM, and adjusting transmit power based on the signal quality metric (645).
Abstract:
an a liquid crystal display (16) having rows and columns of pixels (22), one or more selected rows of pixels are turned off (put in a standby mode) in a manner that saves power. A row of pixels is turned off by applying to the row a cyclical two-level voltage (BP2) having a magnitude that, when combined with voltages (FP3) applied to columns, results in each pixels in the selected row receiving a combined voltage (BP2-FP3) having a reduced number of transitions (30), having a magnitude that is insufficient to turn on a pixel, and having an average value of substantially zero over a cycle. The method is incorporated in a liquid crystal display apparatus (32) having a mode control (54) for switching selected rows of pixels between an active mode and a standby mode.
Abstract:
The method generally includes the steps of receiving (201) a message (100) comprising a message indicator (101) and a plurality of encrypted blocks (103 through 111). When at least one block of the plurality of encrypted blocks is received with error, a second message is transmitted (215), which second message requests a retransmission of the at least one block. Upon receiving the retransmission of the at least one block without error, a keystream is generated (219) from the message indicator and the at least one block is decrypted using the keystream.
Abstract:
A receiver (109) and a method therein arranged and constructed to receive a signal using a noncoherent matched filter structure including a frequency detector (205) arranged to process a first portion (602) of the signal to provide a frequency error; a timing detector (206), responsive to the frequency error, arranged to process a second portion (604) of the signal to provide a timing error; and a symbol detector (209), responsive to the frequency error and the timing error, arranged to process a symbol portion (606) of the signal to provide a detected symbol.
Abstract:
A phase lock loop of a synthesizer (143) is controlled by applying (506) modern optimal control techniques for a predetermined period in a computing engine (222), in response to an error being introduced into a signal of the phase lock loop, and by utilizing (510) classical control techniques for controlling the phase lock loop after the predetermined period.