Abstract:
In-situ adjustments to frequency characteristics of an electronic device such as a piezoelectric element (40) can be accomplished by names of a predetermined atmosphere (18) enclosed within a package comprised of a base (12) and a cover (14) and an included amount of sputterable electrode material (22). By attachment of appropriate electric potentials (2), electrode molecules can be sputtered onto the electrode surfaces adjusting the resonant frequency characteristics of a crystal filter.
Abstract:
Certain operational characteristics of a crystal (104) are measured during a testing and grading process. Once determined, information representing these operational characteristics are stored in memory (120) and utilized by a controller (122) to increment a phase increment register (114) upon determining the crystals ambient temperature via a temperature sensing circuit (124). The value stored in the phase increment register (114) is then sent to a phase accumulator (116) where successive phase increments are summed together. This summed value is in turn sent to a sine lookup table (118) where the instantaneous phase value is converted into sine amplitude. Finally, a digital to analog converter (126) converts the amplitude bit stream into an analog signal for use as a reference oscillator frequency having extremely high frequency resolution. The above-mentioned process is repeated every clock cycle until a complete sine wave is produced at which point the phase accumulator is reset to zero and the process begins again.
Abstract:
The method and apparatus of the present invention permits data entry in an electronic apparatus without using a keypad. By rotating a moveable element (104), a function, letter, or number is selected. The moveable element (104) is then moved in another direction to enter the selected item. The function, letter, or number can be displayed on a display (106), announced with a synthesized voice, or displayed and announced.
Abstract:
A Time Division Multiple access radiotelephone system has a base transceiver that receives speech from, and sends speech to, the Public switched Telephone Network. The base transceiver encodes (CO, DEC) the speech in a 20 ms recurrent time slot for each associated mobile transceiver. The mobile transceivers transmit to the base transceiver on a paired full duplex radio link.
Abstract:
A method is disclosed of reducing data loss during cellular handoff of a mobile among base sites by detecting an end-of-line signal by a fax adapter (13a or 106a) from the transmitting fax, buffering (13b or 106b) subsequent fax information, and transmitting filler bits in place of the EOL and buffered information.
Abstract:
A priority assignment method (100) and device (300) are set forth for assigning a priority to a selected speech frame coded by a linear predictor coder based on at least two of: an energy of the speech frame, a log spectral distance between selected consecutive frames, and a pitch predictor coefficient for the selected speech frame. The invention protects against loss of perceptually important and hard-to-reconstruct speech frames.
Abstract:
Briefly, according to the invention, a noise-canceling microphone apparatus (302) is disclosed. The microphone comprises a housing (510) and a sound transducer (502) mounted within the housing (510). The housing has first (514) and second sides (512) and the transducer (502) has first (304) and second sound ports (308) coupled to the first (514) and second sides (512) of the housing respectively. The microphone (302) also includes a mounting clip (310) coupled to one side of the housing (512) in the proximity of one of the sound ports (308). The mounting clip (310) is intended for mounting the microphone (302) to a user so as to substantially close the sound port (308) when microphone (302) is attached.
Abstract:
A method (215) of converting a current control channel for use as a communication (voice/data) channel, in order to maintain a predetermined level of service in a radio communications system, employs a central controller (101) to allocate a limited number of communication channels among a plurality of subscriber units (108-112). After receiving (203) a request for a communication channel from one of a plurality of subscriber units (108-112), the controller (101) determines (205) whether all of the communication channels are busy. The controller then temporarily converts (215) the current control channel to a communication channel.
Abstract:
A device and method utilize a linear feedback/feedforward configuration to estimate and cancel a listener echo wherein equalizer (202) and listener echo cancellation (204 and 208) units are jointly updated, allowing determination of an error signal once (204 and 208), in place of the former method of separate error signal determination for each of an equalizer and a listener echo canceller. An improved phase-correction scheme is utlized to compensate the frequency offset in the listener echo. The relationship between the listener echo and talker far echo is utilized to facilitate the listener echo cancellation.
Abstract:
A quad 16 QAM transmission (132-136) and reception (600) methodology wherein a time domain pilot reference is advantageously associated therewith. There may be one or more such pilot references for each packet of multiple 16 QAM pulses (200). Depending upon the embodiment, each 16 QAM pulse can include a time domain pilot reference, or an estimated pilot reference (402 and 301) for that pulse can be determined either by reference to pilot references in other pulses sharing the same packet, or by reference to pilot references for other previously received 16 QAM pulses corresponding to that same pulse.