Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restore the frequency and phase of a carrier by generating a first carrier which is not correlated to an input signal, to be modulated, to multiply the first carrier by the input signal, which should be modulated, and removing radiation of undesirable spectrum by plural filters arranged at the up/down stream of a multiplier. SOLUTION: A signal reaching from a tuner 11 is sampled by an analog/ digital converter 12 and supplied to a block 10, next. The block 10 includes an input filter 1, a low-pass filter 2 and a multiplier 3 for removing radiation of undesirable spectrum. In the block 10, the multiplier 3 multiplies a signal outputted from the filter 1 by a carrier given by a carrier generator 13. A digital demodulator includes a means for detecting phase shift between the frequency of an input signal (x), which is given from the converter 12 and supplied to the filter 1, and a local carrier in addition.
Abstract:
In a pressure sensor (35), a pressure-sensor element (10) has a monolithic body (12) of semiconductor material, and a first main face (12a) and a second main face (12b) acting on which is a stress resulting from a pressure (P) the value of which is to be determined; and a package (36) encloses the pressure-sensor element (10). The package (36) has an inner chamber (37) containing liquid material (38), and the pressure-sensor element (10) is arranged within the inner chamber (37) in such a manner that the first and second main faces (12a, 12b) are both in contact with the liquid material (38). In particular, the liquid material is a silicone gel.
Abstract:
A method for encoding and decoding media signals, includes the operations of generating at a transmitting side multiple descriptions associated to data of the media signals through a downsampling operation (DS) performed on the data, and decoding at a receiving side the multiple descriptions for reconstructing the data by merging (US) the multiple descriptions. The operation of generating multiple descriptions further includes the operations of obtaining a spectral representation (S) of the data, comprising bands (LS, MS HS) associated to different ranges ((LR, MR HR), the bands (LS, MS HS) being obtained by a suitable quantization operation and comprising at least one highly quantized band (HS), that is subjected to a higher degree of quantization. A scrambling operation (SC, SC') is performed on the spectral representation (S) by moving the at least one highly quantized band (HR) to a different range (LR, MR), the scrambling operation being performed prior the downsampling operation (DS). In decoding, a descrambling operation (DS, DS') is performed before the merging (US) operation on the multiple descriptions. Preferred application is in coding of video signals by using polyphase downsampling (PDMD).