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An accommodating intraocular lens is provided having optical parameters that are altered in-situ, wherein an optic portion of the lens includes a lens piston that alters the shape of a lens element of the lens to alter the optical power of the lens, responsive to forces applied to a haptic portion to the lens by contraction of the ciliary muscles. Forces applied to the haptic portion are concentrated by the lens piston to provide a greater dynamic range, and may be further augmented by the use of haptic pistons disposed in the haptic portion of the lens.

The present invention is a hybrid RF-digital signal processor-based filter for multiband radio architectures systems capable of spectrum re-farming and software defined radios. It performs low-loss frequency agile multiple notch filtering at RF where a large dynamic range exists at a filter input between signals in a stopband and passband. It is a frequency dependent signal attenuation apparatus having two paths connected together by directional couplers. The first path comprising a component such as a delay component or duplexer. The second path comprising a bandstop filter connected to a down converter, a digital filter, and an up converter. At the output of a power amplifier, the invention can be used to attenuate spurs, or noise within bands with strict emission constraints. At the input of a low noise amplifier, the invention can be used to attenuate blockers and transmitter noise outside of the receiver passband.

A transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, communication system, and a signal processing method of each applying a suitable modulation method and transmission path estimation method in accordance with characteristics of the transmission information for improving the transmission efficiency operate so that at the transmission side, the ratio of adding transmission path estimation pilot symbols is suitably controlled in accordance with an aspect of the dat transmitted, for example, the size of the packets transmitted and the state of the transmission path, wherein the transmission data is mapped by the selected modulation method, and the signal is processed in accordance with the method of estimation of the transmission path, and the transmission signal is produced by inverse fast Fourier transform processing and transmitted. At the reception side, the received signal is fast Fourier transformed, the transmission path is estimated by the transmission path estimation method selected at the transmission side, the received signal is correct in accordance with result, and the received data is reproduced in accordance with the modulation method. Therefore, it is possible to always adopt the optimum transmission method in accordance with the attribute of the transmission data etc. and possible to realize an improvement of a transmission efficiency and an enhancement of the quality of communication.

The invention relates to a single-chip bridge-type magnetic field sensor which comprises a substrate, reference arms, sensing arms, shielding structures and bonding pads, wherein each reference arm and each sensing arm are respectively provided with at least two rows / lines of reference element strands and sensing element strands, each reference element strand and each sensing element strand are formed by one or multiple identical magneto-resistor sensing elements which are electronically connected, the reference element strands and the sensing element strands are arranged and placed in a staggered mode, each magneto-resistor sensing element is one kind of sensing elements selected from AMR, GMR or TMR, each shielding structure is corresponding arranged on each reference element strand, one sensing element strand is located at the interval position between two shielding structures, and one shielding structure is a long-strip-shaped array which is made of soft magnetic materials permalloy. The single-chip bridge-type magnetic field sensor can be achieved in three bridge structures such as quasi bridge, half bridge and full bridge. The single-chip bridge-type magnetic field sensor has the advantages of being small in size, low in cost, small in offset, high in sensitivity, and good in linearity and temperature stability.

The invention discloses a solid-state imaging device, a drive method thereof and an electronic apparatus using the same. A solid-state imaging device includes: plural photodiodes formed in different depths in a unit pixel area of a substrate; and plural vertical transistors formed in the depth direction from one face side of the substrate so that gate portions for reading signal charges obtained by photoelectric conversion in the plural photodiodes are formed in depths corresponding to the respective photodiodes. The electronic apparatus using the solid-state imaging device has increased saturated charge quantity (Qs), improved sensitivity and reduced pixel size. The drive method of the solid-state imaging device can reduce the pseudo color, image retention, noise and color mixture and improve the sensitivity.

The invention discloses a dual channel microwave power detection system based on a microelectronic mechanical microwave power sensor and a preparation method thereof. The system has the advantages of simple structure, large measurement range and no direct current power consumption. The system is based on a gallium arsenide substrate. A coplanar waveguide transmission line (A), a thermoelectric MEMS microwave power sensor (B) and an MEMS clamped beam capacitor type microwave power sensor (C) are designed on the substrate. When the power of a microwave signal is small, the thermoelectric MEMS microwave power sensor carries out detection according to the one-to-one corresponding relationship between the thermopile output voltage and the microwave power. When the power of the microwave signal is large, the MEMS clamped beam capacitor type microwave power sensor carries out detection. A square mass block is designed on an MEMS clamped beam above the coplanar waveguide transmission line. The area with the coplanar waveguide transmission line is increased, and at the same time the weight of the center position of the MEMS clamped beam is increased. Static power is more likely to cause large deformation of the MEMS clamped beam, and the system sensitivity is improved.

Stackable planar adsorption devices include a plurality of layers of adsorptive media provided in a web format. The layers are stacked in contiguous fashion, sealed and include fluid passageways to provide a range of scalable chromatography devices suitable for large scale manufacturing applications.

A non-contact, free-space method for determining the index of refraction of a thin film at a desired angular frequency. The method includes generating an input desired-frequency pulse and an optically detectable probe pulse. The thin film is moved in and out of the path of the input pulse, creating an output pulse that alternates between a transmitted signal, created when the film intercepts the input pulse path, and a reference signal, created when the sample is outside the input pulse path. The output pulse modulates the probe pulse, which is then detected with a photo detector, and the difference between the transmitted signal and the reference signal is calculated. The above steps are repeated over a plurality of delay times between the input pulse and the probe pulse until a complete field waveform of the differential signal is characterized. The index of refraction is calculated as a function of a ratio between the differential signal for the thin film and the reference signal. A complete field waveform of the reference signal may be characterized by repeating the above steps for a reference plate identical to the sample except having a non-transmissive film instead of the thin, transmissive film.

The invention discloses a multi-axial inertial sensor and a method for measuring multi-axial translatory motion and rotating acceleration. The sensor includes a frame moving along a spindle, one or more pair of inductive mass blocks and an outer elastic structure. Each inductive mass block is hanged on the frame by an inner elastic structure, the symmetric axis of the inner elastic structure is consistent with the symmetric axis of the hanged inductive mass block, the frame is hanged on a sensor platform by the outer elastic structure; the inner elastic structure and the inductive mass block are installed to lead the centers of mass to deviate with each other along the direction of the spindle, and the outer elastic structure and the frame are also installed to lead the centers of mass to deviate with each other along the direction of the spindle. The multi-axial inertial sensor of the invention can measure a plurality of axial acceleration and rotation at the same time, which has high resolution, rather low inter-axle crosstalk sensitivity and strong resistance to environmental noise, and produces with low cost and mass.

The invention relates to a high sensitivity receiver installed outdoors which may be used in a base station of a mobile communication system, for example. A received radio frequency signal is converted into a signal in a desired frequency band by a reception bandpass filter RXF3, is subject to a low noise amplification to a desired level by a low noise reception amplifier LNA4, and the amplified signal is converted into an optical signal by a laser diode LD5. RXF3, LNA4 and LD5 are confined in a heat shielding box. LD5 is cooled by cooling means to the order of critical temperature where RXF3, for example, assumes a superconducting state, whereby the dynamic range is increased and stabilized.

An apparatus and method for non-invasive determination of attributes of human tissue by quantitative infrared spectroscopy to clinically relevant levels of precision and accuracy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue spectrum, high signal- to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy requirements, tissue sampling errors, calibration maintenance problems, and calibration transfer problems. The subsystems include an illumination / modulation subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a calibration maintenance subsystem, an FTIR spectrometer subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, and a computing subsystem.

The invention provides an energy dispersion device, spectrograph and method that can be used to evaluate the composition of matter on site without the need for specialized training or expensive equipment. The energy dispersion device or spectrograph can be used with a digital camera or cell phone. A device of the invention includes a stack of single- or double-dispersion diffraction gratings that are rotated about their normal giving rise to a multiplicity of diffraction orders from which meaningful measurements and determinations can be made with respect to the qualitative or quantitative characteristics of matter.