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A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels composed of a photoelectric conversion section and a pixel transistor is arranged; an on-chip color filter; an on-chip microlens; and a multilayer interconnection layer in which a plurality of layers of interconnections is formed through an interlayer insulating film. The solid-state imaging device further includes a light-shielding film formed through an insulating layer in a pixel boundary of a light receiving surface in which the photoelectric conversion section is arranged.

A voice enhancement logic improves the perceptual quality of a processed signal. The voice enhancement system includes a noise detector and a noise attenuator. The noise detector detects and models the noise associated with rain. The noise attenuator dampens or reduces the rain noise from a signal to improve the intelligibility of an unvoiced, a fully voiced, or a mixed voice segment.

Provided is a highly accurate optical pumping magnetometer, in which a static magnetic field and an oscillating field to be applied to a vapor cell are stabilized. To this end, the optical pumping magnetometer includes: Helmholtz coils for applying a constant static magnetic field to a vapor cell serving as a magnetic field detector; fluxgate magnetometers for detecting environmental magnetic noise in two directions of X-axis direction and Y-axis direction other than Z-axis direction which is a direction for detecting a magnetic field coming out of a measurement object while locating the vapor cell in the center thereof; magnetometer drive circuits for driving the fluxgate magneotometers; current converters for converting outputs of the magnetometer drive circuits into amount of currents; and magnetic field generating coils for generating a magnetic field in a phase opposite to the environmental magnetic noise in the two directions.

Only when a wall side and the vicinity of an obstacle are cleaned, a side brush is operated and the cleaning is carried out, and when any other place than the wall side and the vicinity of the obstacle is cleaned, the side brush is maintained in a stoppage state. When a place such as the wall side or the vicinity of the obstacle in which dust is easy to accumulate is cleaned, the side brush is operated to enhance the dust collecting property. When any other place than the wall side or the vicinity of the obstacle is cleaned, the side brush is stopped to suppress power consumption and generation of a noise. A judgment processing portion detects based on a detection signal from an obstacle detecting portion that a cleaner is approaching a wall or an obstacle. In response to such detection, the judgment processing portion instructs a travel steering portion to carry out immediate rotation and change of a travel direction, or travel along a wall side. Also, the judgment processing portion instructs a side brush driving portion to drive a side brush only in the rotation and in the wall side travel, and to stop the side brush in straight advance travel.

A method of noise suppression to suppress noise in a signal containing background noise (314) in a communications path between a cellular communications network and a mobile terminal. The method comprises the steps of: estimating and up-dating a spectrum of the background noise (332, 334); using the background noise spectrum to suppress noise in the signal; generating an indication to indicate the operation of at least one of a discontinuous transmission unit (DTX) and a bad frame handling unit (BFI); and freezing estimating and up-dating of the spectrum of the background noise when the indication is present.

A system for observing a swimming activity of a person includes a waterproof housing (BET) having a motion sensor (MS), and is furnished with fixing means (BEL) for securely fastening the housing (BET) to a part of the body of a user. The system has analysis means (AN) for analyzing the signals transmitted by the motion sensor (MS) to at least one measurement axis and which are adapted for determining the type of swimming of the user as a function of time by using a hidden Markov model with N states corresponding respectively to N types of swimming.

In one aspect thereof the invention provides a method for noise suppression of a speech signal that includes, for a speech signal having a frequency domain representation dividable into a plurality of frequency bins, determining a value of a scaling gain for at least some of said frequency bins and calculating smoothed scaling gain values. Calculating smoothed scaling gain values includes, for the at least some of the frequency bins, combining a currently determined value of the scaling gain and a previously determined value of the smoothed scaling gain. In another aspect a method partitions the plurality of frequency bins into a first set of contiguous frequency bins and a second set of contiguous frequency bins having a boundary frequency there between, where the boundary frequency differentiates between noise suppression techniques, and changes a value of the boundary frequency as a function of the spectral content of the speech signal.

A method of reducing noise by cascading a plurality of noise reduction algorithms is provided. A sequence of noise reduction algorithms are applied to the noisy signal. The noise reduction algorithms are cascaded together, with the final noise reduction algorithm in the sequence providing the system output signal. The sequence of noise reduction algorithms includes a plurality of noise reduction algorithms that are sufficiently different from each other such that resulting distortions and artifacts are sufficiently different to result in reduced human perception of the artifact and distortion levels in the system output signal.

An RF generating system operates with high efficiency to supply RF output power to a plasma load. The RF generating system is capable of modulating the RF output power at frequencies up to the frequency of the RF output power while maintaining high efficiency operation. Broadband frequency modulation of the RF output power suppresses instabilities thereby minimizing unstable behavior of the plasma load.

An air intake structure is incorporated into a motorcycle having a body frame including a hollow head member provided in its front wall with an air inlet opening and supporting a steering shaft having an upper end holding a handlebar, and paired, right and left hollow main frame members extending rearward from the head member on right and left sides, respectively, of the motorcycle. The air intake structure includes an air cleaner disposed behind the head member, an inlet duct having an open front end opening forward, and an open rear end connected to the air inlet opening of the head member, an intake duct inserted in the hollow main frame member, respectively having a front part extended toward the head member in the hollow main frame member and having an open front end, and a rear part connected to the air cleaner. An air passage defined by the intake duct has a sectional area increased downstream with respect to the direction of air flow. The intake duct are internally provided with straightening plate, respectively.

A gain control amplification circuit of this invention has a gain control amplification section which has at least two stages and is arranged in the transmission circuit of a terminal equipment for communicating with a base station. The gain control amplification section includes gain control amplifiers of IF-GCA and RF-GCA arranged on the input side (former stage) and output side (latter stage) of an up converter in the transmission circuit. The gains of the gain control amplifiers are individually controlled by a control section.

A battery pack having a secondary battery is disclosed. The battery pack comprises at least one voltage converter; and switching means for switching an operation mode of the voltage converter to one of a charging mode and a discharging mode, in the charging mode, a charging voltage being output to the secondary battery, in the discharging mode, a voltage of the secondary battery being converted into a predetermined discharging voltage and the converted voltage being output.

A solid-state image sensor includes a pixel array unit including a plurality of pixels arranged in the form of an array, column signal lines adapted to transmit pixel signals output from pixels in respective columns, a noise adding unit adapted to add temporally constant and two-dimensional spatially random noise to the pixel signals transmitted via the column signal lines, and an analog-to-digital converter adapted to convert a signal level and a reference level of each pixel signal including the noise added thereto by the noise adding unit.

In order to form a noise suppressor in a hose of e.g. a motor vehicle, modular portions are connected in series to define suppression chambers with particular noise suppression characteristics. Those characteristics are due to the volume of each chamber, to the size of the apertures from the chambers to the central duct of the suppressor, and optionally due to spacers which are inserted into at least one aperture of the chambers to alter the effective open area of that aperture. Such spacers may also be used in which the noise suppressor is not modular. Where modular portions are used, it is preferable that each chamber is bounded by parts of two modular portions. A wall of one modular portion may then close the chamber in another modular portion, making the manufacture of the modular portions easier. Also disclosed is the use of a mass acting as a damper, which may be a noise suppressor as previously discussed, within a hose. The mass is connected to the hose by resilient means, e.g. electrometric material.

The invention discloses a power signal frequency detection method and system based on amplitude modulation. The method comprises the following steps: sampling a power signal according to a preset signal time length and a preset sampling frequency to obtain an input signal sequence; measuring the frequency of the input signal sequence to obtain the initial frequency of the power signal, and subtracting a pi / 2 phase-shift sequence of the input signal sequence from the input signal sequence by taking the initial frequency as a reference frequency to obtain two amplitude modulation sequences of which the amplitude vary along with the input signal frequency; performing frequency mixing, filtering and integration on the two amplitude modulation sequences respectively to obtain the amplitudes of the two amplitude modulation sequences, and performing frequency measurement. By implementing the power signal frequency detection method and system, a high-accuracy frequency measurement result can be obtained.

A system improves the perceptual quality of a speech signal by dampening undesired repetitive transient noises. The system includes a repetitive transient noise detector adapted to detect repetitive transient noise in a received signal. The received signal may include a harmonic and a noise spectrum. The system further includes a repetitive transient noise attenuator that substantially removes or dampens repetitive transient noises from the received signal. The method of dampening the repetitive transient noises includes modeling characteristics of repetitive transient noises; detecting characteristics in the received signal that correspond to the modeled characteristics of the repetitive transient noises; and substantially removing components of the repetitive transient noises from the received signal that correspond to some or all of the modeled characteristics of the repetitive transient noises.

An array of a pillar-type nonvolatile memory cells (803) has each memory cell isolated from adjacent memory cells by a trench (810). Each memory cell is formed by a stacking process layers on a substrate: tunnel oxide layer (815), polysilicon floating gate layer (819), ONO or oxide layer (822), polysilicon control gate layer (825). Many aspects of the process are self-aligned. An array of these memory cells will require less segmentation. Furthermore, the memory cell has enhanced programming characteristics because electrons are directed at a normal or nearly normal angle (843) to the floating gate (819).

The invention discloses a power signal frequency detection method and a power signal frequency detection system based on phase modulation. The method comprises the steps: sampling a power signal according to preset signal time span and preset sampling frequency, so as to obtain an input signal sequence; measuring the frequency of the input signal sequence, so as to obtain the initial frequency of the power signal, and subtracting the input signal sequence and the plus or minus 1 Pi phase-shift sequence of the input signal sequence by using the initial frequency as reference frequency, so as to obtain two phase modulation sequences of which phases change along with the input signal frequency; respectively mixing, filtering and integrating the two phase modulation sequences, so as to obtain the phases of the two phase modulation phases for frequency measurement. By implementing the power signal frequency detection method and the power signal frequency detection system, frequency measurement results with higher accuracy can be obtained.

The present invention relates to a cloth treating apparatus, including a cabinet which forms an exterior thereof, a drum rotatably mounted to the cabinet, a heat pump for supplying hot air to the drum, a steam generator for supplying steam to the drum, and a water tank for supplying water to the steam generator, wherein the water tank is positioned on a refrigerant flow passage of the heat pump, thereby increasing steam generating efficiency by elevating an initial temperature of the water used for the steam generation.

In part, aspects of the invention relate to methods, apparatus, and systems for intensity and / or pattern line noise reduction in a data collection system such as an optical coherence tomography system that uses an electromagnetic radiation source and interferometric principles. In one embodiment, the noise is intensity noise or line pattern noise and the source is a laser such as a swept laser. One or more attenuators responsive to one or more control signals can be used in conjunction with an analog or digital feedback network in one embodiment.

The invention discloses an attitude control system for space vehicle and a method thereof. The control system has only one biased momentum wheel, one set of tri-axial magnetic torquer and one attitude controller loaded with algorithm. The method comprises a step of rate damping controlling, a step of initially capturing controlling and a step of stationarity controlling. At the rate damping stage, geomagnetism change is used to control the magnetic control of three passages of a satellite by B-dot; at the initially capturing stage, the magnetic control is realized, PD control is performed by pitching and the passages are rolled and yawed to carry out nutation and precession composite control; at the stationarity controlling stage, the magnetic control is realized, PD control is performed by pitching and the passages are rolled and yawed to carry out nutation and precession composite control. The capturing stage and the stationarity controlling stage fully depend on magnetic torquer to perform positive magnetic control, thereby changing which a satellite only uses a magnetic torquer to carry out unload of the momentum wheel or auxiliary magnetic control, so as to refine system configuration to further improve reliability of the system. Momentum of a satellite is biased to rotate on the ground, so as to ensure stable separation of the satellite without performing air injection control. Therefore, the magnetic torquer can be used for realizing fast and stable initial rate damping.

A method and apparatus to remove color noise included in raw data while effectively preventing image quality degradation. For Interest pixels serially set onto a mosaic image formed of raw data, conversion is executed into a pixel value for noise removal based on a processing reference pixel value having a unified color signal component in each interest pixel, noise is removed from the pixel value for noise removal, and the pixel value for noise removal with noise removed is converted into the source pixel value, whereby only color noise can be removed without affecting a luminance signal.

An aircraft propelled by a turbojet having contrarotating fans, the turbojet being incorporated at the rear of a fuselage of the aircraft and in line therewith and including two gas generators that feed a working turbine having two contrarotating turbine rotors for driving two fans arranged downstream from the gas generators, and distinct air intakes for feeding each gas generator, the air intakes being connected to the fuselage of the aircraft so as to take in at least a portion of the boundary layer formed around the fuselage of the aircraft.

Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) structures are embedded between adjacent power planes in a multi-layer PCB to decrease the emanation of Electromagnetic radiation induced by power buses, signal layers, as well as to suppress the switching noise. EBG stages with different stop bands are cascaded to create rejection over a wider frequency region. The cascading can be performed in series, or may be formed in a variety of arrangements such as a checkerboard design or concentric ribbons positioned along the perimeter of the PCB. Each EBG stage is composed of conductive patches and via posts extending from each patch, which are positioned at a predetermined distance from each other. By surrounding the source of the noise with EBG stages, a sufficient suppression of electromagnetic noise over specific frequency bands of interest is achieved.

Provided is a highly accurate optical pumping magnetometer, in which a static magnetic field and an oscillating field to be applied to a vapor cell are stabilized. To this end, the optical pumping magnetometer includes: Helmholtz coils for applying a constant static magnetic field to a vapor cell serving as a magnetic field detector; fluxgate magnetometers for detecting environmental magnetic noise in two directions of X-axis direction and Y-axis direction other than Z-axis direction which is a direction for detecting a magnetic field coming out of a measurement object while locating the vapor cell in the center thereof; magnetometer drive circuits for driving the fluxgate magneotometers; current converters for converting outputs of the magnetometer drive circuits into amount of currents; and magnetic field generating coils for generating a magnetic field in a phase opposite to the environmental magnetic noise in the two directions.

Various time-domain noise suppression methods and devices for suppressing a noise signal in a speech signal are provided. For example, a time-domain noise suppression method comprises estimating a plurality of linear prediction coefficients for the speech signal, generating a prediction error estimate based on the plurality of prediction coeficients, generating an estimate of the speech signal based on the plurality of linear prediction coefficients, using a voice activity detector to determine voice activity in the speech signal, updating a plurality of noise parameters based on the prediction error and if the voice activity detector determines no voice activity in the speech signal, generating an estimate of the noise signal based on the plurality of noise parameters, and passing the speech signal through a filter derived from the estimate of the noise signal and the estimate of the speech signal to generate a clean speech signal estimate.