106 results about "Characteristic response" patented technology

Methods and systems to calibrating a transmitter for I / Q imbalance and local oscillator feed-through include generating a test tone, frequency up-converting the test tone, monitoring one or more features of the up-converted test tone, and adjusting one or more features of the transmitter in response to the monitoring. The monitoring optionally includes monitoring a beating of the envelope of the up-converted test tone. In an embodiment, a first harmonic of the up-converted test tone is monitored for local oscillator feed-through (LOFT). Alternatively, baseband data inputs to the transmitter are disabled, and LOFT is measured by measuring power at the transmitter output. A second harmonic of the up-converted test tone is monitored for gain and phase imbalances. The adjusting optionally includes adjusting a gain imbalance, adjusting a phase imbalance, and / or adjusting DC offsets. The adjusting optionally includes an iterative refinement process. Such a refinement process optionally includes performing a first monitoring, applying a set of relatively coarse settings to the one or more features in the transmitter, monitoring the beating resulting from each of the coarse settings, selecting the coarse setting corresponding the smallest beating, applying a set of relatively fine settings centered around the selected coarse setting, wherein the fine settings are more closely related to one another than are the coarse settings, monitoring the beating resulting from each of the fine settings, and selecting the fine setting corresponding the smallest beating.

A method for verifying a control system (2) of a vessel (4), in which said control system (2) in its operative state receives sensor signals (7) from sensors (8) and command signals (9) from command input devices (10), and as a response provides control signals (13) to actuators (3) in order to maintain a desired position, velocity, course or other state of said vessel (4), characterized by the following steps: during a time (t0), disconnecting the reception of real sensor signals (7a, 7b, 7c, ..) and replacing said real sensor signals by a test sequence (T0) of artificial measurements (7a', 7b', 7c', ..) from a test signal source (41); letting said control system (2) work based on the artificial sensor signals (7, 7') to generate control signals (13') to be recorded as a response (S0) to said first test sequence (T0) for said first time (t0) on a control signal logger (42) and storing response (SO) to the test sequence (T0) as the control system's (2) ''signature'' response (S0); said method having the purpose of, at a later time (t1, t2, t3, ..), to use the test sequence (T0) input to the control system (2), and record a later response (S1, S2, S3, ...) and determining whether said later response similar to the signature response (S0) to verify that said control system (2) is unchanged, or not.

An inspection tool includes a camera for obtaining images of a wafer and a controller configured for performing light source flat field correction, optical image warping correction, and optical image scale correction of the images. In operation, separate inspection tools are calibrated separately to obtain a characteristic response with respect to imaging and / or illumination for each such inspection tool. A standard target is then imaged by each inspection tool and the response of each of the inspection tools is normalized to ensure uniformity of the output of each inspection tool with respect to the other inspection tools.

The present invention relates to apparatus and method for determining a characteristic, such as stiffness, of a log, stem, wood piece or other wood specimen. A wave generator produces a frequency varying signal which drives a transducer which is coupled to the specimen to impart a frequency varying acoustic wave into the specimen. A receiver sensor detects the resulting acoustic wave and a transmit sensor detects the output from the transducer. A characteristic response of the specimen is determined from the receiver sensor signal, transmit sensor signal and excitation signal using digital and analogue signal processing. The characteristic is determined from the characteristic response.