155 results about "Near and far field" patented technology

The invention provides an LED lighting device and method that produces high intensity, spatially uniform, white light in the near and far fields in a reduced package size that does not significantly heat the surrounding environment, wherein the white light is produced by using a phosphor layer in conjunction with a single LED.

An apparatus and method of reproducing a 2-channel virtual sound while dynamically controlling a sweet spot and crosstalk cancellation are disclosed. The method includes: receiving broadband signals, setting compensation filter coefficients according to response characteristics of bands and setting stereophonic transfer functions according to spectrum analysis; down mixing an input multi-channel signal into two channel signals by adding head related transfer functions (HRTFs) measured in a near-field and a far-field to the input multi-channel signal, canceling crosstalk of the down mixed signals on the basis of compensation filter coefficients calculated using the set stereophonic transfer functions, and compensating levels and phases of the crosstalk cancelled signals on the basis of the set compensation filter coefficients for each of the bands.

An imaging system and method are presented. The system comprises an imaging lens unit, an imaging detector, and a birefringent element located between the imaging lens unit and the imaging detector. The system is thus configure and operable to provide in-focus imaging of objects located at both near-field and far-field ranges. Also provided is an optical device configured to be mounted on an imaging lens, being one of the following: a lens of an individual's glasses, on a contact lens, and an eye internal lens. The optical device is configured to be located between the imaging lens and the retina and comprises a birefringent element, to thereby provide in-focus imaging onto the retina of the objects located at both near-field and far-field ranges therefrom.

A system for a mapping and ablation catheter. The catheter includes a MOSFET sensor array that provides better fidelity of the signal measurements as well as data collection and reduces the error generated by spatial distribution of the isotropic and anisotropic wave fronts and error associated with near and far field's signal averages. The system maps the change in bioelectric potential in the vicinity of an activation wave front. During measurement, the manifold carrying the sensor array translates and rotates so as to achieve a measure of high potential employing an impedance value. The system of guiding and controlling the movement of the catheter distal end is able to deliver energy for ablating the renal artery nerve and thereby providing a safe and efficient method and apparatus for neuromodulation.

Systems, methods, and devices wirelessly communicate in a near-field region and a far-field region. A device may include a near-field antenna and a far-field antenna. The device may be configured to selectively operate in a near-field mode, employing the near-field antenna, and / or in a far-field mode, employing the far-field antenna, and / or in a joint mode, employing both the near-field antenna and the far-field antenna separately or concurrently. One type of device may be a wireless communications data-reader device configured for both near-field and far-field communications. Another type of device may be a wireless communications data-provider device configured for both near-field and far-field communications.

A miniaturized antenna system is characterized non-destructively through the use of a scanner that measures its near-field radiated power performance. When taking measurements, the scanner can be moved linearly along the x, y and z axis, as well as rotationally relative to the antenna. The data obtained from the characterization are processed to determine the far-field properties of the system and to optimize the system. Each antenna is excited using a probe station system while a scanning probe scans the space above the antenna to measure the near field signals. Upon completion of the scan, the near-field patterns are transformed into far-field patterns. Along with taking data, this system also allows for extensive graphing and analysis of both the near-field and far-field data. The details of the probe station as well as the procedures for setting up a test, conducting a test, and analyzing the resulting data are also described.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) devices for use in RFID-based sensors and related methods are described herein. In one implementation, an RFID sensor system includes an RFID device having a near field only RFID tag and a conductive element which functions as a far field antenna. A coupling structure selectively locates the near field only RFID tag and the conductive element in at least a first position and a second position relative to each other; wherein in the first position, the RFID device only operates in a near field, and in the second position, the RFID device operates in both the near field and a far field. The system may also include an RFID reader and controller located within the far field to read the RFID device only when the coupling structure locates the components in the second position.

An RFID tag communicating with a wireless reader interrogator on more than one frequency band. In one embodiment the tag contains independent sensor circuits for a ultra high frequency UHF band and a lower frequency band. The UHF antenna element used in the tag is a double-resonant antenna typically operating in the 860-960 MHz frequency range providing both near and far field sensitivity. Separate resonant antenna structures a the lower frequency band is connected in series with the UHF antenna substructure. The high frequency HF antenna element contains a coil for magnetic induction pickup of signals typically in the 7-14 MHz frequency band but can also be used for the entire spectral range 100 KHz to 100 MHz. The tag antenna is an integrated structure providing for operation in both the UHF and a lower frequency band. In a separate embodiment the tag is configured with the UHF double-dipole antenna structure only and operates in a single UHF band.

The invention relates to an apparatus for skin imaging, a system for skin analysis and a method for skin analysis, using a combination of near-field and far-field skin images under different angles of illumination. The apparatus provides a tool that may be employed for rapid screening of the skin for lesions that may be indicative of skin diseases, in particular skin cancers such as melanoma.

The invention discloses a light path collimation integrated device and method for a high-power laser device. A transmission grating engraved with references is put near to the small-hole face of a space filter; the transmission grating is irradiated by parallel non-coherent illumination lights produced by a light emitting diode and an illumination collimation lens at a specific angle; a sampling light path is put in a direction of first-stage diffraction light of the transmission grating so as to form a light beam information monitor; the light beam information monitor simultaneously acquiresinformation of a near field and a far field of a light beam; the output of the light beam information monitor is connected to a computer; deviation values of the near field and far field of the lightbeam relative to the respective set positions are determined through an image processing technology; and a corresponding near field adjusting device and a corresponding far field adjusting device areselected according to the respective deviation values so as to adjust light path collimation. The light path collimation integrated device has the characteristics of integration, modularization, simple structure and high precision, and can meet a monitoring requirement of the high-power laser device on large-aperture light beam collimation.

Systems, methods, and devices wirelessly communicate in a near-field region and a far-field region. A device may include a near-field antenna and a far-field antenna. The device may be configured to selectively operate in a near-field mode, employing the near-field antenna, and / or in a far-field mode, employing the far-field antenna, and / or in a joint mode, employing both the near-field antenna and the far-field antenna separately or concurrently. One type of device may be a wireless communications data-reader device configured for both near-field and far-field communications. Another type of device may be a wireless communications data-provider device configured for both near-field and far-field communications.

The invention discloses a multi-channel optical-fiber laser coherence beam combination device and a coherence beam combination method based on overlapped body grating. The device comprises an optical-fiber coupler, a doping double-clad optical-fiber, a lens, a dichroiscope, a reflector, a polarization controller, a reflector, an overlapped body grating and an output coupling mirror connected in sequence at one side of the optical-fiber grating. The method is able to realize the multi-channel optical-fiber laser coherence beam combination without complex phase detection and control to each beam. The phases of each beam realize interlocking by sharing a resonator composed of the output coupling mirror and the optical-fiber grating. Each beam realizes the coherent superposition in the near-field and far-field to significantly enhance the output power and the brightness of the optical-fiber laser through the overlapped body of grating. The invention features the simple structure and complex structure without increasing as the increase of the beam combination laser, and is able to be widely applied in the field needing the large power optical-fiber laser as the light source, thereby capable of gaining the large power, high beam quality as well as compact high-energy laser system.

The invention provides a multi-target near-and-far field mixed source positioning method and belongs to the field of the array signal processing technology. According to the method, firstly, a symmetric and homogeneous linear sensor array is arranged to receive a target signal, and then the observation signal form of a near-and-far field mixed source is determined. Secondly, a special third-order cyclic matrix is constructed based on the output of a properly selected sensor, and a direction matrix thereof only contains the azimuth information of a far-field source and the azimuth information of a near-field source. Thirdly, the eigenvalue of the third-order cyclic matrix is decomposed, so that a corresponding noise sub-space is obtained. Fourthly, a cyclic autocorrelation matrix based on the observation data of the entire matrix is calculated, and the eigenvalue of the cyclic autocorrelation matrix is decomposed. In this way, a corresponding noise sub-space is obtained. Fifthly, an already estimated azimuth is substituted to the two-dimensional MUSIC spectrum peak searching process, so that the estimation on the distance of the near-field source is realized. The application of four-order cumulants is avoided, and the calculation complexity of the algorithm is effectively reduced. The operation time of the algorithm is shortened. Meanwhile, the cyclic steady interference and the steady background noise are effectively suppressed. Moreover, the extra parameter matching process is avoided.

An audio headset may comprise a case, near field microphone and far field microphone. A speaker, processor, memory, battery, charging interface and cradle detection circuit may be mounted to the case. Processor-executable instructions embodied in the memory, may be configured to implement a battery charging method. The headset may be shut off in response to placement of the headset in a charging cradle. The far-field microphone is turned on but not the near-field microphone. The battery may then be charged from the cradle. A headset having near-field and far-field microphones may be used to distinguish between user speech and competing sounds by generating signals from the sounds detected by each microphone and comparing the strengths of the signals. The signals may be processed as user speech if they are of comparable strength. Otherwise, the near-field signal may be processed as user speech and the far-field signal as competing sounds.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) devices, and methods of manufacture are described herein. In one implementation, an RFID device comprises a near field only RFID tag that does not function as a far field RFID tag and is pre-manufactured; and a conductive element independent from the near field only RFID tag and configured to function as a far field antenna, wherein the conductive element extends a length and includes a central region and includes at least one distal region defining a voltage end of the conductive element. The near field only RFID tag and a distal region of the conductive element are coupled in proximity to each other such that the RFID device functions in both a near field and a far field.

A lens position sensor for infrared or other types of cameras, which is particularly useful in lens assemblies that have relatively limited axial travel between near field and far field lens focus positions. The camera includes a magnet or other stimulator coupled to a rotatable lens that extends within a magnet plane where the magnet plane is not normal to the optical axis of the lens. A magnetic or other sensor senses the position of the magnet, which is indicative of the lens position.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) devices, and methods of manufacture are described herein. In one implementation, a RFID device comprises: a near field only RFID tag that does not function as a far field RFID tag and is pre-manufactured; and a conductive element independent from the near field only RFID tag and adapted to function as a far field antenna. The near field only RFID tag is coupled to a first portion of an item; and the conductive element is coupled to a second portion of the item, the first portion and the second portion located such that the near field only RFID tag is coupled in proximity to the conductive element such that the RFID device functions in both a near field and a far field.

An imaging system and method are presented. The system comprises an imaging lens unit, an imaging detector, and a birefringent element located between the imaging lens unit and the imaging detector. The system is thus configure and operable to provide in-focus imaging of objects located at both near-field and far-field ranges. Also provided is an optical device configured to be mounted on an imaging lens, being one of the following: a lens of an individual's glasses, on a contact lens, and an eye internal lens. The optical device is configured to be located between the imaging lens and the retina and comprises a birefringent element, to thereby provide in-focus imaging onto the retina of the objects located at both near-field and far-field ranges therefrom.

The invention relates to the technical field of an intelligent terminal, and discloses an intelligent terminal voice interaction control method and a device thereof. The method comprises the steps ofstarting the intelligent terminal; acquiring the scene state of the intelligent terminal; selecting the waking-up mode of the intelligent terminal according to the scene state; waking up the intelligent terminal according to the selected waking-up mode and acquiring audio information; performing semantic analysis on the audio information and uploading to a server. Through switching of different waking-up modes between near field and far field, waking-up fatigue of the intelligent terminal is improved; and real-time monitoring of a microphone is not required, thereby reducing algorithm calculation amount, maximally reducing power consumption and improving user experience.

A moisture sensing system of the present invention includes first and second sensor arrays, at least one optical system operative to image the same portion of the surface onto both of the sensor arrays, and a processing system in communication with the sensor arrays and operative to analyze images from the sensor arrays to detect moisture. The sensor arrays may be two-dimensional sensor arrays that are separate or different portions of the same sensor array. This system may be used to control the windshield wipers of a vehicle. The processing system may be configured to subtract an image obtained from the first sensor array from an image obtained from the second sensor array to distinguish between near field and far field objects.

The invention discloses a large-scale antenna field directional diagram measuring system and method for multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles. The system includes a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehiclesubsystem, a signal source link subsystem, a receiving link subsystem and a data processing subsystem. A multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is used to fly at near and far field areas of a to-be-measured antenna according to a set cruise mission; through remote real-time control on a signal source link module, an electromagnetic wave signal in the air can be swept and received in real time; and through the screening, error compensation and data fitting on a received level signal, final directional diagram information can be generated, and the maximum radiation direction, 3dB lobe width, sidelobe level, front-to-back ratios and corresponding position information can be given. On-the-spot directional diagram performance measuring of large-scale antennas under service status can be realized,so that accurate measured data can be provided for fault diagnosis; the system is convenient in operation, high in degree of automation and simple in dismounting; and single sortie flight can accomplish the testing of multifrequency directional diagrams.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional camera shooting sonar system transducer array sparse optimization method considering a near-field and far-field performance. The method comprises the following steps of determining a focusing range error parameter of a three-dimensional camera shooting sonar system according to the type of a near-field digital beam forming algorithm in the three-dimensional camera shooting sonar system; determining a near-field sparse optimization energy function by utilizing the focusing range error parameter; solving by adopting a global optimization algorithm to make the near-field sparse optimization energy function achieve a minimum sparse transducer array Q1; carrying out secondary sparse optimization on the opened transducers in the Q1 and solving to make a far-field sparse optimization energy function achieve a minimum sparse transducer array Q2; when the sonar system works in a near-field state, carrying out focusing beam forming by using the Q1; and when the sonar system works in a far-field state, carrying out far-field beam forming by using the Q2. By using the method, the stable detection performance under different detection distances for the system can be ensured while the system hardware complexity is effectively reduced.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) devices for use in RFID-based sensors and related methods are described herein. In one implementation, an RFID sensor system includes an RFID device having a near field only RFID tag and a conductive element which functions as a far field antenna. A coupling structure selectively locates the near field only RFID tag and the conductive element in at least a first position and a second position relative to each other; wherein in the first position, the RFID device only operates in a near field, and in the second position, the RFID device operates in both the near field and a far field. The system may also include an RFID reader and controller located within the far field to read the RFID device only when the coupling structure locates the components in the second position.

The invention provides a comprehensive real-time calibration method for a multi-channel digital anti-interference antenna system, which can effectively increase output signal to noise ratio of the system. The method is implemented by the following technical scheme and comprises the following steps: connecting an antenna array surface, channels and a signal processing plate between a power supply and a computer to form a self-calibration antenna system; transmitting a near-field signal and a far-field signal by using a transmitting antenna and a standard antenna at different time, calculating difference between amplitude and phase of two groups of signals output by a receiving channel and storing the difference value into FLASH; controlling the channels and the signal processing plate by using a computer through a serial port so as to be in a calibration state and performing system calibration by comparing the amplitude and the phase of the signal of each channel by a calibration algorithm stored in a field programmable gate array (FPGA); and providing analog inertial navigation information to the signal processing plate by using the computer through the serial port, automatically adjusting the main beam of the antenna according to the inertial navigation information by an anti-interference algorithm in the FPGA, and inhibiting the antenna to receive each external interference signal. According to the method, high efficiency and sustainability of system operation are guaranteed.

Described is a light emitting diode (LED) linear illumination system that includes a linear array of LED groups, high efficiency non-imaging optics and aberration corrected imaging optics. Each LED group can include one or more LEDs. The system provides uniform high intensity in near and far fields. System applications include machine vision and inspection of high reflectivity targets. Illumination can include one or more colors, including white light. The described system has improved thermal and optical performance and is generally more compact and lower in cost relative to conventional systems based on pre-packaged commercially available LED devices.

The invention relates to a fiber laser beam quality measurement method base on a photoelectric detector and a CCD camera. The method comprises: an optical axis of a measured light beam is adjusted to be in a horizontal state, and a beam splitter is arranged at an optical path and thus the measured light beam is divided into two parts that are used for measuring a near field and a far field of the light beam. On the basis of measurement of the near field and the far field of the measured light beam as well as a related data analysis, a near field width and a far field width of the light beam are calculated, so that light beam quality M <2> x and light beam quality M <2>y at a corresponding direction are obtained by calculation. An M<2> factor expression based on near field and far field light intensity distribution of a beam is deduced in theory, so that a defect that the existing M<2> factor measuring instrument can not evaluate the large-size fiber laser beam quality easily can be overcome. The provided fiber laser beam quality measurement method is suitable for fiber laser beam quality measurement including a few of high order modes and some cut fiber laser beam quality measurement.

This invention relates to devices and processes for geophysical prospecting, subsurface fluid monitoring and, more particular, to the use of interferometric techniques using Control Source Electromagnetic (“CSEM”) and Magnetoturelic (“MT”) signals to create images of sub-surface structures and fluids.

An apparatus for skin imaging uses a combination of near-field and far-field skin images under different angles of illumination. The apparatus provides a tool that may be employed for rapid screening of the skin for lesions that may be indicative of skin diseases, in particular skin cancers such as melanoma.