The invention relates to a plastic soil-covering sheet destined for use in agricultural cultivations. Said soil-covering sheet has shaped ends all along its length; each shaped end features a double unidirectional overlap formed in such a way that the width (b) of the fist overlap 4 is inferior to the width (c) of the second 5 (preferentially it is smaller than half the width of the second overlap...

Subject: ecological filter placed at the rear part of vehicles or in polluting regions for controlling pollutants and exhausts (collector of pollutants and exhausts). Purpose: filtering of vehicle’s exhausts, cleaning of the atmosphere in great heights, human protection and environmental protection (respect to the nature and cleaner environment).; lov) Φιλτράρει τα καυσαέρια στο πίσω μέρος των τρο...

Subject: self-acting security umbrella made of wood, aluminium, metal, and canopy of various colours. Constitution: the vertical pole 1 seated on the pedestal 2. On the top of the pole 1 there is adapted a rotation joint composed of jaws 3 assisting the fitting of the horizontal beam 4 therein; said jaws 3 bear reinforced apertures which correspond to apertures formed at the centre of the length o...

The imaging system converts raw data for an image to formatted data concurrently with compressing the formatted data for the image. The exemplary imaging system includes an image processor for generating blocks of formatted data from raw image data. The exemplary imaging system also includes an image compressor for compressing the blocks of formatted data. The compressor compresses one or more of ...

A network operator identifier is used to uniquely identify each network operator to support international roaming. The network operator identifier includes (1) a Mobile Country Code (MCC) that identifies the country in which a network operator belongs and (2) a Network Operator Code (NOC), which may be a Mobile Network Code (MNC), that distinguishes network operators within a given MCC. Each netwo...

A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for a rule processor for conducting contextual searches, the processor comprising a plurality of input payload search registers, search execution engine coupled to the plurality of search registers to perform one or more contextual searches on content in the search registers by via parallel pattern matching in response to executing rules specifying the on...

A method and apparatus of processing multimedia data comprising a first section received in error are disclosed. The method comprises obtaining error distribution information corresponding to the first section. The method further comprises applying one of a plurality of error recovery schemes to the first section of the multimedia data based on the error distribution information.

A graphics processor capable of efficiently performing arithmetic operations and computing elementary functions is described. The graphics processor has at least one arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that can perform arithmetic operations and at least one elementary function unit that can compute elementary functions. The ALU(s) and elementary function unit(s) may be arranged such that they can operate ...

A bad pixel detection method and module which provide a quick-test and a full-test for bad pixel detections in an image. The quick-test tests a current pixel to one and only one good neighbor having been previously tested. The quick-test is optimized by exploiting weaknesses in the human visual system especially for red and blue colors. More lenient thresholds can be used for the blue color compar...

Operating at least one low duty cycle (LDC) controller to maintain synchronization between the LDC controller and a plurality of LDC terminals operating over a communication network using only overhead channels of the network and conforming to the protocol and timing of said network, wherein synchronization between the LDC controller and the plurality of LDC terminals is maintained separately from...

Techniques for controlling transmissions in wireless communication networks are described. In one aspect, transmission control for a mesh network may be achieved by ranking mesh points or stations in the mesh network. In one design, the rank of a first station in the mesh network may be determined. At least one station of lower rank than the first station in the mesh network may be identified. At ...

A method and apparatus are provided for operating a frequency translating repeater in a wireless local are network (WLAN) having one or more repeaters (200, 204), a network protocol for communicating between one or more base units (100) and one or more client units (104, 105). A first frequency channel may be used for receiving and transmitting, the network protocol defining multiple operating fre...

Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate performing fast cell selection in a user device wherein the user device can select a serving sector from a list of sectors in its virtual active set (VAS), while in communication with a wireless network. The serving sector can be different from a nominal sector whose scrambling code the user device employs for transmission on the uplink, whic...

A method and apparatus for reporting CQI in a wireless communication system, the method comprising determining the value of (RL PHYFrame Index- CQIPilotReport-Phase)mod CQIPilotReportInterval, determining if DLFSS is not equal to FLSS and transmitting R-CQICH on the Control segment.

A polyester film for recording medium, having one major surface thereof provided with a coating layer containing fine particles of 5 to 60 nm diameter and an organic compound, wherein the number of fine surface projections existing on the surface of the coating layer is in the range of 3 million to 100 million/mm<2>, and the number of surface defects of 120 nm or greater height attributed to forei...

An apparatus in a wireless network includes a video encoder for encoding uncompressed video information into packets with variable length of compressed frames, and a decision processor for selecting a partial bandwidth and queuing delay on a wireless channel for each of the packets based on an intended reception quality. Preferably, the queuing delay and partial bandwidth are one of a plurality of...

A compliant electrical interconnect having a first component and a second component interlockingly engaged with the first component. Each component has two cantilever arms lockingly engaged and continuously biased against each other. Contact springs are captivated by the cantilever arms providing a contact force for the first and second components.

An improved termination structure for high field semiconductor devices in silicon carbide is disclosed. The termination structure includes a silicon carbide-based device for high-field operation, an active region in the device, an edge termination passivation for the active region, in which the edge termination passivation includes, an oxide layer on at least some of the silicon carbide portions o...

A method for manufacturing electrodes of solar cell and electrochemical depositing apparatus are disclosed. The method for manufacturing electrodes of solar cell is a method using the process of electrochemical depositing metal or metal alloy to form electrodes of solar cell. The method of the present invention can improve photoelectric conversion efficiency and reduce the production cost. The rea...

A reference point defined on a two dimensional or three dimensional orthogonal coordinate space and scale reference of respective axes are estimated based on a distribution on the three dimensional orthogonal coordinate space at the time when respective axial components of an acceleration data group comprised of plural acceleration data including multi-axial components and a importance group perta...