Techniques for controlling operation of control loops in a receiver are described. The operation of at least one control loop is modified in conjunction with a change in operating state, which may correspond to a change in linearity state, gain state, operating frequency, antenna configuration, etc. A change in linearity state may occur when jammers are detected and may cause bias current of analo...

Even when a substrate on which a semiconductor package has been mounted is made curved, stress upon electrical connections is mitigated, thereby eliminating faulty connections and improving connection reliability. A semiconductor chip (10) has electrodes (11) on a second face (10b) thereof. Support blocks (20), capable of bending and flexing, are placed at two locations on a peripheral edge of a f...

Adaptive variable length coding techniques may be used for entropy coding of residual block coefficients produced by predictive video coding. The techniques may be applied to schemes that code positions of nonzero transform coefficients using zero runs. Coding parameters such as end of block (EOB) shift and VLC codebook selection tables may be maintained as internal states, instead of sending them...

An image forming material having a bluish-violet laser-photosensitive resist material layer highly sensitive to a laser beam in a bluish-violet region and free from a decrease in sensitivity even a film thickness is increased. An image forming material comprising a bluish-violet laser-photosensitive resist material layer formed on a substrate to be worked, wherein the photosensitive resist materia...

Titanium dioxide particles having a selective shielding effect against infrared radiation and a high spreadability are disclosed. The titanium dioxide particles have a primary particle size of 0.5 to 2.0 mum and a visible light transmission of less than 95%. The titanium oxide particles consist essentially of 0.05 to 0.4% by weight of aluminum oxide, 0.1 to 0.8% by weight of zinc oxide, and the ba...

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a vinyl chloride copolymer resin by copolymerizing a vinyl chloride type monomer and a macromonomer having a polymer comprising an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing a double bond in a main chain, which generates only a few scales and shows excellent polymerization stability. The present invention is achieved by the process for pre...

Compositions containing particular branched carboxylic acid diesters obtained from a mixture of branched dinitriles exhibit especially advantageous solvating properties and thus are useful substitutes for conventional solvents, in particular halogenated solvents.

UV curable compositions, polymeric photoinitiators and precursors therefor are described.

An object of the present invention is to provide an antifungal agent which has excellent antifungal effects and is superior in terms of its physical properties, safety and metabolic stability. According to the present invention, there is disclosed a compound represented by the following formula (I), or a salt thereof: wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an amino group, a C ...

A system and method for providing group communication services is disclosed. Each of a plurality of group communication devices coverts media, such as video, audio, image and/or data into data packets suitable for transmission over a data network, such as the Internet. The data packets are selectively transmitted through the data network to a communications manager. The communications manager acts...

A code division multiple access communication system receiver includes block-based chip timing estimation. A chip timing estimate is generated from samples of a received signal by performing an averaging operation over a designated block of chips in each of first and second legs of an early-late synchronizer. The chip timing estimate is determined as a function of an error signal corresponding to ...

There is provided a robot system capable of safely and stably holding an object with an optimum holding method and holding force. The robot control section (7) includes; an object information calculating section (21) for calculating a size and shape of the object based on image information from the image processing section (8); a holding method determining section (22) for determining a method for...

Radiation sensitive compositions for use in producing a patterned image on a substrate comprise: a) a first photoacid generator compound which comprises one or more compounds of the structure (A); b) a second photoacid generator compound which comprises one or more compounds of the structure (B); c) a polymer component comprising an alkali soluble resin component whose alkali solubility is suppres...

A plasma display device includes a plasma display 1, a chassis 2 having conductivity that supports the plasma display 1, a tuner circuit 11, a scan driver 12, a sustaining driver 13 and so forth used to display a video on the plasma display 1, a back cover 4 that covers the chassis 2, the scan driver 12, the sustaining driver 13, etc., and a shield body 5 that covers the tuner circuit 11. The shie...

The invention concerns a clamping device for a device for the production of metal parts by forming with a closed forming tool, the clamping device comprising at least several tension hoops ( 2 ), these tension hoops ( 2 ) each being provided with at least one tension frame ( 2.2 ) of a closed contour, the tension frame being provided with two segments ( 2.3 ) arranged opposite each other at some d...

A SIM card including: (a) a first NVM for storing user data; and (b) a second NVM, separate from the first NVM, for storing management data related to the user data. Preferably, the first NYM is block-erasable and the second NVM is word-erasable erasable. Preferably, the first NVM is a flash memory and the second NVM is an EEPROM. Preferably, the management data includes a mapping table for mappin...

A single content region in a chat history display is used to display entries representative of a plurality of messages corresponding to all chat histories for all of chat threads currently engaged in by a given mobile terminal. Additionally, a buddy list display supports management of chat buddies, a detail view display allows otherwise truncated messages to be displayed, and a text message editor...

A solid-state energy converter with a semiconductor or semiconductor-metal implementation is provided for conversion of thermal energy to electric energy, or electric energy to refrigeration. In n-type heat-to-electricity embodiments, a highly doped n<*> emitter region made of a metal or semiconductor injects carriers into an n-type gap region. A p-type layer is positioned between the emitter regi...

The mounting device (substrate) (1) for the integrated circuit is provided with a raised platform (2) which forms the connection area for bondable contacts. This platform is raised compared to a chip contact area on the substrate. It has steep flanks (3) with a ratio of the flank height (hp) to substrate height (h) of between 1/5 t0 2/1.

A method of generating an evidence grid representing an environment comprises the steps of collecting a set of stereo images at multiple locations within the environment using stereo sensors, and processing the set of stereo images to determine occupancy and distance data associated with each point in space represented in the set of stereo images; applying a sensor model to each point in space to ...