Apparatus and methods for use in a wireless communication system are disclosed for reducing channel estimation noise in a device such as a wireless transceiver. A disclosed apparatus includes a processor that determines a channel activity portion and a noise portion of a channel estimation. The processor also determines a threshold noise level based on channel estimate values in the noise portion ...

An active groove filled region 23a is kept at a portion of an active groove 22a connecting to an embedded region 24 positioned below a gate groove 83. The active groove filled region 23a connects to a source electrode film 58a so as to have the same electric potential as a source region 64. When a reverse bias is applied between a base region 32a and a conductive layer 12, a reverse bias is also a...

It is an object to provide an inexpensive alloy for heat dissipation having a small thermal expansion coefficient as known composite materials, a large thermal conductivity as pure copper, and excellent machinability and a method for manufacturing the alloy. In particular, since various shapes are required of the alloy for heat dissipation, a manufacturing method by using a powder metallurgy metho...

A bottom opening type container bottom plates of which can be opened only by a hoisting operation using a crane by performing a simple preparing operation can be realized. A vertical link 32, a lateral link 35, and a link 45 are arranged on a middle between a hoisting plate 31 and open/close arms 43, and an operation cam 41 is provided to the outside of the open/close arms 43. The operation cam 41...

Problem Precoating methods for previously adhering solder to areas to be soldered of a workpiece for an electronic part such as a printed circuit board, a chip part, or a wafer include the plating method, the hot leveling method, the solder paste method, the solder ball method, and the like. In these conventional precoating methods, solder did not uniformly adhere to areas to be soldered, solder ...

There is provided a membrane switch film comprising polyethylene-2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate as the major component and having excellent handling properties and durability, and particularly a film which is suitable for a membrane switch to be used in automobile interior devices which are potentially exposed to high temperature. The film is a membrane switch film having a refractive index in t...

The present invention provides prodrugs of GABA analogs, pharmaceutical compositions of prodrugs of GABA analogs and methods for making prodrugs of GABA analogs. The present invention also provides methods for using prodrugs of GABA analogs and methods for using pharmaceutical compositions of prodrugs of GABA analogs for treating or preventing common diseases and/or disorders.

A receiver for receiving transmitted signals comprising reference information known to said receiver, said receiver comprising means for estimating said reference information and non reference information to provide estimated information, said non reference information being at least one of immediately preceding and immediately succeeding said reference information; and means for using the estimat...

Vaccine compositions comprising (a) an oligonucleotide, (b) and immune stimulating complex and (c) an antigen induce a strong interferon-gamma immune response. Both oligonucleotides containing immune stimulatory motifs and oligonucleotides lacking immune stimulatory motifs contribute to an interferon-gamma response when administered with an immune stimulating complex.

A video decoder, encoder, and corresponding methods for processing video signal data for an image block and a particular reference picture index to predict the image block are disclosed that utilize adaptive weighting of reference pictures to enhance video compression, where a decoder includes a reference picture weighting factor unit for determining a weighting factor corresponding to the particu...

A transmitting apparatus (1) forms a plurality of transmission beams 1~M by using a plurality of antennas (15-1ˆ¼15-4). Transmission beams 2 and 3, the correlation of which is low and the reception quality of which is high, are selected. A data stream 1 is transmitted by using the transmission beam 2, and a data stream 2 is transmitted by using the transmission beam 3. As a result, a MIMO multiple...

A mobile terminal having a receive diversity function using a plurality of receive antennas, having a calculation section which combines respective level measurement results of the receive antennas and calculates a level measurement value after being combined as the level measurement result of the mobile terminal.

[PROBLEM] To provide a surface roughness inspection system enabling suitable inspection even when the surface of the object being inspected is curved. [MEANS FOR SOLUTION] A system having an imaging unit 20 having a line sensor 22 and scanning the surface of an object being inspected 101 in a direction perpendicular to the direction of extension of the line sensor 22 and outputting a density sign...

The invention relates to a computer implemented method for initiating floating controls via a touch sensitive device, the method comprising: detecting the presence of an object on the touch sensitive device; recognizing the object; and generating a user interface element on the touch screen in the vicinity of the object based on the recognized object.

A user interface method is disclosed. The method includes detecting a touch and then determining a user interface mode when a touch is detected. The method further includes activating one or more GUI elements based on the user interface mode and in response to the detected touch.