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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6259327 | PLL having circuits for selecting optimum VCO input/output characteristics A phase locked loop circuit includes an input comparator (2) capable of generating a deviation signal which can be used for driving an oscillator (5) so as to generate an output signal (CLKOUT) locked to the input signal. The oscillator (5) can operate ac... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6185528 | Method of and a device for speech recognition employing neural network and markov model recognition techniques A method and a device for recognition of isolated words in large vocabularies are described, wherein recognition is performed through two sequential steps using neural networks and Markov models techniques, respectively, and the results of both techniques... | 02/06/2001 |
| 5621755 | CMOS technology high speed digital signal transceiver A high speed digital signal transceiver in CMOS technology, in which the receiver has a clock signal extraction circuit, which is capable of self-aligning on incoming data with no spurious locks. Utilizing the PLL technique, the circuit generates a clock ... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5581388 | Method of and device for the fine synchronization of aim cells in optical ATM nodes Within an optical ATM node, an ATM cell to be synchronized is sent into a segment of pre-determined length of an optical fiber with a high time dispersion (FD), after having been associated, in a tunable wavelength converter (CL), to an optical carrier wi... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5557611 | ATM cross-connect node utilizing two passes through the connection network with shaping between passes for optimal resource allocation in a bursty environment A flow of ATM cells to be cross-connected performs two consecutive passes through the connection network (PX) of a node. In the first pass the virtual channels of the input virtual paths (A, B, C) are distributed among intermediate virtual channel bundles... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5539728 | Method and device for power control in the base-to-mobile link of a mobile radio system with code division multiple access Power control in a base to mobile link of a mobile radio system is effected by measuring the carrier/interference ratio at each mobile station and transmitting information thereof, usually in terms of the inverse of that ratio, to the base station. Power ... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5448660 | Wavelength selective optical switch The device includes a first and a second optical circulator (C1, C2) having an input port and an output port that are the inputs and the outputs of the switch, as well as an optical bandpass filter (FP) placed between the two circulators (C1, C2) and conn... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5271082 | Method of fabricating integrated optical guides of glass Refractive index change in a glass substrate, necessary to obtain a guiding region, is obtained by bombarding the substrate surface with an electron beam. An electric field induced by negative charge accumulation is created under the surface, whereby sodi... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5269888 | Method of fabricating integrated optical devices by means of field-assisted ion exchange Integrated optical devices are fabricated by field-assisted ion exchange on a starting substrate, wherein the substrate is first prepared to be connected to a source of potential difference, is duly masked as a function of the optical circuit to be implem... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5160973 | System for measuring the refractive index profile of optical components The system uses a monochromatic radiation source (1) and an acousto-optic modulator (2), which is driven by a periodically variable frequency. The modulator emits a first beam having the same wavelength as the source and a second beam, whose wavelength an... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5142362 | Method of hydrid digital coding distinguishing motion pictures from still pictures Still and moving picture components of a motion video transmission are coded by using the same algorithm. The system provides a posteriori recognition of still pictures on memorization of the quantization step used to code groups of pixels of a still pict... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5139556 | Method of adjusting the operation characteristics of integrated optical devices A method of adjusting the operation of bimodal optical networks in terms of propagation constants of guided modes in integrated optical devices, allowing a considerable number of out of tolerance devices to be recovered by depositing on the surface where ... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5095231 | Automatic system for adjusting the output impedance of fast CMOS drivers An automatic system for adjusting the output impedance of fast CMOS drivers, wherein the output impedance of a plurality of slaved drives is adjusted by a circuit for measuring and correcting mismatch between the output impedance of one of the drivers, ta... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5048011 | Routing method for fast packet switching systems A fast packet switching system has an interconnection network associated with a distributed control structure composed of a plurality of processing units (UC1-1 . . . UC3-16) managing the routing at the virtual call level. At least some processing units e... | 09/10/1991 |
| 4995032 | Label-switching and control interface for asynchronous fast-packet switching A label-switching and control interface for asynchronous fast-packet switching consisting of a set of label-switching and cell-processing units controlled by a suitable control unit. The units operate at each multiplex level in real time thanks to a micro... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4934819 | Apparatus for measuring transverse moment of an electromagnetic field associated with an optical beam The value of a transverse moment of any order of the electromagnetic field associated with an optical beam (and in particular the spot-size of such a beam) is determined by two successive measurements of the optical power of the beam: one measurement is a... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4905179 | CMOS cell for logic operations with fast carry The elementary adder, as far as carry propagation is concerned, has two circuit branches: the first is an inverter (II) followed by a transfer gate (T1, T2) activated when two operands have opposite logic levels, in which case it transfers complemented in... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4808947 | Integrated active filter without external components An integrated circuit selectively programmable to form an active filter without external circuit components, the integrated circuit having 2m amplifying modules where m is an integer between 2 and 4, inclusive, p resistive matrices where p is 1... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4759624 | Method of and apparatus for measuring polarization beat-length in highly-birefringent single-mode optical fibers A constant force perpendicular to the fiber axis is applied to the fiber and is displaced step by step along the fiber axis. The state of polarization of a radiation outgoing from the fiber is determined at each step and the beat-length values are obtaine... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4716587 | Broadband-signal broadcasting system A broadband signal broadcasting system comprising a circuit to encode video and audio signals forming a TV channel to be sent to a switching matrix, which is remotely operated by the subscriber; a circuit to multiplex two or more TV channel to be simultan... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4706014 | Capacitive devices for measuring the diameter of a dielectric fiber The improvements relating to capacitive devices for measuring the diameter of a dielectric fiber are based on a particular shaping of the capacitor plates, such as to allow electric field reductions at the edges to be compensated for and hence capacitance... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4688224 | Method of and device for correcting burst errors on low bit-rate coded speech signals transmitted on radio-communication channels In a radio transceiving system of low bit-rate coded speech signals, to be installed on mobiles, the method allows the detection and correction of burst error present in the demodulated coded signal, in the receiver. This method allows error detection by dista... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4602283 | System for spatially and temporally transposing data words arrayed in periodically recurring patterns A train of incoming data words, specifically digitized video samples arrayed in frames of Y lines of X pixels each which have already undergone a 2-dimensional spatial transformation, is scrambled by being divided into Z sequences (frames) whose data word... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4597088 | Equalizer for the correction of digital signals with compensation of precursor and postcursor interferences An equalizer with two parallel branches for precursor and postcursor correction, receiving periodically incoming binary pulse samples, generates for each sample two purged symbols f, b at the outputs of these branches along with two decided symbols f and ... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4557914 | Process for producing substances optically transparent to infrared rays In order to obtain substances that are optically transparent in the infrared range, usable in the manufacture of optical fibers or radiation emitters, a metal or metalloid chalcogenide other than an oxide is produced by a double-substitution reaction betw... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4558187 | Digital echo-cancellation method and circuit arrangement A four-wire trunk line of a telephone network, operating with frequency-division multiplexing, is coupled by a hybrid coil to a local two-wire line and is provided, at a location separated from that hybrid coil by frequency modulators and demodulators, wi... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4412720 | Optical system coupling a rectangular light source to a circular light receiver A light source of rectangular outline, such as a semiconductor laser, is coupled to a light receiver of circular outline to be illuminated thereby, such as an end of an optical fiber, by an anamorphotic system including a pair of spherical lenses and an a... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4370725 | Method of and circuit arrangement for automatic signal-level control A binary input signal S multiplied by a level-controlling modifier Xn-1 is periodically sampled to determine its amplitude whose value is then differentially combined with a fixed reference value R to produce an error signal. The latter is mult... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4366535 | Modular signal-processing system A signal-processing system, e.g. for a telephone exchange, comprises n modular processing units each including a pair of identical microprocessors operating in parallel on binary signals arriving over an internal bus, only one microprocessor of each pair ... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4362908 | Circuit arrangement for emitting ringing signals in a telephone system A circuit arrangement for emitting ringing signals to a subscriber station in response to a call signal electronically generated at a telephone exchange comprises a control unit which, in the presence of such call signal, intermittently reverses a switchi... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4335446 | Terminal equipment for data-transmission network including digitally operating modem At a subscriber station AU communicating with a central office of a data network, a logic unit UM includes a processing subunit UE which, under the control of a microprogrammed subunit UC comprising a microinstruction memory MM and a sequencer SQ, digital... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4334305 | Data-handling system with operatively interconnected processors A number of data processors have access, via respective interfaces, to a common ring memory made up of cascaded shift-register sections. Each interface comprises a pair of shift registers or a pair of read/write memories one of which, at a given instant, ... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4330688 | System for statistical supervision of trunk-dialed long-distance telephone calls To facilitate the supervision of directly dialed long-distance telephone traffic, output signals from call monitors (G1 -Gn) associated with a number of trunk lines are fed to a plurality of multisensor signal detectors (SD) of an as... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330861 | Digital equalizer for signal receiver in QPSK data-transmission system A signal receiver of a QPSK data-transmission system comprises two noncoherent demodulators feeding digitized in-phase and quadrature components to a pair of transversal filters whose coefficients are read out, during successive keying intervals, from a r... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4320500 | Method of and system for routing in a packet-switched communication network A node in a packet-switching data-transmission network has a processor distributing incoming messages or packets from a receiving buffer to transmitting buffers selected according to routing data established by an updating circuit which algebraically comb... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4310830 | Method of and system for analog/digital conversion To convert a sample of an amplitude-modulated voltage wave into binary pulses, the sample is simultaneously compared in two coders with two sets of threshold voltages of positive and negative polarity, respectively. Either one of the two coders yields in ... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4288872 | Equalizer for the correction of digital signals An equalizer designed to correct both precursor and postcursor distortion in signal samples periodically obtained from a digital signal train comprises two parallel, mutually complementary circuit branches each including an upstream filter for linearly co... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4288143 | Method of and apparatus for splicing optical fibers For the splicing of trunks of optical fibers, confronting trunk ends are closely juxtaposed in a surrounding enclosure which is subjected to vibrations transverse to its axis to generate an oscillating air column setting the trunk ends in vibration, the f... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4287392 | Integrated circuitry for exchanging signals between telephone station and central office The two talking wires of a line loop extending from a subscriber station to a central office, provided with respective blocking capacitors, are connected on the subscriber side of these blocking capacitors to respective signal detectors fed from a common ... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4283788 | Equalization system with preshaping filter An equalization system for eliminating precursor and postcursor interference effects from an incoming train of digital pulses comprises a cascade of decision stages interleaved with correction units emitting precursor-compensation signals to immediately f... | 08/11/1981 |
