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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4860314 | Differential pulse code modulation arrangement, associated decoding arrangement and transmission system comprising at least such an encoding or decoding arrangement This encoding arrangement has an input (12) for receiving a sequence of samples to be encoded, an output for supplying encoded samples, processing circuits, more specifically: a differential circuit (20) for producing differential samples between the samp... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4856026 | Data transmission system comprising smearing filters The transmitter (DTR) and the receiver (DRC) of a system for transmitting data signals at a given symbol rate 1/T comprise discrete-time smearing filters (SM and DSM) for combatting the effect of additive pulse-like disturbances (p'(t)) in the transmissio... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4853801 | Device for regenerating a binary digital signal, for example a bi-phase encoded signal The device comprises an input terminal (1) for receiving an electric signal and an output terminal (2) for supplying the binary digital signal. The input terminal (1) is coupled to the output terminal (2) via an equalizing unit (3) and a limiter circuit (... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4853927 | Method and circuit arrangement for decentralized controlled transmission rerouting The transmission restoration for faulty operating paths is generally constituted by a direct transmission restoration or a centrally controlled transmission rerouting. In the substitute direct transmission rerouting, N restoration links are permanently as... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4850698 | Method of determining measuring data on an optical transmission path by means of optical sensor The invention relates to a method of taking measurements along an optical transmission path by means of an optical sensor. The optical sensor includes an optical converter whose optical attenuation properties can be influenced according to the value to be... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4847836 | Circuit arrangement for synchronizing the units in the switching exchanges and repeaters of a time-division multiplex transmission system Circuit arrangement for synchronizing the units in the switching exchanges and repeaters of a time-division multiplex transmission system. In time-division multiplex transmission systems a central control device (first unit) is frequently employed to proc... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4845678 | Memory comprising simultaneously addressable memory elements A random access memory (1) is described in which one address of a row of addresses is activatable. There is also realized a block addressing mode in which all addresses between a selectable first address and a selectable second address are activated. To t... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4845705 | System for searching idle switching time slots defining a selected four-wire communication connection through a switching network working on the basis of time and space-division A control arrangement for controlling and coordinating the required switching operations in a switching network is designed among others to search idle switching time slots which can be used for a requested four-wire communication connection. Thereto a re... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4841365 | Arrangement for receiving numerical data, comprising a circuit for recognizing the start of packets Arrangement for receiving numerical data transmitted in the form of multiplexed packets in the video channel of a television transmission system, particularly comprising a circuit for recognizing data whose output signal (V) is used to authorize the trans... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4839855 | Multiple redundant clock circuit In a data processing device which consists of a plurality of parallel-operating modules, each of the four modules is provided with its own clock circuit. Synchronization is realized at the level of the cycle of the high frequency oscillation. This is real... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4837571 | Circuit arrangement for converting a data signal The described circuit arrangement for converting a data signal having a constant bit rate and code words of different length into an output signal consisting of code words of constant length but with a variable bit rate while using a buffer memory compris... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4835765 | Arrangement for full-duplex data transmission over two-wire circuits An arrangement for full-duplex data transmission over a two-wire circuit (1) comprises a transmit channel (2) connected to a baseband data transmitter (6) and including a smearing filter (18), a receive channel (3) connected to a baseband data receiver (9... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4829566 | Apparatus for detecting and discriminating phase jumps in a periodic signal and its application to a telephone tone signal with phase inversions The apparatus for detecting and discriminating phase jumps in a periodic signal comprises, arranged in cascade between an input terminal (1) and an output terminal (2), a frequency converter (3) transforming the frequency spectrum of the input signal e(t)... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4827474 | System and method of adjusting the interstation delay in an information transmission system Method of adjusting the interstation delay in an information transmission system comprising a large number of relay stations arranged in cascade and utilizing in one transmission direction the TDMA method, and a system to which such a delay adjusting meth... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4827472 | Echo canceller using delta modulation An echo canceller designed to cancel an echo signal [g(t)] generated in a send path (7) by a signal [f(t)] applied to a receive path (1) contains a subtractor (9) whose positive terminal receives a signal derived from the echo signal and whose negative te... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4825437 | Clock recovery arrangement especially for an information transmission system using the TDMA principle in one transmission direction Clock recovery arrangement suitable more specifically for an information transmission system using the TDMA principle in one transmission direction. A clock recovery arrangement (24, 13) employed in an information transmission system comprised of a centra... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4823292 | Data processing apparatus with energy saving clocking device The energy consumption of a data processing apparatus, having a data processing element with an operating mode and a stop mode, in which latter mode RAM contents are saved but all other chip functions are inoperative, can be minimized by switching between... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4821270 | Method for decoding data transmitted along a data channel and an apparatus for executing the method Method of decoding data making it possible to correct certain errors, e.g. in synchronization and transmission. The method relates to decoding data transmitted in groups of blocks. Each block has n1+n2 bits, where n1 is the length of a corresponding infor... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4817117 | Method of and circuit arrangement for ensuring bit synchronization of a data block in a receiver For synchronizing a data block in a receiver, there are transmitted consecutively and prior to the data block: a first bit sequence of alternating "0" and "1" levels for determining the bit clock and a second bit sequence for determining the block synchro... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4816762 | Three-dimensional metric, perfusion and metabolic compartment spectroscopy phantom A method and apparatus for calibrating NMR imaging and imaging spectroscopy devices. A precise three-dimensional Cartesian grid allowing measurable three-dimensional fluid flow is established. T1 /T2 and regional spectroscopy is prec... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4817028 | Device for summing of squares This device for summing squares is designed to calculate the sum of the squares of "n" numbers with "m" binary elements, where n and m are whole numbers equal to or greater than "2"; it is made up from a systolic network 14 formed of identical cells arran... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4815102 | Clock generation in a transmission system having a strong bandwidth limitation A clock generator for a pulse repeater of a receiver in a pulse transmission system comprises a forward filter (1) connected to its input (A), a difference former (2) whose positive input is connected to the output of the forward filter (1), a series arra... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4813075 | Method for determining the variation with time of a speech parameter and arrangement for carryin out the method In a speech or speaker recognition system, a segment or sequence of speech parameter values are smoothed to a most probable sequency by Dynamic Programming. The method for determining the variation with time of a speech parameter is based on a speech sign... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4811388 | Telecommunication network including a central back-up memory Telephone network comprised of a plurality of nodes which are coupled to each other by means of transmission lines, each node comprising a switching module, a central module and at least one peripheral module and an operational maintenance control unit, w... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4811347 | Apparatus and method for monitoring memory accesses and detecting memory errors A data processing arrangement which comprises a memory device provided with a memory with a first field in which memory words are stored or can be stored and a second field in which an error protection bit can be stored for every memory word from the firs... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4809318 | Method of overload control for the central control of a telecommunication system and arrangement for implementing the method The central processor of a telecommunication system is designed for performing many as well as a great variety of tasks. Owing to the more or less accidental character of the demand for processor time (long) waiting times can arise or even overload can oc... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4807173 | Frequency-domain block-adaptive digital filter A frequency-domain block-adaptive digital filter (FDAF) having a finite impulse response of length N for filtering a time-domain input signal in accordance with the overlap-save method includes window means (11) for obtaining modifications (B(p;m)) of the... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4807257 | Apparatus for the regeneration of channel-clock information in synchronous data transmission and data-recovery circuit arrangement comprising such apparatus A sampled synchronous transmission signal Vt is represented by a series of samples J at equidistant sampling instants. A computing circuit 5 computes the positions R of the sampling instants relative to the rising edges of a virtual reference clock Cref w... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4802173 | Method of and device for decoding a block of code symbols which is distributed between code words in two ways, each code word being protected by a maximum distance separable code A block of code symbols is protected by a product code or a pseudo product code. First of all, all syndrome symbols are formed and all code words having a syndrome which deviates from zero are provided with a flag. Each non-redundant symbol forms part of ... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4802190 | Method of transmitting information by means of code signals, information transmission system for carrying out the method, and transmitting and receiving apparatus for use in the transmission system Method of transmitting information by means of code signals, information transmission systems for carrying out the method, and transmitting and receiving apparatus for use in the information transmission system. A method of and system for transmitting n-bit in... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4799179 | Signal analysing and synthesizing filter bank system In a signal analysing and synthesizing filter bank system, the analysing bank receives a signal sampled at the rate fe and produces N contiguous subbank signals sampled at the rate fe /N. From the subband signals the synthesizing ban... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4795897 | Apparatus for establishing data transfers with a portable electronic card An apparatus for data transfer with a portable electronic card, for example a payment card or a credit card. It comprises a housing into which a card is introduced. When the card is introduced, a hook is taken along, which is connected to a carriage, whic... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4789821 | Test device for a combinatorial logic circuit and integrated circuit including such a device This device and method for testing a combinative logic circuit (4), includes on the one hand a circuit generating test sequences (30) for applying test logic signals to N inputs of the combinative logic circuit and, on the other hand, an output circuit (5... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4785743 | Protected room with an electrical interruptor and its application A protected closed space (L) comprises at least one wall element (E) provided with an electrical interruptor (C1, C2) in turn protected by a thin and flexible probe (S, B) which on the one hand transmits the external mechanical control movement (P) and on... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4785445 | Method of manufacturing BaPb1-x Bix O3 single crystal Echo canceler associated with a modem utilizing amplitude and phase modulation of a carrier, the echo canceler comprising adaptive filters (16-1) to (16-p) producing signals which are combined in an adder (15) for forming a synthetic echo signal &3xb5; (n... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4782489 | Method for decoding binary code words using estimated values When communicating analogue signals over a data link an analogue signal is digitized at a transmitter into code words which are transmitted. This sequence is reversed at a receiver. At the receiver an estimate is made of the analogue signal value correspo... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4779008 | Multiple redundant clock system comprising a number of mutually synchronizing clocks, and clock circuit for use in such a clock system A multiple redundant clock system comprises at least n=4 clocks and is self-synchronizing and fault tolerant against the failure of at the most 1/2(n-1) clocks. Each clock comprises an oscillator circuit which activates a dividing circuit at the end of ea... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4779072 | Channel encoder On the basis of n-bit words presented, the described channel encoder generates DC-free and run length limited m-bit (m>n) code words having (1+D)-1 or (1+D1)-1 precoder properties. The m-bit code words are formed each time... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4777664 | Broadband optical distribution system Broadband optical distribution system for a local optical fibre network in which the heterodyne or homodyne principles are used. So as to utilize the wavelength range available for transmission to the best possible extent, highly stabilized auxiliary osci... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4769809 | Method of and circuit arrangement for through-switching broadband digital signals without phase jump in a synchronous broadband communication network Broadband digital signals in a broadband communication network asynchronously operated space-division-multplex switching networks are arranged in the nodes. This asynchronous operating mode of the space-division-multiplex switching networks requires, in c... | 09/06/1988 |
