Quotables
"There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States."
T. Craven, FCC Commissioner ; 1961
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20130003928 | MULTIFRAME X-RAY DETECTOR FOR IMAGING SYSTEM WITH DISTRIBUTED X-RAY SOURCES Device and method for synchronously switching activating a first and second charge accumulation section (31, 32) for a duration of a first and second predetermined sub-frame and a first and second X-ray source until lapse of a predetermined time frame for each of... | 01/03/2013 |
| 20120228486 | RADIATION DETECTOR ASSEMBLY WITH TEST CIRCUITRY A radiation detector assembly (20) includes a detector array module (40) configured to convert radiation particles to electrical detection pulses, and an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) (42) operatively connected with the detector arr... | 09/13/2012 |
| 20120085915 | PROCESSING ELECTRONICS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A COUNT RESULT, AND DETECTOR FOR AN X-RAY IMAGING DEVICE The present invention relates to processing electronics (18) for a detector (12) of an X-ray imaging device (14), the processing electronics (18) with a pulse counter section (22) having at least one count output (30) and with a... | 04/12/2012 |
| 20120032085 | SPECTRAL IMAGING An imaging system includes a scintillator array (202) and a digital photomultiplier array (204). A photon counting channel (212), an integrating channel (210), and a moment generating channel (214) process the output signal of the digi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120001084 | SPECTRAL IMAGING A detector array (110) of an imaging system (100) includes a radiation sensitive detector (114, 116) that detects radiation and generates a signal indicative thereof. A current-to-frequency (I/F) converter (202) converts the signal to a pulse... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110315888 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DATA ACQUISITION USING AN IMAGING APPARATUS A detector tile (116) of an imaging detector array (112) includes a scintillator array (202), a photosensor array (204), which includes a plurality of photosensitive pixels, optically coupled to the scintillator array (202), and a curr... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110211669 | RADIATION DETECTOR WITH AN ARRAY OF ELECTRODES The invention relates to a radiation detector (100) comprising a converter element (113) with an array (120) of first electrodes (121) for sampling electrical signals generated by incident radiation (X). With a connection circuit (130)... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110211668 | CONVERTER ELEMENT FOR A RADIATION DETECTOR The invention relates to converter element (100) for a radiation detector, particularly for a Spectral CT scanner. The converter element (100) comprises at least two conversion cells (131) that are at least partially separated from each other by int... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110079865 | RADIATION DETECTION AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A RADIATION DETECTOR The invention relates to a radiation detector (10), comprising an array of pixels (1), wherein each pixel (1) comprises a conversion layer of a semiconductor material (4) for converting incident radiation into electrical signals and wherein e... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110036989 | COUNTING DETECTOR A pulse shaper (124) includes an integrator (202) with a feedback capacitor (208) that stores integrated charge of a charge pulse indicative of a detected photon. An output pulse of the integrator includes a peak amplitude indicative of the detected... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110017918 | SINGLE PHOTON RADIATION DETECTOR The invention relates to a radiation detector (100) that is particularly suited for energy resolved single X-ray photon detection in a CT scanner. In a preferred embodiment, the detector (100) comprises an array of scintillator elements (S k) in which inci... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100322380 | X-RAY DETECTOR FOR PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING The invention relates to an X-ray detector (30) that comprises an array of sensitive elements (Pi−1,b, Pia, Pib, Pi+1,a, Pi+1,b) and at least two analyzer gratings (G2a, G2b) disposed ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100213381 | RADIATION DETECTOR WITH SEVERAL CONVERSION LAYERS The invention relates to a radiation detector (100), particularly for X-rays (X) and for y-rays, which comprises a combination of (a) at least one primary conversion layer (101a-101f) with a low attenuation coefficient for the photons ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100193700 | SPECTRAL PHOTON COUNTING DETECTOR An apparatus includes a scale factor determiner (236) that determines a count scale factor based on a measured count of a number detected photons for an energy threshold and an estimated actual count of the number of detected photons. The photons include poly-ene... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100187432 | SPECTRAL PHOTON COUNTING DETECTOR An apparatus includes an integrator (120) that produces a pulse having a peak amplitude indicative of the energy of a detected photon. First discharging circuitry (136) discharges the integrator (120) at a first discharging speed, and second dischar... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100172467 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING COUNTABLE PULSES FROM IMPINGING X-RAY PHOTONS; AND CORRESPONDING IMAGING DEVICE The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for generating countable pulses (30) from impinging X-ray (12, 14) in an imaging device (16), in particular in a computer tomograph, the apparatus (10) comprising a pre-amplifying elem... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100172466 | RADIATION DETECTOR WITH COUNTING ELECTRONICS The invention relates to a radiation detector, particularly an X-ray detector (100), comprising a counting circuitry (10, 20, 30) for counting electrical pulses generated by the (sub-)pixels (2) of the detector. In the counting circuitry, the result... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100140491 | RADIATION SENSITIVE DETECTOR An apparatus includes an x-ray source (112) that generates transmission radiation that traverses an examination region (108) and a detector (116) that includes a photo-converter (204) that detects the radiation and generates a signal indicati... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100127859 | SIMULATION AND VISUALIZATION OF SCATTERED RADIATION Scattered radiation has non-intuitive properties. A signalling system (28) is presented which provides a perceptible signal (34) being indicative of a predicted or measured spatial distribution of scattered radiation. An embodiment provides for easy assess... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100111248 | APPARATUS, IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COUNTING X-RAY PHOTONS The invention relates to an apparatus (10) for counting X-rayphotons (12, 14), in particular photons in a computer tomograph. The events from a first photon-sensitive element (20) are recorded in a first integrator (24), and the events coming... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100027743 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMIINING A DETECTOR ENERGY WEIGHTING FUNCTION OF A DETECTION UNIT The invention relates to an apparatus for determining a detector energy weighting function of a detection unit (6). The apparatus comprises a determination unit (21) for determining a spectral response function of the detection unit (6) and a calcul... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100020924 | APPARATUS, IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COUNTING X-RAY PHOTONS The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for counting X-ray photons (12, 14). The apparatus (10) comprises a sensor (16) adapted to convert a photon (12, 14) into a charge pulse, a processing element (18) adapted to co... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100012845 | ENERGY-RESOLVING DETECTION SYSTEM AND IMAGING SYSTEM The invention relates to an energy-resolving detection system for detecting radiation (4). The energy-resolving detection system comprises a first layer (21) for absorbing a part of the radiation (4) and a radiation quanta counting unit comprising a... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090321643 | DETECTOR FOR AND A METHOD OF DETECTING ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION A detector unit (301) for detecting electromagnetic radiation (106), the detector unit (301) comprising a conversion material (332) adapted for converting impinging electromagnetic radiation (106) into electric charge carriers, a charg... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090304149 | X-RAY DETECTOR IMAGING WITH POLYCHROMATIC SPECTRA An x-ray detector has a sensor (24) absorbing x-ray quanta of polychromatic spectra and generating an electric sensor signal corresponding to the absorbed x-ray quanta. There is at least one counting channel (430) including a plurality of discriminators (<... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090290050 | COMPENSATION OF LEAKAGE CURRENT AND RESIDUAL SIGNALS FOR INTEGRATING DETECTOR BASED ON DIRECT X-RAY CONVERSION The application describes an X-ray detector, which uses direct X-ray conversion (DiCo) combined with CMOS pixel circuits. DiCo materials have to be used with high voltage to achieve a high field strength. This makes the sensor prone to leakage currents, which falsify th... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090161819 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCANNING AND DATA ACQUISITION IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) APPLICATIONS Systems and methods for data acquisition in computed tomography (CT) applications are provided. The systems and methods are particularly adapted for scanning and acquiring/processing data in connection with high-power cone-beam CT applications. The electron beam is move... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090059830 | METHOD OF SIGNALLING, A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND A COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT First and second data is transmitted simultaneously by modulating a first set of signal constellation points, corresponding to the first data, with second data thereby creating a second set of constellation points. The second set of constellation points comprises two su... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20080279328 | Systems and Methods Using X-Ray Tube Spectra For Computed Tomography Applications Computed tomography (CT) systems are provided that utilize x-ray tube spectra in connection with the generation and/or interpretation of CT data. The disclosed systems and methods use x-ray tube spectra associated with CT systems to enhance contrast and/or image quality... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080137564 | Data Transmission System In order to minimize the overall delay when transmitting data via the HS-DSCH in UMTS, provisions should be made that an RLC entity on the UE side receives RLC PDUs carried by the HS-DSCH as early as possible from the MAC-hs layer, while at the same time keeping the rig... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080137652 | Data Packet Transmission in a Single Container Data transmission in a telecommunication system may become critical if too many data packets of the same logical channel are contained in a single container which gets lost. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, this problem may be circumvented ... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080096555 | Registration of a Mobiel Station in a Communication Network Initial registration of a registration support system in a communication network requires complex signaling procedures, if the MSISDN remains unchanged for all mobile phones. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention an improved registration of a mob... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080022275 | Method for Installing a Software Program on a Computer To provide a method and system allowing an easy and user adapted installation of a software program on a computer it is proposed to store (24) changes of configuration files and/or addendum files within a predetermined folder. These configuration and/or addendum ... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20070258422 | QUALITY OF SERVICE CONTROL FOR A DATA TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS COMUNICATION NETWORK USING CONFIGURATION MESSAGES In UMTS, quality of service attributes, which a user equipment can prescribe for an end-to-end service to be set up in order to meet a specific quality of service, in most cases have to be processed by a central call and admission control function in the network. These ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070172068 | Methods and devices for counting user equipment units in a mobile radio telecommunication network For the transmission of an MBMS content to a plurality of user equipment units, the use of a p2m channel may only be beneficial if the number of joined user equipment units exceeds a threshold. However, counting is made difficult due to the fact that idle mode UE, also ... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20070162812 | Decoding and reconstruction of data When applying chase combining in the retransmission protocol of a telecommunication system or other schemes of retransmission protocols which use selfdecodable incremental redundancy, it may not in all cases be the best solution to combine the initial transmission of da... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070133605 | Data packet transmission Using the attribute “priority” to achieve a stronger FEC for RLC Control PDUs transmitted via the HS-DSCH also entails prioritized handling so that an RLC Control PDU is likely to overhaul an RLC Data PDU. As a consequence the RLC protocol operation can severely be ... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20070115894 | Transmission of data packets from a transmitter to a receiver Due to NACK-to-ACK misinterpretations in base stations, packets are lost, and there may be gaps in a re-ordering buffer of a base station. According to the present invention, when the receiver decodes—possibly after some retransmissions—a first data packet without a... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070002786 | Point-to-multipoint data transmission The initial transmission of data packets in a point-to-multipoint communication network may often be delayed when retransmissions of erroneously decoded data packets are required. According to an aspect of the present invention, point-to-multipoint data transmission and... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20070002763 | Apparatus and method for peer-to-peer link monitoring of a wireless network with centralized control Centrally controlled wireless networks require reliable communications between the central controller and each of the stations within the wireless networks. The structure of a wireless network is often dynamic, or ad-hoc, as stations enter and exit the network, or are p... | 01/04/2007 |
