Nokia Technology Gmbh

Nokia Unterhaltungselektronik

Nokia (deutschland) Gmbh

Valeo Auto-electric Wischer Und Motoren Gmbh

Nokia Corporation

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Itt Automobive Europe Gmbh

Gerd Reime

Terho Kaikuranta

Klaus Durst

Andres Richter

A method and system for detecting the presence of an object at a touch pad device, wherein the touch pad device has a designated interaction area for allowing a user to use the object to interact with the touch pad device for inputting one or more functions in an electronic device. One or more groups of optical sensor components, each including an optical receiver and two light emitters positioned at opposite sides of the receiver such that when an object is present at the touch pad device, the changes in the receiver output can be used to determine the location of the object as a function of time. Preferably, the light emitters are operated in a pulsed mode so that the changes in the receiver output contain a frequency component so as to distinguish the changes due to the presence of the object and those of ambient light.

Method and device for detecting touch pad unit

A rain sensor to detect humidity drops inside an area on a transparent window has at least one transmitting element to emit optical rays into the window and has at least one receiving element to receive at least one part of the emitted optical rays where the intensity of the optical rays received is dependent on the number of humidity drops in the area of the window observed by the rain sensor. So that interference from the rain sensor with radio broadcasts is effectively reduced and, if possible even completely prevented, the rain sensor has a generator to generate an electrical signal which has a lower harmonic content than square-wave signals, preferably a sine-wave electrical signal to power each transmitting element of the rain sensor.

Rain sensor using low harmonic content signals

The invention relates to an apparatus for wireless optical transmission of video and/or audio information, such as television broadcasts or video recordings, with IR radiation radiated into the surrounding free space by an optical transmitter and received by one or more photo receivers. It is the object of the invention to provide means for extending the transmission range of wireless optical transmission systems and for simplifying signal processing, so that television broadcasts or video recordings can be reliably transmitted under ambient light conditions typical in residential buildings while requiring only limited additional circuitry for matching the optical transmission channel and a small number of luminescent diodes. This object is solved in that at least for the upper frequency spectrum of the video and/or audio information, the optical transmission is based on a pulse-shaped source signal, with the information represented by the temporal position of the signal edges between pulses and non-pulse periods. A simple edge detector converts the source signal into a channel pulse signal which includes a short spike-shaped channel pulse synchronous with each signal edge in the source signal. The optical receiver includes a 1:2 frequency divider for restoring from the received channel pulse signal the original shape of the pulse-shaped source signal.

Apparatus for wireless optical transmission of video and/or audio information

The invention relates to a device for influencing a lighting installation, and more particularly, includes a lighting installation of a motor vehicle, depending on ambient light. The device comprises a switching device to turn the lighting installation on and off. At least one optical sensor is provided to detect the wavelength of the ambient light. An evaluation device sends a control signal to the switching device when the wavelengths of the ambient light detected by the sensor are essentially those contained in the daylight. Since the filter and the sensor are jointly formed by at least one light emitting diode which operates as a light-sensitive element, the passing lights can be automatically turned on in a simple and favorable manner.

Device for influencing a lighting installation as a function of ambient light

Circuit arrangement for receiving light signals

A variable electronic resistor (16), which can be varied by a control signal (Ust) at the control input (15), contains two parallel, signal paths (1 and 2) with identical components, of which one signal path carries a phase inverted input transmission signal and the other signal path carries a non phase inverted input transmission signal and which are additively joined at the output side. Each signal path contains a charge carrier channel (3) and a signal transmission stage (7) with a low impedance current input, located downstream of the output electrode (5) in the signal path of the charge carrier channel. The resistor of the charge carrier channel can be varied by a control voltage (Ust), which is common to both charge carrier channels, in a control electrode (14) of the semiconductor components (4).

Variable electronic resistor having parallel phase-inverted variable

A noise signal filter (5) in a noise level detector (3) filters out the noise signals (Sr) to be determined from a useful signal (Sn) transmitted via transmission channel (1), and mutes the noise signal parts, which have a system reference line as their direct basis, through a rectifier (6) and an amplitude limiter (9) to a peak envelope demodulator (8). The latter produces an envelope curve from the input signal, with places in which only the amplitudes of the noise signal determine the level of the envelope curve. The level of these places is stored by a minimum level memory (11), which follows the input signal, and stores the lowest level value obtained so far. To compensate for a drift of the signal guiding the minimum level memory (11), a second minimum level memory (13) is provided, which stores the lowest minimum value obtained so far and routes it to a signal substracter (16), to compensate for the drift and to remove voltage differences from the tracking to the minimum level memories.

Device for producing a noise detector signal

An anti-distortion device, connected downstream of a transmitting device (2) with a determined transmission bandwidth for transmitting a input signal (Se) with signal jumps (3), wherein the delay time (Tv15) of the delay element (15) is such that the front slope (24) of the detection signal (S18) of the second signal jump detector (18), produced when a slope (4) of the useful signal (Sa1) is detected, is at least partially located in the time range (T25) of the trailing edge (25) of the corresponding detector signal (S17) of the first signal jump detector (17), that the delay time (Tv11) of the delay element (11) is equal to half the period (T5) of the overshoot (5) superimposed on the useful signal, and following the signal slope (4) of the transmitted signal (Sa1), and that the delay element (10) is connected between the output (1) of the transmitting device (2) and the input (11.1) of the delay element (11).

Transmitting device of a predetermined transmission bandwidth, with an

Transmission device for transmitting a wanted signal modulated on a

Inserted in the transmission path (10) for transmitting a color signal of a color television signal is a signal switcher (12) with at least three switch positions (12a, 12b, 12c), the end positions of which are connected to the output (11.2) and input (11.1), respectively, of a delay line (11) contained in the transmission path. Connected to the transmission path (8) of the luminance signals is an edge detection arrangement (24) which, when a signal edge is detected in the luminance signal, generates a detection signal that oscillates about a zero line and has a zero crossing at the detection time, and controls the signal switcher in such a way that an associated color signal edge of the color signal, which has a steep slope and occurs at the point in time of the signal edge of the luminance signal, is transmitted. In the absence of detection of a signal edge, portions of both the undelayed and the delayed color signal are transmitted to the signal output (12.3) of the signal switcher.

System for transmitting color television signals that contain a

A brightness signal distortion correction circuit (8, 11, 21) is provided for a video recorder, having distortion correction circuit (11), responsive to frequency-modulated brightness signals, and further responsive to feedback disturbance recognition control signals (U, J), for providing distortion corrected brightness signals; and also having disturbance recognition circuit (21), responsive to the distortion corrected brightness signals, for providing the feedback disturbance recognition control signals (U, J). In one embodiment, the distortion correction circuit (11) includes an adjustable transmission circuit (8) being arranged between the distortion correction circuit (11) and the disturbance recognition circuit (21), and having a voltage divider circuit (50, 51) including a resistor (51) and first and second diode circuit (50), responsive to the disturbance recognition control signals (J). In another embodiment the distortion correction circuit (11) includes adjustable threshold switching circuit (16), which is responsive to the feedback disturbance recognition control signal (I).

Video recorder with distortion corrector circuit

A comb filter circuit (1) with a usual comb filter (3) contains a circuit to detect line-parallel color edges. To that effect, envelope curves (Sf2, Sf3) are created from the addition signal (Sb) and the subtraction signal (Sc) of the delayed and the undelayed color signal (Si) on the input side of envelope curve demodulators (23, 15), and a control signal (St) is created in a comparator circuit (38) by comparing the envelope curves, which adjusts the signal portions of the transmitted and delayed color signal on the input side, and transmits them with an adjustable electronic fader control (40) to the signal output (29) of the comb filter circuit. To ensure trouble-free control even under operating conditions, during which a large portion of cross talk signals are scanned, an additional comb filter (31) is connected to the signal path of the subtraction signal (Sc), which eliminates most of the cross talk portions on this signal path.

Comb filter circuit on the reproduction side of the color channel of a

The comb filter (13.1) in the chrominance signal transmission channel (6) on the playback side of a videorecorder contains--in parallel with its retarder circuit (14)--an adder circuit (15) and a subtracter circuit (25) that have their signal outputs connected to a comparator circuit (30). Comparing the enveloping curves of the output signals (Sc and Sd) of the adder and subtracter circuits, the comparator then produces a switching signal (Sf) to reverse an electronic switcher (31) whenever the level of the enveloping curve of the subtraction signal is greater than the level of the enveloping curve of the addition signal. To this end, the level conditions of the two signals are set in such a manner that the level of the enveloping curve of the subtraction signal associated with a transition from a white background to a chrominance signal of a given intensity is greater than the level of the enveloping curve of the addition signal associated with the same color transition. Consequently, line-parallel color transitions that become color-disturbed due to the action of the comb filter are readily recognized and can be replaced by switching to an undisturbed chrominance signal (Sa).

Comb filter circuit in the chrominance signal channel on the playback

Two edge detectors (12, 13) at the input (10.1) and the output (10.2) of a delay line (10) of the edge detector arrangement (11) generate detection signals of identical shape at the detected signal edges of a signal traveling over the delay line. The delay time of the delay line is selected so that the two detection signals partly overlap in time. A subtraction arrangement (16) generates, from the two detection signals, a difference signal that contains, in the overlap region, a zero crossing that can be detected by a zero crossing detector (17). At the time of this zero crossing, the zero crossing detector generates the switching edge of an edge detection signal that controls, for example, a signal switcher (9).

Arrangement for temporal detection of a signal edge of an electrical

The proposed method of broadcasting television signals is such that the phase of the carrier signal as modulated with the video signal is shifted through 180.degree. from one line to the next within a field. Measure ensures that the disturbance signal due to a transmitter operating in the same channel will produce opposite effects from one line to the next, i.e. a brightening in one line and a darkening in the next. These opposite disturbances of adjacent lines are then compensated by the vision of the viewer or by electronic circuits specially designed for this purpose, so that the picture data originating from the interfering transmitter will not be perceived by the viewer.

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