The retina is an intelligent vision sensor indispensable in real-time image information processing of animals. The parallel image processing function of the retina was realized in an analog CMOS integrated circuit (vi...
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This paper presents some advanced facilities and services related to the use of everyday telephones. The caller identification and answering machine are advanced telephone functions. The telephone system can be used a...
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This paper presents some advanced facilities and services related to the use of everyday telephones. The caller identification and answering machine are advanced telephone functions. The telephone system can be used as a tele-security system. This research work is based on the potential use of a low cost 8-bit microcontroller. The caller identification (caller ID) system is a feature of digital telephone networks and is supported by signaling system no. 7 (SS7) which uses a separate call data circuit. The caller ID information is transmitted on the subscriber loop using frequency shift key (FSK) modem tones and data is embedded between the first and second ring of the ringing signal. A caller ID decoding circuit has been designed for decoding the FSK modem tone and the appropriate ASCII code is displayed in the LCD unit. An answering machine is a device that answers the telephone calls in the absence of the called party and records the incoming message into a cassette. A ring detector circuit, outgoing message (OGM) sender circuit, tape driver circuit, dual tone multiplexed frequency (DTMF) encoder circuit and calling party control (CPC) circuit have been developed for the answering machine device. The DTMF generator circuit and sensor signal management circuit have been integrated to provide a tele-security system. A PIC 16C84 (8-bit microcontroller) controls all logic operations as it was programmed. Software has been produced in assembly language for programming of the microcontroller.
In our GLS (global learning scheme) system, KDD (knowledge discovery in databases) process is modeled as an organized society of intelligent agents (called KDD agents). KDD process planning is a meta-agent in this fra...
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In our GLS (global learning scheme) system, KDD (knowledge discovery in databases) process is modeled as an organized society of intelligent agents (called KDD agents). KDD process planning is a meta-agent in this framework, and some basic AI planning techniques have been used to organize dynamically the KDD process so that the GLS system increases both autonomy and versatility. In this paper, we address some deeper issues concerning KDD process planning. Especially we propose a mechanism integrating process planning with process controlling to formalize process iteration (that is, the re-execution of some agents). In this mode, execution failures causing process iteration, feedback paths and re-execution of the agents in the paths (and even the iterating number for each loop) are determined dynamically and automatically. With this and other deeper issues (such as process evolution) being properly handled, the GLS system is more complete in KDD process modeling, and more flexible and robust for practical use.
Emission mechanisms of a device-quality quantum well (QW) structure and bulk three dimensional (3D) InGaN materials grown on sapphire substrates without any epitaxial lateral overgrown GaN base layers were investigate...
Emission mechanisms of a device-quality quantum well (QW) structure and bulk three dimensional (3D) InGaN materials grown on sapphire substrates without any epitaxial lateral overgrown GaN base layers were investigated. The InxGa1−xN layers showed various degrees of in-plane spatial potential (band gap) inhomogeneity, which is due to a compositional fluctuation or a few monolayers thickness fluctuation. The degree of fluctuation changed remarkably around a nominal InN molar fraction x=0.2, which changes to nearly 0.08–0.1 for the strained InxGa1−xN. This potential fluctuation induces localized energy states both in the QW and 3D InGaN, showing a large Stokes-like shift. The spontaneous emission from undoped InGaN single QW light-emitting diodes (LEDs), undoped 3D LEDs, and multiple QW (MQW) laser diode (LD) wafers was assigned as being due to the recombination of excitons localized at the potential minima, whose lateral size was determined by cathodoluminescence mapping to vary from less than 60 to 300 nm in QWs. Those structures are referred to as quantum disks (Q disks) or segmented QWs depending on the lateral size. Blueshift of the emission peak by an increase of the driving current was explained to be combined effects of band filling of the localized states by excitons and Coulomb screening of the quantum confined Stark effect induced by the piezoelectric field. The lasing mechanisms of the continuous wave In0.15Ga0.85N MQW LDs having small potential fluctuations can be described by the well-known electron-hole-plasma (EHP) picture. However, the inhomogeneous MQW LDs are considered to lase by EHP in segmented QWs or Q disks. It is desirable to use entire QW planes with small potential inhomogeneity as gain media for higher performance LD operation.
Conventional regular moments are only invariant to translation, rotation and equal scaling. It is shown that the conventional regular moment-invariants remain no longer invariant when the image is scaled unequally in ...
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Conventional regular moments are only invariant to translation, rotation and equal scaling. It is shown that the conventional regular moment-invariants remain no longer invariant when the image is scaled unequally in the x- and y-directions. The paper addresses this problem by presenting a technique to make the moments invariant to unequal scaling. Consequently, we would be able to obtain features for images that are translated, scaled equally/unequally and rotated. The problem is formulated using conventional regular moments. A neural network is trained to estimate the reference scale factor and together with another computed factor obtained from an equation involving the angle of rotation, the scaling ratio for the particular images can be obtained. From this, moments can be made invariant to unequal scaling. Invariance of rotation is achieved by using the principle axis method to determine the angle of rotation and consequently the moments of the image can be derived in its unrotated form. Validity of this method is demonstrated by experiment.
Multimedia communications have evolved rapidly during the last few years and they now require communication services with guaranteed quality of service (QoS). For the type of these new distributed multimedia applicati...
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Multimedia communications have evolved rapidly during the last few years and they now require communication services with guaranteed quality of service (QoS). For the type of these new distributed multimedia applications, it is crucial to monitor continuously the current QoS parameters of a connection to ensure that they comply with the pre-arranged negotiated values. The method proposed in this paper suggests the use of QoS monitoring agents in the ATM switches as well as in the end systems, in a way that allows automatic recovery, if possible, from all the QoS violations. The recovery will be achieved by redistributing the levels of QoS that should be supported immediately by a component to meet the end-to-end requirements. An initial architecture is proposed as well as the communication protocol between the agents and future directions are given.
In order to realize multimedia applications such as VOD (Video-on-Demand) over highspeed networks, suitable QoS (Quality of Service) of the continuous media such as audio and video have to be guaranteed in accordance ...
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In order to realize multimedia applications such as VOD (Video-on-Demand) over highspeed networks, suitable QoS (Quality of Service) of the continuous media such as audio and video have to be guaranteed in accordance with users' requirements, available computing and network resources during the service session. In this paper, we introduce the Media Coordinate system which provides end-to-end QoS guarantee and negotiation functions consistently from the application through network layers. Within these QoS control functions we introduce a packet rate control method to reduce the packet loss, and a frame rate control method to maintain the frame rate at a constant under the dynamic load conditions. We implemented the media coordinate system as a prototyped Video-on-Demand system and evaluated the performance of these control functions. Through these performance evaluations, we could justify the usefulness of our suggested media coordinate system.
The limiter and microwave soliton behavior were experimentally demonstrated in the microstrip line using the 20 /spl mu/m thick yttrium iron garnet film substrate at S band. These nonlinear phenomena were explained by...
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The limiter and microwave soliton behavior were experimentally demonstrated in the microstrip line using the 20 /spl mu/m thick yttrium iron garnet film substrate at S band. These nonlinear phenomena were explained by the strong coupling between quasi-TEM and magnetostatic forward volume wave modes at magnetic resonance frequency of /spl gamma//spl mu//sub 0/H/sub 0//2/spl pi/ from an implicit dispersion relation of the stripline.
Electrophoretic analyses of acid extracts from mature sperm of newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster, on acid/urea/Triton X-100 polyacrylamide gel showed the exclusive occurrence of sperm-specific nuclear basic proteins (SBPs), w...
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