A technique for dynamic real time focusing of ultrasonic transducer arrays is introduced. This paper assumes a linear transducer array operating in the sequential mode. In this case, the elements are fired sequentiall...
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A technique for dynamic real time focusing of ultrasonic transducer arrays is introduced. This paper assumes a linear transducer array operating in the sequential mode. In this case, the elements are fired sequentially, one at a time, all elements receive in parallel. The returns are integrated coherently on the basis of equal geometric phase to synthesize the echoes of an array twice as large. Dynamic focusing is accomplished at any depth through electronic correction of the dominant quadratic phase terms. For this purpose a second order Taylor series expansion of the phase is used.< >
The prototype Pacific Ocean network for the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) program consists of two shore-cabled acoustic sources, two autonomous vertical hydrophone receiving arrays, and 16 U.S. Navy hyd...
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The prototype Pacific Ocean network for the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) program consists of two shore-cabled acoustic sources, two autonomous vertical hydrophone receiving arrays, and 16 U.S. Navy hydrophone arrays. The sources, receivers, and signaling strategy are designed to be capable of up to 10-megameter transmissions on a routine basis. A new broadband, low-frequency (75 Hz), acoustic source was designed and built by Alliant Techsystems. The bender-bar/barrel-stave transducer is pressure compensated for operation to 1000-m depth. Signal waveform shaping is employed to broaden the effective bandwidth of the source to 37.5 Hz (Q=2; time resolution of 27 ms). Four-element vertical hydrophone arrays are attached to the sources to permit reciprocal transmissions and ambient noise monitoring. Autonomous vertical hydrophone arrays consisting of 40 elements at 35-m spacing (1400-m aperture) were developed to resolve low-order acoustic modes. The autonomous arrays are designed for deployments of up to 1 year, with intermediate readout of the data via ship-recoverable pop-up data modules. The U.S. Navy hydrophone arrays were instrumented with 80486-based data acquisition and processing systems, with communications links for transmitting the data in near real time to a central site for further processing and archiving.
The subband adaptive system, where the idea of the filter bank is applied to the adaptive filter, has a feature that a higher-order adaptation can be reduced to lower-order adaptations. The reduction of the order of t...
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The subband adaptive system, where the idea of the filter bank is applied to the adaptive filter, has a feature that a higher-order adaptation can be reduced to lower-order adaptations. The reduction of the order of the adaptive filter is related closely to the number of channels and the decimation ratio. The order of adaptive digital filter (ADF) is decreased greatly when the number of subbands is increased, and the decimation ratio is increased up to the maximum value. Then, however, the number of coefficient-updates per unit time is decreased, which results in the deterioration of the convergence Speed. From such a viewpoint, this paper discusses a method to improve the convergence speed, which is deteriorated in the subband adaptive system, due to the decimation. The idea of the proposed method is to utilize effectively the data which have been discarded in the decimation process and to improve the convergence speed. It is called the multirate repeating method. As the first step, the multirate repeating method is applied to the conventional subband adaptive system and the convergence speed is improved. Then a subband adaptive system is introduced in which the multirate repeating method can be utilized more effectively. As a result, a faster convergence is realized while retaining the ADF order-reduction effect, which is an advantage of the subband adaptive system.
In order to solve the speed problem and shallow reasoning problem met in current research in fault diagnosis expert system, this paper presents a model based parallel fault diagnosis expert system for energy managemen...
Plasma immersion ion implantation applies a series of negative high-voltage pulses to a target immersed in a plasma. An analytical model of the currents and potentials induced before, during, and after the negative bi...
Plasma immersion ion implantation applies a series of negative high-voltage pulses to a target immersed in a plasma. An analytical model of the currents and potentials induced before, during, and after the negative bias in a planar geometry is presented. The effect of multiple pulses on the results is also studied. The model determines the time-varying ion current, electron current, total current, total dose, and sheath thickness for a piecewise linear voltage pulse. The sheath collapse is found to be important for high repetition rate pulses. Implementation of the model is done in SPICE, a circuit simulator. Comparison with experimental data has demonstrated the accuracy of the model.
Optical flow computation may be divided into four processing steps where the first is extraction of image features suitable for flow estimation. Using a generalization of the basic flow constraint it is possible to es...
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Plasma immersion ion implantation (PIII) is a technique which can be used to conformally dope sidewalls of Si trenches. Using junction staining techniques and subsequently calibrating the observed stained depth to mea...
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Plasma immersion ion implantation (PIII) is a technique which can be used to conformally dope sidewalls of Si trenches. Using junction staining techniques and subsequently calibrating the observed stained depth to measured dose, dopant distributions inside Si trenches with aspect ratios ranging from 1 to 12 are studied for various bias voltages from 5 to 20 kV. Unlike conventional collimated beam implantation, PIII was able to conformally dope all aspect ratios studied with no evidence of abrupt discontinuities in the dopant distribution along the trench surface as a result of beam shadowing by trench geometry. Furthermore, it is shown that the higher implant biases results in more directional trajectories. Thus, dopant distributions along irregular geometries can be controlled by PIII process conditions.
An algorithm for establishing the correspondence between two projectively transformed sets of coplanar points (or lines) is proposed and its performance analyzed. Five-tuples of features are represented by projective/...
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We present a method to compute depth from the amount of defocus in two images obtained from the same view-point but with different camera parameter settings. The change in defocus (blur) between the two images is prop...
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We present a method to compute depth from the amount of defocus in two images obtained from the same view-point but with different camera parameter settings. The change in defocus (blur) between the two images is proportional to the depth in the scene. We introduce a novel method to estimate the blur using a multiresolution local frequency representation of the input image pair. A confidence measure is used to discriminate between high error and low error blur estimates. Quantitative experimental results are shown for both real and synthetic images.
Optical flow computation may be divided into four processing steps where the first is extraction of image features suitable for flow estimation. Using a generalization of the basic flow constraint it is possible to es...
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Optical flow computation may be divided into four processing steps where the first is extraction of image features suitable for flow estimation. Using a generalization of the basic flow constraint it is possible to estimate flow vectors from a set of feature images obtained from the input image sequence. Generalized Sobel operators provide a suitable set of feature extraction operators. The set of five filters up to second order provides good approximations of ideal edge and line detectors. A review of spatial and frequency constraints on optical flow suggests a multiresolution approach to optical flow where the initial feature extractors consists of velocity tuned operators. We show that two-dimensional generalized Sobel operators may be extended to spatio-temporal velocity tuned filters for optical flow estimation. Experimental results compare well to existing methods.< >
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