Lapped transform‐based codec for frame‐memory reduction in super‐quality LCD overdrive

Abstract— Overdrive is commonly used to reduce the liquid‐crystal response time and motion blur in liquid‐crystal displays (LCDs). However, overdrive requires a large frame memory in order to store the previous frame for reference. In this paper, a lapped transform‐based codec (LTC) is proposed to reduce the frame memory needed for LCD overdrive. In the latest literature, a directional prediction‐based codec (DPC) employs eight directional predictions, which takes up a large percentage of the computational complexity of the codec and does not consider the de‐correlation of the inter‐blocks. Therefore, the LTC first uses the lapped transform to decompose the correlation of the inter‐blocks in the YUV color space. A hadamard transform is then used for energy compaction. The reordered coefficients are pre‐quantized and encoded using the proposed adaptive bit‐plane coding (ABPC) method for a simple hardware implementation. The simulation results show that the proposed LTC significantly improves the DPC in both subjective and objective performance and outperforms the block truncation coding (BTC) and adaptive multi‐level BTC (AM‐BTC), which have been described in the literature.     

Adaptive predistortion using threshold decomposition‐based piecewise linear modeling

A new adaptive predistortion approach for nonlinear power amplifiers based on the piecewise linear (PWL) approximation of nonlinear functions is presented. The PWL model is obtained using threshold decomposition (TD) of the input‐output characteristics. The TD based PWL model is used to develop a baseband predistorter using both the direct and the indirect learning architectures. The proposed predistorter is proved to provide a better performance in suppressing nonlinear distortion than conventional polynomial predistorters and a reduced hardware complexity as compared to lookup table (LUT) approach. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2011.     

Two new control signal approaches for obtaining the MRAS-CDM and a real-time application

The coefficient diagram method (CDM) is one of the most effective control design methods. It creates control systems that are very stable and robust with responses without the overshoot and small settling time. Furthermore, all control parameters of the control systems are changed by varying some adjustment parameters in CDM depending on the demands. The model reference adaptive systems (MRAS) are the systems that follow and change the control parameters according to a given model reference system. There are several methods to combine the CDM with MRAS. One of these is to use the MRAS parameters as a gain of the CDM parameters. Another is to directly use the CDM parameters as the MRAS parameters. In the industrial applications, the system parameters can be changed frequently, but if the controller, by self-tuning, recalculates and develops its own parameters continuously, the system becomes more robust. Also, if the poles of the controlled systems approach the jw axis, the response of the closed-loop MRAS becomes more and more insufficient. In order to obtain better results, CDM is combined with a self-tuning model reference adaptive system. Systems controlled by a model reference adaptive controller give responses with small or without overshoot, have small settling times, and are more robust. Thus, in this paper, a hybrid combination of MRAS and CDM is developed and two different control structures of the control signal are investigated. The two methods are compared with MRAS and applied to real-time process control systems.     

Intelligently tuned wavelet parameters for GPS/INS error estimation

This paper presents a new algorithm for de-noising global positioning system (GPS) and inertial navigation system (INS) data and estimates the INS error using wavelet multi-resolution analysis algorithm (WMRA)-based genetic algorithm (GA) with a well-designed structure appropriate for practical and real time implementations because of its very short training time and elevated accuracy. Different techniques have been implemented to de-noise and estimate the INS and GPS errors. Wavelet de-noising is one of th...     

Rejection of nonharmonic disturbances in a class of nonlinear systems with nonlinear exosystems

This paper proposes an asymptotic rejection algorithm for rejecting exotic disturbances in nonlinear systems. The disturbances, which are produced by nonlinear exosystems, are nonharmonic and periodic. A new internal model is proposed to deal with the disturbances. Further, an adaptive output feedback controller is designed to ensure that the system's state variables can asymptotically converge to zero, and the disturbances can be completely rejected. The proposed algorithm can be used in many applications, e.g. active vibration control, and the avoidance of nonharmonic distortion in nonlinear circuits. An example is performed to demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can completely reject the nonharmonic periodic disturbances produced by nonlinear exosystems. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

认知无线电网络中的一种新型协作频谱感知方法

提出一种能够应用于认知无线电网络中的新型协作频谱感知方法--双阚值能量检测,该方法同时利用了次要用户的接收信号能量和局部判决结果两种信息,由判决中心结合次要用户的局部判决结果和接收信号能量,做出最终判决从而确定主要用户存在与否.该方法在通信流量增加不多的情况下能够充分提升检测性能.仿真结果表明当接收信号能量落入延迟判决区间的概率较大时,该算法能够显著地改善认知无线电网络的协作频谱感知能力.     

一种无线传感器网络目标的分布式最优覆盖算法

为了最大化目标覆盖的生命期,针对无线传感器网络的分布式自组织的特点,提出一种简单高效的分布式最优覆盖算法,引入关键目标的概念,设计基于目标覆盖能量的能量效用函数,在关键目标优先和能效优先的原则的基础上设置节点等待时间,建立节点等待时间自适应调整的机制.实验表明该算法网络生命期延长20%左右.算法复杂度低,效率高,可扩展性好.     

基于抗体选择策略的克隆挖掘算法

针对如何有效地利用大量的原始数据分析现状来预测未来的问题,基于抗体选择策略提出一种克隆选择挖掘算法。通过评估抗体的支持度、可信度和亲和度,求得有效的关联规则。实验结果表明,该算法能较快地获得可理解的规则,并且具有较高的准确率。     

基于自适应遗传算法的测试用例生成工具

提出一种“对组合”测试用例生成算法。给出“对组合”索引表的概念。在索引表的基础上,实现一种自适应遗传算法生成测试用例集合。介绍使用该方法开发的测试用例自动生成工具GATG。实验证明,该方法基本达到国际同类工具的平均水平,具有较好的使用价值和应用前景。     

自适应搜索的快速分形图像编码算法

为了改进全搜索分形编码过程匹配耗时长而导致难以实用的缺点,新定义了规范块灰度值力矩来反映图像块的特征,根据匹配均方根误差与规范块灰度值力矩间的关系,建立一个预先剔除条件来排除许多不大可能匹配range块的domain块.对一个待编码range块,仅在与该range块灰度值力矩数值最接近的domain块的自适应搜索邻域范围内找它的最佳匹配块.仿真结果表明,与全搜索分形图像编码算法相比,三幅测试图像在重建图像质量更好的情况下,能够平均加快它的编码速度58倍.