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Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories

CompanyTaipei, Taiwan
About: Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories is a company organization based out in Taipei, Taiwan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Signal & Image processing. The organization has 38708 authors who have published 63864 publications receiving 865637 citations.


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06 Jun 2002
TL;DR: In this article, a method of repairing a defective one of devices mounted on a substrate is provided, in which the defective device is mounted at a position corresponding to a position of the defective devices.
Abstract: A method of repairing a defective one of devices mounted on substrate is provided. Devices are arrayed on a substrate and electrically connected to wiring lines connected to a drive circuit, to be thus mounted on the substrate. The devices mounted on the substrate are then subjected to an emission test. If a defective device is detected in this test, a repair device is mounted at a position corresponding to a position of the defective device. At this time, after wiring lines connected to the defective device are cut off, the repair device is electrically connected to portions of the wiring lines, the portions of the wiring lines being located at positions nearer to the drive circuit side than the cut-off positions of the wiring lines. Since a defective device is repaired by a simple step that is carried out by simply mounting and fixing a repair device without removal of the defective device, it is possible to eliminate the need for any complicated, microscopic work; for example, removal of the mounted devices, and/or selective removal or repair of an insulating layer.

102 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: ATSC 3.0 will provide a considerable increase in the maximum transmission capacity when using the high-order NUCs such as 1024QAM and 4096QAM, which will represent a major milestone for terrestrial broadcasting since the highest order constellation currently available is uniform 256QAM.
Abstract: In this paper, we summarize and expound upon the choices made for the bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) part of the next-generation terrestrial broadcast standard known as ATSC 3.0. The structure of the ATSC 3.0 BICM consists of a forward error correcting code, bit interleaver, and constellation mapper. In order to achieve high efficiency over a wide range of reception conditions and carrier-to-noise (C/N) ratio values, several notable new elements have been standardized. First, 24 original low-density parity check (LDPC) codes have been designed, with coding rates from 2/15 (0.13) up to 13/15 (0.87) for two code sizes: 16 200 bits and 64 800 bits. Two different LDPC structures have been adopted; one structure more suited to medium and high coding rates and another structure suited to very low coding rates. Second, in addition to quaternary phase shift keying, non-uniform constellations (NUCs) have been chosen for constellation sizes from 16QAM to 4096QAM to bridge the gap to the Shannon theoretical limit. Two different types of NUCs have been proposed: 1-D NUCs for 1024- and 4096-point constellations, and 2-D-NUCs for 16-, 64-, and 256-point constellations. 2-D-NUCs achieve a better performance than 1-D-NUCs but with a higher complexity since they cannot be separated into two independent I/Q components. NUCs have been optimized for each coding rate for the 64 800 bits LPDCs. The same constellations are used for 16 200 bits LDPCs, although they have been limited up to 256QAM. Finally, a bit interleaver, optimized for each NUC/coding rate combination, has been designed to maximize the performance. The result is a BICM that provides the largest operating range (more than 30 dB, with the most robust mode operating below -5 dB C/N) and the highest spectral efficiency compared to any digital terrestrial broadcast system today, outperforming the current state-of-the-art DVB-T2 standard BICM by as much as 1 dB in some cases. ATSC 3.0 will also provide a considerable increase in the maximum transmission capacity when using the high-order NUCs such as 1024QAM and 4096QAM, which will represent a major milestone for terrestrial broadcasting since the highest order constellation currently available is uniform 256QAM. This paper describes the coding, modulation, and bit interleaving modules of the BICM block of ATSC 3.0 and compares its performance with other DTT standards such as ATSC A/53 and DVB-T2.

102 citations

Patent
31 Jul 1992
TL;DR: In this paper, a digital encoder for compressing a digital input signal derived from an analog signal to reduce the number of bits required to represent the analog signal with low quantizing noise is presented.
Abstract: A digital encoder for compressing a digital input signal derived from an analog signal to reduce the number of bits required to represent the analog signal with low quantizing noise. In the encoder, a digital input signal representing the analog signal is divided into three frequency ranges. The digital signal in each of the three frequency ranges is divided in time into frames, the time duration of which may be adaptively varied. The frames are orthogonally transformed into spectral coefficients, which are grouped into critical bands. The total number of bits available for quantizing the spectral coefficients is allocated among the critical bands. In a first embodiment and a second embodiment, fixed bits are allocated among the critical bands according to a selected one of a plurality of predetermined bit allocation patterns and variable bits are allocated among the critical bands according to the energy in the critical bands. In the first embodiment, the apportionment between fixed bits and variable bits is fixed. In a second embodiment, the apportionment between fixed bits and variable bits is varied according to the smoothness of the spectrum of the input signal. In a third embodiment, bits are allocated among the critical bands according to a noise shaping factor that is varied according to the smoothness of the spectrum of the input signal. All three embodiments give low quantizing noise with both broad spectrum signals and highly tonal signals.

102 citations

Patent
26 May 1994
TL;DR: In this paper, a method and an apparatus for fabricating a thin-film semiconductor device is described and an a-Si:H thin film produced on a wafer is melting-recrystallized by irradiating a laser beam to it in a laser annealing chamber to produce a polycrystalline Si thin film.
Abstract: A method and an apparatus for fabricating a thin film semiconductor device are disclosed. An a-Si:H thin film produced on a wafer is melting-recrystallized by irradiating a laser beam to it in a laser annealing chamber to produce a polycrystalline Si thin film. The wafer is then transported to a CVD chamber without exposing it to the outside air. A gate insulating film is produced on a clean surface of the polycrystalline Si thin film in the CVD chamber. In another case, an a-Si:H thin film is melting-recrystallized in the laser annealing chamber to produce a polycrystalline Si thin film and then the wafer is transported to a hydrogenating chamber without exposing it to the outside air. Thereafter the polycrystalline Si thin film is plasma hydrogenated in the hydrogenating chamber. The method and apparatus can fabricate thin film semiconductor devices having a high performance and a high reliability with a good uniformity by making a clean and high quality semiconductor/insulator interface or by hydrogenating a semiconductor thin film without changes in electrical conductivity.

102 citations

Patent
21 Apr 2009
TL;DR: In this article, a DRM packager has a programmed processor for receiving licensing information including a plurality of encryption keys for a corresponding plurality of DRM encryption algorithms and for receipt of content from a content provider.
Abstract: A DRM packager has a programmed processor for receipt of licensing information including a plurality of encryption keys for a corresponding plurality of DRM encryption algorithms and for receipt of content from a content provider. An encrypter encrypts the content under each of the plurality of DRM algorithms to produce multiple DRM selectively encrypted content, where the multiple DRM selectively encrypted content has segments of the specified content that are unencrypted, and selected segments of the content which are duplicated to produce one copy of the selected content for each of the DRM algorithms with each duplicate copy of the selected segments encrypted under a different one of the DRM algorithms, and where the unencrypted segments of content are assembled together with each of the DRM encrypted duplicate selected segments to produce a single unified content assembly that can be played on any of the player devices. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.

102 citations


Authors

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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Hui Li1352982105903
Susumu Kitagawa12580969594
Shree K. Nayar11338445139
Takashi Kobayashi10360651385
Bo Huang9772840135
Muhammad Imran94305351728
Xiaodong Xu94112250817
Mitsuo Kawato8642235640
Takashi Yamamoto84140135169
Atsuo Yamada7844423989
Katsushi Ikeuchi7863620622
Yoshihiro Iwasa7745427146
Satoshi Miyazaki7634120483
Hiroshi Yamazaki7495327216
Alexei Gruverman6930118610
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20223
2021294
2020902
20191,297
20181,111
20171,078