Whenever a continuous-tone image has to be displayed on a bi-level medium, some kind of halftoning has to be carried out. Nowadays processing of the continuous-tone image is often done by a computer, i.e. the sampled and quantized continuous-tone image is transformed into a binary image by a halftoning algorithm. In the following we will assume the continuous-tone image to be scaled between 0 a...

The Functional Electrical Stimulator design using monophasic spike-exponential waveform was proposed and described in this study. The monophasic square waveform has benefit in generating an action potential, but it could cause side effects such as toxic caused by the electrode polarization. The square waveform signal which the frequency and pulse width could be modulated was manipulated to be t...

A Space Vector based Pulse Width Modulation control technique for the three-phase PWM converter is proposed in this paper. The proposed control scheme is based on a synchronous reference frame model. High performance and efficiency is obtained with regards to the DC bus voltage and the power factor considerations of the PWM rectifier thus leading to low losses. MATLAB/SIMULINK are used as a pla...

⎯Advances in power electronics technology allowed the wide investigation of multilevel converters that provide high safety voltages with less harmonic components compared to the two-level structures. Employed for converter's gating signals generation, the space-vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) strategy reduces the switching losses by limiting the switching to the two thirds of the pulse du...

1.1 HARMONICS IN ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS ............................................................................................ 1 1.2 CONVENTIONAL TWO-LEVEL AND THREE-LEVEL VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER ............................... 2 1.3 MULTILEVEL VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER..................................................................................... 5 1.3.1 Diode-Clamped Multilevel Inverter...

The graphene oxide (GO) is successfully prepared from a purified natural graphite through a pressurized oxidation method. We experimentally demonstrate that GO as an optical media can be used for spatial light modulation based on plasma channels induced by femtosecond pulses. The modulated beam exhibits good propagation properties in free space. It is easy to realize the spatial modulation on t...

Significant misrepresentation of both 1-bit SDM and multi-bit LPCM coding paradigms persist within both professional and commercial arenas that impacts directly upon the perception of DVD-A and SACD formats. A balanced appraisal of these schemes is presented in order to expose the core differences in the technology both in the theoretical and instrumentation domains. Some observations are made ...