Author: claimsbot

1. A method for determining a position of arrangement of a patch in a patch image, comprising:
a setting step, of setting kinds of patches included in the patch image in response to an instruction by a user;
a selection step, of selecting an arrangement patch from the patches set in said setting step;
a determination step, of determining an arrangement nonpermission area of the arrangement patch based on the position of the already arranged patch; and
an arrangement step, of arranging the arrangement patch in an area other than the arrangement nonpermission area,
wherein said method causes execution of said selection step, said determination step, and said arrangement step to all the patches set in said setting step.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the arrangement nonpermission area includes an area in which the patch has already been arranged and an area which is set based on a patch highly correlated with the arrangement patch and which highly correlates with the arrangement patch.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the area which highly correlates with the arrangement patch is an area which has predetermined widths, respectively, in a main scan direction and a sub-scan direction.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein
said setting step includes setting a number of same patches to be arranged, and
said patch image preparation method includes repeating said selection step, said determination step, and said arrangement step on the basis of the number set in said setting step.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein, when the arrangement patch cannot be arranged in the area other than the arrangement nonpermission area, the arrangement patch is arranged within the arrangement nonpermission area.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the patch image is used to judge a color reproduction characteristic of an output device of outputting said patch image.
7. A program stored on a computer readable medium, for performing, by a computer, a method for determining a position of arrangement of a patch in a patch image, said method comprising:
a setting step, of setting kinds of patches included in the patch image in response to an instruction by a user;
a selection step, of selecting an arrangement patch from the patches set in said setting step;
a determination step, of determining an arrangement nonpermission area of the arrangement patch based on the position of the already arranged patch; and
an arrangement step, of arranging the arrangement patch in an area other than the arrangement nonpermission area,
wherein said method causes executing said selection step, said determination step, and said arrangement step to all the patches set in said setting step.
8. An apparatus for determining a position of arrangement of a patch in a patch image, comprising:
a setting unit, adapted to set kinds of patches included in the patch image in response to an instruction by a user;
a selection unit, adapted to select an arrangement patch from the patches set by said setting unit;
a determination unit, adapted to determine an arrangement nonpermission area of the arrangement patch based on the position of the already arranged patch; and
an arrangement unit, adapted to arrange the arrangement patch in an area other than the arrangement nonpermission area,
wherein said apparatus causes execution of said selection unit, said determination unit, and said arrangement unit to all the patches set by said setting unit.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A piston engine, comprising:
at least one cylinder that has at least a first discharge valve and a second discharge valve; and
a double overhead camshaft for controlling the first and a second discharge valves,
wherein the double overhead camshaft includes an inner shaft, which has at least one first cam for controlling the first discharge valve, and an outer shaft that is coaxial to said first inner shaft and has at least one second cam for controlling the second discharge valve, and
wherein the inner shaft and the outer shaft are rotationally adjustable relative to one another to change the discharge timing of the first and second discharge valves.
2. The piston engine as specified in claim 1, further comprising: an exhaust gas turbocharger having a turbine arranged in an exhaust-gas line of the piston engine; and
a control device, wherein the control device controls an adjusting device for rotational adjustment of a relative rotational position between the inner and outer shafts, and
the control device shifts to at least one of advance and retard the opening time of at least one of the first discharge valve and the second discharge valve to accelerate the turbine.
3. The piston engine as specified in claim 2, wherein the control device adjusts the opening time of the first and second discharge valves in a range approximately between 30% to 90% of an expansion stroke of a stroke-adjustable piston in the at least one cylinder to accelerate the turbine.
4. The piston engine as specified in claim 3, wherein the control device synchronously actuates the first and second discharge valves to an open position.
5. The piston engine as specified in claim 2, wherein the control device actuates at least one of the first and second discharge valves to an open position earlier than the unopened first or second discharge valve, the opening time of which is in a recompression stroke of a stroke-adjustable piston in the at least one cylinder.
6. The piston engine as specified in claim 5, wherein the control device shifts the opening time of the first and second discharge valves, such that both of the first and second discharge valves open synchronously.
7. The piston engine as specified in claim 1, wherein the opening time of both of the first and second discharge valves are at least one of smaller than a 240\xb0 crankshaft angle, smaller than a 200\xb0 crankshaft angle and smaller than a 180\xb0 crankshaft angle.
8. The piston engine as specified in claim 1, wherein all cylinders of the piston engine have the first and second discharge valves that are separately controllable by the shafts of the double overhead camshaft.
9. The piston engine as specified in claim 1, wherein the number of cylinders, both discharge valves of which cylinders being separately controllable by the inner and outer shafts of the double overhead camshaft, is less than the total number of cylinders of the piston engine.
10. The piston engine as specified in claim 1, further comprising: at least one fast-switching valve that is arranged upstream from the first and second discharge valves and in a line, which conducts fresh gas, of the piston engine;
a control device is provided for controlling the at least one fast-switching valve; and
each cylinder includes at least one of a separate fast-switching valve and a common fast-switching valve.
11. The piston engine as specified in claim 10, wherein the control device of the fast-switching valve is controlled as a function of a current operational state of the piston engine to realize at least one of a pulse charging, a de-throttling, a cold charging and a hot charging.
12. The piston engine as specified in claim 1, wherein a fresh-gas line supplying the cylinders is at least one of unthrottled and de-throttled.
13. The piston engine as specified in claim 1, further comprising: an injection arrangement for injecting fuel into the cylinder; and
a control device for controlling the injection arrangement,
the control device shifts the injection time to accelerate the turbine.
14. The piston engine as specified in claim 13, wherein the control device in a spark-ignited engine shifts to retard the combustion position of centre of gravity through multiple injections to increase the exhaust-gas enthalpy in comparison with a conventional position of centre of gravity to accelerate the turbine.
15. The piston engine as specified in claim 1, further comprising an ignition device for igniting a fuel-fresh gas mixture in the respective cylinder; and,
a control device is provided for controlling the ignition device,
the control device shifts the ignition time to accelerate the turbine.
16. The piston engine as specified in claim 2, wherein the opening time of both of the first and second discharge valves are at least one of smaller than a 240\xb0 crankshaft angle, smaller than a 200\xb0 crankshaft angle and smaller than a 180\xb0 crankshaft angle.
17. The piston engine as specified in claim 3, wherein the opening time of both of the first and second discharge valves are at least one of smaller than a 240\xb0 crankshaft angle, smaller than a 200\xb0 crankshaft angle and smaller than a 180\xb0 crankshaft angle.
18. The piston engine as specified in claim 4, wherein the opening time of both of the first and second discharge valves are at least one of smaller than a 240\xb0 crankshaft angle, smaller than a 200\xb0 crankshaft angle and smaller than a 180\xb0 crankshaft angle.
19. The piston engine as specified in claim 5, wherein the opening time of both of the first and second discharge valves are at least one of smaller than a 240\xb0 crankshaft angle, smaller than a 200\xb0 crankshaft angle and smaller than a 180\xb0 crankshaft angle.
20. The piston engine as specified in claim 6, wherein the opening time of both of the first and second discharge valves are at least one of smaller than a 240\xb0 crankshaft angle, smaller than a 200\xb0 crankshaft angle and smaller than a 180\xb0 crankshaft angle.

1. A method comprising:
receiving a configuration message at a mobile station, the configuration message including rate information for radio transmission and an indicator corresponding to an effective radio block for the rate information;
coding a current radio block via a speech encoder and a channel encoder of the mobile station wherein coding via the channel encoder occurs prior to coding via the speech encoder;
configuring the speech encoder and the channel encoder with the rate information after coding the current radio block; and
coding the effective radio block with the rate information via the speech encoder and the channel encoder.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising configuring the speech encoder and the channel encoder during time frames for the current radio block.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising configuring a speech decoder and a channel decoder of the mobile station during time frames for the effective radio block.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the rate information comprises a new rate for the radio transmission.
5. A method comprising:
receiving a configuration message from a network at a communication device;
configuring a channel codec and a vocoder of the communication device based upon the configuration message according to a priority so that the channel codec and the vocoder operate in synchronization wherein the priority comprises configuring the channel codec and the vocoder in an uplink direction during time frames of a current communication block before a downlink direction, the configuration in the downlink direction being done during time frames of a next communication block; and
scheduling channel encoding of the current communication block to occur prior to the configuring in the uplink direction, wherein rate information of the configuration message is to take effect for next the communication block.
6. The method of claim 5, further comprising scheduling the configuring in the uplink direction upon receipt of a frame interrupt for the current communication block.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the frame interrupt comprises the first frame interrupt for the current communication block.
8. The method of claim 5, further comprising scheduling the configuring in the downlink direction after receipt of a frame interrupt for the next communication block.
9. The method of claim 8, further comprising configuring in the downlink direction after decoding the current communication block.
10. The method of claim 9, further comprising decoding the next communication block via the channel codec and the vocoder after configuring in the downlink direction.
11. The method of claim 8, wherein the frame interrupt comprises the last frame interrupt for the next communication block.
12. The method of claim 5, wherein the configuration message comprises an adaptive multi-rate message to change a source rate of transmission via the communication device.
13. A mobile station comprising:
an input device to receive voice information from a user;
a digital signal processor (DSP) coupled to the input device to encode the voice information into a radio block, the encoded radio block being speech encoded and channel encoded, wherein the DSP is to prioritize configuration of the speech encoding and the channel encoding to synchronize the speech encoding and the channel encoding; and radio frequency (RF) circuitry coupled to the DSP, wherein the DSP is to process a rate configuration message received from a network, the rate configuration message including a transmission rate and an effective radio block indicator to identify a selected radio block on which the transmission rate is to take effect, wherein the DSP is to configure the speech encoding and the channel encoding during time frames for a first radio block, the first radio block to be transmitted prior to the selected radio block.
14. The mobile station of claim 13, wherein the DSP and the RF circuitry are at least in part integrated within the same integrated circuit.
15. The mobile station of claim 13, wherein the DSP is to configure speech decoding and channel decoding during time frames for the selected radio block.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A control system for a wind power plant, comprising:
sensor means for sensing measurement values to be used for direct or indirect quantification of the current loading or stress, or both, of the turbine occurring depending on the local and meteorological conditions, and
downstream of said sensor means, an electronic signal processing system operative to the effect that the power reduction required in the optimized condition of the wind power plant will be restricted to obtain optimum economical efficiency under the current operating conditions, both in cases of wind in the range of the nominal wind velocity and in cases of high wind velocities.
2. The control system according to claim 1 wherein the wind power plant is designed for blade adjustment in the direction of the feathered pitch (pitch-type plant).
3. The control system according to claim 1 wherein the wind power plant is a stall or active stall plant.
4. The control system according to claim 1 wherein the wind power plant is designed for variable-speed operation or for at least two fixed operating speeds.
5. The control system according to claim 1 wherein the measurement values monitored by said sensor means include one or a plurality of the values of the operating data from the group including the rotor speed, the generator speed, the electric power, the generator rotational moment, the blade angle, the blade angle adjustment rate, the wind velocity and the wind direction.
6. The control system according to claim 1 wherein the measurement values monitored by said sensor means include accelerations in the rotor blades andor the nacelle andor the tower.
7. The control system according to claim 1 wherein the measurement values monitored by said sensor means include stretching on representative points of the components (e.g. the blade roots, rotor shaft, the nacelle base, the base of the tower) or deformations in elastic bearings.
8. The control system according to claim 1 wherein the measurement values monitored by said sensor means include data of the wind field in or before the rotor plane.
9. The control system according to claim 1 wherein the measurement values monitored by said sensor means include measurement data from other wind power plants supplied via a network.
10. The control system according to claim 1 wherein, using a signal processing system, the measurement values monitored by said sensor means are processed into actual spectra (online rainflow counting) or actual distribution functions.
11. The control system according to claim 1 wherein, using a signal processing system, damages of the components are computed from the actual spectra.
12. The control system according to claim 1 wherein, using a signal processing system, desired spectra or desired distribution functions are computed from externally supplied data on the economy of the turbine.
13. The control system according to claim 1 wherein, using a signal processing system, current energy generating costs (Online Cost Of Energy COE) are computed from the evaluated externally supplied data.