Author: claimsbot

1-28. (canceled)
29. An apparatus, comprising:
n electrical communication channels;
m optical communication media interfaces; and
a plurality of muxes configured to:
receive an information stream, the information stream carried over the n electrical communication channels and the m optical communication media interfaces; and
transform the information stream from v virtual lanes, each virtual lane comprising a plurality of data blocks from the information stream and an alignment block, wherein at least two virtual lanes are communicated on one electrical communication channel.
30. The apparatus of claim 29, further comprising a buffer, wherein the v virtual lanes are stored in the buffer.
31. The apparatus of claim 30, further comprising:
identifying, in the buffer, the alignment block associated with the virtual lane; and
recreating an original data stream using, at least in part, the alignment block.
32. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein each of the electrical communication channels comprises a SerDes interface operating at at least 5 Gigabits per second.
33. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein v is a positive integer multiple of the least common multiple of m and n, v being greater than n and n being greater than m.
34. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein n is at least ten and m is less than ten.
35. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein each of the m optical communication media interfaces is configured to receive a different stream of information over a single optical fiber.
36. The apparatus of claim 29, further comprising one or more decoding modules for decoding the information stream into the plurality of data blocks using 64B66B encoding.
37. A method, comprising:
receiving an information stream, the information stream carried over n electrical communication channels and m optical communication media interfaces; and
transforming the information stream from v virtual lanes, each virtual lane comprising a plurality of data blocks from the information stream and an alignment block, wherein at least two virtual lanes are communicated on one electrical communication channel.
38. The method of claim 37, wherein the v virtual lanes are stored in a buffer.
39. The method of claim 38, further comprising:
identifying, in the buffer, the alignment block associated with the virtual lane; and
recreating an original data stream using, at least in part, the alignment block.
40. The method of claim 37, wherein each of the electrical communication channels comprises a SerDes interface operating at at least 5 Gigabits per second.
41. The method of claim 37, wherein v is a positive integer multiple of the least common multiple of m and n, v being greater than n and n being greater than m.
42. The method of claim 37, wherein n is at least ten and m is less than ten.
43. The method of claim 37, wherein each of the m optical communication media interfaces is configured to receive a different stream of information over a single optical fiber.
44. The method of claim 37, further comprising decoding the information stream into the plurality of data blocks using 64B66B encoding.
45. A system, comprising:
means for receiving an information stream, the information stream carried over n electrical communication channels and m optical communication media interfaces; and
means for transforming the information stream from v virtual lanes, each virtual lane comprising a plurality of data blocks from the information stream and an alignment block, wherein at least two virtual lanes are communicated on one electrical communication channel.
46. The system of claim 45, wherein the v virtual lanes are stored in a buffer.
47. The system of claim 46, further comprising:
means for identifying, in the buffer, the alignment block associated with the virtual lane; and
means for recreating an original data stream using, at least in part, the alignment block.
48. The system of claim 45, wherein v is a positive integer multiple of the least common multiple of m and n, v being greater than n and n being greater than m.

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 reinforced lightweight foam building block for construction of a housing structure, the building block comprising:
a block outer body constructed of at least a first rigid foam member and at least a second rigid foam member; and
at least one cross-member assembly comprising a rigid reinforcing material sandwiched between two rigid foam cross-member sections, wherein said rigid reinforcing material of said at least one cross-member assembly has a first end embedded within and affixed to said at least first rigid foam member and a second end embedded within and affixed to said at least second rigid foam member,
wherein the building block is preformed and has a size and shape that allows it to be connected to another building block for construction of the housing structure.
2. The building block of claim 1, wherein said rigid reinforcing material has a high compressive strength.
3. The building block of claim 1, wherein said at least one cross-member assembly includes a plurality of cross-member assemblies.
4. The building block of claim 3, wherein said plurality of cross-member assemblies have at least one cavity formed therebetween.
5. The building block of claim 4, wherein said plurality of cross-member assemblies are disposed substantially parallel to each other and transverse to each of said at least first rigid foam member and said at least second rigid foam member of said block outer body, and wherein an adjacent pair of said plurality of cross-member assemblies are spaced apart by one or more of said at least one cavity.
6. The building block of claim 1, wherein said at least one cross-member assembly has a rectangular shape or a cylindrical shape.
7. The building block of claim 1, further comprising a compressive strength at failure of greater than 8,330 pounds per square inch.
8. The building block of claim 1, wherein said block outer body further comprises a pair of opposing sides that are tapered for conjunctive association with an attachment to other said lightweight building blocks to form a housing structure.
9. The building block of claim 1, further comprising a tongue and groove connector that is partially defined by a portion extending from said at least one cross-member assembly.
10. The building block of claim 1, wherein said at least one cross-member assembly has a height, a width and a thickness, and wherein said height and width are substantially greater than said thickness.
11. The building block of claim 1, wherein said block outer body and said two rigid foam cross-member sections are a polystyrene having a high thermal insulation value.
12. The building block of claim 11, wherein said block outer body and said two rigid foam cross-member sections are affixed to said rigid reinforcing material by an adhesive.
13. The building block of claim 1, wherein said rigid reinforcing material is a polycarbonate.
14. The building block of claim 5, wherein said rigid reinforcing material comprises a sheet of polycarbonate reinforcing material, and wherein said sheet is connected to each of said at least first rigid foam member and said at least second rigid foam member of the block outer body by a plurality of parallel slots formed in each of said at least first rigid foam member and said at least second rigid foam member of said block outer body to accommodate ends of said sheet that protrude from said two rigid foam cross-member sections.
15. The building block of claim 1, wherein said block outer body has six sides made of a lightweight rigid foam, and
wherein said rigid reinforcing material that is sandwiched between said two rigid foam cross-member sections prevents displacement of said two rigid foam cross-member sections when the reinforced lightweight foam building block is exposed to pressure.
16. A lightweight building block for construction of a housing structure, the building block comprising:
a lightweight first portion of a rigid foam material having a six sided body; and
a rigid second portion of lightweight material having a high compressive strength, said rigid second portion being integrated within said lightweight first portion and affixed thereto to reinforce the structural integrity of the building block, said rigid second portion being disposed between a first cross-section member and a second cross-section member, each of said first cross-section member and said second cross-section member being of said rigid foam material of said lightweight first portion,
wherein the building block has a size and shape that allows it to be connected to another of the building blocks for construction of the housing structure, and
wherein the building block is preformed and has a weight of less than about 3 pounds.
17. The building block of claim 16, wherein said rigid second portion is a plurality of rigid second portions each being disposed between first cross-section members and second cross-section members, and wherein said plurality of rigid second portions are disposed transverse to a top and a bottom of the lightweight first portion.
18. The building block of claim 17, wherein said lightweight first portion has at least one cavity formed therethrough and said plurality of rigid second portions are disposed substantially parallel to each other on opposite sides of said at least one cavity, and wherein a pair of said plurality of second portions are spaced apart by one or more of said at least one cavity.
19. The building block of claim 16, wherein said rigid second portion has a rectangular shape or a cylindrical shape, wherein said rigid second portion has a height, a width and a wall thickness, and wherein said height and width are substantially greater than said wall thickness.
20. The building block of claim 16, wherein said lightweight first portion is made from a polystyrene having a high thermal insulation value, and wherein said rigid second portion is made from a polycarbonate.
21. The building block of claim 16, further comprising a compressive strength at failure of greater than about 8,330 pounds per square inch.

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a flexible display;
a shape estimation unit to estimate a bent shape of the flexible display; and
a display control unit to correct an image based on the bent shape and to control the flexible display to display a corrected image.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:
a bending measurement sensor to measure a bending value of a portion of the flexible display; and
a correction table to store a correction value based on the bent shape and a viewing direction of a viewer,
wherein the shape estimation unit estimates the bent shape of the flexible display based on the bending value and the display control unit corrects the image using the correction value.
3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a position measurement unit to measure a viewing direction of a viewer,
wherein the display control unit corrects the image to be viewed as a planar image of a virtual planar display arranged perpendicular to the viewing direction.
4. The apparatus of claim 3, further comprising a correction table to store a correction value based on the bent shape and the viewing direction of a viewer,
wherein the display control unit corrects the image using the correction value.
5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the bending measurement sensor is fixed to one side of the flexible display.
6. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising bending measurement sensors arranged at an interval in horizontal and vertical directions of the flexible display.
7. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the bending measurement sensor comprises a load cell to change a physical force into an electrical signal, or a bend sensor having a property that increases resistance according to the bending angle of the bend sensor.
8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein an aspect ratio of the image is proportional to an aspect ratio of the corrected image.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a size of the corrected image corresponds to a size of a projected perimeter of the flexible display.
10. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a fixing panel and bending measurement sensors,
wherein the bending measurement sensors are positioned between the flexible display and the fixing panel.
11. A method for displaying a corrected image, comprising:
measuring a bending value of a portion of a flexible display;
estimating a bent shape of the flexible display using the bending value;
correcting an image based on the bent shape to be viewed as a planar image of a virtual planar display arranged perpendicular to a viewing direction; and
displaying the corrected image on the flexible display.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
generating a correction table to store a correction value to correct the image into the planar image of the virtual planar display based on the viewing direction and the bent shape; and
retrieving the correction value from the correction table,
wherein correcting the image comprises correcting the image using the correction value.
13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
measuring a viewing direction of a viewer,
wherein the viewing direction is determined to maximize an area of the virtual planar display or the viewing direction is determined by capturing a position of the viewer.
14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:
generating a correction table to store a correction value to correct the image into the planar image of the virtual planar display based on the viewing direction and the bent shape; and
retrieving the correction value from the correction table,
wherein correcting the image comprises correcting the image into the corrected image using the correction value.
15. The method of claim 11, wherein the bending value is measured by a sensor, the sensor being a load cell that changes a physical force into an electrical signal, or a bend sensor having a property that increases resistance according to the bending angle of the bend sensor.
16. The method of claim 11, wherein measuring the bending value comprises measuring the bending value using sensors arranged at intervals in horizontal and vertical directions of the flexible display.
17. The method of claim 11, wherein an aspect ratio of the image is proportional to an aspect ratio of the corrected image.
18. The method of claim 11, wherein a size of the corrected image corresponds to a size of a projected perimeter of the flexible display.
19. An apparatus, comprising:
a flexible display;
a position measurement unit to measure a viewing direction of a viewer;
a shape estimation unit to estimate a bent shape of the flexible display; and
a display control unit to correct an image based on the bent shape and to control the flexible display to display a corrected image,
wherein the display control unit determines a virtual planar display based on the viewing direction of the viewer and the bent shape of the flexible display, determines a projection view of the image of the flexible display projected to the virtual planar display, corrects the image as according to the projection view, and controls the flexible display to display the corrected image.
20. The apparatus of claim 19, further comprising:
a bending measurement sensor to measure a bending value of a portion of the flexible display,
wherein the bending value is measured according to a magnitude of a force sensed by the sensor, and the display control unit corrects the image by adjusting a width of a measurement block corresponding to the sensor according to the bending value.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed is:

1. A synchronization establishing method of a mobile station in a mobile communication system, in which a synchronization channel is periodically sent in a downlink signal so that the mobile station, which detects the downlink signal sent from a base station, can establish synchronization to the downlink signal, said synchronization establishing method comprising:
an averaging step of averaging first correlation values in phase in complex number over a plurality of periods of the synchronization channel, and of outputting first averaged correlation values;
a powerizing step of powerizing the first averaged correlation values individually, and of outputting a first powerized correlation values; and
a peak detecting step of detecting a peak of the first powerized correlation values output.
2. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the averaging step averages the first correlation values within an averaging window over a plurality of periods of the synchronization channel.
3. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a step of averaging the first powerized correlation values, and of outputting first power averaged correlation values, wherein the peak detecting step detects a peak of the first power averaged correlation values.
4. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 2, wherein a number of periods of the first correlation values, over which the averaging is carried out in the averaging window, is equal to a moving unit of the averaging window.
5. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the averaging step assigns weights at every period of the first correlation values in the averaging window.
6. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the averaging step carries out averaging using an exponential weighting averaging method.
7. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the averaging step makes phase correction of one of the first correlation values by using the first correlation values in a period previous to the period of the one of the first correlation values.
8. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the averaging step assigns weights to every period of the first correlation values to which the phase correction is applied.
9. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the powerizing step outputs real parts of the first correlation values to which the phase correction is applied.
10. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the synchronization channel is estimated to be transmitted alternately from two antennas, the averaging step averages second correlation values that are estimated to be transmitted from a same antenna, and outputs second averaged correlation values; and the powerizing step detects power of the second averaged correlation values to output second powerized correlation values.
11. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the averaging step averages the first correlation values and the second correlation values separately, and the powerizing step detects power of the first averaged correlation values and power of the second averaged correlation values, and selects one of two sets of the first powerized correlation values and the second powerized correlation values.
12. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the averaging step averages the first correlation values and the second correlation values separately, and the powerizing step detects power of the first averaged correlation values and power of the second averaged correlation values, and assigns weights to the first powerized correlation values and the second powerized correlation values at individual timings, followed by summing them up, respectively.
13. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the powerizing step assigns weights to a maximum value of the first powerized correlation values and to a maximum of the second powerized correlation values, and selects the powerized correlation values that will give a greater maximum value.
14. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the powerizing step selects one of two sets of the first powerized correlation values and the second powerized correlation values such that the selected one differs from the powerized correlation values selected previously.
15. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the powerizing step makes a decision as to which one of two sets of the first powerized correlation values and the second powerized correlation values is to be selected in accordance with a number of times the two sets of the powerized correlation values are selected.
16. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the powerizing step successively selects one of two sets of the first powerized correlation values and the second powerized correlation values by a predetermined number of times, and when synchronization is not established, it selects the other set of the powerized correlation values.
17. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a step of selecting the correlation values to be averaged, wherein the averaging step averages one of two sets of the first correlation values and the second correlation values selected.
18. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the step of selecting calculates correlation between correlation values in a given period to be averaged and correlation values in a period adjacent to the given period.
19. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the step of selecting selects the correlation values to be averaged in response to a control signal transmitted from the base station.
20. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the averaging step carries out the averaging over a plurality of first averaging periods that are different from each other, and the powerizing step assigns weights to the plurality of powerized correlation values at individual timings, followed by summing them up.
21. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the averaging step carries out the averaging over a plurality of first averaging periods that are different from each other, and the powerizing step selects a maximum value from the plurality of powerized correlation values.
22. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the averaging step carries out the averaging over a second averaging period that adaptively varies.
23. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 22, wherein the second averaging period is varied in response to a moving speed of the mobile station.
24. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the averaging step carries out the averaging over a third averaging period that is varied depending on a state of the mobile station, which includes a power up state, an idle state and a traffic state of the mobile station.
25. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a step of outputting, when the mobile station is at power up, second power averaged correlation values by detecting powers of the correlation values of the synchronization channel first, and by averaging the powers thereafter, wherein the peak detecting step detects a peak of the second power averaged correlation values.
26. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 25, wherein the averaging step carries out the averaging over a fourth averaging period that varies depending on the idle state and the traffic state of the mobile station.
27. The synchronization establishing method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a step of outputting, when the mobile station is in one of the power up and idle state, third power averaged correlation values by detecting powers of the correlation values of the synchronization channel first, and by averaging the powers thereafter, wherein the peak detecting step detects a peak of the third power averaged correlation values.