A network element of a cable television (CATV) network, comprising one or more amplifier units for amplifying downstream signal transmission into one or more output channels; a temperature sensor configured to detect one or more of the following: ambient temperature of the network element, and/or one or more of components of the network element; a memory configured to store a predetermined correlation between the detected ambient temperature and a corresponding correction of a bias current for said one or more amplifier units; and a processing unit configured to control the bias current of said one or more amplifier units to be adjusted based on the predetermined correlation.

Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting a MAP advance time for a MAP message sent from a CCAP core to an RPD, the MAP message allocating bandwidth for the RPD during an interval beginning at a start time specified in the MAP message.

There is provided a wire connection device including an outer frame that has a tubular shape, and a plurality of contacts that are provided in the outer frame, and that have a plurality of pairs of differential contacts to which a plurality of pairs of differential signals are respectively allocated, and a plurality of ground contacts each to which ground is allocated. When viewed from a direction along a central axis of the outer frame, the plurality of contacts are arranged side by side in two rows in a manner that the differential contacts of each pair can be adjacent to each other and in a manner that the number of the ground contacts adjacent to one of the differential contacts of each pair is equal to the number of the ground contacts adjacent to the other one of the differential contacts of the pair.

The present document describes a method for analyzing the performance of a leg of a cable communication network which uses a network power supply as the power source therefor, the method using a switched-mode power supply device and comprising: electrically connecting an AC output of the switched-mode power supply device to an auxiliary power input of a cable network access device thereby providing an electrical connection to the leg of the cable communication network; switching the power source from the network power supply to the switched-mode power supply thereby providing an AC voltage to the leg of the cable communication network by the switched-mode power supply; performing a diagnosis of the performance of the leg of a cable communication network by controlling a characteristic of the AC voltage being provided to the leg of the cable communication network by the switched-mode power supply.

A cascadable AGC amplifier in a signal distribution system includes a low noise cascadable amplifier having a through path and a cascadable output. The cascadable amplifier is also configured to provide AGC over a predetermined input power range. The cascadable AGC amplifier can be configured to provide gain or attenuation. When the cascadable AGC amplifier is implemented in a signal distribution system, typically as part of a signal distribution device, an input signal can be gain controlled and supplied to multiple signal paths without distortion due to degradation of signal to noise ratio or distortion due to higher order amplifier products. The distributed signal is not significantly degraded by distortion regardless of the number of cascadable AGC amplifiers connected in series or the position of the cascadable AGC amplifier in the signal distribution system.

The disclosure discloses a back-end circuit for processing an analogue video signal and direct current power, a front-end circuit for processing an analogue video signal and direct current power and a Power Over Coaxia (POC) circuit for an analogue video signal. Each of the back-end processing circuit and the front-end processing circuit includes an analogue video signal passing circuit configured to block the direct current power and let the analogue video signal pass and a direct current power passing circuit configured to block the analogue video signal and let the direct current power pass, so that the analogue video signal may be isolated from the direct current power and the analogue video signal may be superimposed to the direct current power without mutual influence and exclusion to realize a function of superimposing the direct current power on an analogue high-definition video cable.

This disclosure presents an assisted driving vehicle system, including autonomous, semi-autonomous, and technology assisted vehicles, that can share sensor data among two or more controllers. A sensor can have one communication channel to a controller, thereby saving cabling and circuitry costs. The data from the sensor can be sent from one controller to another controller to enable redundancy and backup in case of a system failure. Sensor data from more than one sensor can be aggregated at one controller prior to the aggregated sensor data being communicated to another controller thereby saving bandwidth and reducing transmission times. The sharing of sensor data can be enabled through the use of a sensor data distributor, such as a converter, repeater, or a serializer/deserializer set located as part of the controller and communicatively coupled to another such device in another controller using a data interface communication channel.

Upstream noise suppression circuits include a splitter and a combiner that are connected by first and second communications paths. An information signal removal circuit is provided on the second communications path and is configured to remove an upstream information signal therefrom. A phase shifter is also provided on the second communications path between the upstream information signal removal circuit and the combiner.

An in-vehicle camera is provided which includes an imager equipped with a lens, a control board on which a circuit is mounted to control an operation of the imager, a flexible cable connecting the imager and the control board to be communicable therebetween, and an electrically conductive housing in which the imager, the flexible cable, and the control board are arranged. A spacer which is designed to have neither electromagnetic wave absorption nor electromagnetic wave reflection properties is arranged away from the control board in a contactless manner and located between the flexible cable and an inner surface of the housing to form a gap therebetween. This minimizes generation of noise transmitted from the housing to inside the vehicle without sacrificing the quality of electrical signals transmitted through a circuit in the flexible cable.

Radio frequency (“RF”) signal amplifiers include an RF input, at least one RF output and communications paths therebetween. The communications paths include a downstream path that is configured to pass signals in a downstream frequency band, a first upstream path that is configured to pass signals in a first upstream frequency band that encompasses frequencies that are lower than the frequencies included within the downstream frequency band and a second upstream path that is configured to pass signals in a second upstream frequency band that encompasses frequencies that are between the frequencies included within the downstream frequency band and the frequencies included within the first upstream frequency band. These RF signal amplifiers further include a downstream power amplifier on the downstream path, a first upstream power amplifier on the first upstream path and a second upstream power amplifier on the second upstream path.