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It's Time To Buy On Daryl Richardson
From CBS Sports' Eye On Football:
As Daryl Richardson and Isaiah Pead battle it out for the Rams starting running back spot to see who will replace the departed Steven Jackson, it appears as though the former is a step ahead of the latter.
That's what St. Louis coach Jeff Fisher says he believes thus far.
"I think Daryl comes back as our starter," Fisher said Tuesday.
Gone was the committee talk that plagued the Rams backfield all offseason and forced the ADP's of Richardson down to RB32, Pead to RB46, and Zac Stacy to RB51. Rather than speaking of a rotation of 2-3 backs, the mustachioed man stated his preference for one guy. Fisher said this quotation to the media on Wednesday, the day before the Rams first preseason game; fantasy owners didn't have to wait long for Fisher's words to represent themselves in reality.
Richardson opened the Rams first preseason game versus the Cleveland Browns with the first team and ran 4 times for 24 yards and caught 2 passes for 20 yards. Isiah Pead, on the other hand, was used as a kick returner and fumbled on his first carry of the game. Despite Matt Freedman's desperate pleas, Richardson is going to be the lead back for the Rams.
From Rotoworld
"Last year's seventh-round pick started ahead of Isaiah Pead, as expected, and he looked like the better back on Thursday. Richardson hits the hole quicker and harder than Pead, and he runs with velocity. Richardson was already the back to own in St. Louis, and that hasn't changed."
Given that Richardson now seems to be entrenched as the starter, fantasy owners have some actionable information to use immediately. Even Freedman finally conceded that Richardson was likely to start in 2013. Fear of the unknown paralyzes only the weak fantasy football player. Owners who act quickly, decisively and intelligently will always be rewarded. Last year, owners who properly read Mike Shanahan's tea leaves with the Alfred Morris–Evan Royster–Roy Helu love triangle were rewarded. In the Rams' situation, the coaches are making it even easier on fantasy players, by stating that Richardson has the starting job, and then actually demonstrating the truth of the statements in preseason play. Very rarely do these backfield quagmires get resolved so quickly and easily.
Compared to to other running backs around his ADP, Richardson is now in a clearer situation for touches than Shane Vereen, Giovani Bernard, Eddie Lacy and Montee Ball. Rashard Mendenhall has the worst line in the NFL and probably just isn't good anymore. Andre Brown is a good value pick, but not a starting running back, and won't receive starters touches. Injury and timeshare concerns abound for Ryan Mathews and Chris Ivory. The St. Louis coaching staff has for once, acted in the best interest of fantasy football players. They gave us actionable information and then demonstrated their willingness to execute that information on the field.
Perhaps most importantly, Richardson didn't disappoint. All offseason, the fantasy football community compared this backfield to those of Mike Shanahan. Well, keen fantasy football players will probably remember that at this time last year, Evan Royster was the "clear starter" for the Washington Racial Slurs. In fact, a recap on NFL.com from Washington's first preseason game says exactly that. Royster fumbled the ball and was generally unimpressive.
Richardson, on the other hand, made the most of his opportunity against the Browns in preseason action. He hasn't given Fisher a reason to change his mind, while Isiah Pead gave the coaching staff every reason to believe that he wasn't ready for prime time. Maybe Pead is the better back. Much of the Rotoviz staff believes that Zac Stacy is the best runner on the roster (I happen to be of that opinion). All of that is immaterial. Betting on talent can work in the long run, but time and time again, we have seen plodders be surprisingly good fantasy players. in The running back position is about volume and opportunity (especially in redraft), and Richardson possesses both of those. It isn't as if he is entirely unskilled either, gaining 638 yards on 122 touches in 2012 as the spell back for Steven Jackson. Despite only being listed at 196 pounds, even the Sim Score App doesn't hate him. Taking out only games where he had 2 or fewer touches (2 games), this is Richardson's Sim Score.
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The floor is low, but we know that. It is priced into his ADP. If we knew for 100%, in no uncertain terms, that Richardson ends the year with 275 touches, fantasy owners would pull the trigger in the 3rd, possibly even the 2nd round. The risk that Pead is given 100 touches or that Stacy eats into some goalline work is included in Richardson's price as a full-time starter. It's pretty rare for fantasy players to get that advantage.
Take advantage of your leaguemates fear. If you are in a MFL10, feel free to profit from taking Richardson in the fifth round. As we move into August, ADP's will start to stabilize and more accurately represent the values of players, but the fear of the general fantasy football playing populace can be used to your advantage. You are smarter than them, and you are armed with more actionable and pertinent fantasy advice. I am NOT saying that Daryl Richardson is Alfred Morris from 2012. He isn't. However, after Alfred Morris started the 3rd preseason game for the Washington Redskins and sat the 4th, he was being drafted as the 47th running back off the board (ADP data from after August 25th, 2012). If your ultimate goal is to win your league, and to do so by generating value from each of your selections, taking Richardson in the 4th or 5th round of your draft is an easy way to do so.
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1/30 Fresh! White, "It's You!; Mindfulness and Self-care, Are the Path to Powerful Change."
Fresh! White, is a Professional Certified Coach, facilitator and mindfulness teacher. He is a contributing author to, Trans Bodies Trans Selves, a health, legal and cultural resource guide for community members and service providers, and Real World Mindfulness for Beginners. As a coach, Fresh! supports executives, entrepreneurs, artists and coaches with living their goals and dreams. He started the Bay Area's first Transgender Mindfulness group. He isalso on the team the SF LGBT Cente's Trans Employment Project, supporting Trans• folkswith achieving their career goals. Fresh! ison the boards of the SF Trans March, TDOV and TDOR.
2/6 Sarah Schulman, "Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair."
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, nonfiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and AIDS
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on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace, and Faculty Advisor to Students for Justice in Palestine
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2/13 Honey Mahogany, "A History of Honey: A journey of self-discovery, performance art, and queer identity politics."
Honey Mahogany gained world-wide fame asa cast memberon Season5 of the reality television cult
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2/20 Brooke Lober, "Women Against Imperialism: Feminist Activism, both Personal and Political"
Brooke Lober is a longtime participant in grassroots social movements and creative subcultures, which produce the materials and philosophies she engages in her classrooms, and in her work as a feminist cultural historian. At Sonoma State University's Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Lober teaches intersectional feminist/queer studies through investigations into critical theory and cultural production. In her research and writing, Lober studies late 20th century feminisms as they converge with the anti-imperialist and anti-colonial movements that exploded in the wake of 1968; in collaboration with the Freedom Archives, Lober is director of the Women Against Imperialism Oral History Project.
2/27 Emily Hobson, "Liberation Through Solidarity: Lessons from the Gay and Lesbian Left"
Emily K. Hobson is a scholar of LGBTQ history and radical social movements in the postwar United
States. She is the author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay
and Lesbian Left (University of California Press,2016). Hobson serves as Assistant Professor of
History and of Gender, Race, and ldentity at the University of Nevada, Reno, and earned her PhD in
American Studies & Ethnicity from the University of Southern California.
3/6 Cáel Keegan, "Thick with the Future: Bound and the Utopian Queer/Trans Horizon"
Cáel M. Keegan is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Liberal Studies at Grand Valley State University. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming
in Studies in Sex and Gender, Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, Transgender Studies Quarterly, MedieKultur, Social Alternatives, and Spectator. His book, Lana and Lilly Wachowski:
Imaging Transgender, will be published in the Contemporary Film Directors Series of the University of Illinois Press.
3/27 Aron Kantor, "Playing With Gender and Sexuality in Queer Film"
Aron Kantor is a filmmaker and artist focused on investigating gender identity and queer sexuality
through engaging visuals and absurd humor. His films have been presented in galleries and screened
in over 80 film festivals worldwide, including Slamdance, where his film Deviance was awarded best
underground short film in 2015. In 2015 he was named Best Filmmaker in the Bay Guardian newspaper, and
was awarded a grant from the Endeavor Foundation for the Arts. In 2016 his film Folsom Street won best
short at the Fetische Film Festival.
4/3 Faith Cheltenham, "Intersection Electric: An Interactive Tour of Black and Bisexual Histories/Culture (with games!)"
As BiNet USA's President, Faith Cheltenham works to advocate for bisexual, pansexual, fluid, and
queer (bi+) communities. Faith got her start in LGBTQIA advocacy as a Human Rights Campaign intern
on the Gore 2000 campaign, and in 2002, she co-founded UCLA's BlaQue for LGBT students of African
descent. In 2006, she appeared inthe Emmy winning reality series on race in America, "Black. White." produced by Ice Cube for FX Networks. After spending time working in corporate America doing digital
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4/10 Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción and Juliana Delgado Lopera, "Unearthing Queer Latinidad"
Juliana Delgado Lopera is known as a writer, educator and spoken-word performer. She's the author of "¡Cuent amelo!" - an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by GBT Latina and Latino immigrants. She serves as executive director of RADAR Productions, which orgarnzes queer Iiterary programs.
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Johanna Breiding's practice stems from photography, considering the mediurn's history, its representational role and limits. Expanding to video and installation, to emphasize voice, movement and experiential pathos, Breiding locates her work within the intersection of analog and digital technologies, the construction of gender and cultural identity, and a critique of heternormative ideologies within the personal and sociaI space. Her recent solo show, Epitaph for Family, addresses notions of queerfamily-making, exploring love, intimacy and loss through the image and connotations of the horizon line and the dinner table. Breiding currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in New Genres at the San Frandsco Art Institute.She is based in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and originally from a small viiIage in Switzerland.
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Anna Mollow, a Lecturer in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University, is the coeditor, with Robert McRuer, of Sex and Disability (Duke Univeristy Press, 2012). Her articles on disability, fatness, race, gender, and queerness have appeared in Bitch magazine, Huffington Post, Everyday Feminism, Autostraddle, Hypatia, Women's Studies Quarterly, African American Review, and many other locations.
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A possible case of caprine-associated malignant catarrhal fever in a domestic water buffalo
Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) is a fatal herpesvirus infection, affecting various wild and domestic ruminants all over the world. Water buffaloes were reported to be particularly susceptible for the ovine herpesvirus-2 (OvHV-2) causing the sheep-associated form of MCF (SA-MCF). This report describes the first case of possibly caprine-associated malignant catarrhal fever symptoms in a domestic water buffalo in Switzerland.
Case presentation
The buffalo cow presented with persistent fever, dyspnoea, nasal bleeding and haematuria. Despite symptomatic therapy, the buffalo died and was submitted to post mortem examination. Major findings were an abomasal ulceration, a mild haemorrhagic cystitis and multifocal haemorrhages on the epicardium and on serosal and mucosal surfaces. Eyes and oral cavity were not affected. Histopathology revealed a mild to moderate lymphohistiocytic vasculitis limited to the brain and the urinary bladder. Although these findings are typical for MCF, OvHV-2 DNA was not detected in peripheral blood lymphocytes or in paraffin-embedded brain, using an OvHV-2 specific real time PCR. With the aid of a panherpesvirus PCR, a caprine herpesvirus-2 (CpHV-2) sequence could be amplified from both samples.
To our knowledge, this is the first report of malignant catarrhal fever in the subfamily
Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) is a frequently fatal viral infection, affecting various wild and domestic ruminants and even, as recently reported, pigs
At least six members of the
Li and colleagues found a new endemic and asymptomatic gammaherpesvirus in domestic goats
A further gammaherpesvirus with an as yet unknown host reservoir was recovered from white-tailed deer diagnosed with MCF and was named malignant catarrhal fever virus of white-tailed deer (MCFV-WTD)
Alcelaphine herpesvirus-2 (AlHV-2) causes subclinical infection in topi
This case report describes the clinical, laboratory and postmortem findings of a domestic water buffalo
Case presentation
Anamnesis, clinical history and laboratory findings
In January 2011, a 10-year old female domestic water buffalo
The buffalo cow had delivered a healthy calf in June 2010 and was now pregnant in the first trimester.
On arrival at the clinic the animal was in a good body condition. It showed nasal bleeding from the right nostril and a skin lesion on the left fore limb with prolonged bleeding. The rectal temperature was 38.6°C, the skin was cool and had a reduced turgor. Conjunctivae and sclerae were hyperaemic, capillary refill time was prolonged (> 2 sec). The animal was calm, but had an increased heart rate (104/min). Ruminal as well as intestinal motility were absent, food intake was reduced. The quantitatively diminished faeces contained a marked amount of digested blood (melena). Although the peripheral lymph nodes were inconspicuous, the right iliac lymph node was severely enlarged. Catheter urine was brownish to red and contained a maximal amount of haemoglobin/erythrocytes as well as glucose (
The results of routine blood examination and special clotting parameters are listed in table
Table 1
Blood parameters of the buffalo cow with MCF
Patient's value
Ref. value
Total proteins
Total bilirubin
Inorganic phosphate
Prothrombin time (PT)
Partial thromboplastin time (PTT)
Thrombin time (TT)
* No result, thrombocytes were clotted.
Routine serology for IBR-IPV antibody was negative. DNA was extracted from peripheral blood lymphocytes with the
Prolonged clotting parameters, decreased fibrinogen and clotted thrombocytes were suggestive of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and, as underlying disease, an atypical postparturiant haemoglobinuria or malignant catarrhal fever due to a causative agent other than OvHV-2 was considered. The buffalo cow was treated symptomatically by oral and intravenous administration of electrolytes, glucose and vitamin C.
During the following 36 hours, the rectal temperature rose to 39.4°C. The animal was restless and collapsed several, times resulting in bleeding skin injuries. Nasal bleeding stopped intermittently. A few hours before it died, it became recumbent and shortly before exitus showed severe dyspnoea and acute bleeding arose from nose, vagina and anus.
Postmortem examination
The following post mortem examination revealed extensive haemorrhages in the musculature and subcutaneous tissue above the sternum and tuber coxae. Petechial to ecchymotic haemorrhages were seen in the pale vaginal mucosa, in the lung parenchyma of all lobes, in the epicardium (Figure
Figure 1
Epicardial haemorrhages
Epicardial haemorrhages. Severe multifocal to coalescing epicardial haemorrhages in the water buffalo cow with MCF. The pericardium contained 1,5 liters of serous fluid (evacuated).
The tonsils and head lymph nodes were strongly enlarged, red to violet and oedematous. Mediastinal and mesenterial lymph nodes were of normal size, but also dark red and oedematous.
Except for a focally extensive erosion in the pyloric region of the abomasum, no lesions were detectable on the muzzle, in the oral cavity, oesophagus or lower gastrointestinal tract. The eyes showed no macroscopical alterations.
The major histological finding was a mild to moderate lymphohistiocytic vasculitis in the brain, in the carotid rete (Figure
Figure 2
Lymphohistiocytic vasculitis of the carotid rete
Lymphohistiocytic vasculitis of the carotid rete. Lymphohistiocytic medial and adventitial infiltration in arteries of the carotid rete in the water buffalo cow with MCF. Hematoxilin and Eosin, 20×.
Several organs showed signs of bleeding and thrombus formation. Petechial to ecchymotic haemorrhages were dispersed in the submucosa of the urinary bladder, in the epicardium and myocardium, in the cerebrum and in the lung alveoli. Microthrombi were evident in the kidney, in the abomasum adjacent to the mucosal erosion and in the alveolar capillaries of the lung. Multiple lung venules were obstructed by larger thrombi.
Tonsils and lymph nodes were hyperaemic, oedematous and moderately hyperplastic. A severe hemosiderosis was visible in the spleen despite advanced autolysis. In the bone marrow, activation of erythropoiesis and thrombocytopoiesis was evident.
Cryosections from skin, tongue and thyroid gland were examined with immunohistochemistry for BVD-MD antigen
No relevant bacteria could be cultured from blood.
The OvHV-2-specific real-time PCR was additionally carried out with DNA extracted from paraffin embedded carotid rete and cerebrum (
Buffalo farming is quite uncommon in Switzerland and information on local prevalence of buffalo diseases is sparse. Data from Switzerland concern mainly dairy cattle. To find information about prevalences of buffalo diseases, we can draw conclusions from countries, where buffalos are often kept, like India, Thailand, Indonesia etc., but have to consider that there are differences in housing and feeding, as well as in climate conditions.
The only European report describing an outbreak of sheep-associated MCF in water buffalos occurred in southern Italy
Histologically, the lymphohistiocytic vasculitis and perivascular cuffing was limited to the brain and meningeal vessels, the carotid rete and the urinary bladder wall. Nonpurulent interstitial nephritis and myocarditis, as seen in affected cattle and buffalos
In summary, the gross and histopathological findings in the present case are consistent with previous descriptions of buffalos succumbing to MCF, albeit in a more discrete manner, although the clinical signs were rather atypical. Possibly, this is related to a different causative agent, as previous cases of MCF in buffalos were associated with OvHV-2, whereas in the present case, CpHV-2 was found in peripheral blood lymphocytes and in brain.
Several authors previously described caprine herpesvirus 2 as a cause of MCF, but exclusively in members of the cervid family. In sika deer, CpHV-2 was found in association with mural folliculitis
In summary, cervids with CpHV-2 associated MCF presented with rather atypical clinical signs and rather mild to moderate pathological alterations. However, it should be considered, that in most cases these animals did not die a natural death, but were shot by a gamekeeper due to weakness, what might at least partly contribute to reduced severity of the pathological findings.
As in the case of the water buffalo presented here, CpHV-2 associated MCF elicits rather an atypical clinical and gross pathological manifestation in cervids, suggesting that the caprine herpesvirus 2 causes a more atypical form of MCF in other susceptible species.
Unfortunately, further testing on the premises for MCF viruses or MCF virus antibodies was not permitted by the owner. Therefore, it was impossible to unambiguously identify the source of the infection. Specifically, the question, whether or not CpHV-2 was also present in the unaffected buffaloes on the same premises, remained unanswered. However, clinical, pathological, histological, and virological evidence strongly suggests that CpHV-2 may have been the causative agent of the present case of MCF in a water buffalo. Further knowledge about the prevalence of CpHV-2 in other bovids is needed, raising the need to test MCF-affected cattle for CpHV-2, especially if they are negative for OvHV-2 and contact to goats cannot be excluded. A prevalence study on CpHV-2 among cervids and bovids in Switzerland is in preparation (personal communication, A. Stahel).
Consent was obtained from the owner of the animal for publication of this case report and any accompanying images.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
MD performed the necropsy and the histopathological examination, reviewed the literature and prepared the manuscript. AS and ME performed the virological examination. SK and CG carried out the clinical examination, UB supervised the clinical examination. MH supervised the necropsy and the histopathological examination. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgements and Funding
We thank Dr. Maja Rütten, Institute of Veterinary Pathology, for her support in the interpretation of the histopathological slides and for her helpful diagnostic proposals. And our thanks go to Prof. Matthias Ackermann, Institute of Veterinary Virology, Zurich, Prof. Lloyd Vaughan and Prof. Franco Guscetti, Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Zurich, for critical reading of the manuscript.
The authors declared that they received no financial support for their research and/or authorship of this article.
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MERCOSUR (in Spanish: Mercado Com?n del Sur / in English: Southern Common Market) is a regional trade agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Founded in 1991 by the Treaty of Asunci?n, which was later amended and updated by the 1994 Treaty of Ouro Preto, MERCOSUR's purpose is to promote free trade and the fluid movement of goods, people, and currency. Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru currently have associate member status. This book presents both an overview and in-depth analysis of MERCOSUR - one of the world's most important and increasingly influential economic organizations. The book is comprised of two types of chapters. The first, a series of first-hand analysis of the treaty by experts from countries in the MERCOSUR bloc and, the second, a series of discussions from other parts of the world looking at MERCOSUR as global actor of ever increasing importance. The book divides the analysis into three main parts. The first section contains the key institutional legal aspects of MERCOSUR, looking at its history, the general theory of economic integration, and basic aspects relating to the functioning of MERCOSUR. The second section examines specialized topics, such as the regulation of telecommunications in MERCOSUR, the environment, human rights, the energy market, etc. The final section - in which the editors offer a translation of core MERCOSUR instruments - provides further understanding of the economic bloc. Original in its conception, the book covers a major gap in English-language literature by offering a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the law of MERCOSUR. It will become essential reading for both practitioners and academics interested not only in MERCOSUR, but in economic integration, international trade, and regional aspects of the phenomenon of globalization.
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Paul De Meo is an American screenwriter and film producer. He is also a video game creator and frequently works with Danny Bilson.
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Zone Troopers (1985)
Trancers (1985)
Eliminators (1986)
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Pulse Pounders (1988)
The Wrong Guys (1988)
Arena (1989)
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Red Faction: Origins (2011)
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The present invention relates to a modulator-demodulator (modem) for video data.
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The basic unit of information transmitted by a modem is called a baud or a symbol. Each baud or symbol is a packet of information containing at least one binary bit. In higher bit rate modems, however, the number of bits contained in the baud or symbol is typically usually greater than one. For example, the Bell 212 modem transmits information at six hundred baud or symbols per second, but each baud or symbol contains enough information to represent two bits. Therefore, the data rate is twelve hundred bits per second.
The usable voice grade telephone network bandwidth is approximately 3400 Hz. Because of the distances involved and the varying condition and age of the components, the telephone network has various undesirable characteristics which can cause data errors during use of the telephone network as a communication link. Group delay, which is the variation in transmission time depending upon the frequency of the signal transmitted, varies from approximately 1 to 3 milliseconds across the usable bandwidth of approximately 3400 Hz. There are also frequency shifts of up to approximately 10 Hz in both positive and negative directions and other impairments, such as phase and amplitude hits, burst noise and phase jitter. All but one of these degradations results in jitter in the recovered data (amplitude hits or dropouts do not have this effect). This resultant jitter leads to inaccuracies in the recovered data clock and subsequent errors in received data. Group delay leads to another effect called inter-symbol interference (ISI) by causing amplitude information to be spread across symbol intervals. This means that the amplitude value of adjacent symbols is distorted.
For the higher data rate modems, simple PSK, FSK or QAM modulation systems are not sufficient, and multilevel schemes or vestigal side band or single side band techniques must be used. These systems become quite expensive, requiring precision narrow-band filters, sensitive phase detectors, analog multipliers and other components. In addition, as the amount of information increases, the decision threshold for symbol decoding decreases (e.g., less distance between amplitude levels). Thus, the effect of ISI becomes more and more important. Virtually all high-speed modems use some form of adaptive equalization to reduce the effects of group delay and hence ISI. However, adaptive equalization is expensive and complicated to implement.
For video data, the most familiar modulation scheme is that used for television transmission. In standard television transmission, the TV picture is composed of an array of dots or pixels. For black and white television, the pixels range in values from black through intermediate shades of gray to white. In order to transmit the TV picture, a high-frequency (MHz range) carrier signal typically has its amplitude modulated in accordance with the brightness or darkness of the individual pixels. This amplitude level is decoded by a demodulator in the television set which controls the intensity of the voltage driving the electron gun that impacts upon the phosphor at each pixel position on the television tube. This analog modulation system requires a high-frequency bandwidth because of the abrupt changes in amplitude, especially in changes from black to white. These abrupt amplitude changes, when used to modulate the carrier, introduce high-frequency components into the signal, thus requiring a large bandwidth for transmission.
For digital video or facsimile transmission, the brightness of each pixel is transformed into a digital value. Typically, 8-10 bits are used for video (i.e., 256 to 1024 values) and one bit is used for facsimile (black and white). One specific example would be where sixteen values are used representing a range of brightness from white through fourteen intermediate shades of gray to black. These sixteen values require a minimum of four bits to represent each value. The digital bit stream can then be supplied to a modem which is used for digital data.
The hostile environment of the telephone network makes it difficult to use higher data rates for video data without experiencing severe degradation of picture quality due to errors. For instance, the intersymbol interference of the telephone network can have the effect of changing one bit of each four-bit word representing a pixel. This change of one bit value can result in a large change in the decoded value of the pixel, such as a change from black to white. Such an error would cause white dots to appear in an area of the picture which should be black, or vice-versa.
The present invention provides a low-cost digital modulator-demodulator optimized for video data, wherein each modulated state or symbol (amplitude, phase, frequency or a combination thereof) has a one-to-one correspondence with a particular pixel value of brightness. Adjacent shades of gray for the pixels are assigned to adjacent amplitude, phase or frequency values. An error in any value is most likely to result in the value being interpreted as an adjacent value. Thus, any error in transmission results in a pixel having its shade changed only slightly. Because approximately 50% of adjacent pixels in the typical video image of a person's face, for instance, are identical and approximately 80% are within one gray shade of each other, the degradation from an error of one or two shades is minimal. Consequently, the modem in accordance with the invention is particularly advantageous for communication of a video image of a person's face over a telephone network.
Preferably, the present invention uses a multiple amplitude, two-phase modulation method. This modulation technique can also be described as dual sideband, suppressed carrier amplitude modulation. The black and white values are assigned to the highest amplitude level at opposite phases. As the pixel value becomes less black or white and more gray, it is assigned lower and lower amplitude levels with its phase being determined by whether it is closer to black or to white. The intermediate shades of gray have the lowest amplitude levels. Thus, the pixel values which would produce the most noticeable errors if incorrect (the black and white values), are assigned the highest amplitude levels which are least likely to result in error. Because only two phases are used, a phase error is highly unlikely to result in a change from white to black. This encoding scheme is contrary to the standard practice of assigning the most prevalent data, i.e., the grays, to the most error-insensitive states.
The use of only two phases along with the multiple amplitude levels allows the use of a reduced bandwidth for transmission. Since adjacent amplitude levels are typically of the same phase, there are fewer phase changes to result in added frequency components for the transmitted signal.
In the modulator stage of the modem in accordance with the present invention, a digital pixel value arriving via a data bus from the image capture (camera) subsystem is supplied to a ROM (read-only-memory) along with a digital representation of the carrier signal from a counter. These signals combine to form an address for the ROM look-up table to select data which provides proper values to represent the desired level. The ROM output is a digital representation of the modulated carrier which is fed through a D/A (digital-to-analog) converter to produce an analog waveform, which is then filtered and transmitted. In the demodulator, a phase-lock loop is used to recover the carrier. The carrier is then combined with the received data in a chopper demodulator to extract the data in analog form. A second phase-lock loop is then used to recover the data clock. Finally, an A/D (analog-to-digital) converter is used to reconstruct the digital data which is supplied to the image display subsystem.
The present invention allows an inexpensive digital modem to operate at a higher data rate than normally possible due to the tolerance to errors of the video image information provided by the novel encoding scheme of the present invention. Data rates of 7000 bits per second are possible, compared to the 1200 bits per second possible for the common commercially available high-speed digital modems. The present invention thus optimizes the performance of a modulator-demodulator for video data. The present invention could also be used with analog modems and data other than video image data could be transmitted.
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic representation of the encoding scheme of the present invention.
FIG. 2A is a schematic representation of the modulating data of the present invention.
FIG. 2B is a schematic representation of the modulated carrier of the present invention.
FIG. 3A is a schematic representation of the fastest changing signal possible for the video data.
FIG. 3B is a schematic representation of the bandwidth of the data frequency components of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the modulator of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the demodulator of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a block diagram of the phase-lock loop shown in FIG. 5.
FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of the modulation or encoding scheme of the present invention. FIG. 1 shows a modulated carrier signal 10 extending for sixteen baud or symbol intervals 12 as modulated by sixteen different pixel values. The sixteen symbol intervals correspond to black, fourteen intermediate shades of gray, and white. The values progress from black to white along the X axis, with the Y axis showing the amplitude of the modulated carrier signal. Interval 14 shows a cycle of the carrier representing a black pixel having the highest amplitude at a first phase. An interval 16 shows a cycle of the carrier symbol representing a white pixel having amplitude equal to that of interval 14 at an opposite phase. The fourteen intermediate symbols represent the shades of gray between black and white. At the midpoint 18 of the spectrum from black to white, the phase of the signal 10 changes 180�.
Each of the sixteen pixel values to be transmitted is converted to a four-bit digital value. The sixteen four-bit numbers are then converted to eight amplitude levels of opposite signs. The positive sign represents 0� phase change for black and the shades of gray closest to black. The negative sign represents 180� phase change for white and the shades of gray closest to white. FIG. 2A shows an example of data signal 20 for three pixels in a pictorial representation. A first pixel for an intermediate gray is represented by the value +2 in a pixel interval 22. A second pixel interval 14 has a positive amplitude of +8 corresponding to black, and a third pixel interval 24 has a negative amplitude of -4 corresponding to one of the lighter shades of gray. The location in the group of the pixel shades represented in intervals 22, 14 and 24 can be seen in FIG. 1.
By multiplying signal 20 by the carrier frequency, the corresponding modulated carrier frequency shown in FIG. 2B is produced. It can be seen that the amplitude of the carrier signal is varied in accordance with the amplitude of the pixel value, and that the phase of the carrier signal is reversed on the positive-to-negative transition from interval 14 to interval 24. Because each phase change is 180�, it is less likely that an error will occur than in a system using a larger number of phase changes. Any error in amplitude simply results in a small variation of the shade of the pixel affected. For instance, if the amplitude level 1 at 0� phase is erroneously decoded as an amplitude level 2, the result is a pixel which is off by one shade of gray. By putting the black and white pixels at opposite phases, the likelihood of a white pixel being decoded as black, or vice-versa, is highly unlikely.
Inter-symbol interference can cause some error in amplitude due to the multiple levels used, but is less likely to cause an error in phase because there is a wider margin for error in the phase since only two phases are used. For video images of a person's face, adjacent pixels are identical approximately 50% of the time and are within one shade approximately 80% of the time. Any degradation of picture quality is soft, and the human eye easily compensates for such soft errors.
The encoding method described above also reduces the effective bandwidth required for transmission. The harmonic frequency content of a signal, which increases with the number of abrupt changes in the signal, determines the bandwidth required for transmission. In the typical video image, adjacent pixels typically vary only slightly in shade, as discussed above. Thus, referring to FIG. 1, it can be seen that the change in the modulated carrier signal from pixel to pixel is typically only a change in amplitude, not a change in phase. Since few phase changes are present, the harmonic content of the signal is low.
To implement the above modulation method, a carrier frequency and baud rate (symbols or intervals per second) must be selected. The maximum usable bandwidth of a telephone network is approximately 3400-3500 Hz. The theoretical maximum bit rate for this bandwidth can be determined using the Hartley-Shannon theorem of equation 1 below: ##EQU1## Using B=3500 Hz for the phone channel bandwidth and S/N=15 dB for the signal-to-noise ratio yields C=14,600 bits as the maximum theoretical bit rate. 15 dB is a level of noise which significantly degrades voice communication and thus is a reasonable maximum level to choose. Since the encoding method of the invention uses one pixel per baud or symbol and it takes 4 bits to represent each pixel, the maximum theoretical bit rate of 14,600 bits corresponds to a maximum theoretical baud rate of 14,600/4=3650 baud.
In practice, analyzing the bandwidth rate independent of the bit rate, the maximum baud rate, or number of symbols per second, is equal to the bandwidth used for transmission for random data with a uniform distribution. This can be seen by referring to FIGS. 3A and 3B. The maximum base band frequency, or maximum frequency of the modulating data, occurs when the data assumes alternate black and white states causing the sign of the signal to change from one symbol to the next, resulting in a square wave as shown in FIG. 3A. Interval 26 represents one baud or symbol. If the signal changes from the maximum negative amplitude to maximum positive amplitude in every interval, a periodic signal results having a period equal to two baud intervals. Thus, the maximum frequency is the inverse of the period (2 baud) which is one-half the baud rate.
When this maximum base band frequency is applied to the carrier frequency, fC, the resultant modulated signal has first sidebands at the carrier frequency fc minus the base band frequency fB and at the carrier frequency fC plus the base band frequency fB, as shown in FIG. 3B. The bandwidth necessary to include both of the sidebands is 2fB which equals 2(baud rate/2)=baud rate. Because most of the harmonic content (and thus most of the energy) of the modulated signal is in the first sidebands, the signal can be decoded without additional sidebands. Thus, a bandwidth which only includes the first sidebands is sufficient to recover the maximum base band frequency. Any other arbitrary combination of data produces a waveform which can be thought of as being periodic at a lower frequency than the maximum base band frequency. The first sidebands (fundamental harmonic) of such frequencies fall within the sidebands of the maximum base band frequency. Thus, a bandwidth equal to the baud rate is sufficient to transmit any arbitrary combination of data.
The usable telephone network bandwidth is approximately 3400 Hz, but both the high and low-frequency portions of the phone channel suffer from severe group delay distortions. Thus, although a baud rate of approximately the usable bandwidth is possible, it is desirable to only use the center of the telephone channel and a baud rate of approximately one-half of the bandwidth. A carrier frequency of 1747.8 Hz can be obtained by using a standard color TV 3.579545 MHz crystal oscillator and dividing by 2048, which is easily obtainable with digital circuitry because 2048 is a power of two number. This carrier frequency is approximately in the middle of the telephone channel. By using a baud rate equal to the carrier frequency, the carrier bandwidth occupies only the center half of the telephone channel, which is least susceptible to group delay. The bit rate achieved is 4�1747.8=6991.3 bits per second.
FIG. 4 shows a modulator 30 of the present invention. A four-bit digital representation of each pixel arrives via data bus 32 from an image-capture system (not shown). The pixel value is latched into a latch 34. A sine counter 36, which runs at sixteen times the carrier frequency, generates four output bits which are decoded into a sixteen-level approximation to the carrier sinewave. The four pixel bits from latch 34 and the four sinewave bits from counter 36 are decoded in ROM 38 to produce an eight-bit digital value which corresponds to the product of the pixel value and the sinewave value, giving a digital representation of the modulated carrier. This eight-bit digital representation is converted in a D/A converter 40 into an analog waveform. The analog waveform is passed through a low-pass filter 42 to remove undesirable high-frequency components. The output of filter 42 is sent to the transmitter (not shown) for transmission.
FIG. 5 shows a demodulator 44 of the present invention. The incoming signal from a duplexer (not shown) is limited (line-limited signal) and applied to an input 46 and fed to a phase-lock loop 48. Phase-lock loop 48 is used to recover the carrier which is then input to a chopper demodulator 50 along with the original received signal from input 46. The output of chopper demodulator 50 is the recovered data in analog form. This data is passed through a low-pass filter 52 to remove unwanted high-frequency components. Filter 52 is preferably an eighth-order Butterworth-Bessel transitional filter having a scaling factor of 1/2. A second phase-lock loop 54 is used to recover the data clock from the recovered data. The data clock and recovered analog data are then fed to an A/D converter 56 to reconstruct the eight-bit digital data at an output 58. The digital data from output 58 is then fed to a microprocessor (not shown) to be converted into the appropriate pixel value for reconstruction of the image.
Phase-lock loop 48 is shown in more detail in FIG. 6. The line-limited input data 46 is passed through a frequency discriminator 60 comprised of two D flip-flops 62,64 and an exclusive OR gate 66. Flip-flops 62 and 64 are clocked by a clock signal fCLKD. The output 68 of discriminator 60 is then used to generate a doubled frequency output 70 via a programmable counter 72 which is clocked by the clock signal fCKLD. Discriminator output 68 is used as the clock for a D flip-flop 74. The eventually recovered carrier frequency, after doubling, is fed back as the input to flip-flop 74. The outputs of flip-flop 74, along with the doubled recovered carrier frequency and doubled frequency output 70, are used as inputs to two AND gates 76,78. A pulse proportional to the magnitude of the phase error of the doubled frequency is generated by the two AND gates 76,78. The outputs of AND gates 76,78 drive counters 80,82, respectively, which are used to quantify and scale the error. Counters 80,82 are clocked by a clock signal fCLKM. Since the error is scaled, it is also delayed in time. This is analogous to performing a discrete time integration. Therefore, each counter 80,82 also serves as a loop filter. The output of each counter 80,82 is then used to control a multiplexer 84 whose output has one of three values: high, low, or one cycle of half-high and half-low. This signal is used to control a last counter 86 which generates both the recovered carrier and twice the recovered carrier. This last counter 86 is essentially a voltage controlled crystal oscillator (VCXO).
When the input error is zero, the output of multiplexer 84 is the half-high, half-low signal. this causes the output of counter 86 to be a nominal 1747.8 Hz square wave. However, frequency shift in the telephone network and frequency differences between systems will lead to shifts in the received carrier. When the error is negative, the output of multiplexer 84 is high and counter 86 will count one extra clock, thus momentarily increasing the frequency and advancing the phase. If the error is low, the control signal output of multiplexer 84 is low. This prevents counter 86 from counting for one clock and thus instantaneously decreases the frequency, hence retarding the phase.
Using the recovered carrier, the received signal is passed through the balanced, chopper demodulator 50 and low-pass filtered in filter 52 to recover the base band data as shown in FIG. 5. This signal is then hard-limited once more and passed through the other phase-lock loop 54 identical to phase-lock loop 48 except for the addition of a divider following the VCXO 86. The output of this divider, which is a square wave at the data clock rate, is then used to generate a pulse which strobes A/D converter 56, thus sampling the recovered data waveform and generating an interrupt IRQ to a microprocessor (not shown) telling it to read the new data value. The microprocessor then takes that value and converts it into the correct pixel value which is used to generate a part of the picture.
As will be understood by those familiar with the art, the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. For instance, a spectrum of color values could be used rather than black and white. Accordingly, the disclosure of the preferred embodiment of the invention is intended to be illustrative, but not limiting, of the invention, the scope of which is set forth in the following claims.
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