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Data describing advertisements displayed within a shopping cart is used within a store computer, system along with data from a process, such as barcode scanning, identifying items selected for purchase during the use of the shipping cart. The data identifying the selected items is compared with data identifying the items that have been advertised within the cart of identifying a manufacturer, supplier, or brand name that has been advertised to determine the effectiveness of the advertising and to establish an amount of money owed for displaying the advertising.

A device for determining a reproduction position of a source of sound for audio-visual reproduction of a film scene from a plurality of individual pictures with regard to a reproduction surface having a predetermined width and a projection source having a projection reference point comprises means for providing a recording position of the source of sound, a camera position during recording, and an aperture angle of the camera during recording. In addition, provision is made of means for transforming the recording position of the source of sound to a camera coordinate system, the origin of which is defined, in relation to a camera aperture, to obtain a recording position of the source of sound in the camera coordinate system. Means for calculating the reproduction position of the source of sound in relation to the projection reference point determines whether the aperture angle of the camera equals a predetermined aperture angle, and whether or not a source of sound is located within the visual range of the camera. If the current aperture angle of the camera differs from the predetermined standard aperture angle, the reproduction position of the source of sound is spaced toward a viewer, or away from the viewer, by a distance which depends on the ratio of the standard aperture angle to the current aperture angle. Hereby, automatable sound-source positioning is achieved so as to provide not only a visually realistic, but also an acoustically realistic situation in a reproduction room using wave-field synthesis methods.

An LED chip comprising an electrically conductive and radioparent substrate, in which the epitaxial layer sequence is provided on substantially the full area of its p-side with a reflective, bondable p-contact layer. The substrate is provided on its main surface facing away from the epitaxial layer sequence with a contact metallization that covers only a portion of said main surface, and the decoupling of light from the chip takes place via a bare region of the main surface of the substrate and via the chip sides. A further LED chip has epitaxial layers only. The p-type epitaxial layer is provided on substantially the full area of the main surface facing away from the n-conductive epitaxial layer with a reflective, bondable p-contact layer, and the n-conductive epitaxial layer is provided on its main surface facing away from the p-conductive epitaxial layer with an n-contact layer that covers only a portion of said main surface. The decoupling of light from the chip takes place via the bare region of the main surface of the n-conductive epitaxial layer and via the chip sides.

A free-standing bag and a method for producing a free-standing bag from a thermoplastic synthetic film is disclosed. The bag includes a front panel and a back panel, which are connected to one another by lateral seams thus forming a filling opening, and in a collapsed state of the bag, having an inwardly folded base, whereby the inwardly folded base is comprised of a front panel fold as well as a back panel fold, both folds being sealed into the lateral seams, and whereby in the area of the inwardly folded base, an assembly strip is attached, which is made of a reinforced plastic film, and that the assembly strip terminates at a distance from the lateral seams, whereby a reinforcing strip is attached or glued to the inside and/or outside of the front panel and the back panel in the area of the filling opening.

A magnetic resonance tomography device has a magnet system that generates a gradient field; with a local coil that receives a magnetic resonance signal; and with a localization system that is fashioned to locate the local coil. The localization system has a number of magnetic field sensors that are integrated with the local coil and fashioned to detect the gradient field. Such a device is used in a corresponding method for localization of a local coil in a magnetic resonance tomography device, and a local coil is fashioned so as to be suitable for this purpose.

A contactless energy supply for electrical consumers mounted on the mobile part of a linear motor is provided, the energy supply being provided without additional voltage sources. A higher frequency energy supply field is superposed over the propulsion field, the energy supply field being inductively decoupled using the energy transmitting interface of the secondary part, and supplying consumers mounted on the secondary part with energy.

A fabrication method of a semiconductor package is applied to fabricate the package with the lead frame. The fabrication method includes: performing a surface treatment on a carrier; electroplating a plurality of metal-stacked layers on the surface of the carrier, wherein the top of the metal-stacked layer is a bonding surface and the bottom of the metal-stacked layer is a welding surface; performing a chip bonding step; forming a molding compound on the carrier; removing the carrier and performing a dicing step to form a plurality of semiconductor packages. The fabrication method of a semiconductor package also includes that forming a plurality of cavities on the carrier surface, electroplating the metal-stacked layer on the cavities, and then performing the chip bonding step, forming the molding compound on the carrier; remove the carrier and performing the dicing step. Using the foregoing steps can prevent the overflow situation without using any tape.

A device for producing fiber preforms including a plurality of unwind stations, a plurality of grippers and at least one first molding tool. Further, a method includes the successive steps of tensioning threads or rovings for a first layer with grippers, draping the first layer over a first molding tool, severing of the threads or rovings of the first layer, tensioning threads or rovings for a second layer with grippers, draping an additional layer over the first forming tool, and severing the threads or rovings of the second layer.

A method and device for measuring the soot load in the exhaust gas systems of diesel engines using a sensor which is mounted downstream of a particulate filter and comprises a sensor element, to measure the operability of the particulate filter. According to the method, the soot load of the sensor element is measured resistively or capacitively using electrodes. The measuring voltage of the sensor element is controlled depending on at least one actual operating parameter of the diesel engine.

The invention relates to a process for determining an averaged frequency-dependent transfer function for a perturbed linear time-invariant system by means of an evaluation device, wherein the process comprises providing frequency-dependent reference signals derived from excitations input in a linear time-invariant system, providing frequency-dependent measuring signals for the linear time-invariant system associated with the frequency-dependent reference signals, and determining an averaged frequency-dependent transfer function for the linear time-invariant system, in that, using signal deconvolution of mutually associated measuring and reference signals, frequency-dependent transfer functions are determined and the frequency-dependent transfer functions are averaged, and wherein during determination of the averaged frequency-dependent transfer function at least a part of the determined frequency-dependent transfer functions is included in the averaging corresponding to a respectively associated frequency-dependent weighting. Furthermore the invention comprises an evaluation device for determining an averaged frequency-dependent transfer function for a perturbed linear time-invariant system and a computer program product.

The invention is directed to a method for generating extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation based on a radiation-emitting plasma, particularly for generating EUV radiation with a wavelength around 13 nm. The object of the invention, to find a novel possibility for generating extreme ultraviolet radiation based on a radiation-emitting plasma in which the emission output of the EUV source is increased to the wavelength range above the L-absorption edge of silicon without substantially increasing the technical and monetary expenditure for plasma generation, is met in a method for generating extreme ultraviolet radiation through emission of broadband radiation from a plasma under vacuum conditions in that the plasma is generated using at least one element from V to VII in the p-block of the fifth period of the periodic table of elements. Iodine, tellurium, antimony or materials containing these elements or chemical compounds formed with these elements are preferably used. The invention is advantageously applied in EUV lithography for semiconductor chip fabrication.

An optical detection device for detecting an intensity of a light beam in a detection window and for detecting data transmitted by the light beam includes a first detection diode and an array of at least two second detection diodes in a detection window. In addition, provision is made for a first readout circuit connectable to the first detection diode, for reading out the first detection diode at a first readout speed to detect the data, and for a second readout circuit connectable to the second detection diodes, for reading out the second detection diodes at a second readout speed smaller than the first readout speed, so as to detect the intensity of the light beam. A fundamental consideration underlying the present invention is that although the provision of additional detection diodes in the detection window initially is associated with additional expense and a reduction of the surface area of the detection window which may effectively be utilized for data detection, these disadvantages are outweighed, however, by the fact that this array of additional detection diodes in the detection window enables more effective and/or less expensive control of the alignment of the light beam transmitting the data with the detection window.

An actuating device is specified for an electromechanically actuatable vehicle brake. The device comprises a multi-stage transmission unit, which is arranged between a driving electric motor and a driven drive element of the vehicle brake, wherein at least one stage of the transmission unit is embodied as a spur-gear transmission, and at least two stages of the transmission unit are coupled by means of a double gearwheel, the rotational axis of which extends parallel to the rotational axis of the electric motor. The transmission unit has at least one intermediate stage which is embodied as a spur-gear transmission and into which at least one stage, embodied as a spur-gear transmission, of the transmission unit is integrated.

A method is provided for testing the fit or for testing the imbalance of a tool exchangeably accommodated in a tool spindle which is mounted for rotation about a central longitudinal axis and is rotationally driven by a spindle drive motor, including: inserting the tool on the tool spindle; making the tool spindle rotate with a specific rotational frequency f_def about the central longitudinal axis by means of the spindle drive motor; analyzing an actual value of a controlled drive current of the spindle drive motor with respect to a frequency component with the rotational frequency f_def; and determining whether the frequency component with the rotational frequency f_def lies within a threshold value range.

The invention relates to an axial spring element (6) having two peripheral ring elements (61, 62) that are spaced from one another in the axial direction and are connected to one another in a spring-elastic manner, wherein at least one of the ring elements (61) comprises one or more retaining elements (64) in order to brace the spring element with a rotor (5) and thereby hold the spring element on the rotor (5).

A retaining device for printed circuit boards is of a frame-like form, with transporting carriages arranged on the outer longitudinal sides and intended for transporting the retaining device, a retaining frame of the retaining device for the substrates being arranged between the transporting carriages. The retaining frame is mounted height-adjustably on the transporting carriages and so a substrate restrained in it can be lowered or raised during the treatment.

A method for operating a telecommunications network is explained. A network element (16) at a network node of the telecommunications network is controlled by a control computer (36). The control computer (16) is maintained from a service computer (24). Allomorphy is taken into account in the development of application programs (102, 104) so that even a service computer (24) which is not developed can maintain the control computer (36). Making allowance for allomorphy results in little additional expenditure because an interface program (100) is used in which essential processing steps are carried out for all the application programs (102, 104), said processing steps ensuring that allomorphy is taken into consideration.

Methods and compositions for modulating cyclophilin D, e.g., at least one cyclophilin D biological activity, are provided. Modulation of cyclophilin D is useful in preventing or treating obesity, an overweight condition, or in accommodating a desire to lose weight as well as being useful in treating a variety of kidney diseases.

The invention relates to an arrangement (10) and a method for detecting an object (18) arranged on a body (14). The arrangement comprises a vibration device (12), which sets the body (14) in a mechanical vibration of predetermined vibration frequency and predetermined vibration phase, an emission device (20) which emits in the direction of the body (14) a coherent electromagnetic detection radiation (26), the radiation frequency of which is selected such that it is reflected at least in part by the body (14) and the object (18) to be detected, a receiver device (30), which receives the radiation (28) reflected by the body (14) and the object (18), and an evaluation device (32) which filters out of the radiation (28) received the portions having the predetermined vibration frequency and evaluates them with respect to their vibration phase difference from the predetermined vibration phase.