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The present invention relates to a method for determining an imaging direction of an imaging apparatus (10), such as an x-ray apparatus, with a radiation source or an imaging source (12) that emits an imaging beam (14) to an imaging detector (16) along a beam path, comprising the steps of imaging an object (18) from a first direction to obtain a first 2D image; providing 3D reference data, for example a generic or statistical 3D model or an earlier obtained 3D data set, of the imaged object (18); performing a 2D / 3D matching of the first 2D image with the 3D reference data to determine a position of an imaging plane (20, 22, 24) of the first 2D image relative to the 3D reference data; and determining the imaging direction of the imaging apparatus (10) relative to the object (18) based on the position of the imaging plane (20, 22, 24) relative to the 3D reference data, as well as to a navigation system for computer-assisted surgery comprising the imaging system of the preceding claim; a tracking system (11), such as optical or IR tracking means; detection devices (13, 15) such as e.g. radiopaque markers (13) detectable by the imaging system and markers (15) detectable by the tracking system (11) attachable to an object (18), wherein the navigation system is adapted to detect a position of the object (18) based on the detection devices (13, 15), in order to generate detection signals and to supply the detection signals to the computer (17) such that the computer can determine point data on the basis of the detection signals received; a calibration object such as a patient body or a phantom bearing detection devices for calibrating the navigation system.

The present application provides devices and methods for inducing weight loss. In particular, the present application provides devices which are secured in the stomach or external to the stomach to reduce digestion and / or absorption of food in accordance with the methods of the invention

A report generating and viewing method (10) for generating and viewing reports (72) over the internet (16). A request from a browser (14) is sent to a server (12) whereupon a generate reports program (38) in a server (12) creates an intermediate file (44) containing all the necessary data and metadata. When a request from the browser (14) to view the report (72) is sent, a view reports program (60) in the server (12) parses the intermediate file (44) and sends a menu (66) to the browser (14). The user then selects a report from the menu (66) and the server (12) sends the report (72) to the browser (14).

Disclosed is a method for characterizing the content of a digital image. A component of the method is the homogeneity measure, which calculates a value or values based on the local similarity of portions of a sample area. A further component is a means of optimally adjusting the shape and offset of the local sample area to improve the resulting measure. The homogeneity measure may be applied at a higher level to segment an image, by grouping together larger portions of an image whose sub-components are locally similar. A strongly homogeneous region is a contiguous region composed of elements exhibiting local homogeneity better than that of surrounding elements, and may be applied to identify the scale and other characteristics of a portion of an image. This may be used to facilitate algorithms that separate lighting and texturing information, and in identifying the composition of an image.

A frame time having a certain period of time is divided into: a time period (for inter-base-station time division multiplex communication) in which one of the base stations has a transmission right in the simultaneous transmission and carries out inter-base-station time division multiplex communication so as to avoid interference between the base stations; and a time period (for inter-base-station simultaneous communication) for communication which is simultaneously carried out between the plurality of base stations. Furthermore, the time periods are switched for the communication.

The present invention provides a polyvinyl chloride polymer (PVC) composite material including 40-60 parts by weight of PVC, 40-60 parts by weight of light calcium carbonate, 0.8-1.2 parts by weight of composite foaming agent including an inorganic foaming agent and an organic foaming agent, 3-5 parts by weight of foam regulator, 2-4 parts by weight of toughener, 0.8-1.2 parts by weight of lubricant, and 1.5-2.5 parts by weight of stabilizer. The ratio of the inorganic foaming agent to the organic foaming agent by weight in the composite foaming agent is 1 / 2-1. Meanwhile, the present invention provides a foam board made of the PVC composite material, an associated production method, an apparatus, and flooring. The resulting PVC products have a high-strength structure and a good foaming property, thus having a satisfied mute effect.

A frame time having a certain period of time is divided into: a time period (for inter-base-station time division multiplex communication) in which one of the base stations has a transmission right in the simultaneous transmission and carries out inter-base-station time division multiplex communication so as to avoid interference between the base stations; and a time period (for inter-base-station simultaneous communication) for communication which is simultaneously carried out between the plurality of base stations. Furthermore, the time periods are switched for the communication.

An axial turbine has a turbine stage including stator blades fixedly provided on a stationary section and moving blades fixedly provided on a rotating section and has a structure in which a flow blowing out from a space formed between the stator blades and the moving blades exists. In order to prevent a decrease in stage output power due to such blowout flow thereby to improve the turbine stage efficiency, the axial turbine comprises a member coupling an inner circumferential side of the stator blades, and a structure provided on a surface of the member opposed to the moving blades for bending a flow blowing out from the side of the rotating section into a space between the stator blades and the moving blades in a rotational direction of the rotating section.

An antioxidant combined with UHMWPE prior to subjecting the UHMWPE to crosslinking irradiation. In one exemplary embodiment, the antioxidant is tocopherol. After the antioxidant is combined with the UHMWPE, the resulting blend may be formed into slabs, bar stock, and / or incorporated into a substrate, such as a metal, for example. The resulting product may then be subjected to crosslinking irradiation. In one exemplary embodiment, the UHMWPE blend is preheated prior to subjecting the same to crosslinking irradiation. Once irradiated, the UHMWPE blended product may be machined, packaged, and sterilized in accordance with conventional techniques.

In a method of entering text into an electronic communications device by means of a keypad having a number of keys, each key representing a plurality of letters and / or phonetic symbols, entered text is displayed on a display on the device. Possible phonetic syllables corresponding to an activated key sequence are generated. These are compared with a stored vocabulary comprising syllables and corresponding characters occurring in a given language. Those stored syllables and corresponding characters that match the possible syllables are pre-selected; and a number of these are presented in a separate first graphical object arranged predominantly on the display. Characters corresponding to one of the syllables in the first object are simultaneously presented in a second graphical object. Thus, there is provided a way of entering text with characters having a phonetic representation by means of keys representing a plurality of letters or phonetic symbols, which may be easier to use even in the case where a phonetic syllable corresponds to several characters.

A successive operation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit includes a bit reliability circuit that detects a delay time of the voltage comparator and, if the detected delay time is greater than a delay threshold time τMV, outputs a bit reliability decision signal; a digital noise reduction circuit that is selectively activated if the bit reliability decision signal indicates the detected delay time is greater than the delay threshold time τMV and produces a noise-reduced decision output that supersedes the decision output of the voltage comparator. In a preferred embodiment, the digital noise reduction circuit uses a multiple voting logic to produce a majority vote value as the noise-reduced decision output.

A data transport container is used to transport information from a content provider network node to an advertisement insertion network node. The data transport container encloses a media program, program metadata, advertisement metadata, and advertisement selection code. The advertisement insertion network node selects among a plurality of advertisements, which may also be received through the data transport container, in response to at least the advertisement selection code and the advertisement metadata. The selected advertisements are combined with the media program in response to the program metadata to generate a combined media program. The combined media program is communicated to a subscriber equipment unit. The data transport container may contain Material eXchange Format (MXF) encoded content. Accordingly, the advertisement insertion network node may be configured to decode MXF encoded content of the data transport container to extract the media program, the program metadata, the advertisement metadata, and the advertisement selection code into separate files.

A ceramic anode structure obtainable by a process comprising the steps of: (a) providing a slurry by dispersing a powder of an electronically conductive phase and by adding a binder to the dispersion, in which said powder is selected from the group consisting of niobium-doped strontium titanate, vanadium-doped strontium titanate, tantalum-doped strontium titanate, and mixtures thereof, (b) sintering the slurry of step (a), (c) providing a precursor solution of ceria, said solution containing a solvent and a surfactant, (d) impregnating the resulting sintered structure of step (b) with the precursor solution of step (c), (e) subjecting the resulting structure of step (d) to calcination, and (f) conducting steps (d)-(e) at least once.

The present invention relates to wireless networks using cooperative relaying which in a communication session involve more than one relay station. In the method according to the present invention, a transmitter 210′, a receiver 220′ and at least one relay station 215 are engaged in a communication session. The relay station 215 forwards signals from a first link between the transmitter 210′ and the relay station 215 to a second link between the relay stations 215 and the receiver 220′. The relay station 215 forwards the signal with the use of a relative transmission parameter and optionally a common transmission parameter. The relative transmission parameter is determined locally in each relay station 215 and based on a characterization of a first link, or the second link or a combination of the first and second link.

In various embodiments, the present invention provides virtual disk formatting by intermediate devices including: (1) a storage shelf router and the storage shelf in which the storage-shelf is included, to external computing entities, such as disk-array controllers and host computers; (2) an I / O controller; and (3) a storage-bridge device. The virtual-formatting methods of the present invention are based on allocation units, each allocation unit comprising a consecutive sequence of logical blocks and an additional pad region that together map to, and exactly align with, a corresponding consecutive sequence of device blocks.

A process and apparatus for removing SO2, NO, and NO2 from a gas stream having the steps of oxidizing a portion of the NO in the flue gas stream to NO2, scrubbing the SO2, NO, and NO2 with an ammonia scrubbing solution, and removing any ammonia aerosols generated by the scrubbing in a wet electrostatic precipitator. The process can also remove Hg by oxidizing it to HgO and removing it in the wet electrostatic precipitator. Ammonium sulfate, a valuable fertilizer, can be withdrawn from the scrubbing solution.

A gasification furnace and a combustion furnace are integrated with each other to form a single fluidized-bed gasification and combustion furnace in which unburned char generated in the gasification furnace is combusted in the combustion furnace, and the thus generated heat of combustion is utilized as a heat source for gasification. The fluidized-bed gasification and combustion furnace (1) comprises a gasification furnace (3) and a combustion furnace (4) which are divided by a first partition wall (2). In the gasification furnace (3), a revolving flow of the fluidized medium is formed by diffusion devices (32, 33) provided on furnace bottoms, and an upward flow of the fluidized medium partly flows in the combustion furnace (4). The combustion furnace (4) is divided into a main partition wall (5). In the main combustion chamber (6), a revolving flow of the fluidized medium is formed by diffusion devices (34, 35) provided on furnace bottoms, and an upward flow of the fluidized medium partly flows in the heat recovery chamber (7).

A flat cable includes a plurality of flat conductors each including a copper substrate, the flat conductors being aligned in a plane, and an insulating resin that covers the flat conductors. At least a terminal part of each of the flat conductors has a tin-copper alloy layer on the copper substrate, and a zinc-containing tin plating layer on the tin-copper alloy layers. The thickness of the tin-copper alloy layer is at least 0.2 μm and not greater than 1.0 μm. The thickness of the zinc-containing tin plating layer is at least 0.2 μm and not greater than 1.5 μm. The total thickness of the tin-copper alloy layer and the zinc-containing tin plating layers is at least 0.4 μm and not greater than 1.7 μm.

Surface portions A with a low heat capacity and surface portions B to which frost or ice is poorly bound or attached are discretely distributed on the heat exchange surface. The surface portions A and the surface portions B have features by which, when heating the heat exchanger to which frost or ice is attached, frost or ice in contact with the surface portions A melts earlier than frost or ice in contact with the surface portions B, and at least a part of frost or ice attached to the surface portions B is made partially continuous with at least a part of frost or ice attached to the surface portions A and is thereby released from the surface portions B by its own weight. The heat exchanger having such a heat exchange surface is used as an evaporator of a refrigeration apparatus.

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a composition useful for forming stator or a portion thereof. The composition may include: a curable elastomer; a fiber fibrous compound; a fiber dispersion compound; and optionally carbon black.

A process and apparatus for removing S02, NO, and N02 from a gas stream having the steps of oxidizing a portion of the NO in the flue gas stream to N02, scrubbing the S02, NO, and N02 with an ammonia scrubbing solution, and removing any ammonia aerosols generated by the scrubbing in a wet electrostatic precipitator. The process can also remove Hg by oxidizing it to HgO and removing it in the wet electrostatic precipitator. Ammonium sulfate, a valuable fertilizer, can be withdrawn from the scrubbing solution.

The present disclosure discloses a method for generating a search result and an information search system. The method for generating a search result includes: receiving, by an information search system, a search request; obtaining, by searching, a plurality of pieces of matching information that match the search request; obtaining a respective amount of user response associated with each of the plurality of pieces of matching information and further obtaining a total amount of user response associated with a respective categories to which each of the plurality of pieces of matching information belongs; and ranking the plurality of pieces of information to generate a search result based on the total amount of user response associated with the respective category to which each of the plurality of pieces of matching information belongs. By using the above technical scheme, a result of more rational ranking of matching information can be displayed to a user when the user performs a search, thus improving experience of the user.

The present invention provides a wireless network system that enables direct wireless delivery of a multimedia message from a first MMS user agent to a second MMS user agent. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the wireless network system includes a MMS server that receives, from the first MMS user agent, a request to send a multimedia message to the second MMS user agent. The request includes an identification (ID) number of the second MMS user agent. From a core network, for example, the MMS server obtains an Internet address of the second MMS user agent based on the ID number of the second MMS user agent, if the ID number is not an Internet address of the second MMS user agent. Then the MMS server forwards the Internet address to the first MMS user agent to enable the first MMS user agent to wirelessly deliver the multimedia message directly to the second MMS user agent using the Internet address. Therefore, by not involving a MMS server in delivering multimedia messages, a substantial amount of network resources is saved, and delivery speed of multimedia messages is significantly increased. As a result, the performance of the overall network system is greatly improved.

The present invention provides a method for the preparation of a myceliated coffee product. This method comprises providing green coffee beans and optionally heat treating the green coffee beans to provide prepared green coffee beans. Furthermore, a step of inoculating the prepared green coffee beans with a prepared fungal component and culturing the inoculum to prepare the myceliated coffee product is included. The present invention discusses different embodiments of the invention and the various products that can be developed by altering certain parameters, such as green coffee bean moisture content. The methods of the instant invention result in prepared green coffee beans and myceliated coffee products having reduced levels of undesirable taste components, such as 2-furanmethanol, and increased levels of fungal metabolites, such as β-glucans and other polysaccharides, relative to starting green coffee beans.

The present invention comprises methods and compositions for the reduction of oxalate in humans, animals and plants. For example, the invention provides methods and compositions for the delivery of one ore more oxalate-reducing enzymes to the intestinal tracts of persons and animals. The methods and compositions can be used in treating and preventing oxalate-related conditions.

A process and apparatus for removing SO2, NO, and NO2 from a gas stream having the steps of oxidizing a portion of the NO in the flue gas stream to NO2, scrubbing the SO2, NO, and NO2 with an alkali scrubbing solution, and removing any alkali aerosols generated by the scrubbing in a wet electrostatic precipitator. The process can also remove Hg by oxidizing it to oxidized mercury and removing it in the scrubbing solution and wet electrostatic precipitator. Alkali sulfates, which are valuable fertilizers, can be withdrawn from the rubbing solution.

In an addition-amount controller for an exhaust gas purifying agent to be used for an exhaust emission control system of an engine, one mode is executed based on satisfaction of an execution condition for each mode, from among a plurality of control modes. The control modes includes a purification control mode in which an addition amount of NH3 or an additive serving as a generating source of the NH3 is determined according to a predetermined parameter associated with an amount of NOx in the exhaust gas, and a storage control mode in which the addition amount is set to be larger than that in the purification control mode. When a rotation speed of an output shaft of the engine is determined to be decelerated from a higher speed state than an allowable level, the execution condition of the storage control mode is satisfied after a predetermined dissatisfaction time period from start of the deceleration.

The present invention relates to an optical disk device for recording or reproducing information on or from an optical information recording medium by forming marks and spaces. The device includes a jitter value measurement unit, a measurement unit, measured value memory, theoretical length memory, a deviation value calculation unit, a flexibility amount calculation unit, a correction value calculation unit, and a jitter value calculation unit. The measurement unit measures the lengths of marks and spaces using a varied reference write strategy. The deviation value calculation unit calculates the deviation values of the marks and the spaces. The flexibility amount calculation unit calculates the amounts of intrinsic flexibility of all marks and spaces. The correction value calculation unit calculates a correction value for the reference write strategy. The jitter value calculation unit calculates a jitter value.