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To enhance decoding of signals suspected of containing a watermark, a suspect signal is screened to compute detection values evincing presence and strength of a watermark. Screening strategies control detector actions, such as rejecting un-marked signals and improving synchronization of watermarks in suspect signals.

A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for early Z-value based culling prior to pixel rendering in a graphics pipeline. In initial stages of processing, Z-value culling is performed on at least one pixel. Thereafter, the pixel is conditionally rendered. Whether the pixel is rendered or not is conditioned on results of the Z-value culling. By culling, or removing, the pixels that do not meet certain criteria prior to rendering, much processing is avoided in the rendering portion of the graphics pipeline.

A wind turbine (1) is provided, having a wind turbine tower (2) and at least one rotatable blade (5), and further comprising a system for measuring rotor blade vibration of said wind turbine. The system comprises at least one Doppler radar unit (7) operatively configured to emit and receive radar signals, the radar unit being mounted on the wind turbine tower at a position above the lowest position of the at least one blade, the radar unit being positioned so as to measure reflections of an emitted radar signal from the turbine blade. A processing unit is configured to receive measurement data from the radar unit and to determine, by analysis of Doppler shift in received radar signals relative to transmitted signals due to movement of the blade towards or away from the turbine tower, the velocity of the blade in the direction towards or away from the turbine tower. Using a radar unit to measure blade velocity allows a determination to be made of the vibrations occurring in the blade without needing an internal sensor in the blade. This reduces manufacturing and maintenance costs of the blades since sensors in the blades will not need to be replaced, and sensors positioned on the tower are easier to replace in the field.

To allocate resources for a device-to-device discovery and/or communication to at least one user equipment of a mobile communication network, the at least one user equipment is informed of a change of the resources allocated for the device-to-device discovery and/or communication from first allocated resources to second allocated resources. To inform the at least one user equipment of the change, a base station or a user equipment which act as central controller for a group of users of the mobile communication network transmits information on the second allocated resources in at least one physical resource element of the first allocated resources..

A preparsers tool is provided for converting SCA XML files into CORBA structures usable by an SCA Core Framework (CF). The preparsers tool retrieves a set of target environment implementation definitions (TEID) that define at least one characteristic of a target environment to which a CORBA CDR file is provided. For each component in the target environment, at least one of the component instantiation implementation software device dependencies, usesdevice dependencies, and deployment dependencies, are merged together into an implementation device dependencies list having a first part comprising visible device dependencies and a second part comprising external device dependencies. The parsed set of XML files is converted into a CORBA structure type, the conversion based at least in part on the TEID, such that the conversion of the parsed set of XML files results in a CORBA structure having a type and precedence order that is correct for the target environment.

The present invention proposes a warning system that can be implemented in any kind of vehicle, in order to efficiently detect moving objects. The system utilizes at least one camera for a continuous imaging of the surroundings of the vehicle. Thereby, moving objects can be monitored. A computing unit is programmed to estimate a motion of any moving object based on a pixel motion in the camera image. If a dangerously moving object is detected, a warning unit can be used for issuing a warning signal. To take such a decision, the estimated motion of at least one of the moving objects can be correlated or compared to predetermined motion patterns.

In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is at least a method, apparatus, and an executable computer program enabling a first communications device and a second communications device, possibly previously unknown to each other, to communicate with each other wirelessly using short-range radio frequency technology. A connection establishment process is executed to establish a connection between the first communications device and said second communications device. Further, in accordance with the embodiments, during the connection establishment process, or in response to successful completion of the connection establishment process, at least one of said first and second communications devices switches from said first mode into a second mode, in which second mode, the communications device that has switched into said second mode does not respond to messages arriving at it which have been sent to discover the address of the communications device that has switched into said second mode.

A fuel cell system is configured to have: a voltage superimposing unit that superimposes a predetermined AC signal on an output voltage of a fuel cell; a unit that detects an output voltage value of a battery device, the output voltage value varying as the fuel cell output voltage value on which the AC signal has been superimposed varies; a battery device voltage comparison unit that compares the detected battery device output voltage value with a predetermined threshold voltage; and a measurement permission determination unit that determines whether the AC impedance measurement is permitted or not based on whether or not the battery device output voltage value exceeds the threshold voltage. The fuel cell system can protect the battery device in the impedance measurement of the fuel cell based on an AC impedance method.

The present invention relates to image processing in which an image resolution of input image data is compared to information of predetermined standard resolution, and the image data is judged to determine whether it includes specific information related to copy protection. Whether or not to perform judging is controlled based on the result of the comparison. Because the control technique of the present invention controls whether or not to perform the judgment based on the result of the c comparison, the control technique according to the invention provides an efficient judging processing, since no judgment is performed on low resolution image data which is not prone to counterfeiting.

Embodiments of the present method comprise activating a data recording component on the computing device to receive information relating to the environment of the computer user and executing a quality check module in the computing device operative to analyse the environment of the computer user. The quality check module performs the steps of: assessing a received signal from the data recording component against a predetermined quality metric to ascertain if an informational content of the received signal meets a predetermined minimum quality to permit computer user behavioural data to be collected therefrom, determining and executing a responsive action where the received signal does not satisfy the quality metric, and initiating a computer user behavioural data collection process to computer user collect behavioural data during the interaction between the computer user and the computing device where the received signal satisfies the quality metric.

A reader device (110) for reading information transmitted from a transponder (130) via a backscatter signal (132) generated by the transponder (130) in response to a stimulus signal (112) generated by the reader device (110), the reader device (110) comprising a first power estimation unit (114) adapted for estimating a first power value indicative of the power of the stimulus signal (112) at a position of the transponder (130) by evaluating a power information included in the backscatter signal (132), a second power estimation unit (116) adapted for estimating a second power value indicative of the power of the backscatter signal (132) at a position of the reader device (110), and a distance estimation unit (118) adapted for estimating a distance (d₁) between the reader device (110) and the transponder (130) based on the first power value and the second power value.

Disclosed is a terminal including a transceiver; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor transmits a first message which makes a request for an event to a subscription relay server, receives event-related information from the subscription relay server in response to the first message, transmits a second message which makes a request for an event to a profile provision server, based on the event-related information, and controls the transceiver to receive information related to event processing from the profile provision server in response to the second message.

An object is to provide a technique which can provide a highly valid recognition result while preventing unnecessary processing. A voice recognition device includes first to third voice recognition units, and a control unit. When it is decided based on recognition results obtained by the first and second voice recognition units to cause the third voice recognition unit to recognize an input voice, the control unit causes the third voice recognition unit to recognize the input voice by using a dictionary including a candidate character string obtained by at least one of the first and second voice recognition units.

A method of detecting silicide encroachment to the sidewalls of a gate electrode includes forming silicide at a device, with sidewall spacers defining a desired separation of the silicide from the sidewalls of the gate electrode. After silicide formation, the sidewall spacers are removed and line-of-sight monitoring is performed of the region previously obscured by the sidewall spacers, thereby permitting detection of silicide encroachment.

In the case of packet loss during transmission over an error-prone transmission channel, some decoders may perform error concealment. In real-time systems, application decoders must handle the data loss alone and find out which data are missing. A special syntax within a packet-based framework is provided which is based on identifying and indicating the relationship between RTP packets and the application layer data they carry, before the packets are fed to the multi-layer application decoder. This helps the decoder to employ proper error concealment techniques in time, and prevents unnecessary processing in the decoder. A data stream comprises RTP packets containing application data of a multi-layer application, wherein an RTP packet (p2) contains two kinds of application layer information (NB_f, NB_n): one relating to the next RTP packet (p3), and one relating to the previous RTP packet (p1). In case of packet loss, the decoder can immediately determine the amount and type (VCL_x) of missing data.

A mounting zone and a reflow zone are arranged in parallel between a loader and an unloader, and mounting and reflow processes are performed simultaneously.

A multimedia messaging service (MMS), wherein a user agent is notified of availability of a multimedia message and subsequently, after the user agent has sent a retrieve request, a streamable media component of a multimedia message is streamed to the user agent in a streaming session. The streaming session is established according to Session Description Data (SDD). Responsive to the retrieve request, the multimedia message is delivered to the user agent so that the streamable media component is represented with a descriptor pointing to a location from which the SDD can be obtained. The SDD is generated before or after the user agent requests for retrieval of the multimedia message but not necessarily by the time the user agent is notified for the availability of the multimedia message.

A method for honing a workpiece includes moving the workpiece onto an intermediate retention member which is rotatable about a vertical workpiece axis. Then, the workpiece is brought into a rolling engagement with a teaching wheel. An angular transfer position of the workpiece is established by the rotary sensor of the teaching wheel retention member. Next, the workpiece is transferred from the intermediate retention member onto a workpiece spindle, where the workpiece is retained onto the workpiece spindle. Then, the workpiece goes through a honing process by bringing the workpiece into a synchronized rolling engagement with a honing tool by utilizing the angular transfer position of the workpiece, thereby eliminating a separate centering step of the workpiece.