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Original-quality MPEG coded video is processed to produce reduced-quality MPEG coded video at a reduced bit rate. The processing is based on a scale factor between average frame size of the original-quality MPEG coded video and a desired average frame size of the reduced-quality MPEG coded video. For each Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) block of each frame, the processing calculates a size of the block of the reduced frame by scaling the original block size by the scale factor, and removes a sufficient number of bits from the original block to obtain substantially the calculated size. In addition, the processing accumulates excess bits when the block size reduction eliminates more bits from a block than are necessary for the desired reduction of the size of the block, and any excess bits are used for processing a number of following blocks.

A liquid crystal 1 includes a pair of substrates 7a and 7b which hold a liquid crystal L therebetween, a light guide 4 provided opposite to one of the substrates, a FPC 3a connected to one of the substrates 7a and 7b, and a LED 21 provided opposite to a light receiving surface 4a of the light guide 4. The LED 21 is mounted on the FPC 3a and arranged opposite to the light receiving surface 4a of the light guide 4. The LED 21 is preferably positioned relative to the light guide 4 by engagement between the pines provided on the LED 21 and the recesses 31 provided on the light guide 4.

In an ultrasound transducer arrangement comprising at least one piezoelectric body with a lower and an upper electrode and a coupling layer including a wafer on which the ultrasound transducers are disposed and are connected to the lower electrode, a conductor structure of uniform height is disposed on the wafer and is in contact with the lower electrode and any space between the piezoelectric body and the wafer is completely filled with a cement material.

A process for producing a beer-taste alcoholic beverage without the use of malt, barley, wheat, etc., including preparing a pre-fermentation liquid from raw materials of a syrup containing carbon sources, a material containing amino acids, hops, coloring matter, a foam formation/head retention enhancing substance and water; and fermenting the pre-fermentation liquid in the presence of yeast so as to form a sparkling alcoholic beverage. This process enables obtaining a beer-taste alcoholic beverage which has the same taste and appearance as those of beer and which is excellent in head retention.

The invention matches the material quality of a product to target data, even when a materials quality model is insufficient in prediction accuracy. Heating a metallic material, rolling, forging, or leveling the metallic material, and cooling the metallic material are each conducted at least once. Prior to manufacture of a metallic product of a desired size and shape, qualitative data of the metallic material are measured at a position by materials, quality sensor in a manufacturing line, and modifications based on measured data are made to heating, processing, or cooling conditions in at least one of the steps, upstream of the materials measured data sensor so that the quality of the metallic material at the measuring position agrees with target data.

The invention belongs to the technical field of polishing and particularly relates to automatic stainless pan polishing equipment. The automatic stainless pan polishing equipment is characterized in that the equipment comprises an electrical control device, a workbench, fixing clamps, supports and polishing devices, the fixing clamps are mounted on the workbench through a rotating device, the workbench is connected with a workbench motor and driven by the same to rotate, the polishing devices are mounted on the supports through a moving device, and the electrical control device is connected with and controls the polishing devices, the rotating device, the workbench motor and the moving device. The automatic stainless pan polishing equipment is reasonable in structural design and high in working efficiency, polished products are shining, dust pollution and damages to human bodies cannot be caused in the process of operating, labor intensity of workers is reduced, production cost is lowered, and a brand-new automatic polisher equipment capable of replacing manpower is provided.

A process for forming a low density detergent granule has the steps of providing from about 0.1% to about 6% of a hydrotrope, providing from about 22% to about 50% crutcher mix moisture, providing from about 0.2% to about 8% of a water-soluble polymer with a molecular weight of at least about 10,000 g/mol, providing from about 2% to about 20% sodium silicate having a SiO₂:NaO ratio of at least about 2r, and the balance of adjunct crutcher ingredients, mixing the hydrotrope, crutcher mix moisture, polymer, silicate, and adjunct crutcher ingredients in a crutcher to form a slurry, injecting a gas into the slurry at a pressure of from about 6,000 kPa to about 13,000 kPa, and at a rate of from about 0.01% to about 0.25% and forming the slurry into a detergent granule. The slurry is substantially free of zeolite builder and phosphate builder and the crutcher temperature is maintained at from about 40° C. to about 95° C.

A wind turbine includes a nacelle with any manner of associated power generation equipment. The nacelle is mounted atop a tower having a base end configured for support on a ground level foundation. A tower support system provides support to the tower and includes an axially extending circumferential sleeve mounted around the tower at a location between the base end and the nacelle. A plurality of support legs are disposed around the sleeve, with each support leg having a first end rigidly affixed to the sleeve and an opposite foot end configured for mounting to a ground level footing. The support legs extend from the sleeve with a length and at an acute extension angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the tower so as to provide a designed degree of vertical and lateral support around the circumference of the tower.

In a method and device for medical imaging, a number of input parameters with regard to an image exposure are imported into a controller of the imaging device, that associate a desired image quality with a defined image exposure region. A number of control parameters are determined corresponding to each input parameter. The controller supplies each control parameter to the image acquisition apparatus for acquiring the image exposure of the examination region with the desired local image quality.

An assembly and method for spraying material on a traffic barrier. At least one vehicle is provided that travels along the length of the traffic barrier while contacting the traffic barrier and being guided by the traffic barrier. With each vehicle is one or more spray head arrays that spray the surfaces of the traffic barrier as the vehicle rolls along the traffic barrier. The spray heads can spray either cleaning material or coating materials. Both cleaning and coating can be preformed by spray head arrays in the same vehicle or in different vehicles. The spray heads can be automatically adjusted to match variations encountered in the traffic barrier as the spray head arrays are moved along the traffic barrier. In this manner, the quality of the application of sprayed material remains constant despite changes in the shape and/or condition of the traffic barrier being sprayed.

Provided is a semiconductor device which has a double-gate structure with a channel layer made of an oxide semiconductor and is capable of inhibiting the occurrence of hysteresis.

A TFT having a double-gate structure with a channel layer 40 made of an oxide semiconductor uses a passivation film (70), which is a film stack obtained by stacking, sequentially from the side closest to the channel layer (40), a silicon oxide film (71), a first silicon nitride film (73), and a second silicon nitride film (74). In this case, the second silicon nitride film (74) farthest from the channel layer (40) is formed so as to have a higher hydrogen content than the first silicon nitride film (73) closer to the channel layer (40). Thus, it is rendered possible to inhibit the shifting of a threshold voltage of the TFT (100) resulting from hydrogen spreading in the channel layer (40), and at the same time, it is also rendered possible to diminish hysteresis and thereby inhibit the shifting of the threshold voltage caused by hysteresis.

An image forming apparatus and toner-consumption-estimation method that can accurately estimate the amount of consumed toner regardless of the type of image. A printing-pixel-counting unit counts from input image data the number of printing pixels. Also, an edge-counting unit similarly counts from the input image data the number of edges being boundaries between the printing pixels and blank pixels. A consumption-estimation unit then calculates the amount of consumed toner based on the counted number of printing pixels and the number of edges.

The invention discloses a tool for assembling a spindle head and a center pull rod of a gas turbine, wherein the spindle head is provided with a bearing guard, and a clutch and a step-type joint part provided with a threaded bland hole arranged on the head and the tail of the bearing guard respectively, and the head of the center pull rod is provided with a threaded section matched with the threaded blind hole of the joint part of the spindle head. The tool comprises a plurality of roller wheel supporting frames for up-bearing the center pull rod and a spindle head supporting frame, wherein the spindle head supporting frame comprises a bed body, a pair of linear guide rails axially arranged on the bed body, a dragging plate arranged on the bed body and capable of moving forwards and backwards along the linear guide rails, V-shaped lug supports arranged on the dragging plate in tandem and pushing screws at least arranged on two sides of one of the V-shaped lug supports; and the head clutch of the spindle head is supported on the V-shaped lug support at the front end of the dragging plate, while the joint part at the tail of the spindle head is supported on the V-shaped lug support at the rear end of the dragging plate. The invention also discloses a method for assembling the spindle head and the center pull rod of the gas turbine, which is carried out on the assembling tool.

The present invention aims to provide a process which, by improving the conventional method of culturing the green alga Haematococcus pluvialis, promotes vegetative cell growth and astaxanthin biosynthesis so markedly as to enable efficient production of astaxanthin-containing lipids from the culture.

In order to attain this object, the green alga Haematococcus pluvialis is cultured with an organic nitrogen source being used in a medium at an AN/TN ratio of 65% or less, preferably 43% or less, more preferably 35% or less, to obtain algal bodies in which astaxanthin-containing lipids have been accumulated. If necessary, the astaxanthin-containing lipids may be extracted from the algal bodies and optionally purified.

A reception error rate of a received signal is detected; the detected reception error rate is compared with predetermined target reception error rate; the SIR (the ratio between the target received signal power and the interference power), or the target reception power is corrected based on the result of the comparison; the control signal (TPC control bit) for transmission is set so that the transmission power can be controlled to a predetermined target value based on the SIR or the target reception power value.

The present invention relates to a developer carrying member for carrying a developer having at least a substrate and a resin-coated layer formed on the surface of the substrate. The developer carrying member is the one which carries a one-component developer to visualize the electrostatic latent image carried by the electrostatic latent image carrying member, the resin-coated layer contains at least a binder resin, graphitized particles and roughing particles, the graphitized particles has 0.20 to 0.95 of graphitization degree (p (002)), and wherein in the surface configuration of the resin-coated layer as measured by use of focusing optical laser, the volume (B) of a microtopographical region defined by a certain area (A) of the microtopographical region without convexity formed by the roughing particles meets the following relationship 4.5≦B/A≦6.5, and the resin-coated layer has 0.9 to 2.5 μm of arithmetic mean roughness (Ra).

The invention relates to the technical field of catering foods and particularly relates to a production process of rice with preserved meat. The invention discloses a brand new process subverting the conventional home style dish making method on a series of links from raw material treatment, production and processing, storage and transportation to microwave making and the like. In order to achieve the aim, the technical scheme is adopted as follows: the production process of rice with preserved meat comprises the steps of (1) treating materials; (2) blanching and frying diced potatoes and diced carrots; (3) treating green beans; (4) blending rice; (5) packaging; (6) putting into storage; (7) distributing to storefronts in a cold storage way; (8) carrying out microwave sale.

A preparation method of dry Premna microphylla leaf powder is characterized in that the dry Premna microphylla leaf powder is prepared from Premna microphylla leaves through steps including cleaning, dehydration, drying, moisture regain, baking to dryness, coarse powder preparation and micronization. The dry Premna microphylla leaf powder prepared with the method retains green the same as the fresh leaves and effectively retains effective components such as chlorophyll and the like of the fresh leaves; the prepared dry powder has high pectin content which is basically identical to that of the fresh Premna microphylla leaves; Premna microphylla leaf curd, noodles and cellophane noodles prepared from the dry powder have high quality, materials are saved, and 60 jin or more of Premna microphylla leaf curd can be prepared from 1 jin of the dry Premna microphylla leaf powder, while only 20 jin of Premna microphylla leaf curd can be prepared from 1 jin of the dry Premna microphylla leaf powder with a conventional general process; the dry Premna microphylla leaf powder tastes fine and smooth, has the fresh scent of the Premna microphylla leaves and effectively guarantees the nutritive and medical values of the fresh Premna microphylla leaves.

The invention refers to a solenoid with a coil that can be supplied with current, an armature supported movably in an armature housing that can be moved by a magnetic field resulting from supplying the coil with current, a magnetic yoke, an armature spring and an adjustment pin that can be inserted in the magnetic yoke, wherein the armature spring is supported, on the one hand, on the adjustment spring, and, on the other hand, on the armature, and the characteristic line of the solenoid can be adjusted through penetration depth of the adjustment pin in the magnetic yoke or the solenoid.

A radio frequency (RF) coil comprising a plurality of electrically uninterrupted conductive legs, each leg having a first end and a second end, and at least one continuous conductor electrically connected to the first ends of the legs. Frequency tuning of the coil is achieved by translating, along the legs, an electrically continuous tuning band that includes a capacitor closed about the axis of the coil in proximity to the conductive legs. Maintaining electrical symmetry of the coil results in tuning ranges of at least 30 percent of the nominal value of the resonant frequency.

When a program of a certain duration is converted into compressed data (encoded), it is desirable for the total number of data to fit in an available data space, for example, when recorded on an information carrier. More particularly in variable bit rate compression such as a video signal via MPEG-2, this is hard to forecast. For this purpose, a recording device according to the invention comprises a compression unit (22) whose bit rate is influenced by a system controller (45) via a control input (26) during the encoding process in dependence on the remaining part of the vacant data space on the information carrier (1) and the remaining duration of the program. When parameters influencing the bit rate are set in the compression unit (22), the system controller will take the complexity of the program derived during a previously encoded part of the program into account.

A control unit (1, 1a) for a softening device (2), comprising a primary inlet (4) for untreated water, a primary outlet (7) for blended water, a sensor for determining the water hardness of the untreated water WH_raw or the blended water WH_blend, a secondary outlet (5), a secondary inlet (6), a bypass line (9), a blending means which can be automatically adjusted for mixing a blended water flow V_blend(t) from a first partial flow (V(t)_part1soft of the secondary inlet (6) and a second partial flow V(t)_part2raw of the bypass line (9), and an electronic control means (11, 11a), wherein the control means (11, 11a) is designed to readjust the adjustment position of the blending means by means of the determined water hardness in such a fashion that the water hardness in the blended water flow V_blend(t) is adjusted to a predetermined desired value, is characterized in that the control unit (1, 1a) is designed in the form of an external control unit (1, 1a) for the softening device (2), wherein the control unit (1, 1a) has a control unit housing (3), the outer side of which is provided with the primary inlet (4), the primary outlet (7), the secondary outlet (5), and the secondary inlet (6), and wherein the control unit housing (3) contains the sensor, the bypass line (9), the blending means and the electronic control means (11, 11a). The inventive control unit enables partial softening of water on the basis of fully automatic blending, thereby utilizing already existing softening devices.

The abrasion machining method according to the invention, for abrading a part that cannot be machined by conventional means, comprises the following steps:

• • a pin is placed at a certain distance from the part to be machined, so that there is no contact between the part and the pin;
  • the pin is driven so as to rotate;
  • an abrasive liquid is injected between the rotating pin and the part in order to abrade the latter; and
  • the pin is moved translationally along the part.

Thanks to the method, the part may be machined precisely and reproducibly.