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A gaming machine is described having a gaming controller operable to control one or more games of chance played on the gaming machine. A memory stores 3-D data corresponding to a 3-D gaming environment. Gaming logic renders a plurality of images of the 3-D gaming environment for presentation on the machine's display. The images depict manipulation of one or more aspects of the 3-D gaming environment by a user. A user interface provides user input to facilitate the manipulation of the one or more aspects of the 3-D gaming environment by the user.

A method, system, and computer program product for mixing of conventional and augmented instructions within an instruction stream, wherein control may be directly transferred, without operating system intervention, between one type of instruction to another. Extra instruction word bits are added in a manner that is designed to minimally interfere with the encoding, decoding, and instruction processing environment in a manner compatible with existing conventional fixed instruction width code. A plurality of instruction words are inserted into an instruction word oriented architecture to form an encoding group of instruction words. The instruction words in the encoding group are dispatched and executed either independently or in parallel based on a specific microprocessor implementation. The encoding group does not indicate any form of required parallelism or sequentiality. One or more indicators for the encoding group are created, wherein one indicator is used to indicate presence of the encoding group.

A method and system for enabling a script on a first computer to communicate and exchange data with a script on a second computer so as to provide access by the script to data typically inaccessible by a script. The method and system enable a first computer to control the Internet navigation of a second computer, and also enable instant messaging between a first computer and a member of a synchronization group. The computers may be connectable with each other over any type of network (e.g., LAN, WAN, intranet, Internet, cellular, etc.).

A touch panel includes a panel member and a multilayer film joined to a front face of the panel member, the multilayer film including a conductive film having a conductive layer and a protective film. In the multilayer film, the respective films are laminated to each other via an adhesive layer formed of a thermosetting type adhesive agent and formed in a three-dimensional shape along the front face.

A device and method for monitoring an access to a patient, an extracorporeal blood circuit and/or a dialysing fluid system includes a centrifugal pump for conveying blood or dialysing fluid instead of an occluding pump. Centrifugal pumps bring about a large change in flow rate by even a small change in pressure difference across the pump. The device includes a measuring unit for measuring the flow rate of blood or dialysing fluid conveyed by the centrifugal pump, and a control and computing unit configured to determine an incorrect vascular access or malfunction if a change in measured flow rate Q is more than a predetermined amount. For example, a small drop in pressure in the venous blood line leads to a marked increase in the flow rate of the centrifugal pump, which is used as a basis for the detection of an incorrect vascular access.

A deflectable sheath with increased range of curvature for human use is provided. The improvement focuses on the use of different durometer polymers that compose the lumen in the portion of deflection. The use of differing durometer polymers allow the deflectable sheath to be bent in a multitude of asymmetric curvature radii therefore providing the physician with a sheath that can traverse different regions of the body than with previous sheaths.

The invention is directed to a projection unit for a head-up display comprising an image generator and a first mirror and second mirror for optical imaging which are arranged in a housing one after the other in the light propagation direction in such a way that the beam path is folded twice. It is wherein one of the mirrors has a light-scattering surface shape, the other mirror h/as a light-collecting surface shape, and the two mirrors combined have a common focal point on the image generator.

The device of the invention is intended for measuring a loading force and a friction force in a tribological tester. The device consists of two deformation-sensitive sensors for simultaneous equal deformation in two opposite directions for eliminating misbalance created in the measurement system when a single sensor is used. Each sensor is a deformable beam having through longitudinal slots extending in different and non-parallel directions and overlapped within the body of the beam. The sensor deforms in one direction under the effect of a loading force measured by two pairs of strain gauges located on opposite sides of the beam near one end of the beam and in another direction under the effect of a friction force measured by another two pairs of strain gauges located on opposite sides of the beam near the other end of the beam. Two sensors are sandwiched between two plates in a diagonally symmetrical positions so as to transmit forces between both plates and at the same time to ensure limited freedom of movement between both plates to allow deformations caused by the applied forces. One plate may be attached to the loading unit of the tester and another plate may support an upper sample for engagement with the lower sample of the tester.

The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and computer program product for determining the location of a plurality of speech sources in an area of interest, comprising performing an algorithm on a signal issued by either one of said plurality of speech sources in the area to for iteratively recover data characteristic to said signal, wherein the algorithm is an iterative model-based sparse recovery algorithm, and wherein for each of a plurality of points in said area, the iteratively recovered data is indicative of a presence of a plurality of speech sources contributing to the signal received at each of a plurality of points in the area.

A delivery catheter for a stent. The delivery catheter may comprise a distal end and a proximal end. The distal end includes a stent attachment region adapted to receive a stent. The stent may be of the self-expanding type. The catheter further comprises a handle at its proximal end and at least one sheath which may at least partially circumferentially cover said stent such as to retain it in a collapsed configuration. The sheath is coupled at its proximal end to an actuator located on said handle portion. The catheter further comprises at least one radio-opaque indicator for indicating a rotational orientation of the delivery catheter and/or the stent when observed using medical imaging during implantation of the stent.

A device with a support for a mattress to accommodate a person on the mattress which includes a frame work including connectors to secure the framework in upstanding relation peripherally about the mattress; the frame work includes corner posts each extending a generally common distance above the mattress, and members spanning the corner posts defining a safety zone space between the corner posts and between the members and above a mattress on the bed, a net having an inside and an outside surface supported on the frame work and enclosing the space; and structure to attach the net and frame work together; and the net has a normally closed opening provided with a normally closed closure member for the net opening with an operator structure to open and close the opening accessable only from outside of the net.

A light emitting device having practical light emission characteristics is obtained without epitaxial growth.

A quantum dot-dispersed light emitting device of the invention includes a substrate 11, an electron injection electrode 12, a hole injection electrode 14, and an inorganic light emitting layer 13 disposed so as to be in contact with both the electrodes. The inorganic light emitting layer 13 contains an ambipolar inorganic semiconductor material and nanocrystals 15 dispersed as luminescent centers in the ambipolar inorganic semiconductor material and is configured so as to be capable of light emission without having, at the interface with the electron injection electrode and/or the hole injection electrode, epitaxial relation therewith.

For simple and reliable radio-based remote monitoring of the location of a patient without limiting his or her freedom of movement, two different locating technologies are provided for the determination of the patient's location, inside and outside of the building. For this purpose, the system has first transmission and/or receiving units distributed inside the building and second transmission and/or receiving units distributed outside the building, which at least temporarily establish a building-internal radio communication or building-external radio communication, respectively, with a third transmission and/or receiving unit in order to produce at least one location-relevant signal. A control unit has access to the building-internal radio communication and the building-external radio communication and determines the location of the patient based on the at least one location-relevant radio signal. A central monitoring unit displays this determined location.

The invention provides a video interactive method, a system, glasses and terminals. The interactive system comprises a first terminal and a second terminal which are connected through an internet video. The first terminal is provided with one or more than one cameras used for obtaining scene images of the first terminal and a controlled device used for remotely controlling rotation of the first terminal cameras. The second terminal is provided with a display device displaying the scene images and a control device which carries out control interaction with the controlled device of the first terminal and remotely controls the rotation of the first terminal cameras. According to the goal that the images of the first terminal are obtained in a multi-angle mode through control operation of a user on the second terminal, the video interactive method, the system, the glasses and the terminals achieve an intelligent control level and obviously improve video interactive experience of the user.

The invention relates to a wireless control method based on a touch-screen mobile phone. According to the method, wireless communication connection is established, and at a mobile phone end, the method comprises the following steps of: 1101) displaying a touchpad interface, wherein a touchpad comprises a panel, a left key and a right key; 1102) receiving an instruction for operating the touchpad by a user and converting the instruction into corresponding control-type data; 1103) storing the data into a data transmission queue according to a time sequence; and 1104) acquiring the data from the data transmission queue according to the time sequence, and transmitting the data to controlled equipment by the wireless communication connection; and at a controlled equipment end, the method comprises the following steps of: 1201) receiving the data by the wireless communication connection; 1202) storing the data into a data receiving queue according to a time sequence; 1203) acquiring the data from the date receiving queue according to the time sequence and converting the control-type data into the touchpad operation instruction; and 1204) executing the instruction at the controlled equipment end. The method also comprises connection-type data for establishing/interrupting the wireless communication connection.

A valve timing control apparatus including a housing, a vane rotor rotatable relative to the housing toward a phase-advance side and a phase-retard side, a first lock member and a second lock member disposed on the vane rotor, a first lock concave portion disposed on the housing so as to be engaged with a tip end portion of the first lock member, a second lock concave portion disposed on the housing so as to be engaged with a tip end portion of the second lock member, and a communication passage formed in the vane rotor and serving to always establish fluid communication between the first and second lock concave portions.