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A multi-touch system is disclosed that compares finger arrangements at the beginning of multi-touch gestures and discriminates between neutral- and spread-hand performances. Gestures by the neutral- and spread-hand versions of each chord are then mapped to separate, but intuitively related cursor functions or sets of commands. Less-frequently performed functions and commands are typically assigned to the spread-hand chord, since spreading the hand from neutral takes deliberate effort. With these neutral and spread distinctions, a two-handed gesture set can be packed into a one-handed touch surface, or for two-handed touch surfaces, twice as many intuitively customizable gesture command sets can be accomodated.

A multi-touch system is disclosed that compares finger arrangements at the beginning of multi-touch gestures and discriminates between neutral- and spread-hand performances. Gestures by the neutral- and spread-hand versions of each chord are then mapped to separate, but intuitively related cursor functions or sets of commands. Less-frequently performed functions and commands are typically assigned to the spread-hand chord, since spreading the hand from neutral takes deliberate effort. With these neutral and spread distinctions, a two-handed gesture set can be packed into a one-handed touch surface, or for two-handed touch surfaces, twice as many intuitively customizable gesture command sets can be accommodated.

A system and method are disclosed for extending the bandwidth of a narrowband signal such as a speech signal. The method applies a parametric approach to bandwidth extension but does not require training. The parametric representation relates to a discrete acoustic tube model (DATM). The method comprises computing narrowband linear predictive coefficients (LPCs) from a received narrowband speech signal, computing narrowband partial correlation coefficients (parcors) using recursion, computing Mnb area coefficients from the partial correlation coefficient, and extracting Mwb area coefficients using interpolation. Wideband parcors are computed from the Mwb area coefficients and wideband LPCs are computed from the wideband parcors. The method further comprises synthesizing a wideband signal using the wideband LPCs and a wideband excitation signal, highpass filtering the synthesized wideband signal to produce a highband signal, and combining the highband signal with the original narrowband signal to generate a wideband signal. In a preferred variation of the invention, the Mnb area coefficients are converted to log-area coefficients for the purpose of extracting, through shifted-interpolation, Mwb log-area coefficients. The Mwb log-area coefficients are then converted to Mwb area coefficients before generating the wideband parcors.

A system and method are disclosed for extending the bandwidth of a narrowband signal such as a speech signal. The method applies a parametric approach to bandwidth extension but does not require training. The parametric representation relates to a discrete acoustic tube model (DATM). The method comprises computing narrowband linear predictive coefficients (LPCs) from a received narrowband speech signal, computing narrowband partial correlation coefficients (parcors) using recursion, computing Mnb area coefficients from the partial correlation coefficient, and extracting Mwb area coefficients using interpolation. Wideband parcors are computed from the Mwb area coefficients and wideband LPCs are computed from the wideband parcors. The method further comprises synthesizing a wideband signal using the wideband LPCs and a wideband excitation signal, highpass filtering the synthesized wideband signal to produce a highband signal, and combining the highband signal with the original narrowband signal to generate a wideband signal. In a preferred variation of the invention, the Mnb area coefficients are converted to log-area coefficients for the purpose of extracting, through shifted-interpolation, Mwb log-area coefficients. The Mwb log-area coefficients are then converted to Mwb area coefficients before generating the wideband parcors.

A system, computer-readable medium and generated signal are disclosed for extending the bandwidth of a first signal (i.e., a narrowband signal) such as a speech signal. The system produces a second signal from a first signal by computing first area coefficients from a first signal, generating second area coefficients from the first area coefficients and generating a second signal using the second area coefficients. The first signal may be a narrowband signal and second signal may be a wideband signal. The first area coefficients may be narrowband coefficients and the second area coefficients may be wideband area coefficients.

Method and device for self-regulated flux transfer from a source of magnetic energy into one or more ferromagnetic work pieces, wherein a plurality of magnets, each having at least one N-S pole pair defining a magnetization axis, are disposed in a medium having a first relative permeability, the magnets being arranged in an array in which gaps of predetermined distance are maintained between neighboring magnets in the array and in which the magnetization axes of the magnets are oriented such that immediately neighboring magnets face one another with opposite polarities, such arrangement representing a magnetic tank circuit in which internal flux paths through the medium exist between neighboring magnets and magnetic flux access portals are defined between oppositely polarized pole pieces of such neighboring magnets, and wherein at least one working circuit is created which has a reluctance that is lower than that of the magnetic tank circuit by bringing one or more of the magnetic flux access portals into close vicinity to or contact with a surface of a ferromagnetic body having a second relative permeability that is higher than the first relative permeability, whereby a limit of effective flux transfer from the magnetic tank circuit into the working circuit will be reached when the work piece approaches magnetic saturation and the reluctance of the work circuit substantially equals the reluctance of the tank circuit.

Increasing the resolution of digital imagers is disclosed by sampling an image using diagonally oriented color sub-pixel arrays, and creating missing pixels from the sampled image data. A first method maps the diagonal color imager pixels to every other orthogonal display pixel. The missing display pixels can be computed by interpolating data from adjacent color imager pixels, and averaging color information from neighboring display pixels. This averaging can be done either by weighting the surrounding pixels equally, or by applying weights to the surrounding pixels based on intensity information. A second method utilizes the captured color imager sub-pixel data instead of interpolation. Missing color pixels for orthogonal displays can be obtained directly from the sub-pixel arrays formed between the row color pixels in the imager.

A method of measuring a selected physical parameter at a location within a region of interest comprises the steps of: launching optical pulses at a plurality of preselected interrogation wavelengths into an optical fiber (1) deployed along the region of interest, reflectors (20, 21, 2n) being arrayed along the optical fiber (1) to form an array (9) of sensor elements, the optical path length between the said reflectors (2) being dependent upon the selected parameter; detecting the returned optical interference signal for each of the preselected wavelengths; determining from the optical interference signal the absolute optical path length (L) between two reflectors (2) at the said location; and determining from the absolute optical path length (L) the value of the selected parameter at the said location; wherein the step of determining the absolute optical path length (L) comprises carrying out a process in which the phase difference between the interference signals for a pair of the preselected wavelengths is estimated using an estimated value for the optical path length (L), the estimated phase difference is used to estimate the phase at each of those wavelengths, and the phase thus obtained is used to revise the estimated value for the optical path length (L), the process being repeated for some or all remaining wavelength pairs in sequence, on the basis of the optical path length (L) estimated for the immediately preceding pair in the sequence, thereby to progressively revise the optical path length (L) until it is know to a desired level of accuracy.

A bridged controller for reducing the overhead of cache coherency processing on each of a plurality of primary controllers and increasing the overall throughput of the system. The bridged controller interfaces with dual-active pair of host-side controllers and the backend disk drive buses. The third controller allows a doubling of the number of backend busses, reduces the overhead of cache coherency processing on each primary host-side controller and doubles the overall throughput.

In a mammography method and a mammography device recorded at different projection angles and a series of second digital individual images recorded at different projection angles are combined into at least one tomosynthetic 3D X-ray image composed of a series of layer images.

A system for the detection and support of data streams is disclosed. The system determines whether new commands comprise a data stream. If a new data stream is detected, the system next determines whether adequate resources are available to launch the new data stream. If the system determines that the data stream can be launched, system resources, particularly cache memory space, are assigned to the data stream to provide the data stream with the necessary amount of data throughput needed to support the data stream efficiently. The data stream's throughput is the amount of data that the stream requires per unit time. The system monitors all supported data streams to determine when a particular data stream has terminated, at which time resources dedicated to the data stream are released and become available to support other data streams. The cache for each supported data stream is maintained at as full a level as possible, with the cache for the “least full” data stream given priority for refresh. Allocating resources by throughput allows for more efficient resource utilization.

A medicament dispensing device, a medicament magazine thereof, and a method of removing a medicament from the medicament magazine. The inhaler has a mouthpiece (9) and an air channel (4) connected thereto, as well as a medicament magazine with at least one medicament chamber containing a powdered medicament. A drive current is produced in the air channel, while a vacuum flow (5′) can be produced by the drive current and a constriction formed in the air channel. This narrowest part of the air channel that produces the vacuum flow is connected to a removal opening (2) which communicates with a control opening (3), in order to form an emptying current through the control opening via the removal opening. In a preferred embodiment the at least one medicament chamber including the control opening, the removal opening and a fill opening are housing in the one-piece medicament magazine.

A display device includes a pixel array portion in which sub-pixels each including an electro-optic element, a write transistor for writing a video signal, a hold capacitor for holding the video signal written by the write transistor, and a drive transistor for driving the electro-optic element in accordance with the video signal held in the hold capacitor are disposed in a matrix, and each unit pixel is composed of the plurality of adjacent sub-pixels belonging to a plurality of rows. The display device further includes power source supply lines through which power source potentials different in potential from one another are selectively supplied to the drive transistors. One power source supply line is wired every plural rows.

A transdermal drug delivery system with microprojections for disrupting a body surface to an individual. At least some of the microprojections arise from a first microprojection layer and at least some of the microprojections arise from a second microprojection layer. The first and second microprojection layers are stacked together.

An epicyclic gear system (A) includes sun and ring gears (2, 4) and planet pinions (6, 8) arranged in two side-by-side arrays (a, b) between the sun and ring gears, there also being a carrier (10, 50) to which planet pinions are coupled through flexpins (30). The carrier has primary and secondary walls (20, 22) between which the pinions are located and webs (24) connecting the walls. The flexpins for one array of pinions are cantilevered from the primary wall and the flexpins for the other array of pinions are cantilevered from the secondary wall. When the gear system operates, the carrier along its primary wall is subjected to an externally applied torque which transfers through the system at the planet pinions of the two arrays. The load path (pa) for the pinions at the primary wall is shorter than the load path (pb) for the pinions at the secondary wall, and this disparity causes the carrier to distort. To compensate for this distortion so that the pinions of the two arrays will mesh more evenly with the sun and ring gears, the flexpins of the first array are offset angularly with respect to the flexpins of the second array, or the teeth of the pinions in the first array are narrower than the teeth of the pinions of the second array, or the primary wall of the carrier has areas (40, 44) of weakness where the flexpins of the first array are cantilevered from it, or the flexpins of the first array are more flexible than the flexpins of the second array. As a consequence, the pinions of the two arrays mesh better under load with the sun and ring gears and share the transfer of torque more evenly.

A method for multi-user detection includes receiving a complex input signal due to a superposition of waveforms encoding symbols in a real-valued constellation, which are transmitted respectively by a plurality of transmitters in a common frequency band. The complex input signal is sampled at sampling intervals over the duration of an observation period to provide a sequence of complex samples. The sequence of complex samples is processed to determine soft decision values corresponding to the symbols transmitted by the plurality of the transmitters in the observation period, while constraining the soft decision values to be real values. The soft decision values are then projected onto the constellation to estimate the transmitted symbols.

A powershift transmission in a motor vehicle is arranged between a prime mover and driven wheels of the motor vehicle for transmission of propulsive power and selection of different gear speed ratios. The powershift transmission includes at least two factional clutches for alternatively engaging at least two input shafts, a main transmission, a range section and an output shaft. A countershaft in the powershift transmission is rotationally connectable to the output shaft in order to establish a by-pass torque path, passing by the range section, and in which propulsive power can be transferred when the range section is gear shifted between different range speed ratios.

An automatic player piano has various sorts of individuality due to differences in size, design margins applied to the component parts and a difference in electric characteristics of system component parts so that key position signals contain error components due to those sorts of individuality; plural feedback control loops are created between the key sensors and key actuators, and the error components are eliminated from the current key positions through the normalization; even if an original performance is reenacted through the automatic player piano different from that used in the recording, the feedback control loops cause the key actuators to force the keys to move along reference trajectories determined on the basis of the music data codes, whereby the manufacturer makes the key sensors shared between the recording system and the automatic playing system.

A thin film transistor array panel includes: a plurality of pixels including pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix and switching elements connected to the pixel electrodes; first and second gate lines that are connected to the switching elements extend in a row direction and correspond to one row of pixel electrodes; and first and second data lines that are connected to the switching elements extend in a column direction and correspond to three pixel columns. In the thin film transistor array panel, when the three pixel columns are referred to as first to third pixel columns, the pixel electrodes in the first and second pixel columns are connected to the first data line through the switching elements, and the pixel electrodes in the third pixel column are connected to the second data line through the switching elements.

The present invention provides an image display device having about the same numbers of gate lines and data lines as before and capable of reducing the power consumption of a static memory during rewriting of a display image. In the configuration of the image display device, the drain electrode of a first transistor 15 included in a pixel circuit is connected to an input for setting a storing state of the static memory, the drain electrode of a second transistor 18 is connected to an input for resetting a storing state of the static memory, the source electrode of the first transistor is connected to a data line, the gate electrode of the first transistor included in a row of pixel circuits arranged parallel to gate lines is connected to one gate line of the plurality of gate lines, and the gate electrode of the second transistor included in another row of pixel circuits arranged adjacent to the row of pixel circuits is connected to the one gate line.

The present invention relates to an ultrasound transducer probe 100 having an array of transducer elements 110 for transmitting ultrasound transmit pulses and receiving echo signals in response to these transmit pulses. More precisely, the invention refers to a front-end circuit 300, 300′ or 300″ preconnected to such an ultrasound transducer probe, wherein said front-end circuit, which may e.g. be realized as an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with given input voltage constraints prescribing a limited supply voltagein1, comprises a transmission stage 301 which includes a branched voltage control line 302 or lines with two transmit branches 302a and 302b being respectively connected to a different terminal of each transducer element 110 for providing each of these transducer elements with a differential excitation or pulse voltageop whose amplitude level is up to twice the voltage levelin1 of the single-ended front-end circuit 300, 300′ or 300″ which is supplied by voltage control line 302.

An electric vehicle can include a power unit including a speed reduction device coupled to a motor output shaft. Two systems can be provided which are a drive-power transmission path to transmit rotation of a motor to a wheel hub, and a regenerative-power transmission path to transmit rotation of the hub to the motor. A drive-side one-way clutch is provided between the hub and a second internal gear being the final-stage gear in the drive-power transmission path and is configured to transmit rotation of the drive-side final-stage gear to the hub. A regeneration-side one-way clutch is provided between the hub and a regeneration-side first-stage gear and is configured to transmit rotation of the hub to the regeneration-side first-stage gear.

A high ratio, double helical epicyclic gear transmission that is primarily intended for use in rotary wing aircraft employs double helical planet gears to obtain a reduction in size of the transmission, to improve the safety of the transmission, and to reduce the noise created by operation of the transmission.

An auto-stereoscopic display device which addresses the problem of how to provide an improved three dimensional effect without degrading the resolution of the views. The auto-stereoscopic display device comprises: image forming means having an array of display pixels for producing a display; view forming means positioned in registration with the image forming means and having an array of view forming elements, the view forming elements each being configurable to focus the outputs of groups of the display pixels into a plurality of views projected towards a user in different directions; and view deflecting means positioned in registration with the view forming means, the view deflecting means being arranged to selectably change the directions in which the plurality of views are projected towards the user. The view deflecting means comprise at least one birefringent prism having a first refractive index for light having a first polarization direction and a second refractive index for light having a second polarization direction. The view deflecting means further comprise a polarization switch in registration with the birefringent prism for providing the birefringent prism with display light having the first or second polarization direction. Specific arrangements of the image forming means, the view forming means and the view deflection means provide an even distribution of pixels and virtual pixels associated with the deflected views

In the Mach-Zehnder interferometer type optical circuit in which a plurality of Mach-Zehnder interferometers have been provided, between the Mach-Zehnder interferometers a and b, there are provided a plurality of grooves 27(a-b)1, 27(a-b)2 and an endothermic wall 28(a-b). Since heat generated from the temperature control device 25a mounted on the waveguide arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer a is absorbed by the endothermic wall 28(a-b), an influence due to heat interference to be exerted on the Mach-Zehnder interferometer b is restrained.

A stepper motor includes a rotor having equally spaced rotor teeth defining a full step angle, and a stator with stator poles wound with coils that can be driven in a series of phases so as to magnetically interact with the rotor to produce stepping motion. The stator poles have teeth organized into two groups when there is an even number of stator teeth per pole, or into three groups for an odd number of stator teeth per pole. The stator teeth have an average pitch different from the rotor's tooth pitch, but the groups of stator teeth are also displaced relative to other groups by a specified offset angle of one-half or one-quarter step to double the number of detent positions, and to displace such detent positions from full one-phase ON or two-phase ON positions.