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A method of allowing shoppers to compare prices from different vendors includes receiving a shopping list of goods and / or services from the user. The best available price for each item or service on the shopping list is determined, and is displayed to the user. A best available aggregate price for the items as a group is found from a merchant who offers all of the items or services for sale, and the aggregate price is displayed for the user. The user can directly see price differences between purchasing the items individually versus purchasing the items in aggregate from a single merchant. A system for allowing a user to compare purchasing options include an input section which allows a user to specify a list of items for possible purchase. A processing section is provided for determining best available individual prices for the items if purchased separately from different merchants, and for determining a single aggregate price if the items are purchased together from a single merchant. A first display section is provided for displaying the best available individual prices, and a second display section is provided for displaying the single aggregate price.

When a portion of an image is displayed, a range of the image which is being displayed can be easily recognized. Namely, when enlarged image data which corresponds to an enlarged display range shown by hatching is extracted from image data and displayed on a display, a portion of the image which is represented by the enlarged image data is displayed on the entire display surface of the display. Original image data is processed such that a frame which represents the enlarged display range is synthesized with the image represented by the original image data, and resultant image data is displayed, as a navigation image, in an upper right corner of the display surface of the display.

Ejection of ink is prohibited when a count value of an amount of ink supplied from an ink tank to an ejection head reaches a value limit. An image is displayed to prompt an operator of the printing apparatus to confirm the amount of ink in the ink tank. When the ink remains, the count value of the amount of ink is returned only by a given amount by the selection of the operator. Thus, since the ink in the ink tank is sufficiently consumed and then the ink can be supplemented, all of the ink in an ink bottle can be supplemented. As a consequence, it is possible to prevent the ink remaining in the ink bottle from deteriorating and prevent the remaining ink from being supplemented.

A computer implemented method for remote inspection of infrastructure of an industrial process in an installation for extraction, processing and / or production of materials. The process is supervised by a control system including one or more computers, and one or more computer display apparatus. At least one computer includes a graphic computer model and a 3D model of the process infrastructure, where a position in the process infrastructure in the 3D model is arranged selectable, wherein the selected position is identified from a viewpoint in the model. The viewpoint information from the model is used to position one or more cameras in the real installation. Images from the real installation are combined with the 3D model in different ways. A remote inspection system and a computer program are also described.

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a travelable information display unit that displays before a discharge, regarding motor-driven movable bodies of a discharge source and a discharge destination driven by using electric power of batteries, information about places to which the motor-driven movable body of the discharge source can move using electric power of the battery left after the discharge by assuming, when information about a discharge amount discharged from the battery of the motor-driven movable body of the discharge source toward the motor-driven movable body of the discharge destination that receives power supply is input, a case in which the discharge amount is discharged from the battery.

A transport system having commuters with identification and / or vehicles with identification (“identifiers”) authorising them to take part in the transport system, at least one vehicle park in which authorised commuters may park vehicles and / or take on board authorised commuters who may or may not have parked vehicles and transport them to a specified destination and / or for set down near the specified destination, a hub at which vehicles of authorised commuters or others may take on board authorised commuters and transport them to the or a said vehicle park, optionally near the specified destination, at least one pickup point from which authorised commuters may be transported back to the hub, and a benefit sharing system involving the use of the identifiers at the vehicle park(s) and / or said hub whereby an authorised commuter, when a driver of authorised commuter(s) leaving and / or returning to or arriving at the vehicle park(s) and / or hub, benefits at some detriment to each carried commuter.

An image coding apparatus includes a first coding unit that discretely selects quantization parameters of a first range to perform calculation of generated code amounts corresponding to the selected quantization parameters, a second coding unit that performs calculation of generated code amounts corresponding to quantization parameters of a second range, a code amount control unit that decides deciding a temporary quantization parameter corresponding to a target code amount by calculating generated code amounts through an interpolation process for quantization parameters not selected by the first coding unit, and by comparing the generated code amounts corresponding to the selected quantization parameters and the generated code amounts calculated through the interpolation process with the target code amount, and decides an optimal quantization parameter corresponding to the target code amount by comparing the generated code amounts calculated by the second coding unit with the target code amount.

A method for starting-up a motor having multiple stator windings and a rotor contains first providing current to two of the windings to excite a predefined phase and allowing one of the windings floating, Then, the back electromotive force (BEMF) induced in the floating winding is monitored. If a zero crossing of BEMF occurs in the floating winding within the maximum startup time, then it commutates to the next phase, which is adjacent to the first initial phase in the predetermined sequence of excitation phases. If no zero crossing of BEMF occurs in the floating winding within the maximum startup time, then it commutates to the next phase, which is functionally shifted by two phase-intervals from the predefined phase.

Systems and methods of the present disclosure facilitate managing information technology (IT) infrastructure. The system can include a server configured to retrieve data records for first and second IT assets, each asset comprising at least one of a computing device, a software application, an end user, a business unit, a piece of networking hardware, or an agreement for an IT service. The server can select a template comprising a relationship between the first and second data records. The system can include a link generator configured to generate a different relationship, absent from the template, between the first and second data records. The system can include a search engine configured to identify third and fourth IT assets that satisfy the second relationship, determine an indices of completeness for the third and fourth IT assets, and rank the third and fourth IT assets based on the indices to generate an ordered list.

Fixation system for bones with a connection support, at least one bone screw that can be inserted into a through hole of the connection support and a sensor and telemetry system, wherein the sensor and telemetry system is arranged on a separate plate, which can be connected with the connection support.

A service provider communicates, to a user device, a reminder and suggestions to a user for possible gift purchases for a recipient, based on recipient purchase history, restrictions set by the user for the recipient, preferences set by the user for the recipient / gift, the occasion for the gift, and / or other factors. The user can select one or more recommended gifts from the user device and make the purchase through the user device.

A method and system of managing resource allocation in a non-uniform resource access computer system is disclosed. A method comprises determining access costs between resources in a computer system having non-uniform access costs between the resources. The method also includes constructing a hierarchical data structure comprising the access costs. The hierarchical data structure is traversed to manage a set of the resources.

A playback device and the like that can perform repeated playback without lowering video quality to perform the repeated playback while synchronizing audio data with video data, includes a unit 71 that specifies an IN point as a start position and an OUT point as an end position of repeated playback on a temporal axis of audio data, a unit 81 that registers each of the specified points, a unit 82 that decides a video frame corresponding to an address of the specified IN point as an IN point frame and a video frame corresponding to an address of the specified OUT point as an OUT point frame, and a unit 83 that limits a video frame to be output to a playback segment of the repeated playback to a video frame positioned between the IN point frame and the OUT point frame on a temporal axis of video data.

A transport system havingcommuters with identification and / or vehicles with identification (“identifiers”) authorizing them to take part in the transport system,at least one vehicle park in which authorized commuters may park vehicles and / or take on board authorized commuters who may or may not have parked vehicles and transport them to a specified destination and / or for set down near the specified destination,a hub at which vehicles of authorized commuters or others may take on board authorized commuters and transport them to the or a said vehicle park,optionally near the specified destination, at least one pickup point from which authorized commuters may be transported back to the hub, anda benefit sharing system involving the use of the identifiers at the vehicle park(s) and / or said hub whereby an authorized commuter, when a driver of authorized commuter(s) leaving and / or returning to or arriving at the vehicle park(s) and / or hub, benefits at some detriment to each carried commuter.

A system and method for assessment of a brain status of a subject are disclosed. The brain status comprises a brain disease induced brain dysfunction. An occurrence and / or stage of the brain disease induced brain dysfunction in the subject is determined. The system comprises an apparatus that is adapted to determine the occurrence and / or stage of the brain disease induced brain dysfunction in the subject from random speech of the subject. The apparatus (200) comprises units that are operatively connected to each other, which comprises a unit (205) for registering the speech of the subject over a period of time; a unit (206) devised for analyzing the registered speech and configured to determine a pause component of the speech; and a unit that is adapted to determine the occurrence and / or stage of the brain disease induced brain dysfunction from the pause component, wherein said pause component is an accumulated pause time of a total time of said speech correlated to said occurrence and / or stage of said brain dysfunction.

A reference state is envisioned in which a golf club is placed on a horizontal plane P with a predetermined lie angle and face angle, and the shaft axis line thereof is disposed within a reference plane that is perpendicular to the horizontal plane P. A center of gravity of the head G is positioned on the back side of the head from the reference plane, and a depth of the center of gravity D that is a distance between the reference plane and the center of gravity of the head G is 20 mm or greater and 30 mm or less. The golf club has a flexural rigidity value EIt (kgf·mm2) of the shaft at a position T3 140 mm away from the tip on the head side being 0.5×106 or greater and 1.75×106 or less. More preferably, a value of a ratio (GIt / EIt) of the flexural rigidity value EIt to a torsional rigidity value GIt of the shaft at a position 140 mm away from the tip on the head side is specified to be 0.8×10−2 or greater and 1.2×10−2 or less.

The object of the present invention is to make it possible to drop easily an object in a window as a destination of drop by an operator even if the window as the destination of drop is concealed on the desktop before start of the drag. When an object 22 displayed in a window 21 is dragged by a pointing device and then dropped in another window 23, start of a drag operation is detected, and the window 23 that corresponds to an application as a destination of drop of the dragged object 22 is displayed on a foremost side of a multi-window environment to activate.

A broadcast receiver for receiving a broadcasting of a prescribed channel transmitted from a broadcasting station by a directivity switching antenna capable of switching directivity to a plurality of preset directions, includes a control unit for controlling the directivity switching antenna to switch a directive direction, a memory for storing channel information showing the prescribed channel and direction information showing the directive direction of the directivity switching antenna, and an instructing unit for allowing a user to instruct the prescribed channel to be set as a receiving channel. When the instructing unit instructs the user to set the prescribed channel as the receiving channel, the control unit stores only the channel information of the prescribed channel in the memory.

An object of the present invention is to provide a parking assistance system capable of intuitively and easily deciding operation points in the parallel parking.In the parking assistance system according to the present invention, a guide line (43), which is extended from a vehicle (20) in an oblique backward direction and indicates a boundary line used to decide whether or not the vehicle touches other vehicle (31) existing in front of a parking space (30) when parallel parking operations are started, and a guide line (51), which is separated backward from the guide line (43) and indicates another boundary line used to decide whether or not the vehicle touches other vehicle (53) existing at rear of the parking space (30) when the parallel parking operations are completed, are decided previously, and these guide lines as well as a backward picked-up image are displayed on a monitor screen in the parallel parking. Accordingly, the vehicle can be parked on the parking space (30) not to touch other vehicles (31), (53).

In the measuring equipment, a nozzle driving unit 10 equipped with a bar code reader decides whether the cartridge container being set is a special-purpose container, in which a predetermined reagent is injected separately in advance and to which a bar code is attached, or a general-purpose container that is prepared by separately injecting reagents by hand into an empty cartridge container, and when the cartridge container is a special-purpose container, a CPU 1 reads out measurement conditions from a measurement condition storage part for special-purpose reagents 3a based on the information included in the bar code, and when the cartridge container is a general-purpose container, the CPU1 reads out measurement conditions for items of a measurement object selected and input by a measurer from a measurement condition storage part for general-purpose reagents 3b to conduct a measurement.

A speed regulator for motor vehicles, including a standard mode in which the speed is regulated to a desired speed set by the driver, and at least one exception mode in which the speed is regulated to a setpoint speed that may deviate from the desired speed, and a display device for displaying the desired speed. An auxiliary display is also provided that indicates that an exception mode is active.

A position detecting system is provided, which is capable of effectively preventing erroneous detection of audio to be measured. The position detecting system includes a terminal device that inputs an audio signal from an audio device and a microphone. The audio device sequentially inputs measurement audio signals that have been formed by two or more audio signals of different frequencies to a speaker and receives a notification signal, wherein the report signal indicates that the audio of the measurement audio signal has been collected from the terminal device. The audio device clocks a time t1 and a time t2, namely clocks after the audio of the measurement audio signal is output from the speakers SP1-SP2 until the notification signals of the measurement audio signals are received by the signal receiving unit. The audio device calculates the position of the microphone by using the times t1 and t2. For each frequency component of the measurement audio signal, when an audio signal exceeding a predetermined level is inputted from the microphone, the terminal device detects it as a component of the measurement audio signal and transmits a notification signal upon detection of the measurement audio signal.

The length of recording paper being conveyed to an image forming section is detected. If it is found that the length is shorter as a result of the detection, the recording paper is conveyed to a reversing section to be refed to the image forming section to continue conveyance of the recording paper as in the normal image formation, but without performing the image formation. As a result, the sequence of the recording paper ejected to the paper output section is the same as that of normal printing. Thus a user can easily decide the paper on which the image formation is not carried out normally.

Automated localization of a point source of a visualized gas leak, by searching in a corner response function crf(x*,y*,τ), calculated based on a number of frames of said gas leak, for maximum values in the (x*,y*) variables that are stable over the time variable τ. Considering a point (x*,y*) as said point source if said corner response function crf(x*,y*,τ) has a maximum value in said point (x*,y*) and said point (x*,y*) is temporally stable.

An image processing system for performing a transformation of an input image associated with an input viewpoint to an output image associated with an output viewpoint. The input image is a pre-filtered 2D representation of 3D objects as seen from the input viewpoint, and comprises for each input pixel an associated input pixel value and an associated input pixel depth. Additional to the input image a hidden image is received, being another 2D representation of the 3D objects and comprising information, which information is occluded from the input viewpoint.The system comprises a video processor being operative to create the output image by transforming each input pixel to a transformed input pixel. The transformation is a function of the input pixel depth. The output image is created, based on the transformed input pixels, using hidden image pixels for filling de-occluded areas and for at least one pixel position adjacent to the de-occluded areas. As a consequence ghost line artifacts, caused by transformation of the pre-filtered input image, are prevented.

An install apparatus installs printer firmware to a printer through a network in the background of normal print jobs. The Printer (4) includes a storage means (22) to store the firmware consisting of a plurality of blocks, and a processing means (20) for receiving the blocks to store to storage means (22). In case an interruption occurs during the firmware installation and at the time of resuming the installation, the processing means (20) informs install apparatus (6) of a guarantee range of the installed blocks being determined from the data stored in storage means (22). The install apparatus then restarts transferring the firmware from the succeeding transfer block of the guarantee range.