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An electronic device, which comprises: at least two parts foldable in relation to each other, which can be turned into a first position and into a second position around a rotation axis; and a flexible display device, which extends over at least two foldable parts, covering them either entirely or partly. The flexible display device comprises: a folded position, to which the display device settles in the first position, and in which it folds around a first direction, which is parallel in relation to the rotation axis; and a curved position, to which the display device settles in the second position, and in which it curves around a second direction, which is transverse in relation to the rotation axis. A flexible display device can also be used with an electronic device.

A polymer coating / ring is employed to aid in the sealing and connection of modular elements used in body flow lumens for the exclusion and bypass of diseased regions of the flow lumen, such as where aneurysm occurs adjacent to branching blood vessels.

The present invention is a method and apparatus for protection of products and packaging against counterfeiting using dedicated authentication protocol coupled with portable devices. It is based on the product identification information, i.e., PIN, generated by the product manufacturer, stored in the product database and added to product or packaging in an open and / or a hidden form. The open part is directly available to the consumer before buying, opening or consuming the product or package or damaging its integrity while the hidden part is only revealed after these operations. The hidden information can also be disappearing after a predefined interval of time or number of trials or usages. Both parts are communicated to the authentication server in a predefined order to verify the product or package authenticity. The presence, absence, or multiple requests for the same product PIN, confirm or reject product authenticity or detect attempt at attacking the system or at using counterfeited products.

A system and method of synchronizing clocks in a distributed network is disclosed. A simple 1-pulse-per-second timing pulse is routed to time-stamping units in each network device and utilized to measure traffic-dependent synchronization packet residence delays within network elements. Synchronization messages are updated to reflect the measured residence times, thus creating transparent clocks that can readily be synchronized across the network. The simple timing pulse architecture allows the method to be applied readily both to new designs and to retrofit existing hardware.

The present invention relates to vagus nerve stimulation techniques and more particularly to techniques for providing a more effective monitoring of vagus nerve stimulation and for the adjustment of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS). Specifically, the present invention relates to methods for adjusting and controlling the vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) signal induced by a stimulus generator. The method of the invention takes advantage of monitoring respiratory parameters which correspond to the VNS intensity, whereby the stimulation intensity is set in response to the respiratory parameter.

There is provided a solid-state electrochromic device including a lower transparent conductive layer (12) formed into filmy shape on a glass substrate, partially provided with a groove (12b), and insulated with the groove (12b), an electrochromic layer (13) layered on the lower transparent conductive layer (12), and an upper transparent conductive layer (14) in direct contact with an insulated portion (12a) of the lower transparent conductive layer. Metal foil terminals (17) made of a metal foil (17a) to which an electrically conductive adhesive material (17b) is applied are bonded to an end of a body portion (12c) of the lower transparent conductive layer and an end of the insulated portion (12a) of the insulated lower transparent conductive layer.

Adapter for mounting a handheld portable consumer device having a built-in digital camera and a built-in display screen on a handheld portable endoscope for rendering a handheld portable medical viewing assembly for displaying medical images during a medical procedure, for recording same for subsequent processing, and the like. An intubation stylet preferably entirely made from shape memory metal and fashioned into a J-shaped elongated member having a pre-bent arcuate leading portion with a rectangular cross section designed to facilitate a successful first attempt intubation procedure.

Provided is an LED package. It is easy to control luminance according to the luminance and an angle applicable. Since heat is efficiently emitted, the LED package is easily applicable to a high luminance LED. The manufacturing process is convenient and the cost is reduced. The LED package includes a substrate, an electrode, an LED, and a heatsink hole. The electrode is formed on the substrate. The LED is mounted in a side of the substrate and is electrically connected to the electrode. The heatsink hole is formed to pass through the substrate, for emitting out heat generated from the LED.

Provided is an LED package. It is easy to control luminance according to the luminance and an angle applicable. Since heat is efficiently emitted, the LED package is easily applicable to a high luminance LED. The manufacturing process is convenient and the cost is reduced. The LED package includes a substrate, an electrode, an LED, and a heatsink hole. The electrode is formed on the substrate. The LED is mounted in a side of the substrate and is electrically connected to the electrode. The heatsink hole is formed to pass through the substrate, for emitting out heat generated from the LED.

An LED device that is excellent in color mixture and small in variation of chromaticity is provided. The LED device includes, in a package, an LED chip, a fluorescent material excited by light from the LED chip to generate light with a wavelength different from that of the light from the LED chip, and a translucent resin holding the fluorescent material. The LED chip has a side-surface portion, a top-surface portion, a bottom-surface portion, and a light-emitting layer sandwiched between the top-surface portion and the bottom-surface portion, and the fluorescent material in the translucent resin is provided in a layer form on a bottom surface of the package to entirely or partially cover the side-surface portion of the LED chip.

The invention relates to a device for detecting network access abnormality based on data stream behavior analysis, comprising a flow information collection module, an abnormal behavior detection module and an abnormal flow processing module, wherein the flow information collection module is respectively connected with the abnormal behavior detection module and the abnormal flow processing module;and the abnormal behavior detection module is connected with the abnormal flow processing module. The invention also relates to a method for using the device. In the method, obvious abnormal flow data is filtered out firstly, then a network behavior model is used to detect the filtered flow data, and the network behavior model is automatically updated; and finally, the flow is blocked according to detection results. The device and method provided by the invention is utilized to establish a normal network behavior model. The model is compared with real-time data so as to detect whether real-time flow is abnormal; and the network behavior model is dynamically modified, abnormal flow sources are analyzed, and the abnormal flow is blocked, thus identifying the abnormal flow quickly and effectively and improving the accuracy of the detection.

The invention relates to a time-space domain hybrid video noise reduction device and a time-space domain hybrid video noise reduction method, and belongs to the technical field of video image processing. The device comprises a time domain noise reduction module, a smoothing coefficient storage module, a reference frame storage module and a space domain noise reduction module. The method comprises the following steps that: the time domain noise reduction module calculates noise variance, the motion intensity of a current point and a weighting coefficient of the current point according to the current point and a reference point; the time domain noise reduction module calculates and stores a smoothing coefficient of the current point and a time domain filtering result of a current frame respectively; and the space domain noise reduction module performs space domain filtering to obtain noise-reduced image data. Therefore, the combined application of time domain noise reduction and space domain noise reduction is realized, a good noise reduction effect can be achieved, system overhead required by the noise reduction can be effectively reduced, and system cost is lowered. The noise reduction device is simple in structure; and the noise reduction method can be conveniently and widely applied.

The present invention relates to a wireless network, and more particularly, a method (*“and system”?*) which a mobile station discovers a neighbor network in an Internet protocol based wireless network, a network management server for enabling the method, and a method of operating the network management server. A network management server of a wireless network system, the server including: a neighborhood (NH) database maintaining configuration information with respect to at least one neighbor network; a communication interface receiving a request message for capability / configuration information of the neighbor network from a mobile station which is connected via a predetermined access point or a base station; and a database management unit extracting the capability / configuration information of the neighbor network which is included in the request message by referring to the neighborhood database, and controlling a reply message including the capability / configuration information to be transmitted to the mobile station via the communication interface.

A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes a thin film transistor array panel and a common electrode panel facing the thin film transistor array panel. The thin film transistor array panel includes a first gate line; a data line intersecting the gate line; a first thin film transistor including a gate electrode connected to the gate line, a source electrode connected to the data line, and a drain electrode; a first pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode; and a capacitor electrode overlapping at least one of the pixel electrode and the drain electrode with interposing an insulator. The common electrode panel includes a common electrode that faces the pixel electrode and has an opening facing at least one of the drain electrode and the capacitor electrode.

The present invention relates to resector balloons (1) employed in treating endoluminal-endobronchial tumoral lesions and endovascular occlusions encountered in blood vessels and in other hollow tube-like organs (7), such as trachea, windpipe, food pipe, urinary tract, bile ducts. Said resector balloon (1) is composed of a resection tip (2); a resection part (3) that is swollen or inflated in such tube-like organs (7) and is displaced or moved back and forth therein to provide tumor resection; a hardening surface (4) provided on the outer surface of said resection part (3) to shave and destroy such tumoral tissues; a catheter section (5) providing access to an endoluminal site; and an injection terminal (6) capable to inflate said resection part (3) by injecting air or fluid.

In an optical waveguide device, a laser beam is collected to an end face of a channel waveguide, and introduced into a PLZT thin film optical waveguide. The incident laser beam, when emitted from the channel waveguide, diverges in the PLZT waveguide, permeates a thin film lens and is collimated into 0.4 Mm size. When a high frequency voltage is not applied to a comb Al electrode, the laser beam is collected after penetrating through the second thin film and emitted from the end face through the channel waveguide to form an emission beam. When the high frequency voltage is applied to the comb Al electrode, a diffraction grating is formed by an acousto-optic effect, and the laser beam is deflected. The deflected laser beam, when penetrating through the second thin film lens, is collected and emitted from the end face through the channel waveguide in adjacent with the above-described channel waveguide to form a deflected emission beam.

Methods and apparatus for delivering and reducing the profile of a catheter for delivering a stent graft including integral branch connections. A configuration of a branch vessel stent graft, including a branch vessel connection connecting a very thin walled PTFE tubular branch to a woven polyester main body. The connection is made by using by overmolding the PTFE on a polymer ring, such as silicone. In another configuration, a main body portion includes branch portions where ends of the branch portions are connected to leads extending from a sheath of a stent graft compressed in a delivery catheter. The leads are routed into accessible branches of body lumens and act as pullwires to pull the branch portions into position in their respective branches as the delivery catheter is released to deploy the main body of the stent graft. Apertures in the main body portion are alignable with the branch lumens and an anchoring stent is separately deployed to extend and / or main the extension of the branch portion in the branch lumen and anchor it therein.

A data communication method between hosts belonging to different private networks having their own private address spaces, each of the private networks Including at least one network address translator (NAT) and a proxy server accessible from a public address space. The one host obtains an outside-accessible address of the other proxy server and sends a path-coupled signaling packet using the outside-accessible address toward the other proxy server. At the NAT which the path-coupled signaling packet passes in the private network to which the one host belongs, a public address is allocated to the one host. The allocated public address is sent to the other host, allowing the one host to receive data from the other host. When receiving a public address from the other host, data communication is made possible both an the one host and the other host.

The invention relates to a quality assurance (QA) system of internet protocol television (IPTV) services, comprising a management server which is arranged at the head end of an IPTV system and subjective quality estimation devices which are arranged at each IPTV terminal respectively, wherein the management server is connected with the subjective quality estimation devices by IPTV system networks, and the subjective quality estimation devices are integrated into a service quality measurement and control module in a set top box (STB) of each IPTV terminal. The invention also relates to a QA method of IPTV services by using the system. In the method, the service quality measurement and control module is used for measuring and controlling the service quality of a video which is played by the STB of the IPTV terminal so as to acquire the subjective quality score; and the subjective quality score is compared with a threshold, and if the subjective quality score is lower than the threshold, an alarm is sent out, thus realizing subjective quality estimation for the client of the IPTV system, and perfecting the quality detection modes of the IPTV services. The system provided by the invention is simple in structure, and the method provided by the invention is low in operating cost and easy and convenient in application modes.

A multiple-mode modulator is configured similarly to a direct conversion quadrature modulator with an infusion of an amplitude modulation signal path from a large signal polar modulator to improve the power amplifier efficiency. The multiple-mode modulator also includes a radio frequency signal path. The multiple-mode modulator is configured to receive a baseband signal, convert the baseband signal to a radio frequency (RF) signal, and to process the RF signal according to either a polar mode or a quadrature mode, depending on a time-varying input voltage of the RF signal. When the power amplifier operates in the linear region, the RF signal is processed according to the quadrature mode. When the power amplifier operates in the compressed region, the RF signal is processed according to the polar mode. The multiple-mode modulator can be configured according to a small signal polar architecture or a large signal polar architecture, having either an open-loop or closed-loop configuration.

The invention relates to a method for implementing task decomposition and parallel processing in a computer software system. The computer software system is provided with a task scheduling unit connected between a task receiving end and a processing unit. The method includes that the task scheduling unit decomposes a task into subtasks, stores dependent relations among the subtasks as matrix structure data, and confirms sequence of the subtasks which can be processed parallelly according to the matrix structure data, and a processor is used for parallel processing. Using the method can respond to various changes in a configuration manner, corresponding adjustments can be performed dynamically to automatically implement task decomposition, manual interference is not needed, parallel task decomposition efficiency is improved, and parallel task processing capacity of a computer is improved greatly. In addition, the method for implementing task decomposition and parallel processing in the computer software system is simple and convenient in application way, low in implementation cost and wider in application range.

A 3-D imaging system is described. The 3-D imaging system comprises an illumination unit for emitting light onto a target scene, an imaging sensor for imaging the target scene by detecting scattered / reflected light, an evaluation unit for determining distance information related to the target scene on the basis of light propagation time and synchronization means for providing synchronization information to the evaluation unit. The synchronization means comprises means for generating an electrical reference signal in the illumination unit, the reference signal being directly derived from the emitted light.

A magnetic toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin and a magnetic member, a first inorganic fine particle and an organic-inorganic composite particle on the surface of the toner particle, whereinthe organic-inorganic composite particlei) has a structure in which a second inorganic fine particle is embedded in a resin particle, andii) is contained in an amount of 0.5 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less based on the mass of the toner;the first inorganic fine particle contains an inorganic oxide fine particle selected from the group consisting of a silica fine particle, a titanium oxide fine particle and an alumina fine particle; has a number average particle diameter (D1) of 5 nm or more and 25 nm or less, and contains the silica fine particle in an amount of 85 mass % or more based on the inorganic oxide fine particle.

The invention discloses a cervical collar which provides support, safety and stability to the neck of the wearer, and is arranged to prevent cervical flexion, extension and bilateral lateral flexion while allowing cervical rotation. The cervical collar comprises two parts; one back piece including a shoulder and back support piece attached to an adjustable neck piece and a chin support piece. The chin support piece can be lowered, raised and / or removed by the wearer of the collar in order to allow opening of the mouth sufficiently for eating or performing personal hygiene without unwanted extension of the neck.

Provided are a method and an apparatus for controlling combustion in an oxygen fired boiler which are easily applicable to an existing air fired boiler for easy and stable control of the combustion.Oxygen with a setting amount in accordance with a boiler load demand 35 is supplied to a boiler body 4. Heat absorption amount of the boiler is measured from inlet temperature of feedwater supplied to the boiler body 4 and outlet temperature of steam. Recirculation flow rate of combustion exhaust gas 14a is controlled such that heat absorption amount 41 of the boiler body 4 becomes equal to a targeted heat absorption amount 42 to thereby control oxygen concentration in all gas guided to the boiler body 4.

A computer arrangement includes a processor and memory accessible for the processor. In at least one embodiment, the memory includes a computer program including data and instructions arranged to allow the processor to: a) obtain navigation information, b) obtain an image corresponding to the navigation information, c) display the image and at least part of the navigation information, whereby the at least part of the navigation information is superimposed upon the image. The processor is further allowed to b1) obtain depth information corresponding to the image and use the depth information to perform action c).

A method and a system for automatically performing diagnostics of various operational parameters of digital video recorders, cameras, peripheral and associated components encompassing a video system, are provided. Script files are provided including diagnostic instructions, which are executed according to a schedule. The diagnostics for example include catalogue size verification, live working check for each camera, camera analysis of the image brightness and camera movement verification. Automated repair of the cameras is also possible. Preferably, the instructions are executed through an interface remotely interacting with the user control software of the cameras.

The invention belongs to the technical field of image processing, and specifically discloses a block-based shielded face recognition algorithm. The algorithm comprises the following steps of: in an offline training stage, carrying out preprocessing operations such as face detection, geometric face normalization, illumination normalization, extracting four blocks such as a left eye, a right eye, anose and a mouth from a face image on the basis of the preprocessing result, training a network model of each block, extracting corresponding features, training a shielding judgement network of each block to obtain a shielding judgement result, finally fusing the features according to the shielding judgement result of each block, and constructing a K-D tree feature index; and in an online recognition stage, extracting face image features by adoption of a method same as the offline training stage, and carrying out feature query through a K-D tree index manner so as to obtain a recognition result. Experiment results prove that the algorithm has better correctness.

The present disclosure relates to a multi-type wind turbine. The present disclosure may be configured such that a plurality of arms are combined with one tower in a radial direction, and a unit generator having a blade is provided at the plurality of arms, respectively, and at least two of the unit generators are rotated in opposite directions to each other. Furthermore, both ends of the arm may be located both sides thereof on the basis of the height directional central line of the tower to be fixed thereto or both ends of the arm may be located at one side of the tower to be rotatably combined therewith. Furthermore, the rotation speed and tilt angle of the blade of the unit generator may controlled in an individual manner or controlled in a grouped manner. Furthermore, the unit generator may include a main blade and a sub-blade which is smaller than the main blade.