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Disclosed herein is an efficient, in-line process for forming elastic laminates comprising an elastic blown film sheet and one or more fibrous nonwoven webs. The process is capable of making elastic laminates having the properties of stretch and recovery in the machine direction, in the cross machine direction, or in both the machine direction and cross machine direction. The elastic laminates produced may be bilayer or trilayer laminates. Such elastic laminates are highly useful for use in personal care products, protective wear garments, medical care products, mortuary and veterinary products and the like.

An apparatus and methods for processing video data are described. The invention provides a representation of video data that can be used to assess agreement between the data and a fitting model for a particular parameterization of the data. This allows the comparison of different parameterization techniques and the selection of the optimum one for continued video processing of the particular data. The representation can be utilized in intermediate form as part of a larger process or as a feedback mechanism for processing video data. When utilized in its intermediate form, the invention can be used in processes for storage, enhancement, refinement, feature extraction, compression, coding, and transmission of video data. The invention serves to extract salient information in a robust and efficient manner while addressing the problems typically associated with video data sources

An analytical laboratory system and method for processing samples is disclosed. The system includes a manager unit, as well as an aliquotter unit and a centrifuge unit.

A storage system 1 includes a channel interface (IF) unit 11 having an interface with a server 3, a disk IF unit 16 having an interface with a hard disk group 2, a memory unit 21 for storing data to be read/written from/to the server 3 or the hard disk group 2, a switching unit 51, and the hard disk group 2. The channel IF unit 11, the disk IF unit 16, and the memory unit 21 are connected to each other through the switching unit 51, and an encryption and decryption processing unit 201 is provided between a host IF unit 101 and a transfer controller 103 in the channel IF unit 11.

A molecular plasma discharge deposition method for depositing colloidal suspensions of biomaterials such as amino acids or other carbon based substances onto metal or nonmetal surfaces without loss of biological activity and/or structure is described. The method is based on generating a charged corona plasma which is then introduced into a vacuum chamber to deposit the biomaterial onto a biased substrate. The deposited biomaterials can be selected for a variety of medical uses, including coated implants for in situ release of pharmaceuticals.

A system is described for interactively analyzing plays of a sporting event based on real-world positional tracking data. Using positional information regarding the players and/or ball and/or other objects obtained from a tracking system, along with identified event data and contextual information, the system processes a library of plays (e.g., one or more seasons' worth of a league's contests) into a searchable database of plays using multiple alignment templates and discriminative clustering techniques. A user interface is described for interacting with the database in a graphical manner, whereby users can query a graphical depiction of a play and receive the most similar plays from the library, along with statistical information relating to the plays. The user interface further permits the user to modify the query graphically (e.g., moving or exchanging players, ball trajectories, etc.) and obtain updated statistical information for comparison.

Multi-tubular reactors for fluid processing incorporate reactor tubes containing thermally conductive monolithic catalyst structures with relative dimensions and thermal expansion characteristics effective to establish both a non-interfering or slidably interfering fit between the monolith structures and the reactor tubes at selected monolith mounting temperatures, and geometries at reactor operating temperatures such that the operating gaps between tubes and monoliths under the conditions of reactor operation do not exceed about 250 μm over tube sections where high heat flux to or from the monoliths is required.

A high quality real-time Turbo-Mud processing system that chooses between a high complexity multi-user detectors that results in better estimates of the bit streams and computationally low linear-based-MUD/Turbo-MUD at each MUD window in each Turbo Iteration. In one embodiment this technique optimizes both the BER and the computational complexity of the receiver by using low complexity MUDs to reduce the number of symbols that the high complexity MUDs need to process. The present invention also provides an efficient means of estimating symbols transmitted in a multi-user environment in overloaded or super-saturated conditions.

A mailer includes first and second panels that are articulated to one another along a fold line. The fold line is configured to enable the first and second panels to be separated from one another. The first panel is formed from first and second sheets. Similarly, the second panel is formed from first and second sheets that are unitary respectively with the first and second sheets of the first panel. Adhesive-backed labels are formed on the first sheet of the first panel and can be separated from the second sheet. An envelope is formed by the first and second sheets of the second panel. The second panel may also include a return card that can be inserted into the envelope. The mailer can be printed with indicia specific to a targeted recipient.

The present invention relates to the field of molecular biology and immunology. In particular it relates to vaccines and methods for providing vaccines which elicit immune responses when administered to a mammal, in particular a human. The preferred elicited immune response is a T cell response, elicited by peptide T cell epitopes. These vaccines find their application in many fields ranging from cancer treatments to treatments of prophylaxis of infectious diseases such as Aids. The present invention provides novel methods for selecting the peptide sequences from an intact antigen which will lead to a proper (T cell) immune response upon administration in a suitable vehicle. The epitopes and vaccines are, of course, also part of the present invention.

Provided are a data processing apparatus and method for merging and processing deterministic knowledge and non-deterministic knowledge. The data processing apparatus and method may efficiently process various real-time and large-scale data to convert the data into knowledge by merging and processing non-deterministic knowledge and also deterministic knowledge perceived by an expert. Thus, it is possible to adaptively operate in accordance with a dynamically changing application service environment by converting a conversion rule for converting collected data generated from an application service system into semantic data, a context awareness rule for perceiving context information from given information, and a user query for searching for knowledge information into knowledge and gradually augmenting the knowledge information in accordance with an application service environment.

Disclosed is a method of rapidly hydrating a hydratable polymer, which method involves irradiating with radio frequency electromagnetic radiation, a mixture of at least the polymer and an aqueous hydrotreating medium to form a viscosified mixture of at least aqueous hydrotreating medium and hydrated polymer. Related methods of treating a subterranean formation and continuously hydrotreating a subterranean formation are also revealed.

A method of providing a partially isolated execution environment for multiple applications in a digital information apparatus having a virtual machine and middleware is provided. The method includes initializing an application manager by driving the virtual machine, and loading and initializing a main class of the middleware, executing an action for each application through a method of the application manager while executing a main method of the main class of the middleware, and finalizing all threads and ending a process during execution in the virtual machine.

A water electrolysis apparatus is formed by stacking a plurality of unit cells. Each unit cell includes a membrane electrode assembly, and an anode separator and a cathode separator which sandwich the membrane electrode assembly therebetween. The anode separator has a plurality of inlet joint channels in fluid communication with a water supply passage, and a plurality of outlet joint channels in fluid communication with a discharge passage. The water supply passage has an inner wall surface at which the inlet joint channels are open, and an outer wall surface which faces the inner wall surface, the inner wall surface and the outer wall surface jointly forming an opening of an oblong cross-sectional shape.

One embodiment of the present invention is a cache memory arranged between a processor and a low-speed memory and performing a pipeline processing of a memory access made by the processor. In a first stage, the cache memory reads out a tag address from a tag memory. In a second stage, the cache memory performs a hit decision by a hit decision unit. When the hit decision result is a miss hit, the cache memory performs an update control of the tag memory and a behavior control of a bypass circuit for supplying a data held in a latch circuit to the hit decision unit by bypassing the tag memory in a third stage. The latch circuit is configured to hold a tag address included in a input address supplied from the processor. When the hit decision result is the miss hit, the cache memory further performs an update of the data memory by reading out of the data from the low-speed memory and an outputting of the data read out from the low-speed memory to the processor in a fourth stage just after the third stage or in the later stage.

An atomic layer deposition (ALD) module is provided with a rotatable carrier plate that holds a plurality of wafer holders at equally spaced angular positions. The plate is rotated to carry the wafers through a plurality of processing stations arranged at similarly equally spaced angular intervals around the axis of rotation of the rotatable plate. Rotation of the carrier plate carries a plurality of substrates successively through a plurality of pairs of stations, each pair including a precursor deposition station and a light activation station. A plurality of rotations may be used to apply a complete ALD film on the substrates. Wafers in different holders on the carrier are simultaneously processed in different stations, with some having precursor deposited thereon and others having the precursor thereon activated by light. One or more transfer stations can be included for loading or unloading wafers to and from the carrier. The number of holders on the carrier equals the number of stations in the module. Curtains and purge gas flow direction features keep precursor gas from the deposition stations from entering the activation or transfer stations.

An apparatus and method are provided for producing a plurality of products or processing a plurality of samples via dispensing. The apparatus and method provide real-time monitoring of the products/samples and can provide real-time control. The apparatus and method can monitor the liquid both before and after it has been added to a carrier substrate. The apparatus and method can provide monitoring of each product/sample that is processed.

The present invention includes a method to produce a recombinant mite Group 1 protein in a methyltrophic yeast or an Escherichia coli microorganism. The present invention also relates to a recombinant mite Group 1 protein obtained by such a method, such a recombinant protein being able to selectively bind IgE or cause proliferation of a T cell that proliferate in response to a native mite Group 1 protein. Also included in the present invention is the use of such a recombinant mite Group 1 protein to detect mite allergy or to reduce an allergic response to a mite Group 1 protein. The present invention also includes novel mite Group 1 nucleic acid molecules, proteins, recombinant molecules, and recombinant cells, as well as uses thereof.

A switching device includes: an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping module (101), a packet dispatching module (103), a plurality of ports (105), a router physical abstraction layer (router HAL) (102) including a forwarding table (1020), and a Flash memory (104) including a port table (1040), a recording table (1041) and a routing table (1042). The packet dispatching module identifies whether a received packet via one port is an IGMP packet, and sends the IGMP packet to the IGMP snooping module. The IGMP snooping module adds a number of the port and a routing relationship respectively to the port table and the routing table, and sends a notice to the router HAL to add a corresponding mapping relationship to the forwarding table. Then the IGMP snooping module transfers multicast data packets according to contents of the forwarding table. A related method for processing a multicast packet is also provided.

A contents-file converter converts a contents file inputted to a print data processing apparatus into intermediate files. Then, data on the intermediate files is registered in a page sequence table generated by a page-sequence-table generator. A layout information selector selects a layout information table appropriate to the printer being used for printing. A link processor lays out the intermediate files in respective sections on a printable surface. Accordingly, the data on the intermediate files can be registered even if the printer used for printing has not yet been determined.

A method and apparatus for processing defects in a digital image include defining a defect map, having defect and non-defect entries, as a defect bounded by an expanded defect region and an outer analysis region of a different defect map values. By choosing suitable values and performing a bitwise logical OR operation on the entries the processing of the defect map is made more efficient.

A device performs demodulation of control signals from multiple radio terminals, based on the correlations in the frequency domain between a predetermined code and the orthogonalized control signals and reference signals of the multiple radio terminals obtained by cyclic shifts of the predetermined code. The device includes: a demultiplexer which demultiplexes a reference signal component and a control signal component based on a correlation profile; a path detector which detects a path location or path locations for each radio terminal based on the power values of the reference signal components; extractor which extracts the correlation values of the reference signal components and the correlation values of the control signal components, respectively; and RAKE combiner which combines the extracted values.

A method and apparatus for curing and modifying a low k dielectric layer in an interconnect structure is disclosed. A spin-on low k dielectric layer which includes an organic silsesquioxane, polyarylether, bisbenzocyclobuene, or SiLK is spin coated on a substrate. The substrate is placed in a process chamber in a supercritical CO₂ system and is treated at a temperature between 30° C. and 150° C. and at a pressure from 70 to 700 atmospheres. A co-solvent such as CF₃—X or F—X is added that selectively replaces C—CH₃ bonds with C—CF₃ or C—F bonds. Alternatively, H₂O₂ is employed as co-solvent to replace a halogen in a C—Z bond where Z=F, Cl, or Br with an hydroxyl group. Two co-solvents may be combined with CO₂ for more flexibility. The cured dielectric layer has improved properties that include better adhesion, lower k value, increased hardness, and a higher elastic modulus.

An anal irrigation kit provides an improved approach for emptying a bowel by instilling irrigation liquid and stimulating the rectal wall simultaneously. The anal irrigation kit includes an irrigation liquid reservoir, a hand pump, and a soft flow manifold, which can be folded for insertion into a rectum.

The present invention relates to a data processing method for a reactive augmented reality card game and a reactive augmented reality card game play device and, more particularly, to a data processing method for a reactive augmented reality card game and a reactive augmented reality card game play device, by checking collision between virtual objects, in which preconfigured animation data is processed and reproduced by checking collision between virtual objects.

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for dynamically providing digital content to client devices at different insertion points of a digital video based on predicted total value of inserting the digital content and predicted engagement loss of inserting the digital content. For example, system and methods described herein determine that an insertion point is approaching in an actively playing digital video. In response, systems and methods identify digital content for insertion at the insertion point. In one or more embodiments, the described systems and methods insert the identified digital content by comparing the predicted total value of inserting the digital content at the insertion point of the digital video and a predicted engagement loss associated with inserting the digital content at the insertion point of the digital video.

A vacuum processing apparatus, comprising: a processing chamber 3 in which an object to be processed is placed and a predetermined vacuum state is formed; a first processing gas introducing means 12 for converting a first processing gas into a radical state and introducing the resulting first processing gas in the radical state into the processing chamber through first processing gas introducing ports which open to the interior of the processing chamber; a second processing gas introducing means 15 for introducing a second processing gas, which is reactive with the first processing gas in the radical state, into the processing chamber through second processing gas introducing ports which open to the interior of the processing chamber; a temperature controlling means for controlling the temperature within the processing chamber 3 to a first temperature-controlled state, in which the first processing gas in the radical state and the second processing gas process the surface of the object to be processed, thereby producing a reaction product, and to a second temperature-controlled state in which the resulting reaction product is sublimated and removed; and an inert gas introducing means for introducing an inert gas into the processing chamber 3 through the processing gas introducing ports 12 when the temperature controlling means controls the temperature within the processing chamber to the second temperature-controlled state.

A method factors an ambiguous finite state transducer (FST) into two finite state transducers. The first FST is functional (i.e., unambiguous). The second FST retains the ambiguity of the original FST but is fail-safe (i.e., no failing paths) when applied to the output of the first FST. That is, the application of the second FST to an input string never leads to a state that does not provide a transition for the next symbol in the input. Subsequently, the first FST can be factorized into a left-sequential FST and a right-sequential FST that jointly represent a bi-machine.

A “multi-resolution signal renderer” provides a computationally efficient process for generating reduced-resolution versions of a hierarchical transform coded digital signal from the encoded coefficients of that signal. The multi-resolution signal renderer begins by decoding the transform coded signal up to the highest hierarchical resolution not exceeding the desired signal resolution. The multi-resolution signal renderer then operates in one of two modes to generate reduced resolution signals. First, to generate signals at coded hierarchical resolution levels, DC coefficients of the transform coefficients are scaled, and then lowpass filtered to reduce aliasing in the signal. Second, to generate intermediate resolution signals between coded hierarchical resolution levels, the multi-resolution signal renderer retrieves the encoded coefficient blocks for the next highest resolution coding level, lowpass filters those blocks in the transform domain, performs an inverse transform, and then downsamples the resulting signal to the desired resolution.

A processor transfers control information set for each connection from a second memory to a first memory, and updates the control information stored in the first memory in accordance with processing of the connection. The processor selects control information updated in the first memory, and transfers the selected control information from the first memory to the second memory.