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Template matching scheme using multiple predictors as candidates for intra-prediction

An apparatus and method for spatial encoding of intra-predictions for a current block of a video sequence without the need to average across a number of best template matches. The encoder identifies and sorts the best template matches for the current block within previously coded and reconstructed blocks which neighbor the current block of video. In response to determining actual predictive error for the sorted list of matches, a selector is generated identifying which of the sorted templates is optimal. The selector is then communicated for receipt by the decoder, which is adapted for performing the same template matching and sorting, which is followed by selection of the optimum candidate in response to using the selector. In response to the selector information the decoder can provide optimum template matching without the compromise or overhead of taking averages across the best template candidates.
Owner:SONY CORP +1

Electrosurgical tool

An electrosurgical tool for cauterizing or ablating targeted tissue, which tool includes a conductive outer shaft which defines a return or reference electrode, and a conductive inner tube disposed within the outer shaft. The inner tube defines both a suction pathway for removing fluid and / or surgical debris from the surgical site through the distal end of the tool, and a pathway for delivering electrical energy to an active electrode secured to the distal end of the suction tube.
Owner:STRYKER CORP

Semiconductor integrated circuit device and its manufacture using automatic layout

A semiconductor integrated circuit device has: a semiconductor substrate defining a plurality of rows, each row including areas for a sequence of cells; a plurality of active regions disposed in each of the rows constituting semiconductor elements of associated cells; and a wiring region of stripe shape elongated along a direction of row, defined on the semiconductor substrate outside of the active regions in each row, and including wirings belonging to the associated cells, each wiring region having height in a direction crossing the row direction, the wiring region having locally different height.
Owner:YAMAHA CORP

Wall-mounted dispenser for liquids

A dispenser for dispensing liquid from a collapsible bag has a back plate and a cover hingedly attached thereto for movement between open and closed positions. The back plate carries a bag retainer and pump support which receives the bag which, in turn, carries a collapsible dome-type pump on its front surface adjacent its bottom edge. The pump includes a transparent collapsible dome and the dispenser cover includes a push bar for collapsing the dome to expel material. The push bar also has a clear window overlying the collapsible dome when the cover is closed.
Owner:KANFER JOSEPH S

Shelf divider system

InactiveUS20070256992A1Prevent from fallConserve shelf spaceRacksShow shelvesEngineeringMechanical engineering
There is provided a shelf divider system for organizing, moving, and displaying merchandize items on a store shelf. A plurality of dividers attach perpendicularly to a plurality of base strips by inserting knobs on the dividers into mating holes in the base strips. Each adjacent pair of dividers forms a channel for the merchandise. Merchandize carriers slide over the base strips between each adjacent pair of dividers. A pull strap is attached to the front end of each carrier for pulling it forward for moving the merchandize items forward on the shelf. The pull straps have longitudinal grooves therein for dividing the pull straps longitudinally into two narrower pull straps. The merchandize items are prevented from falling from the front of the shelf by transparent guards attached to guard holders. The shelf divider system may be attached to the shelf by clips, which attach a base strip to the shelf.
Owner:OLSON CARL

Connector with conductor piercing prongs for a solar panel

The present invention comprises an electrical connector device for electrically connecting an alternating current (“AC”) photovoltaic (“PV”) solar panel device having an integral micro-inverter to the utility grid. The electrical connector device is a compression connector fitting that includes an upper and lower housing, which each include a channel for receiving the main electrical conductor line. The electrical connector device further includes three electrical prong, which are designed to pierce and penetrate the insulation of the main electrical conductor line to establish an electrical connection between the micro-inverter and the utility grid, when the electrical connector device is compressed about the main electrical conductor line. The shape of the channel formed in the electrical connector device has a distinctive cross-sectional shape that substantially corresponds to the shape of the main electrical conductor line to insure proper alignment and orientation of the main conductor line within the connector device.
Owner:SKY RICH STAR LTD

Method and apparatus for effectively compressing motion vectors in multi-layer structure

A method and an apparatus for elevating compression efficiency of a motion vector by effectively predicting a motion vector of an enhanced layer by means of a motion vector of a base layer in a video coding method employing a multi-layer structure are disclosed. A motion vector compression apparatus includes: a down-sampling module for down-sampling an original frame to have a size of a frame in each layer; a motion vector search module for obtaining a motion vector in which an error or a cost function is minimized with respect to the down-sampled frame; a reference vector generation module for generating a reference motion vector in a predetermined enhanced layer by means of a block of a lower layer corresponding to a predetermined block in the predetermined enhanced layer, and motion vectors in blocks around the block; and a motion difference module for calculating a difference between the obtained motion vector and the reference motion vector.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Semiconductor integrated circuit

Disclosed herein is a semiconductor integrated circuit, wherein a desired circuit is formed by combining and laying out a plurality of standard cells and connecting the cells together, of which the cell length, i.e., the gap between a pair of opposed sides, is standardized, the plurality of standard cells forming the desired circuit include complementary in-phase driven standard cells, each of which includes a plurality of complementary transistor pairs that are complementary in conductivity type to each other and have their gate electrodes connected together, and N (≧2) pairs of all the complementary transistor pairs are driven in phase, and the size of the standardized cell length of the complementary in-phase driven standard cell is defined as an M-fold cell length which is M (N≧M≧2) times the basic cell length which is appropriate to the single complementary transistor pair.
Owner:SONY CORP

Vehicle speed measurement method and system utilizing a single image capturing unit

A vehicle speed measurement method and system for identifying a violating vehicle utilizing single image capturing unit. A vehicle image can be captured by the image capturing unit in order to estimate speed of the vehicle utilizing an ALPR unit. The license plate characters can be located and extracted from the captured image. A distance of the license plate from the image capturing unit can be calculated utilizing a physical character height from a reference point of the image capturing unit and a pixel character height generated by the ALPR unit. A position of the license plate in the field of view of the image capturing unit along with the distance information can be be utilized to determine a height of the license plate from a road surface. The height of the license plate can be employed to accurately estimate the vehicle speed.
Owner:CONDUENT BUSINESS SERVICES LLC

Solar panel with inverter

The system of the present invention comprises a fully integrated and self-contained alternating current (“AC”) photovoltaic (“PV”) solar panel device, which features an integral micro-inverter having a compression connector fitting for electrically connecting to the utility grid. The compression connector fitting includes an upper and lower housing, which each include a cavity portion for receiving the main electrical conductor wire. The connector fitting further includes three electrical prong devices, which are designed to penetrate the insulation of the main electrical conductor wire, upon compression onto the main electrical conductor wire. Each micro-inverter converts DC power generated by its respective solar panel to grid-compliant AC power.
Owner:INT DEVMENT

Method and apparatus for scalable video encoding and decoding

A method and apparatus for scalable video and decoding are provided. A method for video coding includes eliminating temporal redundancy in constrained temporal level sequence from a plurality of frames constituting a video sequence input, and generating a bit-stream by quantizing transformation coefficients obtained from the frames whose temporal redundancy has been eliminated. A video encoder for performing the encoding method includes a temporal transformation unit, a spatial transformation unit, a quantization unit, and a bit-stream generation unit. A video decoding method is in principle performed inversely to the video coding sequence, wherein decoding is performed by extracting information on encoded frames by receiving bit-streams input and interpreting them.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Scalable video coding and decoding methods, and scalable video encoder and decoder

Scalable video coding and decoding methods, a scalable video encoder, and a scalable video decoder. The scalable video coding method includes receiving a GOP, performing temporal filtering and spatial transformation thereon, quantizing and generating a bitstream. The scalable video encoder for performing the scalable video coding method includes a weight determination block which determines a weight for scaling. The scalable video decoding method includes dequantizing the coded image information obtained from a received bitstream, performing descaling, inverse spatial transformation, and inverse temporal filtering on the scaled transform coefficients, thereby recovering video frames. The scalable video decoder for performing the scalable video decoding method includes an inverse weighting block. The standard deviation of Peak Signal to Noise Ratios (PSNRs) of frames included in a group of pictures (GOP) is reduced so that video coding performance can be increased.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Fabrication system and fabrication method

A fabricating method for a system including a plurality of processing apparatuses connected to each other by an inter-apparatus transporter. The semiconductor waters are processed in the processing apparatuses and are transported to specified processing apparatuses in different time interval that are set to N times a unit time interval. Since the fabricating system includes processing apparatuses and an inter-apparatus transporter that are periodically controlled at time intervals related to a unit time, intervals related to a unit time, the scheduling of a plurality of works can be made efficiently to enhance the level of optimization, thus improving the productivity.
Owner:RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORP

Apparatus for Encoding and Decoding Image and Method Thereof

An image encoding and / or decoding apparatus and method are provided. The image encoding apparatus includes: a transform unit removing spatial redundancy by transforming an original image being input; an allowable noise obtaining unit obtaining an allowable noise from the original image; a quantization parameter determination unit determining a quantization parameter by using the allowable noise; a quantization unit generating a quantized coefficient, by quantizing a transform coefficient provided from the transform unit by using the quantization parameter; and an entropy encoding unit entropy encoding the quantized coefficient to remove statistical redundancy.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Multifunctional integrated filter and breathing conduit

InactiveUS20050188990A1Minimizing mixing spaceReduced dimensionRespiratorsBreathing filtersMedical wasteCatheter
A device for use in constructing a breathing circuit has at least a first tube and a filter; the filter has a proximal and a distal end; the first tube is attached to the filter distal end. A second tube can be attached to the filter proximal end, wherein the second tube can be detached from the filter for reuse in a breathing circuit formed with the foregoing components. The filter and the first tube may be disposed of after a single use. The first tube has a length sufficient to maintain the filter at a desired distance from a patient airway device when connected thereto. In a preferred embodiment, a fresh gas outlet is provided at the distal end of the first tube resulting in minimal or substantially no mixing space in the circuit, while the disposable first tube and filter create less medical waste than that created by prior art circuits. Mixing space refers to space distal of the fresh gas outlet into the circuit where the fresh gases can mix with recirculated or other gases. In embodiments, the mixing space is less than 15 cm3 or less than about 5 cm3, and the distal disposable filter and tube device is less than 50 cm in length.
Owner:FUKUNAGA ATSUO F +2

Hydraulic Block for a Hydraulic Power Unit of a Hydraulic Vehicle Brake System

A hydraulic block for a hydraulic power unit of a hydraulic vehicle brake system includes a main brake cylinder bore and an intake that are integrated to form a pedal travel simulator.
Owner:ROBERT BOSCH GMBH

Fast freeze container and seal

A reusable flexible seal is disclosed having a flexible main portion and a peripheral ring surrounding the flexible main portion adapted to engage the rim of a container. The flexible main portion includes an upper surface, a lower surface, and is dimensioned and configured to generally eliminate the head space over the contents of the container when assembled on the container. A venting mechanism includes at least one tab member extending inwardly from the peripheral ring for creating a gap between the lower surface of a portion of the peripheral ring and the upper surface of a portion of the edge of container wall.
Owner:DART IND INC

Pallet conveyor with chain drive recirculating in a horizontal plane

A conveyor using a drive chain to drive pallets along a closed loop path on a track lying in a horizontal plane through inside and outside turns so that the conveyor may transport parts along non aligned stations. An advance and a return run extend parallel to each other and are closely spaced to minimize the floor space required. The drive chain is engaged by two spaced apart sprockets engaging a respective side of the drive chain, the sprockets mounted to the pallet on a pivoted bar spring biased to urge the sprocket teeth into engagement with the chain. The sprocket bar is pivotally mounted to one end of the swing bar which has an opposite end connected to the pallet to allow the chain and pallet to move together along the track and negotiate inside and outside turns. The chain is guided in a chain guide channel through inside turns, and on sprockets around the outside turns. A pair of friction brake rollers are included, each attached to one of the sprockets and are normally in firm contact with each other to brake the sprockets and carry the pallet along with the chain, which friction brake rollers slip when the pallet is arrested by a stop mechanism to be allowed to accumulate, the sprockets then able to rotate and the chain allowed to continue to circulate past the stopped pallet. The pallets extend alongside the chain and track to allow vertical mounting of parts on a side plate of the pallet or alternatively on a horizontal top plate. Alternatively, the swing bars can each be connected to the chain by one of a series of pins connected to the drive chain and pivotally received in the swing bar end in a synchronous nonaccumulating conveyor.
Owner:ROBERTS SINTO A MICHIGAN

Finger unit for robot hand and method of assembling the same

A multi-joint finger unit (1) has first and second joint sections (3, 5) constructed by using bevel gears. In each joint section (3, 5), the section where a driving bevel gear (10, 44) and a driven bevel gear (14, 56) mesh with each other and also a bearing section of a joint shaft (15, 57) are assembled in a tubular housing (13, 51) whose forward end is closed. Rear end openings (13A, 52) of the tubular housings (13, 51) are closed by a tubular housing (7) at a finger root and a tubular housing (41) at a finger body section. The section where the gears of the joint sections (3, 5) mesh and the bearing section are substantially sealed, so that a foreign matter is prevented from entering from the outside to these sections and lubricant does not leaks from these sections. The multi-joint finger unit is suitable for use in place where thick powder dust is present and in a clean room.
Owner:HARMONIC DRIVE SYST IND CO LTD +1

Tank holder, liquid tank and tank attaching and detaching method

A recording head cartridge in which ink tanks include a removal preventing pawl which is provided at a rear surface of an ink container and engages with a tank holder, and a latch lever which is provided at a front surface of the ink container and which has a latch pawl engaging with the tank holder. The height of a rear wall and a side surface of the tank holder are set to be lower than corresponding heights of the ink tank. During removal, the container abuts the upper end of the peripheral wall of the tank holder an dis rotated about this upper end so that a part of the side surface of the container is protruded externally of the holder. Accordingly, a space required to remove the container form the tank holder is placed external of the peripheral wall of the tank holder. Thus, removal space ordinarily wasted by a conventional tank holder can be eliminated.
Owner:CANON KK

System and method for dynamically changing error algorithm redundancy levels

The invention is concerned with improvements in full duplex Internet telephone systems with a system architecture having low latency and permitting voice communication with telephone to telephone or PC to telephone connections. The architecture permits dynamic packet-to-packet change in codec to adjust for Internet conditions. The voice port creates self-describing packet conditions so that the higher-level software of the system is independent of codec selection. In addition to adjusting the codec, the voice port has the capability of dynamically and concurrently selecting other factors such as the level of error correction redundancy, the packet size and packet bundling on a packet-to-packet basis. The invention further includes a technique to eliminate dead air spaces in the voice data transmission stream by speeding up or slowing down the data rate in the buffer while maintaining a constant pitch of speech.
Owner:ADVENT IP

Electric power management system

An electric power management system includes a power generation apparatus for generating electric power, a power meter for receiving grid-connected information and a power conditioner for outputting the electric power generated by the power generation apparatus to the electric power system based on the grid-connected information. The grid-connected information is information related to stabilization of electric power of an electric power system from a management center for managing the electric power of the electric power system
Owner:PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD

Liquid crystal display device

It is desirable to reduce an overall size of a small liquid crystal display device, while keeping a screen size to a certain value. Thus, there is provided a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display panel on a mold, and a backlight placed in the mold. The backlight includes a light guide panel, an LED provided on a side surface of the liquid guide panel, and other components. A main flexible wiring substrate is attached to the liquid crystal display panel, and extends to a back surface of the mold. The LED is mounted on an LED flexible wiring substrate. An electronic component mounted on the main flexible wiring substrate is placed on the back side of the mold. Then, an insulating sheet is provided between the electronic component and the LED to prevent short circuit between them, instead of using a partition wall for electrical insulation.
Owner:PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO LTD +1
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