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A method for generating a ring tone for a given caller based on a prior conversation with that caller. A portion of a conversation with a given caller is recorded and stored in memory as a ring tone. When a subsequent call is received from the same caller, identified by caller ID, the ring tone is played, alerting the user to the incoming call as well as the context of their prior communication. In alternative embodiments of the invention, a prior textual or video conversation is used as the basis for a ring tone, and / or the ‘ring tone’ is delivered by other than audio means. The invention is capable of implementation in telecommunications systems such as cellular, local exchange, and VOIP, and in combination with other forms of internet-based telecommunication.

The present invention offers novel and superior means for protecting and profiting from digital content. The rights-centric, creator-centric digital rights management application will lead to greater revenue and rights for artists, and a new era of creator's entrepreneurship, as opposed to the dominant aggregator's entrepreneurship. The present invention offers a simple interface for creators, artists, users, and owners to define rights, select from a plurality of DRM options, advertising options, watermarking options, thumbnailing options, syndication options, and publish, share, sell, and distribute their content in a plurality of manners. This invention has far-ranging ramifications, as it causes DRM providers, device manufacturers, web companies, social networks, and content marketplaces to more directly compete with one-another to provide the creator and content owner the best compensation for their work. Creators can bypass the traditional and new middlemen, define their rights, sell their content, and enhance profits.

The present invention offers novel and superior means for creating a content marketplace. The present invention allows technology companies to compete to meet and serve the creators' rights. Just as reverse auction systems allow consumers to name their price, with service providers competing to meet the price, the present invention allows artists, creators, and content owners to define their rights, whereupon content aggregators, record labels, social networks, DRM providers, device manufacturers, search engines, and others compete to bets meet the creators' needs. This innovation reflects the fact while technology companies are commodities, and thus artists ought declare their independence, and ascend to their natural place in the universe—those who take the risks and create the wealth on their Heroes' Journeys ought reap the rewards. The Dodge City Marketplace will lead to greater revenue and rights for artists, superior search engines, distribution, and art, and trusted standards for DRM.

A cardiac valve prosthesis having a frame and two or more leaflets (preferably three) attached to the frame. The leaflets are attached to the frame between posts, with a free edge which can seal the leaflets together when the valve is closed under back pressure. The leaflets are created in a mathematically defined shape allowing good wash-out of the whole leaflet orifice, including the area close to the frame posts, thereby relieving the problem of thrombus deposition under clinical implant conditions.

Discount processing auction methods and systems are provided where buyers pool their purchasing power in order to get more competitive offers from sellers. Instead of sellers directly bidding for the buyer's shopping lists, the sellers update their discount rules and a discount processing method processes the sellers' latest discount rules and presents the results to the buyers while the auction is active. Buyers dynamically form a group and invite others to join the group to increase their purchasing power and maximize the discounts. Customers can form a social network with other buyers to share wish-lists, shopping carts, and discount scenarios. Consumers who commit to buy a total number of items over a period of time increase their effective purchasing power across time. Sellers also group together to offer higher total discount on a combination of items to buyers.

A method for generating a ring tone for a given caller based on a prior conversation with that caller. A portion of a conversation with a given caller is recorded and stored in memory as a ring tone. When a subsequent call is received from the same caller, identified by caller ID, the ring tone is played, alerting the user to the incoming call as well as the context of their prior communication. In alternative embodiments of the invention, a prior textual or video conversation is used as the basis for a ring tone, and / or the ‘ring tone’ is delivered by other than audio means. The invention is capable of implementation in telecommunications systems such as cellular, local exchange, and VOIP, and in combination with other forms of internet-based telecommunication.

Disclosed are a system and methods for online marketing of goods and services to consumers. More particularly, a method for target marketing to specific consumers on the Internet based upon the profile of the consumer, including geographic location, is disclosed.

A method of decoding data comprising a plurality of data-bursts, comprising the steps of:i) receiving a first one of the data-bursts,ii) associating hypothesis data with the or each received data-bursts;iii) attempting to decode the data; andiv) if the decode is successful to power down the receiver, and if the decode is unsuccessful receiving a further one of the data-bursts and repeating steps ii) to iv), until all of the data has been received.

In a radar system it is necessary to distinguish signals reflected from wanted targets such as aircraft from those reflected from fixed terrain features, known as clutter. The clutter signals can in some cases be significantly stronger than the wanted signals. One method for dealing with land clutter is the use of a high resolution clutter map. The area around the radar is considered to be divided into cells, and an array of background signal estimates is maintained for these cells. Whenever a signal is received by the radar, it is compared with the stored background level for the cell it occupies, and a detection is only reported if the signal exceeds the background by a pre-set threshold. Received signals are also used to modify the stored background levels so that the clutter map adapts to the reflections from clutter which are present over long periods. Clutter maps have so far only been used successfully for radars at fixed locations. In the case of a ship-borne radar near land, a conventional clutter map will not work well. This is because as the ship moves, the positions of land scatterers relative to the ship will not be fixed. Individual terrain features will therefore be moved from one clutter map cell to another. In the cell into which a strong scatterer moves, the land clutter reflections will be reported as targets until the stored background has had time to adapt to the new higher level. Similarly, in the cell which the scatterer has left, the stored background level will be higher than necessary, and may cause actual targets to be suppressed until it has had time to adapt to the new lower clutter level.

In acoustic well logging, for each inversion depths of a well at which logging of data occurs, acoustic log signals representative of waveforms received at acoustic receivers are processed in a frequency domain to derive field dispersion curve(s). A neural net is operated to generate formation shear slowness value(s) from the curve(s), and resulting signal(s) indicative of shear slowness values are saved, transmitted, plotted, printed or processed. An apparatus for carrying out the method includes a logging tool having at least one activatable acoustic wave source; spaced and acoustically isolated therefrom in the logging tool an array of acoustic detectors that on the detection of acoustic wave energy generate electrical or electronic log signal(s) characteristic of acoustic energy waves detected by the acoustic detector(s); and at least one processing device associated with or forming part of the logging tool for processing the log signal(s).

A switched mode power supply (SMPS) comprising a feedback unit, voltage feed forward (VFF) compensation signal generator and a transient detector. A VFF compensation signal is only applied to the output of the feedback unit when a transient is detected by the transient detector on the input voltage of the SMPS, thereby saving power and computation time. The transient detector comprises a first comparator to detect that a positive transient has occurred if a difference signal is greater than a positive threshold level; a second comparator to determine if the difference signal is within a predetermined range of positive values and output a result that indicates if the difference signal is within the predetermined range of positive values; and a first calculator to detect that a positive transient has occurred if, out of a first predetermined number of consecutive results of the output of the second comparator, there is at least a second predetermined number of results indicating that the difference signal is within the predetermined range of positive values. The transient detector comprises further features for similarly detecting a negative transient.

The present invention is related to a system and method of inspecting a weld. The weld to be inspected is subjected to a transient sonic excitation while the weld area is monitored using a remote infrared camera. The sonic excitation induces mechanical vibration, which causes heat generation at any cracks or other anomalies in the weld. The infrared camera detects any temperature differentials in the weld, indicating the presence of an anomaly. The system and method is particularly useful for welds in environments that are unsafe for extended human presence or that are crowded or otherwise inaccessible, such as with piping or other structural components.

Systems, methods, and tools are provided for analysis of one or more fields of interest for use, for example, in making decisions and / or allocating resources. For example, a field of interest involving a technology platform may be analyzed to allocate research and development resources, value potential acquisitions, etc. One or more analysis tools such as data recordation structures may be employed.

The present invention aims at executing an air-fuel ratio feedback control making use of a wide range air-fuel ratio sensor, such that the purifying performance of an exhaust gas purification catalytic converter is exhibited to the utmost. To this end, fuel is injected from a fuel injection valve by establishing a fuel injection quantity, in consideration of a perturbation control constant for oscillating the air-fuel ratio at a predetermined period with a predetermined amplitude. Thus, even when the air-fuel ratio feedback control is executed making use of the detected result of the wide range air-fuel ratio sensor, it becomes possible to conduct a so-called perturbation control in which the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas at the inlet portion of the exhaust gas purification catalytic converter is oscillated at a predetermined period with a predetermined amplitude. As a result, there can be effectively caused the adsorption and desorption of oxygen molecules onto and from the surface of the exhaust gas purification catalytic converter, so that the purifying performance of the catalytic converter can be remarkably improved.

A method of decoding data comprising a plurality of data-bursts, comprising the steps of:i) receiving a first one of the data-bursts,ii) associating hypothesis data with the or each received data-bursts;iii) attempting to decode the data; andiv) if the decode is successful to power down the receiver, and if the decode is unsuccessful receiving a further one of the data-bursts and repeating steps ii) to iv), until all of the data has been received.

Examples of the present application provide an interference cancellation method, system, device and a UE. The interference cancellation method of a communication network including a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) and Base Stations (BSs) includes: acquiring a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and Interference to Noise Ratio (INR) of a downlink signal detected by a first UE and a SNR and INR of a downlink signal detected by a second UE, respectively through a first BS and a second BS; and notifying the first BS and the second BS of a transmission mode of associated UEs, wherein the first UE is located in a cell served by the first BS, and the second UE is located in a cell served by the second BS.

The present invention relates to a system (10) for supporting an elderly, frail and / or diseased person (12), in particular a person suffering from Parkinson's disease, wherein the system (10) comprises: a detection unit (14) including (i) a brain activity sensor (20) for detecting a brain activity signal relating to the brain activity of the person (12) and (ii) a motion detection unit (22) for detecting a motion signal relating to a motion of one or more body parts of the person (12); an analysis unit (16) for determining, based on the detected brain activity signal and motion signal, an activity level of the person (12) which is indicative of the motoric and cognitive activity of the person (12); and a feedback unit (18) for providing a feedback to the person (12) if the activity level of the person (12) exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Examples of the present application provide an interference cancellation method, system, device and a UE. The interference cancellation method of a communication network including a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) and Base Stations (BSs) includes: acquiring a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and Interference to Noise Ratio (INR) of a downlink signal detected by a first UE and a SNR and INR of a downlink signal detected by a second UE, respectively through a first BS and a second BS; and notifying the first BS and the second BS of a transmission mode of associated UEs, wherein the first UE is located in a cell served by the first BS, and the second UE is located in a cell served by the second BS.

An encoder signal processing device, a printer, a printer-equipped imaging apparatus, and an encoder signal processing method that can remove the effect of a noise signal mixed with an encoder signal and favorably deal with a case where an original pulse signal is lost from the encoder signal are provided. An effective detection period setting unit 523 sets an effective detection period for detecting a subsequent pulse signal, each time a pulse signal detection unit 522 detects a pulse signal from an encoder signal. The pulse signal detection unit 522 detects the pulse signal only within the set effective detection period. In a case where the pulse signal detection unit 522 does not detect the pulse signal within the effective detection period, a pulse signal generation unit 524 generates the pulse signal after the effective detection period.

The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10) placed in an examination volume of a MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to enable MR imaging using a radial (or spiral) acquisition scheme with a reduced level of motion artefacts. The method of the invention comprises the following sequence of steps: —detecting a momentary motion—induced displacement (Δ) of the object (10); —attributing the detected displacement (A) to a motion state (M1-M5), each motion state (M1-M5) corresponding to one of a plurality of contiguous ranges of displacements (Δ); —determining angular coordinates of a radial or spiral k-space profile by incrementing the angular coordinates individually for each motion state (M1-M5) starting from initial angular coordinates; —acquiring the k-space profile; —repeating steps a-d a number of times; and —reconstructing an MR image from at least the k-space profiles attributed to one of the motion states (M1-M5). Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) for carrying out this method as well as to a computer program to be run on a MR device (1).

An object of the present invention is to provide a high-expansion gypsum composition in which the expansion coefficient of a general purpose dental gypsum material or the like is simply and effectively improved to such an extent that has never been achieved with conventional technologies without using any special material by adding an inexpensive additive even in a small addition amount, and furthermore another object of the present invention is to provide a high-expansion gypsum composition the setting expansion coefficient of which is appropriately controlled so that the contraction of a resin to be used can be precisely dealt with, the high-expansion gypsum composition being useful for manufacturing a reproduction model to be used in manufacturing a “non-clasp denture” having no problem in, for example, occlusion (adaptability). The objects of the present invention are achieved by means of a method for producing a high-expansion gypsum composition, the method producing a gypsum composition having an enhanced setting expansion coefficient by copulverizing in a dry system a powdered gypsum composition containing calcined gypsum as a main component and dihydrate gypsum.

A switched mode power supply (SMPS) comprising a feedback unit, voltage feed forward (VFF) compensation signal generator and a transient detector. A VFF compensation signal is only applied to the output of the feedback unit when a transient is detected by the transient detector on the input voltage of the SMPS, thereby saving power and computation time. The transient detector comprises a first comparator to detect that a positive transient has occurred if a difference signal is greater than a positive threshold level; a second comparator to determine if the difference signal is within a predetermined range of positive values and output a result that indicates if the difference signal is within the predetermined range of positive values; and a first calculator to detect that a positive transient has occurred if, out of a first predetermined number of consecutive results of the output of the second comparator, there is at least a second predetermined number of results indicating that the difference signal is within the predetermined range of positive values. The transient detector comprises further features for similarly detecting a negative transient.

An object of the present invention is to provide a high-expansion gypsum composition in which the expansion coefficient of a general purpose dental gypsum material or the like is simply and effectively improved to such an extent that has never been achieved with conventional technologies without using any special material by adding an inexpensive additive even in a small addition amount, and furthermore another object of the present invention is to provide a high-expansion gypsum composition the setting expansion coefficient of which is appropriately controlled so that the contraction of a resin to be used can be precisely dealt with, the high-expansion gypsum composition being useful for manufacturing a reproduction model to be used in manufacturing a “non-clasp denture” having no problem in, for example, occlusion (adaptability). The objects of the present invention are achieved by means of a method for producing a high-expansion gypsum composition, the method producing a gypsum composition having an enhanced setting expansion coefficient by copulverizing in a dry system a powdered gypsum composition containing calcined gypsum as a main component and dihydrate gypsum.

In acoustic well logging, for each inversion depths of a well at which logging of data occurs, acoustic log signals representative of waveforms received at acoustic receivers are processed in a frequency domain to derive field dispersion curve(s). A neural net is operated to generate formation shear slowness value(s) from the curve(s), and resulting signal(s) indicative of shear slowness values are saved, transmitted, plotted, printed or processed. An apparatus for carrying out the method includes a logging tool having at least one activatable acoustic wave source; spaced and acoustically isolated therefrom in the logging tool an array of acoustic detectors that on the detection of acoustic wave energy generate electrical or electronic log signal(s) characteristic of acoustic energy waves detected by the acoustic detector(s); and at least one processing device associated with or forming part of the logging tool for processing the log signal(s).

An encoder signal processing device, a printer, a printer-equipped imaging apparatus, and an encoder signal processing method that can remove the effect of a noise signal mixed with an encoder signal and favorably deal with a case where an original pulse signal is lost from the encoder signal are provided. An effective detection period setting unit 523 sets an effective detection period for detecting a subsequent pulse signal, each time a pulse signal detection unit 522 detects a pulse signal from an encoder signal. The pulse signal detection unit 522 detects the pulse signal only within the set effective detection period. In a case where the pulse signal detection unit 522 does not detect the pulse signal within the effective detection period, a pulse signal generation unit 524 generates the pulse signal after the effective detection period.

The present invention relates to a system (10) for supporting an elderly, frail and / or diseased person (12), in particular a person suffering from Parkinson's disease, wherein the system (10) comprises: a detection unit (14) including (i) a brain activity sensor (20) for detecting a brain activity signal relating to the brain activity of the person (12) and (ii) a motion detection unit (22) for detecting a motion signal relating to a motion of one or more body parts of the person (12); an analysis unit (16) for determining, based on the detected brain activity signal and motion signal, an activity level of the person (12) which is indicative of the motoric and cognitive activity of the person (12); and a feedback unit (18) for providing a feedback to the person (12) if the activity level of the person (12) exceeds a predetermined threshold.