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A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate.

A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate.

Methods and systems for real-time monitoring of optical signals from arrays of signal sources, and particularly optical signal sources that have spectrally different signal components. Systems include signal source arrays in optical communication with optical trains that direct excitation radiation to and emitted signals from such arrays and image the signals onto detector arrays, from which such signals may be subjected to additional processing.

A system and method for measuring and surface reconstruction of a 3D image of an object comprises a projector arranged to project a pattern onto a surface of an object to be imaged; and a processor stage arranged to examine distortion or distortions produced in the pattern by the surface. The processor stage is arranged to convert by, for example, a triangulation process the distortion or distortions produced in the pattern by the surface to a distance representation representative of the shape of the surface. The processor stage is also arranged to reconstruct electronically the surface shape of the object.

A semiconductor device includes first and second transistor devices. The first device includes a first substrate region, a first gate electrode, and a first gate dielectric. The first gate dielectric is located between the first substrate region and the first gate electrode. The second device includes a second substrate region, a second gate electrode, and a second gate dielectric. The second gate dielectric is located between the second substrate region and the second gate electrode. The first gate dielectric includes a first high-k layer having a dielectric constant of 8 or more. Likewise, the second gate dielectric includes a second high-k layer having a dielectric constant of 8 or more. The second high-k layer has a different material composition than the first high-k layer.

The invention provides instruments and methods for prophylactic treatment of an osteoporotic vertebral body or for treating a vertebral compression fracture (VCF). In one exemplary method, a probe system uses a high speed rotational elastomeric cutter having an optional expandable abrasive surface for abrading or cutting at least one path or region within vertebral cancellous bone. Irrigation and aspiration sources are included in the probe system for removing abraded bone debris. In one embodiment, the high speed rotational abrader uses a tissue-selective abrading surface that abrades or cuts bone but does not cut soft tissue. In another embodiment, an expandable abrading surface allows the treatment of bone with low pressures to create paths or spaces without explosive expansion forces known in prior art balloon procedures that are designed to crush and compact cancellous bone in a vertebra. After the creation of a path or space, an in-situ hardenable bone cement volume is introduced into each path or space to support the vertebra.

A waste heat recovery apparatus including a Rankine cycle which includes a heater for heating an operation fluid by waste heat from a heat-generating device, an expansion unit for converting energy of expansion of the operation fluid flowing out from the heater into mechanical energy, and a condenser for condensing and liquefying the expanded operation fluid, a temperature detector for detecting the temperature of the operation fluid on the inlet side of the expansion unit, a pressure detector for detecting inlet-side pressure of the expansion unit, a pressure detector for detecting outlet-side pressure of the expansion unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls a command rotational speed of the expansion unit based on superheated degree information at the inlet of the expansion unit obtained from the operation fluid temperature and the inlet-side pressure, and pressure information in which the outlet-side pressure is considered.

A system and method of compression indexing and efficient proximity search of text data permits high speed search featuring ranking the relevance of search results according to closeness of desired terms within each portion of text found. The system includes (a) preparing target text, (b) creating a “compression index ebook”, (c) browsing in a compression index ebook, and (d) searching in a compression index ebook. To create the compression index, the method includes the steps of selecting target text, identifying tokens, such as words and punctuation strings, wherein each of the tokens has a frequency. The frequencies of each token are counted. Tokens are ranked from highest frequency to lowest frequency. The frequencies are compressed. The next step is assigning positions to each token frequency and compressing the positions to form a compression index ebook, which is stored in random access memory to eliminate disk seeks during browsing and searching.

An image-capturing element comprises: a plurality of pixels provided in a matrix each of which has a photoelectric conversion element; a plurality of color filters each of which is provided at one of the plurality of pixels; and a read out circuit that adds together electrical charges of pixels within every specific range among the plurality of pixels and enables a sequential read out of added electrical charges.

In a nonvolatile floating-gate semiconductor memory device, a word line voltage supply circuit is configured to be able to apply gate voltages to the same memory cells such that the gate voltage applied at and after the second time is different from the gate voltage applied at the first time. At least one of the word line voltage supply circuit and the bit line voltage supply circuit is set to be able to apply a voltage to the same memory cells for a longer application period at the first time than at and after the second time. With this configuration, the threshold voltage distribution of the memory cells is controlled to be narrow.

Methods and systems for communicating with a plurality of communications networks are provided herein. Aspects of the system may comprise cellular processing circuitry that processes a plurality of cellular frequency band communications services, comprising at least one voice service and at least one data service. The cellular processing circuitry may comprise a plurality of cellular processing integrated circuits within a mobile terminal. Broadcast processing circuitry may processes VHF/UHF frequency band broadcast services in at least one single broadcast processing integrated circuit within the mobile terminal. The cellular frequency band communications services may operate independently from the VHF/UHF frequency band broadcast services at the mobile terminal and the VHF/UHF frequency band broadcast services may be received from a digital video broadcasting (DVB) system.

A method of optimising real cellular, wireless communication networks comprising the steps of providing location-referenced values of subscriber traffic for area elements; transmitting a reference signal of constant transmission power; providing a cell-referenced value of the power received from the reference signal; providing a model of the communication network having an original model network configuration, and iteratively optimising the model network configuration by accumulating and weighting the subscriber traffic values of the area elements and by locally adjusting the model network configuration, to provide an optimised model network configuration.

In a D/I conversion section of the semiconductor device for driving a light emission display device, a precharge circuit is provided at the rear of each 1-output D/I conversion section. A precharge signal PC is input into the precharge circuit. The D/I conversion section has two output blocks internally thereof, and a role for storing and outputting current is changed every frame to enable securing a period for driving a pixel longer. Further, at the time of driving, in the precharge circuit, current driving is carried out after a voltage corresponding to output current has been applied to the pixel, and therefore, the pixel can be driven at high speed. Thereby, output current of high accuracy can be supplied to digital image data to be input, and even where an output current value is low, the current load device can be driven at high speed.

A technique is provided that reduces dullness of a potential provided to a line such as gate line on an active-matrix substrate to enable driving the line at high speed and, at the same time, reduces the size of the picture frame region. On an active-matrix substrate (20a) are provided gate lines (13G) and source lines. On the active-matrix substrate (20a) are further provided: gate drivers (11) each including a plurality of switching elements, at least one of which is located in a pixel region, for supplying a scan signal to a gate line (13G); and lines (15L1) each for supplying a control signal to the associated gate driver (11). A control signal is supplied by a display control circuit (4) located outside the display region to the gate drivers (11) via the lines (15L1). In response to a control signal supplied, each gate driver (11) drives the gate line (13G) to which it is connected.

An invention is provided for performing flush cache in a non-volatile memory. The invention includes maintaining a plurality of free memory blocks within a non-volatile memory. When a flush cache command is issued, a flush cache map is examined to obtain a memory address of a memory block in the plurality of free memory blocks within the non-volatile memory. The flush cache map includes a plurality of entries, each entry indicating a memory block of the plurality of free memory blocks. Then, a cache block is written to a memory block at the obtained memory address within the non-volatile memory. In this manner, when a flush cache command is received, the flush cache map allows cache blocks to be written to free memory blocks in the non-volatile memory without requiring a non-volatile memory search for free blocks or requiring erasing of memory blocks storing old data.

A surgical device of a drill/driver with bit recognition to set a desired application mode and a method of utilization thereof is provided. Various operating modes of the drill/driver are automatically set by a sensor which recognizes the bit applied to the drill/driver. A method of utilizing the drill/driver allows the drill driver to apply surgical screws at very high speeds while automatically preventing excessive torque levels that would strip out the surgical screw from the patient's bone.

A pre-mixer assembly associated with a fuel supply system for mixing of air and fuel upstream from a main combustion zone in a gas turbine engine. The pre-mixer assembly includes a swirler assembly disposed about a fuel injector of the fuel supply system and a pre-mixer transition member. The swirler assembly includes a forward end defining an air inlet and an opposed aft end. The pre-mixer transition member has a forward end affixed to the aft end of the swirler assembly and an opposed aft end defining an outlet of the pre-mixer assembly. The aft end of the pre-mixer transition member is spaced from a base plate such that a gap is formed between the aft end of the pre-mixer transition member and the base plate for permitting a flow of purge air therethrough to increase a velocity of the air/fuel mixture exiting the pre-mixer assembly.

An arriving direction estimating device for estimating the arriving direction of an arriving wave with high accuracy and at high speed by using a sensor array. The arriving direction estimating device comprises a receiving section for generating a baseband signal from the arriving signals received by sensors, a matrix creating section for creating a spatial average covariance matrix R by combining the correlation vector of the baseband signal, a projection matrix creating section for creating a projection matrix Q from the matrix R depending on the number of signals of the arriving signals, a scale matrix creating section for creating a scale matrix S from a partial matrix of the matrix R, and an estimating section for estimating the arriving direction of the arriving wave from the angle distribution or an algebraic equation by using QS⁻¹Q^H defined using the projection matrix Q and the scale matrix S.

A clock system for a data bus, e.g., a memory bus system, provides a write data (WCLK) clock signal in one direction on a bus and a data read (RCLK) clock signal in an opposite direction on the bus. A predetermined phase relationship between said WCLK and RCLK clock signals is set at a predetermined location on the data bus to ensure that all memory subsystems connected to the bus receive the WCLK and RCLK signals with appropriate timing to ensure proper operation of the memory subsystems.

A multilayer laminated structure suitable for use in flexible laminate packaging such as retort pouches contains a sealable layer and an imaging layer. The imaging layer is capable of recording a latent image (by image-wise exposure to actinic radiation, for example) that can be activated to form an image (for example, by operation of an externally applied agent such as pressure and/or heat upon the imaging layer). The sealable layer is utilized to form pouches and other containers from the multilayer laminated structure.

An edge Bridge (2A) executes Ethernet encapsulation. Even when redundant MAC addresses are used in the network of a customer, the MAC address of the customer is not referred to in a backbone network (1). Since forwarding is done on the basis of a MAC address added by the edge Bridge (2A), correct forwarding is possible. Additionally, in the edge Bridge (2A), a Service VLAN ID based on the customer-facing port which has received a customer MAC frame and the VLAN ID in the customer MAC frame is added to the customer MAC frame, thereby building a completely closed network for each customer. The customer can belong to a plurality of Service VLANs through a single customer-facing port and select, by a VLAN ID, a Service VLAN to which he/she should belong.

CMOS inverters are included in a standard cell. Power supply lines are electrically connected to CMOS inverters, and include lower layer interconnects and upper layer interconnect. Lower layer interconnects extend along a boundary of standard cells adjacent to each other and on the boundary. Upper layer interconnects are positioned more inside in standard cell than lower layer interconnects, as viewed from a plane. CMOS inverters are electrically connected through upper layer interconnects to lower layer interconnects. Thus, a semiconductor device is obtained that can achieve both higher speeds and higher integration.

A liquid crystal display having specific dispositions of pixels of a liquid crystal display so as to prevent the coupling defect and the stripe defect in high speed driving. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix shape, a switching element connected to each pixel, data lines and gate lines connected to the switching elements, and a data driver generating data voltages and applying the data voltages to the data lines. The data lines are disposed at both sides of the pixels in pairs, and data voltages of the same magnitude with different polarities are applied to the pairs of data lines. In this manner, preventing the coupling defect and the stripe defect, high speed driving can be performed.

The invention relates to a cascade regression-based face key point positioning method. The cascade regression-based face key point positioning method includes the following steps that: 1) a large number of face image data are acquired, and an initial key point position is marked; 2) the face image data are trained, and a coarse regression machine can be obtained through learning, and then with the output of the coarse regression machine adopted as input, a fine regression machine can be obtained through learning; and 3) face image data to be recognized are given, and the initial shape of a face is regressed to the vicinity of a real shape through the coarse regression machine, and then, with the output of the coarse regression machine adopted as input, the precise coordinates of a face key point can be obtained through the fine regression machine. According to the cascade regression-based face key points positioning method of the invention, a coarse-to-fine cascade regression algorithm is adopted, and a large number of samples are learned, and multi-feature fusion and multiple-regression machine fusion are realized, and therefore, the speed and the robustness of the algorithm are improved greatly, and the face key point can be excellently positioned under the situations of occlusion, low lightness and poses such as side faces, and the accuracy and the speed of face key point positioning can be effectively improved.

An imaging method and system that flexibly accesses light sensor elements and processes imaging signals. The imaging system comprises an array of pixel sensor cells, an array controller and a readout control circuit. The imaging system provides color compensation.

The invention discloses a shale gas well CO2 and slickwater mixing fracturing technology, and relates to the technical field of shale gas exploiting, in particular to the mixing fracturing technology by adopting CO2 and slickwater. In the construction process, a fracturing truck, a fracturing blender truck, a CO2 tank truck, a CO2 pump truck, a measuring truck, a fracturing manifold truck, an acid tank, propping agents and a liquid storage pot group need to be prepared, the fracturing manifold truck is provided with a low-pressure manifold and a high-pressure manifold, and the measuring truck is provided with a monitoring instrument, and the technology is characterized by comprising seven steps of doing well site planning, pressure testing, acid liquid processing, CO2 fracturing construction, slickwater fracturing construction, well closing after fracturing, and flow opening and flowback after fracturing. The shale gas well CO2 and slickwater mixing fracturing technology has the advantage that the shale gas exploiting method which is low in cost, low in relative construction difficulty, small in damage to a shale gas reservoir stratum and efficient is achieved.

A displacement sensor comprising an imaging unit and an image processing unit. The imaging unit comprises a two dimensional imaging device and a drive control unit. The two dimensional imaging device includes a group of light receiving pixels arranged in a matrix so as to correspond to a field of view of a standard imaging unit, a plurality of vertical shift registers corresponding to different columns of the pixels, and a horizontal register for receiving the outputs of the vertical shift registers from top stages thereof, a photosensitive pixel region being defined in a prescribed horizontal band having a sufficiently narrower width than that would be provided by the total number of horizontal lines and interposed between a front optically black pixel region and a back optically black pixel region. The drive control unit controls, according to a commanded electric charge transfer protocol, a feeding of signal electric charges from each light receiving pixel to the vertical shift register of a corresponding column, a vertical transfer of signal electric charges in the vertical shift register of each column, and a horizontal transfer of signal electric charges in the horizontal shift register. The image processing unit comprises electric charge transfer protocol command means for giving an electric charge transfer protocol to the drive control unit of the imaging unit in dependence of a content of the image process.

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reliable messaging using redundant message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include brokering, by a stream administration server, establishment of an active message stream to a subscribing client device from an active feed adapter, the active message stream capable of communicating active application messages; brokering, by the server, establishment of a backup message stream to the subscribing client device from a backup feed adapter, the backup message stream capable of communicating backup application messages representing duplicates of the active messages; receiving the active messages in messaging middleware of the subscribing client device; receiving, in response to a failover, the backup messages in the messaging middleware; and administering, by the messaging middleware, the backup messages in dependence upon an active stream source identifier, an active stream source sequence number, a backup stream source identifier, and a backup stream source sequence number.

In a stacked semiconductor package, since electric power is supplied to a second semiconductor package through a first semiconductor package, a power supply path becomes complicated and fluctuation of its inductance becomes large, whereby power bounce occurs to reduce signal quality and also prevent high speed signal communication. Therefore, according to the present invention, a first solder ball group for joint to a printed wiring board is attached to a second layer of the first semiconductor package, and a second solder ball group for joint to the first semiconductor package and a solder group for power supply for direct joint to the printed wiring board are provided on the second layer of the second semiconductor package, whereby electric power can be directly supplied from the printed wiring board.

In a through-via-hole path of semiconductor chips stacked in N stages, repeater circuits are provided in the respective semiconductor chips. For example, a signal transmitted from an output buffer circuit of the semiconductor chip is transmitted to an input buffer circuit of the semiconductor chip via the repeater circuits of the respective semiconductor chips. The respective repeater circuits can isolate impedances on input sides and output sides, and therefore, a deterioration of a waveform quality accompanied by a parasitic capacitance parasitic on the through-via-hole path of the respective semiconductor chips can be reduced and a high speed signal can be transmitted.