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An image processing system includes a combined display-camera having an array of interspersed display elements and camera elements, arranged substantially in a common plane of a flat panel or other display. Each of at least a subset of the camera elements has one or more imaging angles associated therewith, with the one or more imaging angles being selected to provide a desired imaging operation for the combined display-camera. The imaging angles of the camera elements can be selected to provide an imaging operation which approximates that of a lens-based single-camera system, a pin-hole camera system or other type of system. Each of the camera elements may include multiple image sensors, such that different imaging angles can be set for the different image sensors of a given camera element, and different perspectives of a scene can be generated in the image processing system.

A power management system uses software to predictively estimate remaining battery endurance by considering battery usage in context of a predetermined battery output and equipment load profiles, and appropriately issuing a shutdown alert or commencing a shutdown event as the end of battery endurance nears. More particularly, a battery supplies power to electrical equipment when a primary power source fails. Initially, the system receives one or more estimates of the battery's endurance and capability of supplying electrical power to the equipment. The system tracks battery use by prescribed electrical equipment. Utilizing software, for example, the system determines when estimated endurance minus battery usage equals a predetermined difference. Relative to this time, the system takes appropriate action(s) such as initiating shutdown of the equipment or issuing a shutdown alert.

An object of the invention is to provide, in a vehicle driving assistance system that provides assistance to avoid a collision between a host vehicle and a three-dimensional object causing an obstruction, a technique for avoiding assistance in which the host vehicle is guided to a region where the presence of a three-dimensional object is unclear. To achieve this object, according to the invention, a grid map, by which an avoidance region in which a three-dimensional object exists, an unclear region in which the existence of a three-dimensional object is unclear, and a safe region in which no three-dimensional objects exist can he distinguished, is created. When the avoidance region exists on the advancement path of the host vehicle, a route that can avoid the avoidance region and passes through the unclear region for a distance not exceeding a threshold is specified, whereupon a steering angle is controlled to cause the host vehicle to travel along the specified route,

Methods of assessing feasibility of a project include receiving a datum from a customer; designing an application specific system based on the datum; analyzing the datum; evaluating a set of input parameters to determine an applicability of the application specific system to a customer process; and providing feedback for the customer process with the application specific system.

A method of separating a semiconductor substrate having an implementation member attached thereon includes a dividing process for at least the implementation member on the semiconductor substrate along a separation line, a placing process for film member on a same side as the implementation member, a forming process area by irradiating a laser beam from at least one of a first side of the semiconductor substrate having the implementation member and a second side that is an opposite side of the first side of the semiconductor substrate along the separation line with a focusing point of the laser beam aligned with a substance in the semiconductor substrate and severing / removing at least one semiconductor chip at the separation line from the semiconductor substrate.

The invention relates to a method for producing a semiconductor structure comprising a superficial layer, at least one embedded layer, and a support, which method comprises:a step of forming, on a first support, patterns in a first material,a step of forming a semiconductor layer, between and on said patterns,a step of assembling said semiconductor layer with a second support.

The invention relates to a microstructured technological system and, in particular, micromirror arrangements. The aim of the invention is to produce facade elements for buildings having large areas in square centimetres and above, at reduced cost. The entire micromirror arrangement can be produced as a flat, architectonically useable structural element in a modularly replicable manner. According to the invention, the control electronic system, which contains the logics which are controlled as mirror elements, is arranged in the centre of a control device at a specific, remote distance from which an addressing network is used to control the individual mirror elements or modules. Said addressing network is already integrated into the flat modules during production and to a large degree, in the form of printed lines. As a result, the necessity of incorporating silicon-based chip technology into the facade elements, which is expensive, is no longer necessary. Also, essentially less expensive materials than highly pure silicon are used in the production of the micromirror arrangements. Production costs, which are at least in the same size order as other, traditional, high quality façade elements, result therefrom.

A virtual machine control method and a virtual machine having the dual objectives of utilizing NIC on a virtual machine that creates sub-virtual machines operated by a VMM on virtual machines generated by a hypervisor to avoid software copying by the VMM and to prevent band deterioration during live migration or adding sub-virtual machines. In a virtual machine operating plural virtualization software on a physical machine including a CPU, memory, and multi-queue NIC; a virtual multi-queue NIC is loaded in the virtual machine, for virtual queues included in the virtual multi-queue NIC, physical queues configuring the multi-queue NIC are assigned to virtual queues where usage has started, and the physical queues are allowed direct access to the virtual machine memory.

A method of separating a semiconductor substrate having an implementation member attached thereon includes a dividing process for at least the implementation member on the semiconductor substrate along a separation line, a placing process for film member on a same side as the implementation member, a forming process area by irradiating a laser beam from at least one of a first side of the semiconductor substrate having the implementation member and a second side that is an opposite side of the first side of the semiconductor substrate along the separation line with a focusing point of the laser beam aligned with a substance in the semiconductor substrate and severing / removing at least one semiconductor chip at the separation line from the semiconductor substrate.

Systems and methods for an improved memory allocation service in embedded or wireless devices. Memory is allocated using a combination of container memory items and referencing memory items.

A measuring endoscope system includes a menu display module that selects a menu according to display data which is associated in advance with any of a plurality of optical adaptors, and a measuring program for performing measurement according to the result of the selection performed by the menu display module. Consequently, in the measuring endoscope system, when a user designates an optical adaptor using an optical adaptor selection screen image displayed on an LCD by the menu display module, a measuring technique associated with the optical adaptor is automatically selected. When a user wants to perform measurement using the measuring endoscope system, the user should merely press a measurement execution switch included in an endoscopic operation unit. Thus, measurement in which the selected measuring technique is implemented is carried out. Consequently, the present invention has succeeded in improving the maneuverability of a measuring endoscope system in measurement and improving the efficiency thereof in inspection.

Methods of licensing state-of-the-art technology, such as an optical analysis system and components thereof, include assessing a technology requirement of a customer, such as a pharmaceutical, food or chemical industry customer; pricing the optical analysis system to meet the technology requirement; testing the optical analysis system to meet the technology requirement; licensing the optical analysis system based on the pricing thereof for a predetermined period of time; and maintaining the optical analysis system for the predetermined period of time.

Process for the production of paraxylene from a C8 aromatic feedstock that comprises the following stages:A stage for separation by adsorption in a simulated moving bed SMB that produces an extract that contains at least 95% paraxylene and at least one raffinate R that contains ethylbenzene,A recycling of raffinate to the SMB separation stage after isomerization, in which R is separated in membrane separation means to obtain a first fraction F1 that is relatively high in ethylbenzene, which is purged, and an additional fraction F2 that is relatively low in ethylbenzene, which is recycled to the SMB after a single isomerization, preferably in the liquid phase.

A method for heating a battery in a hybrid electric vehicle. The hybrid electric vehicle has an engine, a battery, a motor generator powered by the engine or the battery, and a control module. The method includes the steps of determining a battery temperature and determining whether a tip-in event, a tip-out event, or a terminal voltage event has occurred. The polarity of the battery is reversed if the battery temperature is below a predetermined value and if a tip-in event, a tip-out event, or a terminal voltage event has occurred.

Provided is a diesel engine which can efficiently regenerate a diesel particulate filter. The control for regeneration using an ECU includes a first regeneration by burning particulate matter at slightly more than 300° C. for 20 minutes when the accumulation of particulate matter exceeds a first threshold; a second regeneration by burning particulate matter at approximately 560° C. for 30 minutes by an additional injection to remove particulate matter other than ash when the accumulation of particulate matter exceeds the first threshold for a first predetermined period of time, or every 100 hours; and a third regeneration by burning particulate matter at approximately 600° C. for 15 minutes by an additional injection to remove particulate matter other than ash when the accumulation of particulate matter exceeds a second threshold and an emergency regeneration switch is pushed, or after 50 hours since the second or third regeneration and the emergency regeneration switch is pushed.

A three dimensional (3D) printer sprays and solidifies liquid ink to build a 3D object prevents implementation of unintended color due to a mix of different color ink, and increases 3D printing speed by enhancing the process of spraying and solidifying the ink. The control method of the 3D printer for building a 3D object by laminating a plurality of layers includes forming first areas not adjacent to each other in one of the plurality of layers and solidifying the first areas; and forming second areas adjacent to the solidified first areas and solidifying the second areas.

A method and a circuit for protecting at least one piece of information contained in an electronic circuit by disabling at least one function of the circuit in case of detection of a number of abnormal operations greater than a threshold, in which the disabling of the function is temporary, of a duration independent from whether the circuit is powered or not.

Device for moulding thermoplastic containers by blow-moulding hot preforms, comprising a mould (1) and blow-moulding means (2) comprising a bell nozzle (8) which is axially displaceable between a raised position and a blow-moulding position in abutment against the mould; the driving means comprising mechanical means (12) with a cam follower roller (13) / cam (14) and pneumatic means (16) with a piston (18) integral with the upper end of the nozzle and sliding in a fixed enclosure (17), defining therein an upper chamber (19) connected to a source (24) of control fluid and a lower chamber (20) connected to this source and to the upper chamber via a solenoid valve (26); the upper face of the piston has a surface area which is greater than that of its lower face and that of the bell (9) of the nozzle.

In a case where the density correction condition of an image output section is satisfied while a job is being executed, density correction means performs density correction while the job is being executed or after the execution of the job. On this occasion, if there is a job on standby for printing in an image memory, this job is executed in the image formation condition (i.e. a correction amount stored in a current correction amount storing section) determined before the density correction. In the meanwhile, a job which is stored after the density correction is executed in a latest image formation condition (i.e. a correction amount stored in a latest correction amount storing section) which is figured out by the aforesaid density correction.

A p-type field effect transistor (PFET) and an n-type field effect transistor (NFET) are formed by patterning of a gate dielectric layer, a thin silicon layer, and a silicon-germanium alloy layer. After formation of the source / drain regions and gate spacers, silicon germanium alloy portions are removed from gate stacks. A dielectric layer is formed and patterned to cover an NFET gate electrode, while exposing a thin silicon portion for a PFET. Germanium is selectively deposited on semiconductor surfaces including the exposed silicon portion. The dielectric layer is removed and a metal layer is deposited and reacted with underlying semiconductor material to form a metal silicide for a gate electrode of the NFET, while forming a metal silicide-germanide alloy for a gate electrode of the PFET.

A system and method for authenticating the source, integrity, and associated execution controls, of a plurality of software, including but not limited to, installation packages, updates, patches, and other code components, distributed from a plurality of issuers for implementation on a plurality of predetermined recipient information handling systems operating within a network environment. Current file security is improved by automatically filtering software installation packages to ensure that each package component is signed by a trusted and verified issuer, and has not been tampered with, thereby replacing a weak, native trust model based on firewalls, static filters, reactive detection, and cleansing approaches. The method of the invention utilizes directory services, implemented within a network environment, to monitor and verify which software is currently authorized and implemented on one or more information handling systems operating within the network environment, and whether or not software received over a network is authorized to interact with a predetermined information handling system(s) and / or its previously implemented and authorized software.

A video camera of a video monitoring system includes an image generation unit which provides a sequence of digital images (DI) having watchdog information data to supervise the sequence of digital images; an information data encoder adapted to encode the watchdog information data to generate information blocks; a video compression unit adapted to compress the digital images received from the image generation unit to generate compressed digital images consisting of image blocks; a data transmission unit adapted to transmit the generated image blocks received from the video compression unit along with the information blocks generated by the information data encoder.

Provided are a message brokering systems, computer program products and methods for communication in a publish / subscribe environment in which publisher application programs send messages to subscriber application programs via one or more message brokers, the method comprising the following steps: responsive to receipt of a published message at a message broker, referring to characteristics of the received message and subscriber-specified quality of service requirements to determine an appropriate quality or service for onward transmission of the message; selecting a communication protocol in accordance with the determined quality of service; and transmitting the message using the selected communication protocol. Information relating to the quality of service requirements of a first message broker's subscribers is passed to other brokers and subsequently used for selection of an appropriate communication protocol for transmitting messages between the brokers.

Rectifiers are used in power systems, but surges are commonly encountered in the power grid, which can damage switches used to drive the active rectifiers. An active rectification system is proposed in which a ‘thyristor’ type path is enabled through a transistor device such that surges bypass the driving switches.

A monitor is located adjacent to a hand hygiene product dispenser and extends a sensor field adjacent to the hand hygiene product dispenser. The sensor senses activity adjacent to the hand hygiene product dispenser in the sensor field. The monitor determines whether sensed activity indicates a use of the hand hygiene product dispenser and reports a use of the dispenser to a monitoring system when a use is determined.

A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device for a vehicle capable of coasting, in which when there is no acceleration or deceleration request to the vehicle while traveling, power transmission between an engine and drive wheels is cut off and the vehicle is allowed to travel by inertia, wherein in a state in which there is no acceleration or deceleration request to the vehicle while traveling and power is transmitted between the engine and the drive wheels, whether or not to implement the coasting is determined by comparing a required deceleration rate Dt which is estimated as a deceleration rate to be later required of the vehicle and a coasting deceleration rate Dn which is estimated as a deceleration rate during the coasting. Where it is determined to implement the coasting, power transmission between the engine and the drive wheels is cut off and the coasting is implemented, and where it is determined not to implement the coasting, power transmission between the engine and the drive wheels is maintained. As a result, the implementation of coasting that can provide a sense of anxiety or discomfort to the driver can be suppressed.

In the crystal growth rate (V), there is such a permissible range that the given quality of silicon single crystal can be maintained. This permissible range is determined in advance. The log data of crystal growth rate (V) is measured in the pulling up of silicon single crystal, and using the log data, the actual value of crystal growth rate (V) is determined. The actual value is compared with the permissible range. Any region of silicon single crystal corresponding to crystal growth rate (V) falling within the permissible range is judged as being a conforming region satisfying given standards, while any region of silicon single crystal corresponding to crystal growth rate (V) falling outside the permissible range is judged as being a defective region not satisfying given standards.

A method and a device for the computer-assisted generation of a construction plan for modular aircraft components on the basis of validated partial construction plans for individual modules.