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A High Speed Serial Bus connecting teleconference devices, such as video conference unit, speakerphone, external loudspeakers or microphones is disclosed. The disclosed embodiments enable the distributing and sharing of controls among the linked devices. They enable incremental upgrades or capacity increases of the teleconference system.

The present invention relates to a device for influencing at least one climatic parameter and more specifically the device is provided to influence a zone meant for handling.

A significant improvement over current methods for co-simulation of the hardware and software components of embedded digital system designs is provided. The present invention integrates the hardware and software components of a system design into a single unified simulation environment. The unified simulation environment and the various component models of the system design are created in a high level general purpose programming language. This allows inter-component communications and communications with the unified simulation environment to be carried out through the use of function calls, which significantly increases the overall simulation speed. Additionally, the unified simulation environment runs as a single process, which significantly improves debugging capabilities. Furthermore, the present invention employs a higher level of abstraction than conventional simulation environments and thereby significantly increases simulation speed while moving away from the detail saturated event driven simulations of the past.

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for improved audio, video, and data conferencing. The present invention provides a conferencing system comprising a plurality of endpoints communicating data including audio data and control data according to a communication protocol. A local conference endpoint may control or be controlled by a remote conference endpoint. Data comprising control signals may be exchanged between the local endpoint and remote endpoint via various communication protocols. In other embodiments, the present invention provides for improved bridge architecture for controlling functions of conference endpoints including controlling functions of the bridge.

Systems and methods of various embodiments may enable or refine translation of text between a first language and a second language. In particular, systems and methods may enable or refine a text translation by soliciting and/or receiving feedback for: translation of a first word or phrase from a first language to a second language; transformation of the first word or phrase (in the first language) to a second word or phrase in the first language; or transformation of the first word or phrase (in the first language) to a second word or phrase in the second language. The systems and methods of various embodiments may incentivize user feedback for failed translations in order to encourage user feedback, improve the quality of user feedback received, and to permit development of translation corpora that can evolve with time.

A stack of material sheets, which material sheets have a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and which material sheets are folded at least once in the transverse direction along a transverse folding line and at least once in the longitudinal direction along a longitudinal folding line. The material sheets are interlinked such that, when a first material sheet is extracted, a predetermined part of the next material sheet is fed out. Two consecutive material sheets in the stack are folded into one another and are in this way interlinked by panels of the respective material sheets. The said panels constitute rectangles each having two delimiting edges namely a longitudinal fold edge and a transverse fold edge. The two consecutive material sheets lie stacked with the longitudinal fold edge of a first material sheet arranged in the opposite direction in relation to the corresponding longitudinal fold edge of the next, second material sheet. In addition, a panel of the first material sheet is enclosed by two panels of the next material sheet.

The present invention relates to a lithium deposited anode for a lithium secondary battery and a method for preparing the same, and more particularly, to an anode suitable for a lithium secondary battery which limits dendrite growth only inside the concave portion of the silicon substrate during a battery is charged/discharged by depositing lithium as an active material only on the deeply caved concave portion of an anode current collector of which a micro-size patterned silicon substrate has conductivity provided by a metal, and its manufacturing method.

A process for selectively extracting bioactive components from a raw material extract derived from vegetable matter, including the steps of: (a) passing said raw material extract through a passageway containing an adsorbent whereby at least some of the components to be extracted are adsorbed onto the said adsorbent; (b) subsequently passing through said passageway an eluent mixture substantially containing water and alcohol whereby the concentration of alcohol in the eluent is increased at a substantially constant rate from 15 vol percent to 95 vol percent during at least those periods when the components are being eluted; (c) sequentially collecting an eluate in fractions corresponding to the presence of the extracted components.

A tunnel setup protocol enables tunnel clients to set up IPv6-in-IPv4 networks to permit IPv6 nodes to communicate across the IPv4 network using IPv6 native packets. The tunnel setup protocol uses a control channel to negotiate tunnel configuration parameters and exchange tunnel configuration data between a tunnel client and a tunnel broker server. The tunnel setup is automatic, and migration to IPv6 is ameliorated.

A process for the deposition of particulate material of a desired substance on a surface includes: (i) charging a particle formation vessel with a compressed fluid; (ii) introducing into the particle formation vessel a first feed stream comprising a solvent and the desired substance dissolved therein and a second feed stream comprising the compressed fluid, wherein the desired substance is less soluble in the compressed fluid relative to its solubility in the solvent and the solvent is soluble in the compressed fluid, and wherein the first feed stream is dispersed in the compressed fluid, allowing extraction of the solvent into the compressed fluid and precipitation of particles of the desired substance; (iii) exhausting compressed fluid, solvent and the desired substance from the particle formation vessel at a rate substantially equal to the rate of addition of such components to the vessel in step (ii) through a restrictive passage to a lower pressure whereby the compressed fluid is transformed to a gaseous state and a flow of particles of the desired substance is formed; and (iv) exposing a receiver surface to the exhausted flow of particles of the desired substance and depositing a uniform layer of particles on the receiver surface.

A method of configuring a frequency transposition scheme for transposing a set of received frequencies of an audio signal received by a hearing aid worn by a subject to a transposed set of frequencies, wherein the method comprises determining at least one subject-dependent parameter indicative of the subject's ability to detect audio frequencies, and at least one subject-dependent parameter indicative of the location in frequency of one or more spectral cues, configuring a subject-dependent frequency transposition scheme based on the determined subject-dependent parameters, the subject-dependent frequency transposition scheme being configured so as to improve the subject's spatial hearing capabilities, and adapting the hearing aid to perform the configured subject-dependent frequency transposition scheme.

A transport system for providing increased capacity to move individuals and freight while still accommodating the individual needs of passengers and freight movers to travel to unique destinations. The transit system including a car including a set of switching wheels that are designed to engage with a set of switching rails, the switching wheels being moveable to selectively engage with the switching rails to either maintain the car on the track or switch the car off of the track. The car having to capability to travel on the relatively high-speed track and on a conventional surface street.

Some embodiments provide a capacity management agent that modifies content requests to adjust bandwidth consumption when streaming requested content from a content provider to a requesting user. The modifications include modifying a URL or header information of the request. The agent performs a process that receives a request for content of a content provider. The process identifies a parameter of the carrier network and modifies the request when the parameter satisfies a threshold. The process passes the request to the content provider and the content provider provides content that consumes a first set of resources in response to an unmodified request and a second set of resources in response to a modified request. When the parameter identifies congestion, the first set of resources is greater than the second set of resources. When the condition parameter identifies underutilization, the first set of resources is less than the second set of resources.

The invention relates to a vane (10) of a diffuser (5) for a radial or mixed-flow compressor (2) of an engine (1), including a leading edge (11) arranged facing a flow of gas, a trailing edge (12) being opposite the leading edge (11), a side upper surface wall (13) and a side lower surface wall (14) which connect the leading edge (11) to the trailing edge (12), and a profile including a curved line (15) having at least two points of inflection (I1, I2) between the leading edge (11) and the trailing edge (12). The invention also relates to a corresponding radial diffuser (2).

The present invention relates to a capacitive fingerprint sensing device for sensing a fingerprint pattern of a finger, the capacitive fingerprint sensor comprising a plurality of sensing elements, each including: a protective dielectric top layer to be touched by the finger; an electrically conductive sensing structure arranged underneath the top layer; charge measuring circuitry connected to the sensing structure for sequentially transitioning between at least a first measurement state and a second measurement state to perform a measurement sequence resulting in an output signal from the charge measuring circuitry being indicative of a change of a charge carried by the sensing structure resulting from a change in a potential difference between the finger and the sensing structure; and timing circuitry connected to the charge measuring circuitry for controlling a timing of at least one of the measurement states.

Embodiments of the invention include a subtitling format encompassing elements of enhanced syntax and semantic to provide improved animation capabilities. The disclosed elements improve subtitle performance without stressing the available subtitle bitrate. This will become essential for authoring content of high-end HDTV subtitles in pre-recorded format, which can be broadcast or stored on high capacity optical media, e.g. the Blue-ray Disc. Embodiments of the invention include abilities for improved authoring possibilities for the content production to animate subtitles. For subtitles that are separate from AV material, a method includes using one or more superimposed subtitle layers, and displaying only a selected part of the transferred subtitles at a time. Further, colors of a selected part of the displayed subtitles may be modified, e.g. highlighted.

The invention discloses a rail transit system with a sectionalized operation mode. Trains A and B run on the same track line, each train stops at the respectively corresponding bisected stations in a skipping mode in each section and also stops at a transfer station which connect the two sections. If passengers on one train want to arrive at a station which the other train stops at, the passengers can arrive at the destinations by transferring once at the transfer station. By decreasing the stopping frequency in the overall travel distance, the equivalent speed is improved; without increasing hardware investment, the transport capacity of the rail transit is greatly improved, and the vast majority of the passengers can arrive at the destinations in less time; and the traffic problems in rush hours can be effectively relieved. The invention is applicable to the emergency period of a huge passenger flow volume in a city due to the holding of large exhibitions, such as the Olympic Games, the World Exposition and the like.

A method for detecting an ingress of a short wave radio signal in a power line communication system which determines a strength of a common mode signal at a frequency of the power line communication system during a time period when no communication in the power line communication system at this frequency takes place and an ingress is detected if the strength of the common mode signal is above a determined threshold. A corresponding power line communication modem can implement such a method.

A driving apparatus for a multi-color light-emitting display panel including drive lines and scanning lines intersecting with each other, and capacitive light-emitting elements which have polarities connected to the scanning lines and the drive lines at the intersections and which are divided into a plurality of types by a color of light emission, the capacitive light-emitting elements of the same type being arranged on each drive line. The drive apparatus comprises a scanning circuit for selectively supplying a first potential and a second potential higher than the first potential to each of the scanning lines, and a drive circuit for selectively supplying a drive current from a current source and a third potential for an offset voltage not higher than a light emission threshold voltage of the element to each of the drive lines, the drive current and the third potential are variable.

A multi-shaft aeronautical turboprop engine in which a compressor draws in air coming from an air intake and drives, through an outer first shaft, a first stage of a turbine, which is provided with a second stage that drives a propeller by means of a second shaft mounted coaxially inside the first shaft. A starting system. is provided that comprises: an asynchronous reversible electric machine connected by means of a transmission to the first shaft; a synchronous electric machine connected by means of a transmission to the second shaft; a reconfigurable electrical network that, in a phase of dynamic starting of the turboprop engine following its cutting out during flight, enables the transfer of energy produced by the synchronous electric machine, set in rotation by the propeller driven by dynamic effects, to the asynchronous electric machine, which is set in rotation at a lower speed than the asynchronous machine. The torque generated by the asynchronous machine is added to the torque originating from the blade compressor, which is impinged upon by the airflow coming from the air intake; the composition of these torques enables the first shaft to be set in rotation at a speed sufficient to achieve the restarting of the turboprop engine.

An ATM apparatus having a bulk sheet acceptor. The sheet acceptor is mounted in movable relation relative to a chest portion of the ATM. Access to an interior of the sheet acceptor for servicing may be made through an access opening. A service cover may be mounted at alternate mounting sites of the sheet acceptor housing in order to close the access opening. The interior of the sheet acceptor may be accessed by pivoting the cover on a set of tabs engaged in corresponding slots, or by selectively lifting the cover away from the tabs. The cover may be replaced by engagement of either a first set of tabs with corresponding first slots, or a second set of tabs with corresponding second slots.

A mower comprising a support structure on which are articulated by means of substantially horizontal axes at least two mowing units each comprising a frame carrying at least one cutterbar and one conveyor belt, which mowing units can be moved about said axes from a working position to a transport position. The said conveyor belts are articulated relative to the cutterbars by means of axes and there are means for automatically moving said conveyor belts about their axes of articulation to bring them closer to the carrier frames and consequently to the middle of the mower when placed in the transport position.

A method and a system for Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication in a wireless network are provided. According to the method, streams of the data of a user-equipment are communicated to a group of user-equipments that act as antennas for the user-equipment. The communication between the various user-equipments is through an Interlink. The data of the user-equipment is communicated with base stations by the user-equipment and the group of user-equipments in a single slot.

A medical information retrieval system comprises a natural language processing system that processes a vocal user query to identify key words and phrases. These key words and phrases are provided to an inferencing engine that provides a set of knowledge-based inferences from medical knowledge sources, based on these key words and phrases. Thereafter, these knowledge-based inferences are provided to an information retrieval engine that retrieves a corresponding plurality of medical articles based on these knowledge-based inferences, and ranks each with respect to the knowledge-based inferences. A summary engine receives the ranked articles and creates a model based on the topical keywords and candidate sentences found in the highly ranked articles. A paraphrase engine processes the candidate sentences to provide a summary response based on a knowledge-based paraphrase model. An audio output device renders the summary report as the response to the user's original vocal query.

The present invention relates to manufacturing technology of damascene copper interconnection in the semiconductor manufacturing field, and especially relates to a method to manufacture by trench-first copper interconnection. The method to manufacture trench-first copper interconnection forms metal trench and VIA hole structures in the photoresist which can form a hard mask through exposure and development processes, and then forms metal interconnection lines via etching metal trench and VIA hole in one etch process. The above method replaces the existing.

The invention provides a non-asbestos wet-rolled automobile drum type brake block and a manufacturing method thereof. According to the manufacturing method of the drum type brake block, aluminum silicate, zinc powder, blanc fixe, needle-shaped wollastonite, compound graphite, cellulosic fibers, aramid fibers, steel fibers and phenolic resin are poured into a harrow type mixer to be mixed, liquid resin is added in the mixing process, the mixed materials are pulverized by a pulverizer and then are placed in shade places to be dried for 3-4 hours, the dried materials are then put into a hopper of a roller press to be rolled and then are conveyed into a cutting forming machine, the materials are coated with glue and then are adhered to the shoe of the brake block, conventional outer arc polishing, spraying, mark printing and accessory installation, riveting and packaging are carried out after heat treatment and cooling, and finally the brake block is formed. According to the non-asbestos wet-rolled automobile drum type brake block and the manufacturing method thereof, due to the fact that the liquid resin and the wet-rolling technique are applied, the work environment of workers is greatly improved, energy consumption is greatly reduced, environmental performance is good, and the brake block manufactured with the method is free of heat fading, stable in friction coefficient, good in friction performance, stable in braking, sensitive, reliable, and long in service life.

A fuser system and method for a xerographic device having improved self-stripping capabilities for a wide latitude of substrate media. The fuser system includes a fuser member and a pressure member in which the pressure member is made to exert a predetermined pressure upon the fuser member. In applying this pressure load, a nip is formed having a nip width between the fuser member and the pressure member. A predetermined creep exists during normal fusing of a substrate. A load adjustment device is provided to momentarily increase the exerted pressure as a leading edge or other portion of the substrate passes through, and/or in the vicinity of, the nip, thereby increasing the creep magnitude momentarily and improving self-stripping capabilities.

The invention provides a ground automatic passing slip phase system for an electrified railway based on a solid transfer switch. The ground automatic passing slip phase system comprises a solid transfer switch, an over-voltage suppression device, a solid transfer switch loop protecting switch and a locomotive position detection device, wherein the locomotive position detection device is arranged on a steel rail; the over-voltage suppression device is arranged between neutral region contact nets and the steel rail; the solid transfer switch and the solid transfer switch loop protecting switch are communicated with neutral regions of contact nets and the contact nets on two adjacent sides; electric split phase neutral regions in the contact nets are kept electrified constantly by powering on the solid transfer switch, so that an electronic locomotive constantly carries phases A and B of voltage when passing through the contact nets. The ground automatic passing slip phase system has the beneficial effects that by transferring the solid switch, the electronic neutral regions of the contact nets constantly carry voltage of 27.5kV in the system, multi-influence of electric split phase to speeds, carrying capacities and the like of a high speed train and a heavy load electronic locomotive is eliminated, furthermore a series of problems caused by electric split phase can be solved, the carrying capacities of locomotives can be increased greatly, and the working intensity of drivers can be relieved.

A method for providing feedback information includes receiving a configuration of a plurality of offset values, determining the feedback information in accordance with at least one measurement made by a user equipment and with the plurality of offset values, and sending the feedback information to a network controller.

Data processing apparatus comprising: a processor core having means for executing successive program instruction words of a predetermined plurality of instruction sets; a data memory for storing program instruction words to be executed; a program counter register for indicating the address of a next program instruction word in the data memory; means for modifying the contents of the program counter register in response to a current program instruction word; and control means, responsive to one or more predetermined indicator bits of the program counter register, for controlling the processor core to execute program instruction words of a current instruction set selected from the predetermined plurality of instruction sets and specified by the state of the one or more indicator bits of the program counter register.