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A touch sensitive apparatus and method of operation to improve visual feedback and visual perception of tactile input to an operator. The apparatus includes a touch screen device or display having a touch overlay, a processor and stored program instructions in a memory in which a three-dimensional graphical image, such as a key element, is created in the apparatus and shown on the display as an input device or keypad to the processor. Each key element includes a beveled surface surrounding a flat surface. When a displayed key element is touched by a probe, such as a finger, the screen area about the displayed key element and the finger, visually enlarges or "splats" confirming the selection of the particular key. Concomitantly or simultaneously, the key element detents or depresses within the key pad, changes color and bevel size further verifying the key selection to the operator thereby creating a sense of key movement and visual perception of tactile input to the operator aiding in the operation of the key pad. The simultaneous visual key enlargement, visual detenting and change in key color and bevel size upon key selection in a touch sensitive apparatus improves the feedback to the operator in the selection and confirmation of a key element actuated by the operator.

The present invention provides a method and device for displaying a plurality of video signals on one single display. According to embodiments of the present invention a plurality of display systems can be replaced by one display system being fully backwards compatible without the need to change any software or hardware components such as application software, graphical boards, . . . The present invention can also guarantee that even though a plurality of displays are being replaced by one single display still individual characteristics of those plurality of displays are being retained by the new display.

The invention provides a system for therapeutic treatment of an organ, tumor, or other internal structure of a living body with therapeutic radiation after implantation, at the organ, of a magnetic element to identify the location of the organ, the element being capable of emitting a magnetic signal in response to an applied magnetic field. The system comprises a magnetic field generator for irradiating the magnetic element with an applied magnetic field, a movable magnetic field sensor for detecting the magnetic signal from a plurality of selected mutually displaced positions to produce a corresponding plurality of element-locating signals, a computing apparatus for converting the signals to a location image of the internal structure, and a controlled source of therapeutic radiation for focussing a selected degree and duration of therapeutic radiation at a target determined from the location image of the magnetic element. Preferably, the magnetic element is a length of wire of an amorphous magnetic material which produces a magnetic signal that exhibits non-linear Bark+hausen jumps in response to an applied ac magnetic field.

The invention is directed to a method for three-dimensional display in which a plurality of individual image elements ajj are made visible simultaneously in a raster of columns i and lines j, wherein the image elements alphaij reproduce partial information from a plurality of views Ak (k-l . . . n) of a scene/object, and adjacent image elements alphaij radiate light of different wavelengths or wavelength regions. The invention is further directed to arrangements for carrying out the method. In a method of the type described above, wavelength-dependent propagation directions are predetermined for the light radiated from the image elements alphaij. The propagation directions within an observation space in which an observer is situated intersect in a plurality of intersection points which correspond to observation positions. From each observation position, one eye of an observer perceives predominantly partial information of a first selection and the other eye perceives predominantly partial information of a second selection from views Ak (k=l . . . n).

The invention relates to a lighting system for endoscopic examinations having a lighting unit that includes at least two LED elements for illuminating an area of examination that is to be observed by means of an endoscope optic. To create a lighting system for endoscopic examinations that ensures a constantly sufficient illumination of the area of examination, it is proposed according to the invention that the direction of radiation of the lighting unit can be displaced between a direction essentially perpendicular to the direction of observation of the endoscope optic upon insertion into the area of examination and a direction essentially in the direction of observation of the endoscope optic after insertion into the area of examination.

An implantable lead for use with an implantable medical device includes a lead body with first and second electrical conductors extending between its proximal and distal ends. An electrical connector at the proximal end of the lead body includes terminals electrically connected to the first and second conductors. First and second coaxial active fixation helices are coupled to the lead body's distal end, one being an anode, the other an electrically isolated cathode. Each helix has an outer peripheral surface with alternating insulated and un-insulated portions along its length with about a half of the surface area being insulated. The un-insulated portions of the helices may be formed as a plurality of islands in the insulated portions, or as rings spaced by insulative rings, or as longitudinally extending strips spaced by longitudinally extending insulative strips.

A method of displaying information within a three-dimensional workspace on a computer display includes partitioning the workspace into a plurality of layers, where each layer corresponds to a display depth relative to a user. At least one substantially opaque container object is displayed at a first display depth. The user is provided with a pointer operative to select objects within the three-dimensional workspace at a plurality of display depths. In response to the user selecting a container object, the opacity level of the selected container object is reduced in order to reveal at least one content object contained therein. The at least one content object contained within the selected container object is displayed at a deeper display depth relative to the first display depth. By combining three-dimensional depth cues with opacity level adjustment the present invention provides a visually pleasing computer workspace with enhanced depth perception and organization features.

The invention provides a platform construction method of an intelligent iron and steel factory. The industrial big data in the enterprise internet of things are acquired, stored and computed by connecting the enterprise internet of things and the industrial internet of things and establishing a cloud computing center and a big data center so as to realize intelligent enterprise research and development, production and quality management and control. Firstly a decision support platform, an operation management platform and a simulation platform are established, and then multiple intelligent management processes are established based on the three platforms. If the iron and steel enterprise sticks to the method, the objective of intelligent construction of the metallurgical plant can be achieved, innovative integration of the new generation of information technology and advanced manufacturing technology can be realized, the iron and steel industry ecosystem and the novel manufacturing mode under the information condition can be constructed, the efficiency and the quality can be enhanced and the cost can be reduced and thus the effect is remarkable.

A method is described including receiving a streamed leading content sub-clip, determining a set of needed content sub-clips, locating one of the set of needed content sub-clips and downloading the located content sub-clip. A system for providing content-on-demand is described having a peer, a server and a tracker. The tracker may be co-located with the server. The peer includes means for receiving a streamed leading content sub-clip, means for determining a set of needed content sub-clips, means for locating one of the set of needed content sub-clips and means for downloading the located content sub-clip.

The invention discloses an automotive exhaust emission data fusion system. The automotive exhaust emission data fusion system comprises a roadside air pollutant concentration estimation module, a roadside air pollutant concentration prediction module, a city global atmospheric environment prediction module, an automotive exhaust emission factor estimation module and an automotive exhaust emission feather analysis module, wherein the five modules are used for respectively realizing different data analysis functions, and the different functions can be realized by virtue of the different modules; the modules can be independently used, or two or more modules can be combined for use, so as to realize the storage, analysis and fusion of automotive exhaust telemetering data, automotive attributes, driving working stations, detection time and meteorological condition data; and by combining with a vehicle-mounted diagnosis system database, a portable emission test system database, a vehicle inspection station offline database, a traffic information database and a geographic information database, automotive exhaust telemetering data is analyzed, and the highest discriminatory key indexes and statistical data are acquired, so that effective supports are provided for the formulation of relevant decisions of government departments.

A multi-layered shingle adapted to be positioned with other similar shingles in an overlapping arrangement on a roof to yield a simulated wooden shake roof covering comprising a headlap portion and a butt portion. The butt portion comprises a series of multi-layered tabs. All the tabs have the same number of layers and each multi-layered tab (a) is separated from the next adjacent multi-layered tab or tabs by a space or spaces, respectively, and (b) comprises an uppermost layer and at least two layers underlying the uppermost layer. Each underlying layer is laminated to the layer above it to form a multi-layered laminated composite. The laminated composite is integral with the headlap portion and the top surface of the uppermost layer of each tab is coplanar with the top surface of the headlap portion. The invention also includes an apparatus and a process for the continuous manufacture of the shingles of the invention.

The invention relates to an LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory)-RNN model-based air pollutant concentration forecast method. The method comprises the steps of monitoring and collecting air pollutant concentration data in a relatively long time; preprocessing historical data to construct training, verification and test sample data of a to-be-trained LSTM-RNN model; obtaining a pre-trained LSTM-RNN model through the training sample data, then performing fine adjustment and training through the constructed verification and test sample data to obtain LSTM-RNN model parameters, improving model precision by further correcting model parameters, and taking a corrected LSTM-RNN model as an air pollutant concentration forecast model; and finally taking the preprocessed air pollutant concentration data of a target city in the relatively long time as input data of the LSTM-RNN model, and performing model output to obtain a forecast result of air pollutant concentration at a current moment or at a moment in the future.

The inventions disclosed herein relate to genuses of non-naturally occurring small molecule compounds which comprise two or optionally three organic moieties of limited size “linked” by certain structurally related “linker” functional groups. Suitable linker groups include ester, amine, ether, keto, imino, thioamide, thioether, sulfonamide, sulfonate ester, sulfone, guanidine, and thiourea groups. The compounds are capable, when contacted with comestible food or drinks or pharmaceutical compositions, at concentrations preferably on the order of about 100 ppm or lower, of serving as savory (“umami”) or sweet taste modifiers, savory or sweet flavoring agents and savory or sweet flavor enhancers, for use in foods, beverages, and other comestible or orally administered medicinal products or compositions, optionally in the presence of or in mixtures with conventional flavoring agents such as monosodium glutamate or known natural or artificial sweeteners.

The invention provides an automatic parking system and belongs to the technical field of automobile control. The automatic parking system comprises an ultrasonic radar detector, a camera probe, a parking controller and a driving control module, wherein the parking controller is used for receiving barrier distance data detected by the ultrasonic radar detector and image information collected by the camera probe, obtaining the parking space and planning and correcting the parking path in real time by combination with information of an automobile, and sending a control instruction to control the driving control module to perform steering, speed changing, braking and parking control over the automobile according to the parking path, so that the automobile is driven according to the parking path to be parked. The parking controller calculates the distance data and the image information, and the sensing capacity of the automatic parking system on the real environment is enhanced since the parking controller and the driving control module have complementary advantages; and meanwhile, the parking controller controls the driving control module to achieve an automatic parking function, a multi-sensor identification mode is adopted, robustness of the system is enhanced, and convenience and comfort are ensured when a driver uses the automatic parking system.

The inventions disclosed herein relate to the discovery of the use of compounds having the formula shown below

and certain subgenera or species thereof, as flavor or taste modifiers, particularly, savory (“umami”) taste modifiers, savory flavoring agents and savory flavor enhancers in foods, beverages, and other comestible compositions.

A user content audio signal is converted into sound that is delivered into an ear canal of a wearer of an in-ear speaker, while the in-ear speaker is sealing off the ear canal against ambient sound leakage. An acoustic or venting valve in the in-ear speaker is automatically signaled to open, so that sound inside the ear canal is allowed to travel out into an ambient environment through the valve, while activating conversion of an ambient content audio signal into sound for delivery into the ear canal. Both user content and ambient content are heard by the wearer. The ambient content audio signal is digitally processed so that certain frequency components have been gain adjusted, based on an equalization profile, so as to compensate for some of the insertion loss that is due to the in-ear speaker blocking the ear canal. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

The invention discloses a household appliance sensing control system and method based on a mobile control terminal. The household appliance sensing control system comprises intelligent appliances, an application server and the mobile control terminal, wherein operation programs in one to one correspondence with the intelligent appliances are stored in the application server, and the mobile control terminal is used for loading the operation programs in one to one correspondence with one or more intelligent appliances from the application server to perform the following operations to the intelligent appliances: state monitoring to the intelligent appliances, personalized operation, working mode setting, and workflow custom setting; the mobile control terminal is used for sensing interest points of signed-in users and submitting the interest points to position and sense the settings for triggering intelligent appliance operation control; the application server supports the mobile control terminal to sense and position the settings for operation instructions of the interest points. The system and the method, provided by the invention, have the benefits that sensing and controlling to home appliance terminal equipment in real time through the mobile control terminal in a wireless manner is achieved, and convenient and quick market requirements are met.

Methods, apparatus, kits and systems are presented for determining the intraoperative position of at least a first anatomic location of a surgical patient and optionally for measuring the distance between at least first and second anatomic locations of a surgical patient.