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An apparatus, method and system are disclosed for providing AC line power to lighting devices such as light emitting diodes (“LEDs”). An exemplary apparatus comprises: a plurality of LEDs coupled in series to form a first plurality of segments of LEDs; a plurality of switches coupled to the plurality of segments of LEDs to switch a selected segment into or out of a series LED current path in response to a control signal; a current sensor; and a controller which, in response to a first parameter and during a first part of an AC voltage interval, generates a first control signal to switch a corresponding segment of LEDs into the series LED current path; and during a second part of the AC voltage interval, generates a second control signal to switch a corresponding segment of LEDs out of the first series LED current path.

Systems and methods are described for co-registering, displaying and quantifying images from numerous different medical modalities, such as CT, MRI and SPECT. In this novel approach co-registration and image fusion is based on multiple user-defined Regions-of-Interest (ROI), which may be subsets of entire image volumes, from multiple modalities, where the each ROI may depict data from different image modalities. The user-selected ROI of a first image modality may be superposed over or blended with the corresponding ROI of a second image modality, and the entire second image may be displayed with either the superposed or blended ROI.

An anticipatory processing system is described. The anticipatory processing system includes a controller generating a prediction of an event determining program material to be displayed, and an audiovideo (A/V) processor controlled by the controller for preparing a digital stream for use in response to the prediction of the of the event. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

An apparatus for temperature control of manufacture of thick film materials includes a stage comprising a planar surface for supporting a bulk material to be implanted and subsequently cleaved. The bulk material has a surface region, a side region, and a bottom region which provides a volume of material and defines a length between the bottom region and the surface region. The apparatus further includes a mechanical clamp device adapted to engage the bottom region to the planar surface of the stage such that the bulk material is in physical contact with the planar surface for thermal energy to transfer through an interface region between the bulk material and the stage while the surface region is substantially exposed. Additionally, the apparatus includes a sensor device configured to measure a temperature value of the surface region and generate an input data. The apparatus further includes an implant device configured to perform implantation of a plurality of particles through one or more portions of the surface region of the bulk material and a controller configured to receive and process the input data to increase and/or decrease the temperature value of the surface region through at least the interface region between the planar surface of the stage and the bottom region of the bulk material.

A method and an apparatus transmit and receive information in a cable TV network including at least one base station connected to a branching cable network, branching from the base station to at least two subscribers, provided with transmitters. A unique carrier frequency is assigned to each of the subscriber's transmitters, the carrier frequencies being orthogonal. Signals from the subscriber's transmitters are transmitted simultaneously, received in the base station as a broadband signal, and separated using a common algorithm.

An engine control system in a vehicle including a variable displacement internal combustion engine, a controller for controlling the displacement of the variable displacement internal combustion engine, and where the controller operates the variable displacement internal combustion engine in a partially displaced operating mode upon startup to increase exhaust gas temperature.

A control unit automatically stops an engine when a vehicle is stopped and automatically starts the engine in a case where operation for a vehicle start is conducted by a passenger or a specified emergency start is required. Herein, in the case where the operation for the vehicle start is conducted by the passenger, the engine is automatically started when ID verification with a portable device is confirmed, and in the case where the specified emergency start is required, the engine is automatically started without the confirmation of the ID verification with the portable device. Accordingly, a proper antitheft function of a smart engine starter (SES) system and a proper engine-start function of an idling stop start (ISS) system.

Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and an apparatus for header compression in a network relay scenario. The method includes: receiving, by a relay node, a first header-compressed data packet sent by user equipment or another relay node; encapsulating a transport protocol header for the first data packet and performing header compression for the header to form a second data packet; and sending the second data packet to an eNodeB or a next relay node in an uplink direction.

An electromagnetic absorber (10) for a vehicle including (a) a threaded rod (78) which is disposed on one of a sprung portion and an unsprung portion and which has a threaded groove (76) formed in its outer circumferential portion and an axial groove (90) extending in its axis direction (b) a nut (80) which is rotatably disposed on the other of the sprung portion and the unsprung portion and which is screwed with the threaded rod and (c) a rod-rotation inhibiting member (82) which includes a fitting portion configured to be fitted in the axial groove and which is disposed on the other of the sprung portion and the unsprung portion, the rod-rotation inhibiting member being configured to inhibit the threaded rod from rotating while permitting the threaded rod to move in the axis direction. In the electromagnetic absorber, the threaded groove is not formed at a section of a fitting range at which the fitting portion is fitted in the axial groove when the fitting portion is located at an end of the fitting range that extends in the axis direction on the outer circumferential portion of the threaded rod.

An intelligent event information presentation method and terminal is provided for facilitating information utilization by processing various event information, intelligently generated in association with a function of the terminal. The event information presentation method of the present invention includes collecting event information; and presenting at least one of the collected event information, according to a current operation mode.

A method for transmitting a packet in a wireless access network based on a wavelength identification code scheme. The method comprises the steps of connecting n number of RNCs (Radio Network Controllers) to one sub-ring where the “n” is a positive integer, and assigning a unique wavelength to each RNC; identifying a packet to be transmitted between the RNCs located within a same sub-ring using the assigned unique wavelength, and transmitting the packet through an SRC (Sub-Ring Controller); connecting m number of SRCs to one main-ring where the “m” is a positive integer, and assigning a unique wavelength to each SRC; and detaching a wavelength identification code from the packet to be transmitted between the RNCs located within different sub-rings, and transmitting the packet having the encapsulated wavelength identification code through an MRC (Main-Ring Controller).

The invention discloses a manufacturing method of embossed gold art porcelain. Based on an 'addition process embossment technology', the manufacturing method comprises design and drawing of embossment decoration patterns at the early stage, digital treatment and film manufacturing, and is characterized by sequentially comprising the following steps: 1) manufacturing a silk screen plate of an embossment decoration pattern; 2) manufacturing ceramic transfer paper of embossment decoration patterns; 3) manufacturing a silk screen plate of gold decoration patterns; 4) manufacturing ceramic transfer paper of the gold decoration patterns; 5) pasting flowers; 6) baking flowers; 7) carrying out gold decoration; and 8) carrying out gold baking. Based on the 'addition process embossment' technology, the manufacturing method of embossed gold art porcelain can be applied to large-scale and standardized production of embossed gold art porcelain with extremely high practical, ornamental and collection value; products are dignified, graceful and gorgeous; the embossment pattern surface has the thickness of 120microns, has concave and convex handfeel, and is high in sense of layering. Compared with the traditional 'addition process embossment' technology, the production efficiency and the finished product rate of products are improved obviously.

A vision testing device for measuring single or multiple visual functions consisting of an internally illuminated hand-held instrument, vision charts, vision correcting and occluding elements, a testing frame for holding combined vision correcting and blocking elements, and modular accessories.

Embodiments include an apparatus, a computer readable medium and a method for distributing tessellations within an accelerated processing device (APD) including at least two compute units. Embodiments include processing a plurality of patches in a first compute unit using a hull shader to generate hull shader output data. Once generated, hull shader output data is stored to an off-chip memory when tessellation factors associated with the shader program are greater than a configured threshold. Once stored in the off-chip memory, at least a portion of the hull shader output data is dynamically processed using a second compute unit.

A method and a device for, preferably in ATM-traffic and in a switch with input and output buffers and with a so-called "credit based solution" for flow control, using a very short time interval between the requests from the input ports to send cells through the switch core to the output ports and where the degree of fullness of the output buffers is accurately supervised and taken into the calculations together with the number of cells in the input buffers when determined how many cells should be allowed to be sent to each output port during the next time interval. A certain over-allocation of cells to each output port is permitted.

The invention relates to a granular whole grain flour. A production process is as below: screening the whole grains and accessories, removing impurities, cleaning, baking at low temperature, sterilizing, blending according to a formula and grinding; and granulating the ground and cooked whole grain flour according to a conventional food and condiment granulation process through a food granulator, and packing the granular whole grain flour respectively. The granular whole grain flour comprises the following components by weight percentage: 50-100% of cereals and 0-50% of an auxiliary material. The auxiliary material is a food material or a mixture of many kinds of raw materials, and the auxiliary material is added to regulate the taste and nutrition of the whole grain flour; the whole grain flour has the nutritional characteristics of whole grains, and is supplemented with the nutrition of fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, seafood, edible mushroom and Chinese herbal medicines; therefore, the granular whole grain flour can reach dietetic invigoration effect, is easy to drink and nonstick, and simplifies the production process.

A clamping tool, particularly a clamping clip, is provided with first and second clamping jaw carriers which are associated with a track and which respectively bear a clamping jaw. At least the first clamping jaw carrier can be displaced along the track in one direction by a stepped shifting gear mechanism and is prevented from being displaced in the opposite direction by a detachable return locking element and can be displaced along the track.

A method for tile-based rendering of content. Content may be rendered in a memory region organized as multiple tiles. In scenarios in which content is generated in layers, for operations that involve compositing image layers, an order in which portions of the image are processed may be selected to reduce the aggregate number of memory accesses times, which in turn may improve the performance of a computer that uses tile-based rendering. An image may be processed such that operations relating to rendering portions of different layers corresponding to the same tile are performed sequentially. Such processing may be used in a computer with a graphics processing unit that supports tile-based rendering, and may be particularly well suited for computers with a slate form factor. An interface to a graphics processing utility within the computer may provide a flag to allow an application to specify whether operations may be reordered.

The invention relates to a cloud platform privacy protection method based on frequent item retrieval. The cloud platform privacy protection method comprises the steps of extracting a frequent item set of data according to an association rule algorithm; establishing a frequent item model library by performing parallel retrieval on multiple key words; sorting retrieval results by means of a parallel distributed sorting algorithm to find sensitive records; performing difference privacy protection on the sensitive records on a cloud platform through a clustering algorithm. According to conditions of frequent items of the data, the sensitive records revealing user information are retrieved, and difference privacy protection is performed on the sensitive records in a targeted mode. Therefore, relevant sensitive information cannot be speculated according to known non-sensitive information. By means of the cloud platform privacy protection method based on frequent item retrieval, the sensitive records are protected only, other information contents are not affected, therefore, data leakage risk is reduced while effectiveness of published data is increased, and safety of the data on the cloud platform is ensured.

In a system in which an actuator force to be generated by an actuator is controlled based on a component sum that is a sum of a vibration damping component as the actuator force to be generated in a vibration damping control and a posture control component that is the actuator force to be generated in a body-posture control, a control in which the posture control component is limited so as to be not larger than a limit value is executable. The system ensures the actuator force that should be generated in the vibration damping control by limiting the posture control component, in a situation in which there is a limit in the actuator force that can be generated. Accordingly, a sufficient amount of a damping force can be generated, so that riding comfort of the vehicle and the like is prevented from being deteriorated.