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Object customization and presentation system

A method for generating a personalized presentation, comprising providing an Internet browser user interface for selecting an image and a surrounding context; receiving the selected image and surrounding context by an Internet web server; accounting for the user activity in a financial accounting system; and delivering the selected image and surrounding context to the user. The surrounding context may comprise a physical frame for a picture, with a printed version of the selected image framed therein. The accounting step may provide consideration to a rights holder of the selected image, or provide for receipt of consideration from a commercial advertiser. A plurality of images may be selected, wherein the context defines a sequence of display of the plurality of images.
Owner:BIG TENT ENTERTAINMENT +1

System and method for coordinating travel itineraries

A method for coordinating outbound and inbound itineraries for a plurality of travelers is provided. Such a method comprises receiving a destination location, a plurality of origin locations, and travel information, wherein each origin location is associated with at least one traveler. A set of suggested outbound and inbound itineraries between each origin location and the destination location is then determined, based upon the travel information, from a travel database comprising at least outbound and inbound itineraries between the origin locations and the destination location, wherein each suggested outbound and inbound itinerary comprises an arrival time and a departure time with respect to the destination location, and the set of suggested outbound and inbound itineraries collectively provides an optimal time together of the travelers at the destination location. Associated systems and methods are also provided.
Owner:SABRE +1

Expandable trans-septal sheath

Disclosed is an expandable transluminal sheath, for introduction into the body while in a first, low cross-sectional area configuration, and subsequent expansion of at least a part of the distal end of the sheath to a second, enlarged cross-sectional configuration. The sheath is configured for use in the vascular system and has utility in the performance of procedures in the left atrium. The access route is through the inferior vena cava to the right atrium, where a trans-septal puncture, followed by advancement of the catheter is completed. The distal end of the sheath is maintained in the first, low cross-sectional configuration during advancement to the right atrium and through the atrial septum into the left atrium. The distal end of the sheath is subsequently expanded using a radial dilatation device. In an exemplary application, the sheath is utilized to provide access for a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure such as electrophysiological mapping of the heart, radio-frequency ablation of left atrial tissue, placement of left atrial implants, mitral valve repair, or the like.
Owner:ONSET MEDICAL CORP

Bone fasteners and method for stabilizing vertebral bone facets using the bone fasteners

A bone fastener for stabilizing bone fragments includes a single or multiple components coupleable with one another and displaceable to a locked position of the bone fastener.
Owner:WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC INC

Anchors and methods for securing suture to bone

A method for securing suture to bone comprises drilling a hole in a desired portion of bone at a desired procedural site, passing a strand of suture through a portion of soft tissue to be approximated to the portion of bone, and extending the free suture ends proximally from the soft tissue. The suture is loaded into an anchor implant. Using an inserter, on a distal end of which is attached the anchor implant, the anchor implant is manipulated into the bone hole. The suture is then tensioned to a desired level by pulling on the free suture ends, after the anchor implant is positioned in the bone hole. The free suture ends are wrapped about a suture cleat on an inserter handle once the desired tension level is achieved. A proximal anchor component is moved distally to engage with a distal anchor component to lock the anchor in place within the bone hole, and to lock the suture in place within the anchor. Then, the inserter is removed from the procedural site.
Owner:CAYENNE MEDICAL INC

Anchors and method for securing suture to bone

A method for securing suture to bone comprises drilling a hole in a desired portion of bone at a desired procedural site, passing a strand of suture through a portion of soft tissue to be approximated to the portion of bone, and extending the free suture ends proximally from the soft tissue. The suture is loaded into an anchor implant. Using an inserter, on a distal end of which is attached the anchor implant, the anchor implant is manipulated into the bone hole. The suture is then tensioned to a desired level by pulling on the free suture ends, after the anchor implant is positioned in the bone hole. The free suture ends are wrapped about a suture cleat on an inserter handle once the desired tension level is achieved. A proximal anchor component is moved distally to engage with a distal anchor component to lock the anchor in place within the bone hole, and to lock the suture in place within the anchor. Then, the inserter is removed from the procedural site.
Owner:CAYENNE MEDICAL INC

Method for generating customized photo album pages and prints based on people and gender profiles

A method for generating customized photo album pages for a collection of digital images comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining a plurality of digital images; (b) automatically grouping the images into one or more image sets based on at least one of grouping by events and grouping by people present in the images; (c) automatically profiling the images within each image set according to image content, thereby relating a particular image set to one or more design themes; (d) providing a database of design elements that may be used to generate customized photo album pages; (e) utilizing the design themes generated by the profiling step to automatically suggest one or more design elements from the database of design elements; and (f) automatically generating a customized photo album page layout for each image set by applying one or more of the suggested design elements to the page layout.
Owner:MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES LLC

Enhanced methods for determining iso-loudness contours for fitting cochlear implant sound processors

Methods are taught to simplify the cochlear implant fitting process for various cochlear prostheses and stimulation strategies, including high rate stimulation strategies. For instance, patient self-programming is made possible. In addition, auto-fitting is made possible (particularly useful for very young patients and other patients for whom it is challenging to obtain feedback) using iso-neural response contours which can be linearly transposed to arrive at iso-loudness contours. Furthermore, M iso-loudness contours (or iso-neural contours) can be linearly transposed to determine T iso-loudness contours. In addition, wider pulse widths can be used to generate an iso-loudness contour whose shape can be used (via linear transposition) to program high-rate, narrow pulse width stimulation.
Owner:ADVNACED BIONICS LLC

Telephony call control using a data network and a graphical user interface and exchanging datagrams between parties to a telephone call

In a communications network, a method and apparatus are disclosed for using a graphical user interface for telephony call control. A method is also disclosed for sending a datagram from a called party to a calling party. Call control of a call is diverted to a voice-mail system. The IP address of the caller is determined. The IP address of the caller is determined by either a search on a look-up table or from a voice over Internet call set up message. Call control information, or a datagram is sent to the caller. In the case of call control information, the caller inputs call control commands which are received by the voice mail system. The invention provides an easier method and apparatus to navigate voice-mail menus and reduces the problem of “voice-mail jail”.
Owner:RPX CLEARINGHOUSE

Bounded flexibility search and interface for travel reservations

A system and method for selecting travel products, including but not limited to a system having a plurality of selection rules that enable the user to rapidly select the best travel product by using range searches for all search criteria.
Owner:VASSILEV ASSEN +1

Online medical data collection

A method and system for facilitating the filling out of a medical evaluation form online and / or for facilitating the reviewing of the medical information form online are disclosed. By filling out the medical information form online, the form can be filled out generally anywhere and generally any time prior to a consultation with the doctor. Assistance with the filling out process can be provided, such as by a friend or relative, without requiring that the person providing the assistance accompany the patient to the doctor's office. A doctor can review the medical evaluation form generally anywhere and generally any time prior to the consultation. On line and face-to-face medical evaluations and interactions can potentially be made safer, more efficient and of higher quality by using such a process.
Owner:GEONDAN HEALTH SOLUTIONS

Method and System for Assessing and Measuring Emotional Intensity to a Stimulus

It is discloses a method and system for measuring and assessing the impact of non-verbal responses of a respondent to a stimulus, the method comprises the steps of presenting a reference stimulus to the respondent; recording immediate non-verbal responses via an imaging device to said presented reference stimulus; presenting a stimulus under test to the respondent; recording immediate non-verbal responses via an imaging device to said presented stimulus under test; presenting a questionnaire with questions on the stimulus under test to the respondent; obtaining verbal responses to the questions; immediately transmitting the recorded image of said non-verbal responses to the reference stimulus and the stimulus under test across a communications network to an image processing unit and after having received said images at said image processing unit automatically calculating emotion probabilities of the non-verbal responses of the respondent from said images; and calculating a emotional intensity score derived from the emotional probabilities. The method described in this invention bridges the gap between verbal self-report and autonomic non-verbal emotional response measurement methods while adding an objective and scientific analyze of non-verbal response to a stimulus.
Owner:NVISO

Remote control of light source

A lighting system comprises a set of light sources and a remote control unit. The remote control unit comprises a user interface through which a user may identify an area in an image and a light source. The identified image area is linked with the light source and color information of the identified image area is transmitted to the light source. The light source is thereby enabled to adapt its light output to the color information. A user is thereby enabled to pick the color to be outputted by a light source by selecting an area in an image displayed on the remote control unit. The remote control unit may be part of a mobile telephone, a tablet computer, an electronic photo frame, or a television screen.
Owner:KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV

Multi-terabit SONET switching with common time reference

A time-based switching method and system of SONET frames that utilize a common time reference is disclosed. Time is divided into a plurality of contiguous periodic time frames. A plurality of SONET frames is associated with a time frame; the plurality of SONET frames that are contained in each of the time frames is forwarded in a pipelined manner through the network switches. The system operates with high-speed wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) links. This switching method can be used to implement an all-optical SONET switching system.
Owner:SYNCHRODYNE

Method and device for sterilizing medical objects

A method for sterilizing medical objects in a sterilization device is described. A read facility of the sterilization device first reads a machine-readable information code by means of electromagnetic waves from an identification element associated with the medical object. The number of sterilization cycles already undergone by the medical object in question is determined on the basis of the information code. The number of sterilization cycles already undergone is compared with the maximum number of permitted sterilization cycles the medical object in question is allowed to undergo and a warning signal is automatically triggered and / or the function of the sterilization device is restricted, if the number of sterilization cycles undergone reaches or exceeds the maximum number of permitted sterilization cycles. A corresponding sterilization device and a medical object are also described.
Owner:SIEMENS AG

Headgear equipped with laser hair care apparatus

InactiveUS20100242155A1High degree of attentionLess time-consumingLight therapyHatsBiomedical engineeringHands free
Hair treatment headgear having the appearance of common caps, dress hats, casual hats, etc. The headgear can be a baseball cap having a crown portion equipped with plural laser diodes for illuminating the hair of the person wearing the cap. The cap is also equipped with a battery and a switch to control the time in which the laser diodes are activated. The person's hair can thus be treated in a hands-free manner while wearing the baseball cap, where such treatment remains inconspicuous and unknown to others.
Owner:CARULLO JR JOHN F

Surgical procedures

InactiveUS20080281190A1Efficient and reliable and identificationEfficient and reliable locationSurgeryDiagnostic markersSurgical operationScanner
A method of locating and identifying, during surgery, target regions within a body intended for excision of suspect tissue and / or removal of diseased organs or foreign objects, resides in implantation within the body proximate the suspect tissue or object prior to surgery of one or more passive integrated transponder tags and, at the time of and / or during surgery, scanning of the body with a radio frequency scanner or reader that activates the tag or tags and provides the surgeon with one or more signals indicative of the approximate location and unique identification of each of the tags, thereby to aid the surgeon in performance of the surgery. Verification of the success of the surgical procedure is obtained following surgery by scanning the site for absence of the tag or tags and / or by scanning the excised tissue for presence of the tag or tags.
Owner:HEALTH BEACONS

Five-part furniture frame and method of assembly

The present invention is a five-part furniture frame, and method of assembly thereof, consisting of a left arm frame, a right arm frame, a seat box frame, an inside back frame and an outside back frame. The invention allows for ease of assembly and for a seat back that incorporates a triangular structure for added stability and durability.
Owner:HARRISON LARRY W

Thread-guiding-type pepper selfing fruit marking method

The invention discloses a thread-guiding-type pepper selfing fruit marking method and belongs to the technical field of plant breeding. The thread-guiding-type pepper selfing fruit marking method comprises the following steps: firstly selecting selfing single plants, and marking by hanging a tag; secondly, selecting flowers about to bloom in the selected selfing single plants; threading a filament into a hand sewing needle with a certain specification (0.2-0.4mm), and tieing a knot at one end close to a needle hole; threading a guiding thread of the hand sewing needle through a pedicel part of each flower to be bloomed; leaving the tail end, about 2-3cm long, of the filament into the pedicel part as a marker of a selfing pollination flower; manually pollinating the marked flowers; and harvesting fruits with filament markers in the pedicel parts in a physiological mature period.
Owner:王红侠

Robot for transporting storage bins

A remotely operated vehicle or robot for picking up storage bins from a storage system includes a vehicle body, which includes a first section for storing vehicle driving means and a second section for receiving any storage bin stored in a storage column within the storage system, a vehicle lifting device in order to lift the storage bin into the second section, a first and a second set of vehicle rolling means allowing movement of the vehicle along a first and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, respectively, within the storage system. The second section includes a cavity arranged centrally within the vehicle body. This cavity has at least one bin receiving opening facing towards the underlying storage columns At least one of the two sets of vehicle rolling means is arranged fully within the vehicle body.
Owner:AUTOSTORE TECH AS

Branching catheter systems with diagnostic components

Branching catheter systems with diagnostic components for detecting and isolating fluid flow problems (e.g., leaks, occlusions, etc.) and methods for detecting and isolating fluid flow problems are disclosed. Among the fluid flow problems that may potentially be detected are leaks in the branching catheter systems (e.g., cuts, disconnected components, etc.). Another fluid flow problem that may be detected using the diagnostic systems of the present invention is the presence of occlusions or other blockages that prevent fluid flow within the catheter systems. In addition to identifying that a problem exists, the diagnostic components may preferably also be used to identify the location of the fluid flow problem as discussed herein. Connectors for use in the branching catheter systems are also disclosed. Among the diagnostic components that may be used in branching catheter systems of the present are valves to control fluid flow through the various sections of the branching catheter system, fluid flow detectors to detect flow through the one or more sections of the branching catheter system and a control system for operating the diagnostic components.
Owner:MEDTRONIC INC

Diagnostic methods for branching catheter systems

Branching catheter systems with diagnostic components for detecting and isolating fluid flow problems (e.g., leaks, occlusions, etc.) and methods for detecting and isolating fluid flow problems are disclosed. Among the fluid flow problems that may potentially be detected are leaks in the branching catheter systems (e.g., cuts, disconnected components, etc.). Another fluid flow problem that may be detected using the diagnostic systems of the present invention is the presence of occlusions or other blockages that prevent fluid flow within the catheter systems. In addition to identifying that a problem exists, the diagnostic components may preferably also be used to identify the location of the fluid flow problem as discussed herein. Connectors for use in the branching catheter systems are also disclosed. Among the diagnostic components that may be used in branching catheter systems of the present are valves to control fluid flow through the various sections of the branching catheter system, fluid flow detectors to detect flow through the one or more sections of the branching catheter system and a control system for operating the diagnostic components.
Owner:MEDTRONIC INC

X-ray backscatter device for wellbore casing and pipeline inspection

An apparatus for inspection in situ of a wellbore casing and a pipeline from inside the wellbore or pipeline. The apparatus includes a penetrating radiation source such as x-rays, a rotatable beam collimator adapted to collimate the penetrating radiation source and produce at least one pencil radiation beam rotatable about the radiation source, an arcuate radiation detector suitable for detecting radiation scattered off a target, and a housing containing the radiation source, the rotatable beam collimator, and the radiation detector. The housing is provided with at least one exit point for exiting of the at least one pencil radiation beam from the housing.
Owner:GAS TECH INST

Systems and methods for fault detection and exclusion in navigational systems

InactiveUS6856905B2Increase flexibilityIncreases the likelihood of quickly and successfully identifyingPosition fixationNavigation instrumentsNavigation systemPosition error
The Fault Detection and Exclusion (FDE) system for use in navigational systems that rely upon multiple ranging signals, such as GPS satellites, uses an FDE algorithm to detect, as soon as possible, whether a fault exists in a signal associated with one or more of the GPS satellites. The system makes this determination by comparing a computed residual error with a first fault detection threshold. After determining that the computed residual error has exceeded the first, relatively low, fault detection threshold, the system transmits a signal to one or more external systems indicating that one or more signals associated with the various GPS satellites may be faulty. The system then monitors horizontal estimated position error (HUL) until this value has met or exceeded a relatively high fault isolation threshold value. The system then attempts to isolate and exclude the faulty satellite from the current navigational solution.
Owner:GARMIN AT

Reduction of scan time in imaging mass spectrometry

Techniques are disclosed for reducing scan times in mass spectral tissue imaging studies. According to a first technique, a tissue imaging boundary is defined that closely approximates the edges of a tissue sample. According to a second technique, a low-resolution scan is performed to identify one or more areas of interest within the tissue sample, and the identified areas of interest are subsequently scanned at higher resolution.
Owner:THERMO FINNIGAN
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