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A system and method wherein mobile nodes scan both 802.16 and 802.11 radio channels for neighbor access points. A mobile node reports both WiMax and WiFi neighbor access points to its parent access point. A parent access point advertises both WiMax and WiFi neighbor access points to child mobile nodes to facilitate faster roaming and load balancing. A parent WiMax AP can direct a mobile node to roam to a neighbor WiFi access point that has a lighter load or offers enhanced services. As an option, a location tracking protocol is used to determine the location of a mobile node and the mobile node's parent AP advertises neighbor APs that offer services in the mobile node's location.

Cell selection techniques for use in cellular communications systems are disclosed. A decision as to whether to use a cell for data transmission is made in dependence on a measure of a congestion level in the cell. The decision may either be part of a cell selection decision, or used to override a cell selection decision. The techniques may be used in fast cell site selection.

A connection server (3) has a receiving part (31) for receiving request information regarding a request for load sharing, which is sent from a first information processing apparatus (1) to a load sharing port of the connection server (3), a load sharing part (32) for allocating the first information processing apparatus (1) that is a source of the request information to any processing server, a sending part (33) for sending port position information indicating the position of the connection port corresponding to the allocated processing server to the first information processing apparatus (1), and a connection part (34) for establishing a connection between the connection port and the processing server corresponding to the connection port. The first information processing apparatus (1) sends the received port position information to a second information processing apparatus (2). With this configuration, in a communication system for load sharing, two or more information processing apparatuses have access to one processing server.

The user's personal intention is conveyed to a hearing aid using a method that does not place heavy physical and psychological loads. A hearing aid to be worn by a user for auditory compensation comprises: at least one microphone which converts a sound to an input signal; a hearing-aid signal processing unit configured to generate an output signal from the input signal; a receiver which outputs, as a sound, the output signal generated by the hearing-aid signal processing unit; and a hearing-aid processing control unit configured to generate control information for controlling signal processing, based on a non-audible sound which is made by the user and is hard to hear from outside, wherein, when the hearing-aid processing control unit generates the control information, the hearing-aid signal processing unit is configured to generate the output signal according to the generated control information.

A media delivery apparatus for relaying media data streaming-delivered from a server to a client terminal through a network, including a receiving portion for receiving packets transmitted from the server to the network when stream-delivering the media data, and a storage device, wherein: each of the packets contains at least one media data element as a split of the media data and is constructed according to a certain protocol; and the receiving portion extracts the media data element, generates information necessary for reconstructing a packet having the same construction as that of the packet containing the media data and stores the necessary information in addition to the extracted media data in the storage device.

When an electric compressor is activated, initial current data is selected by a selector, and a motor is driven with the torque corresponding to the initial current data. When the motor is driven by a ½ turn, the selector selects current difference data. The current difference data corresponds to an instructed speed. After the switch of the selector, the motor is driven to rotate at the instructed speed.

An intra-operative medical image viewing system can allow a surgeon to maintain a viewing perspective on the patient while calling-up visual images on-the-fly. A digital image source has at least one image file representative of an anatomical or pathological feature of a patient. A display is worn by the surgeon or positioned between the surgeon and her patient during surgery. The display is selectively transparent, and exhibits to the surgeon an image derived from the image file. An image control unit retrieves the image file from the image source and controls the display so that at least a portion of the image depiction can be exhibited and modified at will by the surgeon. A plurality of peripheral devices are each configured to receive an image control input from the surgeon and, in response, generate an image control signal. Each peripheral accepts a different user-interface modality.

An improved apparatus and method of producing acetic acid includes condensing overhead vapor to provide reflux to the light ends column as well as condensing vapor from a central portion of the light ends column to increase capacity. Throughput or load on the light ends column is substantially reduced without compromising product quality.

An input apparatus includes an input unit via which a user can point specific coordinates on a screen, and a display unit for displaying a graphical user interface (GUI). A menu for selecting an arbitrary item from a plurality of items is displayed on the GUI. When the user conducts manipulation to move a location of coordinates pointed by the user on the screen so as to draw a circle, center coordinates of a circle locus of the manipulation are presumed regardless of the location of the coordinates. An item selected in the menu is moved so as to be associated with a rotation angle of the manipulation with respect to the center coordinates. The user can conduct selection manipulation of consecutive menu items without depending upon the location of coordinates pointed by the user on the screen.

The present invention provides a structure composed substantially only of carbon nanotubes each having a functional group, the structure being obtained by using a liquid mix characterized by including: the carbon nanotubes; and a crosslinking agent capable of prompting a crosslinking reaction with the functional group. The structure has a network structure in which the carbon nanotubes are surely connected to each other. The present invention also provides a method of forming the structure.

Multi-resolution images of a reference image and a target image are generated. Then, whole-range matching is performed on an image of a lower resolution to detect a two-dimensional displacement between the images. Block matching is performed on an image of a higher resolution to detect a displacement at each feature point. The accuracy of motion data is increased by correcting the motion data with an image of a higher resolution by using the previously calculated motion data of the lowest resolution through higher resolutions as an initial value.

Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments healthcare imaging processing applications are allocated to computing resources in reference to criteria.

An image area of interest in an image file can be detected by a method with a relatively light processing load by making a determination using characteristics of a quantization table. Since spatial frequency information, chromaticity information, and a quantization table are acquired for respective predetermined blocks from inputted compressed image data, and are used in combination upon searching the compression-recorded image data for an image of interest, information containing AC component information for each image data block is acquired without any advanced calculations, thus searching for the image of interest in the image file.

A method of associating virtual stripes to physical stripes in a pipelined or ring structure comprises associating a first set of virtual stripes with at least two physical stripes and associating a second set of virtual stripes, disjoint from the first set, with at least two additional physical stripes. The present invention is also directed to a method of configuring a plurality of processing elements based on a less than global, but not purely local, association. The configuration method of the present invention may be implemented in a device arranged in stripes of processing elements. The method comprises configuring either of at least two physical stripes with a virtual stripe from a first set of virtual stripes and configuring either of at least two additional physical stripes with a virtual stripe from a second set of virtual stripes, said first and second virtual sets being disjoint. The present invention is also directed to a reconfigurable device comprising a controller, a memory device responsive to the controller, a plurality of processing elements arranged in stripes, a plurality of intra-stripe interconnections for connecting processing elements within a stripe, a plurality of local inter-stripe connections for connecting the output of one stripe to the input of one and only one other stripe, a plurality of global inter-stripe connections for connecting at least one but less than all of the physical stripes to the memory, and an input bus and an output bus, each connected to at least one physical stripe.

The digital map data processing system of the invention aims to improve the appearance of a map without increasing the labor in automatic generation of road polygons required for generation of map data.

The digital map data processing system of the invention reads network data 40, which expresses multiple roads by nodes and links, and generates polygon data 50 including road polygons by processing the network data 40. The road polygon generation process includes generation of rectangular polygons of specified widths about respective links, generation of edge lines around polygons, and elimination of unnecessary edge lines. The digital map data processing system selectively applies a suitable terminal processing technique to specify terminal geometry of each object polygon, based on connection with each connection polygon and geometries and attributes of the object polygon and the connection polygon. This desirably improves the appearance at a connection of adjacent polygons.

A puncture device is provided that does not allow an outer needle to collapse or rise at the time of puncture and exhibits small puncture resistance.

A puncture device 1 includes: a hollow outer needle 2; an outer needle hub 3 provided at a proximal end portion of the outer needle 2; a hollow inner needle 4 inserted into the outer needle 2 for use; and an inner needle hub 5 provided at a proximal end portion of the inner needle 4. The inner needle 4 includes, from the distal side, a sharp needlepoint 41, a small diameter portion 42 having an almost uniform outer diameter; an intermediate portion 43 formed as a tapered portion which is progressively increased in outer diameter as it goes toward the proximal end; and a larger diameter portion 44 having inner and outer diameters larger than inner and outer diameters, respectively, of the small diameter portion 42. If the puncture device 1 is assembled, the needlepoint 41 is most projected from the distal opening 24 of the outer needle 2 and the proximal end of the small diameter portion 42 and the distal end of the large diameter portion 4 are located inside the outer needle 2. The inner diameter of the outer needle 2 at a portion L1 where the outer needle 2 covers the small diameter portion 42 of the inner needle 4 is smaller than the large diameter portion 44 of the inner needle 4.

Arrangement and method for paging, cellular radio system, and paging controller for cellular radio system is provided. According to one embodiment, the arrangement may include a paging controller, a plurality of base stations, and a transmission network connecting the paging controller and the base stations. The transmission network may include a plurality of routers utilizing the Internet Protocol. The paging controller is configured to transmit a physical layer paging message to a plurality of base stations belonging to the same location area or routing area. The router may be configured to utilize the Internet Protocol Multicast in the routing of the physical layer paging message.

A method for controlling the speed of an engine driving a generator supplying electrical current to a load includes the steps of monitoring the current, increasing the speed when the current increases and decreasing the speed when the current decreases. The governor apparatus used to carry out the method includes a microcontroller having a current and frequency look-up table embedded in it. For some part of the monitoring step, the engine runs at a first speed, e.g., idle speed, or some moderate speed above idle speed. The increasing step includes detecting an increase in the current to a value, determining from the look-up table the frequency corresponding to the value and increasing the speed of the engine until the frequency of the current is the frequency corresponding to the value. To state it in other words, the new method and apparatus control the engine at a modest speed when the generator is unloaded or lightly loaded and increases engine speed and current frequency with increases in generator load.