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A user interface for a mobile office is provided for allowing simple, safe, and convenient access to electronic mail, calendar, news, and web browser functions. The dialog or number of steps required to access desired items is minimized using a state controller responsive to voice commands and manual activations of reconfigurable steering wheel switches. Someone unfamiliar with the user interface is assisted by prompts for various commands and can use the mobile office without needing to resort to use of the reconfigurable steering wheel control elements. A more experienced user can bypass prompts by interrupting them with voice commands and can quickly move through various steps by utilizing the configurable steering wheel control elements to gain access to individual items within the mail, calendar, and news functions.

In a substrate vertical transistor cells are formed and are arranged, in a transistor cell array, row by row in an x direction and column by column in a y direction. Lower source/drain regions of the transistor cells are connected to a common connection plate. Upper source/drain regions of the transistor cells impart a contact connection for instance to a storage capacitor of a DRAM memory cell. Active trenches running between the transistor cells with word lines are formed along the x direction. The word lines form gate electrodes in sections. A potential at the gate electrode controls a conductive channel in an active region arranged in each case between the upper and the lower source/drain connection region. According to the invention, the active regions of adjacent transistor cells are sections of a contiguous layer body and are connected to one another. An accumulation of charge carriers in the active region and floating body effects are avoided without increasing the area requirement of a transistor cell.

The invention relates to an energy saving headset 100. The headset 100 comprises a power management unit 150 that is operable to reduce the power consumption of the headset 100 when a user 110 is not present. The power management unit 150 uses capacitive sensing to detect the presence of the user 110. Capacitive sensing is advantageous since it provides a flexible and reliable sensor that can accurately detect the presence or absence of a user 110 either by detecting user proximity or user contact. Moreover, in various embodiments, the sensitivity of a capacitive sensor may be adjusted to account for user movement or changes in environmental conditions, such as, for example, the presence of water, or sweat, on the headset 100 to further improve sensing reliability. The invention further relates to headsets using user presence signals based on capacitive sensing to control other functions of the headset or to control external devices to which the headset is connected, either wirelessly or by wires.

Systems and methods according to the present invention use an electrical pulse generator system, which may be external to or implanted in an animal body, to provide therapeutically effective electrical stimulation to maintain or improve airway patency, such as to treat sleep apnea by the stimulation of target nerve(s) or their branches using one or more leads and one or more electrodes implanted in, on, around, or near the target nerve(s). Examples of a target nerves to be stimulated to maintain or improve upper airway patency, preferably through upper airway muscle reflex activation, are the internal branch of the superior laryngeal nerve (iSLN), the glossopharyngeal nerve, and/or the trigeminal nerve, and/or any of the trunks, branches, or divisions of such nerves.

A portable information terminal controlling system of the present invention comprises the detector-transmitter and the cellular phone. The detector-transmitter includes the automobile moving state detecting unit and the control information transmitting unit. The cellular phone includes the function controlling unit, the transmitter-receiver, the display and the control unit. When the detector-transmitter detects that an automobile is moving, the detector-transmitter sends control information to a function controlling unit. When the detector-transmitter detects that an automobile is moving, the function controlling unit limits a part of a display function and a communication function of a portable information terminal, or limits all functions of the portable information terminal, and makes the portable information terminal be in a difficult state to use by giving an instruction to the control unit. Judgment of the driver's use of the portable information terminal is performed based on a signal arriving time and signal strength between the detector-transmitter and the function controlling unit, or an image extract with a camera included in the detector-transmitter.

A method for switching between speech recognition technologies. The method includes reception of an initial recognition request accompanied by control information. Recognition characteristics are determined using the control information and then a switch is configured based upon the particular characteristic. Alternatively, the switch may be configured based upon system load levels and resource constraints.

A method and system are provided for controlling a computer, data, or media system in response to state changes in the computer system. At least one state table having a first dimension and a second dimension is created. At least one programming element is listed along the first dimension and a plurality of states of the computer system are listed along the second dimension. At each intersection of the first dimension and the second dimension is a cell in which an operand is specified for the programming element at each state. For each state change of the computer system, each programming element listed along the first dimension is executed according to the operand listed for a current state.

A laser surgical device for removal of intraocular tissue including a handpiece and a tip. The handpiece has a sleeve that creates a passage way for irrigation fluid. An optic fiber or similar light conveying means is contained within the handpiece. A passageway for aspiration is included in the handpiece and continues into the tip. The tip is configured with a photon trap that captures stray laser light and prevents it from continuing into the eye.

A method of operating an implantable medical device containing a Lithium Silver Vanadium Oxide battery. In response to a detected need for therapy, a current flow is delivered from the battery to a charge storage device. After the battery is at least partly depleted by one or more such deliveries of current or other power consumption, the battery is recharged. The recharging may be initiated in response to a selected time threshold, a selected number of current flow delivery events, a selected voltage level, an excess charge time duration, or other operating characteristics. A limited number of recharging cycles may be provided if the charging is done under controlled conditions with respect to charge current and voltage.

An integrated circuit device contains a flash memory, a flash control unit for controlling the rewriting and reading on the flash memory, and a processor unit. The processor unit includes a normal mode and a fail-safe mode as the operating states. In normal mode, when a defect is detected during the verify operation after writing data onto the flash memory then any further use of the flash memory is stopped. In fail-safe-mode, when a defect is detected during the verify operation after writing data onto the flash memory, the error is corrected and flash memory usage continues. The operating state is normal mode, and when the verify operation detects a defect after normal mode erase operation, the operation shifts to fail-safe mode.

The invention relates to an extraction module with linear closure for the pressurized preparation of a drink from a capsule, containing a substance for extraction, comprising a device for extraction with a first extraction sub-assembly and a second mobile extraction sub-assembly closing against the first sub-assembly such as to form an extraction chamber in the closed position and to provide sufficient space between the two sub-assemblies for introduction of a capsule between the sub-assemblies in the open position and comprising a device for fixing and positioning the capsule between the two sub-assemblies. The device for fixing and positioning may be displaced in a coaxial manner with relation to the linear displacement of the mobile extraction sub-assembly and is capable of being displaced linearly by the second mobile sub-assembly in to a displaced position such as to permit a closing of the two sub-assemblies around the capsule.

A system for providing secured access to a vehicle, a remote communications device for sending a signal for controlling a first set of functions associated with the vehicle, a receiver associated with the vehicle and adapted to receive the signal, an access module operatively connected to the vehicle and adapted to provide control of a second set of functions of the vehicle by a user from outside of the vehicle, where the first set of functions may be similar or different from the second set of functions, a plurality of actuators disposed within the vehicle and wherein at least a portion of the first set of functions or at least a portion of the second set of functions are associated with at least one of the plurality of actuators and a controller module electrically connected to the receiver, the access module, and the plurality of actuators.

A water and compressed air storage trailer hitch, also adaptable as a bumper and trailer hitch, providing for emergency water for both drinking and as an engine coolant. The emergency air storage is of sufficient capacity to fill tires, toys, and a host of other devices, while offering a strong trailer hitch for towing. Various embodiments with various storage capabilities and water and air inlet and outlet fitting options are offered to fit a variety of vehicles.

A chip includes a memory that stores confidential data, a power supply device to apply a voltage and/or or a current, and an interface to transfer the data from and/or to another device. To secure the data in the memory, the power supply device is an integrated component of the chip. The power supply device is equipped with a limited, non-replenishable fuel reservoir so that data can be maintained in the memory over a limited service life. In other embodiments, voltage provided by the power supply device can also be employed actively to delete data in the memory in the event of unauthorized access to the chip.

A mobile terminal comprising: a case having a front surface and a rear surface; a touch screen and first touch pad provided in the front surface of the case; a second touch pad provided in the rear surface of the case; and a controller configured to: divide an area of the second touch pad into at least first and second control command areas based on a touch point of a basic touch input on the second touch pad, set first and second control commands to the first and second command areas, respectively, control the mobile terminal according to the first control command in response to an additional touch input in the first control command area, and control the mobile terminal according to the second control command in response to an additional touch input in the first control command area.

Methods and devices for preventing nutrient absorption in the small intestine wherein a medical device is passed through the esophagus, and positioned in the small intestine to treat the interior mucosal surface of the small intestine, causing a reduced capacity for nutrient absorption in the treated segment. In one embodiment, the device contains an element that isolates the segment to be treated and allows for the delivery and removal of treatment agents and neutralizing agents.

A portable electronic device includes a base, an antenna radiator, an outer layer, and at least one conductive contact. The antenna radiator is formed on the activated base by plating. The antenna radiator is sandwiched between the base and the outer layer. One end of each conductive contact is electrically connected to the antenna radiator, and the other end of the each conductive contact is exposed.

The present invention relates to a forklift managing device using near field communication. The forklift managing device includes: a first communication unit connected to a parent device for managing a forklift through a wireless network; a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader unit for activating an RFID tag or an RFID card within a certain distance and receiving information within the RFID tag or the RFID card; a controller connected to the first communication unit and the RFID reader unit, the controller controlling the first communication unit and the RFID reader unit, the controller controlling functions of the forklift with a pedestrian recognition mode among multiple modes including the pedestrian recognition mode, an operator authentication mode, a vehicle management mode, a task management mode, a logistics management mode, and an operation management mode as the primary mode; a storage unit connected to the controller, the storage unit storing forklift management information; and a second communication unit connected to the controller and at least one forklift controller, the second communication unit being connected to at least one forklift controller for performing hydraulic pressure control, operation control, or hydraulic pressure and operation control.

The present invention provides methods for treating a cancer patient. The methods rely on the observation that cells of the immune system which target a tumor cell (“effector cells”) clonally expand before a population of “regulator” or “suppressor” cells which down-regulate the activity of the immune cells which target the tumor cell. Methods are provided herein which stimulate effector cell production and also provides means for inhibiting the production of, limiting the function of, and/or destroying, regulator cells, in the treatment of cancer.