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A client-side multimedia content targeting system schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The invention accepts as input a prioritized list of program viewing preferences which is compared with a database of program guide objects that indicate when programs of interest are actually broadcast. The viewer may request that certain content be captured, which results in the highest possible priority for those content. The viewer may also explicitly express preferences using appurtenances provided through the viewer interface. Preferences may additionally be inferred from viewing patterns. The viewer's client system locally retains the viewer's preferences and other personal information that the viewer has entered and is sent targeting information relating to program guide objects by a server. Using the viewer's preferences and personal information, the client system creates a viewer profile, which is used with the targeting information by the client system to record content that is within the viewer profile. The invention's client-based form of targeting can be applied to almost any multimedia situation, including, but not limited to: TV shows, movies, advertisements, product and service offerings, music, radio, audio, etc.

A computerized model provides a display of a physical environment in which a communications network is or will be installed. The communications network is comprised of several components, each of which are selected by the design engineer and which are represented in the display. Errors in the selection of certain selected components for the communications network are identified by their attributes or frequency characteristics as well as by their interconnection compatibility for a particular design. The effects of changes in frequency on component performance are modeled and the results are displayed to the design engineer. A bill of materials is automatically checked for faults and generated for the design system and provided to the design engineer. For ease of design, the design engineer can cluster several different preferred components into component kits, and then select these component kits for use in the design or deployment process.

An apparatus, method for detecting critical areas and a pedestrian detection apparatus using the same are provided. An application of the pedestrian detection system is provided to help limit critical urban environment to particular areas. Contrary to traditional pedestrian detection systems that localize every pedestrians appearing in front of the subject vehicle, the apparatus first finds critical areas from urban environment and performs a focused search of pedestrians. The environment is reconstructed using a standard laser scanner but the subsequent checking for the presence of pedestrians is performed by incorporating a vision system. The apparatus identifies pedestrians within substantially limited image areas and results in boosts of timing performance, since no evaluation of critical degrees is necessary until an actual pedestrian is informed to the driver or onboard computer.

To provide a sub-picture unit generation apparatus for generating a plurality of sub-picture units that compose a sub-picture stream which is interleaved with a video stream into a system stream, each sub-picture unit including a subtitle image that is to be superimposed on moving images reproduced from the video stream. The sub-picture unit generation apparatus includes an attribute storage unit for storing a display attribute that shows a base position for arranging each subtitle image, a character string storage unit for storing a plurality of subtitle character strings, a subtitle image generation unit for generating a subtitle image from one of the plurality of subtitle character strings stored in the character string storage unit, a display position determination unit for determining a display position of the subtitle image according to the display attribute, and a sub-picture unit generation unit for generating a sub-picture unit that includes the subtitle image and display position data showing the determined display position.

An apparatus, method for detecting critical areas and a pedestrian detection apparatus using the same are provided. An application of the pedestrian detection system is provided to help limit critical urban environment to particular areas. Contrary to traditional pedestrian detection systems that localize every pedestrians appearing in front of the subject vehicle, the apparatus first finds critical areas from urban environment and performs a focused search of pedestrians. The environment is reconstructed using a standard laser scanner but the subsequent checking for the presence of pedestrians is performed by incorporating a vision system. The apparatus identifies pedestrians within substantially limited image areas and results in boosts of timing performance, since no evaluation of critical degrees is necessary until an actual pedestrian is informed to the driver or onboard computer.

To provide a technology for preventing effect of precharging from becoming nonuniform when the threshold voltage of a driving transistor included in a current drive type pixel circuit is nonuniform. In the technology, before setting the internal state of each of current drive type pixel circuits, provided to corresponded to intersections of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines, in accordance with light emission grayscales, precharge voltages as voltages to be applied to the data lines are specified. A predetermined current is supplied to the current drive type pixel circuits via the data lines. A precharge voltage is specified in accordance with voltages appearing in the data lines after the predetermined current is supplied.

A computerized model provides a display of a physical environment in which a communications network is or will be installed. The communications network is comprised of several components, each of which are selected by the design engineer and which are represented in the display. Errors in the selection of certain selected components for the communications network are identified by their attributes or frequency characteristics as well as by their interconnection compatability for a particular design. The effects of changes in frequency on component performance are modeled and the results are displayed to the design engineer. A bill of materials is automatically checked for faults and generated for the design system and provided to the design engineer. For ease of design, the design engineer can cluster several different preferred components into component kits, and then select these component kits for use in the design or deployment process.

A compression ring to grip and compress body structure such as diverticulum, hemorrhoids, and tissue adjacent a hole. A resilient ring-shaped body defines a compression channel, and one or more axially rigid elongated spikes extend from the body into the channel. The body defines a first axial segment surrounding the compression channel and a second axial segment surrounding the compression channel, with the spike being engaged only with the second axial segment. The first axial segment more tightly compresses the body structure than the second axial segment.

A system for providing voice-to-text captioning service comprising a relay processor that receives voice messages generated by a hearing user during a call, the processor programmed to present the voice messages to a first call assistant, a call assistant device used by the first call assistant to generate call assistant generated text corresponding to the hearing user's voice messages, the processor further programmed to run automated voice-to-text transcription software to generate automated text corresponding to the hearing user's voice messages, use the call assistant generated text, the automated text and the hearing user's voice messages to train the voice-to-text transcription software to more accurately transcribe the hearing user's voice messages to text, determine when the accuracy exceeds an accuracy requirement threshold, during the call and prior to the automated text exceeding the accuracy requirement threshold, transmitting the call assistant generated text to the assisted user's device for display to the assisted user and subsequent to the automated text exceeding the accuracy requirement threshold, transmitting the automated text to the assisted user's device for display to the assisted user.

A pacing system for providing optimal hemodynamic cardiac function for parameters such as ventricular synchorny or contractility (peak left ventricle pressure change during systole or LV+dp / dt), or stroke volume (aortic pulse pressure) using system for calculating atrio-ventricular delays for optimal timing of a ventricular pacing pulse. The system providing an option for near optimal pacing of multiple hemodynamic parameters. The system deriving the proper timing using electrical or mechanical events having a predictable relationship with an optimal ventricular pacing timing signal.

Base stations transmit strip signals using strip signal segments and self supporting modulation scheme techniques facilitating rapid channel estimate. A strip segment occupies one OFDM symbol time interval and uses a set of downlink tones; some, e.g., half, of the tones are left unused facilitating SIR measurement. The strip segments are advantageously timed to correspond to uplink access intervals in which connected wireless terminals do not typically transmit uplink signals. Connected wireless terminals including: multiple antennas used in combination, an antenna duplex module, single RF receiver chain and single RF transmitter chain, switch antenna coefficient combinations based on strip signal segment timing. The wireless terminal determines an independent downlink channel quality measurement, e.g., SNR and / or SIR for each strip signal segment and for on-going non-strip signaling. The wireless terminal compares channel quality measurements and selects an antenna coefficient combination to be used during non-strip signaling intervals obtaining very good antenna gain.

The invention relates to an improved handover procedure for a mobile terminal. Under control of the target base station, the mobile terminal is to perform a handoff to a target base station, wherein it is to be configured for communication with the target base station via a target radio cell comprising a downlink carrier and an uplink carrier. The mobile terminal receives a handoff command message for the handoff to the target base station including a handoff execution condition as trigger for executing handoff to the target base station. Then, the mobile terminal determines, based on the received handoff execution condition, whether or not the mobile terminal is to trigger execution of the handoff to the target base station. In case the mobile terminal determines that it is to trigger execution of the handoff to the target base station, the mobile terminal executes the handoff to the target base station.

A broadcast digital transmission (BDT) receiver, computer-readable media, and associated method for receiving and processing of BDT signals from a plurality of transmitters. A BDT receiver includes an antenna to intercept broadcast radio signals and an analog front-end to down-convert it to a suitable frequency for digitization. A baseband signal processor acquires and tracks designated codes in BDT signals using a generalized correlator to produce time of arrival measurements thereof. A data processor, coupled to the baseband signal processor and with input from an auxiliary sensor and a digital database, first calibrates time offsets of said transmitters relative to the BDT receiver's time base and then operates on offset-adjusted time of arrival measurements to produce a position solution.

A wide band gap semiconductor device is disclosed. A first trench in a gate electrode part and a second trench in a source electrode part (Schottky diode part) are disposed so that the first and second trenches are close to each other while and the second trench is deeper than the first trench. A metal electrode is formed in the second trench to form a Schottky junction on a surface of an n-type drift layer in the bottom of the second trench. Further, a p+-type region is provided in part of the built-in Schottky diode part being in contact with the surface of the n-type drift layer, preferably in the bottom of the second trench. The result is a wide band gap semiconductor device which is small in size and low in on-resistance and loss, and in which electric field concentration applied on a gate insulating film is relaxed to suppress lowering of withstand voltage to thereby increase avalanche breakdown tolerance at turning-off time.

An object of the present invention is to provide an antistatic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition which is excellent in antistatic property and antistatic property with time of a non-electrification-prevented adherend (subject to be protected) upon peeling, and has reduced stainability in an adherend and is excellent in adhesion reliance, and electrification preventing pressure-sensitive adhesive sheets using the same. There is provided a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprising an ionic liquid, and a (meth)acryl-based polymer containing, as a monomer component, 0.01 to 20% by weight of a reactive surfactant shown by the following general formula (I) as a monomer unit. [in the formula (I), R1, R2, and R3 indicate likewise or differently hydrogen or the methyl group, R4 indicates an alkylene group of 0 to 30 in carbon number (further, 0 in carbon number means that there is no R4), R5 and R6 indicate likewise or differently alkylene groups of 1 to 30 in carbon number, m indicates the number of 0 to 50 (may not be an integer), n indicates the number of 0 to 100 (may not be an integer), m+n indicates the number of 1 to 150 (may not be an integer), and X indicates hydrogen or an anionic hydrophilic group]

A semiconductor device includes: a latch circuit that latches a given signal in a test mode; and a generating circuit that generates a signal that defines a program voltage used for programming of a memory cell in accordance with the signal latched in the latch circuit. The generating circuit includes: a circuit that generates the signal that defines an initial voltage of the program voltage; a circuit that generates the signal that defines a pulse width of the program voltage; and a circuit that generates the signal that defines a step width of the program voltage when the program voltage is a voltage that increases stepwise.

Digital signatures of various aspects or characterizing indicia of object code classes are used to determine whether a compiled class has built-in assumptions about external classes that are incorrect due to modification and recompilation of the external class. The indicia generally involve an encoding of the layout of various run time structures in the external class such as field tables or method tables.

The invention concerns a method for generating calibration signals for calibrating spatially remote signal branches of antenna systems. In accordance with the invention, a base signal is generated by mean of a timer and is fed to a distributor unit for distribution of the base signal to amplifier circuits on the signal distribution lines respectively allocated to them. At the output of the amplifier circuits, a calibration signal is generated respectively via amplification of the base signal within a specifiable upper amplitude limit and a specifiable lower amplitude limit, which is fed to the respective feed-in point of the signal branch to be calibrated that is allocated to an amplifier circuit.

Lane speed profiles are determined for each of a plurality of individual lanes of a multi-lane road section. The plurality of individual lanes are lanes for a given direction of travel. The lane speed profiles are determined using real-time vehicle probe data. The speed profiles are used to determine a timing for provide an instruction to a user of a navigation apparatus to change lane. The timing may be determined to provide a quickest route through at least a part of the road section, to increase the time available for the user to perform the lane change, or to enable a user to pass an incident affecting a lane most quickly.

A relay for captioning a hearing user's (HU's) voice signal during a phone call between an HU and a hearing assisted user (AU), the HU using an HU device and the AU using an AU device where the HU voice signal is transmitted from the HU device to the AU device, the relay comprising a display screen, a processor linked to the display and programmed to perform the steps of receiving the HU voice signal from the AU device, transmitting the HU voice signal to a remote automatic speech recognition (ASR) server running ASR software that converts the HU voice signal to ASR generated text, the remote ASR server located at a remote location from the relay, receiving the ASR generated text from the ASR server, present the ASR generated text for viewing by a call assistant (CA) via the display and transmitting the ASR generated text to the AU device.

A movement area detecting unit detects, in an image frame divided into a plurality of blocks, a block having a movement as a movement area, based on simple image data. A face detecting unit detects a human face based on the simple image data. When a human face is detected by the face detecting unit in the movement area detected by the movement area detecting unit and the movement in the movement area including the human face stops, an image pick-up operation is performed. Therefore, when an image is to be picked up in a self-timer image pick-up mode for automatically picking-up an image of an operator himself / herself as an object, the image pick-up operation takes place at the optimal timing when the operator as the object reaches and stands still at the desired position for the photograph.

Devices, methods, and software implementing those methods for providing communicating external chest compression (ECC) devices and defibrillation (DF) devices, where the ECC and DF devices can be physically separate from each other. Both ECC and DF devices are able to operate autonomously, yet able to communicate with and cooperate with another device when present. Some ECC and DF devices are adapted to be physically and / or electrically coupled to each other. One ECC device includes a backboard, a chest compression member, a communication module, controller, and at least one sensor, electrode lead or electrode. One DF device includes a defibrillator module, a controller, and a communication module that can communicate with the ECC communication module. The communicating ECC and DF devices may deliver ECC, pacing, defibrillation, ventilation, and cooling therapies, and may deliver instructions to human assistants, in a coordinated and cooperative fashion.

A delay circuit in a semiconductor memory device generates a sense amplifier enable signal having a delay time with respect to the timing of selection of one of memory cells. The delay time corresponds to the largest read time for the memory cell located at the most distant position and has an irregularity reflecting an irregularity in threshold voltage of nMOSFET transfer gates in each memory cell, which affects the read time. An optimum timing for the sense amplifier enable signal can be obtained by the delay circuit irrespective of the irregularity in the threshold voltage of the nMOSFET transfer gates.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a cement admixture capable of exhibiting high cement dispersing ability at low addition levels, in particular capable of displaying excellent initial dispersing ability and dispersion retaining ability even in a high water reducing ratio range, and a cement composition in which this admixture is used. A cement admixture comprising two polymers, namely a polymer (A) and a polymer (B), as essential constituents in a ratio of polymer (A) to polymer (B) between 1 to 99 / 99 to 1% by mass, wherein the polymer (A) is a polymer comprising, as essential constituent units, a constituent unit (I) derived from an unsaturated (poly)alkylene glycol ether monomer (a) and a constituent unit (II) derived from an unsaturated monocarboxylic acid monomer (b) and wherein the constituent units (I) and (II) each accounts for not less than 1% by mass relative to all constituent units but the constituent unit (I) accounts for not more than 50 mole percent relative to all constituent units and, wherein the polymer (B) is an oxyalkylene group- or polyoxyalkylene group- and carboxyl group-containing polymer.

Techniques are provided for use with an implantable cardiac stimulation device equipped with a multi-pole left ventricular (LV) lead having a proximal electrode implanted near an atrioventricular (AV) groove of the heart of the patient. A left atrial (LA) cardioelectrical event is sensed using the proximal electrode of the LV lead and a corresponding LA cardiomechanical event is also detected, either using an implantable sensor or an external detection system. The electromechanical activation delay between the LA cardioelectrical event and the corresponding LA cardiomechanical event is determined and then pacing delays are set based on the electromechanical activation delay for use in controlling pacing. The pacing delays can include, e.g., AV delays for use with biventricular cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) pacing. Other techniques described herein are directed to exploiting right atrial (RA) cardioelectrical events detected via an RA lead for the purposes of setting pacing delays.