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The invention relates to an articulated-arm three-dimensional measurement apparatus having a plurality of articulation axes with angle encoders integrated in said arms for individually measuring the angles of rotation about each of said articulation axes. In accordance with the invention, at least one of the arms (4; 5) of the apparatus (1) includes a hollow tube (4.11; 5.11) interposed between two arm segments, one of which receives an angle encoder measuring the angle of rotation about the longitudinal axis of said arm, said hollow tube presenting at each of its ends respective abutment configurations complementary to abutment configurations at the adjacent arm segment ends so as to ensure alignment on the axis of the arm that is accurate, stable, and repeatable independently of the clamping of the abutting ends in question one against the other, coupling between said hollow tube and said arm segment being provided at said abutting ends by demountable clamping means (10) enabling the hollow tube to be replaced on site by another hollow tube of different length without it being necessary to recalibrate the entire apparatus.

A main control unit accepts an operation of deciding a touched button when the user releases the button on a touch panel in a menu window within a predetermined time period after touching the button without moving his / her finger along the touch panel. Also, the main control unit accepts an operation of deciding a touched button when the user keeps the button touched for more than the predetermined time period after touching the button without performing finger movement. When the user moves his / her finger along the touch panel to another position after touching a button without releasing the button in the predetermined time period, the main control unit does not accept a button deciding operation by release or long touch thereafter.

This invention relates generally to hardware for scaling and filtering video data and more specifically to algorithms and techniques for accelerating scaling and filtering operations on digital video data. The hardware is designed so that scaling and filtering operations are combined and performed simultaneously where possible to speed manipulation of the video data. Efficient design of the system allows memory buffers and logic gates to be shared or eliminated to reduce the size, cost and power requirements of the hardware implementation.

A secure computing environment that prevents malicious code from “illegitimately” interacting with programs and data residing on the computing platform. While the various embodiments restrict certain programs to operate in a virtualized environment, such operation is transparent to the user from the operational point of view. Moreover, any program operating in the virtualized environment is made to believe that it has full access to all of the computing resources. To prevent a user from unknowingly or inadvertently allowing the program to adversely affect the computer, the user is also presented with “feel” that the program is able to perform all operations in the computing environment.

A tie rod jam nut includes a tubular body having an axial bore for receiving a tie rod. A locking portion at a first end of the body can engage the tie rod and a threaded portion of a connecting component attached to the tie rod to lock the connecting component to the tie rod as the locking portion is rotated in one direction and disengage the tie rod to unlock the connecting component when rotated in an opposite direction. An engagement portion is spaced distally from the locking portion toward a second end of the tubular body. The engagement portion can be rotated to remotely rotate the locking portion between the locked and unlocked positions.

A bicycle operating device basically has a fixed member, a movable member, a positioning mechanism, a first pivoting member and a second pivoting member. The positioning mechanism is operatively arranged to selectively maintain the movable member in any one of a plurality of holding positions. The first pivoting member is pivotally mounted with respect to the fixed member to pivot about a first axis to operatively engage the positioning mechanism. The second pivoting member is pivotally mounted with respect to the fixed member to pivot about a second axis that is offset from the first axis. The second pivoting member includes first and second contacting parts for selectively contacting the first pivoting member at different radial positions causing the first pivoting member to pivot in response to pivotally movement of the second pivoting member.

The present invention discloses a shading device includes a screen, a shaft portion having a lock portion to be locked, a biasing mechanism, a locking member that is engaged at a lock position with the lock portion, and a housing in which the end portion of the shaft portion is inserted. The housing has a sliding guide portion in which the locking member is slid. The sliding guide portion is capable of guiding the locking member in a direction passing through the lock position and a lock release position, and has a lock position engagement portion for stopping the locking member from sliding at the lock position. The locking member includes a slide engagement portion that engages with the lock position engagement portion at the lock position and an operating portion that can be flexed to release the slide engagement portion from the lock position engagement portion.

A multi-download structure and a method of downloading information to one or more mobile communications terminals is provided. The structure includes an input unit for inputting download terms. A user download executing unit displays the inputted download terms and model information of mounted terminals on a screen and integrally controls / manages a multi-downloading operation. A plurality of lower download executing units, in which terminal model information has been registered, individually execute download operations to each mounted terminal. A medium unit receives the download terms and the terminal model information from the user download executing unit, automatically selects a model of the terminal to be downloaded, automatically calls the plurality of lower download executing units corresponding to the selected terminal models, and executes the multi-downloading operation.

A meat dressing and boning method and a system thereof can dress and bone meat and carcass in short work-hours, while avoiding bacterial contamination. The system includes a clamp mechanism for holding a meat block with bones, a hanger connected to clamp mechanism and movably suspended from a support rail, and a guide rail or rails having a tubular or rod-like configuration for supporting the meat block positioned along and below the support rail. The hanger has at least two pivots to allow the meat block held by the clamp mechanism to rotate about at least first and second axes, which are perpendicular to each other. The meat and carcass can be broken up and boned while being moved along the support rail, with the swinging directions of hanger regulated by the guide rail or rails.