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An interactive television broadcast system comprises a source for broadcasting a plurality of television channels and data. A plurality of remote receiving units, each include a tuner to enable the unit to be tuned to receive a selected TV channel broadcast by the source, a processor responsive to data received from the source to determine the channel to which the unit is tuned, and a transmitter for sending information relating to the channel to which the unit is tuned to a common data collector.

A video monitoring device, comprising: receiving means for receiving a video stream from a video source; manually operable means for setting a detection mode among at least two modes, the detection mode being solely set for the video source; motion detection means for detecting motion in the video stream in accordance with the detection mode set by said manually operable means, said motion detection means obtaining and computing a set of images from the video stream according to the detection mode; and output means for outputting the result regarding to the motion detected by said detection means.

Rubber composition based on at least one diene elastomer, a polymer filler as reinforcing filler, a coupling agent providing the bond between the polymer filler and the elastomer. The polymer filler comprises nanoparticles of non-aromatic vinnyl polymer (“NAVP”) bearing a function Z of formula ≡Si—X, X representing a hydroxyl or hydrolysable group. The NAVP is in particular a copolymer of methyl methacrylate, trimethoxysilylpropyl methacrylate and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate, in the form of nanobeads the diameter of which is between 10 and 100 nm.

In the solution of the invention, an association is formed between activity information characterizing the activity level of a user and a performance parameter value proportional to the heart rate information of the user, the activity information and heart rate information having been measured in a user-specific performance monitor, and the heart rate information being responsive to the activity level.

The invention relates to a method for determining a geometrical object for modeling the geometry of a metal sheet forming stage (1) in a CAD system. According to said method, an operator is defined which links a first geometrical model with a second geometrical model. The link is associated with a method for physically modeling a treating process which transfers a forming stage (1) from a corresponding first state into a second state. When the first geometrical model is modified, the second geometrical model is automatically updated in accordance with the physical modeling concept. The physical modeling concept for forming stages is thereby integrated into the static geometrical model environment of a CAD system. The physical modeling method is a method for calculating a border line (3) of a forming stage in an initial state prior to a forming process from a geometry of the border line (3) in a resulting state after the forming process.

A video signal processing device including a specification information obtaining unit for obtaining specification information indicating specifications of a monitor connected to a digital video output terminal, a selecting operation receiving-unit for receiving a user selecting operation for selecting a type of analog video output terminal for a monitor connected to the analog video output terminal, a setting operation receiving unit for receiving a user setting operation for prioritizing one of the specification information obtained by the specification information obtaining unit and the user selecting operation received by the selecting operation receiving unit, and a determining unit for determining a resolution of a video signal to be output on a basis of the specification information obtained by the specification information obtaining unit, the user selecting operation received by the selecting operation receiving unit, and the user setting operation received by the setting operation receiving unit.

A method and apparatus are provided for encoding an image sequence. The method includes the following steps, for at least one group of blocks of an image: determining, for each block, at least one parameter characteristic of said block; forming at least one cluster including the blocks having at least one similar characteristic parameter; encoding the blocks of said cluster, the similar characteristic parameter(s) associated with said cluster being encoded only once; encoding the blocks that do not belong to any cluster, the characteristic parameter(s) associated with each of said blocks not being encoded; generating a data stream; and inserting into said stream, at least one piece of information on the partitioning of the group(s), in order to identify the outer block(s) within a group.

Provided is a conversion device which can determine the presence/absence of a failure in a detection unit for detecting AC or DC voltage or current.

A conversion device 23, including an AC-DC conversion circuit 4, a DC-DC conversion circuit 5 for converting DC voltage output from the AC-DC conversion circuit 4 and a detection unit for detecting AC or DC voltage or current, comprises an obtaining part for obtaining information indicating whether or not AC voltage is applied to the AC-DC conversion circuit 4, and a power supply fault determination part for determining presence/absence of a power supply fault or an open fault in the detection unit if the obtained information indicates that AC voltage is not applied to the AC-DC conversion circuit 4.

The invention provides a computer system which is related with a Web server for providing a Web site over the Internet. The computer system is configured to comprise customer type determining means for determining a customer type of a user based on a transition of the user's content requests when the user is accessing the Web site and Web page providing means for providing an appropriate Web page for the user based on the determined customer type. According to the invention, it is possible to determine a customer type of a user while the user is accessing a Web site and present a Web page appropriate to that user based on the determined customer type of the user.

The present invention provides a timetabling system based on an improved ant colony optimization using pheromone and hybrid heuristics based cooperating agents. The timetabling system can provide an optimal timetable solution for a timetable problem that consists of a plurality of activities, each activity being scheduled to a start time within a planning period and being allocated all required resources from a plurality of sets of resources. In one aspect of the present invention, the timetabling system comprises an electronic device having a memory capacity that contains a storage medium, and a timetabling module being implemented in the electronic device. The present invention also provides a timetabling method based on an improved ant colony optimization by using pheromone and hybrid heuristics based cooperating agents to obtain an optimal timetable solution for a timetable problem that consists of a plurality of activities, each activity being scheduled into a start time within a planning period and being allocated all required resources from a plurality of sets of resources.

The present invention provides modified nucleobase compounds, modified nucleic acid mimetic compounds and various uses thereof. In addition, the invention provides methods for nucleobase characterisation, SNP characterisation and nucleic acid sequencing.

An original image is displayed on a display screen. Here, when a sub-screen input mode is set, a sub-screen that is obtained by reducing an entire screen displayed on the display screen is displayed on an image display portion. The user uses an electronic pen to select an optional input area within the sub-screen. An area corresponding to the selected input area is displayed on the entire screen. At this timer the reduced image of the entire screen is switched to an image of the input area on the sub-screen. Then, the user uses the electronic pen to perform an editing work on the sub-screen. The sub-screen is set within reach of the user, and editing on an area out of reach on the entire screen can be also performed on the sub-screen.

A method for determining the position of a vehicle, including sensing of multiple objects in a surround field of the vehicle, detecting a sequence of the multiple sensed objects in a digital map and determining a position of the vehicle in the digital map based on a position of the detected sequence in the digital map. An apparatus for determining the position of a vehicle, as well as to a computer program are also described.

A method for checking the correct positioning of a vehicle on a measuring station for vehicle measurement includes: a) taking images of at least two tires of the vehicle; b) identifying features, in the images taken, which describe at least one area of the respectively recorded tire; c) fitting a mathematical model to the identified features; d) determining the extent of the flattening of each tire from the fitted mathematical model; e) comparing the flattening of the at least two tires.

It is so arranged that the user of a device such as a digital still camera can ascertain the transfer history of an image file that has been transferred to the camera. An image file is obtained by “Mr. A” shooting a subject using a digital still camera, whereupon information concerning the owner of the camera is read and “Mr. A” is written to a photographer/transferor history table as the photographer of the image file. The table is placed in the header recording area of the image file. If the image file is transferred to a “Miss B”, the table is read out of the image file and “Miss B” is written to the table as the transferor of the image file. The table thus updated is placed in the header recording area of the image file. One can determine the photographer and transferor of the image file by referring to the table.

A remaining amount of ink display apparatus includes a printing executing section which executes printing by discharging ink that is retained in a retaining section, a consumption amount acquiring section which acquires an amount of ink consumption used in printing executed by the printing executing section based on a print job, a remaining amount acquiring section which acquires a remaining amount of ink in the retaining section, a display section which displays information, and a display control section which displays the amount of ink consumption and the remaining amount of ink on the display section.

This decision aid method includes the following steps:

• • acquiring (110) operating states of systems, the operating states being determined by a monitoring system;
  • determining (120) an availability state of each operational capacity, based on the operating states of only the systems of the aircraft implementing that operational capacity, each availability state being chosen from among the group consisting of: a normal state, a downgraded state, an impacted state and a lost state;
  • selecting (150) one or more operational capacities based on the current movement context of the aircraft;
  • communicating (150) the availability state of each selected operational capacity to the pilot.

A device and a method for determining the extent of an at least locally lateral undercut of a structured surface layer on a sacrificial layer. The structured surface layer for this purpose locally has at least one passive electronic component, using which a physical measured quantity can be determined, which is proportional to the extent of the lateral undercut. The method for generating this device proposes, initially on the structured surface layer in a first etching method, to provide the surface layer at least locally with a structuring having trenches and, in a second etching method, proceeding from the trenches, to undertake at least locally a lateral undercut of the structured surface layer. In this context, in the first etching method on the surface layer, locally at least one passive electronic component is additionally delineated out, which in response to a subsequent undercutting of the surface layer is also undercut. The physical measured quantity is determined without contact, preferably by sending an electromagnetic emission into the passive component.

The disclosure provides a control device for a vehicle, as an acceleration priority shift control that selects the shift stage set by the automatic transmission (TM) by preferentially using the information of acceleration of the vehicle (1), the traveling control part (120) calculates a maximum acceleration (Gmax) and a minimum acceleration (Gmin) of the vehicle (1) by using external information of the vehicle (1); calculates a target acceleration (Gt) by comparing the calculated maximum acceleration (Gmax) and minimum acceleration (Gmin) with a preset optimum acceleration (Gi); calculates a target shift stage (SHt) of the automatic transmission (TM) based on a current state of an engine (EG) in accordance with the calculated target acceleration (Gt); and calculates a standby pressure (Pm) for a clutch of the calculated target shift stage (SHt), and performs standby pressure control of the clutch with the calculated standby pressure (Pm).

A control system is provided. The control system includes a state management unit configured to control state information indicating a state of a communication terminal and a control unit configured to, when a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal communicate, determine whether content data should be transmitted from the first communication terminal to the second communication terminal and whether content data should be transmitted from the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal based on a set of the state information indicating the state of the first communication terminal and the state information indicating the state of the second communication terminal controlled by the state management unit.

The droplet ejection head comprises: a nozzle through which a droplet of liquid is ejected; a pressure chamber which is connected to the nozzle and filled with the liquid to be ejected through the nozzle; a diaphragm which defines a part of the pressure chamber; an electromechanical transducer which is deformed to drive the diaphragm to apply pressure to the liquid inside the pressure chamber so as to cause the droplet to be ejected through the nozzle; and a mechanoelectrical transducer which determines oscillation state in the pressure chamber, wherein the electromechanical transducer and the mechanoelectrical transducer are arranged on the diaphragm in layers.

The present invention aims to provide apparatus and method for determining non-circular figure to drill boring holes having a regular N-polygonal cross sections while retaining the advantage of the turning operation. For boring a boring hole (H) with a cross-sectional shape of a regular N-polygon having vertexes of N in number, a boring tool (T) having a cross-sectional shape of a regular (N−1)-polygon which is inscribed on the regular N-polygon of the boring hole is driven to rotate at a certain rotational speed around its center (G) and revolve at a certain revolving speed along a circle (R) which is concentric to the boring hole center (0) and has a certain radius. The boring tool (T) may be replaced with a jet of fluid. A boring tool (T) with a regular (N+1)-polygonal contour may be used instead.

A centrifugal separator has a stationary casing and a centrifuge rotor, which is provided in the stationary casing and arranged to rotate around an axis of rotation at a rotary speed and which includes a plurality of nozzles for discharge of a product from the centrifuge rotor. The centrifugal separator includes a sensor device which includes a transfer element, which has a first part and a second part and which is configured to be mounted in such a way that the first part is located inside the stationary casing and outside the centrifuge rotor and that the second part is located outside the stationary casing. At least the first part of the transfer element has an elongated shape, a receiving head, which includes the first part of the transfer element. The sensor device further includes a sensor element, which is mounted to the second part of transfer element and which is configured to sense vibrations and/or shock pulses propagating from the receiving head to the sensor element, and an evaluation unit, which communicates with the sensor element for transmitting signals from the sensor element to the evaluation unit. The transfer element is mounted in the stationary casing, directed such that the end face of the receiving head faces the passing jets from the nozzles during rotation of the rotor. A centrifugal separator with such a sensor device is also disclosed.