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In an image processing apparatus processing digitized image data taken by a digital camera, or the like, an image focused on an image pickup device is divided into a plurality of rectangular regions. A value of the lightness with respect to each rectangular region and a distribution of the color saturation are calculated by using image data. The scene of the image is judged whether it is backlighted or not by using a number of the rectangular regions having the value of the lightness equal to or larger than a threshold value. When the scene is judged as the backlight scene, it is further judged whether it is actually backlighted or not by using the distribution of the color saturation.

A method of providing visual documentation and information for a surgical procedure. The method includes, providing at least one video camera for generating a video signal in a digital format, capturing an image of an eye and displaying the image on a monitor. A first template is created having a graphical content pertinent to the eye. The first template is displayed such that the first template is overlaid contemporaneously with the image of the eye on a display monitor.

The method for producing low-sulfur gasoline includes the following steps: cutting gasoline raw material into light fraction and heavy fraction, making the light fraction undergo the processes of alkali refinement treatment and removing mercaptans, making the heavy fraction and hydrogen gas together by contacted with hydrogenation desulfurization catalyst to make selective hydrogenation desulfurization reaction, then hydrogenated gasoline fraction undergo the process of hydrogenation or non-hydrogenation to remove mercaptans, then mixing the above-mentioned desulfurized light and heavy fractions so as to obtain the invented gasoline product whose olefine saturation rate is less than 30%, and sulfur content is less than 200 ppm.

An apparatus for performing microchemistry having:—

• (a) a vapour permeable microfluidic chip structure (1) having:—
  • a supply conduit (11a-c) enclosed in the chip structure having first and second opposed ends to enable first and second fluid materials to interact by flowing the first and second fluid materials towards one another from the opposed ends of the supply conduit, and
  • a valve mechanism (13b) in the chip structure operable to open and close the supply conduit at an intermediate position (55) located between the first and second ends thereof whereby the chip structure is sequentially movable from a filling state in which the intermediate position is closed to enable the fluid materials to be blind-filled in the supply conduit on opposed sides of the intermediate position and an interaction state in which the intermediate position is open to enable the fluid materials to interact; and
• (b) a vaporizer (100) for forming a vaporous environment about the chip structure to compensate for evaporation of the fluid materials from the supply conduit of the chip structure in the interaction state.

The present invention relates to a device and a method in a transmitter stage in a radio transmitter for modulating and amplifying an information signal for further transmission through a radio channel. The transmitter stage in the radio transmitter comprises a converting device (5) PCH, an amplifier control device (8) PAC, a power detector (13) and a power amplifier (2). Examples of the problems solved by the present invention are difficulties in reducing the power consumption, non-linearities in the output signal when using non-linear amplifiers in radio transmitters, and achieving a high signal-to-noise ratio in the output signal without connecting filter arrangements after such an amplifier. The solution according to the inventive method and device utilizes an information signal which has in earlier steps been divided in its polar components: a phase reference component signal (Ephr) and an amplitude component signal (Aamp). The phase reference component phase modulates a low noise high power signal source which has a constant amplitude. The amplitude of the obtained signal is then formed in an amplifier, which is controllable with the amplitude component signal (Aamp). Its current consumption is registered and compared to a control value for the current. The amplifier is controlled towards this control value.

The invention relates to a production method for lowering the contents of sulfur and alkene in gasoline; alkadiene is firstly removed from the raw material of FCC gasoline by a pre-hydrogenation reactor, then the FCC gasoline enters a fractionating tower and is cut and fractionated into light gasoline and heavy gasoline, the light gasoline is adsorbed and desulfurized, the heavy gasoline enters a selective hydrogenation and desulphurization reactor, selective hydrogenation and desulphurization is carried out on the heavy gasoline, organic sulfide and part of the alkene in the heavy gasoline are removed, then a reaction effluent enters a hydrogenation and modification reactor and is hydrogenized and modified, the content of the alkene is lowered, and the heavy gasoline after being modified and the light gasoline are blended by an adsorption and desulphurization product or the light gasoline is blended by the adsorption and desulphurization product or the treatment of the process flows of adsorption and desulphurization is carried out after the heavy gasoline and the light gasoline are mixed with light gasoline obtained after cutting and fractionation to obtain clean gasoline meeting the standard requirements; and the process flows are flexible and can be flexibly regulated, the utilization of heat is reasonable, the production meets European IV and compromises European V clean gasoline, the selective deep hydrogenation and desulphurization and the alkene content reduction can be achieved, and the aims of reducing the loss of the octane value and having higher liquid yield can also be achieved.

The invention relates to a gasoline hydrodesulfurization method, which comprises the following steps that: gasoline raw materials are fractionated into light fraction gasoline and heavy fraction gasoline, wherein the light fraction gasoline is removed mercaptan sulfer through caustic washing refining, the heavy fraction gasoline carries out a hydrogenation diene-removal reaction, a selective hydrodesulfurization reaction and a selective hydrogenation mercaptan sulfer-removal reaction respectively through two hydrogenation reactors, and the obtained hydrogenation heavy fraction gasoline and the refined light fraction gasoline are mixed to obtain full fraction gasoline with ultra-low sulfur. According to the method provided by the invention, under the condition that the desulfurization degree reaches a target, the full fraction gasoline product have small mercaptan sulfur content, less olefin saturation and small octane value loss. The mercaptan sulfur content of the obtained dull fraction gasoline product is less than 10Mug/g, the total sulfur content is reduced under 50Mug/g, and the octane value RON loss is less than 1.0 unit, particularly, the total sulfur content of the full fraction gasoline product is reduced under 10 Mug/g, and the octane value RON loss is less than 1.5 units.

An apparatus for selectively extracting components of an input signal comprises a plurality of microphones for detecting an audio signal in a plurality of spaced locations. A plurality of signal samplers sample each spaced version of the audio signal. A microphone pattern processor derives a reference signal, a null signal and a core signal from the sampled signals. An adjustment frequency spectrum generator coupled to the null and reference signals generates an adjustment frequency spectrum signal that is applied to the core signal. An audio signal regenerator provides an output audio signal from the adjusted core signal. The apparatus can be used in a wireless device to pick up a speaker's voice in a noisy environment.

A magnetic memory is composed of: a magnetoresistance element including a free magnetic layer; a first interconnection extending in a first direction obliquely to an easy axis of the free magnetic layer; a second interconnection extending in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction; and a write circuit writing data into the free magnetic layer through developing a first write current on the first interconnection, and then developing a second write current on the second interconnection with the first write current turned on. The free magnetic layer includes: first to N-th ferromagnetic layers and first to (N−1)-th non-magnetic layers with N being equal to or more than 4, the i-th non-magnetic layer being disposed between the i-th and (i+1)-th ferromagnetic layers with i being any of natural numbers equal to or less than N−1. The free magnetic layer is designed so that antiferromagnetic coupling(s) between the j-th and (j+1)-th ferromagnetic layers is stronger than that between the first and second ferromagnetic layers, j being any of integers ranging from 2 to N−2.

The inferior gasoline hydrogenating modification process includes cutting the material gasoline at 60-90 deg.c into light fraction and heavy fraction; mixing the heavy fraction with hydrogen, reacting with hydrogenating and desulfurizing catalyst via contact, and reacting the effluent with aromatizing modification catalyst for aromatizing modification to obtain high octane number and low sulfur gasoline fraction; and mixing the modified heavy gasoline fraction with the light fraction or the light fraction after mercaptol eliminating pre-treatment to obtain the product gasoline. The said process makes the gasoline product possess S content not more than 150 ppm, olefin content not more than 20 %, arene content not more than 40 % and 1-3 unit raised RON.

A diagnostic imaging system includes an x-ray source that emits a beam of x-ray energy toward an object to be imaged and an energy discriminating (ED) detector that receives the x-ray energy emitted by the x-ray energy source. The ED detector includes a first layer having a first thickness, wherein the first layer comprises a semiconductor configurable to operate in at least an integrating mode and a second layer having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, and configured to receive x-rays that pass through the first layer. The system further includes a data acquisition system (DAS) operably connected to the ED detector and a computer that is operably connected to the DAS. The computer is programmed to identify saturated data in the second layer and substitute the saturated data with non-saturated data from a corresponding pixel in the first layer.

In a transmissive-type liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel and a backlight, the liquid crystal panel has pixels each divided into four subpixels red (R), green (G), blue (B), and white (W). The backlight is a white backlight by which luminance of emitted light is controllable. A color-saturation reducing section carries out a process of reducing color saturation on a first RGB input signal, which is an original input signal, so that the first RGB input signal becomes a second RGB input signal. Thereafter, an output signal generating section obtains a transmissivity and a backlight value on the basis of the second RGB input signal.

An image display device corrects image data, which are used for displaying an image, using a gray scale value assigned to each pixel and also controls the amount of source light emitted from a light source. The image display device includes a source light amount control device and an image correction device. The source light amount control device determines the amount of source light and then controls the amount of source light. The image correction device corrects a signal used for changing saturations of the image data so as to reduce a change in the saturations due to a change in the amount of source light, the change in the amount of source light being performed by the light source amount control device.

A catalyst composition comprising at least about 10% by weight pentasil, at least about 12% by weight Y-type zeolite at a pentasil to Y zeolite ratio of at least 0.25, and wherein the pentasil and Y zeolite comprise at least about thirty-five percent of the catalyst have been shown to optimize light olefin yields and LPG from FCC processes. Embodiments having matrix surface areas greater than 25 m²/g, phosphorous and rare earth are preferred. The compositions of this invention are particularly useful in typical fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) processes.

Methods and systems are provided for expediting engine spin-down in an engine that is shutdown during engine idle-stop conditions and restarted during restart conditions. In one example, the method comprises, during an automatic engine idle-stop, turning off spark, operating a first cylinder with a rich ratio of air to injected fuel richer than a rich flammability limit, operating a second cylinder with a lean ratio of air to injected fuel leaner than a lean flammability limit, and mixing un-combusted exhaust from the first and second cylinders with exhaust, the exhaust mixture being substantially stoichiometric.

A differential protection system for power transformers using Rogowski coils as current sensors can support an inrush current detection method based on sensing lows in the derivative of the sensed current. Effective detection of power transformer inrush conditions can enable blocking of a protection relay during inrush where the differential current may exceed a differential threshold value indicative of a fault without the presence of an actual fault. The outputs of the Rogowski coils, being proportional to the first time derivative of the sensed current, may be useful in the inrush detection method. Also, with reduced saturation concerns, the Rogowski coil protection system may employ a single slope response with increased sensitivity. A discrete time sampling technique for identifying low di/dt portions within the sensed current also may be useful in detecting power transformer inrush conditions.

The invention provides an illumination device (10) comprising (a) a light emitting diode (LED), (b) a heat sink (85) and (c) a self-supporting grid (500). This grid (500) is arranged downstream of the LED (20) and arranged so as to be in contact with the heat sink 85. The self-supporting grid (500) comprises a plurality of grid structures (501) and a plurality of grid openings 502) between the grid structures (501). At least part of the total number of grid openings (502) encloses luminescent material (51), thereby providing luminescent material-filled grid openings (551). The luminescent material (51) is arranged to absorb at least part of the LED emission (21) and emit luminescent material emission (13). The LED (20) and the luminescent material (51) are arranged to provide light (115) of a predetermined color downstream of the self-supporting grid (500).

The invention relates to a power distribution method for a hybrid energy storage system, and belongs to the technical field of new energy power generation systems. The method comprises the following steps: generating a fluctuating power signal; performing power distribution on the power signal through a low-pass filter; making response characteristics to reference power of energy storage equipment equivalent by using a power delay equivalent device; calculating the charge state of the energy storage equipment through an energy storage equipment charge state calculation device; judging and controlling the working state of the energy storage equipment by adopting a time constant comprehensive judgment device to obtain a corresponding variable low-pass filter time constant to adjust the power distribution. The power distribution strategy for the hybrid energy storage system based on the variable filter time constant of an energy storage equipment charge state disclosed by the invention has the function of changing the filter time constant of the low-pass filter in real time, and has the advantages of reducing the change range of the energy storage equipment charge state, slowing the saturation or the depletion of the energy storage equipment charge state to a certain degree, prolonging the service life of the energy storage equipment and the like.

A method of oil production is provided. The method includes forming an injection well and a production well. The method also includes pumping a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the injection well. In addition, the method also includes minimizing gravity segregation by providing a relatively high level of CO₂ in the mixture.

Saturation of nonlinear ferromagnetic core material for on-chip inductors for high current applications is significantly reduced by providing a core design wherein magnetic flux does not form a closed loop, but rather splits into multiple sub-fluxes that are directed to cancel each other. The design enables high on-chip inductance for high current power applications.

Positioning of the distal end of a catheter at a desired location, for example, in the desired atrium of a patient's heart, can be determined or verified through measurement of blood gas values proximate to the distal end. In one embodiment, an oximeter is used to monitor oxygen saturation, for example, to distinguish between de-oxygenated venous blood and well-oxygenated arterial blood. Optical signals may be transmitted to the distal end of the catheter and received therefrom via optical fibers. Specifically, a catheter (300) has a number of optical fiber ends (308, 310 and 312) disposed at a distal end (304) thereof. A first fiber end (310) transmits the red and infrared optical signals. Fiber ends (308 and 312) are used for detecting reflected optical signals. The optical signals are then processed by a detector and an oximeter instrument to provide oxygen saturation readings that can indicate the position of the distal end of the catheter within the patient's heart or successful penetration of the interatrial septum.

A display apparatus includes a luminance compressing section, a luminance extending section, and a W calculating section. The luminance compressing section subjects three color signals to luminance compression according to a luminance in a preceding frame, and outputs compressed color signals. The luminance extending section outputs luminance extended and converted color signals of respective three colors. Each of the luminance extended and converted color signals is obtained by subtracting a corrected minimum luminance value from a luminance extended color signal which is obtained by subjecting the compressed color signal to luminance extension at a luminance extending rate S in accordance with a function F(t). The function F(t) has as a variable a ratio t of a minimum luminance value to a maximum luminance value of the compressed color signals. The corrected minimum luminance value is obtained by multiplying the minimum luminance value by a coefficient k. The W calculating section outputs the minimum luminance value as a white signal. The function F(t) has a constant according to light emitting efficiencies of four color picture elements. The coefficient k is set so that a luminance of the W (white) color signal becomes equal to or less than a minimum luminance of the luminance extended and converted color signals of the three colors.