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A method for inspecting semiconductor wafers is provided in which a plurality of independent, low-cost, optical-inspection subsystems are packaged and integrated to simultaneously perform parallel inspections of portions of the wafer, the wafer location relative to the inspection being controlled so that the entire wafer is imaged by the system of optical subsystems in a raster-scan mode. A monochromatic coherent-light source illuminates the wafer surface. A darkfield-optical system collects scattered light and filters patterns produced by valid periodic wafer structures using Fourier filtering. The filtered light is processed by general purpose digital-signal processors. Image subtraction methods are used to detect wafer defects, which are reported to a main computer to aid in statistical process control, particularly for manufacturing equipment.

A digital music system according to the present disclosure is a single processor system with a drag and drop interface that permits different digital content to be performed simultaneously in two or more performance zones. The user interface may be further optimized for use with a touchscreen display. Each performance zone may have a performance queue independent of other performance zones. Performance queues may be altered at any time during a performance. Transition between each item of digital content in a performance queue is accomplished using a crossfade with user-defined parameters. Additionally, a user in either performance zone may identify a digital content item for preview and the preview may be accomplished while the music management system is performing digital content in the two or more zones.

As a company acquires commerce platforms the maintenance of integrations with payment service providers becomes an issue. The best thing is to keep the amount of developers needed to a minimum and reduce transaction costs to a minimum; therefore a centralized code base is best for a company. A gateway is described that allows a company to expose a web service based application programming interface (API) to the integrating commerce platforms. This allows for a simple standardized integration for all available payment methods with out the commerce platform about the payment service provider. This removes the complexity and redundant integrations that each platform needs to have with each of the payment service providers. An advanced arbitration engine allows for the gateway to decide what the best cost based payment service to use for the transaction.

A storage hypervisor having a software defined storage controller (SDSC) provides for a comprehensive set of storage control, virtualization and monitoring functions to decide the placement of data and manage functions such as availability, automated provisioning, data protection and performance acceleration. The SDSC running as a software driver on the server replaces the hardware storage controller function, virtualizes physical disks in a cluster into virtual building blocks and eliminates the need for a physical RAID layer, thus maximizing configuration flexibility for virtual disks. This configuration flexibility consequently enables the storage hypervisor to optimize the combination of storage resources, data protection levels and data services to efficiently achieve the performance, availability and cost objectives of individual applications. This invention enables complex SAN infrastructure to be eliminated without sacrificing performance, and provides more services than prior art SAN with fewer components, lower costs and higher performance.

A system for treating a patient by proton therapy, also called gantry, includes a proton beam guide involving, in particular, magnets, quadropoles, and the like and having an outlet aperture for guiding and directing the proton beam to the side in the patient that is to be treated. In addition, a patient table that cab en displaced in a controllable manner is provided for moving the patient into a desired position relative to the proton beam. The inventive proton beam guide and control device is mounted down from the patient table in the direction of the beam guide in a supported manner whereby being able to rotate or pivot about a horizontal axis.

A system and method for connecting control devices for display and computing equipment of in-flight entertainment systems (IFESs) in a physical location independent manner in environments where the control devices cannot be co-located and directly connected to the display/computing equipment, such as on an aircraft or other vehicle having space restrictions. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for enabling the use of improved passenger control units (PCU) including control devices such as pointing devices, keyboards, joysticks, and game controllers, and so on, with interactive in-flight entertainment systems.

A spectrophotometric sensor assembly for non-invasive monitoring of a blood metabolite within a subject's body tissue is provided that includes a pad, a light source, and a light detector The light source is operative to emit light signals of a plurality of different wavelengths. The light detector is operative to detect light emitted by the light source and passed through the subject's body tissue. The light detector is at least partially enclosed in EMI shielding. In some embodiments, the light detector and EMI shielding are disposed in a detector housing that encloses the light detector and shielding. The housing is aligned with a detector aperture disposed in the pad.

An apparatus for map zooming includes instructions stored in a memory that when executed by a processor render a zoom bar. The zoom bar includes a plurality of map scale hash marks arranged along an axis of the zoom bar and indicative of a map scale range of a geographic map. The plurality of map scale hash marks include a first map scale hash mark representative of a first map scale, a second map scale hash mark offset along the zoom bar axis from the first map scale hash mark and representative of a second map scale, and a map transformation hash mark located between the first and second map scale hash marks and representative of a transformation of the geographic map from a first map data set defined with reference to the first map scale to a second map data set defined with reference to the second map scale. The zoom bar further includes a map zoom bar indicator located relative to the first and second map scale hash marks and corresponding to a current map display scale and a zoom level of the geographic map.

A virtual data warehouse (the functional equivalent of a conventional data warehouse) that provides aggregated views of the complete data inventory. The virtual data warehouse contains metadata, which is used to form a logical enterprise data model that is part of the database of record (DBOR) infrastructure. Each legacy back-end database system is published on the infrastructure, with its metadata extracted and used as noted above. The infrastructure software uses standard J2EE, JMS and reusable EJBs, for transactional unit requests, and ETL (extract-transform-load) tools for real-time bulk loading of data.

A power sensor module suitable for automotive and other high volume applications combines speed sensing and torque sensing operations into a single unit. A magnetic speed sensor is utilized for speed sensing. A power measurement can be derived from torque and speed. Combining torque sensing and speed sensing within a single module instead of using separate modules for each allows for reducing redundancies and lowering cost.

An ultrasound imaging guidewire, that is inserted into a patient's body. The guidewire has a static central core and an imaging guidewire body comprising an acoustical scanning device. The acoustical scanning device can be rotated to obtain 360 degree acoustical images of a site of interest in the patients body. Furthermore, the imaging guidewire includes a connector that permits the imaging guidewire body to be disengaged from the static central core tip so that the imaging guidewire body can be axially translated to obtain multi-position imaging. The imaging guidewire body is axially translated without losing the original guidewire positioning because the static central core maintains its position in the patient's body.

Apparatus and methods for synchronizing a network element (e.g. access points, femtocells, etc.) to a master network (such as a cellular network) to provide accurate frequency and/or time references for their internal systems. In one embodiment, the network element utilizes a dedicated receiver (or transceiver) to receive timing information from the master network. The implementation of the dedicated receiver is advantageous for cost and simplicity reasons. Furthermore, the timing or frequency information, as received from the master network, is used to correct the network element's internal timing. In addition, the network element's internal timing can operate in open-loop mode, if no master network can be found, thereby allowing for the device to continue providing service to network users. Additionally, a dedicated receiver can also receive information (e.g. location, SID, NID, SSID, etc.) local to the network element, such information may be useful or required for seamless operation within the master network.

A method and device selectively and reversibly disrupts the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in a selected volume of the brain without the need for exogenous agents. The method and device employ low intensity directed ultrasound (LODUS) that is safe, reduces the danger of cavitation and thermal tissue damage, and is able to expose small or large regions of the brain to achieve a desired therapeutic or prophylactic effect.

An information retrieval system implements a search language, through which a querying entity (e.g., a user, a program or process, or the like) formulates a search query. Preferably, a search query is composed of an ordered set of clause definitions, and each clause can have set membership operations applied to it. Each clause includes a clause pipeline, and a time constraint. A clause pipeline includes an ordered set of clause specifications separated by a pipeline operator. A clause specification can be either an expansion operation or a filtering operation. Preferably, a first clause specification in a pipeline operates on an initial universe of all objects, and each subsequent clause specification operates on a set of objects produced from the previous clause specification. The search language is exposed to users (typically, IT administrators), and one or more builder programs within the system (each referred to as a “model builder”) are used internally to present data models to the search language. A model builder extracts data from a given type of data source (including, without limitation, a relational database system, an application programming interface (API), or the like), and enables that data to be presented to one or more constructs of the search language according to a single unified data model.

A tearable closure and a container with a tearable closure is disclosed. The tearable closure includes non-penetrating perforations or score lines in and across the tearable closure on a first side, and has continuous film material on the second side. Such tearable closure can be incorporated into one of numerous types of containers, including envelopes, boxes, and bags. The tearable closure can be a flap, a lid, or a tape.

The invention discloses a manufacturing method of a large-calibre seamless titanium alloy barrel body, which comprises the steps of: 1, casting: casting titanium alloy raw materials into a large-calibre titanium alloy barrel blank by using a vacuum smelting furnace and through a vacuum smelting method; 2, hot isostatic pressing: performing the hot isostatic pressing for the large-bore titanium alloy barrel blank in an inert protective atmosphere by using a hot isostatic pressing device; 3, mechanical machining: processing a chamfer angle for spinning at the head of the large-bore titanium alloy barrel blank after the hot isostatic pressing by using mechanical processing equipment to obtain a spinning barrel blank; 4, spinning: thermally spinning the mechanically processed spinning barrel blank with the total deformation rate not less than 60% for many times by using spinning equipment to obtain a large-bore seamless titanium alloy thin-wall barrel body; and 5, subsequent treatment. The production process has short process flow, high yield, low cost, high utilization rate of materials and easy realization, and the defects of the large-bore seamless titanium alloy barrel body, such as complex process, high cost, low yield and the like of the traditional production process can be effectively solved.

A method of and apparatus for achieving dynamic robot accuracy includes a control system utilizing a dual position loop control. An outer position loop uses secondary encoders on the output side of the gear train of a robot joint axis, while the inner position loop uses the primary encoder attached to the motor. Both single and dual loop control can be used on the same robot and tooling axes.

A system and method for accessing a rich web site is disclosed herein. The method includes serving the web-page as a container on the server-side and instantiating a content of the Web-page with a plurality of JavaScript calls or a plurality of AJAX calls, which allows APIs to access and retrieve information from the Web-page and to process the content of the Web-page.

A computer architecture for avoiding a deadlock condition in an interconnection network comprises a messaging buffer having a size pre-calculated to temporarily store outgoing messages from a node. Messages are classified according to their service requirements and messaging protocols, and reserved quotas in the messaging buffer are allocated for different types of messages. The allocations of the reserved quotas are controlled by a mechanism that, to prevent overflow, limits the maximum number of messages that can be outstanding at any time. The messaging buffer is sized large enough to guarantee that a node is always able to service incoming messages, thereby avoiding deadlock and facilitating forward progress in communications. The buffer may be bypassed to improve system performance when the buffer is empty or when data in the buffer is corrupted. In addition, a multicast engine facilitates dense packing of the buffer and derives information from a message header to determine whether there is a multicast to perform and to permit passage of messages. Other considerations to reduce the buffer size are incorporated.

The invention relates to a microfluidic system for processing biological samples comprising a rotary motor; a means for controlling said motor; a platform coupled to the rotary motor and adapted to provide at least one particle-washing structure and one particle receiving structure for receiving washed particles; and a detection zone for detection of particles of the sample in the particle receiving structure while the platform rotates. The invention provides a sample processing system that is both automated and prone to fewer errors than manual processing. This is accomplished using a centrifugal microfluidic platform that can process raw biological samples (e.g., blood, sputum, urine,) in order to perform high-quality bead-based immunofluorescent assays. The invention uses a simple rotary motor and custom-designed plastic disc to perform the sample preparation steps outlined above.

A simple and low cost architecture for a distribution network is provided for coupling wireless local area network (“wireless LAN”) signals between geographically distributed access points and centrally located internetworking devices. The distribution network eliminates complexities involved with the deployment of such systems in the past, which have typically required the computer network-compatible wiring to be extended to each access point directly from an internetworking device such as a repeater, bridge, router, or gateway. The distribution network makes it economically efficient to deploy wireless local area networking equipment in locations where wired network infrastructure is not readily available. In particular, any convenient existing physical wiring, such as may be provided by the existing optical transport cabling of a fiber optic network, is used as a physical layer transport medium to carry the wireless local area network signals between the access points and centrally located network hub equipment.