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An ultra-thin digital imaging device has a thickness of several millimeters and is capable of producing data for creating images of 3 Mp and higher. The device comprises a multi-channel imaging unit that contains a plurality of optical channels formed by microlens objectives and a pixilated image sensor unit with a plurality of sensing elements. Each individual identical image obtained through each optical channel is pixilated and converted into electrical signals that are processed into data sets which can be stored in the imaging device and either reproduced on the display of the device or transmitted to an external image-reproducing device where the obtained data of individual images are transformed into a single, high-resolution megapixel image by means of a technique known in the art.

The invention provides a food preparation vessel (100) comprising a main inlet (10) for introduction of a food material into the food preparation vessel (100), wherein the food preparation vessel (100) comprises a gas flow generator outlet (21) and a gas flow receiver inlet (22), wherein the gas flow generator outlet (21) is configured to provide a gas flow (25) in the direction of the gas flow receiver inlet (22) and having a component parallel to the main inlet (10) when the gas flow generator outlet (21) is functionally coupled with a gas flow generator in operation.

Product data from a manufacturing process is analysed using techniques adapted from the study of chaos. Future values of a series of product data are predicted and an attractor structure is determined from the product data. This enables the manufacturing process to be monitored, controlled and analysed. Action can be taken to modify the manufacturing process using the results from the prediction and attractor structure to reduce costs and improve performance and efficiency.

A method to select features for maximum entropy modeling in which the gains for all candidate features are determined during an initialization stage and gains for only top-ranked features are determined during each feature selection stage. The candidate features are ranked in an ordered list based on the determined gains, a top-ranked feature in the ordered list with a highest gain is selected, and the model is adjusted using the selected using the top-ranked feature.

A 3D printer device utilizing at least one Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) image head having at least one beam focused in a focal plane of the device for building on a surface of the device a 3D model of a target object from a digital image. The inventive 3D printer is more compact in size due to the use of QCL image heads, which provides focused wavelengths of QCLs matching the absorption properties in plastics for more efficient absorption of the radiant energy. Each QCL channel power in the inventive 3D printer can be doubled by combining two lasers with a polarization beam splitter. The QCL image head is provided with Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) for compensating for imaging speed. The invention includes a method for scaling up the building speed of 3D printing regardless of detail level. The invention discloses an affordable 3D printer using QCL technology while maintaining high standards of resolution, use of quality materials, and rapid building speeds.

A French press-like quality high volume, electrical, automatic beverage brewer (10) with a rotatable mixing chamber (12) for mixing water (109) from a hot water tank (28) with dry beverage ingredient (108) having a closed top (7) and an open bottom (3, 66) to which is releasably mounted a brew basket (14) with an open top (19) for fluid communication with the mixing chamber (12) through the open bottom (3, 66). Before mounting, the brew basket (14) is loaded with a filter (105) and dry beverage ingredient (109). The mixing chamber (12) with the brew basket (14) attached is then automatically turned upside down (FIG. 6) to dump the dry beverage ingredient (109) out of the filter (105) and onto the closed top (7) of the rotatable mixing chamber (12). A preselected amount of water (109) is then infused into the mixing chamber (12) to a level beneath the open bottom (3) and filter (105) and onto the dry beverage ingredient (109) for mixing therewith. After a preselected mixing time period is passed the mixing chamber (12) and mounted brew basket (14) is automatically turned right side up to pass the beverage (110) through the filter (105) and out of the drain hole (90) of the brew basket (14). After the mixing chamber (12) has been returned to an upright position, pressurized air (44,46,48) is automatically injected into the mixing chamber (12) to hasten the passage of beverage (110) through the filter (105) and out of the drain hole (90).

A communication relay apparatus for providing a network-encoded information unit sequence comprises a first channel decoder which is configured to supervise a first wireless channel, to receive a first channel-encoded sequence of information units from a first data source via the first wireless channel and to decode the first channel-encoded sequence of information units to obtain a first decoded sequence of information units. Furthermore, the communication relay apparatus comprises a second channel decoder which is configured to supervise a second wireless channel, to receive a second channel-encoded sequence of information units from a second data source via the second wireless channel and to decode the second channel-encoded sequence of information units to obtain a second decoded sequence of information units, the first and second wireless channels being different from each other. Finally, the communication relay apparatus comprises a network-encoder which is configured to encode information of the first and second decoded sequences of information units into the network-encoded information unit sequence and wherein the network-encoder is further configured to wirelessly transmit the network-encoded information unit sequence to a data sink.

This invention is method for determining direction mode for an image block in intra prediction of video frames. The method calculates a plurality of energy terms from the spatial frequency domain image block, then determines a coarse classification from these energy terms. For at least some coarse classifications the method searches from among a subset of less than all possible direction modes. The method also searches a most likely direction mode determined from neighbor blocks when available.

A push latch that may be used in automobile applications to open and close compartment doors or bins reduces the number of components typically found in prior art designs while retaining the same quality and function. The push latch of the invention further eliminates the use of metal pins and springs, provides an assembly that is easier to assemble and reduces the cost to manufacture. In one embodiment, the push latch generally includes the use of a housing, lock and button. The lock includes the use of a flexible spring arm and bosses, which will engage with cam slots in the button. In operation, when the button is pushed, the cam slots will force the bosses and the lock downward causing the release of the compartment door. When the button is released, the flexible spring arm forces the cylindrical bosses upward in the cam slots thus forcing the button and lock back to their original positions.

A recording medium such as paper on which an image can be printed by a print apparatus includes an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag such as an IC tag for recording data comprising original image data and print setting information used upon printing. A print apparatus reads out the original image data and the print setting information from the RFID tag and executes the printing on the basis of them. Even in the case of an image subjected to a print effect processing, reprinting with the same picture quality can be easily performed and a trouble of searching for the image can be saved.

A copying apparatus, a computer-readable program, and a storage medium are disclosed. The copying apparatus is equipped with a reader for reading original image data, a communication interface for transmitting the read image data to a predetermined network and receiving image data from the network, and a printer engine for forming an image on a medium based on the received image data. The copying apparatus further includes storing means for storing the image data in a first data format; receiving means for receiving a request that the image data be sent to a predetermined transmission destination; data format conversion means for converting the stored image data from the first data format into a second data format; and transmitting means for transmitting the converted image data to the requested transmission destination.

A cone-beam scanning system scans along a half circle. The reconstruction uses a weighting function which decreases for rows farther from the scan plane to take the redundancy of the projection data into account. Another embodiment uses a circle plus sparse helical scan geometry. Image data can be taken in real time.

The invention relates to a silk reeling method and device, particularly to a silk reeling method and an exclusive device for reeling raw silk, which aim to solve the technical problems in the prior art that the energy consumption is large, the technological process is long, and more workers are needed all caused by silk reeling, rereeling and repeated drying; more time and labors are consumed because the bore diameter of a filament guide button is small; during the silk reeling process, the manual manner is adopted to form a silk sheath structure, and the hygrometric state raw silk is gathered by the function of the silk sheath in the method of gathering hygrometric state raw silk, the operation is complicated and the labor productivity is low. According to the invention, bave is processed by a hygrometric state raw silk gathering device after passing through an end feeding wing and a leading-in type filament guide button so as to enable the hygrometric state raw silk to be closely gathered, and moisture in a silk strip to be emitted by extrusion, tiny fouls on the bave surface are eliminated through kneading in a rotary manner, then, the bave is directly wound on a large shade and forms large flourishing yarn sheets through infra-red heating and drying, and the yarn sheets become reeled raw silk after silk falling arrangement.

The invention relates to the field of bridge engineering detection, specifically to a bridge damage diagnosis method based on an axle coupling system. The bridge damage diagnosis method includes the following specific steps: a. two detection vehicles depart from different positions of a bridge towards a 1# abutment direction to pass the bridge, and a signal acquisition subsystem synchronously acquires vertical acceleration response in the process of trolleys passing the bridge each time; b. the two detection vehicles depart from different positions of the bridge towards a 0# abutment direction to pass the bridge, and the signal acquisition subsystem synchronous acquires vertical acceleration response in the process of the trolleys passing the bridge each time; and c. using the vertical acceleration response of the trolleys measured in Step a and Step b to perform secondary integration processing on time t separately, thereby obtaining approximate vertical displacement response of the corresponding trolleys. Through the bridge damage diagnosis method based on the axle coupling system, detection signals can be obtained on the bridge to be detected through the detection vehicles, damage information of the bridge can be obtained through corresponding processing conversion according to the detection signals, the approximate position of bridge damage does not need to be known in advance, the operation is simple and easy, and the efficiency is high.

The invention relates to a method for recycling alumina and sodium oxide from bayer process red mud. In the method, by adopting a high molecular ratio and high alkali concentration sodium aluminate solution, aluminum extracting reaction can be rapidly carried out under mild operating conditions, so that the recovery rate of alumina in the red mud reaches more than 85%, and the defects, such as equipment scabbing and the like can be effectively prevented and even eliminated; by implementing an efficient crystallization process of an intermediate product of hydrated sodium aluminate, the cycle efficiency of a dissolution medium is greatly improved; due to complete transformation of a phase in the aluminum extracting reaction, a reaction process of recycling sodium oxide can be performed at low temperature and normal pressure; and after secondary sodium removal reaction, the sodium oxide content in final red mud is not more than 1% and is far less than 6-8% of the bayer process red mud. Therefore, the red mud can be doped in large proportion for preparing cement, brick and roadbed materials, concrete additives, environmental remediation materials and other fillers, and the problems such as resource utilization of the red mud, potential environment hazard and the like are hopefully solved.

Copper-containing nanoparticles with excellent oxidation resistance is provided. The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing copper-containing nanoparticles including obtaining copper-containing nanoparticles that contain an organic component by heat treating an organic copper compound at a temperature equal to or higher than a decomposition initiation temperature of the compound and lower than a complete decomposition temperature of the compound in a non-oxidative atmosphere in the presence of an organic material containing a 1,2-alkanediol having 5 or more carbon atoms and/or a derivative thereof.

Toluene diisocyanate is recovered from a crude distillation feed containing less than 2% by weight of phosgene by

(a) fractionating the crude distillation feed containing less than 2% by weight of phosgene to remove the solvent and optionally the reaction residues to produce a crude toluene diisocyanate feed containing less than 20% by weight of solvent and

(b) separating the crude toluene diisocyanate feed containing less than 20% by weight of solvent in a divided-wall distillation column into four product fractions P1–P4. P1 is a vapor phase low-boiler and solvent-enriched gas stream, P2 is a low-boiler and solvent-enriched product, P3 is a high boiler-enriched bottoms product containing toluene diisocyanate and P4 is a toluene diisocyanate product stream lean in low-boilers, high-boilers and reaction residues.

In a cellular radio system down-link diversity is provided. The system has means in a base station (BS) for receiving signals from a mobile station (MS) using a diversity reception arrangement, in particular an antenna diversity arrangement (207, 209). Information regarding the current reception conditions is extracted from the reception diversity system and is used for improving the transmission. Thereby the transmitted signals can have less signal power, which in turn makes it possible to provide smaller cluster sizes and thereby increase the channel capacity in the cellular radio system.

A method of producing a group III nitride such as aluminum nitride, comprising the step of reacting a group III halide gas such as aluminum trichloride gas with a nitrogen source gas such as ammonia gas in a growth chamber to grow a group III nitride on a substrate held in the growth chamber, wherein the method further comprises premixing together the group III halide gas and the nitrogen source gas to obtain a mixed gas and then introducing the mixed gas into the growth chamber without forming a deposit in the mixed gas substantially to be reacted each other.

For the growth of a group III nitride such as an aluminum-based group III nitride by HVPE, there are provided a method of producing the group III nitride having as high quality as that obtained by the method of the prior art at a high yield and an apparatus used in the method.