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A multiple raster image processor (RIP) system is described that enables faster system performance over multiple processors, and includes a zero RIP feature consisting of a language interpreter sub-RIP that interprets a print instruction file but does not process the graphics rendering steps or the post-language processing operators. A skip RIP interprets selected pages in a way that skips all or most of the processing for that page. Pages to be skipped are scheduled for a different processor, thereby saving processing time and enabling the provision of a multiple processor RIP.

Context-free grammars generally comprise a large number of rules, where each rule defines how a sting of symbols is generated from a different series of symbols. While techniques for creating finite-state automata from the rules of context-free grammars exist, these techniques require an input grammar to be strongly regular. Systems and methods that convert the rules of a context-free grammar into a strongly regular grammar include transforming each input rule into a set of output rules that approximate the input rule. The output rules are all right- or left-linear and are strongly regular. In various exemplary embodiments, the output rules are output in a specific format that specifies, for each rule, the left-hand non-terminal symbol, a single right-hand non-terminal symbol, and zero, one or more terminal symbols. If the input context-free grammar rule is weighted, the weight of that rule is distributed and assigned to the output rules.

Power management for an interface device that is manipulated by a user and in communication with a host computer and provides forces to the user. The device includes a sensor and an actuator. One embodiment provides first power from the host computer over a serial interface and second power from a power adapter. Another embodiment provides first power from the host computer and second power from a power storage device on the interface device that supplies power to the actuator. Another embodiment provides a power adapter supplying a portion of the first power to the sensor and a portion to the actuator, and a power storage device on the interface device provides second power to the actuator.

There are provided a scribing step of performing scribing in a state in which a protective material is applied on at least one surface of a brittle material substrate, and a first scribing device that performs this scribing step. Accordingly, it is possible to form a vertical crack that reaches deep inside of the substrate, while effectively removing cullets produced at the time of severing the substrate, thus performing precise severing along a scribe line.

Provided is a method and a device for object positioning and tracking, and a method and a device for determining an optimal camera pair. In the method for object positioning, positioning is carried out for objects in a preset space by a plurality of cameras specially arranged for the preset space. The method for object positioning includes that: rough positioning is carried out for an object; a first optimal camera pair is retrieved in an optimal camera pair look-up table as a chosen camera pair according to positions obtained by rough positioning, wherein position information in the preset space and corresponding optimal camera pair of the plurality of camera pairs are stored in relevance in the optimal camera pair look-up table, indicating that, for the position corresponding to the position information, the positioning accuracy of the optimal camera pair is better than the positioning accuracy of any other camera pairs in the plurality of camera pairs; and fine positioning is carried out for the object by utilizing the chosen camera pair. According to the method and the device for object positioning and tracking, and the method and the device for determining an optimal camera pair, the positions and directions of the plurality of cameras can be arranged at will, and object positioning and / or tracking is achieved rapidly and accurately.