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A method and system for allowing a user to select actions to be taken by a server when uploading images from a hand-held image capture device is disclosed. The method and system include storing an action list on the image capture device that includes one or more items representing actions that the server should take with respect to uploaded images. After the user initiates an image upload process, the action list is displayed to the user on the image capture device for user selection. After the user selects at least one of the items in the action list, the images and the selected action list item are sent to the server, and the server performs the specified action on the uploaded images.

Hitless Switching provides a method of delivering data to a remote point in a reliable fashion. However, no guarantee or acknowledgement is provided that data has been written to a remote storage device. This is problematic for remote data mirroring. Apparatus and methods are provided to guarantee that data arriving at a remote terminal is correctly stored. Interaction with hitless switching and remote optical mirroring systems are described.

An electronic device containing a polythiophene wherein R represents a side chain, m represents the number of R substituents; A is a divalent linkage; x, y and z represent, respectively, the number of Rm substituted thienylenes, unsubstituted thienylenes, and divalent linkages A, respectively, in the monomer segment subject to z being 0 or 1, and n represents the number of repeating monomer segments in the polymer or the degree of polymerization.

The present invention includes a method to use a phase modulating micromirror array to create an intensity image that has high image fidelity, good stability through focus and good x-y symmetry. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.

A multi-chip module instrument controller having various interface and operational capabilities. The controller incorporate a microprocessor and both volatile and non-volatile memories. The controller includes variable analog-to-digital conversion bit depths, with higher bit depths for some applications. Additionally, the controller includes a separately controllable field programmable gate array that acts as a parallel processor with internal or separate external clock. The FPGA preferably includes more than thirty thousand gates (30,000) and adds a freely re-configurable and separately programmable multi-purpose digital system that can run independent of the microprocessor.

Hitless Switching provides a method of delivering data to a remote point in a reliable fashion. However, no guarantee or acknowledgement is provided that data has been written to a remote storage device. This is problematic for remote data mirroring. Apparatus and methods are provided to guarantee that data arriving at a remote terminal is correctly stored. Interaction with hitless switching and remote optical mirroring systems are described.

The present invention provides radiation detectors and related methods, including methods of making radiation detectors and devices, as well as methods of performing radiation detection. A radiation detector includes a first resin coating formed on at least a surface of the substrate and an additional layer, such as a scintillator layer, formed on the resin coating.

In an exemplary aspect, the present invention provides a multi-thread processor including a plurality of hardware threads each of which generates an independent instruction flow, a thread scheduler that outputs a thread selection signal in accordance with a first or second schedule, the thread selection signal designating a hardware thread to be executed in a next execution cycle among the plurality of hardware threads, a first selector that selects one of the plurality of hardware threads according to the thread selection signal and outputs an instruction generated by the selected hardware thread, and an execution pipeline that executes an instruction output from the first selector, wherein when the multi-thread processor is in a first state, the thread scheduler selects the first schedule, and when the multi-thread processor is in a second state, the thread scheduler selects the second schedule.

A system (1) for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from a gas stream by bringing the gas stream into contact with a circulating ammoniated solution stream such that CO2 is absorbed in said ammoniated solution, characterized in that the system comprises a membrane purifier (17), said membrane purifier having a first compartment (18) and a second compartment (19), wherein said first and second compartment are separated by a semipermeable membrane (20), a method for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from a gas stream by bringing the gas stream into contact with a circulating ammoniated solution stream such that CO2 is absorbed in said ammoniated solution, said method comprising the step of separating trace components from a circulating solution using a semipermeable membrane, and the use of a membrane purifier having a first and a second compartment, wherein said first and a second compartments are separated by a semipermeable membrane, for reducing the trace component and / or water content of a circulating solution stream in a method or system for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) using a circulating ammoniated solution.

The invention provides a high-strength nylon formula for a blower impeller and a preparation method thereof. Base stocks of the formula comprise caprolactam and laurolactam. Besides, glass beads undergoing activation treatment are added in the base stocks to improve the wearability. Meanwhile, a certain amount of plasticizer, dispersant, lubricant, buffering agent, antioxidant, catalyst and cocatalyst are added. During the pouring and molding, balanced pressurization is carried out so as to improve physical and chemical properties. The invention realizes once pouring and molding, easy batch production, low cost, light weight and energy consumption reduction. The impeller is an integrated body, does not need the welding of components, has strong wearability and good safety. The nylon can be substituted for steel, aluminum and other metal materials in the preparation of the blower impeller.

A process for forming amorphous atorvastatin comprising the steps of dissolving atorvastatin in a non-hydroxylic solvent and removing the solvent by freeze-drying, as well as processes of dissolving atorvastatin in a hydroxylic solvent with a solubilizing agent or an alkalizing agent or an antioxidant and removing the solvent by freeze-drying to afford amorphous atorvastatin.

A system and process for automated text analysis which can be used to identify phrases in reports such as medical reports includes identifying a phrase contained within a text, extracting the phrase from the text, determining a value of the phrase and, in response to the phrase having at least a threshold value, reducing the phrase to a root meaning. In one embodiment, the value of the phrase is assigned via lexicon-based hierarchical decision trees.

A method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a division guide groove by applying a laser beam having a wavelength and energy density causing multiphoton absorption to a surface of a substrate having a group III nitride semiconductor layer grown on a major surface thereof; removing deposits from the surface of the substrate by applying a laser beam having the wavelength to the surface of the substrate at energy density causing substantially no multiphoton absorption on the substrate; and dividing the substrate along the division guide groove.

An IP telephone system according to the present invention includes a plurality of communication devices T1, T2 allowed to mutually communicate through a network (IP network); a server for executing a connection starting process of communication between the communication devices, as well as for controlling communication data transmitted and received between the server and the communication devices during the communication between the communication devices; and a data transmission and reception controller for mutually switching, upon input of a predetermined command, a communication mode between a standard communication mode and a power-saving communication mode in a condition that communication connection is established between the communication devices upon execution of the connection starting process. The sound data is transmitted and received between the communication devices and the server in the standard communication mode. Transmission and reception between the communication devices and the server is stopped with respect to the sound data below a predetermined level while being continued with respect to the sound data beyond the predetermined level received in the power saving communication mode.

Provided are a radio access station (RAS) apparatus and a method of controlling a call in a portable Internet system, that are capable of dispersing traffic concentrated in an access control router (ACR). According to the apparatus and method, an operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) task for operation and management of a RAS, an admission task for call admission processing and service flow control for a portable subscriber station (PSS), a public key manager (PKM) task for authentication and registration of the PSS, a mobility task for handover processing for the PSS, and an account task for accounting are implemented as modules in the RAS. A call control procedure capable of being performed in the RAS is performed in the RAS by the tasks, thereby embodying a RAS-based call control method. Therefore, in comparison with a conventional ACR-based call control method, it is possible to disperse traffic loads concentrated in an ACR and establish an economical network.

Methods and systems establish a traffic policy for a personal electronic device based on one or more physical characteristics of the device. In some aspects, a database of traffic policies is maintained. The traffic policies are for accessing a network via a wireless communications link. A network access unit receives a request from a personal electronic device to access the network. The request is analyzed to determine a physical characteristic of the device. A traffic policy is established from the database for the a personal electronic device based, at least in part, on the determined physical characteristic of the device. Transmission of network traffic for the device is then scheduled based at least in part, on the established traffic policy.

A method in forming high-temperature alloy solder standoff in a solder bumping process, such as in injection molded solder molds. The standoffs are formed in an injection molded solder mold, by means of pre-depositing a layer of a metal at select sites, such as some of the cavities which are formed in the surface of the mold, and thereafter, filling the mold cavities with solder, utilizing standard techniques as known in the technology. The particular metal, which is deposited in at least some of the mold cavities, will alloy with the solder during or after transfer, and will result in the formation of a higher temperature alloy solder at select locations in the mold cavities.

A fully-automated biological slide specimen processing device and a method. The device mainly includes a testing assembly, a base platform, a Z-arm, an X-arm, a Y-arm, a dispensing nozzle and scanning devices for identifying a reagent and a specimen. The device in the present invention can automatically realize regular and quantitative dispensing according to testing process requirements and testing steps, automatically control the heating, automatically control liquid filling and liquid discharging, and realize full automation of the testing process. When the slide specimen needs a heat treatment, an insertion slot may be directly filled with liquid and be heated.

An eyeglass lens processing apparatus includes a processing control unit (50) which in the soft processing mode, roughs the lens such that the torque threshold value is set to a value Tθs lower than the threshold value TθN of a normal processing mode, and when torque detected by a sensor unit does not exceed the threshold value Tθs, a axis-to-axis distance varying unit or a lens rotating unit is controlled so that a cutting amount per rotation of the lens reaches a threshold cutting amount, and when the detected torque exceeds the threshold value Tθs, the axis-to-axis distance varying unit or the lens rotating unit is controlled so that the torque becomes lower than the threshold value Tθs to decrease the threshold cutting amount.

A multi-dimensional data enhancement system can be embedded within a video cable for providing enhanced video images from a video signal source to a display. The multi-dimensional data enhancement system can also be provided in a switching box that allows a user to connect multiple video signal sources to the box and then select a particular video signal source from the group. The selected signal is then enhanced by the switching box before the signal is shown on a display.

A method for manufacturing a bipolar punch-through semiconductor device is disclosed, which includes providing a wafer having a first and a second side, wherein on the first side a high-doped layer of the first conductivity type having constant high doping concentration is arranged; epitaxially growing a low-doped layer of the first conductivity type on the first side; performing a diffusion step by which a diffused inter-space region is created at the inter-space of the layers; creating at least one layer of the second conductivity type on the first side; and reducing the wafer thickness within the high-doped layer on the second side so that a buffer layer is created, which can include the inter-space region and the remaining part of the high-doped layer, wherein the doping profile of the buffer layer decreases steadily from the doping concentration of the high-doped region to the doping concentration of the drift layer.