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An upper case and a lower case are rotatably connected in a connection part. The connection part is constructed by a rotary shaft supporting part integrated in the lower case, a rotary shaft which is integrated in the upper case and a part of which is rotatably fit into the rotary shaft supporting part, and a housing member having a part rotatably fit into the rotary shaft supporting part. A video camera and a camera lens are housed in the housing member. A display/operation part is provided almost in the whole upper case and a display/operation part is provided almost in the whole lower case. In the display/operation parts and, in addition to camera images of the video camera, a reception image, and various data, touch-type operation buttons are displayed. The display/operation parts and have the functions as the operation part as well as the display part. "Recording" mode, "transmission/reception" mode, and "information acquisition" mode can be selectively set and the device can be used according to the mode.

A method for performing design rule checking on OPC corrected or otherwise corrected designs is described. This method comprises accessing a corrected design and generating a simulated image. The simulated image corresponds to a simulation of an image which would be printed on a wafer if the wafer were exposed to an illumination source directed through the corrected design. The characteristics of the illumination source are determined by a set of lithography parameters. In creating the image, additional characteristics can be used to simulate portions of the fabrication process. However, what is important is that a resulting simulated image is created. The simulated image can then be used by the design rule checker. Importantly, the simulated image can be processed to reduce the number of vertices in the simulated image, relative to the number of vertices in the OPC corrected design layout. Also, the simulated image can be compared with an idea layout image, the results of which can then be used to reduce the amount of information that is needed to perform the design rule checking.

The disclosed technology applies the principle of anonymous reciprocity to facilitate remote backups. A local computer stores other computer's backup files, while storing backup copies of local files on other computers connected through a network. Each computer may securely maintain and manage storage for other computers' files. Application may be constrained to a local area network, or work on the Internet. The disclosed technology works in a peer-to-peer environment; no central server is required. The same disclosed technology may also apply to file sharing.

The present invention relates to the use of a gene transfer product to reduce hyperplastic connective tissue growth after tissue trauma or implantation of a medical device. The present invention also relates to a medical device with improved biological properties for an at least partial contact with blood, bodily fluids and/or tissues when introduced in a mammalian body, which device comprises a core and a nucleic acid, encoding a product capable of leading to production of extracellular superoxide dismutase present in a biologically compatible medium. Said nucleic acid encodes a translation or transcription product, which is capable of inhibiting hyperplastic connective tissue growth and promoting endothelialisation in vivo at least partially on a synthetic surface of said core. The present invention also relates to a method of producing a medical device according to the invention.

A content delivery network system is disclosed. The system comprises a communication network, a first network node for providing services for clients to access network, a second network node for managing hosts for network content providers and a third network node, wherein said third network node sets a default route and a VPN tunnel between the first and second network nodes, and provides a cache server at the bandwidth outlet of the first network node, said cache server stores a information content which has been requested and transmitted. When the client request an information content, the third network node searches the cache server. If the information content is found, the cache server provides said information content to the client directly. If the information content is not found, the cache server sends a request for catching the information content to the second network via the VPN tunnel, and transmits the information content to the client via the default route. The cache server records the data of the transmitted information content. The recorded data is provided to the second network node, so that the second network node can bill the network content provider accordingly.

A gateway application in a content engine multiplexes requests for real-time content to servers that, in turn, service the requests by streaming appropriate real-time content to requesting users. A software communication port of the content engine may be reserved to receive request messages from multiple client computers, at least two of which request streaming of real-time content according to different selected formats. After identifying client properties (e.g., a format for which to receive streaming real-time content) associated with the requests for real-time content, the gateway application identifies corresponding servers of the content engine to serve the real-time content according to the different selected formats. The gateway application forwards the requests for streaming of real-time content associated with the request messages to the corresponding servers which, in turn, satisfy the requests by streaming the requested real-time content to the client computers.

A speech synthesis system receives symbolic input describing an utterance to be synthesized. In one embodiment, different portions of the utterance are constructed from different sources, one of which is a speech corpus recorded from a human speaker whose voice is to be modeled. The other sources may include other human speech corpora or speech produced using Rule-Based Speech Synthesis (RBSS). At least some portions of the utterance may be constructed by modifying prototype speech units to produce adapted speech units that are contextually appropriate for the utterance. The system concatenates the adapted speech units with the other speech units to produce a speech waveform. In another embodiment, a speech unit of a speech corpus recorded from a human speaker lacks transitions at one or both of its edges. A transition is synthesized using RBSS and concatenated with the speech unit in producing a speech waveform for the utterance.

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining an insurance evaluation based on an industrial classification. The system may be configured to receive an electronic resource address relating to an entity, access data relating to the entity using the electronic resource address, tokenize the data, generate token counts based on the tokenized data; and apply at least one computerized predictive model to the token counts to determine one or more classifications associated with the entity. The system may further be configured to conduct evaluations of insurability, fraud determinations and other processes using the determined classification(s).

The invention converts raw data in a base language (e.g. English) into conversational formatted messages in multiple languages. The process converts input data rows into related sequences to a set of prerecorded audio phrase files. The sequences reference both recorded phrases of input data components and user-created text phrases inserted before and after the input data. When the audio sequences are played in sequence, a coherent conversational message in the language of the caller results. An IVR server responding to a caller's menu selection uses the invention's output data to generate the coherent response. Two embodiment are presented, a simple embodiment that responds to messages, and a more complex embodiment that converts enterprise demographic and member-event data collected over a period into audio sentences played in response to a menu item section by a caller in the caller's language.

An improved fully-coupled vehicle positioning process and system thereof can substantially solve the problems encountered in global positioning system-only and inertial navigation system-only, such as loss of global positioning satellite signal, sensibility to jamming and spoofing, and inertial solution's drift over time, in which the velocity and acceleration from an inertial navigation processor are used to aid the code and carrier phase tracking of the global positioning system satellite signals, so as to enhance the performance of the global positioning and inertial integration system, even in heavy jamming and high dynamic environments. The improved fully-coupled GPS/IMU vehicle positioning system includes an IMU (inertial measurement unit) and a GPS processor which are connected to a central navigation processor to produce navigation solution that is output to an I/O (input/output) interface.

A storage device able to make a redundant write operation of unselected data unnecessary and able to optimize an arrangement of pages to a state having a high efficiency for rewriting, wherein the storage device has a first memory unit, a second memory unit having a different access speed from the first memory, and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit has a function of timely moving the stored data in two ways between the first memory unit and the second memory unit having different access speeds in reading or rewriting.

A method includes determining a facet from a web page to be indexed for searching, indexing the web page with the facet in a search index, augmenting a user's web search query with the facet, searching the search index for the facet-augmented query, and presenting to the user, as a search result, the web page based on a correlation of the query and the facet. Another method includes receiving a user's web search query, augmenting the query with a facet, and transmitting the augmented query to a search engine. A further method includes agreeing with an advertiser to associate a web page with a facet, and indexing the web page with the facet in a search index.

The invention relates to a medical device for delivering a therapeutic agent to a tissue. The medical device has a layer overlying the exterior surface of the medical device. The layer contains a therapeutic agent and an additive. In certain embodiments, the additive has a hydrophilic part and a drug affinity part, wherein the drug affinity part is at least one of a hydrophobic part, a part that has an affinity to the therapeutic agent by hydrogen bonding, and a part that has an affinity to the therapeutic agent by van der Waals interactions. In embodiments, the additive is water-soluble. In further embodiments, the additive is at least one of a surfactant and a chemical compound, and the chemical compound has a molecular weight of from 80 to 750 or has more than four hydroxyl groups.

A smart home interaction system is presented. It is built on a multi-modal, multithreaded conversational dialog engine. The system provides a natural language user interface for the control of household devices, appliances or household functionality. The smart home automation agent can receive input from users through sensing devices such as a smart phone, a tablet computer or a laptop computer. Users interact with the system from within the household or from remote locations. The smart home system can receive input from sensors or any other machines with which it is interfaced. The system employs interaction guide rules for processing reaction to both user and sensor input and driving the conversational interactions that result from such input. The system adaptively learns based on both user and sensor input and can learn the preferences and practices of its users.

The disclosed subject matter consists of a system, a website, and their supporting methods for user-interactive question answering. The system consists of a pattern database to store question/answer patterns for users to select when asking/answering questions. Each question pattern may include or be associated with an answer pattern. The system also includes an asking unit to let the users ask questions with or without question patterns and processes users' questions. The system also includes an answering unit to let the users answer questions with or without answer patterns. The invented method and system can significantly improve users' questioning and answering efficiency and also help machines improve the accuracy of processing the questions and answers and accumulate useful knowledge.

The present invention provides a method for transmission of a images and/or video over bandwidth limited transmission channels having varying available bandwidth, which method comprises the use of a classification algorithm for decomposing the images and/or video to be transmitted into multiple spatial areas, each area having a specific image type; detecting the image type of each of those areas separately selecting for each of those areas an image and/or video encoding algorithm having a compression ratio. The classification algorithm prioritizes each of the areas, the classification algorithm increasing the compression ratio of the image and/or video encoding algorithm dedicated to spatial areas having lower priority in case of decreasing bandwidth.

A plasma CVD apparatus for forming a thin film on a wafer having diameter Dw and thickness Tw, includes: a vacuum chamber; a shower plate; a top plate; a top mask portion for covering a top surface peripheral portion of the wafer; and a side mask portion for covering a side surface portion of the wafer. The side mask portion has an inner diameter of Dw+α, and the top mask portion is disposed at a clearance of Tw+β between a bottom surface of the top mask portion and a wafer-supporting surface of the top plate, wherein α is more than zero, and β is more than zero.

A resin material having a small relative dielectric constant is used as a layer insulation film 114. The resin material has a flat surface. A black matrix or masking film for thin film transistors is formed thereon using a metal material. Such a configuration prevents the problem of a capacity generated between the masking film and a thin film transistor.

The present invention provides content providing apparatus and method and a content providing system which maintains a compatibility with an IP network and deliver a content with a complete distributed architecture excluding the content synchronizing process and the request routing process which delivers the content.

The present invention is a semiconductor structure for light emitting devices that can emit in the red to ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The structure includes a first n-type cladding layer of Al_xIn_yGa_1−x−yN, where 0≦x≦1 and 0≦y<1 and (x+y)≦1; a second n-type cladding layer of Al_xIn_yGa_1−x−yN, where 0≦x≦1 and 0≦y<1 and (x+y)≦1, wherein the second n-type cladding layer is further characterized by the substantial absence of magnesium; an active portion between the first and second cladding layers in the form of a multiple quantum well having a plurality of In_xGa_1−xN well layers where 0<x<1 separated by a corresponding plurality of Al_xIn_yGa_1−x−yN barrier layers where 0≦x≦1 and 0≦y≦1; a p-type layer of a Group III nitride, wherein the second n-type cladding layer is positioned between the p-type layer and the multiple quantum well; and wherein the first and second n-type cladding layers have respective bandgaps that are each larger than the bandgap of the well layers. In preferred embodiments, a Group III nitride superlattice supports the multiple quantum well.

Particular aspects provide novel devices for bone tissue engineering, comprising a metal or metal-based composite member/material comprising an interior macroporous structure in which porosity may vary from 0-90% (v), the member comprising a surface region having a surface pore size, porosity, and composition designed to encourage cell growth and adhesion thereon, to provide a device suitable for bone tissue engineering in a recipient subject. In certain aspects, the device further comprises a gradient of pore size, porosity, and material composition extending from the surface region throughout the interior of the device, wherein the gradient transition is continuous, discontinuous or seamless and the growth of cells extending from the surface region inward is promoted. Additional aspects provide a device for bone tissue engineering, comprising a metal or metal-based composite member/material comprising an interior porous structure, wherein the pore size, porosity and material composition is selected to provide a device having an optimal density and/or elastic modulus and/or compression strength for a specific recipient. Novel methods for fabricating the devices are also provided.