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An apparatus for bottom-up fabrication of three dimensional objects, the apparatus comprising: a vat for a photosensitive polymer, the floor of the vat including a working surface arranged such that, in use, light incident on the working surface interacts with the photosensitive polymer at the working surface to fabricate a portion of the three dimensional object; a build platform capable of being inserted into the vat, the build platform having a planar surface; an elevator mechanism capable of adjusting the separation between the working surface of the vat and the planar surface of the build platform; and a rotation mechanism capable of varying the relative rotational position of the vat relative to the build platform, the relative rotation being about an axis which is normal to the working surface of the vat.

An illumination control system includes lighting apparatuses connected to a communications line and a number of functional units of plural kinds functioning to detect information from ambient environments of the lighting apparatuses. Each lighting apparatus includes a lamp, an illumination circuit, a communication unit, a control unit, and a unit attaching part to which the functional unit is detachably attached. Each lighting apparatus belongs to one or more of plural groups corresponding to the functional units, the groups being operated based on information detected by the respective functional units. A functional unit having a detecting function corresponding to an operation of each group is attached to each unit attaching part of at least one lighting apparatus of each group, and each communication unit of the at least one lighting apparatus sends the control signal including information detected by the corresponding functional unit to another lighting apparatus in the same group.

A method and apparatus to maintain a plurality of executables for a task in a device are described. Each executable may be capable of performing the task in response to a change in an operating environment of the device. Each executable may be executed to perform a test run of the task. Each execution can consume an amount of power under the changed operating environment in the device. One of the executables may be selected to perform the task in the future based on the amounts of power consumed for the test runs of the task. The selected one executable may require no more power than each of remaining ones of the executables.

A system for providing a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) by use of an encryption states or encryption keys for identifying a VLAN. A table of data including a VLAN and an associated encryption state or key is provided for assignment of encryption states or keys, for devices in a wireless local area network.

A high-directivity transponder system uses a dual system of a retrodirective array transmitting a data signal peak toward an interrogator source, and a self-null-steering array transmitting a null toward the interrogator source and a jamming signal elsewhere, resulting in high S / N reception at the interrogator source and avoidance of interception. Integrating modulators would allow each array to transmit different data while the spectra of the transmitted signals are identical, thus disabling interception. The system enables secure point-to-point communications and can be used for short-distance wireless data transmission systems such as wireless LAN and RFID servers. As another aspect, self-steering signal transmission is employed for randomly oriented satellites using circularly polarized, two-dimensional retrodirective arrays. Quadruple subharmonic mixing is used as an effective means of achieving phase conjugation when a high-frequency LO is not feasible or inapplicable. These features may be used for small-satellite communications, secure tactical communications, search and rescue, enemy location fixing and tracking, UAV command and control, forest fire detection, marine-based tracking, and many other applications requiring secure communications with high signal directivity.

In a robot apparatus having a base unit, a wheel unit of an opposed-two-wheel type mounted on the base unit and having driving wheels drivable so as to face each other, and an upper-body unit provided on an upper portion of the base unit and configured by concatenating one or more joints; a robot apparatus includes an opposed-two-wheel equivalent model, a robot-state observing unit, a control unit performing a control arithmetic operation for the opposed-two-wheel equivalent model, a transforming unit transforming a part of control target values calculated by the control unit to a control target value for the wheel unit, and a joint control unit controlling a joint-driving actuator of the wheel unit and also controlling a joint-driving actuator other than the joint-driving actuator.

Cellular telephone set having a wearable electronic device and a display device is disclosed. Wearable electronic device includes a first processor, a first storage memory, a small display, a small battery pack, a cellular communication module, a first local communication module, a character receiving unit, a first charging circuitry, a motion sensor, and a biosensor configured for generating physiological signals indicating health conditions of user. Display device includes second processor, second storage memory, large display, large battery pack, a second local communication module, a character input unit, video processing unit; and second charging circuitry. Wearable electronic device is worn on a wrist of user and capable to perform cellular phone functions by itself without display device. Display device is configured to provide a full QWERTY keyboard to facilitate data entry into wearable electronic device. Display device is capable of charging wearable electronic device when connected in wired or wireless manner.

An immunoisolatory vehicle for the implantation into an individual of cells which produce a needed product or provide a needed metabolic function. The vehicle is comprised of a core region containing isolated cells and materials sufficient to maintain the cells, and a permselective, biocompatible, peripheral region free of the isolated cells, which immunoisolates the core yet provides for the delivery of the secreted product or metabolic function to the individual. The vehicle is particularly well-suited to delivery of insulin from immunoisolated islets of Langerhans, and can also be used advantageously for delivery of high molecular weight products, such as products larger than IgG. A method of making a biocompatible, immunoisolatory implantable vehicle, consisting in a first embodiment of a coextrusion process, and in a second embodiment of a stepwise process. A method for isolating cells within a biocompatible, immunoisolatory implantable vehicle, which protects the isolated cells from attack by the immune system of an individual in whom the vehicle is implanted. A method of providing a needed biological product or metabolic function to an individual, comprising implanting into the individual an immunoisolatory vehicle containing isolated cells which produce the product or provide the metabolic function.

Disclosed is a method of measuring audience ratings for at least more than one service and content in a terminal. The measurement method may include receiving a campaign invitation message for an audience measurement campaign from a server. The campaign invitation message may include at least more than one of information for the audience measurement campaign, information for the server, and information for an opt-in rate of the audience measurement campaign. The method may further include authenticating the information for the server in the campaign invitation message. The method may further include determining whether to participate using the information for the opt-in rate of the audience measurement campaign in the campaign invitation message. The method may further include transmitting a panel opt-in request message to the server according to the determination result. The method may further include receiving a panel opt-in response message from the server.

A high-directivity transponder system uses a dual system of a retrodirective array transmitting a data signal peak toward an interrogator source, and a self-null-steering array transmitting a null toward the interrogator source and a jamming signal elsewhere, resulting in high S / N reception at the interrogator source and avoidance of interception. Integrating modulators would allow each array to transmit different data while the spectra of the transmitted signals are identical, thus disabling interception. The system enables secure point-to-point communications and can be used for short-distance wireless data transmission systems such as wireless LAN and RFID servers. As another aspect, self-steering signal transmission is employed for randomly oriented satellites using circularly polarized, two-dimensional retrodirective arrays. Quadruple subharmonic mixing is used as an effective means of achieving phase conjugation when a high-frequency LO is not feasible or inapplicable. These features may be used for small-satellite communications, secure tactical communications, search and rescue, enemy location fixing and tracking, UAV command and control, forest fire detection, marine-based tracking, and many other applications requiring secure communications with high signal directivity.

A high-directivity transponder system uses a dual system of a retrodirective array transmitting a data signal peak toward an interrogator source, and a self-null-steering array transmitting a null toward the interrogator source and a jamming signal elsewhere, resulting in high S / N reception at the interrogator source and avoidance of interception. Integrating modulators would allow each array to transmit different data while the spectra of the transmitted signals are identical, thus disabling interception. The system enables secure point-to-point communications and can be used for short-distance wireless data transmission systems such as wireless LAN and RFID servers. As another aspect, self-steering signal transmission is employed for randomly oriented satellites using circularly polarized, two-dimensional retrodirective arrays. Quadruple subharmonic mixing is used as an effective means of achieving phase conjugation when a high-frequency LO is not feasible or inapplicable. These features may be used for small-satellite communications, secure tactical communications, search and rescue, enemy location fixing and tracking, UAV command and control, forest fire detection, marine-based tracking, and many other applications requiring secure communications with high signal directivity.

The invention provides a method for recognizing instances of a 3D object in 3D scene data and for determining the 3D poses of said instances comprising the following steps: (a) providing 3D scene data; (b) selecting at least one reference point from the 3D scene data; (c) computing, for each selected reference point, pose candidates for the 3D object under the assumption that said reference point is part of the 3D object; and (d) computing a set of filtered poses from the pose candidates.

The invention provides a method for recognizing instances of a 3D object in 3D scene data and scene intensity data and for determining the 3D poses of said instances comprising the following steps: (a) providing 3D object data and obtaining object intensity data; (b) providing 3D scene data and scene intensity data; (c) extracting scene feature points from the intensity data; (d) selecting at least one reference point from the 3D scene data; (e) computing, for each selected reference point, pose candidates for the 3D object under the assumption that said reference point is part of the 3D object by maximizing the number of extracted scene feature points that are consistent with the 3D object under the given pose candidate; (f) computing a set of filtered poses from the pose candidates.

A vehicle control system obtains an index indicating a running condition of a vehicle on the basis of a vehicle parameter indicating a motion of the vehicle and then sets a running characteristic of the vehicle in accordance with the index. The vehicle control system includes a noise reduction unit that is configured to obtain the index on the basis of the vehicle parameter of which a fluctuating component that fluctuates because of a driver's driving operation or the influence of a running road surface.

This invention relates to a system comprising nanoparticles designed for the release of biologically active molecules, where the nanoparticles comprise a) at least 40% by weight of chitosan or a derivative thereof and b) less than 60% by weight of a cyclodextrin or a derivative thereof, where both components a) and b) are mixed, without any covalent bond between them. This system allows for the efficient association of biologically active molecules, as well as their subsequent release in a suitable biological environment.

The present invention provides a glass type terminal comprising: a frame formed to be fixable to a user's head; a display unit mounted on the frame and outputting visual information; an optical unit formed from at least one lens and forming an image from the visual information; a user input unit for sensing a control command for changing a operating mode; and a control unit for controlling the display unit such that the visual information changes on the basis of the change of the operating mode, and controlling the optical unit such that a focal length of the image changes according to the changed operating mode.

In a Doherty amplifier (100), the amplifier's input is connected to a main device (102) via a first branch and to a peak device via a second branch. The first branch has a first frequency-dependent input impedance with a first real part and a first imaginary part. The second branch has a second frequency-dependent input impedance with a second real part and a second imaginary part. The first and second imaginary parts have opposite polarity. The first and 5 second imaginary parts have a same magnitude so as to compensate each other in the frequency band. The first imaginary part and the second imaginary part implement a first phase shift in the. first branch and a second phase shift in the second branch, respectively. The first and second phase shifts each have a magnitude of substantially 45 degrees substantially in the middle of the frequency band and are of opposite polarity. The phase difference of the 10 input signals to the main (102) and peak (104) devices stays largely constant over the frequency band.

A sealing assembly for a shaft includes a sealing component, a first ring, a second ring, and at least one energizer. The first ring is annularly disposed about the shaft, the first ring having at least one first protuberance interfittable with the sealing component. The second ring is annularly disposed about the shaft in facing opposition to the first ring, the second ring having at least one second protuberance interfittable with the sealing component. The at least one energizer energizes the seal component, the at least one energizer being adjacent the at least one first protuberance or the at least one second protuberance.

An apparatus and a method for transmitting multimedia data in a hybrid network are provided. The apparatus includes a payload part including at least one of first data synchronized according to a time to be reproduced and second data other than the first data, a first header part including information on the payload part, a packet part for generating a packet, the packet part including a second header part including information on the packet, and a transceiver for generating and transmitting a signal including the payload part, the first header part, and the packet part to the hybrid network.

A portable terminal reflecting a user's environment and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method includes: generating usage pattern information that contains pattern environment information of the portable terminal and function information corresponding to the pattern environment information; collecting current environment information of the portable terminal; searching for pattern environment information that substantially identical to the collected current environment information; extracting function information corresponding to the searched pattern environment information; and configuring a graphic user interface (GUI) based on the extracted function information.

An echo canceler includes a signal-to-echo ratio calculating unit 103 and a residual echo suppressing unit 105. The signal-to-echo ratio calculating unit 103 computes a signal-to-echo ratio SE(n) indicating a ratio of an echo component to a received signal x(n) from a first residual signal and a second residual signal. The first residual signal is obtained using a filter coefficient sequence of an update filter 102, which is obtained up to the previous operation. The second residual signal is obtained using an updated filter coefficient sequence that undergoes a coefficient update which is performed, using an arbitrary update step size μ(n), on the filter coefficient sequence of the update filter 102, which is obtained up to the previous operation. The residual echo suppressing unit 105 suppresses the echo component contained in the microphone input signal in accordance with the signal-to-echo ratio the signal-to-echo ratio calculating unit 103 computes.

The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for offering an event image mail service using a multimedia messaging service and a computer-readable recording medium which records a program for performing the method. The apparatus for offering the event image mail service includes: an encoding means for editing multimedia data from an input means, generating an event image mail, and uploading the event image mail to a relay server; the relay server for transmitting the event image mail uploaded by the encoding means to a storing means and a transcoding means, and transmitting the transcoded event image mail from the transcoding means to a push proxy gateway center; the storing means for storing the event image mail from the relay server; the transcoding means for transcoding the event image mail from the relay server to be suitable for a subscriber terminal environment, and transmitting the transcoded event image mail to the relay server; and the push proxy gateway center for receiving a user agent profile from a subscriber terminal and transmitting it to the relay server, and receiving the event image mail transcoded by the transcoding means from the relay server and providing it to the subscriber terminal.

The invention discloses a network authentication system on the basis of switchboards. The network authentication system comprises the security access control switchboards, a security management server, an address allocation server, a Web access authentication server and user terminals. The invention further discloses an authentication method applied to the network authentication system on the basis of the switchboards. The authentication method includes steps that 1, the security management server configures security strategies; 2, the user terminals access a network, and the security access control switchboards learn relevant information of the user terminals; 3, the security access control switchboards determine whether the user terminals need Web authentication to surf the network or not according to the relevant information of the user terminals and the security strategies; 4, the Web authentication server authenticates users if the user terminals need the Web authentication; 5, the security access control switchboards allow the user terminals to surf the network if the users are successfully authenticated. The network authentication system and the authentication method have the advantages that the Web authentication bound with multiple elements can be performed on the network access users, so that the network authentication security is improved, the network reliability is enhanced, and the like.

The invention discloses an engineering bracket made of biogenic cartilage tissue containing calcified layer bone. The bracket is a multi-layer structure, with one side of a substrate which contains at least one layer of acellular component and mainly takes II-typed collagen as main, the other side of subchondral bone structure containing at least one layer of acellular component and the middle of a calcified layer structure containing one acellular component. The calcified layer acellular structure removes the cell component structure and has the functions of normal calcified layer structure such as connection, stress decentralization, and separation of micro-environment between cartilage and subchondral bone. The engineering bracket is especially suitable for guiding the regeneration of bone and cartilage tissues and is beneficial for restoring the missing or destroyed bone and cartilage in vivo.

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. According to various embodiments of the disclosure, a device for adaptively providing a meeting can comprise at least one processor, which: allocates a first resource for a first user and a second resource for a second user on the basis of first information on the first user and second information on the second user; acquires third information on the first user through at least a portion of the allocated first resource; and is configured so as to control the first resource and the second resource on the basis of the acquired third information and the second information. The first resource and the second resource are resources for the meeting, and each piece of the first information, the second information, and the third information can include at least one piece of sound information, image information, or environment information of a corresponding user.

A sealing assembly for a shaft includes a sealing component, a first ring, a second ring, and at least one energizer. The first ring is annularly disposed about the shaft, the first ring having at least one first protuberance interfittable with the sealing component. The second ring is annularly disposed about the shaft in facing opposition to the first ring, the second ring having at least one second protuberance interfittable with the sealing component. The at least one energizer energizes the seal component, the at least one energizer being adjacent the at least one first protuberance or the at least one second protuberance.

In a Doherty amplifier (100), the amplifier's input is connected to a main device (102) via a first branch and to a peak device via a second branch. The first branch has a first frequency-dependent input impedance with a first real part and a first imaginary part. The second branch has a second frequency-dependent input impedance with a second real part and a second imaginarypart. The first and second imaginary parts have opposite polarity. The first and 5 second imaginary parts have a same magnitude so as to compensate each other in the frequencyband. The first imaginary part and the second imaginary part implement a first phase shift in the. first branch and a second phase shift in the second branch, respectively. The first and second phase shifts each have a magnitude of substantially 45 degrees substantially in the middle of the frequency band and are of opposite polarity. The phase difference of the 10 input signals to the main (102) and peak (104) devices stays largely constant over the frequency band.

Disclosed herein is a method for generating incoming call alerting signals depending on motion and a mobile communication terminal using the method. The mobile communication terminal includes a motion detection unit, a memory and a control unit. The motion detection unit outputs a value in proportion to motion of a mobile communication terminal. The memory stores a program that has an algorithm for adjusting a volume of a ring tone or an intensity of vibrations according to an output value of the motion detection unit, and data that is used to execute the program. The control unit performs a function of adjusting the volume of a ring tone or the intensity of vibrations in proportion to a degree of the motion of the mobile communication terminal represented by the output value of the motion detection unit.

The invention discloses a multifunctional ultrasonic microwave collaborative chemical reactor and a method for preparing a nano semiconductor chalcogenide by using the same. The multifunctional ultrasonic microwave collaborative chemical reactor comprises an ultrasonic generator, a microwave generator, a temperature / time / power display control device, a reaction vessel, a condensing device, a microwave resonator, a microwave shielding device, an air exhausting and air feeding device, and a reaction vessel supporting and lifting device. The chemical reactor has the advantages of uniform vibration, consistent action stressed by all the points in a sample medium, many varieties of selectable extraction solvents, wide range of targets, reduction of the binding force of the targets and sample substrates; accelerated process of the targets from solid phase to solvent phase, large processed sample amount and the like. The chemical reactor can overcome the phenomenon of overheat charring, and can obtain more uniform and better-quality products than single microwave reaction. The chemical reactor has wide application prospect in the fields of chemistry and chemical industry, pharmacy, materials, energy sources, food processing and the like.

A sensor arrangement and a method for its use for detecting the proximity of a ferrous target, the sensor arrangement comprising a sensor body including a magnetic field source and a Hall effect device, wherein the magnetic field source is an electromagnetic solenoid. The invention has particularly utility, but is not so limited, to the field of fuel injection pumps in which it is necessary to determine the volume of fuel that is delivered to the cylinders of the engine without affecting the operation of the engine.