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A computer program, system and method to track motion and control navigation and display of an object viewer. Information content generated by a digital processor is mapped into a virtual display space suitable for conveying the information to a user. A certain portion of the virtual display space is displayed using a display device coupled to the digital processor. An image capture device captures an image from which a reference navigation target is acquired. Tracked movement of a display device relative to the reference navigation target is used to update the displayed certain portion of the virtual display space in a manner related to the tracked movement.

Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and methods pertaining to the secure communication of payment information from portable consumer devices, such as credit cards, to online merchants using verification tokens.

This invention provides a system and method for managing backup and restore operations on a storage system, typically between source storage system and destination storage system using a backup management client that employs a version of the Network Data Management Protocol to interface with the destination file server and generate an “index” of data structures (such as directories and files) from directly from scanning the trees of PCPIs stored on the destination. The management client includes a command line interface for entry of instructions by a user or application and a web-based user interface and allows the index to be displayed as a series of web pages on a graphical user interface. The index can be browsed and selected data structures can be restored to a source filer/file server as desired. All back-ups/PCPIs can be contemporaneously browsed, allowing greater flexibility in selecting a best backup image to restore.

An arrangement for introducing and implanting the electrode(s) of an endocardial implantable cardiac lead at a cardiac implantation site within a heart chamber or vessel. An elongated guide body formed of flexible material and extending between a guide body proximal end and a guide body distal end is advanced transvenously to position the guide body distal end in relation to the cardiac implantation site. Guide body tracking means is coupled with the lead distal end for receiving and slidingly engaging the guide body to allow the cardiac lead to be advanced along the guide body until the electrode is positioned at the cardiac implantation site. Pusher means formed of an elongated pusher body of flexible material extends between a pusher body proximal end and a pusher body distal end and has a cardiac lead engaging means for engaging the cardiac lead at or adjacent the distal lead end. The pusher body has sufficient column strength to be advanced alongside the guide body and lead body with the cardiac lead engaging means engaging and slidingly advancing the guide body tracking means and the cardiac lead distally along the guide body to thereby allow the cardiac lead to be advanced along the guide body until the electrode is positioned at the cardiac implantation site. The lead body is released from the lead engaging means and fixed, if the lead includes a fixation mechanism. The pusher means is retracted by retraction of the pusher body.

A system for removing obstructions from a blood vessel comprises a clot retrieval device and a catheter. The clot retrieval device comprises a clot engaging element attached to the distal end of an elongate shaft. The elongate shaft has a shaft proximal section, a shaft distal section and a shaft intermediate section between the shaft distal and proximal sections. The catheter has a catheter proximal section, a catheter distal section, and a catheter intermediate section between the proximal and distal sections. The maximum diameter of a shaft proximal section is greater than an inner distal lumen of the catheter distal section.

A system and minimally invasive method for the placement of pedicle screws without the use of a trocar needle and/or guidewires. The system and method comprises at least one pedicle finder and at least one dilator. The pedicle finder preferably comprises an extender that is removably attached to a pedicle anchor. Attached to a pedicle anchor is a flexible tether. The extender preferably includes a passage through which the flexible tether extends. The dilator comprises a tubular body with two ends, where a first end comprises a means for securing the dilator into bony process of vertebra and a second end comprises at least two arm attachments. The tubular body Of the dilator is configured to slide easily over an extender and secure the first end into bony vertebra to prevent the dilator from dislodging. The arm attachment of the second end of the dilator can be interconnected with another arm attachment via a linking element and/or the dilator can be secured to a stable object such as a table via a securing element.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems pertaining to the verification of portable consumer devices are disclosed. In one implementation, a verification token is coupled to a computer by a USB connection so as to use the computer's networking facilities. The verification token reads identification information from a user's portable consumer device (e.g., credit card) and sends the information to a validation entry over a communications network using the computer's networking facilities. The validation entity applies one or more validation tests to the information that it receives from the verification token. If a selected number of tests are passed, the validation entity sends a device verification value to the verification token, and optionally to a payment processing network. The verification token may enter the device verification value into a CVV field of a web page appearing on the computer's display, or may display the value to the user using the computer's display.

A coverage robot including a chassis, multiple drive wheel assemblies disposed on the chassis, and a cleaning assembly carried by the chassis. Each drive wheel assembly including a drive wheel assembly housing, a wheel rotatably coupled to the housing, and a wheel drive motor carried by the drive wheel assembly housing and operable to drive the wheel. The cleaning assembly including a cleaning assembly housing, a cleaning head rotatably coupled to the cleaning assembly housing, and a cleaning drive motor carried by cleaning assembly housing and operable to drive the cleaning head. The wheel assemblies and the cleaning assembly are each separately and independently removable from respective receptacles of the chassis as complete units.

The present invention provides a technique for enabling even a person having no expert knowledge to adjust the direction of an optical axis easily with high precision. In a three-dimensional image processing apparatus having plural image capturing apparatuses, optical center of an image from an image capturing apparatus is stored for each of the image capturing apparatuses. A mark indicative of the optical center is superimposed on an image obtained from the image capturing apparatus. By referring to the mark for each of the image capturing apparatuses, the orientation of each of the image capturing apparatuses is adjusted so that all of the marks overlay on the same point on an object.

A ring for surrounding a pool drain to permit a pool cleaner to easily traverse the pool drain without interfering with the traversing movement of the pool cleaner includes a central portion positioned to surround a pool drain. The central portion has a predetermined height. An outer portion is displaced a predetermined distance relative to the central portion. The outer portion has substantially the same predetermined height as the central portion. An intermediate portion extends from the outer portion to the central portion. The intermediate portion provides a surface of substantially the same height as the central portion and the outer portion for enabling a pool cleaner to easily traverse a pool drain.

The invention relates to a multi-legged wheeled platform robot. The invention solves the technical problems that the design of the prior art is not reasonable and the like. Include that platform car body, A plurality of running wheels are arranged on the platform car body, A travel wheel body is respectively connected with a wheel body travel driving mechanism, the distance between two adjacent running wheels located in front of and behind the platform car body is fixed, each traveling wheel body is connected with a wheel body lifting and lowering driving mechanism capable of driving the traveling wheel body to lifting and lowering in the vertical direction,A platform car body climbs the step, one of the traveling wheel body is lifted and lowered, and at least two of the remaining traveling wheel body are located on the same horizontal plane and are respectively in contact with the step so as to maintain the platform car body in a horizontal state. The utility model has the advantagesthat each traveling wheel body can independently control the lifting and lowering, the universal direction and the forward and backward reversal functions, and only a few discrete points are needed for the wheels to land, so that the wheels can successfully pass through rugged road conditions, steps and the like, and can easily pass through various complicated natural terrain.

Disclosed is a pet grooming device that allows a pet to groom itself by passing through an annular tunnel having a plurality of grooming elements disposed therewithin. The tube-shaped device comprises an elongated tunnel having a first and second opening with wire grooming bristles attached within its interior. The pet is able to walk through the opening and as the animal passes through the device wire bristles brush the pet's hair in the natural direction, from head to tail. The distance the animal must pass through while traversing the device ensures that the animal's fur is sufficiently engaged by the bristles to promote a thorough grooming with each pass through the device, while a pathway free of grooming elements is provided for the pet to walk through the tunnel with ease and less trepidation. A barrier crossing and stand alone embodiment are disclosed, along with a method of construction.

Successfully produced are cruciferous plants resistant to clubroot by introducing the clubroot resistance gene (Crr1) isolated by map-based cloning into cruciferous plants and expressing the gene.

The invention pertains to methods that include administering to a subject a transoral dosage form comprising a pharmaceutical carrier and sufentanil, and maintaining a mean pH ranging from about 3.5 to about 5.5 during a dosing period after administration of the transoral dosage form as determined using an in vitro donor media test. Related dosage forms are also disclosed. Also disclosed are transoral dosage forms and related methods, wherein a transoral dosage form may comprise: (1) about 5 to about 1000 micrograms of sufentanil; (2) about 50 micrograms to about 100 milligrams of naloxone; and (3) acidifying material in an amount sufficient to provide a mean pH ranging from about 3.5 to about 5.5 during a dosing period after administration of the transoral dosage form as determined using an in vitro donor media test; wherein the dosing period begins no earlier than about 1 minute after administration of the transoral dosage form, and ends no later than about 120 minutes after administration of the transoral dosage form.

The present disclosure relates to a transportation system that includes a plurality of cabs that are attached to suspension frames suspended from a cable using multiple pairs of sheaves running freely on an overhead cable guide-way to allow balancing of total weight of the cab along the cable guide-way. The pairs of sheaves are assembled to articulate in a horizontal plane to allow easy traversing along curved cable guide-way sections. The transportation system also includes a plurality of smart electro-mechanical switches capable of disengaging continuity of line of motion of the cab from the cable guide-way section and diverting the cab onto other cable guide-way sections. Each of the plurality of cabs can be coupled with a plurality of propellers to provide thrust for forward movement, speed control, steering, stabilization of the cab from swinging on the suspension frame and stopping of the cab by reversing the thrust developed thereof.

Disclosed is a pet patio which is easily mountable in a window of a dwelling or other enclosed area. Access in and out of the patio is gained by the pet by traveling through a series of flaps. The enclosure area of the patio is substantially apertured and transparent on its sides and the floor. Its top includes an optionally transparent roof which is not apertured so that it deflects rain or other elements. Because the patio walls are substantially apertured, the pet is able to enjoy a near outdoor experience while at the same time the HVAC conditions within the room and dwelling are not significantly affected because the outdoor enclosure is sealed off by multiply-flapped corridor.

The invention discloses an isomerous data synchronous implementation method, which comprises the following steps that a released client side regularly calls and collects a dll (Dynamic Link Library) component to scan a self source data base of the client side, extracts new data, then packages the collected data to be a data packet with an XML (Extensive Makeup Language) format according to a format SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), and uploads the data packet to a server; and a collected client side regularly calls a download process to download the data packet with the XML format, classifies and queue manages the newly downloaded data packet according to different application requirements after the download is finished, and then calls and converts the dll component to restore and install the data packet in a corresponding queue into corresponding application. The isomerous data synchronous implementation method can realize synchronization of a data structure and data between any two data bases in an internet environment, is completely based on a uniform platform, and provides completely pluggable support for different sub-systems or external systems on the platform.