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A fully digital camera system provides high-resolution still image and streaming video signals via a network to a centralized, server supported security and surveillance system. The digital camera for collects an image from one or more image transducers, compressing the image and sending the compressed digital image signal to a receiving station over a digital network. A plurality of image transducers or sensors may be included in a single camera unit, providing array imaging such as full 360 degree panoramic imaging, universal or spherical imaging and field imaging by stacking or arranging the sensors in an array. The multiple images are then compressed and merged at the camera in the desired format to permit transmission of the least amount of data to accomplish the desired image transmission. The camera also employs, or connects to, a variety of sensors other than the traditional image sensor. Sensors for fire, smoke, sound, glass breakage, motion, panic buttons, and the like, may be embedded in or connected to the camera. Data captured by these sensors may be digitized, compressed, and networked to detect notable conditions. An internal microphone and associated signal processing system may be equipped with suitable signal processing algorithms for the purpose of detecting suitable acoustic events and their location. In addition, the camera is equipped with a pair of externally accessible terminals where an external sensor may be connected. In addition, the camera may be equipped with a short-range receiver that may detect the activation of a wireless ‘panic button’ carried by facility personnel. This ‘panic button’ may employ infrared, radio frequency (RF), ultrasonic, or other suitable methods to activate the camera's receiver.

A method is disclosed for analyzing surgical techniques using a computer system for gathering and analyzing surgical data acquired during a surgical procedure on a body portion and comparing that data to pre-selected target values for the particular surgical procedure. The inventive method allows the surgeon, for example, to measure the technical success of a surgical procedure in terms of quantifiable geometric, spatial, kinematic or kinetic parameters. The method comprises calculation of these parameters from data collected during a surgical procedure and then comparing these results with values of the same parameters derived from target values defined by the surgeon, surgical convention, or computer simulation of the same procedure prior to the operation itself.

Systems and methods for pre-positioning data in a network memory are described. A pre-positioning command may be executed to position specific data at one or more network memory appliances before the data is requested at a branch office. For example, the first download of a software update over the communication network at a branch office may require several minutes. To make the first download of the software update faster, the software update may be downloaded previously to the branch appliance. According to various embodiments, the pre-positioning command may comprise a time of transfer and/or a schedule. The data may be received by a pre-positioning receiver such as a file system server, a hypertext transfer protocol server, a file transfer protocol server, or a virtual client.

A milker unit liner dome having an inner surface and flow diverters joined to the inner surface to redirect teat dip from an inlet to provide more uniform coverage of dip on a teat. The liner dome can also include more than one flow diverter for redirecting teat dip flow.

Plural electronic or optical images are provided in a streak optical system, as for instance by use of plural slits instead of the conventional single slit, to obtain a third, fourth, etc. dimension—rather than only the conventional two, namely range or time and azimuth. Such additional dimension or dimensions are thereby incorporated into the optical information that is to be streaked and thereby time resolved. The added dimensions may take any of an extremely broad range of forms, including wave-length, polarization state, or one or more spatial dimensions—or indeed virtually any optical parameter that can be impressed upon a probe beam. Resulting capabilities remarkably include several new forms of lidar spectroscopy, fluorescence analysis, polarimetry, spectropolarimetry, and combinations of these, as well as a gigahertz wavefront sensor.

A method of treating a condition of a patient's limb is disclosed. The method may use a compression garment wrappable about the limb and a template comprising markings showing where to trim the compression garment to fit a smaller size limb. Measurements may be taken of a circumference of the limb of the patient. Next, the template may be positioned to overlay at least a portion of the compression garment. The compression garment may then be cut or trimmed proximate a marking of the markings matching the measurement.

A method for generating P-S or S-S seismic data from P-P AVO data in P-P travel time for a geographic area includes obtaining a plurality of amplitude and angle of incidence pairs of P-P AVO data. The plurality of amplitude and angle of incidence pairs of P-P AVO data are inverted. Lastly, estimates of the rock property contrasts are produced from the inverted plurality of amplitude and angle of incidence pairs of P-P AVO data, the rock property contrasts including at least one of ΔVp/Vp, ΔVs/Vs andΔρ/ρ.

An apparatus and method are disclosed for simulating United States football and other sports that are held on a playing field. The user stands in an area that at least approximates an actual playing field, and an apparatus incorporated into a football helmet or other headgear worn by the user superimposes simulation images onto the field of view of the user, creating an illusion of simulated action taking place on the actual field where the user is standing. This makes the information and skills conveyed by the simulation directly relevant and immediately useful. Preferred embodiments track the location and orientation of the user and thereby allow the user to participate in the simulation. In another aspect, essentially the same apparatus and method are used to simulate driving or flying of vehicles without the need of an expensive mockup of the interior of the vehicle.

A modular tank unit for utilizing vessels of opportunity to serve as carriers for transportation and handling of specialty liquids or flowable particulate products or to serve as a terminal ashore receiving and dispensing to truck, rail, barge or other receiving facilities. The modular tank unit has a rectangular intermodal framework of predetermined dimension and tare weight permitting its transportation by cargo vessel, hopper barge and by rail for positioning inland or at shore facilities. A tank may be adapted for other modes of transportation and may be removably secured within the rectangular framework. The modular tank unit in its smaller dimension can be transported empty by rail and can be positioned in the field by portable crane. The modular tank unit defines a pump compartment having a pumping and draining manifold and portable pump and valve assembly for fluid handling, enabling the modular tank unit to be “active” for power energized pumping or “passive” for gravity discharge.

The loading dock traffic automation and inventory control system of the present invention automates the loading dock area by controlling a truck control notification automation system, traffic signal dock lights, loading dock spot light, loading dock fan and dock leveler. The manually operated control panel is energized or de-energized with full automation by the movement of the overhead dock door. The device includes a control panel enclosure mounted on the interior wall of the building next to the loading dock door. One control panel enclosure can service one or two loading dock doors.

An automatic matching mechanism includes a method for mapping a unit of content to other units of content. The method includes a host display sending a request for guest content. The method may also include: querying a category content index for the guest content and providing indexed and categorized content that corresponds to the request, providing the indexed and categorized content for display in response to determining the indexed and categorized content is not either new content or updated content, and displaying the categorized content on a host display. The automatic matching mechanism may include a method for generating matching guest content for a host display. The method includes: sending a guest request to preview matched content and querying a category content index for the guest matched content, gathering category related semantic content information from a semantic content index, and reporting categorized matching content that matches the guest request.

A method is provided for accurately determining the physical location of a deployed seismic geophone used in seismic investigations by using a portable navigational satellite receiver to obtain a set of navigational satellite measurements providing the position of the deployed geophone at the time of deployment of the geophone into the earth. A method is provided for automatically and accurately identifying and determining the physical location of a deployed geophone used in seismic investigations by using one or more portable navigational satellite receivers and an automatic geophone identification and tracking system at the time of geophone deployment.

An automated system and method for producing videos using expert video production rules. The automated video production system and method of the present invention is particularly well-suited for the online publishing of lectures. The system of the present invention includes a camera system for capturing the lecture, such as an audience-tracking camera and a non-intrusive lecturer-tracking camera. Moreover, each camera may be controlled by a cinematographer. Tracking of a subject is performed using a history-based, reduced-motion tracker that sets up a camera shot based on the subject's movement history and leaves the shot fixed until the camera is switched. The system also includes a virtual director module having a probabilistic finite state machine (FSM) module that uses probabilistic rules and the expert video production rules to determine a current camera view.

Locking system for a vehicle, in which a locking/unlocking function can be initiated by the activation of at least one capacitate sensor located on an external handle of the vehicle entry, wherein the sensor includes at least a second control surface not accessible to the user or accessible only with difficulty, via which the impact of environmental influences on the sensor by can be distinguished from the activation of the sensor by the user through detection of control surface selective signal changes at the sensor. Method for operating a locking system for a vehicle, in which the vehicle is locked upon detection of an intention to lock or unlock by an activation of a first control surface by the hand of the user, and the authority to do so is confirmed using a data carrier, and that the vehicle is not locked or unlocked, when the control unit recognizes an environmental influenced activation of the sensor by the activation of the first as well as a second sensor, the second sensor not accessible to the hand of the user or accessible only with difficulty.

A process for detecting dust-associated substances wherein the dust to be analyzed is brought together with a solvent for eluting the substance to be detected from the dust. The particulate components are retained by means of a filter matrix while the solvent and the substances dissolved and/or suspended therein are transported through the filter matrix by capillary liquid transport. The solvent and the substances dissolved and/or suspended therein are transferred into a reaction matrix adjoining the filter matrix by capillary liquid transport. The substance to be detected is detected in the reaction matrix by means of a chemical and/or biochemical reaction or by the failure of a chemical and/or biochemical reaction to take place. A device for detecting dust-associated substances preferably contains, besides the filter matrix and the reaction matrix, a container for receiving the dust to be analyzed, wherein the container is in liquid connection with the filter matrix.