137 results about "Increased sizes" patented technology

Embodiments herein provide/acquire a document in electronic form (e.g., by receiving, copying, retrieving from storage, scanning combined with optical character recognition, etc.) and receive user input regarding visual impairment. In response to one or more levels of user visual impairment, embodiments herein automatically change (for example, immediately after scanning text) an appearance of the document, without requiring any user input, other than the visual impairment input. More specifically, when changing the appearance of the document, embodiments herein can increase the size of characters in the document, change the contrast or coloring of the text and/or background, and provide text-to-speech conversion of the document, thereby (in one embodiment) producing audio output of the text-to-speech conversion in coordination with a corresponding portion of the document being displayed. When changing the appearance of the document, embodiments herein also reformat the document (e.g., around graphic elements) to accommodate the increased size of the characters.

An osteoimplant comprising an expandable, biocompatible material. The expandable material may be demineralized bone particles such as demineralized cancelous chips or demineralized cortical fibers or may be another material such as a polymer. The osteoimplant has a first state and a second expanded state. The osteoimplant may be used with another device or on its own. The osteoimplant may be inserted into a device such as an intervertebral body fusion device in the compressed state. The osteoimplant may be rehydrated to expand to an increased size, for example as far as permitted by the confines of the intervertebral body fusion device and spinal endplates, thereby aiding in greater vertebral endplate contact and conformity in spinal surgery.

Switchable holographic optical elements (HOEs) can used in systems and methods for projecting three-dimensional images, or for projecting two-dimensional tiled images with increased size and/or resolution. One of the methods may include sequentially displaying first, second, and third color components of a first two-dimensional image at an object plane. The first two dimensional image represents a first slice of a three-dimensional image. As the first, second, and third color components are displayed, first, second and third HOEs may be activated so that the activated first switchable HOE focuses the first color component of the first two-dimensional image onto a first image plane, the activated second switchable HOE focuses the second color component of the first two-dimensional image onto the first image plane, and the wherein the activated third switchable HOE focuses the third color component of the first two-dimensional image onto the first image plane. It is noted that the first, second, and third HOEs may be activated concurrently or sequentially with the display of the first, second, or third color components of the first two-dimensional image. After the first, second, and third color components are displayed, the first, second and third switchable HOEs are deactivated. Then, first, second, and third color components of a second two-dimensional image are sequentially displayed. The second two-dimensional image represents a second slice of the three-dimensional image. A fourth switchable HOE may be activated to focus the first color component of the second two-dimensional image onto a second image plane. The second image plane is adjacent to the first image plane.

An imager pixel utilizing a silicon-on-insulator substrate, a photodiode in said substrate below the buried oxide, and a dual contact to said photodiode and methods of forming said imager pixel. The photodiode has an increased fill factor due to its increased size relative to the pixel.

Nucleic acid sequencing methods and related devices, products and kits are disclosed. Methods for sequencing a target nucleic acid comprise providing a daughter strand produced by a template-directed synthesis, the daughter strand comprising a plurality of subunits coupled in a sequence corresponding to a contiguous nucleotide sequence of all or a portion of the target nucleic acid, wherein the individual subunits comprise a probe and a reporter construct. The subunit encodes sequence information in its reporter construct that is less than sequence information in the corresponding portion of the target nucleic acid. The reduced information allows for reduced resolution requirements on the detection system and for increased size of resolvable reporter groups.

A method of compensating a missing nozzle of a printer and a printer using the same. The method includes determining adjacent nozzles corresponding to the missing nozzle, and compensating the missing nozzle by generating dots having an increased size through the adjacent nozzles and generating dots having a normal size through other nozzles when the missing nozzle is generated in the nozzles performing a printing operation. Therefore, it is possible to compensate operations of all color nozzles as well as the black nozzle. As a result, the method of compensating the missing nozzle of the printer compensates operations of the missing nozzle when an image having a composite color is printed as well as when the black image is printed. In addition, it is possible to maintain appropriate image quality by compensating the operation of the missing nozzle through other adjacent nozzles even when a portion of the adjacent nozzles is out of order, since the number of the adjacent nozzles is larger.

A method forms interlayer connectors extending to conductive layers of a stack of W conductive layers interleaved with dielectric layers. The stack is etched to expose landing areas at W−1 conductive layers using a set of M etch masks. For each etch mask m, m going from 0 to M−1, there is a first etching step, at least one mask trimming step, and a subsequent etching step following each trimming step. The etch mask may cover N^m+1 of the landing areas and the open etch region may cover N^m of the landing areas. N equals 2 plus the number of trimming steps. The trimming step may be carried out so that the increased size open etch region overlies an additional 1/N of the landing areas. Part of the stack surface may be shielded during the removing step to create dummy areas without contact openings.

An improved structure of a spark plug is provided to ensure a high strength of joint between a ground electrode and a metal shell. The ground electrode is resistance-welded to the metal shell so that it is embedded partially in an end surface of the metal shell to create a weld interface extending from the end surface to an inner periphery of the metal shell, thus resulting in an increased size of the weld interface to increase the joint strength. The resistance welding keeps the temperature of a weld between the ground electrode and the metal shell at a lower level during welding as compared with laser welding, thus minimizing solidification cracking in the weld.

A liquid crystal display device can suppress pixel-based gradation fluctuations observed upon change in angle of view with increased size as it meets wide angle of view characteristics required of a large-sized liquid crystal display device. A device in which a liquid crystal material is sealed between a pair of substrates 31, 32, a plurality of pixel electrodes 38 for applying voltage across the liquid crystal material is arranged on the substrate 31, a common electrode 12 for applying a voltage common to the pixel electrodes 38 is arranged on the substrate 32, and in which a gate line 22 and a drain line 23 of a switching element adapted to control the voltage applied across the pixel electrodes 38 are provided for extending substantially at right angles to each other. In the device, orientation of the liquid crystal molecules 18 neighboring to the pixel electrode 38 is perpendicular to that of liquid crystal molecules 19 neighboring to the common electrode 12, while the respective orientations are substantially parallel to the direction of the gate line 22 or that of the drain line 23.

A projection display device includes a condensing unit and a shading unit. The condensing unit condenses light emitted from a light source to form a condensed spot on a color wheel. The shading unit, when a size of the condensed spot on the color wheel has increased due to an increase in light emission of the light source, shades a portion of the light passing through the color wheel corresponding to the increased size.

A reclosable gusseted bag is disclosed wherein a single web multiple alignment zipper is placed around the interior of the mouth of the bag, downwardly adjacent from the upper edge of the front panel, rear panel and side gussets thereby resulting in an increased size of opening as the mouth of the gusseted bag. The use of a single web multiple alignment zipper allows opposing portions of the web to engage each other within a range of alignments thereby allowing for simplified use by the consumer.

Data items contained in personal information are displayed in manner that is indicative of both the importance and the urgency of the data items. A first visual cue is assigned to the data item based on an importance of the data item. The first visual cue may cause more important items to be displayed with increased size and less important items to be displayed with decreased size. A second visual cue is assigned to the data item based on an urgency of the data item. The second visual cue may cause more urgent items to be displayed in a first color and less important items to be displayed in a second color. The data item is displayed using the first and second visual cue as to provide a visual indication as to both the importance and urgency of the data item.

The invention relates to a method for thermally modifying wood by oil palm oil. The method comprises the following steps of: stacking the wood stably, and then placing the wood stack in a treating tank; heating up the oil palm oil and then filling to the treating tank, completely covering the wood by the oil palm oil, heating up the wood, and keeping the temperature for 0.5-3 hours for thermally modifying the wood when the temperature of the wood reaches 200-215 DGE C; and stopping heat supply, then discharging the oil palm oil immediately, filling atomized water into the treating tank to gradually cool the wood, and then naturally cooling the wood to the room temperature (30 DEG C) so as to complete the treatment. The method in the invention is simple in process; the wood is isolated from the air by the oil palm oil; the wood is effectively prevented from oxidation and degradation; the thermal treatment features in fast heating speed, short treating period and low cost; the treated wood features in increased size stability, small bending resistance intensity loss, high corrosion resistance, high intensity, good durability and the like; and the wood is convenient for industrial application, and can be widely used for the indoor and outdoor furniture, landscapes, finishing materials and the like.

A power factor correction (PFC) apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a DC rectification circuit and a PFC auxiliary circuit. In this apparatus, the PFC auxiliary circuit is coupled between the input and output terminals of the DC rectification circuit. According, not only can the conduction time be increased, but the working current peak is restrained. Thus, the increased size of the choke and inductance of the inductor can be prevented.

A method of decontaminating grain, nut, or seed products and a method for conditioning grain in a milling process for decontamination and to produce an improved milled product which will yield baked goods, for example, of increased size and extended shelf life. In the decontamination and/or conditioning procedure, the grain, nut, or seed product is contacted with an aqueous anolyte product which can be undiluted or can be diluted with non-activated water. In undiluted form, the aqueous anolyte product preferably has a pH in the range of from about 4.5 to about 7.5 and a positive oxidation-reduction potential of at least ⁺550 mV.

A method of incrementally maintaining a stable, bounded, uniform random sample S from a dataset R, in the presence of arbitrary insertions and deletions to the dataset R, and without accesses to the dataset R, comprises a random pairing method in which deletions are uncompensated until compensated by a subsequent insertion (randomly paired to the deletion) by including the insertion's item into S if and only if the uncompensated deletion's item was removed from S (i.e., was in S so that it could be removed). A method for resizing a sample to a new uniform sample of increased size while maintaining a bound on the sample size and balancing cost between dataset accesses and transactions to the dataset is also disclosed. A method for maintaining uniform, bounded samples for a dataset in the presence of growth in size of the dataset is additionally disclosed.

Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention regulate transcription in these plants and have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity that results in increased size, biomass, growth rate, and/or yield as compared to a control plan.

A hologram of an increased size using a single color laser, capable of executing a full color regeneration in a desired view angle and a method for producing the hologram. A plurality of photo-sensitive members are independently exposed to obtain respective holograms, which are connected by using an adhesive layer 80 constructing a connecting means, in order to obtain an integrated hologram expanded in two-dimensional direction. The holograms are obtained by an interference of a reference light 22 and an object light passed through a light diffusing body 24 in order to cause the light diffusing body 24 to be recorded on the photo-sensitive member. The size of the light diffusing body 24 is such that the spectral characteristic of the diffused light from the hologram can attain a desired efficiency at least over the entire wavelength range of the visible light.

A high-density read-only optical disc, and an optical disc apparatus and method using the same. The apparatus and method record data on a lead-in area of a high-density read-only optical disc such as a BD-ROM (Blu-ray disc ROM (Read Only Memory)) in the form of pre-pit strings associated with an HFM (High-Frequency Modulated) groove applied to a BD-RW (Blu-ray Disc Rewritable). Moreover, the apparatus and method continuously apply the same tracking servo operation to an entire area of the same high-density read-only optical disc or rewritable optical disc. Therefore, the apparatus and method can simplify an algorithm for controlling a plurality of tracking servo operations, and avoid an increased size of the optical disc apparatus.

The present invention provides a high-speed connector on a high density MINI version chip side, which comprises a board end connector, a wire end connector and a printed circuit board; the board end connector is arranged on the printed circuit board; the board end connector comprises a board end connector shell and a board end connector body arranged in the board end connector shell; the wire end connector comprises a wire end case and a tongue plate fixed to the wire end case; wherein at least one guide piece is extended from the board end connector shell, and the wire end case is provided with at least one guide slot for creating a butt joint with the guide piece. The connector of the present invention utilizes the space of the board end to the maximum extent, solves the problem that the CPU occupies the space of the board end due to the increased size of the heat dissipation module, and can realize high-speed data transmission.

A door mirror has a turn lamp that can be mounted easily and without an increased size. The turn lamp (2) has a housing (3) and an outer lens (4) that are formed by molding. A light emitting diode (6) is mounted in the housing (3), and the outer lens (4) covers the housing (3). The housing (3) and the outer lens (4) are integrated by a joint (7) produced by injection molding and placed at a butt section at which the housing (3) and the outer lens (4) are butted together. Steps (7c, 7d) are formed at the butt section integrated by the joint (7) of the turn lamp (2), and a lower end edge section (1c) and a left end edge section (1e) that form an opening (1b) of a body (1) of the door mirror (DM) are butted to the steps (7c, 7d).

The present invention discloses a recommendation system and method for search input. It relates to the field of search engine. The system comprises: a keyword acquisition unit configured to obtain a keyword according to a user input; a search tree storage unit configured to store Chinese characters in a tree data structure, wherein each data node in the tree stores one Chinese character and the address information of the recommended word(s) containing the Chinese character; a recommended word database configured to store the recommended words; an address acquisition unit configured to query the search tree storage unit according to the search keyword to acquire the address information of the recommended word(s); and a suggesting unit configured to query the recommended word database according to the address information to acquire the recommended word(s) and then suggest the recommended word(s) to the user. The systems and methods will instruct each data node in the search tree storage unit to record the address information of all the recommended word(s) containing the node character that hence improves the speed of searching the recommended word(s) and overcomes the problem of decreased searching speed due to increased size of the recommended word database.