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A high-speed surgical handpiece (10) suitable for vitreoretinal surgery having a cutter (42) and actuators (36). The cutter (42) is a guillotine-type cutter activated by an array of leveraged piezoelectric actuators (30) that receive a driving signal from a driving controller. The controller can have control and display units with a plurality of input mechanisms receiving input from a user who selects a desired cutting rate and frequency for the cutter. The control unit produces a piezoelectric actuator output signal based on the inputs received. Fast cutting rates with reduced duty cycle as well as a proportional mode of operation are available, allowing slow controlled cutting action, for example proportional to depression of a foot-pedal (74). Low degrees of vibration and noise generation are produced.

In a memory array having a minimum unit of erase of a block, a scratch pad block is used to store data that is later written to another block. The data may be written to the scratch pad block with a low degree of parallelism and later written to another location with a high degree of parallelism so that it is stored with high density. Data may be temporarily stored in the scratch pad block until it can be more efficiently stored elsewhere. This may be when some other data is received. Unrelated data may be stored in the same page of a scratch pad block.

The invention relates to a method and device for detecting and analyzing the reception behavior of people in at last one reception room according to visual, audiovisual and / or auditory messages, actions and / or to the guiding of flows of customers. The method should be able to be realized with a lower degree of complexity than that of prior art methods. The invention is characterized in that, from the moment each person enters the reception room until their departure, their location coordinates, body coordinates, turning movements and rotating movements of their body and / or of parts of their body, as well as the posture of their body and / or the position of their extremities are detected with a frequency that is greater than one.

A process for fabricating a semiconductor device comprising the step of, after patterning the silicon film crystallized to a low degree by thermally annealing an amorphous silicon film into an island by etching, irradiating an intense light of a visible light or a near infrared radiation to effect a short-period annealing (RTA) to the silicon film of low crystallinity. Thus, the crystallinity of the silicon film is improved and the silicon film is densified in a short-period.

Disclosed herein is a method and system for hardware-accelerating various data processing operations in a rule-based decision-making system such as a business rules engine, an event stream processor, and a complex event stream processor. Preferably, incoming data streams are checked against a plurality of rule conditions. Among the data processing operations that are hardware-accelerated include rule condition check operations, filtering operations, and path merging operations. The rule condition check operations generate rule condition check results for the processed data streams, wherein the rule condition check results are indicative of any rule conditions which have been satisfied by the data streams. The generation of such results with a low degree of latency provides enterprises with the ability to perform timely decision-making based on the data present in received data streams.

An improved embolic filter frame having looped support struts. The frame configuration provides enhanced longitudinal compliance, improved sealing against a vessel wall, low profile delivery, and a short deployed length. The looped support struts have a high degree of “radial” stiffness with a low degree of “longitudinal” stiffness. In the deployed state, the frame exerts a relatively high stress onto a vessel wall to maintain an effective seal, yet remains compliant in the longitudinal direction. Minor displacements of the support wire or catheter are therefore not translated to the filter. The looped support struts elongate when tensioned and assume a compressed and essentially linear form. While constrained in this linear state by a delivery catheter, the support struts exert minimal stress onto the delivery system. The overall delivery profile and stiffness are therefore reduced. When the delivery catheter constraint is removed during deployment, the struts “snap open” and assume a looped configuration which exert a high degree of force onto the vessel wall, creating an enhanced filter to vessel wall seal. In addition, the looped struts and the central collar connecting the support struts to the support wire, are positioned essentially within the plane of the filter opening. The overall deployed length of the embolic filter is therefore reduced.

A stable composition for removing unwanted molecules from a surface comprises low-degree of substitution cyclodextrin derivatives. The compositions are suitable for capturing unwanted molecules from inanimate surfaces, including fabrics, including carpets, and household surfaces such as countertops, dishes, floors, garbage cans, ceilings, walls, carpet padding, air filters, and the like, and from animate surfaces, including skin, hair, and the like. The compositions can further comprise cyclodextrin-compatible and -incompatible materials, and other optional ingredients.

A filter element in which several layers (2, 3, 5, 7, 8) made of a filtering medium are joined contiguously in the direction of flow with at least one layer (2, 7) made of a filtering medium with a high storage capacity and a low degree of separation being arranged on the in-flow side and at least one layer (3, 8) made of a filtering medium with a low storage capacity and a high degree of separation being arranged on the out-flow side. Preferably the in-flow filtering medium is made of a filter paper containing cellulose or of a melt-blown material, and the out-flow side filtering medium is produced from a filter paper containing cellulose.

Associating a content item with an event is disclosed. A location associated with a received content item is determined. The received content item is associated with an event, at least in part based on an indicia of relatedness, other than the determined location, between the received content item and the event. A criterion that the indicia of relatedness is required to satisfy for the content item to be determined to be associated with the event has a lower value if the determined location associated with the received content item has a first degree of correspondence to a location associated with the event than if the determined location associated with the received content item has a second, lower degree of correspondence to the location associated with the event.

A device for controlling a turn running behavior of a vehicle detects at least one parameter (V, gamma, Gy, Gyh, gammat, gammat-gamma) with respect to the turn running behavior in addition to a drive direction of the vehicle, the one parameter being indicative of a higher desirability of the turn running behavior control according to changes of a magnitude thereof, calculates an amount (DELTATer, Froq, Friq, DELTATes, Fsop, Fsiq, Fsoq) for the turn running behavior control based upon the detected turn running behavior parameters, determines a start of the turn running behavior control according to the one turn running behavior parameter traversing a threshold value (Vrp, Vrq, gammarp, gammarq, Gyp, Gyq, Gyhp, Gyhq, Vsp, Vsq, gammasp, gammasq, gammatsp, gammatsq, DELTAgammap, DELTAgammaq) determined therefor, and executes the turn running behavior control by operating at least one of the engine and the brake system according to the turn running behavior control amount, wherein threshold value is changed in a rearward drive of the vehicle as compared in a forward drive thereof such that the turn running behavior control is started at a lower degree of the desirability thereof in the rearward drive than in the forward drive.

The method includes steps: first at encoding end, obtaining distribution of image energy on time and frequency domain through discrete wavelet transform; based on correlation between wavelet coefficient, wavelet coefficient in each order is divided according to tree structure; SPIHT encoding is carried out for wavelet coefficient of each tree; encoding result is deposited on encoding end momentarily; finally, results of encoding each tree are synthesized as a code stream in use for storing or transferring. The invention realizes video compression in high compression ratio and low degree of distortion by using less memory space, particular suitable to dedicated system realized through hardware.

A high-speed surgical handpiece (10) suitable for vitreoretinal surgery having a cutter (42) and actuators (36). The cutter (42) is a guillotine-type cutter activated by an array of leveraged piezoelectric actuators (30) that receive a driving signal from a driving controller. The controller can have control and display units with a plurality of input mechanisms receiving input from a user who selects a desired cutting rate and frequency for the cutter. The control unit produces a piezoelectric actuator output signal based on the inputs received. Fast cutting rates with reduced duty cycle as well as a proportional mode of operation are available, allowing slow controlled cutting action, for example proportional to depression of a foot-pedal (74). Low degrees of vibration and noise generation are produced.

A method for making stiffened cellulosic fiber in sheet form, and the resultant stiffened cellulosic fiber. The method of making the stiffened fibers involves impregnating a cellulosic base fiber in sheet form with a treatment composition solution, drying and curing the impregnated sheet, and thereafter adding water or an aqueous solution of odor removing agent to the cured sheet to produce a sheet of stiffened cellulosic fiber having a moisture content of at least about 6.0 weight %. When defiberized, the stiffened fiber has a low content of fines and knots and nits. The stiffened fiber also exhibits a low degree of yellowing and is substantially free of a burnt-like odor. The stiffened fiber may be used in an absorbent article, such as in a liquid acquisition layer or absorbent core of a baby diaper.

The present invention relates to a control algorithm constructing device that constructs a control algorithm controlling the motion of a robot, and a controller that controls the motion of the robot in accordance with the constructed control algorithm, with the purpose of reducing the cost and time taken to create the control algorithm as compared with the conventional method such as an MZP method to solve a mechanical equation, in which the control algorithm is constructed by a recurrent neural network (RNN) including a neuron generating an output with an analogue lag with respect to an input, the coefficients of the RNN are determined in succession from the term of lower degree to the term of higher degree.

The present invention provides a nonwoven web or laminate having at least one surface with abrasion resistance and a low degree of free fibers on the surface. Also provided is a lofty nonwoven web laminate from multicomponent fibers having at least one surface with improved abrasion resistance and reduced fuzziness over other multicomponent fiber nonwoven webs. This nonwoven webs and laminate can be used where nonwoven webs and laminates are currently used, but are particularly suitable as a filter media. Also described is a method for producing a nonwoven web having at least one abrasion resistant surface. The process includes using a liner material between the forming surface and the forming nonwoven web, wherein the liner is removed after the nonwoven web is bonded. Removing the liner exposes the abrasion resistant surface of the nonwoven web or laminate.

An RFID tag reader / writer having a high degree of stability of communication with only a desired RFID tag. The frequency of a carrier wave to be transmitted from the RFID tag reader / writer is set on the basis of a resonance frequency of an antenna of the RFID tag located within a predetermined nearby communication area, which resonance frequency changes due to mutual coupling between the antenna of the RFID tag and an antenna of the RFID tag reader / writer. According to this setting, the RFID tag located within the nearby communication area has a high degree of sensitivity, and the RFID tag located outside the nearby communication area has a low degree of sensitivity, so that it is possible to effectively prevent an interference between the communication of the RFID tag reader / writer with the selected RFID tag and the communication of the reader / writer with the other or non-selected RFID tag.

In a three-dimensional nonvolatile memory, physical layers are zoned according to expected error rate. Different redundancy schemes are applied to different zones so that a high degree of redundancy is applied to a zone with a high expected error rate and a low degree of redundancy is applied to a zone with a low expected error rate.

The invention discloses a method for adapting a webpage to a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal page adaptation device. The method for adapting the webpage to the mobile terminal comprises the following steps of: extracting effective data of the webpage from the webpage information returned by a WEB network according to an access request of the mobile terminal; and according to the extracted effective data, regenerating a new page which is suitable to be displayed on the mobile terminal on the basis of the preset template designed according to the display characteristics of the mobile terminal, and forming a new webpage adapted to the mobile terminal. In the method for adapting the webpage to the mobile terminal and the mobile terminal page adaptation device implementing the method, because the final new webpage is regenerated on the basis of the preset template designed according to the display characteristics of the mobile terminal and the effective data extracted from the webpage information, the newly generated webpage has lower degree of coupling than the original webpage. Therefore, the adaptation of the Internet webpage to the mobile terminal is more flexible, and the mobile terminal can more conveniently access current Internet webpage information.

Teleconferencing is performed between two telecommunication devices having a display device and a stereoscopic pair of cameras positioned outside opposed sides of the display device at the same level partway along those sides. The separation between the centers of the cameras is in a range having a lower limit of 60 mm and an upper limit of 110 mm to improve the perceived roundness in a displayed stereoscopic image of a head. In captured stereo images that are video images, a head is segmented and the segmented backgrounds are replaced by replacement images that have a lower degree of perceived stereoscopic depth to compensate for non-linear depth perception in the displayed stereo images. Images are shifted vertically to position an eye-line of a detected face at the level of the stereoscopic pair of cameras of the telecommunication device where the images are displayed, improving the naturalness of the displayed image.

An elastic composite formed from a lightweight nonwoven facing that has a low degree of strength in the cross-machine direction (“CD”) is provided. Through selective control over certain parameters of the materials employed in the composite and the formation process, the present inventors have discovered that such low strength and lightweight facings may be readily laminated to an elastic film without significantly damaging their integrity. For example, in one embodiment, the elastic film may possess a multi-layered construction that includes an elastomeric elastic layer positioned adjacent to a strength-enhancing thermoplastic layer. The polymer content and thickness of the thermoplastic layer are generally selected to impart additional strength and integrity to the film. Likewise, the polymer content of the elastic layer may also be selected so that the film possesses a sufficient tack for adhering to the facing. In certain cases, it may be desirable to position the layer between two elastic layers so that the strength-enhancing layer does not substantially contact the nonwoven facing. In this manner, the strength-enhancing layer may avoid substantial damage during the lamination process.

A technique of reducing the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of Multi-Carrier (MC) modulated signals in which peaks in the baseband signal that lie above a threshold amplitude are detected and used to generate a pulse sequence signal which, after shaping, is subtracted from the baseband signal to reduce its PAPR. The method is spectrally efficient, has a low degree of implementation complexity and hence it is also suitable for low-power, portable implementation. Moreover, it is compatible with existing standard-based Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) systems. As an example of the performance of the proposed scheme, the amplifier back-off requirement in a Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcast (DVB-T) system can be reduced from 12 to 6 dB, while satisfying the of out-of-band emission specifications imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) spectral mask.

This invention relates to novel ultraviolet absorbing methine-based compounds comprising polyoxyalkylene moieties. Such compounds provide excellent, inexpensive, protection from ultraviolet exposure within various media, including, but not limited to, thermoplastics. The presence of polyoxyalkylene chains on the methine backbone permits such an introduction within thermoplastics while simultaneously providing very low degrees of migration from the target substrate. This invention also concerns methods of making the aforementioned ultraviolet absorbing thermoplastic compositions.

The invention discloses a planning method for the smooth trajectory of a robot in Cartesian space. The planning method comprises the following process: planning the positions and postures of single-section trajectories, such as a spatial line and an arc; carrying out planning on the smooth transition of a path; controlling the size of the transition region of the path by adopting a transition grade; fitting the path in the transition region by adopting a parabola, and fitting the postures by adopting a quaternion algorithm; and adopting a cycloidal acceleration and deceleration planning method containing acceleration and an acceleration restraint to carry out planning on the spatial trajectory of the path so as to obtain the smooth spatial position and posture trajectory of a robot. The method can effectively solve robot trajectory problems, such as pause, non-smoothness, dithering, path deviation and speed excess and improve the running stability of the robot. The planning method for the smooth trajectory, related to the invention, has certain flexibility, and not only can plan the positions and the postures in the Cartesian space but also can adapt to various robot structures, containing common 6-degree-of-freedom vertical joint mechanical arms, low-degree-of-freedom robots and redundant robots.

Disclosed is an inorganic medicine, particularly modified montmorillonite, method for preparing the same and use thereof. The said modified montmorillonite means that dioctahedron of natural montmorillonite is not destroyed and basic chemical composition for the same is not changed, and the microstructure stacked from dioctahedron layer is changed to decrease the thickness of stacking layer and to expose and increase the end face charge and the interlayer charge of montmorillonite, thereby resulting in its lower degree of C axis order. The present medical use of montmorillonite is thus significantly strengthened, particularly the reversal treatment effect on chronic atrophic gastritis. Also disclosed are a medicine composition containing modified montmorillonite and the reversal treatment effect of natural montmorillonite on chronic atrophic gastritis.

The invention provides a lithium battery thermal runaway early warning and automatic control method, which is characterized by, to begin with, establishing a mathematic model for judging lithium battery thermal runaway development process by utilizing environmental data; then, collecting environmental data of a lithium battery in real time by utilizing a plurality of sensors, and carrying out on-line analysis on change of the collected multiple environmental data with reference to the established mathematic model to judge lithium battery thermal runaway occurrence risk or thermal runaway; and once thermal runaway causes fire, a fire control device is automatically and immediately started to control expansion of the thermal runaway, thereby reducing thermal runaway risk to the lowest degree, and preventing serious safety accidents of an electric automobile to the maximum degree.

The invention relates to an iterative method by message passing for decoding of an error correction code that can be displayed in a bipartite graph comprising a plurality of variable nodes and a plurality of check nodes. For each iteration in a plurality of decoding iterations of said method:variable nodes or check nodes are classified (720) as a function of the corresponding degrees of reliability of decoding information available in the neighbourhoods (Vn(d),Vm(d)) of these nodes, a node with a high degree of reliability being classified before a node with a low degree of reliability;each node thus classified (725) passes at least one message (αmn,βmn) to an adjacent node, in the order defined by said classification.The invention also relates to a computer program designed to implement said decoding method.

An ultraviolet curing painting, comprising the main resin, the dilution agent and the photo-initiator, and comprising or not comprising the assistant, wherein the said main resin is a mixture of high and low degree of functionality polyurethane acrylate resins, of which the said high degree of functionality polyurethane acrylate resin is a polyurethane acrylate resin with 4-9 double carbon bonds at the end of the molecules, while the said low degree of functionality polyurethane acrylate resin is a polyurethane acrylate resin with 2-3 double carbon bonds at the end of the molecules. Compared with the present processes, the curing coat of the painting has good abrasion resistance and flexibility.

Cellulose mixed esters are disclosed having low molecular weights and low degrees of polymerization. These new cellulose mixed esters include cellulose acetate propionate and cellulose acetate butyrate. The esters exhibit solubility in a wide range of organic solvents with minimal viscosity increase, are compatible with a wide variety of resins, and are useful in coatings and inks compositions as binder resins and rheology modifiers.