9617 results about "Mirror image" patented technology

A surgical stapler anvil provides an expanded leg-receiving target area for a staple forming pocket in a compact staggered array by narrowing the lateral width of the leg-clinching portion of a laterally adjacent pocket. Advantageously, the lateral spacing between adjacent rows of staple forming pockets can remain small, while the leg-receiving target area for laterally adjacent rows of pockets is significantly expanded. The staple forming pockets include two mirror image leg-forming cups. The cups are longitudinally aligned with their respective ascending leg clinching portions adjoining in the center of the pocket. Laterally spaced guide surfaces extend upwardly and outwardly from the clinching surface at the bottom of the cup to define an expanded leg-receiving target area at the distal ends of the pocket. Substantially planar laterally outward portions of the guide surface intersect with the guide surface of a laterally adjacent pocket to form a non-linear ridge.

A knee implant includes a femoral component having first and second femoral component surfaces. The first femoral component surface is for securing to a surgically prepared compartment of a distal end of a femur. The second femoral component surface is configured to replicate the femoral condyle. The knee implant further includes a tibial component having first and second tibial component surfaces. The first tibial component surface is for contacting a proximal surface of the tibia that is substantially uncut subchondral bone. At least a portion of the first tibial component surface is a mirror image of the proximal tibial surface. The second tibial component surface articulates with the second femoral component surface.

A portable computer having a independently mounted screen sections, whereby the screen sections may be used to provide a larger overall screen, to provide screens mirroring each other for presentation and display, for use by different users, and the like. The screen sections are foldable and collapsible into the main housing of the portable computer for storage and transport.

A method for tomographic imaging comprises the steps of providing a source of at least partially coherent radiation and a frequency-swept laser source through an interferometer; phase modulating the radiation in the interferometer at a modulation frequency for elimination of DC and autocorrelation noises as well as the mirror image; detecting interference fringes of the radiation backscattered from the sample into the interferometer to obtain a spectral signal; transforming the spectral signal of the detected backscattered interference fringes to obtain a time and location dependent signal, including the Doppler shift and variance, at each pixel location in a data window; and generating a tomographic image of the fluid flow in the data window and of the structure of the scanned fluid flow sample in the data window from the time and location dependent signal. The apparatus comprises a system for tomographic imaging operating according to the above method.

Methods, systems, and configured storage media are provided for flexible data mirroring. In particular, the invention provides many-to-one data mirroring, including mirroring from local servers running the same or different operating systems and / or file systems at two or more geographically dispersed locations. The invention also provides one-to-many data mirroring, mirroring with or without a dedicated private telecommunications link, and mirroring with or without a dedicated server or another server at the destination(s) to assist the remote mirroring unit(s). In addition, the invention provides flexibility by permitting the use of various combinations of one or more external storage units and / or RAID units to hold mirrored data. Spoofing, SCSI and other bus emulations, and further tools and techniques are used in various embodiments of the invention.

A surgical stapling apparatus includes a jaw assembly including an anvil assembly and a staple cartridge assembly, at least one which includes a surgical buttress retention system, and a surgical buttress releasably secured to a tissue facing surface of the anvil assembly or the staple cartridge assembly via the surgical buttress retention system. The surgical buttress retention system includes proximal guide slots defined in opposed sides of the anvil assembly or the staple cartridge assembly that have a generally U-shaped configuration that are mirror images of each other, a plug coupled to a distal portion of the anvil assembly or the staple cartridge assembly, and a retention member including a central portion extending across a proximal portion of the surgical buttress, second portions positioned within the proximal guide slots, third portions extending across a distal portion of the surgical buttress, and end portions coupled to the plug.

The present invention provides method and systems for dynamically mirroring network traffic. The mirroring of network traffic may comprise data that may be considered of particular interest. The network traffic may be mirrored by a mirror service portal from a mirror sender, referred to as a mirror source, to a mirror receiver, referred to as a mirror destination, locally or remotely over various network segments, such as private and public networks and the Internet. The network traffic may be mirrored to locations not involved in the network communications being mirrored. The present invention provides various techniques for dynamically mirroring data contained in the network traffic from a mirror source to a mirror destination.

Methods of wiring to a transistor and a related transistor are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes a method of forming wiring to a transistor, the method comprising: forming a transistor on a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate using masks that are mirror images of an intended layout, the forming including forming a gate and a source / drain region for each and a channel, the SOI substrate including a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) layer, a buried insulator layer and a silicon substrate; forming a dielectric layer over the transistor; bonding the dielectric layer to another substrate; removing the silicon substrate from the SOI substrate to the buried insulator layer; forming a contact to each of the source / drain region and the gate from a channel side of the gate; and forming at least one wiring to the contacts on the channel side of the gate.

A system is described for using with fine pitch devices including singulated bare die, semiconductor wafers, chip sized packages, printed circuit boards, and the like to determine that the fine pitch device is not faulty. The system is also usable for transfer of data, energy, for collecting data measurements or measurement-related data between two pieces, and for effecting at least part of an identification process. The disclosed embodiment includes a substrate having a circuit pad pattern in the mirror image of the pattern of contact points, usually bond pads of the fine pitch device to be connected. A conductive elastomeric probe is permanently formed on the circuit pads of the substrate such that the probe is malleable and allows repetitive electrical contact. The system may also contain an alignment template for orienting the fine pitch device onto the elastomeric probes of the contact point pattern of the substrate.

A method for making an orthopaedic implant, the method comprising: characterizing at least a portion of a bone corresponding to the bone to be replaced, said corresponding bone being on the contralateral side of the patient; providing a model of the orthopaedic implant based on a mirror image of the contralateral bone; and forming the orthopaedic implant based on the model.

An alignment target includes periodic patterns on two elements. The alignment target includes two locations, at least one of which has a designed in offset. In one embodiment, both measurement locations have a designed in offset of the same magnitude but opposite directions. For example, two separate overlay patterns that are mirror images of each other may be used. Alternatively, the magnitudes and / or directions may vary between the measurement locations. The radiation that interacts with the measurement locations is compared. The calculated difference is extremely sensitive to any alignment error. If the difference between the patterns is approximately zero, the elements are properly aligned. When an alignment error is introduced, however, calculated difference can be used to determine the error. In one embodiment, the alignment target is modeled to determine the alignment error. In another embodiment, additional overlay patterns with additional reference offsets are used to determine the alignment error.

A remote copy system includes a first storage system including a first storage controller and a first data volume. The first storage controller is configured to control data access requests to the first data volume. The first storage system is configured to store write data in the first data volume upon receiving a write request from a first host that is associated with the first storage system. A second storage system includes a second data volume and configured to receive first copy data sent from the first storage system and store the first copy data in the second data volume, the first copy data corresponding to the write data stored in the first data volume. A third storage system includes a second storage controller and a third data volume and configured to receive second copy data from the second storage system and store the second copy data to the third data volume, the second copy data corresponding to the first copy data, the third data volume mirroring the first data volume. A fourth storage system includes a fourth data volume and configured to receive third copy data sent from the third storage system and store the third copy data to the fourth data volume, the third copy data corresponding to the second copy data.

A catadioptric camera having a perspective camera and multiple curved mirrors, images the multiple curved mirrors and uses the epsilon constraint to establish a vertical parallax between points in one mirror and their corresponding reflection in another. An ASIFT transform is applied to all the mirror images to establish a collection of corresponding feature points, and edge detection is applied on mirror images to identify edge pixels. A first edge pixel in a first imaged mirror is selected, its 25 nearest feature points are identified, and a rigid transform is applied to them. The rigid transform is fitted to 25 corresponding feature points in a second imaged mirror. The closes edge pixel to the expected location as determined by the fitted rigid transform is identified, and its distance to the vertical parallax is determined. If the distance is not greater than predefined maximum, then it is deemed correlate to the edge pixel in the first imaged mirror.

A dual screen presentation notebook having components that are integrally connected together to allow easy viewing of presentation materials without the users having to sit side by side craning their necks close together facing the same direction but instead can face opposite one another. When the dual screen presentation notebook is switched on, users can either (i) view identical or mirror images of the presentation materials or (ii) different images on the two monitor screens. The dual screen presentation notebook can be easily converted into a tablet computer and can also be used for other applications such as viewing electronic book, electronic photograph and images, videos, movies, etc.

A system and method for performing real-time replication of data across a network is provided. A mirroring engine receives a write request from a host application operating on a source computer. The mirroring engine compares data in the write request with corresponding data stored in memory. If data in the write request differs from stored data, the mirroring engine processes the write request. Processing involves computing a data signature across data in the write request and associating the signature with a transaction number and a status byte. The transaction number is used to uniquely identify the data signature and can be used to ensure that the signature is properly handled if it is received, for example, out of order. The status byte contains information used for handling the data signature and transaction number as well as information identifying how the data signature was computed. In an embodiment, the status byte may contain a bit for identifying if the data signature was computed across an entire block of data or if the signature was computed over only a portion of a data block, such as for example, only data bytes that have changed as compared with those in the stored data. Processing may further include compressing and encrypting the data signature, transaction number and status byte prior to transmission over a network. Embodiments may further employ a meta-file for storing data signatures, transaction numbers, status bytes, and other information useful for performing real-time data replication over a network.

A method and apparatus for capture of a spherical image is disclosed. The present invention includes at least one camera having a lens with at least a 180° field-of-view for capturing a hemispherical image. In a first embodiment, a second hemispherical image is created corresponding to a mirror image of the hemispherical image captured by the camera. In a second embodiment, two back-to-back cameras capture first and second hemispherical images, respectively. In both embodiments, a converter combines the two images along their outside edges to form a single, spherical image. Finally, the converter stores the complete spherical image for later retrieval and perspective corrected viewing.

A side-emitting collimator employs a combination of refraction and internal reflection to organize light from a light source into oppositely directed collimated beams. A light source chamber over the light source is defined by substantially cylindrical and aspheric refracting surfaces positioned to gather light into the collimating lens. The aspheric refracting surfaces redirect a portion of the light from the light source into a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the light source. The substantially cylindrical surfaces refract light from the light source onto an aspheric upper reflecting surface. Light incident upon the aspheric upper reflecting surface is collimated into a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the light source. The side-emitting collimator includes mirror image collimator halves, each producing a collimated beam. The collimator halves are rotationally symmetric about a common axis of symmetry above a plane including the axis of symmetry.

An apparatus and method are provided in a computer network to decouple client computers from file servers, by placing a transparent network node, also termed a file switch or file switch computer, between the client computers and the file servers. Usage of such a file switch allows reduced latency in file transfers, as well as scalable mirroring, striping, spillover, and other features. The file switch preferably includes at least one processing unit for executing computer programs, at least one port for exchanging information with the file servers and client computers, and a file aggregation module. The file aggregation module includes computer programs for determining a set of file servers from the group of file servers for storing a specified user file, creating a metadata file storing information identifying the set of file servers for storing the user file; and updating directory structures on the set of file servers to indicate storage of the user file.

A digital mirror system is provided that emulates a traditional mirror by displaying real-time video imagery of a user who stands before it. The digital mirror system provides a plurality of digital mirror modes, including a traditional mirror mode and a third person mirror mode. The digital mirror system provides a plurality of digital mirroring features including an image freeze feature, an image zoom feature, and an image buffering feature. The digital mirror system provides a plurality of operational states including a digital mirroring state and an alternate state, the alternate state including a power-conservation state and / or a digital picture frame state. The digital mirror system provides a user sensor that automatically transitions between operational states in response to whether or not a user is detected before the digital mirror display screen for a period of time. The digital mirror system provides for hands-free user control using speech recognition, the speech recognition being employed to enable a user to selectively access one or more of the digital mirror modes or features in response to verbal commands relationally associated with those modes or features.

To provide an image processing technique for easy initial settings when a video image feature is used as an input interface. This is an image processor having an image combining section 106 for combining a mirrored video image feature that includes an image of an operator as a portion thereof and an object image of an object that is associated with a predetermined event, to generate a combined image, and being adapted to provide production of the combined image on a display device. This image processor has a detection section 109 for detecting the position of an image of an operator included in the mirrored video image feature. The image combining section 106 is adapted to combine the object image and the mirrored video image feature in such a manner that the object image is displayed in a range that an image of a hand of the operator can reach, depending on the position of the image of the operator detected by the detection section 109.

The exercise assisting system includes: a display device including a display screen displaying an image to a user; a comparison image storing unit storing a comparison image representing an image of an exerciser performing a predetermined exercise; a comparison image display unit displaying the comparison image stored in the storing unit on the screen; a mirror image displaying means displaying a mirror image of the user so as to overlap the comparison image; a characteristic amount extraction unit detecting positions of sampling points of a body of the user and calculating a characteristic amount representing a posture of the user based on the position; a posture estimation unit comparing the characteristic amount from the extraction unit with a criterion amount representing a posture of the exerciser and estimating a deviation between postures of the user and the exerciser; and a presentation unit presenting an estimation result of the estimation unit.

The recyclable single-sheet mailer is a single sheet of predominantly opaque paper stock having a front face, a rear face, top and bottom edges, and a transparent and seamless addressee window area defined thereon. All printed content is applied to the rear face of the mailer. The mailer has a plurality of transverse fold lines formed parallel to the top and bottom edges, dividing the sheet into a plurality of panels configurable as either a one-way mailer or as mailer with a business or courtesy reply envelope. Furthermore, a two-dimensional barcode containing addressee specific account information may be printed on the reply envelope to facilitate handling. Finally, addressee information, including bar-coded POSTNET data, may be printed in mirror image within the transparent window area, facilitating correct barcode scanning.

A system and method for linking external storage systems that includes creating a virtual volume mapping at one or more storage systems. Each virtual volume mapping at each storage system associating a virtual storage volume with a physical storage volume and / or one second virtual storage volume at one or more second storage systems. An access request is received at a first storage system specifying a virtual volume. It is determined on which storage system a physical storage volume associated with the specified virtual volume in the access request is located using the virtual volume mapping at the first storage system and / or the virtual volume mapping at one or more second storage systems. Access is provided to the physical storage volume based on which storage system the physical storage volume is located. Useful in Storage Area Networks and many configurations including 1 to 1, dual path, mirrored, and concatenated, etc.

A handheld electronic device has a display screen on a front planar surface and a command entry structure comprising a keyboard on a rear planar surface parallel to the front planar surface. Mirror images of the rear keys are displayed on the screen and are highlighted when a key is touched. The user further depresses the touched key to confirm the command. The keyboard has a unique configuration which allows touch typing.

A method dramatically reduces the amount of data to be stored and transferred in a networked storage system. Preferably, the network storage system provides continued data protection through mirroring / replication, disk-to-disk backup, data archiving for future retrieval, and Information Lifecycle management (ILM). The idea is to leverage the parity computation that exists in RAID systems. By caching, transferring, and storing data parity or delta bytes of changes on a block as opposed to data block itself, substantial data reduction is possible without using sophisticated compression algorithms at the production side to minimize performance impacts upon production servers. Data can be computed using the parity / delta and previously existing data at mirror side, replication side, backup storage, or at retrieval time upon events such as failures or ILM operations.

A method of controlling a plurality of mobile terminals connected to an externally connected image display device. The method includes transmitting screen information from a first mobile terminal to the image display device; transmitting screen information from a second mobile terminal to the image display device; displaying a first mirroring screen corresponding to the screen information of the first mobile terminal in a first region of a display of the image display device, and displaying a second mirroring screen corresponding to the screen information of the second mobile terminal in a second region of the display of the image display device; tracking a cursor on the display of the image display device input from an input unit of the image display device; and controlling the first mobile terminal from the image display device when the cursor is within the first region of the display and controlling the second mobile terminal from the image display device when the cursor is within the second region of the display.

A first printing unit for forming a front image on one surface and a second printing unit forming a back image on the other surface are respectively constructed with two stages of printing heads. With respect to the image formed on one surface of a printing medium by the first printing unit, the image formed on the other surface of the printing medium by the second printing unit is formed as a mirror image of bilateral symmetry about an axis in a transporting direction so that the image on the other surface is consistent with the image on one surface.

The invention belongs to the technical field of network security and particularly relates to a method for processing a hidden process based on a hardware simulator. By establishing a running environment of malicious codes in hidden codes in a hardware simulating environment and operating and controlling instructions simulating a CPU and various accessing operations simulating a memory, marked by a CR3 value in a CR3 register, the hidden process is detected, the running process of the hidden process is monitored, and the running information of the malicious codes in the hidden process is recorded by a data acquisition module; and the invention also provides a mirror image which extracts the malicious codes directly from a virtual memory. All instructions of a virtual CPU and various hardware operations of a hardware simulating device are executed in simulation after translation and are not executed in a real machine by using code segments directly, and the running time of the instruction in the instruction running process can be accurately calculated, thus realizing fully transparent analysis of the malicious codes in the hidden process.