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An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein a user input is matched to a video stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inexact programming of a multimedia device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern for processing and storage. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest to provide a highly compressed representation which may be efficiently processed to determine correspondence. Applications of the interface and system include a VCR, medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning.

A method for forming an oxide film by plasma-assisted cyclic processing, includes: (i) supplying a precursor to a reaction space wherein a substrate is placed; (ii) applying a first RF power to the reaction space for a first period of time without supplying a precursor; and (iii) applying a second RF power to the reaction space for a second period of time without supplying the precursor, wherein the first RF power is lower than the second RF power, and/or the first period of time is shorter than the second period of time.

Provided is a method of manufacturing a large-sized vanadium oxide thin film having a uniform surface, uniform film thickness and stable composition. According to the method, a vanadium-organometallic compound gas is injected into a chamber to form adsorption layer where molecules of the vanadium-organometallic compound are adsorbed on the surface of a substrate. After that, an oxygen precursor is injected into the chamber and thus allowed to accomplish surface-saturation reaction with the adsorbed materials to fabricate a vanadium oxide thin film.

In an organic memory which is included in a radio chip formed from a thin film, data are written to the organic memory by a signal inputted with a wired connection, and the data is read with a signal by radio transmission. A bit line and a word line which form the organic memory are each selected by a signal which specifies an address generated based on the signal inputted with a wired connection. A voltage is applied to a selected memory element. Thus writing is performed. Reading is performed by a clock signal or the like which are generated from a radio signal.

An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein a user input is matched to a video stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inexact programming of a multimedia device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern for processing and storage. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest to provide a highly compressed representation which may be efficiently processed to determine correspondence. Applications of the interface and system include a VCR, medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning.

A system and method are disclosed. One or more processors prioritize at least some tasks and actions associated with a user. A to-do list is provided that includes the prioritized task. First electronic data event information representing a sending or receiving of data associated with at least one of the tasks is received and at least one of the tasks and at least some of the actions are reprioritized. The to-do list is modified based at least on the reprioritizing, and is provided to the user.

A method of recovering a first substrate, including the steps of: sticking a second substrate on a semiconductor layer epitaxially grown on the first substrate; and separating the semiconductor layer and the first substrate. Furthermore, a method of reproducing a first substrate, including the step of surface processing the first substrate separated. Furthermore, a method of reproducing a first substrate, including the step of homoepitaxially growing the first substrate surface processed. Furthermore, a method of producing a semiconductor wafer, including the step of epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer on a first substrate. Thus a group III nitride or similar, expensive substrate can be used to efficiently and economically, epitaxially grow a group III nitride or similar semiconductor layer.

The present invention provides various contact center embodiments for interacting with customers using instant messaging. In one embodiment, the contact center is configured to receive instant message notifications from a customer when the customer is available for contact by instant messaging. In another embodiment, the contact center is configured to route sessionless instant messages only to a selected agent for a specified period of time. In another embodiment, the contact center is configured to provide to customers presence information for administered instant message addresses before the customers contact the contact center. In another embodiment, the contact center is configured to perform an outbound instant messaging campaign or alert with customers.

Recombinant Factor VIII can be produced in relatively large quantities on a continuous basis from mammalian cells in the absence of any animal-derived proteins such as albumin by culturing the cells in a protein free medium supplemented with polyol copolymers, preferably in the presence of trace metals such as copper. In very preferred embodiments, the medium includes a polyglycol known as Pluronic F-68, copper sulfate, ferrous sulfate/EDTA complex, and salts of trace metals such as manganese, molybdenum, silicon, lithium and chromium. With an alternative medium which included trace copper ions alone (without polyol copolymers) we were also able to enhance the productivity of Factor VIII in recombinant cells such as BHK cells that are genetically engineered to express Factor VIII.

The invention relates to an automatic loading machine hand of car glass pre-treatment production lines, comprising a driving mechanism platform, a grabbing arm and a sense touch mechanism, an arm rotary mechanism and a rising and falling buffering mechanism; wherein, the driving mechanism platform is arranged on the rising and falling buffering mechanism which consists of 3 three-foot single-leg frames; the grabbing arm and the sense touch mechanism are connected with a rotation axis of the arm rotary mechanism. The invention has the advantages that the rising and falling movements along a Z shaft direction are carried out by using a dual action cylinder to drive the driving mechanism platform to move from left to right along an X shaft direction, when rising, the grabbing glass is lifted by 300mm so as to separate glass on a stacking frame and avoid a ledge on the stacking frame; when falling, the grabbing glass is led to fall by 300mm to put the glass on a conveyer moving in a Y shaft direction; the device is delicate and aesthetic in shape, and small in occupation space; the design concept is innovative, novel, practical and prospective; the structure is simple; therefore, the machine hand can be easily made, assembled, and programmed and the manufacturing price is low.

The present invention relates to a touch location detecting panel and, more particularly, to a touch location detecting panel having a plurality of sensing areas arranged two-dimensionally. The touch location detecting panel of the invention has on a surface at one side of a single film a plurality of sensing areas arranged two-dimensionally. Each of the sensing areas includes a plurality of partitioned areas electrically isolated from each other, and the partitioned areas are respectively connected to separate channels of a circuit for detecting a user's touch on each of the partitioned areas. Accordingly, durability and productivity of the touch location detecting panel can be improved by simplifying the panel structure.

A display device in which interconnection—electrode comprising a Cu alloy film having a lower electrical resistivity than Al alloy and a transparent conductive film are directly connected not by way of a refractory metal thin film, wherein the Cu alloy film contains Zn and/or Mg in a total amount from 0.1 to 3.0 at %, or Ni and/or Mn in a total amount from 0.1 to 5 at %, thereby enabling the direct connection at low resistivity between the Cu alloy film and the transparent electrode without using a barrier metal, and giving high display quality in a case of application, for example, to a liquid crystal display.

Automatic error recovery systems and methods for automated manufacturing plants and factories are disclosed. Such facilities normally have multiple automated control systems, including an automated material handling system (AMHS), all of which run automatically, typically under the control of a computerized manufacturing execution system (MES). The disclosed issue resolution (ISR) systems and methods involve providing components, which may be supervised and operated by an issue resolution management (ISRM) system, if desired, that interfaces with the MES, AMHS, and/or production control system(s) which operate the tools and other stations within the automated factory. The components, which may be considered customized logic cells, may each be written for handling a specific kind of incoming error condition, problem or other issue that might occur and which is amenable to automatic resolution or recovery. These errors often occur between or across the boundaries of the various interactive systems and automated equipment. Each cell may cycle through a sequence of possible error resolution or recovery steps until the specific issue is resolved or until the sequence of steps is exhausted. Other components of the ISR system may provide results-oriented messages and/or facilitate the collection of data as to whether and which corrective commands from the ISR system resolved the reported error conditions automatically. The disclosed ISR systems and methods for resolving errors and other issues automatically helps improve the overall productivity of automated factories by reducing downtime and the need for human intervention to correct problems, thereby increasing factory throughput.

To completely suppress or minimize the voids formed between the insulating substrate and the IC chip in order to prevent the problems of separation and cracking of the chip caused by the aforementioned voids. The present invention is preferably adopted for the Chip Six Package type package or other package types equipped with solder bumps or other external connecting terminals directly beneath the IC chip. For insulating substrate (3), on its chip-carrying surface, there is pattern element (6) in the region beneath the IC chip and free of conductor pattern elements (4) in addition to conductor pattern element (4) for forming electrical connection between the electrode pads and the external connecting terminals of the chip. Said pattern element (6) divides said region into plural small regions A. IC chip (2) is bonded through die paste on insulating substrate (3) such that an end of conductor pattern element (4), pattern element (6) and divided small regions A are covered. Pattern element (6) acts to reduce the shifting of die paste (9) before curing due to the surface tension. As a result, the formation of voids beneath the chip can be completely prevented or minimized.

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for reducing computer file access time associated with on-access scanning through predictive preemptive scanning, where the prediction may be enabled through the development and use of a file access performance cost mapping of a computing facility's file system. In a first step, file access information describing a pattern of each of a plurality of computer files that have been accessed in a computer file system may be collected. In a second step, the file access information may be processed to generate a file access performance cost statistic for each of the plurality of computer files, where the file access performance cost statistic may be a measure of the time aggregate effect on the computing facility's system performance associated with the access of the file. In a third step, the file access performance cost statistic may be maintained for each of the plurality of files accessed by the computing facility. In a fourth step, the file access performance cost mapping of the computing facility's file system relating to the plurality of computer file may be generated, where the file access performance cost mapping may provide an indication of which of the plurality of files in the file system produce the greatest time aggregate file access effect based on the computing facility's system performance. Finally, in a fifth step, files from the computer file system may be pre-scanned based on the file access performance cost mapping. In embodiments, pre-scanning may access at least one of the plurality of files for scanning prior to the file being called for a use, such as by an operating system, an application, a utility program, and the like. The step of pre-scanning may be performed during periods of low computing facility processing activity, and may result in a reduced need to scan the computer file when the computer file is accessed for use.

The invention discloses an automatic film sticking machine. The machine comprises an automatic feeding mechanism, a pre-positioning mechanism, a film sticking automatic stripping mechanism, a film sticking station conversion mechanism, an automatic film sticking mechanism and a finished product output mechanism; according to the automatic feeding mechanism, an element to be subject to film sticking is taken out and conveyed to the pre-positioning mechanism, the pre-positioning mechanism carries out position pre-adjustment on the element to be subject to film sticking, the element to be subject to film sticking and position pre-adjustment is placed on the film sticking station conversion mechanism, the automatic film sticking mechanism enables a sticking film stripped from the film sticking automatic stripping mechanism to be pasted and covered on the element to be subject to film sticking on the film sticking station conversion mechanism, and the element subject to film sticking is output through the finished product output mechanism for quality inspection. The automatic film sticking machine can be suitable for single-layer or multi-layer rapid effective film sticking, full-automatic feeding, cleaning, sticking film stripping, sticking film absorbing and film sticking are achieved, time and labor are saved, the automatic film sticking efficiency is improved, the film sticking yield is high, and the good application prospect is achieved.