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In a system for conducting mobile commerce, a mobile operator central server sends silent authorization messages to a smartphone including a wallet application responsive to received messages to display offers, advertisements or coupons to a user. A wallet manager application resident on a remote server for selecting offers, advertisements or coupons relevant to a particular user from multiple data sources sends the selected offers or coupons in messages over a wireless link to the wallet application. The mobile operator central server receives information from the user in response to the wallet application presenting a buy option to the user. The mobile operator central server sends an authorization message to a secure payment application resident on the smartphone to present the user with a payment interface.

An on-screen menu method and system for controlling the functions of integrated electronic devices and a television schedule system and method for displaying television schedule information on a television screen includes a program guide having a schedule information area that depicts the programs that are being presented on each channel at each time during the day and an interconnected series of menus to control the features of the integrated electronic devices. An input device allows the viewer to move a pointer over different interactive areas of the guide and the function performed when the area is activated is displayed in a contextual help window. Various control glyphs provide for recursive interaction with the guide.

Method and system for multimedia advertising. The multimedia advertising including video and content information. The advertisements being accessible for viewing the video and content information associated therewith.

A free-standing, removable transfer pocket system enables transfer pockets to be attached and detached at will to and from garments such as clothing and other surfaces, using Velcro(R).

A workflow-management apparatus includes a print-of-a-seal form defining unit 21 for receiving registration of form information specifying a form of a print of a seal and for receiving a change of the form information, and a print-of-a-seal image creating unit 26 for creating a print-of-a-seal image according to form information registered in the print-of-a-seal form defining unit 21. The workflow-management apparatus can add a print-of-a-seal image to a circulating electronic document.

An icon line is displayed on a screen. A display order for the icon line can be changed by using switch input means enabling a direction input. When an input in a first direction is made, objects are scrolled so as to sequentially display each object at a specific position or the objects are scrolled across the specific position. When an input in the second direction is made, an object positioned at the specific position is saved at a saving position or an object positioned at the saving position is positioned at the specific position. Thus, a user is allowed to easily change the display order in which a plurality of objects are displayed on a screen.

A printing system for one- or two-dimensional barcodes, and a method and program of creating virtual fonts for such barcodes enable the font and output parameters of the font to be easily changed. The printing system for printing one- or two-dimensional barcodes has a host computer and a printer in communication therewith. The host computer has an application program for creating text data containing a one- or two-dimensional barcode and a printer driver for converting the text data to commands and for sending the commands to the printer. The printing system also has a virtual font configuration program for defining a virtual font linking one- or two-dimensional barcode font data of the printer driver with parameter values configuring the corresponding barcodes.

An electroplating production line or apparatus that can be assembled with modular plating sections in a roll-to-roll or reel-to-reel continuous plating process is provided. The length of the plating cell for a modular plating section can be readily changed to fit different current densities required in a roll-to-roll or reel-to-reel process. In addition, the electrolyte solution tanks can be simply connected or disconnected from the modular plating sections and moved around. With these designs, a multiple layers of coating with different metals, semiconductors or their alloys can be electrodeposited on this production line or apparatus with a flexibility to easily change the plating orders of different materials. This apparatus is particularly useful in manufacturing Group IB-IIIA-VIA and Group IIB-VIA thin film solar cells such as CIGS and CdTe solar cells on flexible conductive substrates through a continuous roll-to-roll or reel-to-reel process.

Disclosed is a mobile terminal having a pressure sensor with a plurality of pressure sensing areas that are used to change or rotate a standby screen image. The pressure sensor detects pressure applied by the user to the pressure sensing areas and outputs corresponding pressure sensing signals. The mobile terminal determines the direction of change or rotation of the standby screen image according to the pressure sensing signals. Upon determining the standby screen image changing direction, the mobile terminal loads and displays one of a plurality of images stored in a memory in the determined direction. Upon determining the direction of rotation of the standby screen image, the mobile terminal rotates the current standby screen image in the determined direction.

In a steering column device, when a fastening bolt is rotated to a locked side, movement of a distance bracket in a telescopic direction is restrained by a movable die displaced by an urging force of an urging unit to bring a movable-side tooth portion into mesh with a fixed-side tooth portion and by a body mount bracket and the distance bracket brought into pressure contact with each other with an axial force of the fastening bolt. When the fastening bolt is rotated to a unlocked side, a restraint of movement of the distance bracket in the telescopic direction is released by the movable die displaced by a cam protrusion to bring the movable-side tooth portion out of mesh with the fixed-side tooth portion and by the body mount bracket and the distance bracket brought out of pressure contact with each other with the axial force of the fastening bolt released.

A system is disclosed that includes a baseline web site that is primarily and ordinarily read-only. The baseline web site has a number of web pages. The web pages are remotely accessible by authorized users through a network, via client communication devices communicatively coupled to the network. A mirror web site that is initially a mirror copy of the baseline site is remotely accessible, by the authorized users via the client communication devices communicatively coupled to the network. A web application running on the mirror site accepts user-made changes to the mirror copy of the baseline site in a cut-and-paste manner. Administrators authorize the user-made changes, so the baseline site is periodically updated from the mirror site.

A user authentication system is provided with a client apparatus and an authentication server. An application program used for processing the measurement results of the measuring apparatus is installed on the client apparatus. Databases for storing use authority information of the application program are provided on the authentication server. A user inputs authentication information when operating the client apparatus and the application program is started. The client apparatus sends the authentication information to the authentication server, and an authentication process is performed by the authentication server. When authentication is successful, the use authority information of this user is sent from the authentication server to the client apparatus, and the client apparatus sets the application use restrictions according to the use authority information.

In a radio communication system with at least one radio network control device, at least one base station is connected to at least one user station by a radio communication interface. The base station(s) and the radio network control device are components of a base station subsystem. The radio network control device is connected to an access device for a core network. The radio network control device and the user station(s) have a service specific key that is preferably valid for several user stations, or in other words, the service specific key is not user specific.

A data collecting apparatus sets types of target ECUs, and stores, in a storage unit, driving parameter data items, which are capable of being output by a plurality of ECUs, in association with IDs of the plurality of ECUs. Subsequently, for each of the aforementioned types, a query is made to a vehicle as to whether an installed ECU exists, and the installed ECU is identified as a target ECU. Thereafter, based on the ID of the installed ECU, driving parameter data items capable of being output by the installed ECU that was identified as the target ECU are set as collection items.

A pressing force sensor that includes a sensor element configured with a piezoelectric film, a lead terminal for connection to an external circuit, a wiring conductor which connects pressing force detection electrodes and the lead terminal, and a flexible printed circuit board which withstands solder reflow temperatures. The flexible printed circuit board has the pressing force detection electrodes formed on a first principal surface thereof, and is folded via a folding line while the first principal surface faces inward. The sensor element is deflected by a pressing force applied to a second principal surface which faces outward and is in a first area of the flexible printed circuit board which is on one side with respect to the folding line, and a signal corresponding to the pressing force is thus taken out from the pressing force detection electrodes.

A novel data processing apparatus makes adding, deleting, and changing of modification rules easy. This data processing apparatus includes an output destination type determining unit 302 that determines type of output destination determined by an output destination determining unit using categorizing information, modification processing units 306a-306c that execute modifying processes different from each other on content of image data, a Plug-in Factory 304 that determines the modifying process by referring to the determined type and content of modifying process set for each categorized type and generates modification processing units 306a-306c that execute the determined modifying processes, and a print commanding unit that requests modification processing units 306a-306c to execute the modifying process, generates output data from the modified image data, and sends the output data to the determined output destination. The content of the categorizing information and modifying process can be customized, and modification processing units can be added or deleted.

The invention relates to an article of furniture, such as a sitting / standing table, wherein an adjustable element, such as a table top, may be adjusted by a drive unit (8) based on an electric motor. An electrical control unit (6) has a plurality of externally accessible gates and is arranged so as to meet a number of requirements for services and / or optional special functions which may be modified, activated or deactivated with a plurality of external modules (5) configured with a plug (11) when said plug is inserted into a gate (9).

A Factory Equipment provided with a control apparatus, equipment to be controlled, and safety measures provided for safety, wherein a memory of the control apparatus stores a work content-worker type relationship table and a work content-equipment operation relationship table, a work content judgment unit refers to the work content-worker type relationship table based on an input worker type from an worker type input unit and an input work content from a work content input unit to judge if a worker of the input worker type can perform the input work content, and, when it is judged that the input work content can be performed, an equipment operation judgment unit refers to a work content-equipment operation relationship table based on the work content and safety conditions input from a safety condition detection unit so as to judge if equipment can be operated.

A stringed musical instrument includes a string mounting arrangement that enables multiple strings to be maintained in relative tune as the pitch of the strings is simultaneously varied. In one embodiment, a composite musical string comprises multiple segments, each segment having a different density, but the composite string will maintain substantially the same tension throughout its length. As the tension is increased or decreased, the pitch of the instrument changes, but the relative tuning between the strings remains. In another embodiment, a tuning knob simultaneously applies a different linear adjustment to adjacent strings, thus changing the tension in each string according to a relative pattern so as to maintain relative tuning between the strings.

A stringed musical instrument includes a string mounting arrangement that enables multiple strings to be maintained in relative tune as the pitch of the strings is simultaneously varied. In one embodiment, a composite musical string comprises multiple segments, each segment having a different density, but the composite string will maintain substantially the same tension throughout its length. As the tension is increased or decreased, the pitch of the instrument changes, but the relative tuning between the strings remains. In another embodiment, a composite string comprises musical string segments joined end-to-end with bending segments. The musical segments are adapted to emit desired notes and tones at tension. The bending segments are adapted to easily bend about pivots such as a tuning knob or pulley.

The present invention is level set system for implementing interactive editing operators for surfaces. Level set models are deformable implicit surfaces where the deformation of the surface (editing operation) is controlled by a speed function in the level set partial differential equation. The level set system overcomes the self-interaction problems associated with mesh models. One embodiment takes scan converts input models such as polygon mesh, NURBS, CSGS models into level set models. An interface is provided by which models can be edited with editing operators such as blending, smoothing, embossing, etc. One embodiment utilizes several methods to optimize computations related to the editing operators. For example, shortest distance calculations, bounding boxes, numerical integration, and the sparse-field methods are disclosed for the implementation of the level set deformation operator embodiments including blending, smoothing sharpening, and embossing. The resulting level sets model can be volume rendered or extracted to a polygon mesh.

A safety helmet for displaying dynamic designs comprising: a non-opaque protective shell including an outer surface and an inner surface; an inner padding, including an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein a portion of the inner padding is surrounded by the inner surface of the outer shell; a dynamic visual display adapted to display one or more images or video, wherein the dynamic visual display is mounted inside the space defined by the inner surface of the protective shell and the outer surface of the inner padding, wherein the dynamic visual display fills a viewable surface as viewed through the protective shell; and a display controller in electronic communication with the dynamic visual display such that the display controller communicates the one or more images or video to the dynamic visual display and control the operation of the dynamic visual display.

A power tool includes a hook portion comprising a hook holding portion 20, which is provided in a housing 1 and has engaging teeth 47 provided in a housing 1, and also comprising a hook 2 having a shaft portion 30, which is inserted into the hook holding portion 20 and provided with fitting teeth 31 meshing with the engaging teeth 47, an elastic body 27 adapted to push the hook 2 against a handle portion at all times, and a slip-off preventing part holding portion adapted to move the hook 2 in a direction of an axis thereof against a force of the elastic body 2 and to cancel the mesh between the teeth to thereby enable the hook 2 to turn.

An improved force-measurement system utilizes active magnetostrictive sensors for generating a signal representative of a force, such as the weight of a person or thing on a seat within a motor vehicle, or the force applied to the horn sensor switch on a vehicle steering wheel. The active magnetostrictive sensor includes an excitation coil and a detection coil.

A robot control device includes a display section adapted to display an image of a robot, a reception section adapted to receive an operation to the image of the robot displayed by the display section, and a teaching section adapted to teach an action of the robot, the display section displays an image showing one of movement of a gripping section of the robot, rotation of the gripping section, and opening and closing of the gripping section in accordance with the operation, and the teaching section teaches one of the movement of the gripping section of the robot, the rotation of the gripping section, and the opening and closing of the gripping section to the robot in accordance with the operation.

A combined spectacle lens including a combination of a basic lens and an auxiliary lens, the basic lens formed with a progressive-power surface having a first power portion having a power for viewing an object at a predetermined distance, a second power portion having a power different from that in the first power portion, and a progressive portion in which the power is progressively changed from the first power portion to the second power portion on either one or both of refractive surfaces on an object side and an eyeball side, wherein a resultant power obtained by combining a basic lens power of the basic lens and an auxiliary lens power of the auxiliary lens is partly or entirely different from that of the basic lens power.

In order to change over heating temperature and pressing force of a fixing device to heat, press and fix images on recording media, an image forming apparatus of this invention has a changeover portion to change over a heating temperature and a pressing force by the same indicating operation. Operator is not required to perform the heating temperature changeover operation and the pressing force changeover operation separately. Thus, the operability of the heat press and fixing device in changing over the fixing condition of the heating pressing and fixing device for the heat roller 20 and the press roll 21 is improved.

An electronic circuit in a fishing lure in the water is activated to broadcast a pre-recorded actual or simulated sound of a bait creature and or create lifelike bait creature motion. A switch in the lure activates a sound chip and a micro speaker, a water sensing automatic on-off switch turns the power on and off, and the battery is charged by an external charging coil. An alternate embodiment automatically activates the fishing lure device to replicate bait animals in size, shape, movement and sound.