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Provided are implantable or surface mounted biomedical devices and related methods for interfacing with a target tissue. The devices have a substrate and device component supported by the substrate. The components of the device are specially configured and packaged to be ultra-thin and mechanically compliant. In particular, device thicknesses are less than 1 mm and have lateral dimensions between about 1 μm and 10 mm, depending on the application. Delivery substrates may be incorporated to assist with device implantation and handling. The devices can be shaped to provide injection in a minimally invasive manner, thereby avoiding unnecessary tissue damage and providing a platform for long-term implantation for interfacing with biological tissue.

A method, computer program product, and data processing system for distributed control of network elements is disclosed. The present invention divides the control plane functions of a network element into subsystems, which are implemented as processes or threads. A bus-like messaging framework allows the subsystems to communicate with each other. Under the messaging framework, subsystems can communicate with each other without regard for whether the subsystems reside on separate (possibly heterogeneous) hardware platforms or on the same processor. This architecture allows individual components of the control plane functions of a single network element to be placed on different processors or on the same processor, depending on the desired degree of parallel processing or level of integration with low-level network-element hardware.

Methods to set a viewing and/or listening term are classified into two types, which are a fixed-time-length type to limit time length and a fixed-expiration-time type to limit expiration time. And the timings of license acquisition are classified into two types which are an immediate-acquisition type and a point-of-use type. The type of the timing of license acquisition is written to a meta data which is to be sent to a terminal before initiating download. The terminal determines the timing of license acquisition according to the meta data. When contents are point-of-use type, the terminal doesn't acquire a key and an expiration time information until a time of initiating playback. On the other hand, when contents are immediate-acquisition type, the terminal acquires the key and the expiration time information at any point of time. Since the key is acquired at the early timing such as download completion timing, a reaction velocity in response to a playback instruction can be heighten.

A solid-state image sensor comprises a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type having a color pixel region and a black pixel region; a first well of the first conductivity type formed in the color pixel region; a second well of the first conductivity type formed in the black pixel region; a third well of a second conductivity type formed, surrounding the second well and isolating the second well from the rest region of the semiconductor substrate; a color pixel formed in the first well in the color pixel region and including a first photodiode and a first read transistor for reading a signal generated by the first photodiode; and a black pixel formed in the second well in the black pixel region and including a second photodiode and a second read transistor for reading a signal generated by the second photodiode. The first well includes a first buried impurity doped layer of the first conductivity type formed in a bottom thereof in a region where the first read transistor is formed. The second well includes a second buried impurity doped layer of the first conductivity type formed in a bottom thereof in a region where the second photodiode is formed and a region where the second read transistor is formed.

According to various embodiments of the disclosed method and apparatus, a node on a network submits to a network controller a request for the admission of a parameterized Quality of Service flow with in a MoCA network. A network controller receives the submission requesting creation of or update to a parameterized quality of service to support a flow with retransmission; sends a message to a first plurality of nodes in the network to request information from the first plurality of nodes regarding whether the retransmission flow can be created or updated; receives responses from the first plurality of nodes, wherein each response comprises information regarding whether its respective node can support the retransmission flow; and determines whether the retransmission flow can be supported by the first plurality of network nodes.

A camera body 3 includes a cross control key 27 and a body microcomputer 10. The body microcomputer 10 can acquire lens information related to an interchangeable lens unit 2 from the interchangeable lens unit 2. The body microcomputer 10 decides whether or not the interchangeable lens unit 2 is compatible with electric zoom on the basis of lens information. The body microcomputer 10 also activates zoom operation at the cross control key 27 on the basis of this decision result.

A toner having a toner particle including a core particle obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable monomer composition containing at least a polymerizable monomer, a colorant, a release agent, a polar resin, and a crystalline polyester in an aqueous medium and an outer shell formed by fixing resin fine particles to the surface of the core particle, wherein the resin constituting the resin fine particles is an amorphous resin and the acid value of the resin fine particles is 4.0 to 50.0 mgKOH/g.

An imaging unit outputs a video signal at a frame rate higher than a standard frame rate. During a zoom operation period or a period including the zoom operation period and periods before and after the zoom operation, a video signal from the imaging unit is recorded in a recording medium at a high recording frame rate. Other than this period, a video signal is recorded in the recording medium at the standard frame rate. The recording frame rate and zoom operation information is recorded as metadata in the recording medium. During reproduction, based on a set reproduction mode, thinning processing is carried out on a video signal recorded during a zoom operation, and the processed signal is output at the standard frame rate. In this way, it is possible to change a frame rate in view of a photographer's intention and assure compatibility with existing viewing and reproduction environments.

At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point groups to which data of the first data stream are assigned. Also, data of the second data stream are assigned to the signal points of each signal point group. A difference in the transmission error rate between first and second data streams is developed by shifting the signal points to other positions in the space diagram. At the receiver side, the first and/or second data streams can be reconstructed from a received signal. In TV broadcast service, a TV signal is divided by a transmitter into, low and high, frequency band components which are designated as a first and a second data stream respectively. Upon receiving the TV signal, a receiver can reproduce only the low frequency band component or both the low and high frequency band components, depending on its capability.

The invention relates to a System for charging an electric or hybrid vehicle (10), including: an AC charging connecter (12) that is connectable to a domestic power-distribution network via an electrical-connection outlet (4) having a température-sensative device (8); and a processing means (20, CAN, UT) for determining whether or not to use a domestic charging mode (mode 1), characterized in that the System also includes a means (SP, RP) for polarizing the temperature-sensitive device which is activated when a domestic charging mode is used, and a means (24) for determining a value representing the température of the electrical-connection outlet by means of the polarized temperature-sensitive device.

A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of memory elements arranged at intersecting points between the word lines and the bit lines, respectively, a row selector selectively activating the word lines, a plurality of write drivers provided to correspond to the bit lines, and supplying a write current to the corresponding bit lines, respectively, a plurality of write control circuits controlling operations performed by the corresponding write drivers, respectively, and a column selector selecting the write control circuits. The column selector sequentially selects a predetermined write control circuit per one clock in a state of activating a predetermined word line, and the selected write control circuit activates one corresponding write driver over a period of one clock or more.

An optical disc apparatus implementing a PRML and capable of recording and reading a plurality of disc media with different recording densities, wherein read compatibility between drives is ensured without relying solely on the error correction capability of the ECC (error correction code). A phase comparator provided in a PLL compares each value of an input signal sequence with a designated threshold value in order to determine an edge. The optical disc apparatus can record and read a plurality of disc media with different recording densities while ensuring read compatibility.