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The invention relates to a display and a weighted dot rendering method. The display comprises a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group comprising a plurality of dots arranged in a predetermined identical matrix form, each pixel group having at least one first color dot, at least one second color dot and at least one third color dot, the pixel groups arranged in a matrix manner so as to form the display, wherein each color dot has a plurality of sides adjacent to the other dots with different color, and each color dot represents a luminance and a chrominance of a corresponding full color pixel data by grouping with neighboring dots to form a plurality of overlapping full color dynamics pixel groups. In contrast with conventional RGB stripe arrangement which has high spatial frequency in X axe but 0 spatial frequency in Y axe, the arrangements of the invention have good spatial frequency in both axes, thus giving a higher visual perception of high resolution after performing weighted dot rendering methods of the invention where each dot in the displays represent the luminance and chrominance of each corresponding RGB pixel by forming with neighboring dots overlapping dynamic pixels.

Methods and apparatus for a damper adjustment assembly that comprises an adjuster having a first detent at a first axial location, and a second detent at a second axial location. The assembly may further comprise a housing having a keeper for engaging the first and second detents. The method may comprise rotating the adjuster within the housing, and engaging the keeper with the first detent at the first axial location. The method may further comprise further rotating the damping adjuster within the housing and engaging the keeper with the second detent at the second axial location on the adjuster.

A method for providing control signals to a fan in a computer system is described. During the method, an electronic device receives temperature measurements and a fan-speed measurement performed in the computer system. Using a pattern-recognition model, the electronic device validates the measurements, and excludes any inaccurate measurements, such as those associated with drifting or failed sensors. Next, the electronic device determines control signals for a fan in the computer system using a model of coolant flow in the computer system and / or a slope of a phase-frequency curve of a cross power spectral density function corresponding to a pair of temperature profiles measured, as a function of time, by a pair of thermal sensors. Then, the determined control signals are provided to the fan.

A method generates a 3D synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image of an area by first acquiring multiple data sets from the area using one or more SAR systems, wherein each SAR system has one or more parallel baselines and multiple pulse repetition frequency (PRF), wherein the PRF for each baseline is different. The data sets are registered and aligned to produce aligned data sets. Then, a 3D compressive sensing reconstruction procedure is applied to the aligned data sets to generate the 3D image corresponding to the area.

A method and system is disclosed for validating honesty of a student taking an online test. A camera is used to detect and monitor the test taker's eye movements and eye gaze positions during the taking of the test to ensure the test taker is looking only at the computer display showing the questions and answer choices to the test taker. A microphone is incorporated into, placed on, or in the vicinity of the computer display and the system compares audio received to recorded voice of the test taker to detect another voice. Other voices and eye movement beyond the display screen may be flagged as indicative of dishonest test taking.

A three-dimensional display apparatus is provided with an optical element including optical apertures arranged opposite a display module and in association with the parallax images. The optical apertures cause the parallax images to be displayed in a near-side region closer to an observer, while causing a three-dimensional image to be displayed in a far-side region located opposite the observer with respect to the display module. When a smooth three-dimensional image is to be displayed in the near-side region, the optical gap between the optical element and the display surface is set longer than a reference distance depending on the position of the three-dimensional image. In order to display a smooth three-dimensional image in the far-side region, the observer sets the optical gap shorter than the reference distance depending on the position of the three-dimensional image.

A phase shift mask blank 10 having a very thin film (a chromium nitride film) 2 provided on a quartz substrate 1 for forming a phase shift pattern 1P and a resist film 3 formed thereon is used as a material, a resist pattern 3P is formed on the resist film 3, the very thin film 2 is etched by using the resist pattern as a mask, thereby forming a very thin film pattern 2P, the quartz substrate 1 is etched by using the very thin film pattern 2P as the mask, thereby forming the phase shift pattern 1P, and a light shielding film 4 is formed on the substrate 1 over which the formation of the phase shift pattern 1P and the removal of the resist pattern 3 are completed, and the light shielding film 4 is subjected to selective etching by using a resist 5, thereby exposing the phase shift pattern 1P while leaving a shielding portion 4A in a necessary part. Thus, a phase shift mask 20 is obtained. The thickness of the very thin film 2 is set to be a minimum thickness required for forming a phase shift pattern on the quartz substrate 1 by using the very thin film pattern 2P as the mask.

A bi-layer, floating, trailing shield for use in a perpendicular magnetic recording system and a method for manufacturing such a trailing shield. Manufacturing the trailing shield as a bilayer trailing shield allows certain critical alignments to be maintained during lithography and allows high resolution photolithographic procedures to be used by allowing the use of a thinner resist, especially during construction of the first layer of the bilayer trailing shield structure. A trailing shield according to an embodiment of the invention improves magnetic performance of the write head by canting the magnetic write field from the write pole.

A method, apparatus, and system for improved VA-TIRFM microscopy. The method comprises automatically controlled calibration of one or more laser sources by precise control of presentation of each laser relative a sample for small incremental changes of incident angle over a range of critical TIR angles. The calibration then allows precise scanning of the sample for any of those calibrated angles for higher and more accurate resolution, and better reconstruction of the scans for super resolution reconstruction of the sample. Optionally the system can be controlled for incident angles of the excitation laser at sub-critical angles for pseudo TIRFM. Optionally both above-critical angle and sub critical angle measurements can be accomplished with the same system.

A demodulation method of a resolver output position signal comprises the steps of: inputting an excitation signal, using a push-pull amplifier circuit to increase fan-out; using a voltage regulator to adjust the amplitude of resolver signals to the same level, for improving resolution; modulating with a subtracter; amplifying the signal with an amplifier circuit for providing signal waveform readable by a resolver to digital converter or a controller.

An integrated circuit fabrication process including exposing a photoresist layer and providing a hydrophilic layer above the photoresist layer. The photoresist layer is exposed to a pattern of electromagnetic energy. The polymers in the hydrophilic layer can diffuse into the photoresist layer after provision of the hydrophilic layer. The diffusion can lead to plasticization of the photoresist layer polymers in exposed regions relative to unexposed regions. The process can be utilized to form a large variety of integrated circuit structures including gate structures and other features with wide process latitude and smooth feature side walls.

The invention discloses a method for determining rivaroxaban and impurities thereof through adopting liquid chromatography. The method is characterized in that rivaroxaban and impurities of a preparation thereof are determined by adopting a chromatographic column adopting octadecylsilane chemically bonded silica as a packing, a mixed buffer solution as a mobile phase A and acetonitrile as a mobile phase B through liquid chromatography, and gradient elution with the mobile phases is carried out. The method has the advantages of effective separation and determination of rivaroxaban and known and unknown impurities, strong specificity, high accuracy, simple operation, and effective control of the quality of rivaroxaban and the preparation thereof.

Resolution of structural analysis using image data is improved. A method is provided including the steps of: acquiring data representing measured images and data representing a predetermined number of reference images (S103); generating data representing groups of derived images by changing a relative position of each of the measured images, evaluating similarity between the derived images and the reference images for each group of the derived images, and extracting a plurality of derived images highly similar to any one of the reference images, from each of the groups of the derived images (S105); classifying the extracted derived images into a plurality of groups on the basis of a spatial arrangement of the derived images, averaging the derived images classified into a common group to generate data representing a plurality of averaged images (S107); and determining a structure of a measurement object based on data representing the averaged images (S115).

In a metallic structure including a metallic nano-chain with plasmon resonance absorption, a metallic nanoparticle forming the metallic nano-chain is formed in a circular, triangle, or rhomboid shape. The wavelength selectivity can be increased also by forming a closed region by mutually linking all of metallic nanoparticles that are mutually linked with bottlenecks. In a photodetector, a photodetection unit including a current detection probe, a nano-chain unit, and a current detection probe is arranged on a substrate. The nano-chain unit is a metallic structure with plasmon resonance absorption, where metallic nanoparticles are mutually linked with bottlenecks. Each current detection probe has a corner whose tip is formed with a predetermined angle, and this corner is arranged to face the tip of the nano-chain unit, i.e., a corner of the metallic nanoparticle. Photodetection with high wavelength selectivity is performed based on a change in the initial voltage of the current-voltage characteristic.

Disclosed herein are detectors of audio ringing feedback, that is decaying feedback with a gain of less than one, those detectors utilizing a repeated gain measurement that applied to a range of gain values characteristic of ringing-type feedback. Those gain measurements, while in the range, increase a probability measurement of feedback. When the probability of feedback reaches a threshold, a detection of feedback is made and feedback countermeasures, such as the application of a notch filter, may be applied. Optionally, the audio gain around likely frequencies of feedback may be enhanced for a time to increase the resolution of identification of a feedback frequency, which may be identified through an interpolative method. Repeated gain measurements may also identify building-type feedback. A ringing detector may include more than one range of detection, for example for building, strong-ringing and weak-ringing feedback.

A system for displaying an image with a more improved resolution than the actual physical resolution, thereby obtaining the same effect of a resolution which is physically improved, wherein an image signal corresponding to one frame is separated into a first image signal and a second image signal, and a first image and a second image are formed based on the first image signal and the second image signal. The first image and the second image are respectively displayed at a first location and a second location, whereby a viewer can view the image at an improved resolution.

DA conversion is performed while improving resolution and reducing the influence of errors. A predetermined weight is applied to an output of at least one of a plurality of DA converters to each of which calibration data is given; the resultant outputs are added by an adder. An output of the adder is converted to a digital value by an AD converter. If the predetermined weight has an error outside an allowable range on the basis of the obtained digital value, a calibrating process of obtaining a correction factor for correcting the digital signal to be converted so as to reduce influence of the error is controlled. When a digital signal is to be converted to an analog signal with high precision, the digital signal is corrected with the correction factor, the resultant value is supplied to the DA converters, and DA converted outputs are added by the adder.

A photo mask enhances the resolution of a photolithography process by polarizing the exposure light. The photo mask includes a transparent substrate made of quartz, a reflection pattern disposed on the transparent substrate, and a light-blocking pattern disposed on the reflection pattern. The external reflection pattern defines a light-transmitting area by exposing portions of the transparent substrate. The light-blocking pattern has the same size and shape as the external reflection pattern.

The invention aims to provide a black curable resin composition that is excellent in resolution characteristics and easy for adjustment to a black color, and allows color tone variation after heat treatment to be prevented. The black curable resin composition includes: a photosensitive carboxylic resin (A); a photopolymerization initiator (B); a diluent (C); an epoxy compound (D); and a black colorant (E). The black curable resin composition is characterized in that the black colorant (E) includes a carbon black-based black colorant (E-1) and a perylene-based black colorant (E-2), and contains 53 mass% or more of the perylene-based black colorant (E-2).

Disclosed is a pixel arrangement with a shared blue light emitting layer (7), comprising m rows and n columns of first pixel units, the first pixel units are blue light sub-pixels (B), m is a non-zero natural number, n is a natural number larger than or equal to 2, wherein, two columns of second pixel units are arranged between neighboring first pixel units, each of the second pixel units comprises a red light sub-pixel (R), a green light sub-pixel (G) and a yellow light sub-pixel (Y) that are arranged in a juxtaposed manner. By properly modifying the pixel arrangement of the device configuration, light emitting in four colors can be achieved by using only two or less sets of low precision masks in the preparation process, so that the resolution is increased with reduced cost, and as compared to conventional pixel arrangement, the PPI can be doubled, reaching 600 PPI.

A sensor incorporates a dual range ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) for accurately sensing and measuring sensor input over extensive range along with an improved resolution. The sensor can incorporate an ASIC utilizing signals from a MEMS-based piezoresistive Wheatstone bridge. Signals can also come from capacitive pressure measurement sources. The signals can be converted to digital bit counts where calibration coefficients can be implemented to achieve high precision. The calibration coefficients corresponding to bit counts can be compared with transition points that are recorded into ASIC for effectively distinguishing different sensor ranges. The transition points can be stored in an EEPROM fabricated to suit ASIC applications.

A xerographic print engine employs a photoreceptor with an image receiving surface, a printhead for directing light to the photoreceptor to produce thereon a latent image, and a developer for converting the latent image to a printable image to be transferred from the photoreceptor to a print medium during a relative motion between the photoreceptor and the print medium. The printhead has light emitting diodes disposed in plural rows arranged alongside each other on a substrate which also supports driver circuitry connecting with imaging electronics for activating individual ones of the diodes. An optical element focuses light of the diodes onto a row of the latent image, the focussing being accomplished concurrently for individual ones of the diodes located in a plurality of the rows.

Provided is a tomography apparatus including: a data acquisitor configured to obtain a first image by using tomography data acquired as a first X-ray generator for generating X-rays having a first energy rotates around an object over a first angular range and obtain a second image by using tomography data acquired as a second X-ray generator for generating X-rays having a second energy rotates around the object over a second angular range; a controller configured to acquire motion information representing an amount of motion of the object over time by using the first and second images; and an image reconstructor configured to reconstruct a target image showing the object at a target time point by using the motion information.

Herein is reported a method for producing a polypeptide in monomeric form comprising the following step: recovering the polypeptide in monomeric form from an ion exchange chromatography material by applying a solution comprising a non-ionic polymer and an additive.

Embodiments described herein provide a system for facilitating dynamic assistance to a user in an augmented reality (AR) environment of an AR device. During operation, the system detects a first element of an object using an object detector, wherein the object is associated with a task and the first element is associated with a step of the task. The system then determines an orientation and an alignment of the first element in the physical world of the user, and an overlay for the first element. The overlay can distinctly highlight one or more regions of the first element and indicate how the first element fits in the object. The system then applies the overlay to the one or more regions of the first element at the determined orientation in the AR environment.

The invention relates to a holographic reconstruction system for the reconstruction of scenes having at least one video hologram modulated wave front, and an enlarged visibility region. The system utilizes two-dimensional coded light modulator cells of spatial light modulation means and optical focusing means, which realize a Fourier transformation of the modulated wave front in their focal plane. First optical deflection means deflect the parallel disposed partial light waves such that their Fourier transformations appear as cascading in the focal plane. A spatial frequency filter located on the focal plane, lets each of the same diffraction orders of all modulated partial light waves pass, and second optical deflection means arrange the wave front strips next to each other at the modulated wave front, which reconstructs the scene.

A method for calibrating a driving amount of an actuator configured to correct blurring of an image taken by a camera attached to a device includes: taking an image of a mark by a camera to generate a first image, the mark reflecting a predetermined posture of the device; detecting a tilt of the mark in the first image; and based on the tilt of the mark, correcting the driving amount of the actuator that is predetermined according to a sensing result of a sensor for sensing a change in a posture of the device.