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In a video conference system in which multiple video codecs are simultaneously operating to transmit video, audio and other data between participants in real-time, sharing the system's available resources, this invention provides a way for each codec to adapt to changing network load conditions caused by, for example, participants (and hence codecs) joining / leaving the conference (system). To support video in this type of dynamic environment, the codec is designed for complexity and distortion control and is able to make intelligent tradeoffs between complexity, rate, and distortion. For complexity control, the codec monitors the available computational resources of the system during run-time and adapts its encoding / decoding algorithms to best match the complexity measurements. For distortion control, the codec overcomes the limitations of poor quality video at low bit-rates and allows the user to improve the quality of the video in select regions-of-interest.

A scalable photobioreactor system for efficient production of photosynthetic microorganisms such as microalgae and cyanobacteria is described. In various embodiments, this system may include the use of extended surface area to reduce light intensity and increase photosynthetic efficiency, an external water basin to provide structure and thermal regulation at low cost, flexible plastic or composite panels that are joined together make triangular or other shapes in cross-section when partially submerged in water, use of positive gas buoyancy and pressure to maintain the structural integrity of the photobioreactor chambers and use of structure to optimize distribution of diffuse light. Other embodiments concern air tubes comprised of plastic film at the bottom of each photobioreactor chamber to provide sparging air bubbles to the chamber. The photobioreactor system design also comprises gas exchange, temperature control, air pumping, liquid pumping, filtration, media recycling and harvesting methods. For biofuels production, the photobioreactor system can comprise a separate growth photobioreactor and secondary stress reactor.

A foam composition that includes a vehicle and surface-modified nanoparticles disposed in the vehicle. The individual nanoparticles having a particle diameter of less than about 100 nanometers.

There is disclosed a computer-implemented method of handling a text expressed in a natural language comprising creating a second text or patent claim sentence from a first text or patent claim sentence and timestamping said second text or patent claim sentence. Developments comprise the creation of a plurality of texts or patent claim sentences, the use of trusted and / or trustless timestamping, the use of grammatical texts, the use of a parser and / or of a tagger, modification operations such as addition, insertion and deletion, injection of definitions of words, the use of a thesaurus (synonym, hyponym, hyperonym, holonym, antonym of a word, etc), the use of a unique and optionally persistent web address, making the second text or patent claim available to the public (or not), the use of lexical directions such as a patent classification indication and the use of crowdsourcing techniques.

A Multi-Level Cell (MLC) memory device and method thereof are provided. The example MLC memory device may be configured to perform data operations, and may include an MLC memory cell, a first coding device performing a first coding function, the first coding function being one of an encoding function and a decoding function, a second coding device performing a second coding function, the second coding function being one of an encoding function and a decoding function and a signal module configured to perform at least one of instructing the MLC memory cell to store data output by the second coding device if the first and second coding functions are encoding functions, and generating a demapped bit stream based on data retrieved from the MLC memory cell if the first and second coding functions are decoding functions.

A method for navigation of television program listings within a user interface includes successively displaying a first set of visual cards in a first area of the user interface. Each visual card of the first set of visual cards represents a corresponding broadcast time slot associated with a graphically represented first card characteristic. Selection by a user of a particular visual card of the first set of visual cards is enabled in order to view a television program corresponding to the time slot represented by the selected visual card. In an embodiment, a transition from display of a first visual card of the first set of visual cards to display of a second visual card of the first set of visual cards occurs automatically at the conclusion of a first time period.

Provided are siRNA molecules of between about 15 base-pairs and about 40 base-pairs comprising one or more universal-binding nucleotide such as inosine, 1-β-D-ribofuranosyl-5-nitroindole, and 1-β-D-ribofuranosyl-3-nitropyrrole, compositions comprising one or more universal-binding nucleotide comprising siRNA, and methods for making and for using such universal-binding nucleotide comprising siRNA molecules to increase the specific binding of the modified siRNA molecule to variants of a target sequence such as, for example, when in contact with a biological sample and to reduce off-target effects of the siRNA molecule.

Apparatus for transferring data, including a first gateway, adapted to operate as a first switch in a first storage area network (SAN) operating according to a Fiber Channel protocol, and which is coupled to receive a data-frame addressed to a virtual address of a receiving client operative in a second SAN. The apparatus also includes a second gateway, adapted to operate as a second switch in the second SAN, which operates according to the Fiber Channel protocol substantially independently of the first SAN. The second gateway is coupled to receive the data-frame from the first gateway, and is adapted to look up a local address of the receiving client in the second SAN by using at least part of the virtual address as an index to an incoming-data-frame translation table, and to transmit the data-frame addressed to a local address of the receiving client.

A gas injector may comprise: a gas introduction tube configured to introduce reaction gas into a reaction tube from a gas supply source; and / or a gas distributor connected to the gas introduction tube, extending from the gas introduction tube in a direction within the reaction tube, including a plurality of ejection holes in an inner surface of the gas distributor, and having an arc shape extending in a circumferential direction of the reaction tube. The ejection holes may be spaced apart from each other in the extending direction of the gas distributor, and are configured to spray the reaction gas.

Platforms comprising at least one lymphocyte affecting molecule and at least one molecular complex that, when bound to an antigen, engages a unique clonotypic lymphocyte receptor can be used to induce and expand therapeutically useful numbers of specific lymphocyte populations. Antigen presenting platforms comprising a T cell affecting molecule and an antigen presenting complex can induce and expand antigen-specific T cells in the presence of relevant peptides, providing reproducible and economical methods for generating therapeutic numbers of such cells. Antibody inducing platforms comprising a B cell affecting molecule and a molecular complex that engages MHC-antigen complexes on a B cell surface can be used to induce and expand B cells that produce antibodies with particular specificities.

A secure payment system provisions a payment transaction proxy with virtual EMV-type chipcards on secure backend servers. Users authorize the proxy in each transaction to make payments in the Cloud for them. The proxy carries out the job without exposing the cryptographic keys to risk. User, message, and / or device authentication in multifactor configurations are erected in realtime to validate each user's intent to permit the proxy to sign for a particular transaction on the user's behalf. Users are led through a series of steps by the proxy to validate their authenticity and intent, sometimes incrementally involving additional user devices and communications channels that were pre-registered. Authentication risk can be scored by the proxy, and high risk transactions that are identified are tasked by further incrementally linking in more user devices, communications channels, and user challenges to increase the number of security factors required to authenticate.

An imaging system includes an x-ray source coupled to a gantry. The x-ray source generates an x-ray flux, wherein a portion of the x-ray flux becomes scatter radiation. A scatter detector is also coupled to the gantry to receive the scatter radiation. The scatter detector generates a scatter signal in response to the scatter radiation, and a host computer receives the scatter signal.

A method for allocating time-frequency resources in a communication system is disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention. The method includes: configuring at least one time-frequency pattern for allocating time-frequency resources in a communication system; extracting segment time-frequency patterns from the time-frequency pattern by a cyclic slide window with one or more kinds of widths; forming multiple different segment time-frequency pattern sets according to the obtained segment time-frequency patterns, wherein the segment time-frequency patterns in the same set are orthogonal to each other; randomly selecting, in each Transmission Time Interval (TTI), at least one segment time-frequency pattern set; and allocating the segment time-frequency patterns in the selected segment time-frequency pattern set to at least one user and / or traffic channel in the TTI. The method acquires no resource planning, ensures little intra-cell interference while randomizing inter-cell interference.

Fibrous structures that exhibit a Free Fiber End Count greater than the Free Fiber End Count of known fibrous structures in the range of free fiber end lengths of from about 0.10 mm to about 0.75 mm as determined by the Free Fiber End Test Method, and sanitary tissue products comprising same and methods for making same are provided.

Several aspects of the invention respectively record one or more multispectral (MS) images using at least one sensor array, each array getting one respective image and simultaneously polarization state at the array points; and get and displays a MS, multipolarization (MP) movie, at MS / MP frame rates that suit a scene or the acquisition; and get an MS image, and a polarization-state image, so that the two are inherently in register; and provide a digital camera for plural-waveband imaging, including polarization data, using a chip with an optically sensitive layer continuously spanning a field of view—for each of at least two substantially distinct bands, and with stacked layers, some radiation penetrating plural layers to a corresponding sensitive layer, and with a polarization mosaic over the stack to define a superpixel array that differentiates polarization states, and with an electronic shutter actuating the layers. Another aspect makes a time sequence of registered MS / MP images; and yet another gets data for one or more MS images, including polarization state at most image points, via a single, common aperture.

A system and method for rapidly switching stimulation parameters of a Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) system increases the number of stimulation parameter sets that may be tested during a fitting procedure, or alternatively, reduces the time required for the fitting procedure. The switching method comprises selecting a new stimulation parameter set, and setting the initial stimulation levels to levels at or just below an estimated perception threshold of the patient. The estimated perception level is based on previous stimulation results. The stimulation level is then increased to determine a minimum stimulation level for effective stimulation, and / or an optimal stimulation level, and / or a maximum stimulation level, based on patient perception.

When performing automatic control of a steering device that assists a host vehicle to be pulled into or out of a parking space, an electronic control unit performs the following procedure. When there is, as a path for pulling the vehicle into or out of the parking space, a path in which a predicted temperature of the steering device for when the automatic control is performed to move the vehicle along the path would be lower than an allowable upper limit value, the electronic control unit starts the automatic control to move the vehicle along the path. In contrast, when there is no path in which the predicted temperature is lower than the allowable upper limit value, the electronic control unit prohibits the automatic control.

Compounds of the general formula (III), prodrugs thereof, pharmaceutically acceptable salts of both, or solvates of them and exhibiting thrombopoietin receptor agonism: wherein R<9 >is hydrogen atom, optionally substituted lower alkyl, or the like; R<10>, R<11 >and R<12 >are each independently optionally substituted alkyl, halogen atom, or the like; R<14 >is each independently lower alkyl, halogen atom, or the like; n is an integer of 0 to 2; A<3 >is a group represented by the formula: wherein R<13 >is hydrogen atom or lower alkyl; T is oxygen atom or sulfur atom.

A method encodes a video by applying a dual-tree discrete wavelet transform to the video to generate sequences of wavelet coefficients. The sequences are compressed to produce a compressed bitstream corresponding to the video. The compression iteratively selects the wavelet coefficients in a large to small order, and entropy encodes the selected wavelet coefficient.

Flash memory cells are presented which comprise a dielectric material formed above a substrate channel region, a charge trapping material formed over the dielectric material, and a control gate formed over the charge trapping material. The cell may be programmed by directing electrons from the control gate into the charge trapping material to raise the cell threshold voltage. The electrons may be directed from the control gate to the charge trapping material by coupling a substrate to a substrate voltage potential, and coupling the control gate to a gate voltage potential, where the gate voltage potential is lower than the substrate voltage potential. The cell may be erased by directing electrons from the charge trapping material into the control gate to lower a threshold voltage of the flash memory cell, such as by coupling the substrate to a substrate voltage potential, and coupling the control gate to a gate voltage potential, where the gate voltage potential is higher than the substrate voltage potential.

An electrode plate winding device and rolling method for cylinder type battery that is to increase a battery capacity by rolling the electrode plate in a cylinder-like shape. The electrode plate winding device has a mandrel which winds electrode plates coated with the active material layers having different polarity and separators, interposed between the plates. The mandrel is of a generally round cross-section but divided into two parts by a groove. The mandrel having at least one electrode tap region formed in one of the divided parts.

There is provided a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communication system including a transmitter for combining at least four transmit antennas according to each of at least two sub-channels, and transmitting space-time-coded signals and at least one receiver for receiving the signals through at least two antennas, wherein the receiver includes an antenna coordination information generator for generating and feeding back optimal transmit antenna coordination information according to said each sub-channel by means of the received signals, and the transmitter includes an antenna coordination controller for controlling coordinations of the transmit antennas according to each sub-channel based on the transmit antenna coordination information fed back from the receiver.

A liquid jet apparatus includes a plurality of nozzles provided to a liquid jet head, an actuator provided corresponding to each of the nozzles, and drive unit that applies a drive signal to the actuator, wherein the drive unit includes drive waveform signal generation unit that generates a drive waveform signal providing a basis of a signal for controlling the operation of the actuator, modulator unit that pulse-modulates the drive waveform signal generated by the drive waveform signal generation unit, a digital power amplifier for power-amplifying the modulated signal, which is pulse-modulated by the modulator unit, a low-pass filter for smoothing the power-amplified and modulated signal power-amplified by the digital power amplifier and supplying the actuator with the power-amplified and modulated signal as the drive signal, and carrier frequency adjusting unit that adjusts a carrier frequency of the pulse modulation by the modulator unit in accordance with the number of the actuators to be driven.

Described are methods and systems for processing data. A motion estimator uses a block of an input frame of video data and a block of a reference frame of video data to generate motion vectors according to a first encoding scheme. A motion compensator produces half pel motion vectors from the motion vectors according to a second encoding scheme that is different from the first encoding scheme.

An overall fitness trainer and can be a wall mounted unit that can utilize clip resistance bands as well as other techniques. These bands generally clip on the unit and onto different handles, bars and attachments to perform exercises. The unit can have a removable / adjustable pull up bar, dip bar and seat. It also includes a spring loaded, pull pin carriage that moves freely up and down a vertical spine. This allows for easy adjustment of the carriage and allows the user to attach the bands at multiple angles, widths and levels. This in turn increases the number of exercises the user can perform on the unit. The unit can be attached to the wall with lag bolts into two or more studs.

The object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a toner which includes ejecting a toner composition fluid containing a toner composition which contains a toner and a colorant, from a nozzle vibrated at a constant frequency to make the toner composition fluid into droplets, and solidifying the droplets to be made into particles, in which the toner composition fluid comprises a toner composition, and the toner composition contains a resin, and a colorant.

A method of producing a fiber, comprising the steps of introducing catalytic particles originally formed in a particle-forming chamber into an arraying chamber together with a carrier gas, to cause the catalytic particles to become arranged on a substrate disposed in the arraying chamber. A next step includes growing fibers, each including carbon as a major component, based on the catalytic particles arranged on the substrate. The fibers grow by heating the catalytic particles arranged on the substrate in an atmosphere containing carbon.

A method and directory system that recognizes and represents the subset of sharing patterns present in an application is provided. As used herein, the term sharing pattern refers to a group of processors accessing a single memory location in an application. The sharing pattern is decoupled from each cache line and held in a separate directory table. The sharing pattern of a cache block is the bit vector representing the processors that share the block. Multiple cache lines that have the same sharing pattern point to a common entry in the directory table. In addition, when the table capacity is exceeded, patterns that are similar to each other are dynamically collated into a single entry.

A process for producing an SOI substrate includes the steps of forming an oxide film on at least the front surface of a first silicon substrate, implanting hydrogen ion from the surface of the first silicon substrate and thereby forming an ion implantation area in the inside of the first silicon substrate, laminating a second silicon substrate onto the first silicon substrate via the oxide film and thereby forming a laminated body of the first silicon substrate and the second silicon substrate bonded with each other, and heating the laminated body at a predetermined temperature and thereby separating the first silicon substrate at the ion implantation area and thereby obtaining an SOI substrate wherein a thin film SOI layer is formed on the second silicon substrate via the oxide film. The first silicon substrate is formed by slicing an ingot free of an agglomerate of vacancy type point defects and an agglomerate of interstitial silicon type point defects grown by a CZ method in an inorganic atmosphere including hydrogen. The layer transferred wafer separated from the SOI layer is used again as the first silicon substrate.