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An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a reflective element assembly portion and at least one cap portion adapted to attach to the reflective element assembly portion. The reflective element assembly portion includes a reflective element. The reflective element assembly portion comprises a first molding that encompasses at least a perimeter portion of the reflective element. The first molding is formed by molding a first resinous material having a tool shrinkage factor equal to or greater than about 1 percent. The cap portion comprises at least one second molding formed by molding a second resinous material having a tool shrinkage factor of less than or equal to about 1 percent. The cap portion preferably includes internal structure for supporting at least one accessory.

Conventional file-based engineering design data for an engineering model are represented by a plurality of components. Each component has a unique identifier, a set of fields, each field having a data type and a data value, and a program which interprets and modifies the fields. The plurality of components are stored in a repository of a server. The repository also stores a history of any changes made to the components. A plurality of client computers are bidirectionally connected to the server. Each client computer may obtain the current version of the components and may send locally edited versions of the components back to the server to replace the current versions in the repository. At the client computer, the user interacts with the components using conventional file-based software. Before locally edited versions of the components are committed to the server to replace the current versions, a synchronization and merging process occurs whereby the latest version of the components are downloaded to the client computer and are compared to the locally edited version of the components to detect resolvable (compatible) and unresolvable (incompatible) conflicts therebetween. The commit process is performed only if no unresolvable conflicts exist between the two versions of the components. To facilitate translation between file-based data and components, a schema is written to "wrap" each of the engineering file formats. Each schema is a set of classes that capture all of the information in the file-based data.

The method and preprocessor enhances the intelligibility of narrowband speech without essentially lengthening the overall time duration of the signal. Both spectral enhancements and variable-rate time-scaling procedures are implemented to improve the salience of initial consonants, particularly the perceptually important formant transitions. Emphasis is transferred from the dominating vowel to the preceding consonant through adaptation of the phoneme timing structure. In a further embodiment, the technique is applied as a preprocessor to a speech coder.

The present invention provides a News / Media Analytics System (NMAS) adapted to automatically process and “read” news stories and content from blogs, twitter, and other social media sources, represented by news / media corpus, in as close to real-time as possible. Quantitative analysis, techniques or mathematics, such as green scoring / composite module and sentiment processing module are processed to arrive at green scores, green certification, and / or model the value of financial securities, including generating a composite environmental or green index. The NMAS automatically processes news stories, filings, new / social media and other content and applies one or more models against the content to determine green scoring and / or anticipate behavior of stock price and other investment vehicles. The NMAS leverages traditional and, especially, social media resources to provide a sentiment-based solution that expands the scope of conventional tools for creating a socially aware composite index.

A spectral-domain optical coherence tomography system using a cross-dispersed spectrometer is disclosed. The interfered optical signal is dispersed by a grating into several orders of diffraction, and these orders of diffraction are separated by an additional dispersive optical element. The spectral interferogram is recorded by a set of linear detector arrays, or by a two-dimensional detector array.

A novel financial product and associated data processing system provide risk abatement to purchasers and / or owners of real estate and / or other assets that are financed and are subject to market valuation changes. The product includes application of a time dependent property index value for adjusting a future payment associated with said property, such as mortgage debt repayment, in response to declining property values. The system permits enhanced and expanded lending in targeted neighborhoods on a selected basis.

An AC-to-DC power converter configured to provide power factor correction and a single isolated low-voltage output. The power converter includes a single-stage resonant power converter including an isolation transformer, a resonant tank, a rectifier, and a bulk storage capacitor coupled to an output of the isolation transformer. In typical applications, at least one non-isolated power converter is coupled to the output of the single-stage isolated power factor correction converter.

The present invention provides a News / Media Analytics System (NMAS) adapted to automatically process and “read” news stories and content from blogs, twitter, and other social media sources, represented by news / media corpus, in as close to real-time as possible. Quantitative analysis, techniques or mathematics, such as green scoring / composite module and sentiment processing module are processed to arrive at green scores, green certification, and / or model the value of financial securities, including generating a green score, green compliance certification, and a composite environmental or green index. The NMAS automatically processes news stories, filings, new / social media and other content and applies one or more models against the content to determine green scoring and / or anticipate behavior of stock price and other investment vehicles. The NMAS leverages traditional and, especially, social media resources to provide a sentiment-based solution for scoring the “greenness” of companies.

A three-dimensional shape modeling of a real object that reduces the limitations on the target shape and color. The rough shape of the target object is determined by a silhouette method (which has limitation on the target shape) and, at the same time, the detailed shape of the target object is determined by a triangulation method or the like (which has limitation on the target color). By using both sets of information, the consistency between the rough and detailed shape information are checked. For the portions where the consistency is not satisfied (points where detailed shape information is absent or points where detailed shape section is present outside the rough shape), rough shape is assumed to be the final object information and for other portions, the detailed shape is taken as the final object information. In this manner, three-dimensional shape modeling with reduced limitations on the target shape and color can be performed.

An apparatus is disclosed for supplying input signals to a computer. A sensor having the form of a sphere has a touch sensitive surface for generating position data for touch events. The sensor includes orientation sensors that determine rotation with respect to the earth's magnetic and gravitational fields. Orientation data may be combined with position data to interpret the orientation of touch events on the surface with respect to the computer's display. Cursor movement or text may be generated from touch events. Preferably the sphere has a roughened surface that generates sound when touched. Position data is generated by processing signals from microphones under the sphere's surface.

An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a reflective element assembly portion and at least one cap portion adapted to attach to the reflective element assembly portion. The reflective element assembly portion includes a reflective element. The reflective element assembly portion comprises a first molding that encompasses at least a perimeter portion of the reflective element. The first molding is formed by molding a first resinous material having a tool shrinkage factor equal to or greater than about 1 percent. The cap portion comprises at least one second molding formed by molding a second resinous material having a tool shrinkage factor of less than or equal to about 1 percent. The cap portion preferably includes internal structure for supporting at least one accessory.

A method for creating and marketing a commercial or residential real estate derivative instrument in the form of a structured note, future contract, or call or put option that provides a cash-settled payout to the buyer at a predetermined expiration date defined by the derivative instrument based upon the occurrence of a required change in value of a benchmark real estate index between a first, e.g., purchase date and the expiration date. The real estate derivatives instruments of the present invention may be used by property owners, developers, and financial institutions to hedge against a possible devaluation of their real estate assets. Institutional investors may use the derivative instruments to speculate in the value of commercial or residential real estate in order to broaden their investment portfolios.

A novel financial product and associated data processing system provide risk abatement to purchasers of real estate and / or other assets that are financed and are subject to market valuation changes. The product includes application of a time dependent property index value for adjusting mortgage debt repayment in response to declining property values. The system permits enhanced and expanded lending in targeted neighborhoods on a selected basis.

The present invention relates to the improvement of the Bit Torrent protocol, which is one of the P2P protocols. A seeder flag is added to the active peer table. First a super seeder having the original is activated, and the super seeder is stopped when the total value of the seeder flags (number of activated seeders) reaches a certain level. The super seeders are activated only when the seeders having the original of a file are insufficient on the network, and are stopped when excessive. By this dynamic control, the number of activated processes of the super seeders can be decreased.

A computational method for identifying adhesin and adhesin-like proteins, said method comprising steps of computing the sequence-based attributes of a neural network software wherein the attributes are (i) amino acid frequencies, (ii) multiplet frequency, (iii) dipeptide frequencies, (iv),charge composition, and (v) hydrophobic composition, training the artificial neural Network (ANN) for each of the computed five attributes, and identifying the adhesin and adhesin-like proteins having probability of being an adhesin (Pad) as ≧0.51; a computer system for performing the method; and genes and proteins encoding adhesin and adhesin-like proteins.

An online business payment method that provides credit and cash flow management for at least one seller of products or services, at least one buyer of the products or services, and a financial institution via a business payment system accessible via a network connection. The method includes first establishing a credit line for the buyer by the financial institution. Next, placing a purchase order for a product or service by the buyer to the seller and entering a purchase order number into the business payment system. Next, accepting the purchase order by the seller and providing the product or service to the buyer. Next, sending an invoice by the seller to the buyer and entering the invoice into the business payment system against the purchase order number. Next, approving the invoice by the buyer, entering the approval into the business payment system and notifying the financial institution of the approved invoice by the business payment system. Finally, approving payment of the approved invoice by the financial institution and paying the invoice by transferring money from the buyer's credit line to an account of the seller. The seller sets a payment term for the invoice and pays a seller's fee to the financial institution upon receipt of the invoice payment. The seller's fee depends upon the invoice payment term. The buyer pays interest to the financial institution when the invoice payment term is not met. Access to the online business payment system is secure and selective access permissions are defined for each member.

The invention relates to a breaker of a direct current system, in particular to a semi-controlled active injection current high voltage direct current breaker and a realization method thereof. The breaker comprises a high speed switch-thyristor module branch, as well as a lightning arrester branch and a bridge circuit which are connected in parallel with the branch, wherein a capacitor-reactor series branch and a resistor-thyristor series branch are connected in parallel and then connected with middle points of two bridge arms of the bridge circuit; and the two ends of a capacitor are connected in parallel with a charging loop. The breaker is based on a direct current breaking principle by the traditional active injection current manner; semi-controlled power electronic devices are added; a high speed mechanical switch is adopted; the advantage of low loss during normal breakover is kept; and bidirectional current can be broken quickly without an arc. The breaker is simple in circuit topological structure, simple and convenient to control, mature in technology, easy to realize, great in current breaking capability, high in withstand voltage level and strong in expansion capability, and the cost is lowered greatly since the number of the adopted power electronic devices is small.

Improved processing methods for enhanced properties of conjugated polymer films are disclosed, as well as the enhanced conjugated polymer films produced thereby. Addition of low molecular weight alkyl-containing molecules to solutions used to form conjugated polymer films leads to improved photoconductivity and improvements in other electronic properties. The enhanced conjugated polymer films can be used in a variety of electronic devices, such as solar cells and photodiodes.

A vehicle system for operation in a motor vehicle has an operator control for operating the vehicle system and a controller for influencing operation of the vehicle system via the operator control. The vehicle system also includes a device which is designed for determining whether the operator control is being accessed by the driver or another occupant of the vehicle, and the controller influences the operation of the vehicle system via the operator control at least as a function of whether the operator control is being accessed by the driver or another occupant of the vehicle. In this manner, operator access which may excessively distract the vehicle driver from the actual driving task is thus effectively disabled. At the same time, the vehicle system remains fully, or at least largely, operational for other vehicle occupants.

A phase-change material is proposed for coupling interconnect lines an electrically programmable matrix array. Leakage may be reduced by optionally placing a thin insulating breakdown layer between the phase change material and at least one of the lines. The matrix array may be used in a programmable logic device. The logic portions of the programmable logic device may be tri-stated.

The invention relates to high strength easily forming atmospheric corrosion resistant steel. The invention provides the high strength easily forming atmospheric corrosion resistant steel aiming at the problems in existing steel that the weatherability is bad and the service life is lowered under the condition that the thickness is thinned. The high strength easily forming atmospheric corrosion resistant steel is composed of components of following weight percent: C: 0.04-0.09%, Si: 0.10-0.50%, Mn: 1.20-1.70%, P: <=0.020%, S: < =0.010%, Cu: 0.20-0.60%, Cr: 0.40-0.80%, Ni: 0.20-0.50% and Nb: 0.03-0.07%, and also comprises one or a plurality of Mo: <=0.20%, Ti: <=0.03% and Als: <=0.035%, and allowance is Fe and unavoidable impurity. The yield strength of the steel of the invention is more than or equal to 550MPa, the tensile strength is more than or equal to 650MPa, the percentage elongation is more than or equal to 18%, the corrosion resistance is equivalent to SPA-H steel which is used for previous containers, and the steel has excellent welding performance, cold roll forming performance and low temperature impact toughness, which is beneficial for extending and applying.

The invention provides a virtual-impedance-based inverter parallel running method, which is characterized by comprising the following steps of: for each inverter, introducing a virtual generator which is connected to a point with the inverter by virtual impedance; performing droop control on the virtual generators, regulating the frequency and voltage amplitude of each virtual generator by utilizing the active power and reactive power of the corresponding inverters respectively, and further calculating voltage directive values of the virtual generators; and based on the voltage directive values, further calculating output voltage directive values of the inverters, and controlling the inverters to output voltages to track the directive values, thereby realizing control over the voltages of the virtual generators and finally realizing the decoupling regulation of the active power and the reactive power. In the method, a control policy for the wireless parallel running of the inverters is realized by utilizing the virtual impedance; and compared with the conventional control methods, the invention is not required to remarkably increase hardware investment, and betters the using effects of droop characteristics to make applicable the droop characteristics to resistive environments.

A touch screen peripheral device having a touch-responsive screen. The inventive device provides for both input to and output from an electronics system. A project / input designator display means provides at least one project / input designator on the touch-responsive screen, wherein the display properties of each project / input designator are customizable. A project retention means provides for the linking and saving of at least one specified resource that activates upon user selection of an associated project / input designator. The project retention means further provides for the linking of at least two specified resources with an associated project / input designator, wherein two or more specified resources are initiated by selection of a single project / input designator. Yet still, an offloading means may offload on-screen items from a main display screen to the touch-responsive screen either automatically or in response to user input, an event trigger, an application interaction or a state change.

The present invention relates to an image enhancement apparatus for enhancing an input image of a sequence of input images. To provide the ability to increase the resolution of an input image and / or to temporally reduce artefacts and / or noise in an input image, the apparatus comprises a motion compensation unit, a weighted selection unit, a feature analysis unit, an image model unit configured to generate a modelled image by applying an image model on said input image and / or said weighted selection image, a spatio-temporal detail signal generation unit configured to generate a detail signal from said input image and said weighted selection image, and a combination unit configured to generate said enhanced output image from said input image, said detail signal and said modelled image.

A solar thermoelectric power generation system comprises a solar thermoelectric power generation system body, a concentrated solar device, a metal photothermal conversion device, a water circulating cooling system and a solar heat absorption coating. Sunlight and concentrated sunlight can irradiate on the metal photothermal conversion device which is coated by the solar heat absorption coating, the solar heat absorption coating converts light energy into heat energy, and then the heat energy is transmitted to the metal photothermal conversion device, the metal photothermal conversion device transmits the heat energy to a hot end of a thermoelectric power generation device, a cold end of the thermoelectric power generation device is cooled by the seawater or river water or lake water or pond water or underground water circulating cooling system, and the solar thermoelectric power generation system body which is composed of the hot end of the thermoelectric power generation device and the cold end of the thermoelectric power generation device can convert heat into electrical energy.

The invention relates to an energy-saving drive circuit of a motor, and aims to provide a super capacitor-based energy-saving drive circuit of a motor and a control method. The main circuit of the circuit consists of a super capacitor bank, a super capacitor charge / discharge management circuit, a controllable rectifying circuit, a controllable rectifying control circuit and the like. Impact to a power grid when an elevator runs is reduced by optimized control of the controllable rectifying circuit and the super capacitor charge / discharge circuit and absorption of running power peak of the elevator, the controllable rectifying circuit bears the smooth part of the electric and generating power of the motor and has emergency power supply function after the elevator is cut off electricity, and the super capacitor and a DC bus form through connection in a normal state to achieve high efficiency. The drive circuit has the advantages of compact line and high integral work efficiency, the service life of the super capacitor is prolonged, and the integral technical and economic performance of the energy feedback elevator is improved. The drive circuit is particularly suitable for driving the energy feedback energy-saving elevator, and is also suitable for motor energy-saving drive situations of a crane and the like.

Certain exemplary embodiments described herein relate to gaming machines and / or table games having programmed logic circuitry for interpreting existing content in the gaming environment and re-presenting it to a player via a new, though familiar, user interface, while also allowing further content to be displayed to the player. This advantageously enables the patron experience to be changed through a richer interface to the gaming environment, while also reducing the need to perform major replacement services by re-presenting existing, and integrating new, components and features.