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There is provided fiber optic hardware and hardware components adapted to provide a desired amount of fiber optic connectivity and / or functionality for a desired amount of volume, materials, etc. The fiber optic hardware components include, but are not limited to multiports, local convergence points (LCPs), particularly LCPs for multiple dwelling units or similar applications, network interface devices, equipment frames, and fiber distribution hubs. Certain fiber optic hardware components are adapted to accommodate microstructured optical fiber or other bend performance optical fiber.

A smart pillow unit and processes for providing active noise cancellation and biofeedback.

A computer program product provides an active interactive document resource with an active shell surrounding its data. The shell operates in a runtime environment, a nest, and can operate with a helper process for the coordination and distribution of tasks. The active document in conjunction with its shell provides functionality in basic document management features, interactivity features, search, and other miscellaneous features such as imbedding dynamically generated content. Basic document features include automatic update or synchronization of document content, maintaining a list of similar documents, adding related or updated content, automatic update of the document's index, and automatic update and conversion of the underlying document format. Interactivity features include interacting with other documents within the same nest or other nests, interacting with users, and maintaining security.

Upon synthesizing objects, information bits indicating the types of objects are lost. To solve this problem, this invention provides an image processing apparatus having discrimination means for discriminating a type of object to be rendered, determination means for determining the presence / absence of synthesis of the discriminated object, synthesis means for synthesizing an object and information of the type of object in accordance with the determination result, and processing means for appending information indicating the type of synthesized object to a rendering result obtained by rendering the object to be rendered in units of pixels.

Electrical box mounting bracket for use in mounting electrical connection boxes between structural members in walls, floors or ceilings, such as, for example, between wall studs, ceiling joists or floor joists, separated by predetermined distances, such as 16 inches, 24 inches, or other distances, having mounting screw hole locations and orientations designed to permit mounting of standard 4 inch and 4 11 / 16 inch electrical connection boxes to the bracket at any location between the two ends of the bracket and which provides for closure of the gap or additional unused opening area which typically exists between the box cover and the two sidewall edges of the connection box that span the width of the bracket frame. The sides of the bracket may be of fixed length or have a sliding relationship so that the length of the bracket from end to end may be adjusted. Further an electrical connection box and bracket are provided that allows the electrical connection box to be initially attached to the bracket without the use of screws or other separate fasteners, to facilitate the installation—or “pulling”—of electrical wiring. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope of the claims.

The invention discloses a multi-platform wireless vehicle-mounted monitoring system, which comprises a video acquisition layer, a streaming media server forwarding layer and a monitoring client layer. In the video acquisition layer, an Android mobile phone client calls a mobile phone camera and an embedded type arm development board installed in a vehicle calls an externally-connected USB camera to transmit current images acquired in real time to a public network streaming media server through a wireless network. The streaming media server forwarding layer records and stores video information acquired from the front end while forwarding the video information to a monitoring terminal PC and an android client, realizes the display of multi-platform multi-path joint video monitoring, improves the safety of vehicle transport, and can meet the personalized demands of different users on different occasions. The multi-platform wireless vehicle-mounted monitoring system realizes functions such as user management, remote real-time video monitoring, video record playback and downloading, multi-channel deployment and configuration management, guarantees the safety of the vehicle and reduces the possibility of occurrence of illegal activities, and meets the requirements for real-time video monitoring on the vehicle and its surrounding of the intelligent transportation industry.

The invention is refer with an electromechanical stretching apparatus of a convertible sofa, which consisting of a mechanical stretching apparatus and an electric actuator, the mechanical stretching apparatus being provided with an electrically-driven connecting rod, wherein, the electric actuator consists of a motor, a motor connecting tube, a motor movable slider, and a motor head fixing part, the motor adopted is a motor with a guide rail, the motor movable slider is installed on the guide rail of the motor, the motor head is rotationally connected through a second rotor shaft to the motor head fixing part fastened on the electrically-driven connecting rod, the motor connecting tube is connected to the motor movable slider through a first rotor shaft and the motor connecting tube is fastened on the mechanical stretching apparatus. The said motor connecting tube is fastened on a linkage part of the mechanical stretching apparatus. The said first rotor shaft and the second rotor shaft are both a bolt. By changing the electronic driving device, the invention increases automaticity and comfort of the convertible sofa, and improves installation, removal, maintenance, and operation efficiency of an electric actuator of the convertible sofa.

The invention discloses a multimedia playing method and device with the function of voice controlling and humming searching. The multimedia playing method includes the following steps that a user selects a working mode and voice data are collected and pre-processed; under the voice control mode, the voice data and grammar rules are uploaded to a voice recognizing service terminal to undergo voice identification and playing control or resource management is carried out according to an identification result. Under the humming research mode, a fundamental voice sequence is extracted from the voice data and converted into a note sequence. A matching research service terminal is used for finding out identity information of matched multimedia resources and the corresponding multimedia resources are downloaded to the local. The multimedia playing device comprises a human-computer interaction module, a voice input module, a voice data processing module, a central processor, a media storage module, a playing and decoding module, an audio output module, a network interface module, the matching research service terminal and the like. The multimedia playing method and device with the function of voice controlling and humming searching have the advantages of being capable of releasing hands of a user, bringing good experiences to the user, convenient to use, accurate in humming detection and wide in application range.

A method for preparing a layered perovskite compound thin film having a film thickness and structure controlled at a monomolecular layer and capable of combining various layered perovskite compounds at the level of a monomolecular layer. The method a superlattice structure represented by the general formula A2MX4 where A is an organic ammonium molecule, M is a group 4 element or transition metal and X is halogen layers of organic ammonium molecule "A" and layers of inorganic halide "MX4" are alternately stacked. A monomolecular film of an organic amine hydrohalic acid salt having a long-chain alkyl group is spread out on the surface of a water solution of an inorganic halide MX2 and a methylamine hydrohalic acid salt. By leaving the monomolecular film, a layered perovskite compound monomolecular film is formed on the surface of the water solution. This layered perovskite monomolecular film is transferred and stacked onto a substrate on a one by one basis by using the Langmuir-Blodgett method.

The present invention comprises a universal, modular and multi-functional eye wear system, including a pair of lenses, a pair of temples pivotally connected to the outer part of the lenses, a tail accessory connector connected to the distal end of the temple and an interchangeable multi-functional tail accessory. The universal modular design allows for a multitude of interchangeable options for color, style, prescription, comfort and functionality. The tail accessory connector allows for constrained or unconstrained relative axial rotation between the temple and the tail accessory. The eye wear system gains additional functionality through the integration of a optional bridge connector, or optional wireless communication retention capabilities. This invention has novel and superior functionality, operational flexibility and consumer features over existing products and helps to improve safety of roadways for drivers and pedestrians that use digital communications devices and eye wear.

A multifunctional restrictive valve for controlling the flow of water therethrough. The valve has a main body with a flow channel through the main body. The main body receives water upstream thereof through an inlet port and passes it out through an outlet port at the downstream end of the body. A flow control assembly is located in the flow channel and includes a temperature sensor / actuator acting on a piston to move, when the temperature sensor heats up the piston, to block water flow control ports. The flow control assembly also includes an override feature wherein the piston is located within a slide and the flow control ports are located in the slide. By moving the slide away from the piston when the piston is blocking the flow control ports, the temperature sensor and piston may be overridden and flow may resume through the main body.

A multifunctional restrictive valve for controlling the flow of water therethrough. The valve has a main body with a flow channel through the main body. The main body receives water upstream thereof through an inlet port and passes it out through an outlet port at the downstream end of the body. A flow control assembly is located in the flow channel and includes a temperature sensor / actuator acting on a piston to move, when the temperature sensor heats up the piston, to block water flow control ports. The flow control assembly also includes an override feature wherein the piston is located within a slide and the flow control ports are located in the slide. By moving the slide away from the piston when the piston is blocking the flow control ports, the temperature sensor and piston may be overridden and flow may resume through the main body.

This invention is to be used primarily in the hunting or outdoor viewing arena and utilizes mirrored panels to camouflage the user of said invention from detection by wildlife. These mirrored panels are thin, lightweight, strong, scratch resistant and provide a true image of the surroundings so as to facilitate the perfect camouflage. In any the terrain, this invention allows the user to blend in without detection.The mirrored panels can be manufactured out of strong and lightweight acrylic, but other substances can be effective as well. The bottom of at least two of the panels of the invention are beveled in such a way as to allow the invention to lean slightly forward. This allows the mirrored panels to reflect their immediate surroundings and prevents flaring of the sun off of the mirror itself. The panels are connected together via durable and rigid hinges. These hinges allow the invention to be folded up and transported very easily from one location to the next and also facilitate easy storage. The back portion or side of the panels in painted a drab color or a camouflage color and is what is seen by any viewer when the invention is folded up.

The present invention provides an external preparation that contains processed pueraria flower. When the external preparation of the present invention is applied to skin or mucous membranes, then skin quality improving effects (skin beautifying effects) such as preventing chapped skin or preventing wrinkles, the effect of strengthening mucous membrane elasticity, and the effect of preventing gingivitis and periodontal disease, for example, are obtained. The external preparation of the present invention can develop new use of the pueraria flower.

A smart pillow unit and processes for providing active noise cancellation and biofeedback.

A method for improving the degree of deamidation (%) and the deamidation rate when deamidating a milk protein by an enzyme which exerts a deamidating effect by acting directly on an amide group of a protein without cleaving a peptide bond or crosslinking the protein is provided. A method for denaturing a milk protein enzymatically is also provided.A preliminarily denatured milk protein is deamidated by a protein deamidating enzyme which exerts a deamidating effect by acting directly on an amide group of a protein having a molecular weight of 5,000 or more without cleaving a peptide bond or crosslinking the protein. Such an enzyme can be used also for denaturing a milk protein.

An apparatus (101) for a data communication system comprises a user group processor (207) which generates a user group for a first user. A set of content topics is determined and stored in a topic set storage (211). A communication processor (201) monitors a data communication of the user group and a content topic processor (205) determines the current content topic of the data communication by content data extraction. A notification processor (209) compares the current topic and the set of content topics and generates a notification signal in response to this comparison. The notification processor (209) may for example alert a user to a change of content topics for a trusted community defined by the user group.

There is provided a construct in which at least a part of the magnetic material is coated with a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), and a method for producing a construct by immobilizing a PHA synthesizing enzyme on the surface of the magnetic material, thereby biosynthesizing and coating a PHA.

A screw engagement portion between a pulley and a shaft is provided with a thread in a direction to increase the tightening torque when the pulley is driven. A breakable part broken by the axial tension produced when the tightening torque acting on the screw engagement portion is above a predetermined value, is also provided. The stress to break the breakable part is mainly a tensile stress. The tensile stress is substantially uniformly distributed in a cross section and, hence, the stress distribution of the breakable part can be relatively precisely predicted and analyzed. Consequently, the necessity of determining aspects of the breakable part, such as dimension, material, and the like, by trial and error is reduced. The breakable part can be broken without being subject to fatigue fracture.

Upon synthesizing objects, information bits indicating the types of objects are lost. To solve this problem, this invention provides an image processing apparatus having discrimination means for discriminating a type of object to be rendered, determination means for determining the presence / absence of synthesis of the discriminated object, synthesis means for synthesizing an object and information of the type of object in accordance with the determination result, and processing means for appending information indicating the type of synthesized object to a rendering result obtained by rendering the object to be rendered in units of pixels.

The present invention relates to a system and method for proxy purchasing through multiple payments, in which a user informs multiple participants of an intention to purchase designated predetermined goods through a social network, and the predetermined goods can be provided to the user through proxy payment for the goods by collecting partial payments from the multiple participants. The proxy purchasing system and method through multiple payments according to the present invention enables a potential buyer to purchase desired goods for free or at a low price through partial payments from a plurality of unspecified persons, thus providing the effect of alleviating the burden on a potential purchaser requesting a gift and a payer providing a partial payment.

In one form of the invention, there is provided a general purpose ASIC comprising: a plurality of functional units each having a plurality of connections; a plurality of pins; and an interface for connecting selected connections of selected functional units to selected pins. In another form of the invention, there is provided a method for configuring a general purpose ASIC comprising: providing a general purpose ASIC comprising: a plurality of functional units each having a plurality of connections; a plurality of pins; and an interface for connecting selected connections of selected functional units to selected pins; and configuring said interface so as to connect selected connections of selected functional units to selected pins.

The invention relates to a method for feeding back mark in TV program. Wherein, it comprises that in the memory unit of central processor, setting the memory area of target program, to store the parameters of its; said central processor receives the user mark operation instruct signal, stores the parameters of present program into relative memory region; when the central processor receives the feedback operation instruct signal, reads out the stored target program parameters from the memory area, to be converted into present played program. The invention marks the needed program of user, to record the program when browses other programs, therefore, user can move back to marked program freely.

The invention relates to a histogram debugging method of a colored image and a debugging system thereof. According to the method, subarea nodes and subarea thresholds of a histogram of a colored image are arranged; according to an obtained node group with the thresholds, weighted translation calculation is carried out on each gray scale to obtain offset gray scales; and then each the gray scale of the colored image is replaced into each the offset gray scale. In addition, the system comprises a subarea node module, a subarea threshold module, a histogram subarea module, a threshold setting module, a gray scale transformation module and an image correction module. According to the invention, the following advantages are provided: novel functions, simple realization, low cost, and obvious debugging effect and the like. Moreover, according to the invention, a histogram is utilized to realize debugging on RGB image gray scale by a user. Therefore, a limitation on a gray scale debugging function of preset software can be broken through and furthermore, the user can set a random interval of a histogram of an image and a random threshold in the interval according to own needs of the user, thereby embodying strong interactivity, flexibility and generality. Therefore, the invention has a wide application prospect.

The invention relates to an l-carrageenan enzyme CgiV with thermal stability and application thereof. A provided l-carrageenan enzyme gene is derived from marine bacteria Vibrio sp.SY01, a strain is preserved in the China's typical culture collection center, and the preservation number of the strain is CCTCC No: M2018769. The amino acid sequence of the l-carrageenan enzyme CgiV is shown as SEQ IDNO.1. The similarity between the amino acid sequence of the l-carrageenan enzyme CgiV and the amino acid sequence of an l-carrageenan enzyme with known functions is only 88%. The l-carrageenan enzymeis obtained through purification of recombinant expression engineering strains and has thermal stability, the activity half-life of the l-carrageenan enzyme at 40 DEG C is 6.5 hours, and the activityhalf-life of the l-carrageenan enzyme at 30 DEG C is 42 hours. The l-carrageenan enzyme has industrial application potential.

The present invention relates to compositions and methods for making and using Omi-related and IAP-cleaving nucleotide sequences, mutant nucleotide sequences, and polypeptide sequences expressed therefrom, including both biologically active and inactive molecules. The present invention relates to cleaving IAP using an Omi polypeptide.

This invention discloses one set method for preference television program into one device, which comprises the following steps: setting one channel edit key to control set process of programs; setting one reference channel list to store it into one memory device to store user channel data; receiving user play operation order and selecting preference relative channel; transferring the relative data into buffer and executing play process.