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A system is disclosed for delivering and displaying images on web pages and enabling and implementing various interactive functions with respect to the images, so as to give a user the illusion that objects or scenes depicted in the images are rotating, being zoomed in on, changing color, being measured, or having certain areas of the objects or scenes highlighted with enlargement and/or text, among other things. Various methods of enabling and implementing the interactive functions are described, including enabling the interactive functions using scripts or styles or some combination of the two to influence the manner in which an image is presented to a user on a user's display. Styles can also be used to allow a user to carry out one or more interactive functions, such as a rotation and a zoom interactive function, essentially simultaneously from the user's perspective, for example, so that a user can perceive an object rotating from right to left and enlarging at the same time.

The invention provides a session-based bi-directional multi-tier client-server asynchronous information database search and retrieval system for sending a character-by-character string of data to an intelligent server that can be configured to immediately analyze the lengthening string character-by-character and return to the client increasingly appropriate database information as the client sends the string.

A method of optimizing decoding of MPEG4 compliant coded signals is provided, comprising: disabling processing for non-main profile sections; performing reference frame padding; performing adaptive motion compensation. The method of decoding further including performing fast IDCT wherein an IDCT process is performed on profile signals but no IDCT is performed based on whether a 4×4 block may be all zero, or only DC transform coefficient is non-zero, and including CAVLC encoding of residual data. Reference frame padding comprises compensating for motion vectors extending beyond a reference frame by adding to at least the length and width of the reference frame. Adaptive motion compensation includes original block size compensation processing for chroma up to block sizes of 16×16.

A system and method of providing identity theft security is provided. The system and method utilizes a computer program that identifies, locates, secures, and/or removes from computers, computer systems and/or computer networks personally identifying and/or other sensitive information in different data formats. The computer program utilizes a multi-tiered escalation model of searching/identifying sensitive information. The computer program of the instant invention utilizes a self-learning process for fine-tuning a level of scrutiny for identifying potentially sensitive information.

A system and method of providing identity theft security is provided. The system and method utilizes a computer program that identifies, locates, secures, and/or removes from computers, computer systems and/or computer networks personally identifying and/or other sensitive information in different data formats. The computer program utilizes a multi-tiered escalation model of searching/identifying sensitive information. The computer program of the instant invention utilizes a self-learning process for fine-tuning a level of scrutiny for identifying potentially sensitive information.

A system, including apparatuses, software and methods, is disclosed for capturing and delivering images as to which various interactive functions are enabled for a user. The images introduced to the system can come from any one of a variety of sources, including the scalable image-capturing devices described in the specification. Each image is delivered to a user in its own layer of software, which permits complex sets of images of relatively high resolution to be delivered to users without any appreciable delay associated with the delivery or the need for the user to have additional software, such as a plug-in to receive images and enable interactive functions with respect to the images. A viewer perceives only one image layer at a given time, but the currently viewable image layer can be changed rapidly, so that the user can perceive the illusion of motion, including virtual rotation of an object depicted in a set of images. Interactive images can be rendered on a lenticular sheet assembly according to the invention, which allows a user to perceive the illusion of motion by applying pressure to the lenticular sheet assembly, such as with a finger.

A system is disclosed for delivering and displaying images on web pages and enabling and implementing various interactive functions with respect to the images, so as to give a user the illusion that objects or scenes depicted in the images are rotating, being zoomed in on, changing color, being measured, or having certain areas of the objects or scenes highlighted with enlargement and/or text, among other things. Various methods of enabling and implementing the interactive functions are described, including enabling the interactive functions by displaying and hiding image layers by manipulating the width and height parameters of image layers or adjusting width and height styles associated with image layers and enabling the interactive functions by associating image layers either directly or indirectly via a grid with strips defined by styles. The system includes a graphical user interface (GUI) that a user can use to configure his or her own images for interactive functions, including an interface that invites a user to supply parameters corresponding to those necessary to enable and allow to be carried out the interactive functions and/or parameters corresponding to data about the images, for example, specifications for an object depicted in a set of images.

The invention discloses an image dehazing method and system based on a dark channel and a non-local prior, which belongs to the technical field of image information processing. The image dehazing method can reasonably recover a degraded image collected in the haze weather. The method comprises the following steps of (1) calculating a dark channel image of a hazed image; (2) estimating the atmospheric light intensity of the hazed image according to the dark channel image; (3) estimating the transmissivity of the image based on the non-local prior; (4) correcting a transmittance image; and (5) using an atmospheric scattering model to restore a dehazed image. The invention also discloses an image dehazing system based on the dark channel and the non-local prior. The invention can restore scene information in the image realistically and naturally, and the algorithm has the advantages of low complexity, fast running speed and wide application prospect.

A method and system for dynamic generation of tasks in resource constrained devices involves identifying tasks that can be performed by devices in a resource constrained network, wherein the tasks represent activities that can be performed by the devices. Tasks are generated using the capabilities of devices as each device is discovered in the network. A task uses one or more functionalities of one or more devices. Task generation specifically takes into account the limited memory and processing power which a typical home device possesses, and the tasks are generated dynamically.

The present invention discloses a process for making rare earth (RE) doped optical fibre by using RE oxide coated silica nanoparticles as the precursor materia, more particularly the method of the present invention involves preparation of stable dispersions (sol) of RE oxide coated silica nanoparticles at ambient temperature and applying a thin coating on the inner surface of silica glass tube following dip coating technique or any other conventional methods, of the said silica sol containing suitable dopants selected from Ge, Al, P, etc., the coated tubes were further processed into optical preforms by following MCVD technique and fiberised in desired configuration, the novelty lies in eliminating the step of the formation of porous soot layer at high temperature by CVD process inside a fused silica glass tube for formation of the core and also in the elemination of the incorporation of the rare earth ions into the porous soot layer following the solution doping technique or other conventional methods, the direct addition of RE oxides in the sol eliminates the formation of microcrystalites and clusters of rare earth ions and prevents change in composition including variation of RE concentration in the core which results in increase in the reproducibility and reliability of the process to a great extent, further the addition of Ge(OET)4 at ambient temperature in the silica sol reduces the quantity of GeCl4 which is required at high temperature to achieve the desired Numerical Aperture.

The invention relates to a text classification method of a Chinese web page based on steam clustering, belonging to the technical field of internetwork data mining. The text classification method comprises the following steps of: acquiring a web page in real time; removing unprocessed labels in the format of the web page, and analyzing the characteristic information of texts of the web page; segmenting the content of the texts, using as ngram participles, and forming a plurality of word strings; computing the weight value of each word string; extracting the word string with a high weight value, and using the word string with the high weight value and the corresponding weight value thereof as characteristic vectors; computing the similarity of the characteristic vectors and characteristic information and a known class; computing obtained total similarity, and classifying the texts to the know class or establishing a new class; judging whether the know class is divided into two subclasses or not according to the number of characteristic items of the known class; and storing processed text records and the information of the known class. The text classification method sufficiently excavates the effective information of web page texts aiming at the characteristics of the web page texts and is incremental, fast, effective and more practical.

The present invention is directed to ion source and vacuum housings for use in MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry which operates with any type of mass analyzer including linear, reflector, or tandem TOF-TOF instruments. By removing the requirement for the vacuum lock, the present invention allows operation of the ion source vacuum chamber at a pressure at least two orders of magnitude higher than conventional instruments. The present invention also requires only a single valve that isolates the ion source vacuum housing from the TOF analyzer vacuum housing. This is a significant improvement over vacuum locks in the art where the valve opening must be sufficiently large to allow the sample plate to pass through.

The invention relates to a method for processing laundry in a laundry processing device (110) comprising a drum (112) that is rotatably mounted on a support so as to be rotated about a substantially horizontal axis. The method comprises recording, while the laundry is being processed, a signal that is correlated to the interaction between the drum (112) and the laundry (114), and that exhibits a variation caused by the rotation of the drum (112); on the basis of the signal and a desired process result, determining a target rotary speed of the drum (112); and adjusting the rotary speed of the drum (112) to the target rotary speed. Further, the invention relates to a laundry processing device capable of performing the method.

Methods and apparatuses for amplitude modulation of all or a portion of an ensemble waveform to modify a user's cognitive state by transdermal electrical stimulation (TES). An ensemble current waveform may include a sequence of component biphasic current waveforms in which one or more parameters (such as frequency, current amplitude, percent duty cycle, and percent charge imbalance) vary between sequential component waveforms. These ensemble waveforms may be specifically configured to evoke a particular cognitive state when applied by TES. In particular, described herein are methods for applying amplitude modulation to all or a sub-set of the component waveforms in the ensemble waveform which may dramatically enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the TES. Also described herein are methods and apparatuses for applying amplitude modulation to all or a portion of an ensemble waveform without truncating pulses of the component waveforms forming the ensemble waveform.

A sensor system and method for monitoring power exerted by a person riding a bicycle has a pair of sensor insoles and a portable electronic device. The sensor insoles each have a plurality of force sensors, an accelerometer, and a transmitter for transmitting data from the plurality of force sensors and the accelerometer. A power measurement program operably installed in the computer memory of the portable electronic device receives the data and calculates power and other outputs based upon the data received.

The present invention describes an electric vehicle with hybrid drive system, which provides optimization of speed, power and maximizing efficiency levels. In one embodiment, the vehicle includes at least one driven wheel, an electric motor connected to the driven wheel through a fixed transmission system or a continuous variable transmission (CVT) unit, an internal combustion engine (ICE) connected to the driven wheel through a fixed transmission system or a CVT unit and a selector switch to select the modes of power supply to the electric vehicle. Further, the electric motor is powered by a battery power pack and the ICE is powered by a hydrocarbon fuels stored in a hydrocarbon fuel tank. Furthermore, the different position of selector switch provides different modes of the power supply to the vehicle. In another embodiment, the electric motor is adapted to be operated as a generator.