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There is described a method for checking the authenticity of security documents, in particular banknotes, wherein authentic security documents comprise security features printed, applied or otherwise provided on the security documents, which security features comprise characteristic visual features intrinsic to the processes used for producing the security documents. The method comprises the steps of (i) acquiring a sample image of at least one region of interest of the surface of a candidate document to be authenticated, which region of interest encompasses at least part of the security features, (ii) digitally processing the sample image by performing a decomposition of the sample image into at least one scale sub-space containing high resolution details of the sample image and extracting classifying features from the scale sub-space, and (iii) deriving an authenticity rating of the candidate document based on the extracted classifying features.

A system for generating an adversarial example in respect of a neural network, the adversarial example generated to improve a margin defined as a distance from a data example to a neural network decision boundary. The system includes a data receiver configured to receive one or more data sets including at least one data set representing a benign training example (x); an adversarial generator engine configured to: generate, using the neural network, a first adversarial example (Adv1) having a perturbation length epsilon1 against x; conduct a search in a direction (Adv1-x) using the neural network; and to generate, using the neural network, a second adversarial example (Adv2) having a perturbation length epsilon2 based at least on an output of a search in the direction (Adv1-x).

The invention relates to a system for embedding a watermark into an input media signal. A plurality of sub-band signals of a sub-band encoded input signal is obtained; preferably by de-multiplexing of the corresponding bitstream. A set of sub-band signals is filtered by a sub-band filter (507) which has a response associated with the watermark. The sub-band filter (507) thereby generates a set of filtered sub-band signals which are combined into an output signal having the desired watermark. The output signal is preferably a compressed sub-band bitstream signal. A low complexity approach for embedding a watermark into a media signal by filtering in the sub-band domain is thus achieved obviating the requirement for decoding and re-encoding of the media signal.

An amount of change of a control signal applied to a polarization controller in a polarization mode dispersion compensator is determined for each feedback loop by evaluating degree of polarization response in past feedback loops.

User equipment is provided for receiving an OFDM signal. The user equipment includes a plurality of carrier processing chains and a carrier aggregation module, aggregating the signals received on each carrier processed by the plurality of carrier processing chains. The aggregation module delivers a set of aggregated signals of the plurality of carrier processing chains at the input of a Fast Fourier Transform module of a PHY layer processing subsystem of the user equipment. The Fast Fourier transform module is able to process a size of data according to a predetermined rate depending on the aggregated bandwidth of the set of aggregated signals of the plurality of carrier processing chains, and the carrier aggregation module includes at least one frequency shifter for frequency shifting carriers.

The invention refers to a bottle for containing fluids, particularly for pharmaceutical products or the like, which comprises a fluid container (2) made in a deformable material and which features a mouth for the passage of fluid, a valve (5) in an elastically deformable material that defines a flexible inner chamber arranged in proximity of the mouth, a cap (7) that substantially fits on and seals the valve and which features a dispensing opening for the fluid, and a containment ring (14) placed between said cap and said valve, arranged so that it externally embraces a portion of the valve and able to limit its deformation. A squeezing of the container causes the fluid to push up towards the mouth, the valve to compress, the fluid to flow between the valve and the cap and then to come out through the dispensing opening.

The present invention relates to methods for enhancement of naturally occurring cytoplastic male sterility and for restoration of male fertility and uses thereof in hybrid crop production. There is also disclosed a method for restoration of male fertility to cytoplasmic male sterile plants; which comprises the steps of: a) introducing into the nucleus of a plant cell a gene construct essentially consisting of a sequence encoding a mitochondrial transit peptide fused upstream of and in frame with an edited form of a normal mitochondrial gene that is co-transcribed with an usual CMS-associated mitochondrial gene; b) selecting for plant cells that have acquired the gene construct in step a); and c) inducing regeneration of selected plant cells to produce a mature plant.

The upgraded balancing machine for vehicle wheels comprise a supporting frame for gripping and rotation means for gripping and rotating a wheel to be balanced around a rotation axis, a first sensor for detecting the unbalance of the wheel with respect to the rotation axis suitable for generating a first analog signal, a second sensor for detecting at least one portion of the profile of the wheel suitable for generating a second analog signal, at least one analog to digital converter associated with at least one of the first and the second detection sensors and suitable for converting at least one of the first and the second analog signal into a corresponding digital signal, a processing and control unit associated with the conversion device and suitable for processing the digital signal, and an adjustment unit for adjusting the sampling frequency of at least one of the first and the second analog signals associated with the conversion device. The adjustment unit responds to a first signal generated by a shaft encoder, and responds to a programmable timer, so that the frequency of the sampling operation can be altered.

Method for treating impurities contained in exhaust gases of ships to reduce sulphur oxide and other emissions. In order for the method to purify wash water exiting from an exhaust gas scrubber sufficiently enough to be directly dischargeable to sea, and in order for a purification unit used to be small enough to be easily placed onboard a ship, exhaust gases are scrubbed in the exhaust gas scrubber and wash water containing impurities and exiting from the scrubber is supplied to the purification unit, circulated in an effluent circuit, and filtered through a semipermeable membrane of a filter to obtain purified effluent and a residue containing impurities, when necessary, the pH value of the purified effluent is adjusted to be at least 6.5, after which it is discharged into the sea or recycled to the scrubber while the residue containing impurities is led back to the effluent circuit.

The invention relates to a headlight for motor vehicles comprising at least one modular laser light source (11 - 16), the laser beam thereof being directed, via beam deflection means (51, 52) which are controlled by a deflection control (9), to light conversion means (60), also comprising a projection system (70) for projecting the light image generated on the light conversion means to the road. A first group (1) of at least two laser light sources (11, 12, 13) for generating a first group of at least two superimposed, essentially horizontal light bands (61, 62, 63) on the light conversion means (60) and a second group (2) of at least two laser light sources (14, 15, 16) for generating a second group of at least two superimposed, essentially horizontal light bands (64, 65, 66) on the light conversion means (60) are provided. A laser control (3) is associated with the laser light sources (11 - 16), and the laser beams (11s - 16s) are directed by the laser deflection means (51, 52) to the light conversion means (60) such that light bands (61, 62, 63) of the first group (1) and light bands (64, 65, 66) of the second group overlap each other.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for cancelling cross-subframe co-channel interference (CCI), the method comprising receiving a channel quality indicator (CQI) of a cross-subframe from a user equipment (UE), the cross-subframe is a downlink subframe that is interfered by an uplink subframe in a neighboring cell; determining if the UE should be scheduled during cross-subframes by comparing the CQI with an adaptive threshold; and scheduling the UE during the cross-subframes if the UE is determined to be scheduled. By means of determining the resources scheduling based on an adaptive threshold, CCI may be cancelled and the overall resource usage will be increased according to the present invention. Furthermore, the adaptive threshold scheme can be easily implemented in practice.

A method for checking the safety and reliability of software-based electronic systems, using a reliability function for checking the functions of the system that are called for, based on the hardware components of the system required for this. In this connection it is provided that a reliability function is determined for calculating the reliability of at least one of the required functions of the system, and an additional reliability function is determined for calculating the reliability of at least one of the safety functions of the system, in the determination of these reliability functions, software components of the system being taken into consideration with the aid of hardware components onto which these software components are distributed. This makes possible the early valuation of different monitoring concepts for such systems, and of functions of these systems which are implemented by software and hardware.

A machine for balancing vehicle wheels, such wheels including a rim with a pair of axially spaced, ring-shaped or annular, flanges, and a tire seated up on the rim. The machine includes a frame with motor driven devices for gripping the vehicle wheel to be balanced and rotating same about a horizontal axis. A mechanical feeler, or probe, determines the position of the first of the pair of flanges on the rim. A contact-less, or remotely spaced, sensor, such as a laser, ascertains the profile of the tire by taking a series of discrete measurements without touching the tire. The mechanical feeler, or probe, and the contact-less sensor, are connected to a control unit in the machine. The control unit interpolates the values provided by the mechanical feeler and the contact-less sensor, and determines the location of the second flange on the wheel rim. The control unit may include an archive, or database, of the dimensions of known rims, to facilitate the accurate determination of the location of the second flange, on the wheel rim.

A machine for removing and fitting tires and wheel rims for vehicles includes a supporting structure of clamping and rotating device for clamping and rotating the rim of a vehicle wheel around a rotation axis, at least one operating unit which is movably associated with the supporting structure and which includes at least one operating head for fitting and removing a tire onto / from the rim provided with a pushing body for pushing at least one portion of the side surface of the tire and with a grip tool for gripping at least one section of the tire bead, an actuator element for operating the sideways movement of the operating head with respect to the structure and guide means of such sideways movement along a substantially curvilinear direction between a first position, in which the operating head is substantially close to the clamping and rotating device and a second position, in which the operating head is substantially moved away from the clamping and rotating device.

The invention relates to a dental color analyzing device comprising a housing, a computer device having a storage unit, and a display on which a reference object together with at least one tooth and / or a gingival area is represented, wherein at least one first image section that shows the reference object as well as at least one second image section that displays the tooth, a tooth region or a gingival area, may be detected with the aid of the computer device, characterized in that the reference object is mounted on a tooth and in particular is attached thereto and comprises a smaller size than the represented tooth, wherein the reference object is a dental color key comprising color samples that are arranged next to one another and that each represent a dental color, and in that the color of the second, in particular selectable image section, is comparable to the represented color samples with the aid of the computer device such that the color sample that matches the color of the second image section best, may be displayed on the display.

A machine for balancing vehicle wheels, such wheels including a rim with a pair of axially spaced, ring-shaped or annular, flanges, and a tire seated up on the rim. The machine includes a frame with motor driven devices for gripping the vehicle wheel to be balanced and rotating same about a horizontal axis. A mechanical feeler, or probe, determines the position of the first of the pair of , flanges on the rim. A contact-less, or remotely spaced, sensor, such as a laser, ascertains the profile of the tire by taking a series of discrete measurements without touching the tire. The mechanical feeler, or probe, and the contact-less sensor, are connected to a control unit in the machine. The control unit interpolates the values provided by the mechanical feeler and the contact-less sensor, and determines the location of the second flange on the wheel rim. The control unit may include an archive, or database, of the dimensions of known rims, to facilitate the accurate determination of the location of the second flange, on the wheel rim.

The gymnastics apparatus, particularly for exercising the extensor muscles of the inferior limbs, thigh muscles and gluteus muscles, comprises a support frame for a gradually-yielding resistant element suitable for contact with a pelvic-abdominal region of the torso of a user moving from an initial position, in which the lower limbs of the user are bent, to a final orthostatic position, the resistant action of the resistant element being directed along a direction transversal to the longitudinal axis of the thigh bones of the user in movement.

The present disclosure provides a communication apparatus that comprises a receiver which, in operation, receives a wake-up radio (WUR) frame, during an on duration in a duty cycle, in a first channel assigned to the communication apparatus by an Access Point (AP), and receives a WUR Beacon frame in a second channel, a transmission of the WUR Beacon frame being scheduled at a target WUR beacon transmission time (TWBTT); and a processor which, in operation, operates the duty cycle, wherein, during a determined time from the TWBTT, any WUR frame is not transmitted in the first channel from the AP.

The invention provides a rectangular pixel array, a tile for a large display such as a video and a method for forming a rectangular array of pixels. The pixel array includes a reflector array having a reflector well for each pixel and a dice carrier including a plurality of dice for each pixel.

The present invention relates to a method of reducing equalizer complexity in communication systems, which also provides for reduced power dissipation. The method consists of reducing the number of channel responses expected by the equalizer by averaging sub-groups of all of the possible the channel responses chosen in a particular way.

A secure or insecure communications channel for a secure communications system that carries sensitive user datagrams inside a proprietary or other undisclosed protocol so as to be able to encrypt the entire user datagram, including all header information so that if a malevolent entity were covertly or otherwise receiving said transmission they would be unable to determine the destination addresses of the user datagrams. Further the proprietary or undisclosed protocol is broken up into packets whose packet-to-packet boundaries are hidden so that malevolent entities will not be able to glean any information from the changes in traffic that occur during stimuli designed to provoke an expected response, thereby rendering said malevolent entities unable to determine what actual responses are occurring during real world events.

Lifting device for fitting vehicle wheels on wheel balancers, comprising a support platform for at least one vehicle wheel to be fitted on / removed from the substantially horizontal balancing shaft of a wheel balancer, a jack for lifting or elevating said platform, and grooves and side appendices on said platform that enable the platform to slide relative to a base in a substantially parallel direction to said balancing shaft, a first and second jaw on said platform, and an actuator for translating one jaw relative to the other jaw, so that the jaws engage opposite sides of the vehicle wheel and retain same in a vertical orientation on the support platform. The actuator is located below the support platform, and is connected to one of the jaws by a bracket which passes through a slot in the support platform.

The present invention relates to a communication controller (131; 132) and method for controlling communications between an access node (101; 102) and a plurality of remote communication units (211; 212) coupled to the access node via at least one wired transmission medium (20; 40). At least one communication unit (111, 211; 112, 212) of the access node and of the plurality of remote communication units is configured to operate in full-duplex mode according to a first full-duplex communication profile (OP1) when using a first subset of transmission resources (TSSET1; TONESET1) selected from a whole set of transmission resources available for communication over the at least one transmission medium, and according to a second full-duplex communication profile (OP2) when using a second non-overlapping subset of transmission resources (TSSET2; TONESET2) selected from the whole set of transmission resources. The first full-duplex communication profile includes first downstream and upstream transmit power profiles (PSDDS1, PSDUS1) to achieve first aggregate downstream and upstream data rates (DSMAX1, USMIN1; DSMAX2, USMIN2) over the at least one transmission medium, and the second full-duplex communication profile includes second downstream and upstream transmit power profiles (PSDDS2, PSDUS2) to achieve second aggregate downstream and upstream data rates (USMAX1, DSMIN1; USMAX2, DSMIN2) over the at least one transmission medium distinct from the respective first aggregate downstream and upstream data rates. The present invention also relates to a so-configured full-duplex communication unit

A polymer is obtained from copolymerization of a recurring unit having a carboxyl and / or phenolic hydroxyl group substituted with an acid labile group and a recurring unit having formula (1) wherein R1 is methyl, ethyl, propyl, methoxy, ethoxy or propoxy, R2 is H or CH3, and m is 1 to 4. The polymer is used as a base resin to formulate a resist composition, which is improved in contrast of alkali dissolution rate before and after exposure, acid diffusion control, resolution, and profile and edge roughness of a pattern after exposure.

The invention relates to a system for detecting a watermark using informed detection. A first signal potentially having a watermark embedded is received (601) as is a second signal corresponding to the original signal. The signals are segmented (605) into symbol segments. For each symbol segment a first characteristic is determined (607) for a first section and a second characteristic is determined (609) for a second section in response to the first and second signals in those sections. Specifically, ratios between average envelopes are determined. Thus, the first and second characteristic is indicative of the variations of the envelope during a watermark symbol. A watermark symbol estimate is determined (611) from the first and second characteristic. A sequence of estimated watermark symbols is compared to reference watermark symbols and the presence of a watermark symbol is determined (615) depending on the comparison. The invention is particularly suitable for improved detection of a multiplicative watermark.

The invention relates to a method for generating and displaying a virtual object to an individual user by an optical system consisting of gaze-tracking glasses and at least one display unit connected to the gaze-tracking glasses, the display unit having a first display, the gaze-tracking glasses having a first eye-tracking camera, the first display being arranged in a first viewing region of the gaze-tracking glasses. According to the invention, the optical system is adapted to an individual user, a first target value for adaptation of a display control unit of the display unit for controlling the first display being determined, a current viewing direction of the first eye being determined by the gaze-tracking glasses, a virtual object being generated and, taking account of the first target value, the virtual object being displayed in the first display at a position in the determined viewing direction of the first eye.