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Apparatus, system and method for providiing tactical information. One aspect is a system and method for displaying vectors (preferably in real time) for very fast moving (VFM) elements, such as projectiles (e.g., bullets or shells), missiles, and other transient events that arise in a battlefield or civil police action. The system optically and / or acoustically collects information about the ordinance and displays vectors of otherwise unseen ordinance. One aspect is a device for collecting intelligence on and confusing enemy troops, as well as small munition deployment.

A data structure, apparatuses and methods for expanding a search query to be used by a web search engine is provided. The search query is expanded by accessing a concept knowledge base data structure having concept data objects and term data objects with each term data object defining a term and associated with at least one of the concept data objects. Search terms making up the search query are matched to term data objects and a concept set is generated containing concept data objects associated with the term data objects. A second set of term data objects are generated by using the concept data objects to locate term data objects associated with the concept data objects. A user can then select one of the term data objects in the second set to expand the user's search query.

A computer system and method provide a systems for representing resource(s) in a computing system environment by creating an object to represent a resource in the computing system environment and assigning an object identifier to the object. The object identifier includes at least a simple name of the object and a home of the object. The system displays at least one representation of the object on a graphical user interface. Each representation of the object includes the simple name of the object and, if a home condition exists for that representation of the object displayed on the graphical user interface, the representation further includes the home of the object, and if a home condition does not exist for that representation of the object, the representation of the object displayed on the graphical user interface does not include the home of the object. The graphical user interface can also provide groups that are transparent and terminal in order to allow visual arrangement of resource representations without effecting those resources.

An apparatus for monitoring and controlling a hydroponic installation which measures various sensors, controls electrical devices, and provides a rich user interface through a standard web browser accessible anywhere on the Internet. Network connectivity allows the operator to manage the system remotely, as well as view recent and historical data through web pages. Digital cameras, of the kind typically used with PCs, provide visual feedback. The apparatus can notify the operator in the case of certain predetermined conditions, using a variety of messaging methods, including email, SMS or MMS page. The operator can remotely initiate control through reply messages. An industry-standard expansion bus provides the ability to attach external devices for additional functionality. Network access can be provided by Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or a nearby cell phone with Bluetooth.

A method, a map and an article of manufacture for the exploration of hydrocarbons. In one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises the steps of: accessing 3D seismic data; dividing the data into an array of relatively small three-dimensional cells; determining in each cell the semblance / similarity, the dip and dip azimuth of the seismic traces contained therein; and displaying dip, dip azimuth and the semblance / similarity of each cell in the form a two-dimensional map. In one embodiment, semblance / similarity is a function of time, the number of seismic traces within the cell, and the apparent dip and apparent dip azimuth of the traces within the cell; the semblance / similarity of a cell is determined by making a plurality of measurements of the semblance / similarity of the traces within the cell and selecting the largest of the measurements. In addition, the apparent dip and apparent dip azimuth, corresponding to the largest measurement of semblance / similarity in the cell, are deemed to be estimates of the true dip and true dip azimuth of the traces therein. A color map, characterized by hue, saturation and lightness, is used to depict semblance / similarity, true dip azimuth and true dip of each cell; true dip azimuth is mapped onto the hue scale, true dip is mapped onto the saturation scale, and the largest measurement of semblance / similarity is mapped onto the lightness scale of the color map.

A system is provided for automatic selection of medical images. The system comprises an input (302) for receiving a temporal sequence of medical images acquired with a hand-held medical imaging device. An object detector (303) is provided for detecting an object in at least one of the images. An image selector (304) is provided for selecting an image in which the object has been detected by the object detector. A snapshot means (305) is provided for storing the selected image as a snapshot. Moreover, a hand-held medical imaging device is provided for generating the sequence of medical images.

Methods and systems for creating, producing, and submitting new wager game packages for approval from regulatory bodies are described. With the increasing need for game providers / publishers to create more games due to factors in the gaming industry, such as the advent of server-based gaming, game publishers are finding ways to leverage the creative pool of independent game developers. A game development system consists of a creative environment, a production environment, and a submission environment. In the creative workspace, new wager game code is developed using pre-approved game components and other components provided by the game provider / publisher. In the production environment, the game code is tested, converted to operate in multiple platforms, to meet the requirements of various jurisdictions, and the like. Once the game code is ready for submission to regulatory bodies, in the submission environment, certain required and some voluntary documents are produced, such as a differences report, game description report, and a compliance certificate, all intended to facilitate the game approval process by the regulatory body. In this manner, a greater number of new games may be created and the approval process of new games is made more efficient.

A data structure, apparatuses and methods for expanding a search query to be used by a web search engine is provided. The search query is expanded by accessing a concept knowledge base data structure having concept data objects and term data objects with each term data object defining a term and associated with at least one of the concept data objects. Search terms making up the search query are matched to term data objects and a concept set is generated containing concept data objects associated with the term data objects. A second set of term data objects are generated by using the concept data objects to locate term data objects associated with the concept data objects. A user can then select one of the term data objects in the second set to expand the user's search query.

The present invention is an online publishing management system and method that includes at least one advertisement computer means for storing an advertisement file; at least one article computer means for storing an article file; and a publishing management server computer. The publishing management server computer includes user interface means for receiving data from and sending data to user, database means for storing a plurality of database tables, and processing means. The database tables include an advertisement table having a plurality of advertisement records, each advertisement record having information regarding an advertisement file stored on an advertisement computer means; an advertiser table having a plurality of advertiser records, each advertiser record having information regarding an advertiser associated with at least one advertisement file stored on an advertisement computer means; and an article table having a plurality of article records, each article record having information regarding an article file stored on an article computer means. The processing means is adapted to generate a plurality of reports as a function of one or more of the database tables; allow a user to input, via the user interface means, criteria for generating the reports; provide the reports to a user via the user interface means; and allow a user to enter or modify, via the user interface means, records in any of the database tables.

A system is provided for automatic selection of medical images. The system comprises an input (302) for receiving a temporal sequence of medical images acquired with a hand-held medical imaging device. An object detector (303) is provided for detecting an object in at least one of the images. An image selector (304) is provided for selecting an image in which the object has been detected by the object detector. A snapshot means (305) is provided for storing the selected image as a snapshot. Moreover, a hand-held medical imaging device is provided for generating the sequence of medical images.

A system and method is provided for displaying a selection based action bar to a user that the user is able to use to perform actions using selected data. A user selects one or more displayed selections using a selection device. After the user selections have been made, the system determines which actions can be used with the selected data. Graphical components that correspond to the allowed actions are placed in an action bar and the action bar is displayed proximate to at least one of the user's selections. The action bar is not removed and remains visible as a result of the user scrolling display or performing unrelated actions. Providing a persistent action bar in location proximate to the user's selection helps the user maintain focus on the selected data. In addition, the selection based action bar can be used as a visual placeholder are marking mechanism.

Approaches for facilitating crowdsourcing of event-related social media posts are disclosed. In certain implementations, a first post that includes information specifying a first meteorological event may be received from a first user. Information specifying a first location associated with the first post may be obtained. A determination of whether the first location is within a predetermined proximity threshold of a second location associated with a second post that includes information specifying the first meteorological event may be effectuated. The first post may be presented to one or more other users in response to a determination that the first location is not within the predetermined proximity threshold.

The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for simulation of web based content. Specifically, the systems and methods described herein are configured to provide simulation of the rendering and behavior of web (e.g., HTML) documents within multiple client, browser and device platforms. Although the principles can be generally used, the invention is particularly aimed towards simulating emails within different email clients and devices. Embodiments of the present invention further generally relate to synchronization of links with dynamic imagery provided to a remote computing device. Specifically, these embodiments of the invention relate to a web-based system and method for synchronizing URLs and other hyperlinks to dynamic imagery provided to a remote computing device by a server or other content providing device.

A valve assembly to dispense fluid from fluid containers including a member that is rotatably slideable in a tube between open and closed positions. The valve assembly utilizes sealing beads to provide seals so that fluid cannot be dispensed from the assembly when the assembly is in the closed position. The valve assembly also includes a tamper evident indicator to show a user whether or not the valve assembly has been previously actuated. The tamper evident indicator may include a tab that is broken when the valve assembly is first actuated. The tamper evident indicator may also include a skirt that either detaches from a knob or fractures when the valve assembly is first actuated.

A display device includes: a display panel; an optical detector which includes an optical sensor formed by a thin film transistor for detecting external light and a capacitor connected between a pair of electrodes of the optical sensor; a switch which turns on or off a charging operation of the capacitor; an optical sensor controller which controls the switch to be turned on or off and measures illumination of the external light on the basis of a time period during which the switch is turned off and a voltage of the capacitor becomes a value not more than a threshold value; and a controller which controls brightness of the display panel on the basis of an output of the optical sensor controller, wherein after the optical sensor controller detects a fact that the voltage of the capacitor becomes the value not more than the threshold value, the optical sensor controller turns on the switch after a predetermined time.

Systems and methods are disclosed for patent claim visualization that automatically generate a visual claim hierarchy graph from a listing of the claim text. Rejection information may be added automatically by lexically analyzing an Office Action. Additionally, the user of this system can then provide additional information, including descriptions of the claim elements, and any rejections applied to the claims. Embodiments of the present invention can generate a visual representation of each claim, as well as indicating references and technical issues applied against those claims as part of the office action. In an exemplary embodiment, the visual information is presented in an HTML page, such that it may be viewed with a conventional HTML browser, and may be interacted with by the user to quickly see the rejections applied to any given claim. Embodiments of the present invention also provide different symbols for rejected versus non-rejected claims. This allows the user to quickly identify which claims are rejected, versus those that are non-rejected (allowed or merely objected to).

An interactive computer configuration system is an aid for a sales person or a customer to make it easy to grasp and configure a huge configuration problem. The user interacts with the computer system and makes many choices successively, and a configuration engine checks each choice for validity. The configuration engine comprises a configuration model defining mutual predefined relations between the selectable elements and comprises programs for validating a set of choices against said configuration model. The invention relates to the situation where a requested choice made by the user corresponds to an invalid configuration instance. According to the invention, the user is allowed to insist on this choice and an alternative investigation system according to the invention will present to the user a number of relevant proposals for undoing choices made previously so that a valid configuration instance can be obtained. According to the invention only relevant proposals are presented to the user and further in the most expedient way, seen from a customer's point of view. According to the invention the lowest possible number of choices to be undone is first presented to the user. Yet, a further aspect of the invention allows the user, during the alternative investigation process, to make previous choices cardinal choices, whereby the relevance of the proposals for obtaining alternatives will be further enhanced.

A system for clustering electronic calendar schedules in an event scheduling user interface displays the availability of invitee clusters that each include invitees with sufficiently similar availability during a target period. An invitee cluster list includes an invitee cluster entry for each invitee cluster, such that each invitee cluster entry displays the availability for all invitees contained in the corresponding cluster, as well as the number of invitees contained in the cluster. Invitees that do not belong to any cluster are listed as individual outlier entries, such that each outlier entry displays the availability for the corresponding outlier invitee and the invitee's name. The names of invitees contained in an invitee cluster are displayed in response to user selection of the cluster entry. A degree of similarity required for invitees to be clustered together, and / or a permitted total number of clusters, may be input from a user.

Embodiments described include systems and methods for presenting additional content for a network application accessed via an embedded browser of a client application are provided. Additional content related to network applications may be presented on client devices. Specifically, activity such as embedded browser activity may be monitored. Responsive to detecting an event based on the monitored activity, additional content related to the network application may be provided. In various embodiments, the additional content is provided to a client application on the client device for presentation on the client device.

A valve assembly to dispense fluid from fluid containers including a member that is rotatably slideable in a tube between open and closed positions. The valve assembly utilizes sealing beads to provide seals so that fluid cannot be dispensed from the assembly when the assembly is in the closed position. The valve assembly also includes a tamper evident indicator to show a user whether or not the valve assembly has been previously actuated. The tamper evident indicator may include a tab that is broken when the valve assembly is first actuated. The tamper evident indicator may also include a skirt that either detaches from a knob or fractures when the valve assembly is first actuated.

An organizer for holding surgical instruments includes a tray that has instrument wells extending from the top surface of the tray. The instrument wells may be open to allow high-pressure steam to reach the instruments in the wells. The organizer has two sections. The first section contains sterile instruments to be used during surgery, and the second section contains empty instrument wells, each of which has a shape and depth corresponding to the shape and depth of an instrument well in the first section. After instruments are removed from the first section and used during surgery, they are returned to the corresponding instrument well in the second section. After surgery, an instrument is missing unless all the instrument wells in the second section are full. Structure may be associated with the instrument wells to indicate that an instrument well is not full.

An intelligent oxygen scavenger with oxygen level indication is provided, comprising an oxygen scavenger (1) and a packing bag (2). The oxygen scavenger (1) is contained in the packing bag (2), wherein the packing bag (2) is provided with a marker for color changing substance oxygen level indicator and an observation window (4) is provided in a position corresponding to the oxygen level indicator. The marker for the oxygen level indicator can be an oxygen level indicating layer or an oxygen level indicating line, etc. The packing bag (2) comprising inner packing film (6) and outer packing film (7) on both of which vent pores (61, 71) arranged in staggered manner are provided. Observation window (4) is transparent in a shape of continuous lines, dotted lines, round shape or strip like. Inner packing film (6) and outer packing film (7) are made of CPP of PE provided with vent pores, complex films of PET / CPP or PET / PE provided with vent pores. The object of the present invention is to provide an oxygen scavenger with oxygen level indication that will make a manufacture or a user to rapidly see the effects of the freshness keeping and oxygen removal of the oxygen scavenger directly. Further, the user is able to rapidly see the oxygen level directly after the oxygen scavenger is used at the same time such intelligent oxygen scavenger with oxygen level indication is easy to produce with low production cost. Further, the intelligent oxygen scavenger with oxygen level indication according to the present invention can prevent the oxygen scavenger from escaping the packing bag with excellent oxygen removal effect and simple manufacturing process.

In the case of a method for operating a cooking point with a gas burner of a gas hob in which a pan detection is provided for switching off the gas burner when the pan is removed, the pan detection can detect the re-placement of a removed pan onto the cooking point. It then brings about a further operation of the gas burner by igniting the gas burner. When the gas burner is ignited after re-placement of the pan, a power level originally set for the gas burner is only achieved to the full extent with a time delay.

A system and method for diagnosing problems in a medical imaging system. In some implementations, problems with the medical imaging system are determined by encoding information into an image relating to system settings or other data, and using the information to diagnose possible problems with the image and / or the medical imaging system.

Disclosed is a method generally applicable to any financial dataset for the purposes of: (1) determining the most important patterns in the given dataset, in order of importance; (2) determining any trends in those patterns; (3) determining relationships between patterns and trends; and (4) allowing quick visual identification of anomalies for closer audit investigation. These purposes generally fall within the scope of what in financial auditing is known as ‘analytical review’. The current method's advantages over existing methods are that is fully independent of the financial data subject to analysis, requires no background knowledge of the target business or industry, and is both scalable (to large datasets) and fully scale-invariant, requiring no a priori notion of financial materiality. These advantages mean, for example, that the same method can be by an external auditor for many different clients with virtually no client-specific customization, directing his attention to the areas where more detailed audit investigation may be required. Compared with existing methods, the current method is extremely flexible, and because it requires no a priori knowledge, saves significant time in understanding the fundamentals of a business.

Presented is a bike fitting and diagnostic machine with adjustable rider contact points of the saddle, the pedals, and the handlebars. Adjustments can be made while the rider pedals, and while the rider's output is measured in watts, calories, heart rate, or other units. Optimal bike fit parameters are determined to help a rider select a well fitting bike or have one made to his specifications.

Methods and systems for creating, producing, and submitting new wager game packages for approval from regulatory bodies. A game development system includes a creative environment, a production environment, and a submission environment. In the creative environment, new wager game code is developed using pre-approved game components and other components provided by the game provider / publisher. In the production environment, the game code is tested and converted to operate in multiple platforms, to meet the requirements of various jurisdictions, and the like. In the submission environment, the game code and various submission documents are bundled into a game package for submission to a regulatory body.

A method of selecting a television channel on a video device having a television tuner includes displaying a currently selected channel on the video device, controlling the video device to simultaneously display the currently selected channel and a plurality of other channels that are not currently selected, each of the displayed channels showing moving images corresponding to the content broadcast on the respective channels, wherein channel numbers of the currently selected channel and the plurality of other channels that are not currently selected conform to a predefined pattern, changing the channel on the video device to select one of the displayed channels that was not previously selected, the newly selected channel becoming the currently selected channel, and simultaneously displaying the currently selected channel and a plurality of other channels that are not currently selected.