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A method for producing a field effect transistor, in which a plurality of layers are in each case deposited, planarized and etched back, in particular a gate electrode layer, is disclosed. This method allows the manufacturing of transistors having outstanding electrical properties and having outstanding reproducibility.

A resuscitation system for use by a rescuer for resuscitating a patient, comprising at least two high-voltage defibrillation electrodes, a first electrical unit comprising circuitry for providing resuscitation prompts to the rescuer, a second electrical unit separate from the first unit and comprising circuitry for providing defibrillation pulses to the electrodes, and circuitry for providing at least one electrical connection between the first and second units. In another aspect, at least two electrical therapy electrodes adapted to be worn by the patient for extended periods of time, circuitry for monitoring the ECG of the patient, an activity sensor adapted to be worn by the patient and capable of providing an output from which the patient's current activity can be estimated, and at least one processor configured for estimating the patient's current activity by analyzing the output of the activity sensor, analyzing the ECG of the patient, and determining whether electrical therapy should be delivered to the electrodes.

A unitized smart card device with a partial fingerprint sensor, ergonomic guides and a processor is disclosed. The smart card contains secure memory, battery, and a processor to run the fingerprint sensor. The ergonomic guides help insure that the users finger properly swipes the fingerprint sensor. The smart card be used on a backwards compatible “dumb credit card” basis, or it may dock with an external smart card docking station. This docking station may act to facilitate communication between the smart card's fingerprint sensor and its onboard secure memory; and external computerized devices. The docking station itself may be configured with slots or other openings to allow users to access the smart card's fingerprint sensor while the smart card is docked with the docking station. The docking station itself may contain ergonomic guides to help ensure that the smart card's fingerprint sensor is used (swiped) in a correct manner.

A focus state display apparatus comprising focus area extraction means for extracting the image signals of a predetermined area from photographed image signals, edge enhancement processing means for enhancing the edge of the extracted image signals, time integration value calculation means for calculating an integration value of the edge-enhanced image signals in a certain period of time, focus state determination means for determining the focus state of the photographed image signals on the basis of the calculated integration value, and focus state display means for displaying the determined focus state. A user is capable of readily determining the focus state of a camera and confirming and adjusting the focus thereof with accuracy even in a display apparatus of a camera-equipped portable terminal device, where the size and resolution thereof are limited.

Provision is made of an apparatus and a method for the manufacture of three-dimensional objects (3) by local solidification of layers of a building material at positions corresponding to the respective cross-section of the object (3), by exposure to electromagnetic or particle radiation. The apparatus comprises a temperature measuring assembly (13) for non-contact measurement of the temperature of the building material in a measurement region (14) which is a partial region of the layer of the building material, and comprises further a position adjustment device (15) for altering the position of the measurement region (14) of the temperature measuring assembly (13) independently of the alteration of the position of the region exposed to the radiation energy. This apparatus can be used to actively access a not exposed region of the surface for measuring the temperature of each layer and to detect a temperature distribution by altering the position of a measurement region (14) in a layer.

A method of extending the use of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) in a communication system wherein H.323 or SIP-compliant end-points communicate with the media traffic directly between other H.323 or SIP-compliant end-points. An extension of the SIP protocol is utilized to provide better support for charging. A plurality of equivalent INVITE messages are sent to the SIP server at regular time intervals for the duration of the session. Charging for SIP conversations can be determined in a very accurate and expedient manner by observing when the INVITE messages cease, indicating that the conversation between the two end-points is concluded.

An injectable medicament dispenser for use in controllably dispensing fluid medicaments such as insulin, antibiotics, oncolytics and the like from a prefilled container at a uniform rate. The dispenser includes a unique stored energy source in the form of a compressively deformable, polymeric elastomeric member that provides the force necessary to controllably discharge the medicament from the prefilled container which is housed within the body of the device. After having been deformed, the polymeric, elastomeric member will return to its starting configuration in a highly predictable manner.

Embodiments of the invention provide a framework for traffic classification that bridges the gap between the packet content inspection and the flow-based behavioral analysis techniques. In particular, IP packets and/or IP flows are used as an input, network nodes are associated to specific network applications by leveraging information gathered from the web, and packet-level and/or flow-level signatures are extracted in an off-line fashion using clustering and signature extraction algorithms. The signatures learned are systematically exported to a traffic classifier that uses the newly available signatures to classify applications on-the-fly.

A road shape recognition device includes: distance and height detecting means for detecting distance data having a distance and height in real space regarding a road surface where a vehicle is traveling at multiple mutually different points; approximation line calculating means for dividing the plurality of distance data into near and far groups as viewed from the vehicle to calculate an approximation line of the distance data for each group each time the distance data of the boundary portion between the two groups is transferred from one of the groups to the other; statistics calculating means for calculating statistics from the corresponding approximation line for each group where the distance data is transferred; and road shape model generating means for selecting one out of combinations of the approximation lines to generate a road shape model using the selected combination.

A method and system for the dynamic presentation of the contents of a plurality of documents on a display is disclosed. The method and system comprises receiving a plurality of documents and providing a plurality of topically rich capsule overviews corresponding to the plurality of documents. Each capsule overview is a representation of the core content of the corresponding document. The method and system also includes displaying each of the plurality of capsule overviews and dynamically delivering document content encapsulated in the plurality of capsule overviews.

PCT No. PCT/DE98/00945 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 30, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 30, 1999 PCT Filed Apr. 3, 1998 PCT Pub. No. WO99/15783 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 1999A fuel injection device for internal combustion engines is proposed in which a fuel injection valve is controlled by the pressure in a pressure chamber, which acts on a pressure shoulder in its opening and closing direction. The pressure supply to the a pressure chamber is controlled by a control valve member which in turn is moved by a pressure in a working chamber. The pressure in the working chamber is controlled by a pre-control valve which has a closing body which, through the influence of the piezoelectric drive mechanism, is moved from a second valve seat to a first valve seat and thereby momentarily opens a relief line of the working chamber. This movement results in an opening of the control valve member and a supplying of high fuel pressure to the pressure chamber for purposes of injection. Thus a very small pre-injection quantity is produced. In order to produce a main injection quantity, the closing body is positioned in an intermediate position between the valve seats and a longer connection of the high-pressure fuel supply to the pressure chamber is consequently produced.

A pixilated scintillator, scintillator array and methods of fabricating the same are provided. The scintillator array comprises a grid having walls, a scintillator crystal packed between the walls, and a reflective coating provided between the walls and the scintillator crystal.

In throttle control, a throttle opening is set with sufficient control accuracy in accordance with the operating state of an engine despite variations in a throttle body and various kinds of sensors. A target effective opening area is calculated from a target amount of intake air, an atmospheric pressure, an intake pipe internal pressure and an intake air temperature by using a flow rate formula for a throttle type flow meter. A target throttle opening is calculated from a correlation map. An actual effective opening area is calculated from the amount of intake air, the atmospheric pressure, the intake pipe internal pressure, and the intake air temperature by using the above-mentioned flow rate formula, and a learning throttle opening is calculated from the correlation map. The target throttle opening is corrected by a throttle opening learning value calculated from a deviation between the target throttle opening and the learning throttle opening.

At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a signal output apparatus including an impact application unit configured to generate and apply an impact to a sheet material, an impact reception unit configured to receive the applied impact, a signal output unit configured to output a signal in response to the impact received by the impact reception unit from the impact application unit and a calibration unit configured to calibrate at least one of the impact applied by the impact application unit and the signal output from the signal output unit.

A digital camera has a printed circuit board which comprises a main area and a flexible area. An optical sensor chip (e.g. a CCD) is fixed onto the flexible area. The flexible area has flexible character relative to the main area. Therefore, even if the printed circuit board is stressed, such stress will be almost or completely eliminated in the flexible area, so that the optical sensor chip and an optical lens can be coupled together in a precise manner.

An apparatus for acquiring and processing data regarding physical attributes of a user includes a generally enclosed housing sized for receiving a user therein, the housing having an interior and an opening for entry into an exit from the housing by the user. A three-dimensional body scanner including a plurality of scanning heads is located within the housing for conducting a three-dimensional scan of the body of the user within the housing for obtaining accurate and repeatable spatial measurements of predetermined portions of the body of the user. A weighing device is provided for measuring the weight of the user. A data collection and processing device communicates with the body scanner and the weighing device for receiving, processing and analyzing data concerning the spatial measurements and weight of the user.

A computer simulation analysis method suitable for describing the mechanical behavior of multiphase composites based on the real microstructure of materials relates to a multidisciplinary field such as computational material science, simulation and high throughput calculation. Through the first-principles calculation under nano scale, the molecular dynamics simulation under micro scale, and the thermodynamic calculation under mesoscopic scale, various physical parameters needed for the finite element simulation under macro scale can be obtained, including the elastic and plastic physical parameters of each phase in the composite at different temperature and different grain sizes. Focused ion beam experiment and image processing are adopted to obtain real material microstructure. Through the parameter coupling and parameter transfer among the calculated results of various scales, combining the microstructure of the material, stress-strain relationship, stress distribution and its evolution law, plastic deformation and other mechanical behaviors of the multiphase composites under complex stress and different temperature can be simulated.

An object is to represent the difference of colors of a vital tooth and a tooth sample in a highly precise manner and to compare the colors in a relatively easy manner. The invention provides a dental colorimetry apparatus including a shade-guide-information storage unit configured to store acquired image data of a tooth sample and calorimetric information of each pixel acquired on the basis of the acquired image data; a pixel extracting unit configured to acquire reference calorimetric information used as a reference when carrying out a comparison with the vital tooth, to compare the reference calorimetric information and the calorimetric information for each pixel of the tooth sample, and to extract pixels whose comparison results satisfy a predetermined condition; an image-generating unit configured to create a sample comparison image in which a third pixel group including pixels extracted by the pixel extracting unit and a fourth pixel group including pixels that are not extracted are represented by different colors; and a display device configured to display the sample comparison image created by the image-generating unit.

An apparatus for filling a sample volume defining device for separating at least one small defined volume of a liquid sample from a relatively larger undefined volume of said sample, said device including a first body and a second body movable relative to each other, whereby said first body has at least one cavity in a surface thereof, said at least one cavity having said defined volume. One of said first or said second body has at least one inlet opening adapted to be placed in a drop of the liquid sample. A defined channel is provided between said first and second body, which channel has fluid connection with said at least one opening and at least beyond said at least one cavity whereby the dimensions of said channel being such that said channel and said at least one cavity is filled with said liquid sample.

This invention provides a novel method of diagnosing the conditions of depression of a patient in a simple, objective, and accurate manner. In this method, gene expression is analyzed using mRNA of a subject's peripheral blood to evaluate whether or not the subject is afflicted with depression, the type of depression of a subject who had been evaluated as being afflicted with depression is identified, and the conditions of depression are then diagnosed in accordance with the type of depression.