292 results about "Change size" patented technology

Retrieving content items based on a social distance between a user and content providers. The social distance is determined based on, for example, user interaction with the content providers. The content providers are ranked, for the user, based on the determined social distance. Prior to a request from the user, the content items are pre-fetched based on the ranked content providers and constraints such as storage space, bandwidth, and battery power level of a computing device of the user. In some embodiments, additional content items are retrieved, or retrieved content items are deleted, as a variable-size cache on the computing device fills or changes size.

Methods and devices are provided for support of a body structure. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, as the body structure changes size and / or shape, the size and / or shape of the annuloplasty rings can be adjusted to provide continued reinforcement. In certain embodiments, the devices include a first body member including a first shape memory material configured to transform the annuloplasty ring from a first configuration having a first size of a dimension to a second configuration having a second size of the dimension. The second size is less than said first size in septal lateral distance. The devices also include a second body member including a second shape memory material configured to transform the annuloplasty ring from the second configuration to a third configuration having a third size of the dimension, wherein the second size is less than the third size in septal lateral distance.

Methods and devices are provided for support of a body structure. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, as the body structure changes size and / or shape, the size and / or shape of the annuloplasty rings can be adjusted to provide continued reinforcement. In certain embodiments, the devices include a tubular member configured to be attached to or near a cardiac valve annulus. The tubular member includes a receptacle end and an insert end configured to couple with the receptacle end of the tubular member such that the tubular member substantially forms a shape of a ring. The insert end is configured to move with respect to the receptacle end to change a circumference of the ring.

A composite telescoping interbody spinal implant and method of using the implant. The implant includes a cage formed of metal, a metal alloy, or both. The cage is able to change size following manufacture, and has a top plate with a plurality of posts and a bottom plate with a corresponding plurality of columns. The posts telescopically engage the columns upon assembly of the top plate with the bottom plate. The posts extend partially outside the columns when the top plate is in a raised first position with respect to the bottom plate; the posts and columns are fully engaged when the top plate is in a second position closest to the bottom plate. The implant also includes a non-metallic body inserted between the top plate and the bottom plate and defining the adjustable height of the implant.

A transceiver in a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and safety system that regularly broadcasts safety messages, comprising location, heading and speed, of a subject vehicle, that are free of MAC and IP addresses. The V2V system uses the location of the subject vehicle for vehicle identification, in place of a pre-assigned vehicle ID. Some embodiments broadcast safety message in self-assigned time slots in a synchronized TDMA broadcast architecture, with unusually short inter-message gaps and unusually short messages. The TDMA frame is partitioned into three prioritized time interval classes with differing priorities and dynamically changing sizes based on demand of higher-priority messages. Time slot selection uses weighted algorithms. Selected time slots are held until either a message collision or a timeout occurs. A transceiver equipped vehicle may proxy a different subject vehicle. Embodiments include optimized traffic flow and signal timing.

Methods and devices are provided for support of a body structure. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, as the body structure changes size and / or shape, the size and / or shape of the annuloplasty rings can be adjusted to provide continued reinforcement. In certain embodiments, the devices include a tubular member configured to be attached to or near a cardiac valve annulus. The tubular member includes a receptacle end and an insert end configured to couple with the receptacle end of the tubular member such that the tubular member substantially forms a shape of a ring. The insert end is configured to move with respect to the receptacle end to change a circumference of the ring.

Methods and devices are provided for support of a body structure. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, as the body structure changes size and / or shape, the size and / or shape of the annuloplasty rings can be adjusted to provide continued reinforcement. In certain embodiments, the devices include a body member including a ferromagnetic shape memory material. The body member has a first size of a dimension in a first configuration and a second size of the dimension in a second configuration. The body member is configured to be implanted into a heart so as to reinforce a cardiac valve annulus in the first configuration. The body member is configured to transform from the first configuration to the second configuration in vivo in response to a magnetic field. The body member in the second configuration is configured to reduce a size of the cardiac valve annulus.

Athletic and sports wear, and medical or therapeutic garments (G1-G8), all made from a “smart” fabric. The fabric is woven from, or incorporates, one or more components that allows the fabric to change size or shape, project heat or cooling to a part of the wearer's body, to monitor body vital signs such as temperature and pulse rate, etc. The fabric can be used in a garment covering only part of a patient's body, or substantially all of the body. Besides targeting specific areas of a body for treatment, garments made from the fabric facilitate zonal treatments; that is, areas of the body that require therapy but in which certain portions of the area require different levels or intensity of treatment than others. A variety of materials and their various capabilities are disclosed.

Methods and devices are provided for support of a body structure. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, as the body structure changes size and / or shape, the size and / or shape of the annuloplasty rings can be adjusted to provide continued reinforcement. In certain embodiments, the devices include a body member including a shape memory material. The shape memory material is configured to transform from a first shape to a second shape in response to being heated. The devices also include a thermally insulative material at least partially covering the body member and a thermally conductive material extending into the thermally insulative material. The thermally conductive material is configured to communicate thermal energy to the body member.

Methods and devices are provided for support of a body structure. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner, such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, as the body structure changes size and / or shape, the size and / or shape of the annuloplasty rings can be adjusted to provide continued reinforcement. In certain embodiments, the devices comprise a shape memory material, and further include a body member and an insert member. The body member has a circumference and a slot that extends at least partially along the circumference of the body. The insert member extends at least partially along the circumference of the body. The device has a first shape in a first configuration and a second shape in a second configuration, and is configured to transform from a first configuration to a second configuration in response to a first activation energy applied thereto.

A system and method is provided that displays cursors for street level images, where the cursor changes appearance based on the objects in the image, such as the geographic distance between the objects and the camera position and the surface of the objects. For example, the cursor may appear to lie flat against the objects in the image change size based on the distance between the camera and object's surface.

Some embodiments disclosed herein relate to a medical connector having a selectively closable male end portion. Embodiments are configured to open upon connection with a female connector or female tipped medical implement. Some embodiments include an internal cavity configured to change size as the connector moves from the open to closed or closed to open positions. In some embodiments, the connector is configured to draw fluid from the male end toward the other end of the connector as the connector closes.

Methods and devices are provided for support of a body structure. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, as the body structure changes size and / or shape, the size and / or shape of the annuloplasty rings can be adjusted to provide continued reinforcement. In certain embodiments, a method for treating a cardiac valve includes providing an annuloplasty ring having a first size of a dimension in a first configuration and a second size of the dimension in a second configuration. In the first configuration, the method includes attaching the annuloplasty ring to or near a valve annulus in a heart. The method also includes applying energy from a magnetic resonance imaging device to the annuloplasty ring which responds to the energy by transforming from the first configuration to the second configuration.

In an image pickup apparatus such as a digital camera with a display serving as a viewfinder, exposure is controlled by changing only an exposure time of an image pickup device without changing size of an aperture for taking an image for the viewfinder. When the exposure time of the image pickup device is insufficient to obtain a proper density of the image, the image signals of the image pickup device is amplified for compensating the insufficient exposure.

The present invention provides a technique to improve productivity on a task for redesigning a screen depending on change in a display size of the screen displayed on a display unit. In a computer environment, a display of a screen composed of a container for defining a frame of the screen and a GUI part arranged in this container is controlled as follows. When an event is detected for changing the size of the screen displayed on a display section, the size of the container in this screen is changed according to the detected event. Furthermore, data relating to a GUI part arranged within the container are changed on the basis of transformation assist lines 341 and 342 set on the container. Then the changed size of the container, a position and the size of the GUI part are reflected to update the screen.

A self-adjusting magnetic therapeutic band device, assembly, system and method of use is disclosed for use on, or in interaction with, a living penile organ of a human or animal. The invention is provided with differentially elastic layers and like fabricated or elastic layerings in embodiments of the invention as part of a securement or band-like piece, for securement, pocketing, and various spacings between, positioned magnetic groupings and magnetic components of embodiments of the invention, utilizing their opposing and like magnetic polar charges, to position the invention in contact with, and adjustment to, the changing sizes of a flaccid or erectile penile organ. The invention also contemporaneously provides a therapeutic magnetic field to tissue and anatomy adjacent or proximate to a pre-selected installation site on a penile organ. The invention utilizes various coupling systems or assemblies for such installation, achieving snug, contact-friendly interaction with a penile organ, while providing snug self-adjustment of the invention's layered band-like piece to various perimeter and size changes of the organ.

Methods and devices are provided for support of a body structure. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, as the body structure changes size and / or shape, the size and / or shape of the annuloplasty rings can be adjusted to provide continued reinforcement. In certain embodiments, the devices include a shape memory material that is responsive to changes in temperature and / or exposure to a magnetic field. A material having enhanced absorption characteristics with regard to a desired heating energy may be used in order to facilitate heating and adjustment of the support device.

An apparatus of changing a display size and a method thereof in an image recording and reproducing apparatus are provided. The apparatus includes an MPEG decoder for separating a signal reproduced by an optical disc reproducing device and outputting the separated signal; a scaler for changing the size of the signal output from the MPEG decoder and outputting the signal having the changed size; and a control unit for controlling to display a screen-size selection screen on the display device, driving the scaler to change the reproduced image to have a selected screen size, and controlling to display the changed image on the display device, thereby changing the display size. Thus, the screen size can be adjusted when the image quality is significantly deteriorated on a large-sized screen, thereby solving a problem of image spread or pixel damage.

A display apparatus and a control method are provided in which a size menu item is changed, when the menu item is directed by a user. A display apparatus includes a user input part; a menu generator generating a user menu including at least one or more items; a display part displayed with the user menu generated from the menu generator; and a controller controlling the menu generator so that a size of a directed item according to an operation of the user input part among the items of the user menu displayed at the display part is reduced into a predetermined size and then is returned to an original size.

Methods and devices are provided for support of a body structure. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, as the body structure changes size and / or shape, the size and / or shape of the annuloplasty rings can be adjusted to provide continued reinforcement. In certain embodiments, the devices include an anterior portion, a posterior portion and two lateral portions corresponding to intersections of the anterior portion and the posterior portion. The devices have, a first shape in a first configuration and a second shape in a second configuration and are configured to transform from the first configuration to the second configuration in response to an activation energy applied thereto. The transformation is configured to reduce a distance between the anterior portion and the posterior portion without substantially decreasing a distance between the two lateral portions.

Methods and devices are provided for support of a body structure. The devices can be adjusted within the body of a patient in a minimally invasive or non-invasive manner such as by applying energy percutaneously or external to the patient's body. The energy may include, for example, acoustic energy, radio frequency energy, light energy and magnetic energy. Thus, as the body structure changes size and / or shape, the size and / or shape of the annuloplasty rings can be adjusted to provide continued reinforcement. In certain embodiments, the devices include a body member including a shape memory material, and an energy absorption enhancement material configured to absorb energy in response to an activation energy. The energy absorption enhancement material is in thermal communication with said shape memory material. The body member has a first size of a dimension in a first configuration and a second size of the dimension in a second configuration, and is configured to be implanted in the first configuration into a heart. The body member is configured to transform from the first configuration to the second configuration in response to the activation energy. The second configuration is configured to reduce a dimension of a cardiac valve annulus in the heart.

An apparatus for determining endoscopic dimensional measurements, including a light source for projecting light patterns on a surgical sight including shapes with actual dimensional measurements and fiducials, and a means for analyzing the projecting light patterns on the surgical sight by comparing the actual dimensional measurements of the projected light patterns to the surgical site. The projected light patterns may include multiple wavelengths of light for measurements of different features of tissue and may be produced using a laser in conjunction with a light shaping optical diffuser, or using a light emitting diode in conjunction with a light shaping optical diffuser, or using a special filter. The projected light patterns may take the form of concentric rings with each ring representing a radius of a given dimension and may be a collimated pattern which does not significantly change size as a function of a distance to a projected plane.

A variable-sized screen includes a support, at least one scrolling device and a flexible display. The support has a fixing frame and a movable frame, which are retractably connected. The scrolling device and the flexible display are assembled on the support. The flexible display is wrapped around the support, and the size of the flexible display is variable due to displacement of the support. When the support changes size through a retracted movement of the movable frame and the fixing frame, the flexible display also changes size correspondingly and the size of the screen becomes variable. Therefore, the dimensions of the screen and electronic products are not limited, and the display device has the advantages of a big screen yet is still portable and convenient for a user.

An electro-magnetic audio transducer that is self-cooling by inhaling and exhausting an area that is separated from the reminder of the transducer by an instantaneous decrease or increase, respectively, of the pressure within that area by the movement of a coil when electrically excited. The coil being wound on a bobbin that defines an interior cavity that changes in size as the coil is excited causing that size to increase or decrease thus inhaling or exhausting, respectfully, air into or out of the cavity by the pressure change. That movement of air resulting in convective cooling of the coil and transducer. The bobbin encircling a magnetic pole piece with a cooling cap on top thereof with slots therethrough through which air is drawn in opposite directions as the size of the cavity within the bobbin changes size as the coil is electrically excited.

A device for use in, and system for, a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and safety system that uses a hybrid combination of TDMA and CSMA protocols. The synchronized TDMA frame is partitioned into three prioritized time interval classes with differing priorities and dynamically changing sizes based on demand of higher-priority messages. The TDMA portions of a repeating time interval uses self-assigned dense time slots for high-priority safety messages, with one portion for emergency vehicles and road-side units. The CSMA protocol uses remaining available time for lower-priority and overflow messages. The higher-priority time interval classes change size dynamically based on the number of current transmissions. Modulation schemes, but not data link formats, use existing Standards. Embodiments include optimized traffic flow and signal timing.

An electronic device according to various embodiments includes a first structure capable of moving between a closed state and an open state with regard to a second structure, a second structure, a flexible touchscreen display layer comprising a planar portion and a bendable portion, a processor operatively connected to the flexible touchscreen display layer, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions that when executed, enable the processor to perform operations of displaying at least one first object in a first area of the planar portion and displaying at least one second object in a second area of the planar portion in the closed state, and displaying the at least one object in the first area and displaying the at least one second object in a third area of the bendable portion in the open state.

A variable-sized screen includes a support, at least one scrolling device and a flexible display. The support has a fixing frame and a movable frame, which are retractably connected. The scrolling device and the flexible display are assembled on the support. The flexible display is wrapped around the support, and the size of the flexible display is variable due to displacement of the support. When the support changes size through a retracted movement of the movable frame and the fixing frame, the flexible display also changes size correspondingly and the size of the screen becomes variable. Therefore, the dimensions of the screen and electronic products are not limited, and the display device has the advantages of a big screen yet is still portable and convenient for a user.

A document processing apparatus according to the present invention capable of changing a layout of a document dynamically in accordance with data to be laid out in the document, comprises a priority order setting unit which independently sets, for each of a plurality of pieces of region information representing regions to lay out the data, a priority order representing an order of determination of a size of the region by inserting the data in the region; a storage unit which stores a template which contains the region information representing the region to lay out the data and priority order information representing the priority order associated with the region by the priority order setting unit; and a layout unit which sequentially lays out the data corresponding to the region in the order represented by the priority order in accordance with the template, and when one of the size and position of the region can be changed, changes one of the size and position of the region in accordance with the data without invading a region associated with a higher priority order than the region.

An apparatus and a method for displaying an object in a portable electronic device are provided. The method for displaying the object includes displaying at least one object according to a first arrangement, and when an object size change event occurs, changing a size of the at least one object and displaying the at least one object having the changed size by changing an object arrangement to a second arrangement.