The invention relates to a system for analysing image-based information, which system includes a mobile station (1), a camera (9) connected to it, and a telecommunications system (6, 4), with the aid of which images stored in the memory of the mobile station (1) can be forwarded. According to the invention, the system includes a server (5), with the aid of which the images of the camera connection...

A method for optimizing a prescription for laser-ablation corneal treatment achieves the modification of wavefront-based refractive correction data with the use of user/doctor-input nomograms. Data comprising a wavefront description of a patient eye are received and displayed to a user, who can then make modifications to these treatment data. A modification is calculated based upon the desired cor...

A method of authentication via a secure wireless communication system; t he method comprising sensing that a mobile device has come within range of a secure network; initiating a program (5) within the mobile device offering the user a plurality of authentication options; processing the chosen authentication option and providing requested user data to a service provider for the secure network (9),...

Systems and methods for indexing and retrieving images are described herein. The systems and methods analyze an image to determine its texture moments. The pixels of the image are converted to gray scale. Textural attributes of the pixels are determined. The textural attributes are associated with the local texture of the pixels and are derived from coefficients of Discrete Fourier Transform assoc...

An apparatus and method for starved air gasification of solid organic materials, including biomass and other wastes, to convert the chemical energy stored in such materials to thermal energy or gaseous products that may be used in biochemical and/or chemical synthesis. Specifically, the system utilizes a gasifier having a "moving bed of ash" hearth wherein the feedstock is partially oxidized at a ...

An apparatus and method for starved air gasification of solid organic materials, including biomass and other wastes, to convert the chemical energy stored in such materials to thermal energy or gaseous products that may be used in biochemical and/or chemical synthesis. Specifically, the system utilizes a gasifier having a "moving bed of ash" hearth wherein the feedstock is partially oxidized at a ...

A brake of a concrete finishing trowel responds automatically to the cessati on of drive torque delivery to the rotor to actively brake the trowel's drive trai n, hence inhibiting or preventing frame rotation. The brake preferably takes advantages of inherent characteristics of an inclined gear, such as a worm of a gearbox, to permit an internal component of the gearbox to shift automatically upon...

An ecological road unit configured like a false opencut (2) of a road, whose essential element consists in an underground passage (1) utilised for the handling of meteoric waters polluted by particulate materials etc. and for sucking and purifying the air polluted by the volatile substances generated by vehicle traffic. The ecological unit also performs many other functions, like the reduction of ...

A felt pad for chairs, pieces of furniture and the like, comprising at least one layer of felt (3), coupled to at least one layer of substantially elastic shock-absorbing material (4).

A container - batcher includes a tubular body (1,30) with uniform cross-section, for receiving liquid or doughy products (S,S1). A piston (2,20) with cross-section substantially corresponding to the inner cross-section of the tubular body (1,30) defines a first tight closing head and is slidingly introduced in the tubular body (1,30). A second head (3,31) closes the opposite end of the tubular bod...

An extruded tubular profile (1) made of a material such as fiberglass-reinforced plastics, and an associated extrusion machine (2), which comprises at least one longitudinal strand (3) of pretreated glass fibers embedded, while hot, in the thickness of the profile (1) during extrusion, the extrusion machine being provided with a unit (4) for preheating the strand (3).

A linear screw actuator, comprising a rotatable actuation shaft (7), with which a slider (8) is associated by means of a screw-and-nut coupling and can move between two mutually opposite end positions; the actuator further comprising a rotation-preventing limiter (16) that is suitable to cushion elastically the accidental impact of the slider (8) against foreign objects (17) in any position of its...