The digital invoice reading code application involves specially written software and available optical readers making it possible to read digitally all invoice data from received invoices, also those from external suppliers. The general purchasing regulating data are stored in a detail regulating bar code. The contents cover all relevant details necessary to take the invoice information in a respo...

The digital visiting card code application employs specially written software and available optical readers digitally to read personal information from a visiting card. The digital visiting card code is printed in a clear position as a bar code on the card. The digital visiting card code has the information stored via a web base. The form is a table easily linked to the table form standardly used ...

An improved collapsible frame structure for use on an outdoor sunshade or parasol which is equipped with a minor extension arm coupled to a main runner of a main mast and a main extension arm in pivotal connection to a top retainer of the main mast at one end and to a lower end of a secondary stretching strut at the other end. The main extension arm and the minor extension arm are mutually coupled...

A case having a rectangular parallel-piped shape includes a rigid board inserted into a pocket defined in a lateral and bottom sides of the case. The board maintains the shape of the case in cooperation with wheel housings and a bracket attached to the bottom and lateral sides. A telescoping handle is also attached to the reinforcing board.

Apparatus for ablating organic material, such as tissue, during an EP procedure generates a monitor signal to provide unambiguous indicia of real time characteristics of the ablation site prior to, during and subsequent to the EP procedure by providing indicia representative of the impedance of the tissue along with indicia of the resistive and reactive components of the impedance. Inorganic mater...

An arm mounting mechanism comprising an arm wrap (11) which fits under the user's shirt sleeve and a cantilever shaft (13) which is attachable to a PDA or other device to be removably attached so that it rests over the user's sleeve. The mechanism may be used to mount display monitors, keyboards, bar code scanners, magnetic strip readers, GPS receivers, pagers, wireless phones, microphones and oth...

Methods and apparatus for providing access in an event detection and tracking system are disclosed, where the event detection and tracking system is adapted for storing data associated with a plurality of detected events. An access request for access to at least a portion of data associated with one of the plurality of detected events is received and access information associated with the access r...

A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit stream. The pipeline system employs a plurality of interconnected stages to decode and decompress the single bit stream, including a start ...

A fault of an operating system (hereafter referred to as "OS") is observed without adding dedicated hardware. Besides AP fault monitoring, check-point information is preserved at high speed without adding dedicated hardware. In a computer having a multi-OS environment, an AP fault monitor and a monitored AP operate on a first OS. A fault monitor operates on a second OS. Each of the first OS and th...

A microprocessor based system, such as a Personal Computer (PC), server, router, word processor or like devices, includes circuit arrangement that monitors the processor for a heartbeat pulse. If the heartbeat pulse is not sensed within a specified time interval the circuit arrangement issues a Soft Reset signal (Unmasked Interrupt) that causes the microprocessor to execute a program that logs the...

Data byte errors are detected by a comparator and classified into errors for respective interleaves, and the classified errors are counted by counters in an error count block. Further, at the time one sector has been read, comparators compare the counted values for the respective interleaves with an interleave threshold to detect whether nor not there are interleaves which have a number of errors ...

The base (2) of the belt (1) is secured via supports (6) to the holder (3). The supports are secured to two turn-up pieces (5) provided on the belt base in the hip region. Two fasteners (4) are both secured on one side to the hip side of the belt base and extend a sufficient length distance from this hip side to make it possible for them to be joined together by placing the belt base against the s...

A vehicle having a transmission for transmitting a torque from a drive machine to drive wheels, with the transmission having a transmission output shaft and a transmission input shaft, in which the torque can be transmitted from the drive machine to the transmission output shaft, and having an electrical machine which has a rotor and a stator, with means being provided in order to connect the elec...

An implantable apparatus for treating a heart of a living organism which contains a device for withdrawing blood from the heart, for imparting helical flow to the blood, for recording at least one energy characteristic of the heart, and for imparting energy to the living organism.

A method of determining kidney failure in a patient using an implantable medical device is described. In one embodiment, a first magnitude of a first polarization signal is measured. An additional magnitude of an additional polarization signal is measured after a first interval. A deflection differential between the first magnitude and the additional magnitude is determined and kidney failure in t...

An insertion device that includes an insertable portion adapted to be inserted into and retained in an animal body and an ex vivo portion that is adapted to be worn while the insertable portion remains inserted. The device further includes a trocar that is adapted to insert the insertable portion into the animal body. In addition, a cavity in the ex vivo portion is adapted to accept and retain the...

A process for producing a multilayered substrate. In a first step, an adhesive layer is applied to a surface of a support substrate. Then a device substrate is placed into contact with the adhesive surface. Then the adhesive is cured. Then the device substrate is thinned. The device substrate has a hydrogen trap layer inside. The trap layer is formed by ion implantation through a face surface of t...

A tire monitoring (TM) system includes a peak detector signal filter that is configured to substantially prevent impulse noise from increasing a data slicer threshold, while simultaneously allowing the data slicer threshold to follow the variations in a received message attributable to signal fading. The TM system also automatically determines the location of a plurality of vehicle tires relative ...

In a conventional EL display device, a general video signal (analog signal voltage) is sampled to be outputted to a source signal line and then inputted to a gate electrode of a driving TFT provided in each pixel. The drain current of the TFT is controlled to control the current flowing into an EL element, thereby adjusting the luminance. However, accurate gray scales cannot be obtained unless the...

A surface emitting laser device comprising, on a semiconductor substrate, an active region for generating light, a current confinement region disposed on the side opposite to the semiconductor substrate relative to the active region, an optical cavity comprising reflectors putting the active region and the current confinement region vertically therebetween in the direction of layering the semicond...