A speedometer face plate assembly that incorporates a border of light transmitting segments above the speed indicating numerals is disclosed. Each of the segments is a different color. The colored segments are lighted from behind as the speed changes so that colored light is visible both peripherally and directly to the driver. Each color is associated with a specific speed increment so that once ...

The invention proposes a fine grained sintered cemented carbide containing chromium and based on WC and a binder based on Co or CoNiFe, and having at least one additional phase comprising at least one carbide or mixed carbide of tantalum. For improving the high-temperature properties while simultaneously maintaining a good trade-off between hardness and bending strength, it is proposed that the si...

Disclosed are multibinding compounds which include macrolide antibiotics, aminoglycosides, lincosamides, oxazolidinones, streptoramins, tetracycline and/or other compounds which bind to bacterial ribosomal RNA and/or to one or more proteins involved in ribosomal protein synthesis in the bacterium, which are useful in treating bacterial infections. The compounds adversely affect protein expression ...

The present invention relates to a process for the reduction of aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic organic compounds by means of hydrides and/or derivatives thereof.

An interface is in the form of a switch bank for the center stack of a motor vehicle. The switch bank comprises a motor vehicle interior trim component and at least one non-movable switch located behind the interior trim component. The switch is operable to actuate and de-actuate an electrically operated device of the motor vehicle.

A power connection apparatus of a vehicle is provided that includes a pair of substantially flat electrical conductor strips each having a first end and a second end. The first ends are adapted to be electrically coupled to integrated heater conductors in an automobile glazing. A film forms a protective coating over an intermediate section of the pair of electrical conductor strips. The film insul...

An apparatus for creating a registration network of a scene includes a laser scanner for scanning the scene and obtaining data of the scene. The apparatus includes a plurality of targets placed in the scene. The apparatus includes a mechanism for forming a registration network using only the laser scanner data. A method for creating a registration network of the scene.

There is provided a surface acoustic wave device which can prevent a breakage of electrodes and electrical breaks, decrease an insertion loss of elements, and enhance a Q-factor of resonators. Interdigital electrode sections and each have a laminated structure of a base layer made of TiN (titanium nitride) or TiO_xN_y and a main electrode layer deposited to come in contact with...

An antenna conductor is electrically coupled to a transponder and antenna conductor ends are spliced. The antenna conductor and the transponder are formed into a ring assembly and at least partially embedded within an adhesive material. The annular assembly affixes to a tire by means of the adhesive material.

Searching through a series of images such as video images for slowly-moving objects such as enemy snipers, using pattern matching, color matching, brightness matching, or the like. Multiple search speeds facilitate finding objects moving at different velocities through the visual field. Search speeds can be determined as, e.g. every Nth frame, or a frame from every Nth period of time. Background m...

A mobile antenna includes a center-fed, broadband, dipole radiator, and a coupler assembly for mounting the dipole radiator to a mount. A power matching circuit is connected between the dipole radiator and the coupler assembly to maintain an effective balance of current distribution and impedance in conductive elements of the antenna.

A machine vision system ( 1 ) has two laser sources ( 2, 3 ) to illuminate a solder deposit from both sides for comprehensive coverage without occlusion. The camera ( 4 ) has an FGPA ( 32 ) programmed to define a subset of the sensor array ( 20 ) as a region of interest to be processed for each laser source ( 2, 3 ). This reduces the amount of data transfer and processing required. The image line ...

This invention relates to the use of holographic optical elements in the design and application of biometric scanning instruments used typically for capturing biometric information such as fingerprints and handprints. A system and method for capturing print images from select areas of a platen are presented. The system includes a reference beam source that provides a reference beam, holographic ma...

The image registration systems and methods according to this invention register reflectance and fluorescence hyperspectral imagery and provide the spatial image transformation between the reflectance and fluorescence hyperspectral imagery. A reflectance image is embedded into the fluorescence hyperspectral imagery and thereby resolves the resemblance problem of reflectance and fluorescence hypersp...

A method for inspecting electrical circuits, and a system for carrying out the method, generating a representation of boundaries of elements in an image of an electrical circuit which is under inspection, and analyzing at least some locations of at least some boundaries in the representation of boundaries of elements to identify defects in the electrical circuit.

A method of testing for color consistency between corresponding portions of two-dimensional images or photographs that are used to create three-dimensional models of scenes or objects. The testing method makes use of histograms in order to determine whether color consistency exists. In the event that color consistency does exist, voxels or other modeling primitives that are viewed in the portions ...

An object of the present invention is to make it possible to specify a background image area, a moving object image area, and an image area in which the mixture of the background image area and the moving object image area occurs. A mixture-ratio calculator 103 extracts pixel data of a peripheral frame corresponding to a designated pixel of a designated frame of the image data as background pixel ...

A system of estimating and reducing image blur in digital images stored in a digital file as a sequence of DCT coefficients arranged in a plurality of blocks. The disclosed system may preferably calculate one or more blur indicators from selected ones of the sequence of DCT coefficients and selectively filter a digital image based upon the calculated one or more blur indicators.

A method of processing a digital image to improve tone scale, includes the steps of: generating a multiresolution image representation of the digital image including a plurality of base digital images and a plurality of residual digital images; applying a texture reducing spatial filter to the base digital images to produce texture reduced base digital images; combining the texture reduced base di...

Timecoding systems, methods and data structures are described which, in some embodiments, permit a true time to be ascertained from media samples whose timecodes contain an amount of drift which can arise from having non-integer frame rates. Inventive methods incorporate the use of an offset parameter that describes a time difference between a timecode and a true time associated with a media sampl...