Un sistema automático de vigilancia y de control de la tolerancia de solapamiento en el empalme de una tela textil, caracterizado porque comprende un subsistema (2) de adquisición de imágenes conectado a medios (3) de soporte para regular la posición de dicho subsistema (2) con relación a dicha tela textil que comprende el mencionado empalme, estando dispuesto dicho subsistema frente a dicha tela ...

An outdoor umbrella includes a foldable umbrella awning, an umbrella frame, a lighting system mounted on the umbrella frame, and a solar power supply arrangement which converts solar energy into electrical energy and provides the converted electrical energy to the lighting system for lighting up the lighting system. The solar power supply arrangement includes a solar collecting device supported by...

A juxtaposing structure for the heated ends of a plurality of heat pipes includes a plurality of heat pipes and a locking unit. Each heat pipe has a heated end. The surface of the heated end of each heat pipe has an upper plane and a lower plane facing to each other and sidewall faces formed between both sides of the two planes. Sidewall faces of any two adjacent heat pipes adjoin and abut against...

The laptop computer case includes a storage case section having a recessed portion which enables positioning of the storage case over a telescoping handle assembly incorporated in luggage. One side of the storage case section includes multiple panel sections which may be folded to form a pocket to retain an item such as a laptop computer.

A method of making a fluid dynamic bearing (10) includes the flowing steps. At least two bearing parts (10a, 10b) are firstly provided. Each of the bearing parts has its shape corresponding to a portion of the fluid dynamic bearing to be formed. Then, the bearing parts are combined to form a profile of the fluid dynamic bearing to be formed. Finally, the combined bearing parts are sintered to form...

A toroidal-type continuously variable transmission has a pair of input and output disks each including a first traction surface, power rollers each including a second traction surface and respectively interposed between the first traction surfaces of the input and output disks, an oil passage for guiding lubricating oil to the traction surfaces of the power rollers, input disk and output disk, and...

An illumination device for medical and dental procedures is described. The illumination device includes an elongate body configured to contain two or more optical fibers to transmit electromagnetic energy from a power source toward a target surface. The distal end of the illumination device is illustrated as a unitary structure, and the proximal end is illustrated as having multiple proximal end m...

Disclosed is a method of efficiently aerating yeast prior to pitching. In the method, yeast are aerated in an aqueous sugar solution containing zinc.

An actuating element for a function carrier (4) in a motor vehicle having a piezoelectric element (1), preferably a piezoelectric foil and a decorative surface (2), mounted above the piezoelectric element (1). Further, a system of at least two actuating elements characterized in that the actuating elements have a common piezoelectric element (1), preferably a piezoelectric foil. Finally, a method ...

An antenna, consisting of a folded looped conductor closed at a feedpoint. The antenna has at least two conductive arms extending from the feedpoint.

An image processing method comprises an extracting process of extracting a characteristic amount of an input image, a generating process of generating a high frequency component of the input image, a gradation converting process of converting a gradation of the input image on the basis of the characteristic amount, and an adding process of adding the high frequency component to the input image who...

Scatter effects are reduced in a radiographic imaging device, such as a digital slot scan mammographic imaging device, by reducing detected scatter and processing detector information to compensate for scatter effects. In one embodiment, a digital mammographic imaging system (10) includes a source (24) for transmitting a narrow beam (28) and a detector assembly (32) for detecting the beam (28). Th...

A first cross section image other than an axial image of a subject is generated from a radiation image. A nodule in the first cross section image is detected. A second cross section image including the detected nodule is generated from the radiation image. A feature amount of the second cross section image is calculated. It is determined based on the calculated feature amount whether not the detec...

A system and method for segmenting and editing anatomical objects from medical images is disclosed. The system may be a medical diagnostic imaging system. A computer unit may execute computer software for segmenting anatomical objects from medical images. The computer software may extract an anatomical object from planar curves. The computer software may extract an anatomical object by computing t...

A method of identifying an object in a digital image includes finding a point in a digital image that is a concentration location, initializing a cluster with said concentration location, adding the neighboring points of the concentration location to a list, selecting a neighbor point with an extremal potential value from said list, determining a slide direction of all neighbors of said selected p...

A method of segmenting a digitized image includes providing a digitized image on a domain of points on an N%N grid, defining a weight between each pair of adjacent points in the image based on the intensity difference of each said point pair, marking a subset of points in the image, associating a probability potential with each unmarked point, and using a multigrid method to solve for the probabil...

A method of estimating three-dimensional camera position information from a series of two-dimensional images that form a panorama employs common features in adjoining image pairs in the series to estimate a transform between the images in the pairs. The common features are subsequently employed to adjust an estimated rotational component of each transform by reducing error between coordinates corr...

A method of reproducing data from a recording medium, wherein each of the data includes reference time information indicating a reference time and packet information, includes the steps of rearranging the data on a time axis such that a time interval between adjacent data is equal to a difference between respective reference times indicated by the reference time information of the adjacent data, a...

Methods for determining whether the brain activity of a human subject in response to a stimulus of interest or question of interest is characteristic of a state of interest, such as a deceptive state or a truthful state, are disclosed. Some methods include the use of control questions, including truthful control questions and deceptive control questions, to provide bases for comparison for respons...

The invention relates to a novel cement-bound material with a mineral bindin g agent, a mineral filler and/or mineral aggregates. Said cement-bound materia l has a proportion of a mass hydrophobing agent comprised of stearates, siliconate s, silanes or siloxanes ranging from 0.5 to 20 wt. % with regard to the weight of the mineral binding agent. The cement-bound material also has a proportion of a...