Systems and methods for the multispectral imaging of skin tissue enables automatic characterization of the condition of a region of interest of the skin, based on direct digital imaging of the region of interest or the digitization of color photographic slides of the region of interest, illuminated by appropriately filtered light. Preferably, a digital image at a low spectral band is automatically...

PCT No. PCT/DE98/00080 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 17, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 17, 1998 PCT Filed Jan. 12, 1998 PCT Pub. No. WO98/44256 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 1998A fuel injection valve, particularly an injection valve for fuel injection equipment of internal combustion engines, having a pump piston that can be activated using a piezoelectric or magnetostrictive actuator for exerting a translatory pump m...

A method of applying a curable powder coating, to a selected portion of a spin-on filter housing, uses a fluidized bed coating apparatus to provide a slip-resistant enhanced gripping surface when cured. This slip-resistant coating is applied to a selected portion of the exterior surface of the filter housing, in order to provide an easily grippable slip-resistant textured surface, once the powder ...

PCT No. PCT/JP96/02789 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 18, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 18, 1997 PCT Filed Sep. 26, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/12895 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 10, 1997A dimer, trimer or tetramer of an anthracycline compound which can be obtained by directly, chemically bonding anthracycline compounds having anticancer activities to each other by an alkali treatment. A high molecular block copolymer-drug com...

A multi-layer ferroelectric thin film includes a nucleation layer, a bulk layer, and an optional cap layer. A thin nucleation layer of a specific composition is implemented on a bottom electrode to optimize ferroelectric crystal orientation and is markedly different from the composition required in the bulk of a ferroelectric film. The bulk film utilizes the established nucleation layer as a found...

A method for fabricating a capacitor of a semiconductor device which stabilizes the operation of electrodes of the capacitor and improves the operational characteristic and reliability of the semiconductor device. The method comprises the steps of: preparing a semiconductor substrate; forming an insulating layer on the substrate; forming a contact hole by selectively eliminating the lower insulati...

A method for fabricating an integrated circuit includes the steps of forming an isolating insulation film on a portion of a semiconductor substrate, forming a gate insulating film, a first conductive layer, an insulating film and a second conductive layer successively on the semiconductor substrate including the isolating insulation film, selectively removing the second conductive layer and the in...

A device for deactivating a magnetomechanical EAS marker includes a coil and circuitry for energizing the coil to generate an alternating magnetic field. The coil is wound around a magnetic core. The core may be cruciform with four arms, on each of which a respective coil is provided. Alternatively, the core may be generally square and planar, with two coils wound around the core in different resp...

The invention provides a system and method for processing object-based audiovisual information which is capable of flexibly encoding, storing and accessing a variety of data objects. Audiovisual objects, illustratively prepared in MPEG-4 format, are stored onto physical media using file consisting of segments and access layer primary data units (PDUs), which are accessed using index information. T...

An electrical receptacle providing repositional plug accepting members which receive and lock into place an inserted electrical plug with or without a ground prong while allowing for manual rotation to on and off positions, the receptacle further utilizes prong slot blocking members to obstruct attempted foreign object insertion when improperly initiated without plug insertion. The empowerment or ...

The present invention provides for techniques for transporting materials using electrokinetic forces through the channels of a microfluidic system. The subject materials are transported in regions of high ionic concentration, next to spacer material regions of high ionic concentration, which are separated by spacer material regions of low ionic concentration. Such arrangements allow the materials ...

PCT No. PCT/DE97/02076 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 25, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 25, 1999 PCT Filed Sep. 16, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/12809 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 26, 1998Surface wave filter for asymmetrical/symmetrical and symmetrical/symmetrical operating mode, with interdigital output transformers (IDT2, IDT4) connected in series.

A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three o...

A method and system for building virtual reality object models. The method includes defining an object space, generating multiple two-dimensional real images of the object, and selecting multiple reference points in each image, the reference points defining an image region, the region having a texture. The method also includes determining the three-dimensional position in the object space of each ...

PCT No. PCT/US96/07127 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 24, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 24, 1997 PCT Filed May 17, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/38007 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 28, 1996An apparatus and concomitant method for constructing a valid OSD message bitstream from a plurality of stored character bitstreams. Each character of the OSD font set is initially scaled into a fixed block size, e.g., a block size of 16x16 pixe...

The connected element extraction device stores a binary image signal as binary image data; calculates a rectangle circumscribing a connected element; determines whether the rectangle overlaps with others and stores the label and coordinates of an overlapping rectangle; generates a label image of the overlapping rectangle; based on the label image, divides the overlapping rectangle as a parent rect...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/01747 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 9, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 9, 1997 PCT Filed May 9, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/36008 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 14, 1996A process and system for separation of foreground information from background information in a document is described. In an initial stage, at least two images of a document are created, each with different filtering. One of the images is filtered ...

PCT No. PCT/US95/07458 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 6, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 6, 1996 PCT Filed Jun. 13, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/01025 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 11, 1996A transmitted high definition television signal is represented by a packetized datastream configured as a sequence of data fields (FIG. 1) with a non-uniform data rate due to unequal inter-data overhead information intervals. Each data field is ...

In a semiconductor device in which one terminal of each of plural capacitors is connected to a corresponding multiple input terminal via a switch, and the other terminals of the capacitors are commonly connected to a sense amplifier, the other terminal of at least one capacitor is commonly connected to the sense amplifier via a second switch, thereby reducing circuit scale, increasing operation sp...

The automatic linking to program-specific computer chat rooms is disclosed. A computer detects the channel selected on a corresponding tuner. By referencing the channel and the time and date in which the computer is operating against an electronic program guide, the computer is able to determine the specific program currently on the channel. A unique identification code for the program is sent to ...