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| 20120101405 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING CUTANEOUS AFFERENT NERVE FIBER EXCITATION - Aspects of the invention relate to a device for predicting cutaneous afferent nerve fiber excitation from an electrical potential applied to a cutaneous tissue by an electrode and methods of using the same. In some embodiments, such devices and methods concern the electrical stimulation of nerves in the skin so as to ameliorate pain in a subject. Accordingly, methods making and using cutaneous electrodes are provided. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120059432 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REFLEX-BASED FUNCTIONAL GAIT TRAINING - A device and method for gait training, such as for rehabilitation of a person after a stroke is provided. In some embodiments, the device comprises a stimulator, preferably electric stimulator, for provoking a spinal cord withdrawal reflex in the person by stimulation on the person's foot in response to a control signal. Hereby, the person's leg will move and initiate a gait swing. A sensor is placed to sense movement of the leg and provide a feedback signal accordingly. A processor unit with a processor runs a control algorithm which calculates the control signal in response to the feedback signal. Thus, the method is based on a closed-loop design, and the control signal is preferably calculated for each walking step, and it is preferably based on the feedback signal obtained from the preceding walking step. Hereby reflex habituation can be accounted for. Preferably, the stimulator has a plurality of stimulator channels with electrodes placed on different sites distributed on the sole of the foot and on the heel. The feedback signal may be based on accelerometer(s), and/or gyroscope(s), and/or goinometer(s) positioned on the leg and/or foot, e.g. partly or fully integrated in an in-sole for a shoe etc. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20110184692 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR SPATIAL ESTIMATION AND VISUALIZATION OF MULTI-LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC ST DEVIATIONS - A system and a method for spatially ordered estimation and visualization of multi-lead electrocardiographic ST deviations induced by myocardial ischemia, in which system a plurality of ECG signals are recorded from a ECG source, which signals are stored by a processor in a memory, which processor processes the signals to obtain ST deviation, which processor performs measurement of ST deviation from each lead where the processor performs a multi-dimensional estimation of an vector representing of the spatial direction and magnitude of the underlying cardiac injury-current giving rise to the measured ST deviations, which processor hereby estimates the spatial location and severity of myocardial ischemia. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110159219 | SILICATE GLASS ARTICLE WITH A MODIFIED SURFACE - The present invention relates to a silicate glass article, such as a glass container, with a modified surface region. The modified surface has, among other advantageous properties, an improved chemical durability, an increased hardness, and/or an increased thermal stability, such as thermal shock resistance. In particular the present invention relates to a process for modifying a surface region of a silicate glass article by heat-treatment at T | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110084815 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATING A COMMUNICATION UNIT - A communication system with a plurality of devices with a communication unit (CU | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110043336 | POWER EFFICIENCY OF THE LOAD-SHIFT KEYING TECHNIQUE - The invention relates to a data transformer and a system for wireless transmission of energy and/or data and to a method for wireless transmission of energy and/or data from the primary side to the secondary side of the data transformer and/or vice versa: from the secondary to the primary side. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20100266844 | Method For Production Of A Product Having Sub-Micron Primary Particle Size, Product Produced By The Method And Apparatus For Use Of The Method - The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a product having a sub-micron primary particle such as metal oxide, metal oxidhydroxide or metal hydroxide product, said method comprising the steps of: introducing a solid reactor filling material in a reactor, introducing a metal-containing precursor in said reactor, introducing a co-solvent into the said reactor, introducing a supercritical solvent in the said reactor. By these steps a contact between the metal-containing precursor and the co-solvent is established, thus resulting in the formation of said product in the proximity of the said solid reactor filling material. The present invention offers the astonishing possibility of producing anatase phase of TiO | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100198522 | Computer-Assisted Method of Analyzing a DNA Mixture - The present invention relates to a computer-assisted method of analyzing a DNA mixture having two or more individual contributors by use of STR technology. The method comprises the steps of obtaining, for a number of STR loci, observed peak area data vector and observed peak height data vector for each peak within a locus, and observed allele data informing which alleles are observed for each loci; and obtaining peak area model data for peak areas by use of a statistical model assuming a normal distribution for the peak areas and assuming conditional independence of the peak area vectors given the sums of the peak areas within each locus. A conditional mean vector and a conditional covariance matrix is proposed and used for the statistical model. The invention also proposes a method for determining, for each locus of the STR loci and by use of the proposed statistical model, a best matching combination of variables indicating the number of allele copies from each individual contributor to the mixture and thereby specifying the DNA mixture. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100069767 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING COMPLEX CURVATURE OF ECG CURVES - The present invention relates to a system and a method for analysis of ECG curvature, which system involves a mathematical analysis, which analysis comprises the following features where a number of different parameters are isolated and stored in computer means, where a first number of parameters are selected from at least one main group, where the selected parameters are combined in at least a first mathematical analysis. It is the object of the invention to improve mathematical analysis of ECG curvature particular for complex parts of the curvature such as notches or concavities. It is a further object of the invention to improve automatic quantification of symmetry, flatness and durations of ECG curvature. This can be achieved if the parameters are selected from groups of symmetry, flatness, duration and/or complexity, which parameters are used as input to an algorithm, where concavity intervals are evaluated on subsegments of the ECG segment and form the basis of up- and downwards concavity quantification, where the system based on an algorithm detects and quantifies concavity on ECG curvatures. Herby can be achieved that a complex curvature can be analysed and the complex curvature might indicate symptoms of diseases which are very difficult to read on ECG curvature by existing technology. This can lead to a more precise analysis where existing systems might by analysing the curvature give a first indication of a symptom. By then performing an analysis of the complex part of the curvature, further symptoms might be indicated. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20090222069 | LIGHT MODULATION OF CELL FUNCTION - The present invention relates to the field of light induced therapy. The invention relates more particularly to a method of modulating receptor function of cells having receptor proteins, said method comprising illuminating the cells with light in the wavelength interval of 250-305 nm or with light having longer wavelengths that by means of non-linear processes and/or multiphoton excitation promotes the same electronic transitions as light in the wavelength interval of 250-305 nm to modulate said receptor function. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090177799 | LOW COMPLEXITY COMPRESSION OF SHORT MESSAGES - The present invention relates to a method for data communication, where the data compression and decompression is performed by use of a specific hash table, by which data compression a symbol for each data segment is generated, which symbols are transmitted to the receiver, in which receiver the symbols are decompressed by use of the specific hash table. It is the object of the invention to perform reliably and fast data transmission between communication devices by data compression. A further object of the inventions is to perform a secure communication between computerized devices. The object can be fulfilled by the preamble to claim one if modified in a way where the specific hash table is performed as a hash table array, which hash table array generates symbols comprising at least a hash count and a parity check, in which hash table array the parity check comprises generating of a data string, which data string is compared with a parity stored in the hash table, where if both parities are the same, the data model returns the count in the hash table element for transmission, where a zero count is returned indicating that the data string is not valid in the hash table an no transmission is performed. Hereby it can be achieved that the count in the hash table is controlled in that the count is not accepted until the parity check is accepted. After the symbol has been transmitted to a receiver it is very important that the symbol is correctly received. Therefore the parity check is performed once again after the symbol has been received to ensure that after the symbol has been received. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090163168 | EFFICIENT INITIALIZATION OF ITERATIVE PARAMETER ESTIMATION - The invention provides a method to initialize an iterative signal estimation algorithm, such as an expectation-maximization type algorithm, the method including the step of performing a non-parametric noise reduction method. Preferably, the non-parametric noise reduction method includes performing a spectral subtraction such as a power spectral subtraction and more preferably a weighted power spectral subtraction. Method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the iterative signal estimation algorithm includes performing an expectation-maximization algorithm. Especially, the initialization may be used for an iterative signal estimation algorithm that includes performing a prediction error Kalman filtering followed by a local variance estimation. Preferably, the iterative signal estimation algorithm includes performing a signal estimation step including a Kalman filtering, and the iterations in the iterative signal estimation algorithm are preferably performed inter-frame sequentially. The invention also provides a noise reduction method based on performing the initialization method and an iterative signal estimation algorithm thus providing a noise suppressed signal. In addition, the methods may form part of a speech enhancement for enhancing speech in a noisy signal. In addition, the invention provides a device such as a headset, a hearing aid, or a mobile phone including a processor adapted to perform the described methods. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090052703 | System and Method Tracking the Position of a Listener and Transmitting Binaural Audio Data to the Listener - A binaural technology method includes: determining positions related to position of both ears of a listener, receiving a wireless RF signal including binaural audio data is received, and presenting the binaural audio data to the listener By determining ear positions of a listener e.g. in 3D, information of the listener's position e.g. in a virtual environment is known, and further by wireless transmitting binaural audio signals to the listener, it becomes possible to transmit 3D audio data matching the listener's position and movements accordingly. Further, since the position of both ears is known, it is possible to individually match the binaural audio data to the listener, since it is possible to derive from the ear positions a distance between the listener's ears, and hereby a valuable parameter is known that can be used to generate binaural signals that individually fits the listener. Thus, the listener can be provided with a better 3D audio experience. Especially, the determined positions may correspond to ear canal reference points for the binaural audio data. The positions in the ears may be derived based on RF signals, e.g. by using earphones, e.g. in-the-ear type earphones, that are also used to wirelessly receive and reproduce the binaural audio data to the listener. The ear phones may be arranged to wirelessly transmit the determined position data to a remote processor that generates the binaural audio data accordingly. The method may be used for applications such as: binaural synthesis, binaural capturing, inverse binaural filtering, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, teleconferencing, inter-com, exhibition/museum, and traffic signals. | 02-26-2009 |
