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| 20080204393 | Method, Device and System of Response Time Compensation - Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus, system, and method of reproducing a sequence of at least first and second color image frames by controllably activating an array of liquid crystal elements, the array including at least a first liquid crystal element to reproduce first and second sub-pixel values in the first and second frames, respectively. Some demonstrative embodiments may include estimating the first sub-pixel value based on a third sub-pixel value to be reproduced in the second frame by a second liquid crystal element of the array which is shifted in relation to the first liquid crystal element by a location shift value associated with tie first liquid crystal element; and generating an overdrive signal for activating the first liquid crystal element based on a combination of the first and second sub-pixel values. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080218784 | SPECTRALLY MATCHED PRINT PROOFER - A device, system and a method for soft proofing of an image before it is printed onto printed material, such that the colors of the image substantially reproduce, to the human eye, the colors as they should appear on the printed material. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090135129 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-COLOR SEQUENTIAL LCD PANEL - A sequential color LCD device for displaying a color image using at least four different primary colors, with back illumination system comprising of at least three color LEDs. The device is capable of activating at least two color LEDs simultaneously, thus obtaining additional display colors. A method is disclosed for displaying more than three colors using an LCD device having three color LEDs, in which the LED back illumination system sequentially illuminates the LC array with only a first single LED color, a simultaneous operation of first and second LED colors, and then only the second LED color. The device may drive the LC cells from a first color data value directly to a subsequent color data value directly, without driving the LC cell to zero transmittance prior to loading of the subsequent color data value. The device may correct for color phase shift and for the dependency of apparent color intensity. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090135197 | HIGH BRIGHTNESS WIDE GAMUT DISPLAY - A device to produce a color image, the device including a color filtering arrangement to produce a plurality of primary colors, each primary color having a spectral range, wherein the spectral ranges of at least two of the primary colors overlap significantly. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20100134515 | HIGH BRIGHTNESS WIDE GAMUT DISPLAY - A device to produce a color image, the device including a color filtering arrangement to produce at least four colors, each color produced by a filter on a color filtering mechanism having a relative segment size, wherein the relative segment sizes of at least two of the primary colors differ. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20110285613 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLOR DISPLAY - Liquid Crystal (LC) elements, driving circuitry adapted to receive an input corresponding to the color image and to selectively activate the LC elements of the LC array to produce an attenuation pattern corresponding to a gray-level representation of the color image, and an array of color sub-pixel filter elements juxtaposed and in registry with the array of LC elements such that each color sub-pixel filter element is in registry with one of the LC elements, wherein the array of color sub-pixel filter elements comprises at least four types of color sub-pixel filter elements, which transmit light of the at least four primary colors, respectively. | 11-24-2011 |
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| 20100056635 | NOVEL PROTEIN KINASE MODULATORS AND THERAPEUTIC USES THEREOF - The present invention provides new tyrphostin derivatives acting as substrate competitive protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) inhibitors and receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitors, methods of their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions including such compounds, and methods of using these compounds and compositions, especially as chemotherapeutic agents for preventions and treatments of PTK and RTK related disorders such as metabolic, fibrotic, and cell proliferative disorders, in particular psoriasis and cancer. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110253553 | Method of Operating Metal-Bromine Cells - A method for generating molecular bromine in bromide-containing electrolyte solution suitable for use in a metal bromine cell, involves chemically oxidizing bromide (Br | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120083528 | NOVEL PROTEIN KINASE MODULATORS AND THERAPEUTIC USES THEREOF - The present invention provides new tyrphostin derivatives acting as protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) inhibitors and receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitors, and/or which directly or indirectly affect proteins in the PTK-mediated signal transduction pathway, methods of their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions including such compounds, and methods of using these compounds and compositions, especially as chemotherapeutic agents for preventions and treatments of PTK and RTK related disorders such as metabolic, fibrotic, and cell proliferative disorders, in particular psoriasis and cancer. | 04-05-2012 |
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| 20100099139 | MEANS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING BACTERIA IN A SAMPLE - The present invention provides a method for detecting and/or identifying specific bacteria within an uncultured sample. The method comprises steps selected inter alia from (a) obtaining an absorption spectrum (AS) of said uncultured sample; (b) acquiring the n dimensional volume boundaries for said specific bacteria; (c) data processing said AS; and, (d) detecting and/or identifying said specific bacteria if said m1 statistical correlation and/or said m features are within said n dimensional volume. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20110178721 | MEANS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT BACTERIA IN A SAMPLE - The present invention provides a method for detecting and/or identifying specific bacteria within an uncultured sample, comprising steps of: a. obtaining an absorption spectrum (AS) of said uncultured sample; b. acquiring the n dimensional volume boundaries for said specific bacteria; c. data processing said AS; i. noise reducing; ii. extracting m features from said entire AS; iii. dividing said AS into several segments according to said m features; iv. calculating m | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110184654 | Means and Methods for Detecting Bacteria in an Aerosol Sample - This disclosure provides a method for detecting and/or identifying uncultured bacteria. The sample is an aerosol sample selected from a group consisting of cough, sneeze, saliva, mucus, bile, urine, vaginal secretions, middle ear aspirate, pus, pleural effusions, synovial fluid, abscesses, cavity swabs, serum, blood and spinal fluid. The method comprises obtaining absorption spectra (AS) of the sample, extracting and processing the acquired data, thereby detecting and/or identifying the bacteria. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20120002199 | Means and Methods for Rapid Droplet, Aerosols and Swab Infection Analysis - The present invention provides an optical unit ( | 01-05-2012 |
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| 20080208587 | Document Session Replay for Multimodal Applications - Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for document session replay for multimodal applications. including identifying, by a multimodal browser in dependence upon a log produced by a Form Interpretation Algorithm (‘FIA’) during a previous document session with a user, a speech prompt provided by a multimodal application in the previous document session; identifying, by a multimodal browser in replay mode in dependence upon the log, a response to the prompt provided by a user of the multimodal application in the previous document session; retrieving, by the multimodal browser in dependence upon the log, an X+V page of the multimodal application associated with the speech prompt and the response; rendering, by the multimodal browser, the visual elements of the retrieved X+V page; replaying, by the multimodal browser, the speech prompt; and replaying, by a multimodal browser, the response. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20100048182 | Reaching a Communications Service Subscriber Who is Not Answering an Incoming Communications Request - A method for reaching a communications service subscriber who does not answer an incoming communications request to the subscriber's communications device, the method including detecting that an incoming communications request received at a first communications device is not answered, locating a second communications device within a predefined distance from the first communications device, and sending a message to the second communications device indicating the receipt of the incoming communications request at the first communications device. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20110313762 | SPEECH OUTPUT WITH CONFIDENCE INDICATION - A method, system, and computer program product are provided for speech output with confidence indication. The method includes receiving a confidence score for segments of speech or text to be synthesized to speech. The method includes modifying a speech segment by altering one or more parameters of the speech proportionally to the confidence score. | 12-22-2011 |
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| 20080275514 | Minimal-heart-rate reduction parasympathetic stimulation - A method is provided for treating a subject, including applying a current to a site of the subject selected from the list consisting of: a vagus nerve of the subject, an epicardial fat pad of the subject, a pulmonary vein of the subject, a carotid artery of the subject, a carotid sinus of the subject, a vena cava vein of the subject, and an internal jugular vein of the subject. The method also includes configuring the current so as to treat a condition of the subject selected from the list consisting of: an autoimmune disease, an autoimmune inflammatory disease, multiple sclerosis, encephalitis, myelitis, immune-mediated neuropathy, myositis, dermatomyositis, polymyositis, inclusion body myositis, inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, Guillain Barre syndrome, myasthenia gravis, inflammation of the nervous system, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus), rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis, polyarteritis nodosa, Sjogren syndrome, mixed connective tissue disease, glomerulonephritis, thyroid autoimmune disease, sepsis, meningitis, a bacterial infection, a viral infection, a fungal infection, sarcoidosis, hepatitis, and portal vein hypertension. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090005845 | Intra-Atrial parasympathetic stimulation - A method is provided, including implanting in an atrial wall of a subject, from within an atrium, a first electrode contact in a vicinity of a parasympathetic epicardial fat pad of the subject, and implanting a second electrode contact in a body of the subject outside of a heart and a circulatory system. A current is driven between the first and second electrode contacts, and configured to cause parasympathetic activation of the fat pad. Other embodiments are also described. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20100010603 | Electrode cuffs - Apparatus is provided for application to a nerve of a subject, including a housing, which is configured to be placed at least partially around the nerve so as to define an inner surface of the housing that faces the nerve. A plurality of insulating elements are coupled to the inner surface of the housing at respective insulating element longitudinal positions along the housing, such that the inner surface of the housing and pairs of the insulating elements define one or more respective cavities at respective cavity longitudinal positions along the housing. One or more electrodes are fixed to the housing in fewer than all of the cavities. Other embodiments are also described. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100042186 | Electrode devices for nerve stimulation and cardiac sensing - Apparatus is provided for application to a nerve of a subject, the apparatus comprising an electrode device, which comprises a housing, which is configured to be placed at least partially around the nerve, so as to define an outer surface of the electrode device and an inner surface that faces the nerve. The electrode device further comprises one or more first electrode contact surfaces, fixed to the inner surface of the housing, and one or more second electrode contact surfaces, fixed to the outer surface of the housing. Other embodiments are also described. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20110098796 | ELECTRODE CUFFS - Apparatus is provided for application to a nerve of a subject, including an electrode cuff, which includes a housing, which is configured to be placed at least partially around the nerve so as to define an inner surface of the housing that faces the nerve. A plurality of insulating elements are coupled to the inner surface of the housing at respective insulating element longitudinal positions along the housing, such that the inner surface of the housing and pairs of the insulating elements define one or more respective cavities at respective cavity longitudinal positions along the housing. One or more electrodes are fixed to the housing in fewer than all of the cavities, such that at least one of the cavities is an empty cavity that does not have an electrode positioned therein. Other embodiments are also described. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110137365 | TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCING PAIN ASSOCIATED WITH NERVE STIMULATION - Apparatus is provided including an electrode device and a control unit. The electrode device is configured to be coupled to a site of a subject selected from the group consisting of: a vagus nerve, an epicardial fat pad, a pulmonary vein, a carotid artery, a carotid sinus, a coronary sinus, a vena cava vein, a right ventricle, a right atrium, and a jugular vein. The control unit is configured to drive the electrode device to apply to the site a current in at least first and second bursts, the first burst including a plurality of pulses, and the second burst including at least one pulse, and set (a) a pulse repetition interval (PRI) of the first burst to be on average at least 20 ms, (b) an interburst interval between initiation of the first burst and initiation of the second burst to be less than 10 seconds, (c) an interburst gap between a conclusion of the first burst and the initiation of the second burst to have a duration greater than the average PRI, and (d) a burst duration of the first burst to be less than a percentage of the interburst interval between, the percentage being less than 67%. Other embodiments are also described. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110224749 | NERVE STIMULATION TECHNIQUES - A method is provided for treating heart failure in a subject in need of such treatment, including applying a stimulating current to parasympathetic nervous tissue of the subject, selected from the group consisting of: a vagus nerve and an epicardial fat pad. The stimulating current is configured to inhibit release of at least one proinflammatory cytokine sufficiently to the treat heart failure of the subject. A level of the at least one proinflammatory cytokine is measured. Optionally, the stimulating current is configured to change a level of Connexin 43 of the subject, and the level of Connexin 43 is also measured. Other embodiments are also described. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20120130463 | ELECTRODE CUFF WITH RECESSES - An electrode assembly includes one or more electrode contact surfaces, and a cuff, to which the contact surfaces are fixed, and which comprises an electrically insulating material, is configured to assume open and closed positions, and, when in the closed position, is shaped so as to define a plurality of planar cross sections perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the cuff, distributed continuously along an entire length of the cuff along the longitudinal axis, such that the perpendicular cross sections define respective inner closed curves that together define an inner surface that defines and completely surrounds a volume that extends along the entire length of the cuff. The inner closed curves of at least two of the perpendicular cross sections would cross, and not merely intersect, one another if superimposed while preserving orientation and position of the perpendicular cross sections with respect to the cuff. Other embodiments are also described. | 05-24-2012 |