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20130293722 | LIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Provided is a light-emitting device control system, comprising a beam steering mechanism that directs a beam of light at a first surface location, wherein an illumination region is formed at the first surface location in response to the directed beam of light, a sensor that recognizes a hand gesture at the illumination region; a processor that converts data related to the hand gesture into a command signal, and a controller that instructs the beam steering mechanism to move the illumination region to a second surface location in response to the command signal corresponding to the hand gesture. | 11-07-2013 |
20150023019 | LIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Provided is a light-emitting device control system, comprising: a light source module that outputs a beam of light at a first surface location; a beam steering mechanism, the light source module coupled to the beam steering mechanism for directing the beam of light at the first surface location, wherein an illumination region is formed at the first surface location in response to the directed beam of light; a control module that detects a signal corresponding to a hand gesture, the control module positioned at a separate location than the light source module and the beam steering mechanism, and communicating with the light source module via a network; and a control spot generator that generates a control spot at a second surface location, the control module detecting a presence of a hand forming the hand gesture at the control spot, and wherein the beam steering mechanism moves the illumination region in response to the hand gesture at the control spot. | 01-22-2015 |
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20090305895 | Isoflavonoid compounds and use thereof - The use of a one or more Isoflavonoid compound Signals which may be with an agriculturally acceptable carrier, applied prior to planting, up to 365 days or more, either directly to the seed or transplant of a non-legume crop or a legume crop, or applied to the soil that will be planted either to a non-legume crop or a legume crop, for the purpose of increasing yield and/or improving seed germination and/or improving carrier seed emergence and/or improving modulation and/or increasing crop stand density and/or improving plant vigour and/or improving plant growth, and/or increasing biomass, and/or earlier fruiting, all including in circumstances of seeding and plant transplanting. | 12-10-2009 |
20130244879 | USE OF LIPO-CHITOOLIGOSACCHARIDES TO INITIATE EARLY FLOWERING AND FRUIT DEVELOPMENT IN PLANTS AND RELATED METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS - The present invention relates to the use of LCOs in initiating earlier flowering, increased number of buds and flower buds and earlier fruit development in non legume and legume plants, as compared to flowering and fruit development under conditions without use of LCOs, and the enhancement of plant growth and yield associated therewith; to compositions comprising an effective amount of at least one LCO and agriculturally acceptable carriers, associated with earlier flowering, increased bud and flower numbers and earlier initiation of fruit development as compared to conditions without use of LCOs, and with increased growth and plant yield; and to methods using LCOs and compositions of one or more LCOs and agriculturally acceptable carriers, associated with earlier flowering initiation, increased bud and flower numbers and earlier fruit development in both legume and non-legume crop plants as compared to conditions without use of LCOs and associated enhancement of growth and yield. | 09-19-2013 |
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20130295588 | COUNTING PARTICLES USING AN ELECTRICAL DIFFERENTIAL COUNTER - This disclosure relates to methods and devices to count particles of interest, such as cells. The methods include obtaining a fluid sample that may contain particles of interest; counting all types of particles in a portion of the sample using a first electrical differential counter to generate a first total; removing any particles of interest from the portion of the fluid sample; counting any particles remaining in the portion of the fluid sample using a second electrical differential counter after the particles of interest are removed to generate a second total; and calculating a number of particles of interest originally in the fluid sample by subtracting the second total from the first total, wherein the difference is the number of particles of interest in the sample. These methods and related devices can be used, for example, to produce a robust, inexpensive diagnostic kit for CD4+ T cell counting in whole blood samples. | 11-07-2013 |
20140030788 | MICROSCALE AND NANOSCALE STRUCTURES FOR MANIPULATING PARTICLES - The devices and systems described herein include one or more fluid paths, e.g., channels, and one or more selectively permeable obstacles arranged in the fluid path(s), each including a plurality of aligned nanostructures, e.g., nanotubes or nanorods, defining an outer surface of the obstacle and an internal network of voids. The obstacle(s) can further include binding moieties applied to the outer surface and/or to the surfaces of the individual nanostructures within the obstacle(s). The devices can be manufactured by forming the dense groupings of nanostructures to extend outwards and upwards from a substrate; forming a fluidic channel, bonding the fluidic channel to the substrate; and optionally applying binding moieties to the obstacles. The devices can be used to manipulate cells within fluid samples. | 01-30-2014 |
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20140035901 | ANIMATING OBJECTS USING THE HUMAN BODY - Methods of animating objects using the human body are described. In an embodiment, a deformation graph is generated from a mesh which describes the object. Tracked skeleton data is received which is generated from sensor data and the tracked skeleton is then embedded in the graph. Subsequent motion which is captured by the sensor result in motion of the tracked skeleton and this motion is used to define transformations on the deformation graph. The transformations are then applied to the mesh to generate an animation of the object which corresponds to the captured motion. In various examples, the mesh is generated by scanning an object and the deformation graph is generated using orientation-aware sampling such that nodes can be placed close together within the deformation graph where there are sharp corners or other features with high curvature in the object. | 02-06-2014 |
20140098018 | WEARABLE SENSOR FOR TRACKING ARTICULATED BODY-PARTS - A wearable sensor for tracking articulated body parts is described such as a wrist-worn device which enables 3D tracking of fingers and optionally also the arm and hand without the need to wear a glove or markers on the hand. In an embodiment a camera captures images of an articulated part of a body of a wearer of the device and an articulated model of the body part is tracked in real time to enable gesture-based control of a separate computing device such as a smart phone, laptop computer or other computing device. In examples the device has a structured illumination source and a diffuse illumination source for illuminating the articulated body part. In some examples an inertial measurement unit is also included in the sensor to enable tracking of the arm and hand | 04-10-2014 |
20140368504 | SCALABLE VOLUMETRIC 3D RECONSTRUCTION - Scalable volumetric reconstruction is described whereby data from a mobile environment capture device is used to form a 3D model of a real-world environment. In various examples, a hierarchical structure is used to store the 3D model where the structure comprises a root level node, a plurality of interior level nodes and a plurality of leaf nodes, each of the nodes having an associated voxel grid representing a portion of the real world environment, the voxel grids being of finer resolution at the leaf nodes than at the root node. In various examples, parallel processing is used to enable captured data to be integrated into the 3D model and/or to enable images to be rendered from the 3D model. In an example, metadata is computed and stored in the hierarchical structure and used to enable space skipping and/or pruning of the hierarchical structure. | 12-18-2014 |
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20100033228 | Analog Logic Automata - A distributed, reconfigurable statistical signal processing apparatus comprises an array of discrete-time analog signal processing circuitry for statistical signal processing based on a local message-passing algorithm and digital configuration circuitry for controlling the functional behavior of the array of analog circuitry. The input signal to the apparatus may be expressed as a probabilistic representation. The analog circuitry may comprise computational elements arranged in a network, with a receiving module that assigns probability values when an input signal arrives and communicates the probability values to one of the computational elements, the computational elements producing outputs based on the assigned probability values. The signal processing apparatus may be an analog logic automata cell or an array of cells, wherein each cell is able to communicate with all neighboring cells. | 02-11-2010 |
20100102848 | Asynchronous Logic Automata - A family of reconfigurable, charge-conserving asynchronous logic elements that interact with their nearest neighbors permits design and implementation of circuits that are asynchronous at the bit level, rather than at the level of functional blocks. These elements pass information by means of charge packets (tokens), rather than voltages. Each cell is self-timed, and cells that are configured as interconnect perform at propagation delay speeds, so no hardware non-local connections are needed. An asynchronous logic element comprises a set of edges for asynchronous communication with at least one neighboring cell, each edge having an input for receiving tokens from neighboring cells and an output for transferring an output charge packet to at least one neighboring cell, and circuitry configured to perform a logic operation utilizing received charge packets as inputs and to produce an output charge packet reflecting the result of the logic operation. | 04-29-2010 |
20120025868 | Asynchronous Logic Automata - A family of self-timed, charge-conserving asynchronous logic elements that interact with their nearest neighbors permits design and implementation of circuits that are asynchronous at the bit level. The elements pass information by means of state tokens, rather than voltages. Each cell is self-timed, so no hardware non-local connections are needed. An asynchronous logic element comprises a set of edges for asynchronous communication with at least one neighboring cell, the edges receiving state tokens from neighboring logic elements and transferring output state tokens to neighboring logic elements, and circuitry configured to perform, when the circuitry inputs contain valid tokens and the circuitry outputs are empty, a logic operation utilizing received tokens as inputs, thereby producing an output token reflecting the result of the logic operation. | 02-02-2012 |
20150087991 | APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH COLUMN-ROW-PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE FOR ULTRASONIC IMAGING - An ultrasonic imaging system is described in which a column-row-parallel architecture is provided at the circuit level of an ultrasonic transceiver. The ultrasonic imaging system can include a N×M array of transducer elements and a plurality of transceiver circuits where each transceiver circuit is connected to a corresponding one transducer element of the N×M array of transducer elements. A shared pulser gate driver and a shared VGA is provided for each row and column. Selection logic includes row select, column select, and per-element bit select. Through the column-row-parallel architecture, a variety of aperture configurations can be achieved. | 03-26-2015 |
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20090099841 | AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A system for calculating the look ahead probabilities at the nodes in a language model look ahead tree, wherein the words of the vocabulary of the language are located at the leaves of the tree,
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20120109651 | DATA RETRIEVAL AND INDEXING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method of searching a plurality of data files, wherein each data file includes a plurality of features. The method: determines a plurality of feature groups, wherein each feature group includes n features and n is an integer of 2 or more; expresses each data file as a file vector, wherein each component of the vector indicates the frequency of a feature group within the data file, wherein the n features which constitute a feature group do not have to be located adjacent to one another; expresses a search query using the feature groups as a vector; and searches the plurality of data files by comparing the search query expressed as a vector with the file vectors. | 05-03-2012 |
20140025382 | SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEM - A text to speech method, the method comprising:
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20150042662 | SYNTHETIC AUDIOVISUAL STORYTELLER - A method of animating a computer generation of a head and displaying the text of an electronic book, such that the head has a mouth which moves in accordance with the speech of the text of the electronic book to be output by the head and a word or group of words from the text is displayed while simultaneously being mimed by the mouth,
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20150052084 | COMPUTER GENERATED EMULATION OF A SUBJECT - A system for emulating a subject, to allow a user to interact with a computer generated talking head with the subject's face and voice;
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20140167513 | Systems Approach To Photovoltaic Energy Extraction - Described is a method and apparatus for per-panel photovoltaic energy extraction with integrated converters. Also described are switched-capacitor (SC) converters have been evaluated for many applications because of the possibility for on-chip integration; applications to solar arrays are no exception. Also described is a comprehensive system-level look at solar installations, finding possibilities for optimization at and between all levels of operation in an array. Specifically, novel concepts include new arrangements and options for applying switched-capacitor circuits at 3 levels: for the panel and sub-panel level, as part of the overall control strategy, and for ensuring stable and robust interface to the grid with the possibility of eliminating or reducing the use of electrolytic capacitors. | 06-19-2014 |
20140313781 | Stacked Switched Capacitor Energy Buffer Circuit Architecture - Described herein is a stacked switched capacitor (SSC) energy buffer circuit architecture and related design and control techniques. | 10-23-2014 |
20140339918 | Enhanced Stacked Switched Capacitor Energy Buffer Circuit - A stacked switched capacitor (SSC) energy buffer circuit includes a switching network and a plurality of energy storage capacitors. The switching network need operate at only a relatively low switching frequency and can take advantage of soft charging of the energy storage capacitors to reduce loss. Thus, efficiency of the SSC energy buffer circuit can be extremely high compared with the efficiency of other energy buffer circuits. Since circuits utilizing the SSC energy buffer architecture need not utilize electrolytic capacitors, circuits utilizing the SSC energy buffer architecture overcome limitations of energy buffers utilizing electrolytic capacitors. Circuits utilizing the SSC energy buffer architecture (without electrolytic capacitors) can achieve an effective energy density characteristic comparable to energy buffers utilizing electrolytic capacitors. The SSC energy buffer architecture exhibits losses that scale with the amount of energy buffered, such that a relatively high efficiency can be achieved across a desired operating range. | 11-20-2014 |
20140355322 | Stacked Switched Capacitor Energy Buffer Circuit - A stacked switched capacitor (SSC) energy buffer circuit includes a switching network and a plurality of energy storage capacitors. The switching network need operate at only a relatively low switching frequency and can take advantage of soft charging of the energy storage capacitors to reduce loss. Thus, efficiency of the SSC energy buffer circuit can be extremely high compared with the efficiency of other energy buffer circuits. Since circuits utilizing the SSC energy buffer architecture need not utilize electrolytic capacitors, circuits utilizing the SSC energy buffer architecture overcome limitations of energy buffers utilizing electrolytic capacitors. Circuits utilizing the SSC energy buffer architecture (without electrolytic capacitors) can achieve an effective energy density characteristic comparable to energy buffers utilizing electrolytic capacitors. The SSC energy buffer architecture exhibits losses that scale with the amount of energy buffered, such that a relatively high efficiency can be achieved across a desired operating range. | 12-04-2014 |
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20150043770 | SPECKLE SENSING FOR MOTION TRACKING - Speckle sensing for motion tracking is described, for example, to track a user's finger or head in an environment to control a graphical user interface, to track a hand-held device, to track digits of a hand for gesture-based control, and to track 3D motion of other objects or parts of objects in a real-world environment. In various examples a stream of images of a speckle pattern from at least one coherent light source illuminating the object, or which is generated by a light source at the object to be tracked, is used to compute an estimate of 3D position of the object. In various examples the estimate is transformed using information about position and/or orientation of the object from another source. In various examples the other source is a time of flight system, a structured light system, a stereo system, a sensor at the object, or other sources. | 02-12-2015 |
20150248388 | GESTURAL ANNOTATIONS - Gestural annotation is described, for example where sensors such as touch screens and/or cameras monitor document annotation events made by a user of a document reading and/or writing application. In various examples the document annotation events comprise gestures recognized from the sensor data by a gesture recognition component. For example, the gestures may be in-air gestures or touch screen gestures. In examples, a compressed record of the sensor data is computed using at least the recognized gestures, document state and timestamps. In some examples the compressed record of the sensor data is used to facilitate consumption of the annotation events in relation to the document by a second user. In some examples the sensor data comprises touch sensor data representing electronic ink; and in some examples the sensor data comprises audio data capturing speech of a user. | 09-03-2015 |
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20110075865 | Dual Single-Crystal Backplate Microphone System and Method Of Fabricating Same - A dual backplate MEMS microphone system includes a flexible diaphragm sandwiched between two single-crystal silicon backplates. Such a MEMS microphone system may be formed by fabricating each backplate in a separate wafer, and then transferring one backplate from its wafer to the other wafer, to form two separate capacitors with the diaphragm. | 03-31-2011 |
20130065343 | METHOD FOR ETCHING MATERIAL LONGITUDINALLY SPACED FROM ETCH MASK - A micromachining process forms a plurality of layers on a wafer. This plurality of layers includes both a support layer and a given layer. The process also forms a mask, with a mask hole, at least in part on the support layer. In this configuration, the support layer is positioned between the mask hole and the given layer, and longitudinally spaces the mask hole from the given layer. The process also etches a feature into the given layer through the mask hole. | 03-14-2013 |
20130177180 | MEMS Microphone with Springs and Interior Support - A MEMS microphone has a stationary portion with a backplate having a plurality of apertures, and a diaphragm spaced from the backplate and having an outer periphery. As a condenser microphone, the diaphragm and backplate form a variable capacitor. The microphone also has a post extending between, and substantially permanently connected with, both the backplate and the diaphragm, and a set of springs securing the diaphragm to at least one of the post and the stationary portion. The post is positioned to be radially inward of the outer periphery of the diaphragm. | 07-11-2013 |
20140072152 | Dual Single-Crystal Backplate Microphone System and Method Of Fabricating Same - A dual backplate MEMS microphone system includes a flexible diaphragm sandwiched between two single-crystal silicon backplates. Such a MEMS microphone system may be formed by fabricating each backplate in a separate wafer, and then transferring one backplate from its wafer to the other wafer, to form two separate capacitors with the diaphragm. | 03-13-2014 |
20140307909 | Microphone System with a Stop Member - A microphone system has a package with an interior chamber and an inlet aperture for receiving an acoustic signal, and a microphone die having a backplate and a diaphragm. The microphone is positioned within the package interior to form a front volume between the diaphragm and the inlet aperture. Accordingly, the microphone is positioned to form a back volume defined in part by the diaphragm within the interior chamber. The system also has a stop member positioned in the back volume so that the diaphragm is between the stop member and the backplate. | 10-16-2014 |
20150264465 | MEMS MICROPHONE WITH SPRINGS AND INTERIOR SUPPORT - A MEMS microphone has a stationary portion with a backplate having a plurality of apertures, and a diaphragm spaced from the backplate and having an outer periphery. As a condenser microphone, the diaphragm and backplate form a variable capacitor. The microphone also has a post extending between, and substantially permanently connected with, both the backplate and the diaphragm, and a set of springs securing the diaphragm to at least one of the post and the stationary portion. The post is positioned to be radially inward of the outer periphery of the diaphragm. | 09-17-2015 |
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20140147839 | MICROVESICLE-BASED ASSAYS - Methods are disclosed herein for assaying a biological sample or a bodily fluid obtained from a subject by isolating, obtaining or using a microvesicle fraction from the biological sample or bodily fluid and detecting in the microvesicle fraction the presence or absence of a genetic aberration in an IDH1, IDH2, TP53, PTEN, CDKN2A, NF1, EGFR, RB1, PIK3CA, or BRAF gene. The methods may be used for aiding the diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring, or therapy selection in relation to a disease or other medical condition (e.g., a glioma) in a subject. | 05-29-2014 |
20150065556 | THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR MITOCHONDRIAL DISORDERS - In some aspects, compositions and methods for identifying therapeutic targets for treatment of mitochondrial disorders are provided. In some aspects compositions and methods for identifying therapeutic agents for treatment of mitochondrial disorders. In some aspects, the disclosure identifies ATPIF1 as a therapeutic target for mitochondrial disorders. | 03-05-2015 |
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20100109928 | FLEXIBLE DIGITAL TRANSPARENT TRANSPONDER - Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to digital transponders. In one broad aspect, there is provided a digital transponder comprising: (a) an analog to digital converter configured to receive a real analog wideband multi-carrier signal and generate a real digital wideband multi-carrier signal from the real analog wideband multi-carrier signal, the real analog wideband multi-carrier signal spans M element channels, M being an integer greater than or equal to one; (b) a channelizer configured to channelize the real digital wideband multi-carrier signal into 2M channelized digital signals, the 2M channelized digital signals comprising M pairs of channelized digital signals, each pair of channelized digital signals comprising a primary channelized digital signal and a secondary channelized digital signal, the secondary channelized digital signal being an image of the primary channelized digital signal; (c) a switch matrix and signal construction module configured to generate a plurality of intermediate signals from only the primary channelized digital signals, the plurality of intermediate signals comprising pairs of intermediate signals, each pair comprising a primary intermediate signal and a secondary intermediate signal, the secondary intermediate signal being an image of the primary intermediate signal; (d) at least one synthesizer, the at least one synthesizer configured to combine at least one pair of intermediate signals to generate a real digital output signal; and (e) at least one digital to analog converter, the at least one digital to analog converter configured to convert the real digital output signal to an analog output signal. | 05-06-2010 |
20110075602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DECODING AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM SIGNALS - A method of extracting automatic identification system (AIS) message segments from AIS signals received by a satellite. The method includes: (a) receiving AIS signals from satellite antennas; (b) generating multiple versions of the AIS signals; (c) extracting message segments contained within each of the AIS signals using one or more AIS receivers; (d) sorting the message segments by time; and (e) deleting any duplicate message segments. Multiple versions of the AIS signals may be generated by one or more of the following methods: (i) processing the AIS signals multiple times, each time with different AIS receiver parameter settings; (ii) splitting each signal into multiple signals and filtering each of the multiple signals separately; (iii) receiving multiple AIS signals and combining them with different phases and amplitudes to produce a plurality of combined AIS signals; and (iv) removing extracted message segments from the received AIS signals and reprocessing the modified AIS signals. | 03-31-2011 |
20110304502 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEGMENTING A SATELLITE FIELD OF VIEW FOR DETECTING RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNALS - A satellite system for detecting radio frequency signals from space including at least two sensors, a processing unit and at least one receiver. Each sensor receives a plurality of radio frequency signals containing messages and outputs a sensor signal that is representative of the plurality of radio frequency signals. The processing unit selects a predetermined number of mathematical combinations of the sensor signals and combines the sensor signals into the predetermined number of mathematical combinations to produce a plurality of zone signals. The characteristics of each zone signal are undefined at the time the predetermined number of mathematical combinations is selected. The receiver extracts the messages contained in the zone signals. | 12-15-2011 |
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20100135937 | METAL OXIDE NANOCRYSTALS: PREPARATION AND USES - Nanocrystalline forms of metal oxides, including binary metal oxide, perovskite type metal oxides, and complex metal oxides, including doped metal oxides, are provided. Methods of preparation of the nanocrystals are also provided. The nanocrystals, including uncapped and uncoated metal oxide nanocrystals, can be dispersed in a liquid to provide dispersions that are stable and do not precipitate over a period of time ranging from hours to months. Methods of preparation of the dispersions, and methods of use of the dispersions in forming films, are likewise provided. The films can include an organic, inorganic, or mixed organic/inorganic matrix. The films can be substantially free of all organic materials. The films can be used as coatings, or can be used as dielectric layers in a variety of electronics applications, for example as a dielectric material for an ultracapacitor, which can include a mesoporous material. Or the films can be used as a high-K dielectric in organic field-effect transistors. In various embodiments, a layered gate dielectric can include spin-cast (e.g., 8 nm-diameter) high-K BaTiO | 06-03-2010 |