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| 20100060607 | USER INTERFACE MOUSE WITH TOUCHPAD RESPONSIVE TO GESTURES AND MULTI-TOUCH - A computer interface device has a housing configured with a first sensor for detecting a position change of the computer interface device on a surface, a touch pad configured with the housing for generating touchpad signals, and a wireless link to transmit the first pair of parameters and the touchpad signals to a computing device. In an application, the first sensor provides a first pair of parameters to indicate the position of the housing on the surface and control cursor displayed on a screen of the computing device. The touch pad may be configured to detect gestures and provides signals responsive to the gestures over a wireless link for controlling a displayed object or attribute on the screen of the computing device. The touch pad may also be configured to detect a plurality of contacting fingers and to provide signals over a wireless link used to control a displayed object or attribute on the screen of the computing device. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100195925 | GENERATION OF IMAGE DATA WITH CORRECTION FOR OPTICAL MISFOCUS UTILIZING FRACTIONAL POWERS OF THE FOURIER TRANSFORM OPERATOR - Fractional Fourier transform properties inherent in lens systems and other light and particle-beam environments may be exploited to correct optical system misfocus utilizing fractional Fourier transform approximations rendered by numerical methods. The corrective fractional Fourier transform power value may be determined automatically or by human operator. This power value is used to calculate a Fractional Fourier transform correction operation and, if useful, to back-calculate corresponding phase restoration information. The fractional Fourier transform correction operation is applied to image data. In an embodiment, phase restoration information is also applied to image data. The image correction can be applied to imaging systems obeying fractional Fourier optics including integrated optics, optical computing, particle beam systems, and can be incorporated into film processing machines, photo editing software, VCRs, camcorders, as well as video editing, video surveillance, video conferencing systems and other types of products and service facilities in computers, machines, and over the Internet. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100224052 | SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION WITHIN MODULAR STRUCTURES FACILITATING AGGREGATED AND FIELD-CUSTOMIZED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - A signal distribution system for a customizable aggregated musical instrument is described. The signal distribution system interfaces with a plurality of individual musical modules secured in a mounting frame having a plurality of mounting locations, each mounting location adapted to receive an individual musical module, and includes at least one instrument interface adapted to transmit interface signals to an external system and a signal routing infrastructure. Outgoing instrument interface signals include at least one of an outgoing audio signal, MIDI control signal, computer data signal, and video signal. Incoming instrument interface signals include at least one of an audio signal, MIDI control signal, computer data signal, and video signal. The musical instrument also includes at least one of an audio signal processing element, audio signal mixing element, audio sound production element, control signal processing element, control signal merging element, and controllable audio signal synthesizer element. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100232710 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE CLOSED-FORM SINGLE-SCAN CALCULATION OF OBLONG-SHAPE ROTATION ANGLES FROM BINARY IMAGES OF ARBITRARY SIZE USING RUNNING SUMS - A method for performing a high-performance closed-form single-scan calculation of oblong-shape rotation angles from binary images of arbitrary size on a processor using running sums is disclosed. Running sums are calculated and stored throughout each scan, and the results are obtained in closed form by simple post-scan computation. An algorithmic embodiment may execute on one or more hardware processors with limited or constrained computation power, available instruction cycles, available memory, etc. Exemplary hardware processors are found in one or more CPUs of a desktop, laptop, tablet, or handheld computing device, and may be an embedded processor or a signal processor chip. The resulting method may be used for touch or optical user interfaces, real-time image recognition, real-time machine vision, and other purposes. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100274540 | NONLINEAR AND LIE ALGEBRA STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR ENZYME CASCADES, METABOLIC SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION, SIGNALING PATHWAYS, CATALYTIC CHEMICAL REACTION NETWORKS, AND IMMUNOLOGY - A computer modeling system for study of behavior of complex signaling pathways is described. The computer modeling system includes a computer representation of one or more nonlinear models of at least one signaling pathway arrangement involving enzyme cascades and/or allosteric enzymes and feedback. The computer representation of the model is transformed into at least portions of a bilinear dynamical system representation from which a series of Lie bracket operations are computed and the result tested for transitivity conditions of the associated semisimple Lie matrix algebra so as to determine potential instabilities and crosstalk susceptibilities. Also, the computer model can additionally comprise accurate numerical simulations, equilibrium condition analysis tools, and other algebraic structural tools involving graphs and matroids. The computer representation further includes a modular model environment for models to evolve with new discovery, trial of experimental models, combining multiple nonlinear models into more complex models, interactive user environments, crosstalk study, and detailed comparative analysis. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100306726 | CHAIN/LEAPFROG CIRCUIT TOPOLOGIES AND TOOLS FOR CARBON NANOTUBE / GRAPHENE NANORIBBON NANOELECTRONICS, PRINTED ELECTRONICS, POLYMER ELECTRONICS, AND THEIR CONFLUENCES - Software for designing and testing types of nanoelectronic circuits and larger scale electronics renderings is described. The software designs circuits comprising only a chain/leapfrog topology. The chain/leapfrog topology permits a wide range of circuits and circuit modules to be implemented on a common shared carbon nanotube, graphene nanoribbon, or strips of other types of semiconducting material, for example as rendered in traditional printed electronics and nanoscale printed electronics or as employing semiconducting polymers. In one approach a chain/leapfrog topology circuit design software tool accesses information in a library of chain/leapfrog circuits data, and creates descriptive data pertaining to a number of approaches to rendering electronics components using a library of component data. The chain/leapfrog circuits data library includes designs for a number of different types of chain/leapfrog circuit modules. The software provides for “IP cores,” “System-on-a-Nanotube,” and other related modular design approaches. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100315501 | ELECTRONIC IMAGING FLOW-MICROSCOPE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REMOTE SENSING, BIOREACTOR PROCESS MONITORING, AND OPTICAL MICROSCOPIC TOMOGRAPHY - An electronic imaging flow-microscope for remote environmental sensing, bioreactor process monitoring, and optical microscopic tomography applications is described. A fluid conduit has a port on each end of a thin flat transparent fluid transport region. A planar illumination surface contacts one flat side of the transparent fluid transport region and a planar image sensing surface contacts the other flat side. Light from the illumination surface travels through the transparent fluid transport region to the planar image sensing surface, producing a light field affected by the fluid and objects present. The planar image sensing surface creates electrical image signals responsive to the light field. The planar illumination surface can be light emitting elements such as LEDs, OLEDs, or OLET, whose illumination can be sequenced in an image formation process. The flow microscope can further comprise flow-restricting valves, pumps, energy harvesting arrangements, and power management. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318512 | ADVANCED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) PROVIDING MODELING, DECISION SUPPORT, VISUALIZATION, SONIFICATION, WEB INTERFACE, RISK MANAGEMENT, SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, SENSOR TELEMETRY, FIELD VIDEO, AND FIELD AUDIO - An advanced Geographic Information System (GIS) providing modeling, analysis, Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), data visualization, data sonification, web interface, risk management, sensitivity analysis, and telemetry capabilities is described. Telemetry can be provided by field sensors, field video, and/or field audio, and can be recorded or provided live in either direct or analyzed form. Data visualizations can be displayed along with GIS graphics, and can be superimposed or otherwise integrated with GIS graphics. GIS graphics can be used as the basis for an interactive user interface for other parts of the system. Web interfaces can support remote use, server based implementations, and/or collaboration. Advanced multi-channel data sonification can be used to prevent visual overloading of GIS graphics and interactions with it. The system can include rich data processing capabilities and interconnections of these so as to facilitate powerful data visualization and sonification results and can support multidimensional user interface devices. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110061224 | MODULAR REACTIVE DISTILLATION EMULATION ELEMENTS INTEGRATED WITH INSTRUMENTATION, CONTROL, AND SIMULATION ALGORITHMS - A method for creating laboratory-scale reactive distillation apparatus from provided modular components is described. At least two types of modular distillation column stages are provided. A first type of modular stage comprises two physical interfaces for connection with a respective physical interface of another modular stage. A second type modular stage comprises one such physical interface. At least one type of tray is provided for insertion into the first type of modular stage. A clamping arrangement is provided for joining together two modular stages at their respective physical interfaces for connection to form a joint. The invention provides for at least three modular stages can be joined. At least one sensor or sensor array can be inserted into each modular stage. At least one controllable element can be inserted into each modular stage. The invention provides for study of traditional, advanced, and photochemical types of reactive distillation. | 03-17-2011 |
