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20140238223 | FLOAT SUPPORT MEMBER FOR ROCKET LAUNCHER - A float support member that comprises a base for mounting to an object, primary linkages rotatably coupled by a primary pin defining a primary movable pin point that moves both in a lateral direction and a transverse direction, and secondary linkages rotatably coupled to said primary linkages, respectively, by first and second secondary pins, respectively. The first and second secondary pins define first and second secondary movable pin points, respectively, that each move both in a lateral direction and a transverse direction. The first and second secondary linkages being rotatably coupled to the base by first and second stationary pins, respectively, defining first and second stationary pin points, respectively. The position of the primary movable pin point in both the lateral and transverse directions depends on the position of both of the first and second secondary moveable pin points in both the lateral and transverse directions and vice versa. | 08-28-2014 |
20140242831 | ROCKET LAUNCHER CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - A rocket launcher connector assembly that comprises a first connector component coupled to a launch tube and a second connector component is coupled to a rocket. The second connector component includes an interface side configured to engage the mating interface of the first connector component. Spring members of the second component have rounded portions for engaging contact pads of the first component. A housing of the assembly has a connector holding portion for holding the first and second components. The connector holding portion defines an alignment channel that supports the first component and the alignment member is slidably received in the alignment channel in an insert direction. A tolerance member is engaged with both the alignment member and the connector holding portion of the housing, wherein as the alignment member slides in the alignment channel, the tolerance member biases the alignment member in a direction opposite the insert direction. | 08-28-2014 |
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20100069996 | Stimulus Artifact Removal for Neuronal Recordings - A method is described for processing a waveform signal containing a stimulus artifact and one or more neuronal action potentials. An electrical stimulation signal is derived based on satisfying a cost function comparison with a plurality of known neuronal action potential waveforms. | 03-18-2010 |
20100322446 | Spatial Audio Object Coding (SAOC) Decoder and Postprocessor for Hearing Aids - An audio processor device for a hearing impaired listener is described. An input signal decoder decodes an audio input data signal into a corresponding multi-channel audio output representing multiple audio objects and associated side information. An audio processor adjusts the multi-channel audio output based on user-specific hearing impairment characteristics to produce a post-processed audio output to improve auditory scene analysis (ASA) by the hearing impaired listener of the audio objects. | 12-23-2010 |
20110082519 | Hearing Implant Fitting - A system and method of fitting a cochlear implant of a patient includes analyzing data of one or more previously fitted cochlear implant users. Predicted fitting data for the patient is provided based on the analysis. Stimulation parameters of the cochlear implant are adjusted based, at least in part, on the predicted fitting data. Further steps are suggested to minimize the prediction error. | 04-07-2011 |
20120245655 | Post-Auricular Muscle Response Based Hearing Prosthesis Fitting - An arrangement is described for fitting a hearing prosthesis system to a prosthesis patient. The PAMR measurement determines a post-auricular muscle reflex (PAMR) response of the patient to an auditory stimulus signal. For example, the PAMR response may include a PAMR amplitude growth function or a PAMR threshold stimulus level at which a PAMR is measured in the patient. Then a patient fitting module sets an operating characteristic of the hearing prosthesis system based on the PAMR response. | 09-27-2012 |
20140128940 | Multi-Channel Object-Oriented Audio Bitstream Processor for Cochlear Implants - An audio-cochlear implant processor device for a hearing impaired listener is described. An input signal decoder decodes an audio input data signal into a corresponding multi-channel audio signal representing multiple audio objects. An audio processor adjusts the multi-channel audio output based on user-specific hearing impairment characteristics to produce a processed audio output to a cochlear implant audio processor with auditory scene analysis (ASA) cues for the hearing impaired listener. | 05-08-2014 |
20150073520 | Cochlear Implant Electrode with Liquid Metal Alloy - A cochlear implant electrode includes an implantable array carrier made of flexible material with electrode contacts distributed on its outer surface along a longitudinal axis. Electrode wires are embedded within the array carrier, each electrode wire having a terminal end electrically connected to a corresponding electrode contact for applying electrical stimulation signals carried by the electrode wires to adjacent neural tissue within the cochlea. Each electrode wire has an inner non-crystal conductive material surrounded by a flexible outer seal. The flexible material of the array carrier is configured to be reactive with the non-crystal conductive material of the electrode wires so that if a break occurs in the outer seal of an electrode wire that allows contact between the flexible material and the non-crystal conductive material, then a local leakage seal will form at the break that resists migration of the non-crystal conductive material to the outer surface of the array carrier. | 03-12-2015 |
20150157226 | Detecting Neuronal Action Potentials using a Sparse Signal Representation - A system and method detect neuronal action potential signals from tissue responding to electrical stimulation signals. A sparse signal space model for a set of tissue response recordings has a signal space separable into a plurality of disjoint component manifolds including a neural action potential (NAP) component manifold corresponding to tissue response to electrical stimulation signals. A response measurement module is configured to: i. map a tissue response measurement signal into the sparse signal model space to obtain a corresponding sparse signal representation, ii. project the sparse signal representation onto the NAP component manifold to obtain a sparse NAP component representation, iii. when the sparse NAP component representation is greater than a minimum threshold value, report and recover a detected NAP signal in the tissue response measurement signal. | 06-11-2015 |
20150173637 | Detecting Neuronal Action Potentials Using a Convolutive Compound Action Potential Model - A system and method detect neuronal action potential signals from tissue responding to electrical stimulation signals. A compound discharge latency distribution (CDLD) of the neural tissue is derived by deconvolving a tissue response measurement signal taken responsive to electrical stimulation of the neural tissue by a stimulation electrode, with an elementary unit response signal representing voltage change at a measurement electrode due to the electrical stimulation. The CDLD is compared to known physiological data to detect an NAP signal from the tissue response measurement signal. | 06-25-2015 |
20150223734 | Determination of Neuronal Action Potential Amplitude based on Multidimensional Differential Geometry - Arrangements are described for determining a physiological characteristic of the auditory pathway (as whole or selected parts such as an inner ear). Electrical stimulation pulses are delivered to inner ear neural tissue and corresponding tissue response signals are developed by measuring over time response of the auditory pathway to each electrical stimulation pulse, with each tissue response signal forming a response curve including at least one physiological landmark such as a local maximum and a local minimum. A multi-dimensional polynomial is fit over the tissue response signals, and calculation starting points are defined based on prominent physiologic landmarks such as a local maximum and a local minimum for one selected tissue response signal. A line of minimum principal curvature of the multi-dimensional polynomial over the plurality of tissue response signals that intersect the calculation starting points is calculated to determine a physiological characteristic of the auditory pathway. | 08-13-2015 |
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20080217393 | Sharing of database objects - A system may include reading a provider database mapping of file identifiers to page numbers of the provider database, determining one or more shared database objects of the provider database based on the provider database mapping, and registering the one or more shared database objects in a local namespace of a reader database. | 09-11-2008 |
20090089307 | WRITABLE SHARED DATABASE OBJECTS - A system may include a provider database, a reader database, and a database management system. The provider database may include a provider data area having a plurality of provider block addresses, and the reader database may include a reader data area having a plurality of reader block addresses, and a mapping of provider-specific identifiers to block addresses of the plurality of provider data pages and of reader-specific identifiers to block addresses of the plurality of reader data pages. | 04-02-2009 |
20100228787 | ONLINE DATA VOLUME DELETION - A system to delete a data volume may include storage of a plurality of data pages of the data volume of a data area into a cache, prevention of writing of data pages to the data volume, and designation of each of the plurality of data pages in the cache as modified. The system may also include writing of all data pages in the cache that are designated as modified to a respective location in one or more other data volumes of the data area, and updating, for each of the written data pages, a converter page of the cache to associate the written data page with its respective location in the one or more other data volumes. | 09-09-2010 |
20110145186 | ONLINE ACCESS TO DATABASE SNAPSHOTS - An executing database instance includes a first plurality of database pages associated with a previous state of the database instance, a cache storing a current converter of the executing database instance, the current converter not representing the first plurality of database pages, and a database management system. The database management system is to receive a request for access to the first plurality of database pages, and perform a database task using one or more of the first plurality of database pages while the database instance is executing. | 06-16-2011 |
20110307450 | TENANT SEPARATION WITHIN A DATABASE INSTANCE - A system includes a database instance, a data storage system, and a database management system. The data storage system stores a first data partition and a second data partition. The first data partition includes a first plurality of database pages storing tenant-independent data and a first converter associated with the first partition. The second data partition includes a second plurality of database pages storing tenant-independent data and a second converter associated with the second partition. | 12-15-2011 |
20140379659 | N TO M HOST SYSTEM COPY - A system includes obtaining of a backup of the source database system comprising N hosts and a first plurality of servers, where N is an integer greater than one, access of a target database system comprising M hosts, where M is an integer less than N, configuration of the target database system to include the first plurality of servers, and performance of a database recovery of the target database system using the backup of the source database system. | 12-25-2014 |
20150347237 | N TO M HOST SYSTEM COPY - A system includes obtaining of a backup of the source database system comprising N hosts and a first plurality of servers, where N is an integer greater than one, access of a target database system comprising M hosts, where M is an integer less than N, configuration of the target database system to include the first plurality of servers, and performance of a database recovery of the target database system using the backup of the source database system. | 12-03-2015 |