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20110251536 | Therapeutic compression apparatus - A therapeutic compression device for applying compression force to a patient. The device is comprised of multiple layers, at least two of which are fluid-tight. At least two fluid-tight layers define a fluid-tight chamber that has a smaller surface area than the overall device. Fluid supplied to the fluid-tight chamber causes compressive force to be exerted on a patient. Preferably at least one layer is a fluid permeable material. An additional layer of fluid permeable material may be also be added to ensure a fluid permeable barrier exists between the fluid-tight chamber and a patient. | 10-13-2011 |
20110257565 | SEPARABLE SYSTEM FOR APPLYING COMPRESSION AND THERMAL TREATMENT - The invention relates to a separable device for the application of compression and thermal therapy to a patient. A first section includes a reservoir, liquid pump and a thermal exchange system for the application of thermal therapy as well as a dock. The second section of the device includes an air compressor and at least one controller for the application of compression therapy and can be operated independently from the first section. Additionally, the second section may be engaged with a dock of the first section. | 10-20-2011 |
20130245518 | THERAPEUTIC COMPRESSION APPARATUS - A therapeutic compression device for applying compression force to a patient. The device is constructed of multiple layers, at least two of which are fluid-tight. At least two fluid-tight layers define a fluid-tight chamber that has a smaller surface area than the overall device. Fluid supplied to the fluid-tight chamber causes compressive force to be exerted on a patient. Preferably at least one layer is a fluid permeable material. An additional layer of fluid permeable material may be also be added to ensure a fluid permeable barrier exists between the fluid-tight chamber and a patient. | 09-19-2013 |
20140012169 | THERAPEUTIC WRAP - The subject matter of the invention relates to therapy wraps for the application of compression and/or thermal therapy to a patient. The wraps are formed of at least two layers of material which are sealed together to form at least one cavity between them. The wraps may be used in conjunction with a therapy machine which fills the cavity or cavities of the wraps with fluid such as a gas and/or a liquid. The unique shapes of the wraps are particularly suitable for providing therapy to the human body. The shapes permit the manipulation of the wraps around various portions of the human body such as the shoulder, back and foot. | 01-09-2014 |
20150190298 | SEPARABLE SYSTEM FOR APPLYING COMPRESSION AND THERMAL TREATMENT - The invention relates to a separable device for the application of compression and thermal therapy to a patient. A first section includes a reservoir, liquid pump and a thermal exchange system for the application of thermal therapy as well as a dock. The second section of the device includes an air compressor and at least one controller for the application of compression therapy and can be operated independently from the first section. Additionally, the second section may be engaged with a dock of the first section. | 07-09-2015 |
20150224015 | THERAPEUTIC WRAP WITH PATTERN ZONE - The subject matter of the invention relates to therapy wraps for the application of compression and/or thermal therapy to a patient. The wraps are formed of at least two layers of material which are sealed together to form at least one cavity between them. At least two layers of the wrap are sealed together using a plurality of different seal patterns. A first seal pattern is provided in at least one zone. The zone is surrounded by a perimeter seal, an internal seal or at least one different seal pattern or a combination thereof. The pattern within the zone or zones provides higher volume fluid flow paths than the pattern or patterns surrounding the zone or zones. | 08-13-2015 |
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20100180106 | ASYNCHRONOUS CHECKPOINTING WITH AUDITS IN HIGH AVAILABILITY NETWORKS - Example embodiments are directed to methods of ensuring high availability of a network using asynchronous checkpointing of application state data related to an object. Example embodiments include a method of asynchronous checkpointing application state data related to at least one object, including receiving application events and processing the application events to obtain new application state data. The method further includes modifying at least a portion of previously stored application state data and asynchronously and independently checkpointing the modified application state data based on whether the modified application state data has reached a stable state. Example embodiments also include a method of ensuring consistent application state data across a network. This method may include having at least two CAPs independently and asynchronously storing application state data related to at least one object at two different network nodes and automatically auditing the stored application state data to ensure data consistency. | 07-15-2010 |
20120082205 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING COMPRESSIVE MEASUREMENTS OF VIDEO USING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL INTEGRATION - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for generating compressive measurements of video using spatial-temporal integration. The apparatus includes a detector configured to detect luminance values of a temporal video structure over a period of time based on optical data. The temporal video structure has pixels with a horizontal dimension and a vertical dimension with corresponding luminance values over the period of time. The apparatus also includes a spatial-temporal integrator unit configured to receive a plurality of measurement bases. Also, the spatial-temporal integrator unit is configured to apply each measurement basis to the temporal video structure and to sum resulting values for each measurement basis over the period of time to obtain a set of measurements. The summed values for each measurement basis is the set of measurements. | 04-05-2012 |
20120082207 | VIDEO CODING USING COMPRESSIVE MEASUREMENTS - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for video coding using compressive measurements. The method includes receiving video data including frames, and determining at least one temporal structure based on a series of consecutive frames in the video data. The temporal structure includes a sub-block of video data from each frame in the series. The method further includes obtaining a measurement matrix, and generating a set of measurements by applying the measurement matrix to the at least one temporal structure. The measurement matrix includes an assigned pattern of pixel values and the set of measurements is coded data representing the at least one temporal structure. | 04-05-2012 |
20120082208 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ARBITRARY RESOLUTION VIDEO CODING USING COMPRESSIVE SAMPLING MEASUREMENTS - The present invention relates to method and apparatus for arbitrary resolution video coding using compressive measurements. The method includes receiving at least one measurement of a set of measurements that was generated at an encoder. The set of measurements represents encoded video data. The method further includes determining a display resolution, where the display resolution is the same or different than an original display resolution. The method further includes determining an expansion matrix based on at least a number of pixels for the determined display resolution, and reconstructing the video data using the determined expansion matrix such that the original display resolution is resized to the determined display resolution if the determined display resolution is different than the original display resolution. The expansion matrix includes a pattern of values. | 04-05-2012 |
20130156261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBJECT DETECTION USING COMPRESSIVE SENSING - In one embodiment, the method for object detection and compressive sensing includes receiving, by a decoder, measurements. The measurements are coded data that represents video data. The method further includes estimating, by the decoder, probability density functions based upon the measurements. The method further includes identifying, by the decoder, a background image and at least one foreground image based upon the estimated probability density functions. The method further includes examining the at least one foreground image to detect at least one object of interest. | 06-20-2013 |
20130201297 | LENSLESS COMPRESSIVE IMAGE ACQUISITION - Systems, structures, devices and methods for lensless compressive image acquisition are disclosed herein with which images may be obtained from a single detection element while performing fewer times than a number of pixels associated with the image. Advantageously such systems, structures, devices and methods may be adapted to acquiring images at wavelengths that are difficult or impossible with contemporary CCD or CMOS imagers. | 08-08-2013 |
20140043491 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DETECTION OF ANOMALIES USING COMPRESSIVE MEASUREMENTS - A method for detection of anomalies using compressive measurements includes receiving sets of measurements, a set of measurements representing compressed coded data of a segment of data; collecting at least one statistic of the sets of measurements; and examining the at least one statistic to detect at least one anomaly in the at least one segment. | 02-13-2014 |
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20100008458 | Methods and apparatuses for estimating time delay and frequency offset in single frequency networks - In one method, an uplink signal carrying at least one block of transmitted samples is transmitted, and a distorted copy of the uplink signal is received as a downlink signal. A plurality of blocks of received samples are generated based on the received downlink signal, and a time delay and frequency offset between the uplink and downlink signals are determined based on a correlation between the block of transmitted samples and at least one of the plurality of blocks of received samples. | 01-14-2010 |
20100142644 | Hierarchical Modulation - A method for modulating first and second bit streams in a communications network that supports at least one of a binary phase-shift keying (BPSK), a quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) or a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellation uses hierarchical modulation. A hierarchical modulation parameter that varies within the network is set. The first bit stream is modulated based on a first constellation of the hierarchical modulation and the hierarchical modulation parameter. The second bit stream is modulated based on a second constellation in the first constellation. | 06-10-2010 |
20100253425 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PREDISTORTION - Embodiments are described herein to provide better predistortion solutions for the linearization of high power amplifiers, especially those with memory effects. Many embodiments involve a method in which a predistorted signal z | 10-07-2010 |
20100293213 | Method and apparatus for approximating a function - Embodiments described herein provide techniques for computing an approximation of a function. These embodiments provide an iterative method that avoids the computation of the normal matrix and/or the coefficients, as is typical in the prior art. (See diagram | 11-18-2010 |
20110164672 | Orthogonal Multiple Description Coding - In one aspect, an orthogonal multiple description encoder comprises orthogonal multiple description generation circuitry configured to produce multiple descriptions of a given signal by processing the signal using respective ones of a plurality of orthogonal matrices. Each of the multiple descriptions is generated as a function of the signal and a corresponding one of the plurality of orthogonal matrices. Other aspects include an orthogonal multiple description decoder, orthogonal multiple description encoding and decoding methods, and associated computer program products. | 07-07-2011 |
20120075531 | Apparatus and method for client-side compositing of video streams - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for client-side compositing of video streams. The method includes receiving, by the video display device, a multiplexed data stream from a remote video server. The multiplexed data stream includes substreams, where the substreams includes a descriptor substream, at least one media substream, and a compositing-instruction substream. The method further includes demultiplexing, by the video display device, the multiplexed data stream into the substreams according to the descriptor substream and displaying, by the video display device, the at least one media substream on a display screen according to the compositing-instruction substream, where the compositing-instruction substream includes instructions on a composition of the at least one media substream. | 03-29-2012 |
20120189047 | Arbitrary Precision Multiple Description Coding - In one aspect, an encoder comprises arbitrary precision multiple description generation circuitry configured to produce multiple descriptions of a given signal by processing the signal using at least one matrix having a dimension which is selected as a function of a designated number of transmission resources, such as OFDM subcarriers or TDM time slots, that are allocated for transmission of the multiple descriptions. For example, the signal may comprise a vector x of dimension N and the arbitrary precision multiple description generation circuitry may be configured to generate M descriptions of the vector x where the value of M is selected to satisfy a particular one of three possible cases M=N, M>N and M07-26-2012 | |
20120224646 | VIRTUAL AGGREGATION OF FRAGMENTED WIRELESS SPECTRUM - Method and apparatus for aggregating spectrum in which multiple disjoint blocks of spectrum may be configured as one virtual contiguous block of spectrum by modulating onto each disjoint blocks of spectrum a respective portion of a data stream in which the data rate associated with the modulated portion is compatible with the available bandwidth of the disjoint spectrum block upon which is modulated. | 09-06-2012 |
20120294456 | SIGNAL SOURCE LOCALIZATION USING COMPRESSIVE MEASUREMENTS - In one aspect, a method for performing signal source localization is provided. The method comprises the steps of obtaining compressive measurements of an acoustic signal or other type of signal from respective ones of a plurality of sensors, processing the compressive measurements to determine time delays between arrivals of the signal at different ones of the sensors, and determining a location of a source of the signal based on differences between the time delays. The method may be implemented in a processing device that is configured to communicate with the plurality of sensors. In an illustrative embodiment, the compressive measurements are obtained from respective ones of only a designated subset of the sensors, and a non-compressive measurement is obtained from at least a given one of the sensors not in the designated subset, with the time delays between the arrivals of the signal at different ones of the sensors being determined based on the compressive measurements and the non-compressive measurement. | 11-22-2012 |
20130016790 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPER-RESOLUTION VIDEO CODING USING COMPRESSIVE SAMPLING MEASUREMENTSAANM Jiang; HongAACI WarrenAAST NJAACO USAAGP Jiang; Hong Warren NJ USAANM Wilford; Paul A.AACI BernardsvilleAAST NJAACO USAAGP Wilford; Paul A. Bernardsville NJ US - Embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for super resolution video coding using compressive measurements. The method includes receiving, by a decoder, a set of measurements, where the set of measurements represents encoded video data having original video data with an original display resolution. The method further includes determining, by the decoder, a display resolution, where the display resolution is higher than the original display resolution, and determining a reduction matrix based on at least a number of pixels for the determined display resolution, where the reduction matrix includes a pattern of values. The method further includes reconstructing, by the decoder, the video data or a portion of the video data using the determined reduction matrix and the received set of measurements such that the original display resolution is enlarged to the determined display resolution. | 01-17-2013 |
20130044818 | Method And Apparatus For Video Coding Using A Special Class Of Measurement Matrices - The embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for video coding using a special class of measurement matrices. The method includes generating, by the encoder, a measurement matrix including a first row having a sequence of values and at least one other row having a shifted version of the sequence of values for the first row, and obtaining, by the encoder, a set of measurements by applying the measurement matrix to the video data, where the set of measurements is coded data representing the video data. | 02-21-2013 |
20130121422 | Method And Apparatus For Encoding/Decoding Data For Motion Detection In A Communication System - Embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for encoding/decoding data for motion detection in a communication system. The method for encoding data includes receiving, by an encoder, video data including a plurality of frames. Each frame is represented by a pixel vector including a number of pixel values. The method further includes generating, by the encoder, sets of measurements representing the plurality of frames. Each set of measurements represents a different frame of the plurality of frames. The generating step generates the sets of measurements by applying sensing matrices to the pixel vectors, and a same sensing matrix is used for at least two sets of measurements. | 05-16-2013 |
20130201343 | LENSELESS COMPRESSIVE IMAGE ACQUISITION - An exemplary lensless compressive imaging device may include a micro mirror array having a plurality of mirror elements that are individually controllable for selectively directing light reflecting from the micro mirror array. A detector detects light reflected from at least one of the mirror elements. A processor provides compressive image information based on the detected light. | 08-08-2013 |
20130227106 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO SESSION MANAGEMENT - A video session management capability provides network-directed, client-assisted management of real-time mobile video sessions of video clients of mobile devices. The video session management capability is provided using a mobile device accessing a Wireless Service Provider (WSP) network and a video management server associated with the WSP network. The mobile device includes a video client and a video control engine. The video control engine collects client information at the mobile device and provides the client information to the video management server. The video management server receives the client information, obtains network information associated with the WSP network, determines video session management information, and propagates the video session management information toward the mobile device. The mobile device receives the video session management information and the video control engine uses the video session management information to manage a real-time mobile video session of the video client of the mobile device. | 08-29-2013 |
20140023147 | CROSS LAYER CODING FOR SATELLITE MOBILE TV BROADCAST METHOD AND APPARATUS - Methods and apparatus providing error protection in multicast-broadcast service by encoding multimedia content according to a first protocol to provide a plurality of distinct video streams, coding each of the distinct video streams using respective coding protocols, wherein each coding protocol has associated with it corresponding descriptors and coefficients, and multiplexing the coded video streams toward a wireless network. | 01-23-2014 |
20140112594 | RESOLUTION AND FOCUS ENHANCEMENT - An exemplary system includes at least one detector configured to provide an output based on a detected input. A plurality of input control elements control the input detected by the detector. A processor is configured to determine at least one point spread function based on a condition of the detector, a condition of the input control elements and a selected distance associated with the output. The controller is configured to generate data based on the output and the at least one point spread function, the generated data having at least one aspect | 04-24-2014 |
20140181061 | DATA DISTRIBUTION IN A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM - An illustrative data access management system includes a plurality of data storage devices and at least one data manager device configured to arrange information stored by the data storage devices. The data manager device segments compressive measurements of data into a plurality of subsets. Each of the subsets contains measurement information for facilitating a reconstruction of at least an approximation of the data. The data manager device provides at least a first one of the subsets to a first one of the data storage devices and at least a second one of the subsets to a second one of the data storage devices. One of the data storage devices may be selected, based on at least one criterion, for providing a user access to the at least one subset stored by the selected data storage device. | 06-26-2014 |
20150188972 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING ERROR RESILIENCE IN VIDEO DELIVERY - A multimedia transceiver apparatus continuously generates a model of a video scene, and then uses the generated model to estimate missing sections (e.g., image frames) of the video stream by morphing and/or modifying available uncorrupted video data based on the model. By estimating the missing sections, the subjective quality of video under error conditions (e.g., image frame loss, image frame corruption, video signal interruption, etc.) is improved. | 07-02-2015 |