Abstract: This invention relates to the diagnosis and/or monitoring of patients with inflammatory diseases or conditions, e.g., immunologic, hematologic, vascular, or infectious diseases or conditions, by determining levels of complement pathway components on erythrocytes. Methods of diagnosing vascular diseases or conditions by determining levels of complement pathway components on platelets are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 12, 2004
Date of Patent:
December 20, 2011
Assignee:
University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
Abstract: A video codec provides efficient repeat padding of hybrid video sequences having arbitrary video resolution. The video codec repeat pads to expand the active content of pictures in the video sequence out to meet an adaptive vertical macroblock alignment restriction that varies by picture type. For progressive type pictures, the video codec repeats the last row or horizontal boundary edge of the active content. For interlaced type pictures, the video coded repeats the last two rows (last row of each interlaced field) of the active content. This repeat padding differing by picture type provides a better prediction (lower prediction error residual) for macroblocks in following predicted frames whose motion vector points into the padded region.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 6, 2004
Date of Patent:
October 26, 2010
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation
Inventors:
Chih-Lung Lin, Pohsiang Hsu, Sridhar Srinivasan, Thomas W. Holcomb