Abstract: A remote control device for controlling a reduced operational mode of a vehicle includes a portable communication device operable to communicate with the vehicle. A detachable component is selectively coupled to the communication device. The communication device is operable to initiate a reduced operational mode for the vehicle upon detachment of the detachable component from the communication device. The portable communication device detects the input in the attached position and initiates a normal operational mode upon the detection. Detachment of the detachable component cause an input voltage to change on the portable device. The reduced operational mode includes inhibiting access to predetermined storage compartments in the vehicle such as a vehicle trunk or glove box. Vehicle speed and RPM are limited in the reduced operational mode.

Abstract: An improvement in a finishing system that eliminates ‘cut and try’ by a user in trying to place staples in copy sheet sets in a desired position includes using input media orientation and the user's Finishing Selection to determine stapling position on output copy sheets.

Abstract: A system for communicating user identified preferences to a vehicle includes a programming device adapted to receive input indicative of user defined vehicle settings and operable to store the input as vehicle setting data. A first portable security device is operable to transmit a first identification code. A transceiver residing in the vehicle is in data communication over a wireless communication link with each of the first portable security device and the programming device. The transceiver is operable to initiate download of the vehicle setting data to the vehicle upon receipt of the first identification code from the first portable security device.

Abstract: A smart key entry system for unlocking a plurality of doors in a platform includes a controller within the platform. The controller is operable to lock and unlock each of the plurality of doors. A sensor is located on each of the plurality of doors. Each sensor is operable to communicate to the controller when a user has activated the sensor. A mobile device external to the platform is operable to wirelessly communicate with the controller when within a detection area surrounding the platform. If the mobile device is within the detection area, the controller unlocks a door when the sensor located on the door communicates to the controller that a user has activated the sensor.

Abstract: A system for communicating user identified preferences to a vehicle includes a programming device adapted to receive input indicative of user defined vehicle settings and operable to store the input as vehicle setting data. A first portable security device is operable to transmit a first identification code. A transceiver residing in the vehicle is in data communication over a wireless communication link with each of the first portable security device and the programming device. The transceiver is operable to initiate download of the vehicle setting data to the vehicle upon receipt of the first identification code from the first portable security device.

Abstract: A system for compensating for a calibration drift in an image output device includes a user input means for specifying an output medium. An image output device controller converts original image data to final image data used by the image output device. The image output device produces a calibration image, as a function of an output medium, for a plurality of halftone screens capable of being produced by the image output device. A processor communicates with the controller. The processor calculates a plurality of candidate tone reproduction curve sets for the specified output medium. Each of the sets corresponds to one of the plurality of halftone screens. The candidate tone reproduction curve sets are accepted for compensating for a calibration drift in the image output device.

Abstract: A remote control device for controlling a reduced operational mode of a vehicle includes a portable communication device operable to communicate with the vehicle. A detachable component is selectively coupled to the communication device. The communication device is operable to initiate a reduced operational mode for the vehicle upon detachment of the detachable component from the communication device. The portable communication device detects the input in the attached position and initiates a normal operational mode upon the detection. Detachment of the detachable component cause an input voltage to change on the portable device. The reduced operational mode includes inhibiting access to predetermined storage compartments in the vehicle such as a vehicle trunk or glove box. Vehicle speed and RPM are limited in the reduced operational mode.

Abstract: A method of controlling paper stock fault recovery in an image reproduction system for producing a print job from electronic data in accordance with job requirements calling for a desired stock having one or more selected stock attributes, the system including an interactive user interface enabling a system user to input operating instructions to the system. A dialog is thereby provided in which the operator may query any stock tray and get a listing of those stock tray attributes which are mismatched with the print job desired stock attributes.

Abstract: An endoscope fill bar including a device to change the cross-section of a rounded end zone of the fill bar that protects distally beyond the endoscope distal end when the fill bar is in its functional position. The cross-sectional altering device is driven by an adjusting system mounted on the fill bar and through an adjustment link, and includes a lever resting at the distal end zone in a spreading-out and retracting manner.

Abstract: A method of controlling paper stock fault recovery in an image reproduction system for producing a print job from electronic data in accordance with job requirements calling for a desired stock having one or more selected stock attributes, the system including an interactive user interface enabling a system user to input operating instructions to the system. A dialog is thereby provided in which the operator may query any stock tray and get a listing of those stock tray attributes which are mismatched with the print job desired stock attributes.

Abstract: The invention relates to an endoscope fill bar comprising a device to change the cross-section of a rounded end zone distally projecting beyond the endoscope distal end when said bar is in its functional position, the cross-sectionally altering device being driven by an adjusting system mounted on the fill bar and through an adjustment link, and is characterized in that the device comprises a lever resting on the distal end zone in spreading-out and retracting manner.

Abstract: A trocar sleeve for introducing instruments into gas filled body spaces including an insertion tube and a valve chamber disposed proximally on it with a duckbill valve of elastic material. The duck bill value has a tubular body extending coaxially with respect to the axis of the insertion tube. An end of the body directed towards the insertion tube has two flat oblique walls forming a ridge with a slit extending therein transverse to the axis of the tube. The tubular body is oversized in a direction transverse to the slit with respect to the internal size of the valve chamber in the uninstalled rest state.

Abstract: A surgical endoscopic instrument for surgery in a region directly underneath a layer of tissue covering a body cavity and traversed by the instrument which has a tubular sleeve with an operating duct and an optical system. The optical system image guide exits through a lateral outlet, the operating duct is mounted in a cross-sectional zone adjacent to the outlet and the optical system is mounted in a cross-sectional zone of the sleeve substantially opposite the outlet. The image guide of the operating duct extends laterally around the sleeve.

Abstract: In a real-time printing system, in which large blocks of digital data corresponding to page images must be located in a memory via a translation table and accessed from the memory within a very narrow time frame, the memory-management internal program of an operating system is overridden by external instructions which lock the translation table in memory.

Abstract: A high-volume digital print service has a plurality of independent and simultaneously-operable decomposers which each output decomposed image data to a common buffer. The decomposed data can be compressed for relatively long-term retention in the buffer, by means of a compression element. All of the decomposers and the compression element are operated by a central CPU facility. A control system, sensitive to the amount of data in the buffer at a given time, apportions CPU cycles among the decomposers and compression element for optimization of the entire print service. The control system can also command printing hardware to skip pitches on an imaging surface therein, in order to reduce demand for decomposed data.

Abstract: A digital printing system includes a plurality of decomposers which operate simultaneously and independently. Each decomposer outputs page images of decomposed data at essentially random times. The page images from the decomposers are retained in a buffer until requested by a marker which controls the printer hardware. A buffer manager records where in the buffer each page image is stored, and a stream handle is assigned to every set of page images intended to form a multi-page document. When the marker requests a particular set of page images for printing, the marker invokes a stream handle. The buffer manager, receiving the stream handle, retrieves the necessary page images from recorded locations in the buffer.