Abstract: A resource manager allocates operation requests to security network devices according to device characteristics. The devices collect and/or manage data from an environment. The devices may include a camera, a multimedia recorder, an analyzer, and a meta-data server. One or more users submit operation requests to a controller. The controller allocates the network devices to the operation requests according to the device characteristics. The device characteristics include availability of the device, media flow data of the device, location of the device, and capabilities of the device.

Abstract: A socket for mounting a processor and/or a board has a substrate with a built in socket. The socket has conductive, elastically deformable terminals. The socket may be mounted to a processor and a board without using conventional surface mount technology, instead providing a mechanical contact mechanism between the socket and the board or processor. An adhesive layer may also be used to connect the socket to a processor and/or a board.

Abstract: This invention aims at preventing a peeling phenomenon occurring on the surface of a foamed product. In order to achieve this object, an injection-molded product formed in accordance with injection molding by mixing a foaming agent in a molding resin material, is formed by molding using a mold having a heat insulating material on a surface of its cavity forward in a moving direction of a portion where the molding resin material molten and injected for forming the molded product has an injection speed of at least 1.5 m/sec to 2,000 m/sec in the cavity of the mold.

Abstract: A stream editing system is provided which is designed to switch one of two input streams used in an editing operation to the other at an edit point set in each of the streams. The system includes two decoders and at least one encoder. In the editing operation to combine the two streams to produce a single stream, the system re-encodes only a trailing portion of one of the streams with a leading portion of the other stream which are defined across the edit points and uses the other portions of the streams as they are, thereby minimizing a deterioration in signal quality caused by the re-encoding of the streams.

Abstract: A method for copying data in disk recording media, and disk recording apparatus. At copying data recorded in a disk to another disk, occurrence of seek at the copy source is eliminated or suppressed below a specified value during reading data to reduce read time. At the target disk, data is rearranged according to video scenes or files, or file control information is rewritten to maintain the data structure of the copy source.

Abstract: A method for copying data in disk recording media, and disk recording apparatus. At copying data recorded in a disk to another disk, occurrence of seek at the copy source is eliminated or suppressed below a specified value during reading data to reduce read time. At the target disk, data is rearranged according to video scenes or files, or file control information is rewritten to maintain the data structure of the copy source.

Abstract: To provide a motion detecting apparatus that judges whether each macro block shows a part of an object in motion using motion vectors calculated by a general-purpose MPEG video encoder during motion compensation. The motion detecting apparatus compares a motion vector of a present macro block with motion vectors of macro blocks surrounding the present macro block. If the motion vector of the present macro block and the motion vectors of the surrounding macro blocks are not random in direction and magnitude, the motion detecting apparatus judges that the present macro block shows a part of an object in motion. Otherwise, the motion detecting apparatus judges that the present macro block does not show a part of an object in motion.

Abstract: A recording apparatus which performs recording by scanning across a recording medium a carriage mounted with a recording head and which is configured to be capable of setting a carriage moving speed for scanning out of a plurality of values, it is possible to perform recording in a short time irrespective of record widths by calculating the record widths for recording by scans and selecting out of the plurality of values a carriage moving speed at which a total of periods for all scans from start to stop of a carriage is shortest.

Abstract: A computer fan assembly is described which may be constructed so as to be suitable for use in enclosures for notebook computers or laptops. A heat pipe may be secured to a housing of the computer fan assembly. The heat pipe may be located in a position so that heat is transferred away from the heat pipe by air passing through the housing. Heat may, for example, be conducted from the heat pipe and then convected by means of fins to the air passing through the housing.

Abstract: In a recording apparatus which performs recording by scanning on a recording medium a carriage mounted with a recording head on a recording medium and is configured to be capable of setting a carriage moving speed for scanning out of a plurality of values, it is possible to perform recording in a short time irrespective of record widths by calculating the record widths for recording by scans and selecting out of a plurality of values a carriage moving speed at which a total of periods for all scans from start to stop of a carriage is shortest.

Abstract: A video memory system for storing ATSC video image data is configured as three channels, each channel having two banks and each bank including a plurality of memory rows. The exemplary memory system includes a buffer area for holding bit-stream data and six field buffer areas. The field buffer areas are arranged in pairs to form a three frame buffer areas, such that the buffer areas for the two fields in a given frame are allocated in respectively different banks. The video memory system includes an output memory controller which receives macroblocks of decoded image data and divides the received macroblocks into respective upper and lower half-macroblocks, the upper half-macroblock being stored in one field buffer of the frame and the lower half-macroblock being stored in the other field buffer of the frame.

Abstract: A cooling unit for an integrated circuit. The cooling unit may include a peltier device that may be coupled to the integrated circuit and a plurality of fins that are thermally coupled to the peltier device. The fins may be separated by at least one channel. The cooling unit may include a fan that generates a flow of fluid through the channel.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming solder interconnection structures that reduce thermo-mechanical stresses at the solder joints of a semiconductor device and its supporting substrate. In one embodiment, the solder interconnection structure of the present invention comprises a semiconductor device and a substrate having a plurality of solder connections extending from the substrate to electrodes or bond pads on the semiconductor device. A multilayer structure is disposed between the semiconductor device and substrate filling the gap formed by the solder connections. The multilayer structure includes a first layer and a second layer, each having a different coefficient of thermal expansion. Thus, in accordance with the present invention, the stress concentration points are moved away from the solder joints of the semiconductor device and substrate to a point located between the first and second layers of the filler structure.

Abstract: A wear resistant metal composite which comprises formed porous fly ash obtained by forming fly ash into the desired shape and a metal impregnated into voids present in the interior of said formed fly ash, wherein the percentage by volume of said formed fly ash is 30% by volume or less, and wherein said fly ash is exposed on the surface of said wear resistant metal composite.

Abstract: A method for determining motion compensation of an input image based on a motion vector of the input image from this input image to a reference image which has been sampled at a first set time, and the method includes calculating a motion vector of the input image based on a move, at a second set time, of a block unit which is a part of the input image and consists of a plurality of pixels, and calculating a motion vector of the reference image based on a motion, at the first set time, of a block unit which is a part of the reference image and consists of a plurality of pixels. Motion compensation of the input image is calculated both from the motion vector of the input image and from the motion vector of the reference image, to thereby realize a method for determining motion compensation with high precision.

Abstract: A multi-channel memory system for holding video image data employs a particular form of interleaving in each channel to achieve optimum performance. Data representing luminance and chrominance components are written into the memory in respectively different channels such that the luminance information occupies one part of a memory row while the chrominance information occupies another part. The channel assignment is cycled within a memory row and is changed from one row of the memory to the next such that all luminance information in the row is contiguous and all chrominance information is contiguous yet luminance information and its corresponding chrominance information may be accessed in a single operation using all three channels. The memory is organized in three channels, each channel including two devices and each device including two banks.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming solder interconnection structures that reduce thermo-mechanical stresses at the solder joints of a semiconductor device and its supporting substrate. In one embodiment, the solder interconnection structure of the present invention comprises a semiconductor device and a substrate having a plurality of solder connections extending from the substrate to electrodes or bond pads on the semiconductor device. A multilayer structure is disposed between the semiconductor device and substrate filling the gap formed by the solder connections. The multilayer structure includes a first layer and a second layer, each having a different coefficient of thermal expansion. Thus, in accordance with the present invention, the stress concentration points are moved away from the solder joints of the semiconductor device and substrate to a point located between the first and second layers of the filler structure.

Abstract: A method for predicting motion compensation for determining of an input image based on a motion vector of the input image from this input image to a reference image which has been sampled at a first set time, and the method includes calculating a motion vector of the input image based on a move, at a second set time, of a block unit which is a part of the input image and consists of a plurality of pixels, and calculating a motion vector of the reference image based on a move, at the first set time, of a block unit which is a part of the reference image and consists of a plurality of pixels. Move compensation of the input image is calculated both from the motion vector of the input image and from the motion vector of the reference image, to thereby realize a method for determining motion compensation with high precision.

Abstract: A method for predicting motion compensation for determining of an input image based on a motion vector of the input image from this input image to a reference image which has been sampled at a first set time, and the method includes calculating a motion vector of the input image based on a move, at a second set time, of a block unit which is a part of the input image and consists of a plurality of pixels, and calculating a motion vector of the reference image based on a move, at the first set time, of a block unit which is a part of the reference image and consists of a plurality of pixels. Move compensation of the input image is calculated both from the motion vector of the input image and from the motion vector of the reference image, to thereby realize a method for determining motion compensation with high precision.

Abstract: A method for predicting motion compensation for determining of an input image based on a motion vector of the input image from this input image to a reference image which has been sampled at a first set time, and the method includes calculating a motion vector of the input image based on a move, at a second set time, of a block unit which is a part of the input image and consists of a plurality of pixels, and calculating a motion vector of the reference image based on a move, at the first set time, of a block unit which is a part of the reference image and consists of a plurality of pixels. Move compensation of the input image is calculated both from the motion vector of the input image and from the motion vector of the reference image, to thereby realize a method for determining motion compensation with high precision.