Abstract: A new cultivar of shrub rose, ‘Navy Lady’, characterized by its small, compact, and uniform plant habit, its lightly fragrant semi-double flowers that are deep red in color opening from buds that are very dark red in color with its petals exhibiting a velvety texture, its repeat blooming habit, its medium to dark green semi-glossy foliage with good resistance to powdery mildew and rust, its vigorous growth habit, its ability to be readily propagated on its own roots, and its cold hardiness at least to U.S.D.A. Zone 4.

Abstract: A new variety of Floribunda rose suitable for garden decoration, having flowers of ketchup red and mustard yellow bicolor coloration.

Abstract: This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of strawberry plant named ‘PS-1.125’. This new strawberry plant named ‘PS-1.125’ is primarily adapted to the growing conditions of the central coast of California, and is primarily characterized by its medium red skin color, conical fruit shape, very good fruit flavor, early fruit ripening, medium to large plant, and long fruiting truss.

Abstract: This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of strawberry plant named ‘PS-3.108’. This new strawberry plant named ‘PS-3.108’ is primarily adapted to the growing conditions of the central coast of California, and is primarily characterized by its dark red to red fruit color, large to very large fruit size, medium plant vigor, conical fruit shape, firm fruit flesh, and early fruit ripening.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of clematis plant named ‘Beautiful Bride’ particularly distinguished by its large, white, star-shaped flowers and long, pointed tepals, is disclosed.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Mandevilla plant named ‘FGDIP1RV’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading, moderately vining and relatively compact plant habit; freely branching habit, dense and bushy appearance; green, yellow green and pale yellow variegated leaves; dark red-colored flowers; and year-round flowering habit.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Veronica plant named ‘Alllord’, characterized by its upright plant habit; freely flowering habit; compact and dense inflorescences with numerous intense dark violet-colored flowers; long flowering period; and potential to be used as a cut flower or as a container plant.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Tradescantia plant characterized by yellow gold to yellow green foliage, white flowers, a compact clumping habit, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Euphorbia plant named ‘Bonpriho’, characterized by its upright and mounded plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; medium green-colored leaves; inflorescences with white-colored flower bracts; and good post-production longevity.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Verbena plant named ‘Suntapiripi’, characterized by its trailing plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; and light purple-colored flowers held above and beyond the foliar plane.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named ‘HDW79’, characterized by its compact, mounding and dense plant habit; dark-colored leaves; freely flowering habit; daisy-type inflorescence form; large inflorescences with white-colored ray florets; and good postproduction longevity.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named ‘HDPU165’, characterized by its compact, mounding, dense and bushy plant habit; serrated dark-colored leaves; freely flowering habit; daisy-type inflorescence form; large inflorescences with red purple-colored ray florets; and good postproduction longevity.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named ‘HDRF155’, characterized by its compact, mounding and dense plant habit; deeply serrated dark-colored leaves; freely flowering habit; daisy-type inflorescence form; large inflorescences with red and orange-colored ray florets; and good postproduction longevity.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Kalanchoe plant named ‘Don Nando’, characterized by its upright, uniform and vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; dark green-colored leaves; uniform and freely flowering habit; double pink-colored flowers; and excellent postproduction longevity.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Begonia plant named ‘Grace’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and mounded plant habit; freely branching habit; dark green-colored leaves; fully double flowers with numerous tepals that are bright red in color and are held above and beyond the foliar plane; and excellent postproduction longevity.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Fipetred’, characterized by its compact, outwardly spreading and mounding growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; large dark red-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: An Osteospermum variety named ‘KLEOE10180’ particularly distinguished by a stable uniformly enlarged disc floret corolla is disclosed.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Eryngium plant named ‘White Star’, characterized by its upright plant habit; strong thick stems; strong and durable leaves; white-colored flowers on dense flower heads; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Dieffenbachia plant named ‘Delilah’, that is characterized by its foliage that is variegated with bright creamy white centers, dark green margins, and variable marbling of dark and bright green in the centers, its wide, compact leaf petioles that are variegated with mottling of green and white, its ability to readily produce new shoots resulting in a full and compact plant habit and its thick leaves that impart resistance to insects and diseases.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Festuca glauca, ‘Casca11’, characterized its cascading foliage that is intensely silver-blue in color with the coloration retained throughout the growing season, and its tolerance to heat and humidity and drought.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Heuchera plant characterized by multicolored leaves with a heavy silver white veil, narrow wands of pink flowers, reblooming, and excellent tolerance to heat and humidity.

Abstract: A new and distinct Heuchera plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by ruffled leaves, intense rust red spring leaf color, glossy rust red to amber summer leaves, medium plant size, short flowering stalks that are deep red with small white flowers, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Salvia plant named ‘Balyricsil’, characterized by its deep violet-blue and light violet bicolored flowers, green and light burgundy colored bracts, medium green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, mounded growth habit, is disclosed.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Sedum plant, ‘Nonel’, characterized by its glossy foliage that emerges shiny green in color, holding this color during summer, then turning dark red-purple during fall and winter, its green stems, its flowers in late spring and early summer are bright canary yellow in color upon flat, somewhat drooping inflorescences atop a dense, low growing plant habit.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Sedum plant, ‘Nonot’, characterized by its evergreen foliage that emerges chartreuse-yellow and stays this color throughout summer. During fall and winter the chartreuse-yellow coloration becomes variably suffused with red-purple. Its flowers of early to mid summer are bright lemon-yellow upon erect flat-topped inflorescences, atop stout, leafy, upright floral stems that emerge from a low-growing procumbent plant habit.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Sedum plant, ‘Nonof’, characterized by its glossy foliage that emerges shiny green in color, holding this color during summer, fall, and winter, its green stems, its flowers in late spring and early summer that are bright lemon yellow upon flat, somewhat drooping inflorescences, atop a dense low growing plant habit.

Abstract: An apparatus for manually steeling or conditioning the edge of a knife blade comprises a precision angle guide attached to a manual sharpening steel. The angle guide establishes a guiding surface that provides for sustained sliding or rolling contact with the face of the knife blade such that the plane of at least one edge facet adjacent to the edge of the blade is maintained at a precisely established angle relative to the plane of the sharpening steel surface at the contact point of the facet with the surface of the sharpening steel.

Abstract: A practice drumhead assembly including a mesh membrane held in substantially fixed relation to an acoustic membrane. The assembly preferably includes an annular tensioning ring for tensioning the mesh membrane, and an engagement member for substantially fixing the mesh membrane relative to the acoustic membrane. The tensioning ring includes a cylindrical rod with a turnbuckle that is rotated to increase the diameter of the tensioning ring.

Abstract: An apparatus for connecting a respiratory device with a patient is provided, including a breathing tube for insertion into a patient's trachea, an inflatable cuff positioned around the breathing tube, a connection tube connected to the cuff for providing inflating air flow thereto, a pressurized air reservoir, and a valve connected to the pressurized air reservoir and to the proximal end of the connection line. The valve includes an entry port associated with an entry differential force chamber, a first exit port associated with a first differential force chamber and coupled with the connection line, a second exit port associated with a second differential force chamber and coupled with the pressurized air reservoir, and a flexible membrane selectively sealingly separating the differential force chambers. The flexible membrane is configured to selectively connect the first and second differential force chambers to maintain a substantially constant air pressure in the cuff.

Abstract: A carousel according to the invention uses a number of smaller, less expensive drive units at different locations along the carousel path in place of a single larger drive unit of comparable capacity. Closed loop control according to the invention allows individual drives to be de-energized when the power requirements do not demand their usage. When not energized, the drives may be disengaged from the chain, such as by way of a linear actuator as described hereafter. Benefits of such a system include reduced mechanical costs, longer drive life, better redundancy/higher availability, correct drive power, lower energy use, closed loop system monitoring and reduced collateral damage.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a business is issued a deposit card readable on a debit card reader enabling the business to transmit deposit information to its bank or financial institution for crediting rather than debiting of its account. More particularly, a method is provided for facilitating bank deposits for a business having a debit card reader configured to send deposit information to a bank at which the business maintains at least one account. The method comprises the steps of: (i) compiling deposit information concerning cash and negotiable instruments to be deposited in the account; (ii) transmitting the deposit information to the bank via the debit card reader; (iii) consolidating the cash and negotiable instruments into a deposit package; (iv) labelling the deposit package to link it to the deposit information in step (ii); and, (v) delivering the deposit package from step (iv) to the bank.

Abstract: A diffraction grating coupled infrared photodetector for providing high performance detection of infrared radiation is described. The photodetector includes a three-dimensional diffractive resonant optical cavity formed by a diffraction grating that resonates over a range of infrared radiation wavelengths. By placing a limited number of p/n junctions throughout the photodetector, the photodetector thermal noise is reduced due to the reduction in junction area. By retaining signal response and reducing the noise, the sensitivity increases at a given operating temperature when compared to traditional photovoltaic and photoconductive infrared photodetectors up to the background limit. The photodetector device design can be used with a number of semiconductor material systems, can form one- and two-dimensional focal plane arrays, and can readily be tuned for operation in the long wavelength infrared and the very long wavelength infrared where sensitivity and noise improvements are most significant.

Abstract: A lighting module with improved reliability including a pair of LEDs connected in parallel and with the same polarity and a method for making the said light module are disclosed. The parallel LEDs with the same polarity will increase the reliability of the light module and make it suitable for use in light strings where a relatively large number of such light modules are connected in series and where the failure of one such light module will cause the failure of the entire light string. A light string made of such light modules and a method for making the light string are also disclosed.

Abstract: A multi sensor detection and disabling lock system includes detector cases for holding interchangeable detectors that sample for chemical, biological and radiological compounds, agents and elements, with each detector case disposed in or upon the monitored product whereupon light alarm indicators (color coded) on the detector case light up when a specific compound or agent is detected whereupon the detector case transmits detection information to a monitoring computer terminal and transmits a signal to a lock disabler engaged to the product to lock or disable the product's lock thereby preventing untrained, unauthorized and unequipped individual's from gaining access and entry to the product, and also preventing further contamination of the area. An authorized individual resets the detection system, and the system's power source is electrical, battery or computer generated.

Abstract: A four-line CCD sensor is structured by line sensors R, G, B in which color fillers are respectively disposed on surfaces of light receiving elements, and a line sensor BK at which no color filter is disposed. Amplitudes of signals which are outputted from the line sensors R, G, B at a time of reading a color document, and an amplitude of a signal which is outputted from the line sensor BK at a time of reading a monochrome document are adjusted so as to be substantially equal to one another. In a case in which a color document is read, outputs of the line sensors R, G, B are selectively provided, and in a case in which a monochrome document is read, output of the line sensor BK is selectively provided.

Abstract: A method and communication system is provided to identify a calling/called party when the call is being set up but before the call is answered. In the method, a first terminal and a second terminal are respectively provided with opposing terminal's image data before the call is answered. The image data of the first and second terminals can be registered in a media server disposed between the first and second terminals, and the image data can be transmitted between the first terminal and the media server and between the second terminal and the media server in accordance with an SIP protocol.

Abstract: A method for segmenting a small feature in a multidimensional digital array of intensity values in a data processor computes an edge metric along each ray of a plurality of multidimensional rays originating at a local intensity extreme (local maximum or minimum). A multidimensional point corresponding to a maximum edge metric on each said ray is identified as a ray edge point. Every point on each ray from the local extreme to the ray edge point is labeled as part of the small object. Further points on the feature are grown by labeling an unlabeled point if the unlabeled point is adjacent to a labeled point, and the unlabeled point has a more extreme intensity than the labeled point, and the unlabeled point is closer than the labeled point to the local extreme. The resulting segmentation is quick, and identifies boundaries of small features analogous to boundaries identified by human analysts, and does not require statistical parameterizations or thresholds manually determined by a user.

Abstract: A scanning apparatus and method for generating computer models of three-dimensional objects comprising means for scanning the object to capture data from a plurality of points on the surface of the object so that the scanning means may capture data from two or more points simultaneously, sensing the position of the scanning means, generating intermediate data structures from the data, combining intermediate data structures to provide the model; display, and manually operating the scanning apparatus. The signal generated is structured light in the form of a stripe or an area from illumination sources such as a laser diode or bulbs which enable data for the position and color of the surface to be determined. The object may be on a turntable and may be viewed in real time as rendered polygons on a monitor as the object is scanned.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image and video indexing scheme for content analysis. According to the invention, a database of images or videos is compressed. By examining patterns in the compression scheme of each image or video, the present invention identifies the content of the data. In one embodiment, an unsupervised learning method is employed where each image or video is sub-divided into smaller blocks (8 pixels×8 pixels, for instance) and each of the smaller blocks is examined for its compression pattern. Then, the patterns associated with each of the smaller blocks is recorded for each of the images in the database and content is retrieved from the database by associating certain patterns or groups of patterns with certain content.

Abstract: In a recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing video data, includes: a shuffling memory (6); a writing means for writing video data into the shuffling memory in accordance with the synchronizing signal and a write reference clock signal in synchronization with the video data; and a reading means for reading out the video data from the shuffling memory in accordance with a synchronizing signal and a stabilized read reference clock which is asynchronous with the write clock signal.