Abstract: The present invention relates to an enhanced casino game in which the principles of the standard Roulette game are applied to a standard deck of playing cards. The method and apparatus of the present invention provide an enhanced experience for the player while bringing flexibility in the choice of the casino house income ratio for the casino management team.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 26, 2001
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2004
Assignee:
B.C.D. Mécanique Ltée
Inventors:
Marcel Huard, Réal Bérubé, Jean-Pierre Bedrossian, Martin Benoît Gagnon
Abstract: The first process provides a context sensitive editor to create, modify and display hierarchically structured control information. The editor provides action choices appropriate to the immediately current context, thereby simplifying the manipulation protocol of the user. Because the editor understands the relationships and multiplicity between the contexts, its editor and display represents the repetition and conditionality of the blocks without resorting to a scripting language. The editor displays the control information according to the display rules of the associated context. The presentation clearly differentiates between the bulk text, the structure in which the text resides, and parameterized elements. The editor effectively manipulates what is meta control information in a way that displays it as information. The second process provides a method to systematically transform the control information into a machine-understandable format, such as code generator script data.
Abstract: A method and device for cleaning at least an end face of an optical device retained within an optical connector using a cleaning fabric, comprises, alone or in combination, a) preventing the cleaning fabric from contacting the connector prior to contacting the end face of the optical device; b) a cleaning nose being made of a nose material having a hardness less than that of a material of the optical device with a flexural modulus greater than 2700 MPa and c) ensuring a constant tension on the fabric as it is circulated.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 21, 2003
Date of Patent:
July 6, 2004
Assignee:
Telops Inc.
Inventors:
André Villemaire, Louis Brault, Jean Giroux
Abstract: The component-based source code generator uses a set of generation instructions and a set of parameters to generate nearly-repetitive and repetitive source code. The developer specifies to the code generator what to generate through the use of generation instructions. Within a set of generation instructions, the developer specifies the target components and the code that should be generated. The generation process uses information contained in the modeling tool. Consequently, the generated code never has to be modified directly by the developer, greatly reducing maintenance time, minimizing errors, and improving code consistency.