Abstract: The invention is a device for adapting a computer to enable identification of those subsets of a stream of signal values which form patterns when contraction mapped to an approximation of the attractor of a fractal. The machine currently employs an approximation of the attractor of an affine Sierpinski gasket. In principle, the fractal could be a Sierpinski carpet, Menger sponge, the Mandelbrot Set, or fractals constructed in polar or spherical coordinates. The stream of signal values and subsets of the stream can be displayed, segregated, or otherwise processed automatically by computer by reference to the mapped locations of the signal values. Selection sets can be employed manually to confine a visualized pattern as displayed on the map. Signal values which contribute to the confined pattern then are automatically identified. Some selection sets can be pre-set to automatically confine mapped signal values which fall within certain pre-determined patterns without visual inspection and manual confinement.

Abstract: The invention is a method to aid analysis of signals, such as electroencephalograms, pursuant to modern mathematical theories of nonlinear dynamical processes, sometimes referred to as chaotic dynamics or chaos theory. It employs graphic display and visual inspection of relatively less filtered, non-averaged raw test data, including raw data heretofore considered random or asynchronous `noise`. The invention enables reversible decomposition of selected elements of graphic portraits of raw signal data to identify subsets of the depicted raw data which correspond to visually-identified, manually-selected patterns from within the graphic portrait. The identified subsets of raw data can be segregated even though a precise mathematical description of the visually identified pattern is unknown.

Abstract: This invention relates to adaptation of intersecting storage rings, of the same type used in high energy nuclear physics research, for power generation. The device is optimized for lower-energy beam paricles and higher beam current, adapted with a reaction chamber at the intersection of the rings to collect released fusion energy for conversion to electricity, and equipped with means to recapture scattered accelerated particles and reintegrate them into the focused beams for recirculation through the reaction chamber. The preferred beam particles, deuterium and tritium, are accelerated and injected into and focused by the storage rings, to collide nearly head on in the reaction chamber. Non-colliding, accelerated beam particles are conserved by recovery, correction and recirculation, requiring relatively small amounts of input energy to maintain acceleration and focus of the beams, and thus remain energized for another collision attempt.

Abstract: A method, and a device for practicing the method, for marking the configuration of a vehicle-mounted mirror which has initially been set to a desired perspective, thus enabling a single, unaided person within reach of a misaligned mirror to quickly and reliably readjust it to reproduce the previously marked perspective even though that desired perspective cannot be viewed from the adjuster's position.