Abstract: A boxing glove including an impact reducing mechanism which can assist in minimising of some injury during boxing. The boxer's fist is movable within the covering defining the fist space and movable between the rear and front positions when the front of the boxing glove strikes a target. The impact reducing mechanism includes a first part, preferably in the form of a rectangular plate, and a resilient means, preferably including at least one elastic band, which operatively interconnects the plate to the covering. The plate is forwardly displaceable via the forward moving fist between an inoperative position and an operative position when the front of the boxing glove strikes the target. The plate thus acts against the elastic band. After the front of the glove has lost contact with the target, the elastic band allows the plate to be in the inoperative position. Preferably, the impact reducing mechanism includes a frame in the fist space said frame attached to the inside of the covering.

Abstract: An apparatus and accompanying methods for preventing telephone toll fraud that relies on the use of centralized voice verification to authenticate a party claiming a particular identity and requesting service, i.e. access to a telephone network. A voice verification intelligent peripheral (VVIP) (300) is interposed between, e.g., a tandem switch (40) and a voice service node (VSN) (250) both used to provide alternate automated billing service (AABS). The VVIP intercepts all call processing messages that occur between these two components and, at a pre-defined point during the processing of an AABS call, holds a call processing message, specifically a successful line information database (LIDB) query response message, until a voice verification of a caller is complete.

Abstract: Optical receiving system, incoming unipolar pulses being converted into bipolar pulses having a constant top amplitude (elements 2, 3 and 4) which, on the one hand, are used for generating replicas of the original pulses, but having a constant top amplitude (element 5) and, on the other hand, for eliminating mutual phase differences by means of phase comparison with local clock pulses (elements 7..14). The latter is preferably effected by the bipolar pulses being multiplied (element 7) by the clock pulses, and by using the resulting DC signal to control a controllable delay element (8).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing shell-shaped packages, in particular flower sleeves, in which two superposed bands of synthetic material are supplied and machined through die cutting, in such a manner that at least one edge of each package, defining the wide opening, is formed along an ornamental line, whereafter the material bands are cut in transverse direction into separate package portions, the discrete package portions being joined together at the cut edges so as to form the package, wherein, during the die cutting of the longitudinal edges of the material bands, both material bands are perforated through and through in one die cutting operation so as to form suspension portions joined to the package portions via perforated lines extending along an ornamental contour, the suspension portion, formed by the perforation, of one of the two material bands being removed. The invention further relates to an apparatus for carrying out the method, and to the package obtained by the method.

Abstract: A copolymer of a lactone and a polycyclic carbonate is prepared by heating a monomer of a lactone with a polycyclic carbonate having two cyclic structures including a carbonate group at elevated temperatures less than 200 degrees Centigrade in the presence of a catalyst. The described copolymers evidence excellent mechanical properties, good resorption velocity and do not disintegrate upon degradation into materials of high crystallinity.

Abstract: Base station equipment of a digital mobile communication system includes a digital audio signal processing apparatus provided for each message channel for low bit rate coding and decoding a digital audio signal. Each digital audio signal processing apparatus includes a plurality of memories that store a plurality of low bit rate coding/decoding programs differing from each other to comply with different low bit rate coding/decoding methods. A system control circuit determines the low bit rate coding/decoding method of an applied digital signal for controlling a selector to select a memory that stores corresponding low bit rate coding/decoding program. As a result, the digital audio signal processing apparatus performs digital to digital conversion of the applied digital signal according to the low bit rate coding/decoding program stored in the selected memory.

Abstract: Sixty-four regions are established on an image sensed picture from a video camera, where evaluating value r.sub.ij, b.sub.ij, and y.sub.ij is obtained by averaging color difference signals R-Y and B-Y and luminance signal Y obtained from an image sensing signal for over 1 field period for each region. When the apparatus determines that the difference in the evaluating values between two adjacent regions do not exceed a predetermined value, that is, when that continuing regions have the same color, the weighing amount of the color evaluating values of a corresponding region is adjusted to limit its effect upon the gain control signals used to adjust the gain of the color signal amplifiers. As a result, the effect of objects of the same color towards white balance adjustment is reduced.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for sewing the perimeter seam of an upholstered or trimmed article whereby the article is positioned upon a table having a planar sliding surface and a sewing machine located adjacent one side of the table. The table is variably adjustable at an incline between 0 and 90 degrees relative to horizontal so that when an article is placed on the planar surface, normal gravitational forces acting on the article force that article towards the sewing machine thereby facilitating the handling and introduction of the article to the sewing machine.

Abstract: A connector unit (21) for automatically terminating a digital data services (DDS) line whenever a mating modular plug (30) is not inserted into the connector. The connector utilizes a switchable DDS jack (25) that mates with the modular plug (30) for connecting a data-transmit line and a data-receive line of a DDS network (41) to a customer's equipment (45). The connector unit has a maintenance termination circuit (40) with terminating impedances (r, r1, C and C1) and diodes (D and D1). When the plug and jack are not engaged, the maintenance termination circuit is connected to the data-transmit and data-receive lines via the normally closed jack contacts (33 and 34). As the plug and jack are engaged, the plug abuts against and, as movement continues, increasingly opens the jack contacts, causing the maintenance termination circuit to be disconnected from the customer's equipment and to be connected to the DDS network.

Abstract: An automatic deck adjusting apparatus having a tape running system adjusting mechanism for adjusting a VCR deck automatically and control means for controlling the adjusting mechanism to adjust the tape running system automatically. The tape running system adjusting mechanism comprises a plurality of screw driver tip assemblies for screwing adjustment screws and/or nuts in the system, a motor assembly for rotating the screw driver tip assemblies by a predetermined angle, a driver housing for fixedly supporting the screw driver tip assembly and the motor assembly in place, moving means attached to the driver housing for reciprocating the housing, a positioning means aligning the deck mechanism and the screw driver housing to be coincided in position with each other when they are coupled together and, a video camera for monitoring the position of the tape passing through guide posts and an audio/control head assembly or head drum.

Abstract: A deformable, inexpensive crucible for use with a dynamic thermo-mechanical physical test or simulating system, specifically for holding a self-resistively heated specimen (250) at liquid temperatures and particularly, though not exclusively, one suited for use in simulating thin-strip continuous casting processes. The crucible is formed of a thermally and electrically insulating material (222) which surrounds, e.g., the bottom and two opposing and sides of the specimen perpendicular to the direction of the force used for compression and which, in turn, is held within a thin, readily deformable, e.g., U-shaped shell (210) with an upwardly facing open portion. The shell is appropriately sized with a length and height less than that of insulating material such that, when properly positioned over the material, the shell will not contact the specimen and hence remain insulated from the heating current flowing therethrough and thus will not exhibit any self-resistive heating.

Abstract: A distributed data processing system is provided in which two computers, each running under a different operating system, are coupled so that jobs initiated by a first one of the computers can be executed on a second computer by using the resources of the second computer. This enables the user of the first computer to use the second computer under the environment of the first computer. The first computer acts as the interface between the user and the data processing system. Service programs running on the system can handle or provide for input/output operations during the execution of jobs on the second computer so that the jobs seem to the user of the first computer to be executed on the first computer. The system has means for creating a dummy file in the file system of one operating system which is used as a place holder for a corresponding file in a storage device attached to the other operating system, and accessed by programs controlled by that other operating system.

Abstract: A method and accompanying apparatus for identifying a system, such as illustratively a central processing unit (CPU), that holds a "reserve" for a shared physical device (480, 482, 484) employed within illustratively a multi-processing environment. Specifically, sense data (500) returned by execution of a Reset Allegiance (R/A) command, by a control unit of a shared device, contains the path group identifier (PGID) (300) for a path group (680) through which a reserve has been extended. Inasmuch as the PGID is created in an identical manner for all operating systems (VM or MVS) that share devices through an MVS operating system (600), the PGID advantageously and uniquely specifies the CPU then holding this reserve. The PGID contained in the returned sense data is then translated, through a table look-up operation, in illustratively a so-called IOS Record (1100) situated in a Coupled Dataset (620) for a sysplex installation (455), to yield a common system name of the particular CPU then holding the reserve.

Abstract: A carrier recovery system for use in illustratively a passband QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) demodulator (10) and specifically such a system, including apparatus and accompanying methods, that employs separate acquisition and tracking modes and automatic carrier-to-noise estimation. In particular, a carrier recovery system (200) is operated in two modes: an acquisition mode to first attain an initial carrier lock, during which simplified reduced constellation slicing is used to determine a quadrant of each incoming symbol; and a tracking (or lock) mode, during which full slicing is used, to accurately track variations in frequency and phase that may occur to a carrier while the system remains locked. The mode changes based upon whether, e.g., the average error energy associated with fully sliced symbols is greater than or less than a pre-defined switching threshold value.

Abstract: A method for obtaining a traumatologic plastering with damp-proof and hard-wearing properties consisting of adding to a volume of one liter of containing product 96 through 99% of warm water having a value of 7.65 pH, the following components being added to obtain 1 liter of this product: 43 mg of Sodium, 7.30 mg of Potassium, 8.02 mg of Calcium, 1.20 mg of Magnesium, 0.40 mg of Americium, 580 mg of Nitrate, 0.53 mg of Nitrite, 25.6 mg of Sulfate, <0.004 mg of Cyanide, <0.05 mg of Phosphorus, <0.05 mg of Iron, <0.06 mg of Manganese, <0.05 mg of Copper, and <0.10 mg of Aluminum, the inorganic elements constituting a fluid or powdered mixture if not dissolved in water.

Abstract: A method and apparatus, operating within a kernel of a UNIX-based host computer, that ensures that no unauthorized users or processes have accessed a pseudo-terminal (pty) slave file within a pty device driver prior to an authorized process accessing the pty slave file. Specifically, upon receiving, from an application program, a request to open a pty master file to form a pty device driver, the request is granted by the kernel only if the pty master file and pty slave file are presently closed. Similarly, a request to open a pty slave file to form a pty device driver is granted by the kernel only if the pty master file is open and a user identification of an application attempting to open the slave file is identical to a user identification of the application program which opened the master file. In this manner, a pseudo-terminal link between the pty master file and the pty slave file is secure from unauthorized processes being surreptitiously connected to the pty slave.

Abstract: A method for automatically generating a computer code of a procedural language program from a corresponding program in a declarative language. The declarative language program is analyzed to obtain information about variables to be described in the procedural language program and information about the data flow to be used in the procedural language program. The information extracted from the declarative language program in this analysis is combined with code blocks from a code block file to form the procedural language program that is compiled to form the computer code. This method finds particular application in a computer system with an input/output device, a processor and a memory for developing applications programs that comprise an interface declaration and a business logic. When resident in the computer system, the code generator performs the method to produce interface specific code to produce a user interface between a user and the applications program.

Abstract: A synchronous pulse generator (100) for producing synchronization pulses that are synchronized with a preamble pattern contained in an input digital data signal. The generator contains a correlator circuit (102), a pulse generator circuit (106) and a flywheel circuit (104). The correlator circuit is an M-bit out of N-bit preamble correlator which periodically generates timing pulses whenever M-bits in a received preamble match M-bits in an N-bit preamble pattern. The pulse generator circuit periodically generates a synchronization pulse at a rate equivalent to an expected rate of occurrence of the preambles. The flywheel circuit monitors the occurrence of the timing pulses from the correlator circuit relative to the synchronization pulse occurrences from the pulse generator circuit. Furthermore, the flywheel circuit resets the pulse generator circuit when the timing pulses are not synchronized with the synchronization pulses for a pre-defined period of time.

Abstract: Sixty-Four regions are established on an image sensed picture from a video camera, where evaluating value r.sub.ij, b.sub.ij, and y.sub.ij is obtained by averaging color difference signals R-Y and B-Y and luminance signal Y obtained from an image sensing signal for over 1 field period for each region. When the apparatus determines that the difference in the evaluating values between two adjacent regions do not exceed a predetermined value, that is, when that adjacent regions have the same color, the weighing amount of the color evaluating values of a corresponding region is adjusted to limit its effect upon the gain control signals used to adjust the gain of the color signal amplifiers. As a result, the effect of objects of the same color towards white balance adjustment is reduced.