Abstract: Methods and apparatus for collecting, storing, processing and using data, such a RMON2 network traffic data, are described. Network traffic probes are identified and attempts are made to configure the identified probes to generate network traffic data sets which are as close to a preselected common data format as possible. Application layer traffic data is collected in addition to network layer traffic data when possible. In an RMON2 embodiment, the common data format includes the use of delta count values as opposed to absolute count values. The common data format of the present invention utilizes terminal count mode format as opposed to all count mode format for the presentation of RMON2 application layer information. To minimize the amount of data processing required to put a probe's network traffic data into the desired common format and to maximize the amount of information collected, network data is obtained from a probe using one of the available RMON2 table formats.

Abstract: A CCD 10, a solid state imaging device is driven by a driving circuit 102 to perform an independent reading driving to all the pixels. A CLCRCB generation circuit 104 receives a signal output from CCD 10 to make RAM 106 store the signal, generates a luminance signal CL and color differential signals CR and CB for a pixel (x, y) in the y-th row and the x-th column in CCD 10 by an operation based on the output signal from the two rows and two columns stored in RAM 106. Matrix circuit 108 receives signals CL, CR and CB and separates and generates an RGB signal to each of all the pixels in CCD 10 by a prescribed linear operation.

Abstract: A digital camera includes a CCD imager, and a CCD output signal from the CCD imager is clamped in an analog clamp area by an analog clamp circuit, and then, converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter. The digital signal is thereafter applied to a clamp level calculation circuit which calculates a clamp level of the digital signal, whereby the digital signal can be subjected to digital clamping by a first subtraction circuit.

Abstract: A technique for implementing in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Internet, network-distributed advertising in which advertisements are downloaded, from an advertising server to a browser executing at a client computer, in a manner transparent to a user situated at the browser, and subsequently displayed, by that browser on an interstitial basis, in response to a click-stream generated by the user to move from one web page to the next. Specifically, an HTML advertising tag is embedded into a referring web page. This tag contains two components. One component effectively downloads, from an distribution web server and to an extent necessary, and then persistently instantiates an agent at the client browser. This agent “politely” and transparently downloads advertising files, for a given advertisement into browser cache and subsequently plays those media files through the browser on an interstital basis and in response to a user click-stream.

Abstract: A technique for implementing in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Internet, network-distributed advertising in which advertisements are downloaded, from an advertising server to a browser executing at a client computer, in a manner transparent to a user situated at the browser, and subsequently displayed, by that browser on an interstitial basis, in response to a click-stream generated by the user to move from one web page to the next. Specifically, an HTML advertising tag is embedded into a referring web page. This tag contains two components. One component effectively downloads, from a distribution web server and to an extent necessary, and then persistently instantiates an agent at the client browser. The other component is a reference, in terms of a web address, of the advertising management system. The ad management system selects the given advertisement that is to be downloaded, rather than having that selection or its content being embedded in the web content page.

Abstract: A digital video camera includes an addition circuit in which an offset set by a CPU is added to an output from an A/D converter. A clamp level calculation circuit calculates a clamp level on the basis of an average level of eight pixels included in each line within a back end OB (optical black) level detection area in a normal mode, or calculates a clamp level on the basis of an average level of two pixels included in each line within a front end OB level detection area in a quadruplication mode. A first subtraction circuit subtracts the clamp level from an output of the addition circuit so as to clamp the output of the addition circuit. An output of the first subtraction circuit is clipped at a zero-level by a zero-clipping circuit, and an output of the zero-clipping circuit is applied to a second subtraction circuit through a low-pass filter, whereby the same offset can be subtracted from the output of the zero-clipping circuit.

Abstract: An electromagnetic apparatus for treating patients. The apparatus comprises an electromagnetic frequency generator and a coil connected thereto for transmitting electromagnetic energy to a body part of a patient. A control connects to the electromagnetic frequency generator and to a number of sensors that register a local skin temperature and/or a skin resistance of the body part. The control contains an algorithm comprising an adjustment module and a treatment module. The adjustment module causes the transmission of electromagnetic energy of different test frequencies while recording with respect to each of the test frequencies corresponding variations observed by the sensors. The adjustment module is further arranged for determining a treatment frequency at which a significant variation is observed with at least one of the sensors.

Abstract: A computer includes an adapter. The adapter includes an ISDN connection capable of communicating ISDN signals between the computer and a remote device. The adapter also includes an analog modem connection capable of communicating analog modem signals between the computer and the remote device. A selector device selects either the ISDN connection or the modem connection with which to transfer information between the computer and the remote device. The adapter card may transfer either analog modem information or ISDN modem information.

Abstract: For manufacturing a catheter tubing (50), a container (1, 21) provided with a passage (15, 35, 36), a mandrel (7) sealing off that passage (15, 35, 36) when inserted into said passage and a solution (14) containing a dissolved plastic in the container (1, 21) up to a level above the passage (15, 35, 36) are provided. Repeatedly, the mandrel (7) is inserted into the passage and at least a section of the mandrel (7) is passed through the passage (15, 35, 36) and the solution (14) in an upward direction. When sufficient plastic material has adhered to the mandrel (7), the catheter tubing (50) is removed from the mandrel (7). Thus, catheters having thin, smooth walls of a uniform thickness can be manufactured without expensive machinery and tools. A system for carrying out the method and particular catheters obtainable by that method are also described.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for collecting, storing, processing and using data, such a RMON2 network traffic data, are described. Network traffic probes are identified and attempts are made to configure the identified probes to generate network traffic data sets which are as close to a preselected common data format as possible. Application layer traffic data is collected in addition to network layer traffic data when possible. In an RMON2 embodiment, the common data format includes the use of delta count values as opposed to absolute count values. The common data format of the present invention utilizes terminal count mode format as opposed to all count mode format for the presentation of RMON2 application layer information. To minimize the amount of data processing required to put a probe's network traffic data into the desired common format and to maximize the amount of information collected, network data is obtained from a probe using one of the available RMON2 table formats.

Abstract: In a cooling apparatus for cooling air, in order to improve heat absorption by a refrigerant, a metal having a high heat conductivity such as copper or aluminum is generally utilized as a constituent material of a heat exchanger. However, due to high heat conductivity, the temperature of a refrigerant becomes equal to the surface temperature of the heater exchanger, so that a space inside a refrigerator or a room is dried. Further, since the amount of latent heat of air decreases due to drying, cooling cannot be effected unless a temperature difference of 10° C. or more is produced between the inlet and outlet of the heat exchanger. An object of the present invention is to realize a cooling apparatus which does not decrease humidity and which produces a smaller temperature difference between an inlet and an outlet of a heat exchanger, i.e., reduces energy loss.

Abstract: In a cooling apparatus for cooling air, in order to improve heat absorption by a refrigerant, a metal having a high heat conductivity such as copper or aluminum is generally utilized as a constituent material of a heat exchanger. However, due to high heat conductivity, the temperature of a refrigerant becomes equal to the surface temperature of the heater exchanger, so that a space inside a refrigerator or a room is dried. Further, since the amount of latent heat of air decreases due to drying, cooling cannot be effected unless a temperature difference of 10° C. or more is produced between the inlet and outlet of the heat exchanger. An object of the present invention is to realize a cooling apparatus which does not decrease humidity and which produces a smaller temperature difference between an inlet and an outlet of a heat exchanger, i.e., reduces energy loss.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing biodegradable products with a blown foamy structure, wherein a mass comprising at least natural polymers such as starch is passed under pressure into or through a mould and the mass is heated in the mould in a manner such as to give rise to at least cross-linking of natural polymers, while the mass prior to the introduction into the mould has a temperature which is below the gelatinization temperature and in the mould is brought at least to the baking temperature.

Abstract: In a telephone note-taking device, if a telephone icon 22 is designated on a screen 16 by a handwrite-input pen 21, a main control device 28 makes a party designating area 24 and a note-taking area 26 displayed on the screen 16 and start operating at the same time. If a party is inputted into the party designating area 24, a party designation control device 32 autodials the party.

Abstract: Apparatus and accompanying methods for use preferably in a multi-system shared data (sysplex) environment (100), wherein each system (110) provides one or more servers (115), for dynamically and adaptively assigning and balancing new work and for new session requests, among the servers in the sysplex, in view of attendant user-defined business importance of these requests and available sysplex resource capacity so as to meet overall business goals. Specifically, systems and servers are categorized into two classes: eligible, i.e., goal-oriented servers running under a policy and for which capacity information is currently available, and candidate, i.e., servers which lack capacity information.

Abstract: A graphical user interface in which object thumbnails are rendered on a simulated three-dimensional surface which (i) exploits spatial memory and (ii) allows more objects to be rendered on a given screen. The objects may be moved, continuously, on the surface with a two-dimensional input device. Furthermore, the interface determines a degree to which each such object is related, either through similarity or matching, to other such objects and displays an appropriate cue proximate to and associated with the former object to visually signify this degree.

Abstract: A PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) modem card includes a PCB (printed circuit board) sealed in a slender enclosure, typically the size of a credit card. The PCB contains a hole for receiving a drop-in electronic component, such as a resetting fuse. The fuse comprises a block of positive-temperature-coefficient material sandwiched between a pair of parallel contacts. Each contact includes a tab for surface mounting the fuse to an array of conductive films located on the surface of the PCB. The tabs lie in a common plane and in a plane parallel to the planes of the contacts.

Abstract: A method for deriving character features in a character recognition system for recognising characters, such as letters and digits, and a character recognition system in which the method is applied. After deriving a character description from a recorded image pattern of a character to be recognised, a unique point Pi of said character description is appended, by means of a distance transform, to each point Ri of a subset R={Ri/i=1, - - - ,N} of preselected reference points in the plane of said image pattern. Feature values of one or more features possessed by the character description in each appended unique point are then determined. If the character description is a contour description, the unique point Pi appended to each reference point Ri is that point where the reference point Ri has the shortest distance D(Ri) to the contour of the character, and the character features selected are the shortest distance D(Ri) and the direction H(Ri) of the contour in the appended point Pi.

Abstract: A device for a heat treatment of a body part, comprising a heating element (1) and means (2) for holding the heating element against the body part to be heat-treated. The heat element (1) comprises a plurality of separate heating cells (6) and is flexible in such a manner that it may be adapted to abut said body part.