Abstract: A ducted fan for a helicopter includes a transverse duct and a counter-torque device supported within the duct. The counter-torque device includes a rotor rotatably mounted within the duct and a stator fixedly mounted within the duct downstream from the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor hub having a rotor axis, and rotor blades extending from the hub. The Rotor blades have a modulated angular distribution about the rotor axis. The stator includes a stator hub, and a plurality of stator vanes distributed around the stator hub. The stator vanes are angularly modulated around the stator hub.

Abstract: A sheet handling apparatus comprises a switchback path including a switchback section, and a straight path that bypasses the switchback section. The controller of the sheet handling apparatus detects the conveyance-directional length of a sheet assigned to the switchback section, using a length sensor, and also detects the sheet conveyance rate of each path, thereby controlling a switchback roller based on the detection results.

Abstract: A lithographic apparatus includes a projection system configured to project an image onto a substrate, a substrate table configured to support the substrate, a first chamber that at least partially surrounds the projection system, and a second chamber that at least partially surrounds the substrate table and a first frame. The apparatus includes a base frame configured to support the second chamber, and an intermediate frame coupled to the base frame. The intermediate frame is configured to separate the first chamber and the second chamber. The apparatus includes a support coupled to the first frame. The support is configured to support the first chamber through a coupled opening in the intermediate frame and the second chamber.

Abstract: A method for storing a video on a storage device includes formatting each image in a plurality of images into a plurality of tiles, the plurality of images being captured as a temporal sequence of images at successive points in time; and generating a plurality of video segments from the temporal sequence of images by: selecting a tile from each image in the sequence of images to obtain a sequence of tiles to generate a video segment; selecting another tile from each image in the sequence of images to obtain another sequence of tiles to generate another video segment; and repeating the selecting a tile from each image in the sequence of images to obtain a plurality of sequences of tiles to generate the plurality of video segments. The method further includes storing the obtained plurality of video segments in a file on the storage device.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic disk apparatus having a magnetic disk having magnetic dot lines each including magnetic dots arrayed at equal intervals in a down track direction, and a read/write head which uses a plurality of adjacent magnetic dot lines as one track and sequentially performs read and write on the magnetic dots included in the magnetic dot lines constituting the track, in which the magnetic dots included in each of the magnetic dot lines in each track of the magnetic disk are displaced in the down track direction from the magnetic dots included in the adjacent dot line in the track depending on a possible skew angle between the read/write head and the track so that the magnetic dots are sequentially accessed by the read/write head.

Abstract: A solid ink composition comprising an amorphous component, a crystalline material, and optionally, a colorant, which are suitable for ink jet printing, including printing on coated paper substrates. In embodiments, the amorphous component is synthesized from an esterification reaction of citric acid.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to integrated chemiluminescence devices and methods for monitoring molecular binding utilizing these devices and methods. These devices and methods can be used, for example, to identify antigen binding to antibodies. The devices include both a chemiluminescence material and a detector integrated together.

Abstract: A class-D amplifier for generating from an input signal a digital signal for driving a load, includes an output limit instruction generating section that detects that the digital signal falls outside a limit range and that outputs an output limit instruction signal, an attenuation instruction pulse generating section that includes an integrator for integrating the output limit instruction signal and that outputs a periodical attenuation instruction pulse having pulse width corresponding to an integrated value in the integrator, an attenuating section provided in an input path for the input signal and that attenuates the input signal based on the attenuation instruction pulse, and a mute control section that controls the integrated value in the integrator independently of the output limit instruction signal to control an amount of the attenuation of the attenuating section applied to the input signal.

Abstract: In some aspects of the disclosure, a method for creating three-dimensional images of non-linear properties and the compressional to shear velocity ratio in a region remote from a borehole using a conveyed logging tool is disclosed.

Abstract: A method of measuring focus of a lithographic projection apparatus includes exposure of a photoresist covered test substrate with a plurality of verification fields. Each of the verification fields includes a plurality of verification markers, and the verification fields are exposed using a predetermined focus offset FO. After developing, an alignment offset for each of the verification markers is measured and translated into defocus data using a transposed focal curve. The method according to an embodiment of the invention may result in a focus-versus alignment shift sensitivity up to 50 times higher (typically dX,Y/dZ=20) than conventional approaches.

Abstract: Systems and methods of operating multimode 3G/4G communications devices in an overlapping 3G/4G coverage area (e.g., WiMAX or LTE/CDMA-EvDO) include determining a loading condition of the 3G and 4G base stations. If the 3G and 4G base stations are lightly loaded, one or more 4G Channel Quality Indicators (CQI) are compared with one or more corresponding 3G Data Rate Control (DRC) indices to determine which of the 3G and 4G networks allows a higher data throughput. The dual mode communications device is handed off to a 4G base station associated with the 4G coverage if the 4G network allows the higher data throughput; otherwise, the dual mode communications device is handed off to a 3G base station. User priorities, application categories, and/or MIMO and diversity modes may be used to determine handoff if the base stations are more than lightly loaded.

Abstract: Software managing long names in an application programming interface receives a request to perform a requested operation on one or more fields, the application comprising a first operation operable to perform the requested operation on at least one field type. The software determines whether the field type of any of the fields is incompatible with the first operation. If the field types of the one or more fields are compatible with the first operation, then the software performs the requested operation on the one or more fields using the first operation. If the software determines that the field type of at least one of the fields is incompatible with the first operation, then it converts the request into a call for a second operation operable to perform the requested operation on the one or more fields and performs the requested operation using the second operation.

Abstract: A method for correcting at least one uniformity error selected from the group consisting of a process direction uniformity error and a cross-process direction uniformity error in an image printing system that prints on an image bearing surface movable in a process direction. The method includes printing on a media a test pattern that includes a plurality of segmented regions extending in the direction of the at least one uniformity error being corrected, receiving a correction data from the user, and adjusting a profile of the image printing system to correct for the at least one uniformity error based on the received correction data Each segmented region comprising a coarse halftone area and a fine halftone area adjacent one another. The resolution of the fine halftone area is at least about 1.5 times the resolution of the coarse halftone area.

Abstract: A method for associating text with image data of documents is herein described. The method includes receiving image data of a document with manually marked text and recognizing the manually marked text. The image data is then annotated (e.g., tagged) using the manually marked text and the image data of the document is stored. When manually marked text is recognized, recognized text may be generated for annotating the image data of the document and used to populate a field associated with the image data. The field may be a name of the document or a subject line of an e-mail message, for example. A method including identifying the location of manually marked text in a first scanned document to automatically identify and annotate text in a corresponding location in a second scanned document is also disclosed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a telephone system including; a plurality of exchanges interconnecting a plurality of communication terminals through a communication network, each exchange receiving from each communication terminal a connection request including an extension number of each communication terminal, based on authentication processing and including; a management data base where the extension number is correlated with an address information of a prescribed exchange; an acquisition processing unit retrieving the management data base based on the extension number when the connection request is received from the communication terminal and acquiring the address information; and a notification processing unit notifying the communication terminal of the address information of the acquired prescribed exchange.

Abstract: A video display system is a system in which a video transmission device 10 and a video display device 20 are connected via an HDMI 1. The video display device 20 includes an EDID memory 25 in which display side recognition data in plural formats are stored and one of them is set as an initial read data, a response unit 23 replying an HPD for a connection signal (power+5 V) inputted from the video transmission device 10 via the HDMI 1 and the initial read data of the EDID memory 25, and a control unit 24 resetting an output of the HPD after replacing the initial read data into the data of the EDID memory 25 in another format when a display recognition command from a remote controller 30 is accepted.

Abstract: A communication system comprises a transmitter configured to binary data and a receiver configured to the data transmitted from the transmitter. The transmitter counts the number of bits of any one of binary value of a data section of the transmission data, and determines whether or not inversion processing should be performed in accordance with the counted number. When performing the inversion processing, the transmitter reverses each bit of the data section of the transmission data, adds inversion information showing that the bits have been reversed, and transmits the transmission data. The receiver receives the transmission data and determines whether or not inversion processing should be performed for the reception data, on the basis of the inversion information of the reception data. When performing the inversion processing, the receiver reverses each bit of the data section of the reception data.

Abstract: A diaphragm assist device includes a magnetic mat adapted for mounting inside a human body adjacent the diaphragm. The mat is made from a material responsive to application of an electromagnetic field so as to be movable into compressive relation with the diaphragm in response to application of the electromagnetic field thereto and movable out of the compressive relation to permit the diaphragm to relax when application of the electromagnetic field is discontinued. The device also includes an electromagnetic assembly adapted for surrounding the torso of the human body in functionally cooperative relation with respect to the mat, and for alternately generating and discontinuing the electromagnetic field so that the mat alternately moves into and out of the compressive relation with the diaphragm. The device also includes a controller constructed and arranged to control an intensity level of the electromagnetic field generated by the electromagnetic assembly.

Abstract: A successive approximation A/D converter, includes a reference voltage generation circuit, a sample/hold circuit, a D/A converter circuit, a comparator, and a control circuit. A potential difference between the comparison target voltage generated by the D/A converter circuit and the internal analog voltage is applied to one input terminal of the comparator through a first signal line, and the reference voltage generation circuit is connected to the other input terminal of the comparator through a second signal line and a switch. Capacitive elements are disposed between the high potential power supply and the second signal line, and between the second signal line and the low potential power supply, respectively. The control circuit turns ON the switch to charge the first and second capacitive elements during a period when the sample/hold circuit samples and holds the internal analog voltage and turns OFF the switch in response to end of the period.

Abstract: A method, system and data structure for providing a 3+1 layer MRC image, including a text layer. The text layer includes pixel data corresponding to text in an image and may be assigned a predetermined value for a particular color. According to one or more embodiments, the 3+1 layer MRC image may be subject to clean-up processing to alter one or more of the layers, other than the text layer, based on the text layer pixel data. This clean-up processing reduces redundant information stored in the 3+1 layer MRC image and provides opportunities for file size reduction (i.e., data compression).