Abstract: A method is provided for quantifying circuit design complexity. Conclusions regarding the time and effort to implement a circuit design are thereby derived and historical and predictive analyses prepared. Common circuit design parameters are determined using a computer-implemented Normalization Method. In the Normalization Method, the effort required to implement circuitry is quantified by evaluating each one of a set of complexity factors. The total transistor count of a circuit is then adjusted according to these complexity factors to produce a “normalized transistor” count. Design characteristics or factors that influence complexity are identified from among raw data in a database of integrated circuit design project data. These factors are then incorporated into a Normalization Equation such that normalized transistor count is a statistically significant predictor of required design project effort.

Abstract: The invention provides an ultra-high numerical aperture imaging device (1) comprising two rotationally symmetric curved mirrors (11h, 12b), which can be used to achieve very high concentrations of light or other sorts of wave (or other sorts of physical entities that satisfy equivalent “ballistic” equations of motion) or can be used in reverse to form a beam that has a small angle spread, and which can be combined with a further plane, partially transparent mirror (if necessary with additional components to attenuate and rotate the polarisation of the waves involved), to create a device able to achieve a materially better resolution than that implied by the traditional Rayleigh resolution criterion. A detailed method for designing such a device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A lenticular stereogram has an improved viewing zone for a specific viewing distance when an image print (207) having an optimum image column width is utilized. The optimum image column width is determined by observing a series of two color prints having variable image column widths mounted under a lenticular screen (206) through an imaging apparatus.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for mixing audio signals. Each audio signal is digitized and then transformed into a predefined visual image, which is displayed in a three-dimensional space. Audio effects added to the audio signals are transformed into predefined visual effects images, which are also displayed in a three-dimensional space. Selected audio characteristics of the audio signal, such as frequency, amplitude, time and spatial placement, are correlated to selected visual characteristics of the visual image, such as size, location, texture, density and color. Dynamic changes or adjustment to any one of these parameters, or parameters of the audio effect images, causes a corresponding change in the correlated parameter or audio effect.