Abstract: Handling an information plate includes receiving the information plate at a roller element, the information plate rolling over the roller element; detecting a position of the information plate using a scanning lever, the scanning lever having a scanning edge pressed against an edge of the information plate; driving a transport wheel into rotation based on the detected position of the information plate; exerting a tangential force on the edge of the information plate using the transport wheel; and transporting the information plate into a loading device, the information plate supported by the transport wheel and the roller element.

Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for indexing and summarizing music videos. A music video summary controller in a video playback device receives a multimedia data stream that contains a plurality of music videos. The music video summary controller (1) segments and identifies the music videos, and (2) creates a music video summary file for each music video. The music video summary file contains information such as title of the song and the name of the artist. The music video summary file also contains an identifying audio segment and video segment of the song. A user can access a list of the music video summary files and select which music video to play on the video playback device by selecting its corresponding music video summary file.

Abstract: The transmission system according to the invention comprises a transmitter (10) and a receiver (12). The transmitter (10) can transmit a signal (11) to the receiver (12). The receiver (12) comprises an interference absorption circuit (20) for detecting interference components included in the signal (11) and for substantially removing, during a time interval (?t), the interference components from the signal (11). The interference absorption circuit (20) is arranged for adapting the time interval (?t) in dependence on the duration of the individual interference components. Preferably, the time interval (?t) is substantially equal to the duration of the individual interference components. In this way, despite the fact that the interference components have a variable duration, the interference components can be accurately removed from the desired signal (11).

Abstract: The transmission system according to the invention comprises a transmitter (10) and a receiver (1 2). The transmitter (10) can transmit datawords via a multicarrier signal (11) to the receiver (12). In order to reduce the crest factor of this multicarrier signal (11) the transmitter (10) comprises a generator (20) and a selector (22). The generator (20) generates for each dataword (19) a number of alternative sequences (21) by combining mutually different digital words with the dataword (19). For this purpose, the generator (20) include an augmentor (40) and a scrambler (42). The augmentor (40) generates for each dataword (19) a number of intermediate sequences (41) by combining the digital words with the dataword (19). These intermediate sequences (41) are scrambled by the scrambler (42) in order to form the alternative sequences (21). From these alternative sequences (21) the alternative sequence with the lowest peak power value (23) is selected for transmission to the receiver (12).

Abstract: A digital pixel sensor-based modular digital imaging system includes several integrated circuit modules. At least one module includes an integrated circuit die having a digital pixel sensor array and a frame buffer, and at least one module includes an integrated circuit die having control circuitry and/or I/O circuitry. In certain embodiments all component modules are generally the same; in other embodiments the component modules include different integrated circuits that perform different functions. A higher pixel count imaging system may be made by disposing several component modules having lower pixel count digital pixel sensor arrays adjacent one another.

Abstract: Solar water heaters may include a solar collector in a decorative structure, and solar collectors comprising a coil of tubing are adapted to be disposed in a decorative structure such as a wishing well. In one embodiment, a solar water heating system comprising a decorative structure and a coil of tubing disposed within the decorative structure, the coil having a helical shape and being oriented with its axis disposed generally vertically. In another embodiment, a method comprises the steps of providing a coil of tubing, the coil having an axis and the tubing of the coil being radially spaced from the axis; disposing the coil in a location receiving sunlight with the coil axis oriented generally vertically; and causing fluid to flow through the coil.

Abstract: A sealed package's transmission of oxygen, water vapor, carbon dioxide, or other gas or vapor that is of interest because of its potential adverse effects on the package contents is determined indirectly, based upon the package's transmission of a different gas selected as a test gas. Helium is preferred as a test gas. The package's total transmission of the test gas is separated into its components of leakage through the package seals and permeation through the packaging material itself. The package's leakage of the gas of interest is determined based on its leakage of the test gas, in accordance with the molecular weights of the gases.

Abstract: A small first level cache and large second level cache support a central processor in accessing necessary data for processing. The second level cache holds tag address words each having two status bits V and R. The V bit indicates validity/invalidity status while the R bit informs the second level cache of the validity/invalidity status of the corresponding address in the first level cache. As a result of the status information between the two caches, the spy-snoop operation and invalidation operation cycles are minimized as to the use required of the processor bus, enabling higher efficiency processor operations.

Abstract: An integrated circuit chip is fabricated as several circuit modules that are synchronized with a clock signal, by the following steps. Initially, a hardware description language is used to describe a functional behavior for a first module on the chip which generates an intermodule signal, and describe a functional behavior for a second module on the chip which processes the intermodule signal. Thereafter, a slow circuit embodiment of the first module is synthesized with port timing constraints which permit the intermodule signal to be generated in twice the cycle time T.sub.CY of the clock signal, and a slow circuit embodiment of the second module is synthesized with port timing constraints which permit the intermodule signal to be processed in twice the cycle time of the clock. Then, a timing analysis program is run on the slow circuit embodiment of the first and second modules to thereby obtain a first delay .DELTA..sub.1 in which the intermodule signal is actually generated, and obtain a second delay .

Abstract: An object-oriented apparatus in the memory of a computer system for propagating source code locations into objects in a compiler. The apparatus has three types. The first is a source object type, of which each object identifies a source location and, where inlining has occurred, a list of inlined source locations. The second type is a source mark object type, of which each object identifies a source object to be related to new compiler objects, and whose construction using a source object starts the use of the source object for propagation into new compiler objects, and whose destruction ends the use of the source object for propagation. The third type is a source mapped base type for a compiler object that relates the compiler object to a source object, and whose default construction relates the compiler object to the source object of the most recently constructed source mark object.

Abstract: An electromechanical module is comprised of an electronic component that is attached to a substrate which is bendable. Multiple springy contacts touch respective I/O pads on the substrate. A compressing mechanism compresses the springy contacts against the I/O pads with forces that bend the substrate. The bending of substrate is reduced by including contacts of a first type, each of which exert a relatively small force against its respective I/O pad; and contacts of a second type, each of which exert a substantially larger force against its respective I/O pad.

Abstract: A method operating in a computing system that has at least one server and a multiplicity of clients coupled thereto. The server has a CPU executing a Web Server program and a repository coupled thereto for storing description language of a Form to be displayed. The server is coupled to a host having a CPU executing a legacy application containing the Form. At least one of the clients executes a Web browser program. The method of the present invention operates in the server and the client for supporting enterprise application data binding. The method in the server includes the steps of opening the Forms and requesting a first Form and associating data names with data values received from the host and sending them to the client.

Abstract: An input image is comprised of an array of pixels in rows and columns. To generate a scaled replica of the input image, that input image is first partitioned into several identical sections, in which each section has P.sub.R pixels per row and P.sub.C pixels per column. Then the number of pixels-per-row P.sub.R ' and the number of pixels-per-column P.sub.C ' that are to be in each corresponding section of the scaled replica is selected, where P.sub.R ' and P.sub.C ' are any positive integers which can be larger or smaller than P.sub.R and P.sub.C. Then just a single section of the input image is distorted such that the spacing between columns is (P.sub.R '-1)x and the spacing between rows is (P.sub.C '-1)y, where x and y are arbitrary units of distance, such as one inch or one meter. Then the single distorted section of the input image is overlaid with a section of a new row-column array, where the spacing between columns is (P.sub.R -1)x and the spacing between rows is (P.sub.

Abstract: A system and method for developing a digital control signal Y for setting a target module (D) according to a digital setpoint signal A, a digital feedback signal C, a difference digital signal X=A-C in an exponential relationship, such that Y=2.sup.X+1 -1. An N bit digital signal X is translated exponentially via a simple, non-complex programmable array logic unit to an expanded N+q digital bit signal providing an exponentially expanded response for the control signal Y to reset the target module D to an optimally desired setting.

Abstract: A system and method in a digital network for developing a digital output control signal Y which is of greater range and sensitivity than an input digital difference signal X wherein Y has a linear functional relationship to X according to a slope parameter "b". A method is developed for implementing the network with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to develop the output control signal Y equal to a+bX on an expanded digital bus, where "a" is the intercept value of Y when X=0.

Abstract: A temperature control system includes an electro-mechanical subassembly having an enhanced thermal interface, which comprises: an electronic device which has a face that dissipates heat; a heat exchange member which has a face that mates with the heat dissipating face of the electronic device; and, a film of liquid, lying between the mating faces of the heat exchange member and the electronic device, which evaporates without leaving any residue at a temperature that is too low to damage the electronic device. Due to the presence of the liquid film, the thermal resistance between the mating faces of the heat exchange member and the electronic device is reduced by over 1000% from which it otherwise is when film is deleted.

Abstract: A method of cutting input/output columns on an electronic component includes the steps of: providing a shear plate which has a thickness that is less than the length of the columns and which has respective holes for receiving all of the columns; inserting the columns into the holes until a portion of the columns extend past the shear plate; placing a blade, with a cutting edge, at an acute angle against the shear plate such that only the cutting edge of the blade touches the shear plate; and, sliding the cutting edge of the blade against shear plate and through the portion of the columns which extend past the shear plate, while keeping the blade at the acute angle. With this method, crater-like voids and burrs on the cut ends of the columns are eliminated.

Abstract: A two domain digital network with each domain having its own system bus and its own bus exchange module permits Write operation addresses to be passed between domains. Each bus exchange module provides a match filter which prevents the passage from one bus to the other bus of a duplicate Write operation (OP) address which has already been transferred, thus relieving the busses of excess traffic when a duplicate Write OP address is being sent to a cache memory for an invalidation operation. A Read operation will nullify the match filter to then allow passage of each incoming Write OP invalidation address to the snoop invalidation queue, but prevent the passage of a subsequent duplicate Write OP address, so long as the read OP is ongoing.

Abstract: A network providing a server using an object-database enables an author to create and store an original document, as a source file with a first format. Software in the data base will provide multiple sets of shadow file-converter groups connected to the source file of the original document. Each shadow file-converter set enables the transformation of the original source file format into a particular other specific type of format. Any client or user of the network can access and receive a copy of the original source document which is automatically reformatted to match the requirements of the receiver's appliance. Thus, one original source document can be created and then published in any specific format to multiple numbers of and type of receiving appliances.