Abstract: A method of making interferometric measurements of an object, the method including: generating an input beam that includes a plurality of component beams, each of which is at a different frequency and all of which are spatially coextensive with each other, some of the components beams having a first polarization and the rest having a second polarization that is orthogonal to the first polarization; deriving a plurality of measurement beams from the plurality of component beams, each of the plurality of measurement beams being at the frequency of the component beam from which it is derived; focusing the plurality of measurement beams onto a selected spot to produce a plurality of return measurement beams; combining each of the return measurement beams of the plurality of return measurement beams with a different corresponding reference beam of a plurality of reference beams to produce a plurality of interference beams; and acquiring a plurality of electrical interference signal values for the selected spot fro

Abstract: An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer.

Abstract: A transparent conductive material in which the desired resistivity is achieved with a high carrier concentration is provided for use in an OLED. In one embodiment, the transparent conductive material comprises indium-tin-oxide. (ITO) with a high carrier concentration of at least at least 7×1020 cm?3. The high carrier concentration improved the performance of the OLED device.

Abstract: The present invention provides T helper cell epitopes and compositions for use in inducing an immune response comprising at least one of these epitopes. The epitopes are contained within a peptide sequence selected from the group consisting of PRTSDRPVSYTMNRTRS (SEQ ID NO: 4); TRSRKQTSHRLKNIPVH (SEQ ID NO: 5); SHQYLVIKLIPNASLIE (SEQ ID NO: 6); and SPDKLLTFIASDTCPLV (SEQ ID NO: 25).

Abstract: The present invention relates to the motion reconstruction method from inter-frame feature correspondences of a singular video stream using a motion library. The motion library is constructed through a motion capture system which is becoming more actively used or skilled animators. The present invention comprises the detailed information on the whole processes from images to motions. These processes are very simple to implement and straight forward. The total movement of a motion can be effectively inferenced and this technology can directly used for various fields in which human motions are produced from the images.

Abstract: A transmitter, receiver, and communication system that utilize a pseudo-random number sequence (PRNS) output unit that provides a PRNS of length N. The PRNS output unit generates the PRNS responsive to a number (s) of prescribed positive integers (qx), a prescribed real impulse constant (r), and a prescribed non-zero real constant (C), where 1<x<s. The PRNS output unit includes an input acceptance section that accepts the number (s) of real number sequence initial values (Yx), and the number (s) of integer parameters (px); and a calculation section that uses the prescribed real impulse constant (r), the prescribed non-zero real constant (C), the real number sequence initial values (Yx), the integer parameters (px). and the prescribed positive integers (qx) to calculate a recurrence formula that is used to generate a PRNS (z?[y]) of length N, and that outputs the PRNS (z?[y]), where 1<y<N.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and device for collecting particulate contaminants removed using a CO2 decontamination medium from an early step of a decontamination process. The device removes particulate contaminants from a contaminated subject by a decontamination stream, and simultaneously forms another stream for collecting such contaminants into a collecting filter, thus preventing such contaminants from diffusing into the atmosphere. The device forms streams between the nozzles and the surface of the contaminated subject to readily move the nozzles along the surface of the subject without frictional resistance, to reduce the sense of fatigue of the operator.

Abstract: Hot-electron injection driven by hole impact ionization in the channel-to-drain junction of a p-channel MOSFET provides a new mechanism for writing a floating-gate memory. Various pFET floating-gate structures use a combination of this mechanism and electron tunneling to implement nonvolatile analog memory, nonvolatile digital memory, or on-line learning in silicon. The memory is nonvolatile because the devices use electrically isolated floating gates to store electronic charge. The devices enable on-line learning because the electron injection and tunneling mechanisms that write the memory can occur during normal device operation. The memory updates and learning are bidirectional because the injection and tunneling mechanisms add and remove electrons from the floating gate, respectively. Because the memory updates depend on both the stored memory and the pFETs terminal voltages, and because they are bidirectional, the devices can implement on-line learning functions.

Abstract: Disclosed is to a single electron device, a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of simultaneously manufacturing a single electron device and an MOS transistor. Accordingly, the single electron device of the present invention comprises, on a substrate, semiconductor layers in which a source region and a drain region spaced a predetermined distance apart are formed, hemisphere-type silicon layer formed between the semiconductor layers as an active layer, the hemisphere-type silicon layer having a plurality of electron islands, a gate insulating layer formed on a top surface of the entire structure, and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating layer in order to apply voltage to the active layer.

Abstract: Methods of connectivity encoding polygonal mesh representations of objects are described, along with methods of decoding encoded connectivity information for polygonal mesh representations of objects. In the encoding process, an active vertex queue is initialized with one or more vertices incident to a seed face. A vertex is selected from the queue, and the ring of the vertex traversed. If an unprocessed face is encountered during the traversal, the degree of the face, and the valences of any unprocessed vertices incident to the face are output. Any such unprocessed vertices are also entered into the queue. The method iterates until no more vertices remain on the active queue. In one implementation, an encoded data stream is output, which comprises two logical streams, one for face-degree information and the other for vertex-valence information. In the decoding process, the encoded data stream is received, and the connectivity of the mesh regenerated.

Abstract: A microstrip patch antenna having high gain and wide band is disclosed. The microstrip patch antenna includes: a first patch antenna layer for radiating a energy supplied from transmitting/receiving feeding circuit and a first radiation patch electrically coupled to the first dielectric layer and supplying the energy to a receiving feeding circuit electrically coupled with the first radiation patch, wherein the energy is supplied by electromagnetic coupling of a first parasitic patch and second parasitic patch; a second patch antenna layer for improving impedance bandwidth of energy received through the first parasitic patch arranged in between the second dielectric layer and the third dielectric layer and radiating the improved impedance bandwidth; and a third patch antenna layer for improving a gain of the energy received through the second parasitic patch arraigned in between the fourth dielectric layer and the fifth dielectric layer.

Abstract: Provided is a transconductor circuit for compensating distortion of an output current. The transconductor circuit is a differential pair with source degeneration and includes a main circuitry to which a predetermined input voltage is applied, constant current sources which supply the main circuitry with constant bias, an auxiliary circuitry which is connected to nodes of the main circuitry to compensate the distortion of the output current, and a variable current source which controls a depth or degree of a distortion compensation operation for the output current.

Abstract: The invention discloses a flat-plate lens to be built in an optical recording medium for improving the image-forming characteristics of the recording medium. The flat-plate lens of the invention comprises a layered thin film having a periodical structure in the direction of thickness thereof corresponding to a wavelength slightly longer than the wavelength of the light used for recording and retrieving information into and from the recording medium. The thin film of a periodical structure is formed by alternate lamination of pluralities of layers two materials having different refractive indices such as a combination of MgF2 and ZnS. When the thin film having such a periodical structure is formed with good uniformity allover the surface, the image-forming performance on the recording layer can be uniform irrespective of the position on the flat-plate lens.

Abstract: The invention is based on the isolation of antibodies that were made to a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence for a truncated VEGF-D. One of these antibodies can interfere with the activity of VEGF-D mediated by VEGFR-2 and interfere with the binding of VEGF-D to VEGFR-3 but does not interfere with the activity of VEGF mediated by VEGFR-2 or bind to VEGF-C. The invention provides pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions and methods utilizing these antibodies.

Abstract: The present invention provides a preventive or a remedy for penile erectile dysfunction, which promotes blood-flow in a penile sponge body over long time and thus induces erection while showing high safety without any adverse effect on a body as a whole, when externally administered to a penis. Use of a drug of the present invention enables to prevent or treat male penile erectile dysfunction and, at the same time, overcome a problem of female insertion impediment caused by increased resistance due to vaginal secretion disorder. Namely, a sexual life of patients (including aged persons) having coital dysfunction can be normalized and thus QOL can be improved.

Abstract: A high output power amplifier with change of voltage transformation ratio of a transformer is disclosed. The high output power amplifier using a transformer installed to output leads thereof, which can increase dynamic range and efficiency thereof as voltage transformation ratio of the transformer is adjusted and load resistance is adjusted so as not to generate signal distortion phenomenon and not to decrease its efficiency.

Abstract: An implantable device for the controlled release of drug or diagnostic molecules in vivo which includes a substrate formed of a metal or a polyethylene, a plurality of discrete reservoirs provided in spaced positions in the substrate, and a release system disposed in the at least two reservoirs, wherein the release system comprises drug or diagnostic molecules combined with a release-controlling polymer matrix, wherein the kinetics of release of the drug or diagnostic molecules is controlled by disintegration of the polymeric matrix. The substrate and reservoirs therein may be made by a manufacturing technique which comprises compression molding, thermoforming, casting, laser cutting, etching, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: A just-in-time system. The system includes a trampoline, a method table just corresponding to an executive program, and a linking device. the method table contains plural memory locations. The linking device is used to pre-assign a memory address for store in both a predetermined memory location and the trampoline. Thus, at initialization of the system, the romizing process in the prior art can be simplified without the additional time and labor cost, and the initialization time is saved.

Abstract: The invention discloses a semi-ring Fabry-Perot (SRFP) optical resonator structure comprising a medium including an edge forming a reflective facet and a waveguide within the medium, the waveguide having opposing ends formed by the reflective facet. The performance of the SRFP resonator can be further enhanced by including a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the waveguide on one side of the gain medium. The optical resonator can be employed in a variety of optical devices. Laser structures using at least one SRFP resonator are disclosed where the resonators are disposed on opposite sides of a gain medium. Other laser structures employing one or more resonators on one side of a gain region are also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention provides an oxynitride phosphor represented by a composition formula M1-aCeaSibAlcOdNe, wherein M denotes La or a compound of which main component is La and sub-component is at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Th, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu; the a that represents a composition ratio of Ce is a real number satisfying 0.1?a?1; the b that represents a composition ratio of Si is a real number satisfying b=(6?z)×f; the c that represents a composition ratio of Al is a real number satisfying c=(1+z)×g; the d that represents a composition ratio of O is a real number satisfying d=z×h; the e that represents a composition ratio of N is a real number satisfying e=(10?z)×i; the z is a real number satisfying 0.1?z?3; the f is a real number satisfying 0.7?f?1.3; the g is a real number satisfying 0.7?g?3; the h is a real number satisfying 0.7?h?3; the i is a real number satisfying 0.7?i?1.