Abstract: A patient interface device that includes a body portion comprising a pair of arms and a chin support. A first end portion of each arm in the pair of arms is coupled to an opposite end of the chin support. The chin support is adapted to be disposed under the mandible responsive to the patient interface device being donned by a user. At least one headgear attachment element is provided on each arm in the pair of arms. A circuit portion is provided at a second end portion of each arm in the pair of arm. A patient interface portion is coupled to the circuit portion.

Abstract: A glass composition for use in a lamp bulb includes cobalt oxide to provide a blue colored glass. The composition has an alkali metal oxide including lithium oxide. Such composition has a glass transition temperature Tg below 700° C.; e.g., below 500° C. The glass composition is used for forming, during operation, a blue light-emitting bulb for an automotive lamp.

Abstract: Due to the provision of slit collimators an intensity of a fan beam is reduced significantly such that expensive high power x-ray tubes have to be used. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a high power tube may be used with a very long focus in combination with a focusing collimator. The tube can be a cheap fixed anode tube still with a high power of, for example, 15 kW due to the large focus. The collimator may ensure that the resolution of the reconstructed scatter function is not degraded. The illuminated slice thickness is increased which may allow for an isotropic spatial resolution.

Abstract: Genre or theme assignment data (104) for a program in a digital television or other data transmission is recovered by a receiver (100) and mapped to a genre in a standardized genre assignment schedule (240). A country associated with the transmission is identified, such as by obtaining a country code (105) from the digital data transmission, or via a receiver setting. A genre assignment schedule is identified based on the country. Data, such as user nibbles (220) or standard content nibbles (230), is obtained from the transmission to identify the original genre and assign the program to a corresponding standardized genre.

Abstract: Devices, systems and methods employ magnetic force to resist tissue collapse in targeted pharyngeal structures and individual anatomic components within the pharyngeal conduit during sleep.

Abstract: A gas measurement system of this invention includes a housing adapted to be mounted on an airway adapter, and a luminescence quenching gas measurement assembly disposed in the housing. The luminescence quenching gas measurement assembly includes a source disposed in a first plane, and at least one detector also disposed in the first plane.

Abstract: A resonator has a vibrating element (10) and at least a first (20) and a second (30) electrode, at least one of the electrodes storing an electric charge to make the device charge biased. A charge adjuster (C) can add to or reduce the stored charge. The charge adjuster can be a capacitor to reduce leakage, and or a power supply coupled by switch. It can reduce problems of stiction, and reduce power consumption, and reduce non linearity's, it enables the charge level to be adjusted before operation. A second switch can be used to ground the vibrating element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, a client device (CL) and a computer program product for determining the need for requesting network configuration information from a network. The client device includes memories (M1, M2) comprising network identifying data (NI) and corresponding configuration data, and a control unit (CO). The control unit orders the connection of the client device to a network, compares first network identifying data associated with said network with second locally stored network identifying data from a memory and uses locally stored network configuration data associated with said second network identifying data for obtaining services if said first network identifying data and said second network identifying data correspond to each other. Because of this the number of searches in a network is limited in case the client device has previous knowledge about the network.

Abstract: A wireless sensor network for wirelessly monitoring a medical subject includes a plurality of sensor nodes (22, 24, 26, 122, 124, 126). Each sensor node includes a wireless transceiver (46) for sending and receiving wireless messages, a sensor (40, 42, 130, 132, 140, 142) monitoring a characteristic of the medical subject, and a processor (50). The processor is programmed to at least perform an authentication method including: (i) acquiring sensor data via the sensor for a predetermined time (76) responsive to receiving a wireless trigger message; (ii) storing an association code (60, 150, 152, 160, 162) computed from the acquired sensor data; and (iii) authenticating a subsequently received wireless message containing an association code tag by comparing the association code tag with the stored association code. The processor further attaches the stored association code as the association code tag in messages sent to other sensors.

Abstract: A method for concealing errors in a video decoding process according to the invention, wherein said method comprises the steps of: receiving a frame of video picture comprising an comprising an error-existing picture area and a neighboring picture area; searching a similar picture area to said neighboring picture area according to a predetermined condition in a frame of reference picture of said video picture; concealing said existing errors by using the information in said video picture if said similar picture area is not found, or concealing said existing errors by using the information in said reference picture if said similar picture area is found.

Abstract: A user interface (20, 20?, 20?, 20?? for providing authenticated access to medical equipment, data, or records includes a dynamic display (30, 30??) that selectively shows user options. A touchscreen overlay (40) aligned with the dynamic display identifies a touch location on, in, or adjacent the dynamic display. A fingerprint reader (50, 50?, 50?, 50?? is triggered by the touchscreen overlay and acquires a fingerprint at the touch location. User authentication, access control and logging are performed based on identifying and authenticating the fingerprint.

Abstract: The method according to the invention is arranged to segment a surface in a multi-dimensional dataset comprising a plurality of images, which may be acquired using a suitable data-acquisition unit at a preparatory step 2. It is possible that data processing and data acquisition steps are temporally or geographically distanced, so that at step 4 the results of a suitable data segmentation step 6 are accessed, whereby said results comprise portions of the image which are subsequently used to segment the surface using the method of the invention. Next, at step 8 a suitable plurality of image features resembling possible spatial positions of the surface conceived to be segmented are selected and accessed. The features are subsequently matched for all image portions at step 10, whereby for each feature a matching error is assigned. At step 14 a pre-defined selectivity factor is accessed defining a maximum allowable variable fraction of the features having largest matching errors which can be discarded.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system (1) for inducing a subject to fall to sleep, comprising a light pattern generator (3) for generating a time varying light pattern in view of the subject. Further, the system comprises a breathing rate measuring unit (2) for measuring a breathing frequency of the subject. In addition, the system comprises a control unit connected to the breathing rate measuring unit and the light pattern generator, for controlling the light pattern generator (3), such that the generated light pattern has a pattern frequency (13) substantially between the measured breathing frequency (8) and a pre-selected desired frequency (5).

Abstract: Illumination device with a light emitting layer structure (4) formed on a substrate (2) comprising at least one electroluminescent layer (42) between a first (41) and a second electrode (43) to emit light through the substrate (2), which comprises at least a first substrate area (21) to emit diffuse light (31) und at least a second substrate area (22) to emit directed light (32).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a light emitting diode (LED) module (10) comprising a substrate (12) having plural indents (14) and flattish portions (20) in between the indents, and LEDs (16) mounted in the indents. The LED module is characterized by at least one of sensors (22) and additional LEDs (32) provided at the flattish portions. This allows increased sensor detection accuracy and/or color compensation. The present invention also relates to a method for the manufacturing of such an LED module.

Abstract: To decrease a power consumption of a fluorescent lamp, the fluorescent lamp is provided with a high efficiency fluorescent coating, generating more light upon receipt of a conventional amount of radiation. Decreasing the power supplied to the lamp decreases the radiation supplied to the fluorescent coating and thus the light output of the lamp. Due to the increased light output of the fluorescent coating, the light output level of the fluorescent lamp may be kept substantially equal to a light output level of a conventional lamp.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a data processing system with a plurality of processing units (PU), a shared memory (M) for storing data from said processing units (PU) and an interconnect means (IM) for coupling the memory (M) and the plurality of processing units (PU). At least one of the processing units (PU) comprises a cache memory (C). Furthermore, a transition buffer (STB) is provided for buffering at least some of the state transitions of the cache memories (C) of said at least one of said plurality of processing units (PU). A monitoring means (MM) is provided for monitoring the cache coherence of the caches (C) of said plurality of processing units (PU) based on the data of the transition buffer (STB), in order to determine any cache coherence violations.

Abstract: A computed tomography scanner includes a first (20) and a second (21) detector. The second detector (21) has a relatively higher spatial resolution and a relatively smaller field of view (204) than that of the first detector (20). Projection data generated by the detectors (20, 21) is combined and reconstructed so as to generate relatively high resolution volumetric data (318) indicative of a region of interest (314) in an object under examination.

Abstract: An encoder (109) comprises a receiver (201) which receives a time domain audio signal. A filter bank (203) generates a first subband signal from the time domain audio signal where the first subband signal corresponds to a non-critically sampled complex subband domain representation of the time domain signal. A conversion processor (205) generates a second subband signal from the first subband signal by subband processing. The second subband signal corresponds to a critically sampled complex subband domain representation of the time domain audio signals. An encode processor (207) then generates a waveform encoded data stream by encoding data values of the second subband signal. The conversion processor (205) generates the second subband signal by direct subband conversion without converting back to the time domain. The invention allows an oversampled subband signal typically generated in parametric encoding to be waveform encoded with reduced complexity. A decoder performs the inverse operation.

Abstract: A method for use in dirty isotope positron imaging uses information about a measured characteristic of an object (118) to generate a spurious coincidence correction. The spurious imaging correction is applied to data from a positron imaging examination of the object. The corrected data is used to generate a human readable image indicative of the object.