Abstract: A method of producing a hierarchical power information structure for a circuit design, the method comprising traversing a circuit design hierarchy from a top design level to a bottom design level to identify any intermediate design levels, associating identified power nets with ground nets to produce one or more power domains, producing one or more power domains using the identified power nets and ground nets, identifying an instance of one or more special cells that are associated with a power related property and creating constructs for the special cells in the hierarchical power information structure, generating power rules for the intermediate level design using the special cell constructs, mapping higher design level power domains to lower design level power domains within the intermediate design level, and storing the power domains and power rules as power intent within an information structure associated with a schematic for the intermediate level design.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing three dimensional graphics to remote computing machines and appliances that include an agent executing on a local computing machine to intercept a plurality of graphics commands generated by a three dimensional application executing on a local computing machine. A first portion of the plurality of graphics commands are encoded by the agent using a first codec, while a second portion of the plurality of graphics commands are encoded by the agent using a second codec. The agent creates a frame comprising the first portion and the second portion of the plurality of graphics commands, compresses the frame, and transmits the frame to a remote computing machine.

Abstract: A dual magnetic interlocking pin system for attaching an item with a free moving magnet for providing a magnetic attraction strong enough to movably hold the free moving magnet adjacent a first outer plate.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting a leak in a Stage II vapor recovery system is disclosed. The system may monitor the Stage II vapor recovery system for the occurrence of quiet times and record pressure data during those quiet times. The system may make a determination of a leak based on the evaluation of the pressure data from a plurality of the quiet times.

Abstract: A system for recognizing various human and creature motion gaits and behaviors is presented. These behaviors are defined as combinations of “gestures” identified on various parts of a body in motion. For example, the leg gestures generated when a person runs are different than when a person walks. The system described here can identify such differences and categorize these behaviors. Gestures, as previously defined, are motions generated by humans, animals, or machines. Multiple gestures on a body (or bodies) are recognized simultaneously and used in determining behaviors. If multiple bodies are tracked by the system, then overall formations and behaviors (such as military goals) can be determined.

Abstract: A biological observation apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a sound wave radiating unit that radiates a sound wave into an object to be examined, a light radiating unit that radiates first light having a predetermined wavelength and second light different from the first light into a portion of the object influenced by the sound wave, a detector that detects reflected light of the first light and reflected light of the second light, and a calculation unit that calculates characteristic information of the object based on the reflected light of the first light and the reflected light of the second light.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for intercepting and monitoring of cellular satellite communication wherein communication between at least one mobile device (MES) and the satellite is through a first band link that includes plurality of first-band spot beams each accommodating at least one basic channel unit that includes a control channel and corresponding traffic channels, and communication between the satellite and main station is through wideband second-band link accommodating plurality of second band spot beams each accommodating at least one basic channel unit that includes a control channel and corresponding traffic channels, the method comprising detecting map between a control channel of the downlink first band link and corresponding control channel of downlink second band link by identifying identical unique spot beam number (SB Mask) data in the respective control channels.

Abstract: Techniques are generally described that include methods, devices, systems and/or apparatus for dividing a numerator by a denominator. Some example methods may include selecting a first numerical factor stored in an electronic storage media. The first numerical factor may be multiplied by a numerator at least in part using a first logic circuit configured to perform multiplication. The first numerical factor may also be multiplied by a denominator. A second numerical factor may be calculated based, at least in part, on an approximation of a square of the difference between unity and the product of the first numerical factor and the denominator. The second numerical factor may be multiplied by the product of the numerator and the first numerical factor at least in part using the first logic circuit, to generate an approximation of a quotient of the numerator and the denominator.

Abstract: Methods and systems are described for provisioning a common virtual disk to both a physical and a virtual computing machine. These methods and systems can include creating a virtual disk that has binding information for both a paravirtual network interface card and a physical network interface card so that, either a virtual machine having a paravirtual network interface card, or a physical machine having a physical network interface card, may boot from the created virtual disk. Creation of the virtual disk can include exposing the paravirtual network interface card to a physical machine so that an installer program may bind to both the paravirtual network interface card and the physical network interface card.

Abstract: The operation of a vehicle electronic module is influenced by vehicle-state received on a vehicle communication bus. The electronic module analyzes vehicle-state data that includes information about the vehicle's environment. The electronic module improves or maintains electronic module performance by adjusting communication processing parameters to improve driver or passenger communication.

Abstract: Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for determining light source characteristics from an image. An image having pixels is received that is affected by a light source. A silhouette boundary is received. The image may be filtered to decrease diffuse reflectivity. The presence of light sources is estimated by identifying a local maxima pixel around the silhouette boundary. The local maxima pixel may be associated with the light source. A slant angle that is associated with the light source is estimated using the silhouette boundary. A tilt angle associated with the light source is estimated using the slant angle and local maxima pixel intensity. The relative intensity of each light source may be determined. The ambient light intensity of the image may be determined. The characteristics, such as the slant angle and tilt angle, may be provided to a user.

Abstract: An emergency call (e.g., a 911 call, an alarm company call) forwarded by a telematics call center is routed over the switched PSTN to a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call server, where the switched call is converted to a session initiating protocol (SIP) packetized IP call for presentation to an emergency services gateway, which reconverts the call to TDM and connects to a selective router via dedicated circuits, gaining full access to the Enhanced 911 network. This provides a PSAP receiving a call from a telematics call center or other call center with all features available in an Enhanced 911 network, e.g., callback number of the 911 caller, and location of the 911 caller. Location of the caller is provided using a VoIP positioning center (VPC).

Abstract: An interface device for a protected workstation or host has a network interface for connection to a multi-level secure network, a first address corresponding to a guard control port, and a second address corresponding to a guard data port. A transport guard in the device has a control component coupled to the guard control port for processing configuration data sent to the first address and producing a desired security configuration, a guard component coupled to the output of the control component and to the guard data port of the network interface, and a host interface coupled to the guard component for exchanging data with the protected host. Only when permitted by the desired security configuration, the guard component passes network data addressed to the second address of the network interface to the host interface, and passes outbound data from the host interface to the network through the guard data port.

Abstract: An electronic control device including a plurality of terminal pins each including a first circuit board side connecting portion connected to a first circuit board, a second circuit board side connecting portion connected to a second circuit board, and an intermediate connecting portion disposed between the first and second circuit board side connecting portions and extending in an overlapping direction in which the first and second circuit boards overlap with each other, the intermediate connecting portions being aligned in a row along a predetermined alignment direction, and the terminal pins at least partially including adjacent two terminal pins formed into a bent shape such that the first circuit board side connecting portion of one of the adjacent two terminal pins is offset relative to the first circuit board side connecting portion of the other adjacent two terminal pins in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined alignment direction.

Abstract: A computing system is configured to use a trampoline to isolate sensitive code in a virtual environment and in other applications. An import table may describe the entry points of a privileged code module or driver that generates privileged code. A system and method loads a shadow kernel to facilitate isolating the linkage between drivers and the rest of the system. The shadow kernel may be a copy of the operating system kernel that does not have the same integral position in the operation of the computing device. The shadow kernel may be used as a template for creating a jump table to redirect more critical privileged resource access requests from specially loaded kernel mode drivers to the PVM. All requests may pass through the PVM, which redirects non-critical functions to the original kernel. Multiple copies of a given driver or code module may be loaded in a given session.

Abstract: A wind energy installation includes a tower provided with rotor blades that are adjusted using a servomotor connected to a pitch circuit and an emergency circuit. During normal operation the rotor blades are actuated by the pitch circuit and during emergency operation are actuated by the emergency circuit. The emergency circuit has an electric energy store, a switching device, connection lines to the servomotor and a protection device which includes comprises a power flow detector module (60) designed for determining whether electric power flows into or from the servomotor and a discharge module designed to limit the voltage and/or current in the emergency circuit in the case of a power flow from the servomotor.

Abstract: A computer-automated system orders a list of elements according to multiple criteria. Each element in a data set may have any number of attributes. Attributes may have corresponding weights which differ from each other. The system orders the elements based on the weight of the attributes and the attributes associated the elements. In particular, the system may combine the weights of all attributes associated with a particular element to produce a combined weight for the element. The system may tend to place elements having relatively high combined weights closer to the beginning of the list than elements having relatively low combined weights. The system may be used in a variety of applications, such as coordinating the schedules of multiple workers in a hospital or other workplace, based on multiple needs of the workplace and multiple preferences of the workers.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for generating a clean reference frame image. A method includes obtaining a color census of a color image. A color profile is selected based on the color census. One or more foreground areas of the image are identified, the foreground areas comprising image areas containing colors that do not fit the color profile. For each identified foreground area, a color is applied to the identified foreground area based on one or more colors of one or more non-identified image areas to create a clean reference image.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for soft edge masking. A soft edge masking technique may be provided via which, starting from an initial, potentially very rough and approximate border selection mask, the user may selectively apply brush strokes to areas of an image to selectively improve the border region of the mask, thus providing softness details in border regions which contain soft objects such as hair and fur. A stroke may be an additive stroke indicating a particular region in which detail from an original image is to be added to a composite image, or a subtractive stroke indicating a particular region in which detail is to be removed from the composite image. The stroke may also indicate a strength parameter value that may be used to indicate an amount of bias to be used in opacity calculations for the affected pixels.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for automatically detecting skin tones in an input image are disclosed. An initial skin tone mask for the image may be created dependent on a general skin tone model. An upper threshold and/or a lower threshold may be applied to the initial skin tone mask to identify pixels most likely to be skin pixels and least likely to be skin pixels, respectively. These pixels may be used to produce an image-specific skin tone model, including one or more truncated Gaussian models for skin pixels and/or non-skin pixels defined in a three-dimensional color space. The image-specific skin tone model may be applied to the image to generate a final skin tone mask. Skin tone detection may be automatically or selectively performed in conjunction with image editing or image feature identification operations to target or exclude skin pixels or non-skin pixels during execution of the operations.