Abstract: Adaptively controlling an imaging system (200, 205) includes constructing model feature characteristics (105) of a process over time, determining parameters and commands (110) for controlling the imaging system for each state of the process, performing data acquisition (120) for the process, extracting current features (130) of the process from the acquired data, matching (135) the current features (130) with the model feature characteristics (105) to determine a state of the process (140), and controlling the data acquisition based on the state of the process to produce optimized data.

Abstract: An electrical connector is described which comprises a first unit, a second unit, each unit bearing an electrical contact, the first unit comprising a protruding portion (103), the second unit comprising a receiving portion (102), wherein both the protruding portion and the receiving portion have substantially planar matching shapes, the protruding portion is arranged to be insertable into the receiving portion along an axis substantially perpendicular to each substantially planar matching shape, and the protruding portion and the receiving portion are arranged to be rotatable relative to each other about the axis thereby bringing the electrical contacts into alignment. The connector is particularly suitable for use in wearable electronics and solves the problem of how to arrange a connector which is easy to connect up, particularly by the old or infirm.

Abstract: An apparatus (200) for driving a display (310, 320) including an array of display elements (20), each element (20) comprising a plurality of sub-pixels of red (R), green (G), blue (B) and white (W) colors. The apparatus (200) comprising a processor (300) operable: (a) to receive input signals (RI, GI, BI) for controlling red, green and blue colors of each element (20) of the display (320); (b) to process the input signals (RI, GI, BI) to generate corresponding red, green, blue and white output drive signals for the red (R), green (G), blue (B) and white (W) sub-pixels of each element (20), said output drive signals being enhanced according to a gain factor (HS) for increasing element luminosity subject to potential color saturation occurring at one or more of the elements (20) being addressed by selectively reducing color saturation at said one or more of said elements (20); and (c) to apply said output drive signals to respective sub-pixels (R; G, B, W) for each element (20) of the display (320).

Abstract: The invention provides a hingeably closeable enclosure assembly, wherein at least two enclosure parts (10, 20) are connected by a hinge element (30), which is accommodated in a recess (13, 23). The hinge element (30) is flexible, and preferably ribbon-shaped, and is slideably moveable in the recess. This configuration allows the hinge to be invisible from the outset, and to occupy the least amount of space.

Abstract: The lighting apparatus according to the invention comprises one or several light sources and a light guide including a light outcoupling structure. The lighting apparatus emits light between 280 and 800 nanometers. It is an object of the invention to provide an improved apparatus for scientific and therapeutic purposes with a light source of planar structure, which can be optimally adapted to an exposed area. This is achieved by light sources or parts of them being easily replaceable. The light sources may be fluorescent lamps based on an Hg, Ne, Xe or Xe/Ne discharge or they may also be LEDs.

Abstract: A method and a system for controlling at least one lighting arrangement (2), in which the lighting arrangement modulates the light (6, 16, 18) it emits by lighting arrangement data, which contains an identification code identifying the lighting arrangement, a user control device (12) is suitable to receive the light from the lighting arrangement and to derive therefrom the lighting arrangement data, the user control device measures a property of the received light, apart from it representing data, to provide additional data which is associated with the lighting arrangement which is associated with the identification code contained in the received data, the user control device transmits the lighting arrangement data and the additional data, and a main control device (10) is suitable to receive the data transmitted by the user control device and to therewith control the operation of the lighting arrangement.

Abstract: A recording method, particularly suitable for use in a digital video-camera, is described according to which a digital signal (10), deriving from the encoding of an audio-video signal is temporarily stored in a buffer (11) and from there recorded in a dual layer DVD (12) in successive recording intervals (22) or packets. The start/stop of a recording interval is normally controlled according to the level (15) of filling of the buffer. The digital signal is partitioned in portions that need to be entirely recorded on one single layer, and this triggers the need for a layer jump independently from the level of filling of the buffer. In order to avoid starting a layer jump with the buffer already partly filled, and therefore having a short non-recording interval (23) when time is mostly needed for calibrations, it is proposed to adjust the resolution in the encoding of the audio-video signal so as to have the buffer close to empty when the layer jump occurs.

Abstract: The invention relates to set-up adjustment of the optical pickup unit (OPU) (12) position in relation to an optical record carrier in an optical drive. In particular the invention details arrangement of spindles (11) and adjustment means (50A) in the mechanism (10) of the optical drive.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lamp (1) comprising a gastight vessel (2) embedding one or more feedthrough elements (7,8) electrically interconnecting an outer current conductor (9,10) and an inner current conductor (3,4) for operating said lamp. The feedthrough elements and/or the outer and inner current conductor are molybdenum alloy components containing at least one constituent from the group formed by rhenium and chromium in a quantity between 0.01 and 5% by weight; titanium in a quantity between 0.01 and 0.1% by weight; and aluminum, cobalt, gadolinium, hafnium, iridium, iron and zirconium in a quantity between 0.01 and 1% by weight of said alloy. The invention further relates to a method of manufacturing a lamp and a lamp component.

Abstract: A dim control circuit dimming method and system with a dimming ballast dim control circuit (148) includes a dimmer switch input (120) having a first terminal (154) and a second terminal (156), the dimmer switch input (120) operably connected to receive a dim signal (106); a power supply (124); a current limiter (126); and a coupler (128). The power supply (124), the current limiter (126), and the coupler (128) are connected in series between the first terminal (154) and the second terminal (156), and the coupler (128) generates a lamp dim control signal (132) when the first terminal (154) and the second terminal (156) are electrically connected.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for building an electronic programming guide based on statistical information about the history of broadcasted programs where the programming information is obtained on the basis of currently available schedule information and where a broadcast system spreads programming information across a plurality of transport streams. Each time a user changes a channel, a new transport stream potentially becomes available, and current scheduling information is taken from that stream to update a profile of programming for that particular stream. New programming information that is transmitted on other channels is stored whenever the user selects one of those channels. In this manner, an electronic programming guide is eventually built based on the programming information available on the channels accessed by the user.

Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) lighting system for producing white light is disclosed. The system comprises sets of LEDs arranged to emit light with different wavelength ranges and associated with different sets of characteristics, and a driving circuit arranged to drive the LEDs. The driving circuit comprises an input for desired light intensity, color rendering index, and color temperature, an input for signals for LED temperature, a model for determining driving currents for said sets of LEDs from said parameters, signals, and characteristics for each of said sets of LEDs; and a current driver for the LEDs. At least one of the sets of LEDs comprises a first subset of LEDs with a first wavelength sub-range and a first set of characteristics, and a second subset of LEDs with a second wavelength sub-range and a second set of characteristics.

Abstract: A system and method for providing RSS content in a broadcast system. According to one embodiment, a method for providing RSS content in a broadcast system comprises the acts of: periodically retrieving, at a broadcast station (102), RSS content from at least one remote source (110) storing the RSS content; parsing the retrieved RSS content to generate transformed RSS content; formatting the transformed RSS content; and transmitting the formatted transformed RSS content from the broadcast station (102) to a plurality of receivers (106). According to another embodiment, a “user initiated retrieval” method retrieves RSS content from at least one remote source (110) storing the RSS content only in response to a user initiated request.

Abstract: An iridium complex Ir(III)L 1L2L3 for emitting light with a central iridium ion Ir(III), with a ligand L3 as dionate from the group comprising pentane-2,4-dionate (acac), 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptandionate (thd), 7,7-dimethyl-1,1,1,2,2,3,3-heptyfluoro-4,6-octandionate (fod), 4,4,4-trifluorol-(2-thienyl)butane-1,3-dionate (ttfa), 1,3-diphenylpropane-1,3-dionate (dbm), 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(2-naphthyl)butane-1,3-dionate (tfnb) or 4,4,4-trifluoro-1-(1-naphthyl)butane-1,3-dionate and with two rigid aromatic ligands L1 and L2 with one nitrogen and one carbon atom, sharing in the ligand bond, preferably dibenzo[f,h]chinoline, benzo[h]chinoline or 5,6-dihydro-benzo[h]chinoline, characterized in that the iridium complex Ir(III)L1L2L3 is a first isomer (71), in which the nitrogen atom of the ligand L1 sharing in the ligand bonding and the nitrogen atom of the ligand L2 sharing in the ligand bonding are juxtaposed relative to the central iridium ion.

Abstract: The invention refers to a device, a method and a computer program product for extracting motion information from a sequence of video frames. Existing solutions for extracting motion information from sequence of video frames need a massive computing power which make it difficult and expensive to implement a real-time system. It is therefore an object of the invention to simplify such a device and to provide a real-time embedded system. It is suggested to provide a device comprising a digital video camera 1. The video camera 1 includes a processing unit 3 for processing video frames grabbed by the video camera 1. The processing uses a 3D recursive search block matching algorithm to extract the motion information from the video frames. The device can be used for traffic surveillance applications, e.g. for determining the speed of vehicles on the streets and roads.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of remotely controlling target devices via an interface device, based on an input from a user comprising information identifying at least one target device and an action to be performed on said at least one target device, wherein the interface device is adapted for directly transmitting a control signal based on said input in a direction towards said least one of said target device, wherein the transmission direction is controllable using setup data stored at said interface device, wherein the setup data is obtained during setup phase of the interface device and comprises: identification data for uniquely identifying said target devices, and direction data associated to each of said identification data for identifying said transmission direction, wherein based on the user's input to perform said action on said at least one target device, using the direction data associated to the identification data of said at least one target device for controlling the transmission directio

Abstract: In a lighting device equipped with three light sources supplying red, green and blue light respectively, the color and/or intensity of the light generated by the three light sources together can be adjusted by means of adjustment points. The colors corresponding to the adjustment points are chosen so that for a fraction of the adjustment points the color difference calculated in the CIELAB space between the colors corresponding to adjacent adjustment points is the same. An inexperienced user can easily find a desired color setting since the change in color perceived by the user is the same for all the adjustment points belonging to said fraction.

Abstract: Conventional accelerometers are based on test masses that are suspended in some kind of spring damper system. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a two-dimensional adaptive accelerometer based on dielectrophoresis is provided, which measures an acceleration of a test mass freely floating in a medium by determining the movement of the test mass due to an accelerating force acting on the test mass. A non-uniform electric force field provides for a wide and adjustable dynamic range.

Abstract: The method of color correction in a luminance direction, comprises: applying a color transformation (T) to an input color (Ci), yielding a transformed color (Ct); determining a scaling factor (f) on the basis of a first display driving value representation (Rs5Gs5Bs) of the input color (Ci) and a second display driving value representation (Rt5Gt5Bt) of the transformed color (Ct); and multiplying a color representation of the transformed color (Ct) with the scaling factor (f) to obtain an output color (Co). It can be used to mitigate luminance errors introduced by the transformation (T).

Abstract: In a wireless communications system, such as a multiband Ultra Wideband communications system, data is tranmitted by means of the phases of pulses in multiple frequency bands. Data is encoded in the phase difference between a pulse and a previously transmitted pulse. The previously transmitted pulse may be the immediately preceding pulse in the same frequency band, or may be separated from the present pulse by a number of intervening pulses.