Abstract: This invention provides a hospital patient documentation method and apparatus which is used to generate an initial patient health plan which identifies the patient's health problems, the causes of the problems, expected outcomes, and interventions to achieve such outcomes. The system also provides for the periodic entry of progress notes on the patient, with the system automatically updating the care plan for the patient in response to the progress notes. The initial care plan and all updates are stored so that a audit trail is maintained and the user may obtain either a current patient health plan or a historical patient health plan on demand. The system is menu driven to facilitate uniformity and menu items are coded to facilitate subsequent retrieval and processing. Outcomes are displayed with outcome due dates and progress note generation may be inhibited if, on an outcome due date, the outcome has not been achieved or the due date updated.

Abstract: An information recording disk having a structure that a ring-shaped recording region is divided into a plurality of concentric, annular blocks, each of the blocks is divided in a circumferential direction into a plurality of equal sectors, and a recording track and a pit train for generating a header signal are previously formed in the recording region so that the recording density of a block increases as the block is nearer to the outer circumference of the recording region, is disclosed in which disk the recording region has a portion where blocks are pre-formatted so that the pit pitch of the header-signal generating pit train formed on the innermost recording track of the outer one of two adjacent blocks is greater than the pit pitch of the header-signal generating pit train formed on the innermost recording track of the inner block.

Abstract: The invention discloses an optical head device having a diffraction grating element divided into a plurality of diffraction gratings have a substantially equal diffraction angle, a substantially equal optical utilization efficiency, and different focal distances of first order diffracted lights, each of the first order diffracted lights being produced from a reflected light from the recording medium, at the respective diffraction gratings and a photodetector positioned at a mid-position between two focal points produced when there occurs no focusing error, the photo-detecting means having a plurality of photo-detecting parts juxtaposed in a direction substantially orthogonal to an average diffracting direction of the diffraction grating element. The above arrangement enables to produce a small size optical head device and improve the detecting of focusing errors and tracking errors.

Abstract: An automated diabetes data interpretation method is provided which combines symbolic and numeric computing approaches in order to identify and highlight key clinical findings in the patient's self-recorded diabetes data. The patient data, including blood glucose levels and insulin dosage levels, recorded by a diabetic patient over a period of time by means of a glucose meter or the like, is initially downloaded into a central processing system such as a personal computer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for facilitating the contextual translation of textual entries within an interactive software application which is executable within a data processing system. A contextual translation procedure is created and inserted into a selected interactive software application. During execution of the selected interactive software application, display screens containing textual entries are typically generated. Upon encountering a screen requiring translation an operator may invoke the contextual translation procedure, causing a translation viewport to be displayed. Individual translate phrases within the display screen are then selected and displayed within the translation viewport. A contextual translation may then be entered into the translation viewport by a translator and displayed therein in proximity to the selected translatable phrase.

Abstract: An automated manufacturing cost estimating method and system with indirect cost allocation which identifies a material in an initial state for manufacturing a product in a final state; defines an operation for converting the material from its initial state into the final state of the product; calculates the direct labor cost for each operation based on direct labor hours and calculates the indirect cost specifically allocated for each operation based on consumption of overhead cost elements by the operation; and sums the cost calculated for each operation to determine the total cost of manufacture of a part.

Abstract: A method and system for facilitating language translation of text fields within an interactive software application. A control parameter is associated with each text field within an interactive softwave application prior to translation and utilized to automatically extract each text field for translation and to reinsert a translated text field thereafter. In certain interactive software applications which utilize fixed template user-interface structures, such as dialog boxes or menu templates, the architecture will not permit captions or menu pulldown controls to be identified within the template. In such applications, an additional artificial control parameter is included within the template which contains an identifier of the text field for the caption or menu pulldown control. Thereafter, the control parameters may be utilized to automatically extract text fields for translation.

Abstract: In an optical head, a converging lens and a holographic optical element are arranged in the optical path of light reflected by the recording surface of an optical memory recording medium and passing through an objective lens. The holographic optical element has a hologram formed in at least one of two regions split by a region splitting line crossing the optical axis of the converging lens. A photodetector is arranged on the extension line of the optical axis. The photodetector has a plurality of detection surfaces which are respectively split along the region partition line of the holographic optical element to detect light beams diffracted by the hologram. The optical head also includes a detecting system for detecting a focusing error of the objective lens of the optical head by performing predetermined arithmetic operations using an incorporated processing circuit on the basis of output signals obtained by the plurality of detection surfaces of the photodetector.

Abstract: An improved system for space management in retail stores is described. The space management system includes price display labels mounted on rails along the edges of shelves in a store. A communications link between the computer and the labels permits the computer to address each label by a logical address and to determine the physical location of each label to within a resolution of typically four feet. The system prepares price audit lists and adjacency audit lists that permit economical use of the time of store personnel during the audit. The lists are generated in such a way that the items on a particular list are physically contiguous; thus once the correct general area has been located by the auditor little additional time need be spent locating the individual items. In performing an audit of product facings, the user is able to use the display hardware, including the pushbutton on each label, as a data collection system for product facing information.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for the real-time automatic determination of the approval status of a potential borrower of a loan. The method includes (1) transmitting an image of a form by facsimile transmission to a control location, wherein the form contains predefined information applicable to the potential borrower in spaces located at predetermined locations; (2) automatically receiving the image of the form by facsimile transmission at the control location; (3) automatically scanning and interpreting the image of the form to obtain the predefined information; (4) automatically determining at the control location the approval status of the potential borrower according to criteria provided by a lender, wherein the determining step utilizes the predefined information; and (6) automatically transmitting information regarding the approval status from the control location to the potential borrower.

Abstract: In an ACD system, motivational feedback information, such as the cumulative number of bonus points earned, is displayed on agents' terminal displays. The information is real-time, up-to-date, and substantially continuously displayed. It combines an objective, quantitative measure, such as the number of calls handled, and a subjective, qualitative measure, such as a quality factor representing a supervisor's evaluation of the agents' observed performance in handling calls. Illustratively, the per-call quantitative measure is multipled by an agent's presently-assigned qualitative measure to arrive at the per-call number of bonus points earned by the agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for high speed reading of multiple data tracks stored on an optical recording medium, such as a flexible optical tape. Data can be accurately read in the presence of position and alignment errors illuminating plural tracks of the optical recorded medium with an expanded light beam.

Abstract: An optical information recording-reproducing apparatus includes a scanning device for scanning a recording medium by a light beam and effecting the recording and/or reproduction of information, controller for effecting the auto focusing control and/or the auto tracking control of the light beam, an error signal detecting circuit for detecting an error signal for driving the controller, a plurality of sample hold circuits for periodically sampling the error signal at different times, an abnormality detecting circuit for detecting an abnormality of in the behavior of the error signal, a circuit for discontinuing the sampling when the sampling starting time of the sample hold circuits comes within a period during which the abnormality is being detected by the abnormality detecting circuit, a selecting circuit for selecting one of the plurality of sample hold circuits and supplying the output of the selected circuit to the controller, and an instructing circuit for instructing the selecting circuit to select the

Abstract: A radiation image storage and reproduction system includes a radiation image read-out device for reading out a radiation image stored in a stimulable phosphor sheet to obtain digital image data of the radiation image; an image-concomitant information input device for inputting information of a forwarding address and/or an information of a image processing operation for the digital image data; an image processing device for processing the digital image data; a display device for visually reproducing the radiation image from the digital image data; and an image filing device for storing the digital image data.

Abstract: A reproduction mode identification circuit (1) is responsive to a horizontal synchronizing signal and a color rotary pulse for identifying whether the reproduction state of a double azimuth 4 head system VTR is the search reproduction or not of the SP mode. The reproduction mode identification circuit (1) provides a mode identification signal in response to whether a half period of the color rotary pulse is greater or not than a predetermined value smaller than the vertical synchronizing period.

Abstract: A magnetic optical recording/reproducing apparatus comprising: a movable focus adjusting member including converging means for converging a light beams emitted from a light source on a focal plane of an optical recording medium, focus coil means for driving the converging means in a direction substantially vertical to the plane of the optical recording medium by electromagnetic force when a current is applied, seek coil means for driving the converging means in a radial direction of the optical recording medium by electromagnetic force when a current is applied, and support means for supporting the focus coil means and the seek coil means; a carriage means for moving the movable focus adjusting member in the radial direction of the optical recording medium; and spring means fixed at one portion thereof to the movable focus adjusting member and the other end portion thereof to the carriage means for supporting the movable focus adjusting member to move the movable focus adjusting member to the carriage means i

Abstract: A system is provided for reducing and managing the inventory of lasts needed for footwear production which comprises a foot sizing device for determining foot sizing data by empirically measuring a plurality of feet at a footwear sales location, a data processing device logically coupled to the foot sizing device for receiving the foot sizing data from the foot sizing device, and a statistical trend analysis mechanism logically coupled to the data processing device for analyzing the foot sizing data received by the data processing device and for identifying foot sizing data groups whereby efficient manufacture of footwear lasts according to empirical foot sizing needs may be achieved. The system may include an inventory control feedback mechanism logically coupled to the data processing device which provides last inventory status information on demand.

Abstract: The required computational effort in the areas of production planning and logistics, scheduling, distribution and resource allocation is reduced by a procedure for solving a Discrete Activity Resource Allocation (DARA) problem. The procedure begins by reducing all activities and resources which do not contribute to maximizing benefit. Thus, all infeasible and non-profitable activities are discarded and all non-constraining resources are discarded, thereby considerably simplifying the solution to the problem. Next, an automatic mathematical model formulation of the DARA problem is performed. Based on this model, a list of cliques and covers are generated. The linear relaxation of the DARA problem using standard linear programming software is solved, and the generated list of clique and cover induced inequalities is scanned to select a set violated by the solution of the linear relaxation of the DARA problem.

Abstract: An optical recording/reproducing system comprising an optical pickup for recording and/or reproducing of data with respect to an optical recording medium. A reflection factor and a signal amplitude are obtained from the optical recording medium to be driven by the the recording/reproducing system. A reference level for detection of dirt deposition on the optical pickup is obtained on the basis of the reflection factor and signal amplitude information. The reference level for the dirt deposition is compared with a reproduction signal level obtained from the optical recording medium. A determination as to whether dirt is deposited or not is made on the basis of the comparison results.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for a disc-shaped information recording medium having a plurality of information recording tracks formed thereon with substantially equal distances therebetween in the spiral or concentric fashion. The apparatus further includes a recording/reproducing head for recording and reproducing information on and from the information recording tracks. The apparatus is capable of detecting information from the medium when the head is moved in the radial direction of the medium. A track detection pulse signal is extracted from the information detected by the apparatus when the head is moved in the radial direction. If a pulse is missing, the apparatus generates a pulse signal corresponding to the missing pulse, corrects the analog signal, and synthesizes a new signal.