Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a person's eating behavior uses a counter on the table next to the food being eaten. The counter displays the number of bites to be taken at each meal, displays the actual number of bites while the bites are being taken during a meal, provides a cadence signal from which the person can pace his chewing rate, determines the size of the bite taken and the time between bites, and provides an exercise between bites which forces the person to break the eating chain by pushing a button to increment the counter.

Abstract: A system is provided for the automatic measurement of red and white blood cell counts and other blood parameters. The system includes hydraulic apparatus for the aspiration of a blood sample and the proper measurement of the parameters thereof. During operation, the system directs an operator at each step of the procedure, allowing only permitted functions to be performed, thereby decreasing the opportunity for operator error. Each blood cell count is performed twice and the answers compared, an indication of instrument malfunction being presented to the operator if the measurements do not agree within a predetermined percentage. The system monitors itself to detect malfunctions which may occur and alerts the operator to the occurrence of a malfunction.

Abstract: A taximeter with logic circuitry that provides passenger detection, distance measuring, clock timing, speed referencing, tamper and fault detectors, manual pushbutton controls, settable constants for distance, time and money, and an emergency power supply. Further logic circuitry is provided to count passengers, calculate and add extras, control calibration externally, condition distance pulses, scan tamper and fault detectors, synchronize and debounce manual pushbutton controls, store and input constants, disable the taximeter, enter an external reset code, and internally compare the reset code. Additional logic circuitry may be provided to control the fare charging clock, perform program arithmetic, perform accumulator functions and control logic operations. Also, additional logic circuitry provides an extras charged display, a fare display, rate of charge display panels, recording counters and control of the taxi toplight.

Abstract: In a remote meter reading device involving a plurality of dials, mechanical inaccuracies in the hand position are compensated for by dividing each dial into sectors, sequentially reading each dial starting with the least significant dial and adding, to each subsequent reading after the first, a correction factor based on the sector of the dial pointer of the previous reading.

Abstract: A means of probing a biological cell sample with a optical source to determine the characteristics of the cell image by way of measuring parameters from its two dimensional Fourier transform. These techniques lead to a method of measuring discriminating parameters for cell classification.

Abstract: An extensible tape member is provided for measuring a voluntary angle or for measuring length of an object. The extensible tape member may be pulled out of the housing of an electronic combined protractor and calculator in measuring either angle or length. A rotatory reel which accomodates and stores the extensible tape member therein is rotated in unison with the extension of the extensible tape member from its housing. A photo sensor is provided for detecting rotation of the rotatory reel and for providing counting signals corresponding to the rotation. One of two indexes is arranged on a frame of the rotatory reel while the other of the indexes is positioned on the lower half of the housing of the electronic combined protractor and calculator. When measuring angle, the two indexes should be attached to two lines defining the angle to be measured, respectively.

Abstract: A system including electronic, mechanical and optical mechanisms which enable the system to: "read" a human fingerprint directly from a human finger; convert the ridge-valley pattern of that fingerprint into an electronic representation; transmit the electronic representation to a centralized location where image processing computing equipment can locate and extract the distinctive characteristics or minutiae of the fingerprint; compare the minutiae with minutiae previously recorded from the fingerprints of persons whom the system is responsible for identifying; determine whether the identity of the person whose fingerprint is read is known, and, if known, whether or not the person is authorized to enter the portal equipped with this system, or to otherwise act; and, to transmit a signal to the terminal and/or portal regarding the system's decision.

Abstract: A fare collection system using a bus fare box that receives and counts paper currency and paper transfers and tickets into a paper collection chamber and receives and counts coins into a coin collection chamber and receives and collects operating data into a data storage unit, the operating data including fare classification, bus identification and mileage; a secure coupling is made to the fare box chambers and the data storage unit after satisfying mechanical and pneumatic and electrical security devices so as pneumatically to convey from the chambers the papers and coins therein to a central processing unit and to convey the data stored in the data storage unit to a data collection center; the paper is first conveyed in an air stream and separated from the air stream and deposited into a storage vault therefor, after which the coins are conveyed to a coin slowdown device and then discharged to a sorter-counter-recorder for coins and then to a secure storage vault, the air stream being pulsed during conveyin

Abstract: A gathering system in an electronic computer including detecting means for detecting the occurrences of each of a plurality of events, a counter group having a plurality of counters each of which counts the number of occurrences of corresponding event until the number thereof becomes 2.sup.l, a storage having a plurality of memory areas, each storing 2.sup.K.multidot.l occurrences of the corresponding event and a processing unit for gathering data representative of the number of occurrences of each of the events from the counter and the storage unit.

Abstract: A crystal-controlled low-frequency power-conserving circuit for use in a controller operating with a casette to limit the rate of flow of an intravenous solution to a patient. The circuit uses a crystal oscillator operating below the stray frequencies often present in a hospital environment. The CMOS components in the circuit respond to the low frequencies of the oscillator, display no sensitivity to the higher stray frequencies, and consume a minimum of energy. Binary rate dividers reduce the frequency obtained from the oscillator by a positive integral power of two. Cascaded variable binary rate multipliers selectively permit the absorbtion of a least half of the pulses received from the rate divider. The inverted pulses of the binary rate multipliers pass to the S input of a D-type flip-flop. The pulses from the binary divider pass to the C input of the same flip-flop.

Abstract: In a peripheral controller of a data processing system having a plurality of system units electrically coupled to a common communication bus for asynchronous intercommunication, an array of counters responsive to both hardware and firmware are connected in a manner to form a serial control data path. Prior to a data transfer, a serial data stream including an offset range count, a range count and a main memory address is shifted through the counters under firmware control. During a data transfer, the firmware enables the hardware control to increment the memory address and decrement the range count to accommodate the higher data transfer rates characteristic of hardware control.

Abstract: An automatic counter which can scan either micro or macro sized objects in a field and provide both a visual display of the scanned objects as well as a digital count or measurement of the objects. A video camera is focused onto the sample and produces a video output signal which is processed and ultimately displayed on a video display together with an appropriate flag signal on each object identified. An aperture generator generates an electronic aperture signal whereby a particular area can be selected as to both size and shape and the selected area is displayed on the monitor screen of the video display. A compensation circuit provides additional counts to compensate for those cases where the entire area of a sample is not counted. An absolute area circuit provides a silhouette around each identified object and can provide an absolute measurement of the area within the silhouettes as well as a measurement of the total area of the selected aperture.

Abstract: An information signal processing system for use with a pattern recognition system which includes a converting device for converting information signals of an object or pattern to be recognized into electric signals including a sampling circuit for sampling the electric signal from the converting device, a circuit receiving the electric signal and producing a signal to be supplied to the sampling circuit to determine the sampling time, and a computer receiving the output signals from said sampling circuit and sequentially comparing them with reference signals stored therein. In this case, the information signal processing system includes a circuit which receives the electric signal from the converting device and produces a signal which approximates the electric signal. This approximated signal is supplied to the sampling circuit.

Abstract: A totalizer system having a first electronic device coupled to the vending machine for storing the number of vends (data) made by the vending machine, and a second device for interrogating the first device and providing a readout of said vends, e.g., in code, actual money value, or actual number of vends, or any form desired. The present system preferably includes an optical interrogation scheme using modulated light for transmitting stored vends in the first device to the second device thus eliminating human error, and an electronic memory in the first device that will store vends for a prolonged period of time even if the vending machine is unplugged.

Abstract: A system for measurement and recording of data as to events and conditions is disclosed including a recorder unit adapted to be located at a surveillance site and connected to detectors providing successive signals responsive to successive actuations by individual events, and a portable reader instrument adapted to be connected to said recorder unit. The recorder unit has semi-conductor memory for data and for instructions of a program, and a programmable data processor operable under the control of a program of instructions stored in memory to function in a recording mode. The data processor includes an arithmetic and logic unit for performing computational and decisional processes in a sequence determined by a program to count events in response to the detector signals, and to classify and accumulate the counts as data in separate locations in semi-conductor memory for separate real time periods.

Abstract: A pulse generator bar unit adapted to be substituted for the totalizer bar unit of a conventional mechanical fuel pump register to modify the register for providing an electrical pulse train with an electrical pulse for each predetermined amount of fuel delivered.

Abstract: A totalizer receives the output signals from two different sources, each generating signals representative of a measured event, such as the consumption (or transmission) of electrical power. The totalizer generates a train of recording pulses at a predetermined "offset" repetition rate. The totalizer increases the repetition rate of the recording pulses above the offset rate in response to an increase in the repetition rate of signals received from one of the sources; and it decreases the repetition rate of the recording pulses below the offset rate in response to an increase in the repetition rate of signals received from the other source. Thus the totalizer provides a bidirectional capacity in that it records events from two sources on a single data channel.

Abstract: An analog signal analyzer is described for counting the number of significant peaks and valleys in an analog signal. The analyzer includes an analog-to-digital converter, a signal-amplitude change-detector, a presettable counter presettable by a threshold-rate-factor number "n", and a logic circuit which detects a reversal in the direction of the signal-amplitude-changes between successive sampling times, and down-counts the counter each sample time in which the signal-amplitude changes continue in the same direction until "n+1" counts are reached. At that time it produces an output count, reloads the counter with the number "n", and conditions the circuit for thereafter down-counting the counter only when the signal-amplitude-change is in the reverse direction.

Abstract: A machine controller to be adapted to pressing and other machines for detecting an emergency and stopping a machine. Said machine controller, comprising, a circuit for detecting an emergency and stopping a machine, a counter circuit, a first preset circuit, a second preset circuit, and a controlling circuit of an outer sequencer. A timing pulse generated once per cycle of said machine is counted and displayed. Said machine is stopped when said count coincides with a numeral predetermined by a first preset code switch. A signal is conducted to an outer sequencer when said count has reached a numeral of an inspection lot predetermined by a second preset code switch, thereby said outer sequencer is actuated.

Abstract: A portable, self-contained, cummulative elapsed time recorder unit for personal use which records and stores data representing time spent by an individual working on each of a number of different work assignments, to provide a time record for billing purposes. The recorder unit includes a counter which is incremented when the unit operates in a timing mode to record a time element representing time spent working on an assignment, and a memory having a plurality of data storage locations, each assigned to a different work assignment for storing the time elements, the data storage locations being individually addressable by manually operable select switches. The recorder unit includes a display unit which provides a numerical display of the data stored at a selected memory location while the unit is operating in the display mode.