Abstract: Excitation light and reference light are irradiated to living body tissues, the excitation light causing the living body tissues to produce intrinsic fluorescence. The intrinsic fluorescence, which has been produced from the living body tissues when the excitation light is irradiated to the living body tissues, is detected as an intrinsic fluorescence image signal. Reflected reference light, which has been reflected from the living body tissues when the reference light is irradiated to the living body tissues, is detected as a reference light image signal. Display signals are formed from the intrinsic fluorescence image signal and the reference light image signal. Information concerning the living body tissues is displayed by utilizing the formed display signals. The display signals are formed such that an intensity of the reflected reference light is primarily reflected upon luminance, and a relative intensity of the intrinsic fluorescence is primarily reflected upon color.

Abstract: A method of medical imaging includes obtaining at a first temporal resolution a first medical image 100 of a region of interest of a patient, and obtaining at a second temporal resolution a second medical image 200 of the region of interest. The second temporal resolution is lower than the first temporal resolution. The method also includes registering the first and second medical images with one another such that common reference points in the first and second medical images coincide. Finally, the first and second medical images are superimposed over one another.

Abstract: A computer-aided design and automation system for mass customization. The system includes a 3-D body model and a virtual prototype model. The virtual prototype model includes a close fitting definition, a 3-D library loose fitting definition and texture mapping linked to the close fitting definition and the 3-D library loose fitting definition. The present invention may further include a 2-D spreader model for subsequent cut and sew manufacturing. The 3-D body model may be a dress form, a virtual dress form or a true body dress form created by a body scanner. In the preferred embodiment, the close fitting definition further includes a 3D close fitting definition library. Also, in the preferred embodiment, the 3-D library loose fitting definition is provided by a 2-D to 3-D converter which includes a 2-D pattern converter. In the preferred embodiment, the linked texture mapping is a textile design database, which may be created from a fabric swatch or by textile design.

Abstract: The present invention proposes an improved pad structure comprising a frame, a pair of pads, and a pair of sponges. The frame comprises a pair of rims, a bridge, and a pair of fasteners. A ductile belt can be tied between the pair of fasteners. The pair of sponges are respectively joined with the pair of rims. The inner edges of the pair of pads respectively sheathe the pair of sponges. Although the positions of the sponges and the pads are interchanged, the swimming glasses also maintain resiliency. Moreover, when the swimming glasses are worn, because the pair of sponges are respectively sheathed at the inner edges of the pair of pads and the face contacts tightly with the pair of pads, penetration of water into the swimming glasses because of absorption of water by the sponges can be avoided.

Abstract: An embroidery sewing machine is disclosed, the sewing machine having a stitch forming device including a needle (71) vertically reciprocated to form stitches on a work to be stitched, an embroidering frame (21) for holding the work and being moved relative to the needle in synchronism with the needle, and the stitch forming device being operated to decide a maximum speed of the vertically reciprocating needle (71) in dependence upon the type and weight of the work and the size and weight of the embroidering frame (21) and being further operated to reduce the speed of the vertically reciprocating needle (71) as the weight of the work and embroidering frame (21) increases and as the embroidering frame (21)is partly moved away from the body of sewing machine in the Y-direction.

Abstract: A golf training device including a clothing article structured to be worn by a user, an input assembly responsive to a user and structured to provide a user with at least two response options that may be elected by the user, and an output assembly disposed in association with the clothing article. The response options provided by the input assembly are associated with different aspects of an activity, thereby allowing a user to select the response option that best corresponds the aspect of the activity for which training is presently required. Furthermore, the output assembly is structured to communicate to the user instructional information that corresponds the aspect of the activity associated with a selected one of the response options, the instructional information being in the form of an audio message that is spoken by a recognizable personality.

Abstract: An adjustable disposable cap which includes a headband and an accordion pleated crown. The headband is folded to form an outer panel and upper and lower longitudinally extending inner panels. The headband is further folded to form a central section and two end sections with the first of said end sections of said headband being slideably insertable into the other section of said headband so that the first end is moveable with respect to the other end. An accordion pleated crown is folded to form four panels in the crosssectional configuration of a “M” or “W”. The lateral two panels of the crown are adhesively attached to the lower or upper inner panel of the headband at the central section and at the second of the two end sections of the headband. The first of the two end sections remains substantially free of the crown so that the head size of the cap is adjustable.

Abstract: Goggles include an eye-cup and a belt that are coupled by means of a coupling member. The eye-cup and the coupling member can be engaged and disengaged easier compared with conventional goggles. In the goggles, at a connecting end of the coupling member is provided an elastic bent piece with a V-shape section and a spring property. And a connection recess is provided on the eye-cup. The elastic bent piece of the coupling member and the connection recess of the eye-cup are fixed together in a mutual engaging state. The engaging state can be released by narrowing the gap distance in the V-shape of the elastic bent piece.

Abstract: An over-sized, adhesive decorative paw-shaped animal hair removal glove, which has greater manipulability, control and a greater cleaning coverage area as its over-sized design provides space within the glove not only for the thumb but, also for partial finger separations which allow for finger control thus, solving the problem of inadequate control and manipulability by products which do not allow finger separations, or if they do they are small human-hand types instead of an over-sized paw-shape. The paw-shape increases the coverage area of the surface to be cleaned allowing the task to be completed in a timely fashion and/or without the use of additional materials, which can prove costly.

Abstract: A cap for permitting a wearer to use the cap as a device for catching falling objects, such as baseballs, therewith. The cap includes a cap with a bill outwardly extending therefrom. The bill has a plurality of spaced apart finger holes therethrough.

Abstract: An ultraviolet rays shielding hat having a sun visor is disclosed. The hat includes an elastically circular band having an outer periphery, a plurality of guide supports attached to the side portions of the outer periphery, wherein said each guide support has a guide groove in each of a top side and a bottom side thereof, an inner support disk having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein a slider is attached to the inner surface of the inner support disk and has a pair of guide rails inwardly extending therefrom, wherein the guide rails are slidably carried in the guide grooves, wherein a guide shaft extends from a central portion of the outer surface, and an outer support disk having a side engagement opening and a central engagement hole, wherein the guide shaft of the slider is rotatably engaged in the central engagement hole, wherein each side end of the sun visor is fixedly received in the side engagement opening.

Abstract: The display apparatus for a sewing machine of the invention includes a display that displays a stitch pattern thereon, and a sewing order indicator that indicates a sewing order of substantially an entire stitch pattern. Therefore, even when the operator selects, as a stitch pattern, a complex stitch pattern such as a buttonhole stitch pattern, the operator can easily judge if the stitch pattern being sewn is exactly what the operator has selected before the stitch pattern is finished.

Abstract: In a sewing machine, the speed-dependent change in the stitch length is compensated by a speed-dependent correction of the setting of the stitch regulating device. A linear stitch length desired value curve Ss is obtained.

Abstract: The wrist cover disclosed herein includes a generally cylindrical tubular member formed of fabric, fleece, etc., having forward and rearward ends. The forward and rearward ends of the tubular member are elasticized to seal the ends to the arm and hand of the wearer. An aperture is formed in the side wall of the tubular member, adjacent the forward end, to permit the wearer's thumb to project outwardly from the tubular member. Elastic bands encircling the aperture form a seal around the thumb, when in use.

Abstract: A tufting machine has a yarn feed roller assembly with a plurality of rotatable driver rollers driven at different speeds and a plurality of actuators in the form of a pivotable arm having in one embodiment a pair of yarn feed reels one of which is arranged to selectively press yarn into engagement with one of the drive rollers and the other arranged to selectively press yarn into engagement with another drive roller. Yarn is engaged by each actuator and a selected drive roller for a period of time determined by a pattern. The longer the actuator engages the high speed roller during the stroke of a tufting machine needle the greater will be the pile height of the tufts produced and alternatively the longer the actuator engages the lower speed roller during the needle stroke the lower will be the pile height. Pile height variations between a high pile and a low pile may be obtained by controlling the proportion of time during the stroke that the yarn engages with the high and low speed rollers.

Abstract: A disposable glove includes a glove body, a cuff formed in a lower end of the glove, and an adhesive tape laterally adhered on an outer surface of the glove. The adhesive tape consists of a long adhesive tape, a short adhesive tape, a connect tape and a pull member combined together. After a user wears the glove on a hand and a wrist, the user pulls the pull member adhered on an inner end of the long adhesive tape and together with an inner half of the long adhesive tape and pulls it to the left side to tighten cuff and then adhere the inner half of the long adhesive tape on the outer surface of the glove to keep the cuff in a tightened condition.

Abstract: A chin strap which can be used to retrofit an existing head covering so as to provide a means to retain the head covering on the wearer's head without damage to or modification of the head covering. The chin strap is an elongate strand and is provided with a clip at each end. The clips are used to secure the elongate strand to the interior band of the head covering by attachment of a clip on both the left and right side of the interior band. The clip slips over the interior band and is maintained in place by means of clip spring tension. The elongate strand extends between the two clips and is provided in a length which allows generous slack. The amount of slack in the chin strap is adjusted to the comfort of the wearer using a bead or adjustment clip mounted in the mid portion of the elongate strand. The bead or adjustment clip may be imprinted with a logo or trademark so that the chin strap may be used as an advertisement or promotional item.

Abstract: Automatic testing and diagnosing a computerized stitching machine of a stitching system is provided. The system includes one or more programs that test operation of stitching machine components and generate specific error or status messages related to such components. Control panel software can be invoked to allow viewing of detailed status information for various components and the operation of specific components individually. Networking software can be enabled to allow this information to be viewed using a screen display and controlled from a location remote from the site of the stitching machine.

Abstract: The invention has been made to provide an embroidery sewing machine which may be automatically operated to withdraw the embroidering frame to a predetermined inoperative position. More particularly, in case the power source switch is turned off, the power happens to be in failure, the power cord happens to be disconnected, the sewing operation is interrupted for a predetermined period of time, or the instruction is given to withdraw the embroidering frame to a predetermined inoperative position, the CPU 50 is responsive to these situations to control the X-Y moving mechanism 67 to withdraw the embroidering frame to the predetermined inoperative position.

Abstract: A novelty hat apparatus having a spit for simulating the roasting of objects, a headpiece for supporting the apparatus on the head of a wearer, and a first and second spit frame member attached to the headpiece and extending upward therefrom, the first and second spit frame members each having apertures defined therein for receiving the ends of the spit. The headpiece has at least one simulated fire member attached to the headpiece and extending upward therefrom toward the spit. The apparatus may include a motor with a drive shaft extending therefrom and engaging a toothed wheel on the spit for turning the spit by operation of the motor. Additionally, a strap may be attached to the headpiece for retaining the apparatus on the head of the wearer. The spit may also have a spit crank fixed to an end.