Abstract: Method for commissioning a camera control unit (CCU) which defines a first processing path for video data, wherein an operating program for the CCU is loaded from a non-volatile program memory into a temporary memory of the CCU, and a check is carried out to determine whether an expansion unit is connected to the CCU, and, if so, at least a part of the operating program is loaded from a non-volatile program memory of the expansion unit into a temporary memory of the CCU.

Abstract: A system and method including at a transmitter emitting N single-wavelength quantum beams from N faint photon sources; multiplexing the N single-wavelength quantum beams using a first wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) to produce a combined multi-wavelength quantum beam, wherein the combined multi-wavelength quantum beam comprises a series of interleaved single-photon events having different wavelengths, and has a repetition rate N times that of individual single-wavelength quantum beams; transmitting the combined multi-wavelength quantum beam to a receiver; and at the receiver: de-multiplexing the combined multi-wavelength quantum beam according to the wavelength using a second WDM to recover the N single-wavelength quantum beams; at N single photon detection units, receiving a respective quantum beam of the N quantum beams and detecting single photon events from the respective quantum beam, such that each single photon detection unit corresponds to a respective quantum beam and as such the respective wav

Abstract: A method for time synchronisation in a satellite based quantum key distribution system, by at a transmitter, emitting a first series of laser pulses (LP) encoded to form a quantum beam, emitting a second series of LP having a predetermined repeating pattern; at a receiver, receiving the first and second series of LP and determining reception times of pulses of the first and second series of LP; comparing the second series of LP to the predetermined pattern and determining the point at which the received second series of LP is most correlated to the predetermined pattern; determining a relationship fitting reception times of a plurality of the received pulses to emission times of corresponding ones of the second series of LP; and using the determined relationship to convert between reception times of the first series of LP and emission times of corresponding ones of the first series of LP.

Abstract: In summary, to simplify operation of a medical image acquisition system, it is proposed that the image acquisition system continuously monitors a current image acquisition situation and assigns at least one new function to at least one, preferably manual, operating element, which is adapted to a detected new image acquisition situation, in response to a change in the image acquisition situation, to the extent that said newly assigned function is adjustable and/or operable with the at least one operating element. To this end, the image acquisition system can detect the change in the image acquisition situation using predefined parameters by means of sensors and/or through communication with peripheral units and/or preferably through image analysis of an image sequence which is recorded with an image sensor of the image acquisition system.

Abstract: An endoscope arrangement (1) including a camera head (2) with at least one distal image sensor (4) and an image-processing unit (3) which is connected to the camera head (2) via a connecting line (14). The connecting line (14) has at least one optical line (15) for transmitting image information. The connecting line (14) additionally has an electrical line (16) for serially transmitting electrical signals, it being possible to transmit electrical control signals bidirectionally via this electrical line.

Abstract: To simplify the use of a functional scope of a medical image recording system, for example an endoscopy system, a method is proposed in which an image processing unit of the image recording system recognizes predefined image recording situations on the basis of an image sequence recorded using an image sensor of the image recording system and in response thereto proposes an adaptation to a user that results in an improved display and/or an improved recording of the image sequence in the respective recognized image recording situation. The adaptation can relate here to an algorithm, using which the image sequence is processed after the recording, and/or an image recording method currently used to generate the image sequence.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a filament comprising a core material (CM) comprising a ceramic material precursor (CMP) and the core material (CM) is coated with a layer of shell material (SM) comprising a thermoplastic polymer as a support material in a fused filament fabrication process. Further, the invention relates to three-dimensional objects and a process for the preparation thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reconstructing an output image and/or a sequence of output images from raw image data, wherein, in at least one reconstruction chain between a recording of raw image data by means of an image recording device and a display of the output image and/or the sequence of output images on a display unit, at least one reconstruction step for reconstructing the output image and/or the sequence of output images is carried out, and wherein the result of the at least one reconstruction step is discarded when the result is recognized as invalid with respect to the fulfillment of a verification criterion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a filament comprising a core material (CM) comprising a ceramic material precursor (CMP) and the core material (CM) is coated with a layer of shell material (SM) comprising a thermoplastic polymer as a support material in a fused filament fabrication process. Further, the invention relates to three-dimensional objects and a process for the preparation thereof.

Abstract: Method for commissioning a camera control unit (CCU) (1) which defines a first processing path for video data, wherein an operating program for the CCU (1) is loaded from a non-volatile program memory (2, 6) into a temporary memory (3) of the CCU (1), and a check is carried out to determine whether an expansion unit (5) is connected to the CCU (1), and, if so, at least a part of the operating program is loaded from a non-volatile program memory (6) of the expansion unit (5) into a temporary memory (3) of the CCU (1).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reconstructing an output image and/or a sequence of output images from raw image data, wherein, in at least one reconstruction chain between a recording of raw image data by means of an image recording device and a display of the output image and/or the sequence of output images on a display unit, at least one reconstruction step for reconstructing the output image and/or the sequence of output images is carried out, and wherein the result of the at least one reconstruction step is discarded when the result is recognized as invalid with respect to the fulfillment of a verification criterion.

Abstract: In summary, to simplify operation of a medical image acquisition system, it is proposed that the image acquisition system continuously monitors a current image acquisition situation and assigns at least one new function to at least one, preferably manual, operating element, which is adapted to a detected new image acquisition situation, in response to a change in the image acquisition situation, to the extent that said newly assigned function is adjustable and/or operable with the at least one operating element. To this end, the image acquisition system can detect the change in the image acquisition situation using predefined parameters by means of sensors and/or through communication with peripheral units and/or preferably through image analysis of an image sequence which is recorded with an image sensor of the image acquisition system.

Abstract: To simplify the use of a functional scope of a medical image recording system, for example an endoscopy system, a method is proposed in which an image processing unit of the image recording system recognizes predefined image recording situations on the basis of an image sequence recorded using an image sensor of the image recording system and in response thereto proposes an adaptation to a user that results in an improved display and/or an improved recording of the image sequence in the respective recognized image recording situation. The adaptation can relate here to an algorithm, using which the image sequence is processed after the recording, and/or an image recording method currently used to generate the image sequence.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a filament comprising a core material (CM) comprising a ceramic material precursor (CMP) and the core material (CM) is coated with a layer of shell material (SM) comprising a thermoplastic polymer as a support material in a fused filament fabrication process. Further, the invention relates to three-dimensional objects and a process for the preparation thereof.

Abstract: A cable winch device, particularly a cable winch device for a crane, has at least one cable winch with at least one cable, with the cable wound and/or unwound at least partially on the cable winch. The cable winch can be shifted and/or moved at least partially substantially along the longitudinal axis of the cable winch. A crane, particularly a deep sea crane, has at least one such cable winch device.

Abstract: A cable winch device, in particular a cable winch device of a crane with at least one cable winch, with at least one cable, wherein the cable is at least partly wound up on the cable winch and/or can be wound up and/or unwound, and with at least one tilting means by means of which the cable which can at least partly be tilted and/or pivoted about an axis which is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cable winch. A crane is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable winch device, in particular a cable winch device of a crane with at least one cable winch, with at least one cable, wherein the cable is at least partly wound up on the cable winch and/or can be wound up and/or unwound, and with at least one tilting means by means of which the cable winch can at least partly be tilted and/or pivoted about an axis which is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cable winch. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a crane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable winch device, particularly to a cable winch device for a crane, having at least one cable winch, with at least one cable, wherein the cable is wound and/or can be wound and/or unwound at least partially on the cable winch, and with at least one shifting means by means of which the cable winch can be shifted and/or moved at least partially substantially along the longitudinal axis of the cable winch. The invention further relates to a crane, particularly to a deep sea crane, having at least one cable winch device.