Abstract: Apparatus for media communication in a communication system. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises: a processor; and a routine running on the processor for negotiating with the remote processing machine a selection of at least one media type using a media type selection protocol that supports the description of a plurality of media types including audio, video and data, and to configure, according to the selection, the apparatus to process media data packets received from and to be transmitted to the remote processing machine over a packet switched network.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for gathering information from an environment. In a first step, visual information is gathered from the environment. In a second step, information actively transmitted by objects in the environment is received. According to one embodiment, the information actively transmitted by objects in the environment is received wirelessly. In a third step, the visual information is combined with the received information in order to recognize objects.

Abstract: New triarylamine derivatives containing special space-filling wing groups and to the use thereof as a hole transport material in electrographic and electrolumkinescent devices are provided. In the triarylamine derivatives, n-1-10, R1—R4 represent optionally substituted phenyl, biphenylyl, naphthyl, phenanthrenyl, anthracenyl, fluorenyl, triarylmethyl aryl, or triarylsilyl aryl; Ar represents a biphenylene, triphenylene, tetraphenylene or fluorenylene-type bridge.

Abstract: The invention concerns an electro-luminescent device in which the luminescent layer contains a compound of general formula I as doping agent or as luminescent compound, whereby the radicals R1 to R12 are identical or are different, and mean hydrogen, straight chain or branched C1-C6 alkyl, aralkyl, aryl or substituted aryl; R1 and R2 and/or R3 and R4 and/or R4 and R5 and/or R5 and R11 and/or R8 and R5 and/or R4 and R12 can form an alicyclic, heterocyclic or aromatic ring; R5 can furthermore be H, OH, OR9, N,N-di-(C1-C6) alkylamino, acetylamino or halogen; R6 and R7 together can form an alicyclic or heterocyclic ring; A1 and A2 are identical or different and are —CN, —NO2 or —COOR8; X is —CH, —CR11 or N; and Y is O, —NH, —NR12, S or Se. The doping agents together luminesce predominately red with very good quantum efficiency together with the luminescent compound as a function of concentration.

Abstract: The invention concerns an intermediate layer (2) for enhancing comfort of a user wearing usual objects on or in the body. The intermediate layer comprises at least an element consisting of a heat-sensitive gel having a lower critical solution temperature (LCST). Under the influence of the user's body or skin temperature (T), the intermediate layer actively produces a constant modification of the contact point(s) between the usual object and the user's body (3).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a closure device, in particular for closing ducts in a valve-accommodating member in which pressure medium is conveyed, comprising a rotationally symmetric closure member that is wedged in an accommodating bore of a housing. The calked joint is configured as a calking cone so that the accommodating bore forms a funnel-shaped contraction in the direction of the closure member, said contraction covering the periphery of the closure member in the area of a collar, and succeeding the calking cone is a second housing step that is expanded in relation to the first housing step, said step being formed by the housing material deforming plastically to the funnel-shaped contraction of the accommodating bore.

Abstract: The application relates to an organic electroluminescent device which contains 2,5 diaminoterephthalic acid derivatives of formula 1a as emitter substances in one or several emitter layers in a pure or doped manner. The ring A is a triple unsaturated benzole ring wherein R4? and R8? are equal to zero or ring A is a double unsaturated ring respectively provided with a double bond in the 1,2 position and 4,5-position, and wherein R10 is a nitrile radical —CN or a radical C(?X1)—X2R1; R11 is a nitrile radical —CN or a radical —C(?X3)—X4R5, X1 and X3 are oxygen, sulphur or imino, X2 and X4 are oxygen, sulphur or optionally substituted amino, R1 to R8, R4? and R8? are H, C1-C20-alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, R4 and R8 can also be halogen, nitro, cyanogen or amino, R2 to R4, R6—R8, R4? and R8? can also be trifluoromethyl or pentafluorophenyl, and wherein certain radicals can form a saturated or unsaturated ring.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electroluminescent device, in which the luminescent layer contains a luminescent compound and a compound of the general formula I as doping agent, wherein B is an unsaturated carbocyclic or heterocyclic 4-8-link ring, which can also contain an alicyclic bridge, the rings D and E are five- or six-link rings, which each can contain one more hetero-atom N, O and S, the radicals R are one or more substituents H or straight-chain or branched C1-C6-alkyl, X and Y are carbon or nitrogen, R1; R2 and R9 are H or straight-chain or branched C1-C6-alkyl, R3 and R9 are hydrogen, straight-chain or branched C1-C6-alkyl, hydroxy, —OR16, —COOR16, N,N-dialkylamino, acetylamino or halogen, wherein R16 is hydrogen, or straight-chain or branched C1-C6-alkyl, R1 and R2 or R2 and R3 and/or R9 and R9 together can form an alicyclic, heterocyclic or aromatic ring, and A1 and A2, which can be the same or different, are cyan, nitro or —COOR16. The compounds I are partly new.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electromagnetic valve, which is electrically switched to adopt a throttled position in brake pressure control for reducing valve switching noises.

Abstract: The invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device which contains 2,5-diaminoterephthalic acid derivatives of formula 1a as emitter substances in one or several emitter layers in a pure or doped manner. The ring A is a triple unsaturated benzole ring wherein R4? and R8? are zero or ring A is a double unsaturated ring respectively provided with a double bond in the 1,2 position and 4,5 position, and wherein R10 is a nitrile radical —CN or a radical C(?X1)—X2R1, R11 is a nitrile radical —CN or a radical —C(?X3)—X4R5, X1 and X3 are oxygen, sulfur or imino, X2 and X4 are oxygen, sulfur or optionally substituted amino, R1-R8, R4? and R8 are H, C1-20-alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, R4 and R8 can be halogen, nitro, cyanogen or amino, R2-R4, R6-R8, R4? and R8? can be trifluoromethyl or pentafluorophenyl, and wherein certain radicals can form a saturated or unsaturated ring.

Abstract: The present invention is embodied in a digital communication system where multiple media data sources are time multiplexed into a packetized data stream, each packet having an assigned priority and the packetized data stream transmitted in substantially the order of assigned priority. At both the transmit side, and the receive side, audio packets are given priority processing over video packets, which in turn have priority over text/graphics data packets. Continuous real time audio playback is maintained at the receiver by delaying the playback of received audio in a first in/first out (FIFO) buffer providing a delay at least equal to the predicted average packet delay for the communication system. Optionally, the average system delay is continuously monitored, and the audio playback delay time is adjusted accordingly. Audio playback is slowed or accelerated in order to shrink or grow the difference in time between the sender and receiver.

Abstract: The present invention is embodied in a digital communication system where multiple media data sources are time multiplexed into a packetized data stream, each packet having an assigned priority and the packetized data stream transmitted in substantially the order of assigned priority. At both the transmit side, and the receive side, audio packets are given priority processing over video packets, which in turn have priority over text/graphics data packets. Continuous real time audio playback is maintained at the receiver by delaying the playback of received audio in a first in/first out (FIFO) buffer providing a delay at least equal to the predicted average packet delay for the communication system. Optionally, the average system delay is continuously monitored, and the audio playback delay time is adjusted accordingly. Audio playback is slowed or accelerated in order to shrink or grow the difference in time between the sender and receiver.

Abstract: Isolated spastin genes and fragments thereof, as well as Spastin proteins and fragments thereof are disclosed. Also disclosed are altered forms of spastin, as well as methods for the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative disease.

Abstract: The present invention is embodied in a digital communication system where multiple media data sources are time multiplexed into a packetized data stream, each packet having an assigned priority and the packetized data stream transmitted in substantially the order of assigned priority. At both the transmit side, and the receive side, audio packets are given priority processing over video packets, which in turn have priority over text/graphics data packets. Continuous real time audio playback is maintained at the receiver by delaying the playback of received audio in a first in/first out (FIFO) buffer providing a delay at least equal to the predicted average packet delay for the communication system. Optionally, the average system delay is continuously monitored, and the audio playback delay time is adjusted accordingly. Audio playback is slowed or accelerated in order to shrink or grow the difference in time between the sender and receiver.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a closure device, in particular for closing ducts in a valve-accommodating member in which pressure medium is conveyed, comprising a rotationally symmetric closure member [(3)] that is wedged in an accommodating bore [(2)] of a housing [(11)]. The calked joint is configured as a calking cone [(1)] so that the accommodating bore [(2)] forms a funnel-shaped contraction in the direction of the closure member [(3)], said contraction covering the periphery of the closure member [(3)] in the area of a collar [(4)], and succeeding the calking cone [(1)] is a second housing step [(6)] that is expanded in relation to the first housing step [(5)], said step [(6)] being formed by the housing material deforming plastically to the funnel-shaped contraction of the accommodating bore [(2)].

Abstract: The invention relates to an electroluminescent device, in which the luminescent layer contains a luminescent compound and a compound of the general formula I as doping agent, wherein B is an unsaturated carbocyclic or heterocyclic 4-8-link ring, which can also contain an alicyclic bridge, the rings D and E are five- or six-link rings, which each can contain one more hetero-atom N, O and S, the radicals R are one or more substituents H or straight-chain or branched C1-C6-alkyl, X and Y are carbon or nitrogen, R1, R2 and R9 are H or straight-chain or branched C1-C6-alkyl, R3 and R8 are hydrogen, straight-chain or branched C1-C6-alkyl, hydroxy, -OR16, -COOR16, N,N-dialkylamino, acetylamino or halogen, wherein R16 is hydrogen, or straight-chain or branched C1-C6-alkyl, R1 and R2 or R2 and R3 and/or R8 and R9 together can form an alicyclic, heterocyclic or aromatic ring, and A1 and A2, which can be the same or different, are cyan, nitro or -COOR16. The compounds I are partly new.

Abstract: The invention concerns an electro-luminescent device in which the luminescent layer contains a compound of general formula I as doping agent or as luminescent compound, whereby the radicals R1 to R12 are identical or are different, and mean hydrogen, straight chain or branched C1-C6 alkyl, aralkyl, aryl or substituted aryl; R1 and R2 and/or R3 and R4 and/or R4 and R5 and/or R5 and R11 and/or R8 and R5 and/or R4 and R12 can form an alicyclic, heterocyclic or aromatic ring; R5 can furthermore be H, OH, OR9, N,N-di-(C1-C6) alkylamino, acetylamino or halogen; R6 and R7 together can form an alicyclic or heterocyclic ring; A1 and A2 are identical or different and are -CN, -NO2 or -COOR8; X is -CH, -CR11 or N; and Y is O, -NH, -NR12, S or Se. The doping agents together luminesce predominately red with very good quantum efficiency together with the luminescent compound as a function of concentration.

Abstract: A device for drawing off gaseous and liquid media from an inflowing medium, in particular in a tank ventilation system, has the following features: a housing, a feed connection for introducing the inflowing medium into the housing, an outlet connection for drawing off the liquid medium at the lower side of the housing, an outlet connection for drawing off the gaseous medium at the upper side of the housing, a float chamber which is arranged between the outlet connections, a floating body which is arranged in the float chamber in a manner which allows it to be displaced in the longitudinal direction of the float chamber, a closing device for closing the float chamber with respect to the outlet connection for the liquid medium, a closing device for closing the float chamber with respect to the outlet connection for the gaseous medium, and a deflecting device for deflecting a longitudinal movement of the floating body within the float chamber into an opposite direction and for transmitting the said longitudinal

Abstract: The present invention is embodied in a digital communication system where multiple media data sources are time multiplexed into a packetized data stream, each packet having an assigned priority and the packetized data stream transmitted in substantially the order of assigned priority. At both the transmit side, and the receive side, audio packets are given priority processing over video packets, which in turn have priority over text/graphics data packets. Continuous real time audio playback is maintained at the receiver by delaying the playback of received audio in a first in/first out (FIFO) buffer providing a delay at least equal to the predicted average packet delay for the communication system. Optionally, the average system delay is continuously monitored, and the audio playback delay time is adjusted accordingly. Audio playback is slowed or accelerated in order to shrink or grow the difference in time between the sender and receiver.

Abstract: The present invention is embodied in a digital communication system where multiple media data sources are time multiplexed into a packetized data stream, each packet having an assigned priority and the packetized data stream transmitted in substantially the order of assigned priority. At both the transmit side, and the receive side, audio packets are given priority processing over video packets, which in turn have priority over text/graphics data packets. Continuous real time audio playback is maintained at the receiver by delaying the playback of received audio in a first in/first out (FIFO) buffer providing a delay at least equal to the predicted average packet delay for the communication system. Optionally, the average system delay is continuously monitored, and the audio playback delay time is adjusted accordingly. Audio playback is slowed or accelerated in order to shrink or grow the difference in time between the sender and receiver.