Abstract: The general purpose of the device described herein, the Smart Automatic Medication Dispenser, is to aid medical patients who must consume several types of medications several times a day for long periods of time. Often, due to daily diversions, it can be difficult for a patient to keep a running record of the amount of medications and the times at which they must be administered. The specific purpose of this computer controlled dispenser device is to provide a convenient vehicle and means by which properly proportioned medication doses are housed and automatically delivered to the patient in single complete doses. This user friendly and expandable dispenser will deliver medication in the proper chronological order and at the precisely correct/prescribed daily time intervals for a nominal period of one full week. Included in this device are comprehensive patient alerting capabilities, including familiar voices, all coordinated with medication delivery.

Abstract: Ocean bottom mapping is carried out by projecting a sonic pulse in the form f a fan-shaped beam from a vessel toward the ocean floor, receiving echoes by an array of sonic detectors extending athwartship, repeatedly taking instantaneous, simultaneous, snapshot-like samples of all of the detectors in the array, and, by means of a digital computer, applying a beam-forming transform, such as a Fast Fourier Transform, to the samples, thereby producing a spectrum of amplitudes versus angles. The directions of the floor areas from which the snapshot data emanate are determined from refinement of the peaks in the spectrum of amplitudes, and the distances of the same floor areas from the vessel are determined by the time interval between the pulse and the sample. A bottom profile is constructed from the directions and distances so determined. Two alternative techniques for refining and interpreting spectrum data are described.