Abstract: Dump truck bodies are mounted to truck frames by a hinge so the truck body can pivot about the hinge to eject a load from the truck body. Loads carried by these vehicles can be extreme and the cyclical stress can generate cracks in the hinges. An upper pivoting connection of a dump truck hinge has side members each with a mounting portion that join to the sides of rails of the body and a lower pivot portion. The upper hinge structure is pinned to a lower hinge portion on the truck chassis at the pivot portion. Bracing between the sides add strength to the pivoting connection.

Abstract: A method and a device (1) are provided for interacting with events in a broadcast audio stream. Patterns in the audio stream are compared to a stored signature (29) associated with the events and a function is executed in response to a successful match indicating the detection of an event. A viewer can participate in a broadcast quiz show using the device (1). Questions are provided in a graphical representation on the display (15) of the device (1) and the user can input answers to the questions. The event may be a buzzer in the audio stream of the broadcast quiz show, indicating that the time for responding to a question has expired and the function executed in response to detecting the signature of the buzzer may include terminating a time period in which the user can answer the questions using the device.

Abstract: An interband prediction method for image data decomposition and reconstruction in which a coder decomposes image data using pyramid subband image data decomposition. The resulting DC subband is further decomposed and is used to generate first predictors for various allowed geometries. The method then generates a predictor set for each pixel in the decomposed image in which the predictors for each pixel are ranked. The method further generates a message identifying the predictor in each predictor set to be used in the reconstruction of the data. In the reconstruction of the image data, the DC subband image data is used to generate a second predictor set identical to the first predictor list. The desired predictor for each pixel identified by the messages is used in conjunction with the DC subband image data to generate estimated next-level DC subband image data. This process is repeated until the estimated next-level DC subband image data is a predicted estimate of the original image data.