Abstract: A self-expandable double-sided surgical implant including a peripheral pocket receiving an expansion ring. The surgical implant may be used for the correction of congenital diaphragmatic hernias.

Abstract: A self-expandable double-sided surgical implant including a peripheral pocket receiving an expansion ring. The surgical implant may be used for the correction of congenital diaphragmatic hernias.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for applying tensile force to one or more tissue regions within a body. Illustratively, an implant ball including a spherical side wall is received within a tubular organ, and tensile sutures extend through the implant ball for applying a tensile force to facilitate elongation of the tubular organ.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for applying tensile force to one or more tissue regions within a body. Illustratively, an implant ball including a spherical side wall is received within a tubular organ, and tensile sutures extend through the implant ball for applying a tensile force to facilitate elongation of the tubular organ.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for applying tensile force to one or more tissue regions within a body. Illustratively, an implant ball including a spherical side wall is received within a tubular organ, and tensile sutures extend through the implant ball for applying a tensile force to facilitate elongation of the tubular organ.

Abstract: A self-expandable double-sided surgical implant including a peripheral pocket receiving an expansion ring. The surgical implant may be used for the correction of congenital diaphragmatic hernias.

Abstract: A patch of material is configured to be applied to human tissue. The patch includes a film comprising poly(L-lactide) and poly(#-caprolactone). The film is configured to self-deploy between a first position and a second position in response to a temperature. The film is applied to the human tissue when the patch of material is in the second position, in which the film has a planar configuration.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for applying tensile force to one or more tissue regions within a body. Illustratively, an implant ball including a spherical side wall is received within a tubular organ, and tensile sutures extend through the implant ball for applying a tensile force to facilitate elongation of the tubular organ.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a validated print-out comprising: (a) providing a printing apparatus comprising a memory, a processor, a printhead and a spectrophotometer, the printhead and the spectrophotometer being mobile along a scan axis; (b) loading an original virtual image data into the memory; (c) creating a modified virtual image which comprising the data from the original virtual image and a virtual original series of color patches representative of a color gamut, the modified virtual image being in the form of raster data; (d) provide 5 a print-out of the modified virtual image on a media using the printing apparatus to obtain a printed image comprising a printed series of the color patches representative of the color gamut; (e) scanning 6 the printed series of the color patches representative of the color gamut using the spectrophotometer to provide a spectrophotometer output; (f) analyzing 7 the output using the processor to compare the output to an admissible range stored in the

Abstract: A method of detecting advertisements within a document comprising: identifying at least one region within an electronic version of the document; determining at least one property of the at least one region; and determining whether a region is an advertisement according to rules applied to the properties of the at least one region.

Abstract: An automated document processing system is configured to normalize zones obtained from a document, ant to extract articles from the normalized zones. In one configuration, the system receives at least one zone from the document, and applies at least one zone-breaking factor, thereby creating normalized sub-zones within which text lines are consistent with the at least one zone-breaking factor. The normalized sub-zones may be evaluated to obtain a reading order. Adjacent sub-zones are joined if text similarity exceeds a threshold value. Weakly joined sub-zones are separated where indicated by a topic vectors analysis of the weakly joined sub-zones.

Abstract: The analysis of graphic design material is discussed, and a system and adaptive method to automatically analyze graphic design material are disclosed. Aspects to be measured within a document containing the graphic design material are determined. Measurements of these aspects are performed. Output is prepared, wherein the output comprises an image of a page within the document and a view of measured aspects associated with the page, wherein the view is selected from among a group of views including a semantic view, a cluster view, a graphical view, or a poster view.

Abstract: A system for controlling allocation of areas of data-encoding pattern from a defined pattern space, the system comprises a service provider system 304; a user system 302; and a certification system 308. The certification system is arranged to certify a token, and the service provider system is arranged to issue the certified token to the user system thereby authorising the user to use an area of the pattern.

Abstract: Font and text management within a document provides utility in authoring and/or printing documents. In one example, a first portion of the document is configured to include text and references to fonts for use in rendering the text. Additionally, a second portion of the document is configured to include a graphical representation of the text.

Abstract: A system and method of operation is configured to produce a PPML template from a PDF document. In one implementation, the system opens the PDF document and converts PDF elements within the PDF document into variable objects. A macro is generated, which contains rules governing use and reuse of the variable objects. The PPML template generated as final result is configured to include a definition of the variable objects, the macro and a version of the original PDF document, wherein at least portions of the PDF document are configured as a background element within the PPML document.

Abstract: A system and method of operation is configured to generate a PDF document from a PPML document. In one implementation, the PPML document is parsed and a PDF document tree is generated. During parsing, when a PPML tag refers to external objects, like fonts or images, they are un-marshaled and embedded within the PDF document tree. In a further implementation, objects within the PPML document are resolved according to a PPML SOURCE_TYPE class. The resolved objects are then translated from the PPML document to the PDF document according to the PPML SOURCE_TYPE class.