Abstract: A hip orthosis includes a hip engaging unit that can be secured to the contours of a human hip. An appendant orthotic member is formed to extend diagonally about and to be fixed to a human appendage. A connector assembly, with a support plate with a curved configuration at an anchor location to permit adjustment, interconnects the hip engaging member and the appendant member and includes an articulated joint member to control flexion, extension, abduction and adduction. The joint members can include an adjustable linkage system extending across and connected to both sides of the articulated joint. A first link member can be adjusted in length to control the movement of the articulated joint.

Abstract: A voice controlled capture device contains a processor that receives voice macros to control its operation. The capture device receives voice input, digitizes and sends the input to a second processor in a host computer system where speech recognition software within the host computer interprets the voice input to select a macro, and returns commands from the macro to the capture device where they are executed. Utilizing an interface or macro recorder within the capture device, and the speech recognition software within the host computer, the user can create voice macros incorporating individual voice commands. In a second embodiment, the capture device both analyzes the voice input and executes the commands of the macro.

Abstract: Methods and computer readable media generate a page file representing a compact disc label sheet having label blanks thereon for one or both of a compact disc case or a compact disc. The sheet may have a label for one or both of the compact disc case and the compact disc. The method provides such sheet, wherein the sheet supports the labels at any of a plurality of locations. The sheet with the labels supported at particular locations define a particular geometric layout configuration. One or more images may also be on the sheet. Operations of the method optically accent the particular configuration, and then scan the optically accented configuration to generate a digital representation of the sheet. All of the images are then excluded from the digital representation so that the remaining digital representation represents only the labels. The remaining digital representation is analyzed to determine the location on the sheet of the labels.

Abstract: A hip orthosis includes a hip engaging unit that can be secured to the contours of a human hip. An appendant orthotic member is formed to extend diagonally about and to be fixed to a human appendage. A connector assembly, with a support plate with a curved configuration at an anchor location to permit adjustment, interconnects the hip engaging member and the appendant member and includes an articulated joint member to control flexion, extension, abduction and adduction. The joint members can include an adjustable linkage system extending across and connected to both sides of the articulated joint. A first link member can be adjusted in length to control the movement of the articulated joint.

Abstract: A hip orthosis includes a hip engaging unit that can be secured to the contours of a human hip. An appendant orthotic member is formed to extend diagonally about and to be fixed to a human appendage. A connector assembly, with a support plate with a curved configuration at an anchor location to permit adjustment, interconnects the hip engaging member and the appendant member and includes an articulated joint member to control flexion, extension, abduction and adduction. The joint members can include an adjustable linkage system extending across and connected to both sides of the articulated joint. A first link member can be adjusted in length to control the movement of the articulated joint. An adjustable hinge member having a rotational axis which is offset by approximately 90° from a rotational axis of the articulate joint can be set to limit a range of flexion, while movement of the articulated joint provides either a controlled abduction or adduction movement.

Abstract: A scanned image is stamped with additional information at a user settable location and color during the scanning process. The information can be the time and date that the scan occurred or information supplied by the user. The location can be at one of the predefined locations or at a location defined by the user. The information is not limited to text but can also contain bitmap image information.

Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided for implementing a link system that is configured to automatically find all third party applications that are installed on a user system, and that provides shortcuts or links to the applications from a single program container (i.e. folder or group). The link system searches each current container for shortcuts or links to application programs and when an application program is found within the current container, the link system copies the shortcut link of that application program to the destination container.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for implementation of an install system that provides for typical and custom installation and configuration of third party applications. The install system allows the user to choose between a typical or custom installation of third party applications. In typical installation, the install system creates a list of components to be installed. In the case of a custom installation, the install system collects and displays to the user all the parameters for the installation of the third party application. This allows the user to select those components from the component listing and creates a list of components to be installed. The install system also provides information to the user about each component available to be installed during the third party application installation process. This information provides the user with the ability to make an important decision as to whether or not to include particular components in a custom installation process.

Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided for efficiently recovering from an interrupted installation procedure. The installation system creates a list of components to be installed in the installation procedure. The installation recovery system works in conjunction with the component list and current component pointer to identify which component was the last component successfully installed in the install procedure. In an instance where recovery is required, the installation recovery system identifies the last component installed and then restarts the install procedure from the point it was interrupted.

Abstract: Network scanner software that accesses scanners over a network to remotely scan a document. Once a scanner is reserved, no other computer system can access the scanner. The computer system to which the scanner is connected changes the appearance of an icon representing the scanner to indicate that the scanner is reserved. If a user of the computer system moves the cursor over the icon, a pop-up window is displayed with the name of the computer system that has the scanner reserved. Once a scanner is reserved, a user may place a document into the scanner, push a button on the scanner, whereupon the scanner scans the document and sends the scanned data to the computer system that reserved the scanner. A user may reserve a scanner, start a timer, and when the timer expires, the document in the scanner is scanned and the data returned to the computer system.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved adaptive spectral estimator for estimating the spectral components in a signal containing both an information signal, such as speech and noise. The improvements relate to a noise power estimator and a computationally efficient gain calculation method. The adaptive spectral estimator is particularly suited to implementation using digital signal processing and can be used to provide improved spectral estimates of the information signal. It can be combined with a speech or voice recognition system. A further object of the invention is to provide an accurate method for voice detection.

Abstract: An orthopedic hinge assembly for connecting an upper and lower portion of a brace, such as a knee brace, includes a hinge housing member with an abductor member movably mounted on the housing member. A pair of adjuster members are also mounted to the housing member and a stop member attached to the abductor member extends through arcuate apertures on the adjuster members. The adjuster members can have outer indentations and manually operable fastener assembly can fix or release the respective adjuster members so that they can be set to a desired position to define the limits of movement of the abductor member and thereby control flexion and extension of the patient's leg.

Abstract: A hip orthosis having an upper brace portion for mounting on the pelvic area of a patient and a lower brace portion for mounting on the thigh area of a patient has an interconnecting orthopedic hinge assembly with a housing member having a support surface with a first abutment member and an abductor member movably mounted on the housing member and having a second abutment member to operatively contact the first abutment member, to limit the relative movement of the abductor member in a first rotational direction. The worm gear stop member is rotatably mounted within the housing member and includes a third abutment member to operatively contact the first abutment member to limit the relative movement of the abductor member in a second rotational direction. An adjusting screw member is integrally journalled within the housing member for adjusting the rotatable position of the stop member to define the extent of flexion and extension of the abductor member.

Abstract: A limb brace or immobilizer having at least two relatively rigid support arms extending medially and laterally along opposite sides of a wearer's limb, each support arm having a limb-contacting plate of arcuate cross-sectional configuration and a traction plate connected to or formed integrally with the limb-contacting plate. Each traction plate has a pair of wing portions extending anteriorly and posteriorly in relation to the limb-support arm and spaced outwardly from the limb-contacting plate, with the span of the wing portions being substantially less than the anterior-posterior dimensions of the associated limb-contacting plate. Attachment straps are adjustably secured to the wing portions and join corresponding wing portions of the traction plates on opposite sides of a wearer's limb to secure the assembly in limb-bracing or limb-immobilizing condition.

Abstract: An orthopaedic brace having an adjustable control mechanism for controlling in a continuously variable manner the limits of pivotal movement of a body support member. The mechanism includes a threaded guide rod with a longitudinal slot, a collar slidably carried by the rod and equipped with an insert element projecting into the slot for preventing relative rotation of the collar and rod, and a pair of stop members disposed on opposite sides of the collar for controlling the extent of the collar's sliding movement. At least one of the stop members is in the form of a nut threadedly mounted upon the rod.

Abstract: A true bipivotal hinge for orthopaedic use having a hinge body and a pair of hinge arms with adjacent end portions pivotally connected to the side walls of the body for independent pivotal movement of each arm. A T-shaped insert element is removably secured within the hinge body and has a pair of stop portions with abutment surfaces engagable with the end portions of the arms for limiting the degree of extension of such arms. In a system for accommodating such a hinge to a patient's needs, a plurality of insert elements are provided, each being of substantially the same size and shape but having distinctive angularity of their abutment surfaces so that by interchanging one insert element for another, the hinge may be adjusted to provide the required degree of maximum arm extension.

Abstract: An orthopedic and orthotic hinge having a hinge body that includes two spaced, parallel plates with two hinge arm carriers having end portions pivotally mounted between the plates for movement in directions of flexion and extension. The end portions of the hinge arm carriers have peripheral teeth that respectively engage two toothed slide members. Such members are slidably disposed between the plates, preferably carried in grooves formed therein, and are independently movable with respect to each other when the hinge arm carriers are pivoted. First and second variable stops are provided by the hinge for limiting the extent of sliding movement in opposite directions of the two slide members, thereby restricting extension and flexion of the hinge arm carriers while at the same time permitting true bi-pivotal operation of the hinge. In one embodiment, the variable stops are offset from the midplane of the hinge body and the toothed slide members have extensions engageable with such stops.

Abstract: An orthopaedic brace for the upper limb comprising a mounting member adapted to be fastened to the torso of a patient, an arm support pivotally mounted on the mounting member for movement about vertical and horizontal axes, and an adjustment mechanism for raising and lowering the arm support about the horizontal axis to enable the shoulder joint of the patient to be abducted over a continuous range from a low abduction angle to a high adduction angle and adducted over a continuous range from a high abduction angle to a low abduction angle.

Abstract: An orthopedic and orthotic bipivotal hinge assembly having a hinge body and a pair of coplanar and independently-pivotal hinge arms. The proximal end portions of the hinge arms are disposed within the hinge body and have at least one set of interdigitating end plates defining an arrangement of abutment surfaces that are coplanar with each other, face generally in the same direction, and are disposed in side-by-side relation, when the arms are in first positions of adjustment (e.g., extension). In one embodiment, a single set of interdigitating plates with one such arrangement of abutment surfaces is provided; in a second embodiment two sets of interdigitating plates with two arrangements of abutment surfaces for controlling both extension and flexion are provided. Continuously variable extension and/or flexion control is achieved by an adjusting screw, or a pair of adjusting screws, carried by the hinge body.

Abstract: A surgical dressing adapted for fastening around orthopaedic fixator pins and similarly shaped surgical devices adjacent their sites of entry to and exit from the body, comprises a pad of resilient and absorbent material adapted to be folded around one or more fixator pins in apposition to the sites of entry and/or exit from the body; a friction member to be interposed between the pad and the fixator pins to inhibit movement of the pad along the fixator pins; and a clip adapted to be fastened around the fixator pins and at least a part of the resilient pad to clamp the pad in position around the pins.