Abstract: A memory management system and method includes, in one embodiment, an index location in a hash table that represents metadata, and a file memory address saved at the index location so that the hash table is searchable by a processor by entering the metadata into a hash function to transform the metadata into the index location where the memory address is stored.

Abstract: A master-slave data management system includes a bus in communication with a processor, a first data path separate from the bus providing the processor with communication to a first memory, and a second data path separate from the bus providing the processor with communication to a second memory. The processor is configured to form a redundant array of independent memories by establishing the first memory as a master memory and subsequently writing to the second memory to make the second memory a slave memory.

Abstract: An ice maker for a refrigerator/freezer having a control module for more reliably driving a rotatable ice ejector for removing ice bodies from a mold of the ice maker and for refilling mold cavities with water. The control module has an ice ejector drive with a drive coupling that includes a gear wheel and an ejector shaft section, both made of hard plastic material, preferably a polymide resin, for transmitting higher torque to the rotary ice ejector without failure of the plastic drive components. In one embodiment, a drive sleeve on the gear wheel and a drive shaft section have a spline coupling for more effectively distributing driving forces in the drive coupling. In another embodiment, a metallic collar is tightly positioned over the gear wheel sleeve for enhancing torque transmission in the drive coupling.

Abstract: A scanner comprises a transparent platen mounted on a housing, and an object-imaging device within the housing mounted for longitudinal movement relative to the platen and an object supported thereby. The object-imaging device is rotatable about a transverse axis and comprises an aperture for receiving light reflected from the object. The object-imaging device has a travel distance between a home end position and a back end position, the travel distance comprising a central portion and at least one end portion. The scanner further comprises a mechanism operatively associated with the object-imaging device for rotating the device about the transverse axis thereof in response to movement of the device within the at least one end portion of the travel distance, the device being rotated in a direction so that the light-receiving aperture is rotated away from the central portion of the travel distance.

Abstract: A lighting device for a digital camera is built including one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) along with a strobe. The LEDs are configured to provide lighting of the subject during a video mode of the camera and the strobe is configured to provide lighting of the subject during a still mode of the camera. These independent light sources may share a common reflector in some embodiments, while in other embodiments they may use separate reflectors. This lighting device may be built in to a digital camera or in some embodiments may be configured as a separate device controlled by the digital camera.

Abstract: Communication devices, portable power devices, and power sources for these devices which include a source of illumination. The source of illumination is positioned and of sufficient candlepower to permit a person holding the device to illuminate his/her surroundings.

Abstract: Fused pyradazine derivatives, which are useful as CDK inhibitors are described herein. The described invention also includes methods of making such fused pyradazines derivatives as well as methods of using the same in the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases.

Abstract: A master-slave data management system includes a bus in communication with a processor, a first data path separate from the bus providing the processor with communication to a first memory, and a second data path separate from the bus providing the processor with communication to a second memory. The processor is configured to form a redundant array of independent memories by establishing the first memory as a master memory and subsequently writing to the second memory to make the second memory a slave memory.

Abstract: A memory management system and method includes, in one embodiment, an index location in a hash table that represents metadata, and a file memory address saved at the index location so that the hash table is searchable by a processor by entering the metadata into a hash function to transform the metadata into the index location where the memory address is stored.

Abstract: A power-sharing controller module comprises a processor, power manager, and at least one connector for detachably electrically connecting an application module to the controller module. The power manager is operable to manage power from a battery to the application module through said connector and to monitor the voltage of the battery. The processor is programmed to send a power reduction command to the application module in response to the monitored battery voltage moving outside of a permissible range.

Abstract: A device for scanning a first image on a document surface and printing a second image on the document surface comprising a mechanism operable to engage a document and drive the document along a feed path, a scanner apparatus operable to generate a scanned image of the first image on the document surface as the document is driven past the scanner apparatus during a first document traversal of the feed path, and a printer apparatus operable to print the second image on the document surface as the document is driven past the printer apparatus during the traversal of the document through the feed path is provided.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I): salts or solvates or physiologically functional derivatives thereof, wherein Z is CH or N, and R1, (R2, and R4 are various substituent groups, are protein kinase inhibitors.

Abstract: A multimedia system comprises a database accessible by a processor and adapted to store at least one data stream having audio data. The system also comprises an encoder routine accessible by the processor and adapted to encode metadata at a plurality of predetermined intensity levels at a human-inaudible frequency and populate the audio data of the data stream with the encoded metadata.

Abstract: An imaging device comprising an actuation element externally disposed on the imaging device and a first alignment element communicatively coupled with the actuation element and operable to emit an alignment light upon actuation of the actuation element, the alignment light emitted substantially in parallel with a surface of the imaging device is provided. A method of aligning a portable imaging device with an object comprising actuating an input element operatively coupled to an alignment element and emitting at least one alignment light from the alignment element is provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for providing images captured at a given event. In one embodiment, the systems and methods pertain to transferring image data from at least one digital camera to a central computing device, the image data including images captured during the event, and displaying the captured images at the event for event participants to view.

Abstract: A method for scanning an image of media comprises biasing a scanner carriage for movement relative to a platen and releasing the carriage to move relative to the platen, the carriage scanning an image with a scanner head disposed therein. An image scanner comprises a housing, a platen disposed on the housing, a carriage disposed in the housing, the carriage comprising a scanner head adapted for scanning an image, a biasable drive moving the carriage relative to the platen for high-speed scans, and a drive mechanism loading the biasable drive for the high-speed scans and moving the carriage relative to the platen for low-speed scans. An encoder for sensing position of a scanner carriage comprises a grating disposed in a scanner housing, and an optical sensor for sensing the grating during biased movement of a scanner carriage, the sensor providing carriage position information for rastering an image of scanned media.

Abstract: A light weight, portable, temperature regulated enclosure for the pre-heating of artificial insemination guns and the transportation of loaded artificial insemination guns to the place of usage is disclosed. A flexible, planar heater using an etched electrically resistive metallic foil heating element and attached temperature sensor provides regulated heat to the interior of the enclosure.

Abstract: A scanner comprises a housing including a top wall defining an opening, the top wall of the housing further comprising an upper surface framing the opening. The upper surface of the top wall further comprises a horizontal planar portion and an object removal guide surface between the horizontal planar portion and the opening. A transparent platen supported by the top wall of the housing comprises an upper surface for supporting an object to be scanned, a lower surface parallel with the upper surface of the platen, and a peripheral edge, the horizontal planar portion of the upper surface of the top wall of the housing lying above the upper surface of the platen.

Abstract: A scanner comprises a transparent platen mounted on a housing, and an object-imaging device within the housing mounted for longitudinal movement relative to the platen and an object supported thereby. The object-imaging device is rotatable about a transverse axis and comprises an aperture for receiving light reflected from the object. The object-imaging device has a travel distance between a home end position and a back end position, the travel distance comprising a central portion and at least one end portion. The scanner further comprises a mechanism operatively associated with the object-imaging device for rotating the device about the transverse axis thereof in response to movement of the device within the at least one end portion of the travel distance, the device being rotated in a direction so that the light-receiving aperture is rotated away from the central portion of the travel distance.

Abstract: A method of feeding a document to be scanned to a scanning device from a document feed device comprising picking a document from an input support, driving the document through traversal of a first portion of a feed path defined by a first guide, the document comprising an anterior edge, a posterior edge, and an intermediate portion therebetween, traversing, by the anterior edge, a scan region defined by an opening in the feed device optically coupled with the scanning device, the document traversing the scan region without impinging a plane of the opening, impinging the anterior edge with a second guide, and driving the document through traversal of a second portion of the feed path defined by the second guide is provided.