Abstract: The invention encompasses a device and a system for capturing a photograph created from the combination of two separate views captures substantially simultaneously, wherein a portion of one image is superimposed over a second image, wherein the combined photograph is produced using a single app within a short period of time.

Abstract: A device that automatically compensates for heat-induced sag in a suspended line by using a shape memory alloy actuator. As the actuator it is heated, it contracts, producing a pulling force in the line, and thereby reducing sag.

Abstract: Shape memory alloys for use in devices for mitigation of sag in a suspended line, the alloys comprising at least Iron, Manganese and Silicon. Additionally, Chromium, Nickel, Cobalt, Niobium, Copper, Aluminum, Nitrogen, Boron and Carbon may be included. The Iron content of the alloys is generally between about 60 and 70% wt. The manganese content is generally between about 16 and 30% wt. The Silicon content is generally between about 4 and 8% wt, most commonly about 6% wt. Chromium may be present at about 9% wt. Nickel may be present at about 5% wt. Cobalt may be present at about 10% wt. Niobium may be present at about 1% wt. Nitrogen and Boron may be present at about 0.2% wt. Carbon may be present at about 0.5% wt.

Abstract: The invention uses one or more scissor devices, or disks, or cogs such that the axial thermal expansion of a coupling member is amplified such that this amplified movement is used to automatically mitigate the sag of a suspended line; the same ambient temperature change that causes the line to sag concomitantly causes the coupling member to expand, so that sag mitigation is passive and automatic. The invention includes a device for automatically mitigating thermal expansion sag in suspended lines comprising a coupling member or actuator rod (140) that expands axially with increasing temperature and that is mounted between the proximal arms (110) of a reverse-scissor component (60), said reverse-scissor component having first arms (70) and second arms (80) and a hinge (90) and the arms having distal ends (100) longer than proximal ends (110). The distal arms are insulated by insulators (130). The reverse hinge acts such that when the proximal arms are moved apart, the distal arms are brought together.

Abstract: A self-contained unit 160 that rapidly and accurately senses, controls and maintains the temperature of water delivered to the user of a shower or bath. The invention allows a user to preset a desired water temperature using a manual control interface 60 and uses a sensor 10 located on (or within) the mixer outlet pipe 20 to measure the temperature of the mixed water being delivered to the user. The sensor produces an input signal that is used by a microprocessor 30 to calculate both derivative gain and proportional gain, and fuzzy logic may also be used by the microprocessor to produce an output signal, such that the system responds quickly and accurately to both quantum temperature changes and to the rate of temperature change. The output signal controls a motor 80, that via the action of gears 90, controls the action of the water mixer valve 110 thus maintaining a constant temperature of water delivered to the user.

Abstract: The invention used devices that change in length as a function of temperature to mitigate sag in a suspended line. The devices have actuators which change in length as a function of temperature. This change in length is transferred to a linkage mechanism, such as a cog or disc, which amplifies the change in length and changes it to rotational motion that tensions the suspended line. Therefore, the same change in temperature that causes the suspended line to sag will cause the device to actuate a rotary motion that reduces line sag.