Abstract: Cast covers, that allow someone who has a casted arm or leg, and has been authorized by a physician to resume playing a particular sport (e.g., football), to protect both the casted limb and other players from collision with the hard material in the cast, by covering the cast with a cushioning material. The cast covers are precast and premolded in different sizes and colors to meet individual needs and tastes. The cast cover has a generally tubular shape. Preferably, a thick inner layer of polyurethane foam is covered by a thinner outer layer of polyethylene foam. In a first embodiment, the tube is closed, except for openings at its ends. In a second embodiment, there is a longitudinal opening running between the open ends of the tube, and the tube is secured on a casted limb by strips of hook and loop fasteners that traverse the longitudinal opening.

Abstract: Cast covers, that allow someone who has a casted arm or leg, and has been authorized by a physician to resume playing a particular sport (e.g., football), to protect both the casted limb and other players from collision with the hard material in the cast, by covering the cast with a cushioning material. The cast covers are precast and premolded in different sizes and colors to meet individual needs and tastes. The cast cover has a generally tubular shape. Preferably, there are multiple layers of flexible but solid material, such as polyurethane foam, polyethylene foam, or ethylene vinyl acetate foam. In some embodiments, the tube is closed, except for openings at its ends. In other embodiments, there is a longitudinal opening running between the open ends of the tube, and the tube is secured on a casted limb by strips of hook and loop fasteners that traverse the longitudinal opening.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically determining a seed vigor index for a lot of seeds by analysis of a scanned image of a plurality of seedlings grown from lot of seeds, including automatically separating and analyzing overlapped seedlings. According to one aspect of the current invention, seedling analysis software is used to analyze an image of seedlings. The seedling analysis software preferably analyzes both hypocotyl and radicle lengths and thus determines the separation point between the two for each seedling. The seedling analysis software also preferably separates overlapped seedlings, preferably using a simulated annealing technique. According to another aspect of the present invention, a low-cost scanner placed in an inverted configuration in a scanner enclosure is used to generate high-quality, reproducible images of seedlings. According to yet another aspect of the present invention, a method of using ordinary germination boxes, i.e.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically determining a seed vigor index for a lot of seeds by analysis of a scanned image of a plurality of seedlings grown from lot of seeds, including automatically separating and analyzing overlapped seedlings. According to one aspect of the current invention, seedling analysis software is used to analyze an image of seedlings. The seedling analysis software preferably analyzes both hypocotyl and radicle lengths and thus determines the separation point between the two for each seedling. The seedling analysis software also preferably separates overlapped seedlings, preferably using a simulated annealing technique. According to another aspect of the present invention, a low-cost scanner placed in an inverted configuration in a scanner enclosure is used to generate high-quality, reproducible images of seedlings. According to yet another aspect of the present invention, a method of using ordinary germination boxes, i.e.