Abstract: A system and method for managing a system of a plurality of complex assets are provided. The system includes a processor-based asset management and analytics tool wherein the processor is communicatively coupled to a memory and the tool includes a plurality of asset analytics engines each associated with a complex asset of a plant and each communicatively coupled to a source of data relating to the complex asset, a plant analytics engine communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of asset analytics engines and configured to receive an output generated by at least some of the plurality of asset analytics engines, the plant analytics engine configured to generate an operational state of the plant based on the received output, and an output module configured to transmit the received state to a user.

Abstract: An advertising system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an advertising display configured to provide an advertisement to potential customers and a camera configured to capture images of the potential customers when the potential customers pass the advertising display. The system may also include an image processing system having a processor and a memory. The memory may include application instructions for execution by the processor, and the image processing system may be configured to execute the application instructions to derive usage characteristics of the potential customers with respect to the advertising display through analysis of the captured images. Additional methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.

Abstract: An advertising system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a processor and a memory including application instructions for execution by the processor. The application instructions may include a visual analytics engine to analyze visual information including human activity and a content engine separate from the visual analytics engine to provide advertising content to one or more potential customers. Further, the instructions may include an interface module to enable information generated from analysis of the human activity by the visual analytics engine to be transferred to the content engine in accordance with a specification in which the information generated is characterized with a hierarchical, object-oriented data structure. Additional methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.

Abstract: An advertising system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an advertising station configured to output advertising content to a potential customer and a data processing system including a processor and a memory having application instructions for execution by the processor. The application instructions may include an identification engine to identify the potential customer, a tracking engine to track encounters between the potential customer and the advertising station, and a content engine to select the advertising content to be output to the potential customer based on the tracked encounters between the potential customer and the advertising station. Additional methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.

Abstract: An article includes a display layer having an outward facing surface and an inward facing surface. The display layer includes a light-emitting device that generates heat and light during use. A thermal transport layer may be secured to the display layer. The thermal transport layer may include a thermally conductive material that can transport heat generated by the light-emitting device away from the light-emitting device.

Abstract: A method for determining the permeability of a petroliferous reservoir comprising injecting a tagged organic molecule into the reservoir at a first location, and detecting a signal associated with tagged organic molecule at a second location in the reservoir, wherein the tagged organic molecule comprises a radionuclide having a half-life of less than a month. In certain embodiments, the tagged organic molecule comprises a radionuclide selected from the group consisting of iodine-131 and fluorine-18.

Abstract: A technique is provided for performing diagnosis and/or analysis of a volumetric image generated via anatomy based reconstruction. The technique includes generating a three-dimensional image by reconstructing a plurality of residual projection images from which a contribution of one or more structures of interest has been removed. The technique also includes evaluating the three-dimensional image and/or the plurality of residual projection images to generate a diagnosis.

Abstract: An article includes a display layer having an outward facing surface and an inward facing surface. The display layer includes a light-emitting device that generates heat and light during use. A thermal transport layer may be secured to the display layer. The thermal transport layer may include a microfluidic layer including a coolant that can transport heat generated by the light-emitting device away from the light-emitting device. An article includes a display structure having a height, a width, and a thickness that define a volume. The display structure can include components that emit light to generate a three-dimensional image within the volume. The display structure includes a stack. The display structure also includes a thermal dissipation layer in contact with the sheet or stack that can transport generated heat from the sheet or stack to a heat absorbing structure.

Abstract: An article includes a stack of display layers including a display layer having a high-shear modulus that is sandwiched between two display layers having a low-shear modulus. The display layers include a light-emitting device that generates heat and light during use. The heat generated by the display layers may form localized heat-sources in the stack. The display layer with the high-shear modulus is a thermal transport layer through which the localized heat-sources-induced guided elastic waves propagate along an acoustic waveguide plane and can transport the heat generated by the light-emitting device away from the light-emitting device. Alternately, a display layer having a high refractive index may be sandwiched between two display layers having a low refractive index. The display layers with low shear modulus or low refractive index may be replaced with thermal transport layers having low shear modulus or low refractive index respectively.

Abstract: A system for capture and transmission of video and audio data includes multiple input devices, each designed to be worn by a user. The input devices capture video and audio signals corresponding to views available at the location of each user and transmit the information to a remote system. The remote system uses the video and audio signals to create enhanced views. These enhanced views may be transmitted to other input devices.

Abstract: A technique is provided for comparative image analysis and/or change detection using computer assisted detection and/or diagnosis (CAD) algorithms. The technique includes registering two or more images, comparing the images with one another to generate a change map, and detecting anomalies in the images based on the change map.

Abstract: An article includes a stack of display layers including a display layer having a high-shear modulus that is sandwiched between two display layers having a low-shear modulus. The display layers include a light-emitting device that generates heat and light during use. The heat generated by the display layers may form localized heat-sources in the stack. The display layer with the high-shear modulus is a thermal transport layer through which the localized heat-sources-induced guided elastic waves propagate along an acoustic waveguide plane and can transport the heat generated by the light-emitting device away from the light-emitting device. Alternately, a display layer having a high refractive index may be sandwiched between two display layers having a low refractive index. The display layers with low shear modulus or low refractive index may be replaced with thermal transport layers having low shear modulus or low refractive index respectively.

Abstract: An article includes a display layer having an outward facing surface and an inward facing surface. The display layer includes a light-emitting device that generates heat and light during use. A thermal transport layer may be secured to the display layer. The thermal transport layer may include a thermally conductive material that can transport heat generated by the light-emitting device away from the light-emitting device.

Abstract: An article includes a display layer having an outward facing surface and an inward facing surface. The display layer includes a light-emitting device that generates heat and light during use. A thermal transport layer may be secured to the display layer. The thermal transport layer may include a microfluidic layer including a coolant that can transport heat generated by the light-emitting device away from the light-emitting device. An article includes a display structure having a height, a width, and a thickness that define a volume. The display structure can include components that emit light to generate a three-dimensional image within the volume. The display structure includes a stack. The display structure also includes a thermal dissipation layer in contact with the sheet or stack that can transport generated heat from the sheet or stack to a heat absorbing structure.

Abstract: A video and audio capture and transmission system is described in which a “see-what-I-see” or “CWIC” view is possible. A camera and audio sampling circuitry are provided in an earpiece designed to be comfortably worn by a user. The earpiece may be tethered to a power and control unit, or may be wireless. Video and audio signals are transmitted to a receiver wirelessly, permitting a hands-free capture of video and audio signals. The signals are then transmitted to viewers, such as via management or control devices. Access to the overall CWIC system may be controlled both for content providers and for viewers.

Abstract: In a system for optimizing television reception by a television receiver receiving a diversity of input signals from a plurality of antennas, one of a plurality of combiners and television tuners selects the strongest combination of input signals for viewing and another scans the various combinations of input signals searching for a combination significantly stronger than the combination being viewed. A plurality of multiplexers selects the output signal of one combiner and transmits the selected signal to one of the tuners. A signal evaluation module evaluates the strength of the combinations of input signals and compares the strength of each combination of input signals to the strength of the viewing signal, looking for a superior signal. A control processor controls the combination of input signals selected by the combiners and the combiner output signal selected by the multiplexers.

Abstract: A spread spectrum communications system that is operable to provide user-selectable data transfer rates comprises a user station for generating an access request and a gateway server for receiving the access request. The gateway server includes a rate unit for comparing a requested rate to assigned rates, a selector for selecting an available user channel and an available signaling alphabet, and an allocation unit for assigning the carrier, user channel, and alphabet to the access request. One of several offered transfer rates is assigned to the available user channel. Each offered rate corresponds to a set of signaling alphabets with low cross-correlation for data transfer.

Abstract: An Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC)-compliant pilot tone is generated within an 8-VSB (eight level vestigial sideband) transmission in order to enable Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) receiver designs to more efficiently process the transmitted/received 8-VSB signal. The method and apparatus also efficiently removes the pilot tone before using conventional QAM demodulator equipment for directly demodulating the 8-VSB signal.

Abstract: Reduction in the time required for an Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC) digital television tuner to equalize, converge, and acquire a digital television signal suitable for viewing, wherein early model ATSC tuners also include a National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) analog tuner, is achieved by using a microprocessor to control use of the NTSC tuner to scan television channels. A channel measurement module converts the scanned analog signal to a digital signal, and the equalization coefficients for the resultant digital signal are stored in memory. The equalization coefficients stored in memory are then accessed and utilized to tune in new channels on the ATSC tuner. The amount of time necessary for the ATSC tuner to tune in a new channel is thus reduced. When the ATSC tuner is in use, the equalization coefficient data stored in memory are periodically updated.

Abstract: A system for filtering digital television signals is provided. The system comprises a generator for providing a first data sequence to a private data packetizer, and a transmitter for transmitting the packetized first data sequence in a data channel of a digital television signal. The system further includes a receiver for receiving the digital television signal and recovering the first data sequence. The receiver includes a channel estimator for providing an estimate of channel characteristics, such as estimated channel impulse estimate and estimated noise variance. The receiver further includes an adaptive equalizer filter having an input for receiving the digital television signal and an input for receiving adaptive filter coefficients. The receiver further includes a coefficient processor for calculating adaptive filter coefficients based on the channel estimate, and providing the adaptive filter coefficients to the adaptive equalizer filter.