Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for low latency stabilization for head-worn displays are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a system for low latency stabilization of a head-worn display. The system includes a low latency pose tracker having one or more rolling-shutter cameras that capture a 2D image by exposing each row of a frame at a later point in time than the previous row and that output image data row by row, and a tracking module for receiving image data row by row and using that data to generate a local appearance manifold. The generated manifold is used to track camera movements, which are used to produce a pose estimate.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for low latency stabilization for head-worn displays are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a system for low latency stabilization of a head-worn display. The system includes a low latency pose tracker having one or more rolling-shutter cameras that capture a 2D image by exposing each row of a frame at a later point in time than the previous row and that output image data row by row, and a tracking module for receiving image data row by row and using that data to generate a local appearance manifold. The generated manifold is used to track camera movements, which are used to produce a pose estimate.

Abstract: A bone screw is disclosed for attaching a spinal fixing element. The bone screw includes a threaded screw shank that can be fixed in place in a bone and a screw head having a fastening area for fastening a fastening device for the spinal fixing element. The fastening area includes a threaded section for fixing the fastening device in place. The screw head includes a recess differing from a threaded section. The recess has a longitudinal axis and allows for non-sliding accommodation of an extension of the fastening device laterally to the longitudinal axis of the recess. The extension of the fastening device engages the recess, the fastening device is rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the recess, and the threaded section extends in the longitudinal direction of the recess. The threaded section may be a hole and, together with the recess, a stepped hole.

Abstract: A result higher resolution (HR) image of a scene given multiple, observed lower resolution (LR) images of the scene is computed using a Bayesian estimation image reconstruction methodology. The methodology yields the result HR image based on a Likelihood probability function that implements a model for the formation of LR images in the presence of noise. This noise is modeled by a probabilistic, non-Gaussian, robust function. The image reconstruction methodology may be used to enhance the image quality of images or video captured using a low resolution image capture device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bone screw for attaching a spinal fixing element, with a screw shank with thread that can be fixed in place in a bone, and with a screw head for fastening a fastening device for a spinal fixing element, where the fastening area displays a threaded section for fixing the fastening device in place. For development according to the invention, it is proposed that the screw head display a recess differing from a threaded section, with a longitudinal axis, designed for non-sliding accommodation of an extension of the fastening device laterally to the longitudinal axis of the recess, that the extension engage the recess, where the fastening device is rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the recess, and that the threaded section extend in the longitudinal direction of the recess. The threaded section can be designed as a hole and, together with the recess, as a stepped hole.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bone screw (1) with a screw shank (2) that can be fastened in a bone, particularly a vertebra, and a screw head (3), on which a fastening device (20) can be fastened that can be. swiveled as regards its inclination relative to the screw shank (2) and/or rotated and that displays a receptacle (26) for mounting a connecting rod. To permit swiveling of the fastening device relative to the screw shank over the largest possible angular range, as well as easy and reliable handling, the screw head (3) displays a recess (5), to which a swiveling element (6) that can be located in the recess and at least swiveled and fixed in position relative to the screw shank can be assigned, to which a fastening device (20) can be fastened. The recess (5) can be located on the screw head (3) at the level of the screw shank (2) and designed as a slot that can extend parallel to the longitudinal axis of the screw shank (2).

Abstract: Provided herein are genetically engineered baculoviruses which express insect-specific toxins, preferably paralytic neurotoxins, under the regulatory control of strong promoters expressed early after infection and in a wide variety of insect cells. Particularly preferred insect-specific paralytic neurotoxins are those of insect-predacious mites, including Pyemotes. The genetically engineered baculoviruses of the present invention are improved over prior art viruses in that they produce efficacious insect-toxic levels of the neurotoxin at earlier times after infection, particularly in comparison to baculoviruses in which the toxin is expressed under the control of a polyhedrin or granulin promoter. Insect-toxic compositions are also provided and methods of insect control using these compositions are described.

Abstract: Insect viruses capable of killing at least one target insect pest quicker than previously described viruses and DNA sequence conferring that phenotype of faster killing are provided. Further improvement in the speed of killing is obtained when the virus of this invention also contains a nonfunctional egt gene to reduce feeding by the infected larvae, inhibit growth and further mediate the earlier death of the infected insect. A specifically exemplified faster-killing insect virus is the V-8 strain of AcMNPV. The faster killing phenotype is carried on a MluI to EspI fragment from 1.93 to 3.27 map units within the AcMNPV genome, and its sequence is provided herein as SEQ ID NO: 3 . . . V8vEGTDEL is the egt-inactivated derivative of AcMNPV V-8; the combination of the increased virulence of the V-8 genotype, for example, and the inactivation of the gene encoding ecdysteroid glycosyl transferase provides further improvement (as further decrease in time after infection until insect death).