Abstract: A cutting assembly is provided that is adapted for use in combination with a container for dispensing a web of material. The dispensing container includes a plurality of adjoining sidewalls which define an external geometric profile. The cutting assembly includes a guide disposed in combination with a sidewall of the container and a cutter adapted for traversing within the elongate guide in a desired cutting direction. Furthermore, guide and bearing surfaces, formed on the guide and cutter, respectively, cooperate to permit sliding motion therebetween in the cutting direction and interlock to delimit displacement of the cutter relative to the guide in directions orthogonal to the cutting direction. A portion of the guide and cutter is disposed proximal to a corner of the container and recessed relative to its external geometric profile to facilitate container storage and display while additionally producing an aesthetically pleasing appearance.

Abstract: An LED lamp and a method of making an LED lamp in which the lamp includes a heat conductive post with a base and a top, an insulative body within the post that includes plural wireways and plural electrical leads that each extend through a different one of the wireways and whose ends emerge from the top and the base of the post, a head with plural LED assemblies on the top of the post, and a circuit board for the LED assemblies at the base of the post, the leads being connected to respective LED assemblies and to the circuit board. During manufacture, the leads are mounted in the wireways of the insulative body and the assembled body is inserted into the post.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for enhancing the paste functionality available to a computer software application for pasting data into a computer-generated document. Data is selected from a document to be pasted to a second document. The selected data is saved to a memory location, such a clipboard. Along with the selected data, information or data related to the selected data is saved for providing a consuming or pasting software application information about any data types associated the selected data. In response, the consuming application may obtain a namespace and an associated resource such as an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation file for transforming the selected data from a first data type associated with the first document to a second data type for pasting the selected data to the second document in order to maintain data structure and formatting in the pasted data as was applied to the selected data prior to pasting.

Abstract: A solid-state light source (10) that is compatible with the existing sockets normally reserved for filamented lamps (100). The solid-state light source (10) comprises a hollow base (12) formed to mechanically and electrically adapt to an existing socket normally reserved for lamps (100). A sub-assembly (14) is adapted to cooperate with and fit into the hollow base (12). The sub-assembly (14) comprises a circuit board (16) with a plurality of solid-state light sources (18) mechanically and electrically connected to one side (20) of the circuit board. Two electrical contacts (22, 24) are positioned on the other side (26) of the circuit board for connection to an electrical circuit. A light pipe (28) covers the plurality of light sources (18) and extends away therefrom to a terminal end (30).

Abstract: There is provided a method for testing the forces experienced by a wearer when donning a tubular article. The method includes securing one end of a tubular hosiery article to be tested to a support, inserting a tension tester head within the tubular body and measuring the force against the article surface as the tester head passes through the article. An apparatus for performing this method is also disclosed. The tester head has a geometric shape that may be advanced by withdrawing the head through the hosiery or the hosiery may be drawn past the tension head.

Abstract: A system and method that allows videoconferencing-formatted data to be viewed with standard media formats for computer systems. A processor interprets the header information contained in a videoconferencing-formatted data stream and reassembles the audio and video data into a standard media format. Although new headers are created, audio and video data are unmodified for the new format.

Abstract: A plural-layer body-contacting cushioning interface structure which is interposable the human body and an external structure, such as a helmet. The cushioning structure of the invention, in one preferred form, has a body-facing side which contacts the body, and a load-facing side which contacts the mentioned external structure. Intermediate these sides is a moisture-wicking layer which is designed to contact, and draw moisture away from, the body, a continuous, moisture-blocking, gas-permeable barrier layer adjacent the moisture-wicking layer, and an acceleration-rate-sensitive cushioning structure disposed protectedly within the barrier layer which fully encapsulates the cushioning structure.

Abstract: A plural-layer body-contacting cushioning interface structure and method. The cushioning structure is interposable the human body and an external structure, such as a helmet. The cushioning structure of the invention, in one preferred form, has a bodyfacing side which contacts the body, and a load-facing side which contacts the mentioned external structure. Intermediate these sides is a moisture-wicking layer which is designed to contact, and draw moisture away from, the body, a continuous, moisture-blocking, gas-permeable barrier layer adjacent the moisture-wicking layer, and an acceleration-rate -sensitive cushioning structure disposed protectedly within the barrier layer which fully encapsulates the cushioning structure.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for decoding variable length code (VLC) data employ a hybrid technique of parsing short-length VLC codes using a binary tree or binary search procedure and parsing longer VLC codes using a table lookup procedure. This technique includes the steps of accessing a plurality of bits of coded bitstream data, bit testing a preselected number N first bits of the plurality of bitstream bits and determining whether the N first bits include a complete VLC code. If the N first bits include a complete VLC code, a VLC code is decoded in accordance with a result of the bit testing step. If the N first bits do not include a complete VLC code, a VLC code is decoded from a lookup table to a table element addressed by the bits of coded bitstream data.

Abstract: A DCT VLC decoding method substantially lessens the computational burden of picture dequantization. The method of decoding variable length code (VLC) data includes the step of receiving a bitstream sequence organized into a hierarchy of levels including, in order, a sequence layer, a group of pictures layer, a picture layer, a slice layer, a macroblock layer, and a block layer. In the sequence layer, the method defines a quantization matrix. In a macroblock layer, the method defines a quantizer scale parameter in the macroblock layer, multiplies the quantization matrix times the quantizer scale parameter and stores the product in a quantization multiplication factor. In the block layer, the method parses an encoded data bitstream to detect a VLC code in the block layer and dequantizes the VLC code by multiplying the VLC code times the quantization multiplication factor.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a system for extracting targets from radar signatures. Disclosed is a unique combination of Wavelet technology and neural networks using fractal geometry techniques that estimates the Fractal Dimension of a target even in the presence of high background noise.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a system for extracting targets from radar signatures. Disclosed is a unique combination of Wavelet technology and neural networks using fractal geometry techniques that estimates the Fractal Dimension of a target even in the presence of high background noise.

Abstract: An artificial fishing lure such as a fly is provided with ballast material. The fly includes a fish hook having a hook portion, a shank portion and an eye portion. The shank is encased by a chamber forming shell that extends circumferentially around the shank. the chamber is filled with a ballast material in the form of a liquid having a specific gravity greater than that of water. A core may be formed about the shank between the shank and the body forming shell. Various colorings, materials, tints and impregnations may be employed so that the lure simulates the exoskeleton and internal structure of an organism. The shell is preferably a vinyl tube wrapped around the shank from one end to the other to lend a segmented appearance to the shell.

Abstract: A method for refining an original command signal which is intended to locate a robot at a desired position and orientation (pose) comprising the steps of identifying the actual system parameters of the robot; predicting, through utilization of those actual system parameters the anticipated pose of the robot which would actually be obtained as the result of the original command signal; calculating corrected command signals required to minimize the difference between the predicted anticipated pose and the desired pose; and employing the corrected command signals to place the robot. Preferably, a plurality of desired calibration pose command signals are used in the step of identifying the actual system parameters to place the robot in a plurality of actual calibration poses in the measuring range of at least one pose sensor.

Abstract: A sensor for measuring the position and orientation (POSE) of an object and related method involving the utilization of a target affixed to an object and including three mutually perpendicular intersecting planar surfaces, a base, a mechanism coupled to that base for directing a pair of light beams onto each of the planar surfaces, and an additional mechanism coupled to the base for detecting the reflection positions of the resultant reflections of each of the light beams, the reflection positions thereby being available to determine the POSE of the target relative to the POSE of the base.