Abstract: An integrally molded carbon canister is provided. The integrally molded carbon canister includes a housing including four external side walls and an upper portion at least partially enclosing an internal cavity connected to a vapor inlet and outlet port, the upper portion including a depressed flow disruptor positioned rearward of an injection gate, and a first and second projected flow channel positioned adjacent to the injection gate and laterally spanning the housing.

Abstract: Various methods and apparatus are disclosed that relate to one or more aspects of a filter structure that may remove contaminants from a stream of fluid. In various aspects the filter structure includes a front portion having a first orientation and a rear portion having a second orientation unique from the first orientation.

Abstract: A filter assembly having: an air filter; an air filter compartment having the air filter disposed therein; and a cap covering the air filter compartment. The cap has ribs disposed along inner sidewalls of the cap. The ribs, outer sidewalls of the compartment, and inner sidewalls of the cap form a plurality of channels having inlets for receiving a mixture of air and water. The walls of the channels collect droplets of a water portion of the mixture entering the channels. The collected water portion is removed from the filter assembly by gravity. The air filter compartment receives the air portion of the mixture exiting outlets of the channels. The exiting air portion received by the compartment passes through the air filter and after passing through the air filter passes out of the filter assembly.

Abstract: A filter assembly having: an air filter; an air filter compartment having the air filter disposed therein; and a cap covering the air filter compartment. The cap has ribs disposed along inner sidewalls of the cap. The ribs, outer sidewalls of the compartment, and inner sidewalls of the cap form a plurality of channels having inlets for receiving a mixture of air and water. The walls of the channels collect droplets of a water portion of the mixture entering the channels. The collected water portion is removed from the filter assembly by gravity. The air filter compartment receives the air portion of the mixture exiting outlets of the channels. The exiting air portion received by the compartment passes through the air filter and after passing through the air filter passes out of the filter assembly.

Abstract: An improved method and system for the determination of jitter buffers enables the generation of buffers having sizes and delays such that, as designed, the buffers capture a substantial majority of packets while not being resource intensive. The present methods and systems provide for improved jitter buffer management by deriving playout buffer adjustments from a plurality of variances, centered around a distribution peak, or mean average delay. The playout buffer monitor uses the buffer adjustments, in size and delay, to select, store and playout packets at their adjusted playout time. The present invention may be employed in a media gateway that enables data communications among heterogenous networks and may be specifically deployed to manage jitter experienced in the course of receiving packetized data and processing the data for further transmission through a packet-based or circuit-switched network.

Abstract: A fuel storage tank for an automotive vehicle includes a receiver with a number of perimeter walls defining an interior volume for storing liquid fuel. A number of anti-slosh bodies are located within the receiver. A locator structure cooperates with perimeter walls to confine the anti-slosh bodies within a predetermined part of the interior volume.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a processing architecture that has multiple levels of parallelism and is highly configurable, yet optimized for media processing. At the highest level, the architecture is structured to enable each processor, which is dedicated to a specific media processing function, to operate substantially in parallel. In addition to processor-level parallelism, each processing unit can operate on multiple words in parallel, rather than just a single word per clock cycle. Moreover, at the instruction level, the control data memory, data memory, and function specific dath paths can be controlled all within the same clock cycle.

Abstract: An improved method and system for the determination of jitter buffers enables the generation of buffers having sizes and delays such that, as designed, the buffers capture a substantial majority of packets while not being resource intensive. The present methods and systems provide for improved jitter buffer management by deriving playout buffer adjustments from a plurality of variances, centered around a distribution peak, or mean average delay. The playout buffer monitor uses the buffer adjustments, in size and delay, to select, store and playout packets at their adjusted playout time. The present invention may be employed in a media gateway that enables data communications among heterogenous networks and may be specifically deployed to manage jitter experienced in the course of receiving packetized data and processing the data for further transmission through a packet-based or circuit-switched network.

Abstract: A low noise valve assembly (24) mitigates noise induced by near sonic gas flow encountering stagnant flow in the region of the valve (24). An inlet tube (10) terminates in an annular chamber (12). An outlet tube (17) has a generally annular valve seat (14) disposed within the chamber (12). The valve (24) moves toward and away from a closed condition in direct contact with the valve seat (14). The valve (24) includes an insert body (26) that is spatially segregated from direct contact with the outlet tube (17) while partially filling the flow channel (16) of the outlet tube (17) when the valve (24) is in its closed condition. The insert body (26) has a generally circular base with a diameter that is larger than the throat diameter (T), which is the internal diameter of the flow channel (16) adjacent the valve (24).

Abstract: The present invention relates to oxazolidinones of Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pharmaceutically acceptable solvates or polymorphs thereof. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of the compound of Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pharmaceutically acceptable solvates or polymorphs thereof, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pharmaceutically acceptable solvates or polymorphs thereof and to methods for treating or preventing microbial infections using the compounds of Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pharmaceutically acceptable solvates or polymorphs thereof.

Abstract: An improved method and system for the determination of jitter buffers enables the generation of buffers having sizes and delays such that, as designed, the buffers capture a substantial majority of packets while not being resource intensive. The present methods and systems provide for improved jitter buffer management by deriving playout buffer adjustments from a plurality of variances, centered around a distribution peak, or mean average delay. The playout buffer monitor uses the buffer adjustments, in size and delay, to select, store and playout packets at their adjusted playout time. The present invention may be employed in a media gateway that enables data communications among heterogenous networks and may be specifically deployed to manage jitter experienced in the course of receiving packetized data and processing the data for further transmission through a packet-based or circuit-switched network.

Abstract: The present invention is directed towards an improved method and system for compressing video images. In one embodiment, the system of present invention performs compression of digital video by converting pixels from the red, green and blue (RGB) color space to the luminance color, blue color difference and red color difference (YCbCr) color space, quantizing each Y, Cb, and Cr value into a specified number of bits each, and rearranging the Y, Cb, and Cr values into Cb, Cr, Y to create a word. The system of present invention further involves computing a pair of distinct characteristic code values for each word, which are coded and concatenated to produce the final bitstream.

Abstract: A system and method for selling preference-based virtual objects comprising receiving one or more user commands from an input device, transmitting, to at least one server, the one or more user commands to identify one or more preference-based virtual objects based on the one or more user commands, receiving the one or more preference-based virtual objects in response to the identification of the one or more preference-based virtual objects, and outputting, to a display device, the one or more preference-based virtual objects in response to receiving one or more user inputs to display the one or more preference-based virtual objects to the display device.

Abstract: A low noise valve assembly (24) mitigates noise induced by near sonic gas flow encountering stagnant flow in the region of the valve (24). An inlet tube (10) terminates in an annular chamber (12). An outlet tube (17) has a generally annular valve seat (14) disposed within the chamber (12). The valve (24) moves toward and away from a closed condition in direct contact with the valve seat (14). The valve (24) includes an insert body (26) that is spatially segregated from direct contact with the outlet tube (17) while partially filling the flow channel (16) of the outlet tube (17) when the valve (24) is in its closed condition. The insert body (26) has a generally circular base with a diameter that is larger than the throat diameter (T), which is the internal diameter of the flow channel (16) adjacent the valve (24).

Abstract: The present invention relates to improved methods and systems for transmission of images overlaid on video, particularly images requiring high levels of responsivity (e.g. mouse pointers) relative to the underlying video, from a computing device to a television. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method of transmitting at least one video frame with an overlaid image, comprising the steps of capturing at least one frame of video data separate from the overlaid image at a first rate, capturing the overlaid image separate from the frame of video data at a second rate, packetizing the captured frame of video data, packetizing the overlaid image, wherein the frame video data are in data packets separate from the overlaid image data packets, and transmitting separate video data packets and overlaid image data packets.

Abstract: The present invention is directed, in at least one embodiment, to a method of estimating noise and, subsequently, filtering noise in a single frame of video data. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a single frame of video data within a memory and executing a plurality of instructions within a processor wherein, when executed, the instructions identify a window within the single frame, compute a variance of the window, derive a noise estimation from the variance, and filter the noise from the single frame using the noise estimation. The method is effective to remove Gaussian noise and blocky noise.