Abstract: A system for contamination monitoring includes a tracking component, a material identification component, a procedural component, and a notification component. The tracking component tracks an individual and one or more objects in a work area using a three-dimensional tracking system. The material identification component identifies a material of the one or more objects based on a captured image. The procedural component determines that an object of the one or more objects is contaminated based on tracked locations of the one or more objects and the individual. The notification component provides a notification of the contamination.

Abstract: An optical substrate having a structured prismatic surface and an opposing structured lenticular surface. The structured lenticular surface includes shallow-curved lens structures. Adjacent shallow-curved lens structure may be continuous or contiguous, or separated by a constant or variable spacing. The lens structure may have a longitudinal structure with a uniform or varying cross section. The lenticular lenses may have a laterally meandering structure. Sections of adjacent straight or meandering lenticular lenses may intersect or partially or completely overlap each other. The lenticular lenses may be in the form of discontinuous lenticular segments. The lenticular segments may have regular, symmetrical shapes, or irregular, asymmetrical shapes, which may be intersecting or overlapping, and may be textured. The lens structure may be provided with isolated ripples, in the form of a single knot, or a series of knots.

Abstract: A GeSi avalanche photodiode (APD includes an anti-reflection structure, a Ge absorption region, and a resonance cavity enhanced (RCE) reflector. The anti-reflection structure includes one or more dielectric layers and a top contact layer which is heavily doped with dopants of a first polarity. The RCE reflector includes: an intrinsic or lightly doped Si multiplication layer, a Si contact layer which is heavily doped with dopants of a second polarity opposite the first polarity, a Si cavity length compensation layer, a buried oxide (BOX) layer, and a Si substrate.

Abstract: A case for a mobile device including a base wall and a plurality of side walls extending from the base wall to cover side surfaces of the mobile device. A plurality of cushion devices may pass through the side walls to cushion the mobile device from a force exerted upon the case.

Abstract: An anhydrous liquid antiperspirant/deodorant composition comprising a carrier comprising a cation and/or zwitterion and a hydrogen bond donor, wherein an amount of carrier is greater than an amount of any other material in the composition, and an antiperspirant active. This represents a new delivery form for antiperspirant actives and/or deodorant actives.

Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes the following steps. Trenches are formed in a semiconductor region using a masking layer such that the trenches have a first depth, a first width along their bottom, and sidewalls having a first slope. The masking layer is removed, and a bevel etch is performed to taper the sidewalls of the trenches so that the sidewalls have a second slope less than the first slope.

Abstract: A redundant power system aims to provide multiple main output power and multiple standby power to drive a plurality of loads operating in an operating mode or a standby mode. The redundant power system includes a plurality of power supplies and a back panel. Each power supply provides a main output power and a standby power. The back panel has a power bus path to converge the main output power. The power bus path is divided into multiple main power output paths each being controlled by a remote ON/OFF switch to determine whether to perform output, and multiple standby power output paths each has a conversion unit located thereon. The conversion unit converts the power in the power bus path and provides a simulated standby power to the loads in a normal.

Abstract: A memory fastening device, a computer motherboard including the memory fastening device and a computer including the computer motherboard are provided. The memory fastening device includes a memory connection base for plugging and fixing a memory and is characterized in further comprising an elastic component which fills in a space between the memory connection base and the memory. The memory fastening device is an improvement based on a conventional memory connection base. The memory fastening device is characterized in that a purpose of fastening the memory is realized without changing conventional structures of the standardized memory connection base and the standardized memory.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a target in a medical display in a medical imaging apparatus includes receiving echo signals from an area of interest of a patient, extracting raw data from the received echo signals, processing the extracted raw data to display a dual mode image on the medical display, and setting a location and displaying a first marker/cursor in a first image of the dual mode image. In addition, the method further includes determining a corresponding location of the marker/cursor in a second image of the dual mode image, and displaying a second marker/cursor in the second image of the dual mode image at the corresponding location simultaneously with the displaying of the first marker/cursor in the first image.

Abstract: A disposable capillary electrophoresis detecting device includes a fixing device, a capillary electrophoresis microchip, and an electrochemical sensor microchip. The fixing device includes two chip-fixing bases having a first chip-holding cavity horizontally arranged and a second chip-holding cavity vertically arranged. The second chip-holding cavity is substantially perpendicular to the first chip-holding cavity and faces an end portion thereof. The capillary electrophoresis microchip is horizontally placed in the first chip-holding cavity. The electrochemical sensor microchip is vertically placed in the second chip-holding cavity. In the electrochemical sensor microchip, a patterned insulation layer is located on a detecting electrode, exposes a sensor area of the detecting electrode, and is extended to two sides of the sensor area.

Abstract: An integrated circuit is described. The integrated circuit includes a global positioning system core that generates a GPS clock signal using an inductor-capacitor voltage controlled oscillator. The integrated circuit also includes a transceiver core configured to use the GPS clock signal. The transceiver core may not include a voltage controlled oscillator.

Abstract: The present invention enables real-time video commenting by viewers of media content on a web site. The media content may be video, audio, text, still images or other types of media content. When a content viewer indicates a desire to provide a real-time video comment, a content server causes a video input device at the content viewer's location to be activated. The content viewer's video comment is captured by the video input device and transmitted to the content server, where it is stored and associated with the video being commented upon. When the original video is subsequently presented to content viewers, indicia of the video comment such as a thumbnail or description of the comment is also presented, thus inviting content viewers to view the video comment in addition to the original video.

Abstract: An imaging device that includes a control unit is provided. The control unit switches between a day mode and a night mode. In the day mode, image capture is performed while an infrared cut filter is placed on an optical path, and in the night mode, image capture is performed while the infrared cut filter is removed from the optical path. Immediately after shifting from the day mode to the night mode, in the night mode, as the amount of incident light decreases, the control unit increases an irradiation intensity of an infrared irradiation portion from zero while a gain is maintained at a first gain value. When the amount of the incident light further decreases after the irradiation intensity reaches a maximum, the control portion increases the gain from the first gain value.

Abstract: An example method includes sending a virtual output queue (VOQ) length of a VOQ to an egress chip. The VOQ relates to a flow routed through an egress port associated with the egress chip. The method also includes receiving fair share information for the VOQ from the egress chip, and enforcing a control action on the incoming packets based on the fair share information. An ingress chip and the egress chip can be provided in a VOQ switch. The control action is a selected one of a group of actions, the group consisting of: (a) dropping packets, (b) pausing packets, and (c) marking packets. The method can further include receiving VOQ lengths of corresponding VOQs from respective ingress chips, where the VOQs relate to the flow. The method can also include calculating respective fair share information for each VOQ, and sending the fair share information to the respective ingress chips.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for a thin film stack with surface-conditioning buffer layers. In one aspect, the thin film stack includes a plurality of thin film layers each having a thickness greater than about 10 nm and a plurality of surface-conditioning buffer layers each having a thickness between about 1 nm and about 10 nm. The surface-conditioning buffer layers are alternatingly disposed between the thin film layers. Each of the surface-conditioning buffer layers are formed with the same or substantially the same thickness and composition. In some implementations, the surface-conditioning buffer layers are formed by atomic layer deposition.

Abstract: A method and circuit with minimized clock skews in an IC.

Abstract: First and second multi-layer structures are formed within respective openings in at least one dielectric layer formed over a semiconductor substrate. The first multi-layer structure comprises a gate electrode, and the second multi-layer structure comprises a resistor and a first electrode of a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor structure. The MIM capacitor structure is completed by forming a dielectric film on the at least one dielectric layer and forming a second electrode on the dielectric film.

Abstract: Systems and methods to cancel noise in a vehicle are disclosed. A first speaker is positioned forward of a steering wheel of a vehicle. The first speaker generates a first signal configured to acoustically cancel noise produced by operation of the vehicle. A second speaker is positioned forward of the steering wheel. The second speaker generates a second signal to acoustically cancel the noise produced by the operation of the vehicle. The first and the second speakers are capable of generating the first and the second signals independently of one another.

Abstract: A highly active supported bimetallic nanocatalyst and its preparation method is disclosed. During the preparation, using an ion exchange or absorption resin bearing basic functional groups as the support of the said catalyst, successively introducing the first metal precursor FeCl4? and the second metal precursor (PdCl42?, NiCl42? or CuCl42?) onto the resin through ion exchange process; then under the protection of nitrogen gas, simultaneously reducing the two metals with either NaBH4 or KBH4; washing the material with deoxygenated water and drying it, and the said catalyst is therefore obtained. The supported bimetallic material is characteristic of independent distribution of the two metals within the support. The independently distributed structure of the two metals enhances the catalytic efficiency of the second metal and the catalytic stability.

Abstract: The present invention describes a RF signal control method and device that changes the gain attenuation in real time and uses the changed gain attenuation to adjust the RF input signal. The RF signal control method and device also uses determined linear filter parameters for linearity improvement on the digital signal that results from a down-conversion and analog-to-digital converter on the RF input signal. The adjusted and improved signal is output after a digital pre-distortion and power amplification operation. In comparison with existing technologies, the adjusted gain attenuation is used to make adjustment on the RF input signal and improve linearity the RF input signal such that the resulting RF signal has better quality. Thus, the current application improves the linearity effect of a digital pre-distorter and the dynamic effect of a power amplifier for the RF signal, thereby enhancing coverage of the RF output signal.