Abstract: A media processing system is provided including a DRAM that includes a plurality of storage locations for storing digital data being processed by said media processing system, said digital data including video data that is compressed in a standardized format, a system for processing said digital data that includes said standardized format compressed video data to produce compressed video images and image data, a system for decoding said standardized format compressed video images to generate full motion video pixel data, a system for sharing said DRAM between said processing means and said decoding means, and a system for producing a full motion video signal from said full motion video pixel data. The media processing system may also have a system for multiplying or combining a first pixel by a second pixel in a single clock cycle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for treating a mammalian subject suffering from an autoimmune or alloimmune disease by administering to the subject a drug treatment which results in at least partial remission of one or more symptoms of the autoimmune or alloimmune disease, and administering to the subject autologous mammalian blood which has been modified extracorporeally by exposure to at least one stressor selected from an oxidative environment, an electromagnetic emission and a temperature above or below body temperature. The modified mammalian blood is administered to the subject in an amount which is sufficient to maintain the remission of the symptoms of the autoimmune or alloimmune disease.

Abstract: A system and method for compressing and decompressing variable length instructions contained in variable length instruction packets in a processor having a plurality of processing units is provided that has a compression system with a system for generating an instruction packet containing a plurality of instructions, a system for assigning a compressed instruction having a predetermined length to an instruction within the instruction packet, a shorter compressed instruction corresponding to a more frequently used instruction, and a system for generating an instruction packet containing compressed instructions for corresponding ones of said processing units.

Abstract: A roller coaster or gravity motive toy is disclosed herein having a tortuous elevated track layout and toy vehicle system including adjustable support stanchions for the track attached thereto by a universal joint. The vehicle includes rollers movably supporting the vehicle on the track with pivotal roller guide and lateral securement elements to detachably couple the vehicle to the track. An articulated figure or caricature is carried in the vehicle having pivotal extremities adapted for centrifugal actuation during travel of the vehicle. A motorized lift is operably carried on the track selectively engaging with a vehicle lifting the vehicle to an elevated starting position for gravity operation.

Abstract: The invention provides a terminal clamp assembly comprising a fastener and one or more captive members and a method for making such a terminal clamp assembly. The terminal clamp assembly comprises a threaded fastener including a driver head portion, a threaded shank portion of predetermined thread crest diameter and an unthreaded shank portion of lesser diameter intermediate the threaded shank portion and the driver head portion. A captive member has a through aperture of greater diameter than the thread crest diameter and surrounding the unthreaded shank portion, and laterally oppositely outwardly extending protrusions on opposed outer edge portions. These protrusions are compressed by a planar die so as to deform the through aperture to a dimension smaller than the thread crest diameter, thereby captively assembling the captive member with the fastener, subsequent to formation and heat treatment of the fastener.

Abstract: An electrically nonconductive copper-boron coating is deposited on a nonmetallic surface such as glass by reducing a copper salt with a small amount of alkali metal borohydride in the presence of a complexing agent such as Rochelle salt or ethylenediamine tetraacetate salts. The resultant copper-boron coated article may subsequently be heated until it acquires a copper-bronze appearance by reflection.

Abstract: Uniform gold films having an intense pure gold color and superior abrasion and adhesion properties are prepared by first depositing a gold film on a nonmetallic substrate by a known method, preferably electroless deposition, then depositing a silver film over the gold by electroless deposition.

Abstract: An electrically nonconductive copper-boron film is deposited on the surface of a substrate, particularly a nonmetallic substrate such as glass, by reducing a copper salt with a small amount of alkali metal borohydride in the presence of a complexing agent such as Rochelle salt or ethylenediamine tetraacetate salts. The resultant copper-boron coated substrate may be further heated until it assumes a copper-bronze appearance by reflection, resulting in a copper-boron coated article, or the copper-boron coated substrate may be subjected to chemical reduction, resulting in a copper coated article of superior uniformity.

Abstract: Gold films are deposited on non-metallic substrates very rapidly at ambient temperatures by sensitizing and activating a surface of a non-metallic substrate to be coated and subsequently contacting the activated surface with a solution containing a gold salt which is reduced to a metallic gold film in the presence of divalent mercury, cadmium or lead ions.