Abstract: A surgical instrument operable to sever tissue includes a body assembly and a selectively coupleable end effector assembly. The end effector assembly may include a transmission assembly and an end effector. The body assembly includes a trigger and a casing configured to couple with the transmission assembly. An information transmission system transmits instrument information received from a sensor, for example, to a secure server via a secure gateway connected to the instrument. The instrument may be previously tested on a calibration kit to pre-determine and load surgeon-specific settings onto the instrument prior to use.

Abstract: Gaze enrollment, including displaying an enrollment progress user indicator, animating movement of user interface elements, changing the appearances of user interface elements, and/or moving a user interface element over time, enable a computer system to more accurately track the gaze of a user of the computer system.

Abstract: A method and system for detecting foreign particles in the liquid of a full soft drink bottle are described. The bottle under inspection is first passed by a first electronic camera means which memorizes the optical characteristics of a bottle and the fluid contained therein and records these characteristics in the memory of a computer. The bottle under inspection is then rotated either about its vertical axis, or in a preferred embodiment about a horizontal axis to invert the bottle, and just after rotation is moved into the field of view of a second electronic camera means which records in the computer memory the image of the test bottle at this point in time. Any foreign particles within the bottle will tend to undergo movement due to the rotation or inversion of the bottle. Thus, the image detected by the second electronic camera will be different from the image detected by the first electronic camera and indicative of the presence of moving foreign particles within the bottle.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for inspection similar articles by first passing an ideal sample article through the field of view of a scanning array, generating a train of pulses corresponding to the image falling on the scanning array by sequentially interrogating each sensor in the array in response to a clock frequency, selecting discrete pulses from the train of pulses which are indicative of the characteristics of the sample article, and preferably pulses indicating perturbations, storing data identifying the selected pulses in a sample memory, sequentially passing other articles to be inspected past the scanning array and similarly generating and storing the identification data for selected characteristics pulses in an object memory, and comparing the stored data in the sample and object memories for correspondence between the data within preselected tolerances to determine correlation, or the absence of correlation, between the same article and each article to be inspected.

Abstract: A train of pulses introduced into a filter-discriminator circuit is processed therein, the amplitudes of adjacent pulses in the input train being compared against one another deriving an output signal from that comparison whose amplitudes equal the differences in amplitude between adjacent pulses. Adjacent pulses in the train of like amplitude, produce only low amplitude transient signals that are mostly blanked out by circuitry within the discriminator. By connecting a second filter-discriminator circuit in series with the first, the output therefrom will produce a signal having peak or spike pulses therein whose amplitudes equal the double derivative of unlike pulses in the train of pulses. The output peak of spike pulses can then be used as trigger pulses keying timer and associated circuitry.