Abstract: A method for rapid mincing of adipose tissues to isolate live cells in vitro is disclosed to overcome the drawbacks of a lead procedure of isolating live cells by holding a knife to mince adipose tissues, which can only isolate a small number of live cells and obtain low cell viability. The method includes: providing an adipose tissue; mincing the adipose tissue homogeneously by a mincing device; adding a reagent into the minced adipose tissue to perform hydrolysis; performing centrifuge and isolation; and removing a supernatant to obtain a cell pellet. Therefore, the time of mincing adipose tissues can be shortened, and contaminations caused by repeated use of the knife can be avoided. The method can be used for isolating live cells of adipose tissues to improve the number of live cells per unit weight of adipose tissues without reducing the cell viability.

Abstract: A device, structure, and method are provided whereby an insert layer is utilized to provide additional support for surrounding dielectric layers. The insert layer may be applied between two dielectric layers. Once formed, trenches and vias are formed within the composite layers, and the insert layer will help to provide support that will limit or eliminate undesired bending or other structural motions that could hamper subsequent process steps, such as filling the trenches and vias with conductive material.

Abstract: For human body representation, bone length or other size characteristic that varies within the population is incorporated into the geometric model of the skeleton. The geometric model may be normalized for shape or tissue modeling, allowing modeling of the shape without dedicating aspects of the data-driven shape model to the length or other size characteristic. Given the same number or extent of components of the data-driven shape model, greater or finer details of the shape may be modeled since components are not committed to the size characteristic.

Abstract: A resistance apparatus for exercise equipment includes a resistance adjusting unit and a sensor unit. The resistance adjusting unit includes an adjusting member, a tubular sleeve located above the adjusting member, an adjusting shaft disposed in the tubular sleeve. A first threaded nut is pivotally mounted to the adjusting member and threadedly connected to the adjusting shaft. The sensor unit has a moveable member, a second threaded nut, a first sensing member and a second sending member. One end of the moveable member is pivotally mounted to the adjusting Member. The second threaded nut is threadedly connected to the adjusting shaft and moveable member. The sensing members are disposed on the other end of the adjusting member and the moveable member, respectively.

Abstract: A running deck includes a frame defining two opposing sliding surfaces, and an endless slat belt including a plurality of slats and two chains interconnecting the slats and rotatably mounted around the frame. Each slat includes an inner surface facing toward the sliding surfaces. Each chain includes a plurality of chain links pivotally connected to one another and respectively joined to the respective inner surfaces of the slats, and a plurality of rollers respectively pivotally mounted in the chain links and rotatably movable along one respective sliding surface of the frame. Thus, the endless slat belt is rotatable around the frame, and the running deck has the characteristics of simple structure, light weight, and enhanced overall sense of beauty.

Abstract: A running deck includes a frame defining two opposing sliding surfaces, and an endless slat belt including a plurality of slats each having an inner surface slidably supported on the sliding surfaces of the frame and a plurality of knuckles arranged at opposing side edges thereof and a plurality of connection devices respectively mounted in the knuckles between each two adjacent slats to pivotally connect each two adjacent slats together. The knuckles at the two opposite side edges are arranged in a staggered manner so that the slats can be closely and pivotally connected to one another by the pivot connection devices, simplifying the structure, reducing the weight, and enhancing the overall sense of beauty.

Abstract: A resistance sensing mechanism including a resistance adjusting unit including a holder frame, a locating sleeve disposed above the holder frame, an adjustment screw rod rotatably inserted through the locating sleeve and a screw nut threaded onto the adjustment screw rod and pivotally connected to the holder frame, and a sensor unit including a first linkage pivotally connected with one end to the screw nut, a second linkage having one end pivotally connected to an opposite end of the first linkage and an opposite end pivotally connected to the locating sleeve, a sensor mounted at one of the first and second linkages and a sensible member mounted at the other of the first and second linkages to face toward the sensor. Subject to the linkage relationship between the first and second linkages, the distance between the sensor and the sensible member can be changed, thereby generating a relative sensing signal.

Abstract: A resistance sensing mechanism includes a resistance adjusting unit including a holder frame, a locating sleeve disposed above the holder frame, an adjustment screw rod rotatably inserted through the locating sleeve and a first screw nut threaded onto a first thread segment of the adjustment screw rod and pivotally connected to the holder frame, and a sensor unit including a linkage pivotally connected to the holder frame, a second screw nut threaded onto a second thread segment of the adjustment screw rod and pivotally connected to the linkage, a sensor mounted at one of the holder frame and the linkage and a sensible member mounted at the other of the holder frame and the linkage to face toward the sensor. Subject to the relative movement between the first and second screw nuts, the holder frame and the linkage relatively biased to change the distance between the sensor and sensible member.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a method of color palette coding and an electronic device using the same method. The proposed method would include not limited to encoding, by using a processor, a bit stream to represent a color of a coding unit and storing the bit stream in a storage medium or transmitting the bit stream. The bit stream would include not limited to a binary bit representing a run flag, a N binary bit sequence representing up to 2N major colors in a coding unit with each of the possible values of the N binary bit sequence representing an unique major color index of N major color indices, and a M binary bit sequence representing up to 2M extended colors with each of the possible values of the M binary bit sequence representing an unique extended color index of M extended color indices.

Abstract: A power generation abnormality detection method includes: operating a power converter to controllably operate a solar cell module at a plurality of predetermined voltage points to obtain a plurality of measured currents; utilizing the predetermined voltage points and measured currents to calculate a plurality of first power data; comparing the plurality of first power data with a first PV curve; or operating the power converter to controllably operate the solar cell module at a plurality of predetermined current points to obtain a plurality of measured voltages; utilizing the predetermined current points and measured voltages to calculate a plurality of second power data; comparing the plurality of second power data with a second PV curve.

Abstract: A lateral glide elliptical exercise apparatus includes a frame defining a center line, a pair of pedal units disposed at two opposite lateral sides relative to the center line each including a pivoting block and a pedal shaft pivotally connected to the pivoting block, a damping unit for providing a damping resistance to the pedal units, and a pair of gliding guide units respectively mounted at the frame, each gliding guide unit includes a gliding guide, an actuation block and a linkage arranged so that the actuation block can be driven by the associating linkage to slide smoothly between an inner end portion and an outer end portion of the associating gliding guide when the pedal units are being alternately pedaled by the user.

Abstract: A device, structure, and method are provided whereby an insert layer is utilized to provide additional support for surrounding dielectric layers. The insert layer may be applied between two dielectric layers. Once formed, trenches and vias are formed within the composite layers, and the insert layer will help to provide support that will limit or eliminate undesired bending or other structural motions that could hamper subsequent process steps, such as filling the trenches and vias with conductive material.

Abstract: A device, structure, and method are provided whereby an insert layer is utilized to provide additional support for surrounding dielectric layers. The insert layer may be applied between two dielectric layers. Once formed, trenches and vias are formed within the composite layers, and the insert layer will help to provide support that will limit or eliminate undesired bending or other structural motions that could hamper subsequent process steps, such as filling the trenches and vias with conductive material.

Abstract: In scan data retrieval, a mesh is fit (32) to surface data of a current patient, such as data from an optical or depth sensor (18). Meshes are also fit (48) to medical scan data, such as fitting (48) to skin surface segments of computed tomography data. The meshes or parameters derived from the meshes may be more efficiently compared (34) to identify (36) a previous patient with similar body shape and/or size. The scan configuration (38) for that patient, or that patient as altered to account for differences from the current patient, is used. In some embodiments, the parameter vector used for searching (34) includes principle component analysis coefficients. In further embodiments, the principle component analysis coefficients may be projected to a more discriminative space using metric learning.

Abstract: A multi-port energy storage system includes a bi-directional power conversion circuit, a DC-AC inverter circuit, an electric energy storage facility, a first AC port, a second AC port and an AC switch. The multi-port energy storage system controllably provides various classifications of power supply quality via the first AC port and the second AC port.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a see-through visualization of a patient includes receiving an image dataset representative of anatomical features of the patient acquired using a medical image scanner and acquiring a body surface model of the patient using an RGB-D sensor. The body surface model is aligned with the image dataset in a canonical/common coordinate system to yield an aligned body surface model. A relative pose of a mobile device is determined with respect to the RGB-D sensor and a pose dependent visualization of the patient is created by rendering the image dataset at a viewpoint corresponding to the relative pose of the mobile device. Then, the pose dependent visualization of the patient may be presented on the mobile device.

Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting properties of sample tubes in a laboratory environment include a drawer vision system that can be trained and calibrated. Images of a tube tray captured by at least one camera are analyzed to extract image patches that allow a processor to automatically determine if a tube slot is occupied, if the tube has a cap, and if the tube has a tube top cup. The processor can be trained using a random forest technique and a plurality of training image patches. Cameras can be calibrated using a three-dimensional calibration target that can be inserted into the drawer.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automatically calibrating an RGB-D sensor and an imaging device using a transformation matrix includes using a medical image scanner to acquire a first dataset representative of an apparatus attached to a downward facing surface of a patient table, wherein corners of the apparatus are located at a plurality of corner locations. The plurality of corner locations are identified based on the first dataset and the RGB-D sensor is used to acquire a second dataset representative of a plurality of calibration markers displayed on an upward facing surface of the patient table at the corner locations. A plurality of calibration marker locations are identified based on the second dataset and the transformation matrix is generated by aligning the first dataset and the second dataset using the plurality of corner locations and the plurality of calibration marker locations.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for X-ray tube scanner automation using a 3D camera is disclosed. An RGBD image of a patient on a patient table is received from a 3D camera mounted on an X-ray tube. A transformation between a coordinate system of the 3D camera and a coordinate system of the patient table is calculated. A patient model is estimated from the RGBD image of the patient. The X-ray tube is automatically controlled to acquire an X-ray image of a region of interest of the patient based on the patient model.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a see-through visualization of a patient includes receiving an image dataset representative of anatomical features of the patient acquired using a medical image scanner and acquiring a body surface model of the patient using an RGB-D sensor. The body surface model is aligned with the image dataset in a canonical/common coordinate system to yield an aligned body surface model. A relative pose of a mobile device is determined with respect to the RGB-D sensor and a pose dependent visualization of the patient is created by rendering the image dataset at a viewpoint corresponding to the relative pose of the mobile device. Then, the pose dependent visualization of the patient may be presented on the mobile device.