Abstract: A new and distinct variety of rose with long lasting, novel yellow flowers, and attractive foliage with good disease resistance. It exhibits upright to bushy growth with abundant flowers. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of rose with long lasting, novel pink flowers, and attractive foliage with good disease resistance. It exhibits arching growth with abundant flowers. The new variety propagates well by grafting. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of miniature rose with long lasting, novel white flowers, and dark green and attractive foliage. It exhibits compact, uniform growth and flowering under greenhouse conditions when grown as a potted floral plant. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of miniature rose with long lasting, novel hot pink flowers, and dark green and attractive foliage. It exhibits compact, uniform growth and flowering under greenhouse conditions when grown as a potted floral plant. The new variety propagates well from cuttings and by grafting. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

Abstract: A new garden rose plant of the compact floribunda class which has abundant, pink flowers and attractive foliage. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

Abstract: The ‘SMT-6’ variety is distinguished from other banana varieties due to the following unique combination of characteristics: Erect (Upright) foliar arrangement, compact bunch appearance, shorter fingers, and bunch (rachis) position.

Abstract: A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, denominated ‘NECTARFLORA’, has fruits of very long shelf life without alteration before and after harvesting, a semi-sweet white flesh of high eating quality and an attractive red skin. Fruits can be consumed crunchy or melting.

Abstract: The new ‘HBOK10’ rootstock, a hybrid between two peach parents, is useful as a commercial under-stock for peach and nectarine cultivars. The stock has been successfully propagated clonally by leafy cuttings and tissue culture. This rootstock imparts significant vigor control to the scion cultivar that is propagated on top of it. This rootstock produces very few root suckers, its anchorage is good and it is resistant to root-knot nematode. Utilization of adapted growth controlling rootstocks in commercial orchard situations reduces the height of the tree and the amount of wood pruned in the winter and summer, without compromising the quality of the fruit. This in turn increases the efficiency of various cultural operations such as pruning, thinning and harvesting by reducing the need for workers in the field to use tall ladders when carrying out these operations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinct strawberry variety. The varietal denomination of the new variety is ‘SABRINA’. Among the characteristics which appear to distinguish the new variety from other varieties are a combination of traits which include inflorescence that appears level with the foliage, same size of calyx relative to corolla and abundant production of red colored, conical shaped, and firm fruit, large fruit size, and medium time of ripening.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Cornus plant named ‘Eva’, characterized by its compact and mounded plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy appearance; and white and green variegated leaves with red purple-colored apices; leaves becoming red in color in the autumn.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Cornus plant named ‘Melanie’, characterized by its upright plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; and white and green variegated leaves with red-colored apices; leaves becoming red in color in the autumn.

Abstract: A Veronica plant particularly distinguished by a compact, well-branched plant habit, strong stems, strongly-branched, compact inflorescences, a very floriferous blooming habit with re-blooming and easy to grow a strong and well-developed plant in one season, is disclosed.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Gardenia augusta plant named ‘PIIGA-I’, characterized by its large, single white flowers that are produced from spring to frost, lustrous, dark green foliage, compact rounded growth habit, and cold hardiness to USDA Hardiness Zone 6b.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-SWMP’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, semi-upright habit appropriate for container production and culture, freely flowering habit, and very large flowers having a deep red eye zone, a silver lilac body and beige edges.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of hibiscus plant named ‘DUP-CNRY’, characterized by glossy, dark green leaves, prostrate growth, and large flowers having a small, bright red eye zone which radiates into a thin zone of ivory extending approximately 20 percent into the petal, which radiates into a zone of pineapple yellow which extends to the petal margins.

Abstract: A new cultivar of Dianthus gratianopolitanus, ‘Faith’, characterized by its variegated foliage with blue-green centers and creamy white margins with the center color becoming more blue as the season progresses, its flowers that are light pink in color with a small white eye, its compact plant habit, and blooming period in mid spring.

Abstract: A new Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Syngigi Yel’ particularly distinguished by the small, bold yellow flowers; strong and stiff peduncles, medium green foliage, and compact and mounded plant habit.

Abstract: A new Euphorbia plant named ‘SYEP231’ particularly distinguished by the compact and mounded sub-shrub habit with excellent branching, medium green foliage; is highly floriferous and has large white colored flower bracts.

Abstract: A New Guinea Impatiens plant particularly distinguished by having pink flowers, a strong root system, and vigorous plant growth habit, is disclosed.

Abstract: A new and distinct Begonia cultivar named ‘Nzcthree’ is disclosed, characterized by its unique scarlet red flower color and unique foliage. The new cultivar is a Begonia, typically suited for garden and ornamental container use.

Abstract: A new and distinct Begonia cultivar named ‘Have02’ is disclosed, characterized by its unique light pink flower color and large foliage with an undulating margin. The new cultivar is a Begonia, typically suited for ornamental container use.

Abstract: A new and distinct Coreopsis plant named ‘Pumpkin Pie’ characterized by small daisy-type flowers that grow to 3.5 cm in diameter, flowers that are deep orange with red eyes, grass green foliage on short stems, flowering for the whole summer, and a dense, mounding habit.

Abstract: A new and distinct Salvia plant of unknown parentage is provided that was discovered in a nursery setting while growing among other Salvia plants. Over a long blooming season attractive blossoms are formed that are magenta-purple in coloration. The growth habit is upright and bushy. The foliage is large and bright green in coloration. Following pruning, the plant displays a tendency to vigorously regrow. The plant is well suited for providing attractive ornamentation.

Abstract: A bed for a person is provided. The bed includes a frame, a deck including a seat section and a foot section movable relative to the seat section. The bed further including a mechanism that control movement of the foot section relative to the seat section.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a cable gripping apparatus comprised of a housing with a part conical shaped passageway, two serrated half-jaws, a spacer, a spring, a retaining clip and a cap. The apparatus is spring-loaded and self-locking for gripping and securing a cable. The serrated half-jaws and spring lock the cable in place and only allows the cable to move in one direction. The cap is placed at one end of the apparatus to prevent dirt and moisture from accumulating, thus minimizing the corrosion of the cable.

Abstract: Structure of a driving unit in a drum type washing machine including a tub for storing washing water, a drum of a metal rotatably mounted inside of the tub disposed horizontal to the ground, or with an angle to the ground for accommodating laundry therein, a shaft connected to the drum mounted inside of the tub through the tub for transmission of a driving force of the motor to the drum, bearings fitted onto outer circumferences of both end portions of the shaft for supporting the shaft, a bearing housing having stator fastening bosses at fixed intervals along a circumference of a central portion thereof for supporting the bearings, a stator having a plurality of magnetic cores each formed by stacking magnetic laminations each having a salient pole projected outward in a radial direction and a rib projected inward in a radial direction, both of which are formed as one unit, frames of insulating material for covering top and bottom surfaces of a magnetic core assembly of the magnetic cores, and coils each woun

Abstract: An expandable stinger planter is described for attachment to an excavator type boom. The planter includes a frame arrangement that may be releasably secured to the boom, with a stinger depending therefrom. The boom may be selectively operated to drive the probes deep into the ground. The stinger includes a pair of elongated probes that have bottom ends configured to be opened and closed by operation of an actuator assembly. The actuator assembly is selectively operable to shift the probes relative to one another between a closed position wherein the bottom ends are closed together, and an open position wherein the bottom ends are spaced apart from one another to form a plant discharge opening. The probes form an upwardly open internal plant receiving receptacle that is open to the plant discharge opening at the open position whereby a plant placed in the plant receiving receptacle may be discharged through the plant discharge opening as the probes are lifted by the boom.

Abstract: A slip system includes a set of drive slips having wickers thereon, substantially all of which being truncated in cross-section; a set of gripping slips operatively interengagable with the set of drive slips; a drive slip end ring in operable communication with the set of drive slips; and a gripping slip end ring in operable communication with the set of gripping slips, the end rings capable of transmitting a load applied in an axial direction of the system to the set of gripping slips and the set of drive slips to tangentially load the set of drive slips and the set of gripping slips against each other thereby increasing a radial dimension of the system and distributing stresses created in a target tubular and method.

Abstract: An arrangement and a method to control and regulate the bottom hole pressure in a well during subsea drilling at deep waters: The method involves adjustment of a liquid/gas interface level in a drilling riser up or down. The arrangement comprises a high pressure drilling riser and a surface BOP at the upper end of the drilling riser. The surface BOP havs a gas bleeding outlet. The riser also comprises a BOP, with a by-pass line. The drilling riser has an outlet at a depth below the water surface, and the outlet is connected to a pumping system with a flow return conduit running back to a drilling vessel/platform.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high power LED package, in which a package body is integrally formed with resin to have a recess for receiving an LED chip. A first sheet metal member is electrically connected with the LED chip, supports the LED chip at its upper partial portion in the recess, is surrounded by the package body extending to the side face of the package body, and has a heat transfer section for transferring heat generated from the LED chip to the metal plate of the board and extending downward from the inside of the package body so that a lower end thereof is exposed at a bottom face of the package body thus to contact the board. A second sheet metal member is electrically connected with the LED chip spaced apart from the first sheet metal member for a predetermined gap, and extends through the inside of the package body to the side face of the package body in a direction opposite to the first sheet metal member. A transparent sealant is sealingly filled up into the recess.

Abstract: A DLL circuit which can prevent transition to a pseudo lock state is provided. The DLL circuit includes a delay stage to which a reference clock is input and in which variable delay elements D able to change an amount of delay are connected in a plurality of stages, a phase comparator (PH Comp) which compares the phase of the reference clock to the phase of one delay signal extracted from the delay stage, a delay control circuit which performs delay control of the delay element in the delay stage on the basis of the comparison result by the phase-comparison means, and a DFF which detects a phase relationship of at least two delay signals extracted from the delay stage to discriminate a state which is not a normal lock state and controls the delay control circuit to perform state transition to the normal lock state.

Abstract: A power-saving circuit for a digital video display device includes a TMDS driving unit converting a TMDS data signal and a TMDS clock signal, a display driving unit driving a display unit based on the horizontal/vertical synchronous signals and the digital video signal input from the TMDS driving unit, a clock signal detecting unit outputting a first or a second level of a clock detecting signal depending on the TMDS clock signal, a controller outputting a first-level of a power-saving signal when the first level clock detecting signal is input, and outputting a second level of power-saving signal when the second level clock detecting signal is input, and a power supply unit supplying a voltage to respective components, and cutting off the supply of the voltage to respective components depending on the level of the power-saving signal or the clock detecting signal.

Abstract: A reconfigurable, three-dimensional display (1) wherein knowledge of the viewer's (4) eyes is used to enable the effective exit pupil(s) of the display system to be optimised. The system utilises this knowledge to identify contributing regions (5) within the display (1) that contribute light to the viewer (4). Priority is given to calculating and displaying the part of the display corresponding to the contributing region (5), thereby allowing the system computation requirements to be minimised. Further computation savings are achievable by recognising that only light travelling in a limited range of angles need to be considered.

Abstract: A data transmission process with auto-synchronised correcting code, auto-synchronised coder and decoder, corresponding transmitter and receiver. According to the invention, synchronisation management signals (HS, SS, ID) are formed and, under the control of these signals, a header is inserted before a data group and after it a correcting code. At receive end, these synchronisation management signals are reconstituted, the presence of a header is detected and any erroneous symbols are corrected. The invention also provides for an auto-synchronised coder and a decoder and for a transmitter and a receiver using them.

Abstract: The apparatus and method provide assistance to an agent in a communication system, such as a communication system having an automatic call distributor. The method has the steps of determining skills of each agent of a plurality of agents, storing the determined skills for respective agents of the plurality of agents as skill records in a database, retrieving the skill record of a predetermined agent from the database, comparing the skill record of the predetermined agent to the skill records of the other agents in the database, selecting an agent from the plurality of agents based on the comparison of skill records, and establishing communication between the predetermined agent and the selected agent. The skill record of a predetermined agent is retrieved when the predetermined agent of the plurality of agents requests to communicate with another of the agents of the plurality of agents. The apparatus implements the method.

Abstract: A method and system of merging a pair of images to form a seamless panoramic image including the following steps. A set of feature points are extracted along the edges of the images, each feature point defining an edge orientation. A set of registration parameters is obtained by determining an initial set of feature points from a first one of the images which matches a set of feature points of a second one of the images. A seamless panoramic image is rendered using the first and second images with the set of registration parameters.

Abstract: A method and system for booking and scheduling requests for broadcast of programs by a station in which a request has at least a program time duration and required minimum broadcast bandwidth and the station has a fixed bandwidth broadcast capability. A schedule is maintained of programs that have been booked for broadcast, each booked program having a date of broadcast, time for broadcast, time duration and broadcast bandwidth and the request is checked against the schedule of the booked programs for availability of the requested minimum bandwidth for the time duration of the request. The request also can contain a specified time and date for the broadcast. If the request can be satisfied a notice of acceptance is sent and if it cannot, advice is given of this and a listing of alternate times is provided at which the request can be satisfied.

Abstract: A method for computing maximum traffic capacitance of a base station using a virtual call in the digital mobile communication system in such a way that an operator at operating terminal for Base Station Manager (BSM) inputs call-set-request instructions using the virtual call to maintain and repair the digital mobile communication system so that traffic state is set between mobile stations in the service area of test base station and a vocoder of a Base Station Controller (BSC) to compute maximum traffic capacitance of the test base station. An operator at operation terminal inputs call set information by operator instruction as much as mobile station numbers to be tested to compute maximum traffic capacitance of the base station. The BSM inputs a virtual call-set-request-instruction by means of a virtual call-set-start-flag.

Abstract: A speech coding apparatus comprises a repetition period pre-selecting unit for generating a plurality of candidates for the repetition period of a driving excitation source by multiplying the repetition period of an adaptive excitation source by a plurality of constant numbers, respectively, and for pre-selecting a predetermined number of candidates from all the candidates generated. A driving excitation source coding unit provides both excitation source location information and excitation source polarity information that minimize a coding distortion, for each of the predetermined number of candidates, and provides an evaluation value associated with the minimum coding distortion for each of the predetermined number of candidates.