Abstract: A communication device having a removable baseband chipset includes a communication device main body, a socket disposed on the communication device main body, a baseband processing unit configured to temporarily assemble to the socket, and a digital signal processing component that is contained in the baseband processing unit and is operable to enable the communication device to communicate with a cellular network system. The communication device is operable to transmit and receive radio signals.

Abstract: An electronic entity for a mobile terminal including a subscriber identity card and power supply therefor. The electronic entity includes a near-field communication device, an antenna, and a wire-based interface with the mobile terminal to provide the power supply. A voltage converter supplies operating power to the near-field communication device via the wire-based interface which in turn supplies power to the subscriber identity card.

Abstract: An apparatus including an array of directional antenna elements is provided. The apparatus is configured to identify an angular relationship between a transmitting device and the apparatus by sampling data from antenna elements and analyzing reception patterns relating to antenna elements.

Abstract: The invention relates to a radiofrequency communication device that comprises a gripping beating body having a surface; an electronic and/or electric circuit extending in the gripping beating body; at least one antenna provided in the vicinity of the electronic circuit. The device includes a connection circuit for connection to the antenna, that is provided at least partially in the gripping beating body and extends from the electronic circuit up to connection points of the antenna, said antenna connection points being accessible from the outside of the beating body.

Abstract: Apparatuses for associating and displaying messages and contacts in a way that allows users to access either category of information is provided. One apparatus includes a processing element that associates the messages with corresponding contacts and also includes a memory element configured to store contacts and messages received or transmitted. The apparatus may also include a display such that the processing element may generate upon the display a visual representation of the contacts and messages. Messages are associated with corresponding contacts and are displayed according to the associations. For example, a message may be associated with a contact based on a common identifier of the contact and the message. Messages associated with a selected contact may be displayed, and contacts associated with messages that have been received or sent may also be displayed according to user inputs. Methods and computer program products are also provided.

Abstract: In a system in which a reception (paging) cycle is defined by number of frames, even if length of the frames is changed, power consumption of a mobile station (MS) and a delay in response at the time of incoming are maintained by changing the paging cycle so that the paging cycles become equal in a time unit. The mobile station for receiving the signal from a wireless base station for each cycle defined by the number of frames to detect an incoming notification has a measurement unit for detecting a change in the frame length of received frames, a cycle changing unit for, if the change is detected, increasing or decreasing the number of frames which defines the cycle, and an incoming notification monitoring unit for receiving the signal from the wireless base station in accordance with the cycle changed by the cycle changing unit.

Abstract: A portable device and a method of operating a portable device for performing adaptive data communication control are provided. The method includes determining the on or off state of a display unit, extracting data communication setting information including a fast dormancy policy according to the on or off state of the display unit, and controlling a data communication setting with a specific service provider network based on the extracted data communication setting information, and a portable device supporting the method.

Abstract: A computer system employs a network that between a data programming system and one or more superconducting programmable devices of a superconducting processor chip. Routers on the network, such as first-, second- and third-stage routers direct communications with the superconducting programmable devices. A superconducting memory register may load data signals received from a first-stage router into corresponding superconducting programmable devices. The system may employ additional superconducting chips, first-, second- or third-stage routers.

Abstract: A system is specified having at least one superconducting cable (SK) which has at least one superconducting conductor (2), and having a cryostat (KR) which surrounds the same and has two metallic tubes, an inner tube (6) and an outer tube (7), which are arranged concentrically at a distance from one another, are corrugated transversely with respect to their longitudinal direction and between which vacuum insulation (8) is arranged. The cable (SK) has a central tubular support (1) for passing a coolant through, on which the superconducting conductor (2) rests. The cable (SK) is surrounded all around by a buffer layer (5) which protects the same against mechanical damage and consists of insulating material, and the inner tube (6) of the cryostat (KR) at least rests in a sealed manner on the buffer layer (5).

Abstract: Adaptations and improvements to tubular metal powder filters include employing cross sectional geometries of any suitable shape, aligning the inner conductor off-axis, replacing the inner conductive wire with a conductive trace or a superconductive trace carried by a printed circuit board, combining multiple filters within a single common outer conductive housing, and employing meandering and other non-parallel signal paths. The various adaptations and improvements are designed to accommodate single-ended and differential signaling, as well as superconducting and non-superconducting applications.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first amplifier having a first input coupled to a first optical detector. The first amplifier includes a first output corresponding to a logarithm of the first input. The apparatus includes a second amplifier having a second input coupled to a second optical detector and having a second output corresponding to a logarithm of the second input. The apparatus includes a differential amplifier configured to amplify a difference between the first output and the second output.

Abstract: A physiological monitoring system can include a physiological monitor having one or more processors that can derive oxygen saturation values from a patient. The oxygen saturation values can correspond to values of oxygen saturation in blood at a tissue site of the patient. The physiological monitor can output an indication of amplitude of the differences per respiratory cycle in the oxygen saturation values.

Abstract: An exemplary sensor includes a sensor pad having a first portion and a second portion separated by a waist portion. The waist portion is narrower than the first portion and the second portion. A light source that is disposed on the first portion is configured to generate near-infrared light and transmit the near-infrared light through part of a patient's body. A light detector that is disposed on the second portion is configured to detect near-infrared light that has traveled through the part of the patient's body. The near-infrared light detected indicates an amount of oxygen in the part of the patient's body through which the near-infrared light traveled.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for probing an occluded body lumen, including a flexible conduit insertable into the body lumen, at least one delivery waveguide and at least one collection waveguide integrated with the flexible conduit and arranged to deliver and collect radiation about a distal end of said flexible conduit, at least one radiation source connected to a transmission input of the at least one delivery waveguide, at least one optical detector connected to a transmission output of at least one collection waveguide, a spectrometer connected with the at least one optical detector, and constructed and arranged to scan radiation and perform spectroscopy, and a controller programmed to process data from said spectrometer and provide information for directing said flexible conduit through obstacles within the occluded body lumen.

Abstract: An optical probe, which is particularly suited to reduce noise in measurements taken on an easily compressible material, such as a finger, a toe, a forehead, an earlobe, or a lip, measures characteristics of the material. A neonatal and adult disposable embodiment of the probe include adhesive coated surfaces to securely affix the probe onto the patient. In addition, the surface of the probe is specially constructed to reduce the effect of ambient noise.

Abstract: An analyte monitor includes a sensor, a sensor control unit, and a display unit. The sensor has, for example, a substrate, a recessed channel formed in the substrate, and conductive material disposed in the recessed channel to form a working electrode. The sensor control unit typically has a housing adapted for placement on skin and is adapted to receive a portion of an electrochemical sensor. The sensor control unit also includes two or more conductive contacts disposed on the housing and configured for coupling to two or more contact pads on the sensor. A transmitter is disposed in the housing and coupled to the plurality of conductive contacts for transmitting data obtained using the sensor. The display unit has a receiver for receiving data transmitted by the transmitter of the sensor control unit and a display coupled to the receiver for displaying an indication of a level of an analyte.

Abstract: A system and method for providing image guidance for placement of one or more medical devices at a target location. The system receives emplacement information of medical devices within a predetermined area. The system calculates a viewing angle in a virtual 3D space of a plurality of virtual medical devices corresponding to the plurality of medical devices. The system also causes a display device to display the plurality of virtual medical devices based at least on the calculated viewing angle.

Abstract: A liquid injector (400) injects a medical liquid into a patient whose fluoroscopic image data is to be picked up, and generates injection history data corresponding to the injection. A control box (500) allocates identification data associated with the fluoroscopic image data to the injection history data, and PACS (300) stores the fluoroscopic image data and the injection history data allocated with the identification data. The injection history data is also stored in association with the fluoroscopic image data to be stored, and hence the injection history data can also be confirmed when viewing the fluoroscopic image data.

Abstract: A marker delivery device is configured for deploying a tissue marker. The marker delivery device includes a handle having a chamber, and a cannula. According to one aspect, the cannula has a flexible portion formed by a slot arrangement having of a plurality of spaced-apart substantially parallel peripheral slots extending through the side wall of the cannula to the lumen. A marker introducer rod is movably disposed in the lumen of the cannula for deploying the mark, and has a flexible region that corresponds to the flexible portion of the cannula. According to another aspect, a retraction mechanism is mounted to the handle and is configured to facilitate a complete retraction of both the cannula and the marker introducer rod into the chamber of the housing of the handle upon an actuation of the retraction mechanism.

Abstract: An optical biological information detecting apparatus includes a light emitting unit which emits observation light of a specific wavelength band to optically observe a desired portion of a tissue of a skin of a human body, and an annular light guide unit which guides the observation light to a desired area of a surface of the skin corresponding to the desired portion of the tissue of the skin, and which annularly irradiates the observation light onto the desired area of the surface of the skin. The apparatus further includes a light receiving unit which is disposed at a position surrounded by the annular light guide unit, and which receives scattered light scattered by the desired portion of the tissue of the skin after the observation light is annularly irradiated onto the desired area of the surface of the skin by the annular light guide unit.

Abstract: A new model is provided for understanding and exploiting impedance or admittance values measured by implantable medical devices, such as pacemakers or cardiac resynchronization devices (CRTs.) The device measures impedance along vectors extending through tissues of the patient between various pairs of electrodes. The device then converts the vector-based impedance measurements into near-field individual electrode-based impedance values. This is accomplished, in at least some examples, by converting the vector-based impedance measurements into a set of linear equations to be solved while ignoring far-field contributions to the impedance measurements. The device solves the linear equations to determine the near-field impedance values for the individual electrodes, which are representative of the impedance of tissues in the vicinity of the electrodes.

Abstract: An electroencephalogram signal processing method includes a recording step, a retrieving step, a removing step and a synthesizing step. The recording step retrieves EEG signal components of a testee via a plurality of electrodes, wherein the EEG signal components serve as an input signal. The retrieving step filters the input signal to obtain a predetermined frequency band signal, and subtracts the predetermined frequency band signal from the input signal to obtain a difference signal. The removing step performs an independent component analysis operation between the difference signal and a separating matrix to obtain an analysis signal, generates a separating pseudo inverse and an independent analysis signal, and performs a matrix operation between the separating pseudo inverse and the independent analysis signal to obtain a corrected signal. The synthesizing step adds the corrected signal and the predetermined frequency band signal together to obtain an output signal.

Abstract: A body fat measurement device includes a trunk area dimension measurement unit in which is provided a trunk area dimension detection unit for detecting a dimension of a measurement subject's trunk area. The trunk area dimension measurement unit has a frame shape that can be disposed surrounding the measurement subject's trunk area, and includes a base portion whose position relative to the trunk area does not change in a state where the trunk area dimension measurement unit is disposed surrounding the trunk area, and a mobile portion that is attached in a movable state to the base portion and whose position relative to the trunk area can change in a state where the trunk area dimension measurement unit is disposed surrounding the trunk area. The trunk area dimension detection unit includes at least a non-contact range sensor provided in the mobile portion.

Abstract: Disclosed are improved rechargeable battery designs for an implantable medical device. The improved rechargeable battery is designed to reduce eddy currents in the conductive anode and/or cathode plates within the battery housing, thereby reducing excessive heat and vibrations caused when the battery is placed in a high magnetic field, such as within a MRI machine. Discontinuities may be cut in the anode and/or cathode plates to increase their resistance to eddy currents, while not significantly affecting the internal resistance between these plates.

Abstract: A single-pass pacing lead capable of sensing and pacing both the atria and the ventricles is described. In some examples, the single-pass pacing lead is connected to a DDD pacemaker. In some examples, the single-pass pacing lead comprises four electrodes. In some examples, the lead includes three electrodes configured to be positioned in or near an atrium, e.g., the right atrium, and one electrode configured to be positioned in or near a ventricle, e.g., the left ventricle, when the lead is implanted. In other examples, the lead includes two electrodes configured to be positioned in each of the atrium and ventricle when the lead is implanted. In some examples, one of the electrodes, which is configured to be positioned proximate the coronary sinus ostium when the lead is implanted, comprises a helical element for fixation of the lead to tissue.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for discriminating heart arrhythmias. The methods and systems include identifying an arrhythmia, recording a predetermined number of beats during the arrhythmia as a base arrhythmia (BA) beats; delivering anti-tachy pacing (ATP) therapy to at least one chamber of the heart. After delivering the ATP therapy, the methods and system record at least one return beat representing cardiac activity following the ATP therapy, determines whether the return beat originated in a reference chamber of the heart, compares a morphology of the return beat to a morphology of the BA beat; and declares a VT or SVT based on the comparing operation.

Abstract: Adaptive methods for initiating charging of the high power capacitors of an implantable medical device for therapy delivery after the patient experiences a non-sustained arrhythmia, and devices that perform such methods. The adaptive methods and devices adjust persistence criteria used to analyze an arrhythmia prior to initiating a charging sequence to deliver therapy. Some embodiments apply a specific sequence of X-out-of-Y criteria, persistence criteria, and last event criteria before starting charging for therapy delivery.

Abstract: Methods and systems involve adjusting an energy used for safety pacing based on the capture threshold. The safety pacing energy may be adjusted prior to a capture threshold test. During the capture threshold test, backup safety paces are delivered using the adjusted pacing energy. Following suspension of automatic capture verification, the device may enter a suspension mode. During the suspension mode, safety pacing pulses are delivered using a pacing energy adjusted based on capture threshold.

Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a connection body for welding a conductor member to a functional lead component such as a fixation base or terminal pin. The various connection body embodiments each have at least one slot defined in a wall of the connection body at which the conductor member is laser welded to the connection body.

Abstract: A hermetic feedthrough for an implantable medical device includes an insulator, a conduit configured to conduct electricity through the insulator, and a ferrule coupled to the insulator. The insulator is formed from a ceramic material and the conduit and insulator have a co-fired bond therebetween, which hermetically seals the conduit with the insulator. The insulator is elongate and has opposing ends that include flat surfaces and the ferrule includes a frame for receiving the insulator.

Abstract: Bioelectrical signals may be sensed within a brain of a patient with a plurality of sense electrode combinations. A stimulation electrode combination for delivering stimulation to the patient to manage a patient condition may be selected based on the frequency band characteristics of the sensed signals. In some examples, a stimulation electrode combination associated with the sense electrode combination that sensed a bioelectrical brain signal having a relatively highest relative beta band power level may be selected to deliver stimulation therapy to the patient. Other frequency bands characteristics may also be used to select the stimulation electrode combination.

Abstract: In some examples, the disclosure relates to system, devices, and techniques for delivering dorsal column stimulation. One or more locations for dorsal column stimulation may be identified based on sensed signals evoked by delivery of stimulation to a dorsal root and/or peripheral nerve of a patient. In some examples, an IMD may deliver dorsal column stimulation in combination with dorsal root stimulation to a patient to treat a patient condition.

Abstract: A system and method for delivery of selected electrical impulses to selected locations on the body of a patient. In certain embodiments, the selected electrical impulses mimic the natural impulses that travel along neurons and the inverse thereof. A system for administering the selected electrical impulses may include an input element, impulse generator, impulse shaper, circuit booster element, output control element, time and sequence controller, display element, power source, and output element.

Abstract: A system and method for applying stimulation to a target stimulation site within a patient, while avoiding undesirable eye movement side effects of the stimulation, are provided. The method includes determining whether eye movement, sensed by internal or external electrodes, is a side effect of a conveyed electrical stimulus. If the eye movement is a side effect, the electrical current distribution of the stimulus is modified in order to steer a locus of the electrical stimulus from one tissue region of the patient to another different tissue region of the patient, thereby mitigating the eye movement side effects. For example, the locus of the electrical stimulus may be steered away from the oculomotor nerve. Eye movement side effects of DBS treatment may include apraxia of lid opening, downward movement and adduction of only one eyeball, and/or continuous deviation of both eyeballs.

Abstract: Approaches are described for fitting a simultaneous stimulation arrangement of a cochlear implant system to an implanted patient. Electrode contacts in an electrode array implanted in a patient cochlea are stimulated with a fitting pattern of stimulation signals. Then current spread decay parameters are determined for patient specific amplitude compensation of the simultaneous stimulation arrangement based on either a psychoacoustic aspect or an objective measurement of patient percept to the fitting pattern.

Abstract: An exemplary system for communicating with an implantable stimulator includes a coil configured to transmit a signal modulated with either on-off keying (OOK) modulation or Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) modulation. The system further includes a first telemetry receiver in the implantable stimulator configured to receive the signal in accordance with the OOK modulation and a second telemetry receiver in the implantable stimulator configured to receive the signal in accordance with the FSK modulation.

Abstract: A medical infusion pump and a method for logging a power source voltage of a medical infusion pump are disclosed. The medical pump may include a power source, a processor, and a voltage supervisor which responds if a voltage (VDD) drops to a response voltage level which is above a reset voltage level of the processor. When the voltage supervisor responds, the processor start logging the voltage (Vbat) of the power source in a memory, thus generating a voltage log. The memory maintains the logged data when the power supply by the power source is interrupted, thus enabling retrospective analysis of the voltage log.

Abstract: A device for electrical stimulation of the brain, heart, and other neurons and muscles, capable of modifying the electrical activity of its environment in ways that are desirable for a better life style of a patient with brain, heart, or other problems. When used for brain stimulation, the device is able to superimpose an electrical current on the natural current that happens to occur, when the natural currents cause some undesirable effect, as in Parkinson's disease. When used for heart stimulation, the device is able to superimpose an electrical current on the natural current that happens to occur, originating at the sino-atrial node, which causes a healthy heart to pump blood to the lungs and to the body. The device offers an improvement over prior art of being capable of adjusting the position of the stimulating electrodes.

Abstract: A medical electrical lead component includes a groove formed in a surface of the component. The medical electrical lead includes a portion of a conductor positioned within the groove and a resistance weld formed between the portion of the conductor positioned within the groove and the component. In one embodiment, the portion of the conductor positioned within the groove includes a pre-weld diameter greater than the depth of the groove.

Abstract: One embodiment is an implantable lead including a lead body having a proximal end and a distal end; multiple electrodes disposed along the distal end of the lead body; multiple terminal contacts disposed along the proximal end of the lead body; multiple stimulation conductors extending along the lead body and electrically coupling the electrodes to the terminal contacts; at least one diversionary terminal contact disposed along the proximal end of the lead body; and at least one diversionary conductor extending at least partially along the length of the lead body and coupled to the at least one diversionary terminal contact and not coupled to any of the electrodes. The at least one diversionary conductor is configured and arranged to capacitively couple to the stimulation conductors.

Abstract: A conductor assembly for an implantable medical device includes a first conductive coil and a second conductive coil co-radial with and electrically isolated from the first conductive coil. The first and second conductive coils each including a plurality of turns. Two or more adjacently wound consecutive turns of the first conductive coil alternate with two or more adjacently wound consecutive turns of the second conductive coil.

Abstract: A shielded component or network for an active medical device (AMD) implantable lead includes (1) an implantable lead having a length extending from a proximal end to a distal end, all external of an AMD housing, (2) a passive component or network disposed somewhere along the length of the implantable lead, the passive component or network including at least one inductive component having a first inductive value, and (3) an electromagnetic shield substantially surrounding the inductive component or the passive network. The first inductive value of the inductive component is adjusted to a account for a shift in its inductance to a second inductive value when shielded.

Abstract: An intra-cardiac implantable medical device (IIMD) system may include a housing and an intra-cardiac (IC) device extension. The housing may be configured to be implanted entirely within a local chamber of the heart. The housing includes a base configured to be secured to the local chamber. The IC device extension may include a proximal end, a distal end, and an extension body extending there between. The proximal end may be coupled to the housing and configured to be located in the local chamber. The extension body may include an IE orientation segment connected to a chamber transition segment that is sufficient in length to extend from the local chamber into an adjacent chamber. The IE orientation segment is configured to be lodged within the adjacent chamber in order to stabilize the system within heart.

Abstract: An implantable active fixation cardiac lead is disclosed that includes an elongated lead body having opposed proximal and distal end portions and having an interior lumen extending therethrough, an axially rotatable extendable and retractable fixation helix operatively associated with the distal end portion of the lead body, a rotatable in-line quadripolar connector assembly operatively associated with the proximal end portion of the lead body and including an elongated rotatable pin electrode having opposed proximal and distal end portions, and an elongated torque transmitting conductor coil extending through the interior lumen of the lead body and having a proximal end portion connected to the distal end portion of the rotatable pin electrode and a distal end portion connected to the rotatable fixation helix, to facilitate manual activation of the fixation helix.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device, particularly a machine tool device, having at least one computer (10), at least one transmitter (12) for transmitting a transmission signal (S1, S2), at least one receiver (14) for receiving at least one receiving signal (E1, E2, E3, E4) excited by the transmission signal (S1, S2), and at least one analysis unit (16) which is provided to calculate at least one parameter (P1, P2, P3, P4) by means of the receiving signal (E1, E2, E3, E4). The invention provides that the computer unit (10) is provided to compare the parameter (P1, P2, P3, P4) to at least one comparison parameter (V1, V2, V3, V4) calculated by means of at least one model (M).

Abstract: A power converter system is provided, comprising a plant having a plant input and a plant output; and a plant identification filter that receives the plant input and the plant output, and estimates the values of poles and zeros of the plant, wherein the plant identification filter updates the estimates of the poles and zeros, based upon the plant input and the plant output, beginning from an initial state; and a rate at which the plant identification filter updates the estimates of the values of the poles and zeros is slower than a rate at which the plant input and the plant output are received by the plant identification filter.

Abstract: This invention relates to system and method for conducting a competition. Specifically, the invention relates to a computer-implemented peer-to-peer anonymous evaluation to determine a winner of a competition.

Abstract: A method and device are for fantasy sport applications including receiving a plurality of ranking values associated with a sport player; assigning a corresponding weight value to each ranking value; determining a score value as a function of the ranking value and the corresponding weight value; determining a final ranking value as a function of the score values for the sport player; and generating a recommendation for the sport player as a function of the final ranking value.

Abstract: A method of calculating an exercise goal includes receiving a selection of exercise route data from the user indicating a length of an exercise route, calculating a distance that the user has completed on the exercise route and a corresponding elapsed time for a completed portion of the exercise route, and calculating a target pace for a remaining portion of the exercise route not yet completed, the target pace indicating a pace at which the user needs to move along the exercise route in order to achieve an exercise goal associated with the exercise route data received from the user. The method also includes outputting the target pace to the user for informing the user about the target pace, and repeatedly dynamically calculating the target pace and outputting the target pace until completion of the exercise route.

Abstract: A digital signal switching apparatus is provided. The digital signal switching apparatus inputs and outputs digital signals to which status information formed of a block including a plurality of frames is added. The digital signal switching apparatus includes: a retrieving unit configured to retrieve the status information from the digital signal to which switching processing was performed; a storing unit configured to store one or more blocks of the status information retrieved by the retrieving unit; and an adding unit configured to add again the status information stored in the storing unit by the block to a position of the status information in the digital signal to which the switching processing was performed.