Abstract: A method of and apparatus for recapturing data from scanning devices and storing the captured data in digital form using a method that allows for easy, fast and reliable access for viewing, printing, transmitting, et cetera. More specifically, the method of the present invention allows institutions such as banks to "touch" data that has been captured using high speed reader/sorter devices. The invention interacts with such devices to store scanned digital images to storage devices using a hierarchical storage management module in order to migrate less accessed images to more cost effective storage media, such as optical disk and/or tape. Users access copies of the scanned items using an application that queries a database that holds pointers to the actual location of the physical digital image. The location of the scanned image is transparent to the end-user.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process which can be fully automated for accurately determining the alleles of STR genetic markers. More specifically, the present invention is related to performing PCR amplification on locations of DNA, labelling the PCR products, converting the labels into a signal, removing a reproducible PCR stutter pattern from the signal by means of a computational device, and then determining the genotype of the location of the DNA. An amplification can include multiple locations from the DNA of one or more individuals. The invention also pertains to genetics applications and systems which can effectively use this genotyping information.

Abstract: An apparatus for reading a series of magnetic characters on a bank check is herein disclosed. The characters are preprinted in a certain way within a predetermined area of the check. Also, the characters within the series of characters may be any character from a predetermined group of characters. The apparatus includes a housing which defines a specific path through which the check, oriented in a predetermined way, is intended to pass. The housing supports a magnetic read head for sensing the magnetic characters on the check as it passes through the apparatus and for producing an electrical signal unique to each character. The housing also supports automatically moving the check through the path defined by the housing at a speed which is intended to be constant but which may vary randomly within a certain tolerance. This moving of the check through the apparatus produces the electrical signals as the characters move past the read head.

Abstract: Arrangement for lifting image of checks, with Xenon lamp, Fluorescent lamp or like source of stable-wavelength-output and CCPD Camera means selected to exhibit "close-to-human" spectral response plus a photopic filter, disposed upstream of the Camera and adapted to shift its received image-light spectrum in the direction of that which is optimal for the human-eye.

Abstract: An image processing and retrieval system in which images are captured and stored at the remote site where the document processor is located, with codelines from the documents captured and transmitted to a central host computer site, whereby the accounting and financial records may be done at the host computer at the central site and image statements and other image processing activity to process the image may be done at remote sites.

Abstract: An invention provides an arrangement for accomplishing three objects. The first is correcting distortions caused by probe geometry in probe microscope or profilometer data. The second is calculating apparent probe data from models. The third is deducing the shape of the probe tip from a standard or reference sample. The correction of distorted images data is done by mathematically placing one or more known or hypothetical tip surfaces at one or more points of the distorted image surface to provide a reconstructed surface, which is the envelope surface formed by all such tip surfaces. The calculation of probe microscope image data from one or more mathematical models of sample surfaces is done by mathematically placing one or more known or hypothetical inverted probe tip surface at one or more points on the mathematical model surface, and taking the image surface to be the envelope formed by all such tip surfaces.

Abstract: A trolley wheel assembly for use with an overhead conveyor system. The trolley wheel assembly includes a roller comprising a solid generally cylindrical body with a blind bore opening in the outboard face of the roller; a shaft positioned at one end in the blind bore and having a free end projecting out of the bore for connection to a trolley hanger; a bearing positioned in the blind bore and including an inner race press fit on the shaft and an outer race press fit in the blind bore; and a metallic ring seal sealingly engaging at its outer periphery with the outboard annular face of the outer race and at its inner periphery with the outboard annular face of the inner race to preclude the entry of contaminants into the bearing or the escape of lubricants from the bearing.