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A method for reducing noise in a video distribution system comprising: applying motion compensated temporal filtering to image data using motion vectors previously generated during compression of the image data, wherein: said motion compensated temporal filtering is adapted to reduce noise in said image data, the need for regeneration of said motion vectors during said motion compensated temporal filtering step is eliminated, applying noise reducing adaptive spatial filtering to the image data, a scene change detection process determining whether a current frame qualifies as a scene change frame, characterised by selecting one of either output of said motion compensated temporal filtering or output of said noise reducing adaptive spatial filtering based on said determining, wherein the output of said noise reducing adaptive spatial filtering is selected and sent to a delay stage for output to a second pass encoder if the scene change detection process determines that said current frame qualifies as a scene change frame. said motion compensated temporal filtering is adapted to reduce noise in said image data, the need for regeneration of said motion vectors during said motion compensated temporal filtering step is eliminated, applying noise reducing adaptive spatial filtering to the image data, a scene change detection process determining whether a current frame qualifies as a scene change frame, characterised by selecting one of either output of said motion compensated temporal filtering or output of said noise reducing adaptive spatial filtering based on said determining, wherein the output of said noise reducing adaptive spatial filtering is selected and sent to a delay stage for output to a second pass encoder if the scene change detection process determines that said current frame qualifies as a scene change frame.
A spark plug comprising: a center electrode which extends in an axial direction; a cylindrical insulator which is disposed around an outer circumference of the center electrode; a cylindrical metal shell which is disposed around an outer circumference of the insulator; and a ground electrode having one end connected to the metal shell and which is curved from the one end to another end thereof, and an end surface of the other end being positioned between the one end and the center electrode or on the center electrode, when viewed in the axial direction of the center electrode, wherein the end surface has a maximum width portion which has a maximum width in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the center electrode, wherein the maximum width portion of the end surface is formed only at a position where a distance from a center position of the end surface is 12% to 88% of a distance from the center position of the end surface to an outer side surface of the ground electrode in a direction directed from an inner side surface of the ground electrode to the outer side surface of the ground electrode, and wherein the more away from the maximum width portion toward the inner side surface and the outer side surface of the ground electrode, respectively, the more reduced the width of the end surface is in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the center electrode. a center electrode which extends in an axial direction; a cylindrical insulator which is disposed around an outer circumference of the center electrode; a cylindrical metal shell which is disposed around an outer circumference of the insulator; and a ground electrode having one end connected to the metal shell and which is curved from the one end to another end thereof, and an end surface of the other end being positioned between the one end and the center electrode or on the center electrode, when viewed in the axial direction of the center electrode, wherein the end surface has a maximum width portion which has a maximum width in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the center electrode, wherein the maximum width portion of the end surface is formed only at a position where a distance from a center position of the end surface is 12% to 88% of a distance from the center position of the end surface to an outer side surface of the ground electrode in a direction directed from an inner side surface of the ground electrode to the outer side surface of the ground electrode, and wherein the more away from the maximum width portion toward the inner side surface and the outer side surface of the ground electrode, respectively, the more reduced the width of the end surface is in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the center electrode.
Built-in self-testing method of a near field communication device, comprising testing a first internal communication link between a reader transmitter block or antenna driver block and a tag emulator block, by sending, on said first internal communication link, a first command from said reader transmitter block or antenna driver block used as a transmitter to said tag emulator block used as a receiver, and by checking said first command has been correctly executed by said tag emulator block.
Method for determining the elastic properties of a spherical part, comprising the emission of beams of ultrasonic waves in the direction of a impact point of the surface of the spherical part, so as to generate waves in said part, characterised in that, knowing the diameter d 1 of the part at the impact point in a first direction D 1 and the length of a chord d 2 in a second direction forming an angle β determined with respect to the first direction, a first measurement t 1 is made of the time taken by longitudinal ultrasonic waves transmitted to travel the distance d 1 from said impact point, by placing a transducer-transmitter in a first position, the transducer-transmitter then being moved horizontally to a second position, so that to bring the beam to the summit of the spherical part, a second measurement of the time t 2 taken by the transverse ultrasonic waves transmitted to travel the distance d 2 from said impact point, given that for the measurement of t 2, separate measurements are made of the time t R of transmission of the waves through the coupling fluid and then for the transmission time t m both in the part and in the coupling fluid to a transducer-receptor that is different from the transducer-transmitter, the time t R is then subtracted from the time t m, the Young's modulus and/or the Poisson's ratio of the material from the longitudinal velocity V L = d 1 /t 1 and the transverse velocity V T = d 2 /t 2 are determined.
A thermal stabilization system for stabilizing operation of an inertial measurement unit, comprising: a thermoelectric device for stabilizing the temperature around the IMU; a drive circuit generating a pulse width modulated drive signal for operating the thermoelectric device; and a controller configured to: monitor a temperature around the thermoelectric device and a duty cycle for the drive signal used for operating the drive circuit, generate a control signal for controlling the drive circuit based on the monitored temperature and duty cycle of the drive signal, and vary a dead-time compensation value and a scale factor compensation value used for linear or polynomial regression of IMU data versus PWM duty cycle. a thermoelectric device for stabilizing the temperature around the IMU; a drive circuit generating a pulse width modulated drive signal for operating the thermoelectric device; and a controller configured to: monitor a temperature around the thermoelectric device and a duty cycle for the drive signal used for operating the drive circuit, generate a control signal for controlling the drive circuit based on the monitored temperature and duty cycle of the drive signal, and vary a dead-time compensation value and a scale factor compensation value used for linear or polynomial regression of IMU data versus PWM duty cycle. monitor a temperature around the thermoelectric device and a duty cycle for the drive signal used for operating the drive circuit, generate a control signal for controlling the drive circuit based on the monitored temperature and duty cycle of the drive signal, and vary a dead-time compensation value and a scale factor compensation value used for linear or polynomial regression of IMU data versus PWM duty cycle.
A method of selecting an optimal therapeutic treatment of cancer in a subject having a tumor, which method comprises: - a step of assessing in vitro the sensitivity of the subject to a first treatment of cancer selected from a chemotherapy using a drug selected from an anthracycline a platin, an oxaliplatin, a taxane and an anti-mitotic agent, or radiotherapy, by determining the ability of the subject and/or of the tumor to induce an anticancer immune response, the inability of at least one of the subject and of the tumor to induce an anticancer immune response being indicative of a resistance of the subject to said first treatment of cancer and, if the subject is resistant to said first treatment of cancer, - a step of selecting (i) a product stimulating the autophagy machinery selected from an apyrase inhibitor, spermidin, resveratrol and rapamycin analogs and/or a product stimulating an ER stress response selected from digoxin, digitoxin, ouabain, strophantin, proscillaridin, sanguinarine and thapsigargin (THAPS), (ii) a product promoting activation of theTLR4/myd88 pathway, or able to bypass said pathway, selected from dendrophilin, HMGB1 and/or chloroquine or (iii) any combination thereof, to be used in combination with the first treatment of cancer as the optimal therapeutic treatment of cancer for the subject. - a step of assessing in vitro the sensitivity of the subject to a first treatment of cancer selected from a chemotherapy using a drug selected from an anthracycline a platin, an oxaliplatin, a taxane and an anti-mitotic agent, or radiotherapy, by determining the ability of the subject and/or of the tumor to induce an anticancer immune response, the inability of at least one of the subject and of the tumor to induce an anticancer immune response being indicative of a resistance of the subject to said first treatment of cancer and, if the subject is resistant to said first treatment of cancer, - a step of selecting (i) a product stimulating the autophagy machinery selected from an apyrase inhibitor, spermidin, resveratrol and rapamycin analogs and/or a product stimulating an ER stress response selected from digoxin, digitoxin, ouabain, strophantin, proscillaridin, sanguinarine and thapsigargin (THAPS), (ii) a product promoting activation of theTLR4/myd88 pathway, or able to bypass said pathway, selected from dendrophilin, HMGB1 and/or chloroquine or (iii) any combination thereof, to be used in combination with the first treatment of cancer as the optimal therapeutic treatment of cancer for the subject.
Connector for a heat exchanger, which is one part of a two-piece connection, the connector being used for connecting said heat exchanger to a second part of the connection: - comprising a body of the connector limited by opposing faces (4, 5), wherein a first face being intended to be arranged from the side of said heat exchanger, and a second face being intended to be arranged from the side of said second part of the connection, - comprising a hole through the said first and second faces, wherein said second face comprises means for connecting said connector to said second part of the connection, wherein the connector comprises two areas, consisting of a first area and a second area, the first area is arranged from the side of said heat exchanger, while the second area is arranged from the side of said second part of the connection, interconnected together so that the first and second areas define a contact surface, characterized in that the first area and the second area are made of materials with different mechanical properties, such that the metal material of the second area has hardness greater than the metal material of the first area. - comprising a body of the connector limited by opposing faces (4, 5), wherein a first face being intended to be arranged from the side of said heat exchanger, and a second face being intended to be arranged from the side of said second part of the connection, - comprising a hole through the said first and second faces,
Mounting device for mounting an electrical device to a ceiling suspended beam being a channel having a substantially U-shaped cross-section and having a sheet portion along a longitudinal extension of the ceiling suspended beam, whereby the first side of the sheet portion is the side facing the inside of the channel and the second side of the sheet portion is the side on the outside of the channel, the mounting device comprising: an internal portion adapted to be positioned at least partly within the channel on the first side of the sheet portion of the ceiling suspended beam, - an external portion adapted to be positioned outside of the channel on the second side of the sheet portion of the ceiling suspended beam, the external portion comprising a fixating structure for fixating the electrical device, and - a load bearing portion adapted to be placed external to the ceiling suspended beam, connecting the internal portion to the external portion, wherein the load bearing portion comprises an engaging surface adapted to engage an upwards facing edge surface of the sheet portion of the ceiling suspended beam and transfer at least some of the weight of the electrical device to the ceiling suspended beam, wherein the load bearing portion is hollow and comprises an integrated electrical conduit extending within said hollow load bearing portion from the internal portion to the external portion, characterized in that the external portion further comprises a planar surface adapted to engage a planar surface on the second side of the sheet portion of the ceiling suspended beam, such that the electrical device is stabilized by the connection of the planar surfaces and suspended in the ceiling suspended beam 20. - an external portion adapted to be positioned outside of the channel on the second side of the sheet portion of the ceiling suspended beam, the external portion comprising a fixating structure for fixating the electrical device, and - a load bearing portion adapted to be placed external to the ceiling suspended beam, connecting the internal portion to the external portion, wherein the load bearing portion comprises an engaging surface adapted to engage an upwards facing edge surface of the sheet portion of the ceiling suspended beam and transfer at least some of the weight of the electrical device to the ceiling suspended beam, wherein the load bearing portion is hollow and comprises an integrated electrical conduit extending within said hollow load bearing portion from the internal portion to the external portion, characterized in that the external portion further comprises a planar surface adapted to engage a planar surface on the second side of the sheet portion of the ceiling suspended beam, such that the electrical device is stabilized by the connection of the planar surfaces and suspended in the ceiling suspended beam 20.
A barrier-film forming apparatus that forms a barrier film on an inner face of a container having at least one concave or convex portion as a processing target container, the barrier-film forming apparatus comprising: a dielectric member that has a cavity sized to enclose the container; an external electrode that covers an outer circumference of the dielectric member; an exhaust unit that is installed on an end face of the external electrode on a side where a mouth of the container is located, with an insulation member interposed therebetween, and adapted to depressurize the inside of the container through an exhaust pipe; a gas blowout unit that blows out medium gas for generating a barrier film, into the container; and an electric-field applying unit that applies an electric field for generating discharge between the external electrode and a ground electrode; characterized in that the container and the dielectric member are arranged so that a portion (b) is provided where the container and the dielectric member are separated by a first space and a portion (a) is provided where the container and the dielectric member are separated by a second space narrower than the first space. a dielectric member that has a cavity sized to enclose the container; an external electrode that covers an outer circumference of the dielectric member; an exhaust unit that is installed on an end face of the external electrode on a side where a mouth of the container is located, with an insulation member interposed therebetween, and adapted to depressurize the inside of the container through an exhaust pipe; a gas blowout unit that blows out medium gas for generating a barrier film, into the container; and an electric-field applying unit that applies an electric field for generating discharge between the external electrode and a ground electrode; characterized in that the container and the dielectric member are arranged so that a portion (b) is provided where the container and the dielectric member are separated by a first space and a portion (a) is provided where the container and the dielectric member are separated by a second space narrower than the first space.
A bicycle hydraulic brake mechanism mountable to a handlebar, the brake mechanism comprising: a housing mountable to the handlebar, the housing comprising a base portion; a gear shift mechanism disposed within the base portion; and a master cylinder assembly disposed within the housing, the master cylinder assembly including; a fluid chamber, comprising: a first chamber portion having a first diameter, a second chamber portion having a second diameter, the first diameter greater than the second diameter, and a transition region between the first and second chamber portions (42, 44); a piston assembly, comprising: a piston slidably disposed within the fluid chamber, a first seal configured to sealingly engage between the first chamber portion and the piston, and a second seal configured to sealingly engage between the second chamber portion and the piston; and an actuator operatively connected to the housing and configured to slidably displace the piston assembly in the fluid chamber, characterised in that the bicycle hydraulic brake mechanism further comprises an output chamber disposed between the first seal and the second seal, when the first seal is sealingly engaged between the piston and the first chamber portion and the second seal is sealingly engaged between the piston and the second chamber portion; wherein an outlet port extends from the output chamber. a housing mountable to the handlebar, the housing comprising a base portion; a gear shift mechanism disposed within the base portion; and a master cylinder assembly disposed within the housing, the master cylinder assembly including; a fluid chamber, comprising: a first chamber portion having a first diameter, a second chamber portion having a second diameter, the first diameter greater than the second diameter, and a transition region between the first and second chamber portions (42, 44); a piston assembly, comprising: a piston slidably disposed within the fluid chamber, a first seal configured to sealingly engage between the first chamber portion and the piston, and a second seal configured to sealingly engage between the second chamber portion and the piston; and an actuator operatively connected to the housing and configured to slidably displace the piston assembly in the fluid chamber, characterised in that the bicycle hydraulic brake mechanism further comprises an output chamber disposed between the first seal and the second seal, when the first seal is sealingly engaged between the piston and the first chamber portion and the second seal is sealingly engaged between the piston and the second chamber portion; wherein an outlet port extends from the output chamber. a first chamber portion having a first diameter, a second chamber portion having a second diameter, the first diameter greater than the second diameter, and a transition region between the first and second chamber portions (42, 44); a piston slidably disposed within the fluid chamber, a first seal configured to sealingly engage between the first chamber portion and the piston, and a second seal configured to sealingly engage between the
An apparatus for measuring ion size distributions and concentration of ions, comprising: a jet relaxation chamber having a conductive inner wall, wherein said conductive inner wall surrounds said jet relaxation chamber; means for providing a first high voltage to said conductive inner wall; a source (9, 11) of gas-borne atmospheric pressure ions; a first nozzle that is electrically grounded and configured to direct said gas-borne atmospheric pressure ions from said source (9, 11) into said jet relaxation chamber; and a vacuum pump operatively connected to reduce the pressure within said jet relaxation chamber to a pressure that is sufficiently low to provide flow conditions of said gas-borne atmospheric pressure ions at said first nozzle to form an ion-laden jet of gas in said jet relaxation chamber; wherein said first high voltage is sufficient to provide a potential hill onto which said ions can be lifted by the force of said ion-laden jet of gas; and wherein said first nozzle protrudes past said conductive inner wall into said jet relaxation chamber so as to form in said potential hill a potential valley that is steeper in a radial direction than in an axial direction, and provides a steering effect that guides the ions towards the center of the valley, wherein the steepness of the potential valley is related to the difference in potential between the nozzle and the conductive inner wall, along with the distance between the nozzle and the conductive inner wall. a jet relaxation chamber having a conductive inner wall, wherein said conductive inner wall surrounds said jet relaxation chamber; means for providing a first high voltage to said conductive inner wall; a source (9, 11) of gas-borne atmospheric pressure ions; a first nozzle that is electrically grounded and configured to direct said gas-borne atmospheric pressure ions from said source (9, 11) into said jet relaxation chamber; and a vacuum pump operatively connected to reduce the pressure within said jet relaxation chamber to a pressure that is sufficiently low to provide flow conditions of said gas-borne atmospheric pressure ions at said first nozzle to form an ion-laden jet of gas in said jet relaxation chamber; wherein said first high voltage is sufficient to provide a potential hill onto which said ions can be lifted by the force of said ion-laden jet of gas; and wherein said first nozzle protrudes past said conductive inner wall into said jet relaxation chamber so as to form in said potential hill a potential valley that is steeper in a radial direction than in an axial direction, and provides a steering effect that guides the ions towards the center of the valley, wherein the steepness of the potential valley is related to the difference in potential between the nozzle and the conductive inner wall, along with the distance between the nozzle and the conductive inner wall.