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A method of tracking movement of one or more objects on a touch surface of a touch-sensitive apparatus, the touch-sensitive apparatus being operable to propagate light by internal reflections inside a light transmissive panel from a plurality of incoupling points distributed along the perimeter of the touch surface to a plurality of outcoupling points distributed along the perimeter of the touch surface, so as to illuminate the touch surface from within the light transmissive panel, wherein at least one light detector is optically coupled to the outcoupling points to generate an output signal representing received light at the outcoupling points, said method comprising the steps of: processing (51, 52) the output signal to generate an attenuation pattern that indicates local attenuation of light on the touch surface; processing the attenuation pattern for identification of positive and negative peaks, wherein each positive peak represents a locally increased attenuation in the attenuation pattern and each negative peak represents a locally decreased attenuation in the attenuation pattern; processing the positive and negative peaks to identify potentially false peaks among the positive and negative peaks; and updating, based on the potentially false peaks, movement trajectories of all objects deemed to exist on the touch surface at a preceding time point, wherein the step of processing the positive and negative peaks applies at least one of a first heuristic and a second heuristic for identifying the potentially false peaks, said first heuristic designating a positive peak as a potentially false peak when the positive peak is deemed to have a given spatial relation with one or more of the negative peaks, and said second heuristic designating a positive peak as a potentially false peak when the positive peak is deemed to be located along one of the movement trajectories. processing (51, 52) the output signal to generate an attenuation pattern that indicates local attenuation of light on the touch surface; processing the attenuation pattern for identification of positive and negative peaks, wherein each positive peak represents a locally increased attenuation in the attenuation pattern and each negative peak represents a locally decreased attenuation in the attenuation pattern; processing the positive and negative peaks to identify potentially false peaks among the positive and negative peaks; and updating, based on the potentially false peaks, movement trajectories of all objects deemed to exist on the touch surface at a preceding time point, wherein the step of processing the positive and negative peaks applies at least one of a first heuristic and a second heuristic for identifying the potentially false peaks, said first heuristic designating a positive peak as a potentially false peak when the positive peak is deemed to have a given spatial relation with one or more of the negative peaks, and said second heuristic designating a positive peak as a potentially false peak when the positive peak is deemed to be located along one of the movement trajectories.
Utility vehicle tyre of radial type of construction having a tread with shoulder-side circumferential channels which delimit in each case one shoulder-side profile rib at a tread inner side, and having at least two middle circumferential channels in the tread region between the shoulder-side circumferential channels, wherein each shoulder-side circumferential channel has an average depth (T 1) and an average width (B 1) determined at a depth of 4.5 mm measured in a radial direction, and each middle circumferential channel has an average depth (T 2, T 2 ', T 2 ") which differs from the average depth (T 1) of the shoulder-side circumferential channel and an average width (B 2, B 2 ', B 2 ") which is smaller than the average width (B 1) of each shoulder-side circumferential channel and which is likewise measured at a depth of 4.5 mm determined in a radial direction, wherein the average width (B 1) of each shoulder-side circumferential channel corresponds to at least two times the average width (B 2, B 2 ', B 2 ") of that middle circumferential channel which has the greatest average width (B 2, B 2 ', B 2 ") of all of the middle circumferential channels, characterized in that the average depth (T 1) of each shoulder-side circumferential channel is smaller, by 0.8 mm to 2.0 mm, than the average depth (T 2, T 2 ', T 2 ") of the middle circumferential channel(s) with the greatest average depth (T 2, T 2 ', T 2 ").
Coating system for coating workpieces, with - at least one receiving mandrel for receiving at least one workpiece, - a conveying means, with which the at least one receiving mandrel can be conveyed to processing stations, - a painting station, in which the at least one workpiece on the receiving mandrel is coated with a paint, and - a curing station, in which the at least one workpiece on the receiving mandrel can be irradiated in an inert gas atmosphere by means of a radiation means, whereby the paint is cured, characterized in that - the receiving mandrel can be pivoted between a horizontal first working position and a vertical second working position, - the receiving mandrel with the at least one workpiece is pivoted in the painting station into the horizontal first working position and - in that the receiving mandrel with the at least one workpiece is pivoted in the curing station into the vertical second working position. - at least one receiving mandrel for receiving at least one workpiece, - a conveying means, with which the at least one receiving mandrel can be conveyed to processing stations, - a painting station, in which the at least one workpiece on the receiving mandrel is coated with a paint, and - a curing station, in which the at least one workpiece on the receiving mandrel can be irradiated in an inert gas atmosphere by means of a radiation means, whereby the paint is cured, - the receiving mandrel can be pivoted between a horizontal first working position and a vertical second working position, - the receiving mandrel with the at least one workpiece is pivoted in the painting station into the horizontal first working position and - in that the receiving mandrel with the at least one workpiece is pivoted in the curing station into the vertical second working position.
A vehicle engine activation control system comprising: a starter connected to a battery; an idle stop control unit configured to automatically stop an engine and automatically reactivate the engine by the starter; an input unit configured to generate an operation request in response to an input from a driver; an electric parking brake device including an electric motor connected to the battery, wherein the electric motor starts driving in response to the operation request; and a mediating unit configured to prohibit the reactivation of the engine by the idle stop control unit when the electric motor is in a driving state in response to a predetermined operation request; the vehicle engine activation control system being characterized in that the mediating unit is further configured to discontinue the reactivation of the engine when the predetermined operation request is generated while the engine is being reactivated by the idle stop control unit, the idle stop control unit is configured to reactivate the engine after the driving of the electric motor is completed in response to the predetermined operation request when the mediating unit has discontinued the reactivation of the engine. a starter connected to a battery; an idle stop control unit configured to automatically stop an engine and automatically reactivate the engine by the starter; an input unit configured to generate an operation request in response to an input from a driver; an electric parking brake device including an electric motor connected to the battery, wherein the electric motor starts driving in response to the operation request; and a mediating unit configured to prohibit the reactivation of the engine by the idle stop control unit when the electric motor is in a driving state in response to a predetermined operation request; the vehicle engine activation control system being characterized in that the mediating unit is further configured to discontinue the reactivation of the engine when the predetermined operation request is generated while the engine is being reactivated by the idle stop control unit, the idle stop control unit is configured to reactivate the engine after the driving of the electric motor is completed in response to the predetermined operation request when the mediating unit has discontinued the reactivation of the engine.
A packet routing method for directing packets of a session between an originating node and a destination node in an IP network, the method comprising at an intermediate node (414, 418, 800): obtaining a lead packet of a plurality of packets in a given session, the lead packet being an initial packet that begins the session between a source client and a destination service having a network address and port number pair, the intermediate node (414, 418, 800) having an electronic interface (802, 804) in communication with the IP network, the intermediate node (414, 418, 800) obtaining the lead packet through the electronic interface; after obtaining the lead packet, assigning a unique session identifier to the given session; storing the unique session identifier in an information base (810, 900); modifying the lead packet to store said unique identifier associated with the session; forwarding the lead packet toward the destination node via a next node; after the lead packet has been forwarded by the intermediate node, receiving a backward message including a next node identifier of said next node and said session identifier from the next node, forming a forward association between the next node identifier and the session identifier, and storing the forward association to maintain state information for the session; receiving a plurality of additional packets for the given session; and using the stored forward association,_forwarding the plurality of additional packets in the given session toward the destination node via the next node. obtaining a lead packet of a plurality of packets in a given session, the lead packet being an initial packet that begins the session between a source client and a destination service having a network address and port number pair, the intermediate node (414, 418, 800) having an electronic interface (802, 804) in communication with the IP network, the intermediate node (414, 418, 800) obtaining the lead packet through the electronic interface; after obtaining the lead packet, assigning a unique session identifier to the given session; storing the unique session identifier in an information base (810, 900); modifying the lead packet to store said unique identifier associated with the session; forwarding the lead packet toward the destination node via a next node; after the lead packet has been forwarded by the intermediate node, receiving a backward message including a next node identifier of said next node and said session identifier from the next node, forming a forward association between the next node identifier and the session identifier, and storing the forward association to maintain state information for the session; receiving a plurality of additional packets for the given session; and using the stored forward association,_forwarding the plurality of additional packets in the given session toward the destination node via the next node.
A resin composition comprising a saponified ethylene-vinyl ester-based copolymer, a polyamide-based resin, a drying agent, and a basic metal salt, the basic metal salt excluding a metal salt included in the drying agent, wherein the drying agent is a hydrate-forming tricarboxylate metal salt and has a melting point of 300 °C or higher, wherein the hydrate-forming tricarboxylate metal salt is a completely or partially dehydrated compound having crystallization water less than 90 % by weight based on the total weight of the crystallization water of saturated hydrate thereof, wherein the basic metal salt is a magnesium salt of carboxylic acid having from 12 to 30 carbon atoms and has a melting point of 250 °C or less, and wherein the content of the basic metal salt in the resin composition is from 40 to 350 ppm in terms of the magnesium content of the basic metal salt, and whereby the reduction in weight of the resin composition after being kept at 250 °C in nitrogen atmosphere for 1 hour is 5 % by weight or more but 35 % by weight or less; wherein the reduction is a reduction in weight after the resin composition is kept at 250 °C in nitrogen atmosphere for 1 hour, wherein the reduction rate is determined by keeping the produced resin composition pellets at 250 °C in nitrogen atmosphere for 1 hour, and measuring the weights of pellets before and after being kept with a thermogravimetric analyzer Pyris1 TGA provided by PerkinElmer, wherein the reduction rate, which is % by weight based on the weight before heating, is calculated with the measurement value.
Method for an image-based measurement of a scene using a handheld apparatus, including - a recording of at least one first image and one second image of the scene by at least one camera (3, 3a, 3b) of the apparatus, wherein the first image and the second image have an overlapping image region, - a photogrammetric evaluating of the first and the second image, and - a graphic outputting of an image representation of the scene on a display unit, an automatically proceeding edge measurement functionality, as part of which, in each case without user intervention, - edges (60, 61) in the scene are identified utilizing the first and the second image of the scene, - edge lengths of the identified edges (60, 61) are ascertained based on the photogrammetrically evaluated images, and - the ascertained edge lengths are displayed in the image representation of the scene; characterized by an identifying of surfaces in the images, and a marking of the identified surfaces in the image representation of the scene, wherein - the surfaces are identified on the basis of typical dimensions and/or patterns, wherein the surfaces are assigned to windows or doors in the scene and have dimensions that are typical of windows or doors, and/or - the surfaces are identified using an adaptive algorithm. - a recording of at least one first image and one second image of the scene by at least one camera (3, 3a, 3b) of the apparatus, wherein the first image and the second image have an overlapping image region, - a photogrammetric evaluating of the first and the second image, and - a graphic outputting of an image representation of the scene on a display unit, an automatically proceeding edge measurement functionality, as part of which, in each case without user intervention, - edges (60, 61) in the scene are identified utilizing the first and the second image of the scene, - edge lengths of the identified edges (60, 61) are ascertained based on the photogrammetrically evaluated images, and - the ascertained edge lengths are displayed in the image representation of the scene; characterized by an identifying of surfaces in the images, and a marking of the identified surfaces in the image representation of the scene, wherein - the surfaces are identified on the basis of typical dimensions and/or patterns, wherein the surfaces are assigned to windows or doors in the scene and have dimensions that are typical of windows or doors, and/or - the surfaces are identified using an adaptive algorithm.
A surgical stapling instrument comprising: an actuation system for selectively generating a plurality of control motions; a surgical end effector operably coupled to said actuation system, said surgical end effector comprising: an anvil that is movable between an open position and a closed position in response to closure motions applied thereto by said actuation system; a surgical staple cartridge operably supporting a plurality of linearly arranged pusher members therein, each said pusher member operably supporting at least one unformed surgical staple thereon; and an actuation member operably interfacing with said actuation system such that upon application of said control motions thereto, said actuation member is axially driven within said surgical staple cartridge between a starting position and an ending position; and camming means interfacing with said actuation member such that as said actuation member is driven from said starting to said ending position, said camming means are moved into rotatable camming engagement with each said surgical pusher member to drive said at least one surgical staple supported thereon into forming contact with said anvil when said anvil is in said closed position. an actuation system for selectively generating a plurality of control motions; a surgical end effector operably coupled to said actuation system, said surgical end effector comprising: an anvil that is movable between an open position and a closed position in response to closure motions applied thereto by said actuation system; a surgical staple cartridge operably supporting a plurality of linearly arranged pusher members therein, each said pusher member operably supporting at least one unformed surgical staple thereon; and an actuation member operably interfacing with said actuation system such that upon application of said control motions thereto, said actuation member is axially driven within said surgical staple cartridge between a starting position and an ending position; and an anvil that is movable between an open position and a closed position in response to closure motions applied thereto by said actuation system; a surgical staple cartridge operably supporting a plurality of linearly arranged pusher members therein, each said pusher member operably supporting at least one unformed surgical staple thereon; and an actuation member operably interfacing with said actuation system such that upon application of said control motions thereto, said actuation member is axially driven within said surgical staple cartridge between a starting position and an ending position; and camming means interfacing with said actuation member such that as said actuation member is driven from said starting to said ending position, said camming means are moved into rotatable camming engagement with each said surgical pusher member to drive said at least one surgical staple supported thereon into forming contact with said anvil when said anvil is in said closed position.
At least one protein from the lipocalin family for use in treating a drug overdose, wherein the at least one protein from the lipocalin family is bound to a membrane located within a dialysis cartridge.
Manufacturing system for manufacturing planar elements, in particular made of paper, board, or composite material, namely folding boxes or labels, from a web of printing material, including at least a web unwinding device, a flat-bed diecutting and/or stamping/embossing unit arranged downstream thereof, and a product delivery arranged downstream of the flat-bed diecutting and/or stamping/embossing unit, characterized in that at least one rotary processing module (31, 32, 33) for processing the web of printing material is provided between the flat-bed diecutting and/or stamping/embossing unit and the product delivery, at least one of the rotary processing modules (31, 32, 33) embodied as a rotary diecutting module, and that the flat-bed diecutting and/or stamping/embossing unit is deactivatable, allowing the planar elements to be processed either by the flat-bed diecutting and/or stamping device or by the rotary diecutting module.
A ventilation unit air line component, comprising a base body with a plurality of lateral surfaces that delimit an interior of the base body, wherein a device connection opening is formed on a first lateral surface of the base body, wherein a connection opening is formed on a second lateral surface of the base body, wherein the device connection opening is fluidically connected to the connection opening via the interior, wherein the base body has a first partial body, on which the device connection opening is formed, and a second partial body, on which the connection opening is formed, and wherein the second partial body is connected to the first partial body either in a first fastening position, in which the second lateral surface is arranged adjacent to the first lateral surface, or in a second fastening position, in which the second lateral surface is arranged opposite of the first lateral surface. wherein a device connection opening is formed on a first lateral surface of the base body, wherein a connection opening is formed on a second lateral surface of the base body, wherein the device connection opening is fluidically connected to the connection opening via the interior, wherein the base body has a first partial body, on which the device connection opening is formed, and a second partial body, on which the connection opening is formed, and wherein the second partial body is connected to the first partial body either in a first fastening position, in which the second lateral surface is arranged adjacent to the first lateral surface, or in a second fastening position, in which the second lateral surface is arranged opposite of the first lateral surface.
A method for encrypting and recording content onto removable storage media by a first set-top box wherein the content may subsequently be played by a second set-top box, said method comprising the following steps: said first set-top box encrypting content to be stored on said removable storage media with a content instance key; encrypting said content instance key with a public key of said first set -top box; characterized in that said method further comprises the following steps: encrypting a duplicate of said content instance key with a public key of said second set-top box; and recording said encrypted content and said encrypted content instance keys onto said removable storage media. said first set-top box encrypting content to be stored on said removable storage media with a content instance key; encrypting said content instance key with a public key of said first set -top box; characterized in that said method further comprises the following steps: encrypting a duplicate of said content instance key with a public key of said second set-top box; and recording said encrypted content and said encrypted content instance keys onto said removable storage media. encrypting a duplicate of said content instance key with a public key of said second set-top box; and recording said encrypted content and said encrypted content instance keys onto said removable storage media.
A regenerative filter system comprising: a regenerative filter material arranged to filter air recirculated from an aircraft interior; means for passing a regeneration air stream through the regenerative filter material to regenerate the filter material by removing adsorbed contaminant therefrom; and characterised by the means for passing the regeneration air stream comprises means for expanding air exhausted from the aircraft interior comprising a turbine to drive a compressor for compressing and conditioning RAM air to provide the regeneration air stream to the filter material. a regenerative filter material arranged to filter air recirculated from an aircraft interior; means for passing a regeneration air stream through the regenerative filter material to regenerate the filter material by removing adsorbed contaminant therefrom; and characterised by the means for passing the regeneration air stream comprises means for expanding air exhausted from the aircraft interior comprising a turbine to drive a compressor for compressing and conditioning RAM air to provide the regeneration air stream to the filter material.