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A thermally insulated shipping container comprising at least one cool pack (49, 50) having at least two rigid compartments each containing a sealed in coolant, the two compartments being joined by a living hinge arranged to permit the two compartments to be folded from a flat configuration to a right angled configuration where the two compartments are arranged at 90 degrees to each other, wherein the container is square or rectangular with one or more cool packs (49, 50) arranged such that the two compartments joined by the living hinge form, or are adjacent and parallel to, two walls of the container, the container further comprising an outer insulation layer formed of expanded foam and a layer of insulation panels, wherein the compartments of the at least one cool pack (49, 50) are arranged to be received inside the layer of insulation panels, to provide a container with an outer insulation layer, an intermediate insulation panel layer and an inner cool pack layer, characterised in that each compartment of the at least one cool pack has outer walls of rigid material formed integrally with the living hinge.
A wind turbine comprising: - a tower, the tower having an upper part, a middle part and a lower part, the lower and the middle part of the tower forming the base of the tower; - waste heat generating equipment located in the middle part of the tower; and - a cooling device with at least one cooling device inlet formed in the tower for introducing outside air surrounding the tower into the tower; wherein the cooling device is adapted to guide the outside air from the or each cooling device inlet into the lower part of the tower such that the outside air can ascend towards the middle part and upper part of the tower while cooling the waste heat generating equipment, characterised in that the or each cooling device inlet is located in the upper part of the tower. - a tower, the tower having an upper part, a middle part and a lower part, the lower and the middle part of the tower forming the base of the tower; - waste heat generating equipment located in the middle part of the tower; and - a cooling device with at least one cooling device inlet formed in the tower for introducing outside air surrounding the tower into the tower;
A computer-implemented biometric identity verification method, comprising: storing a database of registered users, including data identifying profile attributes of each registered user and a respective plurality of stored biometric signatures for each user, wherein each stored biometric signature is associated with a corresponding one or more of said profile attributes; deriving a new biometric signature for a requesting user in response to a request for identity verification; determining that a predefined period of time has elapsed since the requesting user's stored biometric signature was last updated; identifying a group of registered users with at least one profile attribute in common with the requesting user; calculating at least one variance value based on the variance between at least two of the stored biometric signatures for each user in said identified group of registered users; adapting the stored biometric signature of the requesting user based on the calculated at least one variance value; and comparing the new biometric signature with the adapted biometric signature to verify the identity of the requesting user. storing a database of registered users, including data identifying profile attributes of each registered user and a respective plurality of stored biometric signatures for each user, wherein each stored biometric signature is associated with a corresponding one or more of said profile attributes; deriving a new biometric signature for a requesting user in response to a request for identity verification; determining that a predefined period of time has elapsed since the requesting user's stored biometric signature was last updated; identifying a group of registered users with at least one profile attribute in common with the requesting user; calculating at least one variance value based on the variance between at least two of the stored biometric signatures for each user in said identified group of registered users; adapting the stored biometric signature of the requesting user based on the calculated at least one variance value; and comparing the new biometric signature with the adapted biometric signature to verify the identity of the requesting user.
Implantable access device for accessing the vascular system of a human or animal body, particularly subcutaneously implantable access port, comprising: a port body with at least one outlet opening connected or connectable to a catheter for accessing the vascular system of the human or animal body, a needle entrance with at least one inlet opening for receiving a needle, wherein the needle entrance is connected to the port body and movable relative to the port body between a first, unactuated operating condition and a second, actuated operating condition, and a flexible socket arranged between the port body and the needle entrance and at least covering the area or volume where the needle entrance moves relative to the port body to prevent tissue growth in this area, wherein the flexible socket is deformed by the relative movement between the needle entrance and the port body. a port body with at least one outlet opening connected or connectable to a catheter for accessing the vascular system of the human or animal body, a needle entrance with at least one inlet opening for receiving a needle, wherein the needle entrance is connected to the port body and movable relative to the port body between a first, unactuated operating condition and a second, actuated operating condition, and a flexible socket arranged between the port body and the needle entrance and at least covering the area or volume where the needle entrance moves relative to the port body to prevent tissue growth in this area, wherein the flexible socket is deformed by the relative movement between the needle entrance and the port body.
A handheld skin exfoliating apparatus comprising: a handle portion (12, 112) adapted to be held in the hand of a user; a head portion (14, 114) connected to the handle portion (12, 112) and having opposite sides; a first drum (16, 116) having a first outer surface, the first drum (16, 116) being mounted for rotation to the head portion (14, 114) with at least part of the first outer surface being exposed at one of the sides of the head portion (14, 114); a second drum (18, 118) having a second outer surface, the second drum (18, 118) being mounted for rotation to the head portion (14, 114) with at least part of the second outer surface being exposed at the opposite one of the sides of the head portion (14, 114); the first outer surface being abrasive to skin of the user and having a first level of abrasiveness; the second outer surface being abrasive to skin of the user and drive means mounted to at least one of the handle and head portions (14, 114) and operatively connected to each of the first (16, 116) and second drums (18, 118) for rotating each drum at a rotation rate sufficient to exfoliate skin when the respective first and second outer surface contacts the skin characterized in that the second outer surface has a second level of abrasiveness that is different from the first level of abrasiveness, wherein the head portion (14, 114) is curved in a plain transverse of a major axis of the handle portion (12, 112) so that the opposite sides of the head portion (14, 114) and the drums (16, 116, 18, 118) carried within are forward of a central part of the head portion (14, 114) to better expose the surfaces of the drums (16, 18, 116, 118) in use wherein the drive means comprises a motor (22, 122) mounted in an area where the head (14, 114) and handle portion (12, 112) connect to each other, the motor (22, 122) having a shaft (24, 124) with at least one end extending beyond a respective side of the motor (22, 122), and a pair of gear trains (28a, 28b, 128a, 128b) each engageable between the at least one end of the shaft (24, 124) and a respective one of the drums (16, 18, 116, 118).
Device for transferring pre-conformed layers of objects onto the top of a standardized pallet, comprising: - a guide column, - a deposition head designed to deposit said layers one on top of the other on the pallet, - a plate to receive a pre-conformed layer of objects, which receiving plate is mobile relative to the deposition head, and - a means for driving the pre-conformed layer of objects from the receiving plate to a reference surface of the deposition head, characterized in that the deposition head and the receiving plate are each mounted cantilever fashion to slide only on said guide column, the deposition head being mechanically connected to a first carriage mounted to slide in translation along a translation guide means, on which is also mounted to slide in translation a second carriage to which the receiving plate is mechanically connected. - a guide column, - a deposition head designed to deposit said layers one on top of the other on the pallet, - a plate to receive a pre-conformed layer of objects, which receiving plate is mobile relative to the deposition head, and - a means for driving the pre-conformed layer of objects from the receiving plate to a reference surface of the deposition head, characterized in that the deposition head and the receiving plate are each mounted cantilever fashion to slide only on said guide column, the deposition head being mechanically connected to a first carriage mounted to slide in translation along a translation guide means, on which is also mounted to slide in translation a second carriage to which the receiving plate is mechanically connected.
An active vibration absorption system for absorbing a vibration of a vibrating element, comprising: - a body sound generator with a coupling element for coupling to the vibrating element, wherein the coupling element is adapted to be vibrated upon vibration of the vibrating element and with an electrical coil for moving the coupling element by means of a coil current, wherein the coupling element is further adapted to induce by movement an electromagnetic current in the electrical coil; and - a control device, characterized in that the body sound generator is adapted to detect an induced voltage in the electrical coil and to provide a signal correlated with the detected induced voltage; and the control device is configured to receive the measurement signal and to determine a target current intensity of the coil current as a function of the measurement signal, wherein the target current intensity is set up such that the movement of the coupling element is set such that the vibration of the vibrating element is at least partially absorbed, and the control device is further adapted to control an actual current of the applied coiled current on the target current intensity, as well as from the measurement signal determine a detection portion and a control portion, wherein the detection portion corresponds to the vibrating element induced voltage, and wherein the control portion is caused by the applied coil current, and to determine the target current intensity as a function of the detection portion. - a body sound generator with a coupling element for coupling to the vibrating element, wherein the coupling element is adapted to be vibrated upon vibration of the vibrating element and with an electrical coil for moving the coupling element by means of a coil current, wherein the coupling element is further adapted to induce by movement an electromagnetic current in the electrical coil; and - a control device, characterized in that the body sound generator is adapted to detect an induced voltage in the electrical coil and to provide a signal correlated with the detected induced voltage; and the control device is configured to receive the measurement signal and to determine a target current intensity of the coil current as a function of the measurement signal, wherein the target current intensity is set up such that the movement of the coupling element is set such that the vibration of the vibrating element is at least partially absorbed, and the control device is further adapted to control an actual current of the applied coiled current on the target current intensity, as well as from the measurement signal determine a detection portion and a control portion, wherein the detection portion corresponds to the vibrating element induced voltage, and wherein the control portion is caused by the applied coil current, and to determine the target current intensity as a function of the detection portion.
A power transmitting device, which transmits AC power in a noncontact manner to a power receiving device comprising a power receiving; antenna, a power receiving circuit that converts the AC power received by the power receiving antenna to first DC power, and a load to which the first DC power is output from the power receiving circuit, the power transmitting device comprising: a power transmitting circuit that converts second DC power input from a DC power supply to AC power; a power transmitting antenna that transmits the AC power output from the power transmitting circuit to the power receiving antenna; and a control circuit that receives, from the power receiving device, a voltage value of the first DC power output from the power receiving circuit to the load in the power receiving device, characterised in that the control circuit controls the power transmitting circuit to change a frequency of the AC power that is transmitted to the power receiving antenna, detects, from the received voltage values, a first frequency corresponding to a local minimum value of the voltage values and a second frequency corresponding to the voltage value that takes a local maximum value at a frequency higher than the first frequency, and sets the frequency of the AC power transmitted to the power receiving antenna to a frequency between the first frequency and the second frequency. a power transmitting circuit that converts second DC power input from a DC power supply to AC power; a power transmitting antenna that transmits the AC power output from the power transmitting circuit to the power receiving antenna; and a control circuit that receives, from the power receiving device, a voltage value of the first DC power output from the power receiving circuit to the load in the power receiving device, characterised in that the control circuit controls the power transmitting circuit to change a frequency of the AC power that is transmitted to the power receiving antenna, detects, from the received voltage values, a first frequency corresponding to a local minimum value of the voltage values and a second frequency corresponding to the voltage value that takes a local maximum value at a frequency higher than the first frequency, and sets the frequency of the AC power transmitted to the power receiving antenna to a frequency between the first frequency and the second frequency.
A method, comprising: transitioning at least one memory page from a first virtual machine executing at a processor to a hypervisor executing at the processor; receiving, at a security module of the processor, a request from the hypervisor to return the at least one memory page to the first virtual machine; selectively verifying at the security module of the processor the contents of the at least one memory page in response to the request to return the at least one memory page from the hypervisor to the first virtual machine; bypassing the verifying of the contents of the at least one memory page in response to the hypervisor requesting to return the at least one memory page, the bypassing being based on the at least one memory page being allocated to a balloon pool associated with the first virtual machine, the balloon pool to hold memory pages that are not anticipated to be written to by the first virtual machine; and providing the at least one memory page to the first virtual machine in response to verifying the contents of the at least one memory page or in response to the at least one memory page being allocated to the balloon pool associated with the first virtual machine. transitioning at least one memory page from a first virtual machine executing at a processor to a hypervisor executing at the processor; receiving, at a security module of the processor, a request from the hypervisor to return the at least one memory page to the first virtual machine; selectively verifying at the security module of the processor the contents of the at least one memory page in response to the request to return the at least one memory page from the hypervisor to the first virtual machine; bypassing the verifying of the contents of the at least one memory page in response to the hypervisor requesting to return the at least one memory page, the bypassing being based on the at least one memory page being allocated to a balloon pool associated with the first virtual machine, the balloon pool to hold memory pages that are not anticipated to be written to by the first virtual machine; and providing the at least one memory page to the first virtual machine in response to verifying the contents of the at least one memory page or in response to the at least one memory page being allocated to the balloon pool associated with the first virtual machine.
A method for processing a multi-view video signal, comprising: extracting attribute information for a current picture including a current block from the video signal, the attribute information indicating whether the current picture is an anchor picture; (S250, S260) extracting motion skip information for the current block, when the current picture indicates a non-anchor picture; and generating motion information for the current block using motion information for a reference block, according to the attribute information and the motion skip information. extracting attribute information for a current picture including a current block from the video signal, the attribute information indicating whether the current picture is an anchor picture; (S250, S260) extracting motion skip information for the current block, when the current picture indicates a non-anchor picture; and generating motion information for the current block using motion information for a reference block, according to the attribute information and the motion skip information.
A method comprising: receiving, by a wireless device from a base station, one or more configuration parameters indicating a single frequency network, SFN, scheme; receiving, from the base station, a command activating at least two transmission configuration indicator, TCI, states for a control resource set, coreset; monitoring, via the coreset, downlink control channels based on the at least two active TCI states; determining, when the one or more configuration parameters indicate the SFN scheme, a single radio link quality based on the at least two active TCI states of the coreset; determining a radio failure based on a comparison of the single radio link quality and a threshold value; and transmitting, to the base station and based on the radio failure, an uplink signal indicating the radio failure. receiving, by a wireless device from a base station, one or more configuration parameters indicating a single frequency network, SFN, scheme; receiving, from the base station, a command activating at least two transmission configuration indicator, TCI, states for a control resource set, coreset; monitoring, via the coreset, downlink control channels based on the at least two active TCI states; determining, when the one or more configuration parameters indicate the SFN scheme, a single radio link quality based on the at least two active TCI states of the coreset; determining a radio failure based on a comparison of the single radio link quality and a threshold value; and transmitting, to the base station and based on the radio failure, an uplink signal indicating the radio failure.
An optical sheet comprising a transparent substrate, a light diffusion layer having a concavo-convex surface structure and disposed on one side of the transparent substrate, and a light diffusion adhesive layer disposed on the other side of the transparent substrate, wherein the light diffusion layer contains a resin and first diffusion particles having a number average particle diameter of 1.7 μm or more, the light diffusion adhesive layer contains a binder, high-refractive index nanoparticles, and second diffusion particles, a haze x1(%) of the light diffusion layer and a haze x2(%) of the light diffusion adhesive layer satisfy a relationship x1 > x2, the haze x1 is 98.5% or higher, and the high-refractive index nanoparticles are particles having a refractive index of 1.68 or higher.
A method of compensating for a movement of a device worn by a user, the method comprising: measuring, using a first sensor of the device, a motion of the user wearing the device; measuring, using a second sensor of the device, a motion of the device; determining a difference in the measured motion of the device with respect to the measured motion of the user; and compensating for the determined difference in the motion of the device with respect to the motion of the user. measuring, using a first sensor of the device, a motion of the user wearing the device; measuring, using a second sensor of the device, a motion of the device; determining a difference in the measured motion of the device with respect to the measured motion of the user; and compensating for the determined difference in the motion of the device with respect to the motion of the user.
A method of controlling a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors of the vehicle, sensor data identifying an object (480,482,484) in an environment of the vehicle; projecting, by the one or more processors, a grid (780,782,784) including a plurality of cells around the object; for each given one of the plurality of cells, predicting, by the one or more processors, a likelihood (980,982,984) that the object will enter the given one within a period of time into the future; discarding, using a threshold value and the predicted likelihoods, cells of the plurality of cells with predicted likelihoods below the threshold value; generating, by the one or more processors, a contour (1280,1282,1284) based on the predicted likelihoods using remaining cells of the plurality of cells; and controlling, by the one or more processors, the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode in order to avoid an area within the contour. receiving, by one or more processors of the vehicle, sensor data identifying an object (480,482,484) in an environment of the vehicle; projecting, by the one or more processors, a grid (780,782,784) including a plurality of cells around the object; for each given one of the plurality of cells, predicting, by the one or more processors, a likelihood (980,982,984) that the object will enter the given one within a period of time into the future; discarding, using a threshold value and the predicted likelihoods, cells of the plurality of cells with predicted likelihoods below the threshold value; generating, by the one or more processors, a contour (1280,1282,1284) based on the predicted likelihoods using remaining cells of the plurality of cells; and controlling, by the one or more processors, the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode in order to avoid an area within the contour.