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A processor device for an endoscope, comprising: an image signal acquisition unit that acquires an image signal obtained by imaging an observation target with the endoscope; a blood vessel index value calculation unit that calculates at least one or more blood vessel index values, among the number of blood vessels, a length of a blood vessel, a difference in blood vessel height, an inclination of a blood vessel, an area of a blood vessel, a density of blood vessels, a depth of a blood vessel, and a gap between blood vessels that are blood vessel index values of blood vessels contained in the observation target, from the image signal; and characterised in that the device comprises: an observation distance calculation unit that calculates an observation distance between a distal end of the endoscope and a surface of the observation target from at least one or more blood vessel index values of the calculated blood vessel index values; and in that: the blood vessel index values include a distance-invariant blood vessel index value, and the observation distance calculation unit calculates the observation distance from the blood vessel index value other than the distance-invariant blood vessel index value. an image signal acquisition unit that acquires an image signal obtained by imaging an observation target with the endoscope; a blood vessel index value calculation unit that calculates at least one or more blood vessel index values, among the number of blood vessels, a length of a blood vessel, a difference in blood vessel height, an inclination of a blood vessel, an area of a blood vessel, a density of blood vessels, a depth of a blood vessel, and a gap between blood vessels that are blood vessel index values of blood vessels contained in the observation target, from the image signal; and characterised in that the device comprises: an observation distance calculation unit that calculates an observation distance between a distal end of the endoscope and a surface of the observation target from at least one or more blood vessel index values of the calculated blood vessel index values; and in that: the blood vessel index values include a distance-invariant blood vessel index value, and the observation distance calculation unit calculates the observation distance from the blood vessel index value other than the distance-invariant blood vessel index value.
A method for preventive maintenance of an elevator speed sensor system comprising at least a first and a second sensor, which are independent of each other, and which elevator comprises an elevator hoisting machine, characterized in that the method comprises: - determining a reference distance for an elevator car travel between a first door zone and a second door zone, - during an elevator car travel between the first door zone and the second door zone, defining continuously a first elevator car speed information from the first sensor and a second elevator car speed information from the second sensor, - calculating a cumulative sensor system error by integrating the difference between the first elevator car speed information and the second elevator car speed information, - dividing the cumulative sensor system error with the reference distance to obtain a sensor system performance indicator, - transmitting the sensor system performance indicator to a maintenance server, - in the maintenance server, establishing a service request based on a sensor system performance indicator or on a sequence of sensor system performance indicators, the service request being established before the speed sensor system is considered as defective, and - transmitting the service request to a maintenance service unit. - determining a reference distance for an elevator car travel between a first door zone and a second door zone, - during an elevator car travel between the first door zone and the second door zone, defining continuously a first elevator car speed information from the first sensor and a second elevator car speed information from the second sensor, - calculating a cumulative sensor system error by integrating the difference between the first elevator car speed information and the second elevator car speed information, - dividing the cumulative sensor system error with the reference distance to obtain a sensor system performance indicator, - transmitting the sensor system performance indicator to a maintenance server, - in the maintenance server, establishing a service request based on a sensor system performance indicator or on a sequence of sensor system performance indicators, the service request being established before the speed sensor system is considered as defective, and - transmitting the service request to a maintenance service unit.
A coil position detecting method for a non-contact power supply system applicable to a non-contact power supply system to supply power from a power feeding coil on a ground side to a power receiving coil on a vehicle side, the coil position detecting method being intended to detect a position of the power receiving coil, comprising: - changing an excitation voltage and an excitation frequency for the power feeding coil depending on the position of the power receiving coil relative to the power feeding coil; - detecting the position of the power receiving coil based on a received voltage with the power receiving coil when the power feeding coil is excited; - bringing the power feeding coil into first excitation at a first frequency and with a first excitation voltage, and bringing the power feeding coil into second excitation at a second frequency and with a second excitation voltage larger than the first excitation voltage when the received voltage with the power receiving coil reaches a first threshold voltage; and - detecting the position of the power receiving coil based on the received voltage with the power receiving coil when the power feeding coil is brought into the second excitation, wherein the second frequency is further from a resonance point than the first frequency. - changing an excitation voltage and an excitation frequency for the power feeding coil depending on the position of the power receiving coil relative to the power feeding coil; - detecting the position of the power receiving coil based on a received voltage with the power receiving coil when the power feeding coil is excited; - bringing the power feeding coil into first excitation at a first frequency and with a first excitation voltage, and bringing the power feeding coil into second excitation at a second frequency and with a second excitation voltage larger than the first excitation voltage when the received voltage with the power receiving coil reaches a first threshold voltage; and - detecting the position of the power receiving coil based on the received voltage with the power receiving coil when the power feeding coil is brought into the second excitation,
A dispensing device for dispensing fluid from a side-by-side fluid cartridge having a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber, the dispensing device comprising: a dispenser body; a first piston coupled with the dispenser body and adapted to slide within the first fluid chamber; a second piston coupled with the dispenser body and adapted to slide within the second fluid chamber; an adapter head configured to releasably connect the side-by-side fluid cartridge to the dispenser body, the adapter head being movable between a first position in which the side-by-side fluid cartridge is releasable from the dispenser body and a second position in which the side-by-side fluid cartridge is in locking engagement with the dispenser body, wherein the first piston is coaxially aligned with the first fluid chamber and the second piston is coaxially aligned with the second fluid chamber when the adapter head is in the first position, and wherein the first piston is coaxially aligned with the first fluid chamber and the second piston is coaxially aligned with the second fluid chamber when the adapter head is in the second position, and characterized by further comprising an adapter ring adapted to be slid over an exterior surface of the fluid cartridge and adapted to be removably coupled with the side-by-side fluid cartridge and configured to contact the adapter head to retain the side-by-side fluid cartridge in locking engagement with the dispenser body when the adapter head is in the second position. a dispenser body; a first piston coupled with the dispenser body and adapted to slide within the first fluid chamber; a second piston coupled with the dispenser body and adapted to slide within the second fluid chamber; an adapter head configured to releasably connect the side-by-side fluid cartridge to the dispenser body, the adapter head being movable between a first position in which the side-by-side fluid cartridge is releasable from the dispenser body and a second position in which the side-by-side fluid cartridge is in locking engagement with the dispenser body, wherein the first piston is coaxially aligned with the first fluid chamber and the second piston is coaxially aligned with the second fluid chamber when the adapter head is in the first position, and wherein the first piston is coaxially aligned with the first fluid chamber and the second piston is coaxially aligned with the second fluid chamber when the adapter head is in the second position, and characterized by further comprising an adapter ring adapted to be slid over an exterior surface of the fluid cartridge and adapted to be removably coupled with the side-by-side fluid cartridge and configured to contact the adapter head to retain the side-by-side fluid cartridge in locking engagement with the dispenser body when the adapter head is in the second position.
Method for the non-invasive detection of the degree of aging of an automotive exhaust gas catalytic converter, which is located in a metallic catalytic converter housing, via emission of an alternating electromagnetic field and detection of the same, characterized in that the adsorption of water on the catalyst surface is determined using certain resonance characteristics at a catalyst temperature of < 200 °C, and the degree of aging of the catalytic converter is thereby inferred.
A video decoding apparatus for subjecting a video image to motion compensated decoding, the apparatus comprising: an acquisition module configured to acquire available blocks having motion vectors and number of the available blocks from decoded blocks adjacent to a to-be-decoded block; a selection information decoding module configured to select one selection code table from a plurality of code tables depending on the number of the available blocks and decode selection information specifying one selection block from the available block using a code table having the same number of entries as the number of available blocks; a selection module configured to select one selection block from the available blocks according to the selection information; and an image decoding module to subject the to-be-decoded block to a motion compensated prediction decoding using a motion vector of the selected block. an acquisition module configured to acquire available blocks having motion vectors and number of the available blocks from decoded blocks adjacent to a to-be-decoded block; a selection information decoding module configured to select one selection code table from a plurality of code tables depending on the number of the available blocks and decode selection information specifying one selection block from the available block using a code table having the same number of entries as the number of available blocks; a selection module configured to select one selection block from the available blocks according to the selection information; and an image decoding module to subject the to-be-decoded block to a motion compensated prediction decoding using a motion vector of the selected block.
Packing structure for a fluid contact column, said structure forming a volume comprising an ordered assembly of bundles of tubes with a diameter comprised between 5 and 50 mm, the walls of said tubes comprising orifices arranged so as to promote the circulation and mixing of fluids in said structure, said orifices being inscribed in rectangles the sides of which measure between 2 and 45 mm and each of said orifices extending over an area greater than 2 mm 2, each bundle comprising four tubes respectively orientated in four directions.
Dispenser for dispensing portions of a double-sided sticky adhesive tape where at least one sticky side is covered by a liner, said dispenser comprising, where applicable, a handle which is mounted on a frame, a feed of the adhesive tape to a first cutting apparatus A, an application device by way of which the adhesive tape is pressed on the support and which consists, in particular, of a rotatably mounted roller, characterized in that the dispenser has a first cutting apparatus A which is developed in such a manner that by way of the cutting operation the adhesive tape is severed by the cutting apparatus without the liner being severed at the same time such that the adhesive tape is weakened in such manner that said adhesive tape is able to be severed at this point, and the dispenser has a second cutting apparatus B, which is developed in such a manner that by way of the cutting operation the adhesive tape and the liner are completely severed by the cutting apparatus and which is mounted downstream of the first cutting apparatus with reference to the guiding of the adhesive tape from the roll of the adhesive tape.
Method for intraoperative imaging of brain areas, characterized by the following steps: - an image of the surface of a brain area is recorded with an infrared camera, which captures a spectral range of 800 nm to at least 20000 nm and is also nonsensitive to visible light, and for which the spectral range exceeds 20000 nm for higher temperatures of the imaged brain area, - the thermal images (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106) are recorded continuously as image sequence for from several seconds up to a few minutes, - the image sequence is fed into a unit for multivariate image processing and subjected to a multivariate analysis as a data cube, - areas with different temperatures (18, 19) of an active brain area are highlighted in a false colour image, - the thermal images (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106) are superimposed onto a microscopic image and/or registered together with pre-operative image data, wherein the following steps are performed: - analysis of the thermal images (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106) after completion of the thermal imaging sequence, - calculation of the images to be output, wherein noise in the recording is detected and the noisy thermal images are removed from the data cube, - correction of changes in the base line, - compensation of changes with linear or non-linear base line correction, with the thermal image (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106) being presented individually or fused with the microscopic image or with pre-operative image data, and wherein the temporal progress of electrophysiological stimulations from electrophysiological measurements at the brain area to be imaged are presented exactly synchronised with the thermal images (101, 102, 103,104, 105, 106) and shown reliably. - an image of the surface of a brain area is recorded with an infrared camera, which captures a spectral range of 800 nm to at least 20000 nm and is also nonsensitive to visible light, and for which the spectral range exceeds 20000 nm for higher temperatures of the imaged brain area, - the thermal images (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106) are recorded continuously as image sequence for from several seconds up to a few minutes, - the image sequence is fed into a unit for multivariate image processing and subjected to a multivariate analysis as a data cube, - areas with different temperatures (18, 19) of an active brain area are highlighted in a false colour image, - the thermal images (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106) are superimposed onto a microscopic image and/or registered together with pre-operative image data, - analysis of the thermal images (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106) after completion of the thermal imaging sequence, - calculation of the images to be output, wherein noise in the recording is detected and the noisy thermal images are removed from the data cube, - correction of changes in the base line, - compensation of changes with linear or non-linear base line correction, with the thermal image (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106) being presented individually or fused with the microscopic image or with pre-operative image data, and
A method for HARQ link layer protocol synchronization for an uplink transmission between a transmitter and a receiver in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: - transmitting a first protocol data unit in response to a received explicit scheduling grant, - receiving a HARQ feedback message for the transmitted first protocol data unit, - transmitting a subsequent second protocol data unit distinct from the first protocol data unit in response to a subsequent explicit scheduling grant received in addition to the HARQ feedback message, wherein the subsequent explicit scheduling grant indicates to the transmitter to be authorized for transmitting the second protocol data unit, and - re-transmitting the first protocol data unit in absence of receiving a subsequent explicit scheduling grant upon interpreting the HARQ feedback message as a negative acknowledgement for the transmitted first protocol data unit. - transmitting a first protocol data unit in response to a received explicit scheduling grant, - receiving a HARQ feedback message for the transmitted first protocol data unit, - transmitting a subsequent second protocol data unit distinct from the first protocol data unit in response to a subsequent explicit scheduling grant received in addition to the HARQ feedback message, wherein the subsequent explicit scheduling grant indicates to the transmitter to be authorized for transmitting the second protocol data unit, and - re-transmitting the first protocol data unit in absence of receiving a subsequent explicit scheduling grant upon interpreting the HARQ feedback message as a negative acknowledgement for the transmitted first protocol data unit.
A divided wall column, comprising: a column shell; a divided wall provided vertically inside the column shell, defining a divided wall section between an upper edge and a lower edge of the divided wall; a liquid distributor provided within the divided wall section; and a column internal, different from the liquid distributor, provided within the divided wall section selected from the group consisting of a liquid collector, a ring channel, a packing support, or combinations thereof; characterized in that, the liquid distributor and the column internal different from the liquid distributor are fixed only to the column shell but not to the divided wall. a column shell; a divided wall provided vertically inside the column shell, defining a divided wall section between an upper edge and a lower edge of the divided wall; a liquid distributor provided within the divided wall section; and a column internal, different from the liquid distributor, provided within the divided wall section selected from the group consisting of a liquid collector, a ring channel, a packing support, or combinations thereof;
Reference electrode for potentiometric measurement of ion concentrations, comprising a swellable polymer body filled with at least one electrolyte salt and a potential sensing element of the second type, preferably of the Ag/AgCl type, located in the polymer body, characterized in that the polymer body is composed of organic, hydrophobic prepolymer segments, which are three-dimensionally crosslinked by organic, hydrophilic polymer chains.
Device for supplying hose assemblies to a transport device, comprising a depositing unit for depositing hose assemblies and a positioning unit for the positioning of the depositing unit relative to the transport device, wherein the depositing unit can be positioned by means of the positioning unit relative to the transport device such that the radial distance between the hose assemblies to be supplied and the transport device at a handover point during the supply of the hose assemblies can be minimized, in order to guarantee a supply of the hose assemblies to the transport device which is as error-free as possible, characterized in that the positioning unit comprises at least one positioning means (12', 12") which can be moved rotatably about at least one axis relative to the depositing unit and/or relative to the transport device. wherein the depositing unit can be positioned by means of the positioning unit relative to the transport device such that the radial distance between the hose assemblies to be supplied and the transport device at a handover point during the supply of the hose assemblies can be minimized, in order to guarantee a supply of the hose assemblies to the transport device which is as error-free as possible, characterized in that the positioning unit comprises at least one positioning means (12', 12") which can be moved rotatably about at least one axis relative to the depositing unit and/or relative to the transport device.