All Prior Art

A face discrimnating process judges whether a discrimination target image is an image of a face, based on characteristic amounts of the discrimination target image. The system in one embodiment includes a substrate defining a network of passageways including at least one chamber for the liquid sample, and an adapter. The receiving portion of the cam is engageable with a cam follower of a shoe for moving the shoe between an upper and lower horizontal run of the conveyor.

The electric motor comprises an internal rotor and an external stator with stator windings. The filler material forms a window or a translucent insert in the deck. The method includes the steps of replacing the main spring with a replacement main spring having a higher spring constant and replacing the peak clipping spring with a replacement peak clipping spring having a higher spring constant. A downhole tool, such as a bridge plug, frac-plug, or packer, is also provided. The resulting images are combined according to mathematical prescriptions to produce a Just Noticeable Difference, JND value, indicative of a Spatial Standard Observer, SSO.

A creel magazine for delivering packaged stranded material to a creel. An illustrative embodiment of the power boost system includes an operator interface having a system activation button; a vehicle system controller connected to the operator interface; and at least one of an engine system controller, a battery system controller and an accessory system controller connected to the vehicle system controller. In order to prevent drift due to dissimilar data reduction, the lossy compression in the encoder device is substantially identical to the lossy compression in the decoder device. The amplified display signal is kept at a desired voltage level when the LC capacitor receives the amplified display signal. The data storage facility includes a master transaction agreement database and a contract database. A waste compartment is formed underneath the drilling and cutting mechanisms within the bomb deactivator to catch all fluid and debris produced during the process of rendering the bomb inert.

A data packet parser, for determining packet format, is substantially software controlled, to readily accommodate new or different formats, without the need for using a microprocessor for parsing. An evaluating unit monitors the coefficients of the HL, LH, HH sub-bands generated by the wavelet transformer and checks the number of the high frequency components in the original image. The white light LW that has entered the liquid crystal panel 10 is modulated according to the alignment of the liquid crystal material and passes through the color filters of the counter substrate.

A system and method for detecting a patient’s susceptibility to arrhythmias and cardiac tissue abnormality is disclosed. This base member has a central opening that tapers inward from a top surface to a bottom surface. 2 msec and where the liquid residence time is not more than 100 seconds. In typical operation, the game client generates a pass-phrase that transparently includes a unique identifier of the machine upon which the subscription software will reside. The portable machine-readable image may thus be used for the convenient storage of information items to be used in either online or offline gaming environments.

Embodiments include a chemical processing apparatus and method of using the chemical processing apparatus to treat a substrate with a mono-energetic space-charge neutralized neutral beam-activated chemical process which is comprised of a substantially anisotropic beam of neutral particles. As such, the second coupling member proceeds with a reciprocating movement in a substantially elliptical path which is restrained by the pivot connection between the handle operated member and the lever member. The sprinkler includes a housing, a receiving seat and a sprinkler head. The invention overcomes the speed limitation of the normalized correlation template matching method when the pattern being searched is subject to rotation or size variation. The semiconductor device of the invention can be initialized by a method wherein the actual value is stored as the first reference value. Dry and wet weights of the samples are obtained under different conditions.

An on-line value bearing item printing system that includes one or more cryptographic modules and a central database is disclosed. The adverse terrain vegetation cutting apparatus articulates to conform to adverse surface conditions and improve stability. This should avoid disturbing the signalling to existing terminals, i.

The headlight bulb includes at least one lamp body, at least one luminous element enclosed within the at least one lamp body, a lamp base in which the at least one lamp body is fixed and power connectors for supply of energy to the at least one luminous element. The solar cell may include a photoelectric conversion layer formed of a p-type material including an organic material and an n-type material including organic nanowires. This realizes a practical CVD apparatus for mass production which achieves both a high film deposition efficiency and high film quality.

A method of forming a photovoltaic device that includes providing an absorption layer of a first crystalline semiconductor material having a first conductivity type, and epitaxially growing a second crystalline semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type that is opposite the first conductivity type. The information may be any digital information which can be stored in a computer file. The first contact area and the second contact area slide or roll along the secondary guide rail.

The present disclosure provides a host electronic device, a stylus and a method for determining the location of a stylus with respect to a host electronic device. All of the molecules significantly inhibited growth of cultured normal human fibroblasts. The intermediate layer is composed primarily of a material obtained by mixing under applied heat a specific resin composition and the cover is formed primarily of polyurethane. Two of the access features are spaced apart from one another with a section of the jacket formed from the first polymeric material extending laterally therebetween, such that the section may be peeled apart from the rest of the cable lengthwise along the jacket by separation of the jacket about the access features. Each of the supporting members having at least three fixing elements disposed in an approximately circular arc, and a plurality of linear elastic members are connected to each of the fixing elements. The coupling member includes an adhesive member providing adhesive strength and at least one or more buffer members which are disposed inside the adhesive member and have an elastic force.