摘要:
Applications are managed in an interactive media environment by the creation of a logical model for the lifetime of an application. The model is applicable to concurrently and/or consecutively running applications and governs the creation of applications, manipulation of applications by other applications, resource consumption, visibility of an application to a user, and application shutdown in the interactive media environment using the construct of application “state.” A set of Booleans flags is utilized and unique combinations of elements in the Boolean flag set define a plurality of application states
摘要:
A variable electrochromic optical attenuator is provided that is used to control the intensity of a light signal. The electrochromic optical attenuator comprises a semi-transparent electrochromic device, and a plurality of electrodes configured to conduct electricity to the electrochromic device such that the transparency of the electrochromic device will be affected by an amount proportional to the magnitude of the electricity applied to the plurality of electrodes. The intensity of the light signal transmitted through the electrochromic device is affected by an amount proportional to the magnitude of the electricity applied to the plurality of electrodes. The electrochromic optical attenuator also includes at least one polarizing element having an optical polarization axis, wherein the polarizing element transmits a portion of the light signal proportional to the angular difference between the optical polarization axis of the light signal and that of the polarizing element. In one embodiment, the electrochromic optical attenuator is employed in a laser package that includes a laser, a pair of polarizing elements, and a faraday rotator.
摘要:
Methods and structures for reducing and/or eliminating moisture penetration in an optical package. The optical package may include (1) a layer of inorganic material placed over the points of the optical package susceptible moisture penetration of the optical package; (2) a portion of hygroscopic material placed over the points of the optical package susceptible to moisture penetration; (3) a layer of hygroscopic material placed on the interior surface of the optical package; and/or (4) a layer of hydrophobic material coated on the optical surfaces of the optical package.
摘要:
A mattress has a quilted internal pillow wherein one or more internal layers of material are quilt-stitched prior to encapsulation in mattress upholstery. The quilted internal pillow is positioned relative to a support surface of an innerspring or spring core of a mattress to provide support characteristics determined by the quilt stitch pattern. In a related method of manufacture of a mattress with an internal quilt stitched pillow, the layer or layers of the pillow are processed through a quilter stitching machine and then assembled in combination with a mattress spring core and upholstery. The quilted internal pillow may be located adjacent to the spring core, spaced from the spring core by other internal layers of material, or located adjacent to or within a mattress pillowtop, and in each embodiment on one or both sides of the mattress.
摘要:
This invention relates generally to fasteners, and more particularly to slide fasteners, commonly known as zippers, and a method of forming the same, which may be used to fasten three or more sets of links together, as well as, to provide a collapsible, rigid support for loads which may be applied axially and laterally to the fastened together links. The invention is easily stored and uses a single slider for interlocking the separate sets of elements in a simple and effective manner. The tapes have multiple links secured thereto and extend orthogonally therefrom. The slider has guideways through which the links may pass. The tapes and the links are passed downward through the slider element to thereby intersperse and interlock the links and thus the tape. The opposite movement through the slider causes the links to be separated and disjoined. The invention also includes a slide fastener having three tapes with essentially standard slide fastener links attached thereto and a slider which intersperses the links to join the tapes in a columnar fashion and which effectively disjoins the links.