Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a method for allocating revenue or taxes to individual fluid streams commingled during an oil and gas production process, the method includes commingling fluid streams to produce a commingled fluid stream; (2) utilizing a process simulation model to predict a phase change of each fluid stream in the commingled fluid stream, wherein the process simulation model predicts the phase change of all the individual fluid streams in the commingled fluid stream the phase change of each individual fluid stream in isolation of the commingled fluid stream, the phase change of all the individual fluid streams in the commingled fluid stream absent a single fluid stream; and (3) determining the difference in phases between the calculated phase change of all the in individual fluid streams in the commingled fluid stream and calculated phase change of all the individual fluid streams in the commingled fluid stream absent a single fluid stream.
Abstract:
A system and method modifying wavefront shape is provided. Generally, the system contains a wavefront shape modifying device for modifying the shape of the wavefront. The system also contains a series of optical devices for returning the modified wavefront to the wavefront modifying device with an orientation that enables further modification of the modified wavefront by the wavefront modifying device. The method contains the steps of: reflecting a wavefront from a surface of a wavefront shape modifying device, resulting in the wavefront having a modified shape; and reflecting the wavefront having a modified shape from the surface of the wavefront shape modifying device a second time resulting in a final wavefront having a shape that has been modified twice.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for making carbon/carbon composite disks for braking applications that employs a continuous feeding of fiber strands into a mold. The fibers are then compressed to form a mat or preform. The fibers are then needled such that the fibers within the mat interlock and extend in various directions. The mat or preform is then subjected to densification processing. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the densification process and/or to speed up the processing time, a filler is added to the preform during the manufacturing process. The fillers are added by way of a dry powder or as a liquid slurry. The filler may be aluminum oxide, boron carbide, silicon carbide, pitch, or a variety of carbonic or noncarbonic performance enhancers.
Abstract:
A scanning ophthalmoscope scans an object plane in the interior of the eye by employing a first spatial light modulator to generate a time-varying first modulation pattern. A second spatial light modulator receives the illumination field generated by the interaction of the first modulation pattern with the interior of the eye. The second spatial light modulator generates a second modulation pattern corresponding to the first modulation pattern and transmits this second modulation pattern to an image detector, thereby forming an image of the object plane in the interior of the eye. The first and second spatial light modulators are linked by a function or mapping such that a modulation pattern generated by the first spatial light modulator maps to a particular modulation pattern generated by the second spatial light modulator.
Abstract:
A beam (18) from a single laser source (16) is divided into a plurality of beams (24,30). Each beam (24,30) is directed into one end of a different lightguide fiber (36,38) having equal lengths so as to pass therethrough. The opposite ends of the fibers (36,38) are located proximate inner and outer sleeves (12 and 14) which are simultaneously spot welded at a plurality of sites by the beams exiting the fibers.
Abstract:
A device for wide-field and high resolution imaging of an object surface includes first and second imaging modalities, a lens associated with the second imaging modality. The first imaging modality has a high resolution imaging means with a first observation line. The second imaging modality is arranged in an image plane at a first angle with respect to an object plane and has a second observation line and a wider imaging field than the first imaging modality. The lens associated with the second imaging modality is arranged in a lens plane at a second angle with respect to the object plane, where the second angle being equal to about one-half of the first angle. The first and second imaging modalities are mutually arranged such that the first and second optical axes intersect at a point on the object plane.
Abstract:
Video signal processing apparatus in which at least two input video signals are combined in proportions determined by a pixel key signal to generate an output video signal for compression, at least one of the input video signals each having respective associated compression parameters from a data compression process applied to that video signal; comprises: means for detecting an average pixel key signal value across each of a plurality of blocks of pixels of the output video signal; and means for comparing the average pixel key signal values with first and second thresholds, the first threshold representing a pixel key signal value corresponding to combination having primarily one of the video signals, and the second threshold representing a pixel key signal value corresponding to combination having primarily the other of the video signals; in which: if the average pixel key signal value for a block lies between the first and second thresholds, that block of the output video signal is compressed using newly derived compression parameters; and if the average pixel key signal value for a block lies outside the range defined by the first and second thresholds, the compression parameters associated with the corresponding block of the input video signals are made available for re-use in compression of that block of the output video signal.
Abstract:
A video signal processor comprises a first input for receiving a compressed first video signal including parameters associated with the frames of the signal and relating to the compression. A decoder decodes the compressed first video signal while preserving the parameters in association with the frames. A second input receives additional video information to be combined with the first video information. A combiner superimposes the additional video information on the first video information. An encoder encodes the combined video information. The encoder reuses the preserved parameters for encoding at least parts of the combined information which are not derived from the superimposed video information.