Abstract:
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for creating lists of names, addresses, such as e-mail addresses, and other information for individuals who have granted permission for one or more organizations to contact them. A plurality of attendees attend an event using an event access document having a unique value thereon to gain access to the event. Attendees are urged by various means of communication to visit a particular web site, or other similar facility capable of collecting the information desired by a sponsor. In exchange for providing a minimum amount of information regarding the attendee, the site or facility will determine if the attendee has been awarded a prize or other item of value, based on the unique value provided by that attendee.
Abstract:
A new class of passive modulators is described herein which can be manufactured using a standard CMOS or any other IC design technology. The proposed mm-wave modulator exhibits both phase and amplitude modulation, which can be combined to make a polar modulator using a single passive structure. The proposed modulators described herein have an excellent linearity and have good power handling capability compared to the active class of modulators.
Abstract:
A method of compensating for focus drift in a microscopy system includes receiving data representing a reference light signal reflected from a sample and received by an image sensor, identifying from the data a peak of the reference light signal, the peak having a maximum intensity value for the reference light signal, extracting a sub-region having a center from the data, the center being located at the peak, calculating a first harmonic of a Fourier transform of the extracted sub-region, estimating a peak position of the reference light signal based on a phase of the first harmonic, and moving the lens system of the microscopy system or the sample in the axial direction using the translation stage based on the estimated position. Also, a system compensating for focus drift in a microscopy system according to the above method.
Abstract:
A system for scheduling access to available power sources includes a plurality of smart devices each comprising a resource manager, and a resource orchestrator that communicates with each resource manager, generates a power resource schedule that includes at least one fracturable available power block associated with a power source, transmits the power resource schedule to the resource manager of each smart device, receives at least one power request from a resource manager associated with at least one of the smart devices, the at least one power request including a requested available power block and an associated price, allocates the requested available power block to the resource manager that sent the at least one power request, and sends an allocation indication to the resource manager that sent the at least one power request, the allocation indication indicating that the requested available power block has been allocated to the resource manager.
Abstract:
A baseband processor of a communication device, the baseband processor including an encryptor block that encrypts a transmit data stream into an encrypted data stream, at least one transmit chain block that transforms the encrypted data stream into an analog transmit signal, and a randomness inspector unit that is in communication with the encryptor block, the randomness inspector unit accessing the transmit data stream and the encrypted data stream from the encryptor block as first and second input streams, respectively, to the randomness inspector unit, and determining a randomness gain by comparing a first randomness measurement associated with the first input stream to a second randomness measurement associated with the second input stream.
Abstract:
A mobile station provided in a satellite communication network comprised of multiple orbiting satellites, the mobile station including a communication time period estimator that estimates multiple communication time periods when the mobile station will be capable of communication with at least one satellite in the satellite communication network and that identifies one of the multiple communication time periods as a stable communication time period and another of the multiple communication time periods as an unstable communication time period (704), a video segment requester that determines a number of video segments to receive during the stable communication time period, the determined number of video segments being sufficient for video playback on the mobile station during the stable communication time period and the unstable communication time period (705), a transceiver that requests the determined number of video segments, and receives the determined number of video segments, during the stable communication time period from a content delivery network over a connection between the mobile station and the content delivery network via communication of the mobile station with a satellite in the satellite communication network (707), and a video player that plays the received determined number of video segments over the stable communication time period and the unstable communication time period (708).
Abstract:
A method of generating a plurality of spatially co-registered data elements, each spatially co-registered data element being associated with and generated from a pair of co-registered tissue sections obtained from adjacent positions of a core taken from a tissue sample and including an image data section and a genomic data section. The method includes, for each pair of co-registered tissue sections: (i) obtaining and storing as part of a data element a plurality of multi to hyperplexed images from the imaging data section of the co-registered tissue section, (ii) generating and storing as part of the data element image data from the plurality of multi to hyperplexed images, and (iii) generating and storing as part of the data element genomic data from the genomic data section of the associated co-registered tissue section.
Abstract:
A background correction method for a fluorescence microscopy system includes receiving a raw image stack, determining a number of temporal minimum intensity values for each pixel location from the raw image stack, and calculating an expected background value for each pixel location based on the number of temporal minimum intensity values for the pixel location. Also, an emitter localization method includes receiving a raw image stack, determining a rough position of each of a plurality of emitters within the raw image stack by employing a linear deconvolution process, and determining a precise position of each of the plurality of emitters by employing the rough position of the emitter and gradient fitting.
Abstract:
A system for monitoring free flap patency includes transmit and receive transducers structured to be coupled to a blood vessel, and a plurality of circuitry modules structured to insonify a blood flow volume within the blood vessel and receive a scattered signal from the receive transducer, extract a baseband Doppler blood flow signal, V BASEBAND , from the scattered signal, extract a plurality of features from V BASEBAND , and classify the plurality of features and generate a binary signal based on the classification of the plurality of features, wherein the binary signal will have a first state responsive to the classification of the plurality of features indicating that a flow rate within the blood vessel is less than a predetermined level and a second state responsive to the classification of the plurality of features indicating the flow rate within the blood vessel is greater than or equal to the predetermined level.
Abstract:
Various perovskite solar cell embodiments include a flexible metal substrate (e.g., including a metal doped TiO2 layer), a perovskite layer, and a transparent electrode layer (e.g., including a dielectric/metal/dielectric structure), wherein the perovskite layer is provided between the flexible metal substrate and the transparent electrode layer. Also, various tandem solar cell embodiments including a perovskite solar cell and either a quantum dot solar cell, and organic solar cell or a thin film solar cell.