System for dispensing drugs
The present invention is directed to a prescription dosage unit system in which information contained on a person's prescription for a drug is filled through the use of a disposable drug storing means... Read More
Inventors: Lion, Nicholas;, Assignee: Rx Excell Inc. () |
Distributed video data base with remote searching for image data features
It is an object of the invention to provide a distributed video information data base system. It is a further object of the invention to provide a capability for performing content-based searches for ... Read More
Inventors: Nunally, Patrick O.; MacCormack, David Ross; Winter, Gerhard Josef; Klein, Harry Eric; Nguyen, William Thanh; Lin-Liu, Sen; Nguyen, Lyn;, Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation (Boca Raton, FL) |
Pill dispensing system
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatically dispensing prescription medication. The system produces a labeled and filled prescription vial with a specific drug for a specif... Read More
Inventors: Williams, Jeffrey P.; Potepalov, Galina; Dolores, Allan T.; Bergeron, Michael;, Assignee: Automated Prescriptions System, Inc. (Shreveport, LA) |
Head mounted displays linked to networked electronic panning cameras
These and other objects of the present invention are provided by a system for combining a panning camera with one or more displays, such as head-mounted displays (HMD). In a preferred embodiment, an e... Read More
Inventors: Braun, David Alan; Smoot, Lanny Starkes;, Assignee: Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Morristown, NJ) |
Video telephone headset
I claim: 1. A method for simulating eye-to-eye contact in a videoconference, including the steps of: displaying an image of a remote face on a local display, said local display located in a first posi... Read More
Inventors: Bullister, Edward;, Assignee: Cambridge Technology Development, Inc. (Weston, MA) |
Near video-on-demand system and broadcasting method therefor
What is claimed is: 1. A near video-on-demand system comprising: control means; high-speed digital reproducing means responsive to a control signal from said control means, for reproducing at a high r... Read More
Inventors: Ebihara, Norio;, Assignee: Sony Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Drive wheel
According to a first aspect, the present invention consists in a drive wheel for traveling on a surface comprising a support member, a wheel member and a drive shaft. The drive shaft has a drive devic... Read More
Inventors: Bech, Mogens Ilsted;, Assignee: Borringis Industrie AG (Arlesheim, CH) |
Auto-stereoscopic viewing system using mounted projection
The present invention provides a superior solution in that the system invented has all the benefits of a head-mounted projection system coupled with retro-reflective display, but by eliminating the ne... Read More
Inventors: Covannon, Edward; Agostinelli, John A.; Mir, Jose M.;, Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) |
Telepresence system with automatic user-surrogate height matching
The invention claimed is: 1. A method for mutually-immersive telepresencing comprising: determining a height of a user; monitoring a height of an image of a user on an adjustable height surrogate; tra... Read More
Inventors: Jouppi, Norman Paul; Thomas, Vaughan Stanton;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, TX) |
Method and system to build optimal models of 3-dimensional molecular structures
OF THE INVENTION The method of the invention is best explained in terms of a series of steps. The construction of the set of MOLS comprises a Latin Square (LS) of order N defined as a set of N symbol... Read More
Inventors: Gautham, Namasivayam; Vengadesan, Krishnan;, Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (New Delhi, IN) |
Radio frequency identification system and method for tracking silicon wafers
The invention meets the above needs and overcomes the deficiencies of the prior art by providing an improved system and method of tracking semiconductor wafers. This is accomplished by a radio frequen... Read More
Inventors: Mabry, Frank Robert; Rhodes, James Scott;, Assignee: MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (St. Peters, MO) |
Radio frequency identification device
The present invention provides a read-write identification tool for tracking the status of semiconductor wafers in a wafer carrier. The identification device is rugged and waterproof so that it can be... Read More
Inventors: Wu, Kung Chris; Wu, Chen; Huang, Chien-Rong; Hsu, Jui-Hung;, Assignee: Fortrend Taiwan Scientific Corporation (Hsin-Chu, TW) |
Method of controlling the film thickness of flat films produced in flat film extruder installations
I claim: 1. A method of controlling the thickness of flat films produced in flat film extruder installations or films coated in extruder laminating installations, said method comprising: measuring thi... Read More
Inventors: Upmeier, Hartmut;, Assignee: |
Take-off apparatus for plastic tubular sheets
What we claim is: 1. Take-off equipment for tubular sheets of plastic produced by an extruder with a stationary blowing head and wherein a collapsing device collapses the tubular sheet and conveying e... Read More
Inventors: Baeumer, Josef; Ratz, Gerd;, Assignee: Klaus Reinhold Maschinen- und Geraetebau GmbH (Lengerich, DE) |
Dot-based data package template
In one form, although it need not be the only, or indeed the broadest, form, the invention resides in a generic data package template for representing data formed from a plurality of dots, said data p... Read More
Inventors: Walmsley, Simon Robert; Lapstun, Paul;, Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd (Balmain, AU) |
Dual zone automatic climate control algorithm utilizing heat flux analysis
There is a desire to automatically control the temperature in two zones inside a vehicle while an adjustment in heat flux corrects an interior temperature error. Some climate control algorithms calcul... Read More
Inventors: Eisenhour, Ronald S.;, Assignee: Nissan Technical Center North America, Inc. (Farmington Hills, MI) |
Electrically operated actuation tool for subsea completion system components
In accordance with the present invention, these and other disadvantages in the prior art are overcome by providing an electrically operated actuation tool for a subsea completion system component whic... Read More
Inventors: Bartlett, Christopher D.;, Assignee: FMC Technologies, Inc. (Houston, TX) |
Global positioning system having postprocessed realtime corrected data
The present invention pertains to a method for determining an improved position fix by performing postprocessing on a realtime differentially corrected GPS position. Initially, a remote rover unit con... Read More
Inventors: Biacs, Zoltan; Farmer, Dominic;, Assignee: Trimble Navigation Limited (Sunnyvale, CA) |
System and method of time and frequency synchronization in a radiocommunication system
This invention seeks to determine a TDMA paging slot or any slot that includes a sequence of symbols having characteristics (e.g., that the symbol sequence is one of a set of orthogonal codes) known ... Read More
Inventors: Dent, Paul W.;, Assignee: Ericsson Inc. (Research Triangle Park, NC) |
Stand alone global positioning system (GPS) and method with high sensitivity
A method is provided for determining the position of a user terminal utilizing global positioning system (GPS) satellites, each of the GPS satellites transmitting a signal containing information indic... Read More
Inventors: Camp, Jr., Thomas O.; Makovicka, Thomas J.;, Assignee: Ericsson Inc. (Research Triangle Park, NC) |
Enhancement of signal-detection capability of GPS systems
If the wireless terminal has an independent knowledge of the navigation data, it can utilize this knowledge to extend its integration interval beyond 20 ms. For example, if the wireless terminal can r... Read More
Inventors: Da, Ren; Vannucci, Giovanni;, Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Fast Acquisition, high sensitivity GPS receiver
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for acquiring and tracking global positioning system signals with a fast acquisition speed and high sensitivity. In a method of the present inven... Read More
Inventors: Krasner, Norman F.;, Assignee: SnapTrack, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
Methods, mobile stations and systems for acquiring global positioning system timing information
According to the present invention, methods, systems and mobile stations are provided which determine GPS timing by collecting energy from transmitted signals from one and preferably more acquired sat... Read More
Inventors: Bloebaum, Leland Scott;, Assignee: Ericsson Inc. (Research Triangle Park, NC) |
Method and apparatus for collecting, processing and distributing differential global positioning system information using the internet
Methods and apparatuses for collecting, processing, and delivering differential GPS information are disclosed. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, specific nomenclature is set ... Read More
Inventors: Eschenbach, Ralph;, Assignee: Trimble Navigation Limited (Sunnyvale, CA) |
Method and apparatus for locating and providing services to mobile devices
OF THE INVENTION To facilitate understanding the description has been organized as follows: Overview, introduces each of the components of the invention, and describes their relationship to one anoth... Read More
Inventors: Fuchs, Donald L.; Abraham, Charles; van Diggelen, Frank;, Assignee: Global Locate, Inc. (Glen Rock, NJ) |
Global positioning systems and inertial measuring unit ultratight coupling method
An object of the invention is to provide a tracking method of received Global Positioning System (GPS) signals using a correlation process that is driven by the best estimate of the navigation state v... Read More
Inventors: Abbott, Anthony S.; Lillo, Walter E.;, Assignee: The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, CA) |
Saddle-type vehicle equipped with a navigation system
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail hereinbelow with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an ATV 1 as a vehicle equipped ... Read More
Inventors: Takahashi, Shinji;, Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Automated circuit design method
The present invention resides in an automated method for designing microwave and millimeter-wave integrated circuitry and the like. Available design tools are automatically integrated and coordinated ... Read More
Inventors: Chao, Chente; Itkis, Michail Y.;, Assignee: TRW Inc. (Redondo Beach, CA) |
Force feedback and texture simulating interface device
An object of the invention is a man-machine interface which may be employed in interactive computer applications. Another object of the invention is a force feedback control system capable of controll... Read More
Inventors: Kramer, James F.;, Assignee: Virtual Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Hand calibration system and virtual display selection for vehicle simulator
A system is disclosed for presenting to a person an image of a virtual space, including a portion of the person's body as it would appear to the person were the person present in the virtual space. Th... Read More
Inventors: Socks, Kenric P.; Cumming, Hugh W.;, Assignee: Chrysler Corporation (Auburn Hills, MI) |
Control Computers 
