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(WO 2008/002797) SEMIAUTOMATIC MYOCARDIAL REGION OF INTEREST DEFINITION
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03.01.2008
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G06T 7/00
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PCT/US2007/071546
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
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A method of identifying a myocardial region of interest in cardiac medical image data is disclosed. The method includes identifying myocardial tissue (200) in first (204) and second (206) views of the medical imaging data and constructing a myocardial surface (502). In one embodiment, the myocardial surface is modeled as a plurality of elliptical arc segments (502) and a half ellipsoid.
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(WO 2008/002659) METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MOLECULAR SPECIES DETECTION, INSPECTION AND CLASSIFICATION USING ULTRAVIOLET TO NEAR INFRARED ENHANCED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY
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03.01.2008
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G01J 3/30
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PCT/US2007/015132
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POTEET, Wade Martin
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The invention relates generally to the field of substance and material detection, inspection, and classification at wavelengths between approximately 200 nm and approximately 1800 nm. In particular, a handheld Enhanced Photoemission Spectroscopy ('EPS') detection system with a high degree of specificity and accuracy, capable of use at small and substantial standoff distances (e.g., greater than 12 inches) is utilized to identify specific substances (e.g., controlled substances, illegal drugs and explosives, and other substances of which trace detection would be of benefit) and mixtures thereof in order to provide information to officials for identification purposes and assists in determinations related to the legality, hazardous nature and/...
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(WO 2008/001337) A LOCATING/GUIDANCE TIP ASSEMBLY FOR A LIQUID DROPLET SPRAY TEETH CLEANING SYSTEM
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03.01.2008
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A61C 17/02
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PCT/IB2007/053402
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
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The spray assembly for a droplet spray teeth cleaning system includes a guidance member (40, 56, 80, 86) at the end thereof. The spray assembly includes a nozzle (24) through which a spray of liquid is directed to the teeth for cleaning. The guidance member is configured and mounted relative to the nozzle to provide a selected standoff distance between the nozzle and the teeth and includes a portion which is configured to fit in the interproximal space between adjacent teeth and gums, or against the frontal portions of the teeth, so that the user knows the location of the spray relative to the teeth.
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(WO 2008/001327) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCRYPTING/DECRYPTING DATA
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03.01.2008
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H04L 9/08
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PCT/IB2007/052530
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for encrypting data (105) by means of a first key (115), and a method and apparatus for decrypting encrypted data by means of a second key (185). The present invention alleviates the need for exact key information by allowing encryption of data (105) by means of a first key (115) and subsequent decryption of the encrypted data by means of a second key (185) without the need for the first key (115), provided that the first key (115) and the second key (185) form a sufficient estimate of an encryption/decryption key pair. During encryption, multiple encryption keys (135), at least in part based on the first key (115), are used to encrypt a redundant representation (122) of the data (105)...
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(WO 2008/001326) RADIO-FREQUENCY SURFACE COILS COMPRISING ON-BOARD DIGITAL RECEIVER CIRCUIT
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03.01.2008
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G01R 33/341
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PCT/IB2007/052529
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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A radio -frequency (RF) coil system that simplifies multi-nuclear magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is disclosed herein. The RF coil system comprises a transmitter coil (102) for transmitting an RF signal to excite a target region of a subject. The RF coil system also comprises an independent planar receiver coil assembly (110) for receiving an MR signal from at least a portion of the target region, the planar receiver coil assembly (110) being configured to include an on-board digital receiver circuit (112) for processing the received MR signal.
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(WO 2008/001321) A DEVICE FOR AND A METHOD OF PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL
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03.01.2008
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H03F 3/217
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PCT/IB2007/052510
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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A device (100, 200) for processing an audio signal (101), wherein the device (100, 200) comprises an adjustment unit (105) adapted for adjusting a dead time setting for a power stage (102) of an amplifier based on an amplitude of the audio signal (103).
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(WO 2008/001317) DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING INFORMATION
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03.01.2008
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G11B 27/10
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PCT/IB2007/052490
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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A device for retrieving information from a disc-like optical record carrier (11). The device comprises reading means (21, 22, 25, 30) for reading the information recorded on the record carrier and control means (20) for controlling the reading. Further, the device comprises disc error determination and correction means (32, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42) for determining disc errors and taking corrective actions by adjusting beam control parameters on the fly, during scanning of the record carrier. The disc errors handled by the disc error determination and correction means include tilt, unbalance, variable high-frequency signal asymmetry disc, bifringence disc, etcetera.
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(WO 2008/001314) A METHOD AND APPARATUS OF OPTIMIZING WRITE PARAMETERS FOR A REWRITABLE OPTICAL DISC
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03.01.2008
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G11B 20/10
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PCT/IB2007/052482
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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A method of optimizing write parameters for a rewritable optical disc comprises the steps of: reading out (310) predefined write parameters from the rewritable optical disc, which predefined write parameters comprise a power indicator Pwind and an initial Epsilon value ε, selecting (320) a Tmp from a range [8T/40, 14T/40] and a dTtop from a range [11T/40, 17T/40], where Tmp is a multiple pulse time, dTtop is a first pulse lead-time, and T is a clock period, adjusting (330) ε to adapt to a jitter value according to the value of Pwind, and generating (340) an optimized write power Pw based on the jitter value and the adjusted ε.
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(WO 2008/001313) CABLE HOLDING SYSTEM
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03.01.2008
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H02G 3/32
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PCT/IB2007/052481
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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A system for holding a cable is proposed, said system having a housing and a maintaining unit, said system comprising a pair of arms, each arm having a first end and a second end, the two first ends being coupled with the housing, the two second ends cooperating each other so as to form a surface to hold the cable, wherein the arms can rotate around their first ends so as to move the second ends between a first position, wherein the maintaining unit is not connected with the housing, to a second position, wherein the maintaining unit is not connected with the housing, the cable being released from the surface freely at the first position and being clamped at the second position. Through the present Utility Modle, the cable can be easy held ...
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(WO 2008/001308) METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO THE IMPORT, MANIPULATION AND EXPORT OF DATA USING SET-TOP BOXES
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03.01.2008
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H04N 5/445
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PCT/IB2007/052475
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
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Methods and devices for exporting and displaying video information are disclosed. For example, an exemplary set-top box especially configured to receive, manipulate and export video signals and television programming information is described. The set-top box includes a tuning device capable of receiving both television signals and programming signals relating to the received television signals, a data extraction device configured to extract programming information from the received programming signals, and a network interface capable of communicating with a network residing in a consumer residence, wherein the data extraction device is further configured to provide the programming information to one or more computer-based devices connected ...
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(WO 2008/001305) METHOD AND SYSTEM OF KEY FRAME EXTRACTION
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03.01.2008
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H04N 7/64
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PCT/IB2007/052465
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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This invention proposes a method of extracting key frames from a video, said video comprising a set of video frames, said method comprising the steps of computing an error rate of each frame from said set of video frames, comparing said error rate of each frame with a predetermined threshold, identifying candidate frames that have an error rate below said predetermined threshold, and selecting some frames from said candidate frames to derive said key frames. By discarding frames that contain too many errors, the accuracy of key frame extraction is improved.
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(WO 2008/001304) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING DATA WITH ERROR CORRECTION
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03.01.2008
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H04N 7/24
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PCT/IB2007/052461
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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The invention provides a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding data with error correction. In a data packet of a video stream, important data may be discarded because the total number of errors of important data and normal data exceeds a limit, even though important data itself has no or little error. To avoid that important data is influenced by errors of normal data, a data packet with important data being as information data is generated by the invention, and other data bits in the data packet are filled with non- information data. When decoding the video data stream, non-information data is firstly recovered to the data with no error. Therefore the important data can be error corrected and will not be discarded if the number of...
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(WO 2008/001303) A SURFACE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR USE WITH A DROPLET SPRAY ORAL CLEANING DEVICE
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03.01.2008
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A61C 17/028
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PCT/IB2007/052456
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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The surface detection system includes a source of an optical interrogating signal (44) which accompanies a droplet spray in an oral cleaning device directed to an oral surface (46). The interrogating optical signal is reflected from the oral surface which the spray impacts and detected (48). A selected characteristic of the reflected signal, such as intensity, is indicative of the nature of the oral surface, such as either gum tissue or a tooth surface. The detected reflected signal is then processed to determine the nature of the oral reflecting surface. The processor (50) then provides a resulting output signal which can be used to either warn the user concerning the nature of the oral surface or to change the characteristics of the spray...
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(WO 2008/001302) NODAL SPRING ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTRONIC TOOTHBRUSH
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03.01.2008
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F16F 1/02
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PCT/IB2007/052455
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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A nodal-mounted spring arrangement for an electronic toothbrush includes a V shaped spring member (15) secured at both ends so that it can operate in out-of -phase torsion mode along the axial dimension thereof. A mounting plate (26) is connected between a node point (30) along the V shaped spring member and the housing of the toothbrush. In one embodiment, the V shaped spring member includes opposing slots (32, 34) on opposite sides of the node point, the slots extending in an axial direction, creating an integrated torsion bar node spring, while reducing stress in the vicinity of the nodal point. In another embodiment, a nodal assembly comprises a diamond shaped or round insert (62) having an upper surface configured generally to fit flus...
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(WO 2008/001301) SPRAYHEAD APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A GAS-ASSISTED DROPLET SPRAY FOR USE IN ORAL CLEANING
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03.01.2008
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B05B 7/04
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PCT/IB2007/052454
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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The sprayhead device includes a housing (60) having an orifice plate (62) therein with at least one orifice opening (64) therethrough. A liquid line (36) delivers liquid to the sprayhead, where it proceeds through the orifice opening, wherein the liquid flow rate through the orifice and the liquid pressure are sufficiently great relative to the size of the orifice that the liquid moves through the orifice as a continuous stream. Gas is delivered to the housing and gas flows to the interior of the sprayhead through at least two openings (68) in the housing. The gas streams (flows) intercept the liquid flow perpendicularly, approximately 180° apart. The velocity of the gas flows is sufficient to break up the liquid stream from the orifice in...
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(WO 2008/001300) A LIQUID DROPLET SPRAY CLEANING SYSTEM FOR TEETH WITH TEMPERATURE AND FILTER CONTROLS
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03.01.2008
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A61C 17/02
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PCT/IB2007/052453
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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The droplet spray teeth cleaning system includes in one aspect a window of temperature and volumetric flow ratio between air and gas for safe and comfortable yet effective operation, the volumetric flow ratio ranging between approximately 24 and 875 and the temperature from approximately 27°C to a maximum of 60°C. The temperature is maintained by a flow-through heater (74) arranged around a liquid line portion (51) of the droplet spray system, preferably in a handle portion (52) of the system. Also included is a thermocouple heat sensor arrangement (78) which determines the temperature of the liquid prior to the nozzle portion and a control (76, 53) for maintaining the temperature within the temperature/flow ratio window. A filter (126) i...
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(WO 2008/001298) DISC DRIVE AND PHOTO-DETECTOR CIRCUITS
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03.01.2008
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G11B 7/13
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PCT/IB2007/052448
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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A method of reducing power dissipation in a variable-gain photo-detector circuit is described. The variable-gain photo-detector circuit has an output to output a main spot signal and at least one side spot signal. The main spot (M) and the side spot (Si or S2) are formed by separating a light beam into a main beam and at least one side beam and focusing the main beam on the main spot (M) and the side beam on at least one side spot (Si or S2) on an optical record carrier. The method processes the main spot signal with a first averaging circuit (1000) having a first cut-off frequency. The side spot signal is processed with a second averaging circuit (2000) having a second cut-off frequency. The second cut-off frequency is lower than the first...
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(WO 2008/001297) VARIABLE RESOLUTION MODEL BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION
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03.01.2008
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G06T 5/00
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PCT/IB2007/052447
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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The invention relates to system (100) for segmenting an image dataset based on a deformable model for modeling an object in the image dataset, utilizing a coarse mesh for adapting to the image dataset and a fine mesh for extracting detailed information from the image dataset, the system comprising an initialization unit (110) for initializing the coarse mesh in an image dataset space, a construction unit (120) for constructing the fine mesh in the image dataset space based on the initialized coarse mesh, a computation unit (130) for computing an internal force field on the coarse mesh and an external force field on the coarse mesh, wherein the external force is computed based on the constructed fine mesh and the scalar field of intensities,...
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(WO 2008/001296) A DEVICE FOR RETRIEVING INFORMATION AND A METHOD OF COMPENSATING A TILT DURING SAID RETRIEVING
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03.01.2008
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G11B 7/09
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PCT/IB2007/052444
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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A device for retrieving information from a disc-like optical record carrier (11) using a radiation beam. The device comprises reading means (21, 22, 25, 30) for reading the information recorded on the record carrier and control means (20) for controlling the reading. Further, the device comprises a tilt compensation unit (32) for compensating a relative tilt of the record carrier to the radiation beam. This is done with use of at least one tilt compensation function predicted during initial calibration. During scanning of the record carrier, for reading or recording, the tilt compensation function is on the fly fine-tuned upon error conditions. Different algorithms are proposed for fine-tuning and selecting the compensation function.
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(WO 2008/001295) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A SCHEDULE BASED ON PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA
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03.01.2008
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G06F 19/00
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PCT/IB2007/052441
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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The invention provides a method and apparatus for creating a schedule, wherein the schedule is used for a user's schedule arrangement, the apparatus for creating a schedule comprises: acquiring means for acquiring at least one physiological health condition data of the user; analyzing means for generating suggestion on the schedule arrangement based on said at least one physiological health condition data; and generating means for adding the schedule arrangement to the schedule according to a predetermined rule. The invention is used to dynamically create a schedule arrangement adaptive to the physiological health condition of a user under the premise that there is a change in the physiological health condition of the user, so that the sche...
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(WO 2008/001293) DESIGN OF PREAMBLE STRUCTURE FOR BLOCK TRANSMISSION SIGNALS AND RECEIVER THEREFOR
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03.01.2008
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H04L 27/26
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PCT/IB2007/052435
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
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A communication signal having a specialized preamble (410) allowing for increased bandwidth efficiency is disclosed. The specialized preamble consist of a serie of repeated blocks (412), wherein each block consist of a serie of symbols a<sb><i>0</i></sb>,...,a<sb><i>N</i></sb> with each symbol an defined as Formula (I), <i>n</i>=0,...,<i>N.</i> Said serie of symbols is also referred to as the 'complex quadric' (CQ) sequence. The application further discloses a communication device adapted for using the specialized preamble for performing frequency offset estimation, clock synchronization and channel estimation.
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(WO 2008/001291) DISTRIBUTED RENDEZVOUS CHANNEL AND FREQUENCY CHANNEL GROUPING MECHANISMS FOR MULTI-CHANNEL WIRELESS SYSTEMS
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03.01.2008
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H04L 12/28
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PCT/IB2007/052433
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
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A wireless system and a method of wireless communication are described. At least one beacon period in at least one rendezvous channel is provided. The method comprises determining a communications channel for use as a rendezvous channel RC during a beacon period; transmitting an identity of the RC and the beacon period to at least one wireless station STA of the network, wherein the STA includes a single radio transceiver; and during the beacon period and in the RC, exchanging beacons to negotiate communications after the beacon period.
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(WO 2008/001290) COLOR NAVIGATION SYSTEM
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03.01.2008
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H05B 37/02
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PCT/IB2007/052430
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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A system and method for color navigation through a CIELAB color space with coordinates hue (H), lightness (L), chroma (C), with intervals ΔH, ΔL, ΔC such that the perceptual color difference AE1Nv, defined according to the formula: AZW = ^{AL)2 + {fc(H) - ACf + [AH)2, is constant for steps in direction C and L and for steps in direction H along boundary of color space. fc(H) is a proportionality factor between 0 and 1 depending on hue. For hue values between red (Hl) and green (H2), fc(H) = 1. For hue values between green (H2) and blue (H3), the proportionality factor fc(H) is set to a constant value foB such that Nκ,GB(fGB) differs less than 50% from NH,RG- For hue values between blue (H3) and red (Hl), the proportionality factor fc(H)...
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(WO 2008/001289) DEVICE FOR GENERATING LIGHT
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03.01.2008
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H05B 37/02
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PCT/IB2007/052425
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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An illumination system (10; 100) for generating light comprises: at least one a lamp assembly (14; 114) capable of generating light (17; 117) with a variable color; a controller (15; 115) for controlling the lamp assembly; a user input device (19) coupled to the controller. The controller (15; 115) is designed, on the basis of data received from the user input device (19), to generate color control signals for the lamp assembly. The controller (15) is designed, on the basis of data received from the user input device (19), to calculate a path (47) in a color space (31), to calculate the coordinates of a set of color points (E; CP(2), CP(3)) along the calculated path (47), and to generate its color control signals in accordance with the calc...
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(WO 2008/001288) ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICES
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03.01.2008
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G09G 3/34
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PCT/IB2007/052424
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KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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An active matrix electrophoretic display device has pixel control circuits having a sensor (46) for detecting movement of the electrophoretic display particles (34) and timing circuitry for converting a drive signal into a time period during which a control signal is applied to the pixel following a detection event from the sensor. The sensing of particle movement compensates for the way pixel drive history influences the response of the pixel to a drive signal, but without requiring a complicated drive scheme. Instead, a drive signal is applied to the pixel, and the pixel circuit generates the appropriate duration of pixel driving to obtain the desired grey level.
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