A handle-frame set for attachment to a container or a bulky object to facilitate lifting and carrying of said container or bulky object, comprising a frame part and a handle part with the resultant handle formed by displacement of the lower portion of the frame part whereby the formed handle is locked into position. An adhesive layer for attaching to a surface is affixed on the back side of the frame part and the handle part and a protective layer is releaseably affixed to the back side of the a...

A fluid processing assembly can be easily inserted into and removed from a rotatable centrifuge channel. The processing assembly comprises a processing container and a carrier. The processing container has flexibility and, in use, occupies the channel to receive fluids for separation in the centrifugal field. The carrier retains the processing container outside the channel in a flexed condition conforming to the channel. The carrier resists deformation of the processing container during its inse...

Various types of insulated coolant lines that extend between a heat exchanger and an intravascular heat exchange catheter are disclosed.

A transfer sheet of the present invention includes a resin film having a glass transition temperature of not lower than 60.degree. C., a silicone resin layer formed on the resin film, and a metal wiring pattern formed on the silicone resin layer. The metal wiring pattern has an exposed face that forms a roughened face, and the roughened face has a ten-point average surface roughness (Rz) of 2 .mu.m or more, while a face of the wiring pattern, which is in contact with the silicone resin layer, ha...

A fine granularity scalability encoding/decoding apparatus includes a first quantizer for performing a DCT on a motion-compensated image and quantizing a resulting value, a second quantizer for re-quantizing the value obtained by the first quantizer, an inverse-quantizer for re-quantizing a value re-quantized by the second quantizer, and a number of subtracters. A first subtracter obtains a difference between a value of N times the re-quantized value and the inverse-quantized value. A second sub...

Video coding methods and apparatuses are provided that make use of various models and/or modes to significantly improve coding efficiency especially for high/complex motion sequences. The methods and apparatuses take advantage of the temporal and/or spatial correlations that may exist within portions of the frames, e.g., at the Macroblocks level, etc. The methods and apparatuses tend to significantly reduce the amount of data required for encoding motion information while retaining or even impro...

A process for evaluating the quality of coded images (e.g., two video sequences) uses a homogeneous motion vector field and psychovisual filtering to take into account Human Visual System (HVS) characteristics to calculate the error between the two video sequences.

A system and method for managing communication in an integrated services network ensures that media information is displayed on at least one of two terminals during a call without using any transmission bandwidth. This is achieved by having at least one of the terminals pre-store the media information in a memory and then controlling the terminal to recall and display this information when certain events occur during the call. The media information may include animated information, images, and s...

A control device of an internal combustion engine provided with throttle air passage calculating means for calculating an amount of throttle air passage through a throttle valve, excess air calculating means for calculating an amount of excess air to a cylinder corresponding to drop in air pressure in intake pipe due to an intake valve for that cylinder opening, cylinder air charge estimating means for estimating a cylinder air charge amount for each cylinder based on the amount of throttle air ...

In an internal combustion engine (10), exhaust gas leaves a combustion chamber (14) via at least one outlet valve (36) which is opened by an actuator after termination of a working stroke. A pressure value is determined, which characterizes the pressure of the gas in the combustion chamber during the working stroke. An actual value of the valve lift of the outlet valve (36) is determined, together with actual operating parameters of the internal combustion engine (10) which affect this opening s...