An improved waveguide window (10) for use in high power waveguide applications. The window (10) preferably includes a thin sheet (12) of dielectric material having a first planar face (14), a second (16) face, and a support structure (18) attached to the first face (14) to provide mechanical support for the sheet (12). The support structure (18) preferably includes a plurality of parallel conductive support bars (20), each bar having an inner portion (22) attached to the first face (14) and an o...

An interactive graphics system includes a touch-sensitive controller having a number of semi-transparent light-diffusing panels imaged by a rear mounted imaging device such as a video camera. The imaging device is arranged to detect the shadows of objects, such as fingers, touching any of the panels. The camera can simultaneously to detect multiple touch points on the panels resulting from the touch of multiple fingers, which facilitates the detection of input gestures. The panel and the positio...

A business demand based control system and method stores past business demand data during past time intervals for use with other data to compute business demands in such manner that the past business demand data is used to project the business demands in current and near-future time intervals. The system measures and stores the business demand data for a plurality of time intervals and a plurality of products or tasks, and projects the business demand for a plurality of products or tasks for nea...

An electronic storage circuit includes a pair of banks, each bank having corresponding shared and unshared conductors. The banks may be dynamic random access memories (DRAMs), which are provided in a single inline memory module (SIMM). Each DRAM includes an array of bit cells arranged in rows and columns. A shared conductor of one bank is connected to the unshared conductor of the other bank, and the unshared conductor of such one bank is connected to the shared conductor of such other bank. Row...

A distributed computer system and method for integrating call management to the retrieval of documents in response to user inquiries includes distributed computers, a processor connected to an incident table register, a user table register and an acyclic graph data base. The incident table register records and stores information related to the user inquiry, the user table stores information related to the user's identity and the acyclic graph data base stores a plurality of documents useful in a...

A computer automated logic synthesis tool performs a timing analysis during the optimization of a hardware description file including general logic expressions of a prototype circuit by minimizing a delay value for a gate network comprised of logic cells provided in a target library. Minimization occurs by modeling a gate network for a logic expression that orders the input signals into the gate network according to their input delays, and the output delays from assigned logic cells. The output ...

A logic circuit and a technique for repairing faulty memory cells internally by employing on-chip testing and repairing circuits in an ASIC system. The test circuit detects column line faults, row faults, and data retention faults in a memory array. The repair circuit redirects the original address locations of the faulty memory lines to the mapped address locations of the redundant column or row lines. This repair scheme includes redundant column lines attached to each of the I/O arrays in the ...

A cap for a writing implement comprises an outer cap having open top and bottom ends with an inner cap having at its top a closed end and at its bottom an open end and coaxially connected to the outer cap by means of a plurality of radially extending ribs to define openings between the outer and inner caps. Flange elements are disposed below the openings for preventing the writing tip from entering the openings and guiding it toward the inner cap, the flange opening elements being circumferentia...

A hierarchical pitchmatching compactor is provided that maintains hierarchical structure, design rule correctness, and circuit integrity of a symbolic layout while globally compacting the layout without excessive computational or data handling requirements, even for layouts of substantial size. The compactor achieves this result by taking advantage of the regularity of the layout, to reduce the number of constraints in the linear programming problem to a minimum level. This minimal problem, call...

An electronic form processing system preferably includes a host computer, a plurality of local computers, form definitions, routing definitions and an organizational hierarchy. Both the host and the local computers further include a central processing unit, a display device, an input device and addressable memory. The processing unit accesses information and instructions from the input device and memory to display forms, complete forms and route the completed forms within the hierarchy of users....