A method of cutting a sheet 1 with a tool controlled by a computer system and in accordance with a cutting program that may depend on certain particularities of the sheet. The computer system examines the sheet by scanning it with a video camera. Prior to scanning an operator marks certain of the particularities directly on the sheet using a fluorescent marker, the marking being in the form of distinctive symbols 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 which are detectable by the camera and which are interpretable as bei...

An electric field object sensing system uses a charge pumping circuit to provide a voltage over a capacitor that varies dependent upon the capacitive coupling between a transmitter electrode and a receiver electrode. The output of the charge pump is preferably fed to a high impedance read-out means, such as an analog-digital converter (ADC). The system is preferably implemented in CMOS and integrated in control circuits of electronic products.

There is disclosed an object locator system for obtaining information about the location of an individual, animal or moveable object, having a lightweight, attached object locator, that is present in a region served by a two-way paging system and a global positioning satellite system. The object locator may be selectively activated to conserve power or enabled to respond only when beyond a boundary.

A plurality of primary detection regions A to I are scanned by switching a beam width and a beam direction of an antenna. The primary detection regions A to I are formed such that one detection region overlaps at least one of other detection regions. A small region (any one of secondary detection region (1) to (14)) corresponding to a region provided by excluding a region corresponding to a sum of set of the detection regions where a detection object was not detected, from a region corresponding...

An execution environment accommodating object-based software transparently monitors interactions with software objects to generate operational management information for managing programs executing at plural computers. Notifications are directed to a software manager in the form of events, which can additionally be provided to applications or user programs. The software manager can group the events into sets and derive various operational management metrics from them to provide an overall pictur...

Beams are irradiated in three directions by switching an irradiation direction of a mainlobe of an antenna by stages, and an echo is received from a detection object obtained in the mainlobe or a sidelobe in each irradiation direction. Then, reflection power intensity in each irradiation direction is found from the received echo, and pattern of relative variation of the reflection power intensity (power intensity pattern) in each irradiation direction is generated. Meanwhile, a detection region ...

A technique to stripe a data object that focuses on the data object, but not on the storage media storing the data object. The data object, which can be of any size, is striped into data units at the object level. The technique includes the steps of striping a part of the data object that has not been striped before into at least one data unit. Then, at least one redundant unit is generated from the immediately striped at least one data unit to produce a stripe. The above steps are repeated unti...

An object transfer machine has a carrier with separate reversible drives for vertical and horizontal motions controlled by a bank of control cams driven through a control cycle by a motor, each cam causing one of the drives to operate for a set period in the required direction.

An object dislodging apparatus includes a dumbbell-shaped member having an enlarged, cylindrical portion at one end and a similarly shaped enlarged, cylindrical portion at the opposite end, and a section of pipe joining the two portions together. With the end of one cylindrical portion placed against the abdomen, directly beneath the diaphragm, and the opposite cylindrical portion grasped with both hands, the user is able to perform a modified type of Heimlich Maneuver by pulling inwardly on the...

A decorative object comprising an acrylic glass support plate and differently colored polymethyl methacrylate layers and zones thereupon, on one or both major surfaces of the plate, differently colored zones and vertically superposed layers of polymethyl methacrylate being separated from each other and from the support plate by barrier elements and layers respectively which are optically and mechanically compatible with but completely insoluble in and unpenetrable by polymethyl methacrylate.