An integrated attitude director indicator and horizontal situation indicator is disclosed that utilizes stereopsis to combine information that normally requires two display surfaces onto a single electronic display. One embodiment of the display comprises left and right eye versions alternately presented on the display in synchronism with alternate eye shuttered lenses worn by the viewer. The viewer has an instantaneous sense of the real world direction from his aircraft as apparently suspended ...

An apparatus for moving a granulate material for use on dental prostheses comprises a container for the material, with at least one riser pipe which projects into the space in the container above the material therein and which is fixed to a support base connected to the container. With at least one metering nozzle which terminates in the interior of the container, the riser pipe is connected to an air feed means for carrying a flow of air for conveying the material from the container in the form...

A specimen plate having a lengthwise slidable cover is placed on a carriage to move therewith into and out of an isolation chamber. A cover holder, movable in and out both relative to the carriage and with it, detachably retains the cover and prevents it from moving with the carriage beyond predetermined limits, so that the specimen plate is slid out of the cover and exposed while moving into the isolation chamber with the carriage, and is slid back into the cover as it is moved out of the isola...

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method including initiating a cleaning operation to clear a first processor core of a system of pending operations, and preventing injection of new events into a second processor core if the cleaning operation is not serviced in the first processor core. In this way, lock situations may be broken without their detection. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

A method detects the driving situation with respect to the yaw behavior of the vehicle, in which a desired value of the vehicle yaw angle rate .mu..sub.des is derived in a computer unit from measured values (such as vehicle speed, steering wheel angle), and at least one sensor signal is supplied to the computer unit from which the actual value of the vehicle yaw angle rate .mu..sub.act is derived. The difference between the desired value of the yaw angle rate .mu..sub.des and the actual value of...

Security officers (38) can be summoned to help a person (28) in distress, by providing portable pagers (40) to a group of officers assigned to a protected area (26). A person entering the area carries an alarm unit (30) which, when actuated, transmits an emergency signal. When the emergency signal is received at a station (12, 32), the person's location is determined. All the security officers are then located by transmitting a location inquiry signal, and determining the officers' locations usi...

In a transmitting section, image data, voice data and screen data indicating situations of a sender are produced, and converted to generalized situation data by, for instance, thinning those data. Upon request from a receiver, the generalized situation data are transmitted to the receiving section via a network, and output, for instance, in a sequential manner, to allow the receiver to recognize the situations of the sender.

A two dimensional or flat image display format for showing on an aircraft pilot's helmet mounted display the position of the aircraft relative to other aerial objects in three dimensional space is disclosed. The display format switches, under pilot control, among a variety of different, primarily three dimensional perspective, views. The disclosed views include a generally top-down first view from above the primary object showing the primary object generally at the center of said first view surr...

A favorable communication state is set when communication different from a telephone conversation such as data communication and the like is carried out. A control unit (32) judges a reception situation detected by a reception situation detecting unit in comparison with a first threshold value and judges the same in comparison with a second threshold value. The reception situation based on the comparison with the first threshold value and the reception situation based on the comparison with the ...

A number of navigation functions are performed on terrain navigation space. One function is to define a dynamic dangerous zone based on flight altitude by locating and aggregating a set of nodes of terrain height over a minimum flight altitude. Algorithms such as collision check, mountainous area boundary and region growing techniques are developed as basic operations for this terrain model. In addition, a visibility graph approach for dynamic route selection may be adapted to reduce the real-ti...