A rotatable and reciprocating device for supplying material workpieces to be shaped to a shaping tool comprises a platform to which the workpieces are attached, a template disposed adjacent the platform, a guide member abutting the template, and a biasing means cooperating with the platform for constantly maintaining the template and guide member in abutment. In one embodiment, the guide member or template are attached to an axle for the rotatable platform while the other of these members is sec...

An automatic speech recognition system has a multi-mode training capability using a set of previously stored templates of a limited number of predetermined seed words to train the templates for a vocabulary of words. The training speech samples each includes a vocabulary word juxtaposed with a seed word. An averager module maintains an active average template for each of the word units of the training speech samples including the seed word units, and the active average templates are used to cont...

The present invention is directed to a method of an adaptive procedure table which is capable of providing default behaviors for each procedure if a corresponding procedure is not defined or has been removed from a software build. The default behaviors for each procedure may be defined in a template file provided by a developer before a compile time of software. The present invention may permit a module that defines the implementation of a procedure to be removed from the software build without ...

A process for manipulating the porosity of silica using a series of organic template groups covalently incorporated into the silicate matrix. The templates in the bridged polysilsesquioxanes are selectively removed from the material by oxidation with oxygen plasma or other means, leaving engineered voids or pores. The size of these pores is dependent upon the length or size of the template or spacer. The size of the templates is measured in terms of Si-Si distances which range from about 0.67 nm...

The present invention is a system that allows the user to create, modify, or delete a configurator using templates. Once the configurator is constructed, the present invention allows the user to generate specific configurations using the constructed configurator. Templates are objects that are created by the configurator generator and recognized and used by the configurator to create configurations. Templates are stored in a persistent storage area of the configurator generator and are recalled ...

The present invention relates to an improved method for producing primed nucleic acid templates. Specifically, it relates to a method, compositions and kits therefor, of increasing the specificity of primer extension reactions by hybridizing primer to template in the presence of single-stranded nucleic acid binding protein.

An apparatus for dithering an input image to produce an output array for representation on an output device is described. The apparatus includes an input device to store input image pixels having a first plurality of chrominance or luminance levels; a dithering system including a dither template including an M by N matrix of integer threshold values, the uniform distribution of threshold values throughout the dither template possessing homogeneous attributes. The apparatus further includes a nor...

A unique support device is provided which is particularly useful for holding drafting templates and the like in a condition readily accessible to a working draftsman. The support device comprises an adjustable base member which is conveniently fastened to either vertical or horizontal framework of a standard overhead drafting/artist desk lamp, the base member being oriented with its center at the intersection of x, y and z orthoginal axes; and a post extending outwardly from the base member, the...

A system for generating speech pattern templates for use with either speech recognition or speech synthesis. Reference demisyllable templates are first generated from a reference first speaker using both manual and automatic analysis. The analysis for a second speaker is simplified and automated by comparing with the first speaker's templates. The second speaker speaks the same words at a rate time-warped to match the first speakers rate and template. We define a demisyllable as each of the two ...

A method and apparatus for carrying out rapid, block-based SAD search operations for facial ellipses in a CIF videophone image frame are disclosed. A set of search templates, each having an ellipse pattern with two concentric, contiguous perimeters is defined and a set of parameter values are calculated off line for each template: a predetermined subfactor, index number, number of pixels in its dithered perimeter pattern, and first and second match thresholds. The pixels in the lower portion of ...