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20090205412 | Method For Obtaining And Analyzing Solids, Preferably Crystals - The present invention pertains to a method for obtaining and analyzing solids, preferably crystals, which method comprises the following steps: providing a well plate, the well plate comprising a plurality of wells, each of the wells having a depth and an open upper end and each of the wells being provided with a filter having pores, which filter is arranged at a distance below the open upper end, each of the wells having an upper inner wall part above the filter that has a fluid contact surface and each filter having a top filter surface, at least both the fluid contact surface of the well and the top filter surface being of a material that is at least substantially inert for organic and/or aqueous solvents and/or mixtures of organic and aqueous solvents, providing one or more substances and one or more solvents in at least one of the wells of the well plate, applying conditions to dissolve the one or more substances in the one or more solvents; applying conditions for crystallizing at least a part of the substance so that solids are formed in the at least one well, substantially removing the part of the substance that remains in solution, thereby leaving the solids, preferably crystals, that were formed from the substance in the well of the well plate in which they were formed, performing further investigation of the solids, preferably crystals in the well of the well plate where they were formed. | 08-20-2009 |
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20080227148 | Aspergillus Promotors for Expressing a Gene in a Fungal Cell - The present invention relates to isolated promoter DNA sequences, to DNA constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising these promoters in operative association with coding sequences. The present invention also relates to methods for expressing a gene and/or producing a biological compound using the new promoters isolated. The present invention also relates to methods for altering the transcription level and/or regulation of an endogenous gene using the new promoter of the invention. | 09-18-2008 |
20080305523 | Fungal Promoter for Expressing a Gene in a Fungal Cell - The present invention relates to isolated fungal promoter DNA sequences, to DNA constructs, vectors, and fungal host cells comprising these promoters in operative association with coding sequences encoding polypeptides. The present invention also relates to methods for expressing a gene and/or producing a polypeptide using the new promoters isolated. The present invention also relates to methods for altering the transcription level and/or regulation of an endogenous gene using the new promoter of the invention. | 12-11-2008 |
20120041171 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A RECOMBINANT POLYPEPTIDE OF INTEREST - The present invention relates to a process for the production of a recombinant polypeptide of interest, a polypeptide obtained by said process, a recombinant polynucleotide, an expression vector, an expression construct and to the use of a specific signal peptide and of a polynucleotide encoding said specific signal peptide for the production of a recombinant polypeptide of interest. | 02-16-2012 |
20120258489 | FUNGAL PROMOTERS FOR EXPRESSING A GENE IN A FUNGAL CELL - The present invention relates to isolated fungal promoter DNA sequences, to DNA constructs, vectors, and fungal host cells comprising these promoters in operative association with coding sequences encoding polypeptides. The present invention also relates to methods for expressing a gene and/or producing a polypeptide using the new promoters isolated. The present invention also relates to methods for altering the transcription level and/or regulation of an endogenous gene using the new promoter of the invention. | 10-11-2012 |
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20090010494 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE EQUIPMENT - A system for automatically controlling vehicle equipment includes a controller to generate control signals. The control signals are derived based on information obtained from the image sensor as well as other detected parameters pertaining to the detected light source(s), the vehicle having the inventive control system, and the ambient environment. The control circuit may simply turn certain vehicle equipment, for example exterior lights, on or off, or change the brightness, aim, focus, etc. to produce various beam patterns that maximize the illuminated area in front of the vehicle without causing excessive glare in the eyes of other drivers. | 01-08-2009 |
20090040588 | Electrochromic Rearview Mirror Incorporating a Third Surface Reflector - The inventive electrochromic mirror may be used in a vehicle rearview mirror assembly having a light source positioned behind the electrochromic mirror for selectively projecting light through the mirror and/or a light sensor positioned behind the electrochromic mirror for selectively receiving light through the mirror. The electrochromic mirror includes front and rear spaced elements each having front and rear surfaces and being sealably bonded together in a spaced-apart relationship to define a chamber, a layer of transparent conductive material disposed on the rear surface of the front element, an electrochromic material is contained within the chamber, and a second electrode overlies the front surface of the rear element in contact with the electrochromic material. The second electrode includes a layer of reflective material and a partially transmissive coating of and is disposed over substantially all of the front surface of the rear element. The second electrode further includes a region in front of the light source and/or light sensor that is at least partially transmissive. | 02-12-2009 |
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20120072080 | IMAGE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT CONTROL - An image acquisition and processing system includes an image sensor and one or more processors that are configured to receive at least a portion of at least one image from the image sensor. The dynamic aim of the image sensor is configured as a function of at least one feature extracted from at least a portion of an image. To accomplish the task, the system utilizes a series of adaptive thresholds used in parallel comparators to determine whether or not a pixel in a given image scene falls on the edge of a given lane line on a road. The location of the lane lines are then used to determine the scene vanishing point, which ideally will be co-located at the optical scene center. If they are not in agreement, the pixel data set being processed can be adjusted to accommodate for any disagreement. | 03-22-2012 |
20120116632 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE EQUIPMENT - A system for automatically controlling vehicle equipment includes a controller to generate control signals. The control signals are derived based on information obtained from the image sensor as well as other detected parameters pertaining to the detected light source(s), the vehicle having the inventive control system, and the ambient environment. The control circuit may simply turn certain vehicle equipment, for example exterior lights, on or off, or change the brightness, aim, focus, etc. to produce various beam patterns that maximize the illuminated area in front of the vehicle without causing excessive glare in the eyes of other drivers. | 05-10-2012 |
20120123638 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE EQUIPMENT - A system for automatically controlling vehicle equipment includes a controller to generate control signals. The control signals are derived based on information obtained from the image sensor as well as other detected parameters pertaining to the detected light source(s), the vehicle having the inventive control system, and the ambient environment. The control circuit may simply turn certain vehicle equipment, for example exterior lights, on or off, or change the brightness, aim, focus, etc. to produce various beam patterns that maximize the illuminated area in front of the vehicle without causing excessive glare in the eyes of other drivers. | 05-17-2012 |
20130135475 | MONITORING AND AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS - The present invention relates to monitoring and automatic control systems. | 05-30-2013 |
20130235600 | AUTOMATIC VEHICLE EXERIOR LIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM ASSEMBLIES - The present invention relates to various improvements relating to automatic vehicle equipment control systems. | 09-12-2013 |
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20140244716 | Shared Application Store for a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) System - A shared application store for a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system is disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes receiving, by a processing device of an application store, an indication of a selection of an application provided by the application store, the application configured for deployment on a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system, issuing a command to create a copy of a repository associated with the selected application, wherein the command to create the copy further comprises tracking changes made to the copy and flowing the tracked changes to the repository from which the copy originates, and sending a copy of the repository in response to the command to create the copy, wherein the copy of the repository is deployed on the PaaS system for a user that selected the application. | 08-28-2014 |
20150339367 | Shared Application Store for a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) System - A processing device of a container registry receives an indication of a selection of a container provided by the container registry, the container to deploy on a computer system in a hosted environment, the hosted environment comprising software and hardware facilities to execute the plurality of containers in a cloud computing environment, wherein the container is stored in a first repository. The processing device issues a command to create a second repository comprising a copy of the first repository. In response to the command, the processing device creates the second repository and sends the second repository to deploy in the hosted environment, wherein the command causes subsequent changes to the container to be made to the second repository during the deployment in the hosted environment. | 11-26-2015 |
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20150151303 | BALE PROCESSOR AND FLAIL FOR USE WITH SAME - In one embodiment, a bale processor includes a hopper for receiving baled material, a discharge opening for outputting chopped material, and primary and secondary rotors. The primary rotor has an axis of rotation and a rotatable flail to chop the material from the bale received in the hopper. The secondary rotor is rotatable to chop the material after being chopped by the primary rotor, and the secondary rotor is offset from the primary rotor such that the primary rotor is between the secondary rotor and the discharge opening. The flail includes a pivot tube for rotating about the axis, first and second hammers secured to the pivot tube, and a paddle. The paddle is positioned between and secured to the first and second hammers to generate airflow when the first and second hammers are rotated at an operating speed, thereby increasing a throw distance of the chopped material. | 06-04-2015 |
20150342122 | BALE PROCESSOR - In one embodiment, a bale processor includes a hopper for receiving a bale of baled material, a discharge opening for outputting chopped material, and a processing section below the hopper and intersecting the hopper at an impingement zone. The processing section has primary and secondary rotors. The primary rotor is rotatable and has flails sufficiently long to extend into the impingement zone to chop the material from the bale received in the hopper when the primary rotor is rotated. The secondary rotor is rotatable and has flails to chop the material after being chopped by the primary rotor. The secondary rotor is offset from the primary rotor such that the secondary rotor is on one side of the primary rotor, the discharge opening is on another side of the primary rotor, and the only passage from the secondary rotor to the discharge opening crosses the primary rotor. | 12-03-2015 |
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20090136203 | AUTOMATIC PLAYBACK OVERSHOOT CORRECTION SYSTEM - An automatic playback overshoot correction system predicts the position in the program material where the user expects to be when the user stops the fast forward progression of the program material. The system determines the position where the program material was stopped and transitions to the new mode that the user selected, starting at the stopped position with an overshoot correction factor subtracted from it. The system uses a prediction method to correctly place the user within the program upon transition out of fast forward mode and determines if the speed of the fast forward mode and then automatically subtracts a time multiple to the frame where the transition was detected and positions the user at the correct frame. The time multiple is fine tuned if the user is consistently correcting after the fast forward mode stops. | 05-28-2009 |
20110061076 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM AND METHODS OF RECOMMENDING MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON USER PREFERENCES - A system and method for making program recommendations to users of a network-based video recording system utilizes expressed preferences as inputs to collaborative filtering and Bayesian predictive algorithms to rate television programs using a graphical rating system. The predictive algorithms are adaptive, improving in accuracy as more programs are rated. | 03-10-2011 |
20110091182 | TELEVISION VIEWER INTERFACE SYSTEM - A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. A highlight bar is responsive to the user's commands and is used to indicate the current menu item that can be selected by the user. Information is presented in a successive disclosure format where the user navigates through menus by moving the highlight bar to the right to obtain more information or to the left to see less information and return to the previous location. The background colors of each set of menus remains consistent throughout the user's experience such that the user intuitively knows what menu area he is in through the color cues. The invention provides indicators that tell the user that more information is available in a particular direction for a menu item. | 04-21-2011 |
20120016934 | INTELLIGENT PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE SUGGESTIONS AND PROPAGATION OF MEDIA - In a network-based system for recommending media content items based on user preferences, clients contact a server on a periodic basis, independent of the user. In addition to client-server interaction, clients also interact with one another in peer-to-peer fashion. Peers query one another and evaluate their similarity to each other in an interactive comparison of user preferences. When two clients are sufficiently similar, the interaction culminates in the originating client downloading content listings from the targeted peer to generate suggestions for their user. If the two clients are dissimilar, the query may be terminated, or the targeted peer may route the query to a second targeted peer. In addition to the lists of preferences, the originating client may download actual content items from the targeted peers. | 01-19-2012 |
20120084818 | Intelligent System and Methods of Recommending Media Content Items Based on User Preferences - A system and method for making program recommendations to users of a network-based video recording system utilizes expressed preferences as inputs to collaborative filtering and Bayesian predictive algorithms to rate television programs using a graphical rating system. The predictive algorithms are adaptive, improving in accuracy as more programs are rated. | 04-05-2012 |
20120278842 | Television Viewer Interface System - A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. A highlight bar is responsive to the user's commands and is used to indicate the current menu item that can be selected by the user. Information is presented in a successive disclosure format where the user navigates through menus by moving the highlight bar to the right to obtain more information or to the left to see less information and return to the previous location. The background colors of each set of menus remains consistent throughout the user's experience such that the user intuitively knows what menu area he is in through the color cues. The invention provides indicators that tell the user that more information is available in a particular direction for a menu item. | 11-01-2012 |
20120294592 | Television Viewer Interface System - A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. A highlight bar is responsive to the user's commands and is used to indicate the current menu item that can be selected by the user. Information is presented in a successive disclosure format where the user navigates through menus by moving the highlight bar to the right to obtain more information or to the left to see less information and return to the previous location. The background colors of each set of menus remains consistent throughout the user's experience such that the user intuitively knows what menu area he is in through the color cues. The invention provides indicators that tell the user that more information is available in a particular direction for a menu item. | 11-22-2012 |
20140108585 | MULTIMEDIA CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system allows a user to select multimedia content items from sources that include, but are not limited to, any of: Internet, network, or local. Selected multimedia content items may be stored in user specific caches residing in at least one cloud based storage device. Multimedia content items may be transcoded while or after being retrieved from a source and then stored in a user specific cache. Multimedia content items may be selected by a user from the user's specific cache and streamed to a user device. | 04-17-2014 |
20160037220 | AUTHORABLE CONTENT RATING SYSTEM - Techniques for generating customized rating systems for use in a DVR are described. According to one technique, a user submits a rating system definition that comprises two or more different ratings of the user's choosing. The rating system definition is stored. The rating system definition defines a customized ratings system. That system's creator and other users may then associate various entities, such as channels, series, and episodes, with ratings from the customized rating system. DVRs may use these associations between entities and ratings for various purposes. For example, DVRs may use these associations to allow a user to search for entities that satisfy specified rating criteria. For another example, DVRs may use these associations to restricting which entities and information about those entities can be displayed or recorded when the DVR is in a restricted mode of operation. Customized rating systems may be modified by multiple users in collaboration. | 02-04-2016 |