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20110275999 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE - A drug delivery device having a housing containing a gas generator controlled by an electronic controller. The gas generator generates gas into a reciprocable chamber, whereby reciprocation of the chamber causes a lever to reciprocate a pawl, and this action causes a ratchet to The device may also be provided with manually control for delivering a bolus dose Of drug when necessary. | 11-10-2011 |
20130012872 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE - A drug delivery device having a housing containing a gas generator controlled by an electronic controller. The gas generator generates gas into a reciprocable chamber, whereby reciprocation of the chamber causes a lever to reciprocate a pawl, and this action causes a ratchet to The device may also be provided with manually control for delivering a bolus dose of drug when necessary. | 01-10-2013 |
20130012873 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE - A drug delivery device having a housing containing a gas generator controlled by an electronic controller. The gas generator generates gas into a reciprocable chamber, whereby reciprocation of the chamber causes a lever to reciprocate a pawl, and this action causes a ratchet to The device may also be provided with manually control for delivering a bolus dose of drug when necessary. | 01-10-2013 |
20130012874 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE - A drug delivery device having a housing containing a gas generator controlled by an electronic controller. The gas generator generates gas into a reciprocable chamber, whereby reciprocation of the chamber causes a lever to reciprocate a pawl, and this action causes a ratchet to The device may also be provided with manually control for delivering a bolus dose of drug when necessary. | 01-10-2013 |
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20130079747 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE - A drug delivery device having a housing containing a gas generator controlled by an electronic controller. The gas generator generates gas into a reciprocable chamber, whereby reciprocation of the chamber causes a lever to reciprocate a pawl, and this action causes a ratchet to The device may also be provided with manually control for delivering a bolus dose of drug when necessary. | 03-28-2013 |
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20100286661 | VIAL ADAPTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THERFOR - A vial adaptor for releasably holding a vial ( | 11-11-2010 |
20120191047 | INJECTOR - An injector including a syringe arranged along a longitudinal axis, a removable cover for removable engagement with the syringe and a cover removal assembly including an outer portion which is engagable by a user and is movable axially in a cover disengagement direction along an axial travel path with respect to the longitudinal axis and an inner portion which includes at least one engagement portion which is engagable with the removable cover, whereby axial movement of the inner portion in the cover disengagement direction removes the removable cover from the syringe, at least one of the outer portion and the inner portion being configured such as to provide an axially floating lost motion engagement between the outer portion and the inner portion. | 07-26-2012 |
20120238961 | REMOVAL OF NEEDLE SHIELDS FROM SYRINGES AND AUTOMATIC INJECTION DEVICES - Exemplary embodiments provide a needle shield remover that reliably engages with a distal cap of an automatic injection device and with one or more needle shields coupled to a syringe of the device. When a user removes the distal cap, the needle shield remover reliably removes the needle shields (e.g., a soft needle shield and a rigid needle shield) from the syringe, thereby exposing the injection needle for performing an injection. In an exemplary assembly method, a needle shield remover is engaged to a needle shield coupled to a syringe, prior to insertion of the syringe and needle shield remover assembly into a housing of the device. This exemplary assembly method allows visual inspection, outside the housing of the device, to ensure that the needle shield remover is correctly and reliably engaged to the needle shield before the syringe and needle shield remover assembly is inserted into the housing. | 09-20-2012 |
20140288503 | REMOVAL OF NEEDLE SHIELD FROM SYRINGES AND AUTOMATIC INJECTION DEVICES - Exemplary embodiments provide a needle shield remover that reliably engages with a distal cap of an automatic injection device and with one or more needle shields coupled to a syringe of the device. When a user removes the distal cap, the needle shield remover reliably removes the needle shields (e.g., a soft needle shield and a rigid needle shield) from the syringe, thereby exposing the injection needle for performing an injection. In an exemplary assembly method, a needle shield remover is engaged to a needle shield coupled to a syringe, prior to insertion of the syringe and needle shield remover assembly into a housing of the device. This exemplary assembly method allows visual inspection, outside the housing of the device, to ensure that the needle shield remover is correctly and reliably engaged to the needle shield before the syringe and needle shield remover assembly is inserted into the housing. | 09-25-2014 |
20150202379 | INJECTOR - An injector including a syringe arranged along a longitudinal axis, a removable cover for removable engagement with the syringe and a cover removal assembly including an outer portion which is engagable by a user and is movable axially in a cover disengagement direction along an axial travel path with respect to the longitudinal axis and an inner portion which includes at least one engagement portion which is engagable with the removable cover, whereby axial movement of the inner portion in the cover disengagement direction removes the removable cover from the syringe, at least one of the outer portion and the inner portion being configured such as to provide an axially floating lost motion engagement between the outer portion and the inner portion. | 07-23-2015 |
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20120101336 | ENDOSCOPIC SYSTEM WITH FLUID CLEANING - An endoscopic system for use with an endoscope, including an irrigation tube that provides a flow of irrigation fluid for cleaning a body lumen, and a suction tube for sucking material from the body lumen, wherein the suction tube is connected to a branch connector and one branch of the branch connector is connected to a suction source tube which is connected to a suction source and another branch of the branch connector is connected to a vent tube, and wherein the suction source tube and the vent tube pass through a double pinch valve. | 04-26-2012 |
20150209557 | SYSTEMS FOR BLOOD VESSEL DILATATION AND VISUALIZATION - A percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) catheter may be configured to perform vein expansion and occlusion. A infusion port ( | 07-30-2015 |
20150359998 | INFUSION CATHETER WITH GUIDEWIRE VALVING - The present disclosure relates to a PTA (percutaneous transluminal angioplasty) balloon catheter, preferably high pressure type, optionally introducible as an over the wire catheter. The catheter possess the attribute of injecting fluid to the treated site through a dedicated opening proximal to the balloon member, for introduction of fluids such as contrast enhancing material and/or medication. In some embodiments, a single lumen is used, at least in part, both for fluids transfer and dispersion (“infusion”) as well as for guide wire passage. In some such embodiments, a valve mechanism is used to sustain selective operability of the lumen so that fluids will disperse mostly or solely through the proximal dispersion opening rather than the guide wire distal exit opening. | 12-17-2015 |
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20110222786 | CLASSIFYING AN IMAGE'S COMPRESSION LEVEL - A method of classifying a compressed input image's compression level, comprising applying inverse quantization to DCT coefficients extracted from the compressed input image, giving rise to dequantized DCT coefficients, applying a threshold to the dequantized DCT coefficients, and determining a compression level classification for the compressed input image according to a relation among the threshold and at least one of the dequantized DCT coefficients. | 09-15-2011 |
20120201475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AN IMAGE - There is provided according to an aspect the present invention a method and a system for processing a discrete input image to a reduced-size discrete output image. According to some embodiments, the system may include an interface, a quality parameter controller and an intra-prediction encoder. The quality controller is adapted to provide an encoding-quality parameter enabling a substantial size reduction of the discrete output image, wherein the parameter is related to a target quantitative-similarity measure between the output image and the input image. The intra-prediction encoder is adapted to re-encode the input image, wherein re-encoding includes intra-image prediction, and wherein the encoder is configured in accordance with the encoding-quality parameter. | 08-09-2012 |
20120201476 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR RECOMPRESSION OF DIGITAL IMAGES - A system and method for generating a second reduced size digital image from a first digital image, the method including iteratively compressing the first digital image to an extent determined by a quality measure comprising at least a blockiness measure quantifying added artifactual edges along coding block boundaries of the second image and/or use of a quantization matrix generated by computing a weighted average of the quantization matrix of the first digital image and a scaled second quantization matrix. | 08-09-2012 |
20130064466 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR RE-COMPRESSION HAVING A MONOTONIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXTENT OF COMPRESSION AND QUALITY OF COMPRESSED IMAGE - A computerized method for independent disjoint block-level recompression of a first image generated by independent coding of disjoint blocks in a precursor image, the first image having at least one first quantization matrix associated there-with, the method comprising performing at least one independent disjoint block-level compression operation, using a processor on the first image, thereby to generate a re-compressed second image including generating a new quantization matrix and using the new quantization matrix for the independent disjoint block-level compression, including computing a rounding error created by the quantization process utilizing the new quantization matrix and, if needed, adjusting at least one value of the new quantization matrix to reduce a rounding error created by the quantization process utilizing the new quantization matrix. | 03-14-2013 |
20130152767 | GENERATING PITCHED MUSICAL EVENTS CORRESPONDING TO MUSICAL CONTENT - A method of suggesting pitched musical events corresponding to provided digital musical content, comprising obtaining a frequency domain representation of the digital musical content, applying a pitch salience estimation over the frequency domain representation to provide a pitch salience time-frequency map; and grouping local frequency peaks along a time axis of the pitch salience time-frequency map which are substantially continuous in terms frequency and/or salience giving rise to a partial. | 06-20-2013 |
20130170764 | DOWNSIZING AN ENCODED IMAGE - There is provided a system, a computer program product, program storage device readable by machine, and a method of downsizing an input disjoint block level encoded image. According to examples of the presently disclosed subject matter, the method can include calculating a DCT downsize ratio for downsizing the input image in a DCT domain according to a target downsize ratio and according to a size of a DCT transform length associated with the input image; adapting an I-DCT according to the DCT domain downsize ratios; performing the adapted I-DCT; providing an intermediate image as output of a DCT domain process; and applying a pixel domain interpolation to the intermediate image according to dimensions of the intermediate image and according to dimensions of the target image. | 07-04-2013 |
20130182952 | METHOD OF CLASSIFYING A CHROMA DOWNSAMPLING ERROR - There is provided an apparatus and a method of evaluating an effect of chroma downsampling in a compression process of an input image. According to examples of the presently disclosed subject matter the method can include: computing an error for a target chroma downsampling (“CDS”) block based on characteristics of DCT coefficients in the U and/or V planes of a respective CDS candidates group in the input image, and further based on a diversity of the DCT coefficients in the U and/or V planes of the respective CDS candidates group in the input image; and computing an estimated perceptual effect of CDS over the input image based on a plurality of target CDS blocks error values. | 07-18-2013 |
20140177734 | CONTROLLING A VIDEO CONTENT SYSTEM - According to examples of the presently disclosed subject matter, a method of controlling a video content system can include: obtaining a current input frame and a preceding input frame from an input video sequence and obtaining a current degraded frame and a preceding degraded frame from a degraded video sequence corresponding to the input video sequence; computing a first differences value from the current input and the preceding input frames and a second differences value from the current degraded frame and the preceding degraded frame, comparing the first and second differences values, giving rise to an inter-frame quality score; computing an intra-frame quality score using an intra-frame quality measure that is applied in the pixel-domain of the current degraded frame and the current input frame and providing a configuration instruction to the video content system based on a quality criterion related to the inter-frame and the intra-frame quality scores. | 06-26-2014 |
20140211859 | CONTROLLING A VIDEO CONTENT SYSTEM - According to examples of the presently disclosed subject matter, a method of controlling a video content system can include: obtaining a current input frame and a preceding input frame from an input video sequence and obtaining a current degraded frame and a preceding degraded frame from a degraded video sequence corresponding to the input video sequence; computing a first differences value from the current input and the preceding input frames and a second differences value from the current degraded frame and the preceding degraded frame, comparing the first and second differences values, giving rise to an inter-frame quality score; computing an intra-frame quality score using an intra-frame quality measure that is applied in the pixel-domain of the current degraded frame and the current input frame and providing a configuration instruction to the video content system based on a quality criterion related to the inter-frame and the intra-frame quality scores. | 07-31-2014 |
20140355668 | Method and System for Controlling Video Frame Encoding - A method of enabling iterative encoding of a video frame by a video encoder, comprising obtaining a video-encoder-state resulting from encoding of a previous input video frame and previous to encoding of a current input video frame, copying the video-encoder-state giving rise to a reserved state and obtaining a candidate current encoded video frame from the video encoder, and in case the candidate current encoded video frame does not meet an encoding criterion, copying the reserved state back to the video encoder to enable the video encoder to re-encode the current input video frame. | 12-04-2014 |
20150063693 | CONTROLLING A COMPRESSION OF AN IMAGE ACCORDING TO A DEGREE OF PHOTO-REALISM - A method of controlling a compression of an image according to a degree of photo-realism in the image, comprising computing a value indicating a degree of photo-realism for an input image based on a distribution of pixel luminance values within the image, calculating a configuration parameter based on the photo-realism value for the image, and configuring an encoder to compress the image according to the configuration parameter. | 03-05-2015 |
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20110246499 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING COMPLIANCE WITHIN A CONFIGURATION-MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a compliance evaluation and validation system. The compliance evaluation and validation system comprises compliance rules, stored in computer readable medium, including one or more mass-storage devices and electronic memories, and a compliance-rule execution engine that parses compliance rules and generates, from information extracted from compliance rules, a first query executed by a query-execution engine to select configuration items from a configuration-management database and final query executed by a query-execution engine to select configuration items from a set of configuration items retrieved from the configuration-management database. | 10-06-2011 |
20110296310 | DETERMINING WHETHER A COMPOSITE CONFIGURATION ITEM SATISFIES A COMPLIANCE RULE - At least one selection relating to at least one element of a compliance rule is received through a user interface. The compliance rule is for a composite configuration item that has a collection of configuration items that are related to each other. Each of the configuration items represents a configuration of an information technology component. It is determined whether the composite configuration item satisfies the compliance rule, where the elements of the compliance rule are compared to the corresponding configuration items of the composite configuration item as part of the determining. | 12-01-2011 |
20130036214 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURATION USING SNAPSHOTS - A method for managing configuration of an environment of composite configuration items (Cls) is disclosed. The method may include periodically obtaining snapshots of the configuration of an environment. The method may also include logging the snapshots of the configuration of the environment in composite Cl level. The method may further include causing display of configuration information relating to a first snapshot of the snapshots in composite Cl level, while indicating configuration changes in that snapshot with respect to a second earlier snapshot of said snapshots. | 02-07-2013 |
20130055090 | BUNDLING CONFIGURATION ITEMS INTO A COMPOSITE CONFIGURATION ITEM - A configuration management system ( | 02-28-2013 |
20130198604 | METHOD FOR PERSONALIZING INTERACTION WITH THE WEB - A process of producing personalized applications for a web interaction process in which interface pages are presented sequentially. Learning is applied to the interaction, to subsequently form a sequence of synthetic pages for driving the personalized application. Analysis operation is implemented for analysing the screen elements, for each respective page, which the user interacts with. This analysis operation lays the foundations for the production of personalised application screen pages. subsequently a vector of synthetic interface pages is produced for applying in the same or on different computing infrastructure. | 08-01-2013 |
20140108625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURATION POLICY EXTRACTION - A method for configuration policy extraction for an organization having a plurality of composite configuration items may include calculating distances in a configuration space between the composite configuration items. The method may also include clustering the composite configuration items into one or more dusters based on the calculated distances. The method may further include identifying configuration patterns in one or more of the clusters, and extracting at least one configuration policy based on the identified configuration patterns. A non-transitory computer readable medium and a system for configuration policy extraction for an organization having a plurality of composite configuration items are also disclosed. | 04-17-2014 |