Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Medimetrics Personalized Drug Delivery, Inc.

U.S. Philips Corporation

Gerhard Spekowius

Peter J Quadflieg

Siebe Tjerk De Zwart

Karen Irene Trovato

Harald Reiter

Martin Weibrecht

Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks

Stein Kuiper

Thomas Juestel

Gerrit Oversluizen

Nijs Cornelis Van Der Vaart

Antonius Hendricus Maria Holtslag

Sybrandus Van Heusden

Joseph Ernest Rock

Jarno Mikael Riistama

Emile Josephus Carlos Kelkboom

Erik Robbert Vossenaar

Silviu Dovancescu

There is provided a method and apparatus for adjusting a monitoring system which is arranged to receive measured values of a physiological characteristic of a subject and to generate an alarm when the received measured values meet at least one predefined alarm generation criterion. The method comprises obtaining data relating to a hospitalization of the subject, the data comprising a time of the hospitalization; obtaining a plurality of measured values of the physiological characteristic measured during a measurement period preceding the time of the hospitalization or a measurement period preceding and including the time of the hospitalization; defining a detection window as a time period ending with the time of the hospitalization and having a predetermined duration; determining whether the monitoring system would generate an alarm during the detection window based on applying the at least one predefined alarm generation criterion to the obtained plurality of measured values; and if the monitoring system would not generate an alarm during the detection window, altering the at least one predefined alarm generation criterion such that the time at which the monitoring system would generate an alarm based on applying the altered predefined alarm generation criterion to the obtained plurality of measured values is within the detection window.

Method and apparatus for adjusting a monitoring system

An electronically and remotely controlled pill () or medicament delivery system is provided. The pill () includes a housing (); a medicament reservoir () for storing a medicament; an electronically controlled release valve or hatch () for dispensing one or more medicaments stored in the medicament reservoir () while traversing the gastrointestinal tract; control and timing circuitry () for opening and closing the valve (); and a battery (). The control and timing circuitry () opens an closes the valve () throughout a dispensing time period in accordance with a preset dispensing timing pattern which is programmed within the control and timing circuitry (). RF communication circuitry receives control signals for remotely overriding the preset dispensing timing pattern, reprogramming the control and timing circuitry () or terminating the dispensing of the medicament within the body. The pill () includes an RFID tag () for tracking, identification, inventory and other purposes.

Electronically and remotely controlled pill and system for delivering at least one medicament

The invention relates to a method of determining in vitro the amount of nuclear DNA within a human or animal cell using UV absorption measurement with UV light. The invention also relates to a method for detecting in vitro cancerous cells in a biological sample relying on the aforementioned principles. The invention also relates to an in vitro method of diagnosing or predicting the likely occurrence of cancer in a human or animal subject.

Vitro method of detecting and/or diagnosing cancer using UV light based DNA image cytometry

An electronically and remotely controlled pill () or medicament delivery system is provided. The pill () includes a housing (); a medicament reservoir () for storing a medicament; an electronically controlled release valve or hatch () for dispensing one or more medicaments stored in the medicament reservoir () while traversing the gastrointestinal tract; control and timing circuitry () for opening and closing the valve (); and a battery (). The control and timing circuitry () opens and closes the valve () throughout a dispensing time period in accordance with a preset dispensing timing pattern which is programmed within the control and timing circuitry (). RF communication circuitry receives control signals for remotely overriding the preset dispensing timing pattern, reprogramming the control and timing circuitry (), or terminating the dispensing of the medicament within the body. The pill () includes an RFID tag () for tracking, identification, inventory and other purposes.

The invention relates to a display device for rendering gray tone images on a monitor () controlled by s electron rays, wherein a correction unit () is provided for generating s output image signals A, which comprise gray tone values forming part of a set K of correction gray tones, from an image signal () which comprises gray tone values forming part of a set M of original gray tones (), and the s output image signals A, after a D/A conversion, are fed each to one electron ray for a brightness-corrected rendering of a gray tone in one pixel of the monitor () for the purpose of adapting the brightness distribution of the monitor to the optimum perceptional brightness distribution.

Display device with improved representation of the shades of grey

The invention relates to a display device for rendering gray tone images on a monitor controlled by s electron rays. The display device includes a correction unit for generating s output image signals A composed of gray tone values forming part of a set K of correction gray tones from an image signal. The image signal is composed of gray tone values forming part of a set M of original gray tones, and the s output image signals A , after a D/A conversion, are fed each to one electron ray for a brightness-corrected rendering of a gray tone in one pixel of the monitor for the purpose of adapting the brightness distribution of the monitor to the optimum perceptional brightness distribution.

The invention relates to an AC plasma display panel ( ) of the surface discharge type, and more specifically to the structure of the address electrodes ( ) of said panel, and to a method of driving said panel. According to the invention, only one address electrode ( ) is used for one out of every two columns. Scan ( ) and common ( ) electrodes may comprise transparent parts ( ). These parts ( ) may extend over one out every two cells, in a checkerboard fashion. In a preferred embodiment as shown in FIG. the columns may have alternating wide ( ) and narrow ( ) cells ( ). In the driving method according to the invention, all rows are addressed during an addressing phase, and subsequently all rows are simultaneously sustained during a sustain phase.

Plasma display panel electrode structure and method of driving a plasma display panel

A plasma picture screen is provided with a front plate, which comprises a glass plate on which a dielectric layer and a protective layer are provided, with a carrier plate provided with a phosphor layer comprising a red and a blue phosphor as well as a green, Tb -activated phosphor, with a ribbed structure that subdivides the space between the front plate and the carrier plate into plasma cells filled with a gas comprising xenon, and with one or several electrode arrays on the front plate and the carrier plate for generating corona discharges in the plasma cells. The gas comprises xenon in a proportion of between 5 and 30% by volume.

Plasma picture screen with terbium(III)-activated phosphor

An X-ray image intensifier (1) includes an entrance screen (2) with a photocathode (3). A television camera (15) is optically coupled to the exit window (12) of the X-ray image intensifier. The X-ray image intensifier with the television camera derives a primary image signal form an X-ray image on the entrance screen. The X-ray image intensifier is provided with a radiation source (4), such as flashlights or LEDs, for irradiating the photocathode (3). Irradiation of the photocathode produces a light intensity distribution on the exit window wherefrom the television camera derives a control signal. Correction numbers are derived from the signal levels of the control signal. These correction numbers are employed for correcting the primary image signal.

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Gerhard Spekowius