University of Minnesota

James P Licari

Hal Hjalmar Ottesen

Jim Walters

An original image or other data sequence is modified with an internal marker value, and is communicated (stored and/or transmitted) as one component of a transform having multiple complementary components. The image is restored in a closed form, without iteration, and in some cases without any loss of precision from the original image. The original image may have complex element values. Multiple original images may be combined, and separated after restoration. Several types of maps may be embedded in or packaged with the communicated component. Communicated component elements may be stored with variable lengths.

Non-iterative method to restore image from transformed component data

A hybrid energy system heats or cools a plant with a geothermal unit powered at least partly by a fuel cell, which may also power other devices. The thermal fluid for the geothermal unit also cools the fuel cell via a heat exchanger. A digital controller bypasses a variable portion of the thermal fluid around the heat exchanger to regulate the fuel-cell temperature.

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

James P Licari