International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Robert Stephen Olyha, Jr

Seiichi Kawano

Joseph D Rutledge

Kenneth Blair Ocheltree

Ali Afzali-Ardakani

Sharathchandra UmapathiRao Pankanti

Arun Hampapur

David William Abraham

Russell Alan Budd

Ying Li

Kang-Wook Lee

Derek Brian Dove

Norman C Haas

Jonathan H Connell

Istvan Lovas

Carl G Powell

Thomas H DiStefano

Lawrence Shungwei Mok

Edward John Yarmchuk

Brian Paul Gaucher

Alphonso Philip Lanzetta

Michael Frank Cina

Michael E Scaman

Robert Carl Barrett

Arnold Halperin

James Jeffrey Wynne

Donald Merte

Charles J Hendricks

Saila Ponnapalli

Jerome Marvin Felsenstein

Richard Ian Kaufman

Paul F Greier

Frank J Canora

Thomas Picunko

Brian J Wojszynski

Christopher W Cline

John LeRoy Staples

Anthony J Castellano, Jr

Vincent A Arena

A method for controlled ablation of target tissue includes activating laser ablation of hyperkeratotic tissue upon detecting a trigger input signal, detecting a photo-acoustical signature due to the laser ablation of the hyperkeratotic tissue, detecting a change in the photo-acoustical signature due to the laser ablation of a material different than the hyperkeratotic tissue, and ceasing the laser ablation upon detecting, by a signal processor, the change in the photo-acoustical signature.

Laser-assisted treatment of Pachyonychia Congenita

An apparatus includes a wearable sensor structure that includes multiple individual sensor units placed in a row. Each individual sensor unit includes a first portion to contact a surface of skin under which arteries and/or veins are to be located, and a second portion that contacts the first portion and is configured to have a capacitance. The first and second portions are configured to create a capacitance change in response to a squeezing or bending between the first portion and a fixed part of the second portion caused by a pulse pressure and release of the pulse pressure. The apparatus includes circuitry configured to measure waveforms for the individual sensor units. Each waveform captures the capacitance change for its corresponding individual sensor unit. The apparatus includes a wireless interface configured to transmit the waveforms. A computing system is also disclosed that analyzes the waveforms and can provide alerts based thereon.

Layered and multi-sectional pulse wave sensors and use thereof

A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product annotate video images associated with an environmental situation based on detected actions of a human interacting with the environmental situation. A set of real-time video images are received that are captured by at least one video camera associated with an environment presenting one or more environmental situations to a human. One or more user actions made by the human that is associated with the set of real-time video images with respect to the environmental situation are monitored. A determination is made, based on the monitoring, that the human driver has one of performed and failed to perform at least one action associated with one or more images of the set of real-time video images. The one or more images of the set of real-time video images are annotated with a set of annotations.

Real-time annotation of images in a human assistive environment

A head mounted virtual image display unit is provided which is compact in size and weight, and incorporates a high performance optical system offering a clear see-through capability. A sliding light shield may be incorporated for those instances when see-through capability is not desired. A focus adjustment may be incorporated to permit the focusing of the image, for example, at a distance of approximately 18 inches to infinity. An adjustable headband may be incorporated that adapts to fit the users head. A flexible boom structure may be incorporated to facilitate fine positional adjustment of the optical assembly. A slider and ball joint mechanism may also be incorporated to facilitate positional adjustment of the optical assembly. A built-in microphone may be incorporated to enable speech input by the user. The head mounted virtual image display unit may be used comfortably in conjunction with eye or safety glasses, and provides a useful image to the user without blocking his view of the surrounding environment. The unit is designed to have a pleasing appearance so as to greatly enhance user acceptability.

Compact optical system and packaging for head mounted display

A controller for controlling a cursor includes an identifying module for identifying at least one of a first period when a cursor is in motion and a second period when the cursor is not in motion, and a calibrating module for calibrating an input parameter signal using a first hands-off test during the first period and a second hands-off test, different than the first hands-off test, during the second period.

Controller system and method for controlling a cursor

A computer system which includes a CPU for performing various processes by program control and storage elements which store at least one operating system and a BIOS, wherein upon starting a system, the CPU recognizes the system's own hardware configuration, and starts a selected one operating system stored in the storage elements in accordance with the recognized hardware configuration under the control of the BIOS.

Apparatus, method and program product for initiating computer system operation

A method and apparatus for the non-contact electrical test of both opens and shorts in electronic substrates. Top surface electrical test features are exposed to an ionization source under ambient conditions and the subsequent charge build up is measured as a drain current by probes contacting corresponding bottom surface features. Opens are detected by an absence of a drain current and shorts are detected by turning off the ionization source and re-measuring the bottom surface probes with a varying bias applied to each probe in the array.

Ionization test for electrical verification

System and method for selectively starting one of a plurality of operating systems according to whether or not the system is connected to a docking station

Controller, system and method for controlling a cursor

Apparatus, method and program product for selectively starting one of a plurality of operating systems and secondary storage according to whether or not a predetermined peripheral is connected to the system

A work station comprising a plurality of computers, and a method of operating that work station. Each of the computers at the work station includes a keyboard port and a pointing device port; and the work station further comprises a single external user keyboard, a single external pointing device, and a fanout switching unit connected to and for interfacing between the computers and the external keyboard and pointing device. In use, at any given time, the external keyboard and pointing device control a selected one of the computers, via the fanout switching unit. The fanout switching unit, acting in response to a predefined switching command from at least one of the external keyboard and pointing device, changes, or switches, the computer that is controlled by the external keyboard and pointing device. In particular, the computer that is controlled changes from a first of the computers to a second of the computers. The work station further comprises means, also acting in response to the predefined switching command, to copy data from a predetermined database of the first computer and to write the copied data in a predetermined database of the second computer. In this way, as a user,switches from working on one of the computers to working,on another of the computers, data that the user is using can be automatically copied from the former, or exit, computer to the latter, or enter, computer, providing a seamless switching between the computers.

Data sharing for multi-CPU mouse/keyboard switcher

Growing community of inventors

LaGrange, NY, United States of America

Robert Stephen Olyha, Jr