公开(公告)号：US20110304627A1

公开(公告)日：2011-12-15

申请号：US13203678

申请日：2010-02-26

申请人： Ian C Kegel ,  Timothy S Stevens ,  Joshan Meenowa ,  Ivan Roper ,  Dale E Robertson

发明人： Ian C Kegel ,  Timothy S Stevens ,  Joshan Meenowa ,  Ivan Roper ,  Dale E Robertson

IPC分类号： G06T11/20

CPC分类号： G11B27/105 ,  G11B27/322 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N21/47214

摘要： A method of processing a non-linear narrative article to improve a user's interactive experience is described. A user watching the narrative article can select options during presentation which influence subsequently viewed media clips associated with the selected options. The user navigates a single downstream path through the many possible paths in the narrative. In addition to downstream non-linear navigation, at each navigational decision point, upstream parts of the non-linear narrative are identified and the user is presented with upstream navigation options to enable non-linear upstream navigation through the narrative.

摘要翻译： 描述了一种处理非线性叙事文章以改善用户交互体验的方法。 观看叙述文章的用户可以在演示过程中选择选项，影响随后查看与所选选项相关联的媒体剪辑。 用户通过叙述中许多可能的路径导航单个下游路径。 除了下游非线性导航之外，在每个导航决策点，非线性叙述的上游部分都被识别，并且向用户呈现上游导航选项，以通过叙述实现非线性上行导航。

公开(公告)号：US20110270889A1

公开(公告)日：2011-11-03

申请号：US13142949

申请日：2009-12-24

申请人： Timothy S. Stevens ,  Joshan Meenowa ,  Dale Robertson ,  Ivan Roper ,  Ian Kegel

发明人： Timothy S. Stevens ,  Joshan Meenowa ,  Dale Robertson ,  Ivan Roper ,  Ian Kegel

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F16/4393 ,  G06F16/435

摘要： A method and apparatus for generating a non-linear narrative article. After generation of a non-linear narrative article from a set of narrative rules and accompanying media elements, the narrative is optimised and the media elements are also optimised into a dictionary. A narrative tree generator determines all possible paths through the narrative to generate a narrative tree and redundant parts are removed.

摘要翻译： 一种用于生成非线性叙事文章的方法和装置。 从一组叙事规则和伴随的媒体元素生成非线性叙事文章之后，叙述被优化，媒体元素也被优化成字典。 叙事树生成器通过叙述来确定所有可能的路径，以生成叙述树，并删除冗余部分。

公开(公告)号：US08037105B2

公开(公告)日：2011-10-11

申请号：US10593585

申请日：2005-03-18

申请人： Ian C Kegel ,  Jeremy M Thorne ,  Martin Russ ,  Timothy S Stevens ,  Jason Morphett

发明人： Ian C Kegel ,  Jeremy M Thorne ,  Martin Russ ,  Timothy S Stevens ,  Jason Morphett

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  G06F7/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30289

摘要： A computer apparatus which uses a database (22) to offer persistent storage of metadata (36) describing the content of media files (32). Metadata is used to create a personalized media article (48) from those media files. That metadata also indicates relationships between those media files. In order to accelerate the creation of the personalized media article (48), media element metadata items are stored in a cache. The usefulness of this cache is improved further by reading related media elements data from retrieved metadata items (36), and then pre-fetching those items and placing them in the cache. Because the relatedness of the data items means that the related data item is more likely to be required in the near future, the caching method is more useful than known caching methods. Furthermore, the improved usefulness of the cache is achieved without placing constraints on where the data items are placed in the persistent storage.

摘要翻译： 一种使用数据库（22）提供描述媒体文件（32）的内容的元数据（36）的持久存储的计算机装置。 元数据用于从这些媒体文件创建个性化媒体文章（48）。 该元数据还指示这些媒体文件之间的关系。 为了加速个性化媒体文章（48）的创建，媒体元素元数据项被存储在高速缓存中。 通过从检索到的元数据项（36）读取相关媒体元素数据，然后预取这些项并将它们放置在高速缓存中，进一步提高了该高速缓存的有用性。 因为数据项的相关性意味着相关数据项在不久的将来更有可能被要求，因此缓存方法比已知的缓存方法更有用。 此外，在不对数据项置于持久存储器中的位置施加限制的情况下实现高速缓存的改进的有用性。

公开(公告)号：US4715217A

公开(公告)日：1987-12-29

申请号：US903535

申请日：1986-09-04

申请人： Brenton S. Coyne ,  Andrew J. Strandjord ,  Mark W. Spence ,  Reid S. Willis ,  Robert A. Bredeweg ,  Timothy S. Stevens

发明人： Brenton S. Coyne ,  Andrew J. Strandjord ,  Mark W. Spence ,  Reid S. Willis ,  Robert A. Bredeweg ,  Timothy S. Stevens

IPC分类号： B01D61/24 ,  G01N1/10 ,  G01N1/22 ,  G01N1/38 ,  G01N30/00 ,  G01N33/04 ,  G01N33/18 ,  G01N35/08 ,  B01D15/08

CPC分类号： B01D61/28 ,  B01D61/18 ,  B01D69/04 ,  B01D71/70 ,  B01F13/0818 ,  G01N1/10 ,  G01N2001/383 ,  G01N33/04 ,  G01N33/1826

摘要： The invention relates to a membrane assisted analytical chemical method for the determination of the concentration of an organic compound in an aqueous matrix. The membrane partitions the matrix from a receiving fluid. The organic compound permeates the membrane and passes into the receiving fluid which is then analyzed for the permeated compound by, for example, liquid or gas chromatography. The membrane is selected to prevent contamination of the receiving fluid from otherwise interferring components of the matrix. The concentration of the organic compound is above its solubility limit in water which would ordinarily prevent effective use of such a membrane assisted method. However, when the organic compound is emulsified with, for example, a surfactant, then a membrane assisted method is successful. The sensitivity of the method can be improved by using a thermal focusing/gas chromatography technique to concentrate the permeated organic compound from the receiving fluid and the membrane can be protected from physical damage by enclosing it in a perforate structure.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及用于测定含水基质中有机化合物浓度的膜辅助分析化学方法。 膜从接收流体分隔基质。 有机化合物渗透膜并进入接收流体，然后通过例如液体或气相色谱分析透过化合物。 选择膜以防止接收流体污染基质的其他干扰成分。 有机化合物的浓度高于其在水中的溶解度极限，这通常将妨碍有效使用这种膜辅助方法。 然而，当有机化合物用例如表面活性剂乳化时，则膜辅助方法是成功的。 通过使用热聚焦/气相色谱技术将渗透的有机化合物从接收流体中浓缩，可以提高该方法的灵敏度，并且可以通过将膜封闭在穿孔结构中来保护膜免受物理损伤。

公开(公告)号：US4383047A

公开(公告)日：1983-05-10

申请号：US234521

申请日：1981-02-17

申请人： Timothy S. Stevens ,  Martin A. Langhorst

发明人： Timothy S. Stevens ,  Martin A. Langhorst

IPC分类号： G01N30/02 ,  B01D15/08 ,  B01D15/36 ,  B01J41/20 ,  B01J47/00 ,  G01N30/56 ,  G01N30/96 ,  B01J41/06

CPC分类号： B01D15/363 ,  B01J20/2803 ,  B01J20/3221 ,  B01J41/20 ,  B01J47/006 ,  G01N30/56 ,  G01N30/96 ,  B01J2220/54

摘要： An improved pellicular type (agglomerated) anion-exchange chromatographic packing composition which comprises:Component A, a substrate which consists essentially of particles of insoluble synthetic resin, having cation-exchanging sites at least on their available surfaces, the Component A particles being of a diameter of between about 5 to 75 microns and of low porosity relative to Component B microparticles, described below, andComponent B, which consists essentially of microparticles of insoluble synthetic resin, having a volume average diameter of less than about 900 and greater than about 50 Angstroms, the microparticles having anion-exchanging sites, at least on their outer surfaces, which attract available cation sites of Component A, wherein the microparticles of Component B are attached as a monolayer to the available surfaces of the Component A particles.

摘要翻译： 改进的薄膜型（聚集）阴离子交换色谱填充组合物，其包含：组分A，基本上由至少在其可用表面上具有阳离子交换位点的不溶性合成树脂颗粒组成的底物，组分A颗粒为 直径为约5至75微米且相对于下文所述的组分B微粒为低孔隙率，组分B主要由体积平均直径小于约900且大于约50的不溶性合成树脂微粒组成 埃，至少在其外表面上具有阴离子交换位点的微粒，其吸引组分A的可用阳离子位点，其中组分B的微粒作为单层附着到组分A颗粒的可用表面上。

公开(公告)号：US09105299B2

公开(公告)日：2015-08-11

申请号：US12935836

申请日：2009-03-20

申请人： Timothy S Stevens ,  Joshan Meenowa ,  Dale Robertson ,  Ian C Kegel ,  Ivan Roper

发明人： Timothy S Stevens ,  Joshan Meenowa ,  Dale Robertson ,  Ian C Kegel ,  Ivan Roper

IPC分类号： H04N7/12 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/28 ,  G11B27/32 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/142 ,  H04N19/179 ,  H04N19/192

CPC分类号： G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/28 ,  G11B27/322 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/142 ,  H04N19/179 ,  H04N19/192

摘要： A method and apparatus for encoding media content. In the field of video compression, temporal compression generates I-frames and dependent P-frames and B-frames. The placement of I-frames is determined by the presence of scene switches in the video. In order to improve the ability of a user to seek to interesting parts of the video, a video encoder considers semantic data identifying narrative points of interest within the video. The encoding process generates encoded video data having I-frames present at scene transitions and also at narratively interesting parts of the video.

摘要翻译： 一种用于对媒体内容进行编码的方法和装置。 在视频压缩领域，时间压缩产生I帧和相关P帧和B帧。 I帧的放置由视频中场景开关的存在决定。 为了提高用户寻找视频的有趣部分的能力，视频编码器考虑识别视频内的叙述兴趣点的语义数据。 编码处理产生具有在场景转换处存在的I帧的编码视频数据，以及视频的叙述感兴趣的部分。

公开(公告)号：US4837161A

公开(公告)日：1989-06-06

申请号：US900038

申请日：1986-08-25

申请人： Timothy S. Stevens ,  Nile N. Frawley ,  Daniel J. Swart ,  William C. Harris ,  Deborah E. Diedering ,  Lawrence W. Nicholson ,  L. David Rothman

发明人： Timothy S. Stevens ,  Nile N. Frawley ,  Daniel J. Swart ,  William C. Harris ,  Deborah E. Diedering ,  Lawrence W. Nicholson ,  L. David Rothman

IPC分类号： G01N1/38 ,  G01N30/02 ,  G01N30/84 ,  G01N35/08

CPC分类号： G01N35/085 ,  G01N30/84 ,  G01N2001/381 ,  G01N2030/8435 ,  G01N30/02 ,  Y10T436/117497 ,  Y10T436/118339 ,  Y10T436/255

摘要： An analytical chemistry apparatus and method for introducing a reagent into a flowing stream of liquid carrier in order to quantitatively analyze one or more components of a sample added into the carrier. The reagent is permeated across a short section of membrane having relatively large pores. The use of such a membrane: (a) allows the membrane to be protected from physical damage by covering it with a perforate structure; (b) significantly reduces bandspreading across the membrane reagent addition device; (c) reduces the pressure drop across the membrane reagent addition device; and (d) still allows for the permeation of an effective amount of the reagent into the carrier. The reagent is preferably pressurized to minimize leakage of carrier across the membrane and the reagent can be self-pressurized by essentially completely filling the reagent reservoir of the invention with reagent and then hermetically sealing the reservoir.

摘要翻译： 一种分析化学装置和方法，用于将试剂引入液体载体的流动流中，以便定量分析添加到载体中的样品的一种或多种组分。 试剂渗入具有较大孔隙的短截面膜。 使用这种膜：（a）允许通过用穿孔结构覆盖膜来保护膜免受物理损伤; （b）显着减少穿过膜试剂添加装置的带宽; （c）降低膜试剂添加装置上的压降; 和（d）仍然允许有效量的试剂渗透到载体中。 试剂优选被加压以最小化载体穿过膜的泄漏，并且试剂可以通过用试剂基本上完全填充本发明的试剂储存器然后密封储存器而自加压。

公开(公告)号：US4793920A

公开(公告)日：1988-12-27

申请号：US111147

申请日：1987-10-20

申请人： Hernan Cortes ,  Curtis D. Pfeiffer ,  Bruce E. Richter ,  Timothy S. Stevens

发明人： Hernan Cortes ,  Curtis D. Pfeiffer ,  Bruce E. Richter ,  Timothy S. Stevens

IPC分类号： G01N30/02 ,  G01N30/56 ,  G01N30/60 ,  B01D15/08

CPC分类号： G01N30/56 ,  G01N2030/565 ,  G01N2030/6008 ,  G01N30/02 ,  G01N30/6004 ,  G01N30/6052

摘要： Porous ceramic plugs are cast in place in chromatographic columns in order to provide supports for chromatographic beds in liquid chromatography devices and restrictors in supercritical fluid chromatographic devices. The supports are cast in place by fusing a silicate containing solution, such as one containing potassium silicate, which has been drawn into the outlet end of the column.

摘要翻译： 多孔陶瓷塞在色谱柱中浇注到位，以便为超临界流体色谱装置中液相色谱仪和限流器中的色谱床提供支持。 通过将已经被吸入柱的出口端的含硅酸盐溶液，例如含有硅酸钾的溶液熔化，从而将载体浇注到位。

公开(公告)号：US4519905A

公开(公告)日：1985-05-28

申请号：US626569

申请日：1984-07-02

申请人： Timothy S. Stevens ,  Martin A. Langhorst

发明人： Timothy S. Stevens ,  Martin A. Langhorst

IPC分类号： B01D15/08 ,  B01J20/286 ,  B01J41/20 ,  G01N30/56 ,  G01N30/96

CPC分类号： B01J20/286 ,  B01J20/3221 ,  B01J41/20 ,  G01N30/56 ,  G01N30/96 ,  B01J2220/54 ,  B01J2220/58

摘要： An improved chromatographic analytical column, the column containing a pellicular type (agglomerated) anion-exchange packing, comprising:Component A, which comprises a pressure packed bed of substrate particles of insoluble synthetic resin, having cation-exchanging sites at least on their available surfaces, the Component A particles being of low porosity relative to Component B microparticles, described below, andComponent B, derived by agglomerating microparticles of insoluble synthetic resin onto the pressure packed bed of Component A particles, the microparticles having a volume average diameter of less than about 1,500 and greater than about 50 Angstroms and having anion-exchanging sites, at least on their outer surfaces, which attract available cation sites of Component A, wherein the microparticles of Component B are attached as a monolayer to the available surfaces of the Component A particles.

摘要翻译： 一种改进的色谱分析柱，该柱包含薄膜型（聚集）阴离子交换填料，其包含：组分A，其包含不溶性合成树脂的基质颗粒的压力填充床，至少在其可用表面上具有阳离子交换位点 组分A颗粒相对于下述组分B微粒具有低孔隙率，以及组分B，其通过将不溶性合成树脂的微粒聚集到组分A颗粒的加压填充床上而得到，微粒的体积平均直径小于 至少在其外表面上具有阴离子交换位点，其吸引组分A的可用阳离子位点，其中组分B的微粒以单层的形式附着到组分A的可用表面上 粒子。

公开(公告)号：US4199323A

公开(公告)日：1980-04-22

申请号：US913786

申请日：1978-06-08

申请人： Theodore E. Miller, Jr. ,  Timothy S. Stevens

发明人： Theodore E. Miller, Jr. ,  Timothy S. Stevens

IPC分类号： G01N27/06 ,  G01N30/00 ,  G01N30/02 ,  G01N30/64 ,  G01N30/88 ,  G01N30/96 ,  G01N31/04 ,  G01N27/08

CPC分类号： G01N30/00 ,  G01N27/06 ,  G01N30/96

摘要： Acid or alternately base species concentration in aqueous and non-aqueous samples is quantitated, in the presence of interfering ionic salts, using most preferably differential conductivity detection combined with ion-exchange derivatization, wherein characteristically the acid or base species is derivatized to water, and blended indistinguishably in a required aqueous carrier phase, and the interfering salt(s) is derivatized to a distinguishable hydroxide or acid derivative(s). Using the preferred mode of detector read-out, the calibrated peak of the conductimetric response of the salt derivative(s) is compared to the peak of the conductimetric response of the sample and the response differential is displayed and used to predict the acid or base species concentration. The salt(s) concentration (with some exceptions) may be simultaneously predicted since it is proportional to the first mentioned peak. The technique has utility with respect to acids and bases broadly, and most advantageously is used with respect to strong and moderately strong acids and bases of a pK.sub.a and pK.sub.b value, respectively, of about 2 or less.

摘要翻译： 使用最优选与离子交换衍生化结合的差异电导率检测，在干扰离子盐存在下定量水性和非水性样品中的酸性或交替碱基物质浓度，其中特征性地将酸或碱性物质衍生为水，和 在所需的水性载体相中无差别地混合，并且所述干扰的盐被衍生成可区分的氢氧化物或酸衍生物。 使用优选的检测器读数模式，将盐衍生物的电导率响应的校准峰与样品的电导响应的峰值进行比较，并显示响应差异并用于预测酸或碱 物种集中。 盐浓度（有一些例外）可以同时预测，因为它与首先提到的峰成正比。 该技术相对于酸和碱广泛使用，并且最有利地分别用于约2或更低的pKa和pKb值的强和中等强酸和碱。