The invention provides an integrated remote patient monitoring system that includes a garment, a monitoring device, and a medication dispensing unit. The garment is adapted for wearing by a patient, and is adapted to house at least one sensor that is in communication with the patient's body. The garment includes a connector communicating with the sensor. The monitoring device communicates with the sensor through the connector, and is configured to record signals from the sensor. The monitoring device is also configured to exchange signals representing patient status with a central station. The medication dispensing unit communicates with the monitoring device to receive commands from the monitoring device, and to transfer signals representing the status of medication doses to the monitoring device.

Remote patient monitoring system with garment and automated medication dispenser

An automated banking machine (10) accepts deposit items such as currency, checks, gift certificates or other items of value. Deposited items after being accepted in the machine and processed are moved to the container (260). The container includes an interior area (268) which is bounded by a shaker member (282) on which deposit items are supported. The machine is operative to control operation of an actuator (290) which moves the shaker member to impart shaking motion to deposited items (278) to facilitate the compact storage thereof within the container. The container is enabled to be removed from the machine to facilitate removal of the deposited items. Movement of the container out of and away from the machine is facilitated by rollable supports (296) and a retractable handle (298).

Automated banking machine

Un procede et un dispositif qui servent a controler l'authenticite des billets de banque se fondent sur la detection des differences caracteristiques entre les procedes d'impression des billets de banques authentiques et ceux des faux billets fabriques au moyen d'un photocopieur couleurs. A method and a device used to check the authenticity of banknotes based on the detection of characteristic differences between printing processes genuine banknotes and those counterfeits manufactured using a photocopier colors. La detection est realisee dans des bandes de longueur d'onde etroites respectivement dans des domaines chromatiques rouge et bleu typiques, et simultanement dans des des directions particulieres, avec de la lumiere reflechie et dispersee. The detection is performed within narrow wavelength bands, respectively, in color red areas and typical blue, and simultaneously in particular directions, with reflected and scattered light. La detection de l'intensite dans une bande a etroitesse correspondante situee pres du domaine de sensibilite maximum de l'oeil, c'ect-a-dire dans le domaine vert, ainsi que dans une autre direction, est egalement effectuee a des fins de reference. Detection of intensity in a correspondingly narrow band near the area of ​​maximum sensitivity of the eye, ect to say in the green area, and in another direction, is also performed for the purposes of reference. De preference, le mesurage est realise a un endroit particulier ou la teneur en bleu et en rouge de l'impression du billet de banque authentique est extreme, c'est-a-dire elevee ou faible. Preferably, the measurement is performed at a particular location where the content blue and red printing the genuine bill is extreme, that is to say, high or low.

Optical testing for genuineness of bank notes and similar paper bills

An improved automatic lateral guidance control system for guiding moving vehicles is provided which includes a sensing subsystem for viewing an area in front of a vehicle, a plurality of energy radiating or energy reflective devices disposed adjacent a predetermined length of road, an apparatus for translating the radiated or reflected information from the viewed area into coordinate data representing an approximation of the predetermined path along the road, and a vehicle controller for determining the vehicle's heading with respect to the approximated path and providing an output control signal to correct the vehicle's heading with respect to the approximated path. The system uses past and present position data to calculate a predetermined path for the vehicle. Gain factors and comfort factors are determined to maximize comfort to passengers of the system and to optimize performance of the system.

Automatic lateral guidance control system

An inked ribbon containing a tape-like carrier deposited with a fluorescent composition that contains a fluorescent substance containing at least one of Nd and Yb as an optical active element and, other than this optical active element, at least one oxide of one of Mo and W and an alkaline earth metal, which fluorescent substance is dispersed and retained in an organic binder, wherein the organic binder is a mixture of wax and resin, and wherein the fluorescent substance has an average particle size of not more than 1 micron.

Fluorescent substance, fluorescent composition, fluorescent mark carrier and optical reader therefor

An optical reader system includes a plurality of sensor elements for providing a picture signal. Before initiating an actual reading operation, a white background plate is scanned to obtain reference information. The white background plate data is reversed to obtain a reciprocal of the white level and the thus obtained reciprocal is memorized in a memory. In an actual reading operation, the picture signal derived from the sensor elements is multiplied by the reciprocal memorized in the memory to compensate for the nonuniformity of the sensor outputs.

Read-out level compensation in an optical reader system

An image sensor output correcting system wherein a correcting region of an object being read is scanned in advance by means of a sensor array, thereby to provide a correcting signal based on the signal obtained in the scanning operation for correcting the scanning video signal of the region being read, characterized in that the video signal obtained during the scanning operation of the correcting region is sampled with a predetermined interval, the video signals of the sensor corresponding to a plurality of scanning lines are compared, and the maximum value is stored as the correcting signal, whereby high speed scanning can be made without degrading the correcting function as compared with a system where the outputs of the respective sensors of the sensor array are analog to digital converted to generate the correcting signal.

Image sensor output correcting system

An optical image reading apparatus comprises a solid state image sensor having a plurality of blocks, means for generating video signals correponding to an object to be read out by the solid state image sensor, means for determining respective mean values of the video signals concerning the blocks, means for storing the mean values in digital information, means for reading out the stored mean value and converting the digital information to analog information, and means for determining a corrected slice level in each of the blocks.

Output correcting system for facsimile

Optical information on a card is read by an image sensor and then converted to a video signal represented by a digital signal of several bits through the use of an amplifier and an A - D converter. A reference level is determined by scanning a reference portion which is preferably provided along one edge of the card. The video signal is quantized by comparing with three sliced levels corresponding to 0.5, 0.75 and 0.85 times the reference level. The quantized information is applied to a recognition station.

Humikazu Nagano

Papers

Read-out level compensation in an optical reader system

Image sensor output correcting system

Output correcting system for facsimile

Level determination for optical character reader