Personal computer

About: Personal computer is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 58809 publications have been published within this topic receiving 800814 citations. The topic is also known as: PC.

System for managing favorite channels

Abstract: A system for managing favorite channel lists on a television, personal computer or PC/TV convergence environment is disclosed. The favorite channel lists are dynamically created by a computerized system rather than manually created by a user who specifically identifies a set of channels to be included in the favorite channel list. In one embodiment of the invention, the computerized system generates a list of favorite channels based on a theme selected by the user. In another embodiment of the invention, the computerized system generates a list of favorite channels based on the channels most frequently viewed by the user.

[Health Status of the German population: results of a representative survey using the EuroQol questionnaire]

Abstract: Purpose The EuroQol questionnaire (EQ-5D) is an instrument for subjectively describing and valuing health states. The purpose of this study was to measure the health status of the German population using the EQ-5D and to analyse the influence of sociodemographic factors. Methods As part of the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) a representative sample of the non-institutionalised population aged 18 and above in Germany was surveyed by personal computer-based interviews in 2002/2003. Besides questions relating to the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and their risk factors, the health status of 3552 respondents was recorded using the EQ-5D. Frequency and factors of influence on problems in the EuroQol items mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, anxiety/depression as well as the valuation of health state on the visual analog scale (VAS) were analysed. Results 36 % of the respondents report problems in at least one of the EuroQol items; most frequent were problems in the dimension pain/discomfort (28 %), followed by mobility (17 %), everyday activities (10 %), anxiety/depression (4 %) and self-care (3 %). The mean VAS score was 77.4. Except for anxiety/depression the frequency of problems increased significantly with age and decreased with income. Women reported significantly more problems than men with regard to pain/discomfort and self-care. Having received more than 9 years of school education and being employed was associated with significantly fewer problems in all dimensions of the EuroQol. Living with a partner was associated with significantly fewer problems in the dimensions of self-care, usual activities and anxiety/depression. Multivariate analyses confirmed the effect of age, school education and employment on the frequency of problems, whereas for living with a partner only effects on self-care and anxiety/depression, and for gender only effects on pain/discomfort were confirmed. Income had no effect on frequency of problems in multivariate analyses. Young age, more than 9 years of school education, employment and living with a partner had a significantly positive effect on VAS score in multivariate analyses, while gender and income had no effect. Conclusions The EQ-5D is a simple health state classification system, that can be used to detect variations in the health status of a population. This study provides EQ-5D-norm values for the German population.

Ubiquitous Smart Home System Using Android Application

Abstract: This paper presents a flexible standalone, low-cost smart home system, which is based on the Android app communicating with the micro-web server providing more than the switching functionalities. The Arduino Ethernet is used to eliminate the use of a personal computer (PC) keeping the cost of the overall system to a minimum while voice activation is incorporated for switching functionalities. Devices such as light switches, power plugs, temperature sensors, humidity sensors, current sensors, intrusion detection sensors, smoke/gas sensors and sirens have been integrated in the system to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed smart home system. The smart home app is tested and it is able to successfully perform the smart home operations such as switching functionalities, automatic environmental control and intrusion detection, in the later case where an email is generated and the siren goes on.

Wearable personal computer system

Abstract: A portable computer (10) having elements for computing including a plurality of microcomputer elements, at least one flexible wearable member (12), structures (14, 16, 18) for mounting the plurality of microcomputer elements on the wearable member, and flexible signal relaying for electrical connecting the microcomputer elements in a user determined sequence.

Electronic imaging apparatus having hierarchical image data storage structure for computer-compatible image data management

Abstract: An image incident on an image sensor is photoelectrically converted to digital image data and stored on a storage device or medium in a hierarchical form as a file in a directory or subdirectory supported by a disk operating system. In this way, the system realizes an electronic imaging apparatus fully compatible with a personal computer.