Author: claimsbot

1. A connection device for connecting electronics of a head coil arranged on a patient support to a connector location provided on the patient support, the head coil being insertable into a PET detector arranged in a magnetic resonance instrument to enable simultaneous magnetic resonance and PET recording, the connection device comprising:
a cable connection including releasable means for attachment to the electronics and the connector location, the cable connection being fed from the electronics through the annular PET detector and externally on the PET detector back to the connector location.
2. The connection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one guide device, establishing the route of the cable connection, is provided.
3. The connection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a tubular, geometrically stable guide device, at least partially enclosing the cable connection, is provided.
4. The connection device as claimed in claim 2, further comprising at least one telescopable carrier element for holding at least one of the guide device and the cable connection.
5. The connection device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the cable connection is fed over a return roll, in the turnaround region.
6. The connection device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the cable connection is fed in at least two subsections parallel to the longitudinal axis of the PET detector so that the subsections are fed along the PET detector when the patient support is moved.
7. The connection device as claimed in claim 6, wherein a length of the subsections is determined as a function of a maximum movement range of the patient support.
8. The connection device as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one return roll is provided for receiving and feeding the cable connection moved with the patient support in a direction essentially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the PET detector.
9. The connection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one stationary cable drum is provided for at least one of receiving and releasing the cable connection when the patient support is moved.
10. An annular PET detector comprising at least one connection device as claimed in claim 1.
11. The PET detector as claimed in claim 10, wherein at least one of the cable connection and at least one guide means is fed in at least one of a static and sliding fashion in at least one guide fastened on at least one of an outer and inner surface of the detector.
12. The PET detector as claimed in claim 10, wherein at least one stationary cable drum is provided on the end side of the PET detector for at least one of receiving and releasing the cable connection when the patient support is moved.
13. A magnetic resonance system comprising:
a magnet;
a patient support, movable into a patient compartment; and
a PET detector as claimed in claim 10, fastened in the patient compartment.
14. The magnetic resonance system as claimed in claim 13, wherein at least one stationary cable drum is provided on a cladding of the magnet for receiving or releasing the cable connection when the patient support is moved.
15. The magnetic resonance system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the patient support includes a patient table, movable relative to a table carriage, a local coil being fastenable on the patient table and a connector location being provided on the table carriage, the cable connection including a loop in the region of the connector location to compensate for movements of the patient table relative to the carriage.
16. The connection device as claimed in claim 3, further comprising at least one telescopable carrier element for holding at least one of the guide device and the cable connection.
17. A connection device for connecting electronics of a head coil arranged on a patient support to a connector location provided on the patient support, the head coil being insertable into a PET detector arranged in a magnetic resonance instrument to enable simultaneous magnetic resonance and PET recording, the connection device comprising:
a cable connection including at least one releasable device to attach the electronics and the connector location, the cable connection being feedible from the electronics through the annular PET detector and externally on the PET detector back to the connector location.
18. The connection device as claimed in claim 17, wherein at least one guide device, establishing the route of the cable connection, is provided.
19. The connection device as claimed in claim 17, wherein a tubular, geometrically stable guide device, at least partially enclosing the cable connection, is provided.
20. The connection device as claimed in claim 18, further comprising at least one telescopable carrier element for holding at least one of the guide device and the cable connection.
21. An annular PET detector comprising at least one connection device as claimed in claim 17.
22. A magnetic resonance system comprising:
a magnet;
a patient support, movable into a patient compartment; and
a PET detector as claimed in claim 21, fastened in the patient compartment.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A computer-mediated method for supplying image records from a collection, the method comprising:
receiving an output request from a user;
locating a set of image records in said collection corresponding to said request;
determining one or more constraints on said output;
ascertaining a respective value index of each of said image records in said set;
calculating a statistical measure of said value indexes of said set;
reducing in number the image records in said set responsive to said one or more constraints to provide a reduced set of image records;
optimizing said statistical measure during said reducing; and
providing the output using said reduced set of image records.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said determining further comprises identifying an output device associated with said output request and said constraints include limitations of said output device.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein said constraints include a plurality of user preferences.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein said output includes one or both of hard copy output and soft copy output of said set of image records and said limitations of said output device include one or more of: limitations in hardware capabilities, limitations in user input capabilities, limitations in display capabilities, and network and communication bandwidth limitations; and said user preferences are predetermined and include one or more of: a preferred playback device, a preferred maximum output delay, and preferred characteristics of said image records in said output.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein said user preferences include a plurality of different sets of user preferences, each said set being applicable to a different one of a plurality of output devices inclusive of said identified output device.
6. The method of claim 4 wherein said user preferences are transferable in a user profile independent of said image records.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein said statistical measure is a pattern classification.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein said pattern classification is a Bayesian net.
9. The method of claim 1 further comprising partitioning said reduced set of image records into a plurality of clusters prior to providing said output.
10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:
partitioning said collection of image records into a set of clusters;
identifying in said output a subset of said clusters inclusive of said reduced set of image records;
accepting user input designating one of said identified clusters; and
identifying all of the respective records of said designated cluster in said collection, responsive to said user input.
11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
partitioning said collection of image records into a first plurality of clusters prior to said receiving; and
partitioning said set of image records into a second plurality of clusters prior to said providing, said partitionings being algorithmically alike, said first plurality of clusters being different than said second plurality of clusters.
12. The method of claim 1 wherein said ascertaining further comprises:
reading value index metadata indicating respective value indexes of ones of said set of image records having said value index metadata; and
calculating the respective value indexes of other ones of said set of image records lacking said value index metadata.
13. The method of claim 1 wherein said ascertaining further comprises:
determining value index metadata indicating respective value indexes of said image records of said set;
computing one or more saliency features of respective said image records of said set;
modifying respective said value indexes responsive to respective said saliency features to provide modified value indexes; and
using said modified value indexes in said calculating and optimizing.
14. The method of claim 13 wherein said one or more saliency features include structural saliency features and semantic saliency features.
15. The method of claim 14 wherein said structural saliency features include more one or more of: color, brightness, texture, centrality, borderness, adjacency, surroundedness, occlusion, size, shape, and symmetry, image sharpness, image noise, contrast, presence or absence of dark background, scene balance, skin tone color, saturation, clipping, aliasing, and compression state; and said semantic saliency features include one or more of: presenceabsence of people or skin or faces, number of people, gender of people, age of people, redeye, eye blink, smile expression, head size, translation problem, subject centrality, scene type (such as indoor, city, and landscape), scene uniqueness relative to other image records, presence or absence of sky, presence or absence of grass or green vegetation, presence or absence of sports equipment, presence or absence of buildings, presence or absence of animals.
16. The method of claim 13 further comprising reading metadata associated with the image records of said set and wherein said modifying respective said value indexes is responsive to respective said saliency features and to said metadata.
17. The method of claim 16 wherein said metadata is one of capture related metadata and usage metadata.
18. An apparatus for supplying image records from a collection, the method comprising:
memory holding the collection of image records;
a user interface having one or more input controls and one or more output devices;
a control unit operatively connected to said memory and said user interface, said control unit including:
a component locating a set of image records in said collection corresponding to an output request received from a user via said user interface;
a component determining one or more constraints on said output;
a component ascertaining a respective value index of each of said image records in said set;
a component calculating a statistical measure of said value indexes of said set;
a component reducing in number the image records in said set responsive to said one or more constraints to provide a reduced set of image records;
a component optimizing said statistical measure during said reducing; and
a component providing the output to one of said output devices using said reduced set of image records.

1. A method of operating a reference voltage regulator for an embedded dynamic random access memory (eDRAM) employing VSS-sensing with a reference level, said reference voltage regulator including an oscillator, a control block, a reference generator, a comparator, a pulse generator, a driver and a reference voltage output, said method comprising:
the oscillator sending requests for sampling and correction to the control block between accesses of the eDRAM;
the control block sending a pulse defining a time interval during which sampling and correction occurs to the pulse generator;
the reference generator providing the reference level to the comparator;
the comparator comparing the reference level with a sampling of a reference voltage to decide if the reference voltage requires correction;
the comparator sending a correction request to the pulse generator if the reference voltage requires correction;
the pulse generator generating a correction pulse for the driver according to the correction request from the comparator; and
the driver adjusting the reference voltage during the correction pulse.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising
adjusting a rate for sampling and correction so that the rate is higher when a difference between the reference level and the reference voltage is larger.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the adjusting comprises using an internal delay in the comparator that is inversely proportional to the difference between the reference level and the reference voltage.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising
for an access, the control block receiving from a memory control logic in the eDRAM requests for sampling and correction.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the pulse generator generates the correction pulse with a width that is wider upon receipt of the requests for sampling and correction from the memory control logic.
6. The method of claim 4, further comprising
the control block starting a new comparison cycle to correct the reference voltage after the access.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising
amplifying, by a differential amplifier of the reference voltage regulator, a difference between the reference level and the reference voltage and sending the amplified difference to the comparator.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising
the pulse generator resetting the comparator to launch a new comparison cycle when the pulse generator generates the correction pulse.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising
smoothing the reference voltage by a reservoir capacitor coupled to an output of the driver.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the reservoir capacitor is implemented with Metal Insulator Metal (MIM) capacitors.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the oscillator is a temperature controlled oscillator (TCO).
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the oscillator sends the requests for sampling and correction through a frequency divider of the reference voltage regulator to the control block.
13. A method of regulating a reference voltage for an embedded dynamic random access memory (eDRAM) employing VSS-sensing with a reference level, said method comprising:
an oscillator sending requests for sampling and correction through a frequency divider to a control block between accesses of the eDRAM;
the control block sending a pulse defining a time interval during which sampling and correction occurs to a pulse generator;
a reference generator providing the reference level to a comparator;
the comparator comparing the reference level with a sampling of the reference voltage to decide if the reference voltage requires correction;
the comparator sending a correction request to the pulse generator if the reference voltage requires correction;
a pulse generator generating a correction pulse for a driver according to the correction request from the comparator;
the driver adjusting the reference voltage during the correction pulse; and
a differential amplifier amplifying a difference between the reference level and the reference voltage and sending the amplified difference to the comparator;
wherein a rate for sampling and correction is adjusted to be higher when the difference between the reference level and the reference voltage is larger.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the rate is adjusted by using an internal delay in the comparator that is inversely proportional to the difference of the reference level and the reference voltage.
15. The method of claim 13, further comprising
a memory control logic in the eDRAM sending requests for sampling and correction to the control block for an access.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the pulse generator generating the correction pulse with a width that is wider when the memory control logic sends the requests for sampling and correction.
17. The method of claim 15, further comprising
the control block starting a new comparison cycle to correct the reference voltage after the access.
18. The method of claim 13, further comprising
the pulse generator resetting the comparator to launch a new comparison cycle when the pulse generator produces the correction pulse.
19. A method of regulating a reference voltage for an embedded dynamic random access memory (eDRAM) employing VSS-sensing with a reference level, said method comprising:
a temperature controlled oscillator (TCO) sending requests for sampling and correction through a frequency divider to a control block between accesses of the eDRAM;
the control block sending a pulse defining a time interval during which sampling and correction occurs to a pulse generator;
a reference generator providing the reference level to a comparator;
the comparator comparing the reference level with a sampling of the reference voltage to decide if the reference voltage requires correction;
the comparator sending a correction request to the pulse generator if the reference voltage requires correction;
a pulse generator generating a correction pulse for a driver according to the correction request from the comparator;
the driver adjusting the reference voltage during the correction pulse; and
a differential amplifier amplifying a difference between the reference level and the reference voltage and sending the amplified difference to the comparator;
wherein
a rate for sampling and correction is adjusted to be higher when the difference between the reference level and the reference voltage is larger; and
when a memory control logic in the eDRAM sends requests for sampling and correction for an access, the control block starts a new comparison cycle to correct the reference voltage after the access.
20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:
the pulse generator generating correction pulses with a width that is wider when the memory control logic sends the requests for sampling and correction.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A table game system comprising:
a plurality of playing cards, each of the cards including an ultraviolet-ray reaction code comprising at least two sets of code elements arranged along one side of a face of the card, the ultraviolet-ray reaction code representing at least a number of a card; and
a card shooter apparatus comprising:
a card housing for containing the cards,
a card guide unit that guides cards which are pulled out one by one from the card housing,
one or more card detecting sensors that detect the existence or non-existence of each card which is pulled out along a card guiding direction of the card guide unit, and
one or more black light sensors that read the ultraviolet-ray reaction code from each card guided by the card guide unit.
2. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein the card shooter apparatus further comprises:
a measurement validityinvalidity determining means that determines whether or not the card has normally passed along the card guide unit on the basis of detection signals of the one or more card detecting sensors.
3. The game table system according to claim 1, wherein the card shooter apparatus further comprises:
a number specifying means that specifies the number of the card associated with the ultraviolet-ray reaction code on the basis of detection signals from the one or more black light sensors.
4. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein the card shooter apparatus further comprises:
a winlose determining means that determines a result of a card game on the basis of the ultraviolet-ray reaction codes of the cards that are sequentially read by the one or more black light sensors.
5. The table game system according to claim 4, wherein the card shooter apparatus further comprises:
an output means that outputs the result determined by the winlose determining means.
6. The table game system according to claim 5, wherein the output means includes one or more lamps that display the result determined by the winlose determining means.
7. The table game system according to claim 5, wherein the output means includes a monitor that is provided on a housing of the shooter apparatus.
8. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein the card shooter apparatus further comprises:
a reading instruction means that controls at least the start of reading of the ultraviolet-ray reaction code by the one or more black light sensors on the basis of a detection signal from the one or more card detecting sensors indicating whether a card has been detected.
9. The table game system according to claim 1, further comprising an attitude judgment means which determines whether the card passed through the card reading sensors in a proper attitude on the basis of detection signals of the one or more card detecting sensors.
10. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein the card guide unit comprises:
a card guide surface; and
card guide rails provided at edges of the card guide surface;
wherein a card passage gap is formed between the card guide surface and the card guide rails.
11. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein the card shooter apparatus further comprises:
a cover that protects the one or more black light sensors from outside light.
12. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein the code elements are arrayed in the card guiding direction of the card guide unit.
13. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein the ultraviolet-ray reaction code is provided on a region of the card where a mark of the card is not provided.
14. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein the ultraviolet-ray reaction code is spaced from an edge of the card.
15. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein the sets of code elements are stacked inwardly from an edge of the card.
16. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein each of the one or more black light sensors correspond to one of the plurality of sets of code elements.
17. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein the number of a card is specified from the arrangement of the code elements in the ultraviolet-ray reaction code.
18. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein the ultraviolet-ray reaction code is associated with at least the number and suit of the card.
19. A table game system comprising:
a plurality of cards, each of the cards including an ultraviolet-ray reaction code comprising at least two sets of code elements arranged along one side of a face of the card, the ultraviolet-ray reaction code representing at least a number of a card; and
a card shooter apparatus comprising:
a card housing for containing the cards,
a card guide unit that guides cards which are pulled out one by one from the card housing,
one or more card detecting sensors that detect the existence of each card which is pulled out along a card guiding direction of the card guide unit,
one or more black light sensors that read the ultraviolet-ray reaction code from each card guided by the card guide unit,
a winlose determining means that determines a result of a card game on the basis of the numbers of the cards that are sequentially read from the ultraviolet-ray reaction codes on the cards, the reading of each ultraviolet-ray reaction code is determined on the basis of detection signals from a combination of the one or more black light sensors and the one or more card detecting sensors, and
an output means that outputs the result determined by the winlose determining means.
20. The table game system according to claim 18, wherein the combination of the one or more black light sensors and the one or more card detecting sensors comprises four sensors that are used for card reading.