All The Claims

1. A control system for controlling an electrical thrust reverser device of a nacelle of an aircraft, said thrust reverser device comprising at least one element that is movable to a closed position in direct jet operation of the thrust reverser device and an open position in reversed jet operation of the thrust reverser device, the control system including at least one electromechanical member for actuating said movable element, a unit for electrically driving said electromechanical actuation member, and a controlling and monitoring unit for controlling the electrical drive unit so as to move the movable element to the closed position in direct jet operation of the thrust reverser device andor the open position in reversed jet operation of the thrust reverser device, characterized in that the control system includes a braking energy recovery system for recovering braking power from said electrical drive unit during the movement of the movable element to the closed position in direct jet operation of the thrust reverser device andor the open position in reversed jet operation of the thrust reverser device.
2. The control system according to claim 1, characterized in that the braking energy recovery system includes at least one electrical circuit including an electrical storage device connected to the electrical drive unit.
3. The control system according to claim 2, characterized in that the braking energy recovery system includes two electrical circuits each including at least one electrical storage device connected to the electrical drive unit.
4. The control system according to claim 2, characterized in that each circuit also includes a switch with two states, one of the two states being adapted to connect the electrical drive unit to the energy storage device.
5. The control system according to claim 2, characterized in that the electrical energy storage device is one of a capacitor, a supercapacitor, and an ultracapacitor.
6. The control system according to claim 3, characterized in that the controlling and monitoring unit is capable of controlling a braking energy recovery circuit as long as the maximum load of the energy storage devices is not reached, and controlling a braking energy dissipation circuit when the maximum load of the energy storage devices is reached.
7. The control system according to claim 3, characterized in that the controlling and monitoring unit is capable of controlling a drive circuit in which the stored braking energy is discharged before an electrical withdrawal on an external electrical power supply system.
8. The control system according to claim 3, characterized in that the controlling and monitoring unit is capable of controlling a residual braking energy dissipation circuit.
9. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that the electrical device is a thrust reverser device.
10. A nacelle including at least one electrical thrust reverser device and control system according to claim 1.
11. A control method implemented by a control system according to claim 1, including a step in which the electrical braking energy is recovered from the electrical drive unit during the movement of the movable element to the closed position in direct jet operation of the thrust reverser device andor the open position in reversed jet operation of the thrust reverser device.

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

1-10. (canceled)
11. A cabin for use with a scooter, the cabin comprising:
a frame assembly comprised of a plurality of chassis pipes and one or more panels attached to the chassis pipes including a panel forming a cabin roof, each chassis pipe having a base portion;
the plurality of chassis pipes including at least one curved roof pipe, at least one curved front pipe coupled to and supporting the roof pipe, and at least one transversal slat coupled to the curved roof pipe;
the plurality of chassis pipes further including at least one vertical supporting pipe coupled to the roof pipe and at least one lateral slat coupled to the vertical pipe; and
a junction system coupling the at least one vertical supporting pipe to the roof pipe;
wherein each chassis pipe has a perforation at or near its base portion and the perforation is received by a perforated adapter; and
wherein the panels are detachable to convert the cabin roof to a canopy.
12. The cabin of claim 11 further comprising a bumper coupled to the at least one front pipe.
13. The cabin of claim 12 wherein the bumper is coupled to the front pipe by at least one perforated adapter receiving the perforation of the front pipe.
14. The cabin of claim 11 further comprising a luggage rack coupled to a back part of the cabin.
15. The cabin of claim 14 wherein the luggage rack is comprised of an assembly of structural pipes.
16. The cabin of claim 11 wherein the at least one roof pipe has a perforation, the at least one vertical support pipe has a perforation, and the at least one lateral slat has a perforation and further comprising:
a detachable locking system securing the at least one roof pipe and the at least one vertical support pipe to the at least one lateral slat.
17. The cabin of claim 11 wherein the panels are made of a flexible transparent material.
18. The cabin of claim 11 wherein at least one panel forms a door of the cabin; and
wherein under each side of the roof pipes there are supported door pipes, two panels having straps hung up around the supported door pipes, the panels being slideable.
19. The cabin of claim 11 wherein each roof pipe has two short turn down side pipes fixed at an outside of each side of the roof pipes and supported door pipes under each roof pipe; and
wherein each side of each roof pipe has two short turn down side support pipes fixed at the outside of each roof pipe and an adapter is coupled to each side of the support pipes, each side support pipe having a curve followed by an angle at or near its base.
20. The cabin of claim 19 wherein the panel forming the roof of the cabin has a fastening system comprising one or more of snaps, zippers, or Velcro;
wherein a first row of snaps is fixed to create an expand outside the panel from the roof pipes and a second row of snaps squeezes the roof pipes between the first row; and
wherein a roof panel has reflective strips on a front and back portion of a roof of the cabin.
21. The cabin of claim 20 wherein an upper part of a front panel is detachable by detaching one or more snaps and attaching the straps to an inside surface of each front side of the front panel, thereby creating an open windshield and maintaining rain flow outside the cabin.
22. The cabin of claim 18 further comprising a magnet system for closing the door of the cabin;
wherein two panels of each door are kept open by the magnet system while pouching each panel to each side of the at least one vertical supporting pipe.
23. The cabin of claim 11 wherein the one or more panels have a fastening system for attaching the panels to the chassis pipes, the fastening system comprising one or more of snaps, zippers, or velcro, the fastening system being designed to be used by people with reduced mobility with various abilities.
24. The cabin of claim 16 wherein the locking system is comprised of a rod shoulder and a clamp.
25. The cabin of claim 11 further comprising a heat shield being disposed under at least one panel.
26. A frame assembly comprising:
a plurality of chassis pipes and one or more panels attached to the chassis pipes, each chassis pipe having a base portion;
the plurality of chassis pipes including two curved roof pipes, each roof pipe having a front end and a rear end;
the plurality of chassis pipes further including two front support pipes, each front support pipe coupled to the front end of each roof pipe, and two rear support pipes, each rear support pipe coupled to the rear end of each roof pipe,
the two support pipes being coupled to at least one lateral slat fixed inside and at least one lateral slat fixed outside, the lateral slats having adapters, the lateral slats forming edges of a floor of the frame assembly;
a locking system coupling the two front support pipes and the two rear support pipes to the roof pipe via adapters;
a seat turnable by the two support pipes;
wherein each chassis pipe has a perforation at or near its base portion and the perforation is received by a perforated adapter; and
wherein the panels are detachable.
27. The assembly of claim 26 further comprising at least one perforated adapter receiving the perforation of at least one pipe.
28. The assembly of claim 27 further comprising at least one padded collar, wherein the at least one perforated adapter is fixedly attached to the padded collar, the padded collars being secured to a front and back bumper by bolts.
29. The assembly of claim 27 further comprising a front bumper coupled to the two front support pipes, the front bumper being secured to an adapter by the locking system; and
a rear bumper coupled to the two rear support pipes, the rear bumper being secured to an adapter by the locking system.
30. The assembly of claim 27 wherein the floor further comprises:
adjustable narrow padded slats placed under a front and back floor, the slats linking to two half rings of padded slat located at each side of an edge of the floor;
wherein each side of each padded slat has two angles coupled to the adjustable narrow padded slats placed on the front and on the back floor being fixed by bolts;
wherein each end side of each padded slat has two adapters;
the adapter of the each end of side padded slat placed on each edge of the front floor receiving the perforated front side supported pipe of the roof, being fixed by locking system; and
the adapter of the each end of side padded slat placed on each edge of the back floor receiving the perforated back side supported pipe of the roof, being fixed by locking system.

What is claimed is:

1. A voice recordingreproducing device implemented by using an adaptive differential pulse code modulation method comprising:
an analog-digital converter to sample analog voice signals and to convert them to digital voice data;
recording means for quantizing a difference in the sampled data value between a digital voice data and a subsequent and neighboring digital voice data obtained by said analog-digital converter in accordance with the width for quantizing corresponding to the difference, for obtaining encoded data by encoding the quantized difference and then for splitting the encoded voice data into voice blocks each having a predetermined size;
reproducing means for reproducing digital voice data, at a time of a fast-forward reproduction, by sequentially decoding specified data composed of the encoded data contained in the voice block to be reproduced and obtained by removing and culling a part of voice blocks from a series of the split voice blocks;
a digital-analog converter to convert reproduced digital voice data to analog voice signals, and
whereby said recording means is operated to add just previously sampled data and a parameter used to decide said width for quantizing to a head of said encoded data of each voice block and said reproducing means is operated, at the time of the fast-forward reproduction, to decode said head coded data of the voice block to be reproduced based on said additional data.
2. The voice recordingreproducing device according to claim 1, wherein said data constituting said difference contains data of a multiple of said width for quantizing and of polarity causing an increase or decrease of said difference.
3. The voice recordingreproducing device according to claim 1, wherein said encoded data contains data of the multiple of said width for quantizing and wherein said reproducing means is operated to decode said head digital voice data of each voice block by using data of the multiple of said width for quantizing contained in said encoded data, just previously sampled data and said parameter used to decide said width for quantizing.
4. The voice recordingreproducing device according to claim 1, wherein said recording means is provided with an ADPCM (Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation) analyzer.
5. The voice recordingreproducing device according to claim 1, wherein said reproducing means is provided with an ADPCM synthesizer.
6. The voice recordingreproducing device according to claim 1, wherein a format of said encoded data is composed of a voice start address region, a voice end address region and an ADPCM data region to its head of which said additional data are added.
7. The voice recordingreproducing device according to claim 1, wherein said format of said encoded data further includes a sampling frequency region.

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 method for controlling a medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system, the method comprising:
obtaining an ultrasound image;
identifying, with a processor and trained classifier, an anatomical feature in the image;
setting, with the processor, an imaging value as a function of the anatomical feature; and
subsequently imaging with the medical diagnostic ultrasound system, the imaging responsive to the imaging value set as the function of the anatomical feature.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying the anatomical feature comprises extracting the anatomical feature with a multi-class classifier.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein extracting comprises applying the multi-class classifier with feature vectors selected using a boosting framework.
4. The method of claim 2 wherein extracting comprises applying the multi-class classifier with a tree and cascade structure.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying comprises identifying a canonical view.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein setting comprises setting a beam location for a color pan box, a Doppler gate or both.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein setting comprises setting a B-mode display depth, a B-mode frequency, or both.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying and setting are performed during an imaging session substantially in real-time, and wherein subsequently imaging is performed during the imaging session.
9. In a computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for controlling a medical imaging system, the storage medium comprising instructions for:
deriving anatomical information from a medical image with machine-learned feature vectors; and
setting at least one imaging parameter of the medical imaging system as a function of the anatomical information.
10. The instructions of claim 9 wherein deriving the anatomical information comprises extracting the anatomical information with a multi-class classifier.
11. The instructions of claim 10 wherein extracting comprises applying the multi-class classifier with feature vectors selected using a boosting framework.
12. The instructions of claim 10 wherein extracting comprises applying the multi-class classifier with a tree and cascade structure.
13. The instructions of claim 9 wherein deriving comprises deriving the anatomical information from a medical diagnostic ultrasound image, and wherein setting comprises setting the at least one imaging parameter of a medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system.
14. The instructions of claim 9 wherein deriving comprises identifying cardiac structure associated with a particular view of a heart.
15. The instructions of claim 9 wherein deriving comprises identifying a heart valve, and wherein setting comprises positioning a color pan box, a Doppler gate or both for subsequent images.
16. The instructions of claim 9 wherein deriving and setting are performed during an imaging session substantially in real-time, images obtained in the imaging session responsive to the at least one imaging parameter set as a function of the anatomical information.
17. The instructions of claim 9 wherein setting comprises setting a B-mode display depth, a B-mode frequency, or both as a function of the anatomical information.
18. A medical diagnostic imaging system, the imaging system comprising:
a memory operable to store a medical image; and
a processor operable to apply a classifier based on machine learning to the medical image, the classifier operable to identify a canonical view, tissue structure, flow pattern or combinations thereof from the medical image, the processor operable to control imaging as a function of the view, structure, pattern or combination thereof.
19. The imaging system of claim 18 wherein the classifier comprises a multi-class boosting classifier with a tree and cascade structure.
20. The imaging system of claim 18 wherein the processor comprises medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging system processor, the medical image comprises an ultrasound image, and the processor being operable to control comprises positioning a color pan box, positioning a Doppler gate, setting a B-mode display depth, setting a B-mode frequency, or combinations thereof.
21. The imaging system of claim 18 wherein the classifier is operable to identify cardiac structure associated with a particular view of a heart.
22. A method for identifying information from a medical image, the method comprising:
applying a multi-class classifier to the medical image; and
identifying a particular canonical view, tissue structure, flow pattern or combinations thereof from the medical image as a function of applying the multi-class classifier.
23. The method of claim 22 wherein applying the multi-class classifier comprises applying the multi-class classifier with feature vectors learned from boosting.
24. The method of claim 22 wherein applying the multi-class classifier comprises applying the classifier with a tree and cascade structure.
25. The method of claim 22 further comprising:
automatically setting imaging parameters of an imaging system as a function of the particular canonical view, tissue structure, flow pattern or combination thereof.
26. In a computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for identifying information from a medical image, the storage medium comprising instructions for:
applying a multi-class classifier to the medical image; and
identifying a particular canonical view, tissue structure, flow pattern or combinations thereof from the medical image as a function of applying the multi-class classifier.