All The Claims

1. A liquid ejection controlling method comprising:
(A) a remaining amount detecting step of detecting a remaining amount of a liquid contained for each of a plurality of cartridges containing the liquid to be ejected from nozzles, the remaining amount detecting step being performed by a first controller;
(B) an information transmitting step of transmitting information relating to a cartridge with a small remaining amount, when the remaining amount of the liquid in at least one of the cartridges is detected to be equal to or lower than a predetermined amount, the cartridge with the small remaining amount corresponding to the at least one of the cartridges, the information transmitting step being performed by the first controller;
(C) a liquid ejection data generating step of generating liquid ejection data for controlling ejection of a liquid contained in a substitute cartridge, by determining at least one cartridge other than the cartridge with the small remaining amount as the substitute cartridge based on the information, relating to the cartridge with the small remaining amount, that has been transmitted, the liquid ejection data generating step being performed by a second controller;
(D) an expected consumption amount calculating step of calculating an expected consumption amount of the liquid contained in the substitute cartridge, based on the generated liquid ejection data, the expected consumption amount calculating step being performed by the second controller;
(E) a difference calculating step of calculating a difference between a remaining amount of a liquid contained in the cartridge with the small remaining amount and a remaining amount of the liquid contained in the substitute cartridge, based on the calculated expected consumption amount of the liquid and the information relating to the remaining amount of the liquid obtained from the first controller, the difference calculating step being performed by the second controller; and
(F) a difference determining step of determining whether or not the calculated difference is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, the difference determining step being performed by the second controller.
2. A liquid ejection controlling method according to claim 1,
wherein in the difference calculating step the information relating to the remaining amount of liquid is not obtained from the first controller until the information relating to the cartridge with the small remaining amount has been received.
3. A liquid ejection controlling method according to claim 1,
wherein in the expected consumption amount calculating step the expected consumption amount is not calculated until the information relating to the cartridge with the small remaining amount has been received.
4. A liquid ejection controlling method according to claim 1,
wherein in the liquid ejection data generating step liquid ejection data for controlling ejection of liquids contained in a cartridge serving as the substitute cartridge and a cartridge serving as the cartridge with the small remaining amount is generated and transmitted such that these cartridges are alternately used, until the information relating to the cartridge with the small remaining amount has been received.
5. A liquid ejection controlling method according to claim 1,
wherein in the difference calculating step when the difference is determined to be equal to or lower than a predetermined value in the difference determining step, the information relating to the remaining amount of the liquid is obtained from the first controller each time the liquid ejection data is transmitted.
6. A liquid ejection controlling method according to claim 5,
wherein in the liquid ejection data generating step when the difference is determined to be equal to or lower than a predetermined value in the difference determining step, a cartridge with the larger remaining amount is determined of the substitute cartridge and the cartridge with the small remaining amount based on the information relating to the remaining amount of the liquid, and liquid ejection data for controlling ejection of the liquid contained in the cartridge with the larger remaining amount is generated and transmitted.
7. A liquid ejection controlling method according to claim 1,
wherein the liquid contained in the substitute cartridge is a same type of liquid as the liquid contained in the cartridge with the small remaining amount.
8. A liquid ejection controlling method according to claim 1,
wherein the liquid contained in the cartridge with the small remaining amount is ink, and
the liquid contained in the substitute cartridge is a same color of ink as the ink contained in the cartridge with the small remaining amount.
9. A liquid ejection apparatus, comprising:
(A) a first controller that performs a remaining amount detecting step and an information transmitting step,
in the remaining amount detecting step detecting a remaining amount of a liquid contained for each of a plurality of cartridges containing the liquid to be ejected from nozzles, and
in the information transmitting step when the remaining amount of the liquid in at least one of the cartridges is detected to be equal to or lower than a predetermined amount, transmitting information relating to a cartridge with a small remaining amount, the cartridge with the small remaining amount corresponding to the at least one of the cartridges; and
(B) a second controller that can communicate with the first controller, that performs a liquid ejection data generating step, an expected consumption amount calculating step, a difference calculating step, and a difference determining step,
in the liquid ejection data generating step generating liquid ejection data for controlling ejection of the liquid contained in the substitute cartridge, by determining at least one cartridge other than the cartridge with the small remaining amount as a substitute cartridge based on the information, relating to the cartridge with the small remaining amount, that has been transmitted, and
in the expected consumption amount calculating step calculating the expected consumption amount of the liquid contained in the substitute cartridge based on the generated liquid ejection data,
in the difference calculating step calculating a difference between a remaining amount of a liquid contained in the cartridge with the small remaining amount and a remaining amount of the liquid contained in the substitute cartridge based on the calculated expected consumption amount of the liquid and information relating to the remaining amount of liquid obtained from the first controller, and
in the difference determining step determining whether or not the calculated difference is equal to or lower than a predetermined value.
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 entangling a quantum state of a first qubit with a quantum state of a second qubit, the method comprising:
(A) tuning a ground state energy difference between a potential energy state of said first qubit and a potential energy state of said second qubit so that the energy difference corresponds to a predetermined frequency; and
(B) biasing a resonant control system, which is capacitively coupled to said first qubit and second qubit, to said predetermined frequency for a period of time.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said resonant control system comprises a Josephson junction and a bias current source that is connected in series with the Josephson junction, and wherein said biasing comprises adjusting said bias current source.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein said bias current source is 0.994*Ic or less during said biasing, where Ic is the critical current value of the Josephson junction in the resonant control system.
4. The method of claim 2, wherein said bias current source is 0.990*Ic or less during said biasing, where Ic is the critical current value of the Josephson junction in the resonant control system.
5. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:
(C) applying a first quantum gate to said first qubit prior to said tuning in step (A); and
(D) applying a second quantum gate to said first qubit after said tuning in step (A).
6. The method of claim 5, wherein said first quantum gate is a Hadamard gate and said second quantum gate is a Hadamard gate.
7. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:
(C) applying a first quantum gate to said second qubit prior to said biasing in step (B); and
(D) applying a second quantum gate to said second qubit after said biasing in step (B).
8. The method of claim 7 wherein said first quantum gate is a Hadamard gate and said second quantum gate is a Hadamard gate.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein said first qubit, said second qubit, or both said first and second qubits are described by a native interaction Hamiltonian that comprises an off diagonal interaction term.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein said first qubit, said second qubit, or both said first qubit and said second qubit are a superconducting charge qubit.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein said first qubit, said second qubit, or both said first qubit and said second qubit are described by a native interaction Hamiltonian that comprises a diagonal interaction term.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein said first qubit, said second qubit, or both said first qubit and said second qubit is a charge qubit, a phase qubit, or a flux qubit.

1. A method, comprising:
a processor receiving a signal from a patient monitor indicative of a patient’s biological functioning;
the processor analyzing the signal received from the patient monitor; and
the processor transmitting a control signal to a patient medication delivery device based upon the analysis of the patient monitor signal.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the processor receives a signal indicative of a patient’s blood pressure.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the processor analyzes the blood pressure signal to determine whether the patient’s blood pressure falls within an acceptable range.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the processor transmits a control signal to the patient medication delivery system to increase the level of a medication if the patient’s blood pressure is higher than a threshold level for a predetermined number of readings.
5. The method of claim 3, wherein the processor transmits a control signal to the patient medication delivery system to increase the level of a medication if the patient’s blood pressure is lower than a threshold level for a predetermined number of readings.
6. The method of claim 4, wherein the medication is a vasodilator.
7. The method of claim 5, wherein the medication is a vasopressor.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the processor setting an alarm if the analysis determines that the patient biological signal meets a threshold level for the alarm.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the processor recording biological readings.
10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the processor transmitting biological readings.
11. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor configured to receive a signal from a patient monitor indicative of a patient’s biological functioning;
the processor configured to analyze the signal received from the patient monitor; and
the processor configured to transmit a control signal to a patient medication delivery device based upon the analysis of the patient monitor signal.
12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to receives a signal indicative of a patient’s blood pressure.
13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the processor is configured to analyze the blood pressure signal to determine whether the patient’s blood pressure falls within an acceptable range.
14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to transmit a control signal to the patient medication delivery system to increase the level of a medication if the patient’s blood pressure is higher than a threshold level for a predetermined number of readings.
15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to transmit a control signal to the patient medication delivery system to increase the level of a medication if the patient’s blood pressure is lower than a threshold level for a predetermined number of readings.
16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the medication is a vasodilator.
17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the medication is a vasopressor.
18. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising the processor configured to set an alarm if the analysis determines that the patient biological signal meets a threshold level for the alarm.
19. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising the processor configured to record biological readings.
20. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising the processor configured to transmit biological readings.

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. An interface comprising:
a first transmission-line structure disposed on a first dielectric medium to carry a high-speed forward incident electromagnetic wave; and
a second transmission-line structure disposed on a second dielectric medium and substantially aligned with the first transmission-line structure to generate a coupled high-speed electromagnetic wave in a reverse direction to the incident electromagnetic wave,
wherein the first and second transmission-line structures comprise coplanar waveguides, and
wherein the high-speed forward incident electromagnetic wave is to be dynamically wave-coupled from the first transmission line structure to the second transmission line structure in a coupling region of the transmission line structures.
2. The interface of claim 1 further comprising:
a first broadband termination at an end of the first transmission-line structure to terminate the high-speed forward incident electromagnetic wave, the first broadband termination being a resistive termination to substantially reduce reflections of the high-speed forward incident electromagnetic wave; and
a second broadband termination at a corresponding end of the second transmission-line structure, the second broadband termination being a resistive termination.
3. The interface of claim 2 wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are substantially aligned in a coupling region, the coupling region not including the terminations, the coupling region having a length being approximately a quarter-wavelength of an arithmetic mean of odd and even mode guided wavelengths at about a center frequency of operation.
4. The interface of claim 3 wherein the first and second transmission-line structures have a narrower width in the coupling region and wider width outside the coupling region.
5. The interface of claim 3 wherein the coupling region is one of either a spiral shape, an \u201cS\u201d shape, a straight line, or a curved line.
6. The interface of claim 1 wherein the first transmission-line structure and first broadband termination are disposed on a die, and the second transmission-line structure and second broadband termination are disposed on a substrate, the die and substrate having significantly different coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE), the substrate being comprised of either a ceramic or an organic material.
7. The interface of claim 1 wherein the first transmission-line structure is a first planar transmission-line structure comprised of conductive elements residing in a first plane, and the second transmission-line structure is a second planar waveguide comprised of conductive elements residing in a second plane, the second plane being substantially parallel to the first plane, wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are substantially aligned to provide broadside coupling.
8. The interface of claim 7 wherein the first and second transmission-line structures comprise coplanar waveguides residing respectively within the first and second planes.
9. The interface of claim 7 wherein the first and second transmission-line structures comprise finite ground coplanar waveguides (FGCPW) residing respectively within the first and second planes.
10. The interface of claim 1 wherein the high-speed forward incident signal is a digital signal, and wherein the coupled high-speed signal is integrated to compensate at least in part for differentiation effects of the interface to generate a digital signal corresponding with the high-speed forward incident signal.
11. The interface of claim 1 wherein the high-speed forward incident signal is comprised of a carrier frequency modulated with a data signal, the carrier frequency being within a coupling bandwidth of the interface.
12. An interface comprising:
a first transmission-line structure disposed on a first dielectric medium to carry a high-speed forward incident electromagnetic wave; and
a second transmission-line structure disposed on a second dielectric medium and substantially aligned with the first transmission-line structure to generate a dynamically wave-coupled high-speed electromagnetic wave in a reverse direction to the incident electromagnetic wave,
wherein the first and second transmission-line structures each comprise a pair of differential lines residing respectively within first and second planes.
13. The interface of claim 12 wherein the first transmission-line structure is on a first die, the second transmission-line structure is on a second die, and the first and second dies are located on a single substrate of a multichip module (MCM).
14. An interface comprising:
a first transmission-line structure disposed on a first dielectric medium to carry a high-speed forward incident electromagnetic wave; and
a second transmission-line structure disposed on a second dielectric medium and substantially aligned with the first transmission-line structure to generate a dynamically wave-coupled high-speed electromagnetic wave in a reverse direction to the incident electromagnetic wave,
wherein the first and second transmission-line structures comprise microstrip structures having signal tracks residing respectively within the first and second planes, the microstrip structures having reference conductors residing in parallel planes opposite the first and second planes.
15. The interface of claim 14 wherein the first transmission-line structure is on a first die, the second transmission-line structure is on a second die, and the first and second dies are located on a single substrate of a multichip module (MCM).
16. An interface comprising:
a first transmission-line structure disposed on a first dielectric medium to carry a high-speed forward incident electromagnetic wave; and
a second transmission-line structure disposed on a second dielectric medium and substantially aligned in a side-by-side orientation with the first transmission-line structure to generate an edge coupled high-speed electromagnetic wave in a reverse direction to the incident electromagnetic wave,
wherein the high-speed forward incident electromagnetic wave is to be dynamically wave-coupled from the first transmission line structure to the second transmission line structure in a coupling region of the transmission line structures.
17. The interface of claim 16 wherein the first transmission-line structure is a first planar transmission-line structure comprised of planar elements residing in a first and second parallel planes, and the second transmission-line structure is a second planar waveguide comprised of corresponding planar elements residing in the first and second planes, wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are substantially aligned to provide the edge coupling therebetween.
18. The interface of claim 16 wherein the first and second transmission-line structures further comprise corresponding planar elements residing in a third parallel plane and wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are stripline structures having corresponding reference conductors in the first and third parallel planes, and having corresponding signal conductors in the second plane, wherein edges of the signal conductors are substantially aligned.
19. The interface of claim 16 wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are microstrip structures having a planar signal track in the first plane, and a reference conductor residing in the second plane, wherein edges of the signal conductors are substantially aligned.
20. The interface of claim 16 wherein the first and second transmission-line structures further comprise corresponding planar elements residing in a third parallel plane, wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are stacked microstrip structures having planar signal conductors in the first and third plane, and having reference conductors residing in the second plane, wherein edges of the signal conductors are substantially aligned.
21. The interface of claim 16 wherein the first transmission-line structure is on a first die, the second transmission-line structure is on a second die, and the first and second dies are located on a single substrate of a multichip module (MCM).
22. A method for communicating across an interface comprising:
receiving a high-speed forward incident signal in a first transmission-line structure; and
coupling the incident signal to a second transmission-line structure in a reverse direction to the incident signal,
wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are disposed on separate dielectric mediums,
wherein the first and second transmission-line structures comprise coplanar waveguides, and
wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are substantially aligned in a side-by-side orientation to provide edge coupling therebetween.
23. The method of claim 22 wherein the high-speed forward incident signal is a digital signal, and wherein the method includes integrating the coupled high-speed signal to generate a digital signal substantially corresponding with the high-speed forward incident signal.
24. The method of claim 23 further comprising:
terminating the high-speed forward incident signal in a first termination coupled to the first transmission-line structure; and
terminating coupled signals in a forward direction in a second termination coupled to the second transmission-line structure,
wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are substantially aligned in a coupling region, the coupling region not including the terminations, the coupling region having a length being approximately a quarter-wavelength of an arithmetic mean of odd and even mode guided wavelengths, and
wherein the first and second transmission-line structures have a narrower width in the coupling region and wider width outside the coupling region at about a center frequency of operation.
25. The method of claim 24 wherein the first transmission-line structure is a first planar transmission-line structure comprised of planar elements residing in a first and second parallel planes, and the second transmission-line structure is a second planar waveguide comprised of corresponding planar elements residing in the first and second planes, wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are substantially aligned to provide the edge coupling therebetween.
26. A system comprising:
an interface between a die and a substrate; and
a signal processing element on the die to communicate RF signals over the interface with the substrate,
wherein the interface comprises a first transmission-line structure disposed on the substrate to carry a high-speed forward incident signal, and a second transmission-line structure disposed on the die, the second transmission-line structure being substantially aligned with the first transmission-line structure to generate a coupled high-speed signal in an opposite direction to the incident signal,
wherein the first and second transmission-line structures comprise coplanar waveguides, and
wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are substantially aligned in a side-by-side orientation to provide edge coupling therebetween.
27. The system of claim 26 wherein the substrate is comprised of either ceramic or organic material, and wherein the system is a processing system and wherein the high-speed forward incident signal is a digital signal, and wherein the die includes a integrator to integrate the coupled high-speed signal to generate a digital signal substantially corresponding with the high-speed forward incident signal.
28. The system of claim 27 wherein the first transmission-line structure is a first planar transmission-line structure comprised of planar elements residing in a first and second parallel planes, and the second transmission-line structure is a second planar waveguide comprised of corresponding planar elements residing in the first and second planes, wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are substantially aligned to provide edge coupling therebetween,
wherein the first and second transmission-line structures are substantially aligned in a side-by-side orientation to provide edge coupling therebetween.