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1. A method for repairing defects in a normally white liquid crystal display, the method comprising:
applying power to the liquid crystal display; backlighting the liquid crystal display while power is applied;
locating a defective pixel in the liquid crystal display while power is applied;
focusing a laser on a portion of a color filter corresponding to the defective pixel; and
at least partially ablating the portion of the color filter corresponding to the defective pixel using the laser.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of locating further comprises locating electrically open pixels while applying power to the normally white liquid crystal display.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the locating step comprises using a color vision system to locate the defective pixel.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of ablating comprises using a controller to control the laser to ablate the portion of the color filter.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of focusing further comprises focusing a laser having a wavelength in the visible range.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of ablating further comprises darkening the portion of the color filter corresponding to the defective pixel.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the steps of locating, focusing and ablating are repeated for a plurality of defects on the liquid crystal display.
8. An apparatus for repairing defects in a normally white liquid crystal display (LCD), the apparatus comprising:
a backlight adapted to illuminate the LCD;
a power source adapted to provide power to the LCD such that non-defective pixels will block transmission of light through the LCD;
a vision system adapted to locate defective pixels while power is applied to the LCD;
a laser providing a laser light output;
a motion control system coupled to the laser and adapted to control motion of the laser; and
a controller adapted to control the laser to ablate a portion of the color filter corresponding to a location of each defective pixel.
9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the laser has a wavelength in the visible range.
10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the vision system includes a camera equipped with automatic focus and automatic zoom that scans the LCD.
11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the laser includes a mask to block laser light from ablating portions of the color filter associated with non-defective pixels.
12. An apparatus for repairing defects in a normally white liquid crystal display (LCD), the apparatus comprising:
pixel defect location means for identifying a location of a defective pixel; and
ablation means for ablating a portion of a color filter corresponding to the location of the defective pixel.
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 preamble transmission method performed by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
detecting an occurrence of an event; and
transmitting a preamble corresponding to the detected event to a network through a random access channel (RACH).
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user equipment for transmitting the preamble is in an RRC_IDLE state.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the preamble is a preamble dedicated to the event.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the event occurrence is performed on the basis of a first threshold value.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first threshold value is received from the network by using system information.
6. The method of claim 3, wherein the dedicated preamble is repetitively transmitted within a range of the maximum number of times of transmission.
7. The method of claim 4, wherein the first threshold value is a default value.
8. The method of claim 4, wherein the detecting of the event occurrence detects a case where channel quality between the network and the user equipment is decreased to be less than or equal to the first threshold value.
9. The method of claim 4, wherein the detecting of the event occurrence detects a case where a remaining battery amount of the user equipment is decreased to be less than or equal to the first threshold value.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the event occurrence detects an invasion.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein upon detecting the invasion, at least one of an invader image, a detection time, and a detection place is included and transmitted.
12. The method of claim 9, wherein if the remaining battery amount of the user equipment is decreased to be less than or equal to the first threshold, an identifier (ID) of the user equipment is further included and transmitted.
13. The method of claim 9, wherein if the remaining battery amount of the user equipment is detected between the first threshold value and a second threshold value different from the first threshold value, the first threshold value and the second threshold value are transmitted.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the event occurrence detects a jamming.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein in the detecting of the jamming, at least one of a location of the user equipment, a jamming detection time, and a jamming signal strength is included and transmitted.

1. A clamping spring device for an elastic clamp for attaching at least one electrical conductor, comprising:
a support defining a hole, an edge of the hole forming a freestanding edge; and
a clamping leg disposed at an end of a spring leg, the clamping leg projecting toward the support at an acute angle so as to form a receiving space between the clamping leg and the support, the receiving space narrowing in a conductor insertion direction from a conductor insertion side toward a clamping point and being configured to receive the at least one electrical conductor inserted in a lengthwise direction of the at least one electrical conductor, the clamping leg including a clamping edge on a face thereof so as to be capable of clamping the at least one electrical conductor between the clamping edge and the support at the clamping point in a clamping position;
wherein, in the clamping position, the clamping leg is offset from the freestanding edge in the conductor insertion direction so that, when clamped, the at least one electrical conductor is bent around the freestanding edge so as to provide an interlocking effect;
wherein a second edge of the hole opposite the freestanding edge forms a second freestanding edge, and wherein, in the clamping position, the clamping edge is aligned with a central portion of the hole so that, when clamped, the at least one electrical conductor is bent around the second freestanding edge.
2. The clamping spring device as recited in claim 1 wherein the freestanding edge projects toward the clamping leg.
3. The clamping spring device as recited in claim 1 wherein the support includes a tongue having a free end cut and bent out of a plane of the support, the freestanding edge projecting from the tongue.
4. The clamping spring device as recited in claim 1 wherein the clamping edge defines an indentation configured to partially encircle the at least one electrical conductor when clamped.
5. A clamping spring device for an elastic clamp for attaching at least one electrical conductor, comprising:
a support defining a hole, an edge of the hole forming a freestanding edge; and
a clamping leg disposed at an end of a spring leg, the clamping leg projecting toward the support at an acute angle so as to form a receiving space between the clamping leg and the support, the receiving space narrowing in a conductor insertion direction from a conductor insertion side toward a clamping point and being configured to receive the at least one electrical conductor inserted in a lengthwise direction of the at least one electrical conductor, the clamping leg including a clamping edge on a face thereof so as to be capable of clamping the at least one electrical conductor between the clamping edge and the support at the clamping point in a clamping position;
wherein, in the clamping position, the clamping leg is offset from the freestanding edge in the conductor insertion direction so that, when clamped, the at least one electrical conductor is bent around the freestanding edge so as to provide an interlocking effect;
wherein a second edge of the hole opposite the freestanding edge forms a second freestanding edge, and wherein, in the clamping position, the clamping edge is aligned with the hole so that, when clamped, the at least one electrical conductor is bent around the second freestanding edge.
6. The clamping spring device as recited in claim 5 wherein the freestanding edge projects toward the clamping leg.
7. The clamping spring device as recited in claim 5 wherein the clamping edge defines an indentation configured to partially encircle the at least one electrical conductor when clamped.

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 analyzing and evaluating of at least one anatomical structure in a medical image, said medical image representing at least a part of a patient or person, said method comprising the steps of:
a. mapping and registering the medical image to a reference image thereby segmenting the medical image, wherein the reference image is a segmented medical image based on and averaged over a plurality of medical images obtained from normal persons,
b. analysing the segmented medical image for calculating the volume andor providing the shape of the said anatomical structure(s), and
c. providing a confidence interval of the volume andor the shape of the analysed anatomical structure(s) based on individual data of the patient or person by analysing a database comprising information of normal volume andor shape of said anatomical structure(s) corresponding to said individual data thereby quantifying the normality of said anatomical structure(s).
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said individual data comprises information about at least one of: gender, age, height, weight, genotype, ethnicity, habits, handedness, cognitive measures andor nationality of the patient or person.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the medical image is normalized prior to analysis of said medical image.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the confidence interval of the volume andor the shape is provided as:
at least one numerical value,
andor
a graphical representation in the analysed medical image andor in the reference image.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the medical image comprises at least a part of the brain of the patient or person.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the medical mage is a magnetic resonance image, a CT image, or an ultrasound image.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the analysed anatomical structure(s) is any segmentable brain structure selected from the group of hippocampus, amygdala, putamen, pons, thalamus, global pallidus, brainstem or cerebellum.
8. The method according to claim 1 for diagnosing a disease, andor diagnosing the initial stage of a disease, said diagnosis based on the normality andor the confidence interval of the analysed volume andor shape of the at least one anatomical structure.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the disease is selected from the group of depression, Alzheimer, epilepsy, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, or Parkinson’s disease.
10. A computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium, said computer program product providing a system for analysis and evaluation of at least one anatomical structure in a medical image, said medical image representing at least a part of a patient or person, said computer program product comprising means for carrying out all the steps of the method according to claim 1.