All The Claims

1. A data recordingreproduction apparatus having a plurality of inputoutput means for inputting and outputting data, said data including video data and audio data and adapted to record data input through said inputoutput means on a plurality of sections of a recording medium non-linearly accessible in allocated time slots and adapted to reproduce and output through said inputoutput means the data recorded on said recording medium, said apparatus comprising:
a recordingreproduction means for recording material data input through said inputoutput means on said recording medium and reproducing and outputting through said inputoutput means any of said material data from said recording medium;
a first editing means for
generating a first piece of editing information based on the selection of editing points including
a starting point and an ending point associated with a predetermined storage area storing a first material data, and
a starting point and an ending point associated with a predetermined storage area storing a second material data to be inserted in said first material data, and

an actual insertion of said second material data in said first material data;

a video effect processing means for processing video data in the vicinity of each of said editing points for achieving predetermined specific video effects;
a video-effect-processed data extracting means for extracting the data processed for the video effects by said video effect processing means;
a recording control means for controlling said recordingreproduction means so as to record said video-effect-processed data extracted by said video-effect-processed data extracting means on said recording medium;
a second editing means for
inserting said video-effect-processed data recorded by said recordingreproduction means into said first material data, and
generating a second piece of editing information used for inserting said second material data as modified by an insertion of said video-effect-processed data into said first material data;
a virtual file generating means for generating at least three files, said at least three files comprising:
a first virtual file describing a first recording area including at least one continuous sub-area of said first material data on said recording medium on the basis of the first piece of editing information generated by said first editing means,
a second virtual file describing a second recording area including at least one continuous sub-area of said second material data on said recording medium on the basis of the second piece of editing information generated by said second piece of editing information, and
a third virtual file describing a third recording area including at least one continuous sub-area of said video-effect-processed data on said recording medium; and

a reproduction control means for control said recordingreproduction means so as to reproduce the first material data, the second material data and the video-effect-processed data recorded on said recording medium on the basis of the first virtual file, the second virtual file and the third virtual file generated by said virtual file generating means.
2. The data recordingreproduction apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein the non-linearly accessible recording medium comprises a plurality of hard discs.
3. A data recordingreproduction method adapted to use a plurality of inputoutput means for inputting and outputting data, said data including video data and audio data, said data being input through said inputoutput means on a plurality of sections of a recording medium non-linearly accessible in allocated time slots and reproduce and output through said inputoutput means the data recorded on said recording medium, said method comprising steps of:
selecting editing points, said editing points including a starting point and an ending point of a first predetermined storage area wherein a first material data is stored, and a starting point and an ending point of a second predetermined storage area wherein a second material data to be inserted in said first material data is stored;
processing the video data in the vicinity of each of said editing points for predetermined specific video effects;
extracting the video-effect-processed data processed for the video effects;
recording said extracted video-effect-processed data extracted on said recording medium;
generating at least three files including a first virtual file describing the recording area of said first material data on said recording medium, a second virtual file describing the recording area of said second material data on said recording medium and a third virtual file describing the recording area of said video-effect-processed data on said recording medium; and
reproducing the first material data, the second material data and the video-effect-processed data recorded on said recording medium on the basis of the first virtual file, the second virtual file and the third virtual file generated by said virtual file generating step.
4. The data recordingreproduction method according to claim 3, wherein the non-linearly accessible recording medium comprises a plurality of hard discs.

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

What is claimed is;

1. A rotary connector comprising:
a pair of housings which are concentrically disposed and are linked together so as to be rotatable relative to each other;
a flexible cable which is contained in a space between the housings in such a manner that the flexible cable is able to be wound and loosened therein, and which is formed in a band-like shape by sandwiching a plurality of conductive wires with two insulating films; and
a lead block which is connected to an end of the flexible cable and has such a construction that a plurality of joint bars which are conductive are supported by an insulating supporter;
wherein, in a part of the flexible cable which is connected to the lead block, one of the two insulating films is removed so that the end portions of the conductive wires are exposed at the remaining insulating film, through holes being formed in the remaining insulating film at positions between the exposed conductive wires, and the exposed conductive wires being electrically connected to the joint bars at positions close to the through holes.
2. A connecting structure of a flexible cable and a lead block, comprising:
a flexible cable which is formed in a band-like shape by sandwiching a plurality of conductive wires with two insulating films; and
a lead block which has such a construction that a plurality of conductive joint bars are supported by an insulating supporter;
wherein, in a part of the flexible cable which is connected to the lead block, one of the two insulating films is removed so that the end portions of the conductive wires are exposed at the remaining insulating film, through holes being formed in the remaining insulating film at positions between the exposed conductive wires, and the exposed conductive wires being electrically connected to the joint bars at positions close to the through holes.
3. A connecting structure of a flexible cable and a lead block according to claim 2,
wherein the through holes are provided between all the conductive wires on the remaining insulating film and are arranged in a line.
4. A connecting structure of a flexible cable and a lead block according to claim 2,
wherein the through holes are provided between only some of the conductive wires on the remaining insulating film.

1. An auto-calibrating WIM system, comprising:
a WIM scale for weighing vehicles of interest while said vehicles are in motion, said WIM scale adapted to automatically transmit weight data for at least some of said vehicles of interest to a database;
a static scale for weighing vehicles of interest while said vehicles are at rest, said static scale adapted to automatically transmit weight data for at least some of said vehicles of interest to a database;
vehicle identification data associated with said vehicles of interest;
a database for receiving weight data from said at least one WIM scale and said at least one static scale, WIM scale weight data and static scale weight data for the same vehicles automatically associated in said database using said identification data;
a microprocessor-based device in communication with said database and said WIM scale, said microprocessor-based device for analyzing a collection of associated WIM scale weight data and static scale weight data and operative to periodically calculate a new WIM scale correction factor and to apply said correction factor to WIM scale weight readings.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein said WIM scale is disposed in a roadway and said static scale is located at a downstream weigh station.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein said database is located at said weigh station.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein said database is located at said WIM scale.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein identification of vehicles of interest is performed by said WIM scale.
6. The system of claim 1, further comprising one or more detection devices for identifying vehicles of interest.
7. The system of claim 6, wherein said one or more detection devices are selected from the group consisting of speed detectors, height detectors, RFID transmittersreceivers, and cameras.
8. The system of claim 6, wherein said one or more detection devices includes a loop vehicle tracking network (LVTN).
9. The system of claim 6, wherein said one or more detection devices includes a image tracking network (ITN).
10. The system of claim 1, wherein said identification data for a vehicle of interest includes the class of said vehicle and its speed at said WIM scale.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein said WIM scale correction factor is adjusted to account for said vehicle class, said vehicle speed, or both said vehicle class and said vehicle speed.
12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a loop vehicle tracking network comprising a plurality of loops and queues for tracking said vehicles as they move between said WIM scale and said static scale.
13. A method of auto-calibrating a WIM scale, comprising:
automatically transmitting weight data for at least some of a number of vehicles weighed by said WIM scale to a database;
weighing some number of vehicles weighed by said WIM scale on a static scale;
automatically transmitting weight data for at least some of said vehicles weighed by said static scale to a database;
providing vehicle identification data for vehicles weighed by both said WIM scale and said static scale;
using said vehicle identification data to associate WIM scale weight data and static scale weight data for the same vehicles;
placing a microprocessor-based device in communication with said WIM scale and said database(s), said microprocessor-based device for analyzing a collection of associated WIM scale weight data and static scale weight data, said microprocessor-based device operative to periodically calculate a new WIM scale correction factor based on differences between said WIM scale weight data and said static scale weight data and to transmit said correction factor to said WIM scale.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein vehicle identification is performed by said WIM scale.
15. The method of claim 13, further comprising using one or more detection devices to identify weighed vehicles.
16. The method of claim 14, wherein said one or more detection devices are selected from the group consisting of speed detectors, height detectors, RFID transmittersreceivers, and cameras.
17. The method of claim 13, wherein said one or more detection devices includes a loop vehicle tracking network (LVTN).
18. The method of claim 13, wherein said one or more detection devices includes a image tracking network (ITN).
19. The method of claim 13, wherein said vehicle identification data includes the class of said vehicles and their speed at said WIM scale.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein said WIM scale correction factor is adjusted to account for said vehicle class, said vehicle speed, or both said vehicle class and said vehicle speed.
21. The method of claim 13, further comprising tracking said vehicles via a loop vehicle tracking network comprising a plurality of loops and queues as said vehicles move between said WIM scale and said static scale.
22. A method of auto-calibrating a WIM scale, comprising:
automatically transmitting weight data for at least some of a number of vehicles weighed by said WIM scale to a database;
weighing some number of vehicles weighed by said WIM scale on a static scale;
automatically transmitting weight data for at least some of said vehicles weighed by said static scale to a database;
providing vehicle identification data for vehicles weighed by both said WIM scale and said static scale;
providing vehicle class data for vehicles weighed by both said WIM scale and said static scale;
providing vehicle speed data for vehicles weighed by both said WIM scale and said static scale;
using said vehicle identification data to associate WIM scale weight data, vehicle class data and vehicle speed data with static scale weight data for the same vehicles;
placing a microprocessor-based device in communication with said WIM scale and said database(s), said microprocessor-based device for analyzing a collection of associated WIM scale weight data, static scale weight data, vehicle class data and vehicle speed data, said microprocessor-based device operative to periodically calculate a new class-based andor speed-based WIM scale correction factor and to transmit said correction factor to said WIM scale.
23. The method of claim 22, further comprising using one or more detection devices to identify weighed vehicles, said detection devices are selected from the group consisting of speed detectors, height detectors, RFID transmittersreceivers, and cameras.
24. The method of claim 22, further comprising tracking said vehicles via a loop vehicle tracking network (LVTN) comprising a plurality of loops and queues as said vehicles move between said WIM scale and said static scale.
25. The method of claim 22, further comprising tracking said vehicles via an image tracking network (ITN) comprising one or more cameras as said vehicles move between said WIM scale and said static scale.

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 data carrier for providing health related information regarding a patient, and for facilitating compliance with HIPAA by the obscuring the association between the name of the patient and the health related information when the data carrier is to be discarded, comprising:
a release liner,
a health information label having an upper surface and a lower surface, said label including a first area on said upper surface for indicia specifying health related information and a second area on said upper surface for indicia specifying the identity of a patient,
a pressure sensitive adhesive coating on a portion of said lower surface of said health information label, securing said health information label to said release liner, and a release coating on the balance of said lower surface of said health information label, and
a masking label carrying a pressure sensitive coating and being integral with said release liner and positioned in alignment with said release coating on said balance of said lower surface of said health information label, and
a die cut in said health information label, defining a removable label piece generally surrounding said release coating on said lower surface of said health information label, said removable label piece being removable with said health information label from said release liner, and remaining therewith when said health information label is applied to a surface, said masking label being removable so that it can be applied over one or both of said first and second areas to obscure the association between said name of said patient and said health related information when the data carrier is to be discarded.
2. The data carrier of claim 1, in which said masking label is defined by a die cut in said release liner.