A*STAR PATENTS

A data transportation protocol (13, 21) for transferring data within a wireless network (6), the protocol (13, 21) comprising: a block I/O interface layer (40) to provide a single level of translation between block I/O storage protocol commands and network packets; and a wireless transport layer (41) to transport the network packets between a client (6A) and server (6B) within the network (6); wherein the block I/O interface layer (40) performs operations directly on a storage device driver (23) and a network device driver (14, 20) of the client (6A) and server (6B).

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There is presently provided methods relating to delivery of an endocytic cargo to a cellular compartment within a cell, using a glycosphingolipid to direct trafficking of the endocytic cargo within the cell. Such delivery methods are useful in various applications relating to drug delivery and to screening methods for shingolipid related disorders.

A method for equalizing a digital signal received via at least one communication channel is described, wherein a block of received signal values is processed by a block-iterative equalizer (200). The equalizer comprises a feedback unit (202) and a feed-forward unit (201) each corresponding to the multiplication by a respective matrix. The matrices are updated in the iterative process.

Disclosed is an object (200) such as a credit card, bank note, document, label, etc which carries an identification layer (103) which contains readable information. The identification layer can include randomly distributed conductive/magnetizable particles (303), semiconductive particle, optically active particles and the like. The identification layer is sandwiched between an upper layer (105) and lower layer (104) to form the object. At least some of the particles are exposed along one edge (102) of the object and can be read by a read head (201) which moves along the edge.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CENTRE-OF- ROTATION DETERMINATION IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES A method and apparatus is disclosed for centre-of-rotation determination in computed tomography (CT) images. The central ray, defined as the projection of the centre of rotation on the detector, is determined with the projection data of the object to be to inspected by measuring the mismatching level of the two object images reconstructed with views 1 to 180 and 181 to 360, respectively. The central ray is determined using a two-step strategy, where the measurement is carried out within a large range and a large step size to obtain a rough value estimate of the central ray, then a smaller search range and smaller step size are used to obtain an accurate value of the central ray. A wire phantom, or a lookup table or the geometrical method may be used to obtain a rough value estimate of the central ray.

A method for rate control for encoding video sequence, wherein the video sequence includes a plurality of Group Of Pictures, wherein each Group of Picture includes at least and I-frame and an Inter-frame, where the rate control method includes the following steps for the encoding of the Inter-frame in the Group of Picture: determining a desired frame rate based on an available bandwidth of a channel for transmitting the video sequence and an available computational resources for the encoding process; determining a target buffer level based on the desired frame rate and the position of the Inter-frame with respect to the I-frame; and determining a target bit rate based on the target buffer level and the available channel bandwidth, wherein the target bit rate is used for controlling the rate of encoding the video sequence.

A method for transmitting data comprising a plurality of bits is described wherein the data is mapped to a plurality of modulation symbols, each modulation symbol comprising at least one more significant bit and at least one less significant bit, at least one parity bit is generated for the plurality of bits and the plurality of bits are mapped to more significant bits of the plurality of modulation symbols and the at least one parity bit is mapped to at least one less significant bit of the plurality of modulation symbols.