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The road transport and highways ministry is setting up an authority to raise near interest-free money from the global market to fund the highway construction sector, which is suffering due to paucity of funds.
The government will use the proceeds raised to provide up to 26% funds to the developer under a joint venture model. In order to boost its own revenues, the government is planning to lay network of gas pipeline, optical fibres and power transmission lines underneath the road network.
Speaking at Zee Business's ministerial conclave, transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said, "We are forming a corporation through which we will work in a joint venture model with the developers and provide 26% to them to implement the project."
The government will also rejuvenate the stalled highway projects. "Projects worth Rs 180,000 crore are stalled as of now. We are working on re-energising these projects, and hopefully we will be able to do it by August 15," Gadkari said.
Given the fact that developers are not coming forward for the public-private partnership projects, Gadkari said the highway projects will be implemented only on engineering procurement contract basis for the next two years. "This will provide the developers some opportunity to improve their financial position before they are ready to take up PPP jobs."
In shipping, the government is setting up dry ports and seaplanes. Seaway between Allahabad and Haldea is also in the pipeline. "Dry ports will be connected to the main ports and the container movement will be done by trains. Like airport authority, we are setting up waterways authority," said Gadkari.
The government is working on alternative fuels and is also looking at upgrading the traffic challan system in cities with population over 10 lakh. "In case of violation of traffic, a photograph of the offender will taken, which will come to the ministry, which will issue the challan to the driver. There will be no involvement of the police. A person will have to pay thrice the amount in case he approaches the court, and if the court upholds the challan," said Gadkari. A team is working on the models of Singapore, Japan, UK and Brazil.


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The General Assembly's longest-serving lawmaker, Sen. Charles Colgan, has rejected the governor's multiple invitations to run again, and says he will retire at the end of his term.
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John Keefe is the Senior Editor for Data News. He's part of WNYC's Data News Team, which helps our journalists use and analyze data and also builds interactive maps, charts and data-driven projects. He tweets at @jkeefe.
You know how your corner of Twitter reacted to last week's Supreme Court decision, but how did *everyone* on Twitter react?
As an experiment, and to tinker with some new tools, the WNYC Data News team tried to find out.
Ripping a page from The Guardian's great twinalysis of the London riots and Rupert Murdoch's testimony before Parliament, we recorded the onslaught of tweets from Twitter's "firehose" as the decision was announced and went back to take a look at them.
Right away, we saw "tax" used in celebration by liberals as the basis for the decision to uphold the law, and with derision by conservatives as grounds to repeal it. Could we watch how the word was used over time? See for yourself.
A couple of observations:
Are there more interesting trends to be seen - or to look for?
First we determined whether a tweet was related to the decision, such as mentioning "SCOTUS," "Obamacare" or "mandate." We found 385,385 of those between 10 a.m. and noon Friday. (Our log shows the first accurate tweet about the decision was by Bloomberg's Jake Beckman at 10:07:36 a.m.)
Of the decision-related tweets, 46,677 mentioned "tax." We grabbed the most retweeted of those each minute and manually tagged them as being from the left, from the right or from a media outlet. Those we couldn't classify, we left black.
Finally, WNYC's Steven Melendez used visualization software called D3 to represent top tweets as circles living in a world of simulated physics.
That was one experiment. We're toying with others. Have ideas about what we should look for in the tweets? Let us know!
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@G Cavin - Every tweet in the graphic included the word "tax" and something indicating it was about the health care decision. The size of the bubbles represent the amplification of the tweet. In other words, the larger the bubble the more it was retweeted/mentioned by other tweeters. The color of the bubble is the label WNYC applied to the political affiliation of the Tweeter. So green bubbles are media (presumably neutral), red are from conservative politicians/pundits/thinktanks, blue are from liberal politicians/pundits/thinktanks and black are unidentified.
I think the interesting takeaway is how much more active conservative leaning (red) voices are on twitter. At least, in this very limited survey of tweets. Conservatives/Red makes up almost half of all tweets mentioning the word tax, while liberal/blue only accounts for 10% (if that). Either Blue was too busy celebrating to get on twitter or Red is a much more organized group.
Do the Media green colors represent the use of the "tax" label? Does the apparent equivalent size of the red and green dots on the outside of the circle mean that the Media is much more red than green in reporting this issue? Or should we not use the graphic information in this fashion?
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A key point that Microsoft makes in their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure materials is that IT architecture is evolving from device-centric to user-centric approaches.
Fundamentally this means increased portability and mobility of your apps and data across multiple devices, and it's an effect that will be accelerated through parallel innovations from the world of Cloud Identity.
Cloud Identity
Cloud Identity standards are defined by organizations like the Kantara Initiative, who have a telco working group who specialise in this field.
For example this 18-page presentation Telco Massively Scalable Identity Architecture explains how it can be operated across a telco's landscape of networks, mobile devices and digital TVs. On slide 9 they describe the critical technical feature: "User identities must be decoupled from network, device and customer identities." '
Decoupling' refers to the funamental virtualization that Cloud represents – It seperates applications and their data from the hardware that runs them, and as this effect becomes universal it will offer powerful feature benefits for users.
For example consider how your address book is 'locked' into your cell phone. You have to re-key in all the contact details if you change phones or providers. Data that is logically virtualized, ie. seperated from this hard-coded device to data relationship, will therefore be portable and interoperable across any and all devices that you use.
This new level of capability will make possible a new generation of services too – 'My Universal Cloud Address Book' kinda thing, ultimately evolving into the Personal Data Store approach.
The technical architecture for achieving this is described in TAS3 – Personal Data Stores. Trusted Architecture for Secure Shared Services (with Privacy) and Personal Data Store.
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Data-intensive companies that strive to gain insights from data using Big Data analytics tools can gain tremendous competitive advantage by deploying data-centric storage. Organizations generate large volumes of data, the vast majority of which is unstructured. As the volume and velocity of this unstructured data increases, the costs, risks and usability challenges associated with managing the unstructured data (regardless of file type, size or device) increases simultaneously, including end-to-...
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There is little doubt that Big Data solutions will have an increasing role in the Enterprise IT mainstream over time. 8th International Big Data Expo, co-located with 17th International Cloud Expo - to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - has announced its Call for Papers is open. As advanced data storage, access and analytics technologies aimed at handling high-volume and/or fast moving data all move center stage, aided by the cloud computing bo...
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The time is ripe for high speed resilient software defined storage solutions with unlimited scalability. ISS has been working with the leading open source projects and developed a commercial high performance solution that is able to grow forever without performance limitations. In his session at DevOps Summit, Alex Gorbachev, President of Intelligent Systems Services Inc., will share foundation principles of Ceph architecture, as well as the design to deliver this storage to traditional SAN st...
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Kids love origami—and what could be cooler than transforming a piece of paper into Boba Fett, Princess Leia, Yoda, or R2-D2? And not just any paper, but custom-designed paper illustrated with art from the movies. Star Wars® Origami marries the fun of paper folding with the obsession of Star Wars. Like The Joy of Origami and Origami on the Go, this book puts an original spin on an ancient art. And like Star Wars® Scanimation® and Star Wars® Fandex®, it's a fresh take on Star Wars mania.
Chris Alexander is a master folder and founder of the popular website StarWarsOrigami.com, and here are 36 models, clearly explained, that range in difficulty from Youngling (easy) to Padawan (medium), Jedi Knight (difficult), and Jedi Master (tricky!). A front section introduces origami definitions and basic folds. Bound in the back is the book's unique folding paper, two sheets for each figure. Illustrated with original art, it makes each creation—the essential lightsabers, the Death Star, and much more—true to the movies.
Star Wars Origami includes a foreword by Tom Angleberger, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and Darth Paper Strikes Back, and is scheduled to be published at the same time as Angleberger's upcoming book, The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee.


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June 23, 2014
INDIANAPOLIS -- Elite youth athletes will descend on Bloomington, Indiana this week for the 13th USATF Youth Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Thousands of youngsters from all across the country will compete in the week-long event at the Robert C. Haugh Track & Field Complex at Billy Hayes Track on the campus of Indiana University from June 24-29.
Pike High School's Lynaa Irby (Indianapolis, Indiana) is one of the top local athletes to watch. The freshman is coming off a dominating performance at the Indiana state meet, where she won the 100, 200 and 400 meters. She blazed through the 100 with a 11.61, almost breaking the state record set by Olympian Maicel Malone of North Central. She ran the 400 in 54.38, the fourth best time for freshmen this year and .05 off the state freshman record. In her last race of the day, she battled through cramps to run a 24.07 in the 200, seventh best in the nation among freshmen.
At last year's meet at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Irby won the 15-16 girls' 100 meter dash with a 11.75 and the 400 meters with a 55.60.
Lauren Taubert (Casper, Wyoming) dominated last year's meet in the 15-16 year old girls heptathlon, winning gold with 4,307 points, almost 600 points ahead of second place. She finished second in the high jump with a leap of 5-5.
She heads to Bloomington coming off a first-place performance in the high jump at the Wyoming state meet, where she jumped 5-4.She also won the 300 meter hurdles (43.45) and took second in the 100 meter hurdles.
Olympic long jump champion Dwight Phillips will make an appearance over the weekend, signing autographs and presenting medals to winners. Phillips won a gold medal in the long jump at the 2004 Olympics and is a four-time world champion in the event.
The USATF Youth Outdoor Championships is the only youth track & field competition that also awards team championships in every age division.
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Critical Review by Ben Howard
SOURCE: A review of Travels, in Poetry, Vol. CLXIII, No. 3, December, 1993, pp. 167-70.
Howard is an American educator and poet. In the following mixed review, he remarks on the style and themes of Travels.
With the publication of The Lice in 1967, W. S. Merwin brought a bold style and a fresh sense of the numinous to contemporary American poetry. Since that time, he has perfected his distinctions—the luminous image, the immaculate phrase, the power to make things strange. Writing in a fluid unpunctuated style, void of conventional syntax and traditional prosody, he has imbued his abiding motifs—water, silence, trees, and stones—with a dreamlike desolation and an aura of imminent departure.
In Travels, an assortment of lyric poems, narratives, and verse biographies, Merwin continues his familiar pursuit, investing a wide variety of settings and subjects with a mood of elegiac sadness. Merwin's settings range from South America to southern France to the Pennsylvania of his childhood. His speakers include a Russian botanist, a Native American artist, The Blind Seer of Ambon, and, presumably, the poet himself. But whatever their settings or subjects, these fluent, delicate poems evoke a sense of loss, whether the agent be cultural amnesia, or natural decay, or some imagined future extinction. "[T]imepieces can be / bought," the poet observes, "but not the morning the waking / into the wish to stay and the vanishing / constants I keep returning to…." Naming those vanishing constants, he commemorates them, even as he doubts the efficacy of his endeavor. "[F]or I have not / the ancients' confidence," he confesses, "in the survival of / one track of syllables / nor in some ultimate / moment of insight….
Merwin's obsession with transience appears most prominently in his imagery, which is largely one of movement and change. "Among Bells" opens with an image of "stones hollowed by feet so far ahead / that nothing of them would ever / be known" and ends with trains "arriving / on time without a sound and just / leaving." "The Morning Train" describes "a silence through which the minute hand / overhead can be heard falling." And "On the Old Way" evokes the pathos of inexorable change:
After twelve years and a death
returning in August to see the end of summer
French skies and stacked roofs the same grays
silent train gliding south through the veiled morning
once more the stuccoed walls the sore
pavilions of the suburbs glimpses
of rivers known from other summers leaves
still green with chestnuts forming for their
only fall out of old dark branches and again
the nude hills come back and the sleepless
night travels along through the day as it
once did over and over for this was the way
almost home almost certain that it was
there almost believing that it could be
everything in spite of everything
Dense, sensuous, and exact, Merwin's images elegize changes that have occurred just at the edge of the poet's awareness—or outside of it altogether. Similarly, in "For the Year," he belatedly celebrates the turning of the year, which had "slipped through our words / and hands and was gone / and the year was new / / without our having / seen how it happened …" Alert though he is to change, Merwin seems always to be arriving just after it has happened. The effect is to enhance the mood of regret and the tone of unrequited longing.
Changes on a larger scale occur in Merwin's lengthy verse biographies, which examine the inner lives of European explorers, naturalists, and adventurers, who live uneasily among the natives in exotic places. In "Marin," Don Francisco de Paula Marin learns the "names for leaves that are new to [him] / and for ills that are everywhere the same." In "The Real World of Manuel Córdova," the hero lives among cannibals, learning their language and entering with them "into / the dream flowing through / the forest." In "After Douglas," the Scottish naturalist David Douglas, killed in Hawaii after falling into a bull trap, pays a posthumous visit to the scene of his death:
there I go on alone without waiting and
my name is forgotten already into
trees and there is McGurney's house that I have forgotten
and McGurney telling me of the dug
pits on the mountain and there unchanged
is the forgotten bull standing on whatever I had been
The Douglas fir takes its name from David Douglas. Here that tribute becomes a form of amnesia, its place in posterity another kind of loss.
To dwell so intently on dissolution, on loss and its aftermath, is to risk both sameness and romantic cliché. For all their lyricism and felicities of phrasing, Merwin's poems do suffer from a sameness of tone, augmented by the absence of punctuation and the erasure of syntactic demarcations. In Merwin's long narrative poems, which run for many pages, that absence and those erasures can grow tedious and numbing, and one can long for a period or comma. For this reader, the pleasures of Travels lie mainly in Merwin's short lyric poems, where flawless phrasing and fluidity of movement honor the transience of things:
How bright the blues are in this latter
summer through which news keeps vanishing
without having appeared but we know
the days as we know the clouds not by name
nor by where they are going the gardens
of the old are like that where every hope
that brought them together is no
more to be seen the stones raised beside
water not after all signifying
length of life but the untouchable
blue place beyond us in which stones are
days as you can see watching the old
at work in their gardens that are never
what they appear to be but already
perfect and transparent as the day is
"Looking Up"
Here is Merwin at his frequent best—the artist of evanescence, the poet of vanishings and incipient removals.
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Dr. Chithra Madhavan, post-doctoral Fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research, on raising the awareness quotient among youth at different levels.
I find that the youth today, (other than those who come from traditional backgrounds or those whose parents instil some important aspects of our culture in them), are not too aware of India's ancient culture, heritage and monuments.
They know of only some of the very famous monuments like the Thanjavur temple and the Taj Mahal. These appear often in documentaries or are shown in movies. It is sad that in a country that is filled with exquisite structures of the ancient and medieval ages, constructed with great engineering expertise, there is so little awareness on this subject.
One way in which students can be made more sensitive to our heritage is to alter the history syllabus to accommodate more by way of the cultural history of India, especially with an emphasis on monuments.
Instead of cramming the textbooks with just terse and hard facts, the chapters should be in a language that captures the imagination of the students.
Would a student not be awestruck if told that each ton of granite for building the massive all-stone Thanjavur temple came from about 30 km away, or that the world's biggest monolithic Nandi in the village of Lepakshi is 8.25 metres (27 feet) long and 4.60 metres (15 metres) in height?
The fact that the architects, engineers, metallurgists in India had attained a high degree of perfection and excellence should be emphasised. An added attraction could be high resolution photos of eye-catching monuments/sculptures or power-point presentations.
Schools could also take the students on field-trips to places of archaeological/historical importance.
For example, if students are taken to a place like Hampi, the ruined medieval capital of the Vijayanagara empire, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it would surely ignite their interest in our heritage and culture. The schools should ensure that a historian or archaeologist tell the students about the site and monuments at that place or ahead of their visit so that they know its importance. Surely, no one standing before structures like the stepped-wells in Gujarat could turn a blind-eye to the architectural perfection of our ancients!
The second factor is the home-front. Parents simply must instil heritage-awareness in their children, both culturally and naturally. The flora and fauna of our land were given much importance and the reason behind the sacred trees and groves was to preserve important species of our flora. When explained from a scientific perspective, with proper proof, there is no doubt at all that students will be drawn to our heritage and monuments.
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It's perhaps the "ugh" in that statement that best describes our Fiddlehead. When you are there, it's a special sense of place you can't put your finger on, it's the "ugh." For each of us it's different. Many guests over the years have commented on healing and friendship, a theme that is beginning to resonate. We could all use a little time away. alone, with friends or family. Whether your green, white, black, multi-colored, female, male, somewhere in the middle, gay, straight, young, middle-age old or ancient, 1 leg or 4 paws, you are part of the family.
Fiddlehead Cottage is named for the thousands of ferns in the gardens & woods. Appointed in an eclectic cottage style with furniture by Ralph Lauren, Room & Board & more, this 2000 square foot home is tucked into the woods in Union Pier - minutes from beaches. Guests have told us the cottage is in a class above what you would expect in a vacation rental.
Equipped with the latest technology including WIFI, HDTV 46' Sony Bravia w/ Blu-Ray & Bose surround sound, premium cable channel lineup & DVD library.
A 5 minute walk to the bakery and shops in Union Pier, just a few more minutes walk to the beach (3/4 mile), close to wineries, great restaurants and antique stores. Private, yet close to everything...
Cottage Features: The first floor features; a large screened-in porch, living room/dining room with fireplace and vaulted ceiling, two bedrooms (both with queen beds) and separate screened-in porch, a full bath and washer/dryer.
Nestled into the forest for privacy and seclusion, the luxurious hot tub has an easy lift cover, 45 therapy jets and your choice of underwater LED lights adjustable at the touch of a button. Seats 5-6 adults. Simply amazing!
The second floor consists of a secluded master bedroom (king bed) with attached full bath (shower). The master has a separate terrace overlooking a mature forest - perfect for morning coffee.
Your vacation home is thoughtfully furnished with custom finishes and furnishings, thick towels, custom bedding and high thread count sheets. All interior lighting on dimmers creates the perfect mood.
More Cottage Features: This three bedroom cottage will comfortably accommodate a family of seven. But it's also perfect for three couples traveling together, or as a romantic and extra-spacious getaway for two, or even one.
All this in a private forest setting amongst century old trees wildlife, a bubbling fountain and naturalized gardens. Quiet and secluded, yet minutes to The Whistle Stop, The Red Arrow Roadhouse, and local shops.
The cottage is located on a private cul-de-sac lane on the east side of the Red Arrow Hwy. It offers privacy and seclusion in a safe environment away from busy roads and far from train lines.
Expatting for 11 years: Paris, Dublin, London and now Singapore.
Paul Somers (reservations & initial questions via email only due to time zone) purchased this cottage in 2005
My husband and I traveled here from Chicago with out 3 year old Boxer dog (about an hour and fifteen minutes from downtown).
It was a great relaxing weekend. The house is really comfortable and top of the line in every way. We loved everything about it. Plenty of space, a great kitchen and bathrooms, and several different areas to sit and relax (both inside and out). Our favorite of space to hang out was the big screened in porch and we spent a lot of time out there. The constant running water sound from the outside fountain was so relaxing and the furniture so comfortable, we never wanted to leave.
We also really enjoyed the Union Pier area. Walked to beach and to get coffee in the morning, strolled through the neighborhood, drove to Warren Dunes State Park to visit the dog beach (about 10 minutes by car), and found everything we needed within easy walking or driving distance.
Can't say enough good things about Paul, the owner. So easy to work with and very responsive.
Would stay here again in a second.
Our family of four plus our golden retriever stayed in this fabulous home for a week. The house is adorable and privately nestled on a quiet cul de sac. The screened-in porch, fountain, hot tub and firepit are extras that provide a lot of family fun (and quiet spots for reading, too!). The house has all modern amenities and great ktichen supplies for cooking meals at home...we enjoyed the grill and the hammock, too. The owner is responsive and helpful. And the house is a close drive (or bikeride) to the beach. Only drawback is that there are no sidewalks for walking to the beach (or walking the dog!); but this was not a major issue. Definitley recommend this property for a lovely getaway from the craziness of life. The bottle of wine and soft music is a great touch. Thank you, Paul!
We loved this house from the moment we opened the door. It's beautifully decorated, clean and had everything we needed and more for our family of four - as well as my parents who visited for a couple of nights. We used and enjoyed the kitchen fully, found the screened in porch the perfect spot for games/relaxing and used the firepit almost every night. Oh, and loved the books!
The grounds surrounding the house were also very thoughtfully done. I loved the spotlight on the beautiful tree just behind the porch! The fountain, hot tub and hammock were all family favorites as well. And sunsets at Townline Beach just down the road...amazing!
Fiddlehead Cottage was clean and well maintained. It's a beautiful setting with fountain, hammock, hot tub, and fire pit. Inside is decorated beautifully with great art and many books and DVDs. We did not see the property manager, but she was available by phone. The only drawback was that for six adults staying one week - there was a shortage of paper products available. The kitchen is well stocked with dishes and utensils. The Union Pier area is full of things to do and shops to poke around in. I would recommend this property to friends and relatives.
A wonderful place - what you see in pictures and video is less than you will get! Well designed and executed, comfortable, relaxing, beautifully landscaped, and if vacations include a desire for cooking rather than getting away from it, you will find this kitchen well equipped. Some distance from beaches - but walkable - the wooded seclusion was exactly what we were looking for. Three couples - us and our two married kids loved it - including porch space for morning coffee (private upstairs, screened-in for the 2 bedrooms downstairs.) Easy access to interstate or "town". I won't rave any more - too many of you already are lining up to rent this place! Recommend the Round Barn winery and distillery which tasting room was just down the road - though take the extra time to go the Round Barn itself.
Six great friends had an awesome time. This home was so well stocked, they really did think of everything. Peaceful and tranquility awaits any future renters.
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An input device having a housing and electronic circuitry for detecting user inputs, and transmitting signals corresponding to those inputs to an electronic device, such as a computer. An antenna is provided for transmitting or receiving signals. A hand detection circuit is provided, which uses said antenna for detecting the proximity of a user's hand to the housing and producing a hand detect signal in response. In one embodiment, the antenna is a capacitive antenna. A capacitor is switched in parallel with the antenna when it is used in antenna mode, so that the impact on the antenna signaling of the capacitance of a user's hand is minimized. In one embodiment, a sleep mode is provided for the electronic circuitry to conserve power. The hand detect signal will awaken the input device from its sleep mode.
1. An input device comprising:
a housing;
user input electronic circuitry for detecting user inputs and transmitting signals corresponding to said inputs to an electronic device;
an antenna;
an antenna circuit coupled to said antenna for transmitting or receiving signals; and
a hand detection circuit coupled to said antenna for detecting the proximity of a user's hand to said housing using said antenna and producing a hand detect signal.
2. The input device of
3. The input device of
4. The input device of
a capacitor; and
a switch for coupling said capacitor in parallel with said capacitive antenna when said antenna is used for transmitting or receiving signals instead of being used for hand detection.
5. The input device of
6. The input device of
7. The input device of
8. The input device of
a sleep-mode circuit, coupled to said user input electronic circuitry, for activating a reduced power operation of said user input electronic circuitry;
said sleep mode circuit being responsive to said hand detect signal to awaken said user input electronic circuitry from said reduced power operation.
9. The device of
10. The device of
said antenna comprises first and second electrodes on said housing for capacitive connection with a user's hand; and
said hand detection circuit comprises
a first circuit, coupled to said first electrode, for determining an amount of time for charging of a capacitance connected to said first circuit, and
a second circuit, coupled to said second electrode, for determining an amount of time for discharging of a capacitance connected to said second circuit.
11. The device of
a comparator;
a controller coupled to an output of said comparator;
a voltage divider feedback circuit coupled between an output and a reference voltage input of said comparator;
a detection capacitor coupled between said first electrode and a signal input of said comparator; and
a switching circuit selectively coupling said signal input of said comparator to high and low voltage supplies.
12. The device of
13. An input device comprising:
a housing;
user input electronic circuitry for detecting user inputs and transmitting signals corresponding to said inputs to an electronic device;
a capacitive antenna;
an antenna circuit coupled to said antenna for transmitting or receiving signals;
a hand detection circuit coupled to said antenna for detecting the proximity of a user's hand to said housing using said antenna and producing a hand detect signal;
a capacitor; and
a switch for coupling said capacitor in parallel with said capacitive antenna when said antenna is used for transmitting or receiving signals instead of being used for hand detection.
14. An input device comprising:
a housing;
user input electronic circuitry for detecting user inputs and transmitting signals corresponding to said inputs to an electronic device;
a capacitive antenna;
an antenna circuit coupled to said antenna for transmitting or receiving signals;
a hand detection circuit coupled to said antenna for detecting the proximity of a user's hand to said housing using said antenna and producing a hand detect signal;
a capacitor, said capacitor having a value of at least 10 pico farads;
a switch for coupling said capacitor in parallel with said capacitive antenna when said antenna is used for transmitting or receiving signals instead of being used for hand detection;
a sleep-mode circuit, coupled to said user input electronic circuitry, for activating a reduced power operation of said user input electronic circuitry; and
said sleep mode circuit being responsive to said hand detect signal to awaken said user input electronic circuitry from said reduced power operation.
15. A method for operating an input device comprising:
detecting user inputs and transmitting signals corresponding to said inputs to an electronic device external to said input device;
transmitting or receiving signals using an antenna; and
detecting the proximity of a user's hand to said input device using said antenna and producing a hand detect signal.
16. The method of
17. The method of
[0001] This application is a Continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/964,975, filed Sep. 26, 2001, entitled "Input Device With Hand Detection" , which is a non-provisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 60/261,543, filed Jan. 12, 2001, which disclosures are incorporated herein by reference.
[0002] The present invention relates to input devices, in particular pointing devices such as mice, and more particularly to antennas for such devices.
[0003] Wireless mice, trackballs and other devices use batteries and an antenna to transmit to a receiving unit connected to a computer. Different types of antennas could be used, such as a capacitive or an inductive antenna. One concern especially with capacitive antennas is the capacitive interference of the human hand on the mouse. An additional concern with a battery-operated unit is limiting power consumption, and providing a sleep mode capability that does not interfere with the antenna function.
[0004] In many instances, it is desired to bring a pointing device into a power saving mode. For example, Universal Serial Bus (USB) specifications require a low power device in suspend mode to consume less than 500 uA overall. Similarly, a wireless, battery operated pointing device must limit its power consumption to a minimum when the user is either not present or not using the device. Two strategies have been applied to reach this goal, namely the interrupt approach and the activity monitoring approach.
[0005] The interrupt approach relies on the interrupt input found in the device microcontroller. This input, when asserted, activates built-in wake-up circuitry that brings the device back into an active mode, from an idle state in which power consumption is minimal. When the device is idle, the wake-up circuitry is active but requires a very small amount of power. In this configuration, the interrupt input is connected to a switch that the user must depress to activate (wake up) the device. In the activity monitoring approach, some monitoring activity is started in a periodic manner to verify that a user is not soliciting the device in any way. In a mouse, activity monitoring requires flashing the encoder Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and reading back the photodetector signals in order to detect a potential horizontal movement, a rather power hungry task. If activity is detected, the device resumes an active state. In this approach, battery saving is obtained thanks to the long idle time between two activity monitoring periods. This approach is less effective than the former since monitoring typically requires more power than that required in the microcontroller idle state.
[0006] While the two approaches have proven to be very effective, both suffer from their own limitations. The interrupt approach limitation is the fact that a pointing device must be "wakened up" by clicking on a switch when in power saving mode, e.g. there is no automatic waking up when the user moves the pointing device as is currently the case in Logitech products. On the other hand, the monitoring approach doesn't require a clicking wake up action, but suffers from a rather long latency time when the device is in this monitoring mode, the shortening the latency time being in contradiction with the power saving objectives.
[0007] The problem of power consumption is particularly troublesome in the new mice using an optical module, which detects the reflection of light off a surface to determine mouse movement. When such a device is made wireless, requiring a transmitter (e.g., radio or infrared) as well, it is difficult to have the batteries last more than a couple of months. Accordingly, it is desirable to have an improved, automatic power saving mode.
[0008] As discussed below, the present invention provides such an improved power saving mode by using hand detection to activate an input device, such as a mouse. In one embodiment, the hand detection uses capacitive detection. Hand detection and capacitive detection have been used in other applications, a few of which are discussed below. For example, touchpads use capacitive detection to detect the location of a finger on a touchpad.
[0009] U.S. Pat. No. 5,341,036 is an example of hand detection being used to activate a system. In that patent, a machine operator control station is activated when both hands of the operator are detected on the control inputs.
[0010] U.S. Pat. No. 4,919,429 shows the detection of a hand by an optical beam being broken. The detection of the hand activates certain routines of a hand skill amusement game.
[0011] Capacitive switches have also been used in other applications, such as detecting the touch of a user on a lamp, and turning on the lamp.
[0012] The present invention provides an input device having a housing and electronic circuitry for detecting user inputs, and transmitting signals corresponding to those inputs to an electronic device, such as a computer. An antenna is provided for transmitting or receiving signals. A hand detection circuit is provided, which uses said antenna for detecting the proximity of a user's hand to the housing and producing a hand detect signal in response.
[0013] In one embodiment, the antenna is a capacitive antenna. A capacitor is switched in parallel with the antenna when it is used in antenna mode, so that the impact on the antenna signaling of the capacitance of a user's hand is minimized.
[0014] In one embodiment, a sleep mode is provided for the electronic circuitry to conserve power. The hand detect signal will awaken the input device from its sleep mode.
[0015] For a further understanding of the nature and advantages of the invention, references should be made to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
[0016]FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a mouse incorporating the capacitive hand detection electrodes according to an embodiment of the invention.
[0017]FIGS. 2A and 2B illustrate the capacitive hand detection circuit embodiment for direct and indirect coupling of the hand, respectively.
[0018]FIGS. 3 and 4 are timing diagrams illustrating the charge up and discharge cycles for the first and second electrodes, respectively, with no hand and the hand on.
[0019]FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the use of both exposed electrodes on the side of a mouse and electrodes inside the top cover of a mouse in parallel.
[0020]FIG. 6 is a more detailed circuit diagram of one embodiment of a capacitive detection circuit for one electrode according to one embodiment of the invention.
[0021]FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating capacitive plates used for both antenna and hand detection functions.
[0022]FIG. 8 is a block diagram of the antenna RF circuit of FIG. 7.
[0023]FIG. 1 illustrates a mouse 10 having a top housing cover 16 beneath which, in phantom, are shown sheet electrodes 14 and 18. Additionally, an exposed electrode 20 is shown on a side 22 of the mouse. A similar electrode can be mounted on the other side, not shown. The electrodes 14, 18, or/and 20, are connected to a capacitive detection circuit for detecting when a hand is touching or in close proximity to those electrodes.
[0024]FIG. 2A illustrates, at a high level, the operation of the capacitive detection circuit. FIG. 2A illustrates a direct connection from the hand to the detection circuit, such as through exposed electrode 20 and a corresponding second electrode 20′. When the hand touches these, the capacitance of the body 24 to an earth ground 26 is connected in series with the electrodes. As shown, first electrode 20 is connected through a capacitor 28 and a resistor 30 to one input of a comparator 32. Similarly, the second electrode 20'is connected through a capacitor 34 and a resistor 36 to another comparator 38. The inputs to the comparators are compared to a reference threshold to determine how long it takes for the capacitance connected to the measurement node to charge or discharge. As shown, a switch 40 connects the measurement node of comparator 32 to either ground (Vss) or to the positive voltage supply (Vcc). Similarly, a switch 42 connects the measurement node of comparator 38 to the same references.
[0025] However, switches 40 and 42 operate to connect one comparator to Vcc, while the other comparator is connected to Vss, and vice versa. Thus, one electrode and its capacitance will be charging up, while the other one is discharging. This simultaneous measurement in opposing directions provides that an internal virtual ground 44 will mimic the earth ground, allowing the detection of the user's hand, which user is naturally capacitively coupled to the real earth ground. The capacitance measured when the user's hand is in proximity to the electrodes is contrasted with the capacitance when the user's hand is not near. Without the user's hand, there is no connection to earth ground 26, and the electrodes are floating. Thus, the only capacitance is parasitic capacitance to the internal virtual ground 44 of the device.
[0026]FIG. 2B illustrates the same circuit as FIG. 2A, except that instead of an exposed electrode directly contacted by the hand, there is a gap between electrodes 14 and 18 to the user's hand. This gap itself forms the desired measurement capacitance corresponding to capacitors 28 and 34 in FIG. 2A.
[0027] When the user is not placing his/her hand on the mouse, the capacitance is determined by the parasitic capacitor (a few pF) present on the measurement node. When the hand is located on the device, close to the parasitic capacitor, the overall capacitance is determined by a combined capacitor consisting of the parasitic capacitor and the measurement capacitor (28, 34).
[0028] The measurement capacitor models the capacitive coupling from the measurement node to local ground. It is connected to the measurement node on one end and to local ground via the user hand/body on the other end. It includes a coupling capacitor from inside the device to the hand, and a body-to-local earth capacitor, all connected in series. In one embodiment, the coupling capacitance is maximized by covering a large portion of the device surface, on the internal side, with an internal conductive layer, such as metal foil. It is the dominant term when compared to the other one (because it is the lowest value in the chain), on the order of 5 to 10 pF.
[0029] Since the device can be connected to a portable computer in one embodiment, and can be floating with respect to local earth, a virtual earth is generated inside the pointing device. This detection system relies on a double capacitance measurement, thus necessitating two charge/discharge-time-measurement circuits, each with its parasitic capacitor and internal conductive layer. In this configuration, one system measures its measurement node charging up, while the other measures its respective node charging down, and then the other way around in an alternated up/down manner. If the coupling from the two measurement nodes to local earth is symmetrical, the system ground is at a virtual earth.
[0030] The two parasitic capacitors are connected to an internal conductive layer, each covering a distinct portion of the internal surface, but close enough to produce a somewhat similar coupling to the hand resting over the device on the external surface. This enforces a rather symmetrical coupling if the entire hand covers the pointing device body, and allows virtual earth generation. In an alternate embodiment, the two internal conductive layers consist of two sets interleaved strips; each set being connected to its respective internal parasitic capacitor.
[0031] The hand detection circuit can be used both with the interrupt method and the monitoring method. In the interrupt method, the hand detection circuit operates in stand-alone mode by executing the capacitance measurements on a periodical time basis, for example every 500 ms. When a hand is detected, a signal at the output of the circuit and connected to the interrupt input of the pointing device microcontroller is asserted. Activating the interrupt input brings the device out of the idle state, which is then ready to operate.
[0032] In the monitoring method, the pointing device requests, on a periodical manner, capacitance measurements. If the output hand detector is asserted, the system resumes full power operation. If not, the system goes idle for a known duration after which a new capacitance measurement phase is requested.
[0033] Improved power saving and/or reduced latency time occurs when the energy to complete a full capacitance measurement is less than that of activity monitoring.
[0034] Due to the intrinsic lower energy requirement of a hand detection circuit, both a better trade-off between power saving and latency time; and an automatic power-on are possible. Examples of trade-offs include significant power saving with equivalent latency time, or moderate power saving together with a smaller latency time, while both options do not require any button clicking.
[0035]FIG. 3 shows a first signal waveform 46 with the charging and discharging times illustrated as times T0, with no hand present. The charging cycle charges up to the ⅔ Vcc threshold, while the discharging cycle discharges from Vcc down to a ⅓ Vcc threshold. A second waveform 48 illustrates the change in the charging time due the presence of the hand, indicated by dTf. Similar waveforms 72 and 74 are illustrated in FIG. 4 for the second electrode.
[0036] By adding the four measurements (the charge and discharge times of 48, and the charge and discharge times of 74), there is a cumulative change in capacitance of 4XdTf. Firmware embedded in the pointing device will compare that sum (both electrodes together) to a time reference in order to determine whether the hand is present or not. The threshold can be automatically readjusted each time after the hand was detected as touching the pointing device, or after it is detected as lifting off the pointing device. This will compensate for the parasitic capacitances (which do not vary depending on the hand being present or not). Thus, the system needs no factory adjustments. Preferably, the difference in capacitance is about between 1 and 4 pF. Less than 1 pF would risk having the system too sensitive, such that even vibrations of the electrode interconnections could be detected. 4pF is about what is practical through the plastic case of a mouse.
[0037] If the input device is not referenced (not connected) to earth ground, any voltage may be present between the local voltage reference of the electronics and earth ground. This could lead to overflow or underflow of the counters in the controller for counting the charge and discharge times. By driving the two inputs in phase opposition, and connecting them to the same body capacitance, one circuit will try to discharge the body capacitance, while the other is trying to charge it, thus offsetting the body capacitance. This leaves the measurement capacitance on the two electrodes to be charged or discharged.
[0038] A push-pull configuration can also be used to measure the differential capacitance between the two electrodes, which augments when a common conductive element (the hand) is covering them both, whatever the potential of those elements may be versus the reference potential of the sensing circuitry.
[0039]FIG. 5 illustrates an embodiment in which both touch sensors in direct, galvanic contact with hand or fingers are wired in parallel with capacitive sensors mounted on the underside of a top case housing. In the example shown, two discrete electrodes 84 and 86 are exposed outside the case for direct contact with a user's finger. These may be close together on one side of the housing, or on opposite sides where they can be contacted by the grasping fingers of a user. Instead of simply two capacitive sensors on the inside of the top of a case, the diagram shows four interleaved sensors, with electrodes 88 and 90 being connected to a first electrode 84, and electrodes 92 and 94 being connected to a second electrode connected to electrode 86. External electrodes 84 and 86 require discrete capacitors, shown as capacitors 96 and 98. For the other electrodes (which are on the internal side of the case, i.e., not accessible to the user) the case itself provides the dielectric for capacitive coupling with the user's finger. This is a good embodiment for cost reasons, although it only allows a proximity detector instead of an actual-touch sensor.
[0040]FIG. 6 is a block diagram of the capacitive detection circuit connected to each electrode. This embodiment shows a discrete capacitor (50, corresponding to capacitors 28 and 34 of FIG. 2A) that makes each external electrode an actual-touch sensor. In the example shown, an electrode 14 is connected to a sensing capacitor 50 and through a resistor 52 to a pull-up/pull-down resistor 54. In practice, the capacitor may be simply a gap in the wiring to the electrode. This gap can be created in a number of ways. A Mylar (Dupont's trademark for polyester foil) sheet can be used as a dielectric between the wiring connection and the electrode. This provides a well-characterized dielectric, with a well-characterized thickness, wedged between the conductor's terminal and the electrode, so that the resulting capacitance is well determined in spite of differences in tolerances during manufacturing. A flexible PC board could be used, with the flexible substrate itself causing the gap, i.e. the dielectric, between the electrode and the wiring. In one embodiment, the gap is about 50 microns, although the gap used can vary widely depending on the dielectric, etc. In one embodiment a wire is simply not stripped after it is cut, leaving its insulation intact up to the end. Then it is inserted through a hole in the electrode that has the same diameter as the insulation's external diameter. Or the electrode may be made of two pieces that are assembled around the insulated wire so that this is surrounded by the electrode. This makes a cylindrical or tubular capacitor at no material cost, where the wire jacket is the dielectric.
[0041] When the finger 12 makes contact with electrode 14, the body capacitance 56 is placed in series with the detection capacitance 50 and resistor 52. When a galvanic contact is made between the finger and the contact electrode, the amount of the capacitance is measured at an input to comparator 58 by measuring the amount of time to either charge up or discharge the capacitance. In the embodiment shown, a switch 60 is closed to connect a node 62 to ground, allowing a measurement of the amount of time for the capacitance to discharge. Subsequently, a switch 64 can close, and switch 60 open, to measure the amount of time for the capacitance to charge from the power supply. These charge up and charge down times are illustrated in FIGS. 3A and 3B, with T0 being the amount of time in the absence of a finger. The presence of a finger is indicated by dTf. Additional noise cancels out between the charge up and charge down cycles.
[0042] The threshold on the other input of comparator 58 is set by feedback from its output through a resistor 66, in combination with a voltage divider of resistors 68 and 70. The output of comparator 58 will alternate between a 0 and 1 value, causing the threshold to alternate between 0.33 and 0.66 of the supply voltage, Vcc. For more details about the construction and operation of a capacitive detection circuit, reference should be made to copending patent application Ser. No. 60/258,133, filed Dec. 22, 2000, entitled "Pointing Device with Solid State Roller," assigned to the same Assignee as this application, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
[0043] The output of comparator 58 is provided to a controller 72. The controller also controls the opening and closing of clamp switches 60 and 64. The controller can also analyze the signal from the electrode, and a separate signal from a similar circuit for a second electrode, to determine the presence of a finger and the movement direction of a hand.
[0044]FIG. 7 illustrates a human hand 120, with its associated capacitance, approaching two capacitive plates or foils 122 and 124. Plates or foils 122 and 124 form two capacitive electrodes which are connected to a hand detect circuit 126 for detecting the presence of a hand. In addition, these two electrodes 122 and 124 are connected to an RF circuit 128 for driving and/or receiving signals using the electrodes 122 and 124 as a capacitive antenna. A switch 130 switches a capacitor 132 in parallel with the electrodes during antenna mode. The extra capacitor 132 reduces the sensitivity of the antenna to the capacitance of hand 120 during antenna functions. In the embodiment shown, switch 130 is also used to switch the RF circuit 128 into contact with the two electrodes. However, an alternate embodiment could have the RF circuit permanently connected, with only the capacitor switched in and out.
[0045] When the device enters a sleep mode, such as described above, the switch disconnects the external capacitor 132 and RF circuit 128, and connects to a hand detect circuit 126. Again, in an alternate embodiment, hand detect circuit 126 can be permanently attached to the electrodes. The removal of capacitor 132 provides the sensitivity to the hand to enable hand detect circuit 126 to function. The present invention thus uses the same electrodes for both the antenna and hand detect function. This provides a low-cost hand detection with a high efficiency capacitive antenna for a cordless device.
[0046] Preferably, capacitor 132 is much larger than the capacitance of a hand. Typically, a hand has approximately one pF. Accordingly, a capacitance much greater than one pF should be added, such as a capacitor in the range of 10-20 pF (however, the actual capacitor size is related to the antenna geometry. For very small sensors, a capacitor less than 10 pF may be required). Alternately, instead of simply adding the capacitor, a tuning circuit could be used.
[0047] The antenna could be mounted in any of a number of places. For example, the antenna could be printed on a printed circuit board (PCB), which also contains the other circuitry of the mouse, trackball, or other device. Alternately, the capacitive electrodes could be foil attached to the inside of the upper housing of the input device, or in other locations such as described earlier.
[0048] Preferably, the capacitive electrodes are foil, wire or plates, and should be metallic. They can be square-shaped as illustrated in FIG. 7, or could have rounded corners, or could have a completely different shape.
[0049] In an alternate embodiment, an inductive or coil antenna could be used, such as by providing loops on the PCB. The inductive antenna could also be used to detect the hand presence. The hand presence is used to wake up from the sleep mode. The entering into the sleep mode is typically done by the detection of the absence of user activity for a specified period of time.
[0050]FIG. 8 illustrates the circuitry which would comprise RF block 128 of FIG. 7. An oscillator 134 is provided, with its signal being provided to a modulator 136. The modulator modulates a data signal indicating the mouse movements and button presses on a line 138, and provides the modulated signal to an antenna driver 140. The antenna driver provides its signal through a matching circuit 142 to the capacitive antenna 144. Alternately, the capacitive antenna could be used for receiving signals, which are then provided as data to the controller of the mouse on data lines 138 or through an alternate path.
[0051] In one embodiment, during a running mode, the hand detection circuit 126 is powered down, limiting the amount of power required by the device. The RF circuitry can also be powered down in between the transmissions of data. The input switches and the movement sensor of the mouse will be powered, and upon detecting movement or activation, will provide signals to the controller, which can then activate the RF circuit to transmit the signal. Alternately, the RF circuit could be left on all the time.
[0052] In the absence of any inputs after a certain period of time, such as one minute, a true sleep mode can be entered. The controller would be in a stop mode, the RF circuitry would be turned off, and the hand detect circuit 126 would be turned on. The controller can reawaken periodically to determine if a hand has been detected. For example, it could reawaken every 100 mS. If no hand is detected, it would go back to sleep. If it is detected, it would awaken the device from the sleep mode.
[0053] As will be understood by those of skill in the art, the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. For example, instead of being a pointing device connected to a computer, the input device could be a remote control for controlling a TV or a stereo, or any other electronic equipment. The technique of the invention can also be applied to a gaming device. In particular, hand detection is useful for force-feedback joysticks where a "dead-man switch" has to be implemented in order to prevent the handle from moving when no hand is grasping it. Alternately, other capacitive detection circuits could be used, or an inductive detection circuit and an inductive antenna. Accordingly, the foregoing description is intended to be illustrative, but not limiting, of the scope of the invention which is set forth in the following claims.
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Ever elusive, 'Gatsby' evades Hollywood's grasp
NEW YORK (AP) — F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is short, almost novella size. It features larger-than-life characters, glamorous extravagance and dramatic demises. On its surface, it's the most Hollywood-friendly of the great American novels.
But "Gatsby" remains elusive, its poetry largely locked on the page despite a century of attempted adaptations. Since it was published (to an initially cold response) in 1925, it has spawned four previous films (including a 1926 silent movie that's since been lost) and numerous stage productions. The folly of transferring the novel to other media was even parodied in an 8-bit Nintendo-style video game where Nick Carraway must evade cocktail-dispensing butlers and Charleston-dancing flappers.
This film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows director Baz Luhrmann, left, with actors Tobey Maguire, and Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from "The Great Gatsby." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Douglas Kirkland)
On Friday, Baz Luhrmann tosses his garish hat into the "Gatsby" ring. His is a 3-D blockbuster spectacle with a star-studded cast (Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan) and a contemporary soundtrack (Jay-Z, Jack White) that hopes to finally crack the cinematic code of Fitzgerald's novel.
"Whether we made the right choices or the wrong choices, we didn't make any flippant choices," says Luhrmann, the director of "Moulin Rouge" and "Romeo and Juliet."
All great novels have their own impossibilities of being captured on the big screen, but "Gatsby" poses particular challenges because of its amorphous beauty. The character of Jay Gatsby is deliberately vague (even Fitzgerald later wondered to his editor Max Perkins if he should have fleshed him out more). Daisy, too, is idealized all out of proportion. The book isn't a chronicle of happenings, but the lyrical, written-down reflections of Carraway, the narrator: It's in the telling, not the tale.