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|Yu-Yu Chen
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|Yu-Yu Chen
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an exercise monitor, and more particularly to an exercise expenditure monitor device and method for monitoring a user's caloric expenditure at exercise.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In the modern society, people have been living and working busily. They are inevitably always under substantial pressure. To relief pressure and for the sake of health, many people do exercise during spare time. Most people have their favorite sports and exercises. Some people prefer simple exercises like walking, jogging, running, jumping, hiking, and so on, and some people like to do exercise with exercise equipment.
Usually, when a user do exercise, he wants to measure and control the amount of exercise he takes. There are a variety of body building devices and exercisers in the market. However, the exercise equipment early developed can only provide simple functions for exercising, and are not capable to measure the amount of calorie that the user consumes. Hence, it is not easy for the exerciser to control an appropriate amount of exercise.
There are various types of body/motion signal sensing devices for a person to measure the amount of exercise taken and to monitor his personal physical conditions e.g. pedometer and heartbeat sensing device. However, most body signal sensing devices or motion signal sensing devices are only able to detect and indicate simple data. For example, a conventional pedometer can only measure the accumulated steps taken, and a conventional heartbeat sensing device can only detect the heartbeats of the user.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,491,474, a telemetric transmitter unit is disclosed. The transmitter electronics is coupled to each electrode by means of a conductive plastic layer for transmission of signal. In U.S. Pat. No. 4,513,753, a heartbeat rate indicator in the form of a wristwatch is disclosed. Moreover, U.S. Pat. No. 5,622,180 describes a device for measuring heartbeat rate that includes a wrist strap with skin contact electrodes and a coil receiver for receiving telemetrically transmitted heartbeat signals either from a wireless receiver or from the skin contact electrodes.
Also, U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,371,945 and 5,164,967 disclose a pedometer for calculating a distance which a user walks, jogs or runs by electronically measuring the length of each stride taken by the use.
All of the aforesaid conventional body signal sensing devices and motion signal sensing devices are designed to have only one detecting and sensing function. That is, in practical use of these conventional sensing devices, they can detect and display only one type of signal. Body signal, for example heartbeat rate, if it is evaluated together with the exercise intensity, exercise type or exercise parameter, it is very useful and beneficial for athletes and sports fans. In fact, most of the products in market do not match the requirements in practical way.
Some producers have devoted to develop a few body signal sensing devices with multiple functions. Take for an example. U.S. Pat. No. 5,891,042 discloses a fitness monitoring device that includes an electronic pedometer which responds to a user's body motion at each step and a wireless heart rate monitor which is wirelessly coupled to the electronic pedometer. The pedometer is fitted to the user's waist and the wireless heartbeat monitoring device is fitted to the user's chest. The heartbeat signal is transmitted wirelessly to and is displayed on the pedometer. Practically, it is not easy and inconvenient for the user to view the data displayed on the pedometer.
Also, exercise monitors with calculating unit are known. Such exercise monitors are improved with expanded functions and are capable to measure the quantity of exercise. U.S. Pat. No. 6,605,044 discloses a caloric exercise monitor that is able to display either or both the calories remaining to be expended to reach the entered goal or the remaining exercise time required to reach the entered goal on a display. However, the calorie exercise monitoring device is not practical.
Thus, a primary object of the present invention is to provide an exercise expenditure monitor device capable of providing a caloric expenditure of a user at exercise based on the user's heart rate detected.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an exercise expenditure monitor device capable of providing the caloric expenditure of the user at exercise based on his individual physiological parameters e.g. age, sex and weight and the item of activity that the user performs.
A further object of the invention is to provide an exercise expenditure monitor method which can calculate the user's caloric expenditure from the heart rate difference between exercise heart rate and reference heart rate at rest mode, the individual physiological parameters and the item of activity that the user performs.
To achieve the above and other objects, in accordance with the present invention, there is provided with an exercise expenditure monitor device and a method for monitoring a user's caloric expenditure at exercise. The exercise expenditure monitor device includes a heartbeat sensing device for detecting at least a heart rate of the user at exercise, a reference storage unit for storing a standard heart rate and a reference heart rate of the user at rest mode, an individual physiology database for storing a data of physiology weighted values and a set of individual physiological parameters inputted by the user including sex, age and weight, each set of individual physiological parameters corresponding to a physiology weighted value, a calculating unit which calculates a general caloric expenditure of the user according to an algorithm including dividing the heart rate difference between the exercise heart rate and the reference heart rate by the reference heart rate and multiplying by the physiology weighted value.
Preferably, the exercise expenditure monitoring device further includes an activity mode selection unit for storing data of activity weighted values and the item of activity that the user takes e.g. walking, jogging, running, jumping, cycling or aerobic dance. Each activity corresponds to an activity weighted value which is provided to the calculating unit that further multiplies the general caloric expenditure by the activity weighted value and obtains a true caloric expenditure of the user.
The present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art by reading the following description of the best mode and a preferred embodiment of a device for carrying out the present invention, with reference to the attached drawings, in which:
With reference to the drawings and in particular to
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The monitoring device 2 comprises a wireless receiving circuit 21 for receiving the heartbeat signal transmitted by the wireless heartbeat sensing device 1. The wireless receiving circuit 21 comprises a wireless receiver 211 for receiving the heartbeat signal wirelessly and transmitting the heartbeat signal to a filter 212 for filtering the noise. The filtered heartbeat signal is then transmitted to an amplifier 213 for amplifying. Subsequently, the amplified heartbeat signal s1 is transmitted to a calculating unit for calculating and processing. The calculating unit may be comprised of a microprocessor 22.
The microprocessor 22 is connected with a reference storage unit 23 which stores and provides a reference heart rate s2 to the microprocessor 22. The reference heart rate s2 can be either a standard heart rate or a resting heart rate of the user. The user's resting heart rate is either inputted by the user or provided by the heartbeat sensing device 1 which detects the heart rate of the user at rest status and transmits the heartbeat signal wirelessly via the wireless receiving circuit 21 to the reference storage unit 23 for storing.
The microprocessor 22 is coupled to a random access memory (RAM) 24 and a read only memory (ROM) 25. The RAM 24 comprises a memory for temporary storage of data for the microprocessor during operation of the exercise expenditure monitor device. The ROM 25 stores the operation program of the exercise expenditure monitor device.
The microprocessor 22 is also coupled with an individual physiology database 26 which stores the individual physiological parameters of the user including sex, age, weight and so on. The individual physiology database 26 also stores a data of physiology weighted value α. Each set of the individual physiological parameters corresponds to a physiology weighted value α which is a conversion factor for converting the caloric expenditure from the heart rate.
Moreover, the microprocessor 22 is connected with an activity mode selection unit 27 which stores a data of activity weighted values f and the item of activity inputted by the user. Each activity corresponds to an activity weighted value f. The activity may include walking, jogging, jumping, running, aerobic dance, cycling, and so on.
A setting unit 28 is connected to the microprocessor 22 for inputting data or parameters. The data or parameters may include the reference heart rate, individual physiological parameters and the item of activity, that are then forwarded to the reference storage unit 23, the individual physiology database 26 and the activity mode selection unit 27.
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In the case when the exercise expenditure monitor device does not get the reference heart rate from the user, the reference storage unit 23 provides a standard reference heart rate s2 to the microprocessor 22.
In step 103, the user inputs his individual physiological parameters via the setting unit 28. The individual physiological parameters include sex, age, and weight that are stored in the individual physiology database 26. The individual physiology database 26 provides a physiology weight value α corresponding to the setting of individual physiological parameters. The physiology weighted value α is a conversion factor for converting the caloric expenditure from the heart rate for an individual possessing the physiological characteristics.
In step 104, the user inputs the item of activity that he performs via the setting unit 28, e.g. walking, jogging, jumping, running or aerobic dance. The item of activity is stored in the activity mode selection unit 27. The activity mode selection unit 27 provides an activity weighted value f corresponding to the activity.
The user starts to exercise after the aforesaid steps. The heartbeat sensing device 1 detects the exercise heart rate s1 of the user in step 105. The exercise heart rate s1 is transmitted via the receiving circuit 21 to the microprocessor 22. In step 106, the microprocessor 22 processes calculation. First, a heart rate difference is obtained by subtracting the reference heart rate s2 from the exercise heart rate s1, i.e. (s1–s2). The heart rate difference (s1–s2) is divided by the reference heart rate s2 and multiplied by the physiology weighted value α and the activity weighted value f. The value resulted from the calculation is the caloric expenditure of the user. The caloric expenditure represents the energy in Kcal that the user is expended at taking the activity. In other words,
Caloric expenditure (Kcal)=fα(s 1–s 2)/s 2
The caloric expenditure is displayed on the display 20 of the monitoring device 2 (step 107). Practically, it is quite simple for the user to use the exercise expenditure monitor device. He just has to fasten the monitoring device 2 on his wrist and fit the heartbeat sensing device 1 to his chest. When the user exercises, the heartbeat sensing device 1 detects his heart rate at exercise, and then the microprocessor processes and calculates. He can easily monitor his caloric expenditure from the display 20 on the monitoring device 2. Accordingly, he can stop exercise when he has consumed an appropriate amount of energy.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments thereof, it is apparent to those skilled in the art that a variety of modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention which is intended to be defined by the appended claims.
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|600/500, 482/8, 600/503
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
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The Boyertown Bodyworks Company would by new Ford and GM chassis from dealerships and build trucks for different purposes. Some were parcel delivery, bread, and longer chassis were used for Mr. Softee. Others (this one) were set up as a fire department canteen. These trucks would assist the firefighters with supplies, coffee and sandwiches, etc.
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For our carspotting venture today, we head back to the UCLA Library's archives for this shot of the Volts-Wagon tooling around downtown during a feasibility study in May 1967. As you may recall, we've seen this truck once before – it's an experimental electric truck built by the Battronic Truck Corporation using a Boyertown delivery truck chassis and body and plenty of Exide lead-acid batteries for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The Volts-Wagen was apparently good for a range of 40 to 60 miles at 25 MPH.
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Founder, I slipped three decimal points, the written off gas reserves are worth only $5.5 million, not $5.5 billion. The write-down is immaterial. I agree with your disfavor for the CO2 segment. Tertiary recovery with CO2 is a high cost operation.
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Lost jobs is an insufficient excuse for wasting natural resources and polluting the earth. If North Dakota insisted on monetizing their natural gas reserves, there would be a gain in jobs - long term.
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The flaring would stop if the state insisted on it.
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The oil companies would get the flares out lots faster if the state mandated stout flare penalties. Better yet, no oil production until you have a gas usage solution.
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I hope sjfaris is reading this. He contacted IR for an explanation but did not hear back from them as of a couple of days ago.
The gas flaring in North Dakota as a result of the Bakken oil boom is an atrocity. Back in the 80s when Wyoming dictated there would be no more flaring of gas, we rapidly found ways to monetize the gas. ND needs to do the same thing. The flaring problem might be commercial, i.e. the gas won't pay for treating and transportation. However I have heard that gas infrastructure is being installed, but that takes time.
One thing I have not understood are low gas prices. On a BTU equivalent basis, with $100/bbl oil, gas should sell at $17.00. Can someone explain this?Mar 11, 2014. 11:31 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
KMP wrote off 5.5 billion cubic feet in proved gas reserves with a lame explanation about high operating costs in a negligible field. At $1.00 per MCF, the drop in stock price should be even higher. Before buying KMP, a better explanation for this write-off might be prudent.
Mar 11, 2014. 11:02 AM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
I dug further into the Katz Unit and ran across this early 2012 presentation on the CO2 segment:
My takeaway is that the Katz Unit provides a small contribution to the overall operation. I cannot explain how such a small contributor can have the large impact on proved reserves which makes me wonder if the gas reserves weren't incorrect bookings from past years, and finally corrected for 2013. The weak opex explanation could be one of those statements that engineers hope won't be questioned because of the immateriality of the unit. Finally since there was no mention of gas in the Katz in this report, I am wondering if someone didn't slip a decimal point on gas reserves back in 2010 when reserves went from 0.7 to 3.1 BCF...MikeMar 9, 2014. 11:16 AM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Steve, Thanks a lot for contacting IR and for your further research. I am sure you will let us know if you receive a response from them. I may defer purchasing KMR until they elaborate more on this write-down. After reading page 180 I am more confused - the Katz Unit boosted oil and NGL reserves and decreased gas reserves. Even though they claim the Katz makes up only 6% of proved developed reserves, the write-down is a 65% reduction on an MBOE basis for proved developed and undeveloped reserves...Mike
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Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP Doesn't Skimp On Maintaining Its Pipelines [View article]
This statement can be construed as a negative for Kinder Morgan. Maintenance CapEx prevents leaks. OpEx repairs leaks and cleans them up.
Well said toomuchgas.Mar 5, 2014. 04:42 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Opportunity Knocks At Kinder Morgan [View article]Mar 5, 2014. 03:44 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP Doesn't Skimp On Maintaining Its Pipelines [View article]
Perhaps the CAPEX per mile of pipeline metric would be more useful if other operators were included in the comparison. This exercise may identify an outlier or shed more light on the discrepancy.
Midglon's real world observation of Kinder Morgan's operational integrity is highly regarded and appreciated.
Other operational insights are encouraged.Mar 5, 2014. 03:31 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Thanks Steve, I look forward to reading your findings...Mike
Mar 5, 2014. 01:20 AM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Kinder Morgan's 5.5 BCF write down on their proved natural gas reserves (page 181 of their 10-k for 2013) is worth over $5 billion at $1.00/MCF. A $5 billion hit in market cap would be an 18% reduction in stock price. Perhaps this is also a contributor to the 7 1/2% reduction since the 10-k was published. Before I invest in KMP (and I really want to pull the trigger at these prices), I would like to have a better understanding for this reserve reduction. The explanation provided in the report of "Predominantly due to higher operating costs at the Katz Strawn Unit" leave me without a large degree of confidence in the future of their natural gas operations.
Mar 3, 2014. 12:56 PM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
Thanks Albert,
Perhaps someone can clear up another concern I have on Kinder Morgan's oil and gas segment. Page 181 of their 10-K for 2013 reports a 73% reduction in gas reserves to 2.07 BCF from 7.539 BCF. Their explanation "Predominantly due to higher operating costs at the Katz Strawn Unit" leaves me with concerns about operator competency and the future of the field. Can anyone tell me what the impact might be on KMP's value?
On the positive side their oil and natural gas liquids reserves are up 39% over 2012 figures.Mar 3, 2014. 12:55 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
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Pennsylvania has awarded $84 million to fund 86 multimodal projects in 35 counties in the state, including nine rail-specific projects.
Construction has started on the $29.8-million Amtrak Rochester Intermodal Station in Rochester, N.Y., which will reduce regional delays by expanding track service at the station, increase functionality through a new and redesigned concourse and enhance the overall passenger experience in the larger, modern station. Construction is expected to be completed by 2017.
In its investigation of five Metro-North accidents, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) identified several recurring safety issues, including inadequate and ineffective track inspection and maintenance, extensive deferred maintenance issues, inadequate safety oversight and deficiencies in passenger car crashworthiness, roadway worker protection procedures and organizational safety culture.
L.B. Foster Company plans to acquire the railroad tuning unit, FWO, of Balfour Beatty Rail GmbH. The German business provides track lubrication and switch roller equipment for international railway applications.
October 29, 2014, marked the start of construction for All Aboard Florida's downtown Fort Lauderdale station. The existing building was demolished so construction on the nearly 60,000-square-foot station and platform can begin.
BNSF has named Utah Railway as the 2014 Shortline of the Year. Utah Railway operates about 423 miles along the heavily-populated Wasatch Front Corridor, serving a wide variety of customers with growing volumes in Utah.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has named David Mayer as the agency's new chief safety officer.
As Caltrain marks its 10th year of Baby Bullet service, major employers that have grown their companies along the Caltrain/101 corridor announced the formation of a new advocacy coalition that will work to support efforts to expand Caltrain capacity and service as the system struggles to meet the unprecedented ridership and financial demands it's facing.
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has proposed a balanced $1.44 billion budget that, for the fourth year in a row, maintains or improves transit service levels and holds the line on base fares, while continuing investment in projects and programs to improve the customer experience and modernize regional transit.
Amtrak is establishing a blue ribbon panel of rail and transportation leaders to identify infrastructure and operational improvements to address the rail traffic gridlock in Chicago. Amtrak said the unprecedented level of rail congestion is causing major delays for Amtrak passengers and freight shipments.
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A Cognitive Approach to Performance Appraisal
Taylor & Francis, Mar 9, 2004 - Business & Economics - 240 pages
The benefits of performance appraisal in the business world have caused an upsurge of books and programs for use in management, but few of the methods described bother to verify that the underlying psychology on which they are based holds true. Angelo DeNisi has spent 10 years conducting research into cognitive processes, particularly those of the rater, in performance appraisal.
A Cognitive Appraisal is a careful and thorough investigation of appraisal decisions. Based on experiments conducted with over 300 participants, Angelo DeNisi presents results from both the laboratory and real life settings into this vital area. The evidence described will be invaluable to all those involved in assessing the validity of particular performance 'packages' for use by themselves or their clients and to other researchers in appraisal techniques. It is also an excellent guide for all psychologists who wish to verify their results in the field as it contains the story of a long term research program encompassing the move from lab to field, successfully.
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"I can say that because I'm a lawyer," President Obama told the Tumblr crowd last week. [American Interest]
Posts Tagged 'Barack Obama'
"Is Administrative Law Unlawful?"
Columbia lawprof Philip Hamburger is out with a book of high importance on the administrative state and the legality of its actions, and Cato had him in to speak earlier this month, with D.C. Circuit Judge Stephen Williams commenting and Cato's Roger Pilon moderating (video, podcast links). The event description:
When law in America can be made by executive "pen and phone" alone — indeed, by a White House press release — we're faced starkly with a fundamental constitutional question: Is administrative law unlawful? Answering in the affirmative in this far-reaching, erudite new treatise, Philip Hamburger traces resistance to rule by administrative edict from the Middle Ages to the present. Far from a novel response to modern society and its complexities, executive prerogative has deep roots. It was beaten back by English constitutional ideas in the 17th century and even more decisively by American constitutions in the 18th century, but it reemerged during the Progressive Era and has grown ever since, regardless of the party in power.
Earlier here, etc.
Phone, pen, and Obama's assertions of executive power
All sitting Presidents try to press the power of their office into doubtful areas. President Barack Obama has been particularly aggressive about doing so, according to the panelists at a May 21 discussion held at the Cato Institute. Georgetown law professor and Cato fellow Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz noted that the Constitution's Take Care Clause directs the President to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and descends directly from centuries of struggle against the "dispensing power" claimed by pre-modern English kings — that is, the power to dispense with enacted legislation entirely where the royal will is better served that way, a claim of power that goes beyond simple prosecutorial discretion or the pardon power.
Rosenkranz pointed to a number of Obama executive actions that are hard to reconcile with the Take Care clause. The text of the Affordable Care Act, for example, states that the employer mandate prescribed by the law was to begin Jan. 1, 2014. "You don't need a lawyer to interpret this, you need a calendar." Yet President Obama elected unilaterally to delay the mandate and substitute a later effective date of his own choice. Likewise, the President's suspension of some immigration regulations overrode the clear letter of U.S. law, aside from any pluses or minuses it may have had as a policy matter.
"President Obama is being the kind of President Nixon wanted to be," said panelist Jonathan Turley, a well-known legal commentator and law professor at George Washington University: "Many Democrats will rue the day they stood by while the President asserted these kinds of powers." Panelist Andrew Grossman of Cato said future presidents are likely to follow Obama's lead and assert their own right to suspend the operation of other laws.
Bonus: At a separate event, Cato welcomed George Mason U. law professor Frank Buckley to talk about his book The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America. I offer a question at the beginning of the comment period.
"Perhaps it is time for defendants to start settling less often"
I've got a new post at Cato about the latest federal court smackdown of overreaching enforcement by the Obama administration, this time in a Department of Labor prosecution regarding a Texas company's wage-and-hour classification. I mention some greatest hits of the past couple of years reversing DoL, the EEOC, the EPA and other agencies, and suggest that a useful step might be for regulated businesses to contest unreasonable cases more often rather than, as is so often the norm now, paying to get them over with.
Obama's new overtime decree
Here comes a more regimented, polarized, lawsuit-ridden workplace with less upward mobility — at least if the President gets his way. I deplore some of the likely effects, unintended or otherwise, in a new Cato post: "Increasingly, Obama's binge of executive orders and unilateral decrees to bypass Congress is coming to resemble a toddler's destructive tantrum." More: Daniel Schwartz, Daniel Fisher. Our wage and hour law category has more than 80 posts.
More from Scott Shackford, Reason, from Brett Logiurato at Business Insider on organized business opposition, and from the WSJ. And from George Leef, John Locke Institute:
The Fair Labor Standards Act is the federal statute that imposes the minimum wage along with other intrusions into what ought to be matters of contract between the parties.There is no real constitutional authority for the federal government to dictate the terms of labor contracts. During the New Deal, Congress relied upon the notion that if anything might have any possible effect on interstate commerce, then it's fair game for federal control. That idea stretches the concept of interstate commerce far beyond its intended meaning.
Yet more: Welcome Andrew Sullivan, Washington Times readers. And see followup post (why this could do much more damage to economy than minimum wage hike)
February 11 roundup
- If you've answered a consumer survey about which pharmaceuticals you take, you may be hearing from this guy's staff [Paul Barrett, Business Week on mass tort "lead generator"]
- Jury awards $9 million to Vancouver, Wash. man imprisoned for 20 years after wrongful child abuse conviction [Insurance Journal; The Columbian/Seattle Times 2009]
- Product liability: jury awards $18 million in fatal fire attributed to altered space heater [Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, outcome subject to confidential agreement]
- $500 million California verdict in competition case between two drug companies [Kyle White, Abnormal Use, Daniel Fisher (Actelion case)]
- Short film tackles city of Detroit's decline, GM bailout, with commentary from bank economist David Littmann, Todd Zywicki ["Bankrupt"]
- Hardee's CEO: Easier to open a new restaurant in Shanghai than in Los Angeles [Legal NewsLine]
- Fooled ya! "I intend to reverse" trend of President bypassing Congress to bring power into executive branch, said Obama in 2008 [Tom Rogan/The Week, Jim Powell/Forbes] Constitutional issues of federal contractor minimum wage executive order [Eugene Kontorovich and followup, On Labor, Gene Healy, Peter Kirsanow]
State of the Union speech
Update: I'm in this Cato video, my brief contribution on the president's executive order powers beginning around the 2:15 mark:
I tweeted and liveblogged the State of the Union address last night so you wouldn't have to watch. Here are Twitter highlights, in regular rather than reverse chronological order:
Tune in tomorrow night as Cato colleagues and I liveblog the State of the Union, or check Twitter #CatoSOTU http://t.co/5jiMgsRzSM
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 28, 2014
Top Dems want "sustained assault on Republicans over a populist economic agenda" from tonight's speech [WP] http://t.co/JDLXM3zC6R #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 28, 2014
Rule by fiat? In decreeing higher federal contract wages, Obama thumbs nose at Hill http://t.co/wZXHvFbgOy #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 28, 2014
The time when Justice Rehnquist sensibly skipped the #SOTU for a watercolor class [Gene Healy] http://t.co/hS3wPcIazx #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 28, 2014
Game on? "Wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation… that's what I'm going to do." #CatoSOTU http://t.co/ZvNadb2Swk
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
White House live feed announces Harry Truman was first President to have this speech "telavised" and spells it that way. Yikes. #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
#telavised may soon be trending on Twitter at this rate #CatoSOTU pic.twitter.com/zCzBPQShbF
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Prez right the 1st time: said executive fiat "no shortcut," we've "got this Constitution…sep'n of powers" #CatoSOTU http://t.co/DdUW2PAyTF
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Obama invited the teen inventor of a marshmallow cannon to #SOTU. It would be banned at most govt schools. http://t.co/3y28dPHdR1 #CatoSOTU
— Jason Bedrick (@JasonBedrick) January 29, 2014
A nod to needless patent litigation. Devil will be in the details. #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Says he'll unilaterally streamline "big" construction permitting. Not much wiggle room given huge amount of binding law on books #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
He'll lecture firms to give long-term unemployed "a fair shot." Premise: huge LTU problem somehow fault of hirers, not bad policy #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
No evidence the federal govt could successfully scale up quality #preK programs. To the contrary, #HeadStart hasn't worked. #SOTU #CatoSOTU
— Jason Bedrick (@JasonBedrick) January 29, 2014
So depressing to hear big applause for the oft-refuted demagogy on gender pay gap. Here's Cathy Young: http://t.co/QXESJKuAuU #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Diana Furchtgott-Roth has also done excellent work on the myths of gender and pay http://t.co/nl1Mbsmnz7 #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Chris Edwards: "They are not 'our' kids. You have your own, and I have mine." #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Why $10.10? Wouldn't people be even better off with $15 min wage? $50? $100? #SOTU #CatoSOTU
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) January 29, 2014
Gun control much less prominent in this year's speech, maybe because its popularity has faded in polls http://t.co/R6CjK5zhaB #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
"America must move off a permanent war footing." That's the right idea — now live up to it. #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Fairly deft tie-in of human rights w/Olympics, but missed chance to mention int'l religious persecution, Africa's anti-gay pogroms #CatoSOTU
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 29, 2014
Some Slate author. RT @mattyglesias: If the next president went back to the pre-Wilson tradition of written SOTUs would anyone complain?
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) January 28, 2014
State of the Union liveblogging tomorrow for Cato
Tune in Tuesday night as Cato colleagues and I liveblog the State of the Union, or check Twitter at #CatoSOTU.
While you're at it, do follow me on Twitter at @walterolson and @overlawyered, and at Facebook on both author and blog pages.
Vending machine calorie label mandate
It's coming as part of ObamaCare (earlier here and here) and it might wind up restricting consumer choice [AP]:
The rules will apply to about 10,800 companies that operate 20 or more machines. Nearly three quarters of those companies have three or fewer employees, and their profit margin is extremely low, according to the National Automatic Merchandising Association. …
Some companies may use electronic displays to post calorie counts while others may opt for signs stuck to the machines.
Carol Brennan, who owns Brennan Food Vending Services in Londonderry, [N.H.,] said she doesn't yet know how she will handle the regulations, but she doesn't like them. She has five employees servicing hundreds of machines and says she'll be forced to limit the items offered so her employees don't spend too much time updating the calorie counts.
David Boaz comments:
In my experience, vending machines shuffle their offerings fairly frequently. If the machine operators have to change the calorie information displayed every time they swap potato chips for corn chips, then $2,200 [per operator per year] seems like a conservative estimate of costs. But then, as Hillary Clinton said when it was suggested that her own health care plan would bankrupt small businesses, "I can't be responsible for every undercapitalized small business in America."
"President Obama's Top Ten Constitutional Violations of 2013"
Half of them arise from the White House's ongoing effort to rewrite the terms of ObamaCare on the fly without actually going back to ask Congress to change the law. [Ilya Shapiro, Forbes]
Incidentally, the Executive Branch's claim of power to suspend various provisions of the ObamaCare law at its whim stands on quite a different and weaker footing, constitutionally, from the well-established tradition of prosecutorial discretion (or the even more well-established power to pardon individual violators). In requiring the president to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, the Constitution's Take Care clause necessarily implies that not all aspects of law enforcement can be suspended at executive whim, and discretion is necessarily narrower when it comes to the enforcement of statutes creating general civil schemes of private rights and regulation than it is in the realm of criminal enforcement, which necessarily labors under a scarcity of investigative and correctional resources. English kings like James II long asserted a "dispensing power" to suspend the operation of otherwise applicable laws at the royal will, but civil libertarians fought for centuries (and with much success) to cabin and curtail that power. Zachary Price of Hastings recounts some of this history, as well as contemporary readings of the Take Care clause, in a new article that is getting a lot of attention.
While on the topic: ObamaCare's corporatism is sacrificing both the rule of law and transparency, argues Mickey Kaus [first, second] The program's atomistic individualism [David Boaz] And Megan McArdle on the Administration's "willingness to take large risks with the program's stability" by altering rules.


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Hotel Fani, Florence
- Free continental breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
- Airport within 5 mi/8 km: Florence (FLR-Peretola)
Main amenities
- 7 guestrooms
- Free children's club
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- Air conditioning
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- Front desk safe
- Snack bar/deli
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- Free newspapers in the lobby
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- In San Lorenzo
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- Battistero di San Giovanni (0.4 mi / 0.6 km)
- Santa Maria Novella Basilica and Museum (0.4 mi / 0.7 km)
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|6 Aug 1996
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|24 Mar 1995
|Priority date
|26 Jun 1992
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|Jonathan P. Freeman, Martyn Ingleton, Christopher B. Staveley
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|Gec-Marconi Limited
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|Patent Citations (20), Referenced by (51), Classifications (18), Legal Events (7)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/073,738 filed Jun. 8, 1993.
This invention relates to helmet mounted display systems.
More particularly the invention relates to helmet mounted display systems of the kind by which a wearer of the helmet on which the system is mounted is provided with a collimated virtual image of a display produced by a display source superimposed on the helmet wearer's view of a scene through a combiner element of the system.
A known form of such a helmet mounted display system comprises: a helmet having a transparent visor; and an optical system which directs rays of light from a display produced by a display source onto a spherical region of the visor to provide by reflection at the visor, at a helmet wearer's eye position, a collimated virtual image of the display on a line of sight of a wearer of the helmet through the visor. Such a helmet mounted display system is hereinafter referred to as a display system of the kind specified.
It will be appreciated that in a display system of the kind specified the visor serves both as a combiner element and a collimating element to produce the required virtual image. The use of the visor as combiner and collimating elements has the advantage that it avoids the use of a relatively heavy eyepiece combiner and collimating element commonly used in helmet mounted display systems. However, use of the visor as the combiner and collimating elements makes it no longer possible to adapt the system to suit a helmet wearer's eye position by movement of the whole display system.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a display system of the kind specified wherein this problem is overcome.
According to the present invention in a display system of the kind specified said region of the visor is of a shape which is rotationally symmetric about a first axis about which said optical system is rotatable, thereby to allow rotation of said eye position about said axis.
In a system according to the present invention the optical axis of said optical system preferably lies in a plane which contains said first axis.
With such an arrangement, whilst the light rays are subject to off-axis reflection at the visor in said plane, the rays are on-axis in a direction orthogonal to said plane, thereby simplifying off-axis correction.
In a system according to the invention said region of the visor is preferably also rotationally symmetric about a second axis about which said visor is arranged to be rotatable between inoperative and operative positions. In such an arrangement the first and second axes preferably intersect orthogonally.
The invention finds particular application in a binocular helmet mounted system when two separate optical systems according to the invention are used, one for each eye position of the helmet wearer. By arranging for the two optical systems to be rotatable relatively about a common said first axis with a scissors action, the spacing between the eye positions of the two systems can be varied to accommodate helmet wearers of different interpupillary dimensions.
In one particular display system according to the invention the or each optical system comprises a relay lens arrangement incorporating a fold mirror arranged to direct rays of light from the display source downwardly onto a forward facing mirror surface mounted above the face aperture of the helmet which serves to reflect rays from the relay lens arrangement forwardly and downwardly onto the visor.
Where two optical systems of this particular kind are used in a binocular display system, a single said forward facing mirror surface common to both optical system is preferably used.
In a display system according to the invention the components of the or each optical system and the visor are preferably mounted on a frame mounted on the helmet, which frame serves to hold the components and visor in the required positions relative to one another against flexure of the helmet. Preferably the frame is also designed so as to compensate for thermal expansion of at least one component of the optical system.
One helmet mounted display system in accordance with the invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic view of the system from the front;
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the light ray paths in an optical system of the display system;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a frame member which supports various components of the display system; and
FIGS. 4A, 4B and 4C are side, rear and front views of the frame member.
The display system is a binocular system and utilises two display systems according to the invention, one for each eye of a user of the system.
Referring to FIG. 2, the display system for each eye comprises a miniature cathode ray tube (CRT) 1 at the screen 3 of which there is produced a real image of the display it is desired to present to the wearer of the helmet (not shown), superimposed on his view through a spherical visor 5 mounted on the helmet. Light rays from the screen 3 pass first through a relay lens arrangement 7 comprising a lens group 9, a plane fold mirror 11, and a lens 13. Light rays exiting the lens 13 are directed in a general rearwards and downwards direction towards a forwards facing plane mirror 15 mounted at a central brow position on the helmet, i.e. centrally above the helmet face aperture. The mirror 15 is disposed in a generally vertical plane so as to reflect the light rays forwards and downwards, toward a region of the internal, concavely curved surface of the visor 5, for reflection thereat to the left or right eye position 17 of the helmet wearer.
The lens arrangement 7 and lens 13 are positioned and designed to produce a real image of the display on the screen 3 at the principal wavefront 19 of the concave reflecting surface constituted by the internal surface of the visor 5, which image contains equal and opposite optical aberrations to those produced by subsequent reflection at the visor 5. Due to the close proximity of the wavefront 19 to the eye position 17, the helmet wearer is provided at each eye with a large instantaneous field of view of a collimated virtual image of the display on the screen 3, superimposed on the forward scene viewed through the visor 5.
As is apparent from FIG. 2, the optical axis of the optical system of FIG. 2 lies in a plane. This plane is arranged to contain the centre of curvature X of the visor 5. As a result, whilst the light rays reflected at visor 5 are subject to off-axis aberration in the plane of the optical axis, they are on-axis in planes orthogonal to the optical axis plane.
It will be appreciated that whilst depicted as geometrically flat in FIG. 2, the plane is in fact folded by the mirror 11. The purpose of the mirror 11 is to allow the components of the system, more particularly the lens group 9 and CRT 1, to be positioned closely around the helmet wearer's head.
Referring particularly to FIG. 1, the planes 21A and 21B of the optical axes of the optical systems for the helmet wearer's left and right eyes, the components of which systems are differentiated by suffixes A and B respectively, intersect along an axis P passing through the centre of curvature X of the visor 5. Hence, as shown in FIG. 1, the exit pupils 23A, 23B of the two systems lie on a circle 25 centred on the axis P. To allow for variation of the distance D between the centres of the exit pupils 23A and 23B, the planes 21A, 21B are arranged to be rotatable about the axis P. Hence, by moving the planes 21A, 21B relative to one another i.e. with a scissors action, the distance D can be varied between a maximum value D Max and a minimum value D Min to suit the interpupillary distance of the helmet wearer.
By virtue of the rotational symmetry of the visor 5, and by arranging for the two optical systems to share a common brow mirror 15 at a fixed position, i.e. aligned with the axis P along which the optical planes 21A and 21B intersect, it is only necessary to arrange for the components 1 and 7 of each optical system to be rotatable about the axis P to obtain the required rotation of the planes 21A and 21B for variation of the distance D.
As illustrated in FIG. 1, the variation of distance D is accompanied by a variation of the vertical positions of the exit pupils 23A, 23B. This variation is suitably compensated by using liners of different thickness in the helmet to adjust the vertical position of the helmet relative to the wearer's eyes.
As further described below, the distance D is arranged to be variable through several presettable different positions, e.g. seven, as illustrated in FIG. 1. The exit pupils 23A, 23B in adjacent positions are arranged to overlap, and the exit pupils 23A, 23B are made sufficiently larger than a user's eye pupil to allow for small movements of the helmet relative to a wearer's head.
To correct for rotation of the images of the display presented to the helmet wearer as the planes 21A and 21B are rotated relatively, the images of the display on the CRT screens 3A and 3B are rotated electronically between the different presettable positions. Electronic correction of other undesired minor differences in the display in the different presettable positions, e.g. in boresight alignment between the different positions, may also be effected electronically. The required electronic corrections may be determined empirically and stored in a look-up table.
It will be appreciated that for satisfactory operation of the display system the relative positions of the various components of the system have to be accurately maintained against helmet flexures arising from vibration, acceleration, donning and doffing of the helmet etc. and against temperature variations. This problem arises particularly from the fact that visors capable of surviving ejection windblast loading are made from materials such as polycarbonate which exhibit low stiffness and a high thermal coefficient of expansion.
To maintain their positions the various components of the system are mounted on a frame member 27 (see FIGS. 3 and 4) which is, in turn, secured to the outside of the shell (not shown) of the helmet around the face aperture, as further described below.
The frame member 27 is made of a rigid material which is capable of holding the optical components in their required relative positions against vibration etc. and is designed to have thermal expansion characteristics which compensate for the thermal expansion of the visor 5. A suitable material is a hybrid composite of carbon, aramid and glass fibre bound in an epoxy resin, and the member 27 is suitably constructed of laminated sections, at orientations selected and arranged to give the required thermal and mechanical performance.
The frame member 27 provides, on its rear side, three kinematic locating surfaces 29A or 29B for the CRT and relay lens arrangements 1A, 7A or 1B, 7B of each optical system, which components 1 and 7 of each system constitute a unit housed in a casing (not shown). The different positions of each such unit 1, 7 are defined by slots at different positions on the unit casing which co-operate with a lug 31A or 31B on the frame member 27.
The brow mirror 15 is also mounted on the frame member 27, on its forward side. To this end the mirror 15 is accurately pre-positioned on a frame 33 which is secured accurately in position on the frame member 27 at three fixing points 35.
The visor 5 is mounted on two pivots 37 on the frame member 27 positioned so that the axis of rotation of the visor 5 between operative and inoperative positions passes through the point X, typically orthogonally to the axis P. In consequence, and by virtue of the rotational symmetry of the visor 5, the need for the operative position of the visor 5 to be accurately defined by stops 41 is avoided.
Positional accuracy of the optical component mounting surfaces and points on the frame member 27 is achieved by first manufacturing the frame member 27 per se, and ageing. Once stability has been confirmed by process control and measurement etc. the mounting surfaces 29 are bonded with an adhesive into position using a precise jig to hold them in position whilst the adhesive cures.
The frame member 27 is mounted on the helmet shell by way of a single spigot (not shown) secured to the helmet shell at a position just above the brow area which fits into an aperture 39 in the member 27. The frame member 27 is also embedded in a so-called helmet module, i.e. a casing fitting around the helmet shell and member 27, the helmet module being in turn secured to the helmet shell by special purpose latches at positions aft of the helmet wearer's ear positions. This arrangement structurally isolates the frame member 27 from helmet shell and module flexures, but fully arrests the helmet module, and hence the frame member 27, in the event of windblast or frontal impact.
It will be understood that whilst in the embodiment of the invention described above by way of example the visor 5 is of overall spherical form, in other embodiments of the invention only a region of the visor on a line of sight of the helmet wearer through the visor is spherical, e.g., the region through which the helmet wearer views the forward scene.
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In my particular case, I'm a regular speaker at events such as TechEd, TechReady (a Microsoft internal version of TechEd) and Premier Events. I also deliver workshops like Windows 8 New Features and Upgrade as an open delivery which means that usually we invite up to 12 customers to our offices and deliver it there. Besides that, I'm a regular blogger on MSPFE and the German Microsoft Services Blog. Lastly, I'm one of the world-wide Community subject matter experts for Windows Client Deployment, Program Lead for German community readiness in Client Deployment Field, and in a team of world-wide leads for specific Chalk Talks and other Services.
I hope I was able to give you some insights about our every day job and what it's like to be a PFE (and btw, PFE is recruiting! If you're interested check out our careers website). PFE Rocks!
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