The invention relates to an order picking device (1), comprising an order picking storing station (9) provided at one end of a container provisioning device (7) for product carriers (4) and comprising a container manipulating device (14), which is provided at an end of the container provisioning device (7) that is opposite of the order picking storing station (9) and which is formed by a conveying apparatus (15) that can be reversibly driven by an external drive means.

A method for processing sport video sequences for transmission through channels having limited transmission capacity, said method comprising the steps of segmenting pictures of the video sequences to obtain different type segments, corresponding to regions with different contents, namely at least players and background, and encoding the obtained different segments separately, with the application of different coding strategies, wherein the pictures of the video sequences are segmented on the basis of color characteristics, thereby deriving separate macroblocks for each segment.

The present invention relates to a method for enhancing wide-band speech audio signals in the presence of background noise and, more particularly to a noise suppression system, a noise suppression method and a noise suppression program. More specifically, the present invention relates to low-latency single-channel noise reduction using sub-band processing based on masking properties of the human auditory system.

A method of equalizing a multicarrier signal for intercarrier interference, the multicarrier signal having been received over a channel modeled by a frequency domain channel matrix, is characterized by the combination of the following steps of : approximating the frequency domain channel matrix by a sparse matrix comprising at least a main band consisting of a significant diagonal of the frequency domain channel matrix and the adjacent parallel diagonals within a predetermined main band width, the remaining elements of the sparse matrix being zero; and determining an equalized signal from solving the frequency domain channel matrix equation x = HB. a, x being the received multicarrier signal, HB the sparse matrix and a the equalized signal, by means of the iterative LSQR algorithm.

Recorded audio data is compressed to obtain a condensed version, by first selecting a number of subsequent non-overlapping segments of the audio data, then reducing each segment by temporal compression and combining the reduced segments into a shortened version which can be output. The temporal compression may be made with a local compression factor which varies between the segments. The segmenting may be chosen based on an innovation signal derived from the audio data itself to indicate a content change rate in the audio data.

The invention relates to a method for estimating the quality of a video sequence, e.g. in video streaming applications, wherein the content of the video sequence is evaluated, and one of a group of predetermined content classes is associated with the video sequence, whereafter the quality estimation is performed for that content class.

The invention relates to a device for removing candle remnants from candle holders, comprising a cleaning tool arranged on an operating element. In order to accomplish the removal of burned out candle remnants from candle lamps in a simple manner in which the candle ends are inserted into a cup-like holder, the cleaning tool is constructed as a drilling part (3) which is arranged on a spindle (2) driven by the operating element (1). The drilling part (3) comprises a cutting edge (7) which leads from the center outward and which is arranged on a slanted and protruding area facing away from the operating element (1).

The present invention is directed to a class of polypeptides having the general formula (I) wherein X1to77 = a genetically encoded amino acid. These polypeptides can bind to viral and bacterial antigens and can be used to prepare a pharmaceutical preparation for the prevention of infectious diseases

The invention relates to a method and device for bending flat metal workpieces (b), especially sheet steel, by air bending over edges along a bending line and at straight, linear movement of the tool, the bending edges being arranged in parallel to the longitudinal direction of the sheet and the tool being displaced along the width of the sheet. The method according to the invention is characterized by the following steps: inserting a punch (a) between the bending edges of a swage die (c), holding the punch (a) at the lowest position of the bend, applying a compressive stress in order to level out the stresses in the shaping zone produced by bending and incrementally superimposing the tensile stress with a compressive stress that is effective along the bending line in the direction of the sheet width of the bent workpiece (b), the tool producing the compressive stress being displaced along the bending line in the direction of the sheet width. The bending device according to the invention is characterized by comprising, arranged between the swage die sets and below the punch (a), a carriage that can be displaced in the direction of the bending axis (i.e. in the sheet width) and that comprises a pressure roller (d). Said pressure roller is effective in the punch axis and has a groove in the plane of intersection with the punch axis.

The invention relates to a material composite which comprises a basic body of a wear-resistant material and a layer of hard material, the layer of hard material having regions with a changed microstructure as a result of exposure to a laser beam in periodic sequence.