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A mouthpiece assembly for use in detecting impact forces on the neck and head of a user is disclosed. The mouthpiece assembly includes sensors which determine linear and rotational impact forces on the user. The mouthpiece assembly includes a mouth guard having a channel sized to receive the upper teeth therein. A raised dome portion extends from the mouth guard and is adapted to be positioned adjacent the roof of the mouth. The sensors are located in the raised dome portion and the mouth guard or in other locations of the mouthpiece if mouthpiece sensors are required. An indicator is provided to provide a visual and/or audible indication when the magnitude of an impact exceeds a threshold value.

The invention discloses a deep-convolution-neural-network-based CT pulmonary nodule detection method. The method comprises: (1), CT image pretreatment is carried out, so that the pixel spacing becomes unified and image comparison is unified; (2), a two-dimensional convolution neural network U-net is trained, a pulmonary nodule segmentation image is predicted, and a candidate nodule is recommended based on the pulmonary nodule segmentation image; and (3), a three-dimensional deep residual neural network Resnet3D is trained, a true-false positive probability of the pulmonary nodule is predicted, and a false positive nodule is screened out. According to the detection method disclosed by the invention, the deep learning advantages are utilized fully, so that the pulmonary nodule can be detected in a CT image automatically, efficiently and accurately; and the adaptability to medical big data is high.

A balloon catheter in which a high-frequency current is supplied between electrodes spaced in a balloon, the liquid in the balloon is heated, and the heat conducted through the balloon ablates the organism tissue in contact with the balloon, characterized in that the area of the surface of each electrode is 20 mm² or more or a potential detecting electrode for detecting the potential at an abrasion portion is disposed outside the balloon and in a position at least before or behind the balloon.

A sensing circuit for a capacitive touch panel is disclosed. By adding a path for a noise to pass through, the noise is differentially processed through two paths which have the same electrical conditions with each other. The noise is then decreased significantly, and a sensing signal can be detected correctly.

The invention provides a self-adaptive control method of an intelligent traffic light, which operates according to the following principle: extracting a situation of vehicles on lanes and pedestrians on pedestrian crossings through computer vision technology, and automatically controlling a traffic light according to the extracted situation. The intelligent traffic light comprises an image sampling module, an image processing and interpreting module, an arbitration control module and a warning light display module. The control method comprises the following steps: obtaining collected images of current vehicle areas and pedestrian areas through the image sampling module; obtaining foreground parts of current vehicles and pedestrians through background subtraction, extracting vehicle parts according to extraction edge features and pedestrian parts according to faces and shape features of the pedestrians, and calculating the density of vehicles and pedestrians in the corresponding area. If the vehicle density in the vehicle waiting area is higher than a threshold at a time, the traffic light allows pedestrians to pass; and if the pedestrian density in the pedestrian waiting area is higher than a threshold at a time, the traffic light allows vehicles to pass. If the vehicle density and the pedestrian density are both lower than another corresponding threshold at a time, warming light signals are changed according to the interval for the general situation. The invention is particularly applicable to crowd control during the peak period.

The battery charging method detects the voltage of each series connected battery, discharges batteries with voltage exceeding a prescribed voltage, and charges a plurality of batteries while maintaining cell balance. This charging method detects the voltage of each battery being charged and if any battery voltage exceeds the prescribed voltage, only the battery that exceeds the prescribed voltage is discharged, after a specified charging time, until its voltage drops to the prescribed voltage. Batteries that do not exceed the prescribed voltage are not discharged, and thereby all batteries are charged while balancing their voltages.

An intermediate adapter includes a first terminal operable to be electrically connected to a lens detecting terminal provided on the camera body when the intermediate adapter is attached to the camera body, a second terminal operable to be electrically connected to a terminal provided on the interchangeable lens for providing a ground potential when the interchangeable lens is attached to the intermediate adapter, and a first switch interposed between the first terminal and the second terminal. The first switch is operable to electrically connect the first terminal and the second terminal when the first switch is on, and disconnect the electrical connection between the first terminal and the second terminal when the first switch is off. While the intermediate adapter is being attached to the interchangeable lens, the first switch is off to disconnect the electrical connection between the first terminal and the second terminal.

A decision-support system and computer implemented method automatically measures tee midline shift in a patient's brain using Computed Tomography (CT) images. The decision-support system and computer implemented method applies machine learning methods to features extracted from multiple sources, including midline shift, blood amount, texture pattern and other injury data, to provide a physician an estimate of intracranial pressure (ICP) levels. A hierarchical segmentation method, based on Gaussian Mixture Mode! (GMM), is used. In this approach, first an Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) ventricle template, as prior knowledge, is used to estimate the region for each ventricle. Then, by matching the ventricle shape it) CT images to fee MRI ventricle template set, the corresponding MRI slice is selected. From the shape matching result, the feature points for midline estimation in CT slices, such as the center edge points of the lateral ventricles, are detected. The amount of shift, along with other information such as brain tissue texture features, volume of blood accumulated in the brain, patient demographics, injury information, and features extracted from physiological signals, are used to train a machine learning method to predict a variety of important clinical factors, such as intracranial pressure (ICP), likelihood of success a particular treatment, and the need and/or dosage of particular drugs.

A physiological condition detecting method detects pulse waves from the body of a patient, and creates the envelope of the pulse waves by connecting every peak of the pulse waves. It determines that the patient is in non-REM sleep, if the envelope fluctuates regularly. It determines that the patient is in REM sleep, if the envelope fluctuates irregularly. Further the method calculates and normalizes the amplitude and period of the envelope. It determines whether the patient has obstructive sleep apnea syndrome based on the normalized amplitude. It determines whether the patient has central sleep apnea syndrome based on the normalized period. It determines that the patient has mixed sleep apnea syndrome based on the normalized amplitude and the normalized period.

A skin-tone image portion contained in an image is detected based upon the shape of the image of a human face. An average value of each of RGB values of pixels that constitute the skin-tone image portion detected is calculated. If the distance between a skin-tone-blackbody locus and a value that is the result of converting the RGB values obtained by multiplying the average value by prescribed coefficients is less than a prescribed value, these coefficients are adopted as coefficients for multiplying the RGB values of each pixel constituting the image. By using a value that is the result of converting, to a chromaticity value, the RGB values obtained by multiplying the RGB values of each of the pixels constituting the image by the prescribed coefficients, those pixels of the image that have values belonging to a zone in the vicinity of a point on a gray-blackbody locus that corresponds to a light-source color temperature estimated based upon the skin-tone-blackbody locus are treated as gray candidate pixels.

The present invention relates to a sensor or the like having a structure that enables accurate temperature measurement in a wide temperature range including a low-temperature region and is suitable for independently and accurately determining temperature variations and strains appearing in an object to be measured. The sensor comprises a laser light source, a sensor section that has a plurality of waveguides transmitting a laser light from the laser light source therethrough, a detecting section, and an analyzing section. The detecting section detects a plurality of Brillouin spectra obtained from the sensor section. The analyzing section determines at least one measurement value of a temperature in the sensor section and a strain generated in the sensor section, based on fluctuations of parameters defining the respective detected Brillouin spectra. In particular, the sensor section has a structure such that the variation of the Brillouin spectrum in response to a disturbance differs between the waveguides. Thus, by simultaneously monitoring the Brillouin spectra that varying a different manner in a plurality of waveguides, it is possible not only to measure accurately the temperature in a wide temperature range including a low-temperature region, but also to make distinction between the strain and temperature.

A light sensing circuit of a touch panel includes a photodiode including an anode and a cathode; a driving transistor including a gate electrode connected to the cathode of the photodiode, a first electrode to receive a first ground voltage, and a second electrode; a first switching transistor including a first electrode connected to the second electrode of the driving transistor, a second electrode to output a data signal, and a gate electrode to receive a scan signal; a first capacitor including a first terminal connected to the cathode of the photodiode, and a second terminal; and a voltage compensating unit to apply a compensation voltage to the second terminal of the first capacitor.

A navigation apparatus defines a detection area for detecting a weather phenomenon as a predetermined range around a travel route that is designated as an area setting object. By referring to weather information acquired from external sources through communication, whether or not a weather warning exists in the detection area is determined. If the determination is affirmative, the weather phenomenon is considered as influential in the detection area, and the detection result is provided for a user. More practically, the travel route, the detection area and an affecting area of the weather warning are displayed on a display unit.

The invention discloses a weld appearance shape based on line laser scanning and a surface defect detection method. The method comprises the steps of acquiring the actual profile curve of any section of a welded joint by laser; carrying out high-dimensional fitting on the actual profile curve to obtain a fitting profile curve, so as to obtain a first-order derivative curve of the fitting profile curve; determining the addressing ranges of the starting point and the final point of the welded joint by the first-order derivative curve; finding a point which has maximum differential value with the fitting profile curve on the actual profile curve as the starting point and final point of the section of the welded joint to obtain an integrally three-dimensional profile image of the welded joint. The welded joint is deemed to have a defect when a differential value between any point of the profile curve of the welded joint and the fitting profile curve exceeds the preset standard value. According to the detection method provided by the invention, the starting point and the final point of the welded joint can be accurately judged, and various surface defects of the welded joint can be precisely judged.

The invention provides a vehicle-mounted sterilization system, belongs to the technical field of vehicle sterilization, and solves the problems that the traditional vehicle sterilization mode is time and labour-consuming has high sterilization cost. The vehicle-mounted sterilization system comprises a central processing unit, a power supply, an inching switch, a sterilizing lamp, a passenger detection device and a vehicle door state inductive switch, wherein the sterilizing lamp is connected with the central processing unit; the power supply supplies power to the sterilizing lamp and the central processing unit; the passenger detection device and the vehicle door state inductive switch are connected with the central processing unit; the passenger detection device is used for detecting whether no passenger is in the vehicle or not and inputting the corresponding signal to the central processing unit; the vehicle door state inductive switch is used for feeding back a vehicle door state to the central processing unit; and when the passenger detection device detects that no passenger is in the vehicle and the vehicle door state inductive switch senses that the vehicle door is closed, the central processing unit controls the sterilizing lamp to start sterilizing. The vehicle-mounted sterilization system of the invention has the advantages of safe and convenient use, good sterilization effect and the like.

A stereo camera inputs a first image and a second image each including a predetermined plane. An image conversion unit projects each pixel of the predetermined plane from the first image onto a corresponding pixel of the second image as a third image. A feature conversion unit respectively emphasizes edges included in the first image, the second image and third image. A similarity calculation unit sets a plurality of areas on the predetermined plane from the second feature conversion image, calculates a first similarity between each area of the second feature conversion image and a corresponding area of the first feature conversion image, and calculates a second similarity between each area of the second feature conversion image and a corresponding area of the third feature conversion image. An obstacle decision unit detects an obstacle based on the first similarity and the second similarity.

The invention discloses an earth borrowing device used for project supervision and an earth borrowing method. The earth borrowing device and the earth borrowing method comprise a supporting frame and an earth borrowing tube, wherein a drill bit is arranged at the lower end of the earth borrowing tube; a driving device used for driving the earth borrowing tube to rotate and a lifting device used for driving earth borrowing tube to move up and down are arranged on the supporting frame; the earth borrowing tube is hollow, and a plurality of partition plates for isolating the interior of the earth borrowing tube into a plurality of holding cavities are sequentially arranged in the earth borrowing tube in the height direction of the earth borrowing tube; an earth borrowing hole is formed in the outer wall of each of the holding cavities; an earth borrowing door is articulated with each of the earth borrowing holes; each of the earth borrowing doors overturns in the rotation direction of the earth borrowing tube relatively to the earth borrowing tube; a driving mechanism used for driving the earth borrowing doors to open and close is also arranged in the earth borrowing tube. The earth borrowing device and the earth borrowing method have the advantage that the earth quality is detected more accurately by separating soil with different depths.

A power supply unit superimposes alternating-current voltage on direct-current voltage and applies it to a motor. As a result, when the motor is rotated, a current containing an alternating-current component flows. Further, the motor includes a capacitor connected in parallel with one phase coil. Owing to this capacitor, the impedance of the motor circuit between brushes is varied according to the rotation of the motor. Variation in impedance appears as variation in the amplitude of the alternating-current component in motor current. A signal processing unit extracts an alternating-current component from the motor current detected by the current detection unit and generates a rotation pulse corresponding to variation in the amplitude. A rotation angle detection unit detects the rotation angle of the motor based on this rotation pulse.

A liquid crystal display (1) includes an array substrate (11), a liquid crystal layer (12), and a counter substrate (13). The array substrate has optical sensors (1112) to detect light from an object presented in front of the array substrate. The counter electrode has a color filter (132) to transmit light emitted from a light source (14), a transparent electrode (134a) that faces a first plurality of pixel electrodes (113) and transmits the light transmitted through the color filter, and a reflective electrode (135) that faces a second plurality of pixel electrodes (113) and reflects external light. The light from the object to be detected is directly given to the optical sensors, which can therefore correctly detect the object. The light emitted from the light source and transmitted through the transparent electrode and the external light reflected from the reflective electrode realize transmissive display and reflective display.

The invention provides a generating method of a virtual view image of a surveying system of a vehicular multi-lens camera, which can more accurately finish the virtual view image provided for a driver by the surveying system. The invention solves the influence on panorama by a three-dimensional obstacle existing in a scene, can acutely detect the grounding contour of the three-dimensional obstacle at a high speed to fix the distance between the obstacle and the vehicle and send out an approaching alarm in time. Meanwhile, the invention distinguishes three-dimensional obstacle areas of a road area and a non-road area, respectively transforms view points, avoids calculating the three-dimensional space positions of all points on the virtual view image in the prior art as well as actual camera coordinates, saves the calculation time and avoids the influence of externally calibrated accuracy of each camera on the accuracy of the synthesized image.

A particulate detection system (1) for detecting the amount of particulates S in a gas under measurement EG includes a detection section (10), a drive circuit (210, 240), and a drive control section (225). The detection section includes a first potential member (31, 12, 13) maintained at a first potential PV1, a second potential member (14, 51, 53) maintained at a second potential PVE, PV3, and an insulating member (121, 77, 76) disposed between the first and second potential members. The system includes insulation test means (215, S3, 245, S5) for testing the degree of insulation between the first and second potential members. The drive control section includes drive permission/prohibition determination means S4, S6 for determining, on the basis of the degree of insulation tested by the insulation test means, whether to permit the drive of the detection section by the drive circuit.

Detecting position of the vehicle with respect to the lane marker lines through use of information-transmitting devices has been proposed. At least one row of information-transmitting wireless devices is provided for a lane marker line, wherein each of the devices is adapted for transmitting information to a reader usable for detecting the position of the vehicle as it comes in close enough proximity to the wireless device. Each of the devices transmits a digital signal to the reader installed on the body of the vehicle, which contain information of the line styles (dashed, solid etc.), line colors (white, yellow or blue) and locations with respect to the road. The information-transmitting devices may be placed just on the road surface, at some depth of the road surface, on light reflectors, guardrails, traffic cones, or any other devices installed on a road for traffic control or for any other purposes. The information-transmitting devices may be positioned just on or on a side of the marker lines or on the center or in proximity of the center of the traffic lane. The method proposed allows detection of the lane marker line no matter how difficult lightening conditions are and unambiguously determine the nature of the line detected.

The invention relates to a railway vehicle bogie hanging natural vibration characteristic detection equipment, in particular to a semi-vehicle mass simulation state based bogie hanging natural vibration characteristic test bed. The test bed is mainly composed of a test bed positioning and auxiliary supporting device, a test bed excitation loading device and a semi-vehicle mass simulation loading device; wherein the test bed positioning and auxiliary supporting device is fixedly connected onto a test bed concrete foundation, the test bed excitation loading device is fixedly connected with a construction member on the test bed positioning and auxiliary supporting device, the semi-vehicle mass simulation loading device is connected with the swing bolster or air spring of a bogie to be tested and is fixedly connected with the construction member on the test bed positioning and auxiliary supporting device, the test bed can utilize a mass block to load the bogie, so as to achieve the aim of simulating semi-vehicle mass; and an electro-hydraulic servo system cooperatively controls actuators in different directions, so as to excite the bogie to be tested, thus meeting the requirement of natural vibration frequency test in bogie frame transverse, yawing, nodding and side rolling vibration modes.

The invention discloses a special automatic fire extinguishing device for a battery box. The special automatic fire extinguishing device comprises a plurality of air suction type fire disaster detectors, at least two fire extinguishing agent containers, and a controller, wherein the air suction type fire disaster detectors are used for detecting whether the interior of each battery box catches a fire or not; the fire extinguishing agent output opening of each fire extinguishing agent container is connected with a fire extinguishing agent conveying pipe network; each fire extinguishing agent conveying pipe network comprises a main pipeline and a plurality of branch pipelines which are connected with the main pipeline; each battery box of a coach is connected with at least one branch pipeline; a first valve is mounted at the fire extinguishing agent output opening of each main pipeline or each fire extinguishing agent container; a second valve is mounted on each branch pipeline; the controller is connected with the air suction type fire disaster detectors, the first valves and the second valves, and controls whether each of the first valves and the second valves is opened or closed according to detecting results of the air suction type fire disaster detectors. According to the special automatic fire extinguishing device for the battery box, each battery box of the coach can be effectively protected one by one; the personal and property safety of passengers on the coach caused by fire spreading because a new energy coach catches a fire can be prevented.

The invention provides a method for detecting and evaluating deposits in a metal tube and a device thereof. The method comprises the steps: 1) knocking the exciting part of the metal tube through an exciting device to excite acoustic waves capable of reflecting the pulse response characteristics of the structural body; 2) sending and acquiring the excited acoustic wave signals through a microphone and a data acquisition card; 3) recording sounds through an acquisition software and storing the sounds in a computer; 4) carrying out wavelet packet analysis, time domain analysis and/or spectrum analysis on the signals, computing characteristic parameters such as energy value of each spectrum, duration of time domain signal and/or maximum resonance frequency amplitude of spectrogram of the wavelet packet analysis; and 5) inputting the characteristic parameters into a neural network expert diagnosis system for identification, determining whether the deposits exist in the tube or not and quantifying the deposits, and evaluating the plugging degree in the tube according to the quantification result. The device comprises an exciting device, a microphone, and a computer having a data acquisition card, wherein the microphone is fixed at the metal tube, and the microphone and the data acquisition card are connected with the computer host respectively.

The invention relates to the technical field of the cold rolling manufacturing industry, and discloses a strip steel edge defect detection identification method. The method includes the following steps: 1, generating morphologic data; 2, generating the rectangular morphology grey-scale image of the strip steel edge; 3, converting the rectangular morphology grey-scale image to form an annular morphology gray image; 4, carrying out binaryzation processing on the annular morphology grey-scale image to obtain a binary image; 5, carrying out contour detection on the binary image to obtain a defect area; 6, extracting the coordinates, the area and the grey average of the defect area; and 7, corresponding the defect area to the actually detected strip steel edge to obtain the defect position coordinates, the defect area, the defect length and width size and the defect depth of the actual strip steel edge. The method can be used to quickly and accurately detect the edge defects of strip steel coils, improves the detection precision and accuracy, and finally provides an edge detection report of the detected steel coils.

A waveform knock signal detected by a knock sensor is filtered through a band-pass filter. The detected wave form signal is compared with an ideal reference knock waveform to determine an engine knock. The ideal reference knock waveform is derived on the basis of a factor depending on a crank angle, a factor depending on a real time and a factor depending on an engine construction. The factor depending on the real time is calculated based on an energy loss in a combustion chamber and a time constant of the band-pass filter. The factor depending on the engine construction is calculated based on a knock vibration which is generated in a cylinder, transferred to a cylinder block and detected by the knock sensor.

A frequency and phase control apparatus includes an analog/digital conversion section for converting a reproduction signal into a multiple bit digital signal based on a clock signal; a maximum likelihood decoding section for converting the multiple bit digital signal into a binary signal; a pattern detection section for detecting a pattern of the binary signal; and a determination section for determining whether or not the multiple bit digital signal and the clock signal are in synchronization with each other based on the detection result. When the determination result of the determination section indicates that the multiple bit digital signal and the clock signal are in synchronization with each other, the maximum likelihood decoding section generates a binary signal based on a first state transition rule; otherwise, the maximum likelihood decoding section generates a binary signal based on a second state transition rule.

One embodiment of the present invention includes a first light-blocking layer and a second light-blocking layer which are over a light-transmitting substrate, a first photodiode over the first light-blocking layer, a second photodiode over the second light-blocking layer, a first color filter covering the first photodiode, a second color filter covering the second photodiode, and a third light-blocking layer formed using the first color filter and the second color filter and disposed between the first photodiode and the second photodiode.

A crankshaft of an engine is connected to a carrier shaft of a planetary gear via a damper. The damper includes a torsion member generating elastic force for suppressing relative rotation, when the crankshaft and the carrier shaft are relatively rotated. A control unit estimates engine torque with using rotation angular acceleration of the crankshaft calculated from a detected value of an engine speed sensor, and corrects the estimated engine torque with a correction term of the elastic force of the damper calculated based on a damper torsional angle. Then, the control unit diagnoses an abnormality of the engine based on the estimated engine torque after correction.