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A sensor system, method, and computer program product for determining physical characteristics of individual plants within a row located in an agricultural environment is provided. Embodiments of the present invention include, but are not limited to, a sensor assembly including a plurality of emitters and a corresponding plurality of receivers disposed substantially opposite one another such that the receivers may receive a plurality of signals emitted by said emitters to generate a binary profile image of each plant within a row of plants positioned along a row axis. Embodiments of the present invention also include supplementary sensors for determining other plant characteristics including leaf pattern and plant location along the row axis. The method and computer program product embodiments of the present invention may also differentiate selected plants of interest from invasive or weed species using the outputs of the sensor device of the present invention.

In private equity and debt funding operations, resource providers define electronic data collection templates to be filled in by prospective resource consumers to form semi-homogeneous profiles. Providers and / or consumers can assign themselves and / or selected third parties various individualized levels of permissions to access and to perform activities on the profiles. Providers can organize profiles into portfolios to further manage the data. All accesses and activities, such as changes to the data, are tracked and recorded in logs useful for audit purposes.

A sensor system, method, and computer program product for determining physical characteristics of individual plants within a row located in an agricultural environment is provided. Embodiments of the present invention include, but are not limited to, a sensor assembly including a plurality of emitters and a corresponding plurality of receivers disposed substantially opposite one another such that the receivers may receive a plurality of signals emitted by said emitters to generate a binary profile image of each plant within a row of plants positioned along a row axis. Embodiments of the present invention also include supplementary sensors for determining other plant characteristics including leaf pattern and plant location along the row axis. The method and computer program product embodiments of the present invention may also differentiate selected plants of interest from invasive or weed species using the outputs of the sensor device of the present invention.

A system for accurately determining whether a work piece such as a plastic molded bottle cap is defective from quality norms and removing those defective pieces from a stream of work pieces includes a feed conveyor for serially delivering work pieces where adjacent work pieces are in contact with each other. The feed conveyor delivers these work pieces onto an inspection conveyor with a plurality of air holes. Air is forced through the air holes to impinge upon the work piece and thus rapidly accelerate them away from the adjacent work piece it was in contact with and move through an inspection station. An air blower provides pressurized air through the air holes to continue accelerating and separating the work pieces as they move. The inspection station includes a camera to image each work piece. The camera communicates these images to a processing unit such as a computer that can rapidly compare the image to a set of quality control standards each work piece should meet.

Apparatus and methods are provided for indexing electronic content to be served to users' mobile and / or stationary communications and computing devices. An index is composed of multiple slices, with each slice storing multiple entries and each entry representing one content item or one campaign or collection of content items. An entry is populated with tokens representing attribute / value pairs of a target audience of the content item and / or property / value pairs of the item or the item's campaign. A query or request to identify content items for serving to a particular user is similarly formatted with tokens representing attribute / value pairs of the user and / or item / campaign. Queries can then be executed rapidly across any or all index entries in any or all slices. Within a slice, entries may be sorted by value or score, and integer components within an individual entry may be sorted to facilitate rapid comparison with a query.

A method and system are provided for presenting rates for travel services using dynamic pricing bands. The dynamic pricing bands represent approximate rates for travel services relative to available rates during or close to the proposed dates of travel, or at or near the proposed travel destination. Each dynamic pricing band is keyed to a particular color, intensity, pattern, sound, or other graphical and / or audio characteristic, thereby providing the consumer a sense of the seasonal, regional, day of week, or other variability of rates for travel services without having to compare actual numbers. The dynamic pricing bands are applied to an interactive presentation of rates for travel services to allow the consumer to explore possible rate variations for particular travel services in a manner that provides a birds-eye view, is intuitive and user-friendly.

A method of providing QoS for a flow associated with a client application in a network, and a QoS manager to execute this method. The network comprises said QoS manager, a QoS policy holder, one or more QoS devices, and a control point associated with the client application. Moreover, the network supports a Universal Plug and Play QoS service. The QoS manager calculates a topology of the network on flow setup and requests traffic policy data from the QoS policy holder. The QoS manager submits traffic descriptor data based on said traffic policy data to the one or more QoS devices for configurating said QoS devices for handling the flow. The QoS manager subscribes to events of the one or more QoS devices. The control point subscribes to events of the QoS manager. On detection of a QoS device event by the QoS manager, the topology of the network is re-calculates by the QoS manager for determining a topology change. The QoS manager checks whether the topology change affects the flow. If the flow is affected by the topology change, the QoS manager triggers suitable measures.

An indoor positioning method, indoor positioning system and indoor maps creating device thereof are provided. The method includes converting a panorama image corresponding to an indoor environment into a plurality of perspective images, and extracting a plurality of reference feature points and descriptors of the reference feature points from the perspective images; taking a shooting position of the panorama image as an origin, and recoding a plurality of 3D reference coordinate values corresponding to a central position of each perspective images; calculating 3D coordinate values of the reference feature points base on the 3D reference coordinate values, and storing the 3D coordinate values and the descriptors of the reference feature points as an indoor map corresponding to the indoor environment. The method also includes determining a 3D target coordinate value of a portable electronic device with respect to the origin of the indoor maps in the indoor environment.

A hierarchical document cross-reference system comprises a document server computer remotely accessible by a user computer. The document server computer includes a database which stores the contents of a first document and a second document. The first document contains one or more segments and the second document contains one or more segments. Each segment is identified by a segment identifier. The document server computer also includes a module executable in the document server computer. The module is configured to receive a request to cross-reference the first document and the second document on a key phrase. The module searches the first document and the second document for the key phrase and identifies the segments in the documents containing the key phrase. The module then displays on the user computer a side-by-side display listing the segment identifiers for the identified segments. The segment identifiers for the identified segments in the first document containing the key phrase are displayed in a first list and the segment identifiers for the identified segments in the second document containing the key phrase are displayed in a second list. The user can subsequently select a segment identifier from each list and submit the segment identifiers for display. The module then displays the contents of each segment, with the key phrase highlighted in a distinct color or by other means.

A method and system are provided for presenting rates for travel services using dynamic pricing bands. The dynamic pricing bands represent approximate rates for travel services relative to available rates during or close to the proposed dates of travel, or at or near the proposed travel destination. Each dynamic pricing band is keyed to a particular color, intensity, pattern, sound, or other graphical and / or audio characteristic, thereby providing the consumer a sense of the seasonal, regional, day of week, or other variability of rates for travel services without having to compare actual numbers. The dynamic pricing bands are applied to an interactive presentation of rates for travel services to allow the consumer to explore possible rate variations for particular travel services in a manner that provides a birds-eye view, is intuitive and user-friendly.

An auscultation training system is disclosed comprising a half-body mannequin with speakers providing heart, lung, bowel and bruit sounds in the correct anatomical positions for student training of auscultation with a standard stethoscope. An integrated computer system provides the tools for training and assessing students. Synchronized phonocardiograms and a palpable carotid pulse accompany heart sounds. Sounds can be played and auscultated simultaneously to simulate a live patient, or played and auscultated separately for teaching purposes. The system may be accessed online using a virtual mannequin and stethoscope for viewing and listening to heart, lung, bowel and bruit sounds.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and method for processing and identifying a first data file, the first data file having set of data points, wherein each data point is defined by an x,y coordinate and has a value corresponding to the lightness or darkness of the data resident at the data point, comprising: dividing the first data file into segments; identifying the coordinates of at least one contrast point for each segment; creating a first set of identifiers for the data file, creating a second set of identifiers for a second data file, comparing at least one identifier of the first data file to the corresponding identifier in the second data file; and assessing whether at least a portion of the second data file matches at least a portion of the first data file.

A hierarchical document cross-reference system comprises a document server computer remotely accessible by a user computer. The document server computer includes a database which stores the contents of a first document and a second document. The first document contains one or more segments and the second document contains one or more segments. Each segment is identified by a segment identifier. The document server computer also includes a module executable in the document server computer. The module is configured to receive a request to cross-reference the first document and the second document on a key phrase. The module searches the first document and the second document for the key phrase and identifies the segments in the documents containing the key phrase. The module then displays on the user computer a side-by-side display listing the segment identifiers for the identified segments. The segment identifiers for the identified segments in the first document containing the key phrase are displayed in a first list and the segment identifiers for the identified segments in the second document containing the key phrase are displayed in a second list. The user can subsequently select a segment identifier from each list and submit the segment identifiers for display. The module then displays the contents of each segment, with the key phrase highlighted in a distinct color or by other means.

In a method and apparatus for acquisition and evaluation of image data of an examination subject that are to be created with at least one imaging medical imaging apparatus, generation of a whole-body overview image of the examination subject is generated and selection of an anatomical region in the whole-body overview image is selected. A point in the selected anatomical region is established that forms the origin of a whole-body coordinate system relating to the examination subject, and establishment of an associated, subject-related coordinate system is established / Upon a later examination with a medical imaging apparatus, a whole-body overview image and / or a partial image containing the origin and / or another marker point is / are generated, and examination (diagnostic) images of the examination subject (S3), are generated. Using new whole-body overview images and / or the partial image, the examination images and spatially arranged in the original whole-body coordinate system dependent on a comparison of at least one item of image information of the examination image with at least one item of image information of the whole-body overview image and / or at least one item of information of the partial image that is related to the whole-body coordinate system.

The pertinence of digital image material is analyzed in respect of matching a given reference. A color of the reference constitutes a reference record in a perceptual color space. Pixels of a piece of digital image material are converted into the perceptual color space, and labelled according to how their converted pixel values belong to environments of principal colors in the perceptual color space. A connected set of pixels is selected that have at least one common label. A subset of the connected set of pixels is determined, so that the pixel(s) of the subset are those for which a color similarity distance to the reference record is at an extremity. For the connected set of pixels, a representative color is selected among or derived from the color or colors of the pixels that belong to the subset.

A system for scoring and evaluating financial investments including a server accessible by at least one client, a database including a plurality of financial indicators for a plurality of investments, software executing on the server for generating a score for each of at least a portion of the financial indicators for a target investment relative to a reference set of the investments, software for determining a comparison set including at least one of the plurality investments, software for generating a score for the portion of the financial indicators for the comparison set relative to the reference set, software for generating a display of the scores for the target investment, wherein the display includes a chart including an axis extending radially from a point for each of the portion of the financial indicators, wherein each of the scores is plotted along one of the axes.

A system for scoring and evaluating financial investments including a server accessible by at least one client, a database including a plurality of financial indicators for a plurality of investments, software executing on the server for generating a score for each of at least a portion of the financial indicators for a target investment relative to a reference set of the investments, software for determining a comparison set including at least one of the plurality investments, software for generating a score for the portion of the financial indicators for the comparison set relative to the reference set, software for generating a display of the scores for the target investment, wherein the display includes a chart including an axis extending radially from a point for each of the portion of the financial indicators, wherein each of the scores is plotted along one of the axes.

There is provided herein a system and method for producing a single audio recording from multiple recordings of the same event. In the preferred embodiment, the instant invention will automatically analyze and visually time-align each of the individual source takes, so that the takes containing the same content are positioned beneath each other. This will make it possible for the user to quickly survey, evaluate, and edit different takes of the same event. The instant invention will automatically keep track of the source material presented in by the visual display and will transfer content selected by the sound engineer from a source to a destination location to create the single audio recording.

In a method and apparatus for acquisition and evaluation of image data of an examination subject that are to be created with at least one imaging medical imaging apparatus, generation of a whole-body overview image of the examination subject is generated and selection of an anatomical region in the whole-body overview image is selected. A point in the selected anatomical region is established that forms the origin of a whole-body coordinate system relating to the examination subject, and establishment of an associated, subject-related coordinate system is established / Upon a later examination with a medical imaging apparatus, a whole-body overview image and / or a partial image containing the origin and / or another marker point is / are generated, and examination (diagnostic) images of the examination subject (S3), are generated. Using new whole-body overview images and / or the partial image, the examination images and spatially arranged in the original whole-body coordinate system dependent on a comparison of at least one item of image information of the examination image with at least one item of image information of the whole-body overview image and / or at least one item of information of the partial image that is related to the whole-body coordinate system.

Methods related to the generation of shape signatures representing molecular shape, and using shape signatures in both ligand-based and receptor-based molecular design. Ray-tracing is used to explore the volume interior to a ligand, or the space exterior to a receptor site. Shape signatures are then probability distributions derived from the ray-traces. Shape signatures provide condensed descriptors of shape properties readily compared to each other to test for shape similarity or complementarity.

The image analysis method may comprise the steps of: measuring a distance between a subject and an image analysis apparatus; outputting an image obtained by photographing the subject; selecting at least two feature points in the image of the photographed subject on the basis of information on the output feature points; calculating the relative size of the pre-stored original image of the subject on the basis of the measured distance; extracting feature points in the pre-stored original image of the subject, which correspond to the at least two selected feature points, on the basis of the calculated relative size; and comparing the image of the photographed subject with the original image on the basis of the selected feature points and the extracted feature points.

Apparatus and methods are provided for indexing electronic content to be served to users' mobile and / or stationary communications and computing devices. An index is composed of multiple slices, with each slice storing multiple entries and each entry representing one content item or one campaign or collection of content items. An entry is populated with tokens representing attribute / value pairs of a target audience of the content item and / or property / value pairs of the item or the item's campaign. A query or request to identify content items for serving to a particular user is similarly formatted with tokens representing attribute / value pairs of the user and / or item / campaign. Queries can then be executed rapidly across any or all index entries in any or all slices. Within a slice, entries may be sorted by value or score, and integer components within an individual entry may be sorted to facilitate rapid comparison with a query.

There is provided herein a system and method for producing a single audio recording from multiple recordings of the same event. In the preferred embodiment, the instant invention will automatically analyze and visually time-align each of the individual source takes, so that the takes containing the same content are positioned beneath each other. This will make it possible for the user to quickly survey, evaluate, and edit different takes of the same event. The instant invention will automatically keep track of the source material presented in by the visual display and will transfer content selected by the sound engineer from a source to a destination location to create the single audio recording.

Methods related to the generation of shape signatures representing molecular shape, and using shape signatures in both ligand-based and receptor-based molecular design. Ray-tracing is used to explore the volume interior to a ligand, or the space exterior to a receptor site. Shape signatures are then probability distributions derived from the ray-traces. Shape signatures provide condensed descriptors of shape properties readily compared to each other to test for shape similarity or complementarity.

A method and apparatus for deriving a hash value from a single channel image, comprising: size reducing the image into first resized images having different horizontal and vertical size, deriving therefrom horizontal difference images comprising horizontal neighboring pixel differences, size reducing the image into second resized images having different horizontal and vertical size, deriving therefrom vertical difference images comprising vertical neighboring pixel differences, and combining the sign bits of the horizontal neighboring pixel differences and the sign bits of the vertical neighboring pixel differences in a predefined order into bits of the hash value.

Systems and methods that provide visualization of networks. Data is input into a table structure that represents any hierarchy of entities, relationships and their attributes. The content of the table is processed to extract the entities, relationships and their attributes. These are turned into nodes, edges and a visual representation of their attributes using color gradients, categorical colors, shapes, thickness, text labels, etc.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and method for processing and identifying a first data file, the first data file having set of data points, wherein each data point is defined by an x,y coordinate and has a value corresponding to the lightness or darkness of the data resident at the data point, comprising: dividing the first data file into segments; identifying the coordinates of at least one contrast point for each segment; creating a first set of identifiers for the data file, creating a second set of identifiers for a second data file, comparing at least one identifier of the first data file to the corresponding identifier in the second data file; and assessing whether at least a portion of the second data file matches at least a portion of the first data file.

A system module applied to the machine controller for simulating a machine operation screen based on a non-invasive data-extraction system, is disclosed. An image capture device of the system module can receive an original operation screen outputted from the machine controller, and transmit the original operation screen to the non-invasive data-extraction system and a high-speed image process unit for extraction of the information shown on the operation screen. The software control system can extract the operational information of the machine controller in real time, to create a machine operation flow for generating a simulated machine operation screen which is then outputted to a screen of the machine controller. As a result, the site working staff can be provided with operational information associated with the machine in real time, for example, the operational information includes currently executed operation screen, position of mouse cursor and pop-up window detection result.