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A method and a system for gesture recognition are provided for recognizing a gesture performed by a user in front of an electronic product having a video camera. In the present method, an image containing the upper body of the user is captured and a hand area in the image is obtained. The hand area is fully scanned by a first couple of concentric circles. During the scanning, a proportion of a number of skin color pixels on an inner circumference of the first couple of concentric circles and a proportion of a number of skin color pixels on an outer circumference of the first couple of concentric circles are used to determine a number of fingertips in the hand area. The gesture is recognized by the number of fingertips and an operation function of the electronic product is executed according to an operating instruction corresponding to the recognized gesture.

The audio signal processing device of the present invention arranges objects in a virtual three-dimensional space and generates audio signals by performing, at a prescribed listening position, audio simulation to sounds generated from a prescribed sounding position. This invention is characterized in that the sound field space subject to audio simulation is structured by combining spatial objects and audio simulation is performed thereto. Here, “spatial object” shall mean the space (sound field space) for audio simulation which was simply modeled in order to simplify audio simulation, and is a virtual object provided with prescribed audio parameters. The sound field space is structured by combining these spatial objects.

A system and method for presenting document records to a user through a display interface, comprising means for processing data of the first type through a first applet and data of the second type through a second applet and separately extracting data of the two different types using the separate applets. The user interface provides means for selecting a data file from a plurality of data files, displaying the merged and formatted processed first and second data, and managing a plurality of data files with the host application. Each record on the list may be individually selected, comprising providing at least two distinct categorization inputs from the user, providing an indicia in the record list to indicate a respective record classification, and providing means for selectively processing the records according to a respective classification thereof. The data file employs a standard image format file with an embedded index pointer to segregate two data types. A first data type, preferably an image, is referenced by the index pointer and is located near the terminus of the file. A second data type, for example text, appears immediately after the file header which includes the index pointer, and preferably terminates with an end of file marker. Thus, the single file may be read by both a standard image file reader, and a standard text reader, without parsing or segregation. The two data types are preferably text and image data, and the data file is preferably a tagged image format file (TIFF) file with Group-4 image compression.

A system, method, and computer program product that enables user space middleware or applications to pass I / O storage requests directly to a network attached storage device via a storage server that performs authentication are provided. A mechanism is provided for using a translation protection table (TPT) data structure, which may include a file name protection table (FNPT) and file extension protection table (FEPT), or logical volume protection table (LVPT), to control user space and out of user space Input / Output (I / O) operations. The storage server performs authentication of an application instance's request to open an operating system logical volume and, upon being authenticated, permits the application instance to submit I / O storage requests via the TPT to the opened OS logical volume. I / O storage requests are translated into storage commands using the TPT and the storage commands are encapsulated for transmission via one or more networks to the storage server.

An access network unit of a third-generation mobile communication system controls a wireless LAN system by regarding the wireless LAN system as a packet communication channel. The access network unit includes a radio network controller connected to a base transceiver station that is capable of performing a wireless communication with a mobile terminal in the wireless LAN system, and electrically connected to access point stations of the wireless LAN system. Therefore, setup and control of a wireless LAN channel lead by the third-generation mobile communication system can be performed between both systems.

A software tool is provided to analyze static source code. Source Code files are selected to define the project work space. A class and a method in the class are selected from said selected source code files. The tool generates a Call Tree as an ordered recursive sequence of all method calls in different classes or their instances that are invoked by said selected method in said selected class. A Sequence Diagram is generated from said Call Tree. The tool remembers all updates to the Call Tree used to generate the Sequence Diagram. This information is used when a generated Sequence Diagram is impacted due to changes made to any source code file included in the project.

A display surface of the present invention includes a display operation surface (2) including an input operation surface (2a) that constitutes at least a part of the display operation surface (2), the input operation surface (2a) being configured to be directly touched by a user so that an input operation is performed, the input operation surface (2a) having a first region (3) and a second region (4) which are provided in a single substrate, the first region (3) being planar and substantially flat, and the second region (4) being protruded and / or recessed with respect to a reference plane which is an input surface the first region (3). It is therefore possible to realize (i) a touch panel which has further improved operator's operability and is provided to an electronic device having multi-functions, (ii) a display device including the touch panel, and (iii) an electronic device including the touch panel.

A floating skimmer is used for automatically removing oil and other floating matter from the surface of liquid surrounding the skimmer, preferably in a basin or sump. Floats around the periphery and above the general body of the skimmer provide flotation while the unit is at rest. Two liquid removal devices are provided, one to remove the most dense liquid (generally oil) accumulated in the skimmer sump. A gasketed, hinged, floating weir rests on the fluid level in the skimmer sump and when liquid is removed from the sump by either the first or second device or a combination of both, the weir falls back, creating a cascade action which attracts the surface of surrounding liquid into the skimmer sump. Instrumentation is included to provide information for automatic operation and status reporting of the skimmer.

A system, method, and computer program product that enables user space middleware or applications to pass file name based storage requests directly to a physical I / O adapter without run-time involvement from the local Operating System (OS) are provided. A mechanism is provided for using a file protection table (FPT) data structure, which may include a file name protection table (FNPT) and file extension protection table (FEPT), to control user space and out of user space Input / Output (I / O) operations. In addition, a doorbell message and processing queue mechanism are provided for notifying the I / O adapter of work requests to be processed by the I / O adapter.

The present invention provides a system, method, and computer program product that enables application instances to pass block mode storage requests directly to a physical I / O adapter without run-time involvement from the local operating system or hypervisor. Specifically, a mechanism for providing and using a linear block address (LBA) translation protection table (TPT) to control out of user space I / O operations is provided. In one aspect of the present invention, the LBATPT includes an adapter protection table that has entries for each portion of a storage device. Entries include access control values which identify whether the entry is valid and what access type operations may be performed on a corresponding portion of a storage device. I / O requests may be checked against these access control values to determine if an application instance that submitted the I / O requests may access the LBAs identified in the I / O requests in the manner requested.

A rotating direction switching device for a pneumatic tool comprises an air inlet valve and a switch. The air inlet valve is driven to switch the rotating direction of the pneumatic tool by controlling the switch, thus simplifying the operation of switching between the clockwise mode and counterclockwise mode, and facilitating the operation by a single hand. Especially, no matter users who are right hand or left hand dominated could easily operate the pneumatic tool.

An architecture, system and method are provided for efficiently transferring packets of data across a communication network. Portions of the communication network is structured such that there are hierarchical levels of high speed Routing Switches existing throughout the network. Distributed routing of packets is achieved by comparing identification numbers of Routing Switches with the destination address of a data packet. Once routing is achieved within the transport ID based network, transfer to a destination termination device occurs through a single look-up table only when departing the network. The routing operation between termination devices can therefore be achieved using a single mapping operation and is backward compatible with devices external to the network and protocols used by those devices. Each Routing Switch thereby serves as a traffic manager, having registers that are configured so as to allow the traffic manager to direct packets of data from an input port to an output port in the quickest, most efficient manner without having to decode the entire destination address or requiring time-consumptive routing tables.

A system and method for presenting document records to a user through a display interface is described. Data of a first type is processed through a first applet, and data of a second type is processed through a second applet. Data of the first and second types is extracted separately using the first and second applets. A user interface provides means for selecting a data file from a plurality of data files. The merged and formatted processed first and second data is displayed. A plurality of data files are managed with a host application. In an aspect, a data file includes data of the first and second types. The data file includes an index portion in a header pointing to the first data type, and the second data type resides between the header and the first data type, having an end of file marker at a terminus thereof.

A rotating direction switching device for a pneumatic tool comprises an air inlet valve and a switch. The air inlet valve is driven to switch the rotating direction of the pneumatic tool by controlling the switch, thus simplifying the operation of switching between the clockwise mode and counterclockwise mode, and facilitating the operation by a single hand. Especially, no matter users who are right hand or left hand dominated could easily operate the pneumatic tool.

A method for controlling a variable speed wind turbine generator is disclosed. The generator is connected to a power converter comprising switches. The generator comprises a stator and a set of terminals connected to the stator and to the switches of the power converter. The method comprises: determining a stator flux reference value corresponding to a generator power of a desired magnitude, determining an estimated stator flux value corresponding to an actual generator power, determining a difference between the determined stator flux reference value and the estimated stator flux value, and operating said switches in correspondence to the determined stator flux reference value and the estimated stator flux value to adapt at least one stator electrical quantity to obtain said desired generator power magnitude.

A method for controlling a variable speed wind turbine generator is disclosed. The generator is connected to a power converter comprising switches. The generator comprises a stator and a set of terminals connected to the stator and to the switches of the power converter. The method comprises: determining a stator flux reference value corresponding to a generator power of a desired magnitude, determining an estimated stator flux value corresponding to an actual generator power, determining a difference between the determined stator flux reference value and the estimated stator flux value, and operating said switches in correspondence to the determined stator flux reference value and the estimated stator flux value to adapt at least one stator electrical quantity to obtain said desired generator power magnitude.

The present invention provides a system, method, and computer program product that enables application instances to pass block mode storage requests directly to a physical I / O adapter without run-time involvement from the local operating system or hypervisor. Specifically, a mechanism for providing and using a linear block address (LBA) translation protection table (TPT) to control out of user space I / O operations is provided. In one aspect of the present invention, the LBATPT includes an adapter protection table that has entries for each portion of a storage device and a corresponding LBA table having entries for identifying the linear block addresses associated with an adapter protection table entry. Table entries are correlated with one another using an LBA table pointer. Adapter protection table entries are associated with application instances using a key instance.

Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating use of an antenna assembly forming a portion of a communication station, such as a node of a wireless mesh network. Antenna information is determined and stored at a routing table of the node. The antenna information is combined with an IP address or other identifier of another node to which a data packet is to be communicated. The antenna information is utilized to define characteristics to be exhibited by the antenna assembly to best facilitate communication of the data packet between the nodes.

A presentation system comprises: a screen device; a projecting device for projecting an image onto the screen device; an indication mark for setting two reference points, which is two orthogonal points on a rectangular virtual screen, near a presenter and for the presenter operating a point on the virtual screen; a photographing device for photographing the virtual screen and the indication mark; and an arithmetic operation device for generating coordinates of the virtual screen from the two reference points photographed by the photographing device, and for calculating coordinates of the indication mark on the generated virtual screen. The projecting device projects a point image onto the coordinates of the indication mark on the image.

The present invention provides a system, method, and computer program product that enables application instances to pass block mode storage requests directly to a physical I / O adapter without run-time involvement from the local operating system or hypervisor. In one aspect of the present invention, a mechanism is provided for determining whether a user space operation is a resource management operation of a work processing operation. If the user space operation is a resource management operation, appropriate functions are performed to either query, create, modify or destroy resource allocations in the I / O adapter. If the user space operation is a work processing operation, appropriate functions are performed to either create work queue entries and inform the I / O adapter of the work queue entries or to retrieve completion queue entries for work queue entries whose processing has been completed by the I / O adapter.

A method of improving the operating efficiency of a fuel cell in a portable device such as a laptop or tablet PC. The efficiency is improved by using the heat produced by the CPU or other components in the PC to heat the liquid methanol for use in the anode part of the fuel cell. Liquid methanol can be heated when it is conveyed from a replenishing unit to the fuel cell via a conduit. The conduit can be embedded in a heat exchanger placed in the proximity of a CPU heat-sink. Alternatively, the conduit is placed near the heat-sink for heating the liquid methanol therein by radiation and convection. Additionally, a fan is used to direct the hot air around the heat sink to heat the liquid methanol in the conduit and to provide heated air to the cathode part of the fuel cell.

The invention relates to manufacturing of fully dense strips, plates, sheets, and foils from titanium alloys, titanium metal matrix composites, titanium aluminides, and flat multilayer composites of said materials by direct powder rolling of blended powders followed by sintering. The resulting titanium alloy flat products have properties that meet or exceed the conventional ingot metallurgy alloys and are suitable for aerospace, automotive, sporting goods, and other applications. The process includes: (a) providing C.P. titanium matrix powder and at least one powder of alloying components, (b) mechanical activation by attrition of all alloying components, (c) blending titanium powder with attrited alloying powders obtained in step (b), (d) cold direct powder rolling in a mill with horizontally-positioned rolls with different diameters to achieve density of the rolled strip of 60±20% of the theoretical value with subsequent densification by re-rolling green strip, (e) densification by cold re-rolling of the green strip, (f) multiple cold re-rolling, and (g) sintering.

An intelligent massage bathing system applied for a massage bathing equipment is disclosed herein, which comprises a plurality of attached devices, a massage bathing control unit, an operating panel unit and a master control device. The attached devices includes at least one first attached devices and at least one second attached devices, wherein the at least one first attached devices is configured as at least one slave control device. The master control device establishes a master-slave connection with the at least one slave control device, and commands to directly control the at least one slave control device to actuate relatively to the massage bathing equipment, according to an instruction generated from the operating panel unit.

PCT No. PCT / FR97 / 01135 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 15, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 15, 1998 PCT Filed Jun. 25, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97 / 50134 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 31, 1997A piezoactive motor has a stator equipped with independent stator modules 44, each comprising at least one pair of longitudinal piezoactive actuators 12, 14 colinearly arranged inside a mechanical coupling element 16 in the form of a shell 20. In addition, it is fixed by flexible decoupling links 68, 70 and comprises a central countermass 18. To produce a closed trajectory of the peaks (A and B) designed to cause by friction relative movement of a driven part over a large travel distance, and to position the driven part, these modules use separately or in combination: translational deformation, obtained when the piezoactive actuators are deformed in opposition and produce a tangential movement of the peaks (A and B) of the shell (20) relatively to the countermass (18), due to the mass ratio between the countermass and the shell, flexional deformation, obtained when the piezoactive actuators are deformed in the same way and produce a flexion of the shell (20), resulting in a normal movement of the peaks A and B.

Disclosed a multi-station scanning global point cloud registration method based on graph optimization, including acquiring multi-station original three-dimensional point cloud data; based on initial registration of targets, completing initial registration of point cloud data at adjacent stations by virtue of the target at each angle of view; calculating a point cloud overlap area at adjacent angles of view, and calculating areas of overlap regions of adjacent point cloud by a gridded sampling method; constructing a fine registration graph structure, and constructing a fine registration graph by taking point cloud data of each station as a node of the graph and taking an overlap area of the point cloud data of adjacent stations as a side of adjacent nodes of the graph structure; and based on loop closure fine registration based on graph optimization, gradually completing point cloud fine registration of the whole aircraft according to a specific closure sequence.

The present invention provides a system, method, and computer program product that enables application instances to pass block mode storage requests directly to a physical I / O adapter without run-time involvement from the local operating system or hypervisor. In one aspect of the present invention, a mechanism is provided for handling user space creation and deletion operations for creating and deleting allocations of linear block addresses of a physical storage device to application instances. For creation, it is determined if there are sufficient available resources for creation of the allocation. For deletion, it is determined if there are any I / O transactions active on the allocation before performing the deletion. Allocation may be performed only if there are sufficient available resources and deletion may be performed only if there are no active I / O transactions on the allocation being deleted.

A drawer lock set includes a body with a tubular member and a block extends radially from an inner periphery of the tubular member. A cylinder and a core are received in the tubular member. The core includes a driving piece extending from a distal end thereof and is capable of driving a transmission member which is able to rotate a driving member. The driving member includes a protrusion which is slidably engaged with a groove defined in the dead bolt. The cylinder includes a first notch and a second notch in an outer periphery thereof and a 90-degree angular distance is defined between the first and second notches. The block is engaged with one of the first and second notches so as to set the position of the operational direction of the dead bolt with only one part replaced.

A system, method, and computer program product that enables user space middleware or applications to pass file name based storage requests directly to a physical I / O Adapter without run-time involvement from the local Operating System (OS) are provided. A mechanism is provided for using a file protection table (FPT) data structure, which may include a file name protection table (FNPT) and file extension protection table (FEPT), to control user space and out of user space Input / Output (I / O) operations. In addition, a mechanism is provided for managing the FPT based on user space operations to create, query, modify and delete entries in the FPT.