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A information assistance application is disclosed for use in a wireless communication environment. A requestor terminal is operable to generate a request for an information record associated with a subscriber terminal. The request is transmitted from the requestor terminal to an information assistance application server. The information assistance application server processes the request to determine the identity of the person for whom information has been requested and to determine how to contact the subscriber terminal. A message is generated and sent to the subscriber terminal requesting permission to provide the requester terminal with the requested information. If the subscriber terminal replies with an indication that the information may be provided, then the information application server generates a message that includes the information being requested and transmits it to the requestor terminal.

A user interface for an electronic trading exchange is provided which allows a remote trader to view in real time bid orders, offer orders, and trades for an item, and optionally one or more sources of contextual data. Individual traders place orders on remote client terminals, and this information is routed to a transaction server. The transaction server receives order information from the remote terminals, matches a bid for an item to an offer for an item responsive to the bid corresponding with the offer, and communicates outstanding bid and offer information, and additional information (such as trades and contextual data) back to the client terminals. Each client terminal displays all of the outstanding bids and offers for an item, allowing the trader to view trends in orders for an item. A priority view is provided in which orders are displayed as tokens at locations corresponding to the values of the orders. The size of the tokens reflects the quantity of the orders. An alternate view positions order icons at a location which reflects the value and quantity of the order. Additionally, contextual data for the item is also displayed to allow the trader to consider as much information as possible while making transaction decisions. A pit panel view is also provided in which traders connected to the pit are represented by icons, and are displayed corresponding to an activity level of the trader.

System (20) and related methods for performing surgical procedures and assessments, including the use of neurophysiology-based monitoring to determine nerve proximity and nerve direction to surgical instruments (30) employed in accessing a surgical target site.

State machine interface system, heart state machine analyzer and / or stimulator, comprising state machine algorithms and a graphical user interface, adapted to receive signals from a sensor device that are related to physiological activities of the heart and / or the circulatory system of a living being and the state machine algorithms determine states of heart cycles based upon the signals. The determined heart cycle states are graphically presented at the graphical user interface such that the temporal relation between the different states are illustrated. The graphical user interface may be circular diagrams or bar graphs including parts representing the temporal relation between the different states.

The present invention is an outpatient monitoring system which enables patients to interact with a health care provider using a standard telephone. A patient is presented with a series of condition-appropriate questions. Based upon the patient responses, additional questions are posed on a real-time dynamic basis. In addition, certain general questions from a predefined set of questions are asked of the patient in a rotating manner to ensure that there is variety with each telephone session. Further, the question sets can be recorded in the voice of the patient's clinician, or other person familiar to the patient, so that a familiar voice is heard by the patient, thereby personalizing the medical experience.

A computer implemented method and system provides an asset management application (AMP) for monitoring and managing assets, and interactable interface elements on a graphical user interface (GUI) for enabling configuration and access of asset information and computations on the GUI. The AMP receives inputs associated with an asset, for example, an adjustable or a fixed rate loan on the asset. The AMP determines one or more financial components of expenditure and financial outcomes of a sale of an asset over a configurable duration of time based on the received inputs and / or the user's and / or the asset's geographical location. The AMP dynamically renders one or more interactive graphical models of the financial components of expenditure and the financial outcomes that are configurably accessible and modifiable on the GUI using the interactable interface elements. The AMP facilitates communication of the interactive graphical models and updates thereof between users and financial entities.

A user interface for an electronic trading exchange is provided which allows a remote trader to view in real time bid orders, offer orders, and trades for an item, and optionally one or more sources of contextual data. Individual traders place orders on remote client terminals, and this information is routed to a transaction server. The transaction server receives order information from the remote terminals, matches a bid for an item to an offer for an item responsive to the bid corresponding with the offer, and communicates outstanding bid and offer information, and additional information (such as trades and contextual data) back to the client terminals. Each client terminal displays all of the outstanding bids and offers for an item, allowing the trader to view trends in orders for an item. A priority view is provided in which orders are displayed as tokens at locations corresponding to the values of the orders. The size of the tokens reflects the quantity of the orders. An alternate view positions order icons at a location which reflects the value and quantity of the order. Additionally, contextual data for the item is also displayed to allow the trader to consider as much information as possible while making transaction decisions. A pit panel view is also provided in which traders connected to the pit are represented by icons, and are displayed corresponding to an activity level of the trader.

A user interface for an electronic trading exchange is provided which allows a remote trader to view in real time bid orders, offer orders, and trades for an item, and optionally one or more sources of contextual data. Individual traders place orders on remote client terminals, and this information is routed to a transaction server. The transaction server receives order information from the remote terminals, matches a bid for an item to an offer for an item responsive to the bid corresponding with the offer, and communicates outstanding bid and offer information, and additional information (such as trades and contextual data) back to the client terminals. Each client terminal displays all of the outstanding bids and offers for an item, allowing the trader to view trends in orders for an item. A priority view is provided in which orders are displayed as tokens at locations corresponding to the values of the orders. The size of the tokens reflects the quantity of the orders. An alternate view positions order icons at a location which reflects the value and quantity of the order. Additionally, contextual data for the item is also displayed to allow the trader to consider as much information as possible while making transaction decisions. A pit panel view is also provided in which traders connected to the pit are represented by icons, and are displayed corresponding to an activity level of the trader.

An interferometer configured for use in optical coherence domain (OCT) reflectometry systems is disclosed. In the preferred embodiments, efficient routing of light and a balanced detection arrangement provide a high signal to noise ratio. In a first set of embodiments, a 3×3 coupler is used to split light along separate sample and reference paths and also for combining light returning from those paths and supplying the interfered collected light to the detection system. In an alternate set of embodiments, a pair of cascaded 2×2 couplers provides a similar function. The interferometer can be used with various OCT modalities including time-domain and frequency domain approaches.

An interferometer configured for use in optical coherence domain (OCT) reflectometry systems is disclosed. In the preferred embodiments, efficient routing of light and a balanced detection arrangement provide a high signal to noise ratio. In a first set of embodiments, a 3×3 coupler is used to split light along separate sample and reference paths and also for combining light returning from those paths and supplying the interfered collected light to the detection system. In an alternate set of embodiments, a pair of cascaded 2×2 couplers provides a similar function. The interferometer can be used with various OCT modalities including time-domain and frequency domain approaches.

Analysis of an electrical circuit is performed using a computer program product (60) and a method. In accordance with the program and the method, a electrical circuit analyzer generates an admittance matrix for an electrical circuit which is being analyzed. The admittance matrix includes symbolic expressions rather than numerical expressions for at least some components of the electrical circuit. The electrical circuit analyzer linearly and algebraically solves an equation system including the admittance matrix for analyzing at least a part of the electrical circuit. The electrical circuit analyzer uses symbolic computation to solve the equation system including the admittance matrix for analyzing at least a part of the electrical circuit. The equation system including the admittance matrix can be solved in various types of analyses, including (1) determining a transfer function between specified nodes of the electrical circuit; and (2) optimizing a component of the electrical circuit. The electrical circuit analyzer sets up the admittance matrix Y by following a set of “rules”. Special rules are provided for certain telecommunications components, such as multi-winded transformers, loading coils, line-drivers, analogue cables, and filters. Inclusion of these special rules for telecommunications components enables the electrical circuit analyzer to be more applicable to telecommunications circuits than conventional analyzers. In accordance with a block / subcircuit matrix approach, an overall circuit is divided into plural subcircuits. In such case, the admittance matrix can comprise separate admittance blocks for each of plural subcircuits. Connectivity blocks which represent connectivity between the plural subcircuits are situated on a cross diagonal of the admittance matrix. The admittance matrix can then be conveniently utilized for analyzing at least a part of the electrical circuit. Advantages of this approach include recursively reducing the size of the matrices including the admittance matrix as subcircuits are added to the admittance matrix.

The invention is achieved by using a method for displaying a thermal image in an infrared (IR) thermal camera, comprising the steps of registering an outdoor temperature value, registering an indoor temperature value, calculating an isotherm level by using the registered temperature values and a temperature color alarm level, imaging a surface area to create an image of the temperature distribution in at least a part of the surface area, comparing the surface area temperature in at least one image point of the thermal image to the isotherm level, adjusting the color of the at least one image point in dependence of the relation between the surface area temperature in said at least one image point and the isotherm level and displaying the colored thermal image.The invention allows you to determine immediately, on-site, if a building is well insulated or not. It presents an easily interpreted and understandable thermal image which instantly draws a users attention to an identified critical area.

The invention discloses an image segmentation method by using nucleus transmission to solve problems of large storage scale and data inconsistency in a present method. The method comprises the following steps: inputting an image, extracting color characteristics of the image, obtaining a super-pixel set of the input image by using a mean value shift method, and calculating a super-pixel color characteristic set; searching a seed point set in the super-pixel color characteristic set by using a k-means clustering method; updating a label of the seed point set by using an adaptive spectral clustering method and forming a constraint set; sending constraint information in the constraint set to whole super-pixel color feature set space by using a nucleus transmission method and obtaining a nucleus matrix; clustering the nucleus matrix by using a k- means method to obtain label vector of the super-pixel, and outputting a segmentation result. The method in the invention has the characteristics of low storage scale, maintenance of data consistency, high calculating efficiency and high segmentation precision, and can be used for object detection and tracking, medical image analysis, network image retrieval and conference video monitoring.

The invention discloses an SAR (stop and reveres) image segmentation method based on dictionary migration clustering, which mainly solves the problems that the existing artificial mark SAR image has high cost and the existing non-mark SAR image can not assist a target SAR image in segmenting. The method has the following realization processes: 1) extracting wavelet characteristics for the target SAR image and the non-mark assistant SAR image; 2) setting circulation ending times, and preliminarily dividing the target SAR image with a k-means method; 3) training a dictionary for each class of target SAR image data; 4) migrating a group of samples for each class of target SAR image data from the assistant SAR image data; 5) removing the assistant data sample with an unstable label by a spectral clustering integration method; 6) training an assistant dictionary by each bath of purified assistant samples; and 7) updating a sample label and outputting a clustering segmenting result according to a target dictionary, the assistant dictionary and a corresponding clustering center. The SAR image segmentation method has the advantage of good segmenting effect and can be used for further identifying the SAR image target.

A method, computing device and computer program product are provided in order to utilize a multitouch user interface so as to adjust the window width and window level of an image. In the context of a method, an indication of user input provided via a multitouch user interface is received. The indication of user input includes an indication of respective positions of first and second fingers upon the multitouch user interface. The method also includes adjusting, with processing circuitry, a window width of an image based upon a change in spacing between the first and second fingers. Further, the method includes adjusting, with the processing circuitry, a window level of the image based upon a change in location of a reference point defined by the respective positions of the first and second fingers upon the multitouch user interface.

Systems and methods are provided that allow for generating and applying an improved predictive data model that aggregates two or more models performed sequentially, for the purposes of improving the prediction of overall profitability of individuals or households in a population. The models may be generated by the processing of customer profitability data and third-party population data together. One of the two aggregated models may be an inherently probabilistic, binary model tasked with determining whether an individual is a high-loss individual and using that result to improve the predictive capability of the system.

The invention is achieved by using a method for displaying a thermal image in an infrared (IR) thermal camera, comprising the steps of registering an outdoor temperature value, registering an indoor temperature value, calculating an isotherm level by using the registered temperature values and a temperature color alarm level, imaging a surface area to create an image of the temperature distribution in at least a part of the surface area, comparing the surface area temperature in at least one image point of the thermal image to the isotherm level, adjusting the color of the at least one image point in dependence of the relation between the surface area temperature in said at least one image point and the isotherm level and displaying the colored thermal image.The invention allows you to determine immediately, on-site, if a building is well insulated or not. It presents an easily interpreted and understandable thermal image which instantly draws a users attention to an identified critical area.

A fast direct method for the solution of structured linear systems of equations. A linear system with a matrix that possesses larger submatrices that are of low ranck (to some precision).

A system and method for yield management are disclosed wherein a data set containing one or more prediction variable values and one or more response variable values is input into the system. The system can process the input data set to remove prediction variables with missing values and data sets with missing values based on a tiered splitting method to maximize usage of all valid data points. The processed data can then be used to generate a model that may be a decision tree. The system can accept user input to modify the generated model. Once the model is complete, one or more statistical analysis tools can be used to analyze the data and generate a list of the key yield factors for the particular data set.

Systems and methods are provided for transmitting and receiving an uplink state flag (USF) in a cellular network. A base station may transmit the USF to plurality of mobile stations that share the same frequency channel, and each mobile station can use the USF to determine whether that mobile station can transmit data in an upcoming uplink time period. The base station can encode the USF bits into a plurality of encoded USF symbols, where the encoded USF symbols may be selected from corner signal points in a QAM signal constellation set or from signal points adjacent to the corners of a QAM signal constellation set. The base station can interleave the encoded USF symbols and modulate the encoded USF symbols for transmission using the signal constellation set. A mobile station that can communication with the base station can include a corresponding receiver, de-interleaver, and decoder.

An apparatus, method, and system are disclosed, which provide a means of real time surface profile evaluation in wet cement. The sliding profiler can be pulled behind various stages in a paving train. The user is alerted to profile discrepancies while the cement is still pliable and afforded the opportunity to make adjustments to the paving process, to include additional finishing. The system is made of affordable components and thus is appropriate for construction projects of different scale. In addition, multiple sliding profilers can measure the profile of multiple wheel paths simultaneously. The system can measure profile changes of less than 150 mils. Use of the system described herein will contribute to better roadways at lower costs.

A method and a storage medium, that includes instructions for causing a computer to implement the method, for document categorization is presented. The method includes identifying terms occurring in a collection of documents, and determining a cohesion score for each of the terms. The cohesion score is a function of a cosine difference between each of the documents containing the term and a centroid of all the documents containing the term. The method further includes sorting the terms based on the cohesion scores. The method also includes creating categories based on the cohesion scores of the terms, wherein each of the categories includes only documents (i) containing a selected one of the terms and (ii) that have not already been assigned to a category. The method still further includes moving each of the documents to a category of a nearest centroid, thereby refining the categories.

Methods and systems for improving presentation of terrain / obstacle alerting information in a composite (synthetic and sensor) image. An exemplary system includes an imaging device that obtains image data for a region exterior to the vehicle, a processing system, and a display device. The processing system is in data communication with the display device and the imaging device. The processing system receives information from an alerting (e.g., a terrain awareness and warning) system and the obtained image data, colors, or makes transparent at least a portion of the obtained image data, if the received information indicates that an alert condition exists for the portion of the obtained image data, and generates a composite image comprising a previously generated synthetic image and the obtained image data with the enhanced portion. The display device displays the composite image. The obtained image data overlie the synthetic image.

The invented method processes remote sensing image through following steps. Based on IHS transform of multiple spectrum images, using statistic characteristics of remote sensing image, lowpass filtering is carried out for I-component of multiple spectrum images. Meanwhile, highpass filtering is carried out for panchromatic remote sensing image with high spatial resolution. Through histogram matching in local window, gray scale mapping is carried out one pixel by one pixel for value of pixel in panchromatic image with high resolution according to position of pixel. Thus, syncretic I-component is obtained. Then, IHS inverse transform is carried out so as to obtain syncretic result. The invention possesses advantages of retaining spectrum information of multiple spectrum images, raising spatial resolution, accurate decrypting features of ground object so that the invention is more suitable to each application and easy of interpretation.

A colloidal gold-silver united test paper used for detecting etiology of important disease on Felidae and Canidae animal is prepared mix-enveloping mouse source RV, CDV, RPV and CPV single-anti being labeled with colloidal gold on glass cellulose membrane to form combination pad; enveloping IgG of purified dog-resisting RV, CDV, FPV and CPV on R, D, F and P positions of detection line at nitric acid cellulose membrane and enveloping rabbit resisting mouse IgG on C position of quality control line at nitric acid cellulose membrane to from detection membrane.

An apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium are provided for processing images, such as medical images, in accordance with an imaging calibration function during execution of an image viewing application, and also for processing other types of images with a different calibration function during execution of a different application. In regards to an apparatus, the apparatus is caused to identify, in conjunction with an image viewing application, an imaging calibration function. The apparatus is also caused to transform a digital image during execution of the image viewing application in accordance with the imaging calibration function and to output the digital image, following transformation, in accordance with the image viewing application. In conjunction with a different application, the apparatus is caused to identify a second calibration function, different than the imaging calibration function, and to cause output of a digital image following transformation in accordance with the second calibration function.

The present disclosure provides methods of characterizing one or more microorganisms and kits for characterizing at least one microorganism. Exemplary methods include preparing an amplicon library, sequencing a characteristic gene sequence to obtain a gene sequence, and characterizing the one or more microorganisms based on the gene sequence using a computer-based genomic analysis of the gene sequence. Exemplary kits include at least one forward primer including an adapter sequence and a priming sequence, for a target sequence, and at least one reverse primer.