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A method and system for distributing electronic coupons offered by businesses via the wireless devices operated by potential customers in a region. The invention includes a wireless communication device and a central server capable of communicating via a wireless communication network The central server is connected to a search engine, a business database containing the names and locations of businesses located in the region offering discounted coupons for goods and services to its potential customers. Connected to the central server is a discount coupon database and a map database that contains coupon information, a graphic file of the coupon, and the businesses location information. When the potential customer desires a discount coupon for a particular service or goods in the region, the potential customer contacts the central server, which instructs the search engine to conduct a search based on the criteria submitted by the potential customer. The search engine produces a list of businesses currently offering discount coupons that is then transmitted to the potential customer.

A web-based video log that allows users to present video segments on-line in a chronological format is disclosed. A user friendly interface and system is provided for allowing users to place video or other multimedia on a personal website space. Users can record video directly to a central server without having to record the video locally on their computer and then upload the file via file transfer protocol. Alternatively, users can upload video files in any format and codecs located on the server automatically convert the original format into a common format so that all users will be able to view the video. Video effects can be automatically added to the video. The amount of effect and various parameters for the effect can also be selected. Meta-tags are added so videos can be searched for and located. Users can personalize their VLOG but customizing the background.

A force sense presentation device for presenting a sense of force in virtual space to a user, comprises: a fixed unit which is gripped by the user; a force sense presentation unit which presents a sense of force; an actuator which supplies a driving force and operates the force sense presentation unit relative to the fixed unit; a joint unit which is provided between the fixed unit and the force sense presentation unit, and guides the relative operation of the force sense presentation unit; and a force sense rendering unit which controls the relative operation of the force sense presentation unit by the actuator, wherein the force sense presentation device simulates a device which is gripped and used by the user, and the force sense rendering unit controls the relative operation of the force sense presentation unit based on a position and orientation of the device in the virtual space.

In a motion analysis device, a first detection section detects a first state of a shaft portion of sporting equipment using an output of an inertial sensor. The first state corresponds to, for example, a resting state. A second detection section detects a second state of the shaft portion of the sporting equipment using the output of the inertial sensor. The second state corresponds to, for example, an impact. The second detection section detects a relative rotational angle of the shaft portion having varied around an axis of the shaft portion from the first state.

A route searching system is provided with: a road map database for storing a road map data; a searching device for performing a link cost calculation on the basis of the road map data and thereby searching an optimal route. The searching device increases or decreases the link cost of a link corresponding to a road section that requires a difficult turn on a route option, the difficult turn being a right turn or a left turn, one of which is more difficult than the other in accordance with a traffic rule, and connecting a node corresponding to an intersection, in at least two cases depending on the difficulty of the difficult turn at the intersection.

A force sense presentation device for presenting a sense of force in virtual space to a user, comprises: a fixed unit which is gripped by the user; a force sense presentation unit which presents a sense of force; an actuator which supplies a driving force and operates the force sense presentation unit relative to the fixed unit; a joint unit which is provided between the fixed unit and the force sense presentation unit, and guides the relative operation of the force sense presentation unit; and a force sense rendering unit which controls the relative operation of the force sense presentation unit by the actuator, wherein the force sense presentation device simulates a device which is gripped and used by the user, and the force sense rendering unit controls the relative operation of the force sense presentation unit based on a position and orientation of the device in the virtual space.

In order to easily provide data successively generated from a real world sensor network in a time series to a user, a unit for generally and flexibly performing mapping between a source for generating physical electronic information (for example, a tiny sensor node) and sensing data to be provided to the user is provided. Therefore, a manager of the sensor network is composed of a device management table for mapping among a wireless sensor node, a wireless base station, and a data managing server, a real world model table capable of including device information and giving plural attributes, a registration / search processing unit for registering / searching that information, and a data manager for data mapping between the tables.

The invention provides a finger vein authentication device using plural fingers that enables the plural fingers to be easily presented while maintaining high authentication precision. A finger vein authentication device according to an embodiment of the invention includes light sources that irradiate light onto fingers; imaging elements that photograph light transmitted through the fingers; and an image processing unit that processes the obtained images. The finger vein authentication device further includes a finger placement table that defines a presentation location of the first finger in an anteroposterior direction and other finger placement tables that define locations of all the fingers in a horizontal direction.

A computer-implemented method of providing users with contextually relevant data associates metadata tags with data items extracted from a variety of data sources that summarize the data items in searchable form using a common format. Contextual data is collected from the users indicative of their current situation. This data is then correlated with the metadata tags to identify data items of potential interest to the users taking into account their current situation. The identified data items are pushed to the relevant receiving devices in real time over a communications network to provide the identified users with information relevant to their current situation.

The invention discloses a method for managing tasks on a terminal. The method comprises the steps of establishing one or more task management pages for displaying task information on the terminal, and embedding one or more switching controls used for controlling each task management page into the status bar of the terminal; updating the one or more task management pages in real time according to real-timely acquired task information; and displaying the corresponding task management page of the selected switching control when detecting that the status of the switching control is selected. The invention also discloses a device for managing tasks on the terminal; by the device, tasks are operated fast, the management efficiency of tasks or applications is improved, and user experience is greatly improved; and moreover, tasks are managed through a plurality of task management pages, so that more task information is presented to users conveniently, and more intelligent task operation functions can be realized.

The invention provides a resource scheduling method and a resource scheduling device for a task. The method comprises the steps of determining priorities of a plurality of tasks and a specified task ending time, determining a preset resource upper limit, scheduling the executing sequence of the plurality of tasks according to the priorities of the tasks, and allowing the scheduled tasks to meet a first condition, wherein the first condition is that the tasks do not have a time resource conflict, the time resource conflict is that more than one tasks have an overlapped part on a time sequence, and the sum of the resources occupied by the overlapped part is more than the resource upper limit. According to the method and the device provided by the invention, when the plurality of tasks are executed, an existing first-in fist-out principle is not used, and scheduling is performed according to priorities of the tasks. According to abovementioned scheduling, the situation that the tasks are executed according to the priority sequence can be kept, the condition that the task corresponding to the requirement with high level acquires the resources firstly can be ensured as much as possible, and thus such task can be preferentially executed, and display of the front-end data of the requirement is facilitated.

Apparatus and method for providing a door handle adapted to receive interchangeable display inserts. The door handle includes a handle body adapted to be coupled to a door of an enclosure. A receiving space is provided within the handle body for exchangeably receiving a display insert. A releasable closure mechanism is associated with the receiving space and adapted to be configured between an open configuration in which display inserts may be inserted and removed from the receiving space and a closed configuration in which a display insert is secured within the receiving space. The display insert has at least two substantially planar members that are associated together to fill the receiving space so that they are held substantially stationary when installed therein. A protective front facing planar member is located at a front face of the door handle and a graphic display containing intermediate planar member is positioned behind the protective front facing planar member. The intermediate planar member oriented so that a graphic display of the intermediate planar member is visible through the protective front facing planar member by a person upon approach to the door handle.

Apparatus and method for providing a door handle adapted to receive interchangeable display inserts. The door handle includes a handle body adapted to be coupled to a door of an enclosure. A receiving space is provided within the handle body for exchangeably receiving a display insert. A protective front facing planar member is located at a front face of the door handle and a graphic display is positioned behind the protective front facing planar member. The graphic display is visible through the protective front facing planar member by a person upon approach to the door handle.

The invention discloses a high-dynamic image capturing method and a mobile terminal, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a gray scale histogram of a preview image collected by a camera; determining an underexposure image exposure quantity and a high-exposure image exposure quantity based on the gray scale histogram; controlling the camera to capture a normal exposure image, an underexposure image and a high-exposure image based on the underexposure image exposure quantity and the high-exposure image exposure quantity; carrying out the image synthesis of the normal exposure image, theunderexposure image and the high-exposure image, and generating a high-dynamic-range image. The method can achieve the better presentation of the details of excessively bright and dark regions in a photographing scene, and improves the imaging quality.

The invention relates to a set of computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable medium which are configured to implement a method of publishing information formatted for presentation using internet protocols. The instructions provided are configured to execute an initial step of delivering to a content author at least one indication of content of interest. These instructions then allow for the reception of at least one reference to an answer posting made by a content author and then the indexing of the at least one received reference into a search process to be completed by a search engine.

Presentation of images showing with high resolution the state of a surgical field during surgery is realized with a simple configuration. When performing surgery, a three-dimensional model is generate based on MRI images of a patient captured prior to surgery, and three-dimensional coordinates of each location on a surface of the patient are measured by scanning a laser beam over the surface and detecting laser beam reflected therefrom, and correspondence is made with the MRI image for each location of the surface (frameless / markerless: steps 100 to 116), the position of a surgical instrument is also detected by the laser beam, the position of the surgical instrument derived, and images of the surgical instrument combined onto the MRI images and displayed during surgery (steps 120 to 130).

A backlit flat panel display includes a fluorescent tube positioned for illuminating the display, and a plurality of display illuminating LEDs on the periphery of the display. The fluorescent tube illuminates the display through a first range of brightness above a predetermined transition level and the LEDs illuminate the display through a second range of brightness below the transition level. When the illumination of the display is adjusted through the transition level to account for changes in ambient light, the LEDs and the fluorescent tube are operated together, so that the combined brightness of the illumination provided by the LEDs and the fluorescent tube will provide the desired display brightness; this advantageously compensates for delayed illumination of the fluorescent tube at start up and for persistence in the tube after shutdown.

A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium is disclosed for prominent selection cues for icons. When an icon is in focus, and after expiration of a predetermined period of time, the icon can be displayed more prominently, e.g., display a larger representation of the icon, thereby increasing the icon's visibility. The icon can be displayed more prominently after the icon remains in focus for a predetermined amount of time. This functionality can be advantageous in applications having limited display area, such as on portable media players and mobile devices. Accordingly, the smaller display area of such devices is used more effectively by using prominent selection cues for navigating and displaying information.

To provide a machine component with an IC tag affixed thereto, in which with the IC tag having an increased storage capacity, the IC tag can be mounted with no difficulty and, also, reading or writing of information from or in the IC tag, respectively, can be facilitated. A plurality of IC tags 2 are attached to a machine component, which forms a part of a rolling bearing assembly 1, or to a machine component and an accessory with division made therebetween. Those plural IC tags 2 have different information stored therein. Where the machine component is a retainer incorporated rolling bearing assembly 1, those plural IC tags are attached to a roller retainer 5 at respective locations symmetrical with each other about the axis O of rotation thereof.

To provide a machine component with an IC tag affixed thereto, in which with the IC tag having an increased storage capacity, the IC tag can be mounted with no difficulty and, also, reading or writing of information from or in the IC tag, respectively, can be facilitated. A plurality of IC tags 2 are attached to a machine component, which forms a part of a rolling bearing assembly 1, or to a machine component and an accessory with division made therebetween. Those plural IC tags 2 have different information stored therein. Where the machine component is a retainer incorporated rolling bearing assembly 1, those plural IC tags are attached to a roller retainer 5 at respective locations symmetrical with each other about the axis O of rotation thereof.

Apparatus and method for providing a door handle adapted to receive interchangeable display inserts. The door handle includes a handle body adapted to be coupled to a door of an enclosure. A receiving space is provided within the handle body for exchangeably receiving a display insert. A protective front facing planar member is located at a front face of the door handle and a graphic display is positioned behind the protective front facing planar member. The graphic display is visible through the protective front facing planar member by a person upon approach to the door handle.

A method of propagating embryonic stem (ES) cells in an undifferentiated state, while maintaining both the pluripotency and the cells normal genotype is disclosed. The method comprises using recombinantly produced protein domains to attach human embryonic stem cells to the surface of a bioreactor. The ES cells are supplied with nutrients while they held in place by the recombinantly produced protein domains which may be chosen from Laminin G domain, Fibronectin domain 2, Fibronectin domain 3, Nidogen G2 domain, Nidogen G3 domain, Vitronectin somatomedin B domain, and Vitronectin somatomedin C terminal domain. Useful molecules are characterized by a high binding affinity for hES cells and a molecular weight of about 50 kDa±20%.

Provided is a device which can present three dimensional information by a simple structure and in which the information can be viewed with the naked eye. A plurality of rotary line-light-source units are arranged. The line-light-source units provide different pieces of image information in different directions, in order to produce a parallax between both eyes. A three-dimensional image control unit performs a control to provide thinned image information at corresponding positions to the plurality of line-light-source units and successively present the entire three-dimensional image information by scrolling. As a result, a viewer can recognize the three-dimensional image moved and presented by the scroll control.

A method and apparatus for providing content on a display of a mobile terminal or device featuring displaying a user interface embedded application having a selected type of information or content and viewing configurability of the same, including either user-defined content placement, size, activation time or some combination thereof. The selected type of wireless information or content includes wireless information or content provided from a connection to a network, including the GPRS or Internet. The viewing configurability is relational to different views or menus provided on the display. The wireless information or content includes real time content, such as stock exchange information, visual radio, a video stream of home security, childcare, or other suitable video stream.

The invention discloses a method for realizing large-scale Web3D model loading and presentation of a data center. The method comprises the following steps: (1) standardizing the manufacturing processof a model, including material acquisition specification, model manufacturing specification, map manufacturing specification, scene collapse specification and the like; (2) formulating a standard model loading process which comprises the steps of acquiring model equipment information, analyzing the model equipment information, and compiling a standard WebGL loading function to load the model; (3)designing a classification scene loading algorithm which comprises the following steps: dividing a large-scale data center scene into different areas, compressing, transmitting and loading a model file after scene division to the local, decompressing the model file, and storing the decompressed model file; using a WebGL loading function to load a model, firstly loading a main scene model, and loading the model in a corresponding sub-region only when being clicked. By utilizing the method, large-scale equipment models can be loaded in data center display, and the difficulty and the time lengthof loading large-batch models at one time are reduced.

A computer-implemented method of providing users with contextually relevant data associates metadata tags with data items extracted from a variety of data sources that summarize the data items in searchable form using a common format. Contextual data is collected from the users indicative of their current situation. This data is then correlated with the metadata tags to identify data items of potential interest to the users taking into account their current situation. The identified data items are pushed to the relevant receiving devices in real time over a communications network to provide the identified users with information relevant to their current situation.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a video processing method and apparatus, and electronic equipment, capable of processing a video comprising a plurality of human body targets to obtain a plotvideo clip for any one of the plurality of human body targets, and specifically observing the human body targets to improve the sensory experience of a video viewer. The video processing method comprises the steps: acquiring a first video, wherein the first video comprises a plurality of human body targets; determining a detection area of a first target in the plurality of human body targets according to at least one frame of image of the first video; and performing human body behavior feature detection on the detection area of the first target in the first video to obtain a first plot videoclip of the first target in the first video.

The present invention relates to a network fault monitoring method, a monitoring system and a processor. The method includes: receiving an alarm message reported by a fault apparatus forwarded by a network management system, wherein the alarm message carries a business ID which is influenced by the fault; and obtaining first fault information from a client management system according to the business ID, and sending the first fault information to a client end; wherein the first fault information includes client basic information and fault influenced scope information, so that the client end displays the business scope of the fault client according to the first fault information to monitor the network fault. Therefore, the present invention can directly and conveniently display the fault information on the terminal, to inform the user in time and actively, reduce the time caused for finding the fault and bring better user experiences for the user.

A motion analyzing apparatus includes a first calculation unit that calculates a position of a first line segment representing a direction in which a rod-like part of a sporting tool extends in a stationary state, a second calculation unit that calculates the position of the first line segment at hitting, and a third calculation unit that specifies a virtual plane formed by the first line segment in the stationary state and a second line segment representing a ball hitting direction, wherein a relation between the virtual plane and the first line segment at the hitting is compared.