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There is provided a power management apparatus including: a managed appliance registering unit carrying out authentication on an electronic appliance connected to a power network and registering an electronic appliance for which the authentication has succeeded as a managed appliance, a control unit controlling operation of the managed appliance and supplying of power to the managed appliance, a managed appliance information acquiring unit acquiring, from the managed appliance, as managed appliance information, at least any of appliance information including identification information that is unique to the electronic appliance, information indicating an operation state of the electronic appliance, information indicating an usage state of the electronic appliance and power information of the electronic appliance, and an appliance state judging unit judging a state of the managed appliance based on the managed appliance information acquired by the managed appliance information acquiring unit.

Systems and processes of the present invention allow for digital identity registration. In an example embodiment, a Registrant may access a website to enter a requested digital identity and registration information. The requested digital identity may comprise a piece of client software, a digital certificate, or a URL comprising any combination of characters—perhaps including a domain name that may be owned by the Registrant. A Digital Identity Database may then be searched to determine the availability of the requested digital identity. If the requested digital identity includes a domain name, WHOIS records may be searched to determine whether the Registrant owns and/or controls the domain name. The Registrant's registration information also may be validated. The requested digital identity may then be registered to the Registrant, possibly by adding the requested digital identity to the Digital Identity Database and/or adding the registration information to a Records database.

Systems and processes of the present invention allow for tracking and publishing digital identity related reputation. In an example embodiment, a Digital Identity Provider maintains a database with reputation data that can be accessed by Requesters. The Digital Identity Provider may update reputation data based on a variety of events related to a digital identity. The reputation data may be tracked regarding the digital identity itself, digital identity purchaser or registrant, or an email address, domain name, URL, or website associated with the digital identity. The reputation data may include various categories, such as email practices, website content, privacy policies and practices, fraudulent activities, domain name related complaints, overall reputation, etc. The reputation data may be published in a publicly-available database, a private database, or via other methods. The Registrant may opt for a reputation service while registering a digital identity. The Requester may decide whether to interact with a digital identity based on the digital identity related reputation.

The present invention represents system and method for managing multiple user registrations. An exemplary system comprises a user registration management tool and a service provider registration information system. The user registration management tool allows an Internet user to manage his or her user registrations. The service provider registration information system hosted to at least one server provides interfaces for managing registration information of a plurality of service providers, for managing user registration requests and for sharing registration information with other service provider registration information systems via a Network. An exemplary method for processing a user registration in an integration process comprises receiving a request of user registration to a service provider from an Internet user, sending a registration request document at the user registration management tool, transmitting the registration request document at the service provider registration information system, and receiving the registration request document and processing a user registration at the service provider.

The apparatus for registering face identification features can eliminate time and effort for manually retrieving and preparing face images by being provided with a face image retrieving portion 11 for retrieving a face image of a person via a network using the person's name as a keyword, a face feature extracting portion 12 for extracting features, which greatly influence identification of a person, from the face images retrieved by the face image retrieving portion 11, and a celebrity name, face image and feature database 13 for registering the face images retrieved by the face image retrieving portion 11 and the face features extracted by the face feature extracting portion 12 in a state where they are associated with the person's names.

Disclosed is a circuit board fault infrared image automatic detection method. The image information of the working state of a circuit board is obtained by collecting a visible light image and an infrared image simultaneously. First, a visible light image and an infrared image of a circuit board working normally are collected and stored in a database. During detection of the circuit board which malfunctions, circuit board images (including a visible light image and an infrared image) taken are compared with the images under a normal state in the database, and a computer processes the images to find an area and a specific position where a component or line with abnormal temperature is located and automatically make a mark on the visible light image. Thus, automatic detection of a possible faulty component of the circuit board is completed. The technology can be applied to fields such as circuit board maintenance and equipment fault monitoring, and can also be applied to power equipment fault repair, petrochemical pipeline coke plugging, thermal insulation layer fall-off check, railway locomotive axle condition monitoring, fire prevention, flood control, disease prevention and other temperature change related non-contact measurement fields.

The present invention relate to methods and codecs for image and video compression. Embodiments of the present invention include a novel shape-adaptive model-based codec (SAM) that supports binary shapes as well as matte and soft segmentation image compression by decomposing input shapes into deterministic and stochastic components for flexible lossy and lossless coding. The present invention can provide inter/intra prediction and flexibly adapts between lossy and lossless modes with various parameters for compression quality control. The compression module can also be adapted with numerous other compression techniques.

The invention discloses an OCT eye fundus image data registration method, which comprises the following steps: at first, extracting retina edges of an OCT eye fundus image by virtue of a Canny edge detection method, and collecting the edges in a format of point cloud data; then, extracting characteristic points of the point cloud data by adopting a space grid division method; next, calculating a transformation matrix of point clouds to be registered to eliminate obvious position errors by virtue of an SVD (singular value decomposition) algorithm; finally, performing accurate registration by virtue of an improved iterative closest point algorithm, and applying an obtained rotation matrix and translation matrix to the original OCT eye fundus image to obtain a final result. When a dense point cloud with a relatively large volume of data is processed, the method has obvious advantages in terms of time complexity and registration accuracy. Under most conditions, the efficiency of a conventional iterative closest point algorithm is improved by 70 percent by the method, not only can the OCT eye fundus image be effectively registered and spliced, but also the accuracy of a large-vision eye fundus retina accuracy is ensured.

The invention discloses an image registration method and apparatus. The image registration method includes the following steps: 1) performing extraction of image characteristics; 2) introducing a gray moment into an LDB (Local Difference Binary) descriptor, constructing the main direction of the characteristic points, rotating the neighborhood image blocks of the characteristic points to the main direction when describing the characteristic points, and then constructing a descriptor; 3) performing characteristic matching on images; and 4) looking for the optimum matching point. The image registration method and apparatus can further improve the speed and the accuracy during the image registration process, and can utilize the Hamming distance to measure the similarity between the image characteristics, thus reducing the computational complexity and improving the registering speed.

but a registration-requesting information transmission unit transmits the registration-requesting information containing the terminal ID and a device ID for discriminating the contents reproducing device. A registration unit specifies a registration record on the basis of the terminal ID contained in the registration-requesting information, and registers the device ID in the registration record and returns registration-completed information to the contents processing device. A list update unit adds, as it receives the registration-completed information from the management server, a group ID of the contents processing device itself to a second source ID list of the contents reproducing device.

The invention relates to a method based on a low-cost RGB-D sensor. Firstly, a series of disordered lists of panel elements are constructed to represent the reconstructed 3D scene. According to the time threshold, the reconstruction model is divided into an active model and an inactive model. The RGB-D sensor obtains the depth image and color image of the indoor scene, and obtains the sensor poseestimation of the latest frame through the joint optimization of geometric tracking and photometric tracking from the frame to the model, thus completing the preliminary three-dimensional reconstruction of the indoor scene; a deformation map is constructed for each frame of point cloud data, the deformation map is optimized to improve the registration accuracy of single frame model surface, and further improve the overall three-dimensional reconstruction accuracy; Finally, when the sensor re-accesses the reconstructed region, the active and inactive models are strongly aligned to complete thelocal loop detection, and the complete, accurate and high-precision indoor scene three-dimensional model is finally obtained.

The invention provides an SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) image registration method based on a salient division sub-region pair. The SAR image registration method comprises the following steps: 1) inputting SAR images of two time phases in the same region; 2) carrying out average filtering and histogram equalization on the two SAR images to suppress coherent spots; 3) carrying out salient region division based on frequency spectrum residual error on the two filtered and equalized images; 4) calculating a minimum euclidean distance between the saliently divided region of the two images by utilizing a histogram mode-sorted grayscale sequence; 5) calculating registration parameters for a matching region by utilizing an improved comprehensive learning particle swarm optimization algorithm; 6) converting the registration parameters into registration parameters of an original image pair by utilizing a coordinate relationship between a sub-region in which a pixel point is positioned and an original image to obtain final registration results. The SAR image registration method solves the registration problem under a situation of non-ideal region division consistence through an existing method and the problem of large registration calculation amount based on grayscale information, and is used for change detection, terrain classification, map correction, data fusion and the like.

The invention discloses an improved optical flow field model algorithm based on a characteristic vector. The improved optical flow field model algorithm comprises the steps of respectively constructing Gaussian pyramid image layers of a reference image and a floating image, respectively extracting character vectors of the reference image layer and the floating image layer; replacing a brightness constancy assumption in a traditional optical flow field model by characteristic vector constancy, and constructing an energy function based on characteristic vector constancy; minimizing an energy function in each image layer, and solving a motion displacement field between the reference image and the floating image by means of optical flow iteration; and correcting the floating image by means ofthe obtained motion displacement field, and obtaining a registering image. The improved optical flow field model algorithm performs improvement for aiming at incapability of effectively registering large-displacement deformation and easy smoothing in optical flow estimation in a traditional optical flow field model, thereby improving registering precision of a non-rigid image. The improved opticalflow field model algorithm can perform automatic registering on the non-rigid image with relatively large displacement deformation, and can be widely applied to the field of medical image processing,image fusion, mode identification, etc.

The invention discloses a substation equipment image collection method based on focusing and exposure servo of a specified area. The method comprises the following steps: collecting a clear image of substation equipment and storing the clear image as template data; when a substation polling robot executes a polling task and removes to a preset position, collecting a polling image of concerned equipment by a camera; registering the template image and the polling image collected onsite by using a feature matching algorithm to find a concerned equipment area in the center of the polling image; and calculating clarity values of the equipment area in the polling image and the template image, comparing a ratio of the two clarity values with a set threshold, if the ratio is smaller than the threshold, deeming that the equipment area in the polling image is not clear enough, and if the ratio is greater than the threshold, deeming that the equipment area in the polling image is clear enough. According to the substation equipment image collection method disclosed by the invention, a specified area focusing servo function is adopted on the image area where the equipment is located, so that a camera focusing position can be guaranteed to locate on the equipment, and a clear image of the equipment is collected so as to ensure the accuracy of reading or state identification of the equipment.

A stacking device for incoming sheets, including a receiving plane, a rotatably arranged element, containing a slot at its circumferential edge for accepting at least a portion of a sheet to be stacked, where, in a first rotation zone, the rotatably arranged element accepts the sheet to be stacked and, in a second rotation zone, the accepted sheet is conveyed onto the receiving plane, drive mechanisms for driving the rotatably arranged element, a stop, a closed-loop shaped friction element mounted at the circumferential edge of the rotatably arranged element, which, in operation, transfers a force onto the upper side of the sheet emerging from the slot during at least a part of one revolution of the rotatably arranged element, this force having a component directed towards the stop, wherein the closed-loop shaped friction element is positioned such that, in operation, it does not obstruct the movement of a sheet while the latter is accepted into the slot in the first rotation zone.