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A rendering pipeline system for a computer environment uses screen space tiling (SST) to eliminate the memory bandwidth bottleneck due to frame buffer access and performs screen space tiling efficiently, while avoiding the breaking up of primitives. The system also reduces the buffering size required by SST. High quality, full-scene anti-aliasing is easily achieved because only the on-chip multi-sample memory corresponding to a single tile of the screen is needed. The invention uses a double-z scheme that decouples the scan conversion / depth-buffer processing from the more general rasterization and shading processing through a scan / z engine. The scan / z engine externally appears as a fragment generator but internally resolves visibility and allows the rest of the rendering pipeline to perform setup for only visible primitives and shade only visible fragments. The resulting reduced raster / shading requirements can lead to reduced hardware costs because one can process all parameters with generic parameter computing units instead of with dedicated parameter computing units. The invention processes both opaque and transparent geometries.

A system and method of reducing consumption of electricity used to cool electronic computer data center, networking, and telecommunications equipment, and to reduce the incidence of thermal failure of electronic components, includes provision of one or more partitions to reduce the volume of the cooled environment supplying coldest possible cooled air from air conditioning systems to a chamber adjacent to racks containing the electronic components, preventing dilution of the supplied cooling airflow by warmer air from outside of the reduced volume environment, and controlling the delivery of cooling air flow through the reduced volume of the cooled environment.

A system and method for optimizing a storage system to support full utilization of storage space are provided. With the system and method, data objects / containers of data objects are assigned retention values when they are created. These retention values may be dynamically modified based on a modification function associated with the data objects / containers. When storage space needs to be freed for the storage of new data objects / containers, the retention values of existing data objects / containers provide a prioritization as to which data objects / containers should be deleted from the storage system and the order by which these data objects / containers are to be deleted to make available storage space for the new data objects / containers. The identification of the data objects / containers that are to be deleted may be based on a dynamically modified delete threshold, a sorted list of retention values, or the like.

The present invention discloses an interactive presentation system which allows a presenter to perform a presentation while having various interactions directly with presentation material images in real time through a gesture or / and voice. The interactive presentation system comprises: an active infrared camera; a command recognition system connected to the active infrared camera; and an image synthesis system connected to the active infrared camera and the command recognition system. The presentation system may further comprises a stereo camera set for properly synthesizing a presenter in a 3D image and a 3D motion system. By this configuration, it is possible to embody an interactive presentation system in which a command through a presenter's gesture or voice is processed in real time and the image of the presenter is synthesized in a presentation material screen in real time, and accordingly the audiovisual effect is maximized.

An automatic parking system having at least one parking level, the system comprises a plurality of transporters moveable in any direction about the parking level, wherein each transporter is adapted to hold a vehicle thereupon; at least one central computer that is configured to wirelessly direct one of the transporters to move to a desired location to form at least one arrival and / or retrieval circulation path. The system includes a transporter tracking system which tracks the locations of each transporter; and alternatively, at least one lift mechanism which vertically transports the transporter to a desired parking level. The system includes access bays configured to position an arriving vehicle onto and remove an exiting vehicle from the transporter. The system preferably includes storage devices to accept, release and recharge one or more transporters. The system preferably includes entry stations which measure the vehicle dimensions.

A single chip microcomputer comprises a central processing unit (CPU) 2, a on-chip RAM 3, a on-chip ROM 5, a first bus DBUS for connecting the CPU, RAM, and ROM with one another and transferring data between them, a second bus ABUS for passing address data corresponding to the data passed through the first bus, a third bus SDBUS for connecting the CPU 2 with the RAM 3 and transferring data between them, the number of bits of the third bus SDBUS being larger than that of the first bus DBUS, and a fourth bus BABUS for connecting the CPU 2 with the RAM 3 and passing address data corresponding to the data passed through the third bus SDBUS. The CPU 2 has a data memory RF serving as general purpose registers for providing internal data to the third bus SDBUS, and a bank specifying register BP for holding positional data of a mapping region in the RAM 3 where the contents of the data memory RF are mapped and providing the positional data to the fourth bus BABUS. The RAM 3 has a memory cell array 31, a bank address control circuit 35 connected to the fourth bus BABUS, for generating a real address according to the contents of the bank specifying register BP (BP0, BP1), and a selection circuit 37 for selecting the real address generated by the bank address control circuit 35, or the address provided through the second bus ABUS.

A new biofilm-activated sludge Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) treatment process for sewage or wastewater has successfully been developed as the third generation SBR (SBR3). This new SBR3 process utilizes a multi-stage and multi-sludge SBR configuration receiving either continuous or intermittent inflow of wastewater. Each stage has individually controlled continuous or alternating anaerobic / anoxic / aerobic operation, with or without mixing and recycling from the other stage(s). The configuration and operation is dependent upon the treatment objectives and effluent discharge requirements. In the preferred embodiment, carriers are used to facilitate control of operating conditions.

The present invention discloses an interactive presentation system which allows a presenter to perform a presentation while having various interactions directly with presentation material images in real time through a gesture or / and voice. The interactive presentation system comprises: an active infrared camera; a command recognition system connected to the active infrared camera; and an image synthesis system connected to the active infrared camera and the command recognition system. The presentation system may further comprises a stereo camera set for properly synthesizing a presenter in a 3D image and a 3D motion system. By this configuration, it is possible to embody an interactive presentation system in which a command through a presenter's gesture or voice is processed in real time and the image of the presenter is synthesized in a presentation material screen in real time, and accordingly the audiovisual effect is maximized.

A wireless power feeding system capable of long distance and highly efficient space transmission of power is provided. A wireless power feeding system includes a power transmitter, a power receiver, and a power receiving body. The power transmitter generates electromagnetic waves. The power receiver is supplied with power by means of the electromagnetic waves received from the power transmitter using a magnetic field resonance phenomenon. The power receiving body is inserted into an electromagnetic field created by the power transmitter and the power receiver, and receives power by means of the electromagnetic field.

A shelf assembly has expandable shelves connected to upright legs that horizontally support the shelves in a locker. A drawer slidably mounted on one shelf for movement between open and closed positions engages a longitudinal rib to maintain the drawer generally horizontal when the drawer is moved to the out position. The drawer when in the closed position can be moved into a nested position in the shelf to facilitate packaging and display in a flat box. The legs having tight fit connections with the corners of the shelf.

The invention relates to a method of creating a virtual memory space in a memory. In order to improve the efficiency of the memory, the method comprises determining whether additional memory space is needed in the memory. If additional memory space is needed, selected portions of memory content stored in the memory are compressed. Memory space which is no longer needed by the compressed selected portions of memory content is released for use as virtual memory space. The invention relates equally to a memory manager controlling a memory accordingly, to a system comprising such a memory manager and a memory, and to a software realizing the steps of the method when running in a memory manager.

A system and method for optimizing a storage system to support short data object lifetimes and highly utilized storage space are provided. With the system and method, data objects are clustered based on when they are anticipated to be deleted. When an application stores data, the application provides an indicator of the expected lifetime of the data, which may be a retention value, a relative priority of the data object, or the like. Data objects having similar expected lifetimes are clustered together in common data structures so that clusters of objects may be deleted efficiently in a single operation. Expected lifetimes may be changed by applications automatically. The system automatically determines how to handle these changes in expected lifetime using one or more of copying the data object, reclassifying the container in which the data object is held, and ignoring the change in expected lifetime for a time to investigate further changes in expected lifetime of other data objects.

A system and method for optimizing a storage system to support short data object lifetimes and highly utilized storage space are provided. With the system and method, data objects are clustered based on when they are anticipated to be deleted. When an application stores data, the application provides an indicator of the expected lifetime of the data, which may be a retention value, a relative priority of the data object, or the like. Data objects having similar expected lifetimes are clustered together in common data structures so that clusters of objects may be deleted efficiently in a single operation. Expected lifetimes may be changed by applications automatically. The system automatically determines how to handle these changes in expected lifetime using one or more of copying the data object, reclassifying the container in which the data object is held, and ignoring the change in expected lifetime for a time to investigate further changes in expected lifetime of other data objects.

A method for breeding beef cattle and mutton sheep standardly on a large scale through photovoltaic facilities includes the four parts that first, a photovoltaic facility greenhouse is built, maize seedlings or high-quality green forage grass Zea mexicana is produced throughout the year to be used as green fodder of beef cattle and mutton sheep; second, the beef cattle and the mutton sheep are bred and bio-organic fertilizer is produced standardly on a large scale through the photovoltaic facility greenhouse; third, photovoltaic power generation is performed for self use, and excessive electricity is connected into the state grid; fourth, a beef cattle and mutton sheep traceable system is built, and foods are made safe and sanitary. Through the method, not only can solar resources be effectively utilized to output clean and green energy, but also efficient planting and breeding can be achieved, by-products are processed into organic fertilizer, and a new path is provided for green agricultural production. Because a full-frame high-standard support system is adopted for the photovoltaic agricultural greenhouse and photovoltaic modules are arranged on the greenhouse, the space of the greenhouse can be effectively utilized, power utilized in the greenhouse can be supplied through a photovoltaic power station, and equivalently, stereoscopic production is formed on the land with the same area.

A computer system employs virtual channels and allocates different resources to the virtual channels. Packets which do not have logical / protocol-related conflicts are grouped into a virtual channel. Accordingly, logical conflicts occur between packets in separate virtual channels. The packets within a virtual channel may share resources (and hence experience resource conflicts), but the packets within different virtual channels may not share resources. Since packets which may experience resource conflicts do not experience logical conflicts, and since packets which may experience logical conflicts do not experience resource conflicts, deadlock-free operation may be achieved. Additionally, each virtual channel may be assigned control packet buffers and data packet buffers. Control packets may be substantially smaller in size, and may occur more frequently than data packets. By providing separate buffers, buffer space may be used efficiently. If a control packet which does not specify a data packet is received, no data packet buffer space is allocated. If a control packet which does specify a data packet is received, both control packet buffer space and data packet buffer space is allocated.

An ink storage container having a simply configured ink exchange function is provided, whereby the amount of stored ink is increased. An air flow control unit for controlling the flow of air between the inside and outside is disposed in an ink storage unit for storing ink. The air flow control unit includes: a valve element that is formed of an interconnected porous material and allows air to be exchanged between the inside and outside of the ink storage unit according to positive and negative changes in the internal pressure of the ink storage unit; and a liquid repellent membrane that has air permeability and liquid repellency and is disposed on an ink side of the valve element.

The invention discloses an inertial sensor production and wafer level package process based on an MEMS (micro-electromechanical system). The process includes the steps: 1) forming an E-SOI (engineering-silicon on insulator); 2) performing surface machining on an MEMS wafer; 3) producing an ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) wafer on a standard ASIC foundry; 4) performing metal eutectic bonding for the MEMS wafer and the ASIC wafer; 5) performing WLCSP (wafer level chip size packaging). The area of an ASIC chip is identical with that of an MEMS chip, the effective areas of the MEMS chip and the ASIC chip are sufficiently used, the most effective space is provided for the design of the MEMS chip and the ASIC chip, subsequent package procedures of the chips are omitted by the aid of the wafer level chip size packaging, Flip-Chip of a terminal circuit board is finished directly through a BGA (ball grid array), and the sizes of the chips and production cost are greatly reduced.

A storage apparatus is provided that comprises a display case part with an inside thereof being dividable into a plurality of zones, a supply duct that is connected to supply openings for supplying conditioning air for controlling environmental conditions to the plurality of zones respectively, and an exhaust duct that is connected to exhaust openings for taking in air from the plurality of zones. In this storage apparatus, conditioning air such as cold air or hot air is circulated in the respective zones, and the environmental conditions can be adjusted efficiently in zone basis. Therefore, in a storage apparatus equipped with an open-type display case part, it is possible to dispense with an air curtain covering the entire open side, so that a storage apparatus with a high storage capacity is provided.

We describe a method of controlling turn off time delay of a switching device of a switch mode power converter (SMPC). The SMPC has an inductive component comprising an input winding coupled to receive power from an input; and a switching device to, when on, conduct input winding current. In embodiments the method comprises applying turn on and turn-off signals to the switching device; applying at least one turn off signal, to initiate turning off of the switching device, and detecting a sensing signal from a further winding of the inductive component, inductively coupled to the input winding, to thereby indicate an end of a turn off time delay or duration. The method controls the turn on signal for a subsequent switching cycle of the SMPC device to regulate the turn off delay time.

An integrated formwork system for construction of a super high-rise building, comprising a climbing system in a stereoscopic structure formed by a successive enclosure of a plurality of climbing formwork units, a jacking system formed by a plurality of jacking units arranged side by side being disposed in the stereoscopic structure, and a working space formed between the climbing system and the jacking system, wherein the climbing formwork units located at a same side wall of the stereoscopic structure all correspond to the jacking units adjacent to the side wall and are capable of moving synchronously or separately, the jacking units are provided thereon with a vertical adjusting device and a horizontal adjusting device, and a plurality of groups of tensioning devices are disposed in each of the jacking units. Such formwork has light deadweight, a low gravity center, good structural safety, a broad construction work plane.

The technique described herein provides a way to summarize data and can also minimize unnecessary accesses to a data store. In one embodiment, the technique creates and stores an adaptive range filter that contains a compact summary of the contents of an index for a data store in the form of a trie data structure. Before accessing the index of the data store in response to a query, the technique checks the filter to determine whether the data store does not contain any keys for a specific range of data. If the adaptive range filter indicates that the index contains no keys satisfying the query predicate, the index of the data store and the data itself is not accessed. The adaptive range filter of the technique supports both range predicates and equality predicates. It is adaptive to changes in data and queries by learning the query and data distribution.

The disclosure discloses a method for controlling Drive Test (DT) logged measurement, a DT system and User Equipment (UE). The method comprises the steps of: sending a logged measurement duration time to a UE by a network side or setting the logged measurement duration time by the UE itself; recording and reserving, by the UE, a measurement result obtained by DT; deleting the measurement result by the UE when the logged measurement duration time expires or the measurement result is reported during the logged measurement duration time. The disclosure makes the UE more efficient in reporting the measurement result and managing the storage space, thus saving memory space.

A video management method and system based on a topic, and a video search method based on a topic. The video management system includes: a video topic management unit extracting a topic from information associated with a video, storing the extracted topic, and monitoring the video associated with the stored topic; a video storage management unit storing the video and information associated with the video, and managing a storage space based on the topic which is stored in the video topic management unit; and a topic video management unit generating a topic video of the monitored video when the video associated with the stored topic is monitored, and providing a search function and a navigation function of the video which is stored in the video storage management unit.

Embodiments of the invention relate to a vehicle instrumentation systems and display systems employing multi-view displays in various land, water, air, and / or space vehicles. In one embodiment of the invention, an aircraft instrumentation system for a flight deck instrument panel includes at least one multi-view display configured to display at least two views, associating one view with a first crew member and the other view with a second crew member. In another embodiment of the invention, a standby instrument may be displayed on each of two multi-view displays such that a standby instrument is visible to each crew member at all times during aircraft operation.

A main carrying device forming a part of a processing system, comprising a casing (40) forming a main carrying chamber (44) having vacuum atmosphere, the casing (40) further comprising a plurality of transfer ports (52A, 52B) for transferring the processed body (W) between the carrying chamber 44 and the outside, a mobile body (58) is slidably installed on a guide rail (48) horizontally installed in the carrying chamber (44), a linear motor mechanism (54, 62) for moving the mobile body (58) along the guide rail (48) is installed, a holding body (64) for holding the processed body (W) is liftably connected to the mobile body (58) through a support member (66), and a lifting mechanism (74) for lifting the support member (66) relative to the mobile body (58) is installed in the casing (40) at a position corresponding to the transfer ports (52A, 52B).

A mobile robot and a path planning method are provided for the mobile robot to manipulate the target objects in a space, wherein the space consists of a periphery area and a central area. With the present method, an initial position is defined and the mobile robot is controlled to move within the periphery area from the initial position. Next, the latest image is captured when the mobile robot moves, and a manipulating order is arranged according to the distances estimated between the mobile robot and each of target objects in the image. The mobile robot is controlled to move and perform a manipulating action on each of the target object in the image according to the manipulating order. The steps of obtaining the image, planning the manipulating order, and controlling the mobile robot to perform the manipulating action are repeated until the mobile robot returns to the initial position.

The degrees of freedom in the design of a layout structure of a power steering system for a vehicle are increased so that the auxiliary parts can be arranged around the power assisting actuator without the need for a special increase in the strength and in the stiffness of a body frame for installing the power steering system. The front wheels are steered by a power steering system supported by the body frame wherein the power steering system is provided with an actuator for assisting a steering force. One end of the actuator is installed to a first cross pipe laid over the left and right portions of the body frame. The arrangement is such so that a longitudinal direction of the actuator runs substantially in parallel with a center line of a chassis extending in a back-and-forth direction of the vehicle body.