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A light-emitting device (10) using an LED is proposed. This light-emitting device (10) is provided with a packaging substrate (1), a light-emitting element (2) which is mounted on this packaging substrate (1) with its face down, a fluorescent member (3) that is arranged face to face with a light-extracting surface (S) of the light-emitting element (2) without contacting the light-emitting element (2) and an optical member (4) which receives light that has been emitted from the light-emitting element (2) and made incident thereon through the fluorescent member (3), and aligns the incident light toward the outside of the device. Light, emitted from the light-emitting element (2), is made incident on the fluorescent member (3) to excite the fluorescent material so that the fluorescent material re-emits light having a wavelength different from that of the incident light. Those light rays, emitted from the light-emitting element (2), which have not been absorbed by the fluorescent member (3) and have passed through the fluorescent member (3) and those light rays that have been emitted from the fluorescent material are made incident on the optical member (4) and are aligned. Because the fluorescent member (3) is not made in contact with the light-emitting element (2), it does not receive the heat from the light-emitting element (2) through heat conduction, and consequently becomes less susceptible to degradation due to heat. Moreover, with the face-down mounting structure, the fluorescent member (3) and the optical member (4) can be placed closer to the light-emitting element (2) as long as they dose not contact the light-emitting element (2). Consequently, the service life of the fluorescent material or the fluorescent-material-mixed resin that tends to deteriorate can be lengthened, lights can be extracted more efficiently, and light rays can be properly aligned in a predetermined direction.

A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element for emitting primary light, and a wavelength conversion unit for absorbing part of the primary light and emitting secondary light having a wavelength longer than that of the primary light, wherein the wavelength conversion unit includes plural kinds of phosphors having light absorption characteristics different from each other, and then at least one kind of phosphor among the plural kinds of phosphors has an absorption characteristic that can absorb the secondary light emitted from at least another kind of phosphor among the plural kinds of phosphors.

The present invention provides an organic electroluminescence device including an organic layer comprising an emissive layer; a pair of electrodes comprising an anode and a cathode, and sandwiching the organic layer, wherein at least one of the electrodes is transparent; a transparent layer provided adjacent to a light extracting surface of the transparent electrode; and a region substantially disturbing reflection and retraction angle of light provided adjacent to a light extracting surface of the transparent layer or in an interior of the transparent layer, wherein the transparent layer has a refractive index substantially equal to or more than the refractive index of the emissive layer.

A system and method of coding (encoding and/or decoding) video content to extend file formats for storage. The system and method utilizes the concept to define additional sample group description entries. By way of example the method can comprise the steps of: (1) receiving a file with encoded media data as a scalable video codec stream; (2) extracting information identifying the various spatial resolutions, temporal resolutions, quality resolutions or combinations of spatio-temporal-quality resolutions from the media data; (3) generating new description entries and dependency grouping box; (4) populating boxes with extracted metadata; and (5) incorporating metadata into a file associated with the media data using a specific media file format.

A charged particle beam irradiation system includes measurement means 15 for measuring an accumulated beam charge amount Qm0, the ion beams orbiting in a synchrotron 13, immediately before an extraction control period in an operating cycle of the synchrotron 13; and beam extraction control means 20, 24, 28, 29 for controlling extraction of the ion beams so that extraction of a total of the ion beams is to be completed in time with expiration of an extraction control time Tex which is set in advance based on the measurement Qm0 of the accumulated beam charge amount. When an irradiation apparatus includes an RMW 32, an amplitude of an extraction radiofrequency voltage is controlled according to a ratio Qm0/Qs0 of the measurement to a reference value of the accumulated beam charge amount and a ratio Tb/Ta of an actual beam extraction time to the extraction control time Tex.

A semiconductor light emitting device with improved efficiency in extracting light is provided. The semiconductor light emitting device comprises a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer stacked in this order, electrodes respectively connected to the first and second conductive semiconductor layers, the electrode connected to the second conductive type semiconductor layer comprising a lower conductive oxide film and an upper conductive oxide film disposed on the lower conductive oxide film, and a metal film disposed only on the upper conductive oxide film. The upper and lower conductive oxide films comprise an oxide including at least one element selected from the group consisting of zinc (Zn), indium (In), tin (Sn), and magnesium (Mg).

A system for removing carbon dioxide from an atmosphere to reduce global warming including an air extraction system that collects carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through a medium and removes carbon dioxide from the medium; a sequestration system that isolates the removed carbon dioxide to a location for at least one of storage and which can increase availability of renewable energy or non-fuel products such as fertilizers and construction materials; and one or more energy sources that supply process heat to the air extraction system to remove the carbon dioxide from the medium and which can regenerate it for continued use.

A low drag ducted ram air turbine generator and cooling system is provided. The ducted ram air turbine generator and cooling system has reduced drag while extracting dynamic energy from the air stream during the complete range of intended flight operating regimes. A centerbody/valve tube having an aerodynamically shaped nose is slidably received in a fairing and primary structure to provide a variable inlet area. An internal nozzle control mechanism attached to the valve tube positions nozzle control doors to provide variable area nozzles directing air flow to the turbine stator and rotor blades to maintain optimum generator efficiency. An alternate embodiment includes an annular internal nozzle having interleaved panels to modulate the air flow to the turbine.

Techniques exporting data and metadata from a source database environment to a target database environment are provided. The techniques include the steps of analyzing metadata that describes one or more items, the data for which is in a source database, where the one or more items include at least one of a view, a sequence, a dimension, a cube, an ETL mapping, and any database object for which the metadata is stored outside of the source and target databases. The data for each item resides in a data file associated with the source database. The data for each item is incorporated into the target database based on the metadata by providing the target database access to an incorporated data file, where the incorporated data file is the data file or a copy thereof. Techniques are also provided for exporting database data from the source database. The techniques include extracting metadata that describes one or more items, the data for which is in the source database, where the one or more items include at least one of the structures described above. The data for each item resides in a data file associated with the source database. After the exporting, a database server that manages the target database is provided access to an incorporated data file, where the incorporated data file is the data file or a copy thereof.

The invention provides a method for detecting lane lines based on grayscale estimation and cascade Hough transform, belonging to the technical field of image processing, and relating to image segmentation, image line geometrical characteristics detection and intelligent vehicle navigation simultaneously, which is mainly applicable to an auxiliary safety drive system. The method comprises the following steps: carrying out grayscale estimation on sensitive areas of an original image I of the collected vehicle road conditions ahead; dividing the sensitive areas into a vehicle shadow region, a roadway non-mark region and a roadway mark region (including the area of the car body of the vehicles ahead); adopting a mathematical morphology method to obtain a boundary image from the roadway mark region in the areas divided by the grayscale estimation; then carrying out Hough transform on the obtained boundary image of the roadway mark region to extract line image characteristics therein; and finally realizing the detection of the lane lines by searching end points of roadway mark boundary. Compared with the congeneric method, the method in the invention has stronger stability and wider application occasions and the like.

Frame images captured in a continuous manner are acquired, and temporarily stored. Characteristic points of faces in the acquired frame images are extracted. A sum (expression change amount) of distances between characteristic points of the face (face parts) in a current frame and the characteristic points of a preceding frame is calculated. The target frame image in which the expression change amount is largest, and m frame images preceding and following the target frame image in which the expression change amount is largest are extracted as best image candidates. A best shot image is extracted from the best image candidates and stored in a storage medium. Thus, only an image (best shot image) which contains a face which a user wishes to record can be efficiently extracted from among images captured in a continuous manner, and stored.

Atmospheric pressure, intermediate pressure and vacuum laser desorption ionization methods and ion sources are configured to increase ionization efficiency and the efficiency of transmitting ions to a mass to charge analyzer or ion mobility analyzer. An electric field is applied in the region of a sample target to accumulate ions generated from a local ion source on a solid or liquid phase sample prior to applying a laser desorption pulse. The electric field is changed just prior to or during the desorption laser pulse to promote the desorption of charged species and improve the ionization efficiency of desorbed sample species. After a delay, the electric field may be further changed to optimize focusing and transmission of ions into a mass spectrometer or ion mobility analyzer. Charged species may also be added to the region of the laser desorbed sample plume to promote ion-molecule reactions between the added ions and desorbed neutral sample species, increasing desorbed sample ionization efficiency and/or creating desired product ion species. The cycling of electric field changes is repeated in a timed sequence with one or more desorption laser pulse occurring per electric field change cycle. Embodiments of the invention comprise atmospheric pressure, intermediate pressure and vacuum pressure laser desorption ionization source methods and devices for increasing the analytical flexibility and improving the sensitivity of mass spectrometric analysis.

A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or obtained from static files. A database for containing a number of such thumbprints and methods for searching the database are also described.

A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a support structure, and a light-emitting structure. The support structure includes a support substrate, and a support substrate side bonding layer disposed on one surface of the support substrate. The light-emitting structure includes a light-emitting structure side bonding layer bonded to the support substrate side bonding layer, a reflection region disposed on the support substrate side bonding layer opposite the support substrate, and a semiconductor multilayer structure including a light-emitting layer disposed on the reflection region opposite the light-emitting structure side bonding layer for emitting a light with a predetermined wavelength, and a light-extraction surface disposed on the light-emitting layer opposite the reflection region for reflecting diffusely the light. The reflection region includes a transparent layer of a material with a lower refractive index than that of the semiconductor multilayer structure, and a reflection layer of a metallic material. The transparent layer has such a thickness that interference caused by multiple reflection of light inputted to the transparent layer can be suppressed.

The invention discloses a method for recognizing a road traffic sign for an unmanned vehicle, comprising the following steps of: (1) changing the RGB (Red, Green and Blue) pixel value of an image to strengthen a traffic sign feature color region, and cutting the image by using a threshold; (2) carrying out edge detection and connection on a gray level image to reconstruct an interested region; (3) extracting a labeled graph of the interested region as a shape feature of the interested region, classifying the shape of the region by using a nearest neighbor classification method, and removing a non-traffic sign region; and (4) graying and normalizing the image of the interested region of the traffic sign, carrying out dual-tree complex wavelet transform on the image to form a feature vector of the image, reducing the dimension of the feature vector by using a two-dimension independent component analysis method, and sending the feature vector into a support vector machine of a radial basis function to judge the type of the traffic sign of the interested region. By using the method, various types of traffic signs in a running environment of the unmanned vehicle can be stably and efficiently detected and recognized.

An organic EL device (1) comprises: a light-transmissive substrate (2); a transparent electrode (4); an organic emitting layer (5); and an opposing electrode (6). A light-extraction layer (3) provided by layering a high refractive index layer (31) adjoining the transparent electrode (4) and a low refractive index layer (32) adjoining the light-transmissive substrate (2) includes recess-protrusion units (31A) each provided by a protrusion (311) and a recess (312) at an interface between the high refractive index layer (31) and the low refractive index layer (32). In at least one of the recess-protrusion units (31A), a distance d₁ from the interface between the high refractive index layer (31) and the low refractive index layer (32) to an interface between the transparent electrode (4) and the high refractive index layer (31) is equal to or more than an optical coherence length and a height d₂ of the protrusion (311), a width d₃ of the protrusion (311) and a gap d4 between the protrusion (311) and another protrusion (311) adjoining the protrusion across the recess (312) is 1 μm or more.

Provided are methods and systems that extract facts of unstructured documents and build an oracle for various domains. The present invention addresses the problem of efficient finding and extraction of facts about a particular subject domain from semi-structured and unstructured documents, makes inferences of new facts from the extracted facts and the ways of verification of the facts, thus becoming a source of knowledge about the domain to be effectively queried. The methods and systems can also extract temporal information from unstructured and semi-structured documents, and can find and extract dynamically generated documents from Deep or Dynamic Web.

A question answering system includes a question answering unit, an analysis unit, a tree structure generation unit, a feature extraction unit, an evaluation unit and a re-ranking unit. The question answering unit executes search processing based on an input question and acquires answer candidates to the question. The analysis unit executes syntactic analysis processing or syntactic and semantic analysis processing on a passage obtained as a result of the search processing. The tree structure generation unit generates a tree structure based on an analysis result. The feature extraction unit extracts a relation between a search word applied in the search processing and each acquired answer candidate as a feature corresponding to each answer candidate from the tree structure. The evaluation unit determines an evaluation value of each answer candidate based on the feature extracted. The re-ranking unit re-ranks the answer candidates based on the evaluation values.

Provided are prodrugs of pyrrolo[1,2-f][1,2,4]triazin-7-yl nucleoside phosphates wherein the 1′ position of the nucleoside sugar is substituted with CN. The compounds, compositions, and methods provided are useful for the treatment Hepatitis C infections.

A light emitting device (100) includes a base member (101), electrically conductive members (102a, 102b) disposed on the base member (101), a light emitting element (104) mounted on the electrically conductive members (102a, 102b), an insulating filler (114) covering at least a portion of surfaces of the electrically conductive members (102a, 102b) where the light emitting element (104) is not mounted, and a light transmissive member (108) covering the light emitting element (104).