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The present invention is a system and framework for augmenting any retail transaction system with information about the involved customers. This invention provides a method to combine the transaction data records and a customer or a group of customers with the automatically extracted demographic features (e.g., gender, age, and ethnicity), shopping group information, and behavioral information using computer vision algorithms. First, the system detects faces from face view, tracks them individually, and estimates poses of each of the tracked faces to normalize. These facial images are processed by the demographics classification module to determine and record the demographics feature vector. The system detects and tracks customers to analyze the dynamic behavior of the tracked customers so that their shopping group membership and checkout behavior can be recognized. Then the instances of faces and the instances of bodies can be matched and combined. Finally, the transaction data from the transaction data and the demographics, group, and checkout behavior data that belong to the same person or the same group of people are combined.

The present invention provides a method for identifying a compound of interest by screening libraries of molecules which include an encoding oligonucleotide tag.

A shifting device for a synchromesh-type transmission is designed to detect an accurate change of the input rotation of each area of the shifting operation, and to set the applying load to the shifting fork based on the change of input rotation. The shifting device for a synchromesh-type transmission includes a detecting device for detecting a rotation change rate of an input shaft, a judging device for judging a balk point based on the rotation change rate of the input shaft detected by said detecting device, and a transmission controlling mechanism including an electric-controlled driving device for driving a shift actuator to shift the shift fork. The driving device controls a drive current to the shift actuator when the balk point is detected by the judging device.

A method of controlling a gas turbine system (10) may include controlling an inlet guide vane position (98) to maintain a turbine (24) exhaust temperature at a corrected value that is a function of a compressor (12) inlet temperature and a turbine (24) normalized load. The method may include selecting the minimum value (138) of a part load tunable value, a part load maximum value and a fixed maximum value of a turbine (24) exhaust temperature for the corrected value. A corrected value setpoint may be determined (94) for the gas turbine system (10) operating at a part load condition where at least one of a fuel flow rate and the inlet guide vane position is controlled (98) so the corrected value does not exceed the corrected value setpoint. The corrected value may prevent a turbine (24) engine from exceeding its firing temperature during operation and ensure the engine operates within combustor dynamics and emissions limits.

An approach is provided estimating non-linear characteristics of an amplifier (such as a Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier) used to amplify a composite signal in a radio communication system. The composite signal, which includes a plurality of inbound signals overlay on an outbound signal, is sampled. The outbound signal is utilized as a training signal. Coarse estimates of the response of the amplifier is generated based on the samples of the composite signal and the training signal. Further, the interference associated with the inbound signals are removed from the estimation of the response of the amplifier by curve-fitting and estimating interference characteristics of the composite signal. An estimated response of the amplifier is thus output, and can be utilized to provide accurate non-linearity compensation and cancellation.

The invention provides a substrate checking method and a substrate checking device, completing high-precision setting of the checking area of a checked part to improve checking precision. The invention comprises the following steps: an overall image (103) of the substrate of a checking object is made in advance; correspondence is set up in advance between a checking area (31) and the checked part on the overall image (103); during checking, a camera (3A) is located at a position corresponding to a shooting object area (30) to carry out shooting; when a processing object image (40) is obtained, an area (41) corresponding to the processing object image (40) is extracted from the overall image (103); the amount of deviation (Delta x, Delta y) of the shooting object area (30) relative to the area (41) is calculated; in addition, the set location of the checking area (31) is corrected by means of the amount of deviation (Delta x, Delta y), and a checking area is set on the processing object image (40) according to the corrected coordinates.

The invention discloses an integrated steel pipe and flange splicing and machining machine and a machining process thereof and aims to provide an integrated steel pipe and flange splicing and machining machine which can improve the manufacturing precision and the production efficiency and reduce the labor intensity and is high in steel pipe and flange welding quality and a machining process of the machine. The integrated steel pipe and flange splicing and machining machine comprises a working platform, and a supporting bracket which is arranged on the working platform and is used for supporting a steel pipe, wherein one end of the working platform is provided with a first welding device; a first guide rail which extends to the other end of the working platform is arranged on the top of the working platform; a first mounting plate is arranged on the first guide rail in a sliding mode; a second welding device is arranged on the first mounting plate; and flange fixing templates are arranged on the first welding device and the second welding device. The machining process comprises the following steps of: lifting the steel pipe to the supporting bracket, and fixing the flange to a flange fixing template; and welding annular gaps of the inner and outer side faces of the steel pipe and the flange through the first welding device and the second welding device.

The invention discloses a product packaging surface defect detection and classification method based on machine vision. The method comprises the steps of 1, acquiring a high-definition color image of defect-free product packaging, making the high-definition color image into a standard image, conducting real-time shooting with a camera, conducting online acquisition of a high-definition color image of product packaging to be detected, and making the high-definition color image as an image to be detected; 2, conducting image matching on the image to be detected and the standard image based on SURF algorithm; 3, conducting difference image operation on the two images matched in step 2 to obtain a defective image; 4, conducting feature extraction on the defective image to obtain the geometrical features and color features of the defective image; 5, classifying product packaging surface defects by means of RBF neural network algorithm. Automatic defect detection and classification are conducted by means of a machine vision system, human factor interference can be avoided, labor cost is reduced greatly, and then huge hidden cost caused by training and management when artificial detection is adopted is avoided.

Window based matching is used to determine a depth map from images obtained from different orientations. A set of matching windows is used for points of the image for which the depth is to be determined. A provisional depth map is generated wherein to each point more than one candidate disparity value is attributed. The provisional depth map is filtered by a surface filtering wherein at least the z-component of a norm of a sum of unit vectors pointing from the candidate disparity values for neighboring points to a point of interest.

The invention discloses a method for controlling a main steam temperature in a power plant based on a second-order simplified auto disturbance rejection controller. In the method, a cascade control mode is used for forming a cascade steam temperature mediation and control system; in an inner ring, proportion integration differentiation (PID) adjustment is used for eliminating the deviation of an advance timing steam temperature to achieve a coarse tuning effect on an overheating steam temperature; in an outer ring, the simplified second-order auto disturbance rejection controller is used for controlling the outlet temperature of an overheater, so that the defects of large inertia and large delay of a temperature object in an inertia area are fully overcome; and by a disturbance compensation effect of the simplified second-order auto disturbance rejection controller, the disturbance of factors such as loads, flue gas and the like is eliminated, so that the stability of the main steam temperature is ensured. In the method, an algorithm is simple, a parameter is easy to adjust, and a higher response speed, higher steady state accuracy, higher disturbance resistance and higher robustness can be well acquired without dependence on a mathematical model with an accurate main steam temperature in the power plant.

A control device for a mobile body makes it possible to smoothly correct the deviation of an actual posture of a base body of a mobile body, which travels with the base body thereof moving up and down, from a desired posture of the base body while restraining an overshoot or an undershoot from occurring. To determine a required manipulated variable according to a feedback control law in order to converge a state amount deviation related to the posture of the base body of the mobile body to zero, the feedback gain of the feedback control law is determined by using the time series in a period from current time to predetermined time in the future in the time series of a desired inertial force of the mobile body or the base body. The required manipulated variable is determined by the calculation of the feedback control law on the basis of the determined feedback gain and an observed value of the state amount deviation.

The present invention relates to a method for screening and identifying test compounds that bind to a preselected target ribonucleic acid ("RNA"). Direct, non-competitive binding assays are advantageously used to screen libraries of compounds for those that selectively bind to a preselected target RNA. Binding of target RNA molecules to a particular test compound is detected using any physical method that measures the altered physical property of the target RNA bound to a test compound. The structure of the test compound attached to the labeled RNA is also determined. The methods used will depend, in part, on the nature of the library screened. The methods of the present invention provide a simple, sensitive assay for high-throughput screening of libraries of compounds to identify pharmaceutical leads.

FIGS. 4A and 4B are principle diagrams for correcting deviations among current detectors of a three-phase motor 19 in an inverter apparatus of the present invention, which includes bidirectional switching elements 13 to 18. FIG. 4C shows on and off states of switches in the cases of FIGS. 4A and 4B, in which 1 and 0 mean on- and off-states, respectively. The states shown in FIGS. 4A and 4B are alternately repeated by controlling the switches, and measurement for correcting the deviations among the current detectors are obtained in the state shown in FIG. 4B. Specifically, in FIG. 4B, currents having the same amplitude flow on a U phase and a V phase. Accordingly, a difference in the measured data represents a difference in performances of the current detectors. In the state of normal use, the inverter apparatus is operated by correcting detected current values based on the measurement data.

The present invention provides precise temperature estimation in a heat treatment apparatus that estimates temperatures of process objects by using a thermal model and performs a heat treatment while performing a temperature control based on the estimated temperatures. The heat treatment apparatus 1 includes a processing vessel 11 accommodating plural wafers W, plural heaters 31 to 33 and plural temperature sensors S1 to S5, and stores the thermal model. The heat treatment apparatus 1 estimates temperatures of the wafers W based on outputs of the temperature sensors S1 to S5 by using the thermal model and controls the heaters 31 to 33 based on the estimated temperatures, applying a heat treatment to the wafers W. The thermal model for an individual apparatus is made by calibrating a standard thermal model designed for a standard apparatus. The standard model calibration is performed by heating an interior of the processing vessel 11, measuring the temperatures of the wafers W in the processing vessel 11, estimating the temperatures of the wafers W by using the thermal model, comparing the measured temperature and the estimated temperature, and calibrating the standard thermal model so that the measured temperature substantially coincide with the estimated temperature.

Systems and method of the present disclosure are directed to a strategy assessment tool that facilitates developing a financial strategy, testing the financial strategy on historical data, and applying the strategy in real time to activate trades. The strategy assessment tool can retrieve, obtain, or otherwise identify financial data related financial instruments. The tool can store the financial data in a database or data structure such that the tool can efficient analyze the data using one or more financial strategies running on multiple threads of a GPU.

A maximum permissible acceleration is calculated so as to take into account vehicle stability, driver's comfort, road surface information and traffic information, driver's specific taste in acceleration and deceleration, and the like. An acceleration limiting process is carried out, in which a feedback gain in vehicle speed feedback control is corrected as may be necessary based on a relationship between the maximum permissible acceleration and actual acceleration information so as to keep the actual acceleration within the maximum permissible acceleration. The present invention thereby makes it possible to control a vehicle speed within a desired acceleration range even under conditions, in which there is a large vehicle speed deviation as in a resume mode, causing an excessively large acceleration or deceleration to tend to occur. Auto cruise control offering an outstanding safety and comfort can thus be implemented.

A server/client system provides packet communications between a server and a client by way of a network such as the Internet. The server inputs data such as MIDI data in a sporadic manner while storing timing data representing their input timings. Then, the server performs packetizing of the sporadically input data, which accompany the timing data and are subjected to transmission to the client. The client receives the packetized input data and then outputs them at timings based on the timing data. Thus, it is possible to completely secure the same time relationship of data during transmission and reception of the sporadically input data even though the client differs from the server on a time-axis basis.

The present invention provides a method to calibrate an on-board remote sensing system using a self-locking travel pattern and target remote sensing data. The self-locking travel pattern includes a number of parallel travel lines having overlapping swath widths between adjacent travel lines. The overlapping swath widths are used to determine the boresight angles and range offset of the remote sensor device. In addition, the method can be used to generate estimated horizontal and vertical displacement errors. These estimated errors can be used as correction factors for the range offset and boresight angles.

The invention discloses a system for detecting an error and guiding error correction and a method thereof. The system comprises a laser transmitter used for transmitting point laser, a reflection plate used for carrying out specular reflection on laser emitted by the laser transmitter, a photographic plate used for detecting the laser signal emitted by the reflection plate, a signal processor which is electrically connected with the photographic plate and is used for processing the signal transmitted by the photographic plate, a device control center which is electrically connected with the signal processor and displays the result of the signal processor, and a signal processor which receives a reflection laser point position signal transmitted by the photographic plate, compares the signal with a stored center point position, calculates whether a target object position has deviation and a deviation direction, and carries out real-time transmission to the device control center to carry out deviation correction. The system is used for detecting up, down, left and right errors relative to the center and guiding error correction, and the system has the advantages of simple structure, low installation accuracy requirement and low cost.

A lock-up clutch control device which controls a lock-up clutch provided in a torque converter installed between an engine and a transmission, is disclosed. The lock-up clutch control device changes over between a converter state and a lock-up state of the torque converter according to a differential pressure command value (LUprs) relating to a differential pressure supplied to the lock-up clutch. The lock-up clutch control device includes a differential pressure generating device (7,8) which generates the differential pressure supplied to the lock-up clutch; input torque detection means (2,14,15) which detects an input torque (Te) to the torque converter; and a controller (1). The controller (1) is programmed to compute a real differential pressure (P_lu) based on the detected input torque (Te) upon completion of the engagement of the lock-up clutch; compute a learning value (P_learn(Tai)) relating to a differential pressure deviation, based on the difference between the computed real differential pressure (P_lu) and differential pressure command value (P_ref) upon completion of the engagement of the lock-up clutch, and store the learning value (P_learn(Tai)); correct a present differential pressure command value (LUprs_slp) based on the learning value (P_learn(Tai)); and send the corrected differential pressure command value (LUprs) to the differential pressure generating device (7, 8).

The invention discloses systems and methods for generating pure random numbers from astronomical events, such as cosmic radiation or solar events. The invention includes a detector, a logic circuit, memory, power supply and a communication device. The detector may be, for example, a solar wind particle detector, an alpha ray detector, a gamma ray etector, or the like. The memory stores data from the detector. The communication device transmits the data. In addition, the logic circuit applies predetermined mathematical rules to the collected data to generate pure random numbers suitable for use in games of chance, horoscopes, astrology, sound or light displays, or other activities. In addition, the logic circuit may encrypt these random numbers before the numbers are transmitted to a receiving device.

The present invention relates to a method for planning and scheduling timed task. Its kernel lies in that based on timing iterator it utilizes at least two line processes to schedule and execute plan-scheduled timed task. Said invention can make the plan be self-contained by means of mode of timed iterator, so that it is favorable for implementing any complex plan. Besides, when the timing iterator is implemented, it can use a calendar algorithm, so that it can eliminate deviation of daylight saving time, and can ensure planning accuracy.