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A system for monitoring plant equipment is provided. Another aspect provides an automated analysis system wherein software instructions operably compare sensor data to predefined valves and determine mechanical problems in multiple machines. In another aspect, a cement manufacturing system includes sensors for sensing movement conditions of cement making machines. A further aspect provides a central computer connected to vibration sensors associated with cement making machines, where software instructions perform real-time comparisons and machine performance determinations, based at least in part on sensed signals.

The invention includes facilitating the substantially real-time transfer of loyalty points between accounts. The method and system include receiving a transfer request (e.g., consumer request, triggering event, etc) for a transfer of a certain number of loyalty points, accessing and analyzing the total number of loyalty points in the transferor account to determine if a sufficient number of points exist, analyzing the type/level of consumer and type/level of points to be involved in the transfer, deducting the requested loyalty points from the transferor account, determining if any rules exist for restricting or limiting the transfer of points, using a conversion engine to convert the point value to an appropriate point value in the transferee account and increasing the point balance in the transferee account.

The scene matching method for raising navigation precision includes the following steps: 1. for the topographic scene matching module in combined navigation system to read in topographic data based on the digital topographic picture; 2. to search mapping point in the topographic picture based on the current geographic location the inertial navigation system obtains; 3. to intercept the reference map data from the topographic picture around the mapping point; 4. matching the measured map and the reference map; and 5. correcting inertial navigation with the matched result so as to raise the precision of inertial navigation system greatly. One simulating combined navigation system is also disclosed, which includes an aviation trace planning module, a flight control module, an aviation trace generator, an inertial navigation module, a topographic scene matching module matching module and an image displaying module. It has high locating precision, high autonomy and excellent man-computer operation interface.

Techniques for managing vehicular emergencies are disclosed. For example, a method of managing a vehicular emergency includes the steps of collecting biometric data regarding at least one occupant of a vehicle, collecting data regarding at least one operational characteristic of the vehicle, and detecting vehicular emergencies through analysis of at least a portion of the biometric data and the operational characteristic data. This method may also include communicating at least one message relating to the data, wherein the content of the message is determined by the processing device based at least in part on the data and/or controlling a function of the vehicle in response to the data. The method may also include collecting data regarding at least one operational characteristic of at least one proximate vehicle.

Methods for remotely measuring or monitoring one or more physiological parameters in a subject, such as blood volume pulse, heart rate, respiratory wave, or respiration rate, are provided. The methods include capturing a series of images of the subject, and processing the images to obtain physiological parameters of interest. These methods can be used to analyze single channel signals, including signals obtained from active night vision cameras. As a result, these methods can be used to measure or monitor one or more physiological parameters in both daylight and low-light conditions. Also provided are methods of removing false positives. Systems for remotely measuring or monitoring one or more physiological parameters in a subject, as well as methods of using thereof, are also provided.

The invention discloses a CAN bus gateway controller and a data transmission method of CAN buses, and the gateway controller comprises a first CAN transceiver, a second CAN transceiver, a microcontroller and a data storage module, and the first CAN transceiver, the second CAN transceiver and the data storage module are respectively connected with the microcontroller. The method can effectively prevent the condition of data packet loss caused by inconsistent protocol and velocity of two CAN buses and improve the reliability of data transmission through the forwarding control and arrangement of data buffering; meanwhile, communication status diagnosis results of each node can be sent out periodically, then each node on the CAN buses can know the network status of other nodes, and the real-time monitoring is simple, so as to favor the development of network communications and facilitate the fault detection and data analysis. The CAN bus gateway controller only need two identical CAN transceivers, the hardware configuration is simple, the compatibility problem does not exist, and the reliability is higher.

The invention provides a method for grouping measurement data obtained by effecting two or more techniques to provide characterization data characterizing at least one sample with respect to characterizing substances. According to one aspect of the invention, the grouping is effected on the basis of at least one statistical distribution of deviations (Δm/z_i) of a respective characterizing measurement value. According to another aspect of the invention, the grouping is effected on the basis of at least one collective characteristic of a plurality of respective quantitative measurement values (I_i).

The subject disclosure relates to targeted polling and creating, responding, managing, publishing, socializing, and/or commercializing targeted polls using a variety of media such as mobile applications, the web, and/or other communication media. In one aspect, the disclosed subject matter facilitates allowing mobile users to respond to and/or promulgate polls. As further advantages, embodiments of the disclosed subject matter allow polls to be created, responded to, published, shared, managed, and/or analyzed within a social polling platform. Further non-limiting embodiments are provided that illustrate the advantages and flexibility of the disclosed subject matter.

Techniques for monitoring abnormalities in a data stream are provided. A plurality of objects are received from the data stream and one or more clusters are created from these objects. At least a portion of the one or more clusters have statistical data of the respective cluster. It is determined from the statistical data whether one or more abnormalities exist in the data stream.

The invention discloses a method for evaluating self-discharge consistency of a lithium iron phosphate battery. The method mainly comprises the following steps of: measuring open circuit voltage after the battery is charged and open circuit voltage after the battery is laid at high temperature under the conditions of constant voltage and constant current; calculating the voltage drop of the battery, a mean value and a standard difference; and determining the upper control limit of the voltage drop to determine that the battery has high self-discharge consistency under the condition that the voltage drop does not surpass an upper specification limit. By the method for evaluating the self-discharge consistency of the lithium iron phosphate battery, evaluation accuracy, high production operability and obvious practical meaning are achieved, and the grouping consistency of the lithium iron phosphate battery is effectively improved.

An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and is configured to extract the health care data from, the first computer system. The rules engine normalizes the extracted health care data to a predefined format.

Various mechanisms are provided for navigating among visualizations of quantitative data. At least one relationship is defined among a plurality of visualizations. A virtual multi-faceted shape is constructed, having a plurality of surfaces, some or all of which may correspond to visualizations. Visualizations may be presented, for example, by projecting or texture mapping the visualizations on corresponding surfaces of the shape. In at least one embodiment, surfaces are spatially oriented with one another in a manner that represents a relationship between the corresponding two visualizations. The user can interact with the virtual shape, for example by causing it to rotate, zoom, move, or the like. Such interactions cause different visualizations to be displayed.

A system, method, and computer program product discover relationships among items and recommend items based on the discovered relationships. The recommendations provided by the present invention are based on user profiles that take into account actual preferences of users, without requiring users to complete questionnaires. An improved binomial log likelihood ratio analysis technique is applied, to reduce adverse effects of overstatement of coincidence and predominance of best sellers. The invention may be used, for example, to generate track lists for a personalized radio station.

The subject disclosure relates to targeted polling and creating, responding, managing, publishing, socializing, and/or commercializing targeted polls using a variety of media such as mobile applications, the web, and/or other communication media. In one aspect, the disclosed subject matter facilitates adding community answers to a poll and/or rating community answers for polling a community of respondents. In addition, embodiments of the disclosed subject matter allow polls to be created, responded to, published, shared, managed, unpublished, deleted, and/or analyzed, etc., within a social polling platform. Further non-limiting embodiments are provided that illustrate the advantages and flexibility of the disclosed subject matter.

The invention relates to an underground target detection and recognition system and a method based on feature fusion. The method includes: detecting and acquiring echo signals of a ground penetrating radar; pre-processing the acquired echo signals; performing enhancement processing of the pre-processed echo signals; extracting time-domain feature and wavelet packet energy spectrum feature of the echo signals after enhancement processing, performing Welch power spectrum estimation and high-order spectral analysis of the echo signals after enhancement processing, and respectively obtaining a Welch power spectrum and a high-order spectrum; performing fusion of the time-domain feature, the wavelet packet energy spectrum feature, the Welch power spectrum, and the high-order spectrum of the echo signals; performing target recognition of the fused four kinds of signals via a wavelet neural network; and outputting a result after target recognition. According to the system and the method, comprehensive detection and recognition of the underground target can be realized based on multi-feature information fusion, the recognition of the underground target bodies in different shapes and of different materials can be effectively realized, and the recognition accuracy is high.

The invention discloses a system and a method for flexibly comparing and analyzing data. The system comprises a data source configuration module, a data table access module, a custom table data module, a comparison model configuration module, a correlation model configuration module, a comparison task management module, a comparison result early warning module, a comparison result statistic analysis module and a comparison result correlated query module; and the comparison model configuration module can be used for next configuration on comparison models on the basis of data information of comparison results, so that the data can be compared circularly.

Techniques are described herein to converge and conditionally filter data and to present such data in a manner that is beneficial to situational data analysis, in association with emergency management, law enforcement, or other such situations. Data may be combined to create enhanced situational awareness for responders and improve their decision making ability.

The invention provides a ray digital imaging detection system for pressure equipment girth welds. The system comprises a pressure equipment automatic scanning device which is arranged on the outside of pressure equipment for axially rotating around the pressure equipment, a ray emitting device which is fixed on the pressure equipment automatic scanning device for emitting rays to penetrate the girth welds, and a ray receiving and image processing device which is fixed on the pressure equipment automatic scanning device and is arranged opposite to the ray emitting device for receiving the emitted rays, converting optical signals of the rays into digital signals to generate girth weld detection images and processing the images to generate a processing result. The system can realize the digital imaging detection for the pressure equipment girth welds of different diameters by changing the diameter of the pressure equipment automatic scanning device, not only can greatly reduce the detection cost and shorten the development period of products, but also can quickly identify the defects.

The invention provides a system suitable for monitoring the usage of a toothbrush, the system comprising: (a) a toothbrush; (b) a sound sensor which is located in or on the toothbrush; (c) a programmable data logger which is located in or on the toothbrush, the data logger incorporating a motion sensor and a data store for the logging of data; (d) switching means for triggering the operation of the sound sensor in response to initial signals of toothbrush motion generated by the motion sensor, and (e) a data analysis device which is adapted to analyse data transmitted or acquired from the system to provide information about tooth brushing behaviour; in which the duration of data logging is controllable in response to the combined signals received from the sound sensor and the motion sensor respectively.

The invention relates to an intelligent and quick fault diagnosis instrument for a bearing and a diagnosis method thereof. The fault diagnosis instrument comprises a data acquisition device and a data processing device which are connected with each other. The data acquisition device comprises a vibration sensor. The data acquisition device acquires a vibration analog signal of a processed bearing based on the vibration sensor. The data processing device acquires the vibration analog signal through a plurality of preset frequencies and obtains a plurality of sets of vibration time domain signals, and then the data processing device performs a series of processing analysis on each vibration time domain signal for finally determining a fault part. The intelligent and quick fault diagnosis instrument and the diagnosis method thereof can generate a clear fault description which comprises a bearing fault development period, a bearing damage part and bearing damage degree. The intelligent and quick fault diagnosis instrument and the diagnosis method further have advantages of high intelligence degree, and low dependence for a professional skill and experience of an operator.

A system providing precise determination of resource use within a software system such as a database system. A user, such as a database administrator, operates a user interface to select and analyze portions of an application for resource use. In one embodiment in a DB2 database system individual SQL statement resource use can be determined. The invention is capable of uniquely identifying even dynamic SQL statements (i.e., Equalized I.D). Prediction information is presented for when a query, or other database task, will end based on selectable parameters such as optimizer cost, estimated cardinality, and delta delivery rates of data. A user can create or select event monitors to acquire statistical data on a database task. The results of activating the event monitor are presented to the user such that the user can progressively examine portions of an application, package, section and even individual statements. The user interface allows a user to efficiently and precisely identify processing shortcomings so that the performance of a database task can be improved. The interface also allows a user to sort, or otherwise organize, the statistical data so that analysis of the data is improved and maximum value is derived from the SQL cost evaluated data.