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A face illumination normalization method includes acquiring a digital image including a face that appears to be illuminated unevenly. One or more uneven illumination classifier programs are applied to the face data to determine the presence of the face within the digital image and/or the uneven illumination condition of the face. The uneven illumination condition may be corrected to thereby generate a corrected face image appearing to have more uniform illumination, for example, to enhance face recognition.

An extracorpeal blood circuit for removal of contrast from human blood using a filter and withdrawal filter pump and a by-pass pump. The withdrawal filter blood pump operates when a contrast bolus has been detected. Otherwise the bypass blood pump maintains physiological blood flow from the coronary sinus preventing the need for deflation and re-inflation of the balloon catheter. When contrast is detected blood the bypass blood pump is stopped to prevent contrast from leaking back into the patients circulatory system via the bypass pump and CS blood flow is maintained at its physiological blood flow resulting in the heart being oblivious to the transition by the prefilter blood pump.

A method and apparatus for facilitating attention to a task are disclosed. The method may include: detecting, with a sensor, one or more movements, estimating the task attention state based on the one or more movements, determining the workload based on the estimated attention state, and determining based on the workload, the optimal format for the relay of operational information that best facilitates attention to the task for increased ease of task performance.

In one embodiment, a safety trailer has semi-tractor hitches at both ends and a safety wall that is fixed to one side of the trailer. That side, however, can be changed to the right or left side of the road, depending on the end to which the truck attaches. A caboose can be attached at the end of the trailer opposite the tractor to provide additional lighting and impact protection. Optionally, the trailer can be equipped with overhead protection, lighting, ventilation, onboard hydraulics, compressors, generators and other equipment, as well as related fuel, water, storage and restroom facilities and other amenities.

The invention provides methods and compositions for obtaining transplastomic Arabidopsis plants. Specifically, the method provides culturing protocols and compositions that facilitate the regeneration of transformed plants following delivery of exogenous DNA molecules.

An audio feedback signal for a subject engaged in an exercise includes a reference note (of a musical scale) that provides a marker of the goal or target position of the exercise for the subject, and a sequence of real-time feedback notes that define progress towards the goal while the exercise is underway. By providing the reference note with the feedback note, the listener can instantly understand whether they have presently reached the goal. The progress is defined by having at least 3 distinct feedback notes mapped to respective sensed ranges of positions within the exercise, and this provides multiple opportunities for the exerciser to compare the feedback and reference notes, and provides cognitive feedback to the exerciser.

An integrated scanner, scale and touchscreen display (“integrated touchscreen scanner”) is addressed. In one alternative, the integrated touchscreen scanner further includes a printer for printing receipts, coupons and the like. The integrated touchscreen scanner is designed for flush mounting in a checkout or self-checkout stand. Keystrokes, icon selection and the like may be suitably sensed employing weigh cells in the scale of the integrated touchscreen scanner. Additionally, the display may be partitioned into a customer portion and a checker portion. This partitioning may be fixed or dynamically adjusted in response to the state of the transaction.

The invention provides a fine-grained recognition method based on reinforcement learning and cross bilinear features, aiming at solving the problem that an area with the best discrimination capabilityof a fine-grained image is difficult to mine. An actor-Critic strategy is used to mine the most attention-grabbing areas of an image. An Actor module is responsible for generating top M candidate areas with the best discrimination capability. A Critic module evaluates the state value of the action by utilizing the cross bilinear characteristic; and then calculates a reward value of the action under the current state by utilizing a sorting one-type reward, further obtains a value advantage, feeds the value advantage back to the Actor module, updates the output of the region with the most attention, and finally predicts the fine-grained category by using the region with the most discrimination capability in combination with the original image characteristics. According to the method, the region with the most attention of the fine-grained image can be better mined. It is verified by experiments that the recognition accuracy of the present invention on the CUB-200-2011 public data set isimproved compared with the existing methods, and the high fine-grain recognition accuracy rate is achieved respectively.

A mouthpiece for a brass wind musical instrument is composed solely of a colored polymer material. Its size and shape may be determined by computer coordinate measurements from a conventional metal mouthpiece. The color is chosen to suit the particular purpose of the musician playing the instrument, such as to match the uniforms of a marching band. The mouthpiece is fabricated by injection molding to substantially the desired size and shape. A secondary machining process removes imperfections such as flashings and gate blushes. Alternately, a blank may be injected molded, and the blank machined in a primary machining operation to the desired size, shape, and surface texture. The mouthpiece may also be manufactured by machining a bar of polymer material. The mouthpiece functions in the identical manner as prior metal mouthpieces, but it is much more comfortable to play in cold and hot environments, and it is less costly and more rugged than metal mouthpieces.

This invention discloses the construction of a fused poloric spirillum adhesion gene engineered bacterial vaccine characterizing that the adhesion HpaA is used to construct an adjuvant fused engineered vaccine of poloric spirillum adhesion and colibacillus heat-labile enterotoxin B sub unit or cholear toxin B sub unit intramolecular to get large quantity of necessary vaccine proteins by high density fermentation, occlusion body extraction, renaturation and purification to be proprared to peroral, injection and spray agents.

A method for the automatic determination of an end value that has a lower calculability than that of the prior art, in order to minimize operating errors and to maximize emotional participation. The method has the steps: start with a start value and wait for an input signal; on receipt of a first input signal a instantaneous value is determined by increasing the start value and a timer is started; on receipt of each further input signal the instantaneous value is again increased and the time is reset; in the absence of an input signal within a time period prescribed by the timer the instantaneous value is outputted as an end value.

The invention discloses a controller attention distribution evaluation method based on eye movement data. The method comprises the steps of collecting the eye movement data of a controller in different aircraft number scenes in the control execution process and subjecting the data to denoising processing; distinguishing the denoised eye movement data by utilizing an eye movement algorithm; selecting an eye movement index reflecting attention distribution of the controller; and analyzing the change characteristics of the selected eye movement indexes by utilizing statistical analysis and a multi-fractal detrending wave algorithm to evaluate the attention distribution of the controller. According to the method, the change of the eye movement data of the controller facing the control scene iscombined with the related algorithm, so that the optimal controller attention related index is obtained, and the controller attention distribution characteristics can be effectively evaluated.