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A method and apparatus for interactive TV camera based games in which position or orientation of points on a player or of an object held by a player are determined and used to control a video display. Both single camera and stereo camera pair based embodiments are disclosed, preferably using stereo photogrammetry where multi-degree of freedom information is desired. Large video displays, preferably life-size may be used where utmost realism of the game experience is desired.

A method and apparatus for automated cell analysis of biological specimens automatically scans at a low magnification to acquire images (288) which are analyzed to determine candidate cell objects of interest. The low magnification images are converted from a first color space to a second color space (290). The color space converted image is then low pass filtered (292) and compared to a threshold (294) to remove artifacts and background objects from the candidate object of interest pixels of the color converted image. The candidate object of interest pixels are morphologically processed (296) to group candidate object of interest pixels together into groups which are compared to blob parameters (298) to identify candidate objects of interest which correspond to cells or other structures relevant to medical diagnosis of the biological specimen. The location coordinates of the objects of interest are stored and additional images of the candidate cell objects are acquired at high magnification. The high magnification images are analyzed in the same manner as the low magnification images to confirm the candidate objects of interest which are objects of interest. A high magnification image of each confirmed object of interest is stored for later review and evaluation by a pathologist.

A device for processing a wire having an outer surface and moving along a given path in a give direction. The device comprises a conductive contact tube surrounding said path and electrically engageable with the wire as it moves along the path and through the tue and a dielectric sleeve adjacent the contact tube and extending in the given direction from the contact tube and around the path to define an annular gas passage between the dielectric sleeve ad the wire. An inlet for processing gas is adjacent the contact tube in and a conductive electrode sleeve is around the dielectric sleeve so a high frequency, high voltage signal between said electrode sleeve ad the contact tube creates a dielectric barrier discharge plasma of the progressing gas in the annular passage.

In agriculture, one of the most important issues is the extent to which the yield of high quality crops can be increased while saving labor and reducing costs. However, there are many problems in that so-called injuries of crops due to continuous cropping and other causes seriously reduce productivity. The present invention provides an apparatus and a method that can pasteurize soil using gases emitted from the engine of a tractor, while at the same time, carbon dioxide, sulfur oxides, and other acidic fumes in exhaust gas are fixed as calcium salts with slaked lime that has been applied in advance on the soil to be pasteurized, and these gaseous components can, as much as possible, be prevented from escaping into the atmosphere.

A social messaging hub provides communication services for a data enabled device having Internet network access capabilities such as a portable media player, personal digital assistant, a Wi-Fi mobile platform, a tablet computer, portable e-Reader, a personal computer, a laptop and a netbook computer. The social messaging hub communicates with the data enabled device over the Internet or cellular data networks, and interfaces with a message infrastructure including mobile carriers, message aggregators, message exchanges and various specialized social messaging services. Messages may originate in or be delivered to other users' mobile telephones or in similarly equipped and provisioned IP data enabled devices. The social messaging hub can provide a predetermined auto-reply response and retain messages for a timed duration in a message retention queue when requested by a user. Messages may be viewed with a data enabled device application at various zoom levels.

An alloy and repair material comprising the alloy, articles comprising the alloy and repair material, and methods for repairing articles including provision of the alloy as repair material are described, with the alloy comprising ruthenium, nickel, aluminum, and chromium, wherein a microstructure of the alloy is essentially free of an L12-structured phase at temperatures greater than about 1000° C. and comprises an A3-structured phase and up to about 40 volume percent of a B2-structured phase.

An area array connector adapted to connect contact pads on a first generally planar circuit element to corresponding contact pads on a second generally planar circuit element is described. The area array connector includes an interposer housing and at least one electrical interconnector positioned within the interposer housing. The at least one electrical interconnector is comprised of a plurality of electrical contacts stacked in a substantially parallel relationship to one another. The at least one electrical interconnector is positioned to make contact with a first contact pad on the first generally planar circuit element and a second contact pad on the second generally planar circuit element to provide an electrical interconnection therebetween.

A tool comparing different health insurance plans. A User can review a plurality of health plans for likely cost, quality, and provider availability. The results are arranged in a table according to selectable criteria, such as actuarially estimated total costs (premiums plus actuarial estimate of out-of-pocket). Actuarial cost estimates are used with one or more of the following: personalized summary quality measures produced by the User's applying personal weights to different aspects of quality; availability of User-selected health care providers indicating if these providers participate in each listed plan; information on the costs and quality of available health care providers; ability for User to adjust actuarial estimates based on User-predicted health care conditions, procedures, and products; and ability for User to adjust premiums based on User preference as to whether to accept the full available subsidy. User can sort, filter, and select plans based on displayed features.

The present invention provides an apparatus for attachment to pipe handling arm, comprising a clamp for gripping a tubular and a guide for aligning said tubular with another tubular prior to connection thereof, characterized in that said clamp and said guide are movable relative to each other in a direction longitudinal of the tubular, the arrangement being such that said tubular can be brought closer to said another tubular in a direction longitudinal of the tubular.

The present invention provides highly efficient solar energy collectors that use conductive fluids that are mixed with dark absorption pigmentation or objects. The pigmentation or objects are provided in the fluid itself, giving the fluid a dark appearance. A preferred embodiment relates to a method of capturing solar energy in the form of selective radiation surfaced (dark surfaced) microbeads, nanobeads, particulates or nano-particulates immersed and carried in a high temperature oil or other working fluid. The fluid containing these dark materials more readily absorbs solar radiation, and makes the absorbed radiation more readily available for transmission and use. Specially adapted enclosures are also provided for use with such fluids. Inexpensive methods of use and production of the fluids and enclosures are also provided.

The invention discloses a multi-channel parallel near infrared spectrum imaging system. A multi-wavelength light emitting diode (LED) is applied to finishing emission of near-infrared light. An avalanche photodiode is used for detecting a weak optical signal, the simulating lock-in amplifier technology is used for achieving amplification of the signal, and a near infrared spectrum cerebral function imaging helmet disclosed in Chinese patent application CN200520002784.8 can be used for improving the partial unreasonable design of a self-adaptation head portion. The multi-channel parallel near infrared spectrum imaging system can achieve continuous rapid accurate detection and collection of cerebral blood oxygen signals, overcomes the defect of an existing functional near infrared system, and brings superiority of the near infrared spectrum imaging technology compared with other cerebral function imaging technologies into full play.

The invention relates to a dynamic traffic simulation platform which comprises a perception layer, a fusion layer, an application layer and a presentation layer. The perception layer is connected with a dynamic traffic data collecting device, multivariate heterogeneous traffic flow data are obtained and transmitted to the fusion layer in real time, and the fusion layer is connected with the application layer. The multivariate heterogeneous traffic flow data and GIS data are received for processing, the application layer obtains road network dynamic traffic flow data, and a traffic simulation model is formed. Through the traffic simulation model and a traffic OD matrix, dynamic traffic simulation is performed, and the presentation layer receives the traffic simulation result of the dynamic traffic simulation in the application layer, and provides service application and presentation to a terminal client. The problem that in the prior art, a large number of real-time dynamic traffic data can not be rapidly matched with a road section well is solved. Therefore, the multifunctional dynamic traffic simulation platform is capable of performing OD back stepping and real-time dynamic traffic early warning on dynamic traffic flows on the basis of a GIS grid rapid matching technology.

Mobile partitioning wall with several wall elements displaceably suspended in running rails. The mobile partitioning wall have structural units that are technically simple to manufacture and to mount and are structured to be universally usable and can be easily and variably disposed at the edge sides of individual wall elements. The wall elements have mounting elements that are horizontally and/or vertically disposed at the edge sides. Modular structural units are laterally insertable into the mounting elements.

A method and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry colourants on a surface, bonding a part of the colourants with a binder and removing the non-bonded colourants from the surface. Also, a method to form embossed structures. Hard press particles may be applied in patterns on a carrier that is pressed against a surface.

An adaptive integration activity management framework for on demand business process integration provides a mechanism to enable easy integration of legacy and new applications. The framework minimizes the effort need to integrate a new application into an existing business process environment such that the new activity is a “plug-in” into an action manager by implementing a standard adaptation layer. Activity integration is implemented in the principle of “on-demand” because it is invoked as required, so the communication and collaboration between partners become much more flexible.

This invention relates to SMPS controllers employing primary side sensing. We describe a system for identifying a knee point in a sensing waveform, at which the output voltage of the SMPS may be sampled accurately on the primary side. The system identifies the knee point by fitting a tangent to a portion of a power transformer voltage waveform, and samples the voltage waveform at the knee point to determine the SMPS output voltage. In preferred embodiments this technique is implemented using a decaying peak detector, providing a timing signal indicating detection of the knee point. Sample/hold and error amplifier circuits may be employed to achieve output voltage regulation.

The invention relates to an ATT&CK-based spoofing defense system, construction method and full-link defense implementation method. Attack technology of each technical point under each tactic in an ATT& CK framework is researched. In the initial database, a spoofing defense technology corresponding to each attack technology is given from tactical and technical levels; all spoofing defense technologies are hierarchically divided according to different action points of the network deception technology; an initial database is constructed from three dimensions of tactics, technology and action points; and in combination with the network asset condition in the current environment. For the behavior of the attacker in each stage during the intrusion period, spoofing defense technology is selectedfrom an initial database in three dimensions of tactics, technology and action point to fuse with the current network asset condition, and constructing an omnibearing spoofing defense system. Spoofing technology runs through the whole life cycle of an attack link, the TTP of an attacker is detected, defended and responded, and active trapping is carried out from the perspective of the attacker.

The invention discloses a federated learning method, device and system based on gradient compression. A federated server sends initial models to clients in a unified mode; the initial model is trainedby the client to obtain an updated gradient, the updated gradient is quantized to obtain a quantized gradient of the updated gradient, and the quantized gradient of the updated gradient is sent to afederated server; the federated server performs quantity statistics according to different quantized values in the quantized gradients based on all the quantized gradients corresponding to each clientto obtain a statistical result, and returns the statistical result to each client; and the client receives the statistical result sent by the federated server and calculates a global updated gradientaccording to the statistical result so as to continue model training according to the global updated gradient. The objective is to solve the problems of high network transmission overhead and unsafedata in an existing federated learning system.

The invention discloses a method and a device for configuring a reference signal in a non-authorized frequency band. The method comprises the steps of determining the time-frequency resource position of a reference signal by mobile communication network equipment, wherein the time-frequency resource position is the sub-frame position of a data burst-mode signal sent by the mobile communication network equipment; configuring the time-frequency resource position of the reference signal through the high-level signaling. According to the technical scheme of the invention, the technical problem that the physical layer signaling resource is large in cost within the non-authorized frequency band can be solved.

A system and method of use for a viable alternative to private vehicles in urban areas is described. The system may include a number of vehicles, a number of checkout locations employing different technology according to specific geographic features of the location and a central computer system operatively coupled to the checkout locations and the vehicles at these locations which actively monitors the use of the vehicles in real-time. The system also includes demand predicting software operatively coupled to the central computer and the checkout locations to determine vehicle accessibility and availability. The goal is to build a system capable of matching the private vehicle's high availability ratio of apparently ninety-nine percent or greater.

A system for facilitating a transaction between a first party and a second party is controlled by a trusted third party system and is programmed to carry out the method by receiving the first party's instructions for fulfilling at least a part of the first party's obligations in said transaction. The system communicates with the second party and provides the second party with perceptible assurance that the second party is in communication with a trusted third party system through the system. The system transmits information to the second party to provide assurance that the first party's instructions have been or will be fulfilled. Thus trust in the third party is transferred to the first party and the second party can trust that the first party's obligations have been or will be fulfilled.

The invention provides a method and a device for configuring reference signal information. The method comprises the following steps of acquiring a first information set A and a second information setB, respectively dividing the first information set A and the second information set B into N subsets, and associating a first information set subset Ai and a second information set subset Bi, whereinelements in the first information set A are used for indicating at least one of a modulation-demodulation mode and redundant version information; the elements in the second information set B are usedfor indicating configuration information of a demodulation reference signal port, wherein the demodulation reference signal port indicated by the elements of the set B belongs to a code word. Throughadoption of the technical scheme, the first information set and the second information set are acquired, and the two information sets are associated and sent to a communication node of the opposite end, a problem that the overhead of the configuration information of the DMRS port is large in the correlation technique is solved, and the overhead of the configuration information of the DMRS port isgreatly reduced.

The invention discloses a method, a system and a server for pushing data. The method comprises that the server generates a key list for a target user terminal according to information of the target user terminal and informs the target user terminal of the key list; the server generates keys dynamically for the data to be pushed to the target user terminal according to the key list and obtains identification codes of keys; the data is encrypted through keys to obtain encrypted data; the encrypted data and identification codes of keys are pushed to the target user terminal; the target user terminal obtains keys from the key list according to identification codes of keys; and the target user terminal uses keys to decrypt the encrypted data. According to the method, the system and the server, dynamic keys are generated temporarily and dynamically during pushing of the data, so that the safety of one-time data pushing is improved. Besides, encryption keys are not required to be negotiated during data transmission, so that the communication cost is reduced, and the dependence of the data transmission on special network communications can be avoided.

Improved lamp of the type comprising the crystal bulb of an incandescent lamp or the crystal tube of a fluorescent lamp or preferably of the type comprised of a tube-shaped fluorescent lamp, characterized in that the structure of the tube itself forms a support for a luminescent product arranged as a coating which captures the light proceeding from a source and generated by the lamp itself thereby enabling it to emit its own light after the excitation has stopped thereby providing a self-contained lighting element.

A vehicle power supply apparatus has first and second engine-driven electrical generators and first and second storage batteries, the first generator supplying a stable voltage to the first battery and a first set of loads, and the second generator supplying the second battery and a second set of loads, which can tolerate supply voltage variations. Operation of the second generator and charging/discharging of the second battery are controlled to maintain the total engine torque applied to the generators at a level whereby fuel consumption is reduced, while the supply voltage of the variation-tolerant loads is allowed to vary substantially.

A compact and thin piezo-electric resonator is provided having a high air-tightness and available at a low cost, in which a piezo-electric resonator element is provided in a housing having a structure which permits adjustment of the frequency after sealing the housing. Further, a surface-mounting type piezo-electric resonator is provided, in which a piezo-electric resonator element is provided in a housing, having a structure which permits frequency adjustment through an opening provided in a base or a lid forming the housing.

A mounting structure of a motor drive circuit and an electric compressor are disclosed. A sub-communication circuit 50a of a communication circuit 50 is accommodated in a depression 11v of a compressor housing 11. Semiconductor switching devices S1 to S6 are arranged on the flat mounting portion 11t of the compressor housing 11, i.e. on the outside of the depression 11v. As a result, the sub-communication circuit 50a can be isolated from the semiconductor switching devices S1 to S6. Although the switching operation of the semiconductor switching devices S1, S2, . . . , S6 generates electromagnetic noise, since the sub-communication circuit 50a is accommodated in the depression 11v, the sub-communication circuit 50a receives less electromagnetic noise.