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Image capture devices attached to a computer processor are located in a retail store. Items of merchandise for sale are tracked from their display position to a shopping container using optical tracking software. The software is capable of identifying the items and containers optically. A list of items in each container is maintained in a database. A customer may request a listing of items in a cart at any time via a query. At checkout time, there is no need to scan the items.

One or more components of a wellbore drilling assembly utilize a modular construction to facilitate assembly, disassembly, repair and/or maintenance of a wellbore drilling assembly and/or to extend the overall operating capabilities of the drilling assembly. In one embodiment, a modular construction is used for an APD Device, a motor driving the modular APD Device, a comminution device, and an annular seal. Individual modules can be configure have different operating set points, operating parameters and characteristics (e.g., rotational speeds, flow rates, pressure differentials, etc.) and/or different responses to given environmental factors or conditions (e.g., pressure, temperature, wellbore fluid chemistry, etc.). In one embodiment, the high-pressure seals used in conjunction with the APD Device and/or motor is a hydrodynamic seal that provides a selected leak or flow rates. Optionally, the seal is modular to provide different degrees of leak rates and/or different functional characteristics.

The invention discloses a vehicle monitoring system based on Beidou system. The invention is characterized in that the system is composed of a Beidou ground monitoring centre, a Beidou navigating and locating satellite and a Beidou vehicle-mounted system, wherein the Beidou navigating and locating satellite is dependent on current satellite system built by Beidou network system. The Beidou vehicle-mounted system comprises a Beidou terminal and a train network. The train network is a current TCMS system, wherein the TCMS system comprises a vehicle dragging sub-system, a vehicle braking sub-system, a vehicle signal sub-system and a vehicle broadcasting sub-system. The TCMS system is communicated with a Beidou terminal via an RS232 interface to provide vehicle state information to the Beidou terminal on one hand, and to receive Beidou navigating and locating information, time service information and control instruction from the ground monitoring centre on the other hand so as to control the operation of the vehicle. The Beidou terminal is communicated with the locating satellite. The locating satellite is used for transmitting the locating information and vehicle state information to the ground monitoring centre. The centre is used for transmitting the information to all ground monitoring terminals so that the operated vehicle can be monitored and all operated vehicles can be monitored and controlled.

A support assembly capable of being raised and lowered on a mast and configured in a compact, volumetrically efficient conformation lending architectural significance to the appearance of the support assembly when used to mount a plurality of luminaires or other apparatus intended for use in a location above a surface, such as the surface of the earth, the invention permits remote latching and unlatching of the support assembly through use of an improved latching mechanism having dimensions permitting housing of the latching mechanism within an enclosure of a reduced height, thereby lending an esthetically pleasing appearance to a mast-mounted support arrangement relative to prior art assemblies intended to perform similar functions.

A versatile remote slit impact air sampler controller system for the enhanced operative control of known slit impact air samplers, as well as other remote sampling devices that would benefit from an enhanced air-sampling platform. The described device will substantially enhance the functionality, versatility, and capabilities for the operation of the inventors remote slit sampling devices, adding substantial advances in data capture, maintenance, and output capabilities, user interface functionality, sampling period programmability and versatility, sample flow rate selectivity, air sampler selectivity, capture media turntable motor functionality, controller remote start capabilities, control system communication capabilities, and controller enclosure suitability.

A Wideband Intercom and Secure Packet Radio (WISPR) system includes a state-of-the-art digital, fully programmable communication system that provides internal and external communication to the operators of any type of vehicle. The WISPR system includes a dedicated secure radio with anti-jamming capabilities in order to support a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and is able to provide voice and data communication over radios, analog wires and data/voice over field telephones and tank telephones. The system supports a variety of user specified operational requirements (e.g. hierarchy plans, closed group conference, wired or wireless remote radio control, tactical data reception, independent listen/talk functions) and has the capacity for dynamic adaptation to field requirements and the potential for expansion in order to fulfill the future needs of the Armed Forces. The WISPR system configuration is adaptable according to the type of platform and the particular operational requirements for a specific application.

A multi-processor system and a performance adjustment method thereof are disclosed. The multi-processor system includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit, the performance adjustment method includes: first, detecting the load of each processing unit to obtain corresponding detected data; then, determining whether one of the processing units has the most load; finally, if the first processing unit has the most load, increasing the power supply to the first processing unit.

An Internet client is provided with a SOCKS server. The client comprises a processor having an operating system, and a suite of one or more Internet tools. The SOCKS proxy server includes means for intercepting and servicing connection requests from the Internet tools. Preferably, the proxy server has a predetermined Internet Protocol address, preferably the loopback address. If the loopback address is not available on the protocol stack, a redirecting mechanism is used to redirect connection requests associated with stale IP addresses to a current IP address. The SOCKS server includes a filtering mechanism for filtering connection requests to particular servers, and a monitoring mechanism for monitoring network IP activity.

The invention discloses an equal interval regulation method of an urban rail traffic train, which comprises the following steps of: 1) determining the incoming sequence of trains in each block section between stations to the nearest railway platform in the front part, and correspondingly forming train incoming arrays; 2) finding the train incoming array with the most trains, and selecting a reference train; 3) sequentially calculating the planed incoming time from the first train of each train incoming array in the front part to the planed incoming time to the nearest railway platform in the front part starting from the train incoming array of the reference train; 4) calculating the early and late deviation of the train when any one train reaches the railway platform, executing the step 5) if the early and late deviation is zero, regulating the stop time of the train at the railway platform and the operation time in a next block section of the train if the early and late deviation is not zero so that the early and late deviation of the train reaching a next railway platform can be reduced, and then executing the step 5); and 5) updating the planed arrival time of the adjacent train behind the train reaching the railway platform when the train leaves the platform, and going back to executing the step 4). The regulating efficiency of the method of the invention is high.

a Method and Apparatus for Automatic Jammer Frequency Control of Surgical Reactive Jammers is disclosed. The system and method to autonomously and selectively jams frequency-hopping signals in near real-time. The system has the ability to automatically detect short duration signals (such as those output from frequency hoppers), to automatically determine if detected signal(s) should be jammed, and subsequently to automatically and extremely quickly activate the jamming transmitter on the frequency-hopper transmitter's frequency. Furthermore, the system improves upon the FFT-based front-end system by incorporating a module that automatically and iteratively comparing the digital FFT results to the analog RF signal to arrive at a total frequency offset between the FFT results and the analog signal so that the transmitted jamming signal will be more accurately applied on the desired or target frequency. Finally, the system provides a programmable user interface so that operators can set up the system to act autonomously as intended, such that operator intervention is unnecessary when the system is placed in jamming operation mode.

Disclosed herein is a seat cushion pumping device for a vehicle adapted to adjust a height of a seat cushion. The seat cushion pumping device comprises a clutch unit adapted to transmit a rotating force to gears of link means in a desired direction where the seat cushion is to be moved, and a brake unit for fixing the operated link means so as not to move. The clutch unit and the brake unit are accommodated between a lower bracket and an upper bracket, which are positioned in front of a mounting bracket for accommodating the entire pumping device there between.

A stereo camera comprises a camera body, a lens barrel rotatably attached to the camera body, and a converter lens barrel 14 detachably attached to the camera body. The lens barrel contains a pair of a first imaging optical system and a first CCD, and a pair of a second imaging optical system and a second CCD. When the lens barrel is at an ordinary position, a wide image capturing mode with only the first CCD being activated or a normal image capturing mode with only the second CCD being activated is set. When the lens barrel is at a first rotational position, a panoramic image capturing mode is set. When the lens barrel is at a second rotational position, a stereoscopic image capturing mode is set.

Method and system for automatically forming packaging boxes. At least four folding units each provided with a controllable gripping element support a custom sized blank supporting an article in a supporting station. The at least one of the folding units is configured for folding respective side and/or end panels of the blank upwardly. The at least four folding units comprise a front pair of folding units and a rear pair of folding units positioned at a longitudinal distance from the front pair of folding units, and the folding units of the front pair and the folding units of the rear pair are positioned at a respective transverse distance from each other. Said longitudinal distance and/or said transverse distance are adjustable.

An operating apparatus for game machine includes a depressing member, and a main body of the depressing member is provided with three engaging protrusions and two depressing protrusions that downwardly protrude. For example, the two depressing protrusions are provided between the three engaging protrusions. In response to a beating operation by a player, the right side of the depressing member is depressed, and then, an engaging portion of the engaging protrusion at the left side is engaged with a rear surface of an upper surface panel. Accordingly, the depressing member is sure to be depressed at the right side without being upwardly actuated, and a rubber switch depressed by the depressing protrusion is brought into contact with a board. At this time, a contact provided on the board and a contact provided on the rubber switch are brought into contact with each other, and an operation signal according to the beating operation is output to the game machine.

A server auxiliary operating system is disclosed, which includes a case, a plurality of swappable GPUs and a printed circuit back plane. The case includes a bottom board and a first mounting bay located at the front portion of the case. The swappable GPUs are disposed in the first mounting bay. The printed circuit back plane is disposed on the bottom board and has a plurality of first interfaces and a plurality of second interfaces electrically corresponding to the first interfaces, wherein the swappable GPUs are respectively coupled to the first interfaces, and the servers are respectively electrically connected to the corresponding swappable GPUs through the second interfaces respectively connected to the servers so as to expand the server operation capability.

A filter apparatus and method utilize a filter element having a central winding frame and a length of fluted filter material wound about the frame with the flutes of the media oriented substantially longitudinally, to thereby provide for filtration of a flow of fluid passing axially through the filter element. The winding frame is a substantially open, truss-like structure, having a smooth outer periphery and an axially extending winding feature to facilitate pulling the media into intimate contact with the smooth outer periphery during fabrication of the filter element. A leading edge of the filter media is anchored to a leading edge of the frame by a length of tape.

A hollow fiber device includes a hollow fiber bundle, comprising a plurality of hollow fibers, a first tubesheet and a second tubesheet encapsulating respective distal ends of the hollow fiber bundle. The tubesheets have boreholes in fluid communication with bores of the hollow fibers. In at least one of the tubesheets, the boreholes are formed radially. The hollow fiber device can be utilized in heat exchange, in gas/gas, liquid/liquid and gas/liquid heat transfer, in combined heat and mass transfer and in fluid separation assemblies and processes. The design disclosed herein is light weight and compact and is particularly advantageous when the pressure of a first fluid introduced into the bores of hollow fibers is higher than the pressure on the shell side of the device.

A digital video stream is digitally scaled to properly display on a device having a horizontal to vertical aspect ratio different than the source aspect ratio leaving a blank area on the device. Graphic data is digitally scaled separately to extend partially or completely into and therefore use the blank area. A compositing blender digitally combines the two prior to a display encoder which produces analog signals for driving the display device.

A variable capacitance unit is formed between one portion of a human body and an opposed electrode facing it through a casing of a robot toy (electronic device) when the one portion of the human body such as a hand or a finger approaches the surface of the casing of the robot. Since the capacitance of the variable capacitance unit varies according to the facing area and the facing distance of the one portion of the human body and the opposed electrode, it is possible to detect the one portion of the human body approaching or touching the robot toy by detecting this change. Since the opposed electrode forming the touch sensor can be provided within the casing, the touch sensor cannot be seen directly from the outside of the robot toy.

A cooling system for light emitting diodes (LEDs) is provided that may comprise acoustic baffle members, a micro-channel heatsink that includes fins adjacent to the LEDs, and a fluid flow generator adjacent to the micro-channel heatsink that directs a fluid in a flow direction. The fluid flow generator may include an input to receive the fluid and an exit to exhaust the fluid, which may contact a surface area of the fins. The sound emitted by the fluid flow generator may be substantially cancelled by the acoustic baffle members, which may reflect the sound to a source location as reflected sound waves defined by a substantially inverted phase.

An active matrix display apparatus comprising two-dimensional arranged pixel circuits each including a display element connected with a signal line for supplying a current thereto and a scanning line, and further including a drive transistor and a capacitor, one terminal thereof being connected to a control terminal of the drive transistor, wherein a first main conductive terminal of the drive transistor and the other terminal of the capacitor are connected to a lighting power source for supplying a current to the display element, and wherein at the current writing operation, the current supplied to the signal line is conducted to the drive transistor and at the lighting operation, the conductive current is injected into the display element so that before completion of the write operation, a voltage drop by a predetermined value is started to the voltage of the lighting power source and is kept continued for a predetermined period.

A person having one or more implanted or surface attached electrodes navigates a window environment. Signals from the electrodes are attached to input circuits in a control circuit which includes a sequential digital control circuit. The control circuit is coupled to a processor running window environment software and having a display. While observing the display, the person is able to activate signals by activating or relaxing a muscle or by mental processes such as thought, to thereby navigate the software environment.

Studies of call center activities are performed by using a tool having timer buttons for timing call activities during a live or recorded call. Code values are assigned to specific activities and activity subtypes. The calls are assigned to a plurality of reviewers who gather data using the tool. Reviewer data is consolidated into a master database. The data is normalized with agent performance ratings. The normalized data is analyzed statistically to determine leverage points for improvement.