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An apparatus for assisting safe operation of a vehicle includes an environment sensor system detecting hazards within the vehicle environment, a driver monitor providing driver awareness data (such as a gaze track), and an attention-evaluation module identifying hazards as sufficiently or insufficiently sensed by the driver by comparing the hazard data and the gaze track. An alert signal relating to the unperceived hazards can be provided.

Methods and systems for monitoring a plurality of different optical signals from a single source of such signals, where each such different optical signal is spatially separated from other such signals and directed to different detectors or locations upon a single detector, which direction is generally accomplished through the use of a small numberof optical components and/or manipulations.

Ordered binder document sections having different file formats stored within a binder file. The binder file maintains the order of binder document sections and the native file format of each section. The ordered sections can be viewed and edited through a viewport of a frame displayed by a binder program module. By selecting graphical images displayed in a selection area of the frame the content of a binder document section can be viewed and edited without viewing the content of other binder document sections. The graphical images can be icons or graphical images derived from the content of sections called thumbnail images. A thumbnail image can be derived from either the first page or from multiple pages of an individual section. The binder program module can also dispatch the underlying application program modules that created each binder document section to print, spell check, and grammar check the binder document sections as a single data processing task. In this manner, selected sections of a binder document can be printed as a single consecutively printed document without having other print jobs interrupting or intervening between printed sections of the binder document.

A method for increasing the usefulness of hypertext in a browser accessed web site by providing means to augment hyperlinks and other notable page content with additional metacontent and contextually appropriate tools by inserting a script into browser accessed document that when rendered by a web browser causes the link objects within a Document Object to be augmented with extra information relevant to the linked URL, said information obtained from a different domain than the one on which the document resides.

Various embodiments are disclosed ladar point cloud compression. For example, a processor can be used to analyze data representative of an environmental scene to intelligently select a subset of range points within a frame to target with ladar pulses via a scanning ladar transmission system. In another example embodiment, a processor can perform ladar point cloud compression by (1) processing data representative of an environmental scene, and (2) based on the processing, selecting a plurality of the range points in the point cloud for retention in a compressed point cloud, the compressed point cloud comprising fewer range points than the generated point cloud.

The invention discloses a personalized news recommendation device and method based on news content and theme feature. The recommendation device is equipped with seven modules, namely a news capturing module, a pre-treatment module, a theme model training module, a theme model predicting module, a user model building module, a news recommendation module and a recommendation treatment module. The recommendation method comprises the following steps: building an personalized user model with the theme model and a relevant named entity noun sequence to express the interest preference of the user reading news, and calculating weight and converting the theme feature vector of users so as to reduce the influence of hot themes and single news content on the user interest, thereby effectively overcoming the defects of concentrated user interest and insufficient diversity of recommendation results. In a recommendation output stage, an initial recommendation news list is treated, a theme grouping process based on the personalized user model is added on the basis of currently repeating data deleting and redundancy filtering, and news texts are reordered again according to the aging weight so as to recommend the accurate, diversified and novel personalized news.

The invention discloses a program switching system, which is characterized by the following: the service platform transmits the stored user viewing information to monitor platform and program platform with program switching function separately; the program platform transmits the user viewing information to monitor platform, which monitors the program. The invention guarantees the accuracy and fairness of shared settlement for program and service platforms, which improves usability of program switching system.

The present invention relates to a variable-torque magnetorheologically actuated prosthetic knee which utilizes a plurality of interspersed and alternating rotors and stators to shear magnetorheological fluid in gaps formed therebetween. Advantageously, by operating in the "shear mode" there is substantially no or negligible fluid pressure buildup or change. Moreover, the multiple MR fluid gaps or flux interfaces desirably allow for the production of a large torque at low speed-eliminating the need for a transmission-and also for a wide dynamic torque range. One embodiment of the invention allows the rotors and/or stators to close the gaps therebetween to create a frictional torque component, thereby forming a "hybrid" braking system which provides a total torque or damping which is a combination of viscous torque and frictional torque.

The invention discloses a machine vision and inertial navigation fusion-based mobile robot motion attitude estimation method which comprises the following steps of: synchronously acquiring a mobile robot binocular camera image and triaxial inertial navigation data; distilling front/back frame image characteristics and matching estimation motion attitude; computing a pitch angle and a roll angle by inertial navigation; building a kalman filter model to estimate to fuse vision and inertial navigation attitude; adaptively adjusting a filter parameter according to estimation variance; and carrying out accumulated dead reckoning of attitude correction. According to the method, a real-time expanding kalman filter attitude estimation model is provided, the combination of inertial navigation and gravity acceleration direction is taken as supplement, three-direction attitude estimation of a visual speedometer is decoupled, and the accumulated error of the attitude estimation is corrected; and the filter parameter is adjusted by fuzzy logic according to motion state, the self-adaptive filtering estimation is realized, the influence of acceleration noise is reduced, and the positioning precision and robustness of the visual speedometer is effectively improved.

A disposable absorbent article including features facilitating toilet training of a wearer. A wetness sensation member provides a wetness sensation on the wearer's skin upon urination. Highlighting that is visible when viewing a body-facing surface of the article may be associatively correlated with the concept of toilet training and indicates the presence of the wetness sensation member in the article while providing a visual reference and topic for conversation relevant to toilet training. Refastenable side seams enable the configuration, application, and removal of the article as a pair of training pants or as a diaper, while providing an appearance like training pants when the article is worn and allowing easy inspection of the interior of the article without the necessity of pulling the article downward. The synergistic effect of each feature in combination with one or more of the other features enhances the usefulness of the article in toilet training.

The invention discloses a method for processing a space hand signal gesture command based on a depth camera and relates to the method for processing the space hand signal gesture command based the depth camera. The method for processing the space hand signal gesture command based the depth camera is capable of recognizing space hand signal gesture command information fast and accurately, improving working efficiency and precision greatly and being high in robustness, strong in practical applicability and good in anti-jamming capability when applied to a complex and changeable environment. The method comprises the steps of acquiring a real-time image by the depth camera, obtaining hand signal point cloud data by using three-dimensional point cloud computation and obtaining hand signal point cloud information, achieving a plane registering of the hand signal point cloud information and extracting contour feature point information, resuming a hand signal gesture, recognizing the hand signal gesture, recognizing a corresponding movement track and defining operation content of the movement track and finally achieving data smoothing of a dynamic hand signal gesture mouse output point according to a protocol for table-top tangible user interfaces (TUIO). The method for processing the space hand signal gesture command based the depth camera has the advantages of being fast , comprehensive and accurate in acquiring target information, establishing a space motion detecting area, extracting information with different depth, achieving multi-touch and improving integral operating performance.

The present invention provides time released markers for use with single reservoir and commingled wells. The invention accomplishes the time release of markers by coating or encapsulating marker particles or by coating a proppant which has been saturated with a marker. After coating or encapsulation, the marker is injected into a well as is known in the art. The marker remains in the well. The marker is released after an elapsed of time. The elapsed time can be in a wide range. After the elapsed time, production is taken from the well and tested for the presence of the marker. Various types of known analyses can be performed to test for the presence and concentration of the marker in the production fluid. The concentration of the marker in the production fluid allows the apportioning of production from the reservoir. In addition, different markers may be added to each zone within a reservoir where each marker has a different elapsed time increment. The zones can be any different layer or area in the reservoir such as different strata or layer of rock, limestone or sand. Differing marker combinations allow contribution from different zones to be monitored over an extended time.

The invention discloses a down filling machine, which comprises a down storage box, weighing cabinets, down filling pipes and a programmable controller, wherein the down storage box is provided with at least two weighing cabinets; at least two weighing boxes are arranged in each weighing cabinet; the total number of the weighing boxes is equal to the total number of down outlets of the down storage box; each weighing cabinet is provided with at least one down filling pipe; the total number of the weighing boxes in each weighing cabinet is dual, and the number of the down filling pipes is a half of the total number of the weighing boxes. According to the down filling machine, the close full-automatic down filling can be carried out, the labor intensity is reduced, the production efficiency is improved, and the production cost is decreased. The down filling machine has the advantages of reasonable design, simple structure, low cost and good practicability. The down storage box of the down filling machine has stable down output, so that the down filling consistence and the down filling precision are ensured; a weighing process of the weighing boxes is independent, precise and effective; the down filling pipes cannot fill the down to airtight cutting pieces; working conditions of the multiple weighing boxes are alternatively changed and one down filling pipe is used for outputting, so that the down filling efficiency is further improved.

An autonomous navigation and man-machine coordination picking operating system of a picking robot comprises a travelling unit of the picking robot, a picking robot arm, an Agent, a wireless sensor network, a computer and a panoramic stereoscopic visual sensor. The Agent has functions of autonomous navigation, obstacle avoidance, positioning and path planning and the like, the wireless sensor network is used for completing man-machine coordination picking information interaction, the computer is used for providing long-distance intervention and management for picking administrators during man-machine coordination picking operation, and the panoramic stereoscopic visual sensor is used for acquiring panoramic stereoscopic video images in a picking area. The autonomous navigation and man-machine coordination picking operating system of the picking robot is fine in natural flexibility, simple in mechanism, low in control complexity, limited intelligent, high in picking efficiency, fine in environmental adaptation, and low in manufacturing and maintenance costs., Picking objects and crop are not damaged during picking.

The invention discloses an autonomous location and navigation method and an autonomous location and navigation system of a robot. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring the RGB image of the robot in the current position; carrying out characteristic point matching on the RGB image of the current position and an indoor three-dimensional point cloud map, and determining the current position of the robot in the indoor 3D point cloud map; carrying out characteristic point matching on a pre-stored RGB image of a destination and the indoor three-dimensional point cloud map, and determining the position of the destination in the indoor 3D point cloud map; and searching an optimal path from the current position to the destination position in the indoor 3D point cloud map, and driving the robot to run according to the optimal path. The method and the system have the advantages of completion of autonomous location and navigation through using a visual sensor, simple device structure, low cost, simplicity in operation, and high path planning real-time property, and can be used in the fields of unmanned driving and indoor location and navigation.

Apparatus and methods are described, including apparatus for use with a subject who shares a bed with a second person. A motion sensor detects motion of the subject and motion of the second person, and generates a motion signal in response thereto. A control unit identifies components of the motion signal that were generated in response to motion of the subject, by distinguishing between components of the motion signal that were generated in response to motion of the subject, and components of the motion signal that were generated in response to motion of the second person. The control unit analyzes the components of the motion signal that were generated in response to motion of the subject and generates an output in response thereto. Other applications are also described.

An automated system and method for philanthropists to gain access to projects and organizations of interest and, if desired, for projects and organizations to gain access to philanthropists or philanthropic or other funding. The system is remotely accessible so that donor, organization and project managers or team members, and others can gain access to the system from disparate locations, such as through an intranet or the Internet. The system provides tools for organizations to manage information about themselves and projects with which they are connected or in which they are interested. It also provides tools for donor users to manage information about themselves and entities in which they have donated or that they are monitoring, and tools to find an associate themselves with those and other entities. The system provides security features and provides a topology that limits outside access to underlying system data and data facilities. The system is also structured to allow limited access to the public in general in order to promote the system and its use. The system facilitates methods of use that can provide methods of revenue generation for access to or use of the system or methods of use of the system.

The invention relates to an ultra-long-term freshness preserving system which can be applied to a refrigerator and installed in a refrigerating chamber of the refrigerator. The system comprises a freshness preserving box, an oxygen enriching membrane, a vacuum pump, a pressure sensor, a control plate and gas delivering pipes, wherein the oxygen enriching membrane is fixed in the freshness preserving box and connected with a gas sucking opening of the vacuum pump by the first gas delivering pipe penetrating through the wall of the freshness preserving box; an exhaust opening of the vacuum pump is led outside a box body for mounting the ultra-long-term freshness preserving system by the second gas delivering pipe; the pressure sensor is fixed to the first gas delivering pipe to sense the pressure in the freshness preserving box, and a signal line is connected with the control plate; and the control plate is connected with and controls the vacuum pump. The invention has ultrastrong freshness preserving function and can effectively improve the storing time of food stored in the refrigerator by being applied to the refrigerator; compared with the refrigeration of a common refrigerator, the invention is expected to be improved by 2-3 times. In addition, the invention can provide high-concentration oxygen for a room, has a plurality of advantages and practical values, and greatly improves the practicability and the healthy performance of the refrigerator.

The system and method described herein may include a configuration management database that describes every known service endpoint in a network datacenter to represent a steady state for the datacenter. One or more listeners may then observe traffic in the datacenter in real-time to detect network conversations initiating new activity in the datacenter, which may be correlated, in real-time, with the information in the configuration management database representing the steady state for the datacenter. Thus, in response to the new activity failing to correlate with the known service endpoints, a real-time security alert may be generated to indicate that any network conversations initiating such activity fall out-of-scope from the steady state for the information technology datacenter.

The invention discloses a knowledge graph-based enterprise risk prediction method and system. The method comprises the steps of 1) constructing entities of an enterprise knowledge graph, establishingrelationships between the entities, and extracting knowledge from set data sources to form the enterprise knowledge graph; 2) capturing news information of enterprises and related entities, processingthe captured news information based on the enterprise knowledge graph, marking relationships between the related entities and events, and storing marked information in a structured knowledge base toform an enterprise news information knowledge graph; and 3) performing enterprise risk prediction based on the enterprise knowledge graph and the enterprise news information knowledge graph. The blankof an existing knowledge graph in the field of enterprise risk analysis is filled; and the constructed enterprise knowledge graph and enterprise news information knowledge graph have relatively highpracticality.