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A method for creating a playlist uses audio clips (i.e. a segment or portion of predetermined or selectable audio content from an audio data file) for audio data file recognition. Attributes of an audio clip may be selectable by the user such as length of playing time, audio file portion, an audio file category, data in an ID3 tag or the like. A user interface allows the user to add identifying data representative of an audio data file associated with an audio clip to the playlist. The method is applicable to all types of devices that play back audio content from a multitude of stored audio content. In particular, the method includes playback of an audio clip from each one of a set of audio data files during the playing of the audio clip. During playback of a particular audio clip, the user may add the selection to the playlist. Particularly, identifying data representative of an audio file associated with the currently playing audio clip is added to the playlist in response to user input. A user interface allows, for example, a single button or control to add content to a default, currently selected, or selectable playlist.

An audience surveying technique for identifying individual members of an audience listening to and/or watching a program performed from a programming signal source. A stationary apparatus is operatively arranged at a reception location with a plurality of portable devices designed to be worn by the audience members. The stationary apparatus detects and stores a surveying code transmitted with the program, and it also periodically emits a trigger signal which causes the portable devices to respond by emitting a unique identification signal pre-stored in each one. The stationary apparatus also detects and stores the identification signals. By associating the detected surveying code with the detected identification signals it is possible to quickly, accurately and reliably identify the individual audience members tuned to a particular program.

A method and system enables network intermediaries such as proxies to transcode multimedia data without violating end-to-end security guarantees. In one embodiment, a content provider decomposes a data stream into a plurality of components, each of which are independently encrypted. In a preferred embodiment, an intermediary or proxy performs transcoding of the components by prioritizing and dropping predetermined components, in accordance with unencrypted clear-text metadata associated with each component, without the need for decrypting the components. Clear-text metadata preferably provides a semantic understanding of the absolute or relative importance/priority of the components with respect to each other, thereby facilitating the transcoding process. The destination/client device can subsequently decrypt the components transmitted by the transcoding proxy and reassemble them into a representation of the original data content.

Methods and systems for accelerating data communication by reducing network latency particularly by data compression in which requested data is recursively compressed by an encoder and sent to the requester in codes which may or may not be understood by the requester. The requester can subsequently request data corresponding to unknown codes. The request-reply sequence is also recursive and continues until the requested data is present at the requester. To further accelerate communication, a persistently connected network is employed, together with a new socket layer capable of combining multiple messages from different machines, threads, and/or processes into single TCP/IP packets to be relayed along message hubs in the persistent network. These features are introduced singly and combined to create a new caching network. A new content distribution network can take advantage of these data communication improvements since requested content can be distributed in caches in a caching network.

The invention provides a fault on-line diagnosis and early warning method of a flameproof dry-type transformer for mine in order to raise the accuracy and rapidity of fault diagnosis. The method comprises the following steps: determining monitoring quantity; extracting characteristic values: extracting a three-dimensional spectra parameter and two-dimensional statistical parameter in a partial discharge signal as characteristic quantities, with regard to operation voltage, current and iron core leakage current, extracting effective values of the operation voltage, the current and the iron core leakage current as characteristic values, and taking real-time values of a temperature parameter as characteristic quantities; using a normalization method to calculate a corresponding value of each characteristic quantity and taking the corresponding value as an input parameter of an intelligent diagnosis system; collecting values of each monitoring quantity under different environment, and obtaining training and testing samples of a nerve network under corresponding environment; establishing a nerve network: selecting a generalized RBF nerve network intelligent diagnosis method to establish a nerve network; utilizing a sample data training nerve network and forming a fault diagnosis tool; establishing a database; storing collected real time data and the above diagnosis result into a ground server real-time database and a real-time early warning information table, and carrying out diagnosis and early warning through an expert system.

Exemplary methods and apparatus for improving speed, scalability, robustness and dynamism of data transfers and workload distribution to remote computers are provided. Computing applications, such as Genomics, Proteomics, Seismic, Risk Management require a priori or on-demand transfer of sets of files or other data to remote computers prior to processing taking place. The fully distributed data transfer and data replication protocol of the present invention permits transfers which minimize processing requirements on master transfer nodes by spreading work across the network and automatically synchronizing the enabling and disabling of job dispatch functions with workload distribution mechanisms to enable/disable job dispatch activities resulting in higher scalability than current methods, more dynamism and allowing fault-tolerance by distribution of functionality. Data transfers occur asynchronously to job distribution allowing full utilization of remote system resources to receive data for job queues while processing jobs for previously transferred data. Processor utilization is further increased as file accesses are local to systems and bear no additional network latencies that reduce processing efficiency.

A fingerprint reading mechanism is utilized so as to determine which audience members are present during various stages of an audio, visual, or audiovisual program. The fingerprint reading mechanism is associated with a processing mechanism, an “enter” button, an “exit” button, a clock, memory, an output indicator, and a code receiver. As an audience member enters or exits the program performance area, the audience member places a hand, or portion thereof, in proximity to the fingerprint reading mechanism, and also presses the “enter” or “exit” button as appropriate. Optionally, the functionalities of the “enter” button and the fingerprint reading mechanism may be combined into a single automatically activated enter/fingerprint reading mechanism, and the functionalities of the “exit” button and the fingerprint reading mechanism may be combined into a single automatically activated exit/fingerprint reading mechanism. The fingerprint reading mechanism generates a fingerprint data record in response to a human hand, or portion thereof, held in proximity thereto. The processing mechanism compares the generated fingerprint data record with each of a plurality of stored fingerprint data records accessed from memory so as to permit retrieval of an audience member identifier corresponding to the generated fingerprint data record. An audience log entry associates the retrieved audience member identifier with a corresponding clock time parameter and a corresponding enter/exit parameter. In response to retrieving an audience member identifier from a generated set of fingerprint data, the processing mechanism creates and stores an audience log entry by loading the current value of the clock as the clock time parameter.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for automated trading. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for processing trade orders essentially instantaneously and filling trade orders with improvement over the National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO) by internalizing certain customer trade orders.

A data processing system adapted for high-speed network communications, a method for managing a network interface and a network interface for such system, are provided, in which processing of packets received over the network is achieved by embedded logic at the network interface level. Incoming packets on the network interface are parsed and classified as they are stored in a buffer memory. Functional logic coupled to the buffer memory on the network interface is enabled to access any data field within a packet in a single cycle, using pointers and packet classification information produced by the parsing and classifying step. Results of operations on the data fields in the packets are available before the packets are transferred out of the buffer memory. A data processing system, a method for management of a network interface and a network interface are also provided by the present invention that include an embedded firewall at the network interface level of the system, which protects against inside and outside attacks on the security of data processing system. Furthermore, a data processing system, a method for management of a network interface and a network interface are a provided by the present invention that support class of service management for packets incoming from the network, by applying priority rules at the network interface level of the system.

An SOI-based photonic bandgap (PBG) electro-optic device utilizes a patterned PBG structure to define a two-dimensional waveguide within an active waveguiding region of the SOI electro-optic device. The inclusion of the PBG columnar arrays within the SOI structure results in providing extremely tight lateral confinement of the optical mode within the waveguiding structure, thus significantly reducing the optical loss. By virtue of including the PBG structure, the associated electrical contacts may be placed in closer proximity to the active region without affecting the optical performance, thus increasing the switching speed of the electro-optic device. The overall device size, capacitance and resistance are also reduced as a consequence of using PBGs for lateral mode confinement.

A method and system is described for implementing patient care management functionality. The disclosure includes querying a set of clinical rules and obtaining claims data containing clinical information relating to a plurality of patients. The system can identify patients that would benefit from care management and create a listing of markers, or conditions, associated with each identified patient based on the claims data containing clinical information relating to the patient. The system generates an individual care plan for a patient base on the identified markers and the claims data containing clinical information relating to the patient.

The invention discloses an RTCP calibration and compensation method for a five-axis NC machine tool of a double-pendulum-head structure. The method comprises the steps of recording the calibrated coordinate values of each rotating shaft at different angle positions, and calculating to obtain the offset vector of each rotating shaft and the vector data of each rotating shaft in the axis direction;writing the data into corresponding machine tool parameters of a numerical control system; and activating the five-axis linkage function of the numerical control system. In this way, the problems thatthe characteristic data of the five-axis machine tool cannot be directly acquired and the precision of a traditional method is low can be effectively solved. The accuracy of calibrated data is guaranteed, and the rapidity and the accuracy of the five-axis RTCP calibration are improved. As a result, the adjustment time is shortened, and the introduction of human errors is reduced.

Touch sensitivity is enabled using a touch system that comprises a panel configured to conduct signals, e.g. by TIR, along detection lines across a touch surface. A signal processor operates to generate data samples indicative of transmitted signal energy on parallel detection lines at a number of different angles across the touch surface; process the data samples for generation of interpolated Fourier coefficients at grid points in a regular grid in a Fourier domain; and operate a two-dimensional inverse Fourier transform on the interpolated Fourier coefficients so as to generate an interaction pattern for the touch surface. The interpolated Fourier coefficients are generated sequentially for individual groups of grid points. Each individual group comprises grid points that have equal distance to an origin in the regular grid, e.g. grid points that are mapped onto each other by one or ore lines of symmetry in the regular grid. The group-based processing may improve processing speed and/or reduce the need for data storage.

By separately setting a capacitor on BL depending on whether the mode is a DRAM mode or an FRAM mode, it is compatible with improvement in a speed by BL capacitor reduction in the DRAM mode and a sufficient BL capacitance in the FRAM mode.

A ferroelectric memory device includes: a plurality of bit lines BL disposed in a column direction; a plurality of word lines WL disposed in a row direction; a plurality of plate lines PL and a bit line capacitor control signal BLC; a ferroelectric memory cell (32) disposed at an intersection of the plurality of bit lines BL, the plurality of word lines WL, and the plurality of plate lines PL, and composed of a ferroelectric capacitor CF and a memory cell transistor QM; and a load capacitor adjustment cell (34) disposed at an intersection of the plurality of bit lines BL and the bit line capacitor control signal BLC, and composed of a load capacitor CL and a load capacitor adjustment transistor QL.

The present invention provides a method and system for identifying, retrieving and presenting electronic documents responsive to user queries. The three distinct inventive concepts are relevancy ranking of responsive documents based on component query technique; cross-lingual searching; and search expansion using analytics of initial results to derive and generate a modified query. Each of these inventions enhances document search and retrieval systems and the three solutions may be used separately or in any combination. The three inventions apply in layers above an underlying search system, controlling the submission of requests to the underlying system in support of received search requests, typically originating with an end user. Invention (III) provides a semantic-expansion capability specifically utilizing the availability of language independent fields in the data being searched with natural language query terms. This invention is enhanced by incorporating the preceding two inventions.

The invention discloses an intelligent supermarket cashier system and method based on mobile payment and the IOT (Internet of Things), and relates to the field of smart city application. The system comprises a plurality of commodity bar code scanners, a plurality of intelligent shopping carts, a background management center, a plurality of self-service cashier devices, an alarm device, and a wireless network covering a whole supermarket. The intelligent shopping carts are provided with price recognition modules and communication modules, so as to recognize the price and number of commodities in the shopping carts and transmit the price and number of commodities and the IDs of the shopping carts to the background management center. The background management center calculates the total prices corresponding to the IDs. The self-service cashier devices automatically recognize the IDs of the shopping carts, and display the details and total prices of corresponding commodities. A consumer can finish payment through a mobile terminal. The system can achieve the self-service shopping and payment, saves the time in searching the commodities, saves the time of a cashier in scanning the price of each commodity, reduces the waiting time of the consumer, is convenient and quick, and can remarkably improve the user experience.

The invention discloses a method for controlling steering stability of a distributed-drive electric vehicle. The method comprises the following steps of: step 1: according to signals detected by a vehicle speed sensor and a steering wheel angle sensor, obtaining a longitudinal vehicle speed u and a forewheel steering angle delta of a running vehicle through calculation of a state observation module; step 2: according to the longitudinal vehicle speed u and the forewheel steering angle delta obtained in the step 1, and obtaining a reference yaw rate omega rd of the running vehicle by a linear two-degree-of-freedom vehicle dynamic model; step 3: detecting an actual yaw rate omega r of the vehicle by using a gyroscope; step 4: according to the reference yaw rate omega rd and the actual yaw rate omega r, designing a steering stability controller and obtaining a yaw moment required by the steering stability control of the vehicle; and step 5: using the minimum tire utilization rate as an optimization objective, designing a distribution function and obtaining a driving torque Ti of four wheel hub motors. The phenomenon of ''chattering'' of a system is effectively suppressed, robustness is improved, and the steering stability of the distributed-drive electric vehicle is well controlled.

An automation cell incorporating elements for performing secondary operations on a machined part is adapted to be disposed adjacent to a machining center for performing the primary operations on the part. The cell incorporates a robotic arm capable of being moved into position with respect to the machining center so as to load machined parts into the machining center and unload primarily machined parts for the performance of secondary operations in the cell. In a preferred embodiment the automation cell performs roll check operations on the primarily machined gear by bringing it into meshed engagement with a master gear and rotating the meshed gears and employing a sensor to monitor the roll-out of the machined gear.

A method of obtaining a mass spectrum of elements in a sample is disclosed. Sample precursor ions having a mass to charge ratio M/Z are generated, and fragmented at a dissociation site, so as to produce fragment ions of mass to charge ratio m/z. The fragment ions are guided into an ion trap of the electrostatic or “Orbitrap” type, the fragment ions entering the trap in groups dependent upon the precursor ions M/Z. The mass to charge ratio of each group is determined from the axial movement of ions in the trap. The electric field in the trap is distorted. Ions of the same m/z, that are derived from different pre-cursor ions, are then separated, because the electric field distortion causes the axial movement to become dependent upon factors other than m/z alone.

A plastic container used to hold a dispersion-based paint colorant and capable of dispensing the colorant into paint dispensing machines, comprising an open top capable of holding and securing a cap, and having a wide mouth with a diameter of at least 50 mm. The plastic container has a cylindrical body extending below the open top, and a plurality of vertical ribs spaced around the body to strengthen the container. The plastic container may be used to hold a dispersion-based paint colorant or personal care products such as shampoo and conditioner.

Disclosed is a context modeller (103) used in decoding data (202) encoded using Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding, said context modeler (103) comprising a Read Only Memory (1001) for storing uninitialized context model values, said uninitialized context model values being stored in the Read Only Memory (1001) in a manner that enables a plurality of uninitialized context model values to be read from the Read Only Memory (1001) in a single clock cycle, an Arithmetic Logic Module (1003) comprising a plurality of parallel processing paths (2202-2207), each said processing path comprising a plurality of pipeline stages, a Random Access Memory (1005) and a memory controller (1008) for determining, using the Arithmetic Logic Module (1005) operating on said plurality of uninitialized context model values read from the Read Only Memory (1001) in each clock cycle, initialized context model values for storage in the Random Access Memory (1001) based upon header information in said incoming encoded data (202).

A method and system for transforming a video image from a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image on an array of pixels to a Low Dynamic Range (LDR) image. An old luminance generated from a color space of the HDR image is scaled and segmented into stripes. Each stripe has at least one row of the array. A target zone surrounding a current pixel in each stripe is determined from a search strategy selected from a linear search strategy and a zone history-based search strategy. A convolution of the scaled luminance at a current pixel of each stripe is computed using a kernel specific to the target zone. The convolution is used to convert the stripes to tone-mapped luminance stripes which are collected to form a tone mapped luminance pixel array that is transformed to the color space to form the LDR image. The LDR image is stored and/or displayed.

Hashing functions have many practical applications in data storage and retrieval. Perfect hashing functions are extremely difficult to find, especially if the data set is large and without large-scale structure. There are great rewards for finding good hashing functions, considering the savings in computational time such functions provide, and much effort has been expended in this search. This in mind, we present a strong competitive evolutionary method to locate efficient hashing functions for specific data sets by sampling and evolving from the set of polynomials over the ring of integers mod n. We find favorable results that seem to indicate the power and usefulness of evolutionary methods in this search. Polynomials thus generated are found to have consistently better collision frequencies than other hashing methods. This results in a reduction in average number of array probes per data element hashed by a factor of two. Presented herein is an evolutionary algorithm to locate efficient hashing functions for specific data sets. Polynomials are used to investigate and evaluate various evolutionary strategies. Populations of random polynomials are generated, and then selection and mutation serve to eliminate unfit polynomials. The results are favorable and indicate the power and usefulness of evolutionary methods in hashing. The average number of collisions using the algorithm presented herein is about one-half of the number of collisions using other hashing methods. Efficient methods of data storage and retrieval are essential to today's information economy. Despite the cur-rent obstacles to creating efficient hashing functions, hashing is widely used due to its efficient data access. This study investigates the feasibility of overcoming such obstacles through the application of Darwin's ideas by modeling the basic principles of biological evolution in a computer. Polynomials over Zn are the evolutionary units and it is believed that competition and selection based on performance would locate polynomials that make efficient hashing functions.

The invention provides a cancer cell tracking method based on deep learning detection. The method comprises the steps of: firstly, preprocessing data sets: using pascal_voc data sets to calibrate pictures and obtain picture tags with target classes and target positions; secondly, using a Faster R-CNN network: using the tags of the pictures obtained after data preprocessing and the data sets as input of the Faster R-CNN network, and obtaining a final detection model after network training; thirdly, tracking targets: after the obtained final cancer cell detection model has finished the detectionof cancer cells and is capable of locating the position of each target, judging the number of the targets accurately and realizing matching association of the cancer cells and target tracking by using a tracking algorithm. The method has the advantages of high accuracy and high multi-target tracking efficiency for cancer cells.

The present invention is provided with: a scene classification apparatus, that includes: a first partial classifier that determines that a classification target image pertains to a first scene, according to an evaluation result indicating that a partial image pertains to the first scene, by carrying out an evaluation as to whether or not the partial image pertains to the first scene, based on a partial characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of the partial image that constitutes a part of the classification target image; and a second partial classifier that determines that the classification target image pertains to a second scene having a characteristic different from that of the first scene, based on the partial characteristic amount, in the case where it is not determined that the classification target image pertains to the first scene with the first partial classifier; wherein the first partial classifier determines that, in the case where it is not determined that the classification target image pertains to the first scene, according to an evaluation result indicating that the partial image pertains to the first scene, the classification target image does not pertain to the second scene.

The invention relates to a data transmission system for an underwater acoustic network, which comprises a plurality of independent underwater nodes, wherein each underwater node is equivalently connected with at least the other underwater node. The data transmission system also comprises a transmitting optical antenna, a receiving optical antenna, a light source, an optical modulator, an optical receiver, an underwater acoustic transducer/receiving transducer, a digital signal processor and a positioning module, wherein the positioning module is provided with a rotating device and used for completing the alignment between the light source and the optical receiver; the transmitting optical antenna, the light source, the optical modulator and the digital signal processor are in signal connection with each other in turn; the receiving optical antenna, the optical receiver and the digital signal processor are in signal connection with each other in turn; the digital signal processor is also in signal connection with the positioning module and the underwater acoustic transducer/receiving transducer respectively; and the light source is a blue-green laser source. The invention also relates to a data transmission method for the underwater acoustic network. The invention reduces the collision probability of data in the transmission process, improves the success rate of the construction of a communication link, saves the network bandwidth, and improves the network throughout.

The invention provides a quick start-up method of synchronous motor zero-velocity sensor. The method includes that firstly, a system controller releases motor brake, starts blades to drive a fan to rotate; secondly, the system controller sends out a start-up indication to a motor side convertor after the motor speed reaches the cut-in speed; thirdly, the system controller makes the stator output end of the motor to be in short and detects stator short circuits ia, ib and ic; fourthly, the system controller computes the position angle Thetar and the rotation speed Omegar of the motor rotor according to the detected motor stator short circuits ia, ib and ic; fifthly, the system controller upgrades the relevant variable initial value in the zero-velocity sensor control strategy and starts up the zero-velocity sensor control strategy to realize the start-up of the motor according to the position angle Thetar and the rotation speed Omegar of the motor rotor in the fourth step. The invention accelerates the convergence of the zero-velocity sensor control strategy and realizes quick start-up through initializing the rotation speed and the position of the rotor in the zero-velocity sensor control strategy before the start-up of the motor.

Embodiments of the present application provide a method of battery charging, which relates to the field of battery charging and is capable of effectively improving safety performance of the battery. The method includes: obtaining an anode open circuit voltage curve, an anode impedance curve, a lithium deposition potential threshold and a state of charge, corresponding to a battery; determining a current anode open circuit voltage according to the anode open circuit voltage curve and the state of charge; determining a current anode impedance according to the anode impedance curve and the state of charge; determining a current charging current according to the current anode open circuit voltage, the current anode impedance and the lithium deposition potential threshold; and charging the battery according to the current charging current. Embodiments of the present application are applicable to a rapid battery charging process.

The invention relates to an integrated driving service system, which comprises a mobile phone APP, an intelligent driving diagnosis module, an intelligent driving service platform and an intelligent driving service center, wherein the mobile phone APP is loaded on a mobile phone of a vehicle owner; the intelligent driving diagnosis module is integrated on an intelligent driving diagnostic instrument, the intelligent driving service platform is stored with client serial numbers and intelligent driving diagnostic instrument serial numbers which are sequentially arranged according to the time; and the intelligent driving service platform comprises a diagnostic control, a processing server, a storage server and a communication module. The integrated intelligent driving service system takes an intelligent driving vehicle networking national operation service network as a support, provides functions of one-key navigation, remote diagnosis, security setting, emergency rescue, vehicle removing message passing and maintenance.

A method and apparatus for generating a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JEPG) file achieves fast decoding speed by enabling efficient locating of restart markers at a decoder. The method and apparatus determining a location to insert at least one restart marker by analyzing an image, performing entropy-encoding, by dividing the image into a plurality of segments based on the determined location in order to insert the restart marker, and inserting the restart marker to the determined location in order to insert the reset maker with respect to each of the plurality of entropy-encoded segments. The method performed by the apparatus includes calculating an offset value of the at least one restart marker with respect to each of the plurality of segments, based on a data size of each of the plurality of segments and a data size of the restart marker, calculating an offset value by scan number from a start of image (SOI) marker based on the calculated offset value of the restart marker, in response to the calculated offset value of the restart marker corresponding to a last segment that is entropy-encoded. The method and apparatus further store the calculated offset value by scan number, as additional application data.