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Systems and methods are described for co-registering, displaying and quantifying images from numerous different medical modalities, such as CT, MRI and SPECT. In this novel approach co-registration and image fusion is based on multiple user-defined Regions-of-Interest (ROI), which may be subsets of entire image volumes, from multiple modalities, where the each ROI may depict data from different image modalities. The user-selected ROI of a first image modality may be superposed over or blended with the corresponding ROI of a second image modality, and the entire second image may be displayed with either the superposed or blended ROI.

An anticipatory processing system is described. The anticipatory processing system includes a controller generating a prediction of an event determining program material to be displayed, and an audiovideo (A/V) processor controlled by the controller for preparing a digital stream for use in response to the prediction of the of the event. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

An apparatus for temperature control of manufacture of thick film materials includes a stage comprising a planar surface for supporting a bulk material to be implanted and subsequently cleaved. The bulk material has a surface region, a side region, and a bottom region which provides a volume of material and defines a length between the bottom region and the surface region. The apparatus further includes a mechanical clamp device adapted to engage the bottom region to the planar surface of the stage such that the bulk material is in physical contact with the planar surface for thermal energy to transfer through an interface region between the bulk material and the stage while the surface region is substantially exposed. Additionally, the apparatus includes a sensor device configured to measure a temperature value of the surface region and generate an input data. The apparatus further includes an implant device configured to perform implantation of a plurality of particles through one or more portions of the surface region of the bulk material and a controller configured to receive and process the input data to increase and/or decrease the temperature value of the surface region through at least the interface region between the planar surface of the stage and the bottom region of the bulk material.

An engine control system in a vehicle including a variable displacement internal combustion engine, a controller for controlling the displacement of the variable displacement internal combustion engine, and where the controller operates the variable displacement internal combustion engine in a partially displaced operating mode upon startup to increase exhaust gas temperature.

A control unit automatically stops an engine when a vehicle is stopped and automatically starts the engine in a case where operation for a vehicle start is conducted by a passenger or a specified emergency start is required. Herein, in the case where the operation for the vehicle start is conducted by the passenger, the engine is automatically started when ID verification with a portable device is confirmed, and in the case where the specified emergency start is required, the engine is automatically started without the confirmation of the ID verification with the portable device. Accordingly, a proper antitheft function of a smart engine starter (SES) system and a proper engine-start function of an idling stop start (ISS) system.

Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and an apparatus for header compression in a network relay scenario. The method includes: receiving, by a relay node, a first header-compressed data packet sent by user equipment or another relay node; encapsulating a transport protocol header for the first data packet and performing header compression for the header to form a second data packet; and sending the second data packet to an eNodeB or a next relay node in an uplink direction.

An electromagnetic absorber (10) for a vehicle including (a) a threaded rod (78) which is disposed on one of a sprung portion and an unsprung portion and which has a threaded groove (76) formed in its outer circumferential portion and an axial groove (90) extending in its axis direction (b) a nut (80) which is rotatably disposed on the other of the sprung portion and the unsprung portion and which is screwed with the threaded rod and (c) a rod-rotation inhibiting member (82) which includes a fitting portion configured to be fitted in the axial groove and which is disposed on the other of the sprung portion and the unsprung portion, the rod-rotation inhibiting member being configured to inhibit the threaded rod from rotating while permitting the threaded rod to move in the axis direction. In the electromagnetic absorber, the threaded groove is not formed at a section of a fitting range at which the fitting portion is fitted in the axial groove when the fitting portion is located at an end of the fitting range that extends in the axis direction on the outer circumferential portion of the threaded rod.

An intelligent event information presentation method and terminal is provided for facilitating information utilization by processing various event information, intelligently generated in association with a function of the terminal. The event information presentation method of the present invention includes collecting event information; and presenting at least one of the collected event information, according to a current operation mode.

A method for transmitting a packet in a wireless access network based on a wavelength identification code scheme. The method comprises the steps of connecting n number of RNCs (Radio Network Controllers) to one sub-ring where the “n” is a positive integer, and assigning a unique wavelength to each RNC; identifying a packet to be transmitted between the RNCs located within a same sub-ring using the assigned unique wavelength, and transmitting the packet through an SRC (Sub-Ring Controller); connecting m number of SRCs to one main-ring where the “m” is a positive integer, and assigning a unique wavelength to each SRC; and detaching a wavelength identification code from the packet to be transmitted between the RNCs located within different sub-rings, and transmitting the packet having the encapsulated wavelength identification code through an MRC (Main-Ring Controller).

The invention discloses a manufacturing method of embossed gold art porcelain. Based on an 'addition process embossment technology', the manufacturing method comprises design and drawing of embossment decoration patterns at the early stage, digital treatment and film manufacturing, and is characterized by sequentially comprising the following steps: 1) manufacturing a silk screen plate of an embossment decoration pattern; 2) manufacturing ceramic transfer paper of embossment decoration patterns; 3) manufacturing a silk screen plate of gold decoration patterns; 4) manufacturing ceramic transfer paper of the gold decoration patterns; 5) pasting flowers; 6) baking flowers; 7) carrying out gold decoration; and 8) carrying out gold baking. Based on the 'addition process embossment' technology, the manufacturing method of embossed gold art porcelain can be applied to large-scale and standardized production of embossed gold art porcelain with extremely high practical, ornamental and collection value; products are dignified, graceful and gorgeous; the embossment pattern surface has the thickness of 120microns, has concave and convex handfeel, and is high in sense of layering. Compared with the traditional 'addition process embossment' technology, the production efficiency and the finished product rate of products are improved obviously.

A vision testing device for measuring single or multiple visual functions consisting of an internally illuminated hand-held instrument, vision charts, vision correcting and occluding elements, a testing frame for holding combined vision correcting and blocking elements, and modular accessories.

Embodiments include an apparatus, a computer readable medium and a method for distributing tessellations within an accelerated processing device (APD) including at least two compute units. Embodiments include processing a plurality of patches in a first compute unit using a hull shader to generate hull shader output data. Once generated, hull shader output data is stored to an off-chip memory when tessellation factors associated with the shader program are greater than a configured threshold. Once stored in the off-chip memory, at least a portion of the hull shader output data is dynamically processed using a second compute unit.

The invention relates to a granular whole grain flour. A production process is as below: screening the whole grains and accessories, removing impurities, cleaning, baking at low temperature, sterilizing, blending according to a formula and grinding; and granulating the ground and cooked whole grain flour according to a conventional food and condiment granulation process through a food granulator, and packing the granular whole grain flour respectively. The granular whole grain flour comprises the following components by weight percentage: 50-100% of cereals and 0-50% of an auxiliary material. The auxiliary material is a food material or a mixture of many kinds of raw materials, and the auxiliary material is added to regulate the taste and nutrition of the whole grain flour; the whole grain flour has the nutritional characteristics of whole grains, and is supplemented with the nutrition of fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, seafood, edible mushroom and Chinese herbal medicines; therefore, the granular whole grain flour can reach dietetic invigoration effect, is easy to drink and nonstick, and simplifies the production process.

A clamping tool, particularly a clamping clip, is provided with first and second clamping jaw carriers which are associated with a track and which respectively bear a clamping jaw. At least the first clamping jaw carrier can be displaced along the track in one direction by a stepped shifting gear mechanism and is prevented from being displaced in the opposite direction by a detachable return locking element and can be displaced along the track.

A method for tile-based rendering of content. Content may be rendered in a memory region organized as multiple tiles. In scenarios in which content is generated in layers, for operations that involve compositing image layers, an order in which portions of the image are processed may be selected to reduce the aggregate number of memory accesses times, which in turn may improve the performance of a computer that uses tile-based rendering. An image may be processed such that operations relating to rendering portions of different layers corresponding to the same tile are performed sequentially. Such processing may be used in a computer with a graphics processing unit that supports tile-based rendering, and may be particularly well suited for computers with a slate form factor. An interface to a graphics processing utility within the computer may provide a flag to allow an application to specify whether operations may be reordered.

The invention relates to a cloud platform privacy protection method based on frequent item retrieval. The cloud platform privacy protection method comprises the steps of extracting a frequent item set of data according to an association rule algorithm; establishing a frequent item model library by performing parallel retrieval on multiple key words; sorting retrieval results by means of a parallel distributed sorting algorithm to find sensitive records; performing difference privacy protection on the sensitive records on a cloud platform through a clustering algorithm. According to conditions of frequent items of the data, the sensitive records revealing user information are retrieved, and difference privacy protection is performed on the sensitive records in a targeted mode. Therefore, relevant sensitive information cannot be speculated according to known non-sensitive information. By means of the cloud platform privacy protection method based on frequent item retrieval, the sensitive records are protected only, other information contents are not affected, therefore, data leakage risk is reduced while effectiveness of published data is increased, and safety of the data on the cloud platform is ensured.

A distributed, deduplicated storage system according to certain embodiments is arranged in a parallel configuration including multiple deduplication nodes. Deduplicated data is distributed across the deduplication nodes. The deduplication nodes can be networked together and communicate with one another according using a light-weight, customized communication scheme (e.g., a scheme based on FTP or HTTP). In some cases, deduplication management information including deduplication signatures and/or other metadata is stored separately from the deduplicated data in deduplication management nodes, improving performance and scalability.

A cache memory system including a primary cache and an overflow cache that are searched together using a search address. The overflow cache operates as an eviction array for the primary cache. The primary cache is addressed using bits of the search address, and the overflow cache is addressed by a hash index generated by a hash function applied to bits of the search address. The hash function operates to distribute victims evicted from the primary cache to different sets of the overflow cache to improve overall cache utilization. A hash generator may be included to perform the hash function. A hash table may be included to store hash indexes of valid entries in the primary cache. The cache memory system may be used to implement a translation lookaside buffer for a microprocessor.

A washing machine driving apparatus comprises: a drive motor of a double rotor-double stator structure where the drive motor comprises an inner rotor and an outer rotor controllable independently by a double stator, and optionally generating inner rotor output and outer rotor output; a first inner shaft transferring the inner rotor output as a first input; a first outer shaft rotatably coupled to an outer periphery of the first inner shaft, and transferring the outer rotor output as a second input; a planetary gear unit where a gear ratio of a transmission output generated from a carrier is controlled by the second input applied to a ring gear through the first outer shaft, when the first input is applied to a sun gear through the first inner shaft; and a protection unit protecting the inner rotor where an outer peripheral portion of protection unit is supported by the double stator.

The invention relates to a structure of a respirator, in particular to the structure that combined layers are inserted between interlayers inside the respirator. The respirator is provided with a breathing layer at the outer part and a protective layer on the inner side, and at least more than one filtering layer is preset between the breathing layer and the protective layer; and at least more than one combined layer can be inserted between the breathing layer and the filtering layer, between the filtering layer and the protective layer and between the filtering layers respectively, or the combined layers can be directly synthesized on at least one surface of the interlayers, wherein, the combined layers are subject to the combination treatment with cyclodextrin and chemical compounds by taking polybasic acids as a bridge, thereby having the characteristics of water absorption, smell absorption, aromatization, human treatment, insect repellence, bacteria resistance and the like. The combined layers are arranged between the interlayers inside the respirator, thereby serving the combined type functions so as to gain the using effect, avoid the improper situation about peculiar smell and moisture when in use and improve the use safety of the respirator.

The present invention comprises microfiller-reinforced polymer films. Microfiller-reinforced polymer films are films having high aspect-ratio fillers incorporated therewith, which filler have a minor dimension less that 20 μm and a major dimension at least three times greater than the minor dimension.

The present invention provides methods of improving growth performance, improving the efficiency of feed utilization, and increasing feed digestibility of poultry receiving animal feed. Composition of the multi-component enzyme mixture designed to achieve the same are also provided.

An endoscopic surgical tool guider port, installed in a surgical puncture site of a patient during an endoscopic surgery, wherein an extraction bag for containing and preserving extractions made during surgery protrudes from a tube body to the outside so that the surgery can be continued while the extractions made in the surgical process are directly contained and stored in the extraction bag, formed on the tube body, without requiring the opening or releasing of the guide port during the surgical process. A gas exhaust valve for a surgical tool guider port, and more particularly, a gas exhaust valve for a surgical tool guider port for promptly releasing toxic gases or smoke generated during the surgical process through a simple one-touch manipulation of pushing a button, thereby improving the convenience of use and enabling a smooth endoscopic surgery, compared to a conventional gas exhaust port used during surgery.

The invention relates to a wheel-type coiled tubing injection device comprising an injection wheel provided with a horizontal rotary shaft. The injection wheel is rotatably disposed on an injection wheel support and driven by a transmission mechanism. The peripheral surface of the upper portion of the injection wheel is provided with a plurality of fixed bearings at intervals; the fixed bearings are fixed on the injection wheel support; the bottom of each fixed bearing is away from the peripheral surface of the injection wheel by a certain distance; a clamp wheel support is connected to the bottom of each fixed bearing through a clamping hydraulic cylinder; a clamp wheel is pivoted to each clamp wheel support; rotary shafts of the clamp wheels are parallel to the rotary shaft of the injection wheel. A coiled tube wound on a drum is wound on the injection wheel and pressed onto the surface of the injection wheel by the clamp wheels. The injection wheel is simple in structure, the whole structure of the injection device is simplified, and manufacture cost of the injection device is reduced. The injection wheel has a guide function; guide and injection functions are combined; field installation of an injection mechanism and a guide mechanism is avoided; construction efficiency is improved.

The invention relates to multivitamin vegetable powder. The multivitamin vegetable powder is prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 50-100% of a vegetable and 0-50% of an auxiliary material, wherein the vegetable refers to one type of vegetable or the combination of various vegetables, and the auxiliary material refers to one type of food raw material or the combination of various food raw materials. The taste and nutrition of the multivitamin vegetable powder are adjusted by adding the vegetable and the auxiliary material, and the type and amount of the vegetable and the auxiliary material are changed and adjusted according to different standard requirements on the taste and nutrition, so that the multivitamin vegetable powder has more tastes and nutrition, a dependant can achieve a dietetic invigoration effect, and the multivitamin vegetable powder is a green food without any additive. A manufacturing process of the multifunctional vegetable powder comprises more than 10 process steps of screening the vegetable and the auxiliary material, removing impurities, cleaning, moistening, slicing, baking at a low temperature, sterilizing, crushing, grinding, packaging and the like, wherein the temperature during vacuum baking is 50-100 DEG C, and the baking time is 100-500 minutes; and the particle size of the multivitamin vegetable powder is 60-1000 meshes, and the water content is less than 8%.

The invention discloses a method and device for cloud service downlink in an edge-cloud computing environment, and equipment. The method comprises the following steps: establishing a model of a downlink cloud task of issuing an award R to an edge node i by a cloud node; defining the utility-ui of the edge node i and the utility u0 of the cloud node; establishing a Stackelberg game model for simulating an excitation mechanism; defining a Stackelberg equilibrium SE, an optimal resource strategy ci * and an optimal reward strategy based on the utility ui of the edge node i, the utility u0 of thecloud node and the Stackelberg game model; obtaining an effective algorithm obtained according to the Stackelberg equilibrium SE, the optimal resource strategy ci * and the optimal reward strategy inthe dynamic environment; establishing a model for reconstructing a downlink cloud task according to an effective algorithm; and executing cloud service downlink by utilizing the model for reconstructing the downlink cloud task. According to the method, the cloud nodes and the edge nodes are efficiently stimulated to cooperate, and heterogeneity and resource capacity of the edge nodes are considered, and an actual dynamic environment is supported.

A pixel structure of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The pixel structure comprises a pixel region, anode conductive layers, pixel units, and a cathode conductive layer. The pixel region comprises sub-pixel regions arranged in sequence, at least two adjacent sub-pixel regions defined as a sub-pixel region group are disposed integrally. The anode conductive layers are disposed in the sub-pixel regions respectively, and separated from each other. The cathode conductive layer is electrically connected with the anode conductive layers to control the pixel units. Each of the pixel units comprises sub-pixels and is disposed in the pixel region. Each of the sub-pixels is disposed in one of the sub-pixel regions. The sub-pixels are formed integrally and have a same color in the sub-pixel region group. The pixel unit comprises a hole injection layer, a luminous layer and an electron injection layer.

The present disclosure relates to a suspension unit and a method for taking up and transporting sausage loops with a guide rail and hooks circulating around the guide rail, where the guide rail has an elongate front side and an oppositely disposed rear side. The guide rail is inclined relative to a horizontal plane such that the front side is at a higher level than the rear side.

The invention relates to an inflating and deflating all-in-one machine for check-in of a universal type aerostat. The inflating and deflating all-in-one machine comprises a sealing cylinder (1), an inflating unit and a deflating unit, wherein a gas inlet, a gas outlet A (2) and a gas outlet B are formed in the sealing cylinder (1); and the inflating unit is mounted on the gas inlet of the sealing cylinder (1), and the deflating unit is mounted on the gas outlet B of the sealing cylinder (1). The inflating and deflating all-in-one machine has the advantages that the inflating and deflating all-in-one machine is compact in size and light in weight; the deflating unit of the all-in-one machine adopts a rotating type mechanical valve which is small in size and light in weight, so that the size and the weight of the all-in-one machine are greatly reduced, the appearance size of the all-in-one machine is only (200*200*200) mm, and the weight of the all-in-one machine is only 2.5kg; and the all-in-one machine is dual-purpose and excellent in performance.

The invention relates to a clothes heating device for an incense-type bathroom. The device includes a heating device body and second fans, the bottom of the heating device body is provided with an underwear tank, a placement rod is installed above the underwear tank, a clothes clamp is arranged above the placement rod, and the upper end of the clothes clamp is connected with a connecting frame; the upper end of the connecting frame is connected with a hydraulic air cylinder through a connecting rod, and both the left and right sides of the connecting rod are provided with air outlets; heatingwires are arranged above the interiors of the air outlets, and first fans are arranged above the heating wires; a bracket is fixed at the upper end of each second fan, the second fans are installed outside the upper ends of the first fans, and an incense chamber is fixed on the outer wall of the heating device body. The clothes heating device for the incense-type bathroom has the advantages that through a sucking disc, convenient fixing can be conducted between the heating device and the wall surface of the bathroom, and in the winter, clothes can be placed in the heating device for heating.