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Polymeric delivery devices have been developed which combine high loading / high density of molecules to be delivered with the option of targeting. As used herein, “high density” refers to microparticles having a high density of ligands or coupling agents, which is in the range of 1000-10,000,000, more preferably between 10,000 and 1,000,000 ligands per square micron of microparticle surface area. A general method for incorporating molecules into the surface of biocompatible polymers using materials with an HLB of less than 10, more preferably less than 5, such as fatty acids, has been developed. Because of its ease, generality and flexibility, this method has widespread utility in modifying the surface of polymeric materials for applications in drug delivery and tissue engineering, as well other other fields. Targeted polymeric microparticles have also been developed which encapsulate therapeutic compounds such as drugs, cellular materials or components, and antigens, and have targeting ligands directly bound to the microparticle surface. Preferred applications include use in tissue engineering matrices, wound dressings, bone repair or regeneration materials, and other applications where the microparticles are retained at the site of application or implantation. Another preferred application is in the use of microparticles to deliver anti-proliferative agents to the lining of blood vessels following angioplasty, transplantation or bypass surgery to prevent or decrease restenosis, and in cancer therapy. In still another application, the microparticles are used to treat or prevent macular degeneration when administered to the eye, where agents such as complement inhibitors are administered.

In accordance with the present invention, systems and methods for reconfiguring an autonomous robot are provided. By using a system interface, the present invention provides an approach for distributing the complex and costly robotic components of the conventional autonomous robots. By distributing these components, users, such as software developers, may develop interactive software for robots without having any understanding of robotics. The present invention includes a processing device, a system interface, and a robot. The processing device at least partially executes an interactive robotic application that is configured to receive an instruction for the robot from a user. In response to receiving the instruction, the instruction is transmitted to the robot control interface. In response, the robot control interface is configured to convert the instruction, to the extent that the instruction is not comprehensible by the robot, to a robot control command that is comprehensible by the robot, and wirelessly transmit the robot control command to the robot. The robot, in response to receiving the robot control command, directs the motors and / or the sensors associated with the robot to execute the robot control command.

The present invention relates to devices and methods for the measurement and / or for the specification of the perceptual intensity of a visual image, or the perceptual distance between a pair of images. Grayscale test and reference images are processed to produce test and reference luminance images. A luminance filter function is convolved with the reference luminance image to produce a local mean luminance reference image. Test and reference contrast images are produced from the local mean luminance reference image and the test and reference luminance images respectively, followed by application of a contrast sensitivity filter. The resulting images are combined according to mathematical prescriptions to produce a Just Noticeable Difference, JND value, indicative of a Spatial Standard Observer, SSO. Some embodiments include masking functions, window functions, special treatment for images lying on or near borders and pre-processing of test images.

An electrophysiology / ablation catheter assembly includes an elongated flexible casing that received a first catheter deflection assembly. Electrical leads are connected to each electrode on a distal portion of the catheter assembly and extend through the casing for external connection at a proximal end of the catheter assembly. A first actuator is operatively connected to the first catheter deflection assembly and operable upon movement to selectively effect displacement of the distal end. A second catheter deflection assembly is also disposed in the casing. A second actuator is connected adjacent the proximal end of the catheter deflection assembly and operable upon movement to selectively effect lateral displacement of the catheter at a location spaced from the first curved configuration of the distal end.

The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an electronic apparatus, such as a lighting device having light emitting diodes (LEDs) or a power generating device having photovoltaic diodes. The exemplary method includes depositing a first conductive medium within a plurality of channels of a base to form a plurality of first conductors; depositing within the plurality of channels a plurality of semiconductor substrate particles suspended in a carrier medium; forming an ohmic contact between each semiconductor substrate particle and a first conductor; converting the semiconductor substrate particles into a plurality of semiconductor diodes; depositing a second conductive medium to form a plurality of second conductors coupled to the plurality of semiconductor diodes; and depositing or attaching a plurality of lenses suspended in a first polymer over the plurality of diodes. In various embodiments, the depositing, forming, coupling and converting steps are performed by or through a printing process.

The invention relates to an intelligent video monitoring method and a system thereof. The system comprises a camera, a first alarm device, a coding processor, a data analyzing processor and a display device. The method comprises the steps of detecting and tracking move targets. The intelligent video monitoring method and the system are executed on the base of common network television monitoring, not only have the advantages of common intelligent video monitoring, but also can bring better income for users. The invention mainly has the following advantages of (1) being capable of reliably monitoring all day long with 24*7; (2) being capable of improving alarm precision due to a strong intelligent characteristic; (3) being capable of improving response speed due to the strong intelligent characteristic; and (4) being capable of effectively enlarging the use of video resources.

Polymeric microparticles have been developed which encapsulate therapeutic compounds such as drugs, cellular materials or components, and antigens, and can have targeting ligands directly bound to the microparticle surface. Preferred applications include use in tissue engineering matrices, wound dressings, hone repair or regeneration materials, and other applications where the microparticles are retained at the site of application or implantation. Another preferred application is in the use of microparticles to deliver anti-proliferative agents to the lining of blood vessels following angioplasty, transplantation or bypass surgery to prevent or decrease restenosis, and in cancer therapy. In still another application, the microparticles are used to treat or prevent macular degeneration when administered to the eye, where agents such as complement inhibitors are administered.

The present invention provides an electronic apparatus, such as a lighting device comprised of light emitting diodes (LEDs) or a power generating apparatus comprising photovoltaic diodes, which may be created through a printing process, using a semiconductor or other substrate particle ink or suspension and using a lens particle ink or suspension. An exemplary apparatus comprises a base; at least one first conductor; a plurality of diodes coupled to the at least one first conductor; at least one second conductor coupled to the plurality of diodes; and a plurality of lenses suspended in a polymer deposited or attached over the diodes. The lenses and the suspending polymer have different indices of refraction. In some embodiments, the lenses and diodes are substantially spherical, and have a ratio of mean diameters or lengths between about 10:1 and 2:1. The diodes may be LEDs or photovoltaic diodes, and in some embodiments, have a junction formed at least partially as a hemispherical shell or cap.

The invention provides systems and methods for neuromuscular electrical stimulation to muscle tissue. Stimulation electrodes may be provided on a stimulation pad, configured to provide electrical stimulation to a target tissue. A system for neuromuscular electrical stimulation may also include pressure generating mechanisms that may provide a compressive force to a region with the target tissue, thereby removing some excess third space fluid from the region.

The invention provides systems and methods for neuromuscular electrical stimulation to muscle tissue. Stimulation electrodes may be provided on a stimulation pad, configured to provide electrical stimulation to a target tissue. A system for neuromuscular electrical stimulation may also include pressure generating mechanisms that may provide a compressive force to a region with the target tissue, thereby removing some excess third space fluid from the region.

A biometrics authentication system utilizes information of the palm of the hand of a body to perform individual authentication. A processing unit obtains an image of the palm of the hand of the same body a plurality of times from an image capture unit, judges the degrees of similarity among the characteristic data sets of the plurality of images of the palm of the hand, and registers a plurality of characteristic data sets with a high degree of similarity in a storage unit. And the shape of the hand in the image is checked from the outlines in the image of the palm of the hand, so it is possible to rapidly judge whether image capture has been successful and extract characteristic data, and registration processing can be executed in a short length of time.

The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an electronic apparatus, such as a lighting device having light emitting diodes (LEDs) or a power generating device having photovoltaic diodes. The exemplary method includes depositing a first conductive medium within a plurality of channels of a base to form a plurality of first conductors; depositing within the plurality of channels a plurality of semiconductor substrate particles suspended in a carrier medium; forming an ohmic contact between each semiconductor substrate particle and a first conductor; converting the semiconductor substrate particles into a plurality of semiconductor diodes; depositing a second conductive medium to form a plurality of second conductors coupled to the plurality of semiconductor diodes; and depositing or attaching a plurality of lenses suspended in a first polymer over the plurality of diodes. In various embodiments, the depositing, forming, coupling and converting steps are performed by or through a printing process.

The invention discloses a saline-alkali soil amendment, and relates to a soil amendment. The soil amendment of the invention solves the problem of the waste of land resources caused by a condition that saline-alkali soil is wasted and can not be used throughout the year because only artemisia anethifolia can grow in the saline-alkali soil at present, while other plants can not grow thereon. Besides, the existing saline-alkali soil amendment is mainly prepared from alum which has high cost and poor soil amendment effect. The saline-alkali soil amendment of the invention is prepared by weight percent from aluminum sulfate, ammonium ferrous sulfate and magnesium sulfate, which are mixed, and the weight ratio of the three materials is 1-1.8:1-2:0.2-0.5. The saline-alkali soil amendment of the invention can ensure that crop plants can be planted in the saline-alkali soil; thus, the saline-alkali soil, a wide land resource, can be made good use of. In addition, the saline-alkali soil amendment of the invention has the advantages of low cost and obvious effect of soil amendment.

The invention relates to an intelligent container or the analogs thereof, which is technologically characterized in that the invention consists of two parts of the installation power and an intelligent terminal with an entrance guard and an electronic lock (an intelligent lock) which is built-in arranged in an antenna integration; by combining with a lifting device, the invention is provided with an intelligent container with a function of lifting self-loading and unloading or the analogs. By integrated application of the technology such as the intelligent terminal combining with satellite positioning, the wireless communication, the RFID radio frequency identification, the network and the computer calculation, the real-time performance, the controllability and the security of freight transportation in the container can be solved and extend to a client as a temporary warehouse, which saves the automobile resources and waiting time and realizes the freight path information management which is a highest level of logistics business that anyone loads or unloads the freight anywhere and at anytime, the freight is in any location and in any status, the recording and monitoring of the freight environmental status in transporting the freight and the freight information and flow business can be inquired, traded and stowage planned on the network.

A synthetic underwater visualization system (SUVS) comprising a real-time graphics software engine, a sophisticated underwater environmental sensor, a fixed-base database, and a retrieval system designed to accept and assimilate into a common database bathymetric and environmental information acquired from around the world by components of other deployed SUVS sensing systems. SUVS is capable of sensing, modeling, and realistically displaying underwater environments in real-time, and will foster widespread utilization in the areas of homeland security, commercial and recreational maritime navigation, bathymetric data collection, and environmental analysis. The technology will also be readily adaptable and highly desirable in non-marine applications.

The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet which has excellent strength and excellent processability (in particular, bending processability) at the same time; and a method for producing the high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet. In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the present invention is characterized by: having a specific composition; having an area ratio of a ferrite phase of 95% or more; having an average crystal grain diameter of the ferrite phase of 8 mum or less; having a structure wherein the average particle diameter of carbides within the crystal grains of the ferrite phase is less than 10 nm; and having a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.

The invention discloses a device and method to prepare aniline by the nitrobenzene gas phase hydrogenization, and the device mainly includes a fluidized bed reactor set at the raw material gas inlet at the bottom of the reactor, a first gas distributor on the top of the gas inlet, a second gas distributor separating the reactor in the middle of axial height of the reactor into two catalyst dense phase regions, and heat exchangers in two catalyst dense phase regions; catalyst overflow device connected with two catalyst dense phase regions and gas-solid separator. It also discloses a method to prepare aniline by the device, mainly including: the steps of controlling the mol ratio of hydrogen gas to nitrobenzene, controlling the temperature in two catalyst dense phase regions, etc. It has advantages of large reactor operation flexibility, high nitrobenzene conversion, high aniline production selectivity, high product purity, etc.

The invention belongs to plastic sucking equipment and the technical field of a plastic sucking process, and relates to a plastic sucking production line. The production line comprises two mutually-parallel guide rails of which the opposite side is provided with an opening, wherein an annular conveying device for conveying sheet raw materials is arranged in the opening of each guide rail; a heating drying oven, a plastic sucking molding and in-mould die cutting device, a punching device and a stacking device are sequentially arranged between the two guide rails from one side to the other side; the heating drying oven is in an annular sealing type; and the plastic sucking molding and in-mould die cutting device has an integral structure. The plastic sucking production line comprises the production process of preparation, heating, molding, die cutting, stacking and discharging. The plastic sucking production line has the advantages of simple structure, high utilization factor of the raw materials, simple, convenient and quick operation, high automaticity, capability of saving electricity by over 65 percent and replacing required product dies according to the requirements of producing different products and wide application.

A remote control system for a user to operate at least one device using a remote controller includes device specification means for specifying a device located in front of the user who is holding the remote controller via a first communication medium under a constraint on at least one of directivity and a transmittable distance, and remote control means for transmitting a remote control request from the remote controller to the specified device via a second communication medium under less constraint on the directivity and the transmittable distance in accordance with an instruction input from the user.

The present invention provides an electronic apparatus, such as a lighting device comprised of light emitting diodes (LEDs) or a power generating apparatus comprising photovoltaic diodes, which may be created through a printing process, using a semiconductor or other substrate particle ink or suspension and using a lens particle ink or suspension. An exemplary apparatus comprises a base; at least one first conductor; a plurality of diodes coupled to the at least one first conductor; at least one second conductor coupled to the plurality of diodes; and a plurality of lenses suspended in a polymer deposited or attached over the diodes. The lenses and the suspending polymer have different indices of refraction. In some embodiments, the lenses and diodes are substantially spherical, and have a ratio of mean diameters or lengths between about 10:1 and 2:1. The diodes may be LEDs or photovoltaic diodes, and in some embodiments, have a junction formed at least partially as a hemispherical shell or cap.

The invention discloses graphene aerogel and a hybrid composite material thereof as well as a preparation method and application of the of graphene aerogel. The preparation method comprises the following steps: 1) mixing graphene oxide, a reducing agent, acrylamide, N,N-methylene-bisacrylamide and potassium persulfate and reacting to obtain partially-reduced graphene / polyacrylamide hydrogel; 2) carrying out pre-freezing and reduction on the partially-reduced graphene / polyacrylamide hydrogel in sequence to obtain graphene / polyacrylamide hydrogel; 3) dialyzing and drying the graphene / polyacrylamide hydrogel in sequence to obtain the graphene aerogel. The graphene aerogel has the characteristics of uniform cellular structure and light weight, excellent resilience, relatively high mechanical strength and good solvent resistance; a preparation process is simple, rapid and low in cost; the graphene aerogel can also be used for preparing polymer / graphene composite aerogel, nanoparticle / graphene composite aerogel and polymer / graphene composite materials and the like, so that application of the graphene aerogel is expanded.

The invention relates to an information technology, and provides a multi-terminal information sharing system and a multi-terminal information sharing method, which solve the problem that current information terminals are independent of one another. The technical scheme can be summarized as that: the multi-terminal information sharing system consists of at least two information terminals and a server system which are connected, wherein the information terminal is provided with unified terminal software based on an operating system of the information terminal; the information terminals can seamlessly share information with each other by own terminal software; and the server system is used for adding at least two information terminals in different local area networks into a group according to user input, providing sharing interaction between the two information terminals of the same group according to the user input and providing the sharing interaction when the two information terminals in the same local area network cannot communicate with each other. The system and the method have the advantages of convenience of use and applicability to information sharing among the information terminals.

The present invention discloses a construction site safety helmet wearing detection system and method, belonging to the field of video identification detection. Aiming at problems that mis-identification is easily generated, there are many data requirements of a safety helmet and the identification result is not good in the prior art, the present invention provides a construction site safety helmet wearing detection system and method, a video device and a detection system. The method comprises the steps of: A, collecting video monitoring images, and establishing a detection and identificationmodel; B, collecting real-time monitoring images of a construction site to perform detection of moving objects, and uploading images of the moving objects to an identification system if the images ofthe moving objects are detected; C, receiving the images sent in the step B by the identification system to perform detection and identification and determine the state of a helmet; D, transmitting aresult to a message queue; and E, displaying a detection and identification result. The construction site safety helmet wearing detection system and method can accurately determine whether there is asafety helmet or not, required original data is few and identification is accurate.

The present invention relates to devices and methods for the measurement and / or for the specification of the perceptual intensity of a visual image, or the perceptual distance between a pair of images. Grayscale test and reference images are processed to produce test and reference luminance images. A luminance filter function is convolved with the reference luminance image to produce a local mean luminance reference image. Test and reference contrast images are produced from the local mean luminance reference image and the test and reference luminance images respectively, followed by application of a contrast sensitivity filter. The resulting images are combined according to mathematical prescriptions to produce a Just Noticeable Difference, JND value, indicative of a Spatial Standard Observer, SSO. Some embodiments include masking functions, window functions, special treatment for images lying on or near borders and pre-processing of test images.

A motion picture encoding apparatus for encoding a motion picture signal includes a plurality of transform units for different transform schemes, and a transform scheme control unit for selecting, from the plurality of the transform units, the transform unit for the transform scheme adapted to the motion picture signal.

The invention relates to a two-stage gasification method and a gasification device for a fuel with wide size distribution. The two-stage gasification method for the fuel with wide size distribution comprises the steps of 1) adding the fuel to a fluidized bed pyrolyzer by a feeding device; adding a gasifying agent to the fluidized bed pyrolyzer; drying / pyrolyzing or partly gasifying the fuel under semicoking of the pyrolyzer and heating of the gasifying agent; and 2) sending the solid and gas generated in the step 1) to a fluidized bed gasification furnace, adding the gasifying agent to the fluidized bed gasification furnace, finishing complete gasification of semicoke; removing tar by high-temperature pyrolysis, part oxidization and semicoke catalytic reforming in the fluidized bed so as to produce clean gas. With the adoption of the method, the traditional fuel gasification process is divided into a material pyrolysis stage and a semicoke gasification stage, which are performed in an upper fluidized bed pyrolyzer and a lower fluidized bed gasification furnace.

The invention relates to a super high molecular weight polyethylene preparation method and its post-treatment process by using hydrocarbons solvent as scattering medium, titanium compound as catalyst, organo-aluminium compound as catalyst promoter, thus obtaining super high molecular weight polyethene, wherein the dispersant alkyl hydrocarbons can be normal hexane, isobutene, hexylene, the titanium compound in the catalyst can be one or mixture of more than one of TiBr4, Ti(OCH3)Cl3, Ti(OCH3)Cl2, Ti(OCH3)4.

The invention discloses a method, device and system for controlling an air conditioner according to scenes in a virtual world. The method comprises the following steps that at least one self-defined scene in the virtual world is preset, and each scene corresponds to the triggering condition of the scene; the information of the current environments where virtual characters are located in the virtual world is acquired; the current environment information is compared with the triggering conditions of the scenes, and the current scenes where the virtual characters are located are obtained; control commands corresponding to the current scenes are generated; the control commands are sent to an air conditioner controller in the real world, and the air conditioner conducts output according to the control commands; and the device comprises a preset module, an acquisition module, a comparison module, a generation module and a sending module. The system comprises the device. According to the method, device and system, the air conditioner output is controlled according to the environment change of the visual world, so that users can truly feel the environments where the visual characters are located. By the adoption of the method, device and system, the purpose of the air conditioner is extended, the new purposes except the comfort of the air conditioner are generated, and the joy is brought to the life of the users.

A biometrics authentication system utilizes information of the palm of the hand of a body to perform individual authentication. A processing unit obtains an image of the palm of the hand of the same body a plurality of times from an image capture unit, judges the degrees of similarity among the characteristic data sets of the plurality of images of the palm of the hand, and registers a plurality of characteristic data sets with a high degree of similarity in a storage unit. And the shape of the hand in the image is checked from the outlines in the image of the palm of the hand, so it is possible to rapidly judge whether image capture has been successful and extract characteristic data, and registration processing can be executed in a short length of time.