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Disclosed is a method for supporting an idle mode of a terminal in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system. In the method, a first request message for starting an idle mode is transmitted to a first access node to which the terminal is currently connected and a first response message with respect to the first request message is received from the first access node, and in this case, when the first response message includes acceptance information with respect to the start of the idle mode, the idle mode starts.

A robot vision system for outputting a disparity map includes a stereo camera for receiving left and right images and outputting a disparity map between the two images; an encoder for encoding either the left image or the right image into a motion compensation-based video bit-stream; and a decoder for extracting an encoding type of an image block, a motion vector, and a DCT coefficient from the video bit-stream. Further, the system includes a person detector for detecting and labeling person blocks in the image using the disparity map between the left image and the right image, the block encoding type, and the motion vector, and detecting a distance from the labeled person to the camera; and an obstacle detector for detecting a closer obstacle than the person using the block encoding type, the motion vector, and the DCT coefficient extracted from the video bit-stream, and the disparity map.

This invention relates to a life saving medicament for critically ill patients and a method of treatment. The composition is a pharmaceutically effective amount of a blood glucose regulator which is used to control the blood glucose level.

The present invention provides pigmented inks comprising self-dispersing pigment and an amino-containing compound. The addition of an amino-containing compound to the self-dispersing pigment can improve the reliability and performance of the ink in an inkjet printhead. The present invention also provides methods for making a surface modified pigment comprising associating a self-dispersing pigment with an amino-containing compound having no more than one primary amino group or one secondary amino group.

A wireless multi-hope network of nodes including data nodes and at least one sink node. The data nodes include battery-powered nodes (BPNs) having active and sleep periods and mains-powered nodes (MPNs) having only active periods, wherein each data node transmits the packets only within corresponding active periods. A BPN includes a transceiver for transmitting and receiving data packets and a processor for determining a schedule of active and sleep periods of the BPN independently from the active and sleep periods of other data nodes in the network and independently from commands transmitted by the sink node, and a battery for providing energy to the transceiver and the processor. The processor switches the transceiver ON and OFF according to the schedule.

Techniques are provided for optimizing performance of a processor. The techniques may be embodied as a method, an electronic device or a computer-readable storage media with instructions executable to perform the method. In summary, processing operations performed by a processor are identified. Each of the processing operations is evaluated to determine a resulting thermal profile associated with each of the processing operations. Based on the thermal profile associated with each of the processing operations, one or more of the processing operations are grouped in a set of processing operations to be performed together between idle times of the processor. The processing operations in the set are performed at a second speed that is higher than a first speed.

A method and apparatus for idle mode handoff in an overlapping area of a multi-channel cell is provided. By monitoring different frequencies serviced by neighboring base stations, when a mobile station is located in an overlapping region between cells and the frequency channel being serviced in a multi-channel region is different from a channel being serviced in the neighboring base station, an idle mode handoff between cells may be smoothly performed.

The invention discloses a multi-card and multi-mode terminal, a method and device for synchronizing access modes thereof. The method for synchronizing the access modes of the multi-card and multi-mode terminal comprises the following steps of: when a terminal card is triggered to be switched from a first cell in a first network mode to a second cell in a second network mode, controlling the triggered terminal card to be switched to the second cell and controlling other terminal cards to be in an interrupt state; and, after the triggered terminal card is successfully switched to the second cell, controlling other terminal cards to be switched to the second cell. According to the technical scheme of the invention, in the event of not increasing hardware equipment of the multi-card and multi-mode terminal, the multi-card and multi-mode terminal can be synchronously switched to the same access technology. A plurality of terminal cards can work in a network mode simultaneously, therefore, the investment of user equipment is saved; and modes of the multi-card and multi-mode terminal can be freely switched.

Systems and methods for operating a vehicle in an electric idle mode are presented. The vehicle electrical idle mode may be characterized as a mode where the vehicle's engine is off; the vehicle increases torque to vehicle wheels responsive to an application of an accelerator pedal, release of a brake pedal, or a vehicle occupant shifting a transmission; and the vehicle's battery supplies electrical energy to devices of the vehicle being operated by a vehicle occupant.

The invention relates to an impeller optimized design method capable of prolonging running down time of a reactor coolant pump. According to the impeller optimized design method, firstly, a main objective function for improving running efficiency under a running down working condition by optimizing main parameters of an impeller is established; then the main parameters are divided into three groups which are taken as design variables respectively, three subordinate objective functions are optimized respectively with a complex method for running down efficiency under initial constraint conditions, and the optimum points, guaranteeing the highest efficiency, of main geometric parameters of the impeller are obtained respectively; and a new constraint is determined in a small range nearby the optimum points, optimized solution is performed on the main objective function under the reduced new constraint with a feasible direction method, and the final optimized result is obtained. By means of design of the impeller of the reactor coolant pump, the problem of lower running down efficiency of the impeller can be improved, the running down time is prolonged, and the nuclear safety is improved. Meanwhile, with innovative application of the step-by-step optimization design method adopting constraint range reduction for subordinate objectives and optimum point searching for the main objective, the optimization speed is increased, and the effectiveness of the optimized result is guaranteed.

The present invention relates to a method for reducing electromagneic emission, especially in connection with high-performance real-time systems, and more specifically for complying with the EMC (ElectroMagnetic Compatibility) thereof, and in order to acheive a reduced electromagnetic emission, it is according to the invention suggested to control the access to the CPU (Central Processing Unit) bus for thereby through power-down to reduce said bus-activity and thereby reduce the electromagnetic emission therefrom.

The invention relates to a guide vane optimized design method capable of prolonging running down time of a reactor coolant pump. According to the guide vane optimized design method, firstly, a main objective function for improving running efficiency under running down by optimizing main parameters of a radial guide vane is established; then the main parameters are divided into three groups of subordinate design variables, subordinate objective functions are optimized respectively with running down efficiency, optimized solution is performed under initial constraint conditions, and the optimum points of the performance of the parameters are obtained; and the optimum points serve as centers for determination of new constraint conditions, optimized solution is performed on the main objective function under the new constraint conditions, and the final optimized result is obtained. By means of the design of the radial guide vane of the reactor coolant pump, the problems of lower efficiency and production of secondary backflow in a running down process can be improved, the running down time is prolonged, sufficient flow passes through to cool a reactor core, and the nuclear safety is enhanced. With application of step-by-step optimization design method adopting a subordinate objective constraint random direction searching method for reduction of a constraint range and a main objective exterior penalty function method for search of the optimum points, the effectiveness of the optimized result is guaranteed, and the optimization speed is increased.

An interesting yoyo ball played in a hand-held mode comprises two rotating bodies with inside surfaces oppositely arranged and a connecting shaft which connects the two rotating bodies, wherein, an external rotating body which can rotate in relative to the rotating bodies is arranged at an outer edge of the rotating bodies. As the external rotating body which can rotate in relative to the rotating bodies is arranged at the outer edge of the rotating bodies, and a buckling edge which is buckled at an edge of the rotating bodies is arranged at the outer edge of the external rotating body, the external rotating body of the yoyo ball can be held by hands without touching the rotating bodies which are rotating to slow down rotation of the rotating bodies during play; a bearing is arranged between the rotating bodies and the external rotating body, thus achieving smoother rotation effect by the bearing; and the external rotating body with the bearing also has balancing weight effect. Therefore, the yoyo ball composed of the external rotating body has the advantages of more stable directivity, easier operation and better control performance, thus leaving a player space to develop creative playing methods so that yoyo toys can attract the player for longer time.

The invention discloses a self-adaptive low-power consumption method suitable for an overland geophysical exploration data acquisition station. When the acquisition station is in an idle mode, an analog power supply is controlled to stop supplying power to an analog circuit, and the analog circuit stops working, so that the acquisition station enters a low-energy consumption working mode to reduce the power consumption of the acquisition station; and therefore, the power consumption of an overall seismic prospecting instrument is reduced, the service life of a system power supply and the system standby time are prolonged, batteries are prevented from being replaced frequently, and the efficiency of field construction is improved.

A method and system for improving automatic engine stopping and starting is presented. In one example, the method adjusts conditions for engine stopping in response to operating conditions that are evaluated according to one or more cost functions. The method may improve vehicle fuel economy and limit driver annoyances.

A bidirectional intelligent automobile clutch driven disc with a composite sleeve core comprises a rotating shell made of bearing steel and a force transmission frame formed by punching an alloy steel plate. The spline face of the rotating shell is connected with a spline hole of the force transmission frame. The diameter of each auxiliary spring steel wire is larger than the diameter of each main spring steel wire. Each auxiliary spring is mounted in an inner hole of a corresponding main spring, and locating core columns are mounted in holes of the auxiliary springs. The two ends of each locating core column are riveted to the edges of a corresponding fan-shaped hole of the force transmission frame. The main springs are placed in clamping grooves of a right disc chuck and a left disc chuck. A cavity core is arranged in the rotating shell and an inner cavity of a rotating shell cover, and the surface of the cavity core is provided with multiple sections of reducing curved surfaces. Two pairs of thrust bearings are composed of ball grooves of the rotating shell, ball grooves of the rotating shell cover, ball grooves in the two end faces of the cavity core, a plurality of ceramic balls and separation columns with the same number with the ceramic balls, and the metal separation columns are hollow cylinders and are filled with lubricating grease. The right disc chuck and the left disc chuck are connected through pins. According to the bidirectional intelligent automobile clutch driven disc, gear shifting operation is simplified, when an automobile goes down a slope, good braking performance is achieved, and the service life of an engine and the service life of a gearbox can be prolonged.