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The invention relates to a game set which comprises communicating elements, in the form of pieces, figurines, cards or dice, each having a radio-frequency tag provided with an individual identification code. A game board comprises a digital processing circuit which is connected to a plurality of antennas, arranged such as to form a sensor matrix, for detecting the presence, type and position of the communicating elements. Radio-frequency readers are respectively connected to m corresponding input / output terminals of the digital processing circuit. Each radio-frequency reader is connected to an associated group of antennas, preferably by means of a corresponding multiplexer. The game board may consist of a removable assembly of basic boards, each comprising a basic digital processing circuit which is connected to the antennas of the corresponding basic board.

Characters of the method are that client proxy software of parallelized file system on each front-end host implements supporting VFS access; server of metadata is in charge of executing increment scaling, transporting management and rate control i.e. operations so as to realize performance guarantee of front-end application in hierarchical storage system for mass data (HSSMD). According to performance, data servers are divided into fast data servers and slow data servers. Data server processes incremental scan command sent from metadata server, returns scanned information, and meanwhile executes file transfer command sent from metadata server. Based on condition of load, the method dispatches procedure of data transfer. Based on condition of remnant space (RS) of fast device, the method carries out degradation initiatively. The invention reduces influence on application in front end from transporting procedure, raises rate of RS of fast device, and enhances self management for HSSMD.

The invention relates to a dynamic selection method for cache replacement policies, belonging to the memory system cache filed. The invention is characterized in that: the cache replacement policies are modularized through uniform interfaces, thereby online switching can be performed on any two cache replacement policies and novel cache replacement policies can be disposed; assess, record, acquisition and analysis are performed asynchronously, thereby CPU and memory overheads are small and affection on application is small; accurate decision-making results can be obtained as soon as possible through multi-run of policy selection, thereby not only the results are guaranteed to be brought into use quickly but also method overheads are reduced as much as possible.

A method and system for dynamic generation of tasks in resource constrained devices involves identifying tasks that can be performed by devices in a resource constrained network, wherein the tasks represent activities that can be performed by the devices. Tasks are generated using the capabilities of devices as each device is discovered in the network. A task uses one or more functionalities of one or more devices. Task generation specifically takes into account the limited memory and processing power which a typical home device possesses, and the tasks are generated dynamically.

The invention discloses a nematic phase liquid crystal composition comprising a compound with a first component shown as the general formula I, a compound with a second component shown as the general formula II, a compound with a third component shown as the general formula III, a compound with a fourth component shown as the general formula IV and a compound with a fifth component shown as the general formula V. The nematic phase liquid crystal composition disclosed by the invention has very low overall response time, lower voltage, high resistivity and voltage retention rate, low viscosity, short response time and proper optical anisotropy and dielectric anisotropy; after being treated at high temperature, the nematic phase liquid crystal composition still has high resistivity and excellent high temperature and ultraviolet stability, can be used for a photoelectric display with an active matrix address, and is particularly suitable for manufacturing active matrix TN-TFT (Twisted Nematic Thin Film Transistor) and IPS-TFT (In-Plane Switching Thin Film Transistor) liquid crystal display elements and liquid crystal displays which are rapid in response.

A method of displaying a color image for a field sequential liquid crystal display device is provided. The method includes dividing a liquid crystal panel into n numbers of driving areas and turning on each of light sources Red, Green and Blue sequentially for every divided driving area. Furthermore, the method includes providing a time interval between driving sections of a previous light source and a next light source.

The invention discloses a positive dielectric anisotropy liquid crystal combination with rapid response. The positive dielectric anisotropy liquid crystal combination comprises 5-60 percent of first component, 1-50 percent of second component, 1-40 percent of third component, 0-40 percent of fourth component and an optically active compound, wherein the first component is formed from compounds with a structural formula I and a structural formula II, a compound with a structural formula III is used as the second component, a compound with a structural formula VI is used as the third component, a compound with a structural formula V is used as the fourth component, and the mass of the optically active compound is 0-0.2 percent of the mass sum of the liquid crystal combination. The liquid crystal combination has high charge retention, larger positive dielectric anisotropy, higher clearing point, good low-temperature stability, lower rotary viscometer and higher response speed and is particularly suitable for manufacturing active matrixes TN-TFT(Twisted Nematic-Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Plane Switching)-TFT liquid crystal display elements and liquid crystal displays.

A soot particle sensor for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a first electrode device and a second electrode device. The electrode devices are situated at a distance from one another and are able to be exposed to the gas stream, at least in some areas. It is provided that the electrode devices are separated from each other by an intermediate layer made of an electrically insulating material, and the electrode devices have free edges that are set apart from each other by the thickness of the intermediate layer and are able to be exposed to the gas stream.

The present invention is directed to methods for improving the performance of an electrophoretic display by modifying the display cell surface. More specifically, the methods are directed to modification of the microcup surface after the microcups are released from the mold. The microcups which have undergone any of the treatment methods of the invention show significant improvement in their surface properties, such as chemical functionality, surface roughness, surface tension, morphology, surface charge, surface reflectivity, surface conductivity and optical properties, particularly optical density in the visible light region. An electrophoretic display formed from the treated microcups has many advantages. For example, the display shows a higher contrast ratio, lower electro-optic response time, lower driving voltage, longer shelf life, higher imageincreasing bistability and higher threshold voltage. In addition, it exhibits an improved image quality by reducing undesirable scum formation or irreversible particle deposition on the microcup surface.

The invention relates to a method of controlling a wind turbine connected to an electric utility grid during malfunction in said electric utility grid, said method comprising the steps of detecting a malfunction in said electric utility grid and monitoring at least one physical work property of at least one component of said wind turbine. Further, the method controls the pitch of one or more wind turbine blades of said wind turbine in order too keep said least one physical work property below at least one predefined limit in a time period of said malfunction. The invention also relates to a control system for a wind turbine connected and supplying electric power to a utility grid as well as a wind turbine and park hereof.

The invention relates to a distributed environment, in particular to a method for deployment of copy service and copy establishment in a peer-to-peer network environment, and belongs to the technical field of distributed data management. Aiming at the P2P system of a super node, the method of the invention comprises: firstly designing a universal deployment method of the copy service and establishing a system architecture of the copy service; then designing a dynamic copy establishing method, starting from the global data resource distribution of the system, determining the resource of the copy needed to establish according to the two factors of the cost that a resource requester accesses the resource and copy access frequency; and finally determining a copy establishing place according to the shortage extent of each region to the resource, the access frequency and the extent of reducing the cost after the copy is established. Simulation experiments and assessment show that resource access performance improvement and copy number can be well balanced.

The field of the invention is that of microsystems of the electrostatically actuated microswitch type that are used in electronics to carry out switching functions, especially in the microwave field for mobile telephony and radars. The object of the invention is to improve the performance of the switch by reducing the response time of the device and by increasing the radiofrequency or microwave power supported, while still maintaining low switching voltages. This improved performance is obtained by using thick membranes and by placing a material of high relative permittivity between said membrane and the associated electrode. The switch is obtained by a novel production process, the membrane being produced on an independent substrate and then joined to the base substrate of the switch. Examples of processes for producing devices according to the invention with the materials that can be used, the possible geometries and the various production steps are given.

An integrated image sensor capable of determining the distance to objects contained in a scene including at least a set of first pixels and a set of second pixels, the first and second pixels being alternately distributed in an array, the first pixels having a different angular aperture than the second pixels.

The invention discloses a positive dielectric anisotropic liquid crystal composition. The positive dielectric anisotropic liquid crystal composition comprises 1%-40% by weight of compound with a structural formula I, 1%-50% by weight of compound with a structural formula II, 1%-60% by weight of compound with a structural formula III and 1%-80% by weight of compound with a structural formula IV, and an optically active compound accounting for 0-0.5% of the total weight of the liquid crystal composition can be additionally added. The liquid crystal composition has the advantages of suitable positive dielectric anisotropy, lower rotary viscosity, very low total response time, lower voltage and higher resistivity and voltage holding ratio, and further has broad application prospects and application values in liquid crystal display.

The related service gateway comprises: a message interceptor to transmit the intercepted user request and / or service response message to the next module and sends message from the next module to a message transmission module; a safe processing module to safe process message from last module and return result; and a message transmission module to transmit the processed message to a grid server. It also relates the corresponding processing method. This invention P2P transmits message safely, and realizes seamless visiting for service resource to mobile terminal.

A method for optimizing IO performance of adaptive external storage device includes requesting to distribute priority for IO arrived at external storage device driving program and inserting it into IO request processing queue, obtaining statistic data of IO access address increment and preprocessing obtained data, calculating access address of preread data by utilizing said statistic data, calculating size of preread data starting from access address of preread data and from data used by external storage device to fetch preread data size to data buffer-storage.

A sensor assembly for measuring a gas parameter includes a sensing element cover. A bottom wall and the sidewall of the cover have openings configured such that, when the cover is attached to the the sensor so as to surround the sensing element and gas is flowing into the cover interior via the sidewall opening, the gas flow in the cover interior is drawn in a downward motion and concentrated in the vicinity of the sensing element. The openings can be configured to promote rotary or swirling movement of the gas flow in the cover interior. Also, the cover can have an outer cover surrounding an inner cover and the outer cover can have openings only on the cover upstream side to concentrate flow into the inner cover. The sensor assembly can be orientated in an operating position using an orientation pin located on the sensor assembly.

The invention discloses a data read-write method based on a mixed storage device. The mixed storage device comprises a small non-volatile particle addressing medium and a large non-volatile particle addressing medium. An address mapping table is stored in the small non-volatile particle addressing medium and comprises at least one address mapping record, and each address mapping record comprises a logic address, a physical address corresponding to the logic address and the number of times of write operations corresponding to the logic address. The method comprises the step of receiving an operation request, the step of analyzing the logic address of the operation request and determining the physical address of data corresponding to the operation request in the mixed storage device according to the address mapping table, the step of reading and writing the data at the corresponding position in the corresponding storage medium according to the physical address. The invention further provides a corresponding data read-write device. By means of the data read-write method and device, the extra write expenditure can be reduced, the read-write efficiency can be improved, and the service life of the storage device can be prolonged.

A method and device for measuring the flow of a liquid utilizes at least one carbon nanotube. More particularly, the velocity of a liquid along the direction of the flow is measured as a function of the current / voltage generated in at least one carbon nanotube due to the flow of the liquid along its surface.

The invention provides a liquid crystal composition for TFT (Thin-Film Transistor) display. The liquid crystal composition is prepared from the following components in percentage by weight: 1-40 percent of I-type compound, 1-70 percent of II-type compound, 1-40 percent of III-type compound, 0-45 percent of IV-type compound and 0-20 percent of V-type compound. The liquid crystal composition has excellent performance, extremely low total response time (ttot=ton+toff), lower voltage, high resistance ratio and voltage retention ratio, and can also have different threshold voltages, clearing points and delta n characteristics by adjusting the contents of the components, thereby being particularly suitable for manufacturing rapid-response TN-TFT liquid crystal displays.

A soot particle sensor for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a first electrode device and a second electrode device. The electrode devices are situated at a distance from one another and are able to be exposed to the gas stream, at least in some areas. It is provided that the electrode devices are separated from each other by an intermediate layer made of an electrically insulating material, and the electrode devices have free edges that are set apart from each other by the thickness of the intermediate layer and are able to be exposed to the gas stream.

A method and system are described for end-user transaction recognition based on server data such as sequences of remote procedure calls (RPCs). The method may comprise machine-learning techniques for pattern recognition such as Bayesian classification, feature extraction mechanisms, and a dynamic-programming approach to segmentation of RPC sequences. The method preferably combines information-theoretic and machine-learning approaches. The system preferably includes a learning engine and an operation engine. A learning engine may comprise a data preparation subsystem (feature extraction) and a Bayes Net learning subsystem (model construction). The operation engine may comprise transaction segmentation and transaction classification subsystems.

A field sequential liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal panel having an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, a back light disposed under the liquid crystal panel for irradiating a light to the liquid crystal panel and having 3 different light sources Red, Green and Blue sequentially driven; and an image signal processor controlling a lighting speed of each of the light sources Red, Green and Blue.A method of color image display for a field sequential liquid crystal display device including an image signal processor, comprises steps of dividing a frame into four sub-frames having a period of one-fourth of one frame period, driving each of light sources Red, Green and Blue sequentially at a first, a second and a third sub-frame, driving a light source combination with three or fewer colors of Red, Green and Blue at a fourth sub-frame, classifying each component R, G and B of a color image input signal using a gray level having 256 levels, deciding a maximum luminance value of the field sequential liquid crystal display device using the gray level, obtaining an average luminance value of each of component R, G and B from the image input signal, turning on one of light sources Red, Green and Blue having an average luminance value greater than the maximum luminance value at the fourth sub-frame, and converting the input luminance value of component R, G and B and an input luminance value of the fourth sub-frame using the image signal processor.Additionally, the method provides a time interval between driving sections of a previous light source and a next light source.

The invention discloses a positive dielectric-aeolotropic liquid crystal composition with fast response. The positive dielectric-aeolotropic liquid crystal composition comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 1%-40% of a liquid crystal compound shown in a structural formula I, 1%-40% of a liquid crystal compound shown in a structural formula II, 1%-40% of a liquid crystal compound shown in a structural formula III, 0%-70% of a liquid crystal compound shown in a structural formula IV, 0%-70% of a liquid crystal compound shown in a structural formula V, 0%-40% of a liquid crystal compound shown in a structural formula VI, and 0%-40% of a liquid crystal compound shown in a structural formula VII; in addition, an optical rotation compound with the weight of being 0%-0.5% of the total weight of all the liquid crystal compounds is added. The liquid crystal composition disclosed by the invention is low in power consumption, low in rotary viscosity and high in response speed, and is especially applicable for manufacturing a TFT-LCD Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display) with fast response.

The invention aims to provide a technology for processing an event by a website server. The technology comprises the following steps that: operating a main thread, suspending the main thread after the main thread creates a coroutine on the basis of the processing request of the event, and switching to the coroutine; operating the coroutine, creating a communication pipeline by the coroutine, processing the main business logic of the event by a working thread pool, suspending the coroutine, and switching to the main thread; operating the main thread again, continuing an event processing circulation by the main thread until a message that the working thread pool finishes processing is received, suspending the main thread, and switching to the coroutine, wherein the message is sent from the communication pipeline; and operating the coroutine again, processing the secondary business logic of the event by the coroutine, finishing the coroutine after processing is finished, and switching to the main thread. Therefore, other requests, which are subjected to parallel processing, of the main thread can be processed in time, and the average response time of the system is shortened.

The invention discloses a method for load balancing of Web requests based on operating system virtualization. The method comprises the following steps of firstly, carrying out collection and normalization of server resource information; secondly, collecting dynamic information of a server and service instances; thirdly, computing final weights of service instance copies of all services according to the server resource information and the periodically-collected dynamic information; and lastly, distributing the requests through weighted round robin. According to the method, the phenomenon that the different service instance copies on one server simultaneously receive a large amount of Web requests due to the lower server load to cause the server overload can be effectively avoided, the load balancing between the service instance copies and the server is implemented, the concurrence capacity of a Web cluster system is improved, and the average response time of the requests is reduced.

The application discloses a liquid crystal composition and application thereof in liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal composition comprises compounds shown in formula I, II, III and IV. The liquid crystal composition has excellent performance, wide nematic phase temperature range, proper positive dielectric anisotropy, proper optical anisotropy, high charge retention rate, quick response, low rotary viscosity and wide application prospect and application value in liquid crystal display. By utilizing the liquid crystal composition, high charge retention rate, low power consumption and quick response time can be maintained. The liquid crystal composition is especially suitable for manufacturing active matrix EN-TFT and IPS-TFT displayers with quick response. The expression formula is as shown in the description.

An apparatus and method for measuring the position of a member. The apparatus has a sonic waveguide, a generator for generating an interrogation sonic wave at a first position in the sonic wave guide, and a transducer for converting the interrogation sonic wave, at a second position in the sonic wave guide, to an interrogation signal. A timer can be enabled in response to the generator generating the interrogation sonic wave and stopped in response to the transducer converting the interrogation sonic wave so as to determine the propagation time delay of the interrogation sonic wave and the distance between the first and second positions. When the transducer is attached to a member, the position of the member can be determined from this distance. The apparatus can include a transmitter for transmitting the interrogation signal. The generator can be configured to generate an excitation sonic wave which is converted by the transducer to a power signal for powering the transmitter.