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The present invention involves a system and method that facilitate extracting data from messages for spam filtering. The extracted data can be in the form of features, which can be employed in connection with machine learning systems to build improved filters. Data associated with origination information as well as other information embedded in the body of the message that allows a recipient of the message to contact and / or respond to the sender of the message call be extracted as features. The features, or a subset thereof, can be normalized and / or deobfuscated prior to being employed as features of the machine learning systems. The (deobfuscated) features can be employed to populate a plurality of feature lists that facilitate spam detection and prevention. Exemplary features include an email address, an IP address, a URL, an embedded image pointing to a URL, and / or portions thereof.

Method and apparatus for indirect asset tracking in materials handling environments with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). In one embodiment, receptacles in a materials handling facility may be equipped with RFID tags. Agents within the materials handling facility may be equipped with RFID readers, which may be integrated in or attached to gloves, wristbands, or other devices. The location of each receptacle to which an RFID tag is attached may be associated with the unique identifier of the RFID tag. When an agent's hand approaches or enters a receptacle equipped with an RFID tag, the RFID reader may detect the presence of the RFID tag. This information, in combination with known information such as the location of the receptacles, may be used, for example, for information gathering and / or for quality checking in picking, stowing, rebinning, and / or other materials handling processes.

Method and apparatus for varying the times and channels of broadcast beacons. The method and apparatus make it more difficult to monitor and / or disrupt such beacon transmissions. In one embodiment, pseudo-random times and pseudo-random channels are selected for transmitting the beacon messages. Preferably these times and channels are included in a beacon schedule which is transmitted with the beacon messages. In select embodiments, the beacon messages include schedules for both the transmitting node and other nodes, so that all of the nodes in the network may quickly learn the beacon schedules of the other nodes.

The present invention relates generally to embedding and / or encoding auxiliary information within original data. For example, in one embodiment, a method of embedding auxiliary information in data is provided. The auxiliary information is not lost with compression of the embedded data. The embedded data initially includes a non-compressed form including the auxiliary information embedded therein. The method includes: (a) retrieving the auxiliary information from the non-compressed form of the embedded data; (b) compressing the non-compressed form of the embedded data; and (c) embedding the retrieved auxiliary information in the compressed embedded data, whereby the compressed embedded data comprises the auxiliary information embedded therein. Other embodiments are provided and claimed as well.

A system for generating and distributing decoy data for a work in a Peer to Peer network. The system is included in software providing a Peer to Peer connection for a processing system. The processing system receives data for a work over a Peer to Peer connection. The system then determines whether, the work is a protected work. If the work is a protected work, the system insert decoy data into the data of the work and stores the data of the work including the decoy data in memory. The data of the work including the decoy data is then made available for transfer over the Peer to Peer network by the processing system.

A detector (110) for determining a position of at least one object (118) is disclosed. The detector (110) comprises:at least one optical sensor (112), the optical sensor (112) being adapted to detect a light beam (150) traveling from the object (118) towards the detector (110), the optical sensor (112) having at least one matrix (152) of pixels (154); andat least one evaluation device (126), the evaluation device (126) being adapted to determine a number N of pixels (154) of the optical sensor (112) which are illuminated by the light beam (150), the evaluation device (126) further being adapted to determine at least one longitudinal coordinate of the object (118) by using the number N of pixels (154) which are illuminated by the light beam (150).

A mechanism is provided in a debugger for building a file information database while significantly reducing debug startup time. For each line number table, the mechanism of the present invention reads the header section and determines all the source files that contribute to the line number table. The mechanism also makes note of the line number table offset. The mechanism then inserts the source filename into the file information database. In one preferred embodiment, the file information database is implemented as a hash table. Searching time occurs during an interactive debug session; therefore, the searching time is not easily detectable to a user, thus creating the perception of a faster interactive debugging session.

An optical modulator modulates light propagating in a three-dimensional optical waveguide 5 by applying a voltage on the waveguide. The modulator has a three dimensional optical waveguide 5 having at least a pair of branched portions 5b, 5c and a recombining portion 5f of the branched portions 5c, 5d and radiating light of off-mode, and a slab optical waveguide 4 guiding the light of off-mode. The modulator also has modulating electrodes 7A, 7B, 7C for applying a signal voltage and a direct current bias on the waveguide 5 to modulate light propagating in the waveguide 5. The modulator further has a photo detector 13 for detecting light radiated from the slab optical waveguide 4, and a controlling unit 15 for varying the direct current bias based on an output from the photo detector 13 so as to control the operational point of the modulator. According to the modulator, the operational point may be controlled with improved efficiency and stability.

A method, medium, and apparatus of a self-propelled mobile unit with obstacle avoidance during wall-following. In the self-propelled mobile unit, a carrying unit may move the mobile unit by using a transmitted power, and a sensor unit can detect an obstacle and a wall, which may be respectively placed in front of and to the side of the mobile unit, with respect to a moving direction of the carrying unit. A controller may direct the carrying unit by generating a path along which the carrying unit moves according to a detection result from the sensor unit. Accordingly, the controller can direct the carrying unit to move while maintaining a predetermined distance (within a predetermined range) from the wall. If the sensor unit detects an obstacle, the controller directs the carrying unit to move in an obstacle free direction.

Provided are methods and devices for label-free detection of nucleic acids that are amplified by polymerase chain reaction. A solution containing the components necessary for a PCR is introduced to a microfluidic amplification chamber and an electric field applied to a confined region in which PCR occurs. PCR product generated in the confined region is detected by measuring an electrical parameter that is, for example, solution impedance. The devices and methods provided herein are used, for example, in assays to detect one or more pathogens or for point-of-care tests. In an aspect, the PCR product is confined to droplets and the assay relates to detecting an electrical parameter of a flowing droplet, thereby detecting PCR product without a label. In an aspect, the PCR occurs in the droplet.

Methods are disclosed for the capture, detection, separation, isolation and quantification of contaminants in a starting material. Also disclosed are competitive assay methods for the detection and quantification of contaminants in a starting material. Kits for use with the method are disclosed as well. A system for capturing, separating and / or concentrating contaminants from a material is also presented. The system captures, separates and / or concentrates contaminants such as bacteria, viruses, other microorganisms, and / or larger items, such as insects, from a variety of materials, such as food, and environmental and clinical materials. In general, the system uses a rotating magnetic field to mix the material with magnetic particles to capture the target contaminants, and a fixed magnetic field to separate and concentrate the captured target contaminants.

The present invention involves a system and method that facilitate extracting data from messages for spam filtering. The extracted data can be in the form of features, which can be employed in connection with machine learning systems to build improved filters. Data associated with origination information as well as other information embedded in the body of the message that allows a recipient of the message to contact and / or respond to the sender of the message can be extracted as features. The features, or a subset thereof, can be normalized and / or deobfuscated prior to being employed as features of the machine learning systems. The (deobfuscated) features can be employed to populate a plurality of feature lists that facilitate spam detection and prevention. Exemplary features include an email address, an IP address, a URL, an embedded image pointing to a URL, and / or portions thereof.

There is provided a battery assembly wherein assembly can be facilitated by reducing the number of components to be assembled, by integrally fixing resin plates (52, 62) on the inside of metal plates (51, 61) of end plates (5, 6). A laminated battery body (3) is constituted by adjacently arranging battery holders (2) made of resin forming cooling passages (4) between a plurality of batteries (1) and holding such batteries (1) on both sides between other batteries (1). The metal plates (51, 61) and resin plates (52, 62) that are integrally fixed on the inside of these metal plates are provided on the outside of the batteries (1) at both ends of the laminated battery body (3). Thus, the batteries (1) are held by the resin plates (52, 62), and the end plates (5, 6) are respectively arranged to form the cooling passages (4) between these batteries (1) and the metal plates (51, 61). The laminated battery body (3) is fixed in a clamped manner by fixing means clamping these end plates (5, 6).

A touch controller. The touch controller can include first sense circuitry configured to be coupled to a first electrode on a touch sensor panel, the first sense circuitry configured to sense a first self-capacitance associated with the first electrode, and a first mutual capacitance associated with the first electrode. In some examples, the first sense circuitry can be configured to sense the first self-capacitance and the first mutual capacitance simultaneously. In some examples, the touch controller can further include a first mixer and a second mixer coupled to the first sense circuitry, the first mixer configured to demodulate a first output from the first sense circuitry to extract information about the first self-capacitance from the first output, the second mixer configured to demodulate the first output from the first sense circuitry to extract information about the first mutual capacitance from the first output.

Methods are provided for detecting, separating, isolating and quantifying contaminants in starting materials by separating the contaminant from the starting material using a bead coupled to an affinity moiety and quantum dot-labeling the contaminant. The contaminant is detected by the characteristic emission spectrum of the quantum dot. Also, competitive binding methods are provided wherein the starting material and a control material are contacted with a quantum dot coupled to an affinity moiety capable of binding the contaminant and a competitor complex. A decrease in the intensity of the characteristic emission spectrum of the quantum dot associated with the competitor complex from the starting material as compared to that of the control material is indicative of the presence of the contaminant in the starting material.

The invention relates to a data processor system for space-based measurement and control of a high-speed aircraft. The data processor system comprises a power supply module, an interface module, a control module, an encryption module, a forward processing module and a reverse processing module, wherein the power supply module is used for providing the secondary power source for the other modules; the control module is used for receiving control instructions, and sending the control instructions to the other modules; the encryption module is used for encrypting the reverse data stream and decrypting the forward data stream respectively; the forward processing module is used for receiving the mid-frequency signal, completing the receiving and processing link, recovering forward information, and outputting the forward information to an external device through the interface module; the reverse processing module is used for receiving image data, flight state information and remote measurement information, generating the mid-frequency signal after completing the launching and processing link to output the mid-frequency signal to an external radio frequency front end, and eventually sending the mid-frequency signal to a ground system. The data processor system supports the carrier high-dynamic measurement and control of the aircraft, is large in region coverage, supports multiple users, can realize real-time two-way communication with the aircraft, and has certain interference capability.

A liquid crystal display uses a pixel division method by which the size of a defect can be reduced much more than conventionally possible, and a defect correcting method for the liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display is provided with an active matrix array substrate including a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of source lines arranged on a transparent substrate so as to intersect with each other, and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, each pixel electrode including an assembly of a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes, separate TFTs respectively connected to the sub-pixel electrodes in the vicinity of an intersection portion of the gate line and the source line, the TFTs being driven by the common gate line and the common source line, and at least one opening portion being formed in a lower-layer side line placed in a lower layer at the intersection portion.

Various embodiments of the invention allow to take advantage of the natural statistical variation of physical properties in a semiconductor device in order to create truly random, repeatable, and hard to detect cryptographic bits. In certain embodiments, this is accomplished by pairing mismatch values of PUF elements so as to ensure that PUF key bits generated thereform remain insensitive to environmental errors, without affecting the utilization rate of available PUF elements.

A self-capacitance touch screen. In some examples, the touch screen comprises a plurality of display pixels, a first display pixel of the plurality of display pixels including a first touch electrode of a plurality of touch electrodes, and a gate line coupled to the first display pixel, wherein the gate line is configured such that a voltage at the gate line substantially follows a voltage at the first touch electrode. In some examples, the gate line is coupled to a resistor, the resistor being configured to decouple the gate line from ground. In some examples, the gate line is coupled to an AC voltage source.

Vehicle-mounted UWB systems and / or methods for detecting mines and other explosive devices are provided. In certain exemplary embodiments, a system for detecting non-buried mines and / or improvised explosive devices is provided. Distance measuring equipment may be configured to track movement of the system. Substantially forward-looking bistatic antenna transceivers may be capable of collecting range-magnitude radar data over two channels. A first transceiver may capture radar data for a first area, and a second transceiver may capture radar data for a second area. A processor may be configured to: derive range resolution data and cross-range resolution data from the range-magnitude radar data; focus the range resolution data and the cross-range resolution data, based at least on the distance data and an antenna beamwidth pattern associated with the antenna transceivers; and, “and” data for portions of the first area and the second area that overlap.

A method for a wireless network. The network includes at least a server and a plurality of computer devices wirelessly connected to the server. At least one of the computer devices is under attack by an ‘attacker’ device. The method provides for detection and reporting of the attack as to the location of the attack. The method includes detecting an attack by one of the computer devices, using a zCore module and transmitting an ‘attack report’ to the server. The report includes at least the attack location. The method also includes notifying at least one of the plurality of computer devices and an external computer device that the network is compromised.

The present disclosure describes systems and methods to classify and authenticate ID documents based on the information contained on the face of the ID document. This present system can automatically classify, authenticate, and extracting data from documents using artificial intelligence (AI) based machine learning for image recognition. In some implementations, the machine learning techniques include a convolutional neural network. The system can also determine the authenticity of other documents, such as currency, stamps, and invoices.

A method for inspecting multilayer masks to detect any defects includes illuminating a pixel region on a mask to be inspected, using illuminating light having a peak wavelength that is close to that of light reflected by the mask. The illuminating light specularly reflected by the mask is blocked. Scattered reflected illuminating light is collected and used to form an enlarged image. An image detector having a large plurality of pixels is used to observe the enlarged image to detect whether there are defects on the mask. The method is implemented using an mask inspection apparatus including a plasma light source for generating radiant rays, an illuminating light collecting optical system that collects radiated light from the light source for enlarged image formation illumination of a subject inspection region, a Schwarzschild optical system including convex and concave mirrors for collecting scattered light from the subject inspection region and forming an enlarged image of the inspection region, an image detector having a large plurality of pixels for recording the enlarged image that is obtained, and an analyzer that analyzes the images obtained to determine whether there is a defect.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a novel method for detecting a target nucleic acid; and a kit for use in the method. In the detection method according to the present invention, a fluorophore-labeled primer / probe and a quencher-labeled probe, which have complementarity to each other, are so designed as to have different melting temperatures (Tm) from each other so that the fluorophore-labeled primer can anneal preferentially to the target nucleic acid. The detection method is so designed that the fluorophore-labeled primer / probe that is not bound to the target nucleic acid is bound to the quenching probe so as to emit no fluorescence. The method enables the detection of the target nucleic acid in a simpler manner, at lower cost, and without requiring the use of any technique or device.

The invention discloses an invisible image steganography based on a generative adversarial network which can embed a grayscale secret image into a color carrier image to obtain a confidential image and can successfully recover a secret image from the payload image. The invisible image steganography comprises: an encoder network which is responsible for embedding a secret image into a carrier imageto generate a confidential image; a decoder network which is responsible for recovering a secret image from a loaded image; and a discriminator network which is responsible for performing steganalysis of a natural image and a confidential image to adjust the safety of the encoder network and decoder network. The invisible image steganography based on the generative adversarial network provides anew design idea for image information hiding.

The invention discloses a distributed optical fiber vibration sensor based on the relay amplifying and sensing technology and a method thereof, belonging to the technical field of optical fiber vibration sensing. The system comprises a light source, an electro-optical modulator, a pulse driver, a light amplifier, a circulator, a polarizing beam splitter, a collector and a signal analysis processing system. The sensor is characterized in that the system also comprises a pumping laser light source and an optical remote sensing relay amplifying and sensing optical module. The pumping laser light source is arranged in the distributed optical fiber vibration sensing demodulation device and the optical remote sensing relay amplifying and sensing optical module is embedded between multistage sensing fibers. The passive optical modules of the pumping laser light source and optical remote sensing relay amplifying and sensing optical module perform long-distance connection through transmission fiber to form the light amplifier, the gain of the optical remote sensing relay amplifying and sensing optical module is utilized to overcome fibre loss, increase the intensity of the spontaneous Rayleigh scattering light of the optical fibre, enhance the signal-to-noise ratio of the distributed optical fiber vibration sensing system, enlarge the transmission distance of the system and increase the measurement accuracy of vibration events in the target area. The system is mainly used in the fields requiring long-distance measurement vibration signals such as perimeter safety precaution, border precaution, seismic detection and tsunami early warning.