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An active noise control system for use in testing hearing using a pure tone audiometry testing procedure and employing multiple switching controllers with pre-filtering means and a switch to select any one controller to provide a predetermined one and having the ability to configure each switching controller so that the maximum threshold shift occurs for the frequency of the test tone and for modifying each test tone in accordance with a standard calibration frequency.

A method for establishing an agricultural pedigree for agricultural products comprises the steps of: (a) Providing an open communication network accessible information storage device adapted to receive input of data relating to agricultural product production and distribution from multiple sources; (b) Inputting said data into said information storage device; (c) Storing and said data; and (d) Providing access to said data via the open communication network, wherein the information storage device is configured to be used as at least: (i) A tool for traceability of the agricultural products, (ii) A real time decision making tool, and (iii) A predictive modeling tool.

Methods and apparatus for reducing the coherence of an optical signal that is used to interrogate optical interferometric sensors are disclosed. The optical field phasor of the interrogation source is modulated in a controlled manner to produce a broadened optical source power spectrum at the output of the source unit. The output from the source unit is launched into an optical sensor network, comprising a multiple of optical pathways from its input to the detection unit, where pairs of optical pathways form sensor interferometers. A compensating interferometer with delay difference similar to the sensor delay difference may be arranged in a serially coupled manner with the optical sensor network, either before or after the network. The optical output power from the source unit may either be continuous or pulsed with a pulse duration similar to the sensor delay. The coherence modulation may be performed through direct modulation of the source or through external modulation of the light with piezoelectric ring modulator, a Lithium niobate phase or intensity modulator, or an acoustooptic modulator.

A data control method used in a media player system is disclosed. The media player system includes a data end and a play end connected to each other through a network. The data end includes an encoder for encoding media data. The play end includes a buffer for storing media data packets. The method includes comparing the number of media data packets stored in the buffer with a high threshold and a low threshold, decelerating the encoding by the encoder of the data end if the number of media data packets stored in the buffer is larger than the high threshold, and accelerating the encoding by the encoder of the data end if the number of media data packets stored in the buffer is smaller than the high threshold.

Process for forming dual gate oxides for DRAMS by incorporating different thicknesses of gate oxides by using nitrogen implantation. Either angled nitrogen implantation or nitride spacers is used to create a “shadow effect” or area, which limits the nitrogen dose close to the edges of the active area. The reduction of nitrogen dose leads to an increased gate oxide thickness at the active area (AA) adjacent to the shallow trench, increases the threshold of the parasitic corner device and reduces sub Vt (threshold voltage) and junction leakage.

A shared-nothing database management system employs a method of adding and removing a database server without significantly affecting the processing performance for accessing a table from a user or an application. A scheduler module creates a schedule which separately handles the addition of a CPU resource and the addition of a storage I / O resource, and a server is added in accordance with the created schedule. A common disk is used to remove a disk at an arbitrary timing. Further, a data region is previously subdivided on the common disk to eliminate a movement of data associated with the addition of a server.

An architecture for delivering up-to-date graphics technology to a mass market, locating rapidly chaning graphics technology on a central server and partitioning application functions between server and distributed consoles in such a fashion that upgrades in graphics technology do not require corresponding upgrades in the consoles or in functions allocated to the consoles. Multiple instances are provided of the graphics technology, and these instances are switched to active applications and consoles.

The invention relates to a system and method for realizing an analog whole network capacity open platform based on a cloud computing system. The system comprises an open platform access module, an analog capability providing module and a capability open management module. The open platform access module is connected with the analog capability providing module, the capability open management module and an external application. The analog capability providing module is connected with the capability open management module. Through adoption of the system and the method of the structure, physical complexities of various networks are shielded; a plurality of capability open technologies are integrated together; various capabilities in a whole network are simulated; abundant convergence services are established and managed efficiently and reliably with relatively low average operation costs; the capability efficiency of employing the open platform by enterprise applications is effectively improved; and the system and the method have a wide application range.

The invention relates to a method and device for processing a junk user. The method for processing the junk user comprises the steps that the archive data of the user are acquired, and the archive data comprise at least one of the personal information, historical approved memo and historical behavior information of the user; whether the user is an unauthentic user or not is analyzed according to the archive data; when the user is the unauthentic user, the behavior of the user is limited. According to the technical scheme, the reliability of the user is analyzed according to the archive data of the user, and therefore the behavior of the user is limited according to the reliability of the user, the threshold for the unauthentic user using a social application is increased, the harassment of the unauthentic user to a normal user is reduced, and the social application can actively recognize and shield the unauthentic user. Therefore, advertisements, political communication and other illegal information are filtered out more effectively, and high practicality is achieved.

When a voice-activated device or application is first started, the signal levels corresponding to spoken commands are initially unknown, making it difficult to set detection thresholds. The inventive method provides an initial command-detection threshold based on the noise level alone. The first command is detected using this initial threshold. Then the threshold is revised according to the first command sound, and a second command is detected using the revised threshold. After detecting each command, the detection threshold is further refined according to the current noise and command sounds. Methods are also disclosed for optimizing the thresholds, adjusting parameters according to sound, and detecting voiced and unvoiced sounds separately. These capabilities enable many emerging voice-activated products and applications.

Circuits are provided for simultaneously reducing the subthreshold and gate oxide leakage power consumption in domino logic circuits. Sleep transistors and a dual threshold voltage CMOS technology may be utilized to place idle domino logic circuits into a low leakage state. The circuits may significantly lower the total leakage power as compared to the standard dual threshold voltage domino logic circuits at both the high and low die temperatures. The energy overheads of the circuit techniques may be low, justifying the activation of the proposed sleep schemes by providing net savings in total power consumption during short idle periods.

In an embodiment, a system is provided in which the private key is managed in hardware and is not visible to software. The system may provide hardware support for public key generation, digital signature generation, encryption / decryption, and large random prime number generation without revealing the private key to software. The private key may thus be more secure than software-based versions. In an embodiment, the private key and the hardware that has access to the private key may be integrated onto the same semiconductor substrate as an integrated circuit (e.g. a system on a chip (SOC)). The private key may not be available outside of the integrated circuit, and thus a nefarious third party faces high hurdles in attempting to obtain the private key.

Methods and apparatus or systems for providing security based on innate characteristics of devices are disclosed. A method of providing security associated with communications from a digital device includes observing an analog signal associated with communications from the digital device, characterizing the digital device at least partially based on the analog signal, and providing a security feature at least partially based on the step of characterizing.

The electromagnetic radiation detection device includes, on a same substrate:at least one active detector of the electromagnetic radiation provided with a first element sensitive to said radiation,at least one reference detector including a second element sensitive to said electromagnetic radiation, anda lid provided with first reflective means reflecting the incident electromagnetic radiation, said lid covering without contact the second sensitive element and defining with the substrate a cavity having the reference detector housed therein. The lid is designed to improve the sensitivity of the detection device.

Novel and optimized classes of pipemidic acid derivative compounds that exhibit effective inhibition of autotaxin enzymes are provided. Such classes of compounds exhibit exhibit reactivity with autotaxin to ultimately reduce the size of the reactive sites thereon to prevent conversion of lysophosphatidyl choline to lysophophatidic acid. Furthermore, such compounds can be incorporated within delivery forms for human ingestion. As such, these compounds accord an excellent manner of potentially reducing generation of certain cancers attributable to the presence of naturally occurring autotaxin within the human body. Methods of inactivating autotaxin to certain degrees therewith such compounds are encompassed within invention as well.

The invention discloses multivariate plant nutrition oil comprising medium-temperature water-frying oil, high-temperature frying oil and low-temperature salad oil which are respectively prepared from any 2-6 types of 10 types of plant oil such as tea-seed oil, peanut oil and rice oil. Meanwhile, a plurality of plant functional elements such as pollen pini and almond are added to the nutrition oil; the content ratio of saturated fatty acid to monounsaturated fatty acid to polyunsaturated fatty acid in the multivariate plant nutrition oil is 0.45:1:0.9; the content ratio of n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid to n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid is (3-6):1. The nutrition oil disclosed by the invention is reasonable in proportioning, the price is considered, and diseases such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia which can be caused by over-high intake of traditional saturated fatty acid and linoleic acid and over-low intake of linolenic acid are solved.

The invention provides a quick JavaWeb development method and system using native Web codes. The quick JavaWeb development method comprises the following steps that (1A) a database is created; (1B) a standard Java dynamic Web project is newly constructed, and connection with the database is created; (1C) a data entity model definition file is created, a corresponding data sheet and data entity Bean codes of the data sheet are generated through connection; (1D) a Web frame is selected; (1E) parameters of the Web frame are selected and background codes are automatically generated according to the parameters, wherein a data entity Bean is operated by utilizing interactive codes in the database; (1F) a Web foreground file is created; (1G) three foreground Web files including HTML, JavaScript and CSS and an XML configuration file are automatically created; (1H) required foreground Web controls are added into a visual designer, attributes and events of the controls are set, and relevant codes are automatically generated.

A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode disposed on a semiconductor substrate and source / drain regions disposed at both sides of the gate electrode, the source / drain regions being formed by implanting impurities. The source / drain regions include an epitaxial layer formed by epitaxially growing a semiconductor material having a different lattice constant from that of the semiconductor substrate in a recessed position at a side of the gate electrode, and a diffusion layer disposed in a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate.

A comparator has first and second current paths, each passing from an input through a transistor, through a current source to ground, the second current path also having a reference voltage drop element coupled in series with the second input. The gates of the transistors are coupled to form a current mirror. The reference voltage drop element enables higher voltages to be input and compared to higher thresholds above an internal supply voltage level without the need for dividing resistors to reduce the input voltage. Avoiding such resistors means the power dissipation and the silicon area used can be kept lower. ESD vulnerability is reduced since the inputs are not coupled to gates of MOS transistors. Overvoltage protection across the source and gate of the second transistor can be added.

A hydraulic suspension system includes a suspension base (16) supporting wheels, a hydraulic cylinder (19) for displaceably suspending the suspension base from a vehicle body, and an oil passage connected to the hydraulic cylinder. An accumulator (21, 23) is incorporated within the oil passage. A flow control valve (51) is incorporated at an oil passage portion between the hydraulic cylinder and said accumulator for controlling an amount of work oil flowing therebetween. A pressure sensor (56) is provided for detecting a cylinder oil passage pressure effective on the hydraulic cylinder. A control unit (57) is provided for controlling operation of the flow control valve, based upon a detection value from the pressure sensor.

Methods and systems are presented for transferring an interactive feature from a first device to a second device. Two users may be consuming a media asset. Upon receipt of a command to active an interactive feature, a determination is made whether a user who did not activate the interactive feature is interested in the media asset. Upon that determination, a timer is activated that tracks an amount of time for which the interactive feature is active and a determination is made whether a threshold time period has been met. Once the threshold time period is met, a device associated with the user that activated the interactive feature is identified and the users are prompted to transfer the interactive feature to the device.

The invention discloses a digital certificate management method and system based on a block chain, equipment and a storage medium, in the method, a certificate template can be issued only after passing through a registration program, strict management and control are carried out from the root of certificate issuing, the certificate template and a sending record of each certificate can be traced, and the problem of certificate counterfeiting is thoroughly solved, the certificate inspection cost can be reduced, and the certificate inspection efficiency is improved. Before a certificate is issued and verified, a secure connection needs to be established between an applicant and an issuer and between a holder and a verifier, and the adopted DID technology provides a basis for secure communication and increases the security of certificate transmission. Besides, the certificate verifier can complete validity verification of the certificate based on the verifiable declaration provided by the holder, and the generation process of the verifiable declaration is combined with cryptographic technologies such as zero-knowledge proof and Merkel tree to selectively disclose certificate attributes, so that the privacy of the certificate holder can be ensured not to be leaked, and the security is improved.

Ischemia-reperfusion injury commonly results from any surgical procedure requiring stopping of blood supply to an organ followed by reperfusion such as in heart bypass, angioplasty or organ transplant. The invention discloses a method to harness the innate power of repetitive transient ischemia in protecting organs against imminent ischemia-reperfusion, or any patho-physiological insults. This method of optimal remote ischemic preconditioning (ORIP) comprises of utilizing a pair of programmable pneumatic cuffs that inflate / deflate alternately occluding blood circulation to each of the limbs for pre-defined time intervals. The apparatus delivers maximal ORIP dose in shortest possible time either as an EMS procedure during patient transportation to hospital, as elective pre-surgery treatment, or in critical care for preventing multiple-organ-dysfunction-syndrome. ORIP can be self-administered and remotely monitored by clinician especially in chronic patients for homeostasis of malfunctioning target organs. ORIP may also be deployed as adjunct in angioplasty, gene / stem cell heart repair therapies.

Methods and apparatus reduce coherence of an optical signal that is used to interrogate optical interferometric sensors. The optical field phasor of the interrogation source is modulated in a controlled manner to produce a broadened optical source power spectrum at the output of the source unit. The output from the source unit is launched into an optical sensor network, comprising a multiple of optical pathways from its input to the detection unit, where pairs of optical pathways form sensor interferometers. A compensating interferometer with delay difference similar to the sensor delay difference may be arranged in a serially coupled manner with the optical sensor network, either before or after the network. The coherence modulation may be performed through direct modulation of the source or through external modulation of the light with piezoelectric ring modulator, a Lithium niobate phase or intensity modulator, or an acoustooptic modulator.

A shared-nothing database management system employs a method of adding and removing a database server without significantly affecting the processing performance for accessing a table from a user or an application. A scheduler module creates a schedule which separately handles the addition of a CPU resource and the addition of a storage I / O resource, and a server is added in accordance with the created schedule. A common disk is used to remove a disk at an arbitrary timing. Further, a data region is previously subdivided on the common disk to eliminate a movement of data associated with the addition of a server.

An object is to correct gradations in such a manner that both halo reduction effect and Retinex calculation effect are satisfied. Each JND value corresponding to each obtained luminance value to be assigned to each unit gradation of a panel is obtained. A pixel value corresponding to the each JND value is obtained for each of the unit gradations of the panel. A threshold ε is obtained by inverse gamma-correcting the ratio between discernible JND values corresponding to the unit gradations of the panel and the maximum output value of the panel. Linear function-based approximations are obtained using least squares. The threshold ε is determined as an increasing function of a pixel value on the basis of the allowable number of JND steps. The threshold ε is changed using this function. The threshold ε can be changed according to the center pixel value.

A multi-threshold integrated circuit (IC) with reduced subthreshold leakage and method of reducing leakage. Selectable supply switching devices (NFETs and / or PFETs) between a logic circuit and supply connections (Vdd and Ground) for the circuit have higher thresholds than normal circuit devices. Some devices may have thresholds lowered when the supply switching devices are on. Header / footer devices with further higher threshold voltages and widths may be used to further increase off resistance and maintain / reduce on resistance. Alternatively, high threshold devices may be stacked to further reduce leakage to a point achieved for an even higher threshold. Intermediate supply connects at the devices may have decoupling capacitance and devices may be tapered for optimum stack height and an optimum taper ratio to minimize circuit leakage and circuit delay.

The factory-calibrated target discrimination threshold of a radar-based motor vehicle back-up aid is adaptively lowered under specified vehicle operating conditions to provide enhanced target detection sensitivity without causing false target detection. The threshold is initialized to the calibrated value on transition to the reverse range, and is thereafter subject to adaptive adjustment so long as a target is not detected and a high-clutter condition is not in effect. The adaptive adjustment is carried out by low-pass filtering the resultant data of the radar sensor, starting with a factory-calibrated noise baseline, to determine the current noise level, and then calculating the threshold from the noise level. The adaptive adjustment is suspended for an interval after target detection, and the threshold is increased when a high clutter condition is detected based on rate of change in vehicle speed.

A stable operation is realized without any malfunction of a driver even under a voltage condition that a supplied voltage is 3.3 V or lower. For this purpose, in an ink-jet printhead having an ink orifice for discharging ink, a plurality of heat generation elements for generating heat energy used to discharge ink, and an ink channel which incorporates the heat generation elements and communicates with the ink orifice, a driver for driving the heat generation elements, and a logic circuit for controlling the driver are formed on a single board. The gate oxide film thickness of an enhancement NMOS transistor which forms the driver is larger than that of an enhancement NMOS transistor which forms the logic circuit.