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An image processing apparatus for tracking faces in an image stream iteratively receives an acquired image from the image stream potentially including one or more face regions. The acquired image is sub-sampled at a specified resolution to provide a sub-sampled image. An integral image is then calculated for a least a portion of the sub-sampled image. Fixed size face detection is applied to at least a portion of the integral image to provide a set of candidate face regions. Responsive to the set of candidate face regions produced and any previously detected candidate face regions, the resolution is adjusted for sub-sampling a subsequent acquired image.

A firewall clustering system connects two or more firewalls between an internal network and an external network. The plurality of two or more firewalls are combined to supply high-availability and scaling of processing capacity. Firewalls maintain client-server state information. Flow controllers are connected to the firewalls and placed on both the internal “trusted” side and the external “untrusted” side of the firewalls. Flow controllers are placed on both sides of the firewalls to ensure that traffic for a given client-server session flows through the same firewall in both inbound and outbound directions. The firewalls perform filtering operations and/or network address translation (NAT) services. In both cases, the flow controllers supply high availability, scalability, and traffic distribution for the firewalls in the firewall cluster.

Alignment accuracy between two or more patterned layers is measured using a metrology target comprising substantially overlapping diffraction gratings formed in a test area of the layers being tested. An optical instrument illuminates all or part of the target area and measures the optical response. The instrument can measure transmission, reflectance, and/or ellipsometric parameters as a function of wavelength, polar angle of incidence, azimuthal angle of incidence, and/or polarization of the illumination and detected light. Overlay error or offset between those layers containing the test gratings is determined by a processor programmed to calculate an optical response for a set of parameters that include overlay error, using a model that accounts for diffraction by the gratings and interaction of the gratings with each others' diffracted field. The model parameters might also take account of manufactured asymmetries. The calculation may involve interpolation of pre-computed entries from a database accessible to the processor. The calculated and measured responses are iteratively compared and the model parameters changed to minimize the difference.

A method of computing a hologram by determining the wavefronts at the approximate observer eye position that would be generated by a real version of an object to be reconstructed. In normal computer generated holograms, one determines the wavefronts needed to reconstruct an object; this is not done directly in the present invention. Instead, one determines the wavefronts at an observer window that would be generated by a real object located at the same position of the reconstructed object. One can then back-transforms these wavefronts to the hologram to determine how the hologram needs to be encoded to generate these wavefronts. A suitably encoded hologram can then generate a reconstruction of the three-dimensional scene that can be observed by placing one's eyes at the plane of the observer window and looking through the observer window.

A device for calculating 3D seismic classification features constrained to be tangent to a path in a 3D volume is provided as a “geo-operator”. The method has the capability to associate horizontal (2D), vertical (2D) or arbitrary (3D) classification “feature vectors” with the geo-operator output, to allow determining where the geo-operator has sufficient data for the calculation to form a valid output and where the output of the geo-operator indicates a measure to which alternative feature vector prototypes may be present along the path. The geo-operator has the flexibility of using variable crossline, inline and vertical extent and having a direction able to be designated as it traverses the path, from the start point to the endpoint, aligned to be tangent to the path.

This invention relates to a system and method of monitoring hygiene standards compliance in a medical facility in which there is provided a surveillance network having a monitoring unit 3 and a plurality of mobile network units 7. There may additionally be provided a plurality of fixed network units 5. The monitoring unit 3, mobile network units 7 and fixed network units 5 are connected by way of a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN), in this case a ZigBee network. Identification signals are sent from the mobiles network units 7 to the monitoring unit 3 and the monitoring unit stores the identification signals in memory and generates a hygiene standards compliance profile for an individual associated with a particular mobile network unit. The hygiene compliance profile may provide information relating to the number of times that a particular individual washed their hands to information regarding the patients that that individual came into contact with over the course of a shift. Reports on the behaviour of individuals or groups of individuals may be generated.

The invention relates to a movement human abnormal behavior identification method based on template matching, which mainly comprises the steps of: video image acquisition and behavior characteristic extraction. The movement human abnormal behavior identification method is a mode identification technology based on statistical learning of samples. The movement of a human is analyzed and comprehended by using a computer vision technology, the behavior identification is directly carried out based on geometric calculation of a movement region and recording and alarming are carried out; the Gaussian filtering denoising and the neighborhood denoising are combined for realizing the denoising, thereby improving the independent analysis property and the intelligent monitoring capacity of an intelligent monitoring system, achieving higher identification accuracy for abnormal behaviors, effectively removing the complex background and the noise of a vision acquired image, and improving the efficiency and the robustness of the detection algorithm. The invention has simple modeling, simple algorithm and accurate detection, can be widely applied to occasions of banks, museums and the like, and is also helpful to improve the safety monitoring level of public occasions.

The invention discloses an ATM security certificate and a pre-warning method based on face recognition. The invention introduces face recognition and video detection into the applications of ATM and bank card business for the first time, which can obviously improve the security of ATM financial system, effectively reduce and overawe various ATM fraud and criminal activities. The complete system operation process in the method of the invention is: firstly, registering the face information of a holder at a service window which arranges an infrared face acquisition equipment or with the registration by the users themselves on ATM in bank, and saving the encrypted face information to a bank database and a bank card. Then, determining whether the ATM operator to be recognized is the holder of the bank card or not through verifying the user's identity by a face recognition engine; determining and recognizing whether existing behaviors that threaten ATM and the users though a behavior monitoring engine; and determining whether to trigger corresponding pre-warning mechanism or not according to the recognition result. The invention can extend to the applications of bank book business, public security monitoring and pursuing escaped criminals, etc.

For the measurement of vital sign information such as a respiratory rate and a heart rate a device for obtaining vital sign information of a subject is provided, comprising a first detection unit that acquires first set of detection data allowing the extraction of a first vital sign information signal related to a first vital sign of the subject and a second detection unit that acquires a second set of detection data allowing the extraction of a second vital sign information signal related to a second vital sign of the subject. An analysis unit extracts the first vital sign information signal from the first set of detection data (3a) and extracts the second vital sign information signal from the second set of detection data. A processing unit combines the first vital sign information signal and the second vital sign information signal to obtain a combined vital sign information signal. An extracting unit extracts at least one of the first and second vital signs of the subject from the combined vital sign information signal.

A method of removing a motion vector from a group of motion vectors used in an encoding process includes providing a list of motion vectors, selecting an initial motion vector from the list of motion vectors, and providing an intermediate motion vector using a motion vector refinement process. The motion vector refinement process uses, in part, the initial motion vector. The method also includes forming a region defined by one or more parameters associated with the initial motion vector and one or more parameters associated with the intermediate motion vector, selecting an additional motion vector from the list of motion vectors, determining that the additional motion vector points into the region, and modifying a state of the additional motion vector.

A new high-rate Reed-Solomon erasure resilient codes (ERC) system and method for generating and efficiently implementing novel Reed-Solomon erasure-resilient codes for use in high-rate applications. High-rate applications are applications where the number of coded messages is significantly higher (such as an order of magnitude) than the number of original messages. The new Reed-Solomon ERC system uses a novel scalar vector multiplication and addition technique and a novel direct inversion technique. The direct inversion technique uses specific generator matrices, including a modified Vandermonde Matrix and a Cauchy Matrix, to directly calculate an inverse of the sub-generator matrix of receiving ERC-coded messages, thereby reducing decoding computation. The scalar vector multiplication and addition technique generates new high-rate Reed-Solomon codes and performs scalar vector multiplication and addition on the Galois Field to speed up the Reed-Solomon erasure encoding/decoding operations. In effect, the new Reed-Solomon codes are “tuned” for maximum performance in the high-rate environment.

A cardiac rhythm management system provides an increase in pacing rate as a combination of responses to three characteristics of a relative-temperature signal: a dip, a positive slope, and a positive magnitude. The relative-temperature signal is the difference between a short-term and a long-term temperature average. A dip produces a limited and temporary rate increase having a first proportionality. A positive slope produces a rate increase with a second proportionality. A positive magnitude produces a rate increase with a third proportionality. The dip response seeds the slope response to provide a seamless and immediate rate transition after a dip. The cardiac rhythm management system limits and filters the sum of the rate increases to provide a sensor indicated rate, which is used to stimulate the heart.

A battery management system using a measurement model modeling a battery, and estimating a SOC (state-of-charge) of the battery, and a battery driving method thereof. The battery management system is constructed with a sensor, a predictor, a data rejection unit, and a measurement unit. The sensor senses a charging and discharging current flowing through the battery, a temperature of the battery, a terminal voltage of the battery. The predictor counts the charging and discharging current, and estimates the state-of-charge of the battery. The data rejection unit generates information associated with an error generated from the measurement model, as a function of at least one of the battery temperature, the charging and discharging current, the state-of-charge, and a dynamic of the charging and discharging current. The measurement unit corrects the estimated state-of-charge of the battery, using the measurement model and the information associated with the error.

Different algorithms are used in H.264/AVC intra coding to form three coding levels. Algorithms used in two of the three coding levels reduce calculation complexities and power consumptions. The basic level is an exception, which fully keeps an original picture quality. Thus, various needs can be met by coding in the various levels with the various algorithms.

A method and apparatus for verifying the authenticity and integrity of an ordered sequence of digital video frames, without having access to the original recording, by embedding therein a respective series of digital signatures based on a secret key, or keys, and on the video content of respective frames. Signatures are camouflaged by embedding in transform coefficients of a transformed representation of the video data in parts of the frame corresponding to motion. If there is sufficient motion to contain all of the signature bits, a supplementary technique embeds in high-texture areas of a frame. A final fall-back is to embed in a pre-defined default zone. A method of predicting when supplementary embedding is needed enables the process to be applied in a single pass allowing real-time operation. Verification is done during decoding by comparing, for identity, embedded signatures with signatures calculated anew using the method employed to embed.

The present invention relates to the definition, in a flight plan, of the horizontal profile of an air route with vertical flight and speed profile prescribed on departure and/or on arrival, by a stringing together of check-points and/or turn points associated with local flight constraints and called “D-Fix” because they are not listed in a published navigation database like those called “Waypoints”. It consists in charting, on curvilinear distance maps, a direct curvilinear path joining the departure point to the destination point of the air route while complying with vertical flight and speed profiles prescribed on departure and/or on arrival and while guaranteeing a circumnavigation of the surrounding reliefs and compliance with regulated overfly zones, then in approximating the series of points of the direct curvilinear path by a sequence of straight segments complying with an arbitrary maximum deviation threshold relative to the points of the series and an arbitrary minimum lateral deviation threshold relative to the set of obstacles to be circumnavigated and in adopting as “D-Fix” points the points of the intermediate intersections of the rectilinear segments.

The invention discloses the technical field of wireless communication and wireless network positioning, and in particular relates to an improved positioning method of an indoor fingerprint based on a clustering neural network. According to the technical scheme, the positioning method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: an offline phase: constructing a fingerprint database by fingerprint information collected from a reference point, sorting fingerprints in the fingerprint database by utilizing a clustering algorithm, and training the fingerprint and position information of each reference point by utilizing a artificial neural network model to obtain an optimized network model; and an online phase: carrying out cluster matching on the collected real-time fingerprint information and a cluster center in the fingerprint database to determine a primary positioning area, and taking the real-time fingerprint information in the primary positioning area as an input end of the neural network model of the reference point to acquire final accurate position estimation. The method has the advantages that low calculation and storage cost for the clustering artificial neural network fingerprint positioning method can be guaranteed, the positioning accuracy of the clustering artificial neural network fingerprint positioning method can be improved, and accurate positioning information is provided for users.