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A method and system for issuing and managing sponsor funded stored value cards, where a sponsor company funds an account associated with a stored value card. The stored value card is issued to a cardholder, who can withdraw funds from the account constrained through flexible spend rules. Sponsor funded stored value cards may reduce expenses and difficulties associated with written checks, provide the cardholder with usage flexibility, reduce risks associated with cardholder funds usage, and the like, especially when the cardholder is in a remote location.

A distributed processor architecture computer system and method that includes one or more processors and object oriented control program for real time and near-real time streaming data processing which is able to change the underlying communication mechanism at runtime, which includes the use of a software interface that hides the underlying communication mechanism. The present invention permits the accommodation of changes in communication resource availability due to link, equipment, or software failures or communication bandwidth resources being used by other collaborating programs. The ability to select a communication mechanism based upon cost performance for the particular program deployment and communication mechanism availability as described in the present invention. Typical criteria used for selecting different communication mechanisms for streaming a high volume data on each individual connection would include lower latency, lower overhead time per message, higher throughput in bytes per second of a particular computer, communication equipment and operating system independence.

A heating apparatus 2 comprises a housing 20; a flat heating chamber 4 which is provided in the housing 2 and adapted to heat a wafer W used as a substrate, with one side of the heating chamber 4 opening for carrying in and carrying out the wafer; and a heating plates 44, 45 provided in the heating chamber 4 such that the wafer W can be heated from both above and below. A cooling plate 3 is provided in the housing 20 located in the vicinity of the opening of the heating chamber 4, for cooling the wafer W after being heated by the heating plates 44, 45. Additionally, a carrying means is provided in the housing 20 for carrying the wafer W between an upper position of the cooling plate 3 and the interior of the heating chamber 4 such that a heat treatment for the wafer W can be performed with the wafer W being held in the heating chamber 4.

The invention discloses a calculating method for three-dimension scanning point cloud real-time normal vectors. The method includes the steps that (1) a kinect camera is used for performing real object scanning to read point cloud data, and a KD tree is used for searching for neighborhood points among points in point cloud; (2) according to a principal component analysis (PCA), the searched neighborhood points are subjected to fitting to form a plane, and normal vectors of the fitting plane serve as the normal vectors of all points of the point cloud data; (3) normal vector weighted mean of a neighborhood point of each data point of the point cloud data within radius r can be figured out through a weighted mean algorithm; (4) normal vector evaluation confidence coefficient of each point is set, and the evaluation is performed by means of the normal vector weighted mean of each neighborhood point of each data point of the step (3); (5) a threshold value a of the normal vector confidence coefficient of each point is set, the normal vector confidence coefficient of each point is judged, and the normal vectors of the points are corrected. By means of the calculating method for the three-dimension scanning point cloud real-time normal vectors, overhead time of calculation of point cloud data normal vector estimation can be reduced, the correction function on the normal vectors of the points can be achieved, reorientation calculation of the point cloud normal vectors can be avoided, and the calculating complexity is reduced.

A consumption value of each storage medium and an upper limit related to writing are managed. Respective consumption value and the upper limit of each of two or more storage media out of a plurality of storage media constituting a storage media group are specified, and a remaining use period value is computed for each of the storage media using the upper limit and the consumption value. Based on each of the computed remaining use period values, data in at least one storage medium out of a plurality of storage media belonging to the selected storage area group is shifted to a storage medium which is different form the storage area group.

There is provided a digital camera to which external programs can be installed for appending desired functions thereto. Print image data generating programs to be stored in a recording medium in the digital camera are transmitted from a personal computer, an external extended recording medium of the digital camera, or an external device via a modem and a communication line. In any cases, the stored programs are read out at a desired time to execute an print image data generating processing which transmits the print image data to a printer for printing the image. The stored program can be deleted at a desired time.

Erasing is performed with respect to a nonvolatile memory cell without causing depletion halfway therethrough. A control circuit for reversibly and variably controlling the threshold voltage of the nonvolatile memory cell by electrical erasing and writing controls an erase process of performing erasing to the plurality of nonvolatile memory cells assigned to one unit in an erase operation, a first write process of performing writing to the nonvolatile memory cell exceeding a pre-write-back level before a depletion level, and a second write process of performing writing to the nonvolatile memory cell exceeding a write-back level after the first write process. Since the occurrence of depletion is suppressed by successively performing the first write process with respect to the nonvolatile memory cells which may exceed the depletion level in the erase process, erasing can be performed to the nonvolatile memory cell without causing depletion halfway therethrough.

A unified frame structure for filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) waveforms may allow FBMC and OFDM frames to be communicated over a common channel without significant inter-frame gaps. The unified frame structure may set an FBMC frame duration to an integer multiple of an OFDM frame element duration to enable alignment of FBMC frames and OFDM frames in the time domain. The unified frame structure may also map control channels in the FBMC and OFDM frames to common resource locations so that the respective control channels are aligned in the time and / or frequency domains. The unified frame structure may also share synchronization channels between FBMC and OFDM frames. Additionally, overhead in an FBMC time division duplexed (TDD) communications channel can be reduced by overlapping time windows appended to FBMC blocks.

A waveform mapping method with a high refresh rate and a digital oscilloscope, comprising: continuously acquiring multi-frame acquisition data of a signal (S100); editing each data point in each frame of acquisition data into a corresponding display column, utilizing each data The code value of the point and the sequence number of the displayed column form the coordinate code (S200) of the data point; the number of times each data point appears at the corresponding coordinate code in the collected data of each frame is counted to obtain the column histogram statistical result, and the statistical results for each The maximum code value and the minimum code value appearing in each display column obtain column peak statistical results (S300); control the waveform mapping of the signal according to the statistical results, and refresh the display brightness of each pixel in the waveform mapping area (S400). The waveform mapping method can use the statistical value mapping mechanism to replace the separate mapping mechanism for each frame used in the prior art, which can avoid the situation that each frame of data needs to be mapped separately, reduce the overhead time caused by waveform mapping, and improve refresh rate. Rate.

An OFDM-based multiple access method and a communication device controlling the same are provided. The OFDM-based multiple access method includes transmitting a predetermined synchronization control signal to many and unspecified terminals, and receiving a test message from the terminals in response to the synchronization control signal; classifying the terminals that receive the test message in a first unit time from a predetermined reference time after the transmission of the synchronization control signal into a first group, and classifying the terminals that receive the test message in a certain n-th unit time from the reference time into an n-th group; allocating use permission time of sub-channels to the groups; and the terminals transmitting / receiving data through partial occupation of the sub-channels and symbols at a time allocated to the corresponding groups.

In a sensor relay device (10), a communication control unit (13) receives sensor data from a sensor terminal (ST) via a terminal module (11) when a transmission data amount related to the sensor datatransmitted from the sensor terminal (ST) is equal to or greater than a determination threshold value. This can shorten the overhead time taken to transmit sensor data.

A method and system for predicting soil and / or plant condition in precision agriculture with a classification of measurement data for providing an assignment of a measurement parcel to classes of interest. The assignment is used for providing action recommendations, particularly in real time or close to real time, to a farmer and / or to an agricultural device based on acquired measurement data, particularly remote sensing data, and wherein a classification model is trained by a machine learning algorithm, e.g. relying on deep learning for supervised and / or unsupervised learning, and is potentially continuously refined and adapted thanks to a feedback procedure.