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A transfer shuttle for transferring a load between a pair of multi-tier racks in an automatic warehouse has a traveling platform traveling between the multi-tier racks, extension and retraction mechanisms arranged at the front and rear of the traveling platform with a load mounting area of the platform sandwiched between the mechanisms, and end fingers arranged at opposite ends of a rail which, among the rails in the extension and retraction mechanism, has the largest movement range and is movable between a protruded position engageable with the load and a standby position. The rail also has an inner finger provided between the end fingers. With such an arrangement, the inner finger can push a load on the load mounting area of the transfer shuttle to convey the load to a position deeper in the multi-tier rack than positions achievable by conventional products.

A method and system for performing fluoroscopic imaging of a subject has high temporal and spatial resolution in a center portion of the captured dynamic images. The system provides for reduced X-ray dose to the patient associated with that part of the X-ray beam associated with a peripheral portion of the captured images although temporal, and in some embodiments spatial, resolution is reduced in the peripheral portion of the image. The system uses a rotating collimator to produce an X-ray beam having narrow wing portions associated with the peripheral portions of the image, and a broader central region associated with the high resolution center portion of the images.

A method and apparatus for carrying out variable timing exhaust gas recirculation is disclosed for use during both positive power and retarding operation of an internal combustion engine. Motion or energy is derived from an engine component and stored as potential energy. The stored energy is selectively applied to a valve actuator to carry out exhaust gas recirculation in an engine cylinder. The energy derived from the engine may be stored and selectively applied to the valve actuator with an electronically controlled trigger valve. The valve actuator may be a slave piston having an inner core and an outer sleeve capable of opening the valve of the cylinder in response to independent exhaust gas recirculation and compression release hydraulic systems.

An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: determining presence of abnormality in a low-pressure fuel system; ceasing an intake manifold injector when determination is made of abnormality in the low-pressure fuel system; increasing the target purge rate when the engine operation state attains an injection partaking state between an in-cylinder injector and an intake manifold injector; reducing the VVT overlap; and retarding the ignition timing.

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that provide flexible use of a shared radio resource. An apparatus determines from monitoring signal energy on a shared radio resource whether other transmitters are present. A predetermined set of time division duplex (TDD) signaling patterns are identified. A correlation is performed between signal energy received on the shared radio resource and the predetermined TDD signaling patterns. The apparatus may then determine a TDD signaling pattern that may reduce or avoid interference with any other transmitters using the shared resource. The shared radio resource may be, for example, a shared frequency spectrum. Efficient allocation of radio resources among apparatuses such as radio transceivers, without fixed time references or predetermined patterns, may be obtained. The radio transceivers may be base stations or mobile user equipment in a wireless communications system. The apparatus may be an integrated circuit, a portion thereof, or chipset.

A method for improving the associating articles of information or stories with topics associated with specific subjects (subject topics) and with a general topic of words that are not associated with any subject. The inventive method is trained using Hidden Markov Models (HMM) to represent each story with each state in the HMM representing each topic. A standard Expectation and Maximization algorithm, as are known in this art field can be used to maximize the expected likelihood to the method relating the words associated with each topic to that topic. In the method, the probability that each word in a story is related to a subject topic is determined and evaluated, and the subject topics with the lowest probability are discarded. The remaining subject topics are evaluated and a sub-set of subject topics with the highest probabilities over all the words in a story are considered to be the "correct" subject topic set. The method utilizes only the positive information and words related to other topics are not taken as negative evidence for a topic being evaluated. The technique has particular application to text that is derived from speech via a speech recognizer or any other techniques that results in a text file. The use of a general topic category enhances the results since most words in any story are not keywords that are associated with any given subject topic. The removal of the general words reduces the numbers of words being considered as keywords related to any given subject topic. The reduced number of words being processed allows the method to enhance the discrimination between the fewer words as related to the subject topics. The topics can range from general, for example "the U.S. economy", to very specific, for example, "the relationship of the yen to the dollar in the U.S. economy."

Methods, systems, devices, and computer program code (software) products enable acceleration of ray tracing by using acceleration data structures with high arity to enable processing of nodes using streaming SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) instructions with reduced memory requirements.

A spatial light modulator is disclosed that can be fabricated easily and is able to prevent degradation of a contrast ratio by suppressing a fringe effect. The spatial light modulator includes a light transmission substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a pixel array, and a phase difference generation unit provided between the light transmission substrate and the liquid crystal layer. A lens array is formed on the light transmission substrate, and the lens array has the same pitch as that of the pixel array.

An operation instruction list including starting points and ending points of trajectories of a plurality of robot arms is generated (a trajectory definition data generation process). Order of generation of trajectories is determined in accordance with the operation instruction list (a generation order determination process). A trajectory of a specific robot arm included in the operation instruction list is generated in accordance with a starting point and an ending point such that the trajectory avoids obstacle spaces registered in the obstacle memory when trajectories of other robot arms are generated (a trajectory generation process). A sweeping space in which a structure of the arm sweeps when the robot arm is operated along the generated trajectory is added to the obstacle memory as an obstacle space to be avoided by the other robot arm (an obstacle registration process).

The invention belongs to the field of laser processing, discloses an edge deletion method for thin-film solar cells, and concretely relates to a method for carrying out edge deletion on thin-film solar cells by using ultra-short pulse laser. The method disclosed by the invention is importantly characterized in that high-peak-power ultra-short pulse laser with an extremely high transparent conductive film absorption rate is introduced into an application of carrying out edge deletion on thin-film solar cells. Compared with laser power used by edge deletion implemented by using infrared nanosecond laser, the method can complete high-efficiency and high-quality laser edge deletion by using smaller average laser power; and glass is not easy to be damaged, the compatibility with different kinds of transparent conductive films is extremely strong, and the application cost is reduced.

A lighting device (40-40″, 45-45″, 50-50″, 60, 80, 93-93″) is provided for the uniform illumination of curved, uneven, or polyhedral surfaces. The lighting device has a plurality of flat chip-on-board LED modules (1, 11, 11′, 21, 31, 41-41″, 46-46″, 51-51″, 61-61″, 71-71′″, 81¹-81⁸), which are arranged adjacent to each other at least in pairs. Each chip-on-board LED module (1, 11, 11′, 21, 31, 41-41″, 46-46″, 51-51″, 61-61″, 71-81¹-81⁸) has a plurality of light-emitting LEDs (4, 4′, 14, 14′, 24, 34, 64, 72). The lighting device (40-40″, 45-45″, 50-50″, 60, 80, 93-93″) is characterized by at least one pair of the adjacent chip-on-board LED modules (1, 11, 11′, 21, 31, 41-41″, 46-46″, 51-51″, 61-61″, 71-71′″, 81¹-81⁸) being arranged at an angle greater than 0° with respect to the surface normals of the modules.

Disclosed is an apparatus for forming a composite image of a scene from a plurality of overlapping elemental images, the apparatus comprising:

• • a selector for selecting one point in one of the plurality of images and another point in a second one of the plurality of images, the first point and the other point being overlaid in the composite image and being of substantially the same point in the scene;
  • a determiner for determining, when the first point and the other point are overlaid, the gradient across the overlap between the first and other elementary image; and
  • an adjuster for adjusting one of the first and second elementary image to minimise the gradient across the overlap. A corresponding method is also disclosed.

The invention discloses an intelligent power grid short-term load prediction method based on an improved RBF neural network, relates to the technical field of intelligent power grid, and is used for determining the basis function center and improving the load prediction precision of the intelligent power grid. The prediction method includes: S1, performing network initialization; S2, calculating the basis function center ci; S3, calculating the variance [zeta]i according to the basis function center ci; S4, calculating the output Ri of a hidden layer according to the basis function center ci and the variance [zeta]i; S5, calculating the output of an output layer according to the output Ri of the hidden layer; S6, calculating a prediction error E according to a mean squared error and the function; S7, updating connecting weights of neurons of the hidden layer and neurons of the output layer in the neural network; and S8, determining the prediction error E, if the prediction error E is expected, ending iterative calculation, and otherwise, returning to step S4, and re-performing iterative calculation on the prediction error E. The method is used for predicting the load of the power grid.

A method of selecting at least one user interface (UI) object from a plurality of UI objects, is disclosed. Each UI object represents an image and is associated with metadata values. A set of the UI objects is displayed on the display screen (114A), at least some of which is at least partially overlapping. The method detects a user pointer motion gesture, defining a magnitude value, on the multi-touch device in relation to the display screen (114A). In response to the motion gesture, at least some UI objects are moved in a first direction to reduce the overlap. The movement of each UI object is based on the magnitude value, the metadata values associated with that UI object, and on at least one metadata attribute. A subset of the UI objects may be moved in response to the motion gesture is selected.

The invention discloses a categorizing method oriented to Internet unbalanced application streaming. The method includes: on the basis that streaming, streaming statistical feature value calculation and category labeling of collected flow data messages are completed and streaming samples and a flow data set are acquired, dividing the data set through a cluster algorithm to form a plurality of dense and disjoint subsets; aiming at streaming sample feature values of the subsets, using interpolation to expand sub-category streaming samples; setting the undersampling rules of large-category streaming samples according to the neighboring relations among the streaming samples of current subsets and the bytes number of the streaming samples; training integration categorizing models one by one on the basis of a boosting-style integration learning algorithm explicitly considering integration diversity; judging the distance between testing set streaming samples and each training subset cluster center, selecting the integration categorizing model categorizing streaming samples corresponding to the closest cluster center, and outputting the application category which the streaming samples belong to. By the method, the categorizing model can increase sub-category categorizing accuracy and total bytes categorizing accuracy while large-category categorizing accuracy is not lowered.

The invention discloses a colorless and transparent polyimide film, the molecular structural formula as shown in a formula I. A preparation method of the polyimide film comprises the following steps: polymerizing a fluorine-containing diamine monomer and a dianhydride monomer which have same moles in a polar aprotic solvent to produce a colorless and transparent poly(amicacid) solution, carrying out dehydration and ring closing on the colorless and transparent poly(amicacid) solution by using a hot imidization method or a chemical imidization method to produce the colorless and transparent polyimide film, wherein the dianhydride monomer is one or two of compounds selected from bicyclic (3,3,0)octane-2,4,6,7-tetracid dihydride or bicyclic (4,3,0)nonane-3,4,7,9-tetracid dihydride, the fluorine-containing diamine monomer is one or a combination of two of compounds selected from 4,4'-di(4-amino-2-trifluoromethylphenoxy)diphenyl ether, 4,4'-di(4-amino-2- trifluoromethylphenoxy) biphenyl and 2,2'-di(4-(4-amino-2- trifluoromethylphenoxy) phenyl) hexafluoropropane. The colorless and transparent polyimide film produced by using the alicyclic type dianhydride monomer has excellent performances such as good heat resistance, good solubility and high light transmittance.

The invention especially provides a display device (1) with a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel (10) and a backlight illumination device (20), wherein the backlight illumination device (20) comprises a light emitting diode package (200) arranged to generate white backlight (251), wherein the light emitting diode package (200) comprises a blue light emitting diode, LED (201), a green luminescent material (203) and a red luminescent material (204); and a transmissive ceramic layer (206), arranged to transmit at least part of the blue emission (249), wherein the transmissive ceramic layer (206) comprises at least part of the green luminescent.material (203) and/or the red luminescent material (204). The LED (201), the green luminescent material (203) and the red luminescent material (204) are arranged to generate white light (250) for backlighting the liquid crystal display panel (10).

A method for producing a semiconductor device comprising the steps of:(A) forming a gate insulating layer on a surface of a semi-conductive layer, and then, forming a gate electrode on a gate insulating layer; (B) introducing an impurity in regions of the semi-conductive layer where source/drain regions are to be formed, and then, carrying out heat treatment for activation of the introduced impurity, to form source/drain regions in the semi-conductive layer, and (C) introducing an impurity into at least regions of the semi-conductive layer where extension regions are to be formed, and then, carrying out heat treatment for activation of the introduced impurity, to form extension regions in the semi-conductive layer.

A method for preparing the germinated embryo rice from non-glutinous rice includes such steps as spreading said rice to become thin layer, immersing in water, germinating, passivating in the water at 70-100 deg.C, washing, and antistaling packing or drying including hot air baking and microwave drying. Its apparatus is composed of container with openable cover or door, and rice spreading unit.

The present invention provides a table arrangement 100 for use in an aircraft seat module, the table arrangement comprising a first table element suitable for being movably mounted to a mounting structure of the aircraft seat module, the first table element being provided with a first table surface, a second table element provided with a second table surface substantially parallel to the first table surface, wherein the second table element is mounted to the first table element, such that the second table element is moveable from a first position with respect to the first table element to a second position with respect to the first table element, the second position being transformed from the first position within the plane of the second table element. The present invention also provides an aircraft seat module, an aircraft and a method of deploying a table arrangement.

A system to meter multiple agricultural products according to an independently prescribed rate for each in a variable-ratio blend of the agricultural products from a single opener in a plurality of such systems and openers across an applicator such as a drill. Bulk storage compartments associated with the applicator deliver multiple agricultural products to metering assemblies mounted in clusters or pods across the applicator. The agricultural products are fed from the metering assemblies, via a flow re-director, into a manifold, and then into a corresponding single opener having conduits to transport the agricultural product into the soil. Controllers independently regulate metering by the metering assemblies. The flow re-director and manifold provide blending of combinations of the agricultural products for each opener according to a field prescription.