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Devices, systems and methods are provided for tissue approximation and repair at treatment sites. In particular, fixation devices are provided comprising a pair of elements each having a first end, a free end opposite the first end, and an engagement surface therebetween for engaging the tissue, the first ends being moveable between an open position wherein the free ends are spaced apart and a closed position wherein the free ends are closer together with the engagement surfaces generally facing each other. The fixation devices also include a locking mechanism coupled to the elements for locking the elements in place. The devices, systems and methods of the invention will find use in a variety of therapeutic procedures, including endovascular, minimally-invasive, and open surgical procedures, and can be used in various anatomical regions, including the abdomen, thorax, cardiovascular system, heart, intestinal tract, stomach, urinary tract, bladder, lung, and other organs, vessels, and tissues. The invention is particularly useful in those procedures requiring minimally-invasive or endovascular access to remote tissue locations, where the instruments utilized must negotiate long, narrow, and tortuous pathways to the treatment site.

A method and apparatus for integrated ATM surveillance of an area of interest, such as an automated teller machine (ATM), is presented. An embodiment includes a surveillance system for an ATM utilizing multiple cameras aimed at the user, the card slot, the cash dispenser, the surrounding areas and internally in the card reader (to link the card used to the ATM user). The cameras are constantly powered and begin to record images after a sensor is activated. A buffer of recorded imagery is maintained such that when the sensors are activated, the video processing equipment can store a pre-defined amount of time before the sensor is activated. The buffer allows for the video capture of events just prior to the activation of the sensor. A time stamp and any other relevant data from the cameras may also be included with the stored recorded video.

A device for compressive treatment of a body part comprises a compression member, adapted to at least partly encircle the body part, and an actuation unit, arranged to tighten the compression member to provide a compressive force to the body part. The actuation unit comprises an active material actuator. There is also disclosed a system comprising such a device and methods for its therapeutic, cosmetic and non-therapeutic use and operation.

A medical device includes a polymer scaffold crimped to a catheter having an expansion balloon. A sheath is placed over the crimped scaffold after crimping to reduce recoil of the crimped polymer scaffold and maintain scaffold-balloon engagement relied on to hold the scaffold to the balloon when the scaffold is being delivered to a target in a body. The sheath is removed by a health professional either by removing the sheath directly or using a tube containing the catheter.

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for constructing a diagnostic network model in a more efficient and timely manner and with improved consistency. A structured electronic representation of a document is automatically reviewed to identify the symptoms experienced by the complex system, the plurality of components of the complex system and the causal relationships between a failure of the respective components and the occurrence of the various symptoms. Respective probabilities can be associated with the causal relationships between the symptoms and the failure of the various components. A network model, such as a Bayesian network model, may then be automatically constructed to represent the symptoms, the components, the causal relationships between failure of the components and exhibition of the symptoms, and the probabilities of the respective causal relationships.

Methods and systems are provided for controlling a vehicle engine coupled to a stepped-gear-ratio transmission. One example method comprises, in response to a first vehicle moving condition, shutting down the engine and at least partially disengaging the transmission while the vehicle is moving; and during a subsequent restart, while the vehicle is moving, starting the engine using starter motor assistance and adjusting a degree of engagement of a transmission clutch to adjust a torque transmitted to a wheel of the vehicle.

The invention discloses an intelligent video analyzing system and method for automatically identifying a fake plate vehicle. The system comprises a video collecting unit, an image preprocessing unit, an intelligent video analyzing unit and a database, wherein after vehicle video information collected by the video collecting unit is processed by the image preprocessing unit, and is then transmitted to the intelligent video analyzing unit, the vehicle information and the database information are compared by the intelligent video analyzing unit, and the vehicle information is analyzed, matched and judged by software so as to automatically identify a suspected vehicle and carry out system prompt or alarm. By adopting the technical scheme disclosed by the invention, the participation of personnel is greatly reduced, the identification accuracy and efficiency are increased, and the intelligent video analyzing system and method disclosed by the invention can be used for assisting the public security bureau and the criminal investigation department to carry out real-time monitoring on the fake plate, false plate and counterfeit plate vehicles in the illegal criminal cases.

The invention provides an automatic voice recognition effect testing system and an automatic voice recognition effect testing method. The automatic voice recognition effect testing system comprises an automatic configuration module, an automatic voice playing and recording module and a voice recognition and result statistic module. An operator only needs to prepare testing materials in advance, and the whole execution process is automatic, so that participation of persons is greatly reduced, the labor cost is reduced, repeated test and verification can be performed, large-scale test of few days and nights can be met, automatic statistic is performed on the testing result, manual error is avoided, and the testing efficiency and accuracy can be greatly improved. The system can be applied to equipment such as any desktop computer or notebook computer, and can be used for rapidly obtaining result data in terms of recognition effect evaluation, undertaking tasks which can not be finished by manpower and providing great convenience to each manufacturer.

A wireless power transfer system includes a power transmitter (101) arranged to provide a power transfer to a power receiver (105) via a wireless inductive power signal. A parasitic power loss detector (207) is arranged to detect a parasitic power loss for the power transfer, and a user indicator (209) is arranged to initialize a user alert in response to the detection of the parasitic power loss. The system comprises an input (211) for receiving user inputs; and a controller (213) which is arranged to initiate an adaptation of a parasitic power loss detection operation performed by the parasitic power loss detector (207) to detect parasitic power losses if a user input meeting a criterion is not received. Each of the individual features may be implemented in the power transmitter (101), the power receiver (105), or may e.g. be distributed between these. The approach may allow improved foreign object detection in a wireless power transfer system.

A medical device includes a polymer scaffold crimped to a catheter having an expansion balloon. A sheath pair is placed over the crimped scaffold after crimping to reduce recoil of the crimped polymer scaffold and maintain scaffold-balloon engagement relied on to hold the scaffold to the balloon when the scaffold is being delivered to a target in a body. The sheath pair is removed by a health professional before placing the scaffold within the body.

A method and system for using a portable memory device, for example, a removable USB flash memory drive, by a customer to participate in an incentive program. A business entity temporarily receives the memory device from the customer, for example, at a point of sale, and looks for an identification means of the customer in the device and creates one if it doesn't exists. The identification means comprises a unique customer identifier and an association means and various other data elements. The business entity uses the identifier in the device to establish link between the device and the incentive program. In one embodiment, the incentive program account is created by the entity without requesting any information from the customer, by creating a unique anonymous customer identifier in the device. The customer may use the device as one centralized unit to represent a plurality of incentive programs.

The invention relates to a urine detector control system based on an intelligent closestool. The urine detector control system comprises the intelligent closestool, a urine analyzer, a cloud server and a mobile phone client, wherein the intelligent closestool is used for collecting a urine sample and acquiring physical characteristics and chemical components of urine; the urine analyzer is used for receiving physical information of the urine and conducting dry-chemistry analysis on a piece of urine test paper; the cloud server is used for receiving and storing urine test information and personal data and information transmitted by the urine analyzer, analyzing and processing the urine test information and the personal data and information, generating a urine test analysis report in combination with a cloud database, offering personalized health guidance opinions and downloading the opinions to local; and the mobile phone client is used for implementing user registration and logging, modifying personal basic information, checking recent urine test data, checking a health report and completing offline consulting, reservation consultation and video consultation. The invention also discloses a control method of the urine detector control system based on the intelligent closestool. As an important implementing measure for family medicine and an important way for relieving hospital's inspection pressure, the control system and the control method are quite broad in application prospect.

The invention provides a UAV control system and method. The system is characterized by comprising a multi-rotor UAV, an intelligent airplane parking area, a mobile communication station and a ground work station, the ground work station is in communication connection with the intelligent airplane parking area and the multi-rotor UAV via the mobile communication station, and the multi-rotor UAV isin communication connection with the intelligent airplane parking area. The intelligent airplane parking area solves the problem of folding/unfolding of the UAV in the launching and landing process, the UAV needs not to be unfolded or collected, a landing position can be provided for the multi-rotor UAV by point selection, and the problem in the working radius of the UAV is solved.

A discovery tool that can take the form of a method, system, and/or medium for retrieving and storing information about devices of a communications network is provided. The discovery tool is protocol specific rather than device specific and includes a set of device-configuration files, a generic network-element interface, and a generic resolver. The generic resolver chooses a generic network-element interface based on a protocol compatible with a specific network device. The method includes determining a protocol-specific interface module to communicate with a network device, establishing a logical connection with the network device, determining which configuration file should be used to interrogate the device, and then using the configuration file to interrogate the device and thereby receive device-attribute data related to the device.

A method of delivering a video ringback media stream to a first terminal includes transmitting a session signaling message from the first terminal to a ringback server, transmitting a session signaling response message from the ringback server to the first terminal, and establishing one or more channels between the ringback server and the first terminal. The method also includes establishing one or more media streams between a content device and the ringback server and processing the one or more media streams in the ringback server to form a video ringback media stream. The method further includes transmitting the video ringback media stream from the ringback server to the first terminal, transmitting a second session signaling message from the ringback server to a second terminal, and transmitting a second session signaling response message associated with answering a call from the second terminal to the ringback server. Transmitting the second session signaling response message is performed after transmitting a session signaling response message.

The invention discloses a method for searching a video, a system therefor and a device therefor as well as a video storing method and a system thereof. The method for searching the video comprises the following steps: performing motion detecting and tracking on a video sequence; if detecting a risk event existing in a video image, recording descriptive information of the risk event, wherein the descriptive information comprises at least an image identifier with the risk event; when searching the video image with the risk event, receiving a searching condition; matching the searching conditionand the recorded descriptive information of the risk event, if matched, obtaining the video image from a video storing device according to the image identifier in the descriptive information of the risk event, and displaying the video image to a user. The invention improves the video searching efficiency. Furthermore, the invention only stores the video image with the risk event, thereby saving the storing space.

The invention provides a water flowing speed monitoring method based on moving target identification in videos. According to the method, steps of moving target detection and tracking based on the videos, camera calibration and water flowing speed solving are adopted for measuring the flowing speed of flood. The water flowing speed monitoring method is characterized in that the participation of work personnel is reduced so that the equipment is simple, and the test duration is short; meanwhile, the safety is greatly improved; in addition, the missing detection of flood peaks is enabled to be avoided; thus the automation degree is higher; the cost is reduced; and the actual applicability is high.

A medical device includes a polymer scaffold crimped to a catheter having an expansion balloon. A sheath is placed over the crimped scaffold after crimping to reduce recoil of the crimped polymer scaffold and maintain scaffold-balloon engagement relied on to hold the scaffold to the balloon when the scaffold is being delivered to a target in a body. The sheath is removed by a health professional either by removing the sheath directly or using a tube containing the catheter.

The invention discloses an individualized pharmacy report generation method and system. The method comprises the steps: acquiring sample information; inputting library data and original sequencing data obtained by genetic testing in advance; performing bioinformatics analysis on the original sequencing data; outputting a bioinformatics analysis result, carrying out examination and checking on a drug gene polymorphic site detection result and a corresponding bioinformatics analysis process, generating a risk drug list and a pharmacy guidance, and generating an individualized pharmacy report andthe like. According to the invention, the method is convenient to implement based on the computer program. Related data can be invoked automatically and conveniently as long as a checked person or another user inputs sample information at the user terminal; the individualized pharmacy report is generated and is outputted by the user terminal, so that the error caused by the manual operation is reduced. The user does not need to master the relevant medical and computer professional knowledge and only needs to make the simple compute operation, so that the user experience is improved. The individualized pharmacy report generation method and system can be widely applied to the technical field of the medical information engineering.