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A variable illuminator, for instance a device for scanning a beam of light, emits a selected amount of power to a plurality of spots across a field of view. The amount of power is determined as inversely proportional to the apparent brightness of each spot. In the case where the spot size is equal to pixel size, the device may operate with a non-imaging detector. In the case where pixel size substantially equals spot size, the output of the variable illuminator may be converged to produce a substantially uniform detector response and the image information is determined as the inverse of a frame buffer used to drive the variable illuminator. The illuminator and detector may be driven synchronously. In the case where an imaging detector is used, the variable illumination may be used to compress the dynamic range of the field of view to substantially within the dynamic range of the imaging detector.

In a data communication network operated under the TCP/IP suite of protocols the invention adds an adaptive streaming (AS) layer, inserted between the IP and the TCP protocol layers, in which the received data packets of each open TCP connection are temporarily queued and from where they are first reordered then, delivered to the TCP layer at a pace matching the optimal receiving rate of TCP connections. Thus, the invention adds a rate-based transmission mechanism to the TCP layer for the received data packets so as to better adapt to higher-speed communication lines and to reduce drastically the burstiness of the TCP flow control.

Block boundary artifact reduction in decompressed digital images is accomplished by filtering the intensity of pixels in the vicinity of the block boundary. The filter utilizes filter coefficients selected from tables on the basis of the distribution of a scalar quantity describing the pixels neighboring the pixel to which the intensity adjustment is to be applied. The intensities of pixels at the boundary and one pixel removed from the boundary are adjusted. If interpolation pixels in each of neighboring blocks are of relatively constant intensity, the intensities of additional pixels, more remote from the boundary, are adjusted. Filter coefficients can be selected from different arrays for pixels on the boundary or removed from the boundary or if the pixel intensity adjustment is based on the intensities of pixels in a horizontal row or vertical column of interpolation pixels.

The hydraulic device comprises a tubular housing, inside of which a rod is jointly attached to a piston separating an upper and lower areas filled with hydraulic fluid so that, as the piston and rod move, the two components move together relatively and axially inside the tubular housing, displacing the hydraulic fluid inside the tubular housing, flowing from one area to the other, and thus changing the volumes inside said areas. It also comprises a modular mechanism located inside the lower area that regulates the shock absorption at the maximum level of compression of the hydraulic device, as well as in other relative positions.

The invention discloses a flood prevention consultation monitoring device and method based on the Internet of Things, relates to the technical field of flood prevention consultation monitoring, and solves the technical problem that the flood prevention accuracy is reduced due to the fact that regional analysis cannot be performed in the prior art.A region analysis unit is used for carrying out region division on the monitoring region and analyzing the divided regions; the geographical environment of each region is analyzed, the flood prevention accuracy is improved, and the monitoring error is reduced; an early warning signal is generated according to the current environment, so that heavy loss caused by flood due to the fact that the early warning signal is not timely is prevented; the regional analysis is verified, so that the accuracy of the regional data of the database is improved, and early warning errors caused by data exception are prevented; danger signals of different levels are generated according to river analysis, and the influence of flood is judged through real-time data, so that early warning measures of the same level are reasonably matched, the early warning efficiency is effectively improved, and the output cost of early warning is reduced.

A network processor or other processing device of a communication system includes scheduling circuitry configured to schedule data blocks for transmission from a plurality of users or other transmission elements in timeslots of a frame. The scheduling circuitry utilizes a weight table and a mapping table. The weight table comprises a plurality of entries, with each of the entries identifying a particular one of the transmission elements. The mapping table comprises at least one entry specifying a mapping between a particular timeslot of the frame and an entry of the weight table. The scheduling circuitry determines a particular transmission element to be scheduled in a given timeslot by accessing a corresponding mapping table entry and utilizing a resultant value to access the weight table.

According to aspects of embodiments of the invention, a method of encoding a sequence of frames of image data, each frame including a number of lines of pixels equal to a frame height, and each line having a number of pixels equal to a line length, comprises: encoding as an encoded symbol stream a sequence of pixels of a frame without including an end-of-line code after each line; identifying as a run having a run length, a sequence of pixels having values less than a threshold; and encoding the run using digit encoding. According to other aspects, the digit encoding may further comprise: identifying a set of most frequently used symbols; assigning a symbolic digit to each of the set of most frequently used symbols; assigning a start symbol; and encoding using digit encoding may include: inserting in the encoded symbol stream the start symbol; and inserting in the encoded symbol stream after the start symbol a sequence of symbolic digits identifying the run length of the run. The method may yet further comprise: assigning an end symbol; and inserting the end symbol in the encoded symbol stream after the sequence of symbolic digits. According to yet another variation, the method may further comprise defining the assigned start symbol to include a field indicating how many of the symbolic digits are required to identify the run length of the run.

According to aspects of embodiments of the invention, a method of encoding a sequence of frames of image data, each frame including a number of lines of pixels equal to a frame height, and each line having a number of pixels equal to a line length, comprises: encoding as an encoded symbol stream a sequence of pixels of a frame without including an end-of-line code after each line; identifying as a run having a run length, a sequence of pixels having values less than a threshold; and encoding the run using digit encoding. According to other aspects, the digit encoding may further comprise: identifying a set of most frequently used symbols; assigning a symbolic digit to each of the set of most frequently used symbols; assigning a start symbol; and encoding using digit encoding may include inserting in the encoded symbol stream the start symbol; and inserting in the encoded symbol stream after the start symbol a sequence of symbolic digits identifying the run length of the run. The method may yet further comprise: assigning an end symbol; and inserting the end symbol in the encoded symbol stream after the sequence of symbolic digits. According to yet another variation, the method may further comprise: defining the assigned start symbol to include a field indicating how many of the symbolic digits are required to identify the run length of the run.

According to aspects of embodiments of the invention, a method of encoding a sequence of frames of image data, each frame including a number of lines of pixels equal to a frame height, and each line having a number of pixels equal to a line length, comprises: encoding as an encoded symbol stream a sequence of pixels of a frame without including an end-of-line code after each line; identifying as a run having a run length, a sequence of pixels having values less than a threshold; and encoding the run using digit encoding. According to other aspects, the digit encoding may further comprise: identifying a set of most frequently used symbols; assigning a symbolic digit to each of the set of most frequently used symbols; assigning a start symbol; and encoding using digit encoding may include: inserting in the encoded symbol stream the start symbol; and inserting in the encoded symbol stream after the start symbol a sequence of symbolic digits identifying the run length of the run. The method may yet further comprise: assigning an end symbol; and inserting the end symbol in the encoded symbol stream after the sequence of symbolic digits. According to yet another variation, the method may further comprise: defining the assigned start symbol to include a field indicating how many of the symbolic digits are required to identify the run length of the run.

The invention discloses a pre-allocation-based flow control method, which comprises the steps of: carrying out initialization, acquiring the available average band width for best-effort service of each link; setting the initial injection rate of best-effort service of each link to be the average service volume of the link; allocating the shortest path for best-effort service of all links; setting the target injection rate of best-effort service to lead the load factors of all links to be lower than 1; and according to the target injection rate, flow control is carried out by designing network interfaces and changing storage and transmission methods of data in an IP nucleus send buffer. The invention also discloses a pre-allocation-based flow control device. Taking advantage of the service predictability of network-on-chips, the invention reduces the service suddenness, lowers the congestion possibility and improves the network-on-chip performance by restricting the injection rate of best-effort service of all links within the average available band width of best-effort service of each link.

A slanted bore mouthpiece has a central axis running through the mouthpiece, a tone chamber within the mouthpiece, a generally rectangular window exposing the tone chamber and extending from a front end of the window adjacent a first end of the mouthpiece along the mouthpiece to a rear end of the window at a table disposed on an outer surface of the mouthpiece and configured to engage a reed and a mouthpiece bore passing through the mouthpiece from a second end of the mouthpiece opposite the first end to the tone chamber at the rear end of the window. The mouthpiece bore extends along a mouthpiece bore axis, and the central axis and the mouthpiece bore axis are divergent axes.

The invention discloses a sea sand concrete bending member, comprising sea sand concrete (1) and fiber reinforce plastic (FRP) bars (4), wherein an FRP longitudinal bar (4) arranged along the length direction of the bending member and an FRP transverse bar arranged along the width direction of the bending member are arranged inside the sea sand concrete (1); the FRP longitudinal bar (4) and the FRP transverse bar are strapped into a member steel skeleton through a connector; an FRP pipe is also arranged inside the sea sand concrete (1) in an eccentric manner. By adopting the sea sand concrete bending member, the ductility of the sea sand concrete member can be improved, the shearing resistance is improved, the brittle effect of the steel is reduced, and the sea sand concrete bending member is excellent in corrosion resistance, simple and convenient to construct and good in mechanical behavior. The sea sand concrete bending member not only is light in weight and high in strength, but also can significantly prolong the service life of the concrete structure, and the maintenance cost is greatly lowered.

To control loudness during a junction between different types of broadcast content, such as a junction between programme and commercial or promotional content, representative loudness values for content respectively before (P) and after (C) the junction are received from a playout automation system. A time-varying gain control is applied before and after the junction in order to smooth loudness around the junction. The audio gain is smoothly increased prior to the junction to a gain (P+C)/2P times higher than the original gain value. Then, the gain is reduced shortly before the junction to a value (P+C)/2C times lower than the original gain value. After the junction, the gain is returned smoothly to the original value.

The invention relates to a grading seabed pipeline construction method via ditching twice and stopping bending through preheating. The method is characterized in that 1) a slight bending in the side direction is induced on a plurality of selected pipeline sections in a route of the seabed pipeline through preheating, the cooling resilience of the pipeline sections is restrained by ditching, thus the pulling stress is initiated in the pipeline wall to partially offset the compressive stress initiated in the pipeline wall by a heat load after the pipeline is officially put into production, and the purpose of avoiding vertical bending of the pipeline on the seabed is reached; and 2) the control of preheating bending in the side direction and restraint of bending resilience in the side direction by ditching twice are realized, the first ditching is implemented on pipeline sections beyond the occurrence plan of bending pipeline sections in the side direction, and the pipeline sections are submerged in the ditch to ensure that the bending induced by preheating in the side direction occurs in the planned position without restraint of the pipe ditch; and the second ditching is carried out during the preheating process, and the pipeline sections of which bending occurrs in the side direction are submerged in the ditch, and after preheating finishes, cooling resilience of the pipeline sections is restrained so as to initiate pulling stress.

A combine harvester with a separating rotor, rotor tube and a plurality of crop engaging finger elements. Each finger element is mounted to a respective finger support which is secured to the rotor tube. Each finger element has a planar body with a flared base portion which presents a leading edge to the crop material with a relatively shallow angle with respect to the tube.

A woodwind mouthpiece has a tone chamber in communication with a central bore running through the mouthpiece and a window exposing the tone chamber. A table is located at a first end of the window, and a tip rail is located at a second end of the window opposite the first end. A pair of side rails run along opposite sides of the window from the table to the tip rail. Each side rail includes a side rail top surface. A pair of flanges are provided in the mouthpiece such that each flange extending out from one of the side rail top surfaces in a direction opposite the window. This arrangement reduces the intensity of the shock fronts at the aperture into the tone chamber.

The invention provides a power supply protection device, which is connected in series with a power supply source; the switch action ends of a first electric control switch and a second electric control switch are sequentially connected in series with a sampling resistor and are connected to the power supply source/a power supply end; the serially connected switch action ends of the first electriccontrol switch and the second electric control switch are integrally connected with the input end of an electric control switch monitoring circuit; the two ends of the sampling resistor is connected with the differential input end of a first differential amplification circuit; the output end of the first differential amplification circuit is respectively connected with the first input end of a first comparison circuit and the first input end of a second comparison circuit; the output ends of the first comparison circuit, the second comparison circuit and the electric control switch monitoringcircuit are connected with the triggering end or input end of a logic conversion circuit; the output end of the logic conversion circuit is connected with the triggering end of a triggering circuit and/or a warning circuit. Compared with the prior art, the power supply protection device has the advantages that the safety is higher; after the work switch fails, the secondary fault due to short circuit can be timely avoided.