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A method and apparatus are disclosed for using photoplethysmography to obtain physiological parameter information related to respiration rate, heart rate, heart rate variability, blood volume variability and / or the autonomic nervous system. In one implementation, the process involves obtaining (2502) a pleth, filtering (2504) the pleth to remove unwanted components, identifying (2506) a signal component of interest, monitoring (2508) blood pressure changes, monitoring (2510) heart rate, and performing (2512) an analysis of the blood pressure signal to the heart rate signal to identify a relationship associated with the component of interest. Based on this relationship, the component of interest may be identified (2514) as relating to the respiration or Mayer Wave. If it is related to the respiration wave (2516), a respiratory parameter such as breathing rate may be determined (2520). Otherwise, a Mayer Wave analysis (2518) may be performed to obtain parameter information related to the autonomic nervous system.

Systems and methods for ordering supplies from suppliers or for other e-commerce activities are described. Standards for placing orders and registering catalog information in a database are described. Systems and methods for placing orders, preprocessing supplier information using geographic information, conducting data searches and analyses locally on user access devices, continuously updating displays of browser frames, tracking orders using accounting codes, placing graphical custom orders, submitting graphical orders to suppliers, placing group orders, reducing risks associated with delinquent accounts receivable, and combinations thereof are described.

Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for processing electronic forms. Techniques are provided for automatically filling out fields of electronic forms for a user based upon information stored for the user. This reduces the amount of information that a user has to enter on an electronic form.

A method and apparatus for coding an image capable of performing a prediction coding process by using a correlation degree between neighboring pixels of a current block and neighboring pixels of a reference block, and an image decoding method and apparatus. In the method, reference block candidates having neighboring pixels similar to the neighboring pixels of the current block are selected, matching errors between selected reference block candidates and the current block are calculated, and a reference block candidate having the least matching error is determined to be a predicted block of the current block.

A network comprises a number of speech-enabled sites maintaining a number of voice pages. A central server on the network executes a voice browser which provides users with access to the sites using voice-activated hyperlinks. The server also maintains and brokers information associated with the users based on spoken dialogs between the users and the sites. In response to a user accessing a given ASR site, information about that user is provided by the server for use by that ASR site. The information is used by the ASR site to optimize a spoken dialog between the user and the ASR site by reducing the amount of information the user is required to provide during the dialog. Information about the user can thereby be shared between separate speech enabled sites, in a manner which is transparent to the user, in order to expedite the user's interaction with those sites.

Provided is a method of reducing fatigue resulting from viewing a three-dimensional (3D) image display. The method includes: obtaining low visual fatigue parameter information on a frame section including at least one frame of a received 3D image; obtaining disparity vector information on each frame of the 3D image; and determining a disparity minimum limit value and a disparity maximum limit value with respect to the 3D image.

The invention discloses a local scheduler-based multi-point cooperative transmission method, which comprises that: CoMP UE selects K cells from neighboring cells of a local cell as measurement cells and reports the channel state information (CSI) of the local cell and the measurement cells to the base station of the local cell according to MIMO modes and a CoMP types, which are supported by the local cell; the base station of the local cell performs UE scheduling and resource distribution according to the MIMO modes and CoMP types, which are supported by the local cell, and transmits the resources distributed to UE, the MIMO modes and CoMP types, which are supported by the local cell, as well as corresponding resources and CQI difference values, which are recommended to the corresponding measurement cells on the time-frequency resource occupied by the UE, to the cooperative cells; the measurement cells determine if to provide CoMP services and the CoMP types for the UE according to a cooperation message, wherein the measurement cells which provide CoMP services for the UE are cooperative cells; and the local cell and the cooperative cells transmit data for the UE according to the CoMP types.

Systems and methods for ordering supplies from suppliers or for other e-commerce activities are described. Standards for placing orders and registering catalog information in a database are described. Systems and methods for placing orders, preprocessing supplier information using geographic information, conducting data searches and analyses locally on user access devices, continuously updating displays of browser frames, tracking orders using accounting codes, placing graphical custom orders, submitting graphical orders to suppliers, placing group orders, reducing risks associated with delinquent accounts receivable, and combinations thereof are described.

In order to measure the movement of a vehicle, especially an aircraft, an imaging optical system 2 which is to be positioned on the vehicle is used to detect an image of the environment 4, and an optoelectronic shift sensor 3 chip of the type comprising an inherent evaluation unit is used to measure any shift of the image from structures thereof. The shift sensor is equal or similar to the sensor used on an optical mouse. The sensor is positioned in such a way that infinite objects are focused. The measuring signal is evaluated to indicate movements and / or the position of the aircraft. The inventive system can also be used to measure distances e.g. in order to control the flight altitude. The invention further relates to methods for automatically controlling particularly a hovering flight by means of a control loop using optical flow measurement.

A space-time-frequency domain based information feedback method, system, user equipment and base station for wireless transmission technical fields is provided. The user equipment measures and evaluates quality of wireless transmission downlinks in MIMO system, obtains rank, precoding matrix index and channel quality indicator information in the wireless transmission downlinks, processes information of the wireless transmission downlink respectively in space domain, frequency domain and time domain by using space selectivity, frequency selectivity and time selectivity characteristics of a channel, and feeds back downlink information to the base station through uplinks by using feedback schemes. The base station optimizes a transmitter according to feedback information from the user equipment.

A novel mapping paradigm is provided for the visual display of information in the form of an improved navigational aid. Unlike today's road maps which use a point-arc-polygon paradigm, the new mapping paradigm uses a compressed linear-pictographic-topological design that typically depicts roads as vertical linear pictograms. Further, the display has a columnar layout, whereby the descriptive elements are grouped together by type, and displayed one above the other in columns. In this manner, the mapping paradigm also serves to increase traveler safety, provide navigation assistance during address-less trips, create valuable advertising space and new promotional opportunities, and dramatically increases the travelers' communications and entertainment options.

The invention relates to a method for encoding a digital image, in which method the digital image is divided into blocks (C, L, U, UL, UR). In the method a spatial prediction for a block (C) is performed to reduce the amount of information to be transmitted, wherein at least one prediction method (P1-P13) is defined. In the method a classification is determined for at least one neighbouring block (L, U) of said block (C) to be predicted according to the contents of the neighbouring block (L, U), and a prediction method (P1-P13) is selected for the current block (C) on the basis of at least one classification.

The present invention is an electronic emergency incident notification system ("EEINS") which allows subscribers to transmit notification of a nuclear / chemical / biological release to a central server for transmittal to the appropriate governmental agencies. In the preferred embodiment, a subscriber would utilize a user interface device to transmit spatial data and an incident report to the central server, typically using the Internet. The central server would map the spatial data onto a GIS database to determine which agencies require notification, and would then transmit the incident report to the receiving nodes at the appropriate agencies. At the local level, the receiving node may include software to automatically activate the appropriate public warning systems. The EEINS is sufficiently flexible to service both fixed and mobile sites.

A wireless device initially has simultaneous circuit switched (CS) and packet switched (PS) services with a non-UMTS network. With the CS and PS services ongoing, the non-UMTS network transmits a HANDOVER TO UTRAN COMMAND message to the wireless device to perform a handover to UTRAN procedure. The HANDOVER TO UTRAN COMMAND message excludes information used for handing over the PS signaling connections to the UTRAN so that only CS signaling connections are handed over. The wireless device receives and parses the HANDOVER TO UTRAN COMMAND message to determine what signaling connections are being handed over. Upon determining that only CS signaling connections are being handed over, a radio resource control (RRC) layer within the wireless device informs an upper layer within the wireless device that no PS radio access bearers or no PS signaling connections are present.

The invention discloses a line polling management system, which comprises an acquisition module (301), a polling locus analysis module (303) and a polling evaluation analysis module (304), wherein the acquisition module (301) is sued for acquiring polling information in a polled line, and the polling information at least comprises longitude and latitude information; the polling locus analysis module (303) is used for dividing a pre-generated line map into a plurality of grids, generating a polling locus according to the polling information acquired by the acquisition module (301), matching the polling locus and the grids and determining a candidate line to be analyzed; and the polling evaluation analysis module (304) is sued for calculating the distance between the polling locus point and the evaluation point of the candidate line and determining that the polling locus point covers the evaluation point if the distance is smaller than the preset threshold value. The invention also discloses a line polling management method. According to the scheme, the system and the method can greatly simplify the operation of polling personnel, can adapt to various environment conditions, have low cost, and are easy to popularize.

At the coder side, bits of samples of each frame of an input digital signal are concatenated every digit common to the samples across each frame to generate equi-order bit sequences, which are output as packets. At the decoding side, the input equi-order sequences are arranged inversely to their arrangement at the coder side to reconstruct sample sequences. When a packet dropout occurs, a missing information compensating part 430 correct the reconstructed sample sequences in a manner to reduce an error between the spectral envelope of the reconstructed sample sequence concerned and a known spectral envelope.

The invention discloses a method and a system for recognizing images, which relate to a method and a system for recognizing static target images by adopting the image recognition technology. The invention solves the problem that the recognition speed is relatively slower in the prior image recognition technology. The method and the system for recognizing the images are characterized in that image information in the identification area and characteristic information in the identification area are stored as template information, then the area to be recognized in the images to be recognized is confirmed by adopting the identification area, then the characteristic information in the identification area is compared with that in the area to be recognized, when the similarity of both characteristic information in the identification area and that in the area to be recognized is in the error range, users consider that the images to be recognized and the target images are mutually matched, so as to realize image recognition, in the recognition process, the characteristic information in the area to be recognized is just needed to compare, the data quantity is less, and the logical reasoning and the mathematical operation of the characteristic information are not required, thereby quickening the speed of image recognition. The invention is mainly used for searching matched images, for example, bill recognition, seal recognition and the like.

Methods and apparatus are provided for command and control of an unmanned vehicle (“UV”). A preferred embodiment of the invention includes a Virtual Pilot (“VP”), which includes a Brain and an Arena The Brain includes rules governing the behavior of the UV and information on missions to be performed. The Arena includes state information about the UV and its environment. UVs in a swarm communicate with each other, as well as with various ground stations, through regular updates. Backup schemes are provided to deal with the failure of a UV module, thereby providing partial degradations in performance. Communication among the UVs and ground stations of a system employ a probabilistic scheme that promotes high spectral efficiency.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for controlling bearers of service data flows, including acquiring a service data flow convergence of service data flows, determining whether the service data flow convergence is able to be multiplexed to an established bearer, and carrying the service data flow convergence in a corresponding bearer according to the determined result. The apparatus of the present invention includes a service data flow convergence acquiring module and a service data flow convergence multiplex handling module for implementing the method of the present invention. In accordance with the method and apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to reduce the bearer information amount necessary to be maintained by various network entities and save the storage and handling resources of system.

A server unit (400) recognizes a travel route search request together with a current position information and a destination information from a terminal unit (300) over a network (200) and searches for a travel route with use of a matching data of a map information. The server unit (400) sends a matching mesh information including a node and link that represent a road corresponding to the travel route and a display mesh information for areas other than the areas represented by the matching mesh information together with the information for the travel route to the terminal unit (300) over the network (200). The terminal unit (300) displays a road based on the matching mesh information and the information excluding the road based on the display mesh information on a terminal display. Thus, the information amount of the map information to be processed can be reduced thereby improving the processing efficiency.

A network device, known as an appliance, is located in the data path between a client and a server. The appliance includes a cache that is used to cache static and near-static cacheable content items. When a request is received, the appliance determines whether any portion of the requested data is available in its cache; if so, that portion can be serviced by the appliance. If any portion of the requested content is dynamic and cannot be serviced by the cache, the dynamic portion is generated by the appliance or obtained from another source such as an application server. The appliance integrates the content retrieved from the cache, the dynamically generated content, and the content received from other sources to generate a response to the original content request. The present invention thus implements partial content caching for content that has a cached portion and a portion to be dynamically generated.

The invention discloses a bridge structure safe state emergency monitoring and pre-warning method based on a wireless sensor network. The network with a sensor module which is arranged on the two sides or bottom stress point of the bridge or stress bearing parts of beams and columns is used for collecting bridge temperature and humidity, vibration amplitude, stress strain data of the beams and the columns, and data of the frequency and the amplitude of the bridge structure change. The sensor module wirelessly receives and sends with a collection node and a base station node by a wireless communication module, and sends the collected and processed data; the wireless receiving and sending collection node is connected with the base station node, and the base station node is connected with a computer by the network. The wireless sensor network realizes bridge structure safe state emergency monitoring and pre-warning, the sensor system processes, systematically decomposes and transforms the data to obtain the required parameters, and is connected to the computer by the network, and various software and hardware with realizable diagnostic function diagnose the received data.

A user request can be reflected in the degree of security of an updated key in quantum key distribution. A sender and a receiver are connected through optical fiber. A quantum transmitter in the sender and a quantum receiver in the receiver carry out basis reconciliation and error correction through a quantum channel, based on a source of a key sent from the quantum transmitter and on a raw key received by the quantum receiver. Under the control of security control sections in the sender and receiver, the amount of information with the possibility of being intercepted that is determined in accordance with a degree of security requested by a user, is removed from the key information after error correction, whereby a final cryptographic key is generated. Secret communication is performed between encryption / decryption sections in the sender and receiver by using the cryptographic key thus updated.

A computer implemented system and method allow users to create and edit electronic health records with the use of touch screen monitors, such that complex forms are managed by a user-friendly graphic user interface. The graphic user interface includes collapsible menus that enable the management of the complex hierarchical structure of the forms. The graphic user interface also includes a system that allows for three different values, corresponding to a positive value, a negative value and the deactivation of the data field, to be entered in the same location within the electronic form. The data elements of each data field are coded with recourse to standard medical terminologies enabling dynamic interaction and intelligent prompting.

An information extraction method, an information extraction device, a program, a registration device, and a verification device that improve authentication accuracy simultaneously with reduction of the amount of information concerning an identification target are proposed. From a plurality of first images obtained from viewpoints in surroundings of a living body portion, common portions of silhouettes of the living body portion that is shown in the images are generated as a first stereoscopic image in a target space. From a plurality of second images obtained from the viewpoints in the surroundings of the living body portion, common portions of silhouettes of an inner surface image of the living body portion that is shown in the images are generated as a second stereoscopic image in the target space. A value representing a shape of a cross section of the second stereoscopic image that has a predetermined positional relationship with respect to a reference position of the first stereoscopic image is extracted as an identification information item.