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A source block (B0) and the logical page number (“8”) of a write target page are identified from the logical address of the write target page. Data objects (DN8, DN9, . . . , DN12) to be written, which a host stores in a page buffer (2), are written into the data areas (DA) of the pages (Q0, Q1, . . . , Q4) of a destination block (Bn), starting from the top page (Q0) in sequence. The logical page number (“8”) of the write target page is written into the redundant area (RA) of the top page (Q0). The physical page number (“6=8−2”) of the write target page is identified, based on the logical page number (“8”) of the write target page and the page offset (“2”) of the source block (B0). When notified by the host of the end of the sending of the data objects (DN8, . . . , DN12), the data items (D13, . . . , D31, D0, D1, . . . , D7) in the source block (B0) are transferred to the pages (Q5, Q6, . . . , Q31) in the destination block (Bn) via the page buffer (2) sequentially and cyclically, starting from the page (P11) situated cyclically behind the write target page (P6) by the number (“5”) of pages of the data objects (DN8, . . . , DN12).

An underwater cable arrangement includes systems and method for distributing and / or transferring power and / or data to internal devices and external devices disposed along an underwater cable. Under water coupling systems and underwater electrical devices may be used in the distribution and / or transfer of the power and / or data.

The invention relates to a full-automatic poker machine, which comprises a mounting bottom plate and a plurality of support legs. A card inlet is disposed on the mounting bottom plate, card cutting and primary card distributing equipment is arranged at one end of the card inlet, card sorting and secondary card distributing equipment is arranged at the other end of the card cutting and primary card distributing equipment, card flopping and dealing equipment is disposed at the other end of the card sorting and secondary card distributing equipment, card pushing equipment is arranged at the other end of the card flopping and dealing equipment, and card lifting equipment is disposed on one side of the card pushing equipment. When the full-automatic poker machine works, disorder poker cards are primarily separated by the aid of the card cutting and primary card distributing equipment, then are adjusted to face the same direction and separated from each other by the card sorting and secondary card distributing equipment, then by the aid of the card flopping and dealing equipment, the single poker cards with front surfaces facing upwards and downwards are adjusted so that the front surfaces of the single poker cards face upwards or downwards in a unified manner and the single poker cards are dealt, the poker cards are pushed to specified positions by the card pushing equipment, and finally are lifted to a tabletop by the card lifting equipment, and card cutting and dealing actions are completed. The full-automatic poker machine brings convenience for reducing labor intensity of game, waiting time is shortened, and simultaneously, automation degree of the machine is improved.

A disposable electrode strip for testing a fluid sample including a laminated strip with a first and second end, a vent, an open path for receiving a fluid sample of less than one microliter beginning from the first end and connecting to the vent, a working electrode, a reference electrode and a pseudo-working electrode embedded in the laminated strip within the open path and proximate to the first end, a reagent matrix coextensive within the open path and covering the three electrodes, and conductive contacts located at the second end of the laminated strip.

An integrated circuit has a current sense amplifier that includes a voltage comparator having a first input, a second input and an output; a first clamping device coupled between the first input of the voltage comparator and a first input signal node, a second clamping device coupled between the second input of the voltage comparator and a second input signal node, a current mirror having a first side and a second side, the current mirror first side including a first transistor coupled between a voltage source and the first clamping device and the current mirror second side including a second transistor coupled between the voltage source and the second clamping device, and a sensing scheme including an actively balanced capacitance coupled to the source and drain of the second transistor.

An imaging apparatus, comprising: a first recording module, which has a first initialization time from initialization to coming into a recordable condition; a second recording module which has a second initialization time from initialization to coming into a recordable condition, being longer than the first initialization time; a mode switching module, which is configure to switch over a power OFF mode, a mode for recording into the first recording module, and a mode for recording into the second recording module, wherein the mode exchange switch, which is configured to exchange the mode in an order from the power OFF mode to the mode for recording into the first recording module, and to the mode for recording into the second recording module, whereby shortening an apparent initializations time of the recording module having a long initialization time, while using a high-speed initialization characteristic of the recording module having a short initialization time effectively, thereby obtaining an improvement on the operability for a user.

The present invention is a method and apparatus for providing an enhanced automatic drive-thru experience to the customers in a vehicle by allowing use of natural hand gestures to interact with digital content. The invention is named Virtual Touch Ordering System (VTOS). In the VTOS, the virtual touch interaction is defined to be a contact free interaction, in which a user is able to select graphical objects within the digital contents on a display system and is able to control the processes connected to the graphical objects, by natural hand gestures without touching any physical devices, such as a keyboard or a touch screen. Using the virtual touch interaction of the VTOS, the user is able to complete transactions or ordering, without leaving the car and without any physical contact with the display. A plurality of Computer Vision algorithms in the VTOS processes a plurality of input image sequences from the image-capturing system that is pointed at the customers in a vehicle and performs the virtual touch interaction by natural hand gestures. The invention can increase the throughput of drive-thru interaction and reduce the delay in wait time, labor cost, and maintenance cost.

Provided are an automatic cargo picking system and method. The automatic cargo picking system comprises a transfer robot, a control system and multiple ordered cargo containing containers; each ordered cargo containing container is arranged to contain one or more cargoes corresponding to an order; the control system and the transfer robot conduct wireless communication, the automatic cargo picking process comprises the steps that the control system distributes a task order for the transfer robot; the transfer robot obtains empty ordered cargo containing containers, transfers the ordered cargo containing containers to all cargo placing areas where the cargoes corresponding to the order are located to collect the cargoes and transfers the ordered cargo containing containers which complete cargo picking to the designated place. An automatic cargo picking technology is a scheme that the orders are assigned to people, and an original cargo shelf can be used; the cargo-to-people mode can adopt the method of conducting full container and full tray cargo storing on the original cargo shelf, and therefore the problem of frequent shelving is solved; the intelligent transfer robot is utilized for replacing manual transferring, and the labor intensity of picking personnel is reduced.

Traffic signal control systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes: at least one image sensor mounted with a bird's eye view of an intersection; memory containing a traffic optimization application and classifier parameters for a plurality of classifiers, where each classifier is configured to detect a different class of object; a processing system. In addition, the traffic optimization application directs the processing system to: capture image data using the at least one image sensor; search for pedestrians and vehicles visible within the captured image data by performing a plurality of classification processes based upon the classifier parameters for each of the plurality of classifiers; determine modifications to the traffic signal phasing based upon detection of at least one of a pedestrian or a vehicle; and send traffic signal phasing instructions to a traffic controller directing modification to the traffic signal phasing.

The invention relates to a hand-held analytical device for analyzing a sample, in particular a biological fluid, for a medically significant component, comprising a housing comprising a loading opening for receiving a replaceable cartridge having multiple chambers that may contain analytical consumables, in particular test strips, and each chamber comprising an opening on at least one face of the cartridge and each opening may be sealed by a sealing foil, a removal facility for removing one of the analytical consumables from the cartridge. The removal facility can be used to remove one of the consumables from one of the chambers of the cartridge, in the process of which the opening sealed by the sealing foil is opened. A drive allows the cartridge to be moved in order to position one chamber in a removal position in which a consumable can be removed from the chamber by the removal facility. The invention provides for the hand-held analytical device to comprise a testing facility that can generate a signal containing information regarding whether the opening of one of the chambers is sealed by sealing foil.

An information display apparatus performs a visual light communication and superimposes light source information transmitted from a light source onto images captured in time sequence for display on a screen. The information display apparatus includes an imaging section for capturing an image in an imaging range, a cache memory sequentially caching the light source information transmitted from the light source in the image, a priority level setting section for setting a higher priority to the light source information, cached in the cache memory, in order starting from a light source closest to a current imaging range, and a communications information processing section for deleting the light source information cached in the cache memory in order starting from light source information having the lowest priority level.

The invention provides a method realizing automatic client service using human-computer interaction technique, and an equipment realizing the method. The method includes: receiving problem imported with nature language from the user, converting the nature language into information identified by the computer using human-computer interaction technique; outputting feedback information according withthe information identified for the computer. In addition, the invention also provides the equipment realizing the method.

Provided are a method, system, and program for servicing customer requests for at least one product. At least one queue is maintained in a service computer indicating at least one customer requesting product support for the at least one product. Requests for customer service are received from customer computers used by customers over a network. Transmitted to the customer computers of customers indicated in the queue is chat session content between a technical support agent and one customer indicated in the queue.

A printer-built-in image-sensing apparatus including a camera which performs image sensing with film exposure, and a printer which prints an image sensed by the camera. After a shutter button has been pressed and image sensing with strobe light emission has been performed, if printing is instructed by pressing of a print button, then electric charging a capacitor of a strobe circuit is made after the completion of the print operation. Otherwise, the charging of the capacitor is started immediately after the image sensing. In this case, even if printing is instructed during the electric charge, printing is started after completion of the electric charge. Thus, electric consumption upon print operation can be reduced and fluctuation of voltage can be suppressed.

The invention discloses a joint cloud computing environment value exchange-oriented cross-chain communication method, and aims to ensure the security, reliability and high efficiency of a value exchange process. According to the technical scheme, a cross-chain communication system consisting of a cross-chain communication module, a node management module, a verification module and an accounting module is installed in each user node on each block chain; a midchain is established; a route node is selected from the midchain; value transfer and communication between chains are finished by the route node; the cross-chain communication module of a sender constructs a fund pool for the sender, a receiver and the route node, and performs fund transfer according to a fund transfer scheme; the verification module of the receiver verifies the effectiveness and availability of funds of the sender by adopting a smart contract; the accounting module of the receiver broadcasts a transaction result; and the sender, the receiver and the MidChain generate new blocks for storing transaction data. By adopting the method, the security, reliability and high efficiency of the value exchange process can be ensured; and seamless cross-chain communication between the chains is realized.

Time slice transmission methods transmit data in bursts, thus creating a delay until playback of a service can begin when changing the service and therefore preventing smooth zapping. To solve this problem, a first stream used for burst transmission of packet sets and a second stream for continuously transmitting packets at a speed determined according to the transmission rate required for a particular service are multiplexed and transmitted. The content is reproduced using the continuously transmitted second stream during zapping, and the first stream transmitted in bursts is reproduced after zapping ends.

A computerized clinic management system. The system includes a database of patient records and a database of clinic resources reflecting a temporal availability of each individual resource in the database of clinic resources. The system optionally also includes and a scheduling module designed and configured to determine an initial subset of clinic resources required for an initial treatment plan for a patient based upon analysis of the database of patient records and to determine an initial schedule of therapy for said patient based upon further analysis of temporal availability of the subset of said clinic resources.

The invention discloses a non-rope circulating multi-cabin elevator and a circulating system thereof and relates to the field of non-rope elevators. The non-rope circulating multi-cabin elevator comprises a vertical shaft, wherein an elevating guide rail is fixed inside the vertical shaft and is connected with a cabin, an elevating power mechanism and a control system; an elevating guide rail II is fixed inside the vertical shaft; a horizontal shaft is arranged on the vertical shaft; a movable frame is arranged inside the horizontal shaft; an elevating guide rail I is fixed on the movable frame; the elevating guide rail I and the elevating guide rail II are in seamed butt joint; a movable frame transfer mechanism is arranged inside the horizontal shaft; the movable frame is driven by a translational power source; and an elevating brake and an elevating guide roller are fixed on the cabin. Through the technical scheme of the invention, the problem of waiting for the elevator in a high-rise building for a long time is solved; the building space is rationally arranged and the space utilization ratio of the elevator is effectively improved.

Adaptive cooperative web caches construct and maintain routing and forwarding tables for efficient location of replicated web content data, thus reducing the time taken to fetch the requested web content data. The routing and forwarding tables in particular store decomposed web content identifiers and use compression techniques for efficient translation from a user request to the internet protocol address of the cache server where the replicated web content data can be retrieved.

An automated system and method for processing prescription requests is disclosed, whereby a patient or physician enters a prescription request to an automated pharmacy prescription processing system. For example, a request for a new or refill prescription can be transmitted from a physician's office to the prescription processing system as a digital file or facsimile message, or using keypad or voice commands in an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system running in the prescription processing system. A request for a prescription refill can also be entered by a patient using an IVR system, or the patient can physically carry the refill prescription request to a pharmacy for entry to the prescription processing system by a technician. The automated pharmacy system determines whether the new or refill prescription request can be filled by a central fill inventory. The automated pharmacy prescription processing system sends eligible, pending prescription requests to an automated central fill prescription request processing system. The automated central fill processing system processes and fills each valid prescription request from a central fill inventory, initiates a quality assurance procedure to double-check each prescription to be filled, labels the double-checked, approved prescriptions, and routes them to a staging area for shipment to the appropriate pharmacy stores.

One or more embodiments of the invention is a computer-implemented method for speculatively executing application event responses. The method includes the steps of identifying one or more event responses that could be issued for execution by an application being executed by a master process, for each event response, generating a child process to execute the event response, determining that a first event response included in the one or more event responses has been issued for execution by the application, committing the child process associated with the first event response as a new master process, and aborting the master process and all child processes other than the child process associated with the first event response.

An image of a workpiece (10) conveyed by a feeding conveyor (3) is taken by a camera (7) of a visual sensor to detect a position of the workpiece. The moving amount of the feeding conveyor (3) is detected by a pulse coder (8). When a request for picking up a workpiece is issued to a plurality of robots (RB1, RB2), it is judged whether or not the robots can grip the workpiece positioned most downstream, based on current positions of the robots and a current position of the workpiece. The workpiece should be gripped before it reaches the downstream boundary line (TR1e, TR2e) in the tracking range of the robot. If the workpiece can be gripped, the robot picks up the workpiece. Based on the robot operating speed, the feeding speed of the feeding conveyor (3) is adjusted to reduce the waiting time of the plurality of robots (RB1, RB2) and to reduce the number of failures to hold the workpiece as far as possible.

A method for providing “guaranteed message delivery” for network based communications between a client machine and a server. The client machine includes a Client Runtime Environment (CRE) and the server includes a Server Runtime Environment (SRE). The method includes the following steps. A first message queue is maintained in the CRE. A first unique identification is attached to the first message from the first message queue and the first message is sent from the CRE to the SRE via a network communication. The SRE receives the first message and sends an acknowledgement of the receipt of the first message to the CRE. Upon receiving of the acknowledgement within a certain time threshold, the CRE removes the first message from the first message queue in the CRE. A method of providing “server-push” of messages from the server to the client machine utilizing a push Servlet and a push API.

The invention discloses an intra-cell device to device direct communication method based on user device relay. According to the method, when a first device and a second device in the same cell need to be communicated with each other, if a ProSe server finds the distance between the two devices is too far to meet the distance requirement of device to device communication, the ProSe sends a request message for searching for an available relay device to an eNB (evolved node base) ; after receiving the request message, the eNB searches and feeds a result back to the ProSe server; the ProSe server selects a proper relay device by using the feedback result, and sends a beacon resource request to the eNB; the eNB respectively allocates beacon resources for the first device and the relay device as well as the second device and the relay device, and the relay device and the second device notify the eNB of a communication quality detection result; device to device communication scheduling is performed; after finishing service transmission, the communication devices release the device to device resources. According to the method, the communication is performed in a device to device relay mode, sending power is reduced, user device energy is saved, and the system performance is improved.

The present invention provides a system and method for dispensing multimedia content. The invention discloses a network kiosk configured to receive multimedia materials from a variety of sources that may be stored, combined and recorded on mass storage devices such as solid state memory, multimedia players and rewriteable optical storage devices including rewriteable Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) and rewriteable Compact Discs (CDs). Users may select material for purchase or rent at the kiosk or through external wired and wireless computing devices such as computers, cellular telephones, personal data assistants (PDAs), multimedia players.

The invention discloses a docking mechanism, comprising a docking machine frame, wherein a docking position, a switching position, a powder soaking position and a transition position are arranged on the docking machine frame; the docking bracket is fixedly mounted in the docking position, a docking component is arranged on the docking bracket, and the docking component comprises an upper sliding fixture seat and a lower fixed fixture seat; a switching bracket is arranged in the switching position, the switching bracket is driven by a switching bracket driving device to rotate around a horizontal shaft, and an upper fixture fixing part and a lower fixture fixing part are arranged on the switching bracket; a powder soaking component is arranged in the powder soaking position; a first fixture placement rack is arranged in the transition position; and the docking mechanism also comprises a first front-and-back transfer mechanism and a second front-and-back transfer mechanism. The invention also discloses an automatic crystal blank polishing and burnishing system adopting the docking mechanism. According to the technical scheme, the docking precision and the bonding firmness of crystal blanks are guaranteed, the docking working position is reasonable in structure, and the docking efficiency and the processing efficiency of the whole automatic polishing and burnishing system are improved.

A shared memory symmetrical processing system including a plurality of nodes each having a system control element for routing internodal communications. A first ring and a second ring interconnect the plurality of nodes, wherein data in said first ring flows in opposite directions with respect to said second ring. A receiver receives a plurality of incoming messages via the first or second ring and merges a plurality of incoming message responses with a local outgoing message response to provide a merged response. Each of the plurality of nodes includes any combination of the following: at least one processor, cache memory, a plurality of I / O adapters, and main memory. The system control element includes a plurality of controllers for maintaining coherency in the system.