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The invention discloses a robot indoor positioning and navigating method based on vision, belonging to the field of vision navigation. According to two-dimension codes, the method designs a manpower road sign which is simple and convenient, is easy to recognize, internally contains absolute position coordinates and has certain error correction capability; the road sign is arranged on a ceiling; a camera arranged on the robot, with the optical axis vertical to the ceiling, is used for photographing; the coordinate information included in the road sign is analyzed by road sign positioning of a series of steps such as threshold segmenting of images, extracting of communicating region, profile curve matching and recognizing of road sign characteristic; and the current absolute position and course angle of the robot can be finally obtained by the position estimation arithmetic of the robot. The method has the advantages of reducing the blocking and noise interference, and greatly reducing the processing time and the complexity of surrounding environments of the image processing method.

The present invention relates to the detection of specific nucleic acid sequences after an amplification process, or directly without amplification. In particular, the invention provides for the automation of the amplification and detection process, the amplification and detection of one or more specific nucleic acid sequences, the use of internal controls, reduced potential for contamination caused by the manual manipulation of reagents, and improved reagent compositions to better control assay performance and provide for further protection against contamination.

Methods and apparatus for reducing the search space processed by mask matching methods. The search space is reduced by grouping the candidate bit patterns into groups and subgroups that have internal bit agreement between the members. By only applying the mask matching methods to a select number of groups selected by their bit agreement with the target bit pattern, the computation time and memory requirement of the mask matching method is reduced.

One embodiment includes a system for application-layer monitoring of communication between one or more database clients and one or more database servers. The system includes one or more decoders residing at a decoding layer above a network layer. The decoders reside at a first network location between one or more database clients residing at one or more second network locations and one or more database servers residing at one or more third network locations. The decoders receive database messages communicated from the database clients and intended for the database servers and database messages communicated from the database servers and intended for the database clients, decode the database messages, and extract query-language statements from the database messages. The system also includes a monitoring application residing at an application layer above the decoding layer. The monitoring application resides at the first network location. The monitoring application receives query-language statements extracted at the decoders and records observations on the database messages based on the query-language statements extracted at the decoders.

A method of determining seismic data velocity models comprising dip-guided full waveform inversion that obtains a better velocity model with less computational requirements. DG-FWI quickly converges to provide a better image, obtains better amplitudes, and relies less on lower frequencies. Improved image quality allows detailed seismic analyses, accurate identification of lithological features, and imaging near artifacts and other anomalies.

An authoring tool assists an author in building an automated troubleshooter for a product. The authoring tool includes a cause editor interface, an action editor interface and a question editor interface. The cause editor interface allows an author to place, in a cause data structure, information pertaining to causes of malfunction of the product. The action editor interface allows an author to place, in an action data structure, information pertaining to actions that can be taken to correct malfunction of the product. The question editor interface allows an author to place, in a question data structure, information pertaining to questions that can be asked a user of the product to help identify causes of malfunction of the product.

A client-server arrangement for camera viewing using digital cameras across a computer network. A camera server controls a motorized gimbal which determines the viewing angles of a set of cameras according to signals from a client computer which is equipped with an eye movement tracking system. Movements of the viewer's eyes result in changes in viewing angle of the remote cameras. A high resolution foveal field of view image centered on the user's point of interest is captured and overlaid on a lower resolution full filed of view image, rendering a combined image having a low resolution peripheral area and a high resolution foveal area, and being significantly reduced in size compared to a full resolution, full field of view image. This combined image is transmitted to the client for display to the user.

The invention discloses a GPS (Global Positioning System) track irregularity detection system and method. The system comprises a measuring unit and a data postprocessing unit, wherein the measuring unit comprises a moving bracket movably arranged on the surface of a track, and a measuring device; the measuring device is rigidly fixed on the moving bracket and comprises two independently-arranged measured data acquisition recorders; the measured data acquisition recorders are used for measuring state data of the moving bracket in real time and recording the state data measured at every time to a data recording unit according to a time sequence arrangement; and the data postprocessing unit is used for processing the state data recorded in the data recording unit in an off-line way. The GPS (Global Positioning System) track irregularity detection system and method disclosed by the invention have the advantages of high measurement precision, high measurement speed and complete measuring functions.

A method and system of memory management incorporates multiple banks of memory devices organized into independent channels wherein each bank of memory devices contains duplicate data. A tree memory controller controls data read and write accesses to each of the banks in each of the channels. A bank queue for each bank in each channel keeps track of bank availability. When read or write requests are received at the tree memory controller, the controller checks the availability of each bank in a channel, identifies a first available bank, and executes the read request from the first available bank. In response to a write request, the controller blocks all read requests once it has confirmed that data to be written is complete for the selected memory word length. As soon as each bank queue for read requests is empty, the controller initiates burst mode transfer of the completed data word to all banks concurrently.

A method and apparatus are provided for distributing a database join operation across a plurality of processing nodes. The database join operation is performed between a first table having M1 rows and a second table have M2 rows and involves forming M1×M2 combinations of rows from the first and second tables. The method includes allocating across the plurality of processing nodes the M1×M2 combinations of rows from the first and second tables. Each of the M1×M2 combinations is present on one of the nodes, and each node stores combinations corresponding to a subset of the M1 rows from the first table and a subset of the M2 rows from the second table. The method further comprises performing for each processing node the join operation in respect of all combinations of rows allocated to that processing node and collating results across all the processing nodes to complete the join operation.

Proton resonance frequency shift thermometry may be improved by combining multibaseline and referenceless thermometry.

A client-server arrangement for camera viewing using digital cameras across a computer network. A camera server controls a motorized gimbal to affect camera viewing angle changes according to signals from a client computer which is equipped with an eye movement tracking system. Movements of the viewer's eyes result in changes in viewing angle of the remote cameras. Prior to transmission, the server divides the original full-resolution image into a foveal area and a peripheral area. The peripheral area data is reduced in resolution, thereby reducing the image data size, required transmission bandwidth, transmission size, and image update latency. Later, the full resolution data from the peripheral area of the image may be transmitted to the client machine so that the full image may be rendered in original full resolution.

Method of testing, determining, and adjusting a final closing torque of a beverage bottle or container closing machine and an apparatus for performing the method. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.

One embodiment includes a system providing application-layer functionality between one or more database clients and one or more database servers. The system includes one or more decoders residing at a decoding layer above a network layer. The decoders reside at a first network location between one or more database clients residing at one or more second network locations and one or more database servers residing at one or more third network locations. The decoders receive database messages communicated from the database clients and intended for the database servers and database messages communicated from the database servers and intended for the database clients, decode the database messages, and extract query-language statements from the database messages. The system also includes an application residing at an application layer above the decoding layer. The application resides at the first network location. The application receives and processes query-language statements extracted at the decoders.

Defrosting operation is possible by causing refrigerant discharged from a compressor to flow to an outdoor heat exchanger, and returning the refrigerant passed through the outdoor heat exchanger to the compressor through a water-heat exchanger, while operating a pump. Quick defrosting operation is possible by causing refrigerant discharged from a compressor to flow to an outdoor heat exchanger, and returning the refrigerant passed through the outdoor heat exchanger directly to the compressor, while stopping a pump. The temperature of water that has flowed into a water-heat exchanger is detected. According to the detected temperature, the defrosting operation using hot water and quick defrosting operation are selectively executed.

The invention relates to a geocoding-free rapid image splicing method of a low-altitude unmanned plane. A key frame image is extracted from a video to carry out geocoding-free rapid image splicing to generate a panoramic image. The method comprises the following steps: extracting a key frame image from a video stream to obtain all to-be-spliced images; carrying out feature point extraction including establishing a multi-dimensional space unit, constructing a pyramid image, determining a key point position, and removing an unstable point on all to-be-spliced images and carrying out screening on the key point by using a SUSAN algorithm to obtain a final feature point; carrying out feature matching according to respective feature points of a corresponding reference image and a to-be-matched image; and carrying out smoothening on the to-be-spliced images by using a gain compensation method, carrying out weighted average fusion on spliced overlapped areas to eliminate seams and sawteeth, and carrying out splicing to generate a panoramic image. According to the technical scheme, the method can be applied to fields of emergency surveying and mapping, disaster prevention and mitigation, land monitoring, emergency monitoring, pipeline layout and inspection of the oil sector, and circuit layout and power line inspection of the power sector and the like.

A method of target DNA genome analysis is provided. The method comprises the steps of: —obtaining non-overlapping segments of target DNA stretches with segment boundaries defined by the presence of particular restriction enzyme recognition sites, whereby the assembly of said non-overlapping segments compose a reduced representation library of said target DNA genome; —obtaining for said segments, raw metrics from a sequencing process applied on said reduced representation library; —clustering non-overlapping, nearby segments with similar raw metrics to provide master segments; —providing metrics describing the master segments, —making a final discrete DNA call based on the master segments and its metrics.