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A solid-state imager is mounted at a point-of-transaction workstation for capturing images of one- and two-dimensional indicia and is operated at high speed to resist image blurring due to relative movement between the target and the imager. Dedicated hardware assistance and computation resources are allocated to decode multiple, continuous and simultaneous video streams from multiple imagers at the workstation.

An implantable cardiac stimulation device and associated method set an atrial capture detection window by verifying that inter-atrial conduction is intact, and then measuring the inter-atrial conduction time. The measured inter-atrial conduction time may then be used for setting the atrial capture detection window. Capture verification of a stimulated atrial site is then implemented by detecting a conducted depolarization at another atrial site or in the opposite atrial chamber. A signal received during an atrial capture detection window is compared to a depolarization signal threshold or to a depolarization signal template in order to verify detection of a conducted depolarization signal as evidence of capture at the stimulated site. By sensing depolarization signal away from the stimulated site, the negative effects of lead polarization normally encountered when detecting an evoked response are avoided.

An ink tank of the foam type which is provided with a detected portion capable of exactly and surely detecting the amount of ink used by the printer or remaining in the ink tank. The ink tank includes a sub ink chamber that is diposed or formed between a main ink chamber and an ink outlet of an ink tank of a foam type. When an amount of air flowing into the sub ink chamber increases, one or more reflecting surfaces of a right-angled prism, which function as ink interfaces, resume their original function of reflecting surfaces, thereby enabling the detection of an ink end. Air bubbles having entered the sub ink chamber are surely led onto the one or more reflecting surfaces by a bubble storage part. At an ink passage having a narrow width, which is defined by the one or more reflecting surfaces, air bubbles are pressed against the one or more reflecting surfaces to be put to a crushed state and in surface contact with the latter. Air bubbles are surely led onto the one or more reflecting surfaces, and are crushed and pressed against the reflecting surfaces. This configuration prevents the one or more reflecting surfaces from being covered with ink retained in spaces among the air bubbles. Therefore, the ink end can be detected surely and exactly.

A method of reliably capturing biometric print images includes determining the print quality of a scanned image, detecting prints in the scanned image, and determining whether the scanned image is ready for capture. The method includes filtering the scanned image, binarizing the filtered image, detecting print area, print contrast, and print shape of the binarized image, and separating the print image into individual print images based on the print area, contrast, and shape. Each individual print image is classified base on a predetermined quality threshold and a quality classification of each individual print image is indicated. The method includes a predetermined capture delay time period, quality time period, and scanner timeout period. An operator can annotate issues regarding missing or unacceptable print images. A system of reliably capturing biometric print images includes a scanner including a print capture manager, a computer, and a communication link between the computer and scanner.

An unmanned air vehicle for military, land security and the like operations includes a fuselage provided with foldable wings having leading edge flaps and trailing edge ailerons which are operable during ascent from launch to control the flight pattern with the wings folded, the wings being deployed into an open unfolded position when appropriate. The vehicle is contained within a pod from which it is launched and a landing deck is provided to decelerate and arrest the vehicle upon its return to land.

A capsule endoscope is provided with an image pickup section having a CCD image sensor, a plurality of LEDs for emitting illumination light, a control circuit for controlling the image pickup section and the LEDs, a transmitting / receiving circuit for transmitting an image signal as a radio signal, and a battery for supplying electric power to each part of the capsule endoscope inside of a capsule case. When the capsule endoscope reaches a large intestine which is a lower digestive tract, the transmitting / receiving circuit receives an image capture initiation signal from an external transmitter provided outside of the body. The control circuit then activates the LEDs and the image pickup section to perform the image capturing at a predetermined interval.

A target is illuminated with high intensity light pulses to make the target appear stationary to a solid state imager of an imaging reader to improve reader performance at high swipe speeds of the target.

A target is illuminated with illumination light for image capture by a solid-state imager of an imaging reader. Internal reflections of the illumination light at a window are minimized, if not eliminated, by configuring the window as a non-planar optical element operative for redirecting the internal reflections away from the imager to enhance reader performance.

A target is illuminated with high intensity light pulses to make the target appear stationary to a solid state imager of an imaging reader to improve reader performance at high swipe speeds of the target.

A defect detected by a wafer inspection tool is reliably captured by a defect review tool. A defect review condition in the defect review tool is varied depending on defect attributes provided by the wafer inspection tool so as to optimize the review process. For example, review magnification is varied depending on the size of the defect, or the frame addition number is varied depending on the maximum gray level difference.

The present invention relates generally to medical methods and systems used to restore the angle of His and treat hiatal hernias and other conditions of the lower esophagus. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and system that allows fixation of the distal esophagus and fundus of the stomach directly to the diaphragmatic crus muscle. The present invention provides a method where the diaphragmatic crus muscle is identified and precisely located from within and through the gastrointestinal lumen followed by the placement of a translumenal anchor which connects and secures the esophagus and stomach to the diaphragmatic crus muscle. This procedure reduces the hiatal hernia, restores the normal anatomy and treats conditions associated with the lower esophagus.

An image photographing apparatus for capturing a subject image in accordance with smile detection of a subject includes an optical unit; an image capturing unit configured to capture the subject image; an optical mechanism driving control unit configured to control driving of mechanisms of the optical unit; an image signal processing unit configured to perform signal processing on the captured image; an image recording unit configured to record the captured image onto a predetermined recording medium; a face detection unit configured to detect a face of the subject; a smile detection unit configured to detect a smile on the detected face; and a smile-detection photography control unit configured to perform photographing processing for the subject image in response to detection of the smile of the subject from the captured image, while the driving of the mechanisms by the optical mechanism driving control unit is maintained fixed.

The present invention relates generally to medical methods and systems used to restore the angle of His and treat hiatal hernias and other conditions of the lower esophagus. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and system that allows fixation of the distal esophagus and fundus of the stomach directly to the diaphragmatic crus muscle. The present invention provides a method where the diaphragmatic crus muscle is identified and precisely located from within and through the gastrointestinal lumen followed by the placement of a translumenal anchor which connects and secures the esophagus and stomach to the diaphragmatic crus muscle. This procedure reduces the hiatal hernia, restores the normal anatomy and treats conditions associated with the lower esophagus.

A cardiac stimulation device and method automatically confirm capture by detecting the polarity of a post-stimulation signal. A capture detection circuit is subjected to recharge and block overlap signals applied such than an evoked response signal is characterized by a primarily positive polarity and a polarization signal is characterized by a primarily negative polarity. An amplitude detection feature, such as peak amplitude or signal integral, and its polarity are determined from a post-stimulation signal sensed by the capture detection circuit during a capture detection window. Capture is confirmed when the amplitude detection feature has a positive polarity.

The group of useful inventions concerns the field of medical technology, more specially to surgical instruments for catching of thromoemboli and to devices for their transport to an installation site. The a set for preventive maintenance of a thromboembolism of a pulmonary artery comprises a filter and a mounting device for its installation and extraction. In the mounting device for the installment of the filter the pusher (3) is provided with a movement limiting stop (4), and its working block is made in the form of a capsule (5) with an axially movable therein clamping cartridge (6) and a mechanism for its movement. The working block (10) of the extractor device is made in the form of a casing (13) with an aperture and a loop extending therefrom in perpendicular direction to the axis of the extractor. In the filter, the free ends (19, 20) of the fixing and centering elements are bent outwards. The threads (23) of both elements have an identical radius of bend at the end (18). The free ends (20) of the centering element have blunted ends and are made in the form of a circular-arch segment preventing the blunted ends of the fully unfolded centering legs from touching the walls of the vena cava and being directed to the centre of the lumen of the vein. The free ends (19) of the fixing element (17) are provided with protective areas (20) located between the conical part and the bent outwards fastener part and in parallel to the axis of the vein.

A heart stimulator provides a reliable automatic capture threshold search feature. A stimulation pulse generator is connected to at least a ventricular stimulation electrode for delivering electric stimulation pulses to at least the ventricle of the heart. The stimulation pulses generated have a strength depending on a control signal. A sensing stage is connected to an electrode for picking up electric potentials inside at least said ventricle of a heart and a control unit connected to the sensing stage and to the stimulation pulse generator determines points of time for scheduling stimulation pulses, to trigger the stimulation pulse generator so as to deliver a stimulation pulse when scheduled and to put out control signals for controlling the strength of the stimulation pulse. The control unit is further adapted to perform a capture analysis which may take into account extraordinary events.

The invention relates to a test method of a rock aging deterioration process. A group of unconfined acoustic emission probes and a group of unconfined receiving probes are respectively placed on two parallel lateral planes of two sides of a rock sample and continuously measure transverse wave velocity of the rock sample in an aging test process. Simultaneously, a group of pressure-bearing acoustic emission probes and a group of pressure-bearing receiving proves are respectively placed on the upper end face and the lower end face of the rock sample and continuously measure longitudinal wave velocity of the rock sample in the aging test process. With the help of a theoretical formula, the transverse wave velocity and the longitudinal wave velocity obtained through measurement are converted into transverse elastic modulus and longitudinal elastic modulus of the rock sample. At last, mathematical regression analysis is performed on the transverse elastic modulus and the longitudinal elastic modulus so as to obtain an expression function of an aging deterioration rule of the rock sample. The test method of the rock aging deterioration process enables users to effectively observe macro-features of rock in a mesoscopic deterioration process occurring with time and achieves bidirectional synchronous whole-process nondestructive measurement on aging deterioration of the rock sample.

The invention belongs to the technical field of intelligent logistics robots, and discloses an intelligent solar unmanned logistics distribution system, a control method and a distribution vehicle. The control method comprises the steps of collecting and analyzing a current road environment, and when a vehicle body detects an obstacle, the vehicle body automatically stopping or bypassing a bend toavoid the obstacle according to an ultrasonic detection distance and runs to a safe area; acquiring a lane boundary sign through a USB camera, carrying out binarization processing on an acquired picture, determining the position of a lane boundary through an edge detection method, solving the area of a lane boundary area, and controlling the vehicle body to run along the lane boundary area through a threshold judgment method; displaying vehicle state information such as latitude and longitude, speed, azimuth angle and battery capacity of the vehicle body in real time and sending the vehicle state information to a remote service center through a wireless module. According to the invention, the uncertainty of the external perception of the vehicle is reduced, and the correctness of the decision of the unmanned vehicle control system is greatly improved.

In a system analysis apparatus, a per-SrcIP filter section captures packets in client-Web server segments on a per-SrcIP basis. An ON / OFF filter section allows captured packets to pass through only when its flag is set to “ON”. A request / response analysis section controls a flag of the ON / OFF filter section of the next segment so that the packets of the next segment are captured only when the present segment is in a response waiting statue. A range control section controls a SrcIP range of packets to be captured by the per-SrcIP filter section.

The invention discloses a portable wireless network detection evidence-obtaining system which comprises an embedded hardware platform, as well as an embedded operating system module and an application platform module based on the embedded hardware platform, wherein the embedded hardware platform comprises an embedded mainboard and a wireless network card module; the wireless network card module specifically comprises a network interface controller, a baseband processor, a medium frequency processing unit, a radio frequency processing unit, a transmitting-receiving module and an antenna sequentially connected. According to the invention, a system framework taking a modularization architecture as a main body, the hardware platform based on a low-power and high-performance arm embedded platform, and a software platform taking a customized safe embedded Linux operating system as a backbone are realized, and the technologies such as wireless network drive optimization, concurrence multithreading real-time monitoring and multimode wireless security detection are combined and adopted, so that the problems about miniaturization, mobility and low energy consumption of equipment are effectively solved, and the perfect wireless detection function is realized through multiple innovative technologies.

A pressure sensor includes a sense element port, a support ring and a plurality of interference fit slits to provide a flexible interference fit between the sense element port and the support ring to form a substantially flush lap joint. The sensor also includes an electronics board inside the support ring and attached to planar mounting tabs which provide a stable mounting. Gel flow barriers protect electronics board features from unwanted non-conductive gel. Double-ended symmetrical, tapered contact springs provide manufacturing cost savings and contribute to improved alignment of an interface connector of the sensor.

An inexpensive continuous optical measuring apparatus with high cost / performance ratio capable of obtaining the emission of light at respective fixed positions arranged on a foundation member, by a simple device or a control, and a continuous optical measuring method. The apparatus comprises: at least one transparent or semi-translucent storage part capable of storing the foundation member having a plurality of types of predetermined detection substances fixed thereto along an arrangement line at predetermined intervals, with the detection substances and their fixed positions associated; at least one light receiving part installed at a predetermined position outside of the storage part, and receiving light from the fixed positions, and receiving light from an area having a light receiving width narrower than the width of the arrangement line; and a continuous moving part which is continuously moved relatively between the light receiving part and the storage part so as to scan the fixed positions on the foundation member along a spiral moving line having the light receiving width.

A method of reliably capturing biometric print images includes determining the print quality of a scanned image, detecting prints in the scanned image, and determining whether the scanned image is ready for capture. The method includes filtering the scanned image, binarizing the filtered image, detecting print area, print contrast, and print shape of the binarized image, and separating the print image into individual print images based on the print area, contrast, and shape. Each individual print image is classified base on a predetermined quality threshold and a quality classification of each individual print image is indicated. The method includes a predetermined capture delay time period, quality time period, and scanner timeout period. An operator can annotate issues regarding missing or unacceptable print images. A system of reliably capturing biometric print images includes a scanner including a print capture manager, a computer, and a communication link between the computer and scanner.

The invention discloses a method for determining timing for capturing a tumbling target by a free floating space robot. The method comprises the following steps: establishing a movement equation of the tumbling target; analyzing a working space of the free floating space robot; proposing three criterions for determining the optimum capturing timing; and finally verifying the effectiveness of the method through examples. According to the method disclosed in the invention, the three criterions for determining the timing prevent a mechanical arm from colliding the tumbling target, so that an end effector has better operation flexibility and operation ability, the capturing can be completed rapidly, and benefit is brought to enable the robot in the future space to safely, reliably and rapidly execute the task of capturing the tumbling target.

The invention relates to a space capturing device, in particular to a space butt-joint capturing device for non-cooperative target satellites, and aims at solving the problems that a conventional non-cooperative target butt-joint mechanism has higher requirements for motion control accuracy, and a sensitive sensor and an accurate spray pipe gesture recognition technology are required. The device is characterized in that the lower surface of an upper casing is fixedly connected with the upper surface of a lower slide body which is inserted into a lower casing; a lower motor is fixedly mounted on the bottom surface in the lower casing; an output shaft of the lower motor is connected with the lower surface of the lower slide body through a first screw nut mechanism; an upper motor is fixedly mounted on the bottom surface in the upper casing; an output shaft of the upper motor is connected with a connecting plate through a second screw nut mechanism; a mechanical arm is mounted on the upper surface of each angle of the equilateral triangle; a torsional spring is arranged in a connecting joint of each mechanical arm. The space butt-joint capturing device is used for capturing the non-cooperative satellites.