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The invention discloses a trajectory tracking control method used for an automatic driving robot of a vehicle, which relates to electronic control technologies of vehicles. The desired trajectory of a vehicle is described in a data point mode to obtain the current position information of the vehicle; humanoid driving is carried out according to the current driving direction at the current vehicle position to preview a distance ahead; the position obtained by previewing is compared with the desired trajectory to determine the lateral position deviation, the angle deviation and the vehicle speed deviation of the coordinate position obtained by previewing relative to the desired trajectory; then, the vehicle direction is jointly controlled by a trajectory tracking and speed controller according to position deviation and direction deviation; and according to vehicle speed deviation, the control quantities of an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal are determined with a fuzzy control method. The trajectory tracking control method is suitable for controlling the trajectory tracking of any trajectory, various vehicle types and various working conditions, and an automatic driving robot performs the control. The trajectory tracking control method has high precision and good repeatability and has an important meaning for guaranteeing the quality of vehicle reliability experiments and improving experiment safety.

A method and system for identifying alternate contact information of a specific type; particularly, by providing an inputted Email address in a query, one or more alternate Email addresses can be returned to the query, using an automated database. The system is queried using an entity's known Email address, which, in turn, is associated with other contact information for the entity, such as name and postal address, and the other contact information is then used to identify alternative Email addresses for the targeted entity either at the time of the query or in preparation of the database, and the alternative Email address(es) are then outputted to the requestor from the system. The method uses knowledge of contact points of different types for the same entity to identify alternate contact points of a single type, within a database of contact information.

The present invention relates to audio data monitoring using speech recognition technology. In particular, the present invention uses business rules combined with unrestricted, natural speech recognition to monitor conversations in a customer interaction environment, literally transforming the spoken word to a retrievable data form. Implemented using the VorTecs Integration Platform (VIP), a flexible Computer Telephony Integration base, the present invention enhances quality monitoring by effectively evaluating conversations and initiating actionable events while observing for script adherence, compliance and / or order validation.

Systems and methods for performing tokenless financial transactions over a transaction network using biometric data. Financial transactions are completed without tokens, such as credit cards, debit cards, magnetic stripe cards, smart cards, RFID devices, and the like. A customer's identity is authenticated and the transaction is accepted by the customer using biometric information obtained at the point of sale from the customer by means of a point of sale terminal. In preferred embodiments, the customer's biometric information never leaves the point of sale terminal, but, rather, is authenticated over a transaction network in conjunction with a server that holds reference templates of the customer's biometric information, as well as account information. Transactions may be authorized directly by a participating financial institution or indirectly through payment networks such as Visa® and MasterCard®.

A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute are stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example, space usage and / or speed of access, such as in condensed form and / or sort order. Instances of each data value for an attribute are identified by instance elements, each of which is associated with one data value. Connectivity information is provided for each instance element that uniquely associates each instance element with a specific instance of a data value for another attribute. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, low cardinality fields (attributes) may be combined into a single field (referred to as a “combined field”) having values representing the various combinations of the original fields. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the data values for several fields may be stored in a single value list (referred to as a “union column”). Still another aspect of the invention is to apply redundancy elimination techniques, utilizing in some cases union columns, possibly together with combined fields, in order to reduce the space needed to store the database.

A system and method for locating objects such as people, pets, and personal articles is described. A transceiver is attached to the person, animal, or item to be tracked and a handheld locator device is employed to transmit a locator signal containing an address code to the transceiver. Upon receipt of a signal, the transceiver compares the address code contained in the locator signal with an address code stored in the transceiver. If the two codes are same, the transceiver sends a return signal back to the locator device. The locator device uses this return signal to determine the distance and / or direction of the transceiver from the user's location. The system allows a user to select from a multiple number of items to locate and allows multiple users to search for different articles within the same general area without interference.

Disclosed is a detection system for detecting a winning number in a roulette game played on a roulette wheel having pockets for receiving a ball and having colored pocket number regions corresponding to the respective pockets, including a video camera for generating a video image of the roulette wheel including at least one colored pocket number region and a corresponding pocket. The video data at an array of points in a first specified area of the color video image corresponding to a region through which the color pocket number region will pass are sampled when the cylinder of the roulette wheel is spun. The identity of the colored pocket number regions are determined from the sampled video data provided by the array of points. The video data is also sampled at a plurality of points in a second specified area in which the ball can be expected to be when in the pocket corresponding to the identified colored pocket number region. Whether or not the ball is in the pocket is determined using the sampled video data provided by the plurality of points and the identity of the identified colored pocket numbered region is output as the winning number if the ball is determined to be in the corresponding pocket.

A peer-to-peer cache architecture stores peer address certificates in different cache segments according to the number of IDs being stored and their relative distance in the peer name space. The cache instantiates regions of decreased range and increased granularity as additional information from close peers is learned. In a large peer cloud where the number of instantiated IDs is not known, each succeeding cache region covers one tenth of the preceding cache region. For peers with multiple IDs registered locally, the segmented cache of the present invention combines overlapping segments of the same granularity to eliminate the duplication of information that would otherwise occur. A cache tree, an instantiated segment tree, and an uninstantiated segment tree are arranged in red-black trees to simplify the search and proper placement and instantiation of information.

A method and system for identifying alternate contact information of a specific type; particularly, by providing an inputted Email address in a query, one or more alternate Email addresses can be returned to the query, using an automated database. The system is queried using an entity's known Email address, which, in turn, is associated with other contact information for the entity, such as name and postal address, and the other contact information is then used to identify alternative Email addresses for the targeted entity either at the time of the query or in preparation of the database, and the alternative Email address(es) are then outputted to the requestor from the system. The method uses knowledge of contact points of different types for the same entity to identify alternate contact points of a single type, within a database of contact information.

The invention disclosed herein concerns a data processing means for user tunable and selectable searching of a database wherein the data contained therein have associated descriptive properties capable of being expressed in numeric form. A quantized vector representative of the descriptive properties is created for each item in the database. This quantized vector becomes the fingerprint for each data item. The user submits a query item to be matched against the database for similarity. A fingerprint is calculated for the query item. The user may then assign weights to the individual descriptive properties based upon perceived importance. A newly weighted fingerprint for the query item is then compared with the weighted fingerprints for all the data in the database. A list of results sorted in order of decreasing similarity is presented to the user. The user may then change the previously assigned weights and then re-run the similarity search. This may be done as often as necessary to achieve the desired results. The invention describes similarity searching in a generic database. However, this invention is particularly desirable in databases containing chemical compound structure data or biological response screening result data. The process described herein may be run stand alone or as a preliminary screening search in a large database. If used for screening, it can greatly reduce the amount of data required for exactly matching a query item to the data in the database.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a parking route guidance method and a parking route guidance device. Through the application of the technical scheme in the embodiment of the invention, based on the traveling direction of a vehicle, a mobile terminal integrated with an electronic compass system in the vehicle adjusts the display direction of an electronic map for guiding the information parking routes, so that a corresponding electronic map can be displayed according to the traveling direction of the vehicle as required, therefore, when the vehicle is driven to a free parking space according to the electronic map, the driver of the vehicle can drive the vehicle to the free parking space only by directly adjusting the traveling direction of the vehicle according to the direction indicated on the electronic map which displays direction change following the traveling directions of the vehicle without pre-discriminating the traveling direction of the vehicle, so that when the vehicle in a parking lot is driven according to the electronic map, the driver of the vehicle does not need to carry out direction discrimination, thereby simplifying the corresponding route finding process, improving the efficiency of parking space finding, and avoiding the occurrence of difficult route guidance caused by that the direction can not be discriminated.

A method and apparatus for collecting and graduating opinions about people and products, aggregating and normalizing all opinions about a given object to one value, for searching and automatic matching potential business partners. The system consists of: social network in which users define their relationship types; reference system which graduates users' opinions basing on relationship types within the social network; innovative unilateral relationships within the social network for using experts' opinions, in which the experts' approval is not required but connection may be realized at a certain fee; application which aggregates and normalizes all information about the user or product to one value, whereas the value itself also depends on who it is presented to; application for organizing biddings, in which the system automatically presents bidding offers to users with highest opinions value and allows the both contracting parties to evaluate each other's work by submitting their public opinions.

In an object generation system, consumable base materials are characterized in a characterization process wherein an object generation system can use a plurality of so-characterized base materials. User input representing a desired object and set of characteristics for that desired object are processed, using a computer or computing device, to derive a mapping of locations for placement of portions of the plurality of base materials such that when the mapping is provided to an object generator, the generated object approximates the representing a desired object and set of characteristics. The characterization of a base material might include elasticity of the base material, the user input might be a desired shape and elasticity, the object generator might be a 3D multi-material printer and the generated object might at least approximate the desired shape and elasticity as a result of being constructed from the plurality of base materials used by the printer.

The present invention provides a method for using the frequency spectrum, which belongs to the frequency spectrum using of the wireless duplex communication system, and the method comprises the following steps: selecting part frequency band from the communication permissive frequency band of the wireless duplex communication system as the supporting frequency band; dynamically selecting part-free frequency band from other frequency band as the dynamic borrowed frequency band, wherein, the dynamic borrowed frequency band supports the time division duplexing mode, not only can be used in the upgoing transmission but also can be used in the downgoing transmission; and composing the supporting frequency band and the dynamic borrowed frequency band to the frequency spectrum which is needed by the wireless duplex communication system with the mode of frequency division or half-frequency division. The invention also provides a frequency spectrum using device.

A wireless terminal capable of quickly searching for the best route required for communication in a local network such as an ad hoc network is provided. Each of wireless terminals in the local network sets a bit error rates and a data transfer rate with neighboring wireless terminals and, based on the calculated values, calculates the route weight value of a link to each of the neighboring terminals. To set a route for communication between a wireless terminal and another wireless terminal, the wireless terminal issues a route search command based on the route weight value and sends the route weight value to neighboring terminals. The neighboring terminals also send the route search command sequentially to the next terminal while adding up the route weight value. A wireless terminal at the other end decides the best route from the added up route weight value and sends a response back to the starting point.

A method first sets and combines searching conditions, and second, displays search results and saves searching conditions. When setting searching conditions, the method allows a user to select data fields and appropriate comparison operators, and input searching values to form single searching conditions. After one or more single searching conditions are input, the method displays those single searching conditions, and then combines the single searching conditions to form a composite searching condition. Composite searching conditions can further be combined with other searching conditions. When the combination process reaches a desired searching condition, the method retrieves matching information and displays search results. The final searching condition can be saved in a search system for the convenience of future use.

A system and method provide an audio analysis intelligence tool with ad-hoc search capabilities using spoken words as an organized data form. An SQL-like interface is used to process and search audio data and combine it with other traditional data forms to enhance searching of audio segments to identify those audio segments satisfying minimum confidence levels for a match.

The invention discloses a method and a device for retrieving video object information based on a smart television. According to the invention, the method comprises the following steps of: receiving a video image capture request, responding to the video image capture request, and capturing the current played video image; and identifying face visual feature information in the captured video image, and querying, acquiring and showing information matched with the identified face visual feature information. By the method and the device, a retrieval flow can be simplified, and the time required by retrieval can be reduced.

The invention is applicable to the technical field of communication and provides a program recommendation system, a program recommendation method and terminal equipment. The program recommendation system comprises a MongoDB cloud database, a Handoop file processor, a Mahout library and a Web server. The MongoDB cloud database is used for storing program data, identity information data of users and data information of programs historically browsed by users; the Handoop file processor is used for synchronizing data and information stored in the MongoDB cloud database; the Web server is used for receiving program recommendation requests of users to call the Mahout library and further used for displaying recommended programs through Web services; and the Mahout library is used for calling the MongoDB cloud database, selecting and starting recommendation modes based on content or users according to types of the recommendation requests of users, and matching recommended program information according to the recommendation modes. Program recommendation according to characteristics of users and programs is realized to enable user's favorite programs to be quickly searched out from massive program data.

The invention discloses a remote sensing image radiation correction method which includes the steps of measuring a solar zenith angle theta, a topographic slope angle alpha, a solar azimuth, a topographic slope azimuth and earth surface radiance L (lambada) of an imaging area when a remote sensing image is imaged, calculating a topographical correction factor Tscs+c, calculating direct radiation, scattered radiation of a horizontal plane pixel and an atmospheric projection asymmetry index k (lambada, z) through a MODTRAN model, calculating earth surface incidence solar radiation E (lambada, z), extracting atmospheric top layer radiation L1 (lambada) from the remote sensing image, working out path radiation Lp (lambada, z) of the imaging area and transmittance Tu (lambada, z) from the earth surface to a pupil-inlet position of a sensor through the MODTRAN model, and obtaining earth surface reflectance rho (lambada), wherein the lambada is a spectral wavelength received by a remote sensor and the z is an elevation monitored by the remote sensor.

An acquisition, pointing and tracking system for free space optical communications systems performs the pointing and tracking function internally by way of translating an internal optical fiber in the focal plane of the transceiver telescope with a reflecting mirror in the telescope focal plane of each linked transceiver. The beam reflected from the mirror records the exact direction of the reflected beam at the transmitting beam's transceiver terminal, providing the transmitting source to lock on to the receiving telescope, allowing for the link to be acquired.

The embodiment of the invention provides an ion sorting and displaying method, and relates to the field of communication. According to the method, dual sequencing is achieved according to icon classes and use frequency, so that the operation that a user searches and selects icons which are always used is simplified. The method includes the steps of sequencing the icons according to the classes in the first direction, sequencing the icons of the same class according to the use frequency in the second direction, and displaying the sequenced icons on a screen. The invention further provides corresponding terminal equipment.

A management system is for a parking site for vehicles with at least one parking zone including a plurality of parking places. The system includes an output device for data carriers that are to be carried by users of the site and equipment for reading and / or writing information on the data carriers, the output device and the read / write equipment being connected to a data processing centre. The read / write equipment interacts with passing data carriers within a specific remote action area, in such a way that data can be wirelessly transmitted in passing, thus allowing the displacement, the parking zone used and optionally even the occupied parking space to be tracked and the data to be made available in a centralized manner in the data processing centre and also in a decentralized manner on the data carrier of each individual user.

The invention discloses an acquisition method, an acquisition system and an acquisition device for information of a contact person. The method comprises the steps of acquiring a name of the contact person input by a user through a dialing interface and inquiring that whether basic information of the contact person is stored in a local data base according to the name of the contact person; if yes, acquiring the basic information of the contact person stored locally; if not, acquiring basic information of the contact person corresponding to the name of the contact person from a data base server in the network and storing the acquired basic information of the contact person to the local data base; and establishing the communication connection through the acquired basic information of the contact person and the contact person. According to the method, a large scope of search for the contact person can be realized through a dialing program, thereby simplifying the search process and saving the system resources.

An improved battery-powered device and system for avalanche transceiver rescue. The device comprises a transmitter, a receiver, microcontroller firmware system, graphic display, audio speaker and input switches residing in a single portable housing with a flip lid. When the flip lid is closed, the system transmits a radio frequency signal at a predetermined interval. When the flip lid is opened, the system deactivates the transmitter and activates the receiver. The receiver comprises three mutually orthogonal tuned-coil antennas. The system digitally processes the received signal strength and polarity of the signal from one or more of the antennas to guide a user to a transmitting beacon. The antennas are spatially isolated permitting the use of higher-sensitivity antennas. The system digitally controls the sensitivity of each antenna enabling scans for signals based on a specified proximity range to the exclusion of other proximity ranges. The system also displays an indication when a degraded signal is received as a result of signal collision from multiple beacons.