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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 is applicable to the technical field of mobile terminals and provides a method and a device for displaying contact person information and a mobile terminal. The method comprises the following step: receiving a contact person display command; recognizing the home locations of contact persons and marking the contact persons at corresponding positions on a map according to the home locations of the contact persons; and displaying the map on which the contact persons are marked. The method and the device simplify and quicken a searching process and facilitate the use of mobile terminal users by marking the contact persons on the map to allow the user to click the contact person marks on the map to directly find out the contact persons by combining the map displaying the contact persons when the user searches the contact persons.

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.