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Disclosed is an improved algorithm for estimating the 3D shape of a 3-dimensional object, such as a human face, based on information retrieved from a single photograph by recovering parameters of a 3-dimensional model and methods and systems using the same. Beside the pixel intensity, the invention uses various image features in a multi-features fitting algorithm (MFF) that has a wider radius of convergence and a higher level of precision and provides thereby better results.

The Account Receivables System's Remittance Processing Module accepts funds in domestic and foreign currency and translates the funds into the required local currency for reporting purposes. The Remittance Processing Modules automatically generates and also performs exchange gain and loss calculations Auto Draft and Reverse Application functions. The Remittance Processing Module accepts funds electronically, and, under certain conditions, automatically applies and updates a customer's account in the most efficient manner.

An Accounts Receivable System (ARS) provides an option to a client to outsource the client's accounts receivable function. The ARS is divided into five separate modules, which includes a Credit Inquiry Module, a Remittance Processing Module, an Accounts Receivable Claim Module, a Maintenance Module, and an Administration Module. The ARS provides a full range of trade receivables Credit & Collection services involving credit evaluation, credit granting, customer collection and account reconciliation, cash receipt, application and banking, all account receivables (A/R) reporting, consolidation, including customer statement preparation and mailing, ending with direct feeds to the client's general ledger system (G/L) for the client's financial statement preparation.

A method for the problem of reconstructing a watertight surface defined by an implicit equation from a finite set of oriented points. As in other surface reconstruction approaches disctretizations of this continuous formulation reduce to the solution of sparse least-squares problems. Rather than forcing the implicit function to approximate the indicator function of the volume bounded by the surface, in the present formulation the implicit function is a smooth approximation of the signed distance function to the surface. Then solution thus introduced is a very simple hybrid FE/FD discretization, which together with an octree partitioning of space, and the Dual Marching Cubes algorithm produces accurate and adaptive meshes.

Clutch mechanism for locks, which is composed of an interior axis (1), an exterior axis (2), a static body (3), a radial pin (4), a radial catch (5) and a radial actuator (6); said interior (1) and exterior (2) axes and body (3) compose a coaxial assembly where the exterior axis (2) penetrates the interior axis (1) and both are installed with a rotational adjustment in the static body (3), the set of radial pin (4) and radial catch (5) is installed between the actuator (6) and a radial spring (7) which acts between the catch (5) and the base of the housing (2a) of the exterior axis (2); whose pin (4) and catch (5) are dimensioned in such a way that each will be able to be moved between the circumferences of the exterior diameter of the axis (2) and the interior diameter of the axis (1); the radial actuator (6) is composed of a curved plate (6a) and by, at least, one rod (6b), whose plate (6a) is located in an annular depression (8) between the interior axis (1) and static body (3), extending in a circumferential arc containing the angular sector corresponding to the operative rotational transit of the interior axis (1).

A digital anti-counterfeit authentication method uses an one-time destructive anti-counterfeit label and a closed loop information feedback and control system. The invention covers the basic activities of an enterprise. The method includes: (1) fabricating anti-counterfeit data according to one or more product; (2) one or more consumer entering the anti-counterfeit data through one or more input end and interface end; (3) a server end starting inspection of the anti-counterfeit data, and entering step (4) when the inspection passes, and entering step (5) when the inspection fails to pass; (4) providing authentication results to the consumer and the manufacturer that supplied the one or more product, and going to step (6); (5) providing authentication results to the consumer and the manufacturer, and observing whether the consumer continuously use the same product, if yes, go to step (2), otherwise go to step (6); (6) ending the process. The step (3) includes multiple modes of authentication to protect consumer's safety and benefits.

A compact wheelchair lift mechanism utilizes a horizontal actuator to advance the vehicle doors outwardly away from the side of the vehicle together with a wheelchair user supported by a platform, and a vertical actuator which then lowers the platform with the wheelchair and user downwardly between the doors and vehicle. With the platform on the ground next to the vehicle, the user may then roll forward and away from the vehicle. The vehicle doors are also pivotably attached to the lift mechanism, such that a user may exit the vehicle by simply opening the vehicle door about its traditional door hinge, and therefore without powering the actuators. In this way, the wheel chair lift mechanism provides for safe and easy exit from the vehicle even if electrical power is lost, and facilitates use of the vehicle by both wheelchair-using drivers and drivers who do not use a wheelchair.

A cell according to the present invention comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolyte solution, and an outer casing, wherein the outer casing comprises a valve plate 30 having a thickness, an annular-shaped break groove 4 formed on the valve plate, and one or more of break aiding grooves 1 in the inner area of the break groove, and wherein the break aiding groove comprises such configurations that remaining thickness of the valve plate at the break aiding groove is thicker than remaining thickness of the valve plate at the break groove, and at least one end of the break aiding groove is connected with the break groove. In a cell provided with a valve plate which is a safety valve 9 comprising the break groove and the break aiding groove, the safety valve operates smoothly and releases a gas inside the cell quickly, and resistance to dropping impact is improved.

A driving apparatus of a detachable developing apparatus, and the detachable developing apparatus using the driving apparatus. The driving apparatus includes: a coupling member including a coupling drive which is connected to a driving element and to which driving power is transferred from the driving element, a coupling gear to which driving power is transferred from the coupling drive, and a coupling disc positioned between the coupling drive and the coupling gear for flexibly connecting the coupling drive and the coupling gear; and a power transferring portion including a plurality of gears to transfer driving power from the coupling member to the developing element and the toner supply element. At least one of the plurality of gears is a reduction gear for reducing a load applied to the coupling member from the developing element and the toner supply element.

A head lamp for a vehicle including a moisture removing apparatus may include a moisture removing apparatus, moisture generated in the head lamp is removed by a moisture absorbent, wherein the moisture absorbent is dried, such that moisture absorbing performance of the moisture absorbent is restored, continuously maintaining a smooth moisture absorbing function. In addition, the moisture generated during drying the moisture absorbent is not again introduced into the head lamp, but is discharged to the outside, blocking the moisture from being generated in the head lamp.

The hydrodynamics of a seagoing vessel are numerically modeled through the present invention's new calculative methodology, which uniquely combines vessel boundary characteristics and pseudo-spectral environmental characteristics. Solutions are obtained through mutual transformations between the vessel boundary's irregular grid and the environment's regular pseudo-spectral grid. The pressure at the vessel boundary, an important component of the vessel boundary itself, can be determined via either (i) finite element analysis (which has a Cartesian framework) or (ii) the present invention's new vessel normal vector analysis (which has a non-Cartesian framework); the latter approach avoids the singularity problem that generally besets hydrodynamics-related mathematics. Typical inventive practice implements a computer processing unit and succeeds in finding superior solutions in shorter CPU durations.

A drawer slide support and closure apparatus designed to support a drawer within its supporting frame includes one or more drawer support members connecting the frame front and back each of which has an upstanding member with a ridge formed therewith forming a guide rail. A ridge surrounding slidable member encompasses the guide rail and is movable with respect to it. The ridge surrounding member is affixed to the bottom of the drawer and enables slidable movement between the guide rail supported by the frame and the ridge surrounding member affixed to the drawer. Rollers provide additional support for the drawer in the open position, and a spring enables positive opening and closing of the drawer. A shock absorber minimizes sound and impact when the drawer is firmly closed.

The invention discloses a plaster for treating pains in neck, shoulder, waist and legs. The plaster is made by mainly using Caulis Sinomenii, Aconitum kusnezoffii, Radix Aconiti, Boswellia carteri, myrrh, Viciaamoena Fisch, centipede, Ligusticum wallichii, Common Threewingnut Root, rhizoma corydalis, dahurian angelica root, ramulus mori, Semen Brassicae, scorpio, pawpaw, Zoacys Dhumnades, Radix Clematidis, dragon's blood, Mythic Fungus, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Rhizoma Cibotii, Panax Notoginseng, Incised Notopterygium, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, medicine called Lingxian Divaricate Saposhnikovia Root, Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, Gentiana macrophylla, Rhizoma Drynariae, unprepared Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, tortoise shell, Nux Vomica, stir-baked squama manitis, lumbricus, rhizoma corydalis, borneol, Manchurian wildginger, Herbal Ephedrae, Cortex Acanthopanacis, safflower, camphor and rosin. The plaster is a special medicine for treating rheumatoid arthritis, traumatic injury, pains in neck, shoulder, waist and legs, and hyperosteogeny patients, is a traditional black plaster dosage form prepared with Chinese herbal medicines as raw materials, is a traditional Chinese medicinal plaster dosage form with definite therapeutic effects, and cures more than 100000 patients through the combination of traditional Chinese medicinal channel and collateral theory and local infected position application treatment.

An electric brake booster includes an electric motor activating a booster piston acting on the master-cylinder during brake pedal activation. The booster piston is driven in the direction of the action of same on the master-cylinder by an electric motor linked to a mechanical transmission that includes a screw held by the motor shaft. The screw meshes with two symmetrical worm gears that are integral with respective transmission shafts housed in a bearing of the body of the brake booster. The two shafts each carry a spur gear that meshes with a rack of the booster piston. The shafts are free in translation relative to the screw and to the body of the electric brake booster but are integral with each other in the translational movement of same. The shafts are integrally connected in translation by a coupling member formed by a crosspiece carrying two rotation bearings.

A calibrating method for adjusting related parameters when a first chip and a second chip switch signals is disclosed. The calibrating method includes: utilizing the first chip to output a test signal through using a first driving force in order to represent a test value; utilizing the second chip to receive the test signal and utilizing the second chip to read the test signal to determine a value; and performing a comparison step for comparing the value with the test value to detect whether said value complies with the test value.