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An apparatus and methods for the real-time inspection for defects in and on transparent sheets, such as a sheet of glass, are described. A sensor detects a transparent light reflective coating on a transparent sheet and defines a sample profile. An optical inspection system utilizes an illumination source and an imaging device to obtain images of the transparent sheets. An image processing system analyzes for defects in the transparent sheets, including coating defects and defects in edge deleted perimeters. Inspection variables which correspond to the sample profile are used by the optical inspection system and image processing system for real-time inspection.

A linear generator apparatus includes first and second elongate coaxial bodies that are axially movable relative to one another with a reciprocating movement. The first body is axially and freely movable relative to the second body within a predetermined displacement range or free zone. A helical spring connecting to both first and second bodies biases the first body toward the free zone relative to the second body when outside of the free zone. An electrical power generator mounted on both first and second bodies generates power when the first and second bodies axially move relative to one another within the free zone and beyond. The invention also relates to a suspension system for motor vehicle that includes a coil spring and the apparatus in replacement of a conventional shock absorber.

The invention relates to a system for controlling a device (3) implanted in a human or animal body on the basis of voluntary commands issued by a user without the use of any external peripheral. The user issues a voluntary command to the implanted device by applying a specific and predetermined code, consisting of at least one mechanical action and of at least one additional piece of information. Each mechanical action and each additional piece of information are measured by at least one sensor. The output signal(s) of the sensor(s) are processed and used to validate the predetermined code by means of the identification of at least one mechanical action executed by the user and combined with at least one piece of additional information, and the comparison thereof with a corresponding reference model. The invention further relates to a method for detecting an actuation control of an implantable device.

A low-illumination image processing method and device address the problem of noise amplification in existing contrast enhancement techniques when applied to original low-illumination image. A noise suppression filter is additionally arranged before an operation of contrast enhancement, and smoothing processing is performed on an inverse color image of a low-illumination image by adopting a first filtering coefficient and a second filtering coefficient, so that image contrast is enhanced while random noise is suppressed. Texture and noise level parameter of an image are calculated according to a local characteristic inside block of the image. Weighted averaging is performed on a first smoothing image and a second smoothing image after smoothing processing according to the texture and noise level parameters. The texture image is obtained by performing texture structure extraction on a gradient image of an inverse color image, and the texture image is combined with a weighted image to sharpen the weighted image, to have an effect of enhancing image details. Therefore, the contrast of low-illumination image can be effectively enhanced, various types of noise can be filtered, and the image color and details can be retained at the same time to obtain a clear and vivid restored image.

A plastic film that includes one or more plastic layers and one or more types of primary additives. The types of primary additive can include a liquid absorbing material, a gas absorbing material, a biocide, a heat generating material, and/or a foaming agent.

The authentication processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an authentication unit having a circuit that performs authentication phases included in processing for authenticating an external device; a command holding unit which holds a first command that indicates whether or not to perform each of the authentication phases; and an authentication control unit which causes the authentication unit to perform an authentication phase that is indicated by the first command as an authentication phase which is to be performed.

Systems and methods are provided for any party in a cloud ecosystem (cloud providers of such resources, the intermediate management software for such resources, and the end user of such resources) to detect and resolve faulty resources synchronously or asynchronously, before said faults adversely affect the users' workloads. The system requests a service or set of one or more resources within a cloud, automatically checking the infrastructure for various faults that would cause it to be non-functional, including pre-defined and user-defined checks, and resolving them before including the infrastructure in the working service cluster of resources. The system presents an API to the user that returns only functional, production-quality resources that are not in a faulty state. An API that tests and resolves bad infrastructure can be registered during the request or a preceding/subsequent API call, removing the need for the end-user to deal with various types of infrastructure faults.

The invention discloses a cloud platform-based urban internet-of-things management system. According to the urban internet-of-things management system, a dynamic telescopic cloud computing platform built by Xen and Hadoop frameworks serves as a cloud service center. The cloud computing platform comprises an IaaS platform-based infrastructure layer, a PaaS-based middleware layer and an SaaS-based application layer, wherein a service provider platform layer and a user layer are divided in the application layer and unified in the same access control model through a loose coupling relationship; a multi-user database and an extensible user database are included in each access control model; the user layer or the service provider platform layer indirectly accesses the data in the multi-user database by virtue of a data access agent layer. According to the internet-of-things management system, changes of a single-user system can be reduced, different system accesses can be met, the transfer difficulty is reduced, and the data safety of each user is guaranteed.

The present invention is drawn to a media sheets, including paper media sheets, which are effective for use in improving water fastness of inks, such as ink-jet inks. The media sheet can comprise a paper substrate, and a polydicyandiamide and a multivalent salt associated with the paper substrate. The polydicyandiamide and the multivalent salt are associated with the paper substrate prior to the ink-jet application.

A power transmission system (10) for a hybrid vehicle, the power transmission system (10) includes a transmission (TM, 20), a clutch (18), a motor (MG), an engine (14), a first oil pump (44), a second oil pump (68), a first hydraulic circuit in which the first oil pump (44) is provided, and a second hydraulic circuit in which the second oil pump (68) is provided. The motor (MG) is connected to a driving wheel (26) through the transmission (TM, 20). The engine (14) is connected to the motor (MG) through the clutch (28). The first oil pump (44) supplies oil to the transmission (20). The second oil pump (68) supplies oil to the motor (MG) and the clutch (28). The second hydraulic circuit is independent from the first hydraulic circuit. Selected drawing.

A mobile terminal and a decoding method thereof are disclosed. The decoding method comprises: capturing an image of a target barcode; invoking built-in decoding software to decode the target barcode; determining whether the decoding is successful, wherein if the decoding is successful, then barcode information of the target barcode is displayed and the process ends; and otherwise, if the decoding is unsuccessful, then the target barcode is sent to a decoding server; receiving barcode information obtained by the decoding server through decoding the target barcode; and displaying the barcode information of the target barcode. In this way, the present disclosure can decode various types of barcodes quickly and effectively so that the user can be informed of the barcode information of the various types of barcodes quickly and accurately.

The invention relates to the technical field of civil engineering foundation reinforcing of industrial and civil construction projects, in particular to a pile foundation underpinning method for a building foundation adjacent to a deep foundation pit. The method includes the steps of firstly, investigating and designing, to be more specific, investigating the existing building, selecting foundation underpinning pile types according to building foundation size, buried depth, distance between the building foundation and the deep foundation pit and the depth of the deep foundation pit, calculating to determine the required length and number of foundation underpinning piles according to bearing capacity, allowing the foundation underpinning piles to exceed the depth of the bottom of the deep foundation pit, and completing ring beam design; secondly, pressing the piles at the edges of the building foundation; thirdly, performing pile foundation underpinning on the building foundation. The method has the advantages that the building foundation satisfies the requirements of bending resistance, punching resistance and shearing resistance by the aid of pile foundation underpinning, natural foundation bearing of the building foundation is changed into pile foundation bearing, additional load of the building foundation to the deep foundation pit is lowered greatly, sedimentation and horizontal displacement of the building foundation adjacent to the deep foundation pit are solved, and factory building safety is guaranteed.

Cabinets adapted for non-level garage floors and out-of-plumb garage walls with leveling controls operated from inside each cabinet. The cabinets have in common that they are attachable to a garage wall and each has at least one adjustment panel forming a part of the back of the cabinet. Each adjustment panel has a hand screw for extending behind the cabinet to engage the wall to provide back-to-front leveling and to prevent installation of fasteners, such as screws, from pulling the cabinet closer to the wall during installation. Each adjustment panel also has horizontal slots in a staggered arrangement in two horizontal rows for receiving fasteners. Floor-standing cabinets have feet that are adjustable from inside the cabinet. Wall-hanging cabinets have a top bracket that provides side-to-side leveling form inside. Floor-standing cabinets are modular and stackable, using an included adapter and door-handle coupler to enable stacked cabinet doors to open as one.