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A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user's environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene viewed by the phone's camera. The image processing tasks applied to the scene can be selected from among various alternatives by reference to resource costs, resource constraints, other stimulus information (e.g., audio), task substitutability, etc. The phone can apply more or less resources to an image processing task depending on how successfully the task is proceeding, or based on the user's apparent interest in the task. In some arrangements, data may be referred to the cloud for analysis, or for gleaning. Cognition, and identification of appropriate device response(s), can be aided by collateral information, such as context. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

A digital work may be annotated using an eBook reader device. Upon receiving an annotation relating to a specific portion of the digital work, an invariant location reference identifier corresponding to the specified portion of the digital work may be appended to the annotation. The annotation may then be stored in association with the digital work for later reference. In some instances, an annotation may be presented on an eBook reader device upon receipt of a valid authorization credential granting access to the annotation.

A structure for a semiconductor components is provided having a device layer sandwiched on both sides by other active, passive, and interconnecting components. A wafer-level layer transfer process is used to create this planar (2D) IC structure with added functional enhancements.

The invention discloses a microcapsule of an organic phase change energy storage material and a preparation method thereof. The microcapsule of an organic phase change energy storage material comprises a core and a nucleocapsid, wherein the material of the core comprises the organic phase change energy storage material; the nucleocapsid at least comprises an inner layer and an outer layer, the inner layer is packaged by any one of an in situ polymerization method, an interface polymerization method, a reaction phase separating method, a double agglomeration method and a sol-gal process, and the outer layer is packaged by any one of an in situ polymerization method, a reaction phase separating method, a sol-gal process and a double agglomeration method. The microcapsule has adjustable size, nucleocapsid composition and shell thickness, favorable flexibility, mechanical strength, penetrability resistance and dispersibility and can be widely applied to the fields of energy sources, materials, aero-space, textile, electric power, medical apparatus, architecture, and the like, such as solar utilization, industrial afterheat and waste heat recovery, architecture energy storage, dress with constant temperature, air conditioners for cool and heat accumulation, constant temperature of electric appliances, and the like.

A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user's environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene viewed by the phone's camera. The image processing tasks applied to the scene can be selected from among various alternatives by reference to resource costs, resource constraints, other stimulus information (e.g., audio), task substitutability, etc. The phone can apply more or less resources to an image processing task depending on how successfully the task is proceeding, or based on the user's apparent interest in the task. In some arrangements, data may be referred to the cloud for analysis, or for gleaning. Cognition, and identification of appropriate device response(s), can be aided by collateral information, such as context. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

The invention relates to a system and method for generating a lane-level navigation map of an unmanned vehicle based on multi-source data. The lane-level navigation map comprises an offline global map part and an online local map part. According to an offline module, within a target region where the unmanned vehicle runs, original road data is acquired through satellite photos (or aerial photos), a vehicle sensor (laser radar and a camera) and a high-precision integrated positioning system (a global positioning system and an inertial navigation system), then the original road data is subjected to offline processing, multiple kinds of road information are extracted, and finally the road information extracting results are fused to generate the offline global map. The offline global map is stored through a layered structure. According to an online module, when the unmanned vehicle automatically drives in the target region, the road data in the offline global map is extracted according to real-time positioning information, and the online local map with the vehicle as the center within the fixed distance range is drawn. The system and method can be applied to fusion sensing, high-precision positioning and intelligent decisions of the unmanned vehicle.

The present invention provides a deep and reinforcement learning-based real-time online path planning method. According to the method, the high-level semantic information of an image is obtained through using a deep learning method, the path planning of the end-to-end real-time scenes of an environment can be completed through using a reinforcement learning method. In a training process, image information collected in the environment is brought into a scene analysis network as a current state, so that an analytical result can be obtained; the analytical result is inputted into a designed deep cyclic neural network; and the decision-making action of each step of an intelligent body in a specific scene can be obtained through training, so that an optimal complete path can be obtained. In an actual application process, image information collected by a camera is inputted into a trained deep and reinforcement learning network, so that the direction information of the walking of the intelligent body can be obtained. With the method of the invention, obtained image information can be utilized to the greatest extent under a premise that the robustness of the method is ensured and the method slightly depends on the environment, and real-time scene walking information path planning can be realized.

A method, system, and computer program product for organizing a set of nodes into a minimum number of connected clusters of bounded size in a wireless transmission system, wherein the method comprises using of bits in packets used in the initial stages of the device discovery procedure, to include information relating to a state of device discovery to achieve the separation of the nodes into those in the transmit-state and the receive-state; defining a Master-designate among the nodes through a statistical procedure and defining remaining nodes as a Slave-designate; defining a cluster including the Master-designate and at least one the Slave-designate, wherein the Slave-designate continuously scans for the inquiry message transmitted from the Master-designate and the Slave-designate transmits the inquiry response to the Master-designate.

Non-woven fibrous scaffolds made by electrospinning from the synthetic biodegradable polymer such as, for example, poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) and natural proteins, such as, for example, gelatin (denatured collagen) and elastin and a method of making thereof.

The invention relates to methods and apparatus for therapeutically treating connective tissue or increasing vascularization in tissue using ultrasound. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods and apparatus which use ultrasound to stimulate growth or healing, or to treating pathologies, of connective tissue, or to increase vascularization in ischaemic or grafted tissue using ultrasound.

Methods of depositing initially flowable dielectric films on substrates are described. The methods include introducing silicon-containing precursor to a deposition chamber that contains the substrate. The methods further include generating at least one excited precursor, such as radical nitrogen or oxygen precursor, with a remote plasma system located outside the deposition chamber. The excited precursor is also introduced to the deposition chamber, where it reacts with the silicon-containing precursor in a reaction zone deposits the initially flowable film on the substrate. The flowable film may be treated in, for example, a steam environment to form a silicon oxide film.

A method for identifying multiple touch-point on infrared touch screen includes using light cut off by touch object between emitting and receiving tubes of co-axis and off-axis to confirm approximate coordinate value of touch point at one direction and preliminarily rejecting out pseudo-touch point and then using the same means to do the same thing on another direction for finally obtaining accurate coordinate value of all touch points and simultaneously rejecting out all pseudo-touch points.

A system that builds a network using a document collection wherein the documents are collected and represented as a plurality of nodes in a network matrix. The documents that are to be analyzed are bound to the network (corpus) at a discrete node corresponding to the document. The documents are then analyzed to determine term frequency within each document and the overall term frequency of the same term throughout the entire document grouping. This creates a weighting value that determines the relevancy of each document as compared to the entire network of documents. Finally, weighting values are normalized with relative weighting values so that the sum of the weights of all edges connected to a given node equals 1. User queries then proceed through the network from node to node using the algorithm of the present invention to locate documents relevant to the search.

A method of treatment of subterranean formations in which leakoff through natural fractures is controlled through the use of fibers. The method involves pumping a mixture of a formation treatment fluid and a fiber into the formation for matrix stimulation, fracture stimulation, diversion, and/or water control. In carbonate formations, the formation treatment fluid is preferably an in situ gelled acid. The method optionally also involves pumping the same or a different formation treatment fluid without fiber.

A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user's environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene viewed by the phone's camera. The image processing tasks applied to the scene can be selected from among various alternatives by reference to resource costs, resource constraints, other stimulus information (e.g., audio), task substitutability, etc. The phone can apply more or less resources to an image processing task depending on how successfully the task is proceeding, or based on the user's apparent interest in the task. In some arrangements, data may be referred to the cloud for analysis, or for gleaning. Cognition, and identification of appropriate device response(s), can be aided by collateral information, such as context. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

A method of covering a surface of a building, the method comprising spraying an expandable foam material onto the surface and allowing the foam material to solidify whereby to form a covering of the surface and a robotic vehicle configured to carry out the method.

Traditional techniques for data reception in burst-mode receivers are of significant complexity. To aid detection, most burst-mode systems transmit a preamble, or predetermined data pattern, at the start of each new block of data. Using current methods, the detection of a new preamble, indicating the arrival of a new burst of data, is particularly complex. A method and apparatus is disclosed that significantly reduces this detection complexity, while maintaining superior signaling performance. This simplification can lead to higher data throughput within processing-limited receivers, and/or a greater degree of parallelism in multiple channel receivers.

An Identity System obtains and maintains real time certificate status. The Identity System retrieves real time status information for the System's certificates and stores a record of the status. The Identity System also stores validation information for the certificate, including the time the real time status was retrieved and a validation interval of time extending from the status retrieval time. Smaller validation intervals reduce the potential for the real time status changing during the validation interval. When the Identity System exports or displays a certificate for a user, the Identity System can employ the stored validation information and certificate status to ensure the certificate's validity.

The invention belongs to the technical field of membrane preparation and water purification and discloses a high-performance two-dimensional layered Ti3C2-MXene membrane, a preparation method thereof and an application of the Ti3C2-MXene membrane in water treatment. The method comprises steps as follows: (1), Ti3AlC2 powder and an HF solution are mixed, stirred for a reaction, centrifugally washed and dried, and Ti3C2 powder is obtained; (2), the Ti3C2 powder and a solvent are mixed, stirred for the reaction, washed and dried, and treated powder is obtained; (3), the treated powder is dissolved in the solvent and subjected to ultrasonic treatment and centrifugation, a liquid supernatant is taken and dried, and a two-dimensional nanosheet is obtained; (4), a solution is prepared from the two-dimensional nanosheet and deposited on a porous substrate with a nano self-assembly technology, and the high-performance two-dimensional layered Ti3C2-MXene membrane is obtained. The membrane has ultrahigh water flux, higher selectivity and good mechanical property and stability; the method is simple, low in energy consumption and cost, good in repeatability and wide in applicability.

The invention provides a full space-time three-dimensional visualization method. The method includes the following steps: real-time video data collected by a camera are packaged and converted in terms of a format; real-time fixed angle video data are spliced and fused in 3D GIS spatial data, so as to form a panoramic three-dimensional video; an event target of the panoramic three-dimensional video serves as a driving force to realize a camera cooperative pursuit; according to a result by the packet and format conversion, the real-time video data are stored in a storage device to form history video data; and the fixed angle video data are spliced and fused in the 3D GIS spatial data, so as to realize the full space-time three-dimensional visualization display of the history video. In addition, in order to realize video intelligent analysis and realize multidimensional data fusion and three-dimensional visualization display in a full scene, the invention also provides a full scene video intelligent analysis method and a multi-type data full space-time three-dimensional visualization method. The full space-time three-dimensional visualization method provides an effective means for the macro command monitoring, overall correlation, and comprehensive scheduling, and is high in applicability.

An apparatus for monitoring the alcohol content of an individual, preferably in connection with vehicle operation, has a sensor head coupled to a remote control module. The sensor head measures both breath pressure and breath alcohol levels. The data from the sensor head is processed by the control module to determine whether a valid breath sample exists and what action is to be taken based upon the alcohol level of the breath.

The present invention is a method for detecting DNA sequence differences including single nucleotide mutations or polymorphisms, one or more nucleotide insertions, and one or more nucleotide deletions. Labeled heteroduplex PCR fragments containing base mismatches are prepared. Endonuclease cleaves the heteroduplex PCR fragments both at the position containing the variation (one or more mismatched bases) and to a lesser extent, at non-variant (perfectly matched) positions. Ligation of the cleavage products with a DNA ligase corrects non-variant cleavages and thus substantially reduces background. This is then followed by a detection step in which the reaction products are detected, and the position of the sequence variations are determined.

An extended depth of field is achieved by a computational imaging system that combines a multifocal imaging subsystem for producing a purposefully blurred intermediate image with a digital processing subsystem for producing a recovered image having an extended depth of field. The multifocal imaging system preferably exhibits spherical aberration as the dominant feature of the purposeful blur. A central obscuration of the multifocal imaging subsystem renders point-spread functions of object points more uniform over a range of object distances. An iterative digital deconvolution algorithm for converting the intermediate image into the recovered image contains a metric parameter that speeds convergence, avoids stagnations, and enhances image quality.