339 results about "Assistive technology" patented technology

The present invention is directed toward a data management appliance and ancillary technologies for replicating data written to a primary storage system. The data management appliance is a random-access storage system that at the logical block level replicates the contents of a primary storage system over time.

The present invention is directed toward a data management appliance and ancillary technologies for replicating data written to a primary storage system. The data management appliance is a random-access storage system that at the logical block level replicates the contents of a primary storage system over time.

An object of the invention is to provide, in a vehicle driving assistance system that provides assistance to avoid a collision between a host vehicle and a three-dimensional object causing an obstruction, a technique for avoiding assistance in which the host vehicle is guided to a region where the presence of a three-dimensional object is unclear. To achieve this object, according to the invention, a grid map, by which an avoidance region in which a three-dimensional object exists, an unclear region in which the existence of a three-dimensional object is unclear, and a safe region in which no three-dimensional objects exist can he distinguished, is created. When the avoidance region exists on the advancement path of the host vehicle, a route that can avoid the avoidance region and passes through the unclear region for a distance not exceeding a threshold is specified, whereupon a steering angle is controlled to cause the host vehicle to travel along the specified route,

The present invention is a cardiac-assist device and technique used to maintain a patient's cardiac output when normal cardiac output is insufficient. Blood is removed from a selected ventricle using an arterial or venous side approach. The use of a right side approach reduces the amount of work required and reduces the number of foreign objects present within the left side of the heart and associated blood transferring conduits. The device of the invention includes a flexible catheter positionable within the patient's body. An external assist mechanism connected to one end of the flexible catheter receives blood from the arterial circulation and includes a pumping membrane. A flexible cannula is connected for reinfusing blood. A control console is provided for alternately supplying vacuum and pressure to the pumping membrane. A synchronizing means varies inflation and deflation in synchrony with the cardiac cycle of a patient.

The present invention is directed toward a data management appliance and ancillary technologies for replicating data written to a primary storage system. The data management appliance is a random-access storage system that at the logical block level replicates the contents of a primary storage system over time.

Embodiments of the present invention provide devices and methods that allow a continuous connection to be maintained between a medical device that is capable of communicating over a cellular network and a sensor network. Medical devices that are capable of communicating over a cellular network represent one form of assistive technologies for the home that can allow senior citizens to remain at home for longer, improve the quality of life, and provide more cost-effective solutions than residential care. Removing a SIM card (subscriber identity module, a removable smart card for cell phones that securely stores the service-subscriber key used to identify a mobile phone) from a cellular communication device requires the device to be powered down. However, powering down a medical device can result in a loss of important data.

A method for repeatable application testing on a computer system for audible output generated by the application in conjunction with a screen reader or similar assistive technology. The method includes recording user inputs to a user application using a test input component. The user inputs are also accessed by a screen reader input component. Outputs of the user application are recorded using a test output component. The outputs of the user application are also accessed by a screen reader output component. The resulting screen reader outputs are recorded and are analyzed with respect to the recorded user inputs and the recorded outputs of the user application. The user inputs to the user application can be keyboard inputs or mouse inputs, and inputs of other input devices. The outputs of the user application can be graphical outputs or alphanumeric outputs for a display of the computer system. The resulting screen reader outputs can be sound output signals (or representations thereof) for a sound system of the computer system.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle parking garage and belongs to the technical field of unmanned aerial vehicle landing assistance. The unmanned aerial vehicle parking garage comprisesa controller, a parking apron and an automatic charging device controlled by the controller. The automatic charging device comprises a pair of clamping pressing components. Each clamping pressing component comprises multiple clamping claws for clamping and pressing transverse rods or supporting feet of an unmanned aerial vehicle undercarriage, a walking mechanism driving the clamping claws to move, an actuator driving the walking mechanism to move so as to move the clamping claws between clamping pressing charging positions and releasing positions and charging electrodes fixedly arranged on the clamping claws. By the adoption of the provided unmanned aerial vehicle parking garage, landing assistance is provided for an unmanned aerial vehicle, and meanwhile, the unmanned aerial vehicle canbe safely and automatically charged at a high speed in a wired mode.

The invention relates to an unmanned aerial vehicle hangar, and belongs to the technical field of landing assistance of unmanned aerial vehicle. The unmanned aerial vehicle hangar comprises a controller, a parking apron and an automatic charging device, wherein the automatic charging device is controlled by the controller. The controller comprises a memory and a processor; the automatic charging device comprises a pair of clamping and pressing assemblies; each clamping and pressing assembly comprises a clamping claw, an actuator and a charging electrode, wherein the clamping claw is used for clamping and pressing a landing gear transverse rod of the unmanned aerial vehicle; the clamping claw is driven by the actuator to move in the position between clamping and pressing charging position and releasing position, and the charging electrode is fixedly arranged on the charging claw. By arranging the clamping claw and fixedly arranging the charging electrode on the clamping claw, the unmanned aerial vehicle under the charging state is fixed to the parking apron, so that continuity and stability of the charging process are guaranteed.

The present invention, in various embodiments, comprises systems and methods for providing a communication system. In one embodiment, the system is an assistive technology (AT) in a single, highly integrated, multimodal, multifunctional, multipurpose, minimally invasive, unobtrusive, wireless, wearable, easy to use, low cost, and reliable AT that can potentially provide people with severe disabilities with flexible and effective computer access and environmental control in various conditions. In one embodiment, a multimodal Tongue Drive System (mTDS) is disclosed that uses tongue motion as its primary input modality. Secondary input modalities including speech, head motion, and diaphragm control are added to the tongue motion as additional input channels to enhance the system speed, accuracy, robustness, and flexibility, which are expected to address many of the aforementioned issues with traditional ATs that have limited number of input channels / modalities and can only be used in certain conditions by a certain group of users.

Methods and systems for manual and programmatic remediation of websites. JavaScript code is accessed by a user device and optionally calls TTS, ASR, and RADAE modules from a remote server to thereby facilitate website navigation by people with diverse abilities.

The invention discloses a virtual file system based on cloud computing. The virtual file system based on cloud computing comprises a serving terminal and a client terminal, wherein the serving terminal is composed of a file virtualizer, a file processing center, a file system interface, a file transmitter, a user interface, a database, a thumbnail managing module, a file format converting module and a rubbish cleaning device and the client terminal is composed of a receiving and transmitting module, a terminal simulation virtual file system and a file interaction module. The serving terminal interacts with one or more client terminals, so that the functions of carrying out asynchronous operation and asynchronous reading and writing on cloud terminal server files are provided for the system and applications based on the web. An effective solution is provided for the application of HTML5 to support a file system and an API is opened for the application of the third party. The auxiliary technology supporting file format conversion provides a substitute scheme when files which are not compatible with the HTML5 are browsed or edited. A file storage scheme of a cloud terminal is adopted so that a user can manage, browse and edit files without domain limitation, terminal limitation and platform limitation under network connection.

Disclosed is an adaptive negative bit-line boost write assist technique in which coupling capacitance scales with the number of rows and thereby maintains a constant negative bit-line level. The change in the coupling capacitance in neighboring signals as the height increases is utilized. The change is utilized for negative bit-line voltage generation.

Techniques for virtualized computer system environments running one or more virtual machines that obviate the extra host operating system (O / S) copying steps required for sending and receiving packets of data over a network connection, thus eliminating major performance problems in virtualized environment. Such techniques include methods for emulating network I / O hardware device acceleration-assist technology providing zero-copy I / O sending and receiving optimizations. Implementation of these techniques require a host O / S to perform actions including, but not limited to: checking of the address translations (ensuring availability and data residency in physical memory), checking whether the destination of a network packet is local (to another virtual machine within the computing system), or across an external network; and, if local, checking whether either the sending destination VM, receiving VM process, or both, supports emulated hardware accelerated-assist on the same physical system. This optimization, in particular, provides a further optimization in that the packet data checksumming operations may be omitted when sending packets between virtual machines in the same physical system.

The invention discloses a manufacturing system fault tracing method and system based on a digital twin model. The manufacturing system fault tracing method comprises the following steps that A, a digital twin fault tracing mathematical model is built on a simulation platform; b, a visual simulation model of the digital twin of the manufacturing system is built on the simulation platform; c, a digital twinning model of the manufacturing system is built; and step D, all fault propagation paths in the information processing model based on the multi-color set are searched through a breadth-first root search algorithm, and a fault root is found out. The root cause of the fault can be better and faster found, the diagnosability can be improved, and technicians can be assisted in providing reliability improvement measures in a targeted mode.

A method and system are described for creating a recurring or triggered search request. A search request is associated with a condition which initiates an information search. A search result, including a search query associated with a search request and a condition may be provided to a user via any or all communication services and / or devices associated with the user. A tool is provided to enable a user to select an existing search request and / or search result which may be used to create a triggered or ‘favorite’ search query which may be triggered as designated. Triggered search requests may be suggested to a user using automated and / or human assisted techniques.

The present invention is directed toward a data management appliance and ancillary technologies for replicating data written to a primary storage system. The data management appliance is a random-access storage system that at the logical block level replicates the contents of a primary storage system over time.

The invention discloses a virtualization implementation system and method of a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). The virtualization implementation system comprises a vGPU driving module, a vGPU front-end module and a vGPU rear-end module which respectively belong to three layers of a guest operating system, guest virtual equipment and a host machine operating system, moreover, the whole system finally requires hardware resources such as a physical layer CPU and a memory to support, while hardware GPU is not required; and the vGPU function is jointly achieved by mutual coordination of the parts. Compared with hardware assistive technologies such as a GRID technology and XENGT / KVMGT, the virtualization implementation system has the advantages that a GRID display card is not required to externally insert / internally install, a CPU model with the GPU function is also not required to upgrade, replace and carry, and thus, the virtualization implementation system has the advantages in aspects of adaptability and cost control implementation.

A system, method, and computer-readable medium that facilitate software configuration of assistive computer devices by automatically assessing a user's capabilities through questions and tasks are provided. The analysis results of the user's capabilities are then available to assistive computer software applications which may subsequently update their interfaces accordingly. A mapping mechanism from an external input device into a target software application is facilitated for software applications that do not include assistive technology features.

The present invention relates to the use of microwave-assisted technology for shortening the fabrication and detection time of protein array. After printing the proteins on a surface-treated aldehyde slide by an arrayer, the proteins are rapidly fixed on the surface of the slide by heating of microwave irradiation. As for the prevention of the appearance of non-specific signal from the backgrounds, the protein array is then blocked with skim milk buffer solution by heating with microwave irradiation, and a fast detection result of the protein array with high sensitivity will be obtained. Also, the present invention of the method of microwave-assisted technology for decreasing fabrication and detection time of the protein array is used as a full automatic protein array system.

The present disclosure introduces new multi-functional vibrating devices, methods of using the devices, and methods of manufacturing the devices. A multi-functional vibrating device can include one or more actuators, each paired with an amplifier capable of converting small lateral vibration into large vertical vibration. The present disclosure also involves interactive information acquisition technologies and assistive technologies, particularly devices, methods, and systems for tactile information transfer and acquisition. Some embodiments incorporate multi-functional vibrational devices, methods, and systems to achieve unique structural and operational characteristics—such as high-resolution, robustness, versatility, compactness, and / or rapid refresh rates—for communicating information. Some embodiments can convert information from a format that is less convenient and / or accessible in some cases (e.g., visual or audio) to an intuitive and / or private format (e.g., tactile patterns and motions).

Methods and systems for manual and programmatic remediation of websites. JavaScript code is accessed by a user device and optionally calls TTS, ASR, and RADAE modules from a remote server to thereby facilitate website navigation by people with diverse abilities.

The invention relates to a man-machine common driving type of lane maintenance assistance method for a smart car, belonging to the technical field of driving assistance of a smart car. The lane maintenance assistance method is applicable to a smart car platform with steering-by-wire or active steering device, and integrates the steering wheel angle input of the driver and the desired steering input of the controller in the form of linear weighting, thereby realizing lane maintenance auxiliary function of a man-machine driving mode. In the lane maintenance assistance method, the desired steering input of the controller is calculated by a tracking control algorithm for a reference trajectory. Considering the time-varying characteristics of the desired trajectory of the driver in the dynamictraffic environment, the system in the lane maintenance assistance method reference trajectory can be adjusted in real time according to the steering wheel operation of the driver under the conditionof satisfying safety constraints, thereby effectively improving the comfort and safety of the lane maintenance assistant system.

The invention belongs to the technical field of development assistance, and discloses a front-end development method and device based on modularization, equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a front-end application synthesis request triggered by a user, and obtaining a business process demand of a front-end application to be synthesized from the front-end application synthesis request; Determining the type of a functional component required to be used for synthesizing the front-end application according to the business process requirement; According to the type, searching a pre-packaged functional component library for a target functional component meeting the business process requirement; Compiling the target functional component in real timeby using a preset front-end development tool set to obtain at least one front-end page; And combining the front-end pages according to business process requirements to obtain the front-end application. Through the mode, the development and maintenance cost of the Web client can be effectively reduced, and the development efficiency of the Web client is remarkably improved.

In a driving operation assisting technique, the burden on a user is reduced. The user is allowed to specify, on an image representing the surrounding conditions around a vehicle, the end position of the vehicle at the end of a predetermined driving operation by using, for example, a pointer. A driving operation assisting system obtains the start position of the driving operation based on a prescribed movement pattern representing the movement of the vehicle in the driving operation, and superimposes the end position on the display image.

The invention discloses a fast Chinese pinyin input method based on a touch sensitive device and an achieving system thereof. The method includes that a marking tool is used for clicking an initial soft keyboard of a touch screen to input an initial consonant of pinyin; a system pops out a vowel suspension soft keyboard covered around an initial consonant key automatically; the marking tool is used for sliding on the vowel suspension soft keyboard for at most two key positions, and vowels of the pinyin are input; and the marking tool is lifted, and the vowel suspension soft keyboard is hidden automatically. Technical systems of six portions are combined and include (1) a suspension soft keyboard system; (2) seven suspension soft keyboards and key position layouts of the seven suspension soft keyboards; (3) a 'one-key one-pinyin' fast pinyin input method; (4) a 'one-character one-key' sentence input mode; (5) a non-switch stroke assisting technology; (6) a fast part input method. By means of the method and the system, only once key clicking is conducted, simplified pinyin and full pinyin are conducted simultaneously, and efficient inputting can be conducted without changing a pinyin scheme or initial soft keyboard setting. Simultaneously, touch screen size limit is broken through, key false identification rate is low, operation fatigue is small, and high-speed typing can be conducted even if a user does not know the pinyin.

The invention discloses a detachable composite material panel soil nail support system, which belongs to the technical field of building auxiliary engineering. The soil nails are fixed on the wall of the foundation pit, and the detachable composite panels are fixed on the wall of the wall foundation pit by detachable anchors and soil nails, and are connected by waterproof devices between the panels. After the service period is over, the composite panel can be disassembled to continue serving for the next project. The detachable composite panel is made of resin-based fiber composite material, mainly because of its light weight, high specific strength, large specific modulus, and good fatigue resistance. Compared with the traditional soil nail wall construction, the construction speed of the detachable composite panel support system is fast and saves time: the detachable composite panel soil nail support system is better than the traditional one in controlling the distribution of the plastic zone of the foundation pit and the deformation of the foundation pit. Soil nailed wall, good safety.

Methods for assisting a technician in tuning a musical instrument exhibiting inharmonicity, such as a piano. If one aspect, a plurality of target frequencies are calculated using a table of preferred stretch values. In another aspect, target frequencies are calculated from multiple inharmonicity measurements during the time a tone generator is sounding.

The present invention provides a computer implemented method for generating translatable and accessible multimedia presentations. The method can include transforming a presentation master file defining a multimedia presentation into each of a text file and a variables file, generating a plurality of slides for a slide show with text strings from the text file and imagery and audiovisual elements from the variables file, and launching the slide show. Transforming a presentation master file into each of a text file and a variables file can include additionally transforming the presentation master file into a visual markup language document emulating the multimedia presentation. As such, in an aspect of the embodiment, the method further can include detecting an assistive technology, and rendering the visual markup language document in lieu of the slide show.