454 results about "Augmentation system" patented technology

A movement augmentation system that provides various forms of feedback, including real-time and post-performance for training and rehabilitation is disclosed. The systems, devices and methods provide augmentation to human movement behavior in order to accelerate acquisition of complex movement skills by a user and to mitigate injuries from poor movement technique (e.g., joint damage or muscle fatigue). An environment is provided that enables systematic and comprehensive capabilities through integration of its components.

A head worn display can be designed with an integrated camera for obtaining an image of a scene, transmitting the obtained image to a processor, modification of the image in substantially real time by the processor, and displaying the modified image on a display device worn by the individual. According to embodiments of the invention various methods are provided for adjusting the position of the displayed video in the horizontal left/right, vertical up/down, and horizontal in/out, and angular up/down dimensions relative to the individual's eyes.

A method and system for approximating a position using a Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS) having a plurality of GNSS satellites and an augmentation system, the method including the steps of obtaining an initial code pseudorange measurement and an initial carrier phase measurement from a signal transmitted by a GNSS satellite in the GNSS system, receiving a code correction from the augmentation system, using the code correction to correct the initial code pseudorange measurement and the initial carrier phase measurement to mitigate for errors in the signal, to result in a corrected code pseudorange measurement and a corrected carrier phase measurement, and using a code dominated measurement in a filter which outputs apposition and ambiguity estimate.

This invention relates to a disk augmentation system and method for situating a retainer comprising artificial supports posterior to or exterior of a spinal column and a spinal column axis. The system and method provides an external retainer having supports for receiving at least one artificial compression body and securing at least one artificial compression body in a supported relationship to facilitate reducing load on the one or more natural disks of a patient.

An expected wait time augmentation system generates an expected wait value representing a time duration expected to elapse before a subject client is connected to a resource for servicing. The expected wait time augmentation system comprises an interface to a work force management system for obtaining resource availability data and a wait time augmentation model for calculating an expected wait time value as a function of base expected wait time data and the resource availably data. The estimated wait time value is provided to the subject client. The resource availability data includes, but is not limited to, for a period of time: i) availability of resources; and ii) a scheduled change in the availability of resources. The scheduled change in the availability of resources may comprise a combination of data representing an effective time and a quantity of resources scheduled to be available at the effective time.

The invention provides an integrated navigation method and equipment based on multisource information fusion. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining multisource navigation information, namely obtaining navigation related information from one or more of a global satellite navigation system GNSS, an inertial navigation system INS, a multimode region difference augmentation system MLDAS, a pressure altimeter and timekeeping equipment, which are arranged on an aircraft; performing fusion treatment on multisource information by using a federal wave filter, wherein the federal wave filter comprises a main wave filter and a plurality of local wave filters connected with the main wave filter, and each kind of the multisource navigation information and a reference signal are jointly input to one local wave filter; triggering the local wave filters to respectively calculate local estimation values and error covariance matrixes; triggering the main wave filter to perform wave filtering on the reference signal, and performing optimal infusion on the wave filtering results of the reference signal according to output results of the local wave filters and the local wave filters, so as to obtain a global optimum estimation value. Therefore, the availability and the integrity of on-board navigation equipment are improved.

A dual air cavity roof has a continuous upper cavity which is cooled by fans, while the lower cavity is generally sealed. Preferably the cavities are separated by a radiant barrier. The fans are preferably powered by one or more photovoltaic cells that are also disposed on the roof. The roof can be pre-cooled with cooler night air and fans only activated when necessary to remove heat from the solar load on the upper cavity. When it is desirable to remove heat, the fan speed is optimized in each zone of the roof to enhance the natural convective flow to the optimum level. A radiant barrier can also cover the roof substrate, which is optionally an existing roof that is in need of repair. The roof structure is preferably assembled in parallel modules using insulating support brackets that support the outer surface and the barrier that separates the upper and lower cavity.

Methods and apparatuses for mobile device location via a network based local area augmentation system. In one embodiment a plurality of base stations each has a known location. Each base station includes a positioning receiver to generate base station location information and a link to a network to transmit the base station location information. A correction information calculation module is coupled to the network to receive base station location information from each of the base stations via the network. The correction information calculation module calculates correction information as a function of the base station location information and the known location for all of the base stations.

A system and method for generating lift provided by a multi-element aircraft wing are provided. The system includes a main wing element, a slat interconnected to the main wing element, and a flap interconnected to the main wing element. The system also includes at least one port defined in at least one of the slat, main wing element, and flap. In addition, the system includes at least one fluidic device operable to regulate fluid flow into and out of the at least one port to control boundary layer flow over at least one of the slat, main wing element, and flap.

A metadata augmentation system trains individual classifiers associated with digital objects, such as digital videos. Textual features of the classifiers determined to be significant from the weights of the classifier are chosen to be added to the video as metadata.

The invention relates to a positioning method for a satellite navigation enhancing system comprising such procedures as, a user station receives info from an adjacent reference station, and determines the mutually-visual satellite of the user station and the adjacent reference station, and calibrates the pseudo distance from a satellite to the user station in a time period; a reference station adjacent to the user station is used to carry out positioning resolution of the calculated pseudo distance from a plurality of satellites to the user station, so as to get the 3D coordinates of the differential positioning of the user station; the positioning result of the user is enhanced by using the final distributed area got by weighted average calculation of 3D coordinates of differential positioning of the user station and all adjacent reference stations. The invention enhances the positioning accuracy for a user by using the enhancing info from a plurality of local areas in a foundation enhancement covered area in respect to the shortcoming that the positioning accuracy is greatly reduced when the user is far from the ground station and a big difference exists between the delay error of the ground station and that of the ionized stratum and the troposphere of the user.

Systems and methods are provided for simulating a target platform. An incoming radar signal is transmitted from a radar source and is received at a first platform. Time of the received radar signal is modulated to generate first and second range extent signals. The first range extent signal is vector modulated, and the second range extent signal is divided into a plurality of divided second range extent signals. A first of the plurality of divided second range extent signals is phase modulated. A second of the plurality of divided second range extent signals is amplitude modulated. The modulated signals are transmitted from the first platform.

A method of processing global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data includes identifying one or more GNSS satellites servicing a predefined area, receiving at least one of GNSS almanac data or space-based augmentation system (SBAS) data for the satellites servicing the predefined area, determining the performance of the GNSS satellites servicing the predefined area using the almanac data or SBAS data, and applying a performance rating to the predefined area based on the performance of the GNSS satellites.

The present invention relates to a solar panel condenser apparatus that includes an optical condenser and a photovoltaic cell. The optical condenser may be two or more stages of Fresnel lenses. The optical condenser may also include one or more optical devices to separate sunlight into frequency bands so that light of different frequency bands falls on photovoltaic cells appropriate to the frequency band.

Mechanisms and techniques provide a system to evaluate operational integrity of a data processing system such as an area augmentation system by obtaining at least one set of distribution data related to information processed by the data processing system. The set(s) of distribution data can include corrections information and integrity bounds information related to the corrections information. The system applies a moment generating function to the set of distribution data to produce a moment bounded distribution data result and compares the moment bounded distribution data result to an integrity limit to determine if the data processing system operates within an acceptable integrity threshold. The system can be used in real-time or non-real time with sets of distribution data that are non-Gaussian, non-symmetric and/or non-unimodal.

An air bypass system for a gas turbine inlet filter house having a power augmentation system. The air bypass system may include a duct positioned on the inlet filter house about the power augmentation system and a damper positioned within the duct so as to open and close the duct.

The microturbine engine that is typically utilized to power an electrical generating system and/or boiler, chiller and the like includes a second boiler and a by-pass system for providing heated water at two different levels or where one of the boilers provides steam. The turbine exhaust is utilized as the heat transport medium and is directly connected to one of the boilers while the other is connected to the recuperator. The system can optionally provide cooling to the electrical and electronic components of the system by providing a water circuit for leading water into the electric and electronic components prior to feeding the boilers. The system is designed to assure that the delta heat difference between the medium being heated and the waste heat of the turbine is sufficient so that the heat exchange will be done efficiently.

The invention discloses a data quality monitoring method for a local enhancing system, which mainly solves the problem that the satellite orbit position calculation accuracy by the traditional data quality monitoring method is relatively low. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, checking the data integrity and validity of a received broadcast ephemeris to acquire a group of accurate and valid ephemeris data; secondly, checking the consistency of the group of ephemeris data; thirdly, carrying out real-time precision ephemeris detection, new and old ephemeris detection and ephemeris-almanac detection on the broadcast ephemeris data with uniformity respectively; and finally, according to the data availability detection result, generating an available matrix and an available broadcast ephemeris group of the broadcast ephemeris. The method has the advantages of high satellite orbit position calculation accuracy and low ephemeris fault error detection probability and can effectively solve the problem of man-made interference on the broadcast ephemeris and almanac of a satellite navigation system.

A sound augmentation system for a drum comprises a wave generator for producing an electrical signal corresponding to a predetermined sound, an amplifier for amplifying the electrical signal to produce an amplified electrical signal, and a driver for translating the amplified electrical signal to a plurality of sound waves. The wave generator, amplifier and driver are mounted to a support structure configured to fit within a body of the drum. In operation, a strike of the head of the drum produces amplified sound waves that emanate from the body of the drum. Various embodiments of the sound augmentation system and associated method are provided.

The invention provides an aircraft aero-servo-elasticity (ASE) ground simulating test system which is applied to an aircraft capable of generating the ASE stability loss problem. The whole system comprises a test object aircraft (comprising a control and stability augmentation system), and a motion signal sensor, a central control computer, an aircraft pneumatic force number calculating model, a pneumatic force simulating loading device and the like which are arranged on the aircraft structure. The system carries out real-time measurement and processing on a motion signal of the aircraft, calculates the normal-stationary pneumatic force of the aircraft through a special algorithm on the basis of relevant theory, and realizes the pneumatic force simulating loading through a vibrator. The system is connected with the test aircraft to evaluate the ASE of the aircraft, and can be used for the improvement design of the control and stability augmentation system of the original aircraft and the verification research of the advanced control method.

The invention discloses an area enhanced precision positioning service method suitable for large-scale users. According to the technical scheme, the method includes the steps that after the users effectively fix wide-lane ambiguity and L1 ambiguity of at least four satellites in a zero difference network RTK processing mode, area enhanced information of surrounding base stations does not need to be acquired, at this moment ambiguity fixed results and zenith troposphere delay residual errors acquired by interpolation are used as known truth values, received satellite UPD information is combined, and an ambiguity fixed solution in a PP-RTK mode can be immediately acquired without initialization. Due to the fact that satellite UPD, real-time satellite orbits and real-time satellite clock errors are only related to the satellites, and short-term forecast lasting tens of seconds to a few minutes can be conducted, the information can be broadcasted to the users through the communication satellites in a broadcast mode, and then real-time data communication burdens among the users and the base stations can be greatly reduced. Once user ambiguity is firstly fixed, the number of the users simultaneously serviced by an area enhanced system is no longer restricted at this moment.