774 results about "Building unit" patented technology

Construction systems for erecting building structures comprise a plurality of prefabricated interconnectable modular building units, each unit not meeting at least one of the ISO certification criteria for transport of cargo but each unit comprising a frame shaped as a rectangular parallelopiped and comprised of framing members and a plurality of nodes, each node situated at a corner of said frame for selective interconnection with other units, the nodes and the exterior dimensions of the frame conforming to ISO shipping standards such that each unit is transportable using the ISO intermodal transportation system, and such that when the units are aggregated horizontally and vertically and adjacent units are interconnected, a building structure comprising at least one habitable space is formed. The modular units are assembled in a factory remote from the job site, and are there constructed to a semi-finished state, including installation of one or more of interior fit-out systems and finishes, exterior envelope systems, plumbing systems, electrical systems, environmental systems, and fire protection systems, following which the semi-finished modular units are transported from the factory to the job site, where they are craned into place and secured to form the structure being erected, a plurality of adjacent pairs of semi-finished modular units also being “stitched” together, and the semi-finished modular units are thereafter constructed to a finished state.

A behavior controlling apparatus by which the mobility area of a robot apparatus may be controlled in a simplified manner using plural landmarks. A landmark recognition unit 410 uniquely recognizes the landmarks to acquire the landmark position information rPo(x,y,z). A landmark map building unit 420 integrates the totality of the landmark position information rPo(x,y,z) sent by the landmark recognition unit 410 to build a landmark map which has integrated the geometric topology of the landmarks. Using the landmark map information rPoxN, a mobility area recognition unit 430 builds a mobility area map representing a mobility area for the robot. Using the mobility area map, sent from the mobility area recognition unit 430, a behavior controller 440 controls the autonomous behavior of the robot apparatus 1 so that the robot apparatus 1 will not come out of or into the mobility area.

There is provided an image processing device including: a data storage unit storing feature data indicating a feature of appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space and the feature data, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space; a control unit for acquiring procedure data for a set of procedures of operation to be performed in the real space, the procedure data defining a correspondence between a direction for each procedure and position information designating a position at which the direction is to be displayed; and a superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing the direction for each procedure at a position in the input image determined based on the environment map and the position information, using the procedure data.

Plural items of two-dimensional image processing and at least one item of a three-dimensional measurement process are registered in a processing item table. The items of two-dimensional image processing include at least one item of an on-first-image position specification process of specifying a position on a physical object in a first image. A sequence building unit combines the item of the on-first-image position specification process and the item of the three-dimensional measurement process to set the sequence for three-dimensional measurement by selection of a user.

An irregular, tessellated building unit comprises x primary elements, wherein x is an integer equal to or greater than 1. The primary element is a rotational tessellation having a plural pairs of sides extending in a generally radial direction from plural vertices, respectively. In each pair, the two sides are rotationally spaced by an angle that is divided evenly into 360 degrees. Preferably, all of the sides are irregularly shaped. In one preferred embodiment all six sides are irregularly shaped, images of each other and comprise mid-point rotations. As a result, any side of any unit can mate with any other side of any other unit. Optionally, spacers are provided on the sides of each unit. A wide variety of units may be constructed having different numbers and arrangements of primary elements. As all the units are combinations of primary elements, they readily mate with each other. A surface covering comprises a multiplicity of units assembled to form a continuous surface without overlap between units and without substantial gaps between units. A structure, such as a wall or column can be formed of building units of the invention. Because of the irregular side configurations, and different sizes and shapes of individual units, the resulting surface or structure has a natural, non-repeating pattern appearance. Optionally, minor surface and edges variations are made from unit to unit to further enhance the natural appearance of the surface covering or structure.

Novel backbone cyclized peptide analogs are formed by means of bridging groups attached via the alpha nitrogens of amino acid derivatives to provide novel non-peptidic linkages. Novel building units disclosed are N^α(ω-functionalized) amino acids constructed to include a spacer and a terminal functional group. One or more of these N^α(ω-functionalized) amino acids are incorporated into a peptide sequence, preferably during solid phase peptide synthesis. The reactive terminal functional groups are protected by specific protecting groups that can be selectively removed to effect either backbone-to-backbone or backbone-to-side chain cyclizations. The invention is specifically exemplified by backbone cyclized bradykinin antagonists having biological activity. Further embodiments of the invention are somatostatin analogs having one or two ring structures involving backbone cyclization.

A mobile electron device is used for positioning and map building in an unknown environment. The mobile electron device comprises: a first sensor, a second sensor, a feature point extraction unit, a matching unit, and a positioning and map building unit, wherein the first sensor is used for acquiring a first image of the current scene with the current position and orientation; the second sensor is used for acquiring a second image of the current scene with the current position and orientation; the feature point extraction unit is used for extracting feature points of the first image and feature points of the second image by utilization of a feature extraction algorithm; the matching unit is used for matching the feature points of the current scene and feature points of a previous scene, and acquiring a transformation matrix from the previous scene to the current scene; and the positioning and map building unit is used for, based on the transformation matrix and the matched feature points, determining changes on position and orientation of the mobile electron device relative to the previous position and orientation so as to perform positioning, and is also used for combining the images of the current scene with a known map.

The invention relates to a fusion platform and a fusion method of heterogeneous multi-source data. The fusion platform includes a data collection unit, a data storage unit, a data standardization unit, a user portrait building unit, a knowledge graph building unit and a visualization unit. The data collection unit is used to collect the heterogeneous multi-source data. The data storage unit is used to cache the heterogeneous multi-source data. The data standardization unit carries out lexical, grammatical and/or semantic analysis on the heterogeneous multi-source data to obtain standardized text data. The user portrait building unit utilizes student tags, which are obtained by quantification, to build user portraits of students. The knowledge graph building unit builds knowledge graphs ofthe students, knowledge graphs of teachers and knowledge graphs of courses, and associates the knowledge graphs of the courses, the knowledge graphs of the students and the knowledge graphs of the teachers to obtain course links, social relationships and teacher-student relationships taking the students as centers. The visualization unit shows the course links, the social relationships and the teacher-student relationships taking the students as the centers.

The invention relates to a shear wall structure building based on a cross-hole prefabricated reinforced concrete template and a construction method thereof, belonging to the technical field of buildings and construction thereof. In the building, a wall template, an L-shaped column template, a T-shaped column template, a rectangular column template, a cruciform column template, a coupling beam template and a superstructure template which are free of removal are mutually connected to form a polyhedral space template system; all templates are the cross-hole prefabricated reinforced concrete templates; a longitudinal through hole and a lateral through hole, which are parallel to the surface, are arranged in the templates to form hollow hole paths in all directions; reinforcing steel bars and filling concrete are alternately inserted in the hollow hole paths to form a one-layer building unit or a single-layer building with the cast-in-place concrete shear wall structure; and multiple-layer building units are lapped and combined to form the multiple-layer building with the cast-in-place concrete shear wall structure. The shear wall structure building disclosed by the invention has the advantages of simpleness of processing, low production equipment investment, reduced construction working procedures, quickened construction speed, labor saving and the like.

The invention discloses a smile face recognition device for a human face image, and the device comprises an image recognition and extraction unit which is used for detecting the positions of human faces in a plurality of to-be-recognized human face images, extracting the human face images from the plurality of to-be-recognized human face images, and transmitting the human face images to an image preprocessing unit; the image preprocessing unit which is connected with the image recognition and extraction unit; a network building unit which is used for building a convolution neural network; a network training unit which is connected with the network building unit and the image preprocessing unit; and a recognition and judgment unit which is connected with the network training unit and the image preprocessing unit, and is used for the recognition of human faces. In addition, the invention also discloses a smile face recognition method for the human face image. According to the invention, the device and method can quickly and effectively carry out the accurate recognition and judgment of smile faces in a large number of human face images while guaranteeing the high-quality smile face recognition of the human face images, meet the requirements of a user for a function of smile face recognition, improves the work efficiency of the user, and saves the precious time for the user.

A modular building system in which individual cuboid modules are assembled at a manufacturing facility, optimized for transportation, and transported to a building site by conventional delivery systems. On site, the modules may be modularly assembled into multi-modular buildings. Buildings may be assembled by attaching together a plurality of the structurally self-supporting modules. The modules may be attached horizontally adjacent or vertically adjacent one another using a variety of specialized, interchangeable adaptors. The modules may also be offset horizontally, vertically or perpendicularly to one another.

A scalable method and system are provided for connecting, tracking and facilitating warranties, recalls, maintenance, repair and upgrade/replacement and purchase of new products within a community of large-scale, homogeneous building inventories (LSHBI) or units over a communications network. The method includes providing a database of electronic data at a computer site. The data includes building product data that uniquely identifies building products common to and contained within each housing unit in a community of subscribing building units. The electronic data also includes service provider data that identifies service providers for the building products and warranty data that identifies warranties and warranty dates for at least one of the building products and services provided by the service providers. The method further includes analyzing the electronic data to determine whether an action to facilitate the maintenance, repair or replacement of at least one building product is to be performed.

The invention provides a method of building a building having a plurality of levels using. The building includes a plurality of building unit assemblies (2) wherein each building unit assembly is structurally self supporting and has at least one sidewall (4), a floor (8) and a roof (10), the method including the steps of: lifting the building unit assemblies (2) into position in the building so that each level of the building includes a predetermined number of units (2); connecting adjacent units (2) to one another in each level; and connecting units (2) in one level to corresponding units in at least one adjacent level that is vertically above or below the one level. In one form the building unit assembly (2) includes a building unit including two sidewalls (4) and (6) floor (8) and roof (10) with structural frame segments (16, 18, 20, 22) attached thereto.

Methods and apparatus facilitate the construction of a building using prefabricated building units, each having a horizontal upper exterior surface and a plurality of vertical wall surfaces, wherein at least some of the prefabricated building units have at least one hollow column formwork structure. The prefabricated building units are lowered onto a pre-existing base at a construction site. A first story of the building is created by arranging a plurality of the prefabricated building units adjacent to each other on the base. Structural bearing material is applied to fill the hollow column formwork structures to create structural columns connected to the structural deck. Structural bearing material is applied to the horizontal upper exterior surfaces of the adjacent prefabricated building units to create a single structural deck over the prefabricated building units.

A structural insulated building unit is provided for constructing a building. The structural insulated building unit includes an insulating core, first and second cementitious panels, and a connecting portion. The insulating core is defined by multiple sides and opposing first and second faces. The first and second cementitious panels are coupled to the first and second faces of the insulating core. The connecting portion is provided on one of the sides of the insulating core, and aligns the structural insulated building unit with an adjacent structural insulated building unit having a complementary connecting portion when constructing a building.

A light-up accessory which includes a plurality of elementary building units and a chaining arrangement, wherein each of the elementary building units includes a supporting case; a lighting system, which is disposed in the supporting case, and includes an illuminating unit; an operating system which includes an operating member electrically connected with the lighting system and operatively connected with an electrical power supply in such a manner that when the operating member is switched on, the illuminating unit is supplied with electrical power to illuminate. The chaining arrangement which contains a plurality of chaining passageways longitudinally formed on the supporting cases of the elementary building units respectively, and includes a connecting chain adapted to connect the elementary building units by passing through the chaining passageway of each of the elementary building units.

A technique for writing analysis using the theory of discourse that categorizes text into content, operator and modifier text building units and provides for relating the categorized text building units together using coordination, subordination and binary relationships. A graphical representation of the discourse can be shown since the structural representation of discourse created by the interrelationships can be easily displayed. The analysis and graphical visualization of the writing structure of texts helps writers to analyze and compare writings.

Presented is a modular building unit that includes a top end with a top surface, a bottom end with a bottom surface; a first plate assembly embedded in the top end, and a second plate assembly embedded in the bottom end. The first plate assembly includes a first plate with a threaded hole, a plurality of anchoring rods coupled to the first plate and embedded in the top end, and a threaded rod mated with the threaded hole. One end of the threaded rod is embedded in the top end and the other end extends out of the top end. The second plate assembly includes a second plate with an unthreaded hole, and a plurality of anchoring rods coupled to the second plate and embedded in the bottom end.

A structure having an area separation wall including: a first building unit; a second building unit; and an area separation wall having only outer membranes. Preferably, the area separation wall is fire resistance rated. The outer membranes provide acoustic attenuation without adversely affecting the fire resistance of the area separation wall. The area separation wall provides improved thermal resistance. In one embodiment, the area separation wall includes: an interior support structure and at least one outer membrane on each side of the interior support structure. The outer membranes provide acoustic attenuation. Between the outer membranes is a substantially organic material barrier. The structure may also include a tying structure connecting the area separation wall to the first unit and the second unit.

The present invention provides a geopolymeric cement formed from a precursor having a relatively high alumina content (Si:Al atomic ratio of less than or equal to 1.3:1) to form an alkaline multiphase alumino-silicate material.

The precursor comprises basaltic rock in which kaolinization is at an advanced stage, preferably Interbasaltic material found in Northern Ireland.

The present invention also provides structural units for constructing a building, the structural units being manufactured using the geopolymeric cement of the invention.

The invention also provides a process for producing a geopolymeric cement comprising a precursor having a relatively high alumina content (Si:Al atomic ratio of less than or equal to 1.3:1) to form an alkaline alumino-silicate geopolymer material for manufacturing geopolymeric structural building units having compressive strengths of greater than 3 N/mm² and preferably having compressive strengths in the range of 12-25 N/mm².