67 results about "Calendar time" patented technology

A method for associating event times or time periods with digital images in a collection for determining if a digital image is of interest, includes storing a collection of digital images each having an associated capture time; comparing the associated capture time in the collection with a special event time to determine if a digital image in the collection is of interest, wherein the comparing step includes calculation of a special event time associated with a special event based on the calendar time associated with the special event and using such information to perform the comparison step; and associating digital images of interest with the special event.

A field programmable or configurable thermostat for an HVAC system is provided. The configurable thermostat allows field programmability of service contact information, including name and contact telephone number information for the installer or service person. The system reminders and service intervals may be provided based upon calendar time or run time, and may be adjusted to particular periods by the service person in the field. Soft keys whose function is described on various changing menus allow service person to navigate through the various display and information entry screens. Scrolling or selection keys are used in one embodiment to vary the information on appropriate screens. Alternate embodiments utilize touch screens, alphanumeric keypads, etc., for the entry and editing of such information.

Providing dynamic scheduling services without sharing calendar content, involving retrieving real time availability data and terms applied to calendar time cubes for an invitation to an event with one or more invited users, simultaneously synchronizing between calendars of the invited users in a meeting and event coordinating server to find a combination of common available matching time cubes while considering the terms including arrival time calculations (the common available matching time cubes defined as either “free”, “occupied”, “pending”, ane having a lower level of importance than the event currently created), setting the state of the matched time cubes as occupied at the calendar of each invited user; and rescheduling an event that was previously associated with the sequence of “occupied”, “pending” states with the lower level of importance, the already existing events being automatically subject to changes constantly and immediately.

A system and a method for operating a device that is not capable of independently maintaining a local time clock to enforce a time-based transaction policy that requires a reliable time reference. The device establishes a secure communications channel to one or more network-attached time sources and inquires of each of the network-attached time-sources as to the current time using the secure communications channel. The device receives the current time from the network-attached time-sources and uses the received current times to estimate a current calendar time and to compute a reliability index associated with the estimated current calendar time. The device uses the estimated current calendar time and reliability index to enforce the time-based transaction policy.

An apparatus for providing electric power to a portable computer is disclosed. The apparatus includes a timekeeping circuit, a voltage regulator, a set of battery cells and a controller. The timekeeping circuit includes a clock circuit and a memory for storing a calendar time that is updated based on time information generated by the clock circuit. The battery cells can supply electric power to the voltage regulator, and the voltage regulator is capable of supplying electric power to the timekeeping circuit. When the output voltage from the battery cells exceeds a first voltage threshold, the controller directs the voltage regulator to supply electric power to the timekeeping circuit. When the output voltage from the battery cells drops below the first voltage threshold, the controller directs one of the battery cells to supply electric power to the timekeeping circuit.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for scheduling appointments. Appointment requests are received via a communication service, calendar information corresponding to the proposed appointment time and day is retrieved from a calendaring system and displayed to the user without requiring the user to open the calendaring application. The appointment can be accepted, confirmed, and recorded without opening the calendaring application. Multiple appointment times and days can be proposed and accepted among several meeting attendees. Temporary blocks may be placed on proposed and accepted calendar time slots until a finalized appointment time is negotiated and accepted.

A method for generating a personalized photo calendar includes providing a mapping between each of a plurality of discrete calendar time periods, such as months, and a set of seasonal themes, such as spring, summer, autumn, and winter. An image signature is computed for each of a set of user images. Scores are computed for the user images with respect to the seasonal themes, based on their computed signatures, with a categorizer trained on training images labeled with the seasonal themes. An image from the set is selected for each of the discrete calendar time periods, based on the mapping and on the computed scores. The selected images are inserted into a calendar template. The automated selection of images can reduce the time spent by a user in selecting images for a calendar, by automatically providing a set of seasonally appropriate images for the template.

A method and system of determining a maximum oil change limit for an engine considering the engine operating environment and location is provided. An engine location indicator is generated in response to a trigger, using a locating device in communication with a controller. The locating device may include a global positioning system (GPS) receiver. The engine may be an internal combustion engine on a vehicle configured as one of a hybrid vehicle and an extended range electric vehicle. The trigger may be one of a calendar time, a key-on event, an oil change event, and a signal provided by the controller. The controller may generate the maximum oil change limit of the engine using one or more oil change indices, each defined by the engine location and/or time in location. The maximum oil change limit and/or an oil change limit alert may be provided as an output of the controller.

The invention discloses calendar time interval prompt method and device as well as a computer program product using the method. The prompt method comprises the steps: setting a time interval and a site of an event on a calendar; obtaining the first positioning information of the site; then obtaining the second positioning information of the position of a mobile device; computing travel time required by traveling the second positioning information to the first positioning information; finally setting the prompt time of the event according to the computed travel time and prompting the event whenthe prompt time is reached. Therefore, the prompt time of the event can be dynamically regulated and a travel delay caused by a long distance from the site of the event can be avoided.

The invention provides a pipeline pressure real-time monitoring device. The current signals of a pipeline pressure sensor, a flow sensor and a temperature sensor are adjusted to the voltage signals via a signal adjusting circuit. The voltage signals pass through a multi-access electronic switch and a sampling maintaining circuit and are converted by an A/D conversion circuit. A microprocessor collects the digital signals periodically as well as records and stores calendar time information, flow information and temperature information completely in an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programable Read-Only Memory) and then transmits the data in the EEPROM through level conversation and communication network by a UART (Universal Asynchronous Receier/Transmitter) module to a host computer or a remote monitoring centre in real time. The invention solves the problems that data collection of the traditional pipeline leakage monitoring system has low resolution, low reliability and poor robustness and has the characteristics of small amount of construction, low cost and convenient installation and maintenance on the premise that the precision and the real-time pressure signal collection are satisfied.

This invention relates to a real time clock calibration method in a software protection device, which utilizes the clock frequencies of an internal processor of a software protection device to be added up to approach to an approximation of the exterior time and reads the real time clock of the host to calibrate the time clock in the device when using so as to get the calendar time in the device accurately.

An embodiment of the invention discloses a device for acquiring and wirelessly transmitting air quality data in the forest environment. The device mainly comprises a CPU (central processing unit) module, an AD (analog to digital) conversion module, an RS232 serial port module, a GPRS wireless transmission module, a flash data storage module, a calendar time generation module, a temperature acquisition module and a power management module, wherein the CPU module exchanges commands and data with a forest environment air quality detection device through an RS232 serial port, on one hand, measurement data of the detection device are acquired, and on the other hand, the work state of the detection device is monitored. The temperature acquisition module is used for measuring the indoor temperature of an ecological station and is used for guaranteeing that the air quality detection device runs in an appropriate temperature environment. The AD conversion module can further be used for acquiring other environment data, adding timestamps for all acquired data and saving the data in a flash chip. Meanwhile, the GPRS module is adopted to wirelessly upload the acquired data and the working state information of the detection device to a network server, so that the means for acquiring air quality detection data of the forest environment becomes simple, convenient and reliable.

Techniques are provided herein for categorizing and classifying sleep session data. A server device receives sleep data from a sleep monitoring device. The sleep data comprises information that is indicative of sleep patterns of a user over a period of time. After receiving the sleep data, the server analyzes the information to determine a starting time instance and a stopping time instance to define a sleep session over the period of time. The server associates the starting time instance to a first calendar time instance and associates the stopping time instance to a second time instance. The server classifies the sleep session as belonging to a calendar day associated with the second calendar time instance.

The invention discloses a satellite signal acquisition and tracking method and device, and a satellite signal receiver and a readable storage medium. Because the satellite signal receiver cannot obtain prior information during cold start, obtaining real-time geographic information such as real-time calendar time is easily; after a satellite signal cluster including a plurality of satellite signalsis received, the real-time geographic information is obtained, and the real-time geographic information is input into a pre-trained discrimination model for describing the relationship between the geographic information and satellite types to obtain satellite groups which meet search criteria, and the range of satellites for comparison search is reduced; then, pseudo-codes of the satellites in the satellite groups are used for searching in the satellite signals to obtain preset number of target satellite signals; and finally, the target satellite signals are tracked and locked. Because searching in the whole satellites is not required, the acquisition and tracking signal processing time of the satellite signals is greatly reduced, so that the problem of long time-consuming cold start of the satellite signal receiver can be effectively solved.

The application discloses a method, apparatus, and system for predicting a wastage rate, so that a problem of inaccurate prediction of a wastage rate in the prior art can be solved. The recording method comprises: wastage rate data within preset time before a first time are obtained; the wastage rate data are decomposed into a registration time dimension parameter, a registration time length dimension parameter, and a calendar time dimension parameter, wherein the registration time dimension parameter expresses the influence on the wastage rate by registration time, the registration time length dimension parameter expresses the influence on the wastage rate by the registration time length, and the calendar time dimension parameter expresses the influence on the wastage rate by calendar time; and according to the registration time dimension parameter, the registration time length dimension parameter, and the calendar time dimension parameter after decomposition, a wastage rate of a second time is calculated, wherein the second time is behind the first time.

A computer sends a binary representation of a request for a meeting to end-users. The computer generates one or more lists, wherein each of the lists includes electronic calendar time slots during which at least one of the plurality of end-users is able to attend the meeting. The computer identifies at least one electronic calendar time slot having a highest frequency of occurrence on the lists generated, which comprises iterating through each of the lists and computing a frequency of occurrence of the at least one electronic calendar time slot on the lists. The computer records the frequency of occurrence. The computer queues the meeting in response to the frequency of occurrence being less than a configurable threshold value. The computer schedules the meeting in response to the frequency of occurrence being equal to or greater than the configurable threshold value.

The invention provides a method and device for estimating the health state of a power battery. The method for estimating the health state of the power battery comprises the steps that a request for estimating the health state of the power battery is received; rated cycle times and cycle measurement parameters of the power battery are obtained, wherein the cycle measurement parameters comprise battery charging data, calendar time, influence factor parameters exceeding a preset threshold value and time information corresponding to the influence factor parameters exceeding the preset threshold value; the total cycle times are calculated and obtained according to the cycle measurement parameters; the health state of the power battery is calculated and obtained by using the total cycle times and the rated cycle times of the battery. By introducing a cumulative charge metering algorithm and a quantitative forwarding algorithm, the efficiency, accuracy and operability of estimating the healthstate of the power battery are significantly improved.

The invention provides a birthday reminding system. The birthday reminding system comprises an input module, a storage module, a conversion module, a timing module and a reminding module; the input module receives lunar birthday reminding time and remarks which are input by a user; the storage module stores the lunar birthday reminding time and the remarks, wherein the remark content at least comprises a photo, and the photo is set as a desktop or lock screen when the lunar birthday reminding time arrives; the conversion module converts the lunar birthday reminding time into calendar time; the timing module conducts timing according to the converted calendar time; the reminding module conducts reminding at the preset lunar birthday reminding time. According to the birthday reminding system, the awkward problem that the birthdays of relatives and friends are forgot occasionally is solved, the user is directly reminded in the mode of setting the photo as the desktop or lock screen, and the mode is straightforward.

For many millennia's Earth has had an active and very effective process of controlling-limiting earth climate factors that have fostered the evolution of many varieties of life forms in both plants and animals. Earths two Polar ice fields have functioned as the controllers of earth's climate by cycling earth temperature in repetitive ice ages-periods followed by warming trends. Human activity, burning huge quantity of carbon fuels, has warmed the earth to the point now that the polar ice has significantly melted, and receded in area. Earth now is not capable of reverting to the prior state of stability. Now, press reports, scientific journals, and individuals, have published information supporting the prediction and observational fact that human controlled use of carbon containing fuels, are primarily responsible. Those carbon materials when burned in large quantity in machines created by humans have altered earth's climate.

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Now earth's climate is critically changed and altered. Earth is no longer capable of maintaining, let alone restoring, natural systems that permit a future stable climate as was common in pre fossil fuel use. For a continuing stable climate, human designed, substitute controls, must be constructed and be made operational for earth to have an enduring future self-regulating and stable climate. Humans have created the situation where they must act and create methods for earth to maintain a suitable natural self-regulating-system in the future. Correcting the path that Earth is proceeding toward include plant and human life extinction, has been addressed, by scholars and academics, where a variety of possible solutions that perhaps can control, stop, reverse, the path earth is now on, those writings suggest a variety of corrections. Those subjects, writings, now are, classified, labeled as GEOENGINEERING. Out of the list of possible remedies for reversing, the direction of earth's deterioration, many have included, a SUN-SHIELD somewhat like one included herein. The calendar time during which humans must act to remediate change is limited, so prompt initiation of action is required. Most of the writers on this subject generally conclude that in space orbiting structures are too expensive, so they dismiss space located structures as one to follow or recommend. This inventor takes the position that humans should not compromise when selecting a path to correct earth warming. Extinction applies to all regardless of wealth. Therefore, cost cannot be a determining factor. The invention revealed here consists of a shield formed from suitable sheet cloth materials configured to have tight weavings that block light transmission through the material. That effectively blocks a portion of daily sunlight as it falls on earth. The shading effectively reduces energy from the sun that provides all the energy supporting life on earth surface. That sunlight also provides all the energy that powers weather events. The loss of polar ice now provides extra energy to the atmosphere, water exposed at the poles absorb much more energy than the snow and ice now disappearing. Extra energy results in more violent storms on mid latitudes, where abnormal levels of destruction now increasingly appear. The placement of the sun shield in earth orbit requires global coordination, leadership, and finance to install the shield. Launching shield materials from earth with Powerful high lift rockets well known for launching and positioning satellites will apply to this work. They are necessary to connect the shield in space to its supply source on earth. Deploying the shield is a worldwide social challenge, where humans from various cultures must cooperate and support efforts to deploy and maintain the shield in its operation.