247 results about "Common object" patented technology

Apparatus comprises a processor; a user interface enabling user interaction with one or more software applications associated with the processor; first and second sensors configured to detect, and generate signals corresponding to, objects located within respective first and second sensing zones remote from the apparatus, wherein the sensors are configured such that their respective sensing zones overlap spatially to define a third, overlapping, zone in which both the first and second sensors are able to detect a common object; and a gesture recognition system for receiving signals from the sensors, the gesture recognition system being responsive to detecting an object inside the overlapping zone to control a first user interface function in accordance with signals received from both sensors.

System and method for reacting to an expected impact involving a vehicle including an anticipatory sensor system for determining that an impact involving the vehicle is about to occur prior to the impact and an impact responsive system coupled to the sensor system and actuated after its determination of the expected impact. The sensor system includes wave receivers spaced apart from one another, each receiving waves generated by, modified by, or reflected from a common object exterior of the vehicle. The impact responsive system attempts to reduce the potential harm resulting from the impact and can be a protection apparatus which protects a vehicular occupant or a pedestrian, such as one including an airbag and an inflator for inflating the airbag.

A gaming system comprises a plurality of common objects, a plurality of application objects, and a central system. The common objects are shared by a plurality of applications and include gaming devices and games. Each gaming device includes at least one of the games. The application objects are used in one of the applications. The central system is linked to the gaming devices and includes a common database and an application database. The common database defines the common objects and first associations between the common objects. The application database defines the application objects, second associations between the application objects, and third associations between the common objects and the application objects. The central system is adapted to dynamically configure the one of the applications based on a change to one or more of the first, second, and third associations.

Apparatus comprises a processor; a user interface enabling user interaction with one or more software applications associated with the processor; first and second sensors configured to detect, and generate signals corresponding to, objects located within respective first and second sensing zones remote from the apparatus, wherein the sensors are configured such that their respective sensing zones overlap spatially to define a third, overlapping, zone in which both the first and second sensors are able to detect a common object; and a gesture recognition system for receiving signals from the sensors, the gesture recognition system being responsive to detecting an object inside the overlapping zone to control a first user interface function in accordance with signals received from both sensors.

A semiconductor laser device including a laser element stack array emitting a two-dimensional array shaped group of laser beams consisting of rows of laser beams arranged linearly in parallel in a broken line configuration and optical elements arranged in front of the array, receiving rows of laser beams bent and collimated in a direction substantially perpendicular to the orientation of the broken line configuration. Laser beams are emitted from emitters or groups of emitters and are rotated by right angles so as to convert the laser beams to a plurality of rows aligned in parallel in an approximate ladder rung configuration and the distance between center axes of the rows of laser beams is shortened to condense the laser beams by converting them to a group of laser beams emitted from a common object and thereby making all laser beams converge to a single image.

A gaming system comprises a plurality of common objects, a plurality of application objects, and a central system. The common objects are shared by a plurality of applications and include gaming devices and games. Each gaming device includes at least one of the games. The application objects are used in one of the applications. The central system is linked to the gaming devices and includes a common database and an application database. The common database defines the common objects and first associations between the common objects. The application database defines the application objects, second associations between the application objects, and third associations between the common objects and the application objects. The central system is adapted to dynamically configure the one of the applications based on a change to one or more of the first, second, and third associations.

An image synthesis method includes a placement information obtaining step of obtaining placement information about a plurality of images in which adjacent images have a common subject region, and a synthesis step of combining the images using a mapping mode in accordance with the placement information. Prior to performing mapping transformation of the input images, coordinate-space transformation parameters for transforming the coordinate space of one image among the images into the coordinate space of another image are generated. The images are combined based on a given mapping mode and the coordinate-space transformation parameters.

An improved method and system for converting data structures. A definition (e.g., a management information base definition) may be read. The definition may include definition objects. A mapping of the definition objects to a second set of objects may be created. The second set of objects may be common object system (COS) objects. A structure of information to be acquired from one or more agents may be determined, in response to reading the definition. The structure of the information may be metadata. The one or more agents may be simple network management protocol agents, or other types of agents, as desired. Information may be acquired from the one or more agents, in response to determining the structure of the information. At least a subset of the second set of objects may be created, using the acquired information and the mapping. The second set of objects may be accessed.

A method for independently supporting at least two display mechanisms in a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device implementing the method includes a primary display window, a secondary display window and a display manager coupled to the primary and secondary display windows. According to the present invention, the display manager allows the primary display window to display a first set of objects and allows the secondary display window to display a second set of objects independently, whereby the first set and second set of objects include at least one common object.

A control system methodology uses object-oriented software to integrate multiple control systems into a common object model. Object-oriented techniques are used to construct distributed Java-based applications in a multi-vendor open system environment for use in controlling and monitoring systems of varying size and configuration. The system provides both a browser client (101) (running on a Java-enabled browser) and a server client (121). The present invention has multiple stations: a Web BAS Server (110), a Network Processor (NP) (111), and a Field Controller (FC) (112). The NP and FC are preferably Java Virtual Machines implemented in a plug-in Java Modular Environment. Information is brought into a common object model and made available throughout the system. A custom programming language based on Java is provided for object creation, with access to objects controlled through a multi-level security protocol. Data flow is governed by a real-time information synchronization manager.

A capsule endoscope capable of implementing stereoscopic photography, with which protruding / recessed states are easily recognized, for a nearby subject. The capsule endoscope includes imaging devices for respectively imaging a common subject, a driving / sampling section which drives the imaging devices, focusing optical systems which correspond one-to-one with the imaging devices and focus subject images onto imaging regions of the corresponding imaging devices, and a control section which controls imaging operations of the imaging devices with the driving / sampling section. At least one of the focusing optical systems is inclined such that an optical axis direction thereof is oriented forward in a direction of imaging by the plurality of imaging devices and toward a perpendicular direction that passes through a central point between the imaging regions of the plurality of imaging devices.

According to at least one embodiment, a data storage system is provided. The data storage system includes memory, at least one processor in data communication with the memory, and a deduplication director component executable by the at least one processor. The deduplication director component is configured to receive data for storage on the data storage system, analyze the data to determine whether the data is suitable for at least one of summary-based deduplication, content-based deduplication, and no deduplication, and store, in a common object store, at least one of the data and a reference to duplicate data stored in the common object store.

An image synthesis method includes a placement information obtaining step of obtaining placement information about a plurality of images in which adjacent images have a common subject region, and a synthesis step of combining the images using a mapping mode in accordance with the placement information. Prior to performing mapping transformation of the input images, coordinate-space transformation parameters for transforming the coordinate space of one image among the images into the coordinate space of another image are generated. The images are combined based on a given mapping mode and the coordinate-space transformation parameters.

The invention discloses a cross-platform virtual computing resource management method based on cloud computing environment. The cross-platform virtual computing resource management method can perform unified management on virtual resources under different virtual platforms and is composed of a uniform interface, a common object model and a computing resource adapter. The uniform interface defines a universal method for operating virtual computing resources, and the common object model defines a uniform object model of the virtual computing resources. The computing resource adapter performs adaption aiming at the different virtual platforms, and therefore the virtual computing resources of the different virtual platforms of a data center can be managed conveniently.

When a driving assistance system of a navigation device in a subject vehicle is able to communicate with a cooperative remote driving assistance system in an oncoming vehicle, images are obtained from individual front monitor cameras of the subject vehicle and the oncoming vehicle. These obtained images are exchanged. From within these images, common objects are recognized to thereby compute a positional relationship between the subject vehicle and the oncoming vehicle. The computed positional relationship is then shown in a display unit by a vehicular model using an outline of a top view of a vehicle. Consequently, a driver can intuitively recognize the positional relationship between the subject vehicle and the oncoming vehicle by seeing the display unit.

Enterprise management information in a first format for use by a first computerized system is transformed into an intermediate format to readily make the stored enterprise management information available for use in a second computerized system that utilizes a second format. The transformation includes a plurality of common data type elements that are adapted to be shared across a plurality of data objects in the intermediate format.

The invention relates to a model and modeling method of the multi-dimensional data integration of heterogeneous databases of an electric power information system. The modeling method comprises the following steps of: (a) establishing a basic container hierarchical structure, predefining a template for each container, i.e. standardizing the problem of loading objects during the actualization of the containers according to the type of the containers, classifying the abstract containers into a plurality of types, and modeling by utilizing the container templates and the hierarchical relational structure thereof; (b) establishing a uniform and standardized common naming method for managing heterogeneous object models of the electric power information system so that a private object of each data source can be reduced to a same common object; (c) loading the common object to private object mapping relationship, establishing common object information, private object information of the heterogeneous databases and the mapping relationship of the common object information and the private object information of the heterogeneous databases through XML (Extensive Makeup Language) description files which are derived by the data sources and contain common names, and loading the objects and the mapping relationship thereof into a hierarchical container model established in the step (a). The invention reduces the complexity and the cost of the data integration without secondary development and maintenance.

The invention provides an intelligent blind guiding glass system and a blind guiding method thereof. The intelligent blind guiding glass system comprises an image collecting module, a voice processing module, a 4G communication module, a central control module and a cloud server. The image collecting module collects an image of the surrounding of a user and uploads the obtained image to the central control module, the voice processing module is connected with the central control module, and the 4G communication module establishes real-time intercommunication between the glass end and the cloud server responsible for recognizing and distance measuring and achieves the voice communication function; the central control module carries out recognition and distance measurement on common objects through image template matching and a disparity map, and if recognition cannot be carried out, the result is sent to the cloud server through the 4G communication module, and the cloud server builds an image analysis system by establishing a software platform on the cloud server; an image learning database is established through a deep learning neural network, and the information of the distance and the class of a barrier is obtained from the uploaded image and fed back to the central control module. In this way, the problems that existing intelligent blind guiding glasses are single in function and low in intelligent level can be solved. The intelligent blind guiding glass system and the blind guiding method belong to the field of intelligent blind guiding.

The present invention discloses 3D ink and wash effect rendering method based on graphic processor. Graphic processor is utilized to provide programmable streamline for classifying common objects in Chinese landscape painting. The ink and wash effect rendering method for multipeaked mountain, cloud sea, waterfall and trees is proposed to realize the motion of dynamic objects, such as cloud sea and waterfall, in scene and the treatment of the boundary between dynamic object and static object. The method of the present invention maintains the ink and wash style characteristic of the said objects in 3D environment effectively, expresses the motion of dynamic objects and reaches real-time rendering effect.

The invention relates to a blind-guidance robot based on machine vision. The robot provided by the invention comprises a vehicle body, wherein a base is arranged below the vehicle body; a CCD (charge-coupled device) camera head is mounted at the head part of the vehicle body; a guide stick is mounted at the tail part of the vehicle body; a central processing module, an information sensing module, a voice module and a power supply module are arranged in the vehicle body; and a motion control module and an electrical transmission device are arranged in the crawler type base. The blind-guidance robot firstly uses the CCD camera head for collecting an image, then the image is processed by the central processing module arranged in the vehicle body, common objects such as traffic lights, blind-guidance lines, obstacles and the like on roads can be identified through the image processing and identifying method, then the blind-guidance robot can notify an operator of the result though the voice module, and the operator can control the blind-guidance robot through the decision-making method and the arbitration. The blind-guidance robot can automatically identify blind-guidance roads on sidewalks, feed back different road condition information in real time and guide the direction.

Group information is assigned for each communication object and communication data is transmitted by adding the group identifier, thereby realizing a communication control in accordance with the communication object. That is. when a communication device performing radio communication by constituting an ad-hoc network with a plurality of devices communicates with a destination device via at least one of the devices constituting the ad-hoc network, the communication device acquires group information assigned to the communication group having the common object with this communication, references a communication control data table containing communication control information for each of the group information so as to acquire the communication control information corresponding to the group information, adds the group information to the communication information to be transmitted to the destination device so as to generate communication data, identifies a device which relays the communication according to the communication control information, and transmits the communication data to this relay device.

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for exchanging process model data between process authoring tools in a process management system. A set of information requirements for exchanging the process model data between process authoring tools using different process model exchange formats within the process management system is identified. A definition of a common process model exchange format is extended to include a set of common objects using the set of information requirements to form a common process model exchange format. The set of common objects are supported between a source process authoring tool and a target process authoring tool in the process authoring tools. An output file is generated using the common process model exchange format. The common process model exchange format is compatible with a process model exchange format used by the target process authoring tool.

The invention provides a CORBA (Common Object Request Breaker Architecture) based OSGI (Open Service Gateway Initiative) distributed extendible system. The system comprises an OSGI inner kernel, a service register center running on the inner kernel, a CORBA distributed support module, a CORBA name service module, a service provider module and a consumer module, wherein the service provider moduleregisters service of the module for remote access in the service register center; the CORBA distributed support module monitors registration of the service which is accessed remotely in the service register center, generates a corresponding server agency for the service, and provides CORBA-based remote service calling for the local OSGI inner kernel; the consumer module searches remote service onother nodes; the CORBA name service module provides information related to the node of the remote service; and the CORBA distributed support module generates a client agency according to the information, and realizes use of the remote service by the client agency.

When a driving assistance system of a navigation device in a subject vehicle is able to communicate with a cooperative remote driving assistance system in an oncoming vehicle, images are obtained from individual front monitor cameras of the subject vehicle and the oncoming vehicle. These obtained images are exchanged. From within these images, common objects are recognized to thereby compute a positional relationship between the subject vehicle and the oncoming vehicle. The computed positional relationship is then shown in a display unit by a vehicular model using an outline of a top view of a vehicle. Consequently, a driver can intuitively recognize the positional relationship between the subject vehicle and the oncoming vehicle by seeing the display unit.

A non-contact method and apparatus for inspecting an object. At least one first image of the object on which an optical pattern is projected, taken from a first perspective is obtained. At least one second image of the object on which an optical pattern is projected, taken from a second perspective that is different to the first perspective is obtained. At least one common object feature in each of the at least one first and second images is then determined on the basis of an irregularity in the optical pattern as imaged in the at least one first and second images.

The invention discloses a JACA remote invocation method in a CORBA (Common Object Request Breaker Architecture) system. The method comprises the steps of: receiving an invocation request of a user, restructuring the invocation request through JACA dynamic proxy and interception, converting the invocation request into a CORBA service-oriented request, and realizing remote invocation by invocating a similar standard CORBA core through a pre-packaged CORBA interface. When a user carries out remote JAVA invocation, the invention ensures that the user does not need to pay attention to a specific invocation implementation process or implement a specific CORBA interface, thereby greatly reducing the work load on the prophase development and later-stage maintenance of the JAVA remote invocation which can be implemented easily.

An iron and steel enterprise information integration platform based on a common information model (CIM) model belongs to the field of information system integration and comprises a heterogeneous system discrete data integration layer, a common object model layer, an enterprise application data service layer and an application layer. The heterogeneous system discrete data integration layer designs corresponding collectors according to different data types and communication methods, discretizes complicated data types in various data sources into data labels, achieves uniformed data organization, storage and expression in a labeling mode, and achieves fusion of heterogeneous data. The common object model layer establishes iron and steel process common object information models. The enterprise application data service layer provides a data communication interface based on the models based on the CIM model. The application layer achieves functions of all application modules based on the CIM module through invoking enterprise application data service layer interfaces. The iron and steel enterprise information integration platform based on CIM model has the advantages of achieving integration and modeling organization of iron and steel enterprise discrete information and providing an integral information integration method for enterprises.

The invention discloses an underactuation human-simulation dexterous hand driven and controlled through a micro-motor. The underactuation human-simulation dexterous hand comprises a palm and five fingers, namely the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger and the little finger. The boundary dimension proportion of the underactuation human-simulation dexterous hand refers to a hand of a Chinese woman. The five fingers are independent of one another. The underactuation human-simulation dexterous hand has six driving freedom degrees, namely the freedom degree of rolling of a base joint of the thumb and the freedom degree of pitching of a middle joint of the thumb and the freedom degrees of pitching of base joints of other four fingers, in all. According to the relative angle, about 10-30 degrees, between a middle finger segment and a remote finger segment of a human hand when a frequently-used object is grabbed, the relative angle between a middle finger segment and aremote finger segment of the dexterous hand is fixed, and the design of a remote joint driven mechanism is simplified. The dexterous hand is small and exquisite in appearance and compact and simple instructure and has more than ten types of different grabbing gestures, and the effective and precise grabbing task can be finished.

Shared data management in software-as-a-service platform may provide a common object data schema for one or more data objects and one or more data attributes associated with said one or more data objects stored in a master database. A plurality of applications may be enabled to be deployed dynamically on a platform and interoperate by sharing said data values stored in the master database. Data trading is enabled in which applications request permissions to read from or write to, or both, the master database, and in which the requests are mediated by granting or denying permissions.