193 results about "Common space" patented technology

According to the present invention, a vehicle connector lockout apparatus capable of being connected to the diagnostic port of a vehicle is provided. The preferred embodiment of the invention uses a raised protrusion, located in the common space below the two rows of pin spacing of the diagnostic port, as a locking point. The preferred embodiment provides a blocking mating connector with a pressure mechanism for clamping the mating connector to the protrusion. In the preferred embodiment the pressure mechanism is activated and released mechanically by operation of a key in a key lock which is an integral part of the mating connector, where rotation of the key to the locked position in the key lock applies pressure to the protrusion so as to clamp the blocking mating connector to the protrusion. A further embodiment of the invention provides a non-volatile microchip memory component to store information about the vehicle operator usable by medical personnel at the scene of a crash.

A portable multispectral data acquisition system for use on a vehicle such as an aircraft comprises a plurality of gyroscope-stabilized remote sensing devices synchronized to simultaneously capture images of a common spatial area in both visible and invisible bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, a computer and digital recorder to record and correlate the captured images with temporospatial reference information, image processing software to stack or layer the images and to extract and compare the images in order to identify and filter hidden or subsurface anomalies that are invisible to the naked eye, and additional image processing software to orthorectify the images to a three-dimensional digital terrain map and to stitch adjacent images together into a mosaic. Methods for using the portable multispectral data acquisition system are also provided.

A system and method for producing a binaural and localized audio signal to a user is provided. A signal processing method is provided for delivering spatialized sound in various ways using highly optimized inverse filters to deliver narrow localized beams of sound from the included speaker array. The inventive method can be used to provide private listening areas in a public space and provide spatialization of source material for a single user to create a virtual surround sound effect. In a binaural mode, a speaker array provides two targeted beams aimed towards the primary user's ears—one discrete beam for the left ear and one discrete beam for the right ear. In a privacy mode, a privacy zone could be created in which a primary audio beam would deliver a signal of interest to the user while secondary beams would be aimed at different angles to provide a masking noise.

A system and method for controlling avoiding collisions in a workcell containing multiple robots is provided. The system includes a sequence of instructions residing on a controller for execution thereon to perform an interference check automatic zone method. The interference check automatic zone method includes the steps of: determining a first portion of a common space that is occupied during a movement of a first robot along a first programmed path; determining a second portion of the common space that is occupied during a movement of a second robot along a second programmed path; comparing the first portion and the second portion to determine if an overlap exists therebetween; and moving the first robot and the second robot in response to whether or not the overlap exists.

In a gas turbine power generation system having a gas turbine engine and a generator connected to the engine, maintenance ease is enhanced by forming the housing to have openable maintenance faces at two of its faces. Installation space is reduced and a compact configuration is achieved by providing a partition that divides the interior space of the housing into two regions into an upper bay and a lower bay, mounting the engine in the upper bay and mounting air intake duct in the lower bay at a location directly under the engine. Noise is reduced by using a partition to define two separate spaces (bays) and mounting the engine and the air intake duct in the upper and lower bays. Noise is also reduced by preventing engine rotation noise from escaping to the outside through the air intake duct. Moreover, it achieves a reduction in the amount of dedicated space required by constituting the air intake duct of a duct section having an air inlet at a plane coincident with that of the maintenance opening and a filter-housing section for removably housing an air filter, thereby enabling a common space to be utilized for that required in front of the maintenance opening and the air inlet.

Methods and systems for aligning images for a specimen acquired with different modalities are provided. One method includes acquiring information for a specimen that includes at least first and second images for the specimen. The first image is acquired with a first modality different than a second modality used to acquire the second image. The method also includes inputting the information into a learning based model. The learning based model is included in one or more components executed by one or more computer systems. The learning based model is configured for transforming one or more of the at least first and second images to thereby render the at least the first and second images into a common space. In addition, the method includes aligning the at least the first and second images using results of the transforming. The method may also include generating an alignment metric using a classifier.

A specialized graphical user interface for use with interactive large-format display systems provides for intuitive operation and flexible content presentation. Designed primarily for use in unattended public spaces, the interface facilitates navigation through complex multi-level content in a consistent, intuitive manner.

A system and corresponding methods for automating the execution, measurement, and optimization of in-store promotional digital media campaigns are provided. In one embodiment, a method in a computing system for deploying content to digital signage networks includes receiving from a user a marketing campaign goal and at least one optimization constraint suitable for generating a playlist. The method also includes generating a playlist designed to maximize a learning opportunity to achieve the marketing campaign goal. The method further includes provisioning the playlist to a point of presence on the digital signage network.

A method is provided of solving the dynamic super-resolution (SR) problem of reconstructing a high-quality set of monochromatic or color superresolved images from low-quality monochromatic, color, or mosaiced frames. The invention includes a joint method for simultaneous SR, deblurring, and demosaicing, this way taking into account practical color measurements encountered in video sequences. For the case of translational motion and common space-invariant blur, the proposed invention is based on a very fast and memory efficient approximation of the Kalman filter (KF). Experimental results on both simulated and real data are supplied, demonstrating the invention algorithms, and their strength.

The invention discloses a brain electric features based emotional state recognition method. The method comprises the following steps of: data acquisition stage: under the condition of international emotional picture induction, extracting 64 brain electric data which is tested under the induction of different-happiness-level pictures; data pretreatment stage: carrying out four stages of reference electric potential variation, down sampling, band-pass filtering, electro-oculogram removal on the collected 64 brain electric data; feature extraction stage: extracting time domain features after signals after pretreatment are filtered by a common space model algorithm; and feature recognition: recognizing the features by using a support vector machine classifier, and differentiating different emotional states. According to the method, an OVR (one versus rest) common space model algorithm is used for removing the interference of background signals, and is used for the signal intensification of multiple types of emotion induced brain electricity; after the background signals are removed, the differences among different types of emotional brain electricity are intensified, the recognition accurate ratio of subjects is relatively ideal when the recognition is carried out by the time domain variance features, and the emotions of different happiness can be differentiated accurately.

A system and method for controlling avoiding collisions in a workcell containing multiple robots is provided. The system includes a sequence of instructions residing on a controller for execution thereon to perform an interference check automatic zone method. The interference check automatic zone method includes the steps of: determining a first portion of a common space that is occupied during a movement of a first robot along a first programmed path; determining a second portion of the common space that is occupied during a movement of a second robot along a second programmed path; comparing the first portion and the second portion to determine if an overlap exists therebetween; and moving the first robot and the second robot in response to whether or not the overlap exists.

According to the present invention, a vehicle connector lockout apparatus capable of being connected to the diagnostic port of a vehicle is provided. The preferred embodiment of the invention uses a raised protrusion, located in the common space below the two rows of pin spacing of the diagnostic port, as a locking point. The preferred embodiment provides a blocking mating connector with a pressure mechanism for clamping the mating connector to the protrusion. In the preferred embodiment the pressure mechanism is activated and released mechanically by operation of a key in a key lock which is an integral part of the mating connector, where rotation of the key to the locked position in the key lock applies pressure to the protrusion so as to clamp the blocking mating connector to the protrusion. A further embodiment of the invention provides a non-volatile microchip memory component to store information about the vehicle operator usable by medical personnel at the scene of a crash.

A signal processing method and system are provided for delivering spatialized sound using highly optimized inverse filters to deliver narrow localized beams of sound from the included speaker array. The inventive method can be used to provide private listening areas in a public space and provide spatialization of source material for individual users to create a virtual 3D audio effect. In a binaural mode, a speaker array provides two targeted beams aimed towards the primary user's ears—one discrete beam for the left ear and one discrete beam for the right ear.

The invention provides an inverse-kinematics universal solving method of a robot with multi-degree of freedom. The common space theory is used for setting a universal kinematical equation of an nR robot, the weighted space vector projection method is used for analyzing the relationship between space vector projection values and revolute joint angles of a space robot, projection weighted values of joint vectors on robot tail end vectors are used as the basis for regulating the tail end pose of the robot, and projection weighted values of joint vectors are determined to achieve half-analytic solution of the inverse kinematics. The method achieves kinematical salvation of the nR robot and also finishes the space obstacle avoidance task. The method can be widely applied to series type space nR robots, has the advantages of being high in calculation speed and high in solving precision, provides control input parameters for series type robots, and meets the requirement for robot kinematics solving operation on industrial sites.

The invention relates to a public space positioning and navigation method based on a two-dimension code and an intelligent terminal. The public space positioning and navigation method comprises the following steps of firstly making a map of a public space; respectively arranging two-dimension code identifiers in the public space; arranging two-dimension code position numbers at the corresponding positions of the map; installing the map in the intelligent terminal; scanning the two-dimension code identifier closest to one position in the public space as a destination by virtue of the intelligent terminal, and saving the two-dimension code identifier in the intelligent terminal; after moving to another position, scanning the two-dimension code identifier closest to the current position as a starting point; and counting to obtain a navigation route from the starting point to the destination, and displaying the navigation route. According to the public space positioning and navigation method, the positioning and navigation of the public space are realized by virtue of the two-dimension code and the intelligent terminal, and a user can be assisted to carry out quick positioning, navigation, vehicle searching and the like in a complex public space range; meanwhile, the public space positioning and navigation method is convenient for the user to use, has the characteristics of convenience in use and maintain, simplicity and easiness in implementation and good feasibility and can bring good economic and social benefits.

The invention discloses a method and a system for antagonistic cross-modal retrieval based on dictionary learning. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining the bottom characteristics of image data and text data, and respectively constructing a training set and a test set of the image and text based on the bottom characteristics; Construct dictionary learning model, train based on imageand text training set, construct new training set and test set according to the obtained image dictionary and text dictionary; Projecting a training set of the new image and text onto a common representation space; According to the image and text feature data in the common representation space, the feature preserver is learned, that is, feature discrimination, triple sorting and learning modal classifier. Feature preserver and modal classifier are confronted to learn, the common representation space is optimized, and the cross-modal retrieval is carried out by test suite. The accuracy of cross-modal retrieval can be greatly improved by using dictionary learning to extract features and antagonistic learning to learn the common space of image modal and text modal.

Provided is a communication control device including a radio communication unit configured to perform radio communication with a plurality of terminal apparatuses of a primary system using communication resources of the primary system, and a generating unit configured to generate resource information for notifying a secondary system secondarily using the communication resources of available communication resources. The radio communication unit transmits the resource information generated by the generating unit through a downlink control channel including a common space that is decoded in common by the plurality of terminal apparatuses and a plurality of individual spaces that are decoded by only some of the plurality of terminal apparatuses.

A system and corresponding methods for automating the execution, measurement, and optimization of in-store promotional digital media campaigns are provided. In one embodiment, a method in a computing system for deploying content to digital signage networks includes receiving from a user a marketing campaign goal and at least one optimization constraint suitable for generating a playlist. The method also includes generating a playlist designed to maximize a learning opportunity to achieve the marketing campaign goal. The method further includes provisioning the playlist to a point of presence on the digital signage network.

A method to mitigate interference in a wireless system is provided. The method includes processing a set of radio network identifiers and limiting a number of hypotheses associated with the radio network identifiers in order to mitigate interference in a wireless network. In another aspect, the method includes processing a set of hypotheses and limiting the set of hypotheses by limiting a number of downlink grants to a common space, limiting the number of downlink grants to a number of instances, or limiting the number of grants to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) type. In yet another aspect, the method includes processing a downlink set and generating a target termination level for the downlink data set, the termination level associated with a Hybrid automatic repeat-request.

A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for displaying multiple elements in a graphical editor, wherein the multiple elements overlap and share a common space in the graphical editor; invoking a visual affordance that opens a zoom window; and displaying the visual affordance and the zoom window in an area in the graphical editor where the multiple elements overlap, wherein the zoom window displays a visual representation that is modified to show overlapping multiple elements.

A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for displaying multiple elements in a graphical editor, wherein the multiple elements overlap and share a common space in the graphical editor; invoking a visual affordance that opens a zoom window; and displaying the visual affordance and the zoom window in an area in the graphical editor where the multiple elements overlap, wherein the zoom window displays a visual representation that is modified to show overlapping multiple elements

A specialized graphical user interface for use with interactive large-format display systems provides for intuitive operation and flexible content presentation. Designed primarily for use in unattended public spaces, the interface facilitates navigation through complex multi-level content in a consistent, intuitive manner.

The invention relates to a cross-media training and retrieval method based on depth discrimination sorting learning. The method comprises the following steps that: utilizing a deep network to extractfeatures from an image sample and a statement sample in a training set, and obtaining a feature vector pair, wherein the feature vector pair comprises an image feature vector used for showing the image sample, and a statement feature vector used for showing the statement sample; mapping the obtained feature vector pair to a common space, and calculating a similarity between the image feature vector and the statement feature vector; and utilizing a bidirectional discrimination sorting target function to sort the feature vector, and obtaining a training model.

Audio, video, text and image presentation systems allow visitors to display facilities and other public spaces to proactively select detailed information about the various items located within such facilities and spaces. Exemplary embodiments can be used in a museum exhibition to convey detailed information relating to museum artifacts. Alternatively, embodiments can be used in a convention center or retail environment to deliver information relating to products or services. Advantageously, information content delivered to the user includes high-quality audio, video and static images and, through a combination of selection functionality and bookmarking functionality, exemplary systems provide a link between the public space elements (e.g., artifacts, products, services, etc.) and additional, still more detailed information delivered off-line via another medium such as the World Wide Web (WWW) or a fixed workstation environment within the public space. Consequently, a visitor can self-guide and self-tailor his or her exploration of a display facility or other public space and / or extend his or her experience beyond the physical boundaries of the display facility or other public space.

A system, method, and computer software application for the delivery and display of third-party multi-media content in a public space on locally managed display devices, wherein the delivery and presentation of the third-party multi-media content is manageable remotely from the public space, sale of display time for display on the locally managed display devices is manageable independently from local management, and the display and remote-management of the third-party content can co-operate with an incumbent multi-media management and display application operating on the locally managed display devices without requiring a re-tooling or custom programming of the incumbent multi-media management and display application.

The present invention might is a large-screen electronic building directory system that also integrates advertising and non-commercial content and is positioned and deployed in various public spaces, such as commercial building lobbies, indoor shopping malls, airports or other commercial and transportation hubs. The system combines facility directory, facility services information, concessionaires and advertising sponsor information in a user interface suitable for use in the target environment. A self contained, computer integrated plasma display has a 16:9 aspect ratio and is subdivided into a 14:9 media window portion and a 2:9 control portion. Interaction is through touch-sensitive panel sections. Content establishment and updating is effected through a wide area network communication interface, which also supports bi-directional videophone communication between a system user and offsite service providers. The system is configured to be mounted on the exterior surface of a public space wall, and protrude no further than 4.0 inches from the wall in conformance with ADA building code requirements.

A fastening mechanism for fastening a module and a second module in the housing of an electronic device is disclosed. The fastening mechanism includes a lid body and a positioning member disposed in the housing. The first module is fixed in the housing by the lid body and the lid body is fastened by the positioning member, which is coupled to and overlaps the second module on the lid body, thereby using a shared common space for concurrently holding the lid body, the first module and the second module in place to save the layout space of the electronic device.