128 results about "Computational algorithm" patented technology

A sensor which uses a plurality of partial fingerprint readers (imagers), and various computational algorithms, to detect changes in fingerprint images as a function of finger movement. The sensor can provide both finger motion information and fingerprint images. The sensor uses multiple partial fingerprint readers, arranged in different directions on a surface, to detect finger motion in two dimensions. The sensor can also detect the relative speed and direction of finger movement. Some sensor embodiments use deep finger penetrating radio frequency (RF) based circuits, which can be inexpensively printed or formed on the surface of robust and flexible dielectric materials such as Kapton tape. The sensor also has textured surfaces to help guide the user. The sensor both small and robust, and is well suited for control applications for low-cost mass market microprocessor controlled devices such as cell phones, MP3 players, laptop computers, and other devices.

A method for creating and executing a computer workflow using a graphical user interface. A plurality of executable components is defined wherein the executable components are based on an input, an output, metadata and a sub-interpreter. Each of the executable components represents a computer-implemented computational process that is performed on one or more inputs to the executable component and that generates one or more outputs based on a predefined computational algorithm. A graphical user interface is defined that allows a user to visually create the computer workflow on a user display by selecting from a library of said executable components. The user graphically connects one or more input terminals of selected executable components with one or more output terminals of second selected executable components. For each selected executable component, the one or more input terminals graphically correspond to the one or more inputs to the predefined computational algorithm associated with the executable component. The one or more output terminals graphically correspond to the one or more outputs generated by the predefined computational algorithm associated with the executable component.

The present invention includes method and system for intelligent knowledge diagnosis and tutoring in any knowledge domain. It differs from prior arts with new knowledge model for knowledge presentation and heuristic algorithms. The knowledge model allows the present invention to be applied to curricula in different knowledge domains quickly and cost effectively.The knowledge model and related computational algorithms provide effective and intelligent knowledge diagnosis and tutoring with minimum requirement on assessment content and learning content. It also allows easy curriculum customization and learner initiated learning assistance to meet needs of different teaching and learning styles.The present invention gains better understanding of learner's knowledge status and hence provides more accurate assistance as learner progresses in the curriculum. The present invention can be an add-engine to existing learning management systems working with existing assessment and learning content in any format.

The invention discloses an optimization method of an online self-adaption radiotherapy plan. The method comprises the steps of performing rigid registration and deformation registration on an image in a primary plan after a fractional guide image is input, so as to generate a target section and a fractional sketch outline which dangers organs; recalculating a dosage distribution and dosage volume histogram according to the parameters, fractional guide image and the fractional sketch outline in an original plan; judging whether the radiotherapy plan needs to be altered by combining the restriction of an original formula; combining a clinical requirement to perform rapid online alteration of the patient radiotherapy plan if needed, so as to generate the fractional guide image and perform an automatic radiotherapy plan quality guarantee. According to the optimization method provided by the invention, the optimization of the radiotherapy plan can be quickly finished at short time before every fractional therapy by comprehensively considering the change of a therapy in a patient treating process, based on a deformation rectification and dosage computational algorithm accelerated by a CPU (Central Processing Unit). Compared with an off-line self-adaption radiotherapy method based on a commercial treatment planning system, the optimization method is high in efficiency and meets clinical demands.

A sensor which uses a plurality of partial fingerprint readers (imagers), and various computational algorithms, to detect changes in fingerprint images as a function of finger movement. The sensor can provide both finger motion information and fingerprint images. The sensor uses multiple partial fingerprint readers, arranged in different directions on a surface, to detect finger motion in two dimensions. The sensor can also detect the relative speed and direction of finger movement. Some sensor embodiments use deep finger penetrating radio frequency (RF) based circuits, which can be inexpensively printed or formed on the surface of robust and flexible dielectric materials such as Kapton tape. The sensor also has textured surfaces to help guide the user. The sensor both small and robust, and is well suited for control applications for low-cost mass market microprocessor controlled devices such as cell phones, MP3 players, laptop computers, and other devices.

A method of reducing computation of water tolerance by projecting touch data is disclosed, targeting the handheld devices. The method targets first at obtaining a difference array, followed by extracting minimum values of rows and columns of the difference array to obtain a row projection list and a column projection list respectively. By repeated implementing of mutual capacitance detection, ghost water blocks can be wiped out from the multiple water blocks. Once integrating with a local spatial boundary detection algorithm, the sensed signals of intended input located within a rectangular water block yet beyond a real water block are consequently detected. The computational algorithm of the water tolerance of this invention is successfully built into the touch panel controller due to its substantially reduced computation.

A method for interactive definition and management of a treatment for monitoring blood glucose of a diabetic patient includes performing two distinct, asynchronous and simultaneous, work cycles, having different length: a first local cycle, shorter, includes the steps of acquiring at least one value of said patient's blood glucose by means of a glucometer integrated in a monitoring device, calculating an insulin dosage value to be administered to the patient, by means of a computing algorithm, provided by a specialist doctor, displaying the insulin dosage on a monitoring device display, and defining a date and time for subsequent acquisition of blood glucose level. Furthermore, the system automatically sends glycemic information to the doctor, if they are beyond mean value parameters, time passed from a last contact and number of hypoglycemic value measurements, that the specialist himself can set for each patient and modify over time. A second remote cycle, longer, includes reading the patient's last blood glucose value, periodical running of a procedure for extracting a group of data significant for the patient, related to at least the trend of glycemic level values of the patient and to corresponding insulin doses, recommended on the basis of computation of said algorithm in a predetermined previous period; transmission of the group of significant date to the specialist' doctor's remote computer, by means of a simplified transmitter / receiver module operating via a mobile telephone network, integrated with monitoring device, possibly receiving a set of modified parameters for performing the computing algorithm, or a new computing algorithm, and introduction of such set of modified parameters or of the new algorithm in the managing program.

A multi-waveband temperature sensor array, in which each superpixel (e.g., 2×2 pixel cell) operates at a distinct thermal infrared (IR) waveband (e.g. four wavebands) is disclosed. Using an example high spatial resolution, four-band thermal IR band photodetector array, accurate temperature measurements on the surface of an object can be made without prior knowledge of the object emissivity. The multiband photodetector may employ intersubband transition in III-V semiconductor-based quantum layered structures where each photodetector stack absorbs photons within the specified wavelength band while allowing the transmission of photons in other spectral bands, thus efficiently permitting multiband detection. This produces multiple, spectrally resolved images of a scene that are recorded simultaneously in a single snapshot of the FPA. From the multispectral images and calibration information about the system, computational algorithms are used to produce the surface temperature map of a target.

The notion of checkpointing model building is introduced to safeguard against the loss of computational results due to abnormal termination of long running computation algorithms. A checkpoint manager initiates a checkpoint, wherein initiation occurs by various scenarios, including dynamically, automatically and manually. A computation module executes the checkpoint on an in progress data computation. The checkpoint manager also monitors the execution of the checkpoint for abnormal termination. Upon a determination of abnormal checkpoint termination, the inability to resume model building from a checkpoint, the checkpoint manger either resumes model build from the checkpoint or aborts the model build.

A method, system and computer program product implementing a computational algorithm that enables analysts to discover / find groups within a database of seemingly random electronic data in a relatively short period of time. A computer system is provided that includes a processor and program code executing on the processor for completing the following functions: (a) receiving a plurality of random electronic data corresponding to one or more activity within a monitored system; (b) discovering a group of associated data points from within the plurality of electronic data.

The invention relates to a fixed type automatic volume measurement system and a measuring method of the fixed type automatic volume measurement system. The fixed type automatic volume measurement system is an automated measurement and calculation system based on multi-sensor integration. According to the system, multiple sensors are mainly used for synchronous control of a collector, a control tag reader and a high-speed laser scanner, and are in synchronous communication with an industrial personal computer to achieve data collection. Collected data are processed primarily by a controller to filter invalid data and transmitted to the industrial personal computer rapidly after being marked in a real-time mode with timing marks. A three-dimensional coordinate is computed through calculation processing software running in the industrial personal computer and by aid of the three-dimensional coordinate computational algorithm, vehicle-mounted material stack body modeling is carried out by combining the three-dimensional modeling algorithm, and then the volume of vehicle-mounted materials to be measured is calculated. Therefore, the fixed type automatic volume measurement system and the measuring method of the fixed type automatic volume measurement system have the advantages that a traditional method that a material transport vehicle is guarded all day long and recorded manually is replaced by a method that the material transport vehicle can be identified quickly and automatically, the volume of the vehicle-mounted materials can be measured quickly and accurately, and the material transport vehicle and the materials can be managed effectively.

Method and device to determine the Q factor for a flow meter, with an exciter unit which can be attached to a meter tube to generate a uniform oscillating movement and a sensor unit to measure the oscillating movement, which is influenced by the flow, of the meter tube, and the measured values of which are analyzed by an analysis unit, which is connected downstream, to determine the desired flow parameter and the Q factor, as specified by a stored computational algorithm.

The invention discloses a hand-held multi-laser-stripe quick three-dimensional measuring method. The method includes the following steps: firstly, sticking a sign point; secondly, utilizing a hand-held three-dimensional measuring instrument to measure three-dimensional data of an object surface; thirdly, collecting an image; fifthly, calculating a three-dimensional coordinate of the sign point; sixthly, calculating a three-dimensional coordinate of an object surface point; and seventhly, positioning the hand-held three-dimensional measuring instrument and carrying out data merging under a world coordinate system, that is to say, obtaining a rotation translation matrix from a current camera coordinate system to the world coordinate system so that a transformational relation of the current object surface measurement point from the camera coordinate system to the world coordinate system and data merging under the world coordinate system are achieved. Through adoption of the laser measuring technology, optimization of a structural design and optimization of a computational algorithm, the three-dimensional measuring instrument is portable, enables hand-held operation, and is easy to operate and convenient to use.

A system for accelerating computational fluid dynamics calculations with a computer, the system including a plurality of reconfigurable hardware components; a computer operating system with an application programming interface to connect to the reconfigurable hardware components; and a peripheral component interface unit connected to the reconfigurable hardware components for configuring and controlling the reconfigurable hardware components and managing communications between each of the plurality of reconfigurable hardware components to bypass the peripheral component interface unit and provide direct communication between each of the plurality of configurable hardware components.

The invention relates to an implant layer positioning system comprising a device that can be fixed to a bone section and is used to plan the positioning of implants in order to enable corrective operations to be performed on the bone with optimum bone contact. Said device reproduces the geometry of at least one section of the implant and can be freely oriented by the operator towards accessible parts of the bone. The inventive system also comprises a control unit which virtually evaluates the relevant implant parts, on the basis of the navigation data of the tracked device and the data input of the planned corrective operation, in the form of three-dimensional geometry bodies in fluoroscopy sketches or other referenced image or geometry data. Once the planned proceedings have been inputted, the control unit of the navigation system can virtually merge the corresponding position of all implant parts with the referenced image or geometry data of the patient in a three-dimensional manner by means of corresponding computational algorithms, and once the device has been oriented, the control unit can store the position of said device with all related dependent positions of the implant parts planned at the same time, and all of the planning information can be made available for use with navigated tools.

The invention discloses a large scale particle picture velocimetry based on a Haokong surface flow field computational algorithm, which overcomes limitation of the existing large scale velocimetry, can achieve coverage of more than 20m*20m by a single lens under the premise of ensuring precision, and can be convenient to install and measure; complexity of adding a manual tracer in the traditional velocimetry is overcome; accurate flow field data can be measured under the premise of not adding the manual tracer; limitation of a traditional PIV algorithm is overcome; algorithm software includes flow state automatic identification technology, anti-counterfeiting flow algorithm, image automatic correction technology and the like; high precision and high fineness of the measured result are ensured. Meanwhile, the hardware device adopted by the invention is deft in design and convenient to carry, and thereby operating processes are simple, convenient and easy to implement.

A method, system and computer program product implementing a computational algorithm that enables analysts to discover / find groups within a database of seemingly random electronic data in a relatively short period of time. A computer system is provided that includes a processor and program code executing on the processor for completing the following functions: (a) receiving a plurality of random electronic data corresponding to one or more activity within a monitored system; (b) discovering a group of associated data points from within the plurality of electronic data.

A computer readable storage medium in an example has a computer program stored thereon and represents a set of instructions that when executed by a computer during MR imaging causes the computer to: acquire a B1 field map for each transmit coil of a parallel RF transmit coil array; determine with a computational algorithm an excitation pulse scheme for a target excitation profile based on at least one effective B1 field map for a plurality of transmit coils of the parallel RF transmit coil array; and generate at least one SAR-reduced RF pulsing sequence for a respective transmit coil of the plurality of transmit coils of the parallel RF transmit coil array. The parallel RF transmit coil array is capable of having any parallel RF transmit coil array geometry. Each effective B1 field map reflects inductive coupling effects present between a transmit coil and at least another transmit coil.

A computer readable storage medium in an example has a computer program stored thereon and represents a set of instructions that when executed by a computer during MR imaging causes the computer to: acquire a B1 field map for each transmit coil of a parallel RF transmit coil array; determine with a computational algorithm an excitation pulse scheme for a target excitation profile based on at least one effective B1 field map for a plurality of transmit coils of the parallel RF transmit coil array; and generate at least one SAR-reduced RF pulsing sequence for a respective transmit coil of the plurality of transmit coils of the parallel RF transmit coil array. The parallel RF transmit coil array is capable of having any parallel RF transmit coil array geometry. Each effective B1 field map reflects inductive coupling effects present between a transmit coil and at least another transmit coil.

A method for creating and executing a computer workflow using a graphical user interface. A plurality of executable components is defined wherein the executable components are based on an input, an output, metadata and a sub-interpreter. Each of the executable components represents a computer-implemented computational process that is performed on one or more inputs to the executable component and that generates one or more outputs based on a predefined computational algorithm. A graphical user interface is defined that allows a user to visually create the computer workflow on a user display by selecting from a library of said executable components. The user graphically connects one or more input terminals of selected executable components with one or more output terminals of second selected executable components. For each selected executable component, the one or more input terminals graphically correspond to the one or more inputs to the predefined computational algorithm associated with the executable component. The one or more output terminals graphically correspond to the one or more outputs generated by the predefined computational algorithm associated with the executable component.

The invention provides a massive email forensic analyzing scheme based on community network analysis and file content analysis, which solves problems that a scheme capable of realizing analysis of a community structure by utilizing receiving and sending addresses and forensic analysis by utilizing text and attatchment contents does not exist at present. The method comprises the following steps of: automatically analyzing an email data file of an Outlook client, an OE (Outlook Express) client and a Foxmail client; extracting the receiving and sending addresses, the attachment, the text, a theme and a sending mode and other information contained in the email data file; extracting an email communication relationship network built based on the receiving and sending addresses of the email and receiving and sending times; extracting the community structure of the communication relationship network through a WCMN (weighing cepstral mean normalization) algorithm; and then analyzing and calculating a suspicious degree of a community through a suspicious degree computational algorithm based on contents of the email and the attachment. According to the scheme, address information and content information of the email are fully utilized; and the community structure contained among email addresses is extracted; and the suspicious degree is provided for personnel handling cases for reference.

The invention discloses a parallel computing method capable of expanding a precision Logistic chaotic sequence, comprising the following steps: (1) saving initial parameters x0 and mu integer quantization to an one-dimensional array, and arranging the precision required to be achieved or designating iterative times; (2) the first part of the parallel computational algorithm x=x*(1-x): utilizing amatrix to save and compute the intermediate result, modifying the length of a dynamic array and saving the computation result to the dynamic array; (3) the second part of the parallel computational algorithm x=mu*x: saving the computation result to the dynamic array; (4) and if the precision or the iterative times achieves the required value, acquiring the chaotic sequence in the dynamic array, thus the computation is finished, and otherwise, transferring to step (2). The method of the invention fully utilizes the properties of a chaotic system, provides the chaotic sequence of a more expansive mapping space, can be used in the fields of secret communication, information safety and so on, and is especially suitable for encryption, storage and network transmission of graph, image and multimedia and other information.

Methods and systems used to plan, optimize, and manage LTE femtocell networks describes an analytical framework and algorithms that allow analysis and planning of various femtocell aspects including dynamic adjustment of femtocell power for interference mitigation, and optimization according to user selectable policies. The framework recommends using a hybrid of both distributed control and centralized policy enforcement. An algorithm having two closely related aspects is provided. The first part is an Iterative and Distributed Algorithm (IDA), which is intended to be executed inside the femtocells. The second part of the algorithm is intended to be used as a toolset and is called Analytic Computational Algorithm (ACA), which is intended to be used in a centralized planning and operations center. The ACA provides a set of conditions that are used to check for convergence of the IDA.

The invention discloses a video-based moving object intrusion alarm method and relates to the field of security monitoring. The method comprises steps as follows: continuously acquiring indoor real-time monitoring images and inputting the images into scene mode computational algorithms to calculate the scene complexity; when the scene complexity is larger than the threshold, regarding the scenes as complex scenes, and otherwise, regarding the scenes as simple scenes; adopting different background parameter estimation algorithms for different scene modes respectively, and then extracting previous scene features by using background parameters; calculating the previous scene feature complexity, when the previous scene feature complexity is larger than the threshold, sending alarm information when judging moving objects intrude into a room, otherwise, updating the image background parameters, and continuously repeating the steps. According to the method, indoor monitoring scenes are divided into the simple scenes and the complex scenes, different detection algorithms are adopted for the different scenes, the adaptability of the alarm method to the different indoor scenes is improved, and the probability of false alarms of monitoring is decreased.

A computational algorithm provides new and effective interference cancellation of the in-band spurious signals for the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) transmitters. This new interference cancellation transmits non-zero tones may be used to cancel the interference generated by the modulated data signals. This minimizes the number of tones used and maximizes the interference suppression achieved at the same time. The technique described is one of active interference cancellation (AIC).

System and method for detection and tracking of targets, which in a preferred embodiment is based on the use of fractional Fourier transformation of time-domain signals to compute projections of the auto and cross ambiguity functions along arbitrary line segments. The efficient computational algorithms of the preferred embodiment are used to detect the position and estimate the velocity of signals, such as those encountered by active or passive sensor systems. Various applications of the proposed algorithm in the analysis of time-frequency domain signals are also disclosed.

A system for tracking gaze position is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a first imaging unit, a second imaging unit that can provide depth data. The first imaging unit is configured to acquire subject image data, the second imaging unit is configured to acquire object image data, and the second imaging unit is configured with depth sensor or computation algorithm to acquire object depth data of objects at different depths in a three dimensional environment. A control unit is configured to receive the subject image data, the object image data and the object depth data and calculate a gaze position based on the data. A method for tracking gaze position is also provided.

A method, apparatus and tangible medium for creating and executing a computer dataflow. A plurality of components is defined, each representing a computer-implemented computational process that is performed on one or more inputs and that generates one or more outputs. A graphical user interface is provided allowing a user to visually create the computer dataflow on a user display by selecting from a library of components, connecting the component's input terminals with output terminals. The input terminals graphically correspond to inputs to the component's predefined computational algorithm and the output terminals graphically correspond to outputs generated by the component's predefined computational algorithm. Without user intervention, the plurality of said selected components is distributed for execution across a plurality of machines and automatically executes upon receiving a minimum number of inputs.

The invention discloses an online advertisement audience sorting method based on transfer learning and aims at sorting audiences according to potential correlation of Internet audiences about an advertisement, so that a long-tail advertiser with insufficient budget can put the advertisement through buying a fixed number of front sorting user positions. According to the method, a history behavior domain and a preference domain of the advertisement of a user are in different characteristic spaces, and the relation between the history behavior domain and the preference domain of the advertisement of the user is established through defining a correlation transfer matrix, so that the influence of history behavior information of the non-correlated users on advertisement preference is reduced, and thus an improved correlation computational algorithm TransferBM25 based on transfer learning is realized. On the basis, through four steps of preprocessing, feature extraction, model training and effect evaluation on the advertisement history data, a final audient sorting model is obtained, and the advertisement audiences are sorted according to the model, so that after being sorted, the users with the front sorting positions have higher advertisement click probability.

A technique for programmatically obtaining experimental measurements for model construction. A user provides criteria for the model, such as computational algorithms which characterize behavior of the real system, specifications of experiments to be performed on the real system for collecting experimental data from the real system, an identification of sought parameters which are to be derived from results of the experiments and desired tolerance constraints on the sought parameters. From experimental data collected from the real system and from the provided criteria, the inventive method and apparatus programmatically determines in an iterative loop which additional experiments are to be performed in order to achieve the desired tolerance constraints. After one or more iterations of the loop, the values for the sought parameters are determined within the desired tolerance constraints.