122 results about "Continuous sensing" patented technology

Continuously monitoring automobile operations, performance and operating conditions from the remote diagnostic centers through Continuous wireless transmissions so that faults may be immediately recognized and corrected or the operator warned or actions remotely initiated to limit or prevent damage or safety hazards. A plurality of sensing devices in said automobile; each device for respectively continuously sensing an operational parameter of the automobile; a wireless transmitter in the automobile for transmitting the continuously sensed parameters to a diagnostic station remote from automobile; apparatus in the diagnostic station for analyzing said parameters in order to determine defective operational conditions in the automobile; and apparatus associated eith said diagnostic station for wieless transmission of data relative to the determined defective operating conditions back to said automobile.

The implantable cardiac treatment system of the present invention is capable of choosing the most appropriate electrode vector to sense within a particular patient. In certain embodiments, the implantable cardiac treatment system determines the most appropriate electrode vector for continuous sensing based on which electrode vector results in the greatest signal amplitude, or some other useful metric such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The electrode vector possessing the highest quality as measured using the metric is then set as the default electrode vector for sensing. Additionally, in certain embodiments of the present invention, a next alternative electrode vector is selected based on being generally orthogonal to the default electrode vector. In yet other embodiments of the present invention, the next alternative electrode vector is selected based on possessing the next highest quality metric after the default electrode vector. In some embodiments, if analysis of the default vector is ambiguous, the next alternative electrode vector is analyzed to reduce ambiguity.

A device for controlling the drive of an endless movable member of the present invention includes a mark sensor responsive to a plurality of marks continuously positioned on the movable member at preselected intervals in the direction of movement of the movable member. A speed / position controller controls either one of speed and position by using the output of the mark sensor. A discontinuity sensing circuit determines whether or not a discontinuous portion in which a distance between nearby marks does not lie in a preselected range is present in a sensing region assigned to the mark sensor. The speed / position controller varies speed control or position control in accordance with the output of the discontinuity sensing circuit.

The implantable cardiac treatment system of the present invention is capable of choosing the most appropriate electrode vector to sense within a particular patient. In certain embodiments, the implantable cardiac treatment system determines the most appropriate electrode vector for continuous sensing based on which electrode vector results in the greatest signal amplitude, or some other useful metric such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The electrode vector possessing the highest quality as measured using the metric is then set as the default electrode vector for sensing. Additionally, in certain embodiments of the present invention, a next alternative electrode vector is selected based on being generally orthogonal to the default electrode vector. In yet other embodiments of the present invention, the next alternative electrode vector is selected based on possessing the next highest quality metric after the default electrode vector. In some embodiments, if analysis of the default vector is ambiguous, the next alternative electrode vector is analyzed to reduce ambiguity.

A device for controlling the drive of an endless movable member of the present invention includes a mark sensor responsive to a plurality of marks continuously positioned on the movable member at preselected intervals in the direction of movement of the movable member. A speed / position controller controls either one of speed and position by using the output of the mark sensor. A discontinuity sensing circuit determines whether or not a discontinuous portion in which a distance between nearby marks does not lie in a preselected range is present in a sensing region assigned to the mark sensor. The speed / position controller varies speed control or position control in accordance with the output of the discontinuity sensing circuit.

A capacitive liquid level sensor material, which includes a first thin, flexible, elongated insulating substrate of indeterminate length having a continuous sensing capacitor printed thereon. The sensing capacitor has a repeating interdigitated capacitive pattern formed by two separate electrodes printed on the substrate. There is a second thin, flexible, elongated insulating substrate of indeterminate length joined to the first substrate to electrically isolate the sensing capacitor, and the electrodes coplanar. The second substrate has a graphic ink pattern printed thereon. The joined first and second substrates are arranged to be wound up into a roll of at least several turns. The sensor material is then cut to length and terminated with a crimp type connector to produce a sensor of the desired length.

The implantable cardiac treatment system of the present invention is capable of choosing the most appropriate electrode vector to sense within a particular patient. In certain embodiments, the implantable cardiac treatment system determines the most appropriate electrode vector for continuous sensing based on which electrode vector results in the greatest signal amplitude, or some other useful metric such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The electrode vector possessing the highest quality as measured using the metric is then set as the default electrode vector for sensing. Additionally, in certain embodiments of the present invention, a next alternative electrode vector is selected based on being generally orthogonal to the default electrode vector. In yet other embodiments of the present invention, the next alternative electrode vector is selected based on possessing the next highest quality metric after the default electrode vector. In some embodiments, if analysis of the default vector is ambiguous, the next alternative electrode vector is analyzed to reduce ambiguity.

The object detection system includes an object sensor and a controller. The controller is configured to compare a sensed range of an object with a range gate based on the azimuth angle of the object. The range gate for each azimuth angle is programmable and is selected to form a contiguous sensing region closely matching the shape of a desired detection zone. The object sensor is switchable between the plurality of sensing fields, wherein a range gate for each sensing field is programmable to form a contiguous sensing region. The object sensor may be a variety of range sensors including radar, ultrasonic, laser or infrared technologies. The range gate and parameters of the sensing field are each programmable through a controller. Further, the controller may automatically vary the range gate or sensing field based on vehicle parameters.

The time required to execute processing for detecting the image of a face is shortened. A number of frames of the image of a subject are obtained sequentially by sensing the image of the subject successively. Face detection processing is applied to a first subject image, which is one frame of the image of the subject among the number of frames thereof. The inclination of a face-image area obtained by detection is detected. Among angles of 0°, 90°, 180° and 270°, that close to the detected inclination is decided upon. A face image having an angle within a range of 45° on either side of the decided angle as its inclination is detected from a second subject image, which is obtained following the first subject image. Since face images to undergo detection are thus restricted, detection processing ends in a comparatively short period of time.

The invention relates to a personnel sensing and leading system based on the RFID of the Internet-of-things. The system comprises a master control computer, wherein the master control computer is connected with a plurality of RFID remote reader-writer through a RFID controller, the master control computer is also connected with a plurality of players used to control the playing content of an LCD screen through a network; and the RFID remote reader-writer is provided with a RFID electronic tag. The informational release of the system is based on the tradition informational release; a sensing system is used to perform insertion playing of special information, for example, when customers enter a hall, a large LCD screen arranged in the hall is used to display the identifications, reserved seats and direction of the seats of the VIPs, and the continuous navigation of path can be realized, thus service staff can be reduced, or when the guests are too many, services are not comprehensive to displease VIP customers; and the technology of the invention adopts continuous sensing and the navigation function of the GIS vector map.

The object detection system includes an object sensor and a controller. The controller is configured to compare a sensed range of an object with a range gate based on the azimuth angle of the object. The range gate for each azimuth angle is programmable and is selected to form a contiguous sensing region closely matching the shape of a desired detection zone. The object sensor is switchable between the plurality of sensing fields, wherein a range gate for each sensing field is programmable to form a contiguous sensing region. The object sensor may be a variety of range sensors including radar, ultrasonic, laser or infrared technologies. The range gate and parameters of the sensing field are each programmable through a controller. Further, the controller may automatically vary the range gate or sensing field based on vehicle parameters.

An apparatus and method incorporating at least two sensors that detect the presence of substrate defects, such as breakage or misalignment, along the lengths of at least two parallel edges of a moving substrate. In one embodiment, an apparatus for detecting substrate defects includes a sensor arrangement including at least two sensors that continuously sense a substrate near at least two parallel edges of the substrate as the substrate passes the sensors. In another embodiment, an apparatus for detecting substrate defects includes a robot having a substrate support surface, and a sensor arrangement including at least two sensors that continuously sense a substrate near at least two parallel edges of the substrate during substrate transfer on the substrate support surface. In another embodiment, a method of continuously detecting substrate defects includes positioning at least two sensors to continuously sense a substrate near at least two parallel edges of the substrate as the substrate passes the sensors, and transmitting a signal from each of the at least two sensors to a controller that continuously monitors the signals from the at least two sensors to detect the presence of a substrate defect.

The present inventors have recognized that proper utilization of reconfigurable event driven hardware may achieve optimum power conservation in energy constrained environments including a low power general purpose primary processor and one or more electronic sensors. Aspects of neurobiology and neuroscience, for example, may be utilized to provide such reconfigurable event driven hardware, thereby achieving energy-efficient continuous sensing and signature reporting in conjunction with the one or more electronic sensors while the primary processor enters a low power consumption mode. Such hardware is event driven and operates with extremely low energy requirements.

A rotating stage assembly performs high precision rotational angle and position error correction by continuous sensing and correcting motor stage assembly errors. It performs these corrections, to adjust for motor environmental and operational errors by sensing and correcting using five sensors placed to measure the adjustments of five corresponding actuators, which adjust the entire motor rotating stage and rotary motor assembly relative to a reference frame.

A system for calibrating a backup assist system for a trailer attached to a vehicle is provided which includes a hitch sensor continuously measuring a hitch angle for determining an angle rate, a yaw sensor continuously sensing a yaw rate of the vehicle, and a controller configured to determine an offset of the measured hitch angle when vehicle is driving forward and / or rearward.

An exemplary battery charging system includes a temperature sensor, a voltage measuring device, a processor and a charger. The temperature sensor is used for continuously sensing the current temperature of a rechargeable battery. The voltage measuring device is used for continuously measuring the current voltage U of the rechargeable battery. The processor is used for comparing the current temperature T with two temperature thresholds and comparing the current voltage U with two cut-off voltages, and generating a PWM control signal to the charger based on the results of the comparisons. The charger is used for charging the battery. When T reads as normal, the charger charges the battery using a first average current I1 and stops charging at U1. When T reads as hot, the charger charges the battery using a second average current I2 and stops charging at U2, wherein I1>I2, U1>U2.

The invention relates to a near-infrared vision sensing detection device for a large-scale high-temperature forgeable piece. The detection device comprises a million pixel camera (1), a camera stand (8) and a USB (Universal Serial Bus) data line (9) and is characterized in that a near-infrared light filtering system (7) consists of a high-pass light filter (2), an optical glass sheet (3), a fixedbarrel (4) and a lens barrel (5) and is coaxially connected with a near-infrared digital CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Transistor) video camera (6) provided with the million pixel camera (1) and the camera stand (8); both the near-infrared light filtering system (7) and the near-infrared digital CMOS video camera (6) are sealed in a shielding box (11), and a light blocking structure part (13) is arranged outside the shielding box; and the digital CMOS video camera (6) is connected with a visual information processing controller (10) through the USB data line (9). The near-infrared vision sensing detection device has remarkable advantages of obtaining images at a high speed, resisting defocusing and the like compared with a CCD (Charge Coupled Device), has high cost performance and is widely suitable for accurately measuring the intermittent and continuous sensing of the external dimension and the temperature of large-diameter shaft and gear workpieces during the forging and heating process.

The invention provides a high-strength anchor bolt and a production method thereof. The high-strength anchor bolt comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0.25 to 0.50 percent of C, 0.2 to 1.5 percent of Si, 0.5 to 2.0 percent of Mn, less than or equal to 0.03 percent of P, less than or equal to 0.03 percent of S and the balance of iron and inevitable impurities. The high-strength anchor bolt is subjected to continuous sensing heat treatment, wherein the mechanical properties of the high-strength anchor bolt are that the tensile strength sigma b is 830 to 1,220MPa, the shear strength is more than or equal to 0.7 sigma b, the percentage elongation after fracture is more than or equal to 14 percent, and ballistic work at the temperature of 20 DEG C is more than or equal to 60J. The high-strength anchor bolt has the advantages of high strength, high ductility and impact resistance, and can effectively solve the problem of brittle rupture.

The invention provides a lock body electric control device, a low-power parking space lock and a control method thereof, wherein the lock body electric control device, the low-power parking space lock and the control method thereof belong to the technical field of parking equipment. The lock body electric control device and the low-power parking space lock provided by an embodiment of the invention are provided with a signal receiver and an NB-IOT module. The NB-IOT module is in a normally closed mode. When the signal receiver senses arrival of a vehicle at the parking space, the NB-IOT module is waken up, and the signal receiver communicates with a server through the NB-IOT module, thereby realizing no requirement for keeping the NB-IOT module in a normally activated mode or a regular wakening-up mode and continuous sensing for whether a vehicle user arrives. Therefore power consumption is reduced to a large extent. Furthermore the parking space lock based on the NB-IOT module has advantages of easy application, no requirement for gateway configuration, relatively low mounting cost, relatively maintenance cost, and high suitability for an outdoor parking lot. The NB-IOT module is used for performing wireless communication, thereby greatly reducing packet loss ratio and error rate and realizing high data transmission accuracy.

The invention discloses a method and a system for sensing moving objects in a video scene. The method includes capturing the moving objects; detecting foreground pixel of an image by means of interframe difference method and background difference method, integrating detecting results of the two methods, and acquiring a foreground image containing the moving objects and moving areas thereof; tracking the moving objects: extracting a foreground block indicating a position of a certain moving object in the foreground image, and tracking the foreground block until the foreground block is out of the video scene; and generating moving object information: generating abstract information containing attributions of the moving objects and moving conditions according to moving conditions of the moving object, corresponding to the foreground block, in the video scene. By the method for sensing the moving objects in the video scene, continuous sensing of the moving objects during integral moving process is realized.

A method for providing electronic assistance to a user within a kitchen is provided. The method may include continuously sensing for user input voice command, receiving a trigger input in response to an action by a user within the kitchen, and receiving a user input voice command from the user. The method may then interpret the received user input voice command in light of the received trigger input to more accurately determine the substance of the user input voice command and, for example, respond accordingly if appropriate.

The invention discloses a noninvasive continuous blood pressure measuring system and a calibration method thereof. When the system is started, a common least square method is used for carrying out initialization of a formula coefficient and a constant term, so that the system immediately has the capability of calculating correct non-invasive continuous blood pressure values; then, a recursion least square method is used in subsequent calibration. On the one hand, the technical barrier that if the recursion least square method is directly used, the time consumed for calculating convergence of the formula coefficient and the constant term is long in the starting process of the system is overcome, so that the system immediately has the capability of calculating the correct non-invasive continuous blood pressure values from the moment of starting; on the other hand, the defects that a blood pressure calculation formula obtained by only using the least square method cannot reflect common physiological conditions of a user and can only reflect the physiological conditions in a short time, influences of accidental errors of each time of intermittent blood pressure measurement are large, and the accuracy of continuous non-invasive blood pressure results cannot meet clinical requirements easily are overcome.

A washing machine control method prevents the setting of an incorrect water level, when laundry is added to the washing machine after manipulating a wash command key, by setting an accurate water level and wash pattern. The water level and wash pattern are repeatedly reset according to a differential present in consecutively sensed wet laundry amounts, if a substantial differential is detected between dry and wet laundry amounts. That is, if the difference between consecutively sensed wet laundry amounts is reduced to a predetermined value, within a predetermined number of repeated sensings, the washing step is controlled according to reset values for the water level and wash pattern. The method includes steps of determining a first water level by sensing a first laundry amount upon initiating a washing step; determining a first wash pattern by sensing a second wet laundry amount; comparing the sensed first and second laundry amounts to determine a first differential; and resetting the determined water level and wash pattern by sensing a third laundry amount, if the first differential is greater than a first predetermined value. The water level and wash pattern are reset by comparing consecutively sensed laundry amounts to determine a second differential; re-sensing the third laundry amount, if the second differential is greater than a second predetermined value; setting a second water level and a second wash pattern based on a current value of the re-sensed third laundry amount, if the second differential is not greater than the second predetermined value; and performing the washing step according to the second water level and the second wash pattern.

A system and method for functioning organ assessment include a sensing enabled flexible device (102) having an optical fiber configured to sense induced strain continuously over a length of the flexible device. The flexible device includes a manipulation mechanism (105) configured to permit engagement with an interior wall of an organ over the length. An interpretation module (115) is configured to receive optical signals from the optical fiber between two phases of movement of the organ while the organ is functioning and to interpret the optical signals to quantify parameters associated with the functioning of the organ.

Provided is a fluidic device including a main channel, wherein a first inlet fluidly connects to an upstream end of the main channel and introduces magnetic beads into a first side of the main channel. A second inlet is fluidly connected to the upstream end of the main channel and introduces a sample stream into a second side of the main channel. A magnet disposed adjacent to the second side of the main channel pulls the magnetic beads towards a sidewall of the second side, and thus into the sample stream. The beads continue through an extended incubation channel before entering a return channel. The return channel includes a detection region. Also provided is a multi-layer micro-fluidic assay device. An assay method that utilizes a microfluidic assay device is provided as well.

The Multi-Device Continuum and Seamless Sensing Platform for Context Aware Analytics provide a platform for continuous sensing across multiple devices towards a unified target. The Multi-Device Continuum and Seamless Sensing Platform provides a platform for extracting, loading, integrating, and tracking related data across multiple smart devices capable of integrating with internal and external sensors, such as wearable devices. The Multi-Device Continuum and Seamless Sensing Platform develop context aware solutions, which are targeted at automated recognition of context extracted from users' devices, as people are often always interacting with a digital device such as phone, tablet, or desktop.

Method and apparatus are provided for processing and changing the physical characteristics of a metal workpiece into a final metal component. Predetermined processing parameters are established for achieving a final metal component. The metal workpiece is positioned securely on a support during the changing of the physical characteristics. Impacts are applied to a surface of the workpiece multiple times for achieving the final metal component while controlling the impacting with the predetermined processing parameters. A sensor is provided for continuously sensing the currently existing physical conditions of the workpiece during impacting. The predetermined processing parameters are changed into adjusted processing parameters and the impacts are changed in reaction to the currently existing physical conditions of the workpiece from the sensing and processing of the workpiece until the final metal component has been achieved.

A minimal in-continuous two-dimensional phase development method based on phase in-continuous region detection relates to the signal processing field, comprising the steps of; first, eliminating isolated noise pixel for a package phase diagram; then detecting phase in-continuous region in the phase diagram by an edge detection, an inflation and erosion method; searching for an increased circle in the phase in-continuous region to increase or decrease the number of jumps to make the minimal sum of number of jumps; last, developing entire package phase diagram according to the number of the jumps. The method avoids the increased circle cycled search of a redundancy in the non-phase in-continuous region, which overcomes defects of low technology utilization ratio and large resource occupation, improves efficiency of the phase development method; the method, by limiting the increased circle searching region in the region by detecting the phase in-continuous region, enables the noise not to be spread to the region, except the regions, where the phase development reliability is high and improves the phase development accuracy of the package phase diagram.