31 results about "Conventional technique" patented technology

The disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for real time video driven human 3-dimensional (3-D) posture estimation during physical activities. Conventional techniques do not exploit temporal information, they do not give smooth transition of postures over time. Furthermore, the techniques that exploit the temporal information suffer from higher time requirements due to two state computations. The present disclosure solves the technical problems in the art with the methods and systems for real time video driven human 3-D posture estimation during physical activities. The present invention discloses a smart-phone camera based automatic posture monitoring system designed with an auto-encoder based architecture. The disclosed auto-encoder based cross-modal method uses monocular video (2-D image sequences) from a single low-end mobile device (for example, smart-phone camera) for estimating human 3-D posture in real time (˜5 fps) with high accuracy (less than 1 cm error per joint location).

To provide an aseismatic performance evaluation support device, an aseismatic performance evaluation support method and an aseismatic performance evaluation support program for more rationally evaluating the aseismatic performance of a building compared with a conventional technology.SOLUTION: The seismic performance evaluation support device 10 includes an acquiring unit 11A that acquires seismic motion group information indicating a plurality of types of seismic motion groups predetermined as seismic motion that may damage a building, and position information indicating a construction position of the building to be evaluated, a creating unit 11B that creates a fragility curve for each of the seismic motion groups by performing incremental dynamic analysis on the building using each of the plurality of types of seismic motion groups, a deriving unit 11C that derives a comprehensive fragility curve of the building by calculating a weighted average of the plurality of created fragility curves using a weighting factor indicating a ratio of a degree of influence at the construction position of each of the plurality of types of seismic motion groups, and a presenting unit 11D that presents information corresponding to the derived fragility curve.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

To provide a technology that enables machining simulation to be performed at higher speed than conventional techniques. [Solution] The information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit executes a process to acquire a voxel model used in a simulation. The voxel model is defined by a plurality of lattice points that constitute a collection of voxels. Each of the plurality of lattice points is associated with a label that indicates an attribute of the object at the position of the lattice point. The control unit executes a process to acquire processing information that defines the irradiation coordinates of a laser beam and the irradiation direction of the laser beam for each time step, and a process to sequentially update the labels associated with the lattice points within an area specified by the irradiation coordinates and irradiation direction to a state where additional processing has been performed, according to the time step.

To provide a sliding unit having a smaller number of components or a lower cost as compared with a conventional technique, and to provide a training device including the sliding unit.SOLUTION: A sliding unit 13 (8) according to an aspect of the present invention includes a housing 1300 that is attached to a rail so as to be slidable on the rail and slides on the rail in accordance with training of a user, a rotation unit that is rotatably attached to the housing 1300 and receives a force from a body of the user during the training, a cam 1311 that rotates in accordance with rotation of the rotation unit, and a follower member 1312 that is in contact with the cam 1311 and moves in accordance with the rotation of the cam 1311. The follower member 1312 moves the biased load transmission member 14 in a direction against the bias as the cam 1311 rotates clockwise and counterclockwise from the reference position.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 23

This application belongs to the field of computer technology and provides a method for executing test tasks of artificial intelligence models, a task compilation method, a chip, a device, and a computer device. This application pre-compiles the task to be processed of the artificial intelligence model, so that it has multiple sub-tasks that achieve performance balance. Each sub-test task in the self-test task set is assigned to the corresponding sub-task of the task to be processed. During the execution of each sub-task by the NPU of the computer device running the target application related to artificial intelligence technology, the sub-test tasks assigned to that sub-task can be executed synchronously. This realizes the efficient utilization of NPU resources and the parallel execution of self-test function safety checks. Unlike conventional technologies, it is not necessary to execute all the sub-test tasks in the self-test task set after completing a complete inference task, thereby improving the effective computing power and resource utilization of the NPU.

To provide a medical facility design support device and a medical facility design support program capable of supporting layout design capable of responding to more requests compared with a conventional technology.SOLUTION: A medical facility design support device 10 includes an acquirer 11A that acquires floor area information indicating a floor area of each of a plurality of departments installed in a target medical facility and excluding a hospital ward, building area information indicating a building area in a site where the medical facility is built, and actual state information indicating an actual state of a layout of at least a part of the plurality of departments in another medical facility, a deriver 11B that derives layout information indicating a layout of the plurality of departments for the medical facility in a case where the medical facility is built to have a plurality of floors in the site using the floor area information, the building area information, and the actual state information, and a presenter 11C that presents the layout indicated by the layout information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

To obtain an estimation apparatus and an estimation program capable of estimating a degree of deterioration of a polysulfide-based sealant with higher accuracy than conventional techniques.SOLUTION: An estimation apparatus 10 includes: an acquisition unit 11A that acquires values of two types of items being leading items that are items for which changes are confirmed during a course of deterioration, and lagging items that are items for which changes are confirmed at a time point after deterioration, through prior experiments, for a polysulfide-based sealant to be estimated; and an estimation unit 11B that estimates a degree of deterioration of the sealant by using the acquired values of the two types of items.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The present invention discloses a method -MICROREC- for installing recoverable piles or micropiles, devised to provide temporary containment, stabilisation of unstable ground or provisional structural support during the construction of walls or other retaining-and-support systems executed by sequential excavation in alternate pits ("batache" technique), or to allow the continuation of further excavation works. Unlike conventional techniques, the mwethod permits the recovery of the structural elements employed as piles or micropiles and, where applicable, of the casings, thereby markedly reducing execution costs and time while minimising environmental impact. The invention likewise affords the flexibility to use different materials, dimensions and spacings in accordance with the specific requirements of each project.

Robotic systems and methods for tank seal inspection. A tank inspection robot includes a housing containing a drive assembly, and wheels disposed outside of the housing and operably coupled to the drive assembly. The tank inspection robot also includes at least one sensor coupled to, or disposed in or on a portion of the robot, for collecting data sufficient to evaluate a health, mechanical integrity or effectiveness of one or more circumferential seals between a floating roof, and an interior wall, of a storage tank. The disclosed robot and associated method enable safer and more efficient seal inspection routines as compared to conventional techniques.

The utility model discloses a portable tea leaf picker, which relates to the technical field of pickers and comprises a thumb sleeve and an index finger sleeve. A pinching-off piece is arranged at the side end of the thumb sleeve, a stress piece is arranged on the side face of the index finger sleeve, the pinching-off piece makes contact with the stress piece to complete tea leaf picking, the index finger sleeve is worn on the index finger, the thumb sleeve is worn on the thumb, and then tea leaves are picked through a conventional technique. The pinching-off piece can serve as a thumb nail and is matched with the stress piece to complete tea leaf picking, through the structural design, the situation that the nail is injured in the long-time picking process can be avoided, the problem that tea leaf pulp permeates into the nail or skin and is difficult to clean can be solved, meanwhile, the design can be attached to fingers, and the tea leaf picking efficiency is improved. Interference on tea leaf picking techniques can be reduced, and picking efficiency is not affected.

This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for automated image segmentation of an anatomical structure such as heart. Most of the techniques in literature are using 2-D or slice by-slice data due to lightweight and need of less data for training. These networks lack 3-D contextual information. Further, the conventional techniques are inaccurate and inefficient in the 3-D image segmentation till the last slice of the image. The present disclosure solves automated 3-D image segmentation of the anatomical structure such as heart, by proposing a new Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based architecture for the 3-D segmentation, with a patch-based extraction technique and a class-weighted generalized dice loss. The proposed 3-D GAN based architecture is capable of storing the 3-D contextual information for the image segmentation of the anatomical structure, with high accuracy.

Systems and methods for non-continuous or intermittent entrapment or intermittent anchoring of elastic strands between non-woven materials using ultrasonic energy. A cutting element, e.g., on the anvil, is positioned so that when the non-woven materials with the elastic strands reach the ultrasonic horn, the strand(s) are cut or severed at that point, allowing the elastic to "snap back" toward the roller, which still pinches the elastic strands and holds them between the non-woven materials. This allows discontinuous or intermittent placement of tensioned elastic between non-woven materials, allowing strategic use of elastic while reducing overall elastic material used in a product compared to conventional techniques. Instead of cutting, other techniques allow intermittent bonding or entrapment of elastic strand portions along a product being made, such as by using ultrasonic energy amplitude cycling, ultrasonic stack force cycling, or a combination of both. Products made according to these techniques are also disclosed.

A machining center is provided, which can complete replacement of processed works on stock shelves in a work storage section with unprocessed works within a time period significantly shorter than those in conventional techniques and improve the efficiency of an entire processing process. In the machining center, a cover surrounding the work storage section includes an opening portion where rear surface regions of the stock shelves are exposed, a stock shelf access door that closes the opening portion and is driven to be opened and closed, a locking device for the stock shelf access door, a unlocking mechanism that is operable from the outer side of the cover to unlock the locking device, and a door opening / closing detection device that detects an opened or closed state of the stock shelf access door. A control unit of a CNC device includes an interlocking function of disabling the unlocking mechanism while an automatic pallet changer is driven, and a safety control function of prohibiting, based on a detection signal from the door opening / closing detection device, a drive unit of the automatic pallet changer from being driven while the stock shelf access door is in the opened state.

To provide a pressing tool capable of preferably pressing an internal obturator muscle as compared to a conventional technique.SOLUTION: A pressing tool 1 is inserted into a vagina or anus and press an internal obturator muscle, and includes: a grip part 2 gripped by a user; a long part 3 connected to the grip part 2; and a projection part 5 projecting at a position away from the grip part 2 and at a position in the vicinity of a distal end 4 of the long part 3. At least a part of the long part 3 including the distal end 4 can be inserted into the vagina or anus. In a state where at least a part of the long part 3 is inserted into the vagina or anus, the projection part 5 can press the internal obturator muscle. By placing a hip of the user on an upper surface 6 of the grip part 2, the internal obturator muscle can be pressed from the outside of the hip. Thereby, the internal obturator muscle can be pressed from the inside and outside of the body.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To provide a used tape processing device in which a risk of jamming of a used tape is reduced as compared with a conventional technique.SOLUTION: A used tape processing device includes a cutting mechanism that has a fixed blade and a movable blade that moves forward and backward with respect to the fixed blade, and cuts a used tape that is a used portion of a carrier tape discharged from a tape feeder that supplies components using the carrier tape that accommodates a plurality of components, and a slide cover that is provided integrally with the movable blade and has a guide surface in which a slit that guides movement of the used tape passing between the fixed blade and the movable blade that is moving forward and backward with respect to the fixed blade is formed in a vertical direction.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

To provide an Au alloy that includes an Au-based hypermaterial and that achieves higher hardness than the prior art while retaining a high Au content.SOLUTION: The present invention relates to a high-hardness Au alloy including an Au-rich phase and an HM phase composed of an Au-X-RE-based hypermaterial represented by the following formula. In the Au alloy according to the present invention, in a material structure at an arbitrary cross section, the Au-rich phase having an average equivalent circle diameter of 1.5 μm or less is distributed. In the above formula, X is at least one atom selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, and Sn. RE is a rare earth element. a represents a content of X in atom%, and satisfies 5≤a≤40, and b represents a content of RE in atom%, and satisfies 11≤b≤18.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

The present invention discloses a method -MICROREC- for installing recoverable piles or micropiles, devised to provide temporary containment, stabilisation of unstable ground or provisional structural support during the construction of walls or other retaining-and-support systems executed by sequential excavation in alternate pits ("batache" technique), or to allow the continuation of further excavation works. Unlike conventional techniques, the mwethod permits the recovery of the structural elements employed as piles or micropiles and, where applicable, of the casings, thereby markedly reducing execution costs and time while minimising environmental impact. The invention likewise affords the flexibility to use different materials, dimensions and spacings in accordance with the specific requirements of each project.

The disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for automated personalized de-stressor recommendation based on stressor estimation. Conventional techniques for detecting the stress and the stressors are mostly manual and employ only some of the influencing parameters such as physiological parameters, behavioral parameters, and so on, thus leading to inaccurate detection of stressors. The present disclosure solves the technical problems in the art by detecting the stress using multi-model evaluation design including physiological changes, psychological changes, behavioral changes, environmental changes, and a bio-chemical indicator. Next, the stressors related to stress detection are identified using a large language model (LLM), which correlates with stress patterns to create a personalized model. Then, appropriate de-stressors are recommended using a recommendation lookup table.

The invention relates to a method for testing the compressive mechanical property of a concrete interface transition area in the three-axis direction, which comprises the following steps: firstly, placing an aggregate model in a mold, pouring mortar, and curing and forming; taking out the aggregate model, taking a plane, in contact with the aggregate model, on the formed mortar as a z-direction detection surface, taking the z-direction detection surface as a starting surface, dividing a cuboid area with a certain thickness as a to-be-detected area, and in the to-be-detected area, taking a surface adjacent to the z-direction detection surface in the length direction as an x-direction detection surface, a surface adjacent to the z-direction detection surface in the width direction is a y-direction detection surface; and finally, testing the hardness and elastic modulus of the x-direction detection surface, the y-direction detection surface and the z-direction detection surface by using a nanoindentation technology. Compared with the prior art, the method overcomes the defect that the ITZ mechanical property in the three-axis direction cannot be tested in the conventional technology, the result is accurate and reliable, and the method has important significance on concrete ITZ research.

To evaluate a vortex state by a simple procedure as compared with a conventional technique.SOLUTION: A calculation step of calculating, based on an input parameter related to a range including a suction port of a pump, an output parameter that can be associated with a physical variable including at least one of a physical quantity related to the range and an amount of calculation calculated from the physical quantity, and a time variable indicating a change over time of the physical variable, and when an explanatory variable that can be associated with the physical variable is input, giving an input based on the output parameter calculated in the calculation step to a learned model that outputs an evaluation related to a state of a vortex in the range; And an output step of outputting a time-series evaluation result based on the evaluation relating to the temporal change in the state of the vortex in the evaluation step and the time variable included in the output parameter.SELECTED DRAWING: None

To provide a sliding unit having a smaller number of components or a lower cost as compared with a conventional technique, and to provide a training device including the sliding unit.SOLUTION: A sliding unit 13 according to an aspect of the present invention includes a housing 1300 slidably attached to a rail of a training apparatus and configured to slide on the rail in accordance with training of a user, a rotating part 1301 rotatably attached to the housing 1300 and configured to receive force from a body of the user during training, a bevel gear 1302 attached to a rotation shaft of the rotating part 1301, a bevel gear 1303 engaged with the bevel gear 1302, a crank 1304 attached to a rotation shaft of the bevel gear 1303 and configured to rotate in accordance with rotation of the bevel gear 1303, and a coupling member 1305 configured to couple the crank 1304 and a load transmission member 14.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

To provide an encryption / decryption system, a decryption device and a decryption program for embedding information invisible to a human being in an image visible to the human being, and for reading the invisible information without making it necessary to add any component as compared with a conventional technology.SOLUTION: A smartphone 1 as a decoding device includes reading means C11 for reading an embedded image in which a pattern image in which a first periodic pattern is allocated to a place where a cell value of a two dimensional code is high and a second periodic pattern is allocated to a place where the cell value is low is embedded, ternarization means C12 for reducing an influence of the embedded image from a read image 51, emphasis processing means C13 for emphasizing one of the first periodic pattern and the second periodic pattern and attenuating the other with respect to an image after ternarization processing, interference-fringe elimination processing means C14 for eliminating an interference-fringe from the image after the emphasis processing, and decoding means C15 for decoding the two dimensional code from the image subjected to the interference-fringe elimination processing.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

The disclosure relates generally to methods and systems to synergize context of end-user with quality-of-experience (QoE) of live video feed. Conventional techniques mostly lack synergy between encoder / decoder and underlying protocol, and they mostly employ motion vector-based encoding, thereby making them not so suitable for latency critical application. In most of the telepresence / teleoperation based live video streaming applications, at a time user's attention is focused on certain region of streamed video and not the entire frame. But most of existing techniques under challenges network conditions, undermine quality evenly throughout frame without giving importance to end-user's instantaneous region of interest. Existing mechanisms that try to alleviate this problem using foveated rendering are computationally expensive hence cannot be deployed easily on real life robotics platforms. The present disclosure attempts to alleviate all above challenges through end-user foveation centric spatio-temporal bitrate adaptation scheme tightly entangled with underlying protocol to achieve dynamic foveated rendering.

Techniques enabling natural language explanations of fault diagnoses are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving requests associated with a fault within a process system and applying a large language model (LLM) to the requests. Applying the LLM includes querying a symbolic engine based on the requests. The symbolic engine constrains responses output by the LLM based on a system graph associated with the process system. Applying the LLM also includes receiving, from the symbolic engine, an inferential sequence corresponding to the fault that is represented within the system graph and determining a response to at least one of the requests based on the inferential sequence. The example method further includes storing one or more data objects indicating each of the responses. These disclosed techniques improve over conventional techniques by integrating LLMs into the fault diagnostics process and simultaneously reducing / eliminating model hallucinations to increase the accuracy of all LLM outputs.

To provide an image forming apparatus in a new form developed from a conventional technique.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus allowing removable mounting of a cartridge comprises: a rotary including a storage section that stores developer supplied from the cartridge, and a developing section that develops an electrostatic latent image on a photoreceptor to form a developer image by using the developer stored in the storage section; a frame body that accommodates the rotary; a moving device that moves the cartridge in a retreat direction from a mounted position toward a retreat position; a control section that controls the moving device; and a reading unit that has a portion to be supported supported on the frame body and rotates about the portion to be supported as the center of rotation. When an end on the upstream side of the rotary in the retreat direction is defined as a rotary upstream end, the portion to be supported is upstream of the rotary upstream end in the retreat direction.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 17

To provide a sliding unit having a smaller number of components or a lower cost as compared with a conventional technique, and to provide a training device including the sliding unit.SOLUTION: A sliding unit 13 (14) includes a rotating part 1301 for receiving force of a user, and bevel gears 1302, 1303 for transmitting the rotation. A pinion 1318 is driven by the rotation of the bevel gear, and a first rack 1319 and a second rack 1320 sandwiching the pinion are operated. Depending on the direction of rotation, the hook (1322 or 1323) connected to one of the racks selectively pulls the shaft member 1321 connected to the load transmission member 14 to generate a load.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 41

The utility model provides a dismounting device which is used for dismounting a hollow transmission shaft of a rock drill, a convex key is arranged on the inner circumferential surface of the hollow transmission shaft of the rock drill, the dismounting device comprises a positioning sleeve, a transition sleeve, a supporting rod, a guide rod and a hammer handle, convex teeth are arranged on the surface of the positioning sleeve, one end of the supporting rod is in threaded connection with the positioning sleeve, and the other end of the supporting rod is in threaded connection with the transition sleeve. The other end of the supporting rod is in threaded connection with one end of the transition sleeve, the other end of the transition sleeve is in threaded connection with one end of the guide rod, the other end of the guide rod is fixedly connected with the first bearing platform, and the guide rod further penetrates through the hammer handle. By the adoption of the technical scheme, when the device is used, the direction of operating force applied by an operator is completely different from that of a conventional technique in the prior art, the hollow transmission shaft of the rock drill is evenly stressed, damage to a bearing and other parts caused by the operating force can be avoided, and the device can be repeatedly used for multiple times and is convenient to use. And the application range is wider.

Systems and methods described herein are configured to estimate nominal stress using finite element (FE) stress calculations, without hand calculations, specific mesh density requirements, or identifying specific geometric parameters such as plate thickness. The systems and methods described herein may be utilized to identify nominal stress in welded structures and components, and also in non-welded components that have stress raisers due to other causes. The systems and methods described herein also allow readily available FE stress results to be utilized in a consistent manner, as well as providing user feedback regarding the accuracy of the nominal stress approximations. Furthermore, the systems and methods described herein are generally faster and less error prone than conventional techniques, and are relatively insensitive to mesh density of the FE stress calculations.

Various embodiments include techniques for parallel encoding of multiple rows of a media frame. The disclosed video encoder includes multiple controllers, where each controller encodes components, or blocks, included in a different row of a media frame. Each of the controllers encodes the respective blocks of the different rows by sending commands and data to different encoding resources that each perform different encoding functions. The controllers have concurrent and independent access to the encoding resources. As a result, the controllers can access any encoding resource to perform encoding functions without regard to what other encoding resources are performing encoding functions for other controllers. As a result, utilization of encoding resources is increased, and encoding performance is improved, relative to conventional techniques.