2206 results about "Equipment computers" patented technology

A method for providing force feedback over a network supporting TCP/IP protocols by: (a) sending from a client computer over a network supporting TCP/IP protocols, a connection request to a web server connected to the network that is hosting a desired URL; (b) receiving and processing an HTML file at the client computer that was sent from the web server in response to the connection request, wherein the processing includes parsing an embedded force object reference having associated parameters and building a force object therefrom; (c) developing a force feedback signal with the force object; and (d) providing force feedback to a human/computer interface device coupled to the client computer in response to the force feedback signal. A networked force feedback system of the present invention includes a network, a first computer coupled to the network, and a second computer coupled to the network, where the second computer includes a visual display and a human/computer interface device capable of providing a second computer input and providing force feedback in response to a force feedback signal provided by the second computer. The second computer develops an image on the visual display that is associated with stored feedback information, such that the second computer produces the force feedback signal in response to at least one of information derived from the first computer and of the second computer input.

Apparatuses, computer readable media, and methods establishing and maintaining trust between security devices for distributing media content are provided. Two security devices bind to establish an initial trust so that security information can be exchanged. Subsequently, trust is refreshed to verify the source of a message is valid. In an embodiment, the security devices may comprise a security processor and a system on a chip (SoC) in a downloadable conditional access system. Trust may be refreshed by a security device inserting authentication information in a message to another security device, where authentication information may assume different forms, including a digital signature (asymmetric key) or a hash message authentication code (HMAC). Trust may also be refreshed by extracting header information from the message, determining state information from at least one parameter contained in the header information, and acting on message content only when the state information is valid.

A vehicle management method and system is able to monitor and manage a fleet of vehicles with high efficiency and low cost. The management method includes the steps of providing a radio transmitter connected to a vehicle navigation system in each vehicle, providing a radio transmitter connected to a facility computer in a vehicle management facility, receiving information regarding use of a vehicle by the vehicle navigation system from the facility computer which is transmitted through the radio transmitters, monitoring usage of the vehicle and storing data thereof in a memory, and sending the stored data to the facility computer through the radio transmitters.

A mobile communication terminal, an electronic device, a computer program product, and a method of controlling including receiving a control signal for controlling a predetermined area; and controlling a size and an operating mode of a screen by the control signal. Therefore, various operation modes can be easily selected, and a plurality of touch signals can be recognized and processed.

Systems for connecting telecommunications infrastructure lines to telephones, handsets, computers, telecopy machines and other end user interfaces or consumer electronics devices in a residence or business. Systems according to the present invention include Network Control Units which form the center of a star topology and which communicate via RF link with Wireless Access Units and handsets. Wireless Access Units feature an interface, such as, for example, a standard telephone jack, for accommodating a telephone, a fax machine, a compute modem or other device. Computers or other devices may also be accommodated by Wireless Access Units having other physical and virtual interfaces, including, for instance, serial ports or network interfaces. The Wireless Access Units may also be digital to accommodate ISDN or any other digital standard. Wireless control/monitoring accessories may also be employed to communicate with the Network Control Unit and provide additional functionality such as entrance monitoring, baby monitoring, HVAC control and other services.

A personal computer is provided comprising a network communication interface configured to communicate with the Internet. The computer further includes a memory device configured to store information and computer-executable program code. The computer further includes a processor operatively coupled to the network communication interface and the memory device. The processor and the computer-executable program code are both configured to provide enhanced security features for safeguarding financial transactions conducted over the Internet and for safeguarding non-public information stored in the memory from being retrieved over the Internet by an unauthorized entity. The computer further includes indicia attached to the computer. The indicia is visible to a potential user of the computer and is configured to portray to the potential user of the computer that the computer is specifically designed and built to provide increased security for financial transactions handled over the Internet.

A system and a method are disclosed for an system that includes a computer with a display unit running the client application software with attached plurality of capture devices for recording audio, video and snapshot (video or computer display monitor) content. A computer keyboard or a tablet is used to control the recording or snapshot of the dynamic classroom content. The client computer may be placed in a classroom and is connected via a network (Internet or LAN/WAN) to a server computer for publishing or remotely storing a “primitive” data session. The client software allows the authorized student or instructor to add additional static content, edit the consolidated content and publish the “primitive” or “organized” data session, which results in enhanced, collaborative content development.

A storage device that includes: an address table; a cache memory; a flash memory device being a storage medium for user data; and a control circuit that is in charge of access management for the flash memory device. In the storage device, the control circuit makes access to the user data on the flash memory device via an address table, in the address table, with an index of an address value generated from an initial logical address, location information is acquired for the user data on the flash memory device corresponding to the index, and the address table is segmented in its entirety into a plurality of small address tables for every area of the index, and the small address tables being segmentation results are stored in the flash memory device, read as required when the user data is accessed, and expanded on the cache memory with entries of the small address tables.

A device, computer program product and a method for searching, navigating or retrieving documents in a set of electronic documents, including performing a link analysis of the set of electronic documents. The link analysis includes one of analyzing at least two of the set of documents with at least a portion of a similarity graph constructed among the set of documents and analyzing the at least two of the set of documents with the at least a portion of the similarity graph and at least a portion of a hyperlink graph constructed from hyperlinks between the set of documents. Also described is a method for building a similarity matrix.

A monitoring system for monitoring processing equipment includes a controller which emits control signals to control the processing equipment. A computer is coupled to the controller. The computer records the control signals emitted by the controller and records status signals received from sensors mounted on the processing equipment. The computer represents the processing equipment as a number of individual cyclical units. Each cyclical unit has an identical sequence of operations during every cycle. The computer also records, for each cycle of every unit, information corresponding to whether the unit has started and completed the cycle.

A storage device enabling realization of a new storage configuration enabling apparent elimination of the overhead and enabling high speed access all the time particularly when constructing a high parallel configured high speed flash memory system, that is, a storage device having a flash memory as a main storage and having the function of rewriting at least a partial region of the flash memory by additional writing update data in an empty region and invalidating original data and, at the time of standby of the device where there is no access from the outside, performing processing for automatically restoring the invalidated region to an empty region, and a computer system and a storage system using the same.

A system, device, computer program product, and method provide authentication of a user to a service provider. The system includes a service provider, a terminal, and a network that allows communication between the service provider and the terminal. The terminal includes a memory, a communication interface, a processor, and an Identity Provider (IDP) application. The communication interface is configured to receive an authentication request from a service provider wherein the authentication request includes an acceptable identity provider and to send the authentication request to the acceptable identity provider if the acceptable identity provider matches a supported identity provider stored in the memory of the terminal. The processor is coupled to the communication interface and to the memory and executes the IDP application. The IDP application is configured to compare the acceptable identity provider with the supported identity provider stored in the memory.

This invention can perform a developing process or editing process, with a high response, for raw image obtained by image sensing by a digital camera or the like. When, therefore, raw image data is input, an extraction area in the raw image data is determined on the basis of the size of an image display area in which a processed image is displayed and a magnification set at this time. A developing process is then performed for partial raw image data in the determined area, and the resultant data is displayed in the image display area.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for determining a patient's condition. A system for determining a patient's condition, in one embodiment, comprises a computer processor device, an interface between the computer processor and one or more patient monitoring devices, and a software program configured to interpret patient input data, diagnose the patient's condition, and recommend treatment options. A method for determining a patient's condition may comprise receiving patient data from one or more patient monitoring devices, consulting a treatment database, determining a diagnosis, and converting a diagnosis into a treatment.

The present invention provides a navigation apparatus, a computer program and a screen control method that can reduce the amount of power to be consumed by screen display operations while information is properly displayed on the screen for a user. When the information to be provided to the user is displayed on the screen of a display device, a system control device determines whether the situation allows the driver to look at the screen of the display device, on the basis of vehicle moving conditions such as the vehicle speed, the traveling direction, and the angle of a turn of the steering wheel detected by a GPS receiving device and various sensors, or map data. If the system control device determines that the situation does not allow the driver to look at the screen, a display control device reduces the luminance of the screen of the display device.

Apparatuses, a computer program product and a method for controlling a bit rate of a digital image encoder. The bit rate controller includes a target cumulative distribution function computing mechanism predicting the number of encoded bits resulting from an encoding to be performed in the encoder; a counter mechanism counting the number of encoded bits resulting from the encoding; a check mechanism forming an error term from a comparison between a value of the counter and a corresponding value of the target cumulative distribution function; and a bit rate control mechanism adjusting a quantization parameter of the encoding to be continued on the basis of the error term.

A system and a method for multimedia data analysis. The system includes a computing device. The computer device includes a processor and a storage device storing computer executable code. The computer executable code, when executed at the processor, is configured to: encode task description and task meta info into concatenated task vectors; encode context text and context meta info into concatenated context text vectors; encode context image and the context meta info into concatenated context image vectors; perform dual coattention on the concatenated task vectors and the concatenated context text and image vectors to obtain attended task vectors and attended context vectors; perform BiLSTM on the attended task vectors and the attended context vectors to obtain task encoding and context encoding; and decode the task encoding and the context encoding to obtain an answer to the task.

Apparatus, computer instructions and method for processing seismic data related to a subsurface of a body of water. The method includes inputting data indicative of recordings made by detectors provided on a curved profile in response to an acoustic wave reflected from the subsurface; applying a matched mirror migration procedure to the data, where (i) actual positions of the detectors on the curved profile and corresponding recordings, and (ii) fictitious mirror positions of the actual detectors on the curved profile and corresponding recordings with a changed sign are added in the matched mirror migration; and generating a final image of the subsurface based on the matched mirror migration procedure.

A method and structure for analyzing the effect of electrical noise in an integrated circuit fabricated in a silicon-on-insulator ("SOI") technology. The present invention uses a static noise analysis to evaluate an integrated circuit's response to electrical noise, taking into account hysteresis effect and parasitic bipolar current voltage, both of which are unique to integrated circuits fabricated in a SOI technology process. The present invention also includes a computer, computer storage device, computer program and software incorporating the method steps and simulating the testing and analysis of the circuit under test.

Apparatuses, a computer program product and a method for digital image quality improvement. A digital image quality improvement unit includes an input interface to obtain edge pixels of a pixel domain target block and edge pixels of pixel domain blocks adjacent to the pixel domain target block; a processing unit coupled with the input interface to form a frequency domain substitute block from the edge pixels of the pixel domain target block and the edge pixels of the pixel domain blocks adjacent to the pixel domain target block and to form a pixel domain substitute block from the frequency domain substitute block; and an output interface coupled with the processing unit to place the pixel domain substitute block in position of the pixel domain target block.

The invention discloses a text classification method and device, and relates to the technical field of artificial intelligence. The method comprises the steps of performing word segmentation processing on a to-be-classified text to obtain a word segmentation set corresponding to the to-be-classified text; conducting vectorization processing on the word segmentation set according to a preset word vector dictionary, acquiring a word vector set corresponding to the text to be classified and fursing the word vector dictionary with fast text vectors and word embedding vectors corresponding to segmented words; predicting a category label on a word vector set corresponding to the to-be-classified text through a preset label prediction model, acquiring the label prediction model through training according to the training set and a test set, and the test set is used for correcting error data in the training set; and obtaining a prediction result output by the label prediction model, wherein theprediction result corresponds to a text category corresponding to the to-be-classified text. The text classification accuracy can be greatly improved.

The invention discloses a kind of radio-frequency identifying computer security locking authentication system and method. The system includes host computer and sub active terminal, in which the host computer includes security locking controller and the first radio-frequency identifying device; the sub active terminal includes the second radio-frequency identifying device, the first radio-frequency identifying device including the first radio-frequency identifying security locking certification unit and connected with the security locking controller and used for interacting with the sub active terminal on the radio-frequency identifying link and carrying out the security locking certification with the sub active terminal by the host computer certificate; the second radio-frequency identifying device includes the second radio-frequency identifying security locking certification unit, used for interacting with the host computer on the radio-frequency identifying link and carrying out the security locking certification with the host computer by the sub active terminal certificate, controlling the security locking of the computer power disconnect switch when the switch is in resting state. It can carry out the computer security locking authentication.

An apparatus and method is provided for substantially reducing the possibility that a message received at a computer terminal during an instant messaging conversation will become accessible to unintended viewers. A useful embodiment is directed to an arrangement wherein a computer terminal at a first client work station is disposed to receive chat messages from a second client work station during an instant messaging conversation. Apparatus associated with the computer terminal for limiting access to the received chat messages includes a device for attaching a security identifier to each received chat message. A display device at the computer terminal generates a window that selectively provides a specified one of the chat messages in viewable form. A concealment device coupled to the display device is-operable to make the specified chat message unviewable on the display device. A component connected to the concealment device activates the concealment device when a prespecified event occurs.

There is provided a terminal device comprising a processing unit for controlling the functions of the terminal device, a communication unit for communicating with one or more communication devices, and a user interface. The communication unit is configured to query for nearby communication devices utilising wireless local connectivity technologies, and to detect the proximity range parameters of each queried communication device at predetermined times; the processing unit is configured to update a proximity overlap duration value of each queried communication device on the basis of the detected proximity range parameters of the queried communication devices at the predetermined times; and the user interface is configured to indicate information related to the updated proximity overlap duration values of one or more queried communication devices.