8245 results about "Fully automatic" patented technology

A system and method use computer image processing for setting the parameters for an image acquisition device of a camera. The image parameters are set automatically by analyzing the image to be taken, and setting the controls according to the subject matter, in the same manner as an expert photographer would be able to. The system can run in a fully automatic mode choosing the best image parameters, or a "guided mode" where the user is prompted with choices where a number of alternate settings would be reasonable.

Visual methods and systems are described for detecting alertness and vigilance of persons under conditions of fatigue, lack of sleep, and exposure to mind altering substances such as alcohol and drugs. In particular, the intention can have particular applications for truck drivers, bus drivers, train operators, pilots and watercraft controllers and stationary heavy equipment operators, and students and employees during either daytime or nighttime conditions. The invention robustly tracks a person's head and facial features with a single on-board camera with a fully automatic system, that can initialize automatically, and can reinitialize when it need's to and provide outputs in realtime. The system can classify rotation in all viewing direction, detects' eye/mouth occlusion, detects' eye blinking, and recovers the 3D(three dimensional) gaze of the eyes. In addition, the system is able to track both through occlusion like eye blinking and also through occlusion like rotation. Outputs can be visual and sound alarms to the driver directly. Additional outputs can slow down the vehicle cause and/or cause the vehicle to come to a full stop. Further outputs can send data on driver, operator, student and employee vigilance to remote locales as needed for alarms and initiating other actions.

An emergency medical kit for use, particularly by a non-professional, to render emergency medical treatment to a patient, includes: a pressurized-oxygen container within a housing; a face mask within the housing for application to the face of a patient requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and a respiratory pump within the housing connected to the pressurized-oxygen container so as to be driven thereby to supply oxygen to the mask for inhalation by the patient, and to discharge the exhalations of the patient via the face mask to the atmosphere. The face mask includes an inflatable seal around its circumference engageable with the face of the patient receiving the mask for sealing the interior of the mask; a pressure sensor sensing the pressure in the inflatable seal; and an indicator for indicating whether the face mask is properly applied to the face of the patient. The kit further includes a neck rest having straps for attaching the face mask thereto in contact with the patient's face when the patient's head is placed on the head rest. According to a most essential aspect of the invention there is provided an emergency, fully automatic kit, based on non-invasive means for performing all stages of the “chain of survival” (including: external defibrillation, ventilation and automatic chest compression) by a single operator.

Apparatus for and method of fully automatic rapid scanning and digitizing of an entire microscope sample, or a substantially large portion of a microscope sample, using a linear array detector synchronized with a positioning stage that is part of a computer controlled microscope slide scanner. The invention provides a method for composing the image strips obtained from successive scans of the sample into a single contiguous digital image. The invention also provides a method for statically displaying sub-regions of this large digital image at different magnifications, together with a reduced magnification macro-image of the entire sample. The invention further provides a method for dynamically displaying, with or without operator interaction, portions of the contiguous digital image. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, all elements of the scanner are part of a single-enclosure that has a primary connection to the Internet or to a local intranet. In this embodiment, the preferred sample type is a microscope slide and the illumination and imaging optics are consistent with transmission mode optics optimized for diffraction-limited digital imaging.

FIG. 1 is a diagram of an unmanned, fully automatic, security installation with electronic pan and tilt functions, the focal plane array based motion sensor (120) of the hybrid simultaneous-mode MPEG X/JPEG X security video camera (100) is positioned to capture moving suspects, the moving suspect (800) is shown, the local area network (LAN) cable (804) is shown leading away from the hybrid MPEG X/JPEG X security video camera (100), a security room personal computer viewing station (808) is shown, lastly a digital computer tape video logging station (816) is shown.

The invention relates to an automatic parking system. The automatic parking system comprises an environment acquisition sensor used for detecting the surrounding environment of a vehicle, and sending the acquired data to a central processing unit, a human-computer interaction unit used for providing an interface for observing the surrounding environment information of the vehicle and interacting with the system by a driver, the central processing unit used for creating a parking environment map according to the received surrounding environment data of the vehicle and sending the parking environment map to the human-computer interaction unit, planning an expected parking path according to the received parking space selection information of the driver, the acquired actual position information of the vehicle and the parking environment map and sending the expected parking path to a bottom-layer control module, and the bottom-layer control module used for triggering the vehicle to carry out a corresponding operation according to the expected parking path sent by the central processing unit, so as to finish parking. The fully-automatic parking technology disclosed by the invention solves the problems that a parking space is narrow and a common driver difficulty parks the vehicle in place, which are brought by an urbanization process, and has a re-planning capacity.

In a method and operating system for conducting a surgical intervention, respective position sensors are mounted at a laparoscope and a surgical instrument used to conduct the intervention, and a navigation system is supplied with orientation information from these position sensors. Based on this orientation information, the navigation system automatically controls a robot arm, to which the laparoscope is mounted, to always maintain the surgical instrument in the field of view of the laparoscope.

An automatic frying apparatus (100) for both deep and shallow frying. Frying apparatus (100) comprises a container (102) having an inner cylindrical wall (102b) installed on the central bottom thereof, so as to emanate from the bottom to substantially the upper portion of container (102) for holding foods and oil, a lid (104) covering on top of container (102), a plurality of stirring blades (108) rotatably and removably installed inside container (102) for stirring foods, a power-drive assembly (110) operationally coupled with blades (108) for driving blades (108) through repeating stirring cycles, a coupling device (106) for coupling in between assembly (110) and blades (108), a venting device (200) for filtering and deodorizing cooking fumes, and a blowing device (202) for forcing fresh air into frying apparatus (100) for moisture removal from thereinside. Blades (108) sweep across food pieces intermittently, such that blades (108) dwell for a predetermined dwell period starting near the end of each stirring cycle. This intermittent operation favors better agitation of food pieces and affords relief from constant stirring of food pieces at a higher speed. Food pieces are partially immersed in the boiling oil, and therefore, less oil is required for frying foods, thereby, causing less energy consumption, less fat absorption by the food, less time for cooking, and less used oil for disposal. The frying process is fully automatic and requires minimal human involvement and chore.

A fully automatic bar code symbol reading system comprising an automatic (i.e., triggerless) portable bar code symbol reading device with an omni-directional laser scanning engine mounted within the head portion of its hand-supportable housing, and an associated base unit positioned within the data transmission range thereof without a physical wiring connection thereto.

The invention relates to an appliance for opening and closing a reagent-container stopper in a partially or fully automatic analysis apparatus, and to the method, which is applied by means of this appliance, for opening and closing a reagent-container stopper in a partially or fully automatic analysis appliance.

The invention discloses fully-automatic spray coating equipment, which comprises a ground track type conveying chain, a cooling and dedusting device, a spray coating system, an infrared curing furnace, a cooling furnace, an ultraviolet curing furnace, an automatic discharging mechanical arm, an air supply and exhaust system and a control system. The ground track type conveying chain winds along awaist-like line and conducts closed circulating conveying of workpieces; the cooling and dedusting equipment cools and dedusts the workpieces; the spray coating system performs spray coating on the workpieces; the infrared curing furnace performs the infrared curing of the spray-coated workpieces; the cooling furnace is used for cooling the workpieces; the ultraviolet curing furnace is used for ultraviolet curing of the workpieces; the automatic discharging mechanical arm catches and unloads the workpieces; the air supply and exhaust system is arranged above the ground track type conveying chain and is used for supplying air to and exhausting all equipment; and the control system is electrically connected with all components and controls the operation of the components. The high automation degree of the fully-automatic spray coating equipment is high, the spraying effect of the fully-automatic spray coating equipment is desirable, and when the fully-automatic spray coating equipment is used, production space can be saved greatly.

A method for processing data in an inertial navigation system having a Kalman filter and computer-readable storage medium containing instructions to configure a processor to perform the same. The method produces more accurate estimates of the position, velocity and attitude of the inertial measurement unit. The method is fully automatic and enables zero-velocity updates and fixed-azimuth updates to be performed simultaneously. The method may also include a multi-stage filtering process to filter digital compass data when used in an environment with extraterrestrial magnetic field sources. The method may also include a fixed-lag smoother to improve estimates of the position, velocity and attitude of the inertial measurement unit. The method also may include processes to constrain altitude errors.

A fully automatic motor driven curtain drawing apparatus which is of a simple, but highly reliable design and one which can be easily adjusted to accommodate windows of widely differing sizes. They can be opened either manually or by an electric motor which can be remotely energized. A timer and a sensor are operably connected to the electric motor and function to energize the motor either at a predetermined time or in response to the sensor sensing daylight and dark.

The invention relates to an enzyme-linked immune analysis method and a fully-automatic enzyme-linked immune analyzer. The analyzer comprises a rack component, a washing component, a sample adding/reagent adding component, a heating and temperature control component, a fluid path system, an input and output device, an optical measurement component and a control system, wherein the rack component comprises a rack soleplate; a pillar is arranged on the rack soleplate; a lower fixed plate and an upper fixed plate are arranged on the pillar from bottom to top in sequence; a circular reaction plate is arranged between the lower fixed plate and the upper fixed plate; the circular reaction plate is connected with the upper fixed plate and the lower fixed plate through a central shaft; a first motor is fixedly arranged at the lower part of the lower fixed plate; and the first motor is used for driving the circular reaction plate to rotate through a first transmission mechanism. When in use, the enzyme-linked immune analysis method and the fully-automatic enzyme-linked immune analyzer can carry out the detection of corresponding projects without wasting reagent through only one sample; and detection reagents need not to be respectively contained in different reagent bottles, so that the operation is very convenient, and the operation error is not easily caused, thereby ensuring the accuracy of the detection results.

The invention relates to a method for generating a three-dimensional road model, which belongs to the field of three-dimensional road modeling. The method comprises the following steps: (1) collecting the data of the center line of a road to obtain the two-dimensional node data of the center line of the road; (2) resolving the structural characteristic of the road and constructing a road model; (3) separating out the node data of the center lines of a common road section and an intersection from the two-dimensional data of the center line of the road; (4) modeling the node data by invoking the road model to generate the characteristic point data of the edges of the common road section and the intersection; (5) connecting each point corresponding to the characteristic point data of the edges to generate a road model of a three-dimensional grid; and (6) sticking a corresponding texture onto the generated road model of the three-dimensional grid according to the attribute data of the road to obtain a three-dimensional solid model of the road. The invention also provides a system for generating the three-dimensional road model. According to the method for generating the three-dimensional road model, which is disclosed by the invention, the three-dimensional road model is generated in a fully automatic way, the manual intervention is avoided, and the modeling efficiency is enhanced.

Segmenting the prostate boundary is essential in determining the dose plan needed for a successful bracytherapy procedure—an effective and commonly used treatment for prostate cancer. However, manual segmentation is time consuming and can introduce inter and intra-operator variability. This present invention describes an algorithm for segmenting the prostate from two dimensional ultrasound (2D US) images, which can be full-automatic, with some assumptions of image acquisition. Segmentation begins with the user assuming the center of the prostate to be at the center of the image for the fully-automatic version. The image is then filtered to identify prostate edge candidates. The next step removes most of the false edges and keeps as many true edges as possible. Then, domain knowledge is used to remove any prostate boundary candidates that are probably false edge pixels. The image is then scanned along radial lines and only the first-detected boundary candidates are kept the final step includes the removal of some remaining false edge pixels by fitting a polynomial to the image points and removing the point with the maximum distance from the fit. The resulting candidate edges form an initial model that is then deformed using the Discrete Dynamic Contour (DDC) model to obtain a closed contour of the prostate boundary.

The present invention provides methods, compositions and systems for the analysis of imaging data, in particular, whole-animal imaging data acquired using microCT. Included in the invention are methods for registering and comparing test images to one or more reference images to identify and analyze anatomical features of interest. Also provided by the invention are methods and systems for efficient, semi-automatic and fully automatic methods for generating morphological statistics for anatomical features contained in imaging data. Libraries of images, including raw data acquired from imaging apparatuses as well as processed images, are also encompassed by the present invention.