8257 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.

The invention relates to a fully-automatic mahjong machine comprising a board sending system, a board loading system, a board lifting system and a large shuffling disc. The board sending system comprises four board sending mechanisms, each board sending mechanism comprises a transmission rack, and a board sending motor, a board absorbing wheel, a transmission belt, a transmission platform, a board inlet guiding piece and a board outlet guiding piece fixed on the transmission rack; a board sending channel is arranged at the upper end of the transmission platform, the board absorbing wheel is tightly attached at the lower end of a board inlet opening of the board sending channel, the board inlet guiding piece is positioned above the board absorbing wheel, the board outlet guiding piece is positioned at a board outlet opening of the board inlet channel, the board sending motor is used for driving a motor guiding wheel, the motor guiding wheel is positioned below the transmission platform, and the transmission belt loops the motor guiding wheel, the board absorbing wheel and the transmission platform. In the invention, for the mahjong boards with different widths, the board sending mechanism of the mahjong machine can run normally by only replacing the corresponding board inlet guiding piece and the board outlet guiding piece, and a transmission rack cover does not need to be changed, so that the operation is simple and convenient, and the board inlet guiding piece and the board outlet guiding piece has extremely low production cost relative to the transmission rack cover.

The present invention is used for the complete and fully automatic examination of floor surfaces of all kind as well as for a particularly efficient suction of dust therefrom since the lower areas, the edges and the recessed can be detected. In each case, the robot is controlled so as to explore the adjacent area and to detect the potential obstacles using special sensors before storing them in a data field. The displacement towards a new location is then carried out using the stored data until the whole accessible surface has been covered. One of the main constituent members of the robot consists of an extensible arm that rests on the robot and on which contact and range sensors are arranged. When the robot is used as an automatic vacuum cleaner, an air flow is forced into the robot arm and the -cleaning effect can further be enhanced by providing one or more Circular rotary brushes at the front end of the arm. This invention can essentially be used for domestic or industrial Cleaning purposed with a view to replace traditional vacuum cleaners.

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.

The present invention is a portable fully automatic cooking system which can automatically prepare food items as per the user's demand ‘by using recipes files, data and cooking centric algorithm software stored in user interface device or by downloading the needed recipe from remote server. This machine unit of system can be controlled by any kind of computation device, laptop, tablet, computer, smart phone etc for cooking, recording, managing which satisfies hardware and software requirement standards of system which user can control and command through physical presence or from remote location. Machine unit stores various ingredients inside it and demands for chief ingredients and cooks recipes in accordance with recipe using custom developed artificial intelligence. The scalability and flexibility of machine design, structure, components and positioning makes automated cooking possible, efficient and most practical. The capability to add custom vessels, modules and attachments adds extended efficiency in automated cooking.

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.

The invention relates to a brick making machine, in particular to a fully automatic hydroform and intelligent stacking device for bricks. The device comprises a brick molding press, a stacking robot, an automatic feeding machine, a steam curing bogie and an electric control device, and has the following structural key points that the stacking robot is arranged between the brick molding press and the automatic feeding machine; the automatic feeding machine carries out positioning and feeding for the steam curing bogie; and the electric control device is connected with the drive device and the sensor of each part through electric circuits. Thus, through the programmed instructions in a PLC module of the electric control device, action interlocking of the brick molding press, the stacking robot and the automatic feeding machine is realized so as to ensure action coordination among each part and realize automatic production during the entire working procedure from feeding raw materials into a material frame for distribution to outputting full bogies of green bricks; in addition, a stacking manipulator directly enters into the brick molding press to clean green bricks, and directly piles up the green bricks on the steam curing bogie, thereby reducing the carrying times of the green bricks, improving the quality of the green bricks, shortening production cycle and increasing production efficiency.

The invention relates to a brick making machine, in particular to a fully automatic hydroform and intelligent stacking device for bricks. The device comprises a brick molding press, a stacking robot, an automatic feeding machine, a steam curing bogie and an electric control device, and has the following structural key points that the stacking robot is arranged between the brick molding press and the automatic feeding machine; the automatic feeding machine carries out positioning and feeding for the steam curing bogie; and the electric control device is connected with the drive device and the sensor of each part through electric circuits. Thus, through the programmed instructions in a PLC module of the electric control device, action interlocking of the brick molding press, the stacking robot and the automatic feeding machine is realized so as to ensure action coordination among each part and realize automatic production during the entire working procedure from feeding raw materials into a material frame for distribution to outputting full bogies of green bricks; in addition, a stacking manipulator directly enters into the brick molding press to clean green bricks, and directly piles up the green bricks on the steam curing bogie, thereby reducing the carrying times of the green bricks, improving the quality of the green bricks, shortening production cycle and increasing production efficiency.

A fully automatic deionizer comprising five sub-systems for removing ionic contaminants from various liquids at low energy consumption is devised. Based on the charging-discharging principle of capacitors, the deionizer conducts deionization through applying a low DC voltage to its electrodes for adsorbing ions, while more than 30% of the process energy is recovered and stored by discharging the electrodes. At the mean time of discharge, surface of the electrodes is regenerated on site and reset for performing many more cycles of deionization-regeneration till the desirable purification is attained. In one moment, both deionization and regeneration proceed simultaneously on different groups of electrode modules, and in the next moment the electrode modules quickly switch the two processes. Such swift reciprocating actions are engaged in synchronized coordination of sub-systems of electrode modules, energy management, fluid flow, and automatic control.

A system including a memory to store image data corresponding to a three dimensional (3D) reconstructed image, and a processor that includes an automatic vessel tree extraction module. The automatic vessel tree extraction module includes a load data module to access the stored image data, a component identification module to identify those components of the image data deemed likely to belong to a vessel, a characteristic path computation module to compute one or more characteristic paths for an identified component having a volume greater than a specified threshold volume value and discard an identified component having a volume less than the specified threshold volume value, and a connection module to connect the computed one or more characteristic paths of the identified component to a characteristic path of another identified component or to a common vessel source until the identified components are connected or discarded.

Method and apparatus for pre-forming insulated conductors for motor rotors and stators for use in a next process in forming motor rotors and stators. In accordance with the full exemplary process, insulated rectangular cross-section wire is received from a spool, straightened, stripped over a predetermined length, fed to a bender, cut to length and then bent into the desired hairpin shape and placed on a feeder for the next process. The method and apparatus may be fully automatic, including automatically adjusting itself as required to make hairpin shaped conductors of different lengths, each length having its free ends stripped over a desired length. The method and apparatus for bending, as well as other methods and apparatus disclosed, may be used alone or in other combinations.

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.

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.

Methods for controlling and monitoring speed and position of a handheld medical transducer. Three methods are presented of various means, two of which include the user in the feedback loop and the third is fully automatic. In the third, an optical position sensor similar to an optical computer mouse provides enough information that the system can respond to and correct for a freehand scanning motion by the user.

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 present invention relates to injection devices for injecting a medicament from a cartridge (600) through a needle cannula (510). The injection device (100) includes an actuator (330, 360) for driving a piston driver (310) and includes an end of stroke limiter (341, 611). When the piston driver (310) is arrested by the end of stroke limiter (341, 611) a shielding driver (370) is automatically triggered to actively shift the needle cannula (510) into a shielded state. The injection device may include a fluid dispensing interruption mechanism that automatically interrupts fluid flow when the piston driver has moved a predetermined stroke length. The injection device may also include a single pre-stressed spring acting exclusively in a linear compression mode or exclusively in a torsion mode and adapted to sequentially drive the device to enable fully automatic operation. The invention also relates to a method of sterilizing a needle cannula assembly.

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.

The invention discloses a multi-barrel washing machine which comprises a plurality of washing barrels and a motor. The motor is coupled with a first gear. The bottom of each washing barrel is coupledwith a second gear. The first gear of the motor is in toe joint with the second gear of at least one washing barrel mutually. The second gear is driven to control each washing barrel to rotate by driving the first gear by the motor. It is better that the multi-barrel washing machine is a fully automatic small washing machine, and the water inlet / outlet tube of each barrel is integrally arranged tofurther save volume and weight. The multi-barrel washing machine uses a motor to drive the plurality of washing barrels to work, thereby classifying clothes and washing clothes simultaneously, ensuring that each barrel is specially used for one person, and avoiding cross contamination and bacteria and virus transmission among clothes.