575 results about "Geographic area" patented technology

In various examples, systems and methods are described that may be used to generate a mask of a geographic area and corresponding vector representations of one or more environmental features included in the area. In some embodiments, the method and system may generate or obtain a first tile image representing a portion of a path surface corresponding to a geographic area. One or more features may be extracted from the data where the extracted features may indicate environmental characteristics associated with the path surface—e.g., lane boundaries, medians, traffic signs, signals, etc. Additionally, the method or system may generate a mask corresponding to the tile image and vector representations of the portion of the geographic area. In some embodiments, the locations of the environmental features associated with the mask may be reconciled with one or more previously generated masks that include some of the same environmental features.

Methods for training a series of neural networks to output driving behavior control parameters is disclosed. The training dataset for the neural networks includes sensor-based vehicle driving recordings that may be categorized by geographical area, by qualitative driving behaviors, or by some combination, such that various training data subsets are used to train the series of neural networks. By learning either city-specific driving behavior control parameters, qualitative driving behavior specific driving behavior control parameters, or both, the resulting parameters may then be provided to a motion planning model for use in modeling predictive control for an autonomous vehicle. Rather than relying on XYZ trajectories of agent vehicles when planning future trajectories of the ego vehicle, the motion planning model is adaptive, due to the use of the learned driving behavior control parameters.

According to a communication method and related devices, first information received by a first communication device is used for indicating information of N satellite beams, and the first communication device can determine a target satellite beam communicating with a first terminal device based on the information of the N satellite beams. Wherein in each of the K time periods, a signal coverage area of at least one satellite beam in the N satellite beams comprises a first geographic area, and when the first communication device receives the first information, the terminal device located in the first geographic area comprises a first terminal device. In other words, any terminal device located in the first geographic area can determine the target satellite beam based on the information of the N satellite beams indicated by the first information. In this way, one or more terminal devices located in the same geographic area can determine the target satellite beam based on the first information, and the transmission overhead can be reduced.

The invention provides a business travel data management method and system based on cloud computing and scene matching and computing equipment. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring at least one geographic image uploaded by a user in a business travel plan execution process; generating a compliance geographic region set according to the travel plan; matching the geographic image with the compliance geographic region set to obtain a first matching result; identifying and extracting visual scene features in the geographic image, and performing consistency cross validation comparison on the visual scene features and a geographic scene expected based on geographic coordinates to obtain a first comparison result; generating an authenticity verification result of the travel behavior based on the first matching result and the first comparison result; and when the authenticity verification result is that the verification is passed, automatically generating an electronic audit voucher containing a spatial trajectory chain and a geographic image. According to the technical scheme of the invention, the accuracy of authenticity verification of travel behaviors can be improved, a high-credibility electronic audit voucher is automatically generated, and a data closed loop is provided for intelligent travel management.

A power equipment machine with operator selectable autonomous mode and manual mode is provided. By way of example, the power equipment device can provide user-assisted semi-autonomous steering along user-defined paths of a geographic area. Manual steering controls and autonomous guidance controls can be positioned on one or more movable armrests to enhance comfort and minimize operator fatigue. The manual steering controls can include a jog wheel and encoder mechanism located on a first armrest, eliminating conventional mechanical shaft and wheel steering devices and dual lap bar steering devices. Guidance and computer settings can be accessed through a touchscreen display mounted in front of an operator position on the power equipment device.

The invention discloses a convective cloud synchronous monitoring method and device, a program product and a medium, and relates to the technical field of meteorological monitoring. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring reflectivity puzzle data; performing single-frame detection processing on the reflectivity puzzle data to obtain a convective cloud instance set; performing polygon overlap matching processing on the streaming cloud instance set to obtain a first matching pair set, a first unmatched instance set and a second unmatched instance set; performing nearest neighbor matching processing on the first unmatched instance set and the second unmatched instance set to obtain a second matching pair set; performing multi-mapping conflict detection processing on the second matching pair set to obtain a third matching pair set; combining the first matching pair set and the third matching pair set to obtain a target matching result set; and based on the target matching result set, updating time sequence state information of the convective cloud in the to-be-monitored geographic area. And the monitoring accuracy of the time sequence state information of the flow cloud is improved.

One example operation includes one or more of the following: determining, by a first node, that an event has occurred in a geographic area; predicting, by the first node, a severity of the event, a duration of the event, and at least one vehicle associated with the event; sending, by the first node to a second node, the prediction and a time at which the at least one vehicle will approach the second node; and before the time, sending, by the second node, a notification to other vehicles proximate to the second node to maneuver based on the prediction.

The invention relates to an urban scale remote sensing image building contour extraction method considering geographic features, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining remote sensing image data, optical image data, land utilization data and night light data of a target region, and carrying out the preprocessing; dividing the target area into a plurality of grid units, classifying a building dense area and a building sparse area according to land utilization data, and calculating a noctilucent enhanced built-up area index of each grid unit; constructing a training sample set; the method comprises the following steps: constructing a double-branch encoder comprising a convolutional neural network branch and a Transform branch; a convolution interaction fusion module is embedded in each stage of the encoder, the training sample set is used for training to obtain a building contour extraction model, and the building contour extraction model is applied to contour extraction of urban scale images. The method has the beneficial effects that a new spatial sampling strategy is constructed, so that the training and deployment efficiency of the cross-large geographic region deep learning model is improved, and the data annotation cost is reduced.

Methods and systems are provided for dynamically detecting and correcting the deactivation of beamforming from an antenna. One or more users are identified as present within a particular geographic area typically served by beamforming, and the average signal strength of the one or more user devices is monitored. If a threshold level of degradation of the average signal strength is detected, then a beamforming status is determined for one or more of the antennas serving the user device or devices. Based on the determination, corrective measures are taken and beamforming is reactivated.

An example operation includes comparing a first set of driving styles for a vehicle to a second set of driving styles for one or more similar vehicles in a geographic area over a period, wherein the first set of driving styles affects a carbon footprint of the vehicle and the second set of driving styles affects another carbon footprint of the one or more similar vehicles; determining a carbon credit when the carbon footprint of the vehicle is lower than the another carbon footprint of the one or more similar vehicles, by a threshold, based on the comparing; and applying the carbon credit to the vehicle.

Identifying hazard trees is described. An example method includes receiving multiple images for a geographic area that includes multiple electrical assets of a power distribution infrastructure. Pixels of the multiple images are classified as hazard tree pixels or as non-hazard tree pixels using one or more convolutional neural networks. Multiple polygons are generated based on the hazard tree pixels, a polygon corresponding to one or more hazard trees in the geographic area. A height of a polygon and a distance from the polygon to an electrical asset is determined. Based on the height and the distance, the one or more hazard trees corresponding polygon are determined to represent a potential hazard to the electrical asset. A notification of the potential hazard to the electrical asset is generated and provided.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: partitioning a geographic area into a plurality of bins; assigning an agent to each antenna that provides communication services in the geographic area, wherein the agent executes an action that adjusts settings for network parameters for the antenna to improve coverage quality; initializing random settings for the network parameters; computing updated coverage quality, signal strength and interference for each bin in the plurality at a setting proposed by the agent; recording the updated coverage quality, the signal strength and the interference in a history; rewarding the agent for improvements; repeating the computing, the recording and the rewarding a preset maximum number of times at most or until achieving an overall coverage quality improvement goal; providing the history to a policy net as an epoch; and iterating the initializing, computing, recording, rewarding and repeating a maximum number of epochs at most or until the policy net converges. Other embodiments are disclosed.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of artificial intelligence, and provides a financial terminal automation function detection and data security management method and system. The method comprises the following steps: carrying out total information acquisition on a target terminal, and establishing a digital twinborn model of the target terminal; the data twin model is bound with an equipment monitoring identifier of the target terminal; collecting geographic area information and people flow activity information in a surrounding area where the target terminal is located, and constructing a real-time scene model; adaptively generating a function detection scheme of the target terminal by adopting a three-layer cloud collaborative architecture based on the terminal type; performing automatic skill detection on the target terminal through the function detection scheme, and encrypting and updating a function detection result into the data twinborn model; and realizing data security evaluation on the target terminal by adopting a data twinborn model, and adjusting an updating mode of the function detection scheme according to an evaluation result. The strategy can be always matched with the real-time state and scene requirements of the terminal, and the operation stability and data security of the terminal are improved.

Provided are methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for providing data including vehicle map service data. The disclosed technology can perform operations including accessing vehicle map service data including information associated with a geographic area and sensor observations of a vehicle. The vehicle map service data is based on a vehicle map service protocol specifying layers associated with portions of the vehicle map service data to which each client system is subscribed. Further, the layers to which the client systems are subscribed can be determined and access to the plurality of layers to which each of the vehicle client systems is subscribed can be provided to each of the client systems. Access to the layers can include authorization to send or receive one or more portions of the vehicle map service data associated with a corresponding layer.

An intelligent vehicle charging system for charging a fleet of autonomous vehicles throughout a network of charging stations dispersed throughout a geographic area. The intelligent vehicle charging system includes a remote control system that is in operative communication with each of the autonomous vehicles in the fleet and each of the charging stations in the network. When an autonomous vehicle is in need of a power charge, or as directed by the remote control system, the remote control system will identify an available charging station, guide the autonomous vehicle to the charging station, verify that the autonomous vehicle has arrived at the charging station, initiate the power charging process, account and bill appropriate fees for the charging process, and log all associated activity. The remote control system is also capable of remotely and instantaneously terminating the power charging process to dynamically return a vehicle back to service.

The invention relates to the technical field of power transmission line engineering, and discloses a power transmission line vibration and sag analysis method considering a wind load, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the meteorological data of a geographic region through which a power transmission line passes, and building a wind load model; establishing a kinetic equation of the transmission conductor; based on the wind load model and the kinetic equation, a numerical calculation method is adopted to solve the vibration response of the transmission conductor; calculating sag change conditions of the transmission conductor under different working conditions based on a vibration response calculation result of the transmission conductor; the system analyzes sag calculation results of the transmission conductor under different working conditions, and comprises a data acquisition module, a dynamics calculation module, a sag calculation module, a safety evaluation module and an optimization module. According to the method, the nonlinear distribution function that the wind speed changes along with the height is introduced into the wind load model, the effect of more accurately simulating the wind load under the complex meteorological condition is achieved, and the simulation of the wind load is more reliable and close to the reality.

A Surface-affixed, Storm-Resistant Containment Unit involves a shelter structure, with internally-mounted photovoltaic solar panels, and movable doors which may be ‘closed’ to protect the photovoltaic solar panels from storm-related damage, e.g. hail, extreme wind and airborne debris. When weather conditions improve, the movable doors may be ‘opened’, allowing sunlight to strike the undamaged photovoltaic solar panels, and renewable energy production to resume. These Storm-Resistant Containment Units may be installed, and electrically connected in multiples to comprise a storm-resistant, commercially-sized, renewable power generating station (or ‘Micro-Grid’) for use in geographic areas prone to severe storms and hurricanes. Such storm-resistant, commercially-sized, power generation station may be advantageously applied at existing ‘Brown-Field’ industrial sites that have existing, unused electrical-grid infrastructure.

Methods and systems are provided for nautical stationkeeping of free-floating objects. In one example, a method includes adjusting translational motion of a body freely floating in water by rotating the body. The translational motion may be adjusted, for instance, to maintain the body within a geographic area. In certain examples, the adjustment of the translational motion may be realized via a Magnus effect induced by rotating the body. The body may be configured as, for example, a free-floating object such as a wave engine.

The invention discloses an ephemeris information transmission method and system, base station equipment and core network equipment. The method comprises: sending a first request message to a core network device, the first request message being used for establishing a communication link between a base station and the core network device, the information carried in the first request message comprising: cell information, the cell information being obtained by dividing a geographic area served by the base station into one or more cells; a first response message returned by the core network device based on the first request message is received, and information carried in the first response message comprises ephemeris information of one or more cells; and broadcasting ephemeris information of one or more cells to the terminal through the specified system information block. The technical problem that an ephemeris information transmission method provided in the prior art is low in robustness and reliability is solved.

A communication method and a related apparatus. First information received by a first communication apparatus is used for indicating information of N satellite beams, and the first communication apparatus can determine, on the basis of the information of the N satellite beams, a target satellite beam that communicates with a first terminal device. In each of K time periods, a signal coverage area of at least one of the N satellite beams comprises a first geographic area, and when the first communication apparatus receives the first information, a terminal device located in the first geographic area includes the first terminal device. In other words, any terminal device located in the first geographic area can determine the target satellite beam on the basis of the information of the N satellite beams indicated by the first information. In this way, one or more terminal devices located in a same geographic area can determine the target satellite beam on the basis of the first information, thereby reducing transmission overheads.

Boundary Verification Systems are provided. A proposed boundary of a geographic area is read. One or more boundary validation criteria is read. One or more attribute of the geographic area over time is determined from satellite imagery of the geographic area. The proposed boundary is validated against the one or more boundary validation criteria and the one or more attribute. A revised boundary is generated based on the proposed boundary and the one or more attribute.

Described are systems and techniques for visualization and manipulation of non- composite oblique aerial imagery. Information can be obtained for an annotation feature for overlay on a displayed oblique image with an oblique viewpoint of a scene within a geographic area. Three-dimensional (3D) model data can be obtained for a portion of the geographic area and including 3D information of object surfaces within the scene. A 3D representation of the annotation feature can be generated using the 3D model data and georeferenced coordinates determined for the annotation feature. An oblique projection of the 3D representation of the annotation feature into the oblique viewpoint of the scene can be generated to include portions of the annotation feature unobstructed by the object surfaces within the scene. The oblique projection of the annotation feature can be output as a two-dimensional (2D) overlay on the displayed oblique image. Unlocking insights from Geo-Data, the present invention further relates to improvements in sustainability and environmental developments: together we create a safe and liveable world.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are related an open radio access network (ORAN) based base station (BS). The BS comprising at least one radio unit (RU) comprising a plurality of antenna ports, at least one distributed unit (DU) and an interface for a communication between said RU and said DU. The RU is configured to support one or more virtual sub-sectors simultaneously, wherein each virtual sub-sector cover a pre-defined geographical area in both horizontal and vertical directions. Each virtual sub-sector is associated with a specific set of antenna ports of the RU. Each virtual sub-sector provides a coverage for one of distinct geographical areas and partially overlapping geographical areas. The DU associates a UE with a virtual sub-sector. The DU performs at least one of a SU-MIMO within a virtual sub-sector for a UE associated with said virtual sub-sector, and a MU-MIMO across the UEs in different virtual sub-sectors.

Operating a vehicle having a predetermined level of automation includes: starting an online navigation system having a level of automation higher than that of the vehicle; determining, retrieving and displaying an available geographic area capable of performing higher-automation-level navigation; activating an online navigation system having a higher automation level if the vehicle is located within the determined geographic area in which the higher automation level navigation can be performed; higher automation level navigation of the vehicle is initiated, where data of the online navigation system is used.

A method and system for encoding unstructured geospatial data into structured geospatial data tiles is described. Unstructured geospatial data is parsed it into various data types. For each data type, a data band is generated comprising the parsed unstructured data corresponding to the data type. Data pixels for each data band are then generated, with each data pixel comprising a defined number of bits of the parsed unstructured data. Data block including data pixels of one or more of the data bands are generated. Structured geospatial data tiles are generated using the data blocks and a header identifying the location of each data pixel for each data type in the data blocks within the structured geospatial data tile. The structured geospatial data tile may be configured with a number of bits suited to be decoded by a processing unit of a client device.

A system and method is presented that extracts snippets form web pages according to specially designed logic. The extracted snippets might be made relevant to, i.e., indexed by, a location and time / day applicability. Such snippets may be thought of as apps or services that are defined only when a mobile terminal is in a pre-defined geographical area at a certain time and day (e.g., as defined by a calendar of events). Extracted snippets are stored and made searchable. Methods and a system are described to control the display of snippet search results. Snippets may be selected by user or by programmed logic and executed on the mobile terminal or in remote servers without the need to download the app or source code associated with the snippet.

The invention relates to rescue support in large-scale emergencies. A method for rescue support involves distributing responder devices (11) to individuals (10) within a geographical area and having the responder devices (11) activated. If a large-scale emergency occurs, a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (20) is caused to operate within the geographical area to receive distress signals (DS) transmitted by the activated responder devices (11). A computer system (21, 40, 60) processes the distress signals (DS) to obtain detection data for the individuals (10), the detection data comprising locations of the respective responder devices (11) and health conditions of the respective individuals (10). The computer system (21, 40, 60) generates a priority ranking chart (600) for the geographical area based on the locations and the health conditions of the respective individuals, the priority ranking chart (600) indicating one or more sub-areas to which rescue operations are to be given priority.

The application provides a method and device for wireless communication, which helps terminal devices in an NTN cell to reasonably select a target TN cell for cell switching or cell reselection. The method comprises: a terminal device determining one or more first TN areas related to the terminal device in an NTN cell according to first information, the one or more first TN areas being used by the terminal device to determine a target TN cell for cell switching or cell reselection; wherein the first information comprises one or more of the following: frequency information or a frequency list of TN areas corresponding to the NTN cell; geographical area information of TN areas corresponding to the NTN cell; geographical area information of each cell in the TN areas corresponding to the NTN cell.

A system configured to reconfigure the settings on a medical device based on a detected location of the medical device is provided. The system may include a server configured to receive a connection request from a medical device, update the settings on the medical device, determine that the medical device has entered another geographical area, and transmit, to the medical device, additional settings that can be used to connect to another server configured to communicate with medical devices in said another geographical area.

The invention relates to a block chain-based green power consumption and carbon asset collaborative management system, provides a carbon emission transaction, and belongs to the field of purchasing, selling or leasing transactions. An intelligent joint prediction model of a set geographic area is adopted to intelligently predict green power supply data of a future time segment and carbon emission data of each electricity consumption enterprise; the upper chain evidence storage device writes the intelligent prediction data into the block chain network; and the contract generation device is used for automatically matching and forming a carbon transaction contract of each electricity consumption enterprise based on the intelligent prediction data. According to the invention, for the technical problems that the overall level of green power consumption and carbon asset collaborative management is insufficient and the performance is low, the same intelligent joint prediction model can be adopted to complete synchronous intelligent prediction of green power generation data and carbon emission data, and then automatic matching is carried out to form each carbon transaction contract. And meanwhile, the uplink evidence storage of the key data is executed, so that the technical problem is solved.