95 results about "Lapse time" patented technology

A method for tracking the wearable life of an ophthalmic product, the method comprising the steps of: providing the ophthalmic product with at least one data carrier for carrying data related to the ophthalmic product, the data carrier having a first device operable in a magnetic and / or electrical mode; providing an activation signal from an external means; activating the first device with the activation signal to cause the first device to emit the data in response to the activating signal; recording the time the first device is interrogated, processing the received data to determine the wearable life of the ophthalmic product based on the lapsed time.

In a method for reducing notifications associated with incoming emails destined to a user using a wireless device, after receiving an incoming email, a relay server checks whether there is undelivered email destined to the user. If there is no undelivered email, then a notification is sent to the user's wireless device. If there are undelivered emails, then the relay server calculates a lapse time since the last notification was sent to the user. If the lapse time is greater than a predefined period, a notification is sent to the user.

According to the configuration of the present invention, the modulation clock signal is generated in accordance with a signal based on a random number, and a data processing timing is determined in accordance with the modulation clock signal to execute data processing. Accordingly, secret information analysis of an encryption key, a decryption key and the like through measurements of consumption powers in terms of a lapse time of a cryptographic processing apparatus for encrypting and decrypting data, i.e., cryptanalysis based on the power analysis, can be made difficult to thereby realize a cryptographic processing apparatus and method having a high security level.

A vehicle seeking a parking space receives a signals transmitted from a second vehicle operating in the same area as the first vehicle. The signals indicate the locations of one or more available parking space identified by the second vehicle. The spaces may be identified on the basis of the second vehicle having just vacated a space, or on the basis of an ambient sensor carried by the second vehicle. Each parking space has assigned to it a quality measure of usability as the possible parking space for the first vehicle. The quality measure may depend on a distance or travel time from the first vehicle to the space, and / or a time elapsed since the space was identified, and / or the proximity of other vehicles searching for a parking space. A display screen shows the locations of available parking spaces, their relative quality measures, and a proposed route to reach them.

It is an object of the invention to provide a droplet ejection apparatus and a method of detecting and judging a head failure that can detect an ejection failure and carry out appropriate recovery processing according to a cause thereof. The droplet ejection apparatus of the invention includes a plurality of droplet ejection heads, each of the droplet ejection heads including a diaphragm and an actuator which displaces the diaphragm; a driving circuit which drives the actuator of each droplet ejection head; residual vibration detecting means 16 for detecting a residual vibration of the diaphragm displaced by the actuator after the actuator has been driven by the driving circuit; pulse generating means for generating reference pulses; computation means 17 for carrying out a computation for the number of reference pulses generated by the pulse generating means on the basis of the residual vibration of the diaphragm detected by the residual vibration detecting means; time measuring means for measuring a lapsed time since the actuator has been driven by the driving circuit; and head failure judging means 20 for judging a head failure in the droplet ejection heads on the basis of the computation result of the computation means 17 and the lapsed time measured by the time measuring means.

A method implemented in a system which comprises a lightweight personal wearable monitoring device, supplied by a battery, comprising an accelerometer, a processing unit, a display, a remote server, said method comprising the steps: / a / collecting, from a plurality of individuals caused to practice various physical activities from a set of predefined activities, acceleration data from sensing devices placed on each of said individuals, / b / defining N small data-size specific metrics, computed from acceleration signals, which allow to define a global activity classifier, / c / acquiring, at a first monitoring device worn by a first user, acceleration signals from the accelerometer of the first monitoring device, / d / calculating, at the first monitoring device, over each lapsed time unit T1, specific metrics values from the sensed signals, to form a series of specific metrics values, / e / send them to the processing unit, / f / allocate an activity type for each time unit together with corresponding specific metrics values of the received series, to form a time chart of activity types presumably performed by the first user over a second period T2, / g / display the time chart of activity types presumably performed by the first user on the display and allow the first user to confirm or correct partly the type of activity performed over the second period, and allow correction by the first user.

A simulation device capable of displaying still images of a three-dimensional model of a machine such as a robot in the midst of an operation of the machine and simulating the operation from a start to the midst of the operation. The simulation device receives historical data (lapsing time information and positional information associated with the lapsing time information) of the operation of the machine to perform the simulation of the operation by displaying an image of the three-dimensional model of the machine by animation. When a capturing trigger signal is issued manually or automatically in the simulation, the image of the three-dimensional model is reduced and stored to be associated with the historical data of the operation of the machine at the issuance of the capturing trigger signal. The obtained reduced images are displayed in time series in the order of lapsing time.

At the time of a normal operation, a second channel change message 30b is transmitted from the AP to each terminal before a time T0 until a channel change that is included in a first channel change message 30a elapses, thereby all terminals that received this message 30b, and the AP stop changing the channel. At the time of interference occurrence, setting a time until a channel change to be filed in a third channel change message 30d to a time equal to or less than a lapse time until the channel change at the time point of transmitting this message 30d to transmit it to each terminal from the AP allows the terminal that failed to receive the message at the time of the interference occurrence to make a channel change without causing a connection to the AP to be disconnected.

A method of determining the amount of time it will take a person (P) waiting in a line (L) to move between two points. The method includes acquiring a facial pattern of the person when they are at a first point in the line and establishing the time at which the facial pattern was obtained. Next, a facial pattern of the person is acquired when the person arrives at a second point in the line. The two facial patterns are compared and when a match is found, a lapsed time is established. By subtracting the two times the transit time of the person from the first point to the second point is established and this time is displayed at the entry point of the line.

An industrial vehicle having a vehicle body includes a battery, an electric motor, an electrolyte level sensor, a vehicle operating with lowered electrolyte level, a vehicle operating time calculator, a data-storing device storing data of the vehicle operating time, an electric motor limiting condition and a motor controller. The electric motor is driven to generate torque. The electrolyte level sensor detects whether or not electrolyte level of the battery is lower than a predetermined level. The vehicle operating time is a time elapsing while the electrolyte level is lower than the predetermined level. The vehicle operating time calculator counts the vehicle operating time in accordance with the detection of the electrolyte level. The electric motor limiting condition limits operation of the electric motor gradually in accordance with the vehicle operating time. The motor controller controls operation of the electric motor based on the electric motor limiting condition.

A control unit performs control to previously set a transition determination filter value for determining a transition operation state of an engine, and calculate a transition determination intake pipe internal pressure from the transition determination filter value, an intake pipe internal pressure that was detected last time, and an intake pipe internal pressure that has been detected this time, and when a lapse time after start of the engine exceeds a predetermined value, calculate a transition determination intake pipe internal differential pressure from the intake pipe internal pressure that has been detected this time and the transition determination intake pipe internal pressure, set an intake pipe internal pressure filtering value based on the transition determination intake pipe internal differential pressure, and calculate an intake pipe internal pressure that is used for gas fuel injection control this time from the intake pipe internal pressure filtering value, the intake pipe internal pressure that has been detected this time, and an intake pipe internal pressure that was used for gas fuel injection control last time.

A video decoder compatible with 4:2:2P@HL is effectively realized. An inter-picture process control section provides information to a decoding processing section regarding which picture is being used as a reference picture. A decode start is also notified to a time management section. An inter-slice process control section determines whether the decoding process is continuing normally, continuing as a simple decoding process, or stopped. This information is sent from the inter-slice process control section to the inter-picture process control section. The time management section generates a decode start time (frame sync signal) and measures a lapsed time after the decode start. When the decode start time comes, the inter-picture process control section is notified of this. In response to a request from the inter-slice process control section, the lapsed time after the decode start and the remaining time until the next frame sync signal is generated are notified.

An image-forming apparatus and a power-saving mode control method thereof are disclosed. The power-saving mode control method for the image-forming apparatus includes calculating a lapsed time after the image-forming apparatus enters a power-saving mode, that is, a power-saving mode duration time Ts, and determining a cause of the power-saving mode being turned off, selecting a different warm-up mode depending on the cause of the power-saving mode being turned off and the power-saving mode duration time; and controlling warm-up operations to be performed according to the selected warm-up mode.

An image-forming apparatus and a power-saving mode control method thereof are disclosed. The power-saving mode control method for the image-forming apparatus includes calculating a lapsed time after the image-forming apparatus enters a power-saving mode, that is, a power-saving mode duration time Ts, and determining a cause of the power-saving mode being turned off, selecting a different warm-up mode depending on the cause of the power-saving mode being turned off and the power-saving mode duration time; and controlling warm-up operations to be performed according to the selected warm-up mode.

The invention discloses a method for improving uplink service quality. The method comprises that: a base station receives time delay parameters of different logic channels configured by a base station controller and dispatching information initially reported by each user terminal, and calculates lapsed time of the top priority logic channel of each user terminal; dispatching priority of the top priority logic channel in each user terminal is calculated according to the lapsed time and the dispatching information, and the user terminal of the logic channel with the top dispatching priority is dispatched; updated dispatching information transmitted by the user terminal with the top dispatching priority is received, and lapsed time of the logic channel with the top dispatching priority is updated; and calculation of the dispatching priority is continuously executed, and the dispatching is executed, until transmission of the uplink data dispatching of each user terminal is completed. The invention simultaneously discloses a system for improving the uplink service quality. The method and the system consider the priority and time delay requirement of each logic channel while carrying out service dispatching, thereby improving the QoS requirement of uplink service.

The invention discloses a real-time time-lapse self-starting intelligent soy milk grinder. The soy milk grinder has two modes: an immediate starting mode and a time-lapse self-starting mode. When selecting the immediate starting mode, the soy milk grinder is operated according to a working process of the common intelligent soy milk grinder; and when selecting the time-lapse self-starting mode, the soy milk grinder can set a any self-starting time as required, wherein the time-lapse time is not time duration but a time point or a moment used in daily life, a microprocessor (MCU) stores the time point or the moment in a real-time clock, the real-time clock transmits a signal to the MCU when the current time is accordant with the set self-starting time, and the MCU immediately leads components such as an electrical machine, a heating pipe and the like in the soy milk grinder to work by controlling the operation of a relay to complete the whole production process of the soy milk. The soy milk grinder has a time memorizing function, thereby not needing to repeatedly set the time when the time-lapse time does not need to be changed, and has a real-time time and a time-lapse time displaying function, thereby being more convenient for human life.

An inspection system for an article of manufacture and method of using the same, assists an inspector in the inspection of a wide variety of articles for conformance to a pre-selected set of requirements particularly when checking is done by means of human senses and the manual application of measuring devices. A computer server is utilized in conjunction with the inspector to impose constraints and discipline on the inspector's actions. Such constraints include enforcing a standardized sequence for checking each of a pre-selected set of article requirements depending on the fabric article type, limiting the available responses by which the inspector can record the results of the observation, and enforcing a minimum lapsed time for inspection of certain article requirements. The inspector interfaces with the computer server via at least one remote inspection station each having computer monitor, keyboard, pointer and preferably a bar-code scanner capable of reading labels attached to the articles.

A method for tracking the wearable life of an ophthalmic product, the method comprising the steps of: providing the ophthalmic product with at least one data carrier for carrying data related to the ophthalmic product, the data carrier having a first device operable in a magnetic and / or electrical mode; providing an activation signal from an external means; activating the first device with the activation signal to cause the first device to emit the data in response to the activating signal; recording the time the first device is interrogated, processing the received data to determine the wearable life of the ophthalmic product based on the lapsed time.

A switching regulator includes a first switching regulator corresponding to a master channel, and a second switching regulator corresponding to a slave channel. The first switching regulator generates first output voltage Vout1 by a constant on-time system in which on-time is constant. On the other hand, the second switching regulator monitors a first switching signal and a second on-time control circuit determines on-time of a second switching signal in accordance with lapse time from the rising time of the first switching signal to the rising time of a second switching signal.

The present invention provides a recording / reproducing apparatus capable of realizing proper recorded-content management on a large-capacity storage device. The content data recorded on the recording medium is managed with the content age computed by a lapse time from its recording date-and-time and a genre, and automatically deleted with priority of higher content age. Meanwhile, the user is allowed to instruct delete-prohibition management on a content not desired for automatic deletion. The content data placed under delete-prohibition management is excluded from a subject of automatic deletion. Meanwhile, concerning the delete-prohibition management, an upper limit value is provided. By disabling to unnecessarily placing a great deal of content data under delete-prohibition management, secured is a recording domain during automatic picture-recording or so.

A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus having a plurality of portions according to this invention includes a storage device which stores, for each portion, information representing the lapsed time of use or the product processing count till occurrence of a failure after installation of the portion, and a calculation device which receives the information stored in the storage device and outputs function information representing a failure probability and / or failure rate as a function of the lapsed time of use or the product processing count for each portion.

It is an object of the invention to provide a droplet ejection apparatus and a method of detecting and judging a head failure that can detect an ejection failure and carry out appropriate recovery processing according to a cause thereof. The droplet ejection apparatus of the invention includes a plurality of droplet ejection heads, each of the droplet ejection heads including a diaphragm and an actuator which displaces the diaphragm; a driving circuit which drives the actuator of each droplet ejection head; residual vibration detecting means 16 for detecting a residual vibration of the diaphragm displaced by the actuator after the actuator has, been driven by the driving circuit; pulse generating means for generating reference pulses; computation means 17 for carrying out a computation for the number of reference pulses generated by the pulse generating means on the basis of the residual vibration of the diaphragm detected by the residual vibration detecting means; time measuring means for measuring a lapsed time since the actuator has been driven by the driving circuit; and head failure judging means 20 for judging a head failure in the droplet ejection heads on the basis of the computation result of the computation means 17 and the lapsed time measured by the time measuring means.

Machine-tool thermal displacement correcting device having: a tool-temperature estimating unit for recognizing—based on identification data obtained from a controller for designating, out of tools stowed in the tool-changer tool magazine, an exchange-target tool—the directly-after-use temperature of the ID'd tool, and estimating the tool temperature directly before use, based on the recognized directly-after-use tool temperature and on lapsed time, obtained from the controller, since previous use of the ID'd tool, and for estimating, based on the estimated directly-before-use tool temperature and on the spindle temperature, during-use temperature of the tool; a correction determining unit for estimating, based on the estimated during-use tool temperature, axial thermal displacement of the tool, and determining a correction amount for canceling out the displacement; and a correction executing unit for carrying out correction based on the determined correction amount.

An ink jet recording system includes a recovery device for maintaining and recovering performance of discharge from a plurality of discharge ports for discharging a plurality of different inks for recording, and a control device for controlling the apparatus such that a content of recovery by the recovery device for discharge ports not used for recording and a content of recovery by the recording device for discharge ports used for recording is different. The control device also controls the apparatus such that a content of recovery for a discharge port used for recording is based on whether a predetermined lapse time has passed since a previous recovery of the discharge port used for recording.

An image display apparatus comprises: display devices; members arranged at distance of the several display devices each other; and a drive circuit having an adjustment circuit and a correction circuit. The correction circuit corrects the drive signal and has a correction value calculation circuit for calculating a correction value that compensates for an amount that is reduced by the member from a change of light emitted from a predetermined light emitting region according to the input image data, the change being to be caused by driving of the display device having any of light emitting regions other than the predetermined light emitting region. Data to be corrected by the correction circuit has a difference in time of a predetermined lapse of time with respect to input image data. The adjustment circuit adjusts the corrected drive signal according to a change in an image.

A compact multifunction pedometer and method of advertising includes a computerized calculating function to accurately determine the calorie consumption, distance and the time for exercise duration. Utilizing input data of the user's height, weight, average stride and desired time period for exercise of walking or running, the pedometer calculates, and if desired displays, the consumed calories as well as the distance traveled and lapsed time of striding or alternatively, the time remaining for a scheduled walking or running session. The calories burned during exercise are accurately determined through calculations based on the individual's stride and weight data input by the user. The pedometer is extremely compact, has easy to operate function controls and may include a belt clip for ease of use during exercise. The pedometer including surfaces suitable for displaying advertising.

An image forming apparatus, including: an image bearing member on a surface of which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developing device which contains a developer and which has a rotatable developer carrying member, which abuts against the surface of the image bearing member, and a storage device storing information on image formation history, the developing device being adapted to visualize the electrostatic latent image on the surface of the image bearing member as the developer carrying member carries the developer to the electrostatic latent image; a moving mechanism which moves the developing device to one of a first position where development is performed and a second position where development is not performed; and a control device which controls, based upon the information on image formation history stored in the storage device, an operation for giving a charge to the developer according to a lapsed time from a finish time of image formation, in a state in which the developing device is moved to the second position by the moving mechanism. In the image forming apparatus, a toner is charged sufficiently in the developing device, and image failure due to insufficiency in a charging amount of toner may be prevented, thereby capable of forming a high quality image.