2679 results about "Linear relationship" patented technology

Systems and methods for determining ICP based on parameters that can be measured using non-invasive or minimally invasive techniques are provided, wherein a non-linear relationship is used to determine ICP based on one or more variable inputs. The first variable input relates to one or more properties of a cranial blood vessel and/or blood flow, such as acoustic backscatter from an acoustic transducer having a focus trained on a cranial blood vessel, flow velocity in a cranial blood vessel, and the like. Additional variables, such as arterial blood pressure (ABP), may be used in combination with a first variable input relating to one or more properties of a cranial blood vessel, such as flow velocity of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) to derive ICP using a non-linear relationship. Methods and systems for locating target areas based on their acoustic properties and for acoustic scanning of an area, identification of a target area of interest based on acoustic properties, and automated focusing of an acoustic source and/or detector on a desired target area are also provided. Acoustic transducer assemblies are described.

An apertured film web is disclosed. The web comprises a plurality of first regions having a first molecular orientation and a plurality of second regions having a second molecular orientation, the first and second regions being in an alternating and contiguous generally linear relationship in a first direction, the second molecular orientation being generally orthogonal to the first direction, and wherein the second region comprises openings defining apertures therein.

Provided are methods and systems for controlling the conversion of data inputs to a computer-based light system into lighting control signals. The methods and systems include facilities for controlling a nonlinear relationship between data inputs and lighting control signal ouputs. The nonlinear relationship may be programmed to account for varying responses of the viewer of a light source to different light source intensities.

A method for modeling devices in a wafer comprises the step of providing the wafer comprising a first plurality of devices having a track width and a first stripe height, a second plurality of devices having the track width and a second stripe height, and a third plurality of devices having the track width and a third stripe height. The method further comprises the steps of measuring resistance values for the first, second and third plurality of devices to obtain a data set correlating a stripe height and a resistance value for each of the first, second and third plurality of devices, and estimating a linear relationship between resistance and inverse stripe height for the first, second and third plurality of devices based on the data set.

Various methods and devices for ligament replacement in the human body, and in particular, the spine are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a ligament replacement system is provided that has an artificial ligament configured in the form of a closed loop. The artificial ligament is adapted to be coupled between the ligament seating regions of first and second connection members in a connection geometry that results in the artificial ligament having a large motion with a non-linear relationship between the force and displacement, similar to that of a natural ligament.

The invention relates to an industrial robot calibration method. The method comprises the following steps of : establishing a position and orientation transformational matrix of the coordinate system of a robot end effector relative to a base coordinate system; establishing a position coordinate vector P of the center of the gauge head of a laser tracker arranged on the end effector relative to the base coordinate system through the position and orientation transformational matrix; getting a linear relationship of position error with structural parameter error and joint variable error through a total differential of the position coordinate vector P; getting a compensation value of the structural parameter error and the joint variable error by substituting the position coordinate vector in the linear relationship; finally, getting the accurate position and orientation transformation matrix of the coordinate system of the robot end effector relative to the base coordinate system, thus completing the calibration of the positioning accuracy of the robot and eliminating the technical bias. The calibrated industrial robot can meet the requirements of various application occasions and running positions.

A coating containing pigment particles and a polymer matrix is provided. The coating contains pigment particles that have a scattering coefficient with a linear or quasi-linear relationship to the pigment volume concentration of those pigment particles. The coating has improved hiding and is useful as a protective coating or an aesthetic coating on an underlying substrate. Also provided are compositions useful for preparing the coating, including covalently bonded composite particles and aqueous dispersions containing composite particles. The composite particles each contain a pigment particle with a plurality of polymer particles attached by adsorption on the outer surface of the pigment particle or by covalent bonding to the pigment particle through a coupling agent. Methods to prepare the composite particles and coating compositions containing the composite particles are also provided.

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture of the present invention may assist in planning, execution, and evaluation of advertising campaigns on the Internet. Particularly, methods, systems, and articles of manufacture of the present invention may help evaluate and/or predict traffic volume on the Internet. An exemplary method for predicting traffic may comprise receiving historical traffic data for a location, and computing a prediction of traffic volume for a particular time at the location based on a linear relationship in the historical traffic data.

An infrared ear thermometer includes a detector head housing, a heat sink, a recess formed in the heat sink, a thermopile sensor mounted within the recess, a thermistor, and temperature determination circuitry. The recess defines an aperture that limits the field of view of the thermopile sensor. The thermal capacities and conductivities of the heat sink and the thermopile sensor are selected so that the output signal of the thermopile sensor stabilizes during a temperature measurement. A method of determining temperature using the ear thermometer takes successive measurements, stores the measurements in a moving time window, averages the measurements in the moving window, determines whether the average has stabilized, and outputs an average temperature. A method of calculating a subject's temperature determines the temperature of a cold junction of the thermopile, looks up a bias and slope of the thermopile based upon the temperature of the cold junction, measures the output of the thermopile, and calculates the subject's temperature based upon a linear relationship between the output and the subject's temperature. The linear relationship is defined by the bias and the slope.

An apparatus for determining cardiac performance in the patient involving a conductance catheter (12) for measuring conductance and blood volume in a heart chamber of the patient. The apparatus includes a processor (14) for determining instantaneous volume of the ventricle by applying a non-linear relationship between the measured conductance and the volume of blood in the heart chamber to identify mechanical strength of the chamber. The processor (14) is in communication with the conductance catheter (12).

The invention relates to the technical field of lithium battery parameter determination methods, in particular to a lithium battery capacity rapid estimation method. The lithium battery capacity rapid estimation method comprises the following steps: (1) taking the-number-set training sample batteries to have an internal resistance test by using a composite pulse current method in order to obtain internal resistance values of the training sample batteries, (2) testing capacity values of the training sample batteries by using a constant current constant voltage test method, (3) taking time-set various current internal resistance of different sampling time of the training sample batteries as input and taking the capacity values as output to establish an internal resistance-capacity neural network model, (4) and testing internal resistance of predicting sample batteries and evaluating the capacity values by using the internal resistance-capacity neural network model established by the training sample batteries. By using the non-linear relationship between the internal resistance and the capacity to establish the internal resistance-capacity neural network model, the lithium battery capacity rapid estimation method can rapidly estimate the capacity of the batteries, eliminate the batteries which have no use value, reduce power loss and equipment loss required in a traditional capacity test, and greatly improve economy.

The invention discloses an automatic focusing microscope based on an eccentric beam method and a focusing method thereof. The hardware comprises an eccentric beam defocus amount detection module, a microscopic imaging module, a piezo lens drive, an XY stage and a computer processing system. The defocus amount detection module transmits a semicircular laser beam to irradiate the surface of a sample and acquire a semicircular spot image formed by sample reflection. The computer processing system uses self-adaptive median filtering, Canny edge detection based on OSTU, the least square fitting and other algorithms to process the grayscaled spot image to acquire spot radius. According to a radius-defocus amount linear relationship model, the sample defocus amount in a field of vision can be calculated. The piezo lens drive drives a lens to compensate the defocus amount. After focusing, the microscopic imaging module acquires a clear sample image. The automatic focusing microscope based on the eccentric beam method and the focusing method thereof, which are provided by the invention, have the advantages of fast focusing speed, high focusing accuracy and large linear range, and can meet the requirement of fast and precise focusing of the microscope under a high power lens.

The invention belongs to the technical field of vibration test, in particular to a thin-walled structure part vibration test device and a method based on a piezoelectric ceramic vibration exciter. The device comprises a signal generator, a piezoelectric ceramic drive power supply, a piezoelectric ceramic vibration exciter, a feedback attenuator, a laser vibration meter, a data acquisition analyzer and an upper computer. The method comprises the steps of performing modality test on a thin-walled structure part, determining a linear relationship between excitation voltage and critical excitation frequency of the signal generator and calibrating an excitation force of the piezoelectric ceramic vibration exciter based on a cantilever theory. According to the device and the method, an excitation signal can be effectively acquired; the magnitude of the excitation force when the piezoelectric ceramic vibration exciter excites the structure part is defined; the stable designated excitation force and the linear excitation signal of the excitation frequency can be generated; influencing factors of non-linear piezoelectric ceramic excitation are effectively eliminated; the piezoelectric ceramic vibration exciter is adopted to realize high-frequency vibration excitation; additional mass is low; and the device is convenient to use.

A low power analog linear temperature sensor integrateable with digital and/or analog circuits in CMOS fabrication processes. The sensor is accurately calibrateable at a single temperature that yields a linear relationship between measured differential voltage and temperature over a wide variety of temperature ranges. The sensor provides stable voltage and current references that are essential for wireless sensor platforms. There are many applications where sensors require stable voltage/current references and the physics of the sensor's transduction mechanisms are themselves temperature dependent. Wireless platforms such as, but not limited to, passive RFID tags with the addition of on- or off-chip sensors provide a low cost solution for a variety of low cost sensor applications.

A programmable phase shifter includes a tapped delay line for successively delaying a periodic reference signal to produce a set of phase distributed tap signals. A multiplexer selects one of the tap signals as input to a programmable delay circuit which further delays the selected tap signal to produce an output signal that is phase shifted from the reference signal. A programmable data converter converts input data indicting a desired phase shift between the reference signal and the output signal into data for controlling the multiplexer selection and the amount of delay provided by the programmable delay circuit. The relationship between conversion table input and output data is adjusted so that the period of the output signal has a desired linear relationship to the input data value.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle inspection head control method based on visual servo. The method comprises the steps of: 1, obtaining video information by an imaging device; 2, matching a frame real-time image with a template image, obtaining a pixel deviation and determining a deviation P of the image center; 3, judging whether P is greater than a deviation threshold, if not, indicating a normal situation, and finishing this detection, if so, turning to the next step; 4, determining a rotating direction through P, then rotating the holder for the minimal unit d; 5, obtaining the device image at a current position again; 6, trying a new target position by a tracing algorithm; determining the deviation P1 of the new position and the template image; 7, judging whether P is greater than the threshold according to the linear relationship between holder rotation and the pixel deviation in the image, if not, finishing this detection, and if so, returning to the step 5. Location filming of the target in the unmanned aerial vehicle inspection process is effectively solved, and the inspection efficiency and quality are improved.

Bandwidth reduction of amplitude and/or phase components of relatively wide bandwidth composite signal. In an exemplary embodiment, an EER amplifier system for CDMA signal amplification includes an amplitude bandwidth reduction module included in an amplitude signal component path and a phase bandwidth reduction module is included in a phase signal component path, for controlling an RF amplifier. The phase bandwidth reduction module may reduce the phase component bandwidth of the input signal by, for example, generating a non-linear relationship between phase signal amplitude and input signal amplitude. The amplitude bandwidth reduction module may reduce the amplitude component bandwidth of the input signal by, for example, generating a non-linear relationship between the supply voltage to the RF amplifier and an input signal amplitude.

Capacitance measurement apparatus that enhances the sensitivity and accuracy of capacitive transducers, proximity sensors, and touchless switches. Each of two capacitors (C1, C2) under measurement has one end connected to ground and is kept at substantially the same voltage potential by operational amplifier (A1) or amplifiers (A0, A1) using negative feedback. The apparatus is driven by a periodic e.g. sinusoidal signal source (G1) or sources (G1, G2) and includes a difference amplifier (A2) operative to produce an electrical signal having a linear relationship with a specified arithmetic function of the capacitances of the two capacitors (C1, C2). A touchless switch is implemented using the capacitance measurement apparatus. The touchless switch includes two sensor electrodes (E1, E2) that correspond to the two capacitors (C1, C2) under measurement and in one embodiment has a front surface in the form of a container.

A semiotic decision making system operates to respond, for example, to natural language queries. The system operates independent of the type of symbolic elements in which queries are cast. A training corpus of information in the form of sequential sets of a selected type of element is input to the system and processed by a semiotic processing module to create a knowledge database based upon the lineal relationship of elements within the training corpus. The knowledge database is then used to make decisions relating to queries input in the same type of elements. Accordingly, inputting a French training corpus results in a knowledge base useful in answering French questions. Multiple semiotic processing modules may be used to enhance performance.

The invention discloses a system for linearly adjusting the slope compensation voltage slope. With a duty factor detection circuit, a voltage and current conversion circuit and a slope generation circuit, a duty factor of a switch signal in a peak current control mode chip is converted into a voltage signal forming a linear relationship with the duty factor by using the duty factor detection circuit, the voltage signal is linearly converted into a first current signal by using the voltage and current conversion circuit, and a second current signal formed by superposing the first current signal and a reference current source passes through the slope generation circuit to obtain slope compensation voltage, so that the invention achieves the function of linearly adjusting the slope of the slope compensation voltage according to the duty factor of the switch signal in the peak current control mode chip, well solves the problems that the peak current control mode chip is easy to generate over compensation during low duty factor and generate under compensation during high duty factor and ensures that the chip has favorable loading capacity and load regulating capacity in the work range of all duty factors.